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Wednesday, 28 December 2016

The open source revolution is coming and it will conquer the 1%: ex CIA spy

A businessman tries to break through a line of Occupy Wall Street protesters who had blocked access to the New York Stock Exchange area in November 2011. Photograph: Don Emmert/AFP/Getty Images

The man who trained more than 66 countries in open source methods calls for re-invention of intelligence to re-engineer Earth

by Nafeez Ahmed

Robert David Steele, former Marine, CIA case officer, and US co-founder of the US Marine Corps intelligence activity, is a man on a mission. But it’s a mission that frightens the US intelligence establishment to its core.

With 18 years experience working across the US intelligence community, followed by 20 more years in commercial intelligence and training, Steele’s exemplary career has spanned almost all areas of both the clandestine world.

Steele started off as a Marine Corps infantry and intelligence officer. After four years on active duty, he joined the CIA for about a decade before co-founding the Marine Corps Intelligence Activity, where he was deputy director. Widely recognised as the leader of the Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) paradigm, Steele went on to write the handbooks on OSINT for NATO, the US Defense Intelligence Agency and the U.S. Special Operations Forces. In passing, he personally trained 7,500 officers from over 66 countries.

In 1992, despite opposition from the CIA, he obtained Marine Corps permission to organise a landmark international conference on open source intelligence – the paradigm of deriving information to support policy decisions not through secret activities, but from open public sources available to all. The conference was such a success it brought in over 620 attendees from the intelligence world.

But the CIA wasn’t happy, and ensured that Steele was prohibited from running a second conference. The clash prompted him to resign from his position as second-ranking civilian in Marine Corps intelligence, and pursue the open source paradigm elsewhere. He went on to found and head up the Open Source Solutions Network Inc. and later the non-profit Earth Intelligence Network which runs the Public Intelligence Blog.

Former CIA spy and Open Source Intelligence pioneer, Robert David Steele speaking at the Inter-American Defense Board in 2013

I first came across Steele when I discovered his Amazon review of my third book, The War on Truth: 9/11, Disinformation and the Anatomy of Terrorism. A voracious reader, Steele is the number 1 Amazon reviewer for non-fiction across 98 categories. He also reviewed my latest book, A User’s Guide to the Crisis of Civilization, but told me I’d overlooked an important early work – ‘A More Secure World: Our Shared Responsibility, Report of the UN High-Level Panel on Threats, Challenges, and Change.’

Last month, Steele presented a startling paper at the Libtech conference in New York, sponsored by the Internet Society and Reclaim. Drawing on principles set out in his latest book, The Open-Source Everything Manifesto: Transparency, Truth and Trust, he told the audience that all the major preconditions for revolution – set out in his 1976 graduate thesis – were now present in the United States and Britain.

Steele’s book is a must-read, a powerful yet still pragmatic roadmap to a new civilisational paradigm that simultaneously offers a trenchant, unrelenting critique of the prevailing global order. His interdisciplinary ‘whole systems’ approach dramatically connects up the increasing corruption, inefficiency and unaccountability of the intelligence system and its political and financial masters with escalating inequalities and environmental crises. But he also offers a comprehensive vision of hope that activist networks like Reclaim are implementing today.

“We are at the end of a five-thousand-year-plus historical process during which human society grew in scale while it abandoned the early indigenous wisdom councils and communal decision-making,” he writes in The Open Source Everything Manifesto. “Power was centralised in the hands of increasingly specialised ‘elites’ and ‘experts’ who not only failed to achieve all they promised but used secrecy and the control of information to deceive the public into allowing them to retain power over community resources that they ultimately looted.”

Today’s capitalism, he argues, is inherently predatory and destructive:

“Over the course of the last centuries, the commons was fenced, and everything from agriculture to water was commoditised without regard to the true cost in non-renewable resources. Human beings, who had spent centuries evolving away from slavery, were re-commoditised by the Industrial Era.”

Open source everything, in this context, offers us the chance to build on what we’ve learned through industrialisation, to learn from our mistakes, and catalyse the re-opening of the commons, in the process breaking the grip of defunct power structures and enabling the possibility of prosperity for all.

“Sharing, not secrecy, is the means by which we realise such a lofty destiny as well as create infinite wealth. The wealth of networks, the wealth of knowledge, revolutionary wealth - all can create a nonzero win-win Earth that works for one hundred percent of humanity. This is the ‘utopia’ that Buckminster Fuller foresaw, now within our reach.”

The goal, he concludes, is to reject:

“... concentrated illicitly aggregated and largely phantom wealth in favor of community wealth defined by community knowledge, community sharing of information, and community definition of truth derived in transparency and authenticity, the latter being the ultimate arbiter of shared wealth.”

