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    Post  giovonni Sat Mar 17, 2018 9:41 pm

    Always check previous pages for missed posted items ... Gio's Cosmic Emporium - Page 32 Smileys-free-download-2610

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    Why not ... alien

    Linda Moulton Howe & Daniel Liszt - Part One

    Earthfiles

    Linda Moulton Howe and special guest Daniel Listz (Dark Journalist) regarding
    President Nixon and all things UFO/ET's past present future on KGRA radio ...

    Main topics unraveled and covered ...

    "Former Undercover Huston Plan Insider Robert Merritt steps forward for the first time ever in public reveals his Three Meetings with President Richard Nixon in a Deep Underground Location Beneath The White House.

    NIXON HID TIME CAPSULE WITH TOP SECRET INFORMATION IN THE WHITE HOUSE AFTER WATERGATE BREAK IN! President Nixon revealed to Merritt a Special Message that Nixon Read to him aloud before sealing it in the White House for later generations to learn the Truth. The letter contained information that the United States had obtained and had under its protection an ET Being. Scientists at Los Alamos eventually learned to communicate with the Being and developed vast knowledge from this interaction which helped them to achieve Advanced Technology and Science.

    NIXON TOLD MERRITT TO DELIVER A COPY TO HENRY KISSINGER - In a late night meeting deep beneath the White House President Nixon taped a package containing the letter to Merritt's stomach and asked him to act act as a covert messenger to deliver to National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger. Nixon told Merritt that only he and Kissinger knew of the letter's existence and it should not fall into the hands of the FBI or the CIA.

    Nixon developed a great trust with Merritt who he had assigned as an undercover operative to the Ultra Secret Huston Plan Program, a Covert Intelligence Unit run right out of the White House to perform Black Ops and Surveillance against Nixon's Political enemies. During his long history of Clandestine work for Intelligence Agencies Merritt was developed as a Covert Agent and a Sex Operative to get compromising material for Control Files to Blackmail Senators and Congressmen. Merritt had been used by the CIA, FBI and the ATF as an Deep Undercover Informant and found himself under the spotlight during the Watergate Hearings and was later featured in the New York Times. Eventually Merritt was forced to go underground and to keep silent in order to stay alive.

    THE SPECIAL NATIONAL ARCHIVES LETTER - In a special twist on behalf of Merritt, Former Watergate Lawyer Douglas Caddy has sent a letter to the National Archives with the promise of directions to President Nixon's ET Time Capsule that Merritt is convinced is still where Nixon placed it in 1972. The conditions laid out in the letter instruct the National Archives they can take possession of the letter when it's found as long as they read it aloud when it's discovered and distribute openly it to the public."


    Published on Mar 17, 2018

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    Updated ...

    Linda Moulton Howe & Daniel Liszt Part Two


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    Post  giovonni Sat Mar 17, 2018 10:21 pm

    Aah ...

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    Post  giovonni Sun Mar 18, 2018 12:38 am

    Continuing on this page's opening post theme ...  UFO2



    Jeff Rense Jim Keith The Real Men In Black

    'A very interesting and thought-provoking book' ...

    "Best-selling conspiracy writer Jim Keith follows up his previous books with this investigation of various Men in Black stories. Known to Ufologists as M.I.B.s, Keith chronicles the strange goings on surrounding UFO activity and often bizarre cars that they arrive in-literal flying cars! Men In Black incidents straddle the realms of mysticism and science, occultism and UFOs, material reality and fantasy; partaking of all, defined by none. Since ancient times these mysterious beings have stalked the planet.

    In recent years they have tried to silence witnesses of UFO sightings with threats, harassment and worse. Who are these strange beings garbed all in black? Are they government agents? Aliens? Creatures from another dimension? In Casebook on the Men in Black, author Jim Keith traces the path of these unusual visitors through history, and presents startling evidence about their origin and purpose. According to the lore, UFO witnesses are sometimes harassed or intimidated by mysterious men dressed entirely in black. Are they government agents, sinister aliens, time-travel police from the future or some other interdimensional creatures?"


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    Post  giovonni Sun Mar 18, 2018 12:47 am

    One of my fav's ...

    A Mt Adams (daylight incoming) Scout Ship ...


