Article 4  Freedom consists in being able to do anything that does not harm others.Thus, the exercise of the natural rights of each man has limits only to the extent of those which ensure that the other members of society possess the pleasure of these same rights.

Article 16  Any society in which the guarantee of [these] human rights is not assured ... has no legal constitution [basis].

This central issue is whether or not to continue to move forward with the American government’s plan, ever since the Soviet Union and its military alliance the Warsaw Pact ended in 1991, to extend NATO ... right up to Russia’s borders, surround Russia with NATO nuclear missiles a mere five minutes flight-time to Moscow, and simultaneously build an ... “Anti Ballistic Missile” system to nullify Russia’s retaliatory missiles against an unannounced blitz U.S.-NATO invasion to take over, if not totally eliminate, Russia and its resistance to U.S. power. ...

The path we’re on can end only in one of two ways: Either the U.S. ‘news’ media will get real and start reporting the crucial realities (such as that the aggression in Ukraine wasn’t Putin’s ‘seizure’ of Crimea but the immediately prior coup ... by Obama’s hirees) ... that contradict the official lies and thus might (if we’re extremely lucky) compel the U.S. government to reverse its present course; or else, there will be a surprise blitz attack by U.S.-NATO against Russia, or else by Russia against U.S.-NATO. The closer we get to the end of this matter, the more difficult the former option becomes, and the more inevitable the latter option — a blitz attack (by either side) — becomes. That’s the reality

Climate Change

• Peter Meyer: The Global Warming Scare
  Or should we call it “The Global Warming Hoax”?


• Richard K. Moore: Climate Variation & its Cosmic Origins

  The emerging electric model of the universe holds the key to understanding the causes of long and short-term climate variation. The pattern of variation has very specific characteristics, characteristics that match the behavior of a noisy electrical circuit. The electric model reveals that the Earth is indeed connected to a cosmic electrical circuit, a circuit that is subject to the kind of noise that could produce the patterns seen in the Earth’s temperature record.



• Richard K. Moore: Climate Change & Mind Control
  

  So it’s only necessary to get control over certain research centers, and over the editorial policies of certain journals. From that base of operations emerged the famous ‘climate models’, which are based on the false assumption that temperature rises in line with CO2 concentration.



• Monte Hieb: Global Warming: A Chilling Perspective
  

  Just how much of the “Greenhouse Effect” is caused by human activity? It is about 0.28%, if water vapor is taken into account — about 5.53%, if not. This point is so crucial to the debate over global warming that how water vapor is or isn't factored into an analysis of Earth's greenhouse gases makes the difference between describing a significant human contribution to the greenhouse effect, or a negligible one.

• Climate Change but no Anthropogenic Global Warming
  A demonstration that there is absolutely no evidence that humans are having any impact at all on the global climate.

If there is going to be a war with Russia, then the United States will most certainly be destroyed, and most of us will end up dead.

This is something that the Anglo-American Empire fears more than anything else, because it would threaten the very foundations of the system, and the foundations are based on an idea, a concept, which basically tries to tell us that the world as we see it, experience it, is all there is, there is nothing else, science has proven that there is no spiritual force in the world, everything can be reduced to the workings of a machine-type organism, this is what nature is, a machine, existing by accident for its own sake, with no purpose or objective other than to survive at any other’s expense and to satisfy the senses with about as much indulgence as one can acquire, and acquisition is realized by any means necessary, including destruction of any perceived obstacle.This is the insanity at the heart of the Anglo Empire.

The bottom line of this mess is this: what the US and the EU did in the Ukraine (and elsewhere, really) was fantastically stupid. But the US can afford such mistakes, while the EU clearly cannot.  ... What the EU has done is essentially a form of “suicide by reality denial”. What follows next will have to be regime change, not for one country, but for the entire continent.

The Primordial Mind is pure Awareness without awareness of anything, not even of itself. It has two hypostases, one personal and one impersonal. From the Primordial Mind emanates (a) the personal Original (or Universal, Cosmic or Christ) Consciousness and (b) the impersonal Original (or Universal or Cosmic) Energy. The former is characterized by self-awareness, intelligence, knowledge, love, compassion and wisdom (and in fact is the fundamental source of all these). All forms of consciousness other than the Original Consciousness (that is, all souls) are limitations (or restrictions) of the Original Consciousness (and thus essentially are identical with the Primordial Mind). As regards the Original Energy (which is known, obscurely, to modern physics indirectly via the concept of energy), this is what provides coherence and consistency to what appears to souls as external to themselves, and manifests itself to humans (and to all animals) as the natural world, or Nature. Since the Original Energy is a hypostasis of the Primordial Mind, it too possesses awareness, but not in the same way (self-awareness) as the Original Consciousness. The two hypostases could be likened to purusha and prakriti in Hindu Samkhya, or yin and yang in Taoism, or prajna and upaya in Buddhism.

