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David’s Stack of Stuff (Sunday February 7th, 2021)

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by DAVID BROWN | CLEARNFO.com | February 7th, 2021

Below you will find a select few items that caught my attention this week.  Hope you can benefit and enjoy.  On some of the longer podcasts and lectures, I download to my computer and then upload to my phone to listen while on the treadmill or when I have some down-time.

Where is the footprint? Bubonic plague killed about 25% to 60% of the European population. What percentage has SARS-CoV-2 killed? In the US, the overall death rate remains substantially  the same over the past several years despite COVID-19.

A closer look at U.S. deaths due to COVID-19 from Johns Hopkins was promptly erased from the internet, only to be found on archive dot org… (what are they hiding?)
https://web.archive.org/web/20201126223119/https://www.jhunewsletter.com/article/2020/11/a-closer-look-at-u-s-deaths-due-to-covid-19

The Final Chapter: Part 3 – HEROES: A Tribute to Dr Scott Jensen

Information is important

The false narratives of WW1 & WW2: Like the false narratives about November 3rd and  January 6th the MSM promotes today, the victors of the great wars accuse the victims of being villains and sell this to the gullible masses for generations.  However, we live in amazing times.  For the first time in history, it is possible for the average Joe –like me– to discover the real criminals who caused and benefitted from the death of some 70M naïve participants in these pre-planned and orchestrated world wars.  Spent some time this week gathering more information on WW1 and WW2.  Of course these conflicts do not resemble anything I was taught in public school, the university or TV and the movie theaters.  Important to pull this story together by watching James Perloff’s lecture first, followed by reading: Antony C. Sutton’s trilogy: Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution; Wall Street and FDR; Wall Street and the rise of Hitler.  Next read Quigley’s ‘The Anglo-American Establishment’, then Mein Kampf, Guido Preparata on Conjuring Hitler.  Also, HITLER’S REVOLUTION – IDEOLOGY, SOCIAL PROGRAMS, FOREIGN AFFAIRS – CHAPTERS 1, 2 & 3 IDEOLOGY BY RICHARD TED.   Having done all this, you will be well prepared to start learning.   Don’t forget James Corbett’s excellent documentary on WW1 below.  So glad to see James and others finally dipping their toes into some Quigley’s ‘Anglo-American Establishment’. This really improved and focused this most excellent documentary.  You can tell they’ve read Quigley when they mention guys like Cecil Rhodes and Alfred Milner.  Next up from James will be WW2 no doubt and should be a blockbuster.

Of course who will take the time to read all of this?  Most would prefer the easier path provided by the masters of propaganda and besides that, “Americans don’t read.” It is far easier to let the media and the paid experts do your thinking for you.

 

Helena Blavatsky and WW2 mentioned by Joe in this episode…
Powers & Principalities: Episode 189 by Tim Kelly & Joe Atwill
Our Interesting Times Clown World Politics and Blue Terror – Feb 6th
https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/tkelly6785757/episodes/2021-02-06T05_56_31-08_00

The WW1 Conspiracy (Full Documentary | 2018)

The WWI Conspiracy

Interview 1616 – New World Next Week with James Evan Pilato

Guido Preparata on Conjuring Hitler

Our Interesting Times  EPISODE DESCRIPTION: Guido Giacomo Preparata joins Our Interesting Times to discuss his book Conjuring Hitler: How Britain and America made the Third Reich. We talk about how Great Britain fomented two world wars to prevent an alliance forming between Germany and Russia and how the rise of National Socialism in Germany was not an aberration or accident of history but the result of Anglo-American financial support and intrigue. Guido Giacomo Preparata has been an Associate Professor of Political Economy at the University of Washington. He completed his PhD in Political Economy and Economic History at the University of Southern California in 1998. He is the author several books including The Ideology of Tyranny and New Directions for Catholic Social and Political Research. His website is guidopreparata.com.

