newswars--2020-01-16--A Limited-Government Republic versus a National-Security State

The worst mistake that the American people have made in the entire history of the United States was to permit the conversion of the federal government into a national-security state .
That conversion has played a major role in the destruction of our liberty , privacy , and economic well-being .
What is a national-security state ?
It is a totalitarian-like governmental structure that consists of an enormous military-intelligence establishment with extraordinary powers , such as indefinite detention , torture , secret surveillance , and even assassination of both citizens and foreigners .
To put the matter in a larger @ @ @ @ @ @ @ state .
So are Egypt , China , Cuba , and Russia .
And the United States .
All of the regimes in those countries wield totalitarian-like powers .
It wasn ’ t always that way in the United States .
Our nation was founded as a limited-government republic and remained that way for nearly 150 years .
No Pentagon , no CIA , and no NSA .
There was an army but it was relatively small — big enough to win battles against Indian tribes or a neighboring weak and impoverished country @ @ @ @ @ @ @ big enough to engage in wars around the world .
That was how our American ancestors wanted it .
The last thing they wanted was a federal government that possessed a large permanent military-intelligence establishment .
That ’ s because they believed that type of governmental system would inevitably destroy their liberty and their well-being .
When the delegates met at the Constitutional Convention , their task was simply to modify the Articles of Confederation , a third kind of governmental structure , under which the states had been operating for more than @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the federal government ’ s powers were so weak that — get this — it didn ’ t even have the power to tax .
Imagine : for more than ten years , Americans lived under a government that was prohibited from levying any taxes whatsoever .
But there were problems with the Articles , and the purpose of the Constitutional Convention was to come up with solutions to those problems through modifications .
Instead , the delegates to the convention , who met in secret , came up with an entirely different @ @ @ @ @ @ @ different type of governmental system — a limited-government republic , one in which the federal government would have more powers , including the power to tax .
Americans were extremely leery .
They believed that the greatest threat to the freedom and well-being of a citizenry lay not with some foreign regime but rather with their own government .
They also understood that the way governments throughout history had destroyed the freedom of their citizens was , in large part , through the power of their military forces .
If people dissented or @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , officials could employ military force to quell the rebellion .
But if they didn ’ t possess a powerful military , they lacked the means to do that , which would inhibit them from doing bad things to the citizenry .
Consider the protests that are currently taking place in Hong Kong .
What has the Chinese government done to send a message that such protests will be tolerated only up to a certain point ?
It has sent a large military contingent to the Hong Kong border .
If Chinese officials @ @ @ @ @ @ @ will do so through military force .
And make no mistake about it : the Chinese soldiers in those units will faithfully and loyally follow the orders of their superior officers .
Suppose the proponents of the Constitution had said to the American people , The Constitution will bring into existence a federal government that will include a vast , permanent , and ever-growing military-intelligence establishment , with military and intelligence bases all over the United States and the world .
Together with the president , the military will have the power to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the world without congressional consent .
It will possess the power to spy on and keep files on the American people , in order to keep them safe .
It will have the power to take Americans into custody and place them in military dungeons or secret intelligence prison camps , where they can be tortured .
It will also have the power to assassinate Americans .
If the American people had heard that from the delegates at the Constitutional Convention , they would have died laughing .
They would have thought it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ learned that the delegates were totally serious , the American people would have summarily rejected the deal and instead would have continued operating under the Articles of Confederation .
In fact , the reason Americans were so leery of the proposal offered by the proponents of the Constitution was that they were concerned that they might be bringing into existence a government that wielded those types of omnipotent powers .
That ’ s why they were so opposed to what they called a “ standing army , ” which was their term for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ The proponents of the Constitution assured Americans that that could never happen .
The reason was that the charter bringing the federal government into existence also , at the same time , delineated its powers .
If a power wasn ’ t listed in the Constitution , then it simply didn ’ t exist , which meant it couldn ’ t be exercised against the citizenry .
On the basis of that assurance but still leery , the American people approved the deal , but only on the condition that the Constitution would @ @ @ @ @ @ @ The amendments would provide express restrictions on the powers of federal officials to destroy the liberty and well-being of the people .
Some proponents of the Constitution responded that such restrictions were unnecessary , because if a power to destroy people ’ s liberty and well-being wasn ’ t listed in the Constitution , it couldn ’ t be exercised .
A bill of rights , such proponents said , would be superfluous .
But Americans were not willing to settle for that principle .
Knowing that people who are attracted to political @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for destroying people ’ s liberty , Americans wanted to make it doubly clear that federal officials lacked the power to do tyrannical things to them .
That ’ s why they expressly prohibited them from destroying people ’ s freedom of speech , freedom of the press , freedom of religion , the right of assembly , the right to keep and bear arms , and others .
That wasn ’ t all , however .
The Fourth , Fifth , Sixth , and Eighth Amendments expressly restricted the power of federal @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
The government couldn ’ t kill anyone or deprive anyone of liberty or property without “ due process of law , ” a term that stretched back to that Magna Carta in 1215 , when the barons of England forced their king to acknowledge that his powers over them were limited .
Due process required formal notice of charges and a trial before the government could kill someone or take away his liberty or his property .
If a person was targeted , the Bill of Rights guaranteed that he could elect @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ordinary citizens rather than by a judge or a tribunal .
Recognizing the inherent power of government , the amendments also guaranteed that a person being targeted could have an attorney represent him .
The government was also prohibited from conducting searches without judicially issued warrants based on probable cause that a crime had been committed .
They also prohibited federal officials from inflicting what they called “ cruel and unusual ” punishments on people .
Monsters Our American ancestors had brought into existence a limited-government republic , a type of political system @ @ @ @ @ @ @ few powers and then expressly forbidden by the Bill of Rights from exercising totalitarian-like powers .
Although backroom political deals would be made , the overall operations of the government were open and transparent .
That was the governmental system under which Americans lived for nearly 150 years .
At the same time , America adopted a noninterventionist foreign policy , one in which the federal government would not embroil the nation in foreign conflicts , wars , disputes , revolutions , or coups .
This foreign policy was summed up in a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Adams delivered to Congress on the Fourth of July , 1821 .
Entitled “ In Search of Monsters to Destroy , ” the speech pointed out that America ’ s founding foreign policy was not to send military forces abroad to save foreigners from the monstrous conditions in their countries , including dictatorships , famines , wars , and revolutions .
If America were ever to abandon that noninterventionist foreign policy , Adams warned , US officials would start behaving like dictators .
Does that mean that Americans were indifferent to the plights @ @ @ @ @ @ @ It just meant that they wouldn ’ t help them by bringing death and destruction through military force to their lands .
