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The Greatest Achievement by Mankind: Why the Moon Landing Could Never Have Been a Hoax

January 18th, 2014

By Robert Singer

July 20th 1969: “One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." [1] The apparent flag waving on the "atmosphere free" moon is discussed below.

Why the Moon landing could never have been a Hoax?

43 years later there are still some who won’t believe mankind’s greatest scientific achievement of the last 50 years. I can still remember that magical, awe inspiring remarkable moment in history when Neil Armstrong planted the American flag in the lunar soil on the moon.

James Longuski, Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics Engineering at Purdue University, dismissed the idea that man didn't land on the moon.

To suppose a conspiracy to fake a moon landing because the United States was technologically incapable of going to the moon, that numerous photos and films have been doctored, that a trip to the moon would have resulted in radiation killing the astronauts and that numerous key members of the Apollo program died under suspicious circumstances considering it would have to be a ten-year conspiracy involving more than 400,000 people who worked on the Apollo project including the 12 men who walked on the Moon, the six who flew with them as Command Module pilots, and another six astronauts who orbited the Moon is absurd in the highest degree.[2]

Hundreds of thousands of people—including astronauts, scientists, engineers, technicians, and skilled laborers—would have had to keep the secret. Longuski argues that it would have been much easier to really land on the Moon than to generate such a huge conspiracy to fake the landings. Penn Jillette made note of this in the "Conspiracy Theories" episode of his contrarian television show, Penn & Teller: Bullshit!, in 2005. He said that keeping that many people from talking about the Hoax would be impossible.

And as far as keeping people quiet, there were only eleven Apollo astronauts who died within the twenty-two month period before the first manned Apollo fight. And seven of them had non-space related fatal accidents within a year of one another. Yes that seems a bit odd, but the odds of that happening are 1 in 10,000. We don’t know why James B. Irwin, Don F. Eisele, Stewart Allen Roosa and Jack Swigert all resigned from the program but there must have been a good reason.

Virgil Grissom, the NASA astronaut who hung a lemon on his Apollo capsule and told his wife Betty: "If there is ever a serious accident in the space program, it's likely to be me." Soon after, he and his two co-pilots were dead, burnt to death during a test run when their capsule, pumped full of high pressure pure oxygen, exploded. Some openly questioned NASA’s knowledge of chemistry. Even a high school chemistry student knows that high-pressure oxygen is extremely explosive.

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Op-Ed: Obamacare — The fast track to the next life

January 17th, 2014

By Ruth Hull

Want health care in America? You may find it easier and faster to buy a cemetery plot and line up an undertaker. Putting a brave front on the Obamacare fiasco, Dave Jones pointed out that America has the worst health care in the industrialized world.

California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones is running for re-election this year. But he's got a problem. If too many Californian's die before being able to navigate the Obamcare sign-up game, their relatives might not be voting for incumbents in November.

Dave would have preferred to implement an actual health care plan, like the Kucinich/Conyers single-payer, not-for-profit plan that would have kicked the health care insurance companies out of the U.S. of A Instead, Jones got stuck with the Republican give-insurance-executives-your-life-savings-plan put forth by two governors (Arnold Schwarzenegger and Mitt Romney) and by former tobacco-spokesperson and Presidential candidate Bob Dole and implemented by Wall Street “yes” man Barack Obama. Is anyone here still calling Obama a Democrat? The term seems to have evolved over the years.

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It’s Not Just the Mainstream Media That Is Scripted to Manufacture Consent, so Are Our Politicians

January 16th, 2014

via chycho

I. Manufacturing Consent

To say that mainstream media is controlled is an understatement. We’ve gone far past the time of relatively semi-covert CIA programs such as Operation Mockingbird where “some 3,000 salaried and contract CIA employees were eventually engaged in propaganda efforts.” Those days are long gone; the mainstream media is now openly scripted (2-pdf) to manufacture consent.

“We're not analyzing the media on Mars or in the eighteenth century or something like that. We're dealing with real human beings who are suffering and dying and being tortured and starving because of policies that we are involved in, we as citizens of democratic societies are directly involved in and are responsible for, and what the media are doing is ensuring that we do not act on our responsibilities, and that the interests of power are served, not the needs of the suffering people, and not even the needs of the American people who would be horrified if they realized the blood that's dripping from their hands because of the way they are allowing themselves to be deluded and manipulated by the system.” - Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, 1992

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From Austerity to Abundance: Why I Am Running for California Treasurer

January 16th, 2014

by Ellen Brown

Governor Jerry Brown and his staff are exchanging high-fives over balancing California’s budget, but the people on whose backs it was balanced are not rejoicing. The state’s high-wire act has been called “the ultimate in austerity budgets.”