Despite this unabashedly radical vision, Steele is hugely respected by senior military intelligence experts across the world. As a researcher at the US Army War College’s Strategic Studies Institute, he has authored several monographs advocating the need for open source methods to transform the craft of intelligence. He has lectured to the US State Department and Department of Homeland Security as well as National Security Councils in various countries, and his new book has received accolades from senior intelligence officials across multiple countries including France and Turkey.

Yet he remains an outspoken critic of US intelligence practices and what he sees as their integral role in aggravating rather than ameliorating the world’s greatest threats and challenges.

This week, I had the good fortune of being able to touch base with Steele to dig deeper into his recent analysis of the future of US politics in the context of our accelerating environmental challenges. The first thing I asked him was where he sees things going over the next decade, given his holistic take.

“Properly educated people always appreciate holistic approaches to any challenge. This means that they understand both cause and effect, and intertwined complexities,” he said. “A major part of our problem in the public policy arena is the decline in intelligence with integrity among key politicians and staff at the same time that think tanks and universities and non-governmental organisations have also suffered a similar intellectual diminishment.

“My early graduate education was in the 1970’s when Limits to Growth and World Federalism were the rage. Both sought to achieve an over-view of systemic challenges, but both also suffered from the myth of top-down hubris. What was clear in the 1970s, that has been obscured by political and financial treason in the past half-century, is that everything is connected – what we do in the way of paving over wetlands, or in poisoning ground water ‘inadvertently’ because of our reliance on pesticides and fertilisers that are not subject to the integrity of the ‘Precautionary Principle,’ ultimately leads to climate catastrophes that are acts of man, not acts of god.”

He points me to his tremendous collection of reviews of books on climate change, disease, environmental degradation, peak oil, and water scarcity. “I see five major overlapping threats on the immediate horizon,” he continues. “They are all related: the collapse of complex societies, the acceleration of the Earth’s demise with changes that used to take 10,000 years now taking three or less, predatory or shock capitalism and financial crime out of the City of London and Wall Street, and political corruption at scale, to include the west supporting 42 of 44 dictators. We are close to multiple mass catastrophes.”

What about the claim that the US is on the brink of revolution? “Revolution is overthrow – the complete reversal of the status quo ante. We are at the end of centuries of what Lionel Tiger calls ‘The Manufacture of Evil,’ in which merchant banks led by the City of London have conspired with captive governments to concentrate wealth and commoditise everything including humans. What revolution means in practical terms is that balance has been lost and the status quo ante is unsustainable. There are two ‘stops’ on greed to the nth degree: the first is the carrying capacity of Earth, and the second is human sensibility. We are now at a point where both stops are activating.”

Robert Steele - preconditions for revolution

Former CIA officer’s matrix on the preconditions for revolution

It’s not just the US, he adds. “The preconditions of revolution exist in the UK, and most western countries. The number of active pre-conditions is quite stunning, from elite isolation to concentrated wealth to inadequate socialisation and education, to concentrated land holdings to loss of authority to repression of new technologies especially in relation to energy, to the atrophy of the public sector and spread of corruption, to media dishonesty, to mass unemployment of young men and on and on and on.”

So why isn’t it happening yet?

“Preconditions are not the same as precipitants. We are waiting for our Tunisian fruit seller. The public will endure great repression, especially when most media outlets and schools are actively aiding the repressive meme of ‘you are helpless, this is the order of things.’ When we have a scandal so powerful that it cannot be ignored by the average Briton or American, we will have a revolution that overturns the corrupt political systems in both countries, and perhaps puts many banks out of business. Vaclav Havel calls this ‘The Power of the Powerless.’ One spark, one massive fire.”

But we need more than revolution, in the sense of overthrow, to effect change, surely. How does your manifesto for ‘open source everything’ fit into this? “The west has pursued an industrialisation path that allows for the privatisation of wealth from the commons, along with the criminalisation of commons rights of the public, as well as the externalisation of all true costs. Never mind that fracking produces earthquakes and poisons aquifers – corrupt politicians at local, state or province, and national levels are all too happy to take money for looking the other way. Our entire commercial, diplomatic, and informational systems are now cancerous. When trade treaties have secret sections – or are entirely secret – one can be certain the public is being screwed and the secrecy is an attempt to avoid accountability. Secrecy enables corruption. So also does an inattentive public enable corruption.”