Instead , America would open its borders to anyone who managed to escape his conditions , with no possibility that he would be rejected and forcibly returned to his homeland .
The shift toward empire and intervention began in 1898 , during the Spanish-American War .
Certain Spanish colonies were waging a war of independence against Spain .
The US government intervened on their behalf .
As soon as Spain was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ assumed control over some of the former colonies .
That ’ s how the United States acquired Puerto Rico , control over Cuba ( and the US military base at Guantanamo Bay ) , Guam , and the Philippines .
In the Philippines , US forces killed hundreds of thousands of Filipinos who continued to fight for their independence , this time from the United States .
There was the notion that in order for the United States to become a great nation , it needed to become an empire and acquire colonies @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Empires had .
After that came US intervention in World War I. Woodrow Wilson maintained that US intervention would bring about an end to all war and make the world “ safe for democracy ” by totally and completely defeating Germany .
Despite the loss of tens of thousands of American men , Adolf Hitler , Benito Mussolini , and Joseph Stalin later rose to power in Germany , Italy , and Russia .
Once World War II broke out , Americans were overwhelmingly opposed to intervening again .
But Franklin Roosevelt succeeded @ @ @ @ @ @ @ first shot ” with its attack on Pearl Harbor , which brought about the US entry into the deadliest and most destructive war the world has ever seen .
The CIA When the war finally ended in 1945 , Americans were ecstatic that the Nazi regime and the Japanese Empire had been defeated , and that their lives could return to normal .
Not so fast , US officials told Americans .
They said that even though the Axis Powers had been defeated , the United States now faced another enemy , one @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Axis .
That enemy was communism or , to be more exact , an international communist conspiracy to take over the world that was based in Moscow , Russia .
The communists were coming to get us , US officials said , and take over the US government and the nation .
Therefore , they maintained , it would be necessary to intervene in hot wars to stop the Reds from advancing toward America , and to wage a “ cold war ” against the Soviet Union .
That ’ s how tens @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in civil wars in Korea and Vietnam .
US officials said that if the United States failed to intervene in those conflicts , the Reds would be at our doorstep before too long .
That cold war is what brought about the conversion of the federal government from a limited-government republic into a national-security state , which was what the Soviet Union was .
US officials maintained that a limited-government-republic type of governmental system would be no match for a national-security-state system , given that the latter placed no constraints on agents to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ In order to prevent a communist takeover of the United States , it would be necessary to convert the federal government into the same type of governmental system the Soviet Union had .
The implication , of course , was that as soon as the United States won the Cold War , Americans could have their limited-government republic back .
Soon after the CIA was established in 1947 , ostensibly as an “ intelligence-gathering ” agency to provide secret information to the president , it began specializing in the art of assassination , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ assassination manual ” that explained various methods of assassination and , equally important , how to keep people from discovering that it was a state-sponsored assassination .
The Fifth Amendment was eviscerated .
In the name of protecting national security , the federal government , through the CIA , now wielded the power to secretly deprive anyone of life that it wanted .
In 1953 , the CIA secretly initiated a coup in Iran that ousted the democratically elected prime minister of the country , Mohammad Mossadegh , from power and replaced him @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the world ’ s most brutal dictators .
The notion was that Mossadegh was leaning communist .
In 1979 , fed up with the US-supported tyranny under which they had suffered for twenty-five years , the Iranian people revolted and ousted the shah from power .
Unfortunately , they were unsuccessful in restoring the democratic system that the CIA had destroyed , leaving them suffering under a different type of dictatorship .
The CIA ’ s coup is the root of the bad relations between Iran and the United States today .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ CIA secretly initiated a coup in Guatemala , which succeeded in ousting the democratically elected president of that country , Jacobo Árbenz , who was a socialist , and replacing him with a pro-US military dictator .
Árbenz was lucky that he was able to escape the country , because the CIA had prepared an assassination list that undoubtedly had him at the top .
That coup incited a thirty-year-long civil war that killed more than a million Guatemalans .
After the Cuban Revolution ( 1959 ) brought a communist regime into power @ @ @ @ @ @ @ along with other US officials , went apoplectic .
America couldn ’ t survive with a “ communist dagger ” pointed at its throat from only ninety miles away , they said .
Thus , the CIA launched an unsuccessful invasion of the island , several unsuccessful assassination attempts against Cuban president Fidel Castro , and a brutal economic embargo that , in combination with Castro ’ s socialist system , has squeezed the economic lifeblood out the Cuban people .
The national-security establishment ’ s incessant quest to effect regime change in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Soviet Union to the brink of nuclear war .
The fact is that there was never any possibility that the communists were coming to get us and take over the federal government and the country .
The Cold War was one great , big racket , one that enriched countless people , including an army of “ defense ” contractors and subcontractors who got rich feeding at the public trough .
Most importantly , the Cold War and the national-security-state form of government that came with it succeeded in destroying the rights @ @ @ @ @ @ @ The Middle East Suddenly and unexpectedly , the Cold War ended in 1989 , when the Soviet Union , which had gone bankrupt , called it quits .
The Berlin Wall came down and Russian troops exited Eastern Europe .
Needless to say , the national-security establishment was concerned about its future .
No more cold war obviously meant that Americans were entitled to have their limited-government republic back .
But the Pentagon , the CIA , and the NSA were not eager to be dismantled .
Soon after the end of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Persian Gulf War against their former partner and ally , Saddam Hussein , which began a thirty-year US campaign of death , destruction , and humiliation against people in the Middle East .
It is no surprise that that campaign engendered deep anger and rage among the people who were targeted for death and destruction .
That ’ s when the anti-American terrorist blowback began .
It started with the 1993 attack on the World Trade Center , which was followed by the attacks on the USS Cole , on the US embassies @ @ @ @ @ @ @ attacks .
The 9/11 attacks gave the federal government what our American ancestors had feared when the Constitution was being proposed to them — a government consisting of a massive , ever-growing military-intelligence establishment with omnipotent , totalitarian powers to keep the nation “ safe ” from the terrorist blowback that U.S. officials had produced with their interventionism .
That ’ s how Americans have ended up with a government that wields the power to take them into custody and throw them indefinitely into a military dungeon , and torture them to any @ @ @ @ @ @ @ have ended up with a government that wields the power to conduct secret surveillance on them , just like government officials do in China , North Korea , and Cuba .
It is how Americans have ended up with a government that wields the power to assassinate them .
Anyone who lives under a national-security-state governmental system can not possibly be considered free .
Our ancestors understood that .
Their successors living today have yet to figure it out .
Or if they have figured it out , they have chosen to trade @ @ @ @ @ @ @ security .
For Americans who want freedom , a necessary prerequisite is the restoration of a limited-government republic and a noninterventionist foreign policy , which necessarily entails the dismantling , not the reform , of the Pentagon , the military-industrial complex , the CIA , and the NSA .
Stephen Willeford , who shot the perpetrator of the Sutherland Springs church shooting on November 5 , 2017 , joins The Alex Jones Show to advocate for the Second Amendment .

