Monday, May 25, 2015

TPP ---- When a Conspiracy Hides in Plain Sight

                         TPP



The countries involved:








The cui bono?
International Bank$, Corporation$ and Investor groups. Not workers or consumers.

What is the cui bono for the 
secrecy aspect  of TPP?
That is the essence of 
what is scary about  TPP!
What are they trying to hide?

TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership) meets all the criteria of a classic Conspiracy-of-Power, except that, by rare necessity in this case, it is poorly hidden. 
Even so, it still has escaped suspicion of the majority of the population, for a multiplicity of reasons, not the least of which is a complicit corporate media smoke-and-mirrors job on the coverage of this issue, or avoidance of the issue altogether for much of the time (as with some tv and radio networks).
A well-educated friend of mine who watches a lot of Fox News asked me, "What IS TPP anyway?", just last week.
Also, I see even on supposedly "left-leaning" networks like MSNBC, a major focus on racism and other hot-button "left" issues, but not a whole lot of coverage of TPP at this most critical time. I can't help musing about our current all-corporate cable news networks ...
Uh, acting as acccomplices, much?

Link:
MAN WHO HAS SEEN ACTUAL TEXT OF TPP TRADE DEAL SAYS SEN. WARREN IS RIGHT 



 
How do Big Banks and Mega-Corporations Acquire Power Over Sovereign Nations?
SECRETLY
Link:
Obama's Secret Trade Deal

Link:
Senator Sessions Exposes Truths About The TPP



Link:
TPP ---- For Dummies

Link:
Discussion-Board Comments on TPP

Link:
TPP ---- A Global Corporate Take-Over

 No doubt,  if the banking and corporate promoters and beneficiaries of TPP could pass the Law in total secrecy, they would. But it is like hiding an elephant under a big blanket. It is not difficult to see what is being hidden, all the while it is being pushed, hard, on the political front.

This is a conspiracy of Power that is about as naked as it gets.

Link:
Pushers Of TPP Make Sure Trade Deal is Kept Secret


                                         Remember the 90s?
                       ****Wisdom  Of  Hindsight****

Back in the 90s, the Anti-NAFTA Protestors turned 
out to be right on every point of concern,
and every single criticism  they lodged against NAFTA.

With everything we know now about trade deals such as this, will we still let the elite powers-that-be foist this exploitive, deceptive con-game upon us, once again, but even bigger this time?

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BACKLASH AGAINST  TPP  GROWS AS MORE IS LEARNED ABOUT IT
(Excerpts are from a report by Democracy Now--Linked to below):

    ----    "As the Obama administration praises the benefits of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), backlash continues to grow against the deal. WikiLeaks has just published another section of the secret text — this one about public healthcare and the pharmaceutical industry. Newly revealed details of the draft show the TPP would give major pharmaceutical companies more power over public access to medicine, and weaken public healthcare programs. The leaked draft also suggests the TPP would prevent Congress from passing reforms to lower drug costs. One of the practices that would be allowed is known as 'Evergreening'. It lets drug companies extend the life of a patent by slightly modifying their product and then getting a new patent."

    ----   "Evergreening. It sounds nice, doesn’t it? But evergreening is what drug companies do when they want to increase their profits. And it leaves people in developing countries without the medicines they need. Here is how -- A drug company develops a new drug and is rewarded with a patent. The patent stops other producers making the medicine for 20 years. So the drug company can charge very high prices without anyone else undercutting them, for 20 years. When the patent ends, other producers can come in and compete with each other, and bingo, the prices come tumbling down. So the medicines become affordable for everyone. But the drug companies want more profits, so they make a tiny little change to their drugs and ask for another 20 year patent."

Link:
Democracy Now -- Backlash Against TPP Grows After Leaks

Japan is just 1 example of a country where more and more regular citizens are starting to push-back against TPP, as more is learned 
about the massive, mysterious trade deal.

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Here's a site with a humorous, but TRUE, take on TPP (link): 
READ THE TEXT OF TPP, HERE!!
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ADDENDUM, JUNE 25TH (link):

Oligarchs Win For Now---TPP Fast-Track Passes Senate


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Sunday, April 26, 2015

Not a Conspiracy---Just Simple Reality---"No Child Left Behind" Was a Corporate Scam, after all

                              The Big Selling-Point: "It's ALL about The Kids"

Link:
Bush Cronies Profit from NCLB Law THEY PU$HED!
 Sandy Kress--One of The Architect$ of NCLB,
                         Lobbyist, and Educational        
                         profiteer


Link:
Lobbyist Kress Among Beneficiarie$ of NCLB

Link: 
Bush Cronies Profiteer from NCLB, summary

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Yet another "conspiracy theory" in American Life ---The Demise of cable-cars across America

 Deniers and GM-apologists still insist, to this day,  it's not entirely true, there were other factors, GM alone was not to blame, etc etc ---- But the cui bonos (i.e.profit$) that resulted were immense, and GM's acquisitions and actions are a part of public record...
Pacific Electric Railway 'red car' streetcars stacked in Los Angeles awaiting demolition, 1956

Link:
General Motors Streetcar Conspiracy

Link:
 WHY DID THE STREETCAR DISAPPEAR IN AMERICA?



