THE GREATEST COVERUPS: Former Head of the FBI confirms that 9/11 was orchestrated at the highest level by the U.S. Government. Oklahoma city bombing, JFK, RFK assassinations, World Trade Center and Child Sex Trafficking by the Military, CIA and Politicians are all huge coverups.… pic.twitter.com/Ka1Gd0vqIp
Former Head of the FBI confirms that 9/11 was orchestrated at the highest level by the U.S. Government. Oklahoma City bombing, JFK, RFK assassinations, World Trade Center and Child Sex Trafficking by the Military, CIA and Politicians are all huge coverups.
It is confirmed through documented evidence that the FBI had advanced knowledge of the 9/11 attacks and did nothing to prevent this from occurring. He goes on to say that It is very obvious that this whole thing has been orchestrated by the powers at be, at the highest level of our government and he wants the world to know about it. They are using terrorism as an excuse to take away our constitutional rights and civil liberties, murdering thousands of innocent Americans.
9/11 was all orchestrated. The Twin Towers and Building 7 were imploded. The planes did not bring the buildings down. They were imploded deliberately. In the Oklahoma City bombing, they recovered a bomb inside the building that did not go off and it was made by the U.S. Army. This was another U.S. Government terrorist attack against Americans on U.S. soil.
As a private investigator when he retired from the FBI he took on the Jeffrey Robert MacDonald case who was an American medical doctor and United States Army captain who was convicted in August 1979 of murdering his pregnant wife and two daughters in February 1970 while serving as an Army Special Forces physician. During his investigations into the MacDonald case, he received a signed confession from Helena Stoeckley stating that Jeffrey MacDonald did not do it and that it was her Satanic cult group that committed these murders. The courts ignored the confession from her. Helena Stoeckley went on to confess that this was a large-scale drug operation that was being covered up.
They were flying drugs in plastic bags in the body cavities of the dead GIs coming out of Southeast Asia. There were military Generals involved, other military personnel officers, Police Officers and investigators for the Army. He also worked the Franklin Coverup Case involving illegal Government drug operations and Satanic cults. They were taking children out of orphanages and foster homes privately flying them to Washington DC for sex orgies with U.S. Congressmen and Senators. This was filmed and pictures were taken for blackmail control. His investigation of the Franklin case led him to a Washington DC organization called “The Finders” which is a CIA covert operation for kidnapping children and trafficking them internationally around the world. The children are used for body parts, satanic ceremonies, human sacrifices and sex slaves. In 1997 he received a tip from an airline employee that 210 children flew out of Denver to New York and then to Paris. The airline employee asked the female adult and two male adults who were with the children, who are these kids? The woman said, “Child Protective Services, mind your own business.” The employee disappeared. Some of these children are auctioned off and sold for up to $50,000 dollars each, their ages are between 2 years old and 21 years old. This was all reported to the United States Customs and is on record with them, but nothing is being done about it.
It is all being covered up. We are at war, a war against evil. They have deceived us. They have terrorized us. They have murdered us. They have raped our children. They must be destroyed. They are the Committee of 300 and we must unite to bring them down before they unleash more terror and death upon us. Be brave, protect the innocent children.
Never Forget The pilot of X-Files spin-off The Lone Gunmen was about a government conspiracy to hijack a commercial airliner from Boston and fly it into the World Trade Center so they could start a profitable new war.
Shortly after AA77 allegedly crashed into the Pentagon, the FBI confiscated all surveillance videos. In the video obtained through a lawsuit by @JudicialWatch, you can see that no plane crashed into the Pentagon, but rather a missile. The questions that arise for me are as follows: What did the US government know, and why did they bomb the Pentagon? What happened to AA77, especially to the people on board? How can people still believe the official version? The US elite doesn’t hesitate to harm millions of people (see Covid); why would they hesitate to kill a few thousand countrymen for “the greater good”?
Watch the building blow up by itself, nothing hit it:
You never thought that people who filmed the 9/11 attacks with their JVC Handycam would post it on social media years later. What did you see? pic.twitter.com/LARqNNu8y2
On the tenth anniversary of the attacks of September 11th, 2001, expert witnesses gathered at Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada to provide evidence-based research that called into question the official story of 9/11. This was known as The Toronto Hearings on 9/11.
