veteranstoday--2020-03-06--Two Years Later: The Skripal Case is Weirder than Ever

While navigating through today ’ s propaganda-heavy world of misinformation , spin and outright creative writing which appears to have replaced conventional journalism , it is most important that two qualities are active in the mind of any truth-seeker .
The first quality is the adherence to a strong top down perspective , both historic and global .
This is vital in order to guide us as a sort of compass or North Star used by sailors navigating across the ocean .
The second quality is a strong power of logic , memory and discernment of wheat vs. chaff to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ us in the face from all directions like sand in a desert storm .
As the second anniversary of the poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal has arrived , it is a useful time to take these qualities and revisit this bizarre moment of modern history which took place on a park bench in Salisbury UK and which led to one of the greatest frauds of the modern era derailing all attempts to repair relations between Russia and the west .
To do this , I decided to plunge myself into a new @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Moscow-based journalist John Helmer and published in February 2020 .
This incredible little book , which features 26 chapters written between March 2018 to February 2020 originally published on the author ’ s site Dances with Bears , unveils an arsenal of intellectual bullets which Helmer skillfully uses to shoot holes into every inconsistency , contradiction and outright lie holding up the structure of the narrative that “ there is no alternative conclusion other than that the Russian State was culpable for the attempted murder of Mr. Skripal and his daughter ” .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ of actual evidence by Theresa May in the House of Commons on March 16 , 2018 and in the months that followed , western nations were pressured to expel Russian diplomats ( 23 in Britain , 60 in the US , 33 across the EU ) , close down consulates ( one Russian consulate in San Francisco and one American consulate in St Petersburg ) and impose waves of sanctions against Russia .
Four months after the Skripals ( and one unfortunate detective named Sgt .
Nick Bailey ) were released from British @ @ @ @ @ @ @ stricken with Novichok poisoning and taken to hospital on June 30 with one of them ( Dawn Sturgess ) dying 9 days later .
This too was blamed immediately on Russia .
Helmer ’ s research systematically annihilates the official narratives with the craftsmanship of a legal attorney , taking the reader through several vital questions which shape the book ’ s composition as a whole , and which I shall lay out for you here : • Why have Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia fallen off the face of the Earth @ @ @ @ @ @ @ It is known that one controlled video was recorded featuring Yulia speaking , and several short calls to family were made by Yulia and her father after their poisoning… but nothing more .
Beyond the fact that it appears the Skripals were kept on an American military base in Gloucestershire for an indeterminate amount of time , Helmer points out “ at the point in their recuperation when the two of them were beginning to be explicit in their public remarks about what had happened , their communications were cut off .
Nothing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” • Despite the fact that the UK Prime Minister asserted that a European Arrest Warrant was issued for the two Russians that were alleged to have carried out Putin ’ s malevolent will onto the poor Skripals- why were no such warrants ever registered in Interpol ?
Is it because such warrants actually require evidence ?
• Why did British Intelligence sanction the tearing down of big sections of Skripal ’ s home at 47 Christie Miller Road in Salisbury due to the apparent “ dangers of deadly contaminants ” , while @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Novichok ?
If the reasoning was due to health safety , then why were similar actions not taken to the Bourne Hill police station which Sgt .
Bradley contaminated or the restaurant and pub which Sergei Skripal went to before his trip to the park … or the contaminated London hotel where the two Russian agents apparently stayed ?
• Since Novichok is an extremely fast acting substance , generally attacking the nervous system in minutes , how is it possible that the time separating the Skripals ’ moment of contamination to the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ bench was over three hours ?
!
How is this possible ?
Similarly how was it possible that Sgt .
Bailey ’ s point of contamination at Skripal ’ s home occurred a full 12 hours before he felt the need to go to the hospital ?
• What the hell was up with the strange case of the two unfortunate victims of the July 2018 Novichok poisoning in Amesbury ( 9 miles from Salisbury ) ?
Were Dawn Sturgess and her partner Charlie Rowley simply collateral damage in an MI6 effort to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ caused by a lack of any evidence of a device used to apply the nerve agent to the door handle in the first place ?
Why does Rowley ( a known heroin addict ) have no recollection where he found the perfume bottle filled with Novichok which he gifted to Sturgess on June 26 ?
Why was the perfume bottle only found by authorities on Rowley ’ s kitchen counter two days after Sturgess died on July 9th even though a search for Novichok had been carried out at his apartment beginning with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ hospital on June 30 ?
• What was the role of the Ministry of Defense ’ s Porton Down chemical laboratories in this bizarre story ?
The lab itself was located just a few miles from the crime scene , and the first responder on the scene was an off-duty Colonel named Alison McCourt who happened to be shopping nearby and rushed to the scene .
Helmer describes how Col. McCourt is head of nursing for the British Army and Senior Health Advisor which connects her closely to the Defense Science and Technology @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to have held a major chemical warfare exercise named Toxic Dagger in the area just two weeks earlier .
Are these things nothing but coincidences ?
• Porton Down labs which tested the Skripal blood samples and Novichok at the Skripal residence is part of the Ministry of Defense and to this day , no public admission of those samples ’ existence at the labs has occurred .
Requests by Helmer and others to receive confirmation of from the labs according to Freedom of Information laws have been denied outright on the grounds @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Why ?
Could it be because blood tests were never actually carried out ?
Helmer ’ s book probes this question deeply and the lack of evidence will shock you .
• How about the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons ( OPCW ) ?
Since the OPCW ran parallel tests of the apparent blood samples of the Skripals as well as the later July victims Dawn Sturgess and Charlie Rowley to get “ matches ” with the novichok traces in a perfume bottle and Skripal door handle , why has evidence @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ?
Also why was a British intelligence officer the only figure who oversaw the samples taken to the OPCW for verification ?
In fact , Helmer points out that the one Swiss contract laboratory ( Spiez ) associated with the OPCW has contradicted all British claims that any “ match ” exists between the Skripal samples and Novichok A-234 poisoning .
• Finally , Helmer asks : Why were all OPCW Executive Council votes in regards to matters surrounding the Skripal case , taken in secret , and thus in conflict with its @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the right to share in the investigation of the Novichok attack as guaranteed in Articles XIII and IX of the OPCW Chemical Weapons convention ?
Could that have something to do with the role of former OPCW Director General Ahmet Üzümcü , a Turkish NATO-phile , who Helmer notes “ has also been a member of the NATO staff in charge of expanding NATO military operations to the Russian frontier , as well as NATO operations in Ukraine and Syria.
” In 2019 , Üzümcü was inducted into the Order of St Michael @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for services to the Empire .
Helmer goes onto make the point that the overarching dynamic shaping the events of the Skripal/Novichok affair are guided by the collapsing western empire which has been working tirelessly to surround Russia with a ballistic missile shield while sabotaging all efforts by genuine patriots in the west from establishing positive alliances with Russia .
Taking the opportunity of the second anniversary of the Skripal affair to read this book is not only a valuable exercise in logic but also key into the desperate and increasingly fear-driven mind @ @ @ @ @ @ @ quickly losing its grip both on reality and the very influence it had spent generations putting in place .