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/tkelly6785757/episodes/2017-07-01T01_46_53-07_00

WALL STREET AND THE RISE OF HITLER by Antony C. Sutton
http://aaargh.vho.org/fran/livres5/suttonhitler.pdf

Next a short history lesson from James Perloff…
JAMES PERLOFF THE SHADOWS OF POWER – THE CFR, FEDERAL RESERVE, AND THE AMERICAN DECLINE: Great PowerPoint Lecture from James Perloff – brief historical primer on major US conflicts https://www.bitchute.com/video/hu6MCVTal1jD/

Not a big fan of Infowars since I consider Alex a limited hangout designed to stir the pot.  In any event, author and self-help guru Tony Robbins is calling out the manipulation of death statistics propping up the Covid-19 scamdemic.  https://www.infowars.com/posts/watch-self-help-guru-tony-robbins-rails-against-covid-scamdemic/

This looks to be a good resource:  Truth Stream Media . com
https://www.youtube.com/user/TRUTHstreammedia

“Love Your Servitude – Aldous Huxley & George Orwell”
https://youtu.be/caCkMX6YdYU

Mark Kulacz says goodbye to Twitter: Ep 73.1: Goodbye Twitter! Not Misinfo: Dr Bavari (USAMRIID) and 9/11 Anthrax, Ebola, COVID19 Pandemic (note: Mark has done the best research I’ve seen on Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, Bill Barr and others) 
https://youtu.be/UaJLfuzGfGU

Huxley the Berkeley lectures: https://youtu.be/2WaUkZXKA30

Interesting diversion into Rudolf Steiner …
The Karma of Untruthfulness
Secret Societies, the Media, and Preparations for the Great War
Author: Rudolf Steiner
Publisher: Rudolf Steiner Press
Category: Body, Mind & Spirit

Text: https://bibleandbookcenter.com/read/the-karma-of-untruthfulness/
Audio: https://youtu.be/VBuynSLfTcg
Rudolf Steiner Audio web site: http://www.rudolfsteineraudio.com/

And finally some Totto-Chan (this book brought Steiner’s thinking to China)

Totto-Chan: The Little Girl at the Window

Totto-Chan: The Little Girl at the Window

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Totto-Chan:_The_Little_Girl_at_the_Window

Totto-chan – Little Girl at the Window – English Part 1

 

Totto-chan – English Part 2

 

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David’s Stack of Stuff (Sunday January 31st, 2021)

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by DAVID BROWN | CLEARNFO.com | January 31, 2021

David’s stack.

I will be starting a weekly posting of David’s Stack of Stuff.  The idea here is to save you time and perhaps provide some little gems you may have overlooked during your busy week of making a living.   Enjoy…

Note: Once there was the great hope of ‘splintering the CIA into a thousand pieces and scattering it into the winds’, yet the CIA and their pals in Big-Tech have successfully splintered any opposing views and scattered them  across the web into little echo chambers.   Gone are the days of free expression on any of the major platforms.   Our best and brightest have either gone out of business as a result of this massive coordinated attack on free speech or they have re-constituted on alternative platforms with smaller audiences.  Many payment processors have joined in this coordinated attack designed to silence any views that do not support the current established mythology promulgated by our technocratic overlords.   This modern-day book burning has occurred as our captured regulators and corporate media cheered, not realizing the bland, gray, lifeless monolithic moonscape they are creating for everyone.

The Duran: News – Video – Analysis: Putin delivers anti-globalist Davos speech. Macron delivers pro-globalist Davos speech
The Duran: Episode 874

THOMAS SOWELL from Free to Choose Media

If you’ve been looking for IPOT, you can find it here on BitChute…  LAGO – IPOT PRESENTS – 1.29.21

Likewise, Amazing Polly is now here on BitChute …  Amazing Polly on BitChute

Ryan Dawson’s ANC is on BitChute…  Ryan Dawson on BitChute

SGT Report on BitChute…  SGT Report on BitChute

FBI: Pipe Bombs at RNC, DNC Were Planted Night Before Jan. 6

Jason Bermas on Rokfin…

Richard Grove on Rokfin

GameStop Shares: Dark Pools Owned by Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, UBS, et al, Have Made Tens of Thousands of Trades