I believe that Putin is acutely aware that his real power basis is not primarily the Russian military or the security services, but the Russian people. This, in turn, means that for him to take any action [against the Russian 5th Column], especially any dangerous action, he must secure an almost unconditional level of support from the Russian people. That, in turn, means that he can only take such risky action if and when the crisis is evident for all to see and that the Russian people are willing to have him take a risk and, if needed, deal with the consequences.

[Randolph] Bourne's essays written in opposition to World War I ... are not typical of anti-war literature. ... The thrust of Bourne's essays is to attack the sanctity of war by showing how it leads to the moral collapse of society by kicking out the props (the principles) of peaceful interaction upon which society rests. ... Bourne addressed the less tangible, though arguably more significant, costs of war. ... In  converting World War I into a holy war, the intellectual and psychological groundwork was being laid for future instances of what he termed "the sport of the upper class" — global conflict.

Which brings to mind what Shakespeare has Gloucester say in King Lear: "As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods [the global elite] — They kill us for their sport."  Now is the time (for the sake of future generations and indeed for all life on Earth) to eliminate the global elite completely, with no possibility of their return.

The Russian aircraft went down south of Al Arish, near the border of Israel, very close to Israel's main cyberwarfare and computer hacking facility, Unit 8200, located on Kibbutz Urim.  ... This Israeli spy facility would have had the ability to monitor and communicate directly with the aircraft's navigation system — without the knowledge of the crew.  ... The fact that the pilot's last communication, from 30,000 feet, reported a malfunction in the airplane's wireless devices and that he asked for an emergency landing indicates that the airplane may have been in the process of being hacked externally through its satellite wireless connection.

Recently the United States conducted the first test of the anti-missile defence system in Europe. What does this mean? It means we were right when we argued with our American partners. They were simply trying yet again to mislead us and the whole world. To put it plainly, they were lying. It was not about the hypothetical Iranian threat, which never existed. It was about an attempt to destroy the strategic balance, to change the balance of forces in their favour not only to dominate, but to have the opportunity to dictate their will to all: to their geopolitical competition and, I believe, to their allies as well. This is a very dangerous scenario, harmful to all, including, in my opinion, to the United States.

Accompany the brave and intrepid explorer as he ventures into the wild and little-explored regions of Chiclayo, Chachapoyas, Tarapoto, Tingo Maria, Pucallpa, Huánuco, Satipo and Huancayo.

In an interview with the BBC’s ‘Panorama’ ... Edward Snowden spoke in detail about the spying capabilities of the UK intelligence agency GCHQ. He disclosed that government spies can legally hack into any citizen’s phone to listen in to what’s happening in the room, view files, messages and photos, pinpoint exactly where a person is ... and monitor a person’s every move and every conversation, even when the phone is turned off. ... It’s one more reason to conclude that smartphones suck. And as much as we convince ourselves how cool they are, it’s hard to deny their invention has resulted in a tendency for humans to behave like zombies ... and prevented us from communicating with those who really matter (the ones in the same room at the same time). Now, Snowden has given us yet another reason to believe that smartphones might be the dumbest thing we could have ever inflicted on ourselves.

[I]nstead of learning from other people’s mistakes, some prefer to repeat them and continue to export revolutions, only now these are “democratic” revolutions. Just look at the situation in the Middle East and Northern Africa ... what was the actual outcome? Instead of bringing about reforms, aggressive intervention rashly destroyed government institutions and the local way of life. Instead of democracy and progress, there is now violence, poverty, social disasters and total disregard for human rights, including even the right to life. I’m urged to ask those who created this situation: Do you at least realize now what you’ve done? But I’m afraid that this question will remain unanswered, because they have never abandoned their policy, which is based on arrogance, exceptionalism and impunity.

I suggest that before each of us humans became incarnate organisms in this natural world we were entities in the DMT World, and that during foetal development in the womb we made a transition from the DMT World to this world. ... [Or in other words] that an intelligent being in the DMT World, which is a “soul” in the sense discussed above in connection with Origen's cosmology, may be born in a human body, and that in fact most of us were once souls inhabiting the DMT World who have been incarnated in this way.

