Category: Aggregated

Governments have a number of ways that they can drive people insane. There are constant psychological assaults, and sometimes, something as simple as staying quiet and being indifferent can break someone’s mind. The following people weren’t insane to begin with, until they somehow got involved with a government agency. It led to them becoming so broken down that they may now be just empty shells of who they once were. 10 Paul Bennewitz In the 1980s, Paul Bennewitz owned a humidity equipment company that had a number of contracts with Kirkland Air Force Base in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Bennewitz lived … Continue reading →

There is always Joker to see through the delusion. ― Jostein Gaarder Delusion: a false belief or opinion. Same old same old every day if things don’t change you’re just gonna rot Cause if you do what you’ve always done you’ll always get what you always got Uh could that be nothin’ . –        Aerosmith . Delusion: Psychiatry. A fixed false belief that is resistant to reason or confrontation with actual fact. With that as foundation… A Six-Point Plan to Restore Economic Growth and Prosperity, By John Mauldin and Stephen Moore Mauldin and Moore offer their prescription for economic growth, … Continue reading →

The Obama administration has asked a secret surveillance court to ignore a federal court that found bulk surveillance illegal and to once again grant the National Security Agency the power to collect the phone records of millions of Americans for six months. The legal request, filed nearly four hours after Barack Obama vowed to sign a new law banning precisely the bulk collection he asks the secret court to approve, also suggests that the administration may not necessarily comply with any potential court order demanding that the collection stop. US officials confirmed last week that they would ask the Foreign … Continue reading →

Toward the end of the presidency of George H.W. Bush, America stood alone at the top of the world — the sole superpower. After five weeks of “shock and awe” and 100 hours of combat, Saddam’s army had fled Kuwait back up the road to Basra and Bagdad. Our Cold War adversary was breaking apart into 15 countries. The Berlin Wall had fallen. Germany was reunited. The captive nations of Central and Eastern Europe were breaking free. Bush I had mended fences with Beijing after the 1989 massacre in Tiananmen Square. Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin were friends. The president … Continue reading →

The USS Liberty murders are arguably Lyndon Johnson’s greatest crime if one does not include deceiving and dragging America into the horrors of the Vietnam War where millions perished.  The USS Liberty event is one of the most important and also one of the highly suppressed events in modern American history. William F. Buckley, the publisher of the National Review smelled a dead rat: “Is the Liberty episode being erased from history. So it would seem…What has happened to our prying journalistic corps and our editors, normally so indignant of attempted suppression of the news?…We believe that a joint select … Continue reading →

When was the last time you gave a millisecond’s thought to how you sign off your e-mails? Do you reach for the safety of ‘yours sincerely’, ‘kind regards’ or ‘best wishes’ without so much as a thought for the recipient? It’s something so many of us are guilty of. And yes, it might be time to reset your sign-off, if a new Bloomberg report is to be believed. It quotes PR director and careers expert Paul MacKenzie-Cummins saying that ‘best’ anything is a total cop-out. It’spart of a wider trend of “vulgarised and lazy” language in e-mails,’ he says. Ouch. Apparently … Continue reading →

Arizona –-(Ammoland.com)- It is surmised that the first use of a pistol grip was on the Lesoinne Et Pirlot Fils, Liege, a rifled .69 caliber percussion fired single-shot carbine made circa 1840. It seems the designer felt that adding a piece of shaped wood facing downward and slightly rearward just behind the trigger gave the shooter more control when firing the rifle, and so the idea for the pistol grip was born. Like most ideas it didn’t catch on for a long time, old habits die hard I’m deducing. As time moved forward the idea was re-visited and eventually caught … Continue reading →

The last week in Gotham was exceptional fun. A Broadway play—compliments of the producer, my NBF Harvey Weinstein—Finding Neverland, had me clapping with one hand due to the operation and standing with the packed theatre for the ovation. Shows how much the critics know, who panned it. The audience loved it, as did I. It’s an uplifting, wonderful play about J.M. Barrie and the children. Then there was the blind black guy in Brooklyn who told me, “You’re too pale for this neighborhood.” Go figure, as they say in that part of town. I’m always sad to leave the city—especially with … Continue reading →

Talk about a comeuppance. Former Speaker of the House of Representatives Dennis Hastert, who helped force through Congress stricter laws against anonymous cash transactions, now faces financial ruin – and an extended jail sentence – thanks to the very same laws. Hastert withdrew at least $1.7 million in cash from bank accounts he controlled while trying to avoid having the transactions reported to the US Treasury. That apparently set off alarm bells with the anti-laundering software banks use to identify “suspicious transactions” in customer accounts. Now, Hastert has been indicted for violations of the Bank Secrecy Act and lying to … Continue reading →

The Bilderberg Group has long been the subject of speculation. But what do we really know about the secretive international meetings between top politicians and bosses? We know where the meetings are held The location of the meetings is now public. Last year, the Danish capital of Cophenhagen was the venue of choice. This year, the world’s elites will travel to the Interalpen-Hotel Tyrol in the Austrian Alps. We know who attends them The group releases a list of attendees. From the UK this year George Osborne and Ed Balls are attending. Other people going to the 2015 meet-up include … Continue reading →

‘The Israeli military has recruited thousands of soldiers with criminal records, enabling them to request that their records be expunged, a report says. A total of 3.8 percent of male and 0.3 percent of female […]