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    Post  giovonni Sun Mar 18, 2018 2:51 am

    And not forgetting this passing day of celebrating the Green ...  Toast

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    Post  giovonni Mon Mar 19, 2018 3:23 am

    Apparently trending ...   Ban


    China Banning People From Transit for Bad "Social Credit" Scores



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    Published on Mar 18, 2018
    SHOW NOTES: https://www.corbettreport.com/?p=26449

    The slow-motion train wreck of "social credit" systems and the "gamification" of society has moved to the next stage. Now the Chinese government is going to start barring people from flying or riding trains if their social credit score is not up to snuff. China may be the test case for these ideas, but they're already being rolled out in other countries. So what are we going to do about it?

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    Post  giovonni Mon Mar 19, 2018 11:45 am

    Here goes my national social credit score ...  Rolling Eyes

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    Via ZeroHedge.com

    74% Of Americans Believe The "Deep State" Is Running The Country


    "For the past two years, the long-running narrative, at least that promulgated by the mainstream media which continues to "explain away" Hillary Clinton's loss to Donald Trump, is that Americans had fallen for a massive, long-running fake news scam (in part aided and abetted by the likes of Facebook), which boosted Trump's popularity at the expense of Hillary's as part of some giant "Russian collusion" conspiracy theory between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin (which Mueller was supposed to uncover, but has instead shifted to investigating obstruction, seemingly unable to find anything).

    But what if that entire narrative is dead wrong: what if Americans have become so skeptical in the government process and structure, they never needed a "fake news" boost to vote for an establishment outsider?

    According to a new poll, that's precisely the case because a supermajority of Americans believes the faction of unelected officials, known as the deep state, is orchestrating policy in Washington, D.C. and effectively running the nation.

    The Monmouth University Polling Institute found that no less than 74% of Americans believe in a "deep state" when it is described as a collection of unelected officials running policy. Only 21% do not believe this kind of group exists.

    As a result of countless "conspiracy theories" being proven as facts in recent years, chief among which the Edwards Snowden revelations which exposed the NSA as nothing short of "big brother", and the Wikileaks disclosures which revealed how the Democratic Party colluded against Bernie Sanders to promote Clinton's candidacy and countless more such examples, fully 8-in-10 believe that the U.S. government currently monitors or spies on the activities of American citizens, including a majority (53%) who say this activity is widespread and another 29% who say such monitoring happens but is not widespread. Just 14% say this monitoring does not happen at all. Shockinly, there were no substantial partisan differences in these results.

    What is even more surprising, is that the poll found than 7 out of 10 Americans polled in each political group, not just Republicans but Democrats and independents as well, believe in a deep state.

    31% of Republicans and 33% of independents say they believe a deep state “definitely exists,” while 19% of Democrats believe this.

    "We usually expect opinions on the operation of government to shift depending on which party is in charge,” Monmouth University Polling Institute Director Patrick Murray said in a statement. “But there’s an ominous feeling by Democrats and Republicans alike that a ‘Deep State’ of unelected operatives are pulling the levers of power.”

    While there is general partisan agreement on concerns about government overreach, there are some notable differences in the level of concern by two very different demographic metrics: race and membership in the National Rifle Association.

    The Monmouth University Poll also found that NRA members (43%) are significantly more likely than other Americans (25%) to definitely believe in the existence of a Deep State operation in DC. In a Monmouth poll released earlier this month, NRA members voiced opposition to the establishment of a national gun registry database in part because of their fear it would be used to track other activities of gun owners. NRA members (63%) are somewhat more likely than other Americans (51%) to worry about the government monitoring them and similarly are more likely to believe there is already widespread government monitoring of U.S. citizens (61% and 51%, respectively).  However, there are no significant differences between NRA members (30%) and others (26%) on whether such monitoring is rarely or never justified when it does occur. The opinion of gun owners who are not NRA members are more similar to non-gun owners than they are to NRA members on these questions.

    “Anxiety about a possible ‘Deep State’ is prevalent in both parties, but each has key constituent groups who express even greater concerns about the potential for government overreach. This includes racial and ethnic groups who still experience the effects of historical prejudice as well as gun owners who fear their constitutional rights are being threatened,” said Murray. “Can those fears be allayed or will they intensify and spread? Or is this just the new normal? This is something we will have to keep tracking.”

    Ironically, the poll also found that a majority of those polled, 63%, said they were “not familiar” with the term "deep state," however. Thirteen percent said they were “very familiar,” while 24 percent said they were “somewhat familiar.” In other words, someone else is running the country, just not those who are supposed to be.

    “This is a worrisome finding. The strength of our government relies on public faith in protecting our freedoms, which is not particularly robust. And it’s not a Democratic or Republican issue. These concerns span the political spectrum,” said Murray.