New Report Indicates New York Nursing Home COVID Death Scandal Far Worse Than Previously Known

Jason Bermas | Special Guest on Grand Theft World 12

How to Survive the 21st Century | DAVOS 2020

from Paul Craig Roberts…If you use Twitter, Facebook, Amazon, Google, you are supporting Fascists

If you use Twitter, Facebook, Amazon, Google, you are supporting Fascists

AUDIO BOOK LOST COLONY OF HATTERAS

CIVIL WAR BATTLE OF THE WILDERNESS, BONES FIRE AND BLOOD

CENSORSHIP Now They’re Trying to Ban Telegram
Facebook and Twitter remain immune to the same standards.

Kay Griggs – Exposing The Elite and Military Secrets Part 1 of 4

BIDEN BEGINS SYRIA MILITARY BUILD UP. REGION BRACES FOR “ASSAD MUST GO” NARRATIVE

The Great Reset Part 2 | Jay Dyer with Richard Grove

Scientific Dictatorship (Technocracy) Quick Start by Patrick Wood…

BREAKING EXCLUSIVE: Accurate List of 2020 Election Fraud Cases Shows 81 Cases Total, 30 Still Active – And NOT ONE SINGLE COURT Has Allowed Evidence to be Argued

Dr Paul Craig Roberts talks money and politics 1.23.2021 on Greg Hunter’s USA Watchdog…

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Democrat vs. Republican and Trump

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by DAVID BROWN | CLEARNFO.com | May 09, 2020

Of course there really is no such thing as Democrat vs. Republican, though I too use these terms as shorthand to help speed communication since these terms are in general use.

Carroll Quigley said it best:  “The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies… is a foolish idea. Instead, the two parties should be almost identical, so that the American people can throw the rascals out at any election without leading to any profound or extensive shifts in policy. Then it should be possible to replace it, every four years if necessary, by the other party which will be none of these things but will still pursue, with new vigor, approximately the same basic policies.”

In 2016 most of the Republicans hated Trump as much or more than the Democrats and could not be trusted to support the choice of the people – their people. The RNC did everything in their power to destroy Trump.   With few exceptions, the Republicans are liars and thieves just like the Democrats, so it really boils down to whose lies you prefer.

The term ‘Realpolitik’ was  coined by Ludwig von Rochau  in 1853: “The study of the forces that shape, maintain and alter the state is the basis of all political insight and leads to the understanding that the law of power governs the world of states just as the law of gravity governs the physical world.”

Henry Kissinger was a big proponent of ‘Realpolitik’. Today’s Realpolitik can be seen in the coercive and amoral actions of the established power structure and their controlled media, government and educational organs.  Red Team vs. Blue Team is just another tool to keep their livestock distracted, occupied and confused.   If you get most of your news from the MSM you will not be aware of this simple fact.  One good example is the Trans Pacific Partnership or TPP which would have ceded US Sovereignty to an unelected group of international business interests.  Did the MSM ever alert the American people they were about to lose their sovereignty?  Amazingly, most of your elected officials in both parties were for this nation-destroying treaty, misnamed an agreement to help get it passed in the Senate – even Ted Cruz and Mike Pence were for it before they were against it.  TPP would have been a major win for the One World Government enthusiasts, but Trump killed it.  Trump is now on their shit list. These people have power, money; and they own Big-Tech, Big-Pharma and the media.  They also own people like Fauci, Birx, Gates, Redfield (CDC) and Tedros (W.H.O.).

“Gradually, by selective breeding, the congenital differences between rulers and ruled will increase until they become almost different species. A revolt of the plebs would become as unthinkable as an organized insurrection of sheep against the practice of eating mutton.” –Bertrand Russell, The Impact of Science on Society (1953) pgs. 49-50

The world they have planned for us will not be a good place to live.  It will be a world of constant surveillance and control – the idea of freedom will be washed from our collective consciousness.  Our suspicions surrounding the COVID Pandemic are possible and may be probable though not easily provable.   This could be just another attempt to remove Trump.