The worst mistake that the American people have made in the entire history of the United States was to permit the conversion of the federal government into a national-security state.
That conversion has played a major role in the destruction of our liberty, privacy, and economic well-being.
What is a national-security state? It is a totalitarian-like governmental structure that consists of an enormous military-intelligence establishment with extraordinary powers, such as indefinite detention, torture, secret surveillance, and even assassination of both citizens and foreigners.
To put the matter in a larger context, North Korea is a national-security state. So are Egypt, China, Cuba, and Russia. And the United States. All of the regimes in those countries wield totalitarian-like powers.
It wasn’t always that way in the United States. Our nation was founded as a limited-government republic and remained that way for nearly 150 years. No Pentagon, no CIA, and no NSA. There was an army but it was relatively small — big enough to win battles against Indian tribes or a neighboring weak and impoverished country such as Mexico, but nowhere near big enough to engage in wars around the world.
That was how our American ancestors wanted it. The last thing they wanted was a federal government that possessed a large permanent military-intelligence establishment. That’s because they believed that type of governmental system would inevitably destroy their liberty and their well-being.
When the delegates met at the Constitutional Convention, their task was simply to modify the Articles of Confederation, a third kind of governmental structure, under which the states had been operating for more than a decade. Under the Articles, the federal government’s powers were so weak that — get this — it didn’t even have the power to tax. Imagine: for more than ten years, Americans lived under a government that was prohibited from levying any taxes whatsoever.
But there were problems with the Articles, and the purpose of the Constitutional Convention was to come up with solutions to those problems through modifications. Instead, the delegates to the convention, who met in secret, came up with an entirely different proposal, one that called for a different type of governmental system — a limited-government republic, one in which the federal government would have more powers, including the power to tax.
Americans were extremely leery. They believed that the greatest threat to the freedom and well-being of a citizenry lay not with some foreign regime but rather with their own government. They also understood that the way governments throughout history had destroyed the freedom of their citizens was, in large part, through the power of their military forces. If people dissented or rebelled against what the government was doing, officials could employ military force to quell the rebellion. But if they didn’t possess a powerful military, they lacked the means to do that, which would inhibit them from doing bad things to the citizenry.
Consider the protests that are currently taking place in Hong Kong. What has the Chinese government done to send a message that such protests will be tolerated only up to a certain point? It has sent a large military contingent to the Hong Kong border. If Chinese officials want to quell those protests, they will do so through military force. And make no mistake about it: the Chinese soldiers in those units will faithfully and loyally follow the orders of their superior officers.
Suppose the proponents of the Constitution had said to the American people,
The Constitution will bring into existence a federal government that will include a vast, permanent, and ever-growing military-intelligence establishment, with military and intelligence bases all over the United States and the world. Together with the president, the military will have the power to embroil the nation in war anywhere in the world without congressional consent. It will possess the power to spy on and keep files on the American people, in order to keep them safe. It will have the power to take Americans into custody and place them in military dungeons or secret intelligence prison camps, where they can be tortured. It will also have the power to assassinate Americans.
If the American people had heard that from the delegates at the Constitutional Convention, they would have died laughing. They would have thought it was a joke. When they later learned that the delegates were totally serious, the American people would have summarily rejected the deal and instead would have continued operating under the Articles of Confederation.
In fact, the reason Americans were so leery of the proposal offered by the proponents of the Constitution was that they were concerned that they might be bringing into existence a government that wielded those types of omnipotent powers. That’s why they were so opposed to what they called a “standing army,” which was their term for a large, permanent military-intelligence establishment.
The proponents of the Constitution assured Americans that that could never happen. The reason was that the charter bringing the federal government into existence also, at the same time, delineated its powers. If a power wasn’t listed in the Constitution, then it simply didn’t exist, which meant it couldn’t be exercised against the citizenry.
On the basis of that assurance but still leery, the American people approved the deal, but only on the condition that the Constitution would be amended immediately after being approved. The amendments would provide express restrictions on the powers of federal officials to destroy the liberty and well-being of the people.
Some proponents of the Constitution responded that such restrictions were unnecessary, because if a power to destroy people’s liberty and well-being wasn’t listed in the Constitution, it couldn’t be exercised. A bill of rights, such proponents said, would be superfluous.
But Americans were not willing to settle for that principle. Knowing that people who are attracted to political power inevitably come up with good excuses for destroying people’s liberty, Americans wanted to make it doubly clear that federal officials lacked the power to do tyrannical things to them. That’s why they expressly prohibited them from destroying people’s freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of religion, the right of assembly, the right to keep and bear arms, and others.
That wasn’t all, however. The Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, and Eighth Amendments expressly restricted the power of federal officials to kill both Americans and foreigners. The government couldn’t kill anyone or deprive anyone of liberty or property without “due process of law,” a term that stretched back to that Magna Carta in 1215, when the barons of England forced their king to acknowledge that his powers over them were limited.
Due process required formal notice of charges and a trial before the government could kill someone or take away his liberty or his property. If a person was targeted, the Bill of Rights guaranteed that he could elect to be tried by a jury of ordinary citizens rather than by a judge or a tribunal. Recognizing the inherent power of government, the amendments also guaranteed that a person being targeted could have an attorney represent him. The government was also prohibited from conducting searches without judicially issued warrants based on probable cause that a crime had been committed. They also prohibited federal officials from inflicting what they called “cruel and unusual” punishments on people.
Monsters
Our American ancestors had brought into existence a limited-government republic, a type of political system in which the government was delegated very few powers and then expressly forbidden by the Bill of Rights from exercising totalitarian-like powers. Although backroom political deals would be made, the overall operations of the government were open and transparent. That was the governmental system under which Americans lived for nearly 150 years.
At the same time, America adopted a noninterventionist foreign policy, one in which the federal government would not embroil the nation in foreign conflicts, wars, disputes, revolutions, or coups. This foreign policy was summed up in a speech that Secretary of State John Quincy Adams delivered to Congress on the Fourth of July, 1821. Entitled “In Search of Monsters to Destroy,” the speech pointed out that America’s founding foreign policy was not to send military forces abroad to save foreigners from the monstrous conditions in their countries, including dictatorships, famines, wars, and revolutions. If America were ever to abandon that noninterventionist foreign policy, Adams warned, US officials would start behaving like dictators.
Does that mean that Americans were indifferent to the plights of foreigners? Quite the contrary. It just meant that they wouldn’t help them by bringing death and destruction through military force to their lands. Instead, America would open its borders to anyone who managed to escape his conditions, with no possibility that he would be rejected and forcibly returned to his homeland.
The shift toward empire and intervention began in 1898, during the Spanish-American War. Certain Spanish colonies were waging a war of independence against Spain. The US government intervened on their behalf. As soon as Spain was defeated, however, the US government assumed control over some of the former colonies. That’s how the United States acquired Puerto Rico, control over Cuba (and the US military base at Guantanamo Bay), Guam, and the Philippines. In the Philippines, US forces killed hundreds of thousands of Filipinos who continued to fight for their independence, this time from the United States. There was the notion that in order for the United States to become a great nation, it needed to become an empire and acquire colonies, just as the Spanish and British Empires had.
After that came US intervention in World War I. Woodrow Wilson maintained that US intervention would bring about an end to all war and make the world “safe for democracy” by totally and completely defeating Germany. Despite the loss of tens of thousands of American men, Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, and Joseph Stalin later rose to power in Germany, Italy, and Russia.
Once World War II broke out, Americans were overwhelmingly opposed to intervening again. But Franklin Roosevelt succeeded in provoking Japan to “fire the first shot” with its attack on Pearl Harbor, which brought about the US entry into the deadliest and most destructive war the world has ever seen.
The CIA
When the war finally ended in 1945, Americans were ecstatic that the Nazi regime and the Japanese Empire had been defeated, and that their lives could return to normal. Not so fast, US officials told Americans. They said that even though the Axis Powers had been defeated, the United States now faced another enemy, one that was arguably more dangerous than the Axis. That enemy was communism or, to be more exact, an international communist conspiracy to take over the world that was based in Moscow, Russia. The communists were coming to get us, US officials said, and take over the US government and the nation.
Therefore, they maintained, it would be necessary to intervene in hot wars to stop the Reds from advancing toward America, and to wage a “cold war” against the Soviet Union. That’s how tens of thousands of US soldiers got sacrificed in civil wars in Korea and Vietnam. US officials said that if the United States failed to intervene in those conflicts, the Reds would be at our doorstep before too long.
That cold war is what brought about the conversion of the federal government from a limited-government republic into a national-security state, which was what the Soviet Union was. US officials maintained that a limited-government-republic type of governmental system would be no match for a national-security-state system, given that the latter placed no constraints on agents to do whatever they needed to win. In order to prevent a communist takeover of the United States, it would be necessary to convert the federal government into the same type of governmental system the Soviet Union had. The implication, of course, was that as soon as the United States won the Cold War, Americans could have their limited-government republic back.
Soon after the CIA was established in 1947, ostensibly as an “intelligence-gathering” agency to provide secret information to the president, it began specializing in the art of assassination, including the preparation of a top-secret “assassination manual” that explained various methods of assassination and, equally important, how to keep people from discovering that it was a state-sponsored assassination. The Fifth Amendment was eviscerated. In the name of protecting national security, the federal government, through the CIA, now wielded the power to secretly deprive anyone of life that it wanted.
In 1953, the CIA secretly initiated a coup in Iran that ousted the democratically elected prime minister of the country, Mohammad Mossadegh, from power and replaced him with the shah of Iran, one of the world’s most brutal dictators. The notion was that Mossadegh was leaning communist. In 1979, fed up with the US-supported tyranny under which they had suffered for twenty-five years, the Iranian people revolted and ousted the shah from power. Unfortunately, they were unsuccessful in restoring the democratic system that the CIA had destroyed, leaving them suffering under a different type of dictatorship. The CIA’s coup is the root of the bad relations between Iran and the United States today.
One year later, 1954, the CIA secretly initiated a coup in Guatemala, which succeeded in ousting the democratically elected president of that country, Jacobo Árbenz, who was a socialist, and replacing him with a pro-US military dictator. Árbenz was lucky that he was able to escape the country, because the CIA had prepared an assassination list that undoubtedly had him at the top. That coup incited a thirty-year-long civil war that killed more than a million Guatemalans.
After the Cuban Revolution (1959) brought a communist regime into power, the Pentagon and the CIA, along with other US officials, went apoplectic. America couldn’t survive with a “communist dagger” pointed at its throat from only ninety miles away, they said. Thus, the CIA launched an unsuccessful invasion of the island, several unsuccessful assassination attempts against Cuban president Fidel Castro, and a brutal economic embargo that, in combination with Castro’s socialist system, has squeezed the economic lifeblood out the Cuban people. The national-security establishment’s incessant quest to effect regime change in Cuba also brought the United States and the Soviet Union to the brink of nuclear war.
The fact is that there was never any possibility that the communists were coming to get us and take over the federal government and the country. The Cold War was one great, big racket, one that enriched countless people, including an army of “defense” contractors and subcontractors who got rich feeding at the public trough. Most importantly, the Cold War and the national-security-state form of government that came with it succeeded in destroying the rights and liberties of the American people.
The Middle East
Suddenly and unexpectedly, the Cold War ended in 1989, when the Soviet Union, which had gone bankrupt, called it quits. The Berlin Wall came down and Russian troops exited Eastern Europe.
Needless to say, the national-security establishment was concerned about its future. No more cold war obviously meant that Americans were entitled to have their limited-government republic back. But the Pentagon, the CIA, and the NSA were not eager to be dismantled. Soon after the end of the Cold War, they intervened in the Persian Gulf War against their former partner and ally, Saddam Hussein, which began a thirty-year US campaign of death, destruction, and humiliation against people in the Middle East.
It is no surprise that that campaign engendered deep anger and rage among the people who were targeted for death and destruction. That’s when the anti-American terrorist blowback began. It started with the 1993 attack on the World Trade Center, which was followed by the attacks on the USS Cole, on the US embassies in East Africa, and the 9/11 attacks.
The 9/11 attacks gave the federal government what our American ancestors had feared when the Constitution was being proposed to them — a government consisting of a massive, ever-growing military-intelligence establishment with omnipotent, totalitarian powers to keep the nation “safe” from the terrorist blowback that U.S. officials had produced with their interventionism.
That’s how Americans have ended up with a government that wields the power to take them into custody and throw them indefinitely into a military dungeon, and torture them to any extent whatsoever. It is how Americans have ended up with a government that wields the power to conduct secret surveillance on them, just like government officials do in China, North Korea, and Cuba. It is how Americans have ended up with a government that wields the power to assassinate them.
Anyone who lives under a national-security-state governmental system cannot possibly be considered free. Our ancestors understood that. Their successors living today have yet to figure it out. Or if they have figured it out, they have chosen to trade liberty for the pretense of safety and security.
For Americans who want freedom, a necessary prerequisite is the restoration of a limited-government republic and a noninterventionist foreign policy, which necessarily entails the dismantling, not the reform, of the Pentagon, the military-industrial complex, the CIA, and the NSA.
Stephen Willeford, who shot the perpetrator of the Sutherland Springs church shooting on November 5, 2017, joins The Alex Jones Show to advocate for the Second Amendment.