Matthew Ehret for VT Canada
While navigating through today’s propaganda-heavy world of misinformation, spin and outright creative writing which appears to have replaced conventional journalism, it is most important that two qualities are active in the mind of any truth-seeker. The first quality is the adherence to a strong top-down perspective, both historic and global.
This is vital in order to guide us as a sort of compass or North Star used by sailors navigating across the ocean. The second quality is a strong power of logic, memory and discernment of wheat vs. chaff to process the mountains of data that slaps us in the face from all directions like sand in a desert storm.
As the second anniversary of the poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal has arrived, it is a useful time to take these qualities and revisit this bizarre moment of modern history which took place on a park bench in Salisbury UK and which led to one of the greatest frauds of the modern era derailing all attempts to repair relations between Russia and the west.
To do this, I decided to plunge myself into a new book called Skripal in Prison written by Moscow-based journalist John Helmer and published in February 2020.
This incredible little book, which features 26 chapters written between March 2018 to February 2020 originally published on the author’s site Dances with Bears, unveils an arsenal of intellectual bullets which Helmer skillfully uses to shoot holes into every inconsistency, contradiction and outright lie holding up the structure of the narrative that “there is no alternative conclusion other than that the Russian State was culpable for the attempted murder of Mr. Skripal and his daughter”.
This line was asserted without a shred of actual evidence by Theresa May in the House of Commons on March 16, 2018, and in the months that followed, western nations were pressured to expel Russian diplomats (23 in Britain, 60 in the US, 33 across the EU), close down consulates (one Russian consulate in San Francisco and one American consulate in St Petersburg) and impose waves of sanctions against Russia.
Four months after the Skripals (and one unfortunate detective named Sgt. Nick Bailey) were released from British hospital care, two more figures were stricken with Novichok poisoning and taken to hospital on June 30 with one of them (Dawn Sturgess) dying 9 days later. This too was blamed immediately on Russia.
Helmer’s research systematically annihilates the official narratives with the craftsmanship of a legal attorney, taking the reader through several vital questions which shape the book’s composition as a whole, and which I shall layout for you here:
Why have Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia fallen off the face of the Earth since their release from Salisbury hospital? It is known that one controlled video was recorded featuring Yulia speaking, and several short calls to the family were made by Yulia and her father after their poisoning… but nothing more. Beyond the fact that it appears the Skripals were kept on an American military base in Gloucestershire for an indeterminate amount of time, Helmer points out “at the point in their recuperation when the two of them were beginning to be explicit in their public remarks about what had happened, their communications were cut off. Nothing more is known to this present day.” Despite the fact that the UK Prime Minister asserted that a European Arrest Warrant was issued for the two Russians that were alleged to have carried out Putin’s malevolent will onto the poor Skripals- why were no such warrants ever registered in Interpol? Is it because such warrants actually require evidence? Why did British Intelligence sanction the tearing down of big sections of Skripal’s home at 47 Christie Miller Road in Salisbury due to the apparent “dangers of deadly contaminants”, while only the door handle was tainted with Novichok? If the reasoning was due to health safety, then why were similar actions not taken to the Bourne Hill police station which Sgt. Bradley contaminated or the restaurant and pub which Sergei Skripal went to before his trip to the park … or the contaminated London hotel where the two Russian agents apparently stayed? Since Novichok is an extremely fast-acting substance, generally attacking the nervous system in minutes, how is it possible that the time separating the Skripals’ moment of contamination to the moment of losing consciousness on a park bench was over three hours?! How is this possible? Similarly, how was it possible that Sgt. Bailey’s point of contamination at Skripal’s home occurred a full 12 hours before he felt the need to go to the hospital? What the hell was up with the strange case of the two unfortunate victims of the July 2018 Novichok poisoning in Amesbury (9 miles from Salisbury)? Were Dawn Sturgess and her partner Charlie Rowley simply collateral damage in an MI6 effort to plug a missing hole in the narrative caused by a lack of any evidence of a device used to apply the nerve agent to the door handle in the first place? Why does Rowley (a known heroin addict) have no recollection where he found the perfume bottle filled with Novichok which he gifted to Sturgess on June 26? Why was the perfume bottle only found by authorities on Rowley’s kitchen counter two days after Sturgess died on July 9th even though a search for Novichok had been carried out at his apartment beginning with the couple’s admission into Salisbury hospital on June 30? What was the role of the Ministry of Defense’s Porton Down chemical laboratories in this bizarre story? The lab itself was located just a few miles from the crime scene, and the first responder on the scene was an off-duty Colonel named Alison McCourt who happened to be shopping nearby and rushed to the scene. Helmer describes how Col. McCourt is head of nursing for the British Army and Senior Health Advisor which connects her closely to the Defense Science and Technology Laboratory at Porton Down which also happened to have held a major chemical warfare exercise named Toxic Dagger in the area just two weeks earlier. Are these things nothing but coincidences? Porton Down labs which tested the Skripal blood samples and Novichok at the Skripal residence is part of the Ministry of Defense and to this day, no public admission of those samples’ existence at the labs has occurred. Requests by Helmer and others to receive confirmation of from the labs according to Freedom of Information laws have been denied outright on the grounds of “the public interest”. Why? Could it be because blood tests were never actually carried out? Helmer’s book probes this question deeply and the lack of evidence will shock you. How about the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW)? Since the OPCW ran parallel tests of the apparent blood samples of the Skripals as well as the later July victims Dawn Sturgess and Charlie Rowley to get “matches” with the novichok traces in a perfume bottle and Skripal door handle, why has evidence of these samples not been made available? Also, why was a British intelligence officer the only figure who oversaw the samples taken to the OPCW for verification? In fact, Helmer points out that the one Swiss contract laboratory (Spiez) associated with the OPCW has contradicted all British claims that any “match” exists between the Skripal samples and Novichok A-234 poisoning. Finally, Helmer asks: Why were all OPCW Executive Council votes in regards to matters surrounding the Skripal case, taken in secret, and thus in conflict with its own charter and why was Russia denied the right to share in the investigation of the Novichok attack as guaranteed in Articles XIII and IX of the OPCW Chemical Weapons Convention? Could that have something to do with the role of former OPCW Director-General Ahmet Üzümcü, a Turkish NATO-phile, who Helmer notes “has also been a member of the NATO staff in charge of expanding NATO military operations to the Russian frontier, as well as NATO operations in Ukraine and Syria.” In 2019, Üzümcü was inducted into the Order of St Michael and St George by Queen Elizabeth II for services to the Empire.
Helmer goes onto making the point that the overarching dynamic shaping the events of the Skripal/Novichok affair are guided by the collapsing western empire which has been working tirelessly to surround Russia with a ballistic missile shield while sabotaging all efforts by genuine patriots in the west from establishing positive alliances with Russia.
Taking the opportunity of the second anniversary of the Skripal affair to read this book is not only a valuable exercise in logic but also key into the desperate and increasingly fear-driven mind of the London-centered deep state which is quickly losing its grip both on reality and the very influence it had spent generations putting in place.


veteranstoday--2020-03-06--Lebanon go to Security Council over Israel violations of airspace

Lebanon has condemned incessant Israeli violations of its airspace , and filed a complaint at the UN Security Council over serious and numerous breaches of the Lebanese sovereignty and UNSC Resolution 1701 .
On Friday , Lebanese Minister of Foreign Affairs and Emigrants Nassif Hitti discussed the latest developments in southern Lebanon as well as Beirut ’ s commitment to the resolution during a meeting with the United Nations Special Coordinator for Lebanon , Jan Kubitsch .
Hitti then expressed his great resentment over violation of Lebanon ’ s airspace by the Israeli regime .
Syria ’ s official news @ @ @ @ @ @ @ source as saying , reported early on Thursday that Syrian air defenses had intercepted Israeli missiles over strategic Quneitra province in the country ’ s southwest .
“ At 00:30 on Thursday our air defense monitored Israeli warplanes coming from northern occupied Palestine toward Saida , and several missiles were fired from Lebanese airspace toward the central area , ” the source added .
The missiles were intercepted successfully , he pointed out .
Israel violates Lebanon ’ s airspace on an almost daily basis , claiming the flights serve surveillance purposes .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ resistance movement and the UN Interim Force in Lebanon ( UNIFIL ) have repeatedly condemned the overflights , saying they are in clear violation of UN Resolution 1701 and the country ’ s sovereignty .
UN Security Council Resolution 1701 , which brokered a ceasefire in the war of aggression Israel launched against Lebanon in 2006 , calls on Tel Aviv to respect Beirut ’ s sovereignty and territorial integrity .
In 2009 , Lebanon filed a complaint with the United Nations , presenting over 7,000 documents pertaining to Israeli violations of Lebanese @ @

Lebanon has condemned incessant Israeli violations of its airspace and filed a complaint at the UN Security Council over serious and numerous breaches of the Lebanese sovereignty and UNSC Resolution 1701.
On Friday, Lebanese Minister of Foreign Affairs and Emigrants Nassif Hitti discussed the latest developments in southern Lebanon as well as Beirut’s commitment to the resolution during a meeting with the United Nations Special Coordinator for Lebanon, Jan Kubitsch.
Hitti then expressed his great resentment over the violation of Lebanon’s airspace by the Israeli regime.
Syria’s official news agency SANA, quoting an unnamed military source as saying, reported early on Thursday that Syrian air defenses had intercepted Israeli missiles over strategic Quneitra province in the country’s southwest.
“At 00:30 on Thursday our air defense monitored Israeli warplanes coming from northern occupied Palestine toward Saida, and several missiles were fired from Lebanese airspace toward the central area,” the source added. The missiles were intercepted successfully, he pointed out. Israel violates Lebanon’s airspace on an almost daily basis, claiming the flights serve surveillance purposes. Lebanon’s government, the Hezbollah resistance movement and the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) have repeatedly condemned the overflights, saying they are in clear violation of UN Resolution 1701 and the country’s sovereignty. UN Security Council Resolution 1701, which brokered a ceasefire in the war of aggression Israel launched against Lebanon in 2006, calls on Tel Aviv to respect Beirut’s sovereignty and territorial integrity. In 2009, Lebanon filed a complaint with the United Nations, presenting over 7,000 documents pertaining to Israeli violations of Lebanese territory.
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veteranstoday--2020-03-06--Guardian: Trump’s undermining COVID 19 response, ignorance, lying and anti-science

Guardian : The Trump administration ’ s jettisoning of scientific expertise and the president ’ s habit of spreading misinformation means the US is in a much weaker position to deal with the threat of coronavirus , experts have warned .
But the efforts to address the outbreak risk being undermined by three years of a Trump administration that has seen an exodus of scientists from a variety of agencies , the scrapping and remodeling of scientific panels to favor industry interests and a president who regularly dismisses or distorts scientific facts – from the climate crisis to whether the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ public .
“ The US is badly positioned ; the federal government isn ’ t up to the task , ” said Judith Enck , a former regional administrator for the Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) .
“ When I learned more about this virus my heart sank because I know the Trump administration doesn ’ t value basic science , it doesn ’ t understand it and it tends to reject it when it conflicts with its political narrative.
” Enck said that Trump “ doesn ’ t seem to understand @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a reference to a White House meeting with pharmaceutical executives and public health officials on Monday where the president urged the attendees to release the anti-coronavirus drugs they are working on .
“ So you have a medicine that ’ s already involved with the coronaviruses , and now you have to see if it ’ s specifically for this , ” Trump said .
“ You can know that tomorrow , can ’ t you ?
” read more… ( no pay wall )