Welfare payments, health care for the poor, and benefits for the elderly and disabled have been slashed. State workers have been downsized. School districts in need of cash have been reduced to borrowing through “capital appreciation bonds” bearing 300% interest. In one notorious case, the Santa Ana school district actually borrowed at 1,000% interest. And the governor acknowledges that California still faces a “wall of debt” amounting to $28 billion. Some analysts put it much higher than that.

At the end of the 20th century, California was ranked the sixth largest economy in the world. By 2012, it had slipped to number twelve. It is coming back up, in part because European countries are falling further into recession; but California’s poverty rate remains the highest in the country. More than eight million Californians struggle to meet their daily needs, and one in four children lives in poverty. Income inequality is higher in the nation’s most populous state than in almost any other.

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Subverting Peace

January 16th, 2014

by Stephen Lendman

Washington abhors it. So does Israel. Both countries deplore rapprochement with Iran. Decades of hostility prove it. Little ongoing now suggests otherwise.

Last November's agreement represented a first time breakthrough. A previous article said hold the cheers.

Longstanding hardline US/Israeli policy hasn't changed. Congress heads closer to imposing new sanctions. Doing so will violate the letter and spirit of Geneva.

America is duplicitous. Agreements are systematically violated. Obama is no peacemaker. Throughout his tenure, he's waged multiple direct and proxy wars.

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NSA's Fake War on Terror

January 15th, 2014

by Stephen Lendman

A New America Foundation report suggests it. More on this below.

NSA spying is longstanding. It's ongoing abroad and at home. It has nothing to do with national security. It's unrelated to uncovering terrorist plots.

Homegrown ones virtually don't exist. Alleged ones are hatched. They're fake. Claiming dozens were foiled in time is false. They're Big Lies. Previous articles discussed dozens of innocent victims. They included:

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Supreme Court Gives Monsanto Full Ability to Sue Farmers

January 14th, 2014

Heather Callaghan

Do you remember the 2011 lawsuit from the Organic Seed Growers and Trade Association 80+ plaintiffs (farmers and small businesses) against Monsanto? They were fighting biotech giant Monsanto's ability to sue them for patent infringement when genetically modified seeds inadvertently appear in organic/conventional fields.

Yes, were talking about the wind or insects carrying GM seeds onto another farm, which to them is considered contamination. But instead of the ability for the farmers to sue for a ruined field, they can be cleaned out in court for not having permission to plant patented seeds. Monsanto workers have been found trespassing and gathering evidence on farmers' properties. The lawsuit had sought protection from this overreach, as Monsanto has filed 140 of these suits and settled 700 without suing.

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Obama Nominates Three Fed Governors

January 14th, 2014

by Stephen Lendman

It's official. A White House statement headlined "President Obama Announces his Intent to Nominate Three to Serve on the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System."

Nominees include Stanley Fischer as vice chairman, Lael Brainard as governor, and Jerome Powell for a second term as governor.

None deserve appointments to local school or other municipal boards. Giving Wall Street favorites money creation power is unconstitutional.

A recent article discussed 100 years of financial terrorism. Monied interests run things. They operate lawlessly.

They're self-serving. They're predatory crooks. They benefit at the expense of most Americans.

Their record is deplorable. It includes grand theft, rampant speculation, market rigging, booms, busts, inflation, deflation, instability, crises, recessions, depressions, deprivation and despair.

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Talking Peace, Waging War

January 14th, 2014

by Stephen Lendman

Obama's war on Syria rages. It's taken a horrific toll nationwide. Tens of thousands died. Dozens more do daily.

Millions were displaced. Numbers internally and abroad range up to one-third of Syria's population. Humanitarian crisis conditions exist. Human suffering is extreme.

Peace talks reflect more illusion than reality. On January 22, they're scheduled to begin.

On Sunday and Monday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov met with so-called Friends of Syria countries in Paris.

They include America, Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan, Qatar and UAE.

They're imperial collaborators. They no friends of the great majority of Syrians. On Sunday, they issued a joint statement, saying:

"Assad and his close associates with blood on their hands will have no role in Syria."

Throughout nearly three years of conflict, they've wrongfully blamed him for Western-backed insurgent crimes.

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Obama Sabotaging Syrian Peace

January 14th, 2014

by Stephen Lendman

Obama initiated war on Syria. He wants regime change. He wants continued bloodshed, destruction and human suffering to get it. He deplores peace.

He bears full responsibility for nearly three years of conflict. He began it. He wants it continued. He says one thing. He does another. His policies speak for themselves.

On January 22, so-called Geneva II peace talks are scheduled to begin. Mid-2012 Geneva I talks ended in failure. Washington prevented success.

Talks were called a "last ditch effort" to halt violence. Similar rhetoric followed Kofi Annan's one-sided peace plan.

It placed the conflict ending burden on Assad. It did so unfairly. Western backed death squads bear full responsibility.

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