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newswars--2020-01-16--Swamp Creatures Unite! Comey’s Daughter Among Deep Staters Prosecuting Anti-Trump Leaker

Prosecutors overseeing the case of former US Treasury Department staffer Natalie Edwards , who pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy on Monday , just happen to be Deep State swamp creatures .
Appearing before a Manhattan federal court , Edwards admitted to leaking classified documents regarding the Mueller investigation to a Buzzfeed reporter .
According to the DOJ , Edwards provided the reporter with information pertaining to , “ among other things , Paul Manafort , Richard Gates , the Russian Embassy , Mariia Butina , and Prevezon Alexander.
” Edwards saved Suspicious Activity Reports ( SARs ) , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ government information , to a flash drive provided to her by the Treasury Department .
Next , Edwards sent the SARs to the Buzzfeed reporter by taking photographs of the documents and texting the images over an encrypted messenger app .
On Monday , the DOJ announced the names of the three prosecutors in charge of the case .
Assistant U.S .
Attorneys Kimberly J. Ravener , Daniel C. Richenthal , and Maurene R. Comey were all selected to oversee the prosecution of Edwards , however , they might be inclined to go @ @ @ @ @ @ @ political beliefs .
Kimberly Ravener was formerly employed by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau ( CFPB ) , which was a government agency established by Elizabeth Warren and allegedly used to skim taxpayer money for the benefit of the Democratic Party .
In 2018 , Paul Sperry of the New York Post reported on the agency ’ s corruption and allegiance to the Democratic Party .
Daniel C. Richenthal is a community member of Leadership Connect , a group connecting government and business leaders that was founded by former DNC Treasurer Donald Petrie @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Democrat George McGovern supporter Robert Townsend .
Richenthal ’ s wife , Alixandra Eleis Smith , was a prosecutor on the Martin Shkreli case and was a law clerk for Democrat Judge Julio M. Fuentes , who was appointed to the Third Circuit by Bill Clinton .
The third prosecutor , Maurene R. Comey , is none other than the daughter of disgraced FBI Director James Comey .
Perhaps not so coincidentally , Ms. Comey was also the lead prosecutor in a Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking case .
According to Business Insider , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ever was to Hillary Clinton and her father James once told ABC “ that his wife and daughters ‘ marched in the ‘ Women ’ s March ’ the day after President Trump ’ s inauguration , ’ and that he was ‘ pretty sure ’ they all ‘ wanted Hillary Clinton to be the first woman president.
’ ” Below is a picture from the march : With a group of prosecutors who share a disdain for President Trump , can the American people expect anti-Trump leaker Natalie Edwards to be properly @ @

Prosecutors overseeing the case of former US Treasury Department staffer Natalie Edwards, who pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy on Monday, just happen to be Deep State swamp creatures.
Appearing before a Manhattan federal court, Edwards admitted to leaking classified documents regarding the Mueller investigation to a Buzzfeed reporter.
According to the DOJ, Edwards provided the reporter with information pertaining to, “among other things, Paul Manafort, Richard Gates, the Russian Embassy, Mariia Butina, and Prevezon Alexander.”
Edwards saved Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs), and thousands of other files containing sensitive government information, to a flash drive provided to her by the Treasury Department.
Next, Edwards sent the SARs to the Buzzfeed reporter by taking photographs of the documents and texting the images over an encrypted messenger app.
On Monday, the DOJ announced the names of the three prosecutors in charge of the case.
Assistant U.S. Attorneys Kimberly J. Ravener, Daniel C. Richenthal, and Maurene R. Comey were all selected to oversee the prosecution of Edwards, however, they might be inclined to go easy on her due to their left-leaning political beliefs.
Kimberly Ravener was formerly employed by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), which was a government agency established by Elizabeth Warren and allegedly used to skim taxpayer money for the benefit of the Democratic Party.
In 2018, Paul Sperry of the New York Post reported on the agency’s corruption and allegiance to the Democratic Party.
Daniel C. Richenthal is a community member of Leadership Connect, a group connecting government and business leaders that was founded by former DNC Treasurer Donald Petrie, former LBJ staffer Jim Marsh and Democrat George McGovern supporter Robert Townsend.
Richenthal’s wife, Alixandra Eleis Smith, was a prosecutor on the Martin Shkreli case and was a law clerk for Democrat Judge Julio M. Fuentes, who was appointed to the Third Circuit by Bill Clinton.
The third prosecutor, Maurene R. Comey, is none other than the daughter of disgraced FBI Director James Comey.
Perhaps not so coincidentally, Ms. Comey was also the lead prosecutor in a Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking case.
According to Business Insider, Maurene Comey’s only political donation ever was to Hillary Clinton and her father James once told ABC “that his wife and daughters ‘marched in the ‘Women’s March’ the day after President Trump’s inauguration,’ and that he was ‘pretty sure’ they all ‘wanted Hillary Clinton to be the first woman president.’”
Below is a picture from the march:
With a group of prosecutors who share a disdain for President Trump, can the American people expect anti-Trump leaker Natalie Edwards to be properly punished?


newswars--2020-01-16--Goldman Sachs Clients 87 Per Cent Sure Trump Will be Re-Elected

Goldman Sachs clients are 87 per cent sure that Donald Trump will be re-elected as President later this year .
Asked ‘ Will President Trump Win A Second Term ?
’ , a resounding majority of those attending a Goldman Sachs Global Strategy Conference in London yesterday said he would .
Their confidence in Trump being returned to the Oval Office probably has a lot to do with the fact that only 5 per cent of respondents think the U.S. economy will enter recession in 2020 .
Rasmussen ’ s most recent poll shows that Trump currently has a 51 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 47 per cent disapproval rating .
51 per cent of likely U.S. voters say they plan to vote against Trump , down from 52 per cent last September .
A Moody ’ s Analytics study back in October found that Trump ’ s chances of being re-elected are excellent , so long as the economy holds up .
“ Barring anything unusual happening , the president ’ s Electoral College victory could easily surpass his 2016 win over Democrat Hillary Clinton , which came by a 304-227 count , ” reported CBC News @ @ @ @ @ @ @ votes in the electoral college to 206 votes for the Democratic candidate .
This could only be overturned with a huge surge in voter turnout .
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Goldman Sachs clients are 87 per cent sure that Donald Trump will be re-elected as President later this year.
Asked ‘Will President Trump Win A Second Term?’, a resounding majority of those attending a Goldman Sachs Global Strategy Conference in London yesterday said he would.
Their confidence in Trump being returned to the Oval Office probably has a lot to do with the fact that only 5 per cent of respondents think the U.S. economy will enter recession in 2020.
Rasmussen’s most recent poll shows that Trump currently has a 51 per cent approval rating compared to a 47 per cent disapproval rating.
51 per cent of likely U.S. voters say they plan to vote against Trump, down from 52 per cent last September.
A Moody’s Analytics study back in October found that Trump’s chances of being re-elected are excellent, so long as the economy holds up.
“Barring anything unusual happening, the president’s Electoral College victory could easily surpass his 2016 win over Democrat Hillary Clinton, which came by a 304-227 count,” reported CBC News.
The model predicts Trump achieving 332 votes in the electoral college to 206 votes for the Democratic candidate. This could only be overturned with a huge surge in voter turnout.
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newswars--2020-01-16--British Police Failed to Stop Muslim Grooming Gang Due to Fears Over “Community Tensions”