Guardian: The Trump administration’s jettisoning of scientific expertise and the president’s habit of spreading misinformation means the US is in a much weaker position to deal with the threat of coronavirus, experts have warned.
But the efforts to address the outbreak risk being undermined by three years of a Trump administration that has seen an exodus of scientists from a variety of agencies, the scrapping and remodeling of scientific panels to favor industry interests and a president who regularly dismisses or distorts scientific facts – from the climate crisis to whether the moon is part of Mars – in public.
“The US is badly positioned; the federal government isn’t up to the task,” said Judith Enck, a former regional administrator for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). “When I learned more about this virus my heart sank because I know the Trump administration doesn’t value basic science, it doesn’t understand it and it tends to reject it when it conflicts with its political narrative.”
Enck said that Trump “doesn’t seem to understand what a clinical trial is”, a reference to a White House meeting with pharmaceutical executives and public health officials on Monday where the president urged the attendees to release the anti-coronavirus drugs they are working on. “So you have a medicine that’s already involved with the coronaviruses, and now you have to see if it’s specifically for this,” Trump said. “You can know that tomorrow, can’t you?” read more…(no paywall)
Source: TheGuardian.com


veteranstoday--2020-03-06--NEO – The darkness behind the Democratic primary race

Nothing read in or out of the US remotely resembles real politics in the US .
The first issue , of course is the statement continually repeated by the corrupt and ignorant that both parties are the same .
The GOP represents the Deep State and always has .
It is the part of poisoned food , low wages , police surveillance , pollution , private prison , banking scams , soaring medical rip-offs and Pentagon insanity .
Its core has always been “ Red State ” voters , with one major issue above all , support for racism and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ expanded to hatred of imaginary millions of transgender people who don ’ t really exist and Muslim terrorists trying to put Sharia Law in place across the country .
In reality , Muslim communities like Dearborn , Michigan ( one of the largest and most cited ) are prosperous , welcoming , clean and crime free .
Nearby “ Mexicantown , ” along Vernor Avenue , now one of the Midwest ’ s largest Hispanic regions , is also a center for shopping and entertainment , low in crime , clean and orderly @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Nebraska has ever been there , they only know what they read in the corporate controlled newspapers , owned by the same companies , in many cases , that profit from the power of ignorance that has allowed fake news and false flag terrorism for decades to facilitate torture , murder and rape around the world .
Both parties are not the same .
Let ’ s take a key failing of “ lying Obama , ” an issue the press relied on for 8 years ; Guantanamo .
President Obama promises to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ innocent kidnapping victims much as it had when it opened as a concentration camp after 9/11 , one of dozens around the world .
In November 2012 , President Obama addressed the nation on this issue explaining how key funding for Social Security , Medicare and emergency services was held up by language the GOP inserted in funding bills that required Guantanamo be kept open .
Obama was blackmailed , the GOP threatened to destroy the United States if Guantanamo was closed .
The media never reported this the same way the American @ @ @ @ @ @ @ announcement by the ICC at The Hague that the US was being cited for massive war crimes in Afghanistan .
But first , we get back to the election .
March 3 , 2020 was “ Super Tuesday , ” the series of primary elections within the Democratic Party that is intended to wash out inferior candidates and end the bloodletting and destruction that are the very root of America ’ s intra-party struggles .
Two are left standing , Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders .
Sanders is said to be a “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , if any knew what that actually means in a nation whose government is controlled by corporate criminals .
Let us assume that socialism is bad and that Bernie Sanders is a threat to a nation at war around the world , a police state drowning in debt with a massive military and a history of torture , war crimes and oppression .
That last statement , of course , refers to the March 5 , 2020 announcement by the International Criminal Court at The Hague , that the US would be subject @ @ @ @ @ @ @ use of rape and torture for nearly 20 years in Afghanistan as a matter of national policy .
Trump and Pompeo , in response , have publicly threatened the judges and covertly made moves against them personally , financially and have subjected them to Gestapo style surveillance which includes their children as well .
But we must get back to Sanders , but what are his policies ?
• Medicare for all , meaning free health care for all like in the rest of the civilized world .
Few are aware , due @ @ @ @ @ @ @ racketeers are among the primary financiers of Trump and company who has appointed “ Mafia dons ” to key oversite positions to protect the public .
• Free college for all , like in most civilized countries , so that qualified students can go to school without taking on $ 100,000 in debt and having to work two jobs while eventually failing to finish a degree .
40 million younger Americans who racked up endless billions in debt at high interest have been forced to quit school and work for minimum wage .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ • Free childcare , which would allow mothers , who now have to work a second job to pay for childcare , to work only one and occasionally see their own children .
One might wonder why millions of Americans rot in prison .
Two issues , maybe more , prisons are big business and a big GOP financial boondoggle , but also enslaving a permanent underclass of working mothers denied medical care , denied union representation and denied decent pay guarantees big returns on the stock market for Mafia dons .
• @ @ @ @ @ @ @ cause of bankruptcy , except of course for Trump ’ s 6 personal bankruptcies , is paying medical bills .
A trip to an emergency room for someone with a broken leg and no insurance can be up to $ 30,000 .
In Germany , the same treatment , to an uninsured overseas visitor is $ 150 .
The full list is here and to any reasonable person will redefine socialism as freedom from rule by world organized crime syndicates .
Thus , Sanders is “ Joe Stalin ” and plans a communist @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the press .
But then , why is the press so against Sanders ?
Could it be that he supports JCPOA with Iran , the missile treaties with Russia and wants the US to stop aiding Al Qaeda ?
Is it also because Sanders would end rule of Washington Politics by the coalition of Likudist Israeli ’ s and Pentagon war mongers who have been above the law and above press exposure for many decades ?
This is Sanders , who in Europe would simply be considered mainstream , but smeared continually .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ Dangerous Duo , ” according to Deep State watchers was Bloomberg and Buttigieg .
From a foreign policy standpoint , which in America always means utter submission to Benjamin Netanyahu and the Kosher Nostra that supports him , this pair are pure Trump-Pompeo analogs .
This is from “ on the issues ” on Bloomberg ’ s foreign policy : • Saudi Arabia ’ s modernization is going in the right direction .
( Dec 2019 ) • Visited Israel for first time just before candidacy .
( Sep 2010 ) • Peace @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ( Sep 2010 ) • Maintains mayoral office for UN relations , run by his sister .
( Feb 2008 ) • Four trips abroad in first four months of 2007 .
( Apr 2007 ) Buttigieg is something else , pure stealth .
Buttigieg , now a former candidate , ran on his military record .
From The Hill , a publication that accused me of being a Russian agent : “ According to the documents , Buttigieg served in the Afghanistan Threat Finance Cell ( ATFC ) in Kabul , placing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ area ” from late March to mid-September 2014 , while the then-32-year old was still serving his first term as mayor .
The ATFC “ identifies and disrupts Taliban , Al-Qaida and other insurgent financial support networks in Afghanistan.
” Buttigieg represented ATFC at “ high level briefings , ” the documents say , and “ coordinated intelligence sharing and targeting deconfliction ” methods with multiple organizations .
In his book “ Shortest Way Home , ” Buttigieg wrote about how he expected to spend the bulk of his time as an intelligence @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in a secure area.
” But out on the campaign trail , Buttigieg has talked about the 119 times he says he crossed “ outside the wire , ” leaving the relative safety of the base as a vehicle commander on convoy security detail in dangerous parts of Kabul.
” What does this tell us ?
Nothing in Buttigieg ’ s personal history , before or since , would have remotely qualified him for running drone assassinations or fake investigations that continually cite the Taliban as running the CIA ’ s drug empire @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s job description , as given in The Hill , is pure CIA .
His performance during the campaign , pushing forward the CIA agenda against Syria and in support of “ freedom loving ” Al Qaeda terrorists was sickening to watch .
This leaves Joe Biden .
Let ’ s be clear , Bernie Sanders social programs and “ Stand Up to Israel ” policy makes him the real “ America first ” candidate and the only person in American politics , with the minor exception of Tulsi Gabbard , to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Little is known of Biden , but much is known of Biden and Obama .
What did they really do ?
For one , they never attacked Syria .
The public is unaware , but insiders know that it was Secretary of State Kerry that ordered the Pentagon to stand down on Syria over fake gas attacks .
Kerry personally examined the evidence and found the CIA reports , which were based on MI 6 and Mossad sources , unreliable .
It was Obama and Biden that negotiated the JCPOA and Biden that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ also isn ’ t known is that , to keep Israel in line , Obama and Biden removed the two AEGIS ships that are secretly kept on station off the Israeli coast , that are the real “ Iron Dome.
” This was done in response to Israeli interference in US foreign policy and violation of Palestinian rights .
Past that , Obama and Biden maintained qualified and independent watchdog appointees in every department , a policy Trump ended .
What wasn ’ t seen , because at no time did Obama and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ House and Senate , was funding for their reform initiates , which were continually blocked .
Still , for 8 years , almost no lies out of the Oval Office , no treaties broken , crazy “ Facebook bombings ” and no name calling and threats .
In fact , the Obama/Biden administration was respected around the world despite Hillary Clinton ’ s tenure as Secretary of State and , even then , the majority of criticisms and accusations against her have proven to be Deep State smears .
We may never know @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , as is simple to ascertain , supports policies that would put America in line with the civilized world and both domestically and in the foreign policy arena end American exceptionalism .
Would Biden do the same ?
The jury is out on that .
Gordon Duff is a Marine combat veteran of the Vietnam War that has worked on veterans and POW issues for decades and consulted with governments challenged by security issues .
He ’ s a senior editor and chairman of the board of Veterans Today , especially for the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ”