    It also means that if it was indeed Russia that wanted to brainwash America (spoiler alert: America has been quite successful in doing to itself for generations without Russian influence), it has already succeeded, and that if Putin plans to run for re-election in 2024 he may have to do so in the US."



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    Post  giovonni Mon Mar 19, 2018 12:23 pm

    More Lizardtry ... Gio's Cosmic Emporium - Page 32 Lizard-321

    Cant Patch The System - Deep State Gives No Choices - Morris


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    Post  giovonni Mon Mar 19, 2018 1:07 pm

    giovonni wrote:One of my fav's ...

    A Mt Adams (daylight incoming) Scout Ship ...


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    Well isn't that a coincidence ...  UFO2

    ECETI UFO Phenomenon Analyzed



    ECETI Stargate Official YouTube Channel
    Published on Mar 19, 2018

    Jason Greaves of UFonly uses high tech imagery to analyze footage captured at ECETI Ranch.  



    From my personal photos ...
    Mt Adams - from the Eceti Ranch - 13 miles away ...


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    An infrared enhance pic of the photo of  Mt. Adams portal light ...
    A regular ongoing occurrence - Captured 11:30 pm late July 2012 -
    the length of the light is estimated almost 1 thousand feet ...
    Noting its on a very steep incline not accessible on foot.


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    Post  giovonni Mon Mar 19, 2018 11:33 pm

    A special broadcast update from Jay Pee ...

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    Speaks From Camp Cupcake (Prison)

    3/19/2018 Strangelet Universe


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    Post  giovonni Tue Mar 20, 2018 5:33 am

    Just imagine the most cringe-worthy word you can and
    know it will probably soon premiere from this podium ...
    Naughty

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    Post  giovonni Tue Mar 20, 2018 10:52 am

    The latest ...

    Hello ROMANIA! A Strange and Mysterious Place ... Thubs Up

    Gabriel Traveler


    "Exploring the deserted city of Constanta, Romania on the Black Sea, in winter ...

    How is the video looking and the audio? I adjusted some settings on the GoPro which I think improved the video quality. The reason that most of this video has music over it is because of the wind noise. It was really windy as you could tell and wasn't nice to listen to."


    Published on Mar 20, 2018

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    Post  giovonni Wed Mar 21, 2018 12:44 am

    Come sempre, il diavolo sta nei dettagli ... Mellow

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    William Friedkin’s ‘The Devil and Father Amorth’


    "What happens when the legendary director of “The Exorcist” shoots an actual exorcism? The answer can be found “The Devil and Father Amorth,” a new documentary from William Friedkin that premiered at the Venice Film Festival. The non-fiction feature profiles the late Father Gabriele Amortha as he performs his ninth exorcism on an Italian woman. Friedkin was in the room for the exorcism, and it shook him to his core.

    “It was terrifying,” Friedkin told Variety at the Venice Film Festival. “I went from being afraid of what could happen to feeling a great deal of empathy with this woman’s pain and suffering, which is obvious in the film.”

    William Friedkin films an exorcism, all to revive the mystique of his most famous movie ...
    But is it real? The devil is in the details.

    Friedkin was granted access to film the exorcism alone and he used a Sony still camera that shot on high-definition. “I had only that camera running and I was about two feet away from them, probably even closer,” he said.

    The subject of the documentary had undergone eight exorcisms before Friedkin came to film, averaging about one a month. The filmmaker consulted with scientists in the U.S. about what he filmed, and they told him they had never seen anything like it. According to Friedkin:

    I consulted with neurologists, brain surgeons, some of the best in the United States. The brain surgeons had no idea what her affliction was and none of them would recommend an operation. They believe that everything originates in the brain but — and they say this in the film — they have never seen anything quite like these symptoms….Then the psychiatrists…all described how psychiatry now recognizes demonic possession. It’s called dissociative identity disorder/demonic possession. And if a patient comes in and says they are possessed by a demon or a devil, they don’t tell them that they are not….They do whatever psychiatric treatment they think is necessary, including medication. And they bring an exorcist in.

    The chance to see “The Exorcist” director return to the world of demonic possession should make “The Devil and Father Amorth” one of the hottest documentaries of the fall season."