British police in Manchester failed to stop dozens of girls being sexually abused by a network of Pakistani men despite knowing it was happening due to fears over creating “ community tensions.
” In yet another grooming scandal involving predominately Pakistani men sexually abusing mainly white girls , a new report reveals that Greater Manchester Police “ failed to take appropriate action more than 15 years ago , despite getting details of nearly 100 “ persons of interest ” who were using takeout restaurants as a base to rape and abuse children in care between the ages of 11 and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the culprits were operating “ in plain sight.
” All the victims were “ young white females ” aged 11-17 while all the perpetrators were “ almost exclusively Asian adult males , many of whom are associated via the Asian restaurant trade , ” according to the report .
The police operation identified 57 girls who had been exploited , including one who died after being injected with heroin by her abuser , but the case was shut down in 2005 and “ very few ” offenders were brought to justice .
“ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ children told their carers of the abuse and pleaded to be removed from harm , ” reports Fox News .
“ One child is said to have begged her carers to get her away from Manchester as she was too involved with Asian men and that one “ made her do things she didn ’ t want to.
” Another spoke of how she was taken to apartments with friends and was given vodka and cocaine and made to “ do whatever they wanted us to do.
” The report finds that the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ agencies.
” One of the reasons why police failed to take adequate action was due to concerns over “ sensitive community issues ” because the men involved were “ predominantly adult Asian men from local minority ethnic communities in the area.
” A separate unrelated case involving Kurdish people had also “ created community tensions ” and these factors “ clearly had to be considered by the gold command group.
” Police were even ordered to try to find culprits who were white to hide the fact that the grooming gang issue was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ told to try and get other ethnicities , ” said one officer .
In other words , police failed to come to the aid of child sex abuse victims despite knowing they were being trafficked because they didn ’ t want to be called racist or Islamophobic .
This mirrors other similar cases across the country where young white girls were abused and trafficked by Pakistani and Bangladeshi men , including in Rotherham where 1500 victims were raped and beaten but authorities ignored what was happening due to fears over “ political correctness.
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ that 84 per cent of convicted groomers in the UK are Muslim men .
Remember ; Liberals claim that political correctness is “ just being nice to people , ” and yet valuing political correctness over the safety of young girls has , in numerous cases across Britain , resulted in the industrial-level sexual abuse of children .
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British police in Manchester failed to stop dozens of girls being sexually abused by a network of Pakistani men despite knowing it was happening due to fears over creating “community tensions.”
In yet another grooming scandal involving predominately Pakistani men sexually abusing mainly white girls, a new report reveals that Greater Manchester Police “failed to take appropriate action more than 15 years ago, despite getting details of nearly 100 “persons of interest” who were using takeout restaurants as a base to rape and abuse children in care between the ages of 11 and 17” and despite the fact that the culprits were operating “in plain sight.”
All the victims were “young white females” aged 11-17 while all the perpetrators were “almost exclusively Asian adult males, many of whom are associated via the Asian restaurant trade,” according to the report.
The police operation identified 57 girls who had been exploited, including one who died after being injected with heroin by her abuser, but the case was shut down in 2005 and “very few” offenders were brought to justice.
“The report includes shocking stories of how children told their carers of the abuse and pleaded to be removed from harm,” reports Fox News. “One child is said to have begged her carers to get her away from Manchester as she was too involved with Asian men and that one “made her do things she didn’t want to.” Another spoke of how she was taken to apartments with friends and was given vodka and cocaine and made to “do whatever they wanted us to do.” The report finds that the children were not protected by the appropriate agencies.”
One of the reasons why police failed to take adequate action was due to concerns over “sensitive community issues” because the men involved were “predominantly adult Asian men from local minority ethnic communities in the area.”
A separate unrelated case involving Kurdish people had also “created community tensions” and these factors “clearly had to be considered by the gold command group.”
“This week feminists shed more tears over a few rude headlines about Meghan Markle than they did over the sexual abuse of 57 working-class girls by Pakistani gangs in Manchester.” Brendan O’Neill on the Manchester abuse scandal:https://t.co/UR4HzreQD1 — spiked (@spikedonline) January 15, 2020
Police were even ordered to try to find culprits who were white to hide the fact that the grooming gang issue was a Muslim/Pakistani problem.
“We were told to try and get other ethnicities,” said one officer.
In other words, police failed to come to the aid of child sex abuse victims despite knowing they were being trafficked because they didn’t want to be called racist or Islamophobic.
This mirrors other similar cases across the country where young white girls were abused and trafficked by Pakistani and Bangladeshi men, including in Rotherham where 1500 victims were raped and beaten but authorities ignored what was happening due to fears over “political correctness.”
Quilliam Foundation think tank statistics show that 84 per cent of convicted groomers in the UK are Muslim men.
Remember; Liberals claim that political correctness is “just being nice to people,” and yet valuing political correctness over the safety of young girls has, in numerous cases across Britain, resulted in the industrial-level sexual abuse of children.
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newswars--2020-01-16--CNN Slammed for Claiming it ‘Obtained’ Audio of Warren-Sanders Exchange

CNN was blasted after Anderson Cooper on Wednesday “ exclusively ” released hot-mic audio of a tense post-debate exchange between Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders .
Cooper claimed his show was the “ first to obtain the audio , ” but many online pointed out the absurdity of the revelation given the network hosted the debate .
Ahead of the audio release , Cooper and CNN correspondent Jeff Zeleny discussed the “ extraordinary moment ” between Sanders and Warren , and talked up how the network “ obtained ” its own audio .
“ My colleagues here at CNN spent @ @ @ @ @ @ @ It was not recorded from the primary audio system .
It was a backup , separate system , and they found it late today .
We listened to it , we matched it with the video , so that ’ s how we ’ re able to reveal this moment , ” Zeleny laid out .
Fox News also highlighted the convenient timing of the “ breaking news , ” which landed just after House Majority Leader Nancy Pelosi ’ s signing of the Articles of Impeachment , and before MSNBC host Rachel @ @ @ @ @ @ @ associate Lev Parnas .
Many on Twitter slammed CNN for its 24-hour delay of the audio release : During the exchange , Warren went up to Sanders and refused to shake his hand while she angrily asked him why he called her a liar on national TV .
Savanah Hernandez joins Owen in-studio to break down the very “ exiting ” Democrat debate that happened last night .

