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The Lottery...

A subset of the engineered hive mind as Preston James would say.

$600 million plus. Powerball. Money is power. Money is the stuff of dreams.

The odds of winning is less likely than getting blown up by a pressure cooker bomb in Boston or getting wiped out by a tornado in Texas. 

Sooner rather than later we'll have the $1 billion jackpot. A milestone. A talking point for the hive masses that diverts our attention from solutions to the deeper problems.

Someone brought up the subject the other day and said..."Why don't people just walk away and refuse to feed it?" Before I could answer he said..."People just won't stick together."

Dreams get in the way.

Guest Post from Salina Khan

Don't Shop Til They Stop

Media stereotypes all Muslims as violent

by Salina Khan

It might seem paradoxical that Muslims insist Islam is a peaceful religion yet the media daily report terrorist attacks, killings and internecine fighting in Muslim lands. To understand this, we need to realize that whenever an oppressed group tries to organize itself towards self-determination, freedom and justice, those who hold power and privilege in society feel threatened and often resort to evil methods to keep those groups subjugated.

For example, when African-Americans mobilized to demand equal access to political and economic rights and power in the 1960s, their movement was sabotaged through the FBI's COINTELPRO program which was designed to destroy Black leadership and create disunity and discord among African-American activists. All of a sudden, cheap drugs, gangs and gun violence became rampant in African- American neighborhoods, essentially damaging the social fabric of their communities and killing the movement. Even today, African-American leaders who try to promote unity against oppression get mysteriously killed. On May 9, Malcolm Shabazz, the 29-year-old grandson of Malcolm X, was killed in Mexico. Just a few months ago he complained about ongoing harrassment and humiliation in a press conference after he was detained by the FBI and prevented from attending an international conference on Hollywoodism in Iran.

In the same way, Muslims who had been subject to Western-imposed colonialism and neo-colonialism for centuries saw independence for the first time in Iran in 1979 when the 2,500-year-old monarchy (propped up by our government in the twentieth century) was removed by popular demand under the leadership of Imam Khomeini. Both Western powers and their puppet monarchs in the Middle East in countries such as Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Jordan, felt threatened that this movement for self-determination would spread--ending imperialist control of natural resources and cheap labor in Muslim lands--and went into action to foil Islamic movements for self-determination. In addition to imposing wars on Muslim lands (such as supporting Saddam Hussain in his 10-year invasion of Iran in 1980, two Iraq wars and Afghanistan), ragtag mercenary groups now known as Al-Qaeda (or as some say Al-CIA-da) were created to spread terror, chaos and destabilization in Muslim lands. Western countries provided the weapons and training while the Saudi pitched in money and the Wahabi clerics (who are not even considered within the fold of Islam for preaching extremism, hate and violence) provided a distorted understanding of Islam to entice the uneducated and poor.

If we study contemporary politics in the Muslim world we find that it was Western governments who supported the "mujahideen" (led by Osama bin Laden) in Afghanistan in the 1980s and again American and European intelligence agencies (along with illegitimate Arab monarchies) who funded and trained extremist groups to fight in Libya and now in Syria. In the same way, in America we find that whenever there is a "homegrown terrorist" threat, it's almost always a case of entrapment. Even one of the brothers suspected of being behind the Boston bombing we now know had FBI handlers.

Just as the African American males have been stereotyped to be criminal and violent although it is they who are the victims of false charges, discrimination, and extrajudicial killings in Western countries, the media and officials now present Muslim men as terrorists though they are the ones being targeted through wars, drones and torture for daring to or potentially attempting to demand freedom and justice.

Islam and Muslims are being used as scapegoats for the wrongs and injustices our corporate-controlled governments are committing to fatten the profits of the elite at the expense of the global masses. While there are some Muslims, especially corrupt political leaders and scholars-for-dollars, who are part of the oppression, there is much more than meets the eye. As Jesus asked, "Why do you see the speck in your brother's eye but fail to notice the beam in your own eye?

Salina Khan is a journalist with a masters in newspaper management from Northwestern University. She has worked as a business reporter at USA Today in Washington, the BBC London and Dow Jones Madrid and now writes occasionally for the Murfreesboro Post. Salina gained her Islamic education attending the Islamic Foundation in Chicago. Her experiences include teaching at weekend schools, volunteering in public schools and teaching her own three children at home. Her interests include reading, writing and community work.

Muslims were not behind 9/11 ~ Salina Khan

Desperation, Madness, Escalatation

rough draft of the plan?

Assad's army has started a process of decisive victories, and this is causing extreme angst amongst the usual, and some unusual, suspects.