    Source page: http://www.indiewire.com/2017/09/william-friedkin-filmed-real-exorcism-documentary-1201872885/


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    Film Review: By Owen Gleiberman

    "In “The Devil and Father Amorth,” director William Friedkin, still hale and hearty and hectoring at the age of 81, returns to the subject of his most legendary film, “The Exorcist.” The new movie is a documentary built around a video, recorded by Friedkin in 2016, of what purports to be an actual exorcism. If you think that sounds like material that’s ripe for a musty old episode of “Unsolved Mysteries,” you’d be right. But if you claim that you aren’t just a wee bit curious as to whether you’re going to get to witness something…demonic, you’re probably lying. “The Devil and Father Amorth” is Friedkin’s shot-on-the-cheap, reality-based version of a “Mondo Cane” stunt, yet for 68 minutes (it’s that short), it is often an oddly compelling tabloid foray, since it winds up shedding a crucial ray of light on the mad moment we’re in now. Whether or not you believe in the Devil, the film helps to color in how our culture got possessed.

    Most of the movie takes place in Italy, where Friedkin walks around talking directly into the camera, in what sounds like scripted “off-the-cuff” narration (though it’s possible he improvised it). To call him blunt would be an understatement; there’s a distinctly Trumpian bombast to his in-your-face oratory — he sounds like an ambulance-chasing lawyer on a late-night commercial. He’s working hard to sell us something, though there’s no denying that he’s an arresting carny barker.

    Friedkin serves up a shocking statistic: that 500,000 Italians, out of a population of 60 million, have undergone exorcisms. For them, it’s like Californians getting high colonics — either that, or the Devil is alive and working overtime in Italy. The director also returns to Georgetown, in Washington, D.C., where he shot “The Exorcist” 45 years ago, and speaks to us from the famous concrete stairway where Father Karras met his death, as if something genuine had happened there. That’s a standard shlock-TV-news ploy, but in this case it has a resonance. The real theme of “The Devil and Father Amorth” is the degree to which people now believe that exorcism is real.

    The belief didn’t begin yesterday. Friedkin sketches in how William Peter Blatty came to write his smash-hit novel “The Exorcist,” spinning it out of a 1949 case of demonic possession that he became obsessed with when he was a student at Georgetown. In hindsight, that case, along with the alien incident at Roswell in 1948 and the 1974 Amityville haunting, constitute a kind of popular triptych of the otherworldly: a testament to how the spirit of the uncanny got recast — re-mythologized — for a secular age. “Rosemary’s Baby,” in 1968, famously pictured the Time magazine cover that asked “Is God Dead?” This trilogy of incidents — and, beyond all of them, the film version of “The Exorcist” — answered that question by saying: “Yes, He is. But He’s now going to be reborn as occult tabloid sensationalism, with a patina of Old Time Religion.”

    A lot of movie buffs, especially if they saw “The Exorcist” at a certain age, will tell you that they think it’s the scariest movie ever made. I wouldn’t call it that (“Psycho,” in its day, was scarier), but “The Exorcist” is the movie that terrified people into believing. It made the Devil “real.” It has often been noted that the film proved to be an extraordinary recruitment tool for the Catholic Church (exorcism became a part of the Church’s brand), though the “presence” of the Devil on our ’70s multiplex screens didn’t hurt the rise of the Evangelical movement, either. “The Exorcist” was a cinematic earthquake that has never stopped giving off tremors.

    “The Devil and Father Amorth” shows you how deep the mystique of the demonic goes. Friedkin introduces us to Gabriele Amorth, an Italian Roman Catholic priest who’s also an exorcist of the Diocese of Rome — essentially, the Vatican’s chief ghostbuster. Ninety-one when the film was shot (he died in September 2016), Father Amorth is an ancient bald elfin tribal ringmaster who understands that religion, like politics, can always use a dash of showbiz. His favorite movie is “The Exorcist” (though he thinks the special effects were a bit overdone), and if he seems more casual about his work than Max von Sydow’s Father Merrin did, maybe that’s because he’s performed hundreds of exorcisms and lived to tell the tale.

    The woman he’s going to be exorcising is no stranger to the Devil. Her name is Cristina, she works in an architecture firm in a small town 200 kilometers from Rome, and this will be her ninth exorcism. Friedkin interviews her, and she’s a polite, self-aware, rather neurasthenic woman in her mid-thirties, officious in manner, with a slight aura of damage. Then, having agreed to the stipulation that he’ll bring no crew with him at all (no lighting or sound assistants — just himself and his small camcorder), Friedkin enters a rather humdrum-looking conference room to film the exorcism. Cristina is surrounded by 20 or so of her relatives, and we can see that this is, for them, a therapeutic ritual that they accept and believe in. It’s the spirit version of an intervention, only with screams and a dash of holy water.