…by Gordon Duff, VT. Sr. Editor, with New Eastern Outlook, Moscow
– First published … March 06, 2020 –
Nothing read in or out of the US remotely resembles real politics in the US. The first issue, of course, is the statement continually repeated by the corrupt and ignorant that both parties are the same.
The GOP represents the Deep State and always has. It is the part of poisoned food, low wages, police surveillance, pollution, private prison, banking scams, soaring medical rip-offs and Pentagon insanity.
Its core has always been “Red State” voters, with one major issue above all, support for racism and apartheid in America. Now that has expanded to hatred of imaginary millions of transgender people who don’t really exist and Muslim terrorists trying to put Sharia Law in place across the country.
In reality, Muslim communities like Dearborn, Michigan (one of the largest and most-cited) are prosperous, welcoming, clean and crime-free.
Nearby “Mexicantown,” along Vernor Avenue, now one of the Midwest’s largest Hispanic regions, is also a center for shopping and entertainment, low in crime, clean and orderly.
But then, no one from Nebraska has ever been there, they only know what they read in the corporate-controlled newspapers, owned by the same companies, in many cases, that profit from the power of ignorance that has allowed fake news and false flag terrorism for decades to facilitate torture, murder, and rape around the world.
Both parties are not the same.
Let’s take a key failing of “lying Obama,” an issue the press relied on for 8 years; Guantanamo.
President Obama promises to close Guantanamo but today it is torturing innocent kidnapping victims much as it had when it opened as a concentration camp after 9/11, one of the dozens around the world.
In November 2012, President Obama addressed the nation on this issue explaining how key funding for Social Security, Medicare, and emergency services was held up by language the GOP inserted in funding bills that required Guantanamo to be kept open.
Obama was blackmailed, the GOP threatened to destroy the United States if Guantanamo was closed.
The media never reported this the same way the American media censored the March 5, 2020 announcement by the ICC at The Hague that the US was being cited for massive war crimes in Afghanistan. But first, we get back to the election.
March 3, 2020, was “Super Tuesday,” the series of primary elections within the Democratic Party that is intended to wash out inferior candidates and end the bloodletting and destruction that are the very root of America’s intra-party struggles.
Two are left standing, Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders. Sanders is said to be a “socialist,” and may well be if any knew what that actually means in a nation whose government is controlled by corporate criminals.
Let us assume that socialism is bad and that Bernie Sanders is a threat to a nation at war around the world, a police state drowning in debt with a massive military and a history of torture, war crimes, and oppression.
That last statement, of course, refers to the March 5, 2020 announcement by the International Criminal Court at The Hague, that the US would be subject to a war crimes inquiry for the use of rape and torture for nearly 20 years in Afghanistan as a matter of national policy.
Trump and Pompeo, in response, have publicly threatened the judges and covertly made moves against them personally, financially and have subjected them to Gestapo style surveillance which includes their children as well.
But we must get back to Sanders, but what are his policies?
Medicare for all, meaning free health care for all like in the rest of the civilized world. Few are aware, due to widespread press censorship, that medical racketeers are among the primary financiers of Trump and company who has appointed “Mafia dons” to key oversite positions to protect the public.
Free college for all, like in most civilized countries, so that qualified students can go to school without taking on $100,000 in debt and having to work two jobs while eventually failing to finish a degree. 40 million younger Americans who racked up endless billions in debt at high interest have been forced to quit school and work for minimum wage. Sanders and socialism would address this.
Free childcare, which would allow mothers, who now have to work a second job to pay for childcare, to work only one and occasionally see their own children. One might wonder why millions of Americans rot in prison. Two issues, maybe more, prisons are big business and a big GOP financial boondoggle, but also enslaving a permanent underclass of working mothers denied medical care, denied union representation and denied decent pay guarantees big returns on the stock market for Mafia dons.
Eliminating medical debt, because of the primary cause of bankruptcy, except of course for Trump’s 6 personal bankruptcies, is paying medical bills. A trip to an emergency room for someone with a broken leg and no insurance can be up to $30,000. In Germany, the same treatment, to an uninsured overseas visitor is $150.
The full list is here and any reasonable person will redefine socialism as freedom from rule by world organized crime syndicates. Thus, Sanders is “Joe Stalin” and plans a communist takeover of America, if you read the press.
But then, why is the press so against Sanders? Could it be that he supports JCPOA with Iran, the missile treaties with Russia and wants the US to stop aiding Al Qaeda?
Is it also because Sanders would end the rule of Washington Politics by the coalition of Likudist Israeli’s and Pentagon warmongers who have been above the law and above press exposure for many decades?
This is Sanders, who in Europe would simply be considered mainstream, but smeared continually. But who dropped out?
The “Dangerous Duo,” according to Deep State watchers was Bloomberg and Buttigieg. From a foreign policy standpoint, which in America always means utter submission to Benjamin Netanyahu and the Kosher Nostra that supports him, these pairs are pure Trump-Pompeo analogs.
This is from “on the issues” on Bloomberg’s foreign policy:
“Trump coddles Russia; they intruded in the 2016 election. (Dec 2019)
A system of alliances achieved peace & democratic progress. (Dec 2019)
Don’t recognize Crimea annexation; do extend the START treaty. (Dec 2019)
Saudi Arabia’s modernization is going in the right direction. (Dec 2019)
Partner with World Bank: reduce traffic fatalities worldwide. (Apr 2011)
Visited Israel for the first time just before candidacy. (Sep 2010)
Peace is fragile and democracy is fragile. (Sep 2010)
2008: I know foreign policy from negotiating deals worldwide. (Sep 2010)
Maintains mayoral office for UN relations, run by his sister. (Feb 2008)
Four trips abroad in the first four months of 2007. (Apr 2007)
Egypt shakes down Israeli tourists at border crossings. (Aug 2001)”
Calling Bloomberg’s foreign policy vacuous is generous.
Buttigieg is something else, pure stealth. Buttigieg, now a former candidate, ran on his military record. From The Hill, a publication that accused me of being a Russian agent:
“According to the documents, Buttigieg served in the Afghanistan Threat Finance Cell (ATFC) in Kabul, placing him in “an imminent danger pay area” from late March to mid-September 2014, while the then-32-year old was still serving his first term as mayor.
The ATFC “identifies and disrupts Taliban, Al-Qaida and other insurgent financial support networks in Afghanistan.”
Buttigieg represented ATFC at “high-level briefings,” the documents say, and “coordinated intelligence sharing and targeting deconfliction” methods with multiple organizations.
In his book “Shortest Way Home,” Buttigieg wrote about how he expected to spend the bulk of his time as an intelligence analyst “behind a sophisticated computer terminal in a secure area.”
But out on the campaign trail, Buttigieg has talked about the 119 times he says he crossed “outside the wire,” leaving the relative safety of the base as a vehicle commander on convoy security detail in dangerous parts of Kabul.”
What does this tell us? Nothing in Buttigieg’s personal history, before or since, would have remotely qualified him for running drone assassinations or fake investigations that continually cite the Taliban as running the CIA’s drug empire in Afghanistan.
In fact, Buttigieg’s job description, as given in The Hill, is pure CIA.
His performance during the campaign, pushing forward the CIA agenda against Syria and in support of “freedom-loving” Al Qaeda terrorists was sickening to watch.
This leaves Joe Biden. Let’s be clear, Bernie Sanders’s social programs and “Stand Up to Israel” policy make him the real “America first” candidate and the only person in American politics, with the minor exception of Tulsi Gabbard, to stand up against the Deep State.
Little is known of Biden, but much is known of Biden and Obama. What did they really do?
For one, they never attacked Syria. The public is unaware, but insiders know that it was Secretary of State Kerry that ordered the Pentagon to stand down on Syria over fake gas attacks. Kerry personally examined the evidence and found the CIA reports, which were based on MI 6 and Mossad sources, unreliable.
It was Obama and Biden that negotiated the JCPOA and Biden that personally pushed it through congress.
What also isn’t known is that to keep Israel in line, Obama and Biden removed the two AEGIS ships that are secretly kept on station off the Israeli coast, which are the real “Iron Dome.” This was done in response to Israeli interference in US foreign policy and violation of Palestinian rights.
Past that, Obama and Biden maintained qualified and independent watchdog appointees in every department, a policy Trump ended. What wasn’t seen, because at no time did Obama and Biden have a party majority in the House and Senate, was funding for their reform initiates, which were continually blocked.
Still, for 8 years, almost no lies out of the Oval Office, no treaties broken, crazy “Facebook bombings” and no name-calling and threats.
In fact, the Obama/Biden administration was respected around the world despite Hillary Clinton’s tenure as Secretary of State and, even then, the majority of criticisms and accusations against her have proven to be Deep State smears. We may never know the truth.
Still, Bernie Sanders, as is simple to ascertain, supports policies that would put America in line with the civilized world and both domestically and in the foreign policy arena end American exceptionalism.
Would Biden do the same? The jury is out on that.