Is this a crisis of capitalism, then? Does capitalism need to end for us to resolve these problems? And if so, how? “Predatory capitalism is based on the privatisation of profit and the externalisation of cost. It is an extension of the fencing of the commons, of enclosures, along with the criminalisation of prior common customs and rights. What we need is a system that fully accounts for all costs. Whether we call that capitalism or not is irrelevant to me. But doing so would fundamentally transform the dynamic of present day capitalism, by making capital open source. For example, and as calculated by my colleague JZ Liszkiewicz, a white cotton T-shirt contains roughly 570 gallons of water, 11 to 29 gallons of fuel, and a number of toxins and emissions including pesticides, diesel exhaust, and heavy metals and other volatile compounds – it also generally includes child labor. Accounting for those costs and their real social, human and environmental impacts has totally different implications for how we should organise production and consumption than current predatory capitalism.”

So what exactly do you mean by open source everything? “We have over 5 billion human brains that are the one infinite resource available to us going forward. Crowd-sourcing and cognitive surplus are two terms of art for the changing power dynamic between those at the top that are ignorant and corrupt, and those across the bottom that are attentive and ethical. The open source ecology is made up of a wide range of opens – open farm technology, open source software, open hardware, open networks, open money, open small business technology, open patents – to name just a few. The key point is that they must all develop together, otherwise the existing system will isolate them into ineffectiveness. Open data is largely worthless unless you have open hardware and open software. Open government demands open cloud and open spectrum, or money will dominate feeds and speeds.”

Robert Steele’s vision for open source systems

On 1st May, Steele sent an open letter to US vice president Joe Biden requesting him to consider establishing an Open Source Agency that would transform the operation of the intelligence community, dramatically reduce costs, increasing oversight and accountability, while increasing access to the best possible information to support holistic policy-making. To date, he has received no response.

I’m not particularly surprised. Open source everything pretty much undermines everything the national security state stands for. Why bother even asking vice president Biden to consider it? “The national security state is rooted in secrecy as a means of avoiding accountability. My first book, On Intelligence: Spies and Secrecy in an Open World – which by the way had a foreword from Senator David Boren, the immediate past chairman of the Senate Select Committee for Intelligence - made it quite clear that the national security state is an expensive, ineffective monstrosity that is simply not fit for purpose. In that sense, the national security state is it’s own worst enemy – it’s bound to fail.”

Given his standing as an intelligence expert, Steele’s criticisms of US intelligence excesses are beyond scathing – they are damning. “Most of what is produced through secret methods is not actually intelligence at all. It is simply secret information that is, most of the time, rather generic and therefore not actually very useful for making critical decisions at a government level. The National Security Agency (NSA) has not prevented any terrorist incidents. CIA cannot even get the population of Syria correct and provides no intelligence - decision-support - to most cabinet secretaries, assistant secretaries, and department heads. Indeed General Tony Zinni, when he was commander in chief of the US Central Command as it was at war, is on record as saying that he received, ‘at best,’ a meagre 4% of what he needed to know from secret sources and methods.”

So does open source mean you are calling for abolition of intelligence agencies as we know them, I ask. “I’m a former spy and I believe we still need spies and secrecy, but we need to redirect the vast majority of the funds now spent on secrecy toward savings and narrowly focused endeavors at home. For instance, utterly ruthless counterintelligence against corruption, or horrendous evils like paedophilia.

“Believe it or not, 95% of what we need for ethical evidence-based decision support cannot be obtained through the secret methods of standard intelligence practices. But it can be obtained quite openly and cheaply from academics, civil society, commerce, governments, law enforcement organisations, the media, all militaries, and non-governmental organisations. An Open Source Agency, as I’ve proposed it, would not just meet 95% of our intelligence requirements, it would do the same at all levels of government and carry over by enriching education, commerce, and research – it would create what I called in 1995 a ‘Smart Nation.’

“The whole point of Open Source Everything is to restore public agency. Open Source is the only form of information and information technology that is affordable to the majority, interoperable across all boundaries, and rapidly scalable from local to global without the curse of overhead that proprietary corporations impose.”

Robert Steele’s graphic on open source systems thinking

It’s clear to me that when Steele talks about intelligence as ‘decision-support,’ he really does intend that we grasp “all information in all languages all the time” – that we do multidisciplinary research spanning centuries into the past as well as into the future. His most intriguing premise is that the 1% are simply not as powerful as they, and we, assume them to be. “The collective buying power of the five billion poor is four times that of the one billion rich according to the late Harvard business thinker Prof C. K. Prahalad – open source everything is about the five billion poor coming together to reclaim their collective wealth and mobilise it to transform their lives. There is zero chance of the revolution being put down. Public agency is emergent, and the ability of the public to literally put any bank or corporation out of business overnight is looming. To paraphrase Abe Lincoln, you cannot screw all of the people all of the time. We’re there. All we lack is a major precipitant – our Tunisian fruit seller. When it happens the revolution will be deep and lasting.”