 Red Car in Long Beach, Ca, circa late 1940s/early 50s.

Link:
Witness To The Truth?


                                 Graveyard of Red Cars, 1960

Link:
GM's War On Electric Transit

 Video:
Who Killed LA's Electric Streetcar?

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Monday, April 13, 2015

Are there Saudi Ties to 9-11?




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Florida Ex-Senator Pursues Claims of Saudi Ties to Sept. 11 Attacks

Link:
***Saudi Ties to 9-11?***

9-11 was a key event in world history, yet so many smart people are highly suspicious of who was actually behind it, due to the disturbing cui bonos that have resulted.

Link:
***Who might possibly be behind 9-11, or at least benefitted FROM it?***

LINK:
***9-11: CUI BONO?***

Link:
 ***9-11: WHO BENEFITS?***
          New Yorkers running from 9-11 destruction.
Has America been running from The Truth ever since?  

Link:
9-11 building collapses do not pass muster of science and engineering questions


 Missile purportedly hitting pentagon on 9-11:


Video: 

Video:



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ADDED, June 5th, 2015: 
Excerpt:
" An American senator has claimed that a secret official report blaming Saudi Arabia for financing the 9/11 attacks was redacted by George W Bush.

Bob Graham, former chairman of the US Senate Intelligence Committee, said that the report shows Saudi Arabia was the "principle financier" of the attacks. Fifteen of the 19 hijackers were from Saudi Arabia, but previous investigations failed to find a link between the country and the terrorist attack, which killed 2,996 people.

Mr Graham told The Times that a 28-page chapter of the 2002 Senate report, entitled Joint Inquiry into Intelligence Community Activities Before and After the Terrorist Attacks of September 2001, had been withheld to protect the country. Now retired, he is campaigning for its release.

The Times reported that the pages are thought to deal with Nawaf al-Hamzi and Khalid al-Mihdar, two Saudis who helped hijack the plane that was flown in to the Pentagon. They were said to have been in touch with a man who was in contact with the Saudi Arabian embassy in Washington. The embassy has, however, denied that he was a spy.
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link:
Obama under pressure to release secret pages of 9/11 report 'showing Saudi Arabia financed attacks' 
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Sunday, February 22, 2015

Fact-based SUSPICION, not wild paranoia

Suspicion can be a negative, even unhealthy thing when it is not based on some solid, tangible degree of fact, history, or a sense of repeating patterns within a situation.
Once again, a focus on cui bono (who benefits) gives focus, direction and possible purpose to the object of one's suspicions.
Cui bono represents the motive behind a potential crime or possible surreptitious manipulation of a situation.

 
Mindless, baseless suspicions that are never defined or rooted in a set of related circumstances and/or facts, can evolve into paranoia, which can be corrosive. Paranoia can result from intellectual laziness and an unwillingness to research or investigate the problem that a person may be anxious about. This laziness precludes any sense of informed or educated suspicions, that would be justified by at least some layer of known facts.


Our society is rife with intellectually lazy citizens who normally buy into the "Official Explanation" given by media with little resistance.
It is standard behavior for many Americans, who are easily convinced of the "harm" done by Gay Marriage when none has ever been proven to anyone, in any way, or of the threat posed by distant middle-eastern terrorist groups, or country, or a scary disease, or aggressive foreign leader, who the media may be portraying as some existential threat, that week in the news, in any case.   These people may become paranoid to a degree that makes them useless as informed, voting citizens in a representative political system.
Now----Whose cui bono is that?  
Food for thought.


In any case, suspicion, as a tool to interpret a reality we face, 
has been enshrined within our American
political/legal/policing system. 
And if it's good enough for our leaders, bosses and authorities to use, then it is certainly useful for the citizenry as well.



LINKS:


How our Police use suspicion in their work

Suspicion used as basis for drug-testing at work

"Reasonable Suspicion" as a legal basis 

When Suspicion is a Good Thing – FOR BANKS


In summary...

Suspicion without any basis in fact or evidence = Paranoia.