CNN was blasted after Anderson Cooper on Wednesday “exclusively” released hot-mic audio of a tense post-debate exchange between Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders.
Cooper claimed his show was the “first to obtain the audio,” but many online pointed out the absurdity of the revelation given the network hosted the debate.
Has anyone added the Curb Your Enthusiasm music to this yet? Have at it, Internet! pic.twitter.com/3ALMnNJynr — Dave Rubin (@RubinReport) January 16, 2020
Ahead of the audio release, Cooper and CNN correspondent Jeff Zeleny discussed the “extraordinary moment” between Sanders and Warren, and talked up how the network “obtained” its own audio.
“My colleagues here at CNN spent the day looking through backup audio. It was not recorded from the primary audio system. It was a backup, separate system, and they found it late today. We listened to it, we matched it with the video, so that’s how we’re able to reveal this moment,” Zeleny laid out.
Elizabeth Warren accused Bernie Sanders of calling her a liar on stage after Tuesday’s debate. Here’s the tense moment. https://t.co/cL3ppFmtxw pic.twitter.com/F5wFMmy8FX — CNN (@CNN) January 16, 2020
Fox News also highlighted the convenient timing of the “breaking news,” which landed just after House Majority Leader Nancy Pelosi’s signing of the Articles of Impeachment, and before MSNBC host Rachel Maddow’s interview with former Giuliani associate Lev Parnas.
Many on Twitter slammed CNN for its 24-hour delay of the audio release:
Are we supposed to believe it took CNN nearly 24 hours to discover it had this audio? https://t.co/x6hSUWCO1D — Andrew Perez (@andrewperezdc) January 16, 2020
Gotta hand it to them – this is some of the greatest media gatekeeping in my lifetime. It’s too bad we’re all way, way worse for it. — Andrew Perez (@andrewperezdc) January 16, 2020
CNN just trashed the Parnas news cycle on MSNBC ROFL — Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) January 16, 2020
Anderson Cooper says CNN “obtained” the audio recorded by CNN microphones on the CNN debate stage lol — Michael Tracey (@mtracey) January 16, 2020
My only question is……why is it such a big deal that they have the audio?? It was their debate? They ran the mics? It’d have been a massive chewing out if they had cut them entirely early!! — Hayes Brown (@HayesBrown) January 16, 2020
I love their “CNN did an inventory of the audio equipment that was used and found two backup recordings” line, as if this was like, diving deep into the archives, using a forensic scan to discover long lost data that was believed to have been deleted — Tom Gara (@tomgara) January 16, 2020
You mean the audio CNN “obtained”…from CNN microphones…at a CNN debate…after the news festered for 24 hours…despicable — Dogs Part Two (@DogsPartTwo) January 16, 2020
@CNN obtained the audio from their own reality show/debate or whatever lol. — andy (@HeckYeahMan) January 16, 2020
Obtained from the CNN editors’ editing room? 🙄 — EmmaPeach (@BluRidge4Bernie) January 16, 2020
During the exchange, Warren went up to Sanders and refused to shake his hand while she angrily asked him why he called her a liar on national TV.
Savanah Hernandez joins Owen in-studio to break down the very “exiting” Democrat debate that happened last night.


newswars--2020-01-16--Rouhani Boasts: Iran Enriching More Uranium Than Before 2015 Deal

As many predicted while seeing the obvious writing on the wall after the Jan.3rd drone assassination of IRGC Quds Force Gen. Qasem Soleimani , the Iran nuclear deal is fast unraveling and perhaps is in reality already dead — just few in Europe want to recognize it after essentially caving to Trump ’ s maximum pressure campaign .
But Iran ’ s leaders themselves seem to accurately perceive where things actually stand , given President Hassan Rouhani announced during a television address on Thursday : “ We are enriching more uranium [ than ] before the deal was reached… Pressure @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to progress.
” This after a Jan.6 declaration that Tehran no longer sees its nuclear energy program as beholden to limits under the JCPOA .
And this newest proclamation reveals Iran is now enriching more uranium than before 2015 .
German foreign minister Heiko Maas had warned in the days after the killing of Soleimani that the event marks the “ first step towards the end ” of the nuclear deal .
But we would suggest it in reality marked the final step — given Iran ’ s Thursday declaration positively boasting that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ blasted through .
Indeed in these latest comments Rouhani reaffirmed that “ no restrictions on nuclear energy ” remain and that Iran is “ better off in terms of nuclear power.
” That ’ s it , no going back , apparently — though after the UK , France and Germany early this week took the drastic step of triggering the nuclear deal ’ s ‘ dispute resolution mechanism ’ in order to “ bring Iran back into full compliance with its commitments under the JCPOA ” — the clock starts on 65 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ would be reimposed if no resolution is reached .
But Rouhani did add in this speech that “ dialogue ” with the world is “ still possible ” .
Rouhani ’ s claim is still in doubt , as Al Jazeera explains : Iran has only modestly increased its nuclear activity after the US pullout .
In recent months it boosted its enrichment of uranium to 4.5 percent – higher than the 3.67 percent limit set by the agreement , but far from the 20 percent enrichment it was engaged in before the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 90 percent to be used in a nuclear weapon .
Meanwhile Iran has accused Europe of caving to Trump ’ s “ bullying ” — a charge for which there appears to be some evidence .
“ They say ‘ We are not responsible for what the United States did.
’ OK , but you are independent ” he began .
And then added a stinging rebuke : “ Europe , EU , is the largest global economy .
So why do you allow the United States to bully you around ?
” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ after the dizzying events leading to serious escalation over this past month , despite Iranian leaders claiming their program remains solely for peaceful nuclear energy purposes .
One European official close to negotiations with Iran told The Guardian this week that they fear the next ‘ point of no return ’ step is for Iran ’ s scientists to “ learn something that it is not possible for them to unlearn ” .
In their own words , leftists vow to make you a disarmed slave .

As many predicted while seeing the obvious writing on the wall after the Jan.3rd drone assassination of IRGC Quds Force Gen. Qasem Soleimani, the Iran nuclear deal is fast unraveling and perhaps is in reality already dead — just few in Europe want to recognize it after essentially caving to Trump’s maximum pressure campaign.
But Iran’s leaders themselves seem to accurately perceive where things actually stand, given President Hassan Rouhani announced during a television address on Thursday:
“We are enriching more uranium [than] before the deal was reached… Pressure has increased on Iran but we continue to progress.”
This after a Jan.6 declaration that Tehran no longer sees its nuclear energy program as beholden to limits under the JCPOA. And this newest proclamation reveals Iran is now enriching more uranium than before 2015.
German foreign minister Heiko Maas had warned in the days after the killing of Soleimani that the event marks the “first step towards the end” of the nuclear deal. But we would suggest it in reality marked the final step — given Iran’s Thursday declaration positively boasting that any and all enrichment limits have been blasted through.
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Indeed in these latest comments Rouhani reaffirmed that “no restrictions on nuclear energy” remain and that Iran is “better off in terms of nuclear power.”
That’s it, no going back, apparently — though after the UK, France and Germany early this week took the drastic step of triggering the nuclear deal’s ‘dispute resolution mechanism’ in order to “bring Iran back into full compliance with its commitments under the JCPOA” — the clock starts on 65 days of intensive negotiations before UN sanctions would be reimposed if no resolution is reached. But Rouhani did add in this speech that “dialogue” with the world is “still possible”.
Rouhani’s claim is still in doubt, as Al Jazeera explains:
Iran has only modestly increased its nuclear activity after the US pullout. In recent months it boosted its enrichment of uranium to 4.5 percent – higher than the 3.67 percent limit set by the agreement, but far from the 20 percent enrichment it was engaged in before the deal.
Uranium must be enriched to 90 percent to be used in a nuclear weapon.
Meanwhile Iran has accused Europe of caving to Trump’s “bullying” — a charge for which there appears to be some evidence.
A frustrated FM Zarif told reporters on Wednesday:
“They say ‘We are not responsible for what the United States did.’ OK, but you are independent” he began. And then added a stinging rebuke: “Europe, EU, is the largest global economy. So why do you allow the United States to bully you around?”
Now Europe is worried about nuclear proliferation after the dizzying events leading to serious escalation over this past month, despite Iranian leaders claiming their program remains solely for peaceful nuclear energy purposes.
One European official close to negotiations with Iran told The Guardian this week that they fear the next ‘point of no return’ step is for Iran’s scientists to “learn something that it is not possible for them to unlearn”.
In their own words, leftists vow to make you a disarmed slave.


newswars--2020-01-16--Study: Walnuts Improve Gut Health, Reduce Risk of Heart Disease