The COVID virus could be natural or man-made – though recent research point to man-made.  It could have been released by accident or on purpose. It could have been developed in China or in the USA or both.   We are gaining more and more evidence that is making this picture clearer every day.  We have some very good researchers making good progress on this now.   I expect we will discover the truth of the origin of SARS-CoV-2.

Calm before the storm?  I don’t know.  Certainly the existing power structure fighting Trump has committed serious crimes and would therefore desire to protect itself in any way possible without limits.

Coronavirus man-made:

Chris Martenson of Peak Prosperity Coronavirus: Are Our Scientists Lying To Us?

China: End Run for World Domination

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by DAVID BROWN | CLEARNFO.com | August 12, 2018

The Old Silk Road (114 BC – 1450s AD) was an ancient network of trade routes that connected the East and West: From China, India, Persia (Iran), Arabia, Somalia, Egypt to Europe.

The Old Silk Road – Connecting China to Europe

China’s New Silk Road

Today, China is planning to re-hydrate these ancient trading routes with a new modern Silk Road having already spent more than the US spent on WWII’s Marshall plan; with another $1.3 trillion waiting to build railways, roads, ports, and power grids over the next 10 years.

China’s new Silk Road – the Belt and Road Initiative

“Who rules the World Island commands the world”

The new Silk Road is now called the “Belt and Road” initiative, and is under active construction. With all this excitement and activity, one can’t help but think of Helford Mackinder’s (1861 – 1947) Heartland Theory of the World Island and his prescient words:

“Who rules Eastern Europe commands the Heartland
Who rules the Heartland commands the World Island
Who rules the World Island commands the world”

Helford Mackinder – Heartland Theory of the World Island

The Rimland is not enough

During the pinnacle of the British Empire’s power, Briton found it too costly –and the logistics technologically impractical– to go inland to conquer the ‘Heartland’ of the ‘World Island’;  so the Empire chose to control the seas and impose its will inward from the Rimland.  Once the greatest sea power the world had ever known, the Empire –weakened by The Great Wars–  encouraged its former colony (America) to fill the vacuum.  Still, the Heartland of the World Island –and the power it could unleash– was mostly ignored or forgotten by many –until recently.    Though Mackinder’s Heartland theory  is outdated, it’s basic premise is still valid and it seems clear China believes it can command the world by commanding the World Island.

NOTE: The “heartland”  was also referred to as the “pivot area” and as the core of Eurasia. Mackinder considered all of Europe and Asia as the World Island.

Additional reading on this topic

Who’s the Boss, pt. 3

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by DAVID BROWN | CLEARNFO.com | Aug 26, 2017

Remarkably, Carroll Quigley’s ‘Tragedy and Hope’ and his ‘Anglo-American Establishment’ omit much about Rockefeller; and this is no accident.   Even an insider like Quigley must be careful not to reveal too much or to touch on certain topics as he demonstrated in his 1974 interview with Rudy Maxa of the Washington Post.  

Kevin Cole explains:

Throughout the interview, Quigley incessantly signaled for the interviewer to turn off the tape recorder, and to be “discreet” and at one point even stated, “I don’t know if you want to put this on tape”… “You have to protect my future…as well as your own.”    We may never know what Quigley was so afraid of or why he omitted so much of Rockefeller in his writings on the inside workings of the ‘network’. 

So now we turn our attention to Josh G as he helps fill in some of the gaps Quigley and others left out of the story of the ruling oligarchs who control man’s destiny. You can read Josh’s PDF in the links below.  Josh G starts with a holy grail of sorts, and an unlikely source, revisiting the incredible Business Plot to overthrow FDR.  Through careful research, Josh G helps us understand Smedley Butler’s excellent book ‘War is a Racket’ is in reality a limited hangout or a partial reveal to deflect attention; and Smedley’s testimony before Congress on the infamous Business Plot was Smedley playing a role. We further discover the implausibility of Smedley being a Quaker as claimed and make some excellent connections within the small group of men who control our world, and –up until now– have had the freedom to write our history.  