The Likudnik Jews, both in Israel and the United States, are horrified that their machinations in destroying Syria might result in a recovered country with a kick-ass army, a stronger alliance with its friends in Iran and Lebanon and Russia and the arising new powerhouse countries around the word, and a distinct animus against the Jewish state and its slaves who have caused so much misery.  Thus, the Jew-owned Congress-traitors stirring up shit about American involvement, the lies about Syrian army use of chemical weapons (lies directly fed from Israel), and the repeated illegal Israeli attacks on Syrian territory.  Against this, and so far predominant, is the larger American plan to avoid new big Wars For The Jews, on the simple basis that another one would utterly destroy the United States (and any American involvement beyond arming 'al Qaeda' - as horrible as that has turned out -  including 'no fly zones' - the longstanding trick to inevitably set Americans down the path to yet another gentile on gentile war -  will inevitably end with American boots on the ground and another clusterfuck like Iraq or Afghanistan).  The Jewish Billionaires who own Barry have clearly accepted this, as long as all other support for the Jews, including covert wars, sanction wars, drone wars, and parasitical Jewish draining of American wealth, is allowed to continue. more


Israel should be expected to commit to increasingly desperate acts to provoke Syria and Iran - as its leadership represent directly corporate-financier interests abroad, not the Israeli people, or their best interests (including peace and even survival). For the people of Israel, they must realize that their leadership indeed does not represent them or their best interests and is able, willing, and even eager to spend their lives and fortunes in the service of foreign, corporate-financier interests and global hegemony.  more


The Israeli goal for its latest false flag operation is to draw the US into Syrian conflict on behalf of Israel by provoking Syria or Hizbullah to retaliate. If it happens, Israeli stooges in US Congress and Senate will force Obama administration to declare war on Syria in defense of Israel as part of US-Israel defense pact. That would amount to US army doing Israel’s dirty work in Syria.  more


In a couple of weeks there will be the release of World War Z, a movie about how right and proper Israel is to treat the whole of the Middle East like zombies and how eventually all the world must adopt their “us verses them” mindset in order to save humanity.

Is Israel lighting up the next world war? World War Zionism? Or is this just the latest brinksmanship game of thrones being played by the neocon/New Dems think-tanks?  more


Israel is desperate to initiate a regional confrontation with all of their enemies that will allow them to pursue their territorial expansionist ambitions which will result in the long term in realizing their dreams of a Greater Israel. There are a number of doors through which Israel can pass through in order to kick off their long sought after war. The civil war in Syria is just another door.  more


Israel has been given the green light in order for the West to advance its lagging timetable in the region, and in exchange Israel will be given more land for its state, starting with a significant portion of the Golan Heights.

What’s worse now, is that by the Israeli criminal action in full view, these latest attacks are a signal to all outside powers to help themselves to the destruction of Syria, and further strengthen the west’s Islamic Jihadist agenda to split Syria into to sections – a plan which will all be ensure a permanent state of conflict and Western military presence in the region for years to come.

Job well done Mr Hague, and your “Friends of Syria”. more



So how do we stop this madness? Can we? Is there another false flag coming to our soil to distract us from the Israeli escalation of murder and mayhem?

Do the creators of chaos have us exactly where they want us? Left with feelings of helplessness and hopelessness and repeating their wanted mantra of 'there's nothing we can do' as we watch and wait?

We may be sick and tired of where we are headed but our solutions are vague. Our time is running out. What are we going to do besides talk?

'Go Rest High On That Mountain'

I wasn't a big fan of George Jones even though I listened to his songs from a very early age.  'White Lighting' was pretty good though. My wife's 'fondest' memory of George was when she, her mother and aunt bought tickets to a big show sometime in the early 80's and guess what...he didn't show.

I happened to catch some of George's funeral, it was carried live from the Grand Ole Opry on all four major local tv stations, and thought this was about as emotional as someone could get and still perform. 

It appears that the Opry has been getting youtube to take down a lot of the videos from the funeral for 'copyright' violations. It's all about the money.


George eventually learned a lot about the country music mafia that he got entangled with. According to him, cocaine and murder were two of the tools used by the mob to try and control him (tales of corrupt policemen and drug dealers holding him down and shoving cocaine up his nose, the murder of a friend who tried to help him and his manager at the time of his worst drug addition, Shug Baggott, did serve time for possession of 2 1/2 pounds of cocaine). It's a familiar tune that has permeated the entire music industry for a long time.

George was talented, a crazy addict for many years and lucky to have lived to be 81. He was loved by many.

So what has George's tale got to do with anything important. Nothing really. I did find it funny that Laura Bush spoke at the funeral but that her husband George, also an alcoholic and cocaine user, was a no show. It's too bad that today's mainstream country music industry has basically become a cheerleader for all things war and the manufactured myth of patriotism. It's something I don't think I'll ever be able to forgive.