veteranstoday--2020-03-06--Warm German Winter: Bad News for Ice Wine Aficionados

Known for their uniquely sweet flavor , ice wines are a prized treat made from grapes that are frozen while still on the vine .
The viticultural tradition originated around 200 years ago in Germany , which remains a top producer of the drink .
But this winter , according to David McHugh of the Associated Press , the country ’ s ice wine output has been drastically compromised by unseasonably warm temperatures .
The German Wine Institute announced this week that just one winery—Zimmerle , located in the region of Württemberg—had managed to harvest a batch of ice wine @ @ @ @ @ @ @ not aware of any other winemaker from one of the 13 German wine regions , who managed to produce ice wine in this mild winter , ” said the institute ’ s Ernst Büscher .
As far as experts know , 2019 marks the first vintage , or harvest year , in German history with such a low yield .
Allowing grapes to freeze on the vine concentrates their flavors , leading to a delicious dessert beverage .
But making ice wines is a finicky process .
The grapes have to be picked @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ; if left too long , however , they might start to thaw and rot , which dilutes their juices .
Winemakers have to be prepared…read more :

by Brigit Katz/Smithsonianmag.com
Known for their uniquely sweet flavor, ice wines are a prized treat made from grapes that are frozen while still on the vine. The viticultural tradition originated around 200 years ago in Germany, which remains a top producer of the drink. But this winter, according to David McHugh of the Associated Press, the country’s ice wine output has been drastically compromised by unseasonably warm temperatures.
The German Wine Institute announced this week that just one winery—Zimmerle, located in the region of Württemberg—had managed to harvest a batch of ice wine. “Beyond that, we are not aware of any other winemaker from one of the 13 German wine regions, who managed to produce ice wine in this mild winter,” said the institute’s Ernst Büscher. As far as experts know, 2019 marks the first vintage, or harvest year, in German history with such a low yield.
Allowing grapes to freeze on the vine concentrates their flavors, leading to a delicious dessert beverage. But making ice wines is a finicky process. The grapes have to be picked when temperatures drop below 19 degrees Fahrenheit; if left too long, however, they might start to thaw and rot, which dilutes their juices. Winemakers have to be prepared…


veteranstoday--2020-03-06--Democrats dump Deep State Duo – But does it matter?

Voters taking part in the Democratic primaries have dumped Buttigieg and Bloomberg—the Deep State Duo—as Joe Biden surges .
The underlying reason for the ouster of B & B is that they weren ’ t supported by “ voters of color ” —African Americans and Latinos—in the Super Thursday states .
I would say that these two communities at the bottom of the socioeconomic heap—both with strong family and religious values— were far more turned off by the repugnant vibrations emanating from the Usurer and the Sodomite than were the politically correct and self-enamored affluent whites .
Once left for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ front-runner , with endorsements from both B & B , from Amy Klochubar , who also dropped out , and from almost the entire Democratic Party establishment , along with the host of Banshees from the mainstream media .
Bernie Sanders soldiers gamely on , but he looks like he hardly knows what hit him , so swift and complete was the Zombie ’ s triumph .
Though only a third of the eventual convention delegates have been awarded , Sanders ’ campaign has been declared dead .
Elizabeth Warren also has dropped @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Sanders and the progressive movement , she has refused to endorse Bernie in his hour of need .
Maybe this was the plan all along .
Sanders ’ program was mild as revolutions go , more a reform than a revolution .
A program of fairness for working people and the middle class , single-payer health care for all , student loan relief , combined with restraint in foreign policy .
But Sanders is deeply hated .
As a lunatic columnist for The Hill wrote in typical Red-baiting fashion , we could fairly @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Personally , I am not hearing the Internationale , but as I read the opinion columns in The Hill and elsewhere , I am detecting a strong odor of sepulcher .
Zombie Joe , as even Bernie takes special pains to point out , is a nice , likeable fellow .
And he clearly is a harmless one , as far as the Deep State , the Money Power , and the cults and secret societies behind them are concerned .
Joe has no substantive plans , no program , no goals @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as far as any reason why he should be president of the United States .
But he will leave the entire Democratic Party structure and their media and lobbyist enablers untouched to dabble in their pockets of power , still well paid .
The ideal candidate for the times , Biden has now rolled out his signature proposal as the first major initiative of his campaign .
Here is the headline announcing it from The Hill : Going one better than Marie Antoinette , Biden ’ s declaration to the public might well @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” And Holy Cow , how will Trump stand up to that ?
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For Sanders ’ mild-mannered revolution to have succeeded , he would have had to catch the power structure deeper in crisis , when its strength was collapsing .
A revolution is what fills such a power vacuum .
Unfortunately , the Deep State and their Money Power bosses are at the peak of their wealth and control .
And they have mastered the art of propaganda by manipulating people on the basis of one predominant emotion : FEAR .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ lie told , to make Sanders the object of fear .
But the Deep State and the Money Power behind it are very , very overextended .
The whole edifice sits upon mountains of illegitimate and fictitious computer entries signifying money and debt .
But it ’ s the illusion of money .
It ’ s fiat money created by the central banks that the Money Power owns and that is multiplied by investment banks , hedge funds , and equity firms into a preposterous scaffolding of values not backed up by real @ @ @ @ @ @ @ economy .
Or by any semblance of compassion or fairness .
The underlying goal of Satan in furthering this illusion is to destroy humanity , but CNN , The Hill , and Politico won ’ t tell you that .
Nor will the New York Times or Washington Post .
To get a glimpse of what is going on you have to study things like Goethe ’ s Faust .
All this is the result of 500 years of mortal sin that began with the legitimization of usury by the Renaissance popes who @ @ @ @ @ @ @ other centers of finance whose power was enhanced by the occult societies growing up in Western Europe at the time .
Eventually these societies concentrated their power in British Freemasonry , which gave us World Wars I & II .
An excellent resource is a book by Michael Hoffman entitled Usury in Christendom : The Mortal Sin That Was and Now is Not .
For insight into the Faust legend , which goes back to Renaissance times , a good resource is David Hawkes ’ The Faust Myth : Religion and the Rise @ @ @ @ @ @ @ outstanding treatise , The Culture of Usury in Renaissance England .
Hoffman and Hawkes both explore the deep connection among the Money Power , sexual deviance , and occultism .
In the U.S. today , everything we think we own , everything we earn , our portfolio , if we have one , and all personal property , are mortgaged in their entirety to the Money Power for centuries into the future .
It all rests on the diabolical usury swindle that the Catholic Church first succumbed to , then tried to blame @ @ @ @ @ @ @ we saw in 2008 and can see today from the recent stock market crash that the media blamed on the coronavirus , the financial structure is incredibly precarious .
But what the Money Power believes , in its hallucinations , is that if it continues to gobble up more and more of the nations of the world , sucking them into its greedy maw , it can enslave enough people in debt and deplete sufficient natural resources to forestall collapse .
In the meantime , they will continue to be propped up by @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Nations that threaten to hold out are on the chopping block for absorption .
In fact , efforts to do just this have been going on for centuries .
It ’ s what colonialism and mercantilism were about .
But today , three particular nations—Iran , China , and Russia—appear to be trying to slip out of the hangman ’ s noose .
The Money Power thought it had Russia in the 1990s , until Putin engineered a comeback .
These nations will not be allowed to depart the system easily , however @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to fight World War III to destroy them .
In fact , I would say that World War III appears to be a certainty .
It may have been ensured by the takeover of Ukraine and the inclusion of Turkey in NATO .
So now we each have to enact our own personal revolution if a movement like that of Bernie Sanders ’ is so easily squashed .
Cause Zombie Joe isn ’ t going to do us any good .
Even if , or especially if , he defeats Trump .
Zombie @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the one measure needed to turn the U.S. back into the right direction , which is to nationalize the Federal Reserve system .
Bernie Sanders knows this—he ’ s the one who got the audit of the Fed done that exposed the creation of vast amounts of fake money through its Quantitative Easing program that reinflated the banking system after the 2008 crash .
Now we have the pleasure of waiting for an even bigger , better crash , maybe with nukes detonating in the background , or , perhaps , with the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ cities .
Finally , I want to point out to skeptical readers that I am absolutely serious about every word in this article .
It ’ s not hyperbole .
But Jesus will win .
The Bible tells us so .
It just takes time .
As St. Peter said in the book of Acts of the Apostles , only the Father knows when that will be .