Luckily, two of my favorite podcasters, Tim Kelly and Joe Atwell, discuss Josh G’s article ‘The Bogus Business Plot’; and as they do, a much clearer picture begins to emerge that will help all of us discover our real history and the authors of this history.

Powers & Principalities Episode 14 (Tim Kelly and Joe Atwell)

Published on Aug 26, 2017
The Bogus Business Plot, the FDR myth, the Bankers, the Secret Society

References:

  • Business Plot
  • Miles Mathis (who is hosting Josh G’s pdf): http://mileswmathis.com/ mm@milesmathis.com
  • Professor Carroll Quigley and the Article that Said Too Little: Reclaiming History from Omission and Partisan Straw Men by Kevin Cole   Kevin Cole: While we can be grateful that someone had the foresight to sit down and record Quigley before he would pass away several years later, I can’t help but be disappointed with the missed opportunity to ask tough questions and actually report on them in the article that follows. We now know from listening to the audio tape that the article that followed the interview was selective in its scope and omitted many instances of Carroll Quigley seemingly in fear for his career and/or life if certain facts were disclosed. Throughout the interview, Quigley incessantly signaled for the interviewer to turn off the tape recorder, and to be “discreet” and at one point even stated, “I don’t know if you want to put this on tape”… “You have to protect my future…as well as your own.”
  • THE BOGUS BUSINESS PLOT  (PDF) Part 1: What Isn’t a Racket?
    With Commentary on the Great Depression, the New Deal, the Roosevelt, Warburg, Morgan and Spencer Families and a Whole Lot More By Josh G
  • The FDR you never knew
  • Wall Street and FDR
  • Who’s the Boss, pt. 1
  • Who’s the Boss, pt. 2

Who is they?

Powers & Principalities Episode 39 (Tim Kelly and Joe Atwell)

Published on Feb 17, 2018

Update: Douglas Gabriel (Thomas Paine) and Michael McKibben discuss their latest findings from their research. Learn how the America you were taught in school is not the America that is actually operating.  American Intelligence Media | Published on Apr 27, 2018

World War II – A Necessary Re-Evaluation

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by DAVID BROWN | CLEARNFO.com | June 04, 2017

Truth Fears No Questions

With the aid of the internet and the great research provided by Quigley, Sutton and Perloff, the real history of WWII can now be told, and it does make a difference.

Feb 13, 1945: Firebombing of Dresden

Over the years, I’ve been asked for my take on World War II many times. I’ve mostly avoided this topic only giving hints at my perspective (warning that it’s not what it appears) until I had time to properly sequence the events in light of the new information I had learned from reading the well-researched and documented writings of Quigley, Sutton and Perloff.   So in lieu of my reasoned opinion based on the more recent and accurate context provided by the three gentlemen above, I offer up two interviews and discussions between Tim Kelly and James Perloff and Tim Kelly and Joe Atwill (below).  To supplement this, consider reading the following relatively short books:

The Anglo-American Establishment by Carroll Quigley

And Antony C. Sutton’s trilogy:

  1. Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution: The Remarkable True Story of the American Capitalists Who Financed the Russian Communists.
  2. Wall Street and FDR
  3. Wall Street & the Rise of Hitler
  4. And watching James’ excellent lecture (found on YouTube) entitled ‘The Shadows of Power; the CFR and decline of America’

You can also find James Perloff’s book on this same topic entitled ‘The Shadows of Power: The Council on Foreign Relations and the American Decline’

To round-out your understanding of World War II, it is highly desirable –once you have read the above—to read Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf‘ to get a complete view of the context. You will discover what you have been told by the American education system and the corporate media is a total and complete fabrication. The only way to defeat our masters is to defeat the mythology they have placed in our heads.

12/22/21: Update.. Since so many of the videos below have been deleted, I’m posting this recent interview here:  Timothy Kelly podcast episode: “E. Michael Jones on the Holocaust Narrative“

EPISODE DESCRIPTION: Dr. E. Michael Jones returns to Our Interesting Time to discuss his article in this December’s Culture Wars “Dachau for Dummies: A Review of The Defeated.” We also talk about last month’s election in Virginia and how the oligarchs’ attempt to impose centralized technocratic control is revitalizing States’ Rights and undermining the legitimacy of the American Empire. 