The Arab spring analogy has its negatives. So far, there really isn’t much to root for. I want to know what’s to stop this revolution from turning into a violent, destructive mess. Steele is characteristically optimistic. “I have struggled with this question. What I see happening is an end to national dictat and the emergence of bottom-up clarity, diversity, integrity, and sustainability. Individual towns across the USA are now nullifying federal and state regulations - for example gag laws on animal cruelty, blanket permissions for fracking. Those such as my colleague Parag Khanna that speak to a new era of city-states are correct in my view. Top down power has failed in a most spectacular manner, and bottom-up consensus power is emergent. ‘Not in my neighborhood’ is beginning to trump ‘Because I say so.’ The one unlimited resource we have on the planet is the human brain – the current strategy of 1% capitalism is failing because it is killing the Golden Goose at multiple levels. Unfortunately, the gap between those with money and power and those who actually know what they are talking about has grown catastrophic. The rich are surrounded by sycophants and pretenders whose continued employment demands that they not question the premises. As Larry Summers lectured Elizabeth Warren, ‘insiders do not criticise insiders.’”

But how can activists actually start moving toward the open source vision now? “For starters, there are eight ‘tribes’ that among them can bring together all relevant information: academia, civil society including labor unions and religions, commerce especially small business, government especially local, law enforcement, media, military, and non-government/non-profit. At every level from local to global, across every mission area, we need to create stewardship councils integrating personalities and information from all eight tribes. We don’t need to wait around for someone else to get started. All of us who recognise the vitality of this possibility can begin creating these new grassroots structures from the bottom-up, right now.”

So how does open source everything have the potential to ‘re-engineer the Earth’? For me, this is the most important question, and Steele’s answer is inspiring. “Open Source Everything overturns top-down ‘because I say so at the point of a gun’ power. Open Source Everything makes truth rather than violence the currency of power. Open Source Everything demands that true cost economics and the indigenous concept of ‘seventh generation thinking’ – how will this affect society 200 years ahead – become central. Most of our problems today can be traced to the ascendance of unilateral militarism, virtual colonialism, and predatory capitalism, all based on force and lies and encroachment on the commons. The national security state works for the City of London and Wall Street – both are about to be toppled by a combination of Eastern alternative banking and alternative international development capabilities, and individuals who recognise that they have the power to pull their money out of the banks and not buy the consumer goods that subsidise corruption and the concentration of wealth. The opportunity to take back the commons for the benefit of humanity as a whole is open – here and now.”

For Steele, the open source revolution is inevitable, simply because the demise of the system presided over by the 1% cannot be stopped – and because the alternatives to reclaiming the commons are too dismal to contemplate. We have no choice but to step up.

“My motto, a play on the CIA motto that is disgraced every day, is ‘the truth at any cost lowers all other costs’”, he tells me. “Others wiser than I have pointed out that nature bats last. We are at the end of an era in which lies can be used to steal from the public and the commons. We are at the beginning of an era in which truth in public service can restore us all to a state of grace.”

Dr. Nafeez Ahmed is an international security journalist and academic. He is the author of A User’s Guide to the Crisis of Civilization: And How to Save It, and the forthcoming science fiction thriller, ZERO POINT. ZERO POINT is set in a near future following a Fourth Iraq War. Follow Ahmed on Facebook and Twitter.

From The Guardian @ https://www.theguardian.com/environment/earth-insight/2014/jun/19/open-source-revolution-conquer-one-percent-cia-spy

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Saturday, 26 November 2016

Is American patriotism treason to humanity? The Illusion of Democracy, Freedom, and the American Dream

Is American patriotism treason to humanity?

What allegiance do you owe to leaders who constantly lie?

by John Kaminski

Who is the fool who pretends to believe what our government tells us? How many lies do you need to hear?

We deliberately bombed our own allies in Syria. We blew up our own skyscrapers in New York City. We stage false flag shootings to prove we need to take everyone’s guns away. When we do, as we did in Chicago, the murder rate skyrockets, because then, only the criminals and the government have guns, and we are hard pressed to tell which is which.

Our government, in case you hadn’t noticed, doesn’t even pretend to be our benefactor and protector anymore. We are only a crop to be harvested by swindlers who have lost sight of the purpose of life and are of use to no one, not even themselves. They are interested only in getting rich.

What blind Americans refuse to see is that the rest of the world regards us as dangerous, untrustworthy wild animals, and a menace to all those who suffer from the insane U.S. war machine doing Israel’s dirty business while pretending we are defending “freedom” by blowing up all these countries and then putting those who conspired to betray their own countries on the U.S. payroll.

Who else but lunatics would elect as their leader somebody they know absolutely nothing about?