by Richard Cook for VT
Voters taking part in the Democratic primaries have dumped Buttigieg and Bloomberg—the Deep State Duo—as Joe Biden surges.
The underlying reason for the ouster of B&B is that they weren’t supported by “voters of color”—African Americans and Latinos—in the Super Thursday states. I would say that these two communities at the bottom of the socioeconomic heap—both with strong family and religious values— were far more turned off by the repugnant vibrations emanating from the Usurer and the Sodomite than were the politically correct and self-enamored affluent whites.
Once left for dead, Zombie Joe is now the front-runner, with endorsements from both B&B, from Amy Klochubar, who also dropped out, and from almost the entire Democratic Party establishment, along with the host of Banshees from the mainstream media.
Bernie Sanders soldiers gamely on, but he looks like he hardly knows what hit him, so swift and complete was the Zombie’s triumph. Though only a third of the eventual convention delegates have been awarded, Sanders’ campaign has been declared dead.
Elizabeth Warren also has dropped out. In her latest betrayal of Sanders and the progressive movement, she has refused to endorse Bernie in his hour of need. Maybe this was the plan all along.
Sanders’ program was mild as revolutions go, more reform than a revolution. A program of fairness for working people and the middle class, single-payer health care for all, student loan relief, combined with restraint in foreign policy. But Sanders is deeply hated. As a lunatic columnist for The Hill wrote in typical Red-baiting fashion, we could fairly hear the Internationale play in the background.
Personally, I am not hearing the Internationale, but as I read the opinion columns in The Hill and elsewhere, I am detecting a strong odor of sepulcher.
Zombie Joe, as even Bernie takes special pains to point out, is a nice, likable fellow. And he clearly is a harmless one, as far as the Deep State, the Money Power, and the cults and secret societies behind them are concerned.
Joe has no substantive plans, no program, no goals, no ideals, no nothing, as far as any reason why he should be president of the United States. But he will leave the entire Democratic Party structure and their media and lobbyist enablers untouched to dabble in their pockets of power, still well paid.
The ideal candidate for the times, Biden has now rolled out his signature proposal as the first major initiative of his campaign. Here is the headline announcing it from The Hill:
Biden pledges to reinstate Obama-era protections in LGBTQ plan
Going one better than Marie Antoinette, Biden’s declaration to the public might well be: “Let them eat shit.” And Holy Cow, how will Trump stand up to that?!
For Sanders’ mild-mannered revolution to have succeeded, he would have had to catch the power structure deeper in crisis, when its strength was collapsing. A revolution is what fills such a power vacuum. Unfortunately, the Deep State and their Money Power bosses are at the peak of their wealth and control. And they have mastered the art of propaganda by manipulating people on the basis of one predominant emotion: FEAR. Everything possible has been done, every lie told, to make Sanders the object of fear.
But the Deep State and the Money Power behind it are very, very overextended. The whole edifice sits upon mountains of illegitimate and fictitious computer entries signifying money and debt. But it’s the illusion of money. It’s fiat money created by the central banks that the Money Power owns and that is multiplied by investment banks, hedge funds, and equity firms into a preposterous scaffolding of values not backed up by real physical production in the world’s economy. Or by any semblance of compassion or fairness.
The underlying goal of Satan in furthering this illusion is to destroy humanity, but CNN, The Hill, and Politico won’t tell you that. Nor will the New York Times or Washington Post. To get a glimpse of what is going on you have to study things like Goethe’s Faust.
All this is the result of 500 years of mortal sin that began with the legitimization of usury by the Renaissance popes who came from Florence, Venice, and other centers of finance whose power was enhanced by the occult societies growing up in Western Europe at the time. Eventually, these societies concentrated their power in British Freemasonry, which gave us World Wars I&II.
An excellent resource is a book by Michael Hoffman entitled Usury in Christendom: The Mortal Sin That Was and Now is Not.
For insight into the Faust legend, which goes back to Renaissance times, a good resource is David Hawkes’ The Faust Myth: Religion and the Rise of Representation.
Also see Hawkes’ outstanding treatise, The Culture of Usury in Renaissance England. Hoffman and Hawkes both explore the deep connection among the Money Power, sexual deviance, and occultism.
In the U.S. today, everything we think we own, everything we earn, our portfolio, if we have one, and all personal property, are mortgaged in their entirety to the Money Power for centuries into the future. It all rests on the diabolical usury swindle that the Catholic Church first succumbed to, then tried to blame on the Protestants and Jews.
As we saw in 2008 and can see today from the recent stock market crash that the media blamed on the coronavirus, the financial structure is incredibly precarious. But what the Money Power believes, in its hallucinations, is that if it continues to gobble up more and more of the nations of the world, sucking them into its greedy maw, it can enslave enough people in debt and deplete sufficient natural resources to forestall collapse. In the meantime, they will continue to be propped up by Quantitative Easing and other magic tricks.
Nations that threaten to hold out are on the chopping block for absorption. In fact, efforts to do just this have been going on for centuries. It’s what colonialism and mercantilism were about. But today, three particular nations—Iran, China, and Russia—appear to be trying to slip out of the hangman’s noose. The Money Power thought it had Russia in the 1990s until Putin engineered a comeback. These nations will not be allowed to depart the system easily, however, even if the Money Power has to fight World War III to destroy them.
In fact, I would say that World War III appears to be a certainty. It may have been ensured by the takeover of Ukraine and the inclusion of Turkey in NATO.
So now we each have to enact our own personal revolution if a movement like that of Bernie Sanders’ is so easily squashed. Cause Zombie Joe isn’t going to do us any good. Even if, or especially if, he defeats Trump.
Zombie Joe can’t even conceive of the one measure needed to turn the U.S. back into the right direction, which is to nationalize the Federal Reserve System. Bernie Sanders knows this—he’s the one who got the audit of the Fed done that exposed the creation of vast amounts of fake money through its Quantitative Easing program that reinflated the banking system after the 2008 crash.
Now we have the pleasure of waiting for an even bigger, better crash, maybe with nukes detonating in the background, or, perhaps, with the sound of ocean waves drowning our coastal cities.
Finally, I want to point out to skeptical readers that I am absolutely serious about every word in this article. It’s not hyperbole. But Jesus will win. The Bible tells us so. It just takes time. As St. Peter said in the book of Acts of the Apostles, only the Father knows when that will be.