Dr. Jones is the editor of Culture Wars magazine and the author of several books including Logos Rising: A History of Ultimate Reality and the recently released second edition of The Jewish Revolutionary Spirit and Its Impact on World History.

Mike King on the The Bad War: The Truth Never Taught About World War Two by Our Interesting Times with Tim Kelly

James Perloff on the Myths of the “Good War”

Published on Jun 3, 2017
James Perloff returns to Our Interesting Times with Tim Kelly to discuss his presentation on the Second World War. We talk about several myths of the “Good War” and why a revisionist interpretation of that event is long overdue and necessary to avoid another global conflagration.

James is the author of several books including Shadows of Power and Truth is a Lonely Warrior. His website is jamesperloff.com

Powers & Principalities Episode 30 (Published on Dec 15, 2017)
The Real Winston Churchill by Tim Kelly and Joe Atwill

Tim Kelly interviews Germar Rudolf on the Holocaust (Published on Feb 25, 2017)
Germar Rudolf joins the show to discuss his research regarding the Holocaust and share his experience as a revisionist researcher, writer and lecturer

Germar Rudolf joins the show to discuss his research regarding the Holocaust and share his experience as a revisionist researcher, writer and lecturer on that topic. We discuss what Holocaust revisionism is and what it is not and we talk about some of the evidence that indicates the official narrative of the Holocaust is a gross distortion of history. Later we talk about the migrant crisis in Europe and demographic winter that is enveloping the entire industrialized world. Germar Rudolf was born in Limburg, Germany. He studied chemistry at Bonn University, where he graduated in 1989. From 1990-1993 he prepared a German PhD thesis at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in conjunction with the University of Stuttgart, Germany. During this time Rudolf prepared an expert report on chemical and technical questions of the alleged gas chambers of Auschwitz, The Rudolf Report. He is the founder of the small revisionist outlet, Castle Hill Publishers. He has published several books including Dissecting the Holocaust, Lectures on the Holocaust and Resistance is Obligatory. Germar’s website is germarrudolf.com *Please consider a donation to support this podcast.

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/tkelly6785757/episodes/2016-09-20T03_17_24-07_00

 

PEARL HARBOR: ROOSEVELT’S 9/11
False flags do not stand alone. They are better understood – and more credibly explained to skeptics – when seen in history’s context.

Guido Preparata on Conjuring Hitler by Tim Kelly (published July 1, 2017; Length – 1:50:28)

The Morgenthau Plan: The Final Solution to the German Question (Published on Mar 3, 2018) Powers & Principalities: Episode 41 by Tim Kelly and Joe Atwill

The true origins of the German National Socialism (Published on Mar 31, 2018)
Powers & Principalities: Episode 45 by Tim Kelly and Joe Atwill

More on this topic …

James Perloff: Hitler vs. the Elite Cabal of International Bankers

The Myth Of German Culpability
The 2nd World War
The True Sequence Of Aggression
By Michael Walsh
10-4-8

Chol0cau$t Denial Laws & Free Speech  (Published on Aug 11, 2018) 
Powers and Principalities: Episode 64 by Tim Kelly and Joe Atwill

“To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.” –Voltaire

https://youtu.be/1NinTzwWqOg

One Third of the Holocaust

https://youtu.be/pcBVxwCTVu4
 

(added on 1/19/22): Mike King’s ‘The Bad War’…

The Bad War: The Truth NEVER Taught About World War II (text)
TIM KELLY AND MIKE KING ON THE BAD WAR. (video)
Monika Schaefer on Truth and Justice for Germany
Our Interesting Times (1/19/23)
By Timothy Kelly

EPISODE DESCRIPTION
Monika Schaefer joins Our Interesting Times to discuss her activism on behalf of Holocaust revisionism and justice for the German people who have been subjected to decades psychological warfare. We talk about the many inconsistencies, contradictions and lies which constitute the ever-changing Holocaust narrative and the necessity for promoting truth in our public discourse.