I first began to seriously contemplate what our government actually does to other people around the time President Obama murdered an American-born Muslim cleric and his son via drones in Yemen, a tiny country currently being destroyed by the evil Saudis with America’s help.

These blatant political assassinations came right after Obama had signed an executive order in 2012 allowing political assassinations without a trial, thereby nullifying a key principle on which the USA was founded, namely, you’re innocent until proven guilty.

Trial by jury is the essential cornerstone of both the American republic and freedom in the world, and Obama’s Executive Order demolished the main plank of America’s Constitutional protections.

Now the opposite is true. When the government arrests you and pronounces you guilty, you have to prove your own innocence in a corrupt court system disinclined to seek the objective truth. It is unfailingly intent on protecting the interests of those who profit from the status quo, no matter how destructive it is.

This is a police state of the highest order, and it exists today everywhere throughout the U.S.

Assassinated imam Anwar al-Awlaki was fighting the psychotic Israeli-American war machine, and the president of the United States decided he could kill this man with a missile from a drone. A few weeks later al-Awlaki’s 16-year-old son Abdulrahman suffered the same fate while dining with his friends at a restaurant.

The question must be asked, although few Americans possess the courage to ask it.

Who is the real criminal here?

A Muslim cleric trying to protect his flock from the Jewish worldwide murder machine that uses the American military as its personal hit squad?

Or the overwhelming power of malice demonstrated by the U.S. military, whose indifference to normal human values and leaving bleeding bodies all over the world is something that ordinary Americans must defend in order to maintain their patriotic solidarity with the home of the brave and the land of the free.

What a gut-wrenching fairy tale it all is! Its essence contains a moral that most people are simply too dishonest to confront... America has become the world’s greatest killer and the world’s most dangerous country.

We who live among the invaders must try to find the truth about how to live in a land of murderers.

How debauched and debased must a people become before they can see their own demented corruption and the horror it wreaks upon all those it enslaves?

“Demonized Syrian President Bashar al-Assad succinctly summed up US foreign policy accurately this way:

“Today the United States is waging wars with the only goal to cement its project of total control by launching an attack on everyone who opposes its dominance.” <http://empireexposed.blogspot.com/2016_10_01_archive.html> READ THIS

The enslaved includes the American people. The result of Obama’s megalomaniacal Executive Order removes all of our rights under the false pretense we are at war, when the ugly fact is our wars are prescripted maneuvers against mercenaries we have hired and trained to look convincing.

Remember this: The level of violence in the beheadings and the rapes shows the real spirit of the American government. No atrocity is too grotesque when it’s done in the name of someone else. These wars are all premeditated masquerades to frighten us in order to advance Israel’s geopolitical objectives. <http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/03/obama-executive-order-us-can-seize-any-person-any-resource-any-time.html>

Though the targeted killing of an American citizen implicates the Fifth Amendment, an executive order that forbids assassinations, and a federal statute that prohibits murdering American citizens abroad, the initial memo giving Obama legal cover to carry out extrajudicial killings spanned just seven pages.

Note too that even the official narrative of the Awlaki killing suggests the evidence against him was provided by a terrorist already in CIA custody. Are we comfortable giving the executive branch the power to kill citizens in secret so long as the citizen in question is first denounced by a terrorist with every incentive to tell the federal government whatever it wants to hear?
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/08/7-pages-that-gave-president-obama-permission-to-kill-americans/378651/

If you support[ed] either candidate in the… election you’re supporting this demented war against the world and the continued abuse of our own citizens who are not part of that preferred demographic sector that is immune from prosecution for the colossal crimes they continue to commit.

The United States has accepted Israel’s mission lock, stock and barrel… Too bad the majority of the American people never got this memo, which is why they’re still cheering their maimed heroes as they return from the various wars, and ignoring the epidemic of suicides among veterans who couldn’t cope with the realization that what they were doing was wrong.

Until Americans are able to see themselves as the bad guys, stacking up weapons on Russia’s borders and supporting Israel’s psycho slaughter of its Arab neighbors, there is no chance for peace…

Nor is there any chance that the United States of America will survive as the bastion of freedom and liberty that it once pretended to be.

Those who can never face the truth are destined to lose everything they thought to gain by believing in the lies they were told by people they were taught to trust.

Failure to see and failure to act are responsible for us losing the greatest country we ever could have had. We went for the short term gain, corrupted ourselves by its pursuit, and now we have lost our country in the long run to those who pay the cops, buy the judges and can take away everything we have at any time for any reason, or for no reason at all.

I realize this is terrible news about our future, but we can’t begin to remedy our distress without acknowledging its source...