Walnuts may not just be a tasty snack , they may also promote good-for-your-gut bacteria .
New research suggests that these “ good ” bacteria could be contributing to the heart-health benefits of walnuts .
In a randomized , controlled trial , researchers found that eating walnuts daily as part of a healthy diet was associated with increases in certain bacteria that can help promote health .
Additionally , those changes in gut bacteria were associated with improvements in some risk factors for heart disease .
Kristina Petersen , assistant research professor at Penn State , said the study — @ @ @ @ @ @ @ — suggests walnuts may be a heart- and gut-healthy snack .
“ Replacing your usual snack — especially if it ’ s an unhealthy snack — with walnuts is a small change you can make to improve your diet , ” Petersen said .
“ Substantial evidence shows that small improvements in diet greatly benefit health .
Eating two to three ounces of walnuts a day as part of a healthy diet could be a good way to improve gut health and reduce the risk of heart disease.
” Previous research has shown @ @ @ @ @ @ @ diet low in saturated fats , may have heart-healthy benefits .
For example , previous work demonstrated that eating whole walnuts daily lowers cholesterol levels and blood pressure .
For those of you that have ingested this information through countless interviews and analysis at Infowars , this report serves as a refresher .
According to the researchers , other research has found that changes to the bacteria in the gastrointestinal tract — also known as the gut microbiome — may help explain the cardiovascular benefits of walnuts .
“ There ’ s a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ health and how it affects overall health , ” said Penny Kris-Etherton , distinguished professor of nutrition at Penn State .
“ So , in addition to looking at factors like lipids and lipoproteins , we wanted to look at gut health .
We also wanted to see if changes in gut health with walnut consumption were related to improvements in risk factors for heart disease.
” For the study , the researchers recruited 42 participants with overweight or obesity who were between the ages of 30 and 65 .
Before the study @ @ @ @ @ @ @ average American diet for two weeks .
After this “ run-in ” diet , the participants were randomly assigned to one of three study diets , all of which included less saturated fat than the run-in diet .
The diets included one that incorporated whole walnuts , one that included the same amount of alpha-linolenic acid ( ALA ) and polyunsaturated fatty acids without walnuts , and one that partially substituted oleic acid ( another fatty acid ) for the same amount of ALA found in walnuts , without any walnuts .
In @ @ @ @ @ @ @ oils replaced saturated fat , and all participants followed each diet for six weeks with a break between diet periods .
To analyze the bacteria in the gastrointestinal tract , the researchers collected fecal samples 72 hours before the participants finished the run-in diet and each of the three study diet periods .
“ The walnut diet enriched a number of gut bacteria that have been associated with health benefits in the past , ” Petersen said .
“ One of those is Roseburia , which has been associated with protection of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in Eubacteria eligens and Butyricicoccus.
” The researchers also found that after the walnut diet , there were significant associations between changes in gut bacteria and risk factors for heart disease .
Eubacterium eligens was inversely associated with changes in several different measures of blood pressure , suggesting that greater numbers of Eubacterium eligens was associated with greater reductions in those risk factors .
Additionally , greater numbers of Lachnospiraceae were associated with greater reductions in blood pressure , total cholesterol , and non-HDL cholesterol .
There were no significant correlations between enriched @ @ @ @ @ @ @ other two diets .
Regina Lamendella , associate professor of biology at Juniata College , said the findings are an example of how people can feed the gut microbiome in a positive way .
“ Foods like whole walnuts provide a diverse array of substrates — like fatty acids , fiber and bioactive compounds — for our gut microbiomes to feed on , ” Lamendella said .
“ In turn , this can help generate beneficial metabolites and other products for our bodies.
” Kris-Etherton added that future research can continue to investigate @ @ @ @ @ @ @ elements of health .
“ The findings add to what we know about the health benefits of walnuts , this time moving toward their effects on gut health , ” Kris-Etherton said .
“ The study gives us clues that nuts may change gut health , and now we ’ re interested in expanding that and looking into how it may affect blood sugar levels.
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Walnuts may not just be a tasty snack, they may also promote good-for-your-gut bacteria. New research suggests that these “good” bacteria could be contributing to the heart-health benefits of walnuts.
In a randomized, controlled trial, researchers found that eating walnuts daily as part of a healthy diet was associated with increases in certain bacteria that can help promote health. Additionally, those changes in gut bacteria were associated with improvements in some risk factors for heart disease.
Kristina Petersen, assistant research professor at Penn State, said the study — recently published in the Journal of Nutrition — suggests walnuts may be a heart- and gut-healthy snack.
“Replacing your usual snack — especially if it’s an unhealthy snack — with walnuts is a small change you can make to improve your diet,” Petersen said. “Substantial evidence shows that small improvements in diet greatly benefit health. Eating two to three ounces of walnuts a day as part of a healthy diet could be a good way to improve gut health and reduce the risk of heart disease.”
Previous research has shown that walnuts, when combined with a diet low in saturated fats, may have heart-healthy benefits. For example, previous work demonstrated that eating whole walnuts daily lowers cholesterol levels and blood pressure.
For those of you that have ingested this information through countless interviews and analysis at Infowars, this report serves as a refresher.
According to the researchers, other research has found that changes to the bacteria in the gastrointestinal tract — also known as the gut microbiome — may help explain the cardiovascular benefits of walnuts.
“There’s a lot of work being done on gut health and how it affects overall health,” said Penny Kris-Etherton, distinguished professor of nutrition at Penn State. “So, in addition to looking at factors like lipids and lipoproteins, we wanted to look at gut health. We also wanted to see if changes in gut health with walnut consumption were related to improvements in risk factors for heart disease.”
For the study, the researchers recruited 42 participants with overweight or obesity who were between the ages of 30 and 65. Before the study began, participants were placed on an average American diet for two weeks.
After this “run-in” diet, the participants were randomly assigned to one of three study diets, all of which included less saturated fat than the run-in diet. The diets included one that incorporated whole walnuts, one that included the same amount of alpha-linolenic acid (ALA) and polyunsaturated fatty acids without walnuts, and one that partially substituted oleic acid (another fatty acid) for the same amount of ALA found in walnuts, without any walnuts.
In all three diets, walnuts or vegetable oils replaced saturated fat, and all participants followed each diet for six weeks with a break between diet periods.
To analyze the bacteria in the gastrointestinal tract, the researchers collected fecal samples 72 hours before the participants finished the run-in diet and each of the three study diet periods.
“The walnut diet enriched a number of gut bacteria that have been associated with health benefits in the past,” Petersen said. “One of those is Roseburia, which has been associated with protection of the gut lining. We also saw enrichment in Eubacteria eligens and Butyricicoccus.”
The researchers also found that after the walnut diet, there were significant associations between changes in gut bacteria and risk factors for heart disease. Eubacterium eligens was inversely associated with changes in several different measures of blood pressure, suggesting that greater numbers of Eubacterium eligens was associated with greater reductions in those risk factors.
Additionally, greater numbers of Lachnospiraceae were associated with greater reductions in blood pressure, total cholesterol, and non-HDL cholesterol. There were no significant correlations between enriched bacteria and heart-disease risk factors after the other two diets.
Regina Lamendella, associate professor of biology at Juniata College, said the findings are an example of how people can feed the gut microbiome in a positive way.
“Foods like whole walnuts provide a diverse array of substrates — like fatty acids, fiber and bioactive compounds — for our gut microbiomes to feed on,” Lamendella said. “In turn, this can help generate beneficial metabolites and other products for our bodies.”
Kris-Etherton added that future research can continue to investigate how walnuts affect the microbiome and other elements of health.
“The findings add to what we know about the health benefits of walnuts, this time moving toward their effects on gut health,” Kris-Etherton said. “The study gives us clues that nuts may change gut health, and now we’re interested in expanding that and looking into how it may affect blood sugar levels.”
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newswars--2020-01-16--45-Year-Old Man Caught With Child Pornography Says He Identifies as an 8-Year-Old Girl