The American Institute of Architects did a complete investigation and did a presentation in a 2-hour documentary on A&E. They blew the original investigators’s findings out of the park as far as finding the truth on the exact cause of the collapse of both towers and Tower 7.
The body language here, the facial expressions. Tells a whole story. Keep in mind this is the best image Justin Trudeau’s handlers could find to post.
Trudeau thought he could lecture India in relations to harboring Khalistani extremism in Canada with how he supports freedom of expression, freedom of conscious (!?), and right to peaceful protest while doing the opposite when Canadians protest tyrannical, discriminatory mandates; froze bank accounts, people were arrested, etc. (sic)
India’s media said that “Justin Trudeau’s democratic credentials are under deep questions”.
Indian media also said if Khalistan was to be created it would be more likely to be created within Canada’s borders. Let’s remember that the Liberal gov is propped up by Jagmeet Singh who himself participated in Sikh separatist rallies and was blocked by India. The world sees Trudeau for who and what he is.
Indian News tears Trudeau a new one in scathing commentary. Well worth a listen. I chuckled frequently.
Remember way back in the year 2000, when the Taliban took over large swaths of Afghanistan and set about eradicating the nation’s poppy crop that feeds the world opium supply?
Of course you do.
Well, guess what? It’s happening again.
That’s right. After Uncle Sam’s ignominious retreat from the graveyard of empires in 2021, the Taliban infamously regained control of the country and set about reinstituting their campaign to ban the cultivation of opium poppies. And, once again, the results of that ban have been nothing short of remarkable.
In fact, the Taliban’s latest anti-poppy campaign is already being hailed as the “most successful counter-narcotics effort in human history” by self-proclaimed Afghanistan experts, with the country’s opium production down a jaw-dropping 90% this year.
And since you do remember the story of the Taliban’s first successful poppy crop crackdown, then you’ll also likely remember how it ended: namely, with the blank check of 9/11 being cashed in on NATO’s invasion and occupation of Afghanistan in 2001, leading to the subsequent resurgence of poppy cultivation in the country.
So, are we likely to see history repeating with this next iteration of the Afghan poppy story? Let’s find out.
THE PAST
The tale of the Afghan poppy war is one that can be read in the annals of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), one of the many bureaucratic arms of the UN’s globalist octopus. Tasked with “helping make the world safer from drugs, organized crime, corruption and terrorism” (which apparently involves “supporting Member States in implementing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development,” for some unexplained reason), the UNODC has diligently documented the ups and downs of the Afghan poppy crop and its contribution to the illicit opium market in recent decades. They publish the results of this research in the form of an annual “Afghanistan Opium Survey,” which tells the story in plain numbers.
In 1999, for example, this UN office informed the world that, after years of warfare and internal strife (in which the US played an integral part), Afghanistan’s annual raw opium production had risen to the unprecedented level of 4,600 metric tons. They were also quick to add that “97 per cent of cultivation in 1999 occurred in Taliban-controlled areas,” implying that poppy cultivation was being actively supported and encouraged by the Taliban in order to fund illicit activities.
Strange, then, that by the time of their 2001 Afghanistan Opium Survey—compiled just before the NATO invasion and occupation of the country—the UNODC bean counters (poppy counters?) were able to report that the country’s total raw opium production had dropped to 185 metric tons, a 96% reduction from the record 1999 level.
So, what had happened? The Taliban happened, that’s what.
Specifically, in July 2000, Mullah Mohammad Omar issued a fatwa declaring the cultivation or trafficking of poppies to be “haram” (forbidden under Islamic law). The result of that decree and its subsequent enforcement was so undeniable that not even the arch-propagandists at the Old Gray Presstitute or the Big Brother Corporation could cover it up.
As the charts make clear, the Taliban’s poppy ban was remarkably successful. In fact, it was too successful for those in the deep state who have been managing and profiteering from the global drug trade since the days of William Russell. Afghanistan was providing more than 70% of the world’s heroin supply at that time, and the powers-that-shouldn’t-be wanted those drugs flowing again.