    What do we see? Cristina sits in a chair, as Father Amorth talks gently to her, places his hand on her head, strokes her knees, and listens as she — or could it be…Satan? — screams at him. Cristina certainly seems like she’s channeling another personality, one that’s fierce, raging, merciless, insane. Yet this doesn’t necessarily strike us as all that exotic; it could be footage from an old est seminar. A lot of us would probably agree with the team of Columbia University psychiatrists Friedkin interviews, who say that Cristina journeys to a place deep inside her, but not necessarily a demonic one. The most striking aspect of what goes on has to do with her voice, which hits a low register rather strikingly like that of Linda Blair’s Regan in “The Exorcist.” In fact, the voice sounds as if it’s been manipulated. By Friedkin? He’s not telling, but in a movie like this one the devil is in the details.

    Watching the exorcism in “The Devil and Father Amorth,” what we see is that Italians, in the DNA of their consciousness, still carry around the seeds of a medieval culture. The Devil, and exorcism, is part of the psyche of this passionately Catholic country. But we also see something that Friedkin, with supreme irony, never acknowledges: the profound influence of his own movie. Whether or not Cristina’s deep dark Devil voice was tweaked in post-production, it seems more than likely that she is, in fact, imitating the sound and spirit of the Devil when he spoke through Regan MacNeil in “The Exorcist.” The movie has fed, like a loop, into religion, which is now feeding into the chaos of a world that, increasingly, needs the Devil to explain why everything appears to be spinning out of control. “The Devil and Father Amorth” is a rather tawdry charade. But it channels that force."

    Source page: http://variety.com/2017/film/reviews/the-devil-and-father-amorth-review-the-exorcist-william-friedkin-1202564009/


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    Post  giovonni Wed Mar 21, 2018 2:33 am

    From my fav LA realtor ...  flower  

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    "Let’s tour Blue Jay Way in the bird streets area of the Sunset Strip - Hollywood Hills."


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    ♫ "There's a fog upon L.A.
    And my friends have lost their way
    We'll be over soon they said
    Now they've lost themselves instead.
    Please don't be long please don't you be very long" ♫

    Blue Jay Way
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    Post  giovonni Wed Mar 21, 2018 12:44 pm

    hmm ... Neutral

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    The world is descending into tyranny

    Opinion

    "It wasn’t supposed to happen this way. After the Soviet Union’s collapse in 1991, democracy was supposed to be irresistible. While some of us were more skeptical than others, even cynics allowed that freedom seemed to have the upper hand.

    Instead, barely a quarter-century along, democracy and political freedoms are newly embattled, as one society after another defaults to reborn tyranny, striding behind religious extremism, xenophobic nationalism — or both.

    On Sunday, Vladimir Putin was re-elected as Russia’s president with almost 77 percent of the vote. With his relentlessly propagandized image at home, Putin would have won a free election, but that wouldn’t have been enough: He feels the need of an unassailable mandate, of recognition as his country’s savior. So serious opposition candidates were excluded (and one murdered), while ballot box stuffing was shameless. Czars are just that way.

    Days earlier, China’s President Xi Jinping engineered his lifetime tenure (he didn’t bother with the charade of a nationwide vote). Xi’s the most powerful leader China has had since Mao in his heyday, and Mao cost China tens of millions of lives.

    In NATO member Turkey, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, a would-be sultan, has dismantled the constitution; jailed tens of thousands of opposition members; staged massive show trials; destroyed freedom of the press; attacked minorities; empowered religious fanatics; and, now, invaded Syria not to defeat the remnants of ISIS, but to crush our Kurdish allies.

    In Egypt, where democracy came and went in a blink, President Abdel Fattah al-Sissi rules ruthlessly, while Syria’s Bashar al-Assad has survived every prediction of his fall. In Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, unelected, remains the undisputed ruler.

    Even Kim Jong Un, a tin-pot despot, has gained international recognition at a level his predecessors never achieved.

    In NATO and European Union members Hungary and the Czech Republic, strongmen dominate the political scene. Romania and Slovakia struggle to maintain democratic forms, and even Poland has seen its constitution undermined. Corruption, tyranny’s handmaiden, is everywhere.

    In Italy and France, pro-Putin, neo-fascist parties are political forces to be reckoned with, while Moscow also backs far-right parties in Germany and Austria.

    Much of this subversion traces to Moscow and Putin’s new model of tyranny. An old KGB man, Putin had the genius to recognize that the last century’s police states went too far and wasted resources by dissecting private lives. Human beings need to complain, and Putin’s compact with his people is that they can bitch all they want in the kitchen or bedroom, but they can’t bring their complaints into the street.