A 45-year-old man caught with child pornography had a novel defense in court ; he claimed he identified as an 8-year-old girl .
Facing up to 20 years in prison , Joseph Gobrick told a judge in Michigan that he had a First Amendment right to view child porn on his computer and that he was in fact an 8-year-old girl , so it didn ’ t matter anyway .
“ I ’ ve always been an 8-year-old girl , and even in my drawings and fantasies I ’ m always an 8-year-old girl , ” said Gobrick .
After @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a child and therefore immune from prosecution didn ’ t impress the judge , Gobrick resorted to implying that his oppressors were behaving like Nazis .
“ Under the law , Auschwitz was legal , ” he said , arguing , “ What you ’ re doing here is wrong , just as Auschwitz was.
” “ If Gobrick can identify as a female , why can ’ t he identify as a female of whatever age he chooses ?
” asks Matt Walsh .
“ At least a man who “ feels @ @ @ @ @ @ @ out that he was once a child , so he has some frame of reference for judging these feelings .
And at least it does make sense , in the case of certain mental disabilities , to say that an adult “ has the brain of a child.
” “ None of this vindicates Gobrick to any extent at all , but my point is that transageism is actually more credible and makes more sense than transgenderism .
It ’ s still bogus , but slightly less so .
Age does change , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a 33-year-old man forever .
But I will be a man forever .
If my sex is a fluid characteristic , how much more fluid must my age be ?
” Who knows , the way western society is heading , Gobrick ’ s excuse may well be accepted by courts in 5-10 years .
If Rachel Dolezal can identify as black and Caitlyn Jenner can identify as a woman having been a man for over 50 years , why not ?
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A 45-year-old man caught with child pornography had a novel defense in court; he claimed he identified as an 8-year-old girl.
Facing up to 20 years in prison, Joseph Gobrick told a judge in Michigan that he had a First Amendment right to view child porn on his computer and that he was in fact an 8-year-old girl, so it didn’t matter anyway.
“I’ve always been an 8-year-old girl, and even in my drawings and fantasies I’m always an 8-year-old girl,” said Gobrick.
After his claim that he was in fact a child and therefore immune from prosecution didn’t impress the judge, Gobrick resorted to implying that his oppressors were behaving like Nazis.
“Under the law, Auschwitz was legal,” he said, arguing, “What you’re doing here is wrong, just as Auschwitz was.”
Joseph Gobrick is a 45-year-old male sex offender in Grand Rapids, Michigan who claims that he has “always been an 8-year-old girl.” So on top of being a female child, he also doesn’t age. He has self-ID’d himself into immortality. pic.twitter.com/jssVzkhvFN — Upnextcanadatv (@upnextcanada) January 15, 2020
“If Gobrick can identify as a female, why can’t he identify as a female of whatever age he chooses?” asks Matt Walsh.
“At least a man who “feels like a child” can rightly point out that he was once a child, so he has some frame of reference for judging these feelings. And at least it does make sense, in the case of certain mental disabilities, to say that an adult “has the brain of a child.”
“None of this vindicates Gobrick to any extent at all, but my point is that transageism is actually more credible and makes more sense than transgenderism. It’s still bogus, but slightly less so. Age does change, after all. I will not be a 33-year-old man forever. But I will be a man forever. If my sex is a fluid characteristic, how much more fluid must my age be?”
Who knows, the way western society is heading, Gobrick’s excuse may well be accepted by courts in 5-10 years.
If Rachel Dolezal can identify as black and Caitlyn Jenner can identify as a woman having been a man for over 50 years, why not?
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newswars--2020-01-16--Teleprompter Twitter: MSM Reporters Repeat ‘Wow’ in Borg-Like Unison

Several mainstream reporters were accused of repeating “ talking points ” after each of them sent out tweets about the same interview starting with the word “ Wow.
” Take a look for yourself : What are the chances that all of them would independently and coincidentally start their tweets with “ Wow ?
” Even more hilarious , LA Times reporter Eli Stokols retweeted two other reporters who also started their tweets with “ Wow ” just like he did !
It ’ s no wonder that so many mainstream reporters have been compared to NPCs from video games @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
They ’ re part of the group think .
The hive mind .
The NPC database .
They dont need orders , their reactions and thoughts are already programmed .
Just watch them , everything ’ s the same , right down to the “ jokes ” .
They are the Borg .
pic.twitter.com/FPWrpYWEHJ And the tweets bear resemblance this old video showing local news anchors from various locations reading from the same teleprompter script : And it also brings to mind the talking point from the 2016 election in which various @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that Hillary Clinton was going to “ power through ” pneumonia .
“ In the same way that Democrats and the media kept Hillary ’ s health out of the news until it could no longer be ignored , they ’ re now working together on the explanation , ” reported Legal Insurrection .
“ Clearly , someone sent out a memo which suggested the words ‘ power through ’ should be used in every response.
” Legal Insurrection counted no less than five instances of various outlets using the “ power through @ @ @

Several mainstream reporters were accused of repeating “talking points” after each of them sent out tweets about the same interview starting with the word “Wow.”
Take a look for yourself:
What are the chances that all of them would independently and coincidentally start their tweets with “Wow?”
Even more hilarious, LA Times reporter Eli Stokols retweeted two other reporters who also started their tweets with “Wow” just like he did!
Wow. Parnas says Giuliani told him to deliver a tough message to Zelensky aide that “it wasn’t just military aid, it was all aid” from US that depended on Ukraine announcing the Biden investigation Trump wanted. — Eli Stokols (@EliStokols) January 16, 2020
It’s no wonder that so many mainstream reporters have been compared to NPCs from video games and Borgs from Star Trek:
Nobody.
They’re part of the group think. The hive mind. The NPC database. They dont need orders, their reactions and thoughts are already programmed. Just watch them, everything’s the same, right down to the “jokes”. They are the Borg. pic.twitter.com/FPWrpYWEHJ — CiderHype (@CiderHype) May 31, 2019
And the tweets bear resemblance this old video showing local news anchors from various locations reading from the same teleprompter script:
And it also brings to mind the talking point from the 2016 election in which various media outlets said, ad verbiam, that Hillary Clinton was going to “power through” pneumonia.
“In the same way that Democrats and the media kept Hillary’s health out of the news until it could no longer be ignored, they’re now working together on the explanation,” reported Legal Insurrection. “Clearly, someone sent out a memo which suggested the words ‘power through’ should be used in every response.”
Legal Insurrection counted no less than five instances of various outlets using the “power through” phrase.


newswars--2020-01-16--Teleprompter Twitter: MSM Reporters Repeat Same Outrage in Borg-Like Unison

Several mainstream reporters were accused of repeating “ talking points ” after each of them sent out tweets on the same topic starting with the word “ Wow.
” Take a look for yourself : What are the chances that all of them would independently and coincidentally start their tweets with “ Wow ?
” Even more hilarious , LA Times reporter Eli Stokols retweeted two other reporters who also started their tweets with “ Wow ” just like he did !
It ’ s no wonder that so many mainstream reporters have been compared to NPCs from video games @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
They ’ re part of the group think .
The hive mind .
The NPC database .
They dont need orders , their reactions and thoughts are already programmed .
Just watch them , everything ’ s the same , right down to the “ jokes ” .
They are the Borg .
pic.twitter.com/FPWrpYWEHJ And the tweets bear resemblance this old video showing local news anchors from various locations reading from the same teleprompter script : And it also brings to mind the talking point from the 2016 election in which various @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that Hillary Clinton was going to “ power through ” pneumonia .
“ In the same way that Democrats and the media kept Hillary ’ s health out of the news until it could no longer be ignored , they ’ re now working together on the explanation , ” reported Legal Insurrection .
“ Clearly , someone sent out a memo which suggested the words ‘ power through ’ should be used in every response.
” Legal Insurrection counted no less than five instances of various outlets using the “ power through @ @ @

Several mainstream reporters were accused of repeating “talking points” after each of them sent out tweets on the same topic starting with the word “Wow.”
Take a look for yourself:
What are the chances that all of them would independently and coincidentally start their tweets with “Wow?”
Even more hilarious, LA Times reporter Eli Stokols retweeted two other reporters who also started their tweets with “Wow” just like he did!
Wow. Parnas says Giuliani told him to deliver a tough message to Zelensky aide that “it wasn’t just military aid, it was all aid” from US that depended on Ukraine announcing the Biden investigation Trump wanted. — Eli Stokols (@EliStokols) January 16, 2020
It’s no wonder that so many mainstream reporters have been compared to NPCs from video games and Borgs from Star Trek:
Nobody.
They’re part of the group think. The hive mind. The NPC database. They dont need orders, their reactions and thoughts are already programmed. Just watch them, everything’s the same, right down to the “jokes”. They are the Borg. pic.twitter.com/FPWrpYWEHJ — CiderHype (@CiderHype) May 31, 2019
And the tweets bear resemblance this old video showing local news anchors from various locations reading from the same teleprompter script:
And it also brings to mind the talking point from the 2016 election in which various media outlets said, ad verbiam, that Hillary Clinton was going to “power through” pneumonia.
“In the same way that Democrats and the media kept Hillary’s health out of the news until it could no longer be ignored, they’re now working together on the explanation,” reported Legal Insurrection. “Clearly, someone sent out a memo which suggested the words ‘power through’ should be used in every response.”
Legal Insurrection counted no less than five instances of various outlets using the “power through” phrase.