• Peter Meyer
• John Kaminski
• Wade Frazier
• Leonard Spencer
• Gilad Atzmon
• Richard K. Moore
• The Saker

The renowned political theorist Sheldon Wolin ... claimed that in the United States an emerging totalitarianism has appeared in form different from what we have seen in the past. Instead of a charismatic leader, the government is now governed through the anonymous and largely remote hands of corporate power and finance capital. Political sovereignty is largely replaced by economic sovereignty as corporate power takes over the reins of governance. The more money influences politics, the more corrupt the political culture becomes. Under such circumstances, holding office is largely dependent on having huge amounts of capital at one’s disposal, while laws and policies at all levels of government are mostly fashioned by lobbyists representing big business corporations and financial institutions.

• The 28-member EU makes no economic sense
• The EU is on the verge of a social and cultural collapse
• The EU is just a colony of the United States unable to defend her own interests
• The EU is in a deep political crisis

US and Russian AWACS aircraft are always present when a conflict occurs anywhere near Europe.  ... Besides their AWACS, the Americans and Russians also use their space-based satellites to monitor any conflict zone.  ... I would expect the US could provide much more data than just radio intercepts. And yet the US has provided exactly nothing. There is only one logical possibility for that otherwise bizarre US refusal to provide any data at all: the US data points to the “wrong” party. In other words, the fact that the US is not releasing any data at all is, by itself, an indirect proof that the Ukrainians did it.

[We] can mathematically prove that neither the collapsing top of WTC2 nor (especially) the top of WTC1 could have crushed a mass significantly larger than its own. The top 30 collapsing floors of WTC2 could destroy — at most — 33 more floors beneath, and the 12 collapsing floors of WTC1 could barely possess the energy to crush 15 more floors beneath [after which the collapse would stop].

[Only] two intelligence agencies had the expertise, assets, access and political protection to execute 9/11 in the air and on the ground: our CIA and Israel’s Mossad. Only one had the incentive, using the “who benefits” principle: Mossad. And that incentive dovetailed perfectly with the neo-cons' agenda and explicitly expressed need for a catalytic event to mobilize the American public for their wars, using American military power to destroy Israel’s enemies.

Did you notice how all these Takfiri freaks "just happen" to have had plenty of contacts of all sorts with Western security services?  It's like a Ku Klux Klan meeting in the USA: for ten hooded participants you have two morons and eight Federal agents working undercover.  Same exact deal for these Takfiris.  And then the two morons do something really really bad, and the eight Federal Agents "just happen" to vanish into thin air (or "commit suicide").  Does that have anything to do with Islam?  Of course not.  It has everything to do with the deep state and the covert manipulation of probably every single terrorist group on the planet.

It is absolutely disgraceful that Julian Assange has in effect been held under house arrest in London for over two years [over three years in July 2015] without being charged by either the government of Sweden or the U.K. government with any crime. Much praise is due to the government of Ecuador for providing Assange with protection from rendition to Sweden and consequent extradition to the U.S., where he would probably be tortured and would certainly be jailed for life. The government of the U.K. is, to its shame, just a tool of the Americans. And to its shame also, the government of Australia has done absolutely nothing to help or protect Assange (an Australian citizen) or even to protest this blatant injustice.

The Saker: I find Larchmonter 445's image of a double helix particularly appropriate because what we are witnessing here is the birth of a new geopolitical "life form" so to speak, an informal alliance of two countries which goes much deeper than most regular alliances do: what we are seeing is the mutual agreement to establish a full-spectrum geostrategic symbiosis between two civilizational realms as both Russia and China are what used to be called 'empires' in the past but which today are what I call "civilizational realms": multi-ethnic, multi-national and multi-religious ex-empires whose influence extends beyond their current national borders and whose international strategic "weight" makes them far more akin to continents then to countries. ... I would argue that this is by far the single most important political development since the end of WWII and probably the most important one in this century.

By now it must be clear to everybody that what is taking place today is not just some "Cold War v2" or some "East-West tensions", but a full-scale total war not just between Russia and the USA but between the entire Anglo-Zionist Empire and the Resistance (led by Russia and the BRICS). ... If Russia loses this war, the Empire wins the planet.  And if Russia wins, that will be the end of the Empire. It is really that simple.

The measures taken against those [countries] who refuse to submit [to US dictates] are well-known and have been tried and tested many times. They include use of force, economic and propaganda pressure, meddling in domestic affairs, and appeals to a kind of ‘supra-legal’ legitimacy when they need to justify illegal intervention in this or that conflict or toppling inconvenient regimes. Of late, we have increasing evidence too that outright blackmail has been used with regard to a number of leaders. It is not for nothing that ‘big brother’ is spending billions of dollars on keeping the whole world, including its own closest allies [including Germany], under surveillance.