    Russians find that acceptable.

    Xi made a similar compact, based on material progress and minor liberalization. Today’s tyrants (other than Kim) aren’t interested in controlling every thought: They’re content to control behavior.

    Another reason tyranny is resurgent has to do with human nature, which we in the West idealize. Not everyone sees freedom as their top priority, preferring security (a lesson we should have learned in Iraq). Populations unschooled in our traditions equate freedom with anarchy — and act accordingly: Russians have third-degree burns from the 1990s.

    Tyrants may oppress you. They may lead you into disastrous wars. But they don’t demand that you take personal responsibility, that great burden of democracy. And every tyrant worth his salt provides scapegoats for his people’s failures: It’s never your fault, it’s them. It’s a message demagogues promote even here.

    Tyrants offer certainty. All you have to do is let them run things. It’s a deal too many humans gladly embrace.

    Meanwhile, freedom means insecurity, and democracy signals chaos to unprepared societies. As we’ve seen for almost three decades now, the sudden imposition of democratic forms on traditional societies is like handing a child a grenade.

    What does this mean for us, apart from the obvious dangers around the world?

    We need to stop whining and be grateful for the freedoms we enjoy, our countless privileges as Americans and our remarkably effective government. In perilous times such as these, when domestic demagogues cherry-pick the Constitution and even a president displays impatience with our laws, we must put the Constitution above party and personal biases, above all else.

    That document is our sole guarantee that tyranny won’t come here, and that’s why our military takes an oath to the Constitution, not to an individual.

    If we lost all else but kept the Constitution, we’d still be the greatest country in the world."



    by Ralph Peters - who is a retired Army officer and former enlisted man.

    Source page: https:
    http://nypost.com/2018/03/20/the-world-is-descending-into-tyranny/
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    Post  giovonni Wed Mar 21, 2018 4:45 pm

    Searching for the explanation ... Suspect


    Exploring THE MANDELA EFFECT with Cynthia Sue Larson (March 2018)

    Higher Journeys with Alexis Brooks


    Published on Mar 21, 2018

    "Higher Journeys welcomes back author and consciousness researcher Cynthia Sue Larson to discuss some of the deeper implications of what is now popularly known as the Mandela Effect.

    Are "ME's" simply "false memories" or something more? Are we literally traversing multiple realities, parallel timelines, or are we unwittingly participating in a sophisticated brain hack in which memories can be unknowingly altered? How might the Mandela Effect fit within a simulated or holographic model of the universe? We dig deep into all of these questions and more. PLUS we hear from YOU, our Higher Journeys audience to get your weigh in on this mysterious phenomenon."

    Learn more about the work of Cynthia Sue Larson at: http://www.realityshifters.com


    1:21:00 minutes

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    Post  giovonni Thu Mar 22, 2018 4:46 am

    "The truth is in the pudding" ...

    ~ Thanks CW for saying/asking the obvious .... The alternative community loves the drama ...
    Even if the 'truth' gets lost in the process ... giggle :)


    Choice Air over the Shark Tank (Robert Merritt & Dark Journalist Analyzed)

    C.W. Chanter


    Streamed live 14 hours ago

    The Video in Question:
    PRESIDENT NIXON HID EVIDENCE OF ALIEN LIFE IN WHITE HOUSE TIME CAPSULE!
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlSQX80F39E

    1:26:00 minutes

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    Post  giovonni Thu Mar 22, 2018 5:33 am

    "Damn. Another stormy day."

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    60 Minutes interview with Stormy Daniels to be broadcast Sunday

    The adult-film star and director describes the affair she says she had with Donald Trump
    in her first television interview about the alleged relationship ...


    The 60 Minutes interview with Stormy Daniels, the adult-film star and director who says she had an affair with Donald Trump, will be broadcast on Sunday, March 25 at 7:00 p.m. ET/PT on CBS.

    Daniels talks to Anderson Cooper about the relationship she says she had with Mr. Trump in 2006 and 2007, revealing details that bring her story up to the present. It is the first and only television interview in which she speaks about the alleged relationship.  

    The president has denied having an affair with Daniels.

    The 60 Minutes segment will include an examination of the potential legal and political ramifications of the $130,000 payment that Mr. Trump's attorney Michael Cohen says he made to Daniels using his own funds. Daniels accepted the money in return for signing a confidentiality agreement.