Monika is a musician and child of German immigrants who re-located to Canada in 1959. Her family stayed connected to “the old country” observing German traditions at home while assimilating into Canadian society. She has devoted much of her adult life to raising public consciousness regarding the crimes committed against Germany in the past century and promoting justice for the German people. Her primary website is Truth and Justice for Germans Society.

Updated 4/27/2023:

Updated 3/1/2023: As you can see many of the videos above have been removed.

PROBING THE HOLOCAUST: THE HORROR EXPLAINED (1:36:40)

War is a Racket – Smedley Butler

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“I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras right for the American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested. Looking back on it, I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents.”

― Smedley D. Butler, War is a Racket: The Antiwar Classic by America’s Most Decorated Soldier

CHAPTER ONE

War Is A Racket

WAR is a racket. It always has been.

It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.

A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small “inside” group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. Out of war a few people make huge fortunes.

In the World War [I] a mere handful garnered the profits of the conflict. At least 21,000 new millionaires and billionaires were made in the United States during the World War. That many admitted their huge blood gains in their income tax returns. How many other war millionaires falsified their tax returns no one knows.

How many of these war millionaires shouldered a rifle? How many of them dug a trench? How many of them knew what it meant to go hungry in a rat-infested dug-out? How many of them spent sleepless, frightened nights, ducking shells and shrapnel and machine gun bullets? How many of them parried a bayonet thrust of an enemy? How many of them were wounded or killed in battle?

Out of war nations acquire additional territory, if they are victorious. They just take it. This newly acquired territory promptly is exploited by the few — the selfsame few who wrung dollars out of blood in the war. The general public shoulders the bill.

And what is this bill?

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The Federal Reserve

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by DAVID BROWN | CLEARNFO.com | June 11, 2016

Ed Griffin’s EXCELLENT new video on the Federal Reserve System. Please check it out and “subscribe” to his new YouTube channel at the link below. –Joe Plummer

Published on Jan 3, 2016
A Discourse by G. Edward Griffin

The author of “The Creature from Jekyll Island; A Second Look at the Federal Reserve” addresses these issues:

  • What is the Federal Reserve System?
  • Who drafted the plan for the Fed and when did it occur?
  • How is money created?
  • What impact has this had on the American Dollar?
  • Should our currency be backed by gold or silver?
  • Where does Congress get most of its funding?
  • What is the solution to the problem of fiat money?
  • Why do bankers get away with it?
  • What might happen if we continue on our current path?
  • What might come from a return to constitutional money?
  • What can concerned citizens do?

For more information, or to order a DVD of this presentation, visit  http://www.realityzone.com/federalreserve.html

Brexit

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posted by DAVID BROWN | CLEARNFO.com | May 28, 2016

Important interview with Dr. Paul Craig Roberts by Dr. Julian Charles
(Published on Saturday, 28 May 2016 21:24)

Dr. Paul Craig Roberts

Dr. Paul Craig Roberts

from The Mind Renewed…

“Remain” or “Leave”? What does the UK’s EU Referendum—scheduled 23rd June—really amount to? Is it simply the opportunity for UK citizens to decide if Britain should stay in the European Union? Or is it something of greater significance, with broader and more serious implications? And just what is this thing called the EU anyway?

Joining us, once again, to discuss these questions is Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, former US Assistant Secretary to the Treasury for Ecomonic Policy, who explains the EU’s beginnings as a project of the CIA, and assesses its current role as as an anti-democratic tool of corporate control. Whether or not a majority “leave” vote will actually lead to Brexit, Dr. Roberts argues that a decisive rejection of EU membership by UK citizens could embolden other EU member states to follow suit, thus precipitating the break-up of NATO, and in turn, bringing an end to Washington’s crazy designs for a New World Order.

TMR 145 : Dr. Paul Craig Roberts : Vote Brexit – End the EU, a CIA Covert Operation