Suspicion based on known facts, patterns or tendencies, as part of a process of actual investigation = A valuable  tool.


 
       I have studied this situation, and I sincerely have to wonder: 
What's really going on here?

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10 Conspiracies that turned out to be TRUE...

Link:
10  ACTUAL  CONSPIRACIES


Link:
10 Conspiracy Theories That Turned Out To be TRUE

Video Link: 
Noam Chomsky weighs-in...

 Who DOES Control The World?

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Saturday, February 21, 2015

In a world where BIG LIES are common, and cheating can win...It is easy, and NATURAL, to have doubt

People in positions of authority ... LIE?
                   Who knew?





 Even in sports...



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A humorous take on the not-so-funny overthrow of  Iran's elected government in 1953:
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Media Manipulation ...

Is this just funny, or is it possible evidence that at least some news is controlled by a Central Script Writer?
Could this be happening with some other major news stories as well? ======================================================================

With all of these examples ...
Just ask yourself: Cui bono (who benefits)?

Then: Can you discern a possible motive from this?

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Wednesday, February 11, 2015

Salute to a HERO who uncovered a Reagan Administration LIE

Laurie Becklund

had

The Courage To Uncover 

The Hidden, Ugly Truth Behind

The  Lies  of  The  Powerful ...

  Link:

Laurie Becklund dies at 66; former L.A. Times reporter, author 

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 Laurie Beckland, on the right, with the murderous, US-supported Dictator of El Salvador, Roberto D'Aubuisson (center),  in 1982. 

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What She Did:

  The Reagan Administration insisted to the press and the world that the epidemic of killings in El Salvador of activists, democratic reformers and priests (all targets being on the Left) that had been occurring there in the early 1980s were being done by "unknown rogue groups with no discernable allegiance". 

It was all a lie, as Beckland PROVED beyond all doubt the involvement of the heavily US-backed Government's own Death Squads, set-up largely with help from US advisors and fund$ from the Reagan Administration itself

The Reagan Administration had been 

caught in a lie.  

                                                                 

The Reagan administration had argued that the death squads were rogue groups with no discernible allegiances, but Becklund proved otherwise. - See more at: http://www.capitalgazette.com/topic/la-me-laurie-becklund-20150210,0,1386520.story#sthash.wXavHlpq.dpuf
"They call it Door of the Devil," wrote Times journalist Laurie Becklund in 1983, "a craggy spot not far from downtown San Salvador where the earth ends, plunging into a sheer, mist-filled ravine."
Becklund had been reporting from El Salvador for nearly four years and had finished a series of stories that would change America's perception of the violence ravaging that country.
"It's always a little foggy," a former police officer told her, "and there are these big rocks you can stand on top of to throw somebody over."
The officer worked for one of the country's intelligence agencies, and his matter-of-fact description of murder was a revelation. The Reagan administration had argued that the death squads were rogue groups with no discernible allegiances, but Becklund proved otherwise.
- See more at: http://www.capitalgazette.com/topic/la-me-laurie-becklund-20150210,0,1386520.story#sthash.wXavHlpq.dpuf
"They call it Door of the Devil," wrote Times journalist Laurie Becklund in 1983, "a craggy spot not far from downtown San Salvador where the earth ends, plunging into a sheer, mist-filled ravine."
Becklund had been reporting from El Salvador for nearly four years and had finished a series of stories that would change America's perception of the violence ravaging that country.
"It's always a little foggy," a former police officer told her, "and there are these big rocks you can stand on top of to throw somebody over."
The officer worked for one of the country's intelligence agencies, and his matter-of-fact description of murder was a revelation. The Reagan administration had argued that the death squads were rogue groups with no discernible allegiances, but Becklund proved otherwise.
- See more at: http://www.capitalgazette.com/topic/la-me-laurie-becklund-20150210,0,1386520.story#sthash.wXavHlpq.dpuf
The Reagan Administration continually (and dishonestly) said that the death squads were composed of independent rightists, unknown and unknowable, with no affiliation to government or army. We were to prove differently. - See more at: http://www.niemanwatchdog.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=Showcase.view&showcaseid=00126#sthash.FNJ7ZpUv.dpuf
The Reagan Administration continually (and dishonestly) said that the death squads were composed of independent rightists, unknown and unknowable, with no affiliation to government or army. We were to prove differently. - See more at: http://www.niemanwatchdog.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=Showcase.view&showcaseid=00126#sthash.FNJ7ZpUv.dpuflink:

Brave Reporters reveal the terrible truth about US policy in El Salvador in the 1980s 

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Just 1 more example of when "The Official Story" turned out to be a blatant LIE.

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