    Cooper conducted the interview earlier this month after Cohen obtained a temporary restraining order against Daniels and she sued the president in state court in California. Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, is seeking a ruling that the confidentiality agreement between her and the president is invalid, in part because Mr. Trump never signed it. The president's attorneys are seeking to move the case to federal court and claim Daniels is liable for more than $20 million in damages for violations of the agreement.

    Source page: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/stormy-daniels-60-minutes-donald-trump-interview-to-be-broadcast-sunday/

    ©️ 2018 CBS Interactive Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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    Post  giovonni Thu Mar 22, 2018 6:14 am

    And speaking of ...
    In all fairness ...
    elephant

    Trump's "Stormy" Weather

    "Larry lays out the hypocrisy of the Left in regard to Trump's consensual "Stormy affair"
    and Democrats concern over fellow Democrat predators."


    Laurence Allen "Larry" Elder (born April 27, 1952) is an American radio commentator ...

    Elder's political views are philosophically libertarian and have also been described as conservative. He supports free trade, school choice, and same-sex marriage. He opposes the income tax and supports replacing it with the FairTax, a national retail sales tax. He is also a firm opponent of the war on drugs and has been quoted as saying: "Philosophically, I think that if somebody wants to sit around and get stoned that's up to him or her. And if that ruins your life, so be it.... So I am for drug legalization." Although he is not an Objectivist, he says that Atlas Shrugged, written by novelist Ayn Rand, is one of his favorite books.

    Elder's name was in an advertisement in the Los Angeles Times (August 17,2006) that condemned Hamas and Hezbollah and supported Israel in the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict.

    Following Elder's re-registering as a Republican, in a 2008 interview with The New Individualist Magazine he said, "A lot of my listeners will often call up and say, 'I preferred you when you were a Libertarian.' I always tell them I never was a 'capital-L Libertarian.' I am still 'small-l.' It’s a philosophy to me, not a party." Elder supported presidential candidates Harry Browne in 2000, George W. Bush in 2004, and John McCain in 2008.

    Roll Call reported that Elder contemplated a possible run for the United States Senate against California Senator Barbara Boxer in 2010 ...

    More here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Elder

    Website: http://www.larryelder.com/

    Published on Mar 13, 2018

    15:45 minutes

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    Post  giovonni Thu Mar 22, 2018 7:07 am

    "What the world needs now" ...

    Self Administering an Enema - A Remedy For Good Health - Morris


    Published on Mar 21, 2018

    4:42 minutes





    Oh and lots of ...

    JT

    Jackie DeShannon


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    Post  giovonni Thu Mar 22, 2018 1:35 pm

    Huh ... Huh ?

    Demand for American Sperm Is Skyrocketing in Brazil ...
    Read more here:
    https://www.wsj.com/articles/in-mixed-race-brazil-sperm-imports-from-u-s-whites-are-booming-1521711000
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    Post  giovonni Fri Mar 23, 2018 11:38 am

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    Cold War 2 / Dark Comedy ...


    The Death of Stalin

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    FILM DESCRIPTIVE

    "The Death of Stalin is a 2017 political satire comedy film directed and co-written by Armando Iannucci. It stars Steve Buscemi, Simon Russell Beale, Paddy Considine, Rupert Friend, Jason Isaacs, Michael Palin, Andrea Riseborough and Jeffrey Tambor. Based on the French graphic novel La mort de Staline, the film depicts the Soviet power struggles following the death of dictator Joseph Stalin (Adrian McLoughlin) in 1953. It was released by eOne Films in the United Kingdom on 20 October 2017 and was released in the United States by IFC Films on 9 March 2018.

    The Death of Stalin was screened in the Platform section at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival and received critical acclaim. It caused controversy in Russia and many other former members of the Soviet Union and was banned in Russia, Kyrgyzstan, Azerbaijan, and Kazakhstan."

    The Trailer




    PLOT

    "After a live Radio Moscow broadcast of a Mozart recital, Joseph Stalin orders a recording. Having not recorded the recital, the station rapidly restages the performance, going to farcical lengths to do so; these include bringing in passersby to replicate the acoustics, replacing the passed-out conductor with another intended to be arrested by the NKVD, and bribing the disgruntled lead pianist Maria Yudina.

    Maria hides a note in the pressing of the recording telling Stalin he has ruined the country. As Stalin reads it in his dacha, he is paralysed by a cerebral haemorrhage. He is discovered the next day and the members of the Central Committee are alerted. The first to arrive are NKVD head Lavrentiy Beria, who discovers Maria's note, and Deputy General Secretary Georgy Malenkov. As Malenkov panics, Beria guides him to take leadership, hoping to use him as a puppet.