veteranstoday--2020-03-07--Putting Big Brother in the Driver’s Seat

Remember what happened right after the 9/11 attack ?
Just in case you didn ’ t get the memo , the Bush administration passed a law which gave the Deep State a license to invade people ’ s privacy .
[ 1 ] The Washington Post itself declared in 2005 : “ President Bush signed a secret order in 2002 authorizing the National Security Agency [ NSA ] to eavesdrop on U.S. citizens and foreign nationals in the United States , despite previous legal prohibitions against such domestic spying… ” [ 2 ] All of this was done illegally .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ itself admitted then , “ The previously undisclosed decision to permit some eavesdropping inside the country without court approval was a major shift in American intelligence-gathering practices , particularly for the National Security Agency.
” [ 4 ] Back in 2003 , the New York Times wrote an article entitled , “ Big Brother Is Watching You .
Without a Warrant.
” [ 5 ] Regardless of what you believe about what happened on 9/11 , one thing is for sure : the attack was not good for America and the Western world @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
If this seems to be an outrage , let us hear this admission from the mouth of Benjamin Netanyahu himself : “ We [ the Israelis ] are benefiting from one thing , and that is the attack on the Twin Towers and Pentagon , and the American struggle in Iraq.
” [ 6 ] Those events , continued Netanyahu , “ swung American public opinion in our favor.
” [ 7 ] This is again interesting because the 9/11 attack sent political and moral shockwave around the world , but Netanyahu @ @ @ @ @ @ @ was good for Israel !
Take it from the New York Times : “ Asked tonight what the attack meant for relations between the United States and Israel , Benjamin Netanyahu…replied , ‘ It ’ s very good.
’ ’ Then he edited himself : ‘ Well , not very good , but it will generate immediate sympathy.
’ “ He predicted that the attack would ‘ strengthen the bond between our two peoples , because we ’ ve experienced terror over so many decades , but the United States has now experienced @ @ @ @ @ @ @ [ 8 ] In short , 9/11 , terrorism , false flags , the NSA , Big Brother , the Deep State , and covert activity always and inexorably swing in Israel ’ s favor .
This was one reason why Israeli scholar Avner Cohen did not hesitate to say , “ Hamas , to my great regret , is Israel ’ s creation.
” [ 9 ] Big Brother ’ s covert activity was predicted by John W. Whitehead way back in 2014 .
Time to buckle up your seatbelts , folks @ @ @ @ @ @ @ bumpy ride .
We ’ re hurtling down a one-way road toward the Police State at mind-boggling speeds , the terrain is getting more treacherous by the minute , and we ’ ve passed all the exit ramps .
From this point forward , there is no turning back , and the signpost ahead reads “ Danger.
” Indeed , as I document in my book A Government of Wolves : The Emerging American Police State , we ’ re about to enter a Twilight Zone of sorts , one marked by drones @ @ @ @ @ @ @ smart TVs , social media , smart meters , surveillance cameras , facial recognition software , online banking , license plate readers and driverless cars—all part of the interconnected technological spider ’ s web that is life in the American police state , and every new gadget pulls us that much deeper into the sticky snare .
In this Brave New World awaiting us , there will be no communication not spied upon , no movement untracked , no thought unheard .
In other words , there will be nowhere to run and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ on the losing end of a technological revolution that has already taken hostage our computers , our phones , our finances , our entertainment , our shopping , our appliances , and now , it ’ s focused its sights on our cars .
As if the government wasn ’ t already able to track our movements on the nation ’ s highways and byways by way of satellites , GPS devices , and real-time traffic cameras , government officials are now pushing to require that all new vehicles come installed with black @ @ @ @ @ @ @ communications , ostensibly to help prevent crashes .
Yet strip away the glib Orwellian doublespeak , and what you will find is that these black boxes and V2V transmitters , which will not only track a variety of data , including speed , direction , location , the number of miles traveled , and seatbelt use , but will also transmit this data to other drivers , including the police , are little more than Trojan Horses , stealth attacks on our last shreds of privacy , sold to us as safety measures @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , all the while poised to wreak havoc on our lives .
Black boxes and V2V transmitters are just the tip of the iceberg , though .
The 2015 Corvette Stingray will be outfitted with a performance data recorder which “ uses a camera mounted on the windshield and a global positioning receiver to record speed , gear selection and brake force , ” but also provides a recording of the driver ’ s point of view as well as recording noises made inside the car .
As journalist Jaclyn Trop reports for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ can barely make a left turn , put on their seatbelts or push 80 miles an hour without their actions somehow , somewhere being tracked or recorded.
” Indeed , as Jim Farley , Vice President of Marketing and Sales for Ford Motor Company all but admitted , corporations and government officials already have a pretty good sense of where you are at all times : “ We know everyone who breaks the law , we know when you ’ re doing it .
We have GPS in your car , so we @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Now that the government and its corporate partners-in-crime know where you ’ re going and how fast you ’ re going when in your car , the next big hurdle will be to know how many passengers are in your car , what contraband might be in your car ( and that will largely depend on whatever is outlawed at the moment , which could be anything from Sudafed cold medicine to goat cheese ) , what you ’ re saying and exactly what you ’ re doing within the fiberglass and steel @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s where drones come in .
Once drones take to the skies en masse in 2015 , there will literally be no place where government agencies and private companies can not track your movements .
These drones will be equipped with cameras that provide a live video feed , as well as heat sensors , radar and thermal imaging devices capable of seeing through the walls of your car .
Some will be capable of peering at figures from 20,000 feet up and 25 miles away .
They will be outfitted with infrared @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the darkness .
They can also keep track of 65 persons of interest at once .
Some drones are already capable of hijacking Wi-Fi networks and intercepting electronic communications such as text messages .
The Army has developed drones with facial recognition software , as well as drones that can complete a target-and-kill mission without any human instruction or interaction .
These are the ultimate killing and spying machines .
There will also be drones armed with “ less-lethal ” weaponry , including bean bag guns and tasers .
And of course all @ @ @ @ @ @ @ you make a wrong move , or appear to be doing something suspicious , even if you don ’ t do anything suspicious , the information of your whereabouts , including what stores and offices you visit , what political rallies you attend , and what people you meet—will be tracked , recorded and streamed to a government command center , where it will be saved and easily accessed at a later date .
By the time you add self-driving cars into the futuristic mix , equipped with computers that know where you @ @ @ @ @ @ @ you ’ ll be so far down the road to Steven Spielberg ’ s vision of the future as depicted in Minority Report that privacy and autonomy will be little more than distant mirages in your rearview mirror .
The film , set in 2054 and based on a short story by Philip K. Dick , offered movie audiences a special effect-laden techno-vision of a futuristic world in which the government is all-seeing , all-knowing and all-powerful .
And if you dare to step out of line , dark-clad police SWAT teams will @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , while critics were dazzled by the technological wonders displayed in Minority Report , few dared to consider the consequences of a world in which Big Brother is , literally and figuratively , in the driver ’ s seat .
Even the driverless cars in Minority Report answer to the government ’ s ( and its corporate cohorts ’ ) bidding .
Likewise , we are no longer autonomous in our own cars .
Rather , we are captive passengers being chauffeured about by a robotic mind which answers to the government and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ t even matter whether we are seated behind the wheel of our own vehicles , because it will be advertisers and government agents calling the shots .
Case in point : devices are now being developed for European cars that would allow police to stop a car remotely , ostensibly to end police chases .
Google is partnering with car manufacturers in order to integrate apps and other smartphone-like technology into vehicles , in order to alert drivers to deals and offers at nearby businesses .
As Patrick Lin , professor of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ warns , in a world where third-party advertisers and data collectors control a good deal of the content we see on a daily basis , we may one day literally be driven to businesses not because we wanted to go there , but because someone paid for us to be taken there .
Rod Serling , creator of the beloved sci fi series Twilight Zone and one of the most insightful commentators on human nature , once observed , “ We ’ re developing a new citizenry .
One that will be very @ @ @ @ @ @ @ won ’ t be able to think.
” Indeed , not only are we developing a new citizenry incapable of thinking for themselves , we ’ re also instilling in them a complete and utter reliance on the government and its corporate partners to do everything for them—tell them what to eat , what to wear , how to think , what to believe , how long to sleep , who to vote for , whom to associate with , and on and on .
In this way , we have created a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a police state , a surveillance state , an electronic concentration camp—call it what you will , the meaning is the same : in our quest for less personal responsibility , a greater sense of security , and no burdensome obligations to each other or to future generations , we have created a society in which we have no true freedom .
Pandora ’ s Box has been opened and there ’ s no way to close it .
As Rod Serling prophesied in a Commencement Address at the University of Southern California @ @ @ @ @ @ @ It ’ s simply a national acknowledgement that in any kind of priority , the needs of human beings must come first .
Poverty is here and now .
Hunger is here and now .
Racial tension is here and now .
Pollution is here and now .
These are the things that scream for a response .
And if we don ’ t listen to that scream – and if we don ’ t respond to it – we may well wind up sitting amidst our own rubble , looking for the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ bomb that pulverized us .
Get the license number of whatever it was that destroyed the dream .
And I think we will find that the vehicle was registered in our own name.
” You can add the following to that list of needs requiring an urgent response : Police abuse is here and now .
Surveillance is here and now .
Imperial government is here and now .
Yet while the vehicle bearing down upon us is indeed registered in our own name , we ’ ve allowed Big Brother to get @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s no way to put the brakes on this runaway car .
About John W. Whitehead : John is an attorney and author who has written , debated and practiced widely in the area of constitutional law and human rights .
Whitehead ’ s concern for the persecuted and oppressed led him , in 1982 , to establish The Rutherford Institute , nonprofit civil liberties , and human rights organization whose international headquarters are located in Charlottesville , Virginia .
Deeply committed to protecting the constitutional freedoms of every American and the integral @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Rutherford Institute has emerged as a prominent leader in the national dialogue on civil liberties and human rights and a formidable champion of the Constitution .
Whitehead serves as the Institute ’ s president and spokesperson .
Widely recognized as one of the nation ’ s most vocal and involved civil liberties attorneys , Whitehead ’ s approach to civil liberties issues has earned him numerous accolades and accomplishments , including the Hungarian Medal of Freedom and the 2010 Milner S. Ball Lifetime Achievement Award for “ [ his ] decades of difficult @ @ @ @ @ @ @ [ his ] impeccable integrity in defending civil liberties for all.
” Whitehead earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Arkansas in 1969 and a Juris Doctorate degree from the University of Arkansas School of Law in 1974 .
He served as an officer in the United States Army from 1969 to 1971 .
• [ 1 ] See for example James Risen and Eric Lichtblau , “ Bush Secretly Lifted Some Limits on Spying in U.S. After 9/11 , Officials Say , ” NY Times , December 15 , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Authorized Domestic Spying , ” Washington Post , December 16 , 2005 ; Robin Toner , “ After the Attacks : Civil Liberties ; Some Foresee a Sea Change In Attitudes of Freedoms , ” NY Times , September 15 , 2001 ; James Bamford , A Pretext for War : 9/11 , Iraq , and the Abuse of America ’ s Intelligence Agencies ( New York : Anchor Books , 2005 ) .
• [ 3 ] James Risen and Eric Lichtblau , “ Bush Secretly Lifted Some Limits on Spying in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” NY Times , December 15 , 2005 .
• [ 4 ] James Risen and Eric Lichtblau , “ Bush Lets U.S. Spy on Callers Without Courts , ” NY Times , December 16 , 2005 .
• [ 5 ] James Bamford , “ Big Brother Is Watching You .
Without a Warrant , ” NY Times , May 18 , 2003 .
• [ 8 ] James Bennett , “ A DAY OF TERROR : THE ISRAELIS ; Spilled Blood Is Seen as Bond That Draws 2 Nations Closer , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 2001 .