Perhaps the Obama Executive Order giving the government the power to kill anyone it wants has triggered this massive outpouring of gun violence throughout the nation, though most of that seems to be related to crisis actors hired by the CIA to create chaos in a pathetic attempt to show why all these redundant law enforcement agencies are necessary.

In a world out of control, this is the era of manufactured terror threats foisted on a population poisoned by ignorance and deliberate lies.

There is no terror threat that is not conceived and manufactured by mad dog bankers in Israel, London and Washington.

These depraved manipulations are implemented throughout the world by their lobotomized shock troops who proudly murder enemies hired by their own leaders while pliable media liars who worship slaughter and praise plunder earn the inflated salaries they get for telling the lies they are told to tell.

Their control of money and media, of politics and entertainment, of education, the law and medicine renders opposition difficult at best.

What will they say — and what will you do? — when the leaders of your country start firing nuclear missiles at Moscow and Teheran — and the fire next time is the last thing you’ll ever see?

Or will you just turn away and change the channel until the lights go out for the last time?

The entire U.S. government is complicit in the coverup of numerous false flag terror episodes and the entire U.S. Congress, along with several presidents and their advisers, are all guilty of treason for knowing what really happened on 9/11/2001 and, after more than 16 years, still refusing to tell us about it.

Because no one will admit the truth, America and the world are strangling on all those neocon lies.

John Kaminski is a writer who lives on the Gulf Coast of Florida, constantly trying to figure out why we are destroying ourselves, and pinpointing a corrupt belief system as the engine of our demise. Solely dependent on contributions from readers, please support his work by mail: 6871 Willow Creek Circle #103, North Port FL 34287 USA.

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Note on terror and treason

Perhaps it was only a child’s perspective, all those years ago, when I decided journalism was a noble profession and chose it as my own. This was long before I learned that for newspapers owned by someone else, you can only write what the person who is paying you wants you to write, as Mr. Swinton so eloquently revealed in 1883 to a gathering of newspaper ‘hacks’. It is a famous passage that you probably have read, but should read again and fully recognize the true nature of mainstream media.

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Swinton

There is no such a thing in America as an independent press, unless it is out in country towns. You are all slaves. You know it, and I know it. There is not one of you who dares to express an honest opinion. If you expressed it, you would know beforehand that it would never appear in print. I am paid $150 for keeping honest opinions out of the paper I am connected with. Others of you are paid similar salaries for doing similar things. If I should allow honest opinions to be printed in one issue of my paper, I would be like Othello before twenty-four hours: my occupation would be gone. The man who would be so foolish as to write honest opinions would be out on the street hunting for another job. The business of a New York journalist is to distort the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to villify, to fawn at the feet of Mammon, and to sell his country and his race for his daily bread, or for what is about the same — his salary. You know this, and I know it; and what foolery to be toasting an "Independent Press"! We are the tools and vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are jumping-jacks. They pull the string and we dance. Our time, our talents, our lives, our possibilities, are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes.

Indeed, fawning at the feet of Mammon! It is the way the world has always been. The truth of the past reveals the lies of the present.

Xcerpted from therebel.is @ http://www.therebel.is/news/kaminski/877508-is-american-patriotism-treason-to-humanity

The Illusion of Democracy, Freedom, and the American Dream

By Alan R. Adaschik

“The owners of this country know the truth; it’s called the American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe it.”

— George Carlin

As Bob Dylan said, “the times they are a’changin”… and unfortunately, what is changing most prominently is how we are governed. Most Americans are unaware of what is happening and, even more incredibly, of those in the know, many condone and support what is being done. I do not, and that is why I am sitting at my keyboard — I am trying to wake people up.

Americans take pride in our government. This is because the government we think we have is something to be proud of. However, the simple truth of the matter is that we no longer have the government most of us think we have, and instead, we have something that is the brainchild of the New World Order.

This heretofore secret organization has placed our present government under the thumb of their new government and, by so doing, has turned the government we have into a parody of democratic representation, and our nation into a shadow of what it once was.

The question is, should we be proud of our new secretly-controlled government? And pledge allegiance to it? My answer to both of these questions is ‘no’, and in case you don’t yet get my drift, let me state for the record that I am an American who is ashamed of the kind of government we have, ashamed of the acts it commits and the pretenses it hides behind, and ashamed of my fellow Americans who, by living in denial, despite all evidence of treason, are passively participating in our continued subjugation and enslavement.

The problem is that the NWO, up to recently, has planned and plotted in secret. Fortunately, this has changed and we now know a lot more about who they are and what they are trying to accomplish. Recently, David Rockefeller, a NWO principle and a founder of the Trilateral Commission, in an address to the Trilateral Commission given in June of 1991, said the following:

“We are grateful to the Washington Post, the New York Times, Time Magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost forty years. It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subjected to the light of publicity during those years. But now the world is more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The supra-national sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries.”