The inability of the Russian and Chinese governments to come to terms with the threat posed to their existence as sovereign countries by the neoconservative insistence on American world hegemony makes nuclear war more likely. If Russia and China catch on too late in the game, their only alternative will be war or submission to Washington’s hegemony. As there is no possibility of the US and NATO invading and occupying Russia and China, the war would be nuclear.

The conclusion is inescapable: MH17 was shot down by a Ukrainian fighter jet. The party responsible for the deaths of 298 people was not the Donbass separatists but rather the Ukrainian junta, possibly with the foreknowledge and involvement of the United States.

The 'conspiracy theory' meme was launched by the CIA in the wake of the JFK assassination ... [and] the public began to learn about the existence of 'conspiracy theorists'. These are people, the story goes, who suffer from paranoid delusions, and sane people should pay no attention to anything they say. If someone even looks at any of those ideas, their own mental stability comes into question.  ... Since then, the conspiracy-theory meme has been carefully nurtured and expanded ...[and] has been very successful in immunizing the majority of the population against the revelations available on the Internet, especially regarding 9/11. Any story not appearing in the mainstream media must by definition be a conspiracy theory, and anything that sounds like a conspiracy theory should be scoffed at and ignored.

The West's malevolent sanctions on Russia were not imposed because Russia had in any way affected the well-being, economic circumstances, territorial integrity or social structure of the United States or of any nation that jumped on the US sanctions' bandwagon. There was no question of enforcing sanctions because Russia's actions anywhere in the world had impacted adversely on one single citizen of any Western nation. But they were imposed, anyway, just to try to make things difficult for Moscow and to try to ratchet up tension between Russia and the West.

Thus, the Malaysian Boeing MH-17, according to the Romanian expert, was shot down from a gun of a MiG-29 aircraft, rather than a missile. Even air-to-air missiles, the expert says, R-60, for example, have a proximity fuse. In this case, fragments would fly 360 degrees around and strike the entire fuselage of the aircraft, not just the cockpit.

I can very much imagine a desperate Obama trying to show the American people that he "has hair on his chest" and that he is not going to let "regional power" challenge the "indispensable nation". So what he and, really, his administration risks doing is the following: to play a game of chicken hoping against all odds that the Russians will yield. This is my worst nightmare and the worst possible assumption to make because Russia cannot yield. ... I think that they are dumb enough to try to seize a Russian ship entering or leaving the Black Sea. Remember — these are the folks who hijacked the aircraft of Bolivian President Evo Morales to try to find Snowden on board. ... And, of course, these are the folks who did 9/11. Their arrogance knows no limits because they are profoundly evil sociopaths.

Cui bono? Well here at least the reply is unambiguous: only the junta in Kiev could have benefited from this tragedy. For the Russians and the Novorussians, this is something between a real pain and a disaster. Just when the Novorussians were winning without any overt help from Moscow and just when Moscow was gradually successful in denouncing the human costs of Poroshenko's murderous policies — suddenly the entire planet focuses just on one downed aircraft and the [Anglo-Zionist] imperial corporate media blames it all on Russia.

Plus Ten questions for the Ukrainian authorities and a comment by "Mr. Pragma", including:

I do not believe the Ukrainians did it. (a) They are demonstrably completely incompetent and (b) the USA would not trust them in such a vital issue. I'm convinced the pilots were Americans and the missiles were fired by Americans too ...

Accountants entered the subterranean gold vaults below the Fed and discovered a major problem. As a result of Superstorm Sandy the vault had been breached and salt water had flooded several of the lower gold vaults, including the one where the alleged 1,500 tonnes of German gold was stored. According to gold technicians, the salt water had corroded the gold bars. Serial numbers and country stamps on the bars were indecipherable.

"Do you really love me, Arseni?"

... 'lukewarm' as it now may be, this is a major war of planetary importance because ... it is the future of Russia, and therefore of all of Eurasia, which is being decided.  ...What we are witnessing today is nothing short of a major struggle for survival between the Anglo-Zionist Empire and the "Eurasian project" (for lack of a better word) centered around Russia and China and their attempt to replace the old order by a new, multi-polar, dollar-independent, militarily-balanced one.

For you politicians behind the coup d'etat in Kiev and the war against the citizens of Ukraine, you disgust me. I have only this to say to Merkel, Torchinov, Poroshenko, Hollande, Cameron. Kerry, Nuland, Obama and the 'president' of Poland Bronislaw Komorowski, each and every one of you, your minions and hangers on, the Western politicians, ALL of you. Damn your eyes, damn your souls, damn you to Hell, back to where you came from. You are beneath contempt.