Jonas E. Alexis
Remember what happened right after the 9/11 attack? Just in case you didn’t get the memo, the Bush administration passed a law which gave the Deep State a license to invade people’s privacy.[1] The Washington Post itself declared in 2005:
“President Bush signed a secret order in 2002 authorizing the National Security Agency [NSA] to eavesdrop on U.S. citizens and foreign nationals in the United States, despite previous legal prohibitions against such domestic spying…”[2]
All of this was done illegally.[3] The New York Times itself admitted then,
“The previously undisclosed decision to permit some eavesdropping inside the country without court approval was a major shift in American intelligence-gathering practices, particularly for the National Security Agency.”[4]
Back in 2003, the New York Times wrote an article entitled, “Big Brother Is Watching You. Without a Warrant.”[5]
Regardless of what you believe about what happened on 9/11, one thing is for sure: the attack was not good for America and the Western world, but it was good for Israel. If this seems to be an outrage, let us hear this admission from the mouth of Benjamin Netanyahu himself:
“We [the Israelis] are benefiting from one thing, and that is the attack on the Twin Towers and Pentagon, and the American struggle in Iraq.”[6]
Those events, continued Netanyahu, “swung American public opinion in our favor.”[7] This is again interesting because the 9/11 attack sent political and moral shockwave around the world, but Netanyahu was diabolically laughing and saying that it was good for Israel! Take it from the New York Times:
“Asked tonight what the attack meant for relations between the United States and Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu…replied, ‘It’s very good.’’ Then he edited himself: ‘Well, not very good, but it will generate immediate sympathy.’
“He predicted that the attack would ‘strengthen the bond between our two peoples, because we’ve experienced terror over so many decades, but the United States has now experienced a massive hemorrhaging of terror.’”[8]
In short, 9/11, terrorism, false flags, the NSA, Big Brother, the Deep State, and covert activity always and inexorably swing in Israel’s favor. This was one reason why Israeli scholar Avner Cohen did not hesitate to say, “Hamas, to my great regret, is Israel’s creation.”[9] Big Brother’s covert activity was predicted by John W. Whitehead way back in 2014.
John W. Whitehead
Time to buckle up your seatbelts, folks. You’re in for a bumpy ride.
We’re hurtling down a one-way road toward the Police State at mind-boggling speeds, the terrain is getting more treacherous by the minute, and we’ve passed all the exit ramps. From this point forward, there is no turning back, and the signpost ahead reads “Danger.”
Indeed, as I document in my book A Government of Wolves: The Emerging American Police State, we’re about to enter a Twilight Zone of sorts, one marked by drones, smart phones, GPS devices, smart TVs, social media, smart meters, surveillance cameras, facial recognition software, online banking, license plate readers and driverless cars—all part of the interconnected technological spider’s web that is life in the American police state, and every new gadget pulls us that much deeper into the sticky snare.
In this Brave New World awaiting us, there will be no communication not spied upon, no movement untracked, no thought unheard. In other words, there will be nowhere to run and nowhere to hide.
We’re on the losing end of a technological revolution that has already taken hostage our computers, our phones, our finances, our entertainment, our shopping, our appliances, and now, it’s focused its sights on our cars. As if the government wasn’t already able to track our movements on the nation’s highways and byways by way of satellites, GPS devices, and real-time traffic cameras, government officials are now pushing to require that all new vehicles come installed with black box recorders and vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communications, ostensibly to help prevent crashes.
Yet strip away the glib Orwellian doublespeak, and what you will find is that these black boxes and V2V transmitters, which will not only track a variety of data, including speed, direction, location, the number of miles traveled, and seatbelt use, but will also transmit this data to other drivers, including the police, are little more than Trojan Horses, stealth attacks on our last shreds of privacy, sold to us as safety measures for the sake of the greater good, all the while poised to wreak havoc on our lives.
Black boxes and V2V transmitters are just the tip of the iceberg, though. The 2015 Corvette Stingray will be outfitted with a performance data recorder which “uses a camera mounted on the windshield and a global positioning receiver to record speed, gear selection and brake force,” but also provides a recording of the driver’s point of view as well as recording noises made inside the car. As journalist Jaclyn Trop reports for the New York Times, “Drivers can barely make a left turn, put on their seatbelts or push 80 miles an hour without their actions somehow, somewhere being tracked or recorded.” Indeed, as Jim Farley, Vice President of Marketing and Sales for Ford Motor Company all but admitted, corporations and government officials already have a pretty good sense of where you are at all times: “We know everyone who breaks the law, we know when you’re doing it. We have GPS in your car, so we know what you’re doing.”
Now that the government and its corporate partners-in-crime know where you’re going and how fast you’re going when in your car, the next big hurdle will be to know how many passengers are in your car, what contraband might be in your car (and that will largely depend on whatever is outlawed at the moment, which could be anything from Sudafed cold medicine to goat cheese), what you’re saying and exactly what you’re doing within the fiberglass and steel walls of your vehicle. That’s where drones come in.
Once drones take to the skies en masse in 2015, there will literally be no place where government agencies and private companies cannot track your movements. These drones will be equipped with cameras that provide a live video feed, as well as heat sensors, radar and thermal imaging devices capable of seeing through the walls of your car. Some will be capable of peering at figures from 20,000 feet up and 25 miles away. They will be outfitted with infrared cameras and radar which will pierce through the darkness. They can also keep track of 65 persons of interest at once. Some drones are already capable of hijacking Wi-Fi networks and intercepting electronic communications such as text messages. The Army has developed drones with facial recognition software, as well as drones that can complete a target-and-kill mission without any human instruction or interaction. These are the ultimate killing and spying machines. There will also be drones armed with “less-lethal” weaponry, including bean bag guns and tasers.
And of course all of this information, your every movement—whether you make a wrong move, or appear to be doing something suspicious, even if you don’t do anything suspicious, the information of your whereabouts, including what stores and offices you visit, what political rallies you attend, and what people you meet—will be tracked, recorded and streamed to a government command center, where it will be saved and easily accessed at a later date.
By the time you add self-driving cars into the futuristic mix, equipped with computers that know where you want to go before you do, you’ll be so far down the road to Steven Spielberg’s vision of the future as depicted in Minority Report that privacy and autonomy will be little more than distant mirages in your rearview mirror. The film, set in 2054 and based on a short story by Philip K. Dick, offered movie audiences a special effect-laden techno-vision of a futuristic world in which the government is all-seeing, all-knowing and all-powerful. And if you dare to step out of line, dark-clad police SWAT teams will bring you under control.
Mind you, while critics were dazzled by the technological wonders displayed in Minority Report, few dared to consider the consequences of a world in which Big Brother is, literally and figuratively, in the driver’s seat. Even the driverless cars in Minority Report answer to the government’s (and its corporate cohorts’) bidding.
Likewise, we are no longer autonomous in our own cars. Rather, we are captive passengers being chauffeured about by a robotic mind which answers to the government and its corporate henchmen. Soon it won’t even matter whether we are seated behind the wheel of our own vehicles, because it will be advertisers and government agents calling the shots.
Case in point: devices are now being developed for European cars that would allow police to stop a car remotely, ostensibly to end police chases. Google is partnering with car manufacturers in order to integrate apps and other smartphone-like technology into vehicles, in order to alert drivers to deals and offers at nearby businesses. As Patrick Lin, professor of Stanford’s School of Engineering, warns, in a world where third-party advertisers and data collectors control a good deal of the content we see on a daily basis, we may one day literally be driven to businesses not because we wanted to go there, but because someone paid for us to be taken there.
Rod Serling, creator of the beloved sci fi series Twilight Zone and one of the most insightful commentators on human nature, once observed, “We’re developing a new citizenry. One that will be very selective about cereals and automobiles, but won’t be able to think.”
Indeed, not only are we developing a new citizenry incapable of thinking for themselves, we’re also instilling in them a complete and utter reliance on the government and its corporate partners to do everything for them—tell them what to eat, what to wear, how to think, what to believe, how long to sleep, who to vote for, whom to associate with, and on and on.
In this way, we have created a welfare state, a nanny state, a police state, a surveillance state, an electronic concentration camp—call it what you will, the meaning is the same: in our quest for less personal responsibility, a greater sense of security, and no burdensome obligations to each other or to future generations, we have created a society in which we have no true freedom.
Pandora’s Box has been opened and there’s no way to close it. As Rod Serling prophesied in a Commencement Address at the University of Southern California in March 17, 1970:
“It’s simply a national acknowledgement that in any kind of priority, the needs of human beings must come first. Poverty is here and now. Hunger is here and now. Racial tension is here and now. Pollution is here and now. These are the things that scream for a response. And if we don’t listen to that scream – and if we don’t respond to it – we may well wind up sitting amidst our own rubble, looking for the truck that hit us – or the bomb that pulverized us. Get the license number of whatever it was that destroyed the dream. And I think we will find that the vehicle was registered in our own name.”
You can add the following to that list of needs requiring an urgent response: Police abuse is here and now. Surveillance is here and now. Imperial government is here and now. Yet while the vehicle bearing down upon us is indeed registered in our own name, we’ve allowed Big Brother to get behind the wheel, and there’s no way to put the brakes on this runaway car.
About John W. Whitehead: John is an attorney and author who has written, debated and practiced widely in the area of constitutional law and human rights. Whitehead’s concern for the persecuted and oppressed led him, in 1982, to establish The Rutherford Institute, nonprofit civil liberties, and human rights organization whose international headquarters are located in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Deeply committed to protecting the constitutional freedoms of every American and the integral human rights of all people, The Rutherford Institute has emerged as a prominent leader in the national dialogue on civil liberties and human rights and a formidable champion of the Constitution. Whitehead serves as the Institute’s president and spokesperson. Widely recognized as one of the nation’s most vocal and involved civil liberties attorneys, Whitehead’s approach to civil liberties issues has earned him numerous accolades and accomplishments, including the Hungarian Medal of Freedom and the 2010 Milner S. Ball Lifetime Achievement Award for “[his] decades of difficult and important work, as well as [his] impeccable integrity in defending civil liberties for all.”
Whitehead earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Arkansas in 1969 and a Juris Doctorate degree from the University of Arkansas School of Law in 1974. He served as an officer in the United States Army from 1969 to 1971.