The “we” David Rockefeller refers to is the New World Order. Let’s not mince words here. If you wish to choose another name for what Mr. Rockefeller is talking about then you are free to do so, but whatever you call this fledgling world government it should be clear that David Rockefeller has assured us that one exists. This much is certain and now that one of the NWO’s founders has let the cat out of the bag, we also know the following:

The leadership of the New World Order has met in secret for almost forty years to develop their plan to rule the world.

The directors of major news publications of our main-stream media have attended these meetings and failed to report what was going on to the American people.

If the American people had been aware of what was going on, they would have been opposed to the decisions being made and stopped these changes from happening.

A world dictatorship of the moneyed elite is a superior to democracy.

Mr. Rockefeller’s words tell us a lot about the New World Order and it should be evident that the government we are talking about is peopled by unelected individuals who rule for life. This being the case, two issues are of concern; what is the nature and character of the government under question and what is the nature and character of the people we are talking about. If we are stuck with this government and these individuals for the foreseeable future, knowing its nature and their character is very important.

The first thing evident is that our NWO masters have an ego problem. They think having unconscionable amounts of money makes them better than everyone else and, even more incomprehensibly, they think that it bestows upon them a special right to rule the world. However, the situation is far worse than this. Their ego problem has rendered them out of touch with reality. If they are better than everyone else, then it follows that they believe that are superior human beings. This being the case, it logically follows that the rest of us are inferior human beings. Therefore, not only do they believe they have a special right to rule the world, they also think they have a duty and obligation to because us lesser human beings are not capable of governing ourselves.

This kind of warped and perverted thinking is similar to the philosophies that gripped Nazi Germany under Adolph Hitler’s rule. The Nazis also believed they were superior to everyone else in the world. In fact, if we substitute “intellectual elite” for Aryan, we find that David Rockefeller and Adolph Hitler are cut from the same block of wood. Furthermore, if Adolph Hitler suddenly arose from his grave, he undoubtedly would shake Mr. Rockefeller’s hand and congratulate him for a job well done. History teaches us that we are in real danger when individuals in positions of authority think they are better than other people and, unfortunately, history is now repeating itself. Once again a group of megalomaniacs is trying to take over the world.

However, this is not the entire story. David Rockefeller admits that if Americans had been aware of what he and his fellow conspirators where up to, they would have been opposed to their plans. This is shocking! What kind of despicable human being brags about being able to fool an entire nation and sees nothing wrong with forcing his will upon a free and independent people? At least Adolph Hitler was honest enough to announce his intentions to the world before he assumed power.

No such claim to candor can be made by David Rockefeller and his co-conspirators. Their actions are not a mark of honest men or honorable human beings. Furthermore, they also fall short of the bar when it comes to integrity. From my perspective, Mr. Rockefeller and his cronies, including the depraved corporate moguls from the fourth estate who watched in silence while these people plotted against us, are not only not as good as the rest of us, but in truth are despicable human beings who deserve our contempt and ridicule.

This now brings us to a far more sinister topic. For the most part our NWO masters are Americans who were born in this country. Therefore, they are citizens of this nation who, like the rest of us through the years, have pledged allegiance to our flag and the republic for which it stands. Apparently, this pledge meant nothing to them because for the past forty years they recited our Pledge of Allegiance before God and the people of this nation while meeting in secret to plot against us. It is highly ironic that a group of people labeling themselves “intellectually elite” and who think this gives them a mandate to rule the entire world, upon analysis, are nothing more than a cabal of lying traitors who corrupted the nation of their birth and had the unmitigated gall to reduce their fellow citizens to subjugation and bondage.

A bedrock principal of good government and the American experiment in democracy is that a government’s legitimacy depends upon the consent of the governed. If the New World Order had to fool us in order to assume power, how legitimate is the government they created? I certainly didn’t give them my consent and I certainly do not approve of the way I am being governed. And what “way” are we talking about?

The overriding characteristic of the abomination they created is that they decide and we abide; the hallmark of a dictatorship! You can call it Communism, Fascism, totalitarianism, imperialism, or whatever “ism” you like! All these terms fit our situation quite well, but irrespective of what you wish to call it, the bottom line is that the government of the people, by the people, and for the people of which Abraham Lincoln spoke has perished from the earth and President Lincoln, our Founding Fathers, and all the other great Americans we have held in reverence throughout our lives are turning over in their graves.