A thoroughly corrupt but democratically elected President (Yanukovich) was overthrown in an armed coup by ... paid agents of a foreign power [the US]. The new regime is composed exclusively either of corrupt oligarchs ... or neo-Nazis ...  Regardless, this regime has received the full and unconditional support of the US/EU and all those client-states worldwide which depend on them.  ... The junta in power has unleashed a sustained campaign of terror against all those who dare to oppose it, including civilians ... [The] sole power basis of this unelected regime is death squads ...

If my reading of the facts is correct and my reasoning sound, the USA did not go to the Moon when it said it did between 1969 and 1972. If I am right, the USA ditched its attempt to go to the Moon some time in 1967, when it realised the task was too great. Going to the Moon presented technological obstacles that were simply too great to overcome, even for a superpower. I believe that instead of holding up its hands and publicly admitting defeat, the USA decided to pretend to its citizens — and the rest of the world — that it had been to the Moon and faked the evidence.

What is happening today before our eyes is the end of one international system and the birth of a qualitatively different one.

And is there only one thing left for us to do, to wait without taking action? Maybe something will happen by itself? It will never happen as long as we daily do not sever ourselves from the most perceptible of its aspects: Lies.  ... And the simplest and most accessible key to our self-neglected liberation lies right here: Personal non-participation in lies. Though lies conceal everything, though lies embrace everything — not with any help from me.

... as long as the Anglo-Zionists can divide us they will also rule over us. ... The real enemy of Islam is [not Christianity but rather is] exactly the same as the real enemy of Christianity: the Anglo-Zionist Empire.

[In his speech Vladimir Putin] expressed Russia's view on the level of civilizational and cultural degradation the Anglo-Zionist Empire has imposed upon the people of Europe and the USA. Furthermore, when Putin says that “destruction of traditional values from above not only leads to negative consequences for society, but is also essentially anti-democratic, since it is carried out on the basis of abstract, speculative ideas, contrary to the will of the majority” he is clearly stating that the Anglo-Zionist Empire is not ruled by the people which live in it, but by minorities, special interest groups, behind-the-scenes lobbies and cabals who impose their warped agenda upon the rest of the people.

[The] bottom line is this: the President of Russia has made an open declaration of war against the 1% elite which currently is in control of the Anglo-Zionist Empire. This war will be a multi-level one combining “soft power” (cultural resistance, religious resistance, informational resistance, financial and economic warfare) with “hard power” (a military ready fight the US/NATO if necessary, the use of the “energy weapon” to retaliate against economic warfare). ...  [This] war will also profoundly be a class war in which oligarchs from different countries will support each other and in which the regular, 99%, people will work together on, for example, the “virtual battlefields” of the Internet.

... they have lied to us many times ...

[The] myth of US omnipotence is now gone, forever. Furthermore, Europe will have to bear the brunt of the consequences of having to manage the gradual transformation of Banderastan into something reasonable and non-threatening. The EU will sink further in its economic and social crisis and some other crisis will replace the Ukraine in the news. ... [It] will take a long while for the West to realize what has really happened, and the most obtuse of pundits and politicians will probably hang on to their usual self-righteous rhetoric forever, but historians will probably look back at the month of February 2014 as the moment when Russia successfully beat back the combined power of the USA and Europe and prevailed.

For Russia the goal is simple: survival as a nation, country and civilization. In this sense, this is not a “Putin policy” but a “Russian policy” ... When NATO bombed the Serbs in Croatia, Bosnia and Kosovo, Russia was ruled by a drunken western-puppet, Yeltsin, and a clique of mostly Jewish oligarchs ... Russia then was very much like the Ukraine today. But even then, most Russian people fully understood that the US rampage in the Balkans was a message to them: "watch what we can do to your allies — you are next." ... What you hear nowadays in Russia is "it's not about the Serbs or the Syrians anymore, this time this is about us". So for the vast majority of Russians — including Putin — the main strategic goal is simple: not let Russia become the next Bosnia, Kosovo or Syria. In other words: survival.

[It] is pretty undeniable that the West is not only supporting the wrong side but also that this decision is not only completely immoral but also amazingly short-sighted.  This is yet another case of what the French called fuite en avant (literally "to flee forward"): when somebody does something clearly and obviously mistaken and then, frightened by that, instead of reversing course decides to run forward at an even higher speed.  In contrast, Russia's decision is not only morally right, it is also pragmatically correct.