    Moscow Party Head Nikita Khrushchev arrives with the rest of the Committee, except for Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov, whom Stalin added to one of his lists of enemies the night previously. Beria closes off Moscow, has the NKVD take over city security duties from the Soviet Army, and replaces Stalin's enemy lists with his own, reprieving Molotov. Khrushchev and Beria struggle for symbolic victories such as control over Stalin's unstable son Vasily and daughter Svetlana.

    When Stalin dies, the Committee members rush back to Moscow as the NKVD loot Stalin's dacha and execute witnesses. Khrushchev goes to Molotov's home and attempts to enlist his support, but Molotov, a true believer in Stalinism, opposes any factionalism within the Party. Beria buys his loyalty by releasing his wife Polina Molotova from confinement.

    Malenkov is named as nominal Premier while being largely controlled by Beria. At the first Committee meeting following Stalin's death, Beria sidelines Khrushchev by putting him in charge of Stalin's funeral and suggesting many of the liberal reforms which Khrushchev had planned to introduce. Stalin's body is laid in state in the Hall of Columns, while many political prisoners are released and restrictions on the Russian Orthodox Church are loosened, earning Beria more popular support. Field Marshal Georgy Zhukov arrives and demands to know why the Soviet Army troops have been confined to barracks within Moscow.

    Beria learns that Khrushchev has a passing acquaintance with Maria, who was hired to play at the funeral, and threatens them both with the note. Khrushchev approaches Zhukov, who agrees to provide the Army's support in a coup to overthrow Beria, but only if the Committee agrees.

    To undermine Beria's popularity, Khrushchev orders the trains into Moscow to resume, allowing thousands of mourners into the city. As he planned, the NKVD guards around the Hall fire on the crowd, killing 1,500 people. The Committee suggests scapegoating low-level NKVD officers; as Beria believes blame attached to security services will tarnish him, he angrily threatens the Committee with incriminating documents he has collected on them. Molotov secretly tells Khrushchev and Kaganovich he will support the coup if they can enlist the support of the others, including Malenkov.

    On the day of Stalin's funeral, Khrushchev lies to the Committee and Zhukov that he has Malenkov's support. The Soviet Army overwhelms the NKVD and takes up positions outside the conference room. Zhukov and his men arrest Beria, and Khrushchev coerces Malenkov into signing the papers for Beria's trial. Khrushchev and his allies find Beria guilty of treason and of sexual assault in a kangaroo court and execute him. As Beria's body is burnt, Khrushchev gives Svetlana a ticket to Vienna and assures her that her brother will be cared for. Several years later, Khrushchev, now Supreme Leader of the Soviet Union after removing his co-conspirators, attends a concert given by Maria, while future leader Leonid Brezhnev watches him."


    CAST  
       Steve Buscemi as Nikita Khrushchev
       Simon Russell Beale as Lavrentiy Beria
       Paddy Considine as Comrade Andreyev
       Rupert Friend as Vasily Stalin
       Jason Isaacs as Georgy Zhukov
       Michael Palin as Vyacheslav Molotov
       Andrea Riseborough as Svetlana Stalina
       Jeffrey Tambor as Georgy Malenkov
       Adrian McLoughlin as Joseph Stalin
       Olga Kurylenko as Maria Yudina
       Paul Whitehouse as Anastas Mikoyan
       Paul Chahidi as Nikolai Bulganin
       Dermot Crowley as Lazar Kaganovich
       Justin Edwards as Spartak Sokolov, conductor
       Richard Brake as Tarasov
       Jonathan Aris as Mezhnikov
       Roger Ashton-Griffiths as Musician
       James Barriscale as The General


    The Death of Stalin [Actors talk about the characters and the film]
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    33:34 minutes




    More on the film's production - reception and reviews
    here:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Death_of_Stalin
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    Post  giovonni Fri Mar 23, 2018 2:27 pm

    Farewell

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    “Yeah, we clearly came at a bad time! We’ll be back in a few years, and, uh ... good luck!”
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    Post  giovonni Fri Mar 23, 2018 2:33 pm

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    Tired Of Waiting For You


    The Kinks


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    Post  mudra Fri Mar 23, 2018 3:55 pm

    Look that' s Amazing Cheerful

    Piper putting paper strips in her feathers

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3BGjaWc6wQ


    Love Always
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