Unfortunately, in the United States of America today, governmental change by stealth is the order of the day and things have progressed to the point where not only is consent of the governed a dysfunctional concept, it has been almost entirely replaced by deception and illusion. We are truly now a nation of the con and conned and we euphemize this lamentable state of affairs by calling it “politics”. Unfortunately, the end result of the “politics” we are talking about is that not only have we been robbed of our heritage and birthright, we are now being ravaged and looted economically with the complicity and cooperation of those entrusted to protect us.

The issue on hand that would be of major concern to our Founding Fathers and should be to us, is how well does the government we presently live under measure up to the above-described principles? Unfortunately, upon examination, the answer to this question is painfully obvious; it does not.

First and foremost, we do not have a government that is “of the people”. Instead, our elected representatives are lifelong professional politicians whose first order of business is feathering their own nest and protecting the status quo. However, this is not the worst of it because in the United States of America today it takes a tremendous amount of money to run for national office. Therefore, in keeping with a desire to look out for their own interests, the very first order of business of a professional politician is to ensure that those providing him with money and support continue to do so. The only way to do this is to do their bidding. No one with power and influence contributes to and supports politicians so they can independently vote their conscience in the best interests of this nation and its people. Therefore, the real first order of business of a professional politician is to vote to please those who contribute money and do favors for them. Doing what is best for the people of this nation is secondary. …

In conclusion, Americans are free to go to the bathroom when the need arises, but when it comes to enjoying the elements that comprise political freedom, all of them have been compromised and are essentially dysfunctional. Yet, we go about our business thinking this is not the case. We think we are free because we confuse personal freedom with political freedom and no one in government, the media, or our educational institutions will risk their jobs or future well-being by clearing up our misconceptions. We have lost the only thing that ensures our personal freedom–our political freedom–and an inevitable result is that we are now losing our personal freedom as well.

If we have been robbed of our political freedom by those elected to serve us, what then does this say about the kind of democracy we have? No American would intentionally vote away our political freedom, yet it is gone and has been taken from us without our consent. This makes a mockery of democracy and establishes that the democracy we have is only an illusion.

100 Years of Deception: A Blueprint for the Destruction of a Nation

Think you know American history? Think again.

Through “100 Years of Deception”, author Alan R. Adaschik reveals how the citizens of the United States have been played for fools over the past century. Very few Americans know anything about what is behind the events which have shaped our nation. Most of us assume that information provided by the mainstream news industry is the truth, however, on critical issues, we only get part of the story and a lot of important information is left out, deliberately shaping our perceptions of events and our society’s institutions.

This book is one man’s attempt to show Americans not just the trees, but the forest as well.

“100 Years of Deception” demonstrates that the U.S. government was overthrown in 1913 by a group of conspirators who engineered passage of the Federal Reserve Act. Since then, these people have pulled the strings that made a nation dance. By controlling the media and infiltrating most key institutions of our society, they have kept Americans oblivious to what they were doing, and why, creating systems that are self-serving to them and not in the best interests of the nation.

This book sheds much-needed light upon what most people do not know, in the hope of snapping them out of the trance which holds them in captivity.

“A conspiracy theorist’s dream book – but without the ridiculous notions or need for a tinfoil hat. This author knows his material… We all know that the media is controlled – this tells us how and who.”

“100 Years of Deception: A Blueprint for the Destruction of a Nation” is available here on Amazon.

About the author:

Alan Adaschik was born in New London, Connecticut in 1943. He was raised in Brooklyn, New York and attended Franklin K. Lane High School. Upon graduation, he was accepted as an engineering student by the University of Michigan in its Naval ROTC program. Upon completing college, Al qualified for Navy flight training and received his wings as a Jet Fighter Pilot in June of 1966. After completing his tour of duty, he left the service and earned a MBA from Long Island University.

Al has worked as a Flight Test Conductor for the Grumman Aerospace Corporation, a Financial Analyst for the Singer Company, a Senior Financial Analyst for Pratt & Whitney Aircraft, and a Financial Administrator for the City of Fort Lauderdale. In 1994, Congress passed the unconstitutional General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) which made the United States a member of the World Trade Organization (WTO). Acting as Attorney Pro-se for the voting citizens of this nation, Al sued our government over the constitutionality of GATT. The Court ruled his lawsuit was without merit on technical reasons and Al did not pursue the matter further.

Al has written three books; “While We Sleep – A Story of Government Without Law”, “An Alaskan Adventure – A Travelogue and Environmental Treatise” and his latest book, “100 Years of Deception: A Blueprint for the Destruction of a Nation”. Al also developed and hosted a website called “The Constitution forum” (which is no longer online) and as host of this site, authored a plethora of political articles and essays, many of which can still be found online at various websites.

Via Culture of Awareness @ https://cultureofawareness.com/2016/10/20/the-illusion-of-democracy-freedom-and-the-american-dream/

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