And we all know what happened next: 9/11. And, as we also know all too well, 9/11 led directly to the (completely fraudulent) invocation of NATO’s Article 5, the subsequent invasion of Afghanistan, the overthrow of the Taliban and the resurgence of the Afghan poppy crop.
As I’ve been at pains to stress over the years, it would be far too simplistic to suggest that 9/11 was simply a plot to get the world opium supply growing and flowing again. But the post-9/11 boom in Afghan poppy production—reaching record high after record high after record high, as dutifully documented by the UNODC’s narcotics number crunchers—was certainly more than just a happy coincidence for the 9/11 planners.
In fact, at a certain point, the blatant reality of what had just happened—namely, NATO’s overthrow of a regime dedicated to eradicating the poppy crop and its installation of a puppet government dedicated to promoting it—became so undeniable that Uncle Sam’s propagandists simply stopped denying it.
Who can forget that infamous 2010 Fox News clip in which the mustachioed mouthpiece of the money masters, Geraldo Rivera, interviews Lt. Col. Brian Christmas in Helmand Province about how, even though it “grinds his gut,” the US military now has no choice but to guard the poor Afghan poppy farmers’ precious crop?
Yes, life was pretty good for the profiteers of the drug trade in the deep state in the wake of 9/11. They had a plentiful, cheap supply of poppies to feed the global opium trade that they have been directing, protecting and profiting from since the days of the Golden Triangle. And what’s more, the whole racket was being protected by the US military at US taxpayer expense! What could go wrong?
THE PRESENT
As we all know by now, the US military completed its withdrawal from Afghanistan on August 30, 2021. By that point, the Taliban—whose dramatic summer surge led to their seizing Kabul in mid-August—had already taken over the country. And so it was that 20 years of invasion, occupation, counter-insurgency operations, bloodshed and terror had accomplished precisely nothing.
Well, not exactly nothing. As we’ve seen, the NATO invasion and American occupation did afford the deep state drug runners another two decades of record poppy crops to feed the global heroin trade, with the UNODC reporting in 2010 that “some 90% of the world’s heroin comes from opium grown in just a few provinces in Afghanistan.” It didn’t take long, however, for the Taliban to bring that poppy-fueled drug money party to an abrupt halt.
In April of 2022, Haibatullah Akhundzada—the Taliban’s current leader and the Supreme Leader of Afghanistan—issued a decree much like the one issued by Mullah Mohammad Omar in 2000:
All Afghans are informed that from now on, cultivation of poppy has been strictly prohibited across the country. If anyone violates the decree, the crop will be destroyed immediately and the violator will be treated according to the Sharia law.
Predictably enough, this fatwa was greeted with cynicism and outright disbelief in the West. Last November, the UNODC issued its annual opium cultivation report for the country, noting that “opium cultivation in Afghanistan increased by 32% over the previous year to 233,000 hectares – making the 2022 crop the third largest area under opium cultivation since monitoring began” and warning that “seizures of opiates around Afghanistan indicate that trafficking of Afghan opium and heroin has not stopped.”
One had to read the report’s accompanying press release, however, to discover that the 2022 crop had largely been exempted from Akhundzada’s decree and that the real results of the Taliban’s poppy ban would not be expected to be seen until the 2023 crop was harvested.
This did not stop Washington Beltway establishment repeaters like Foreign Policy from immediately decrying the Taliban’s poppy ban as mere political theater. “The Taliban that took over Afghanistan after a 20-year war largely funded by heroin trafficking have, after pretending to ban drugs, instead turbocharged the cultivation and sale of narcotics a year after their takeover,” the propaganda rag—which, strangely, had never shown a particular interest in the practice of poppy cultivation before—wrote the day after the UN report’s release.
The Taliban’s ban, as it turns out, was not a charade. In fact, it has been, according to Graeme Smith, an Afghanistan “expert” with the Crisis Group, “the most successful counter-narcotics effort in human history, according to the volume of drugs taken off the market.” And how much was that? Estimates indicate that poppy cultivation plummeted an astonishing 90% in the last year.
But, regardless of how it happened, the US/NATO PR flaks who have spent the last two decades pretending to care about the people of Afghanistan and pretending to worry about the country’s opium problem must be rejoicing at this news, right?
THE FUTURE?
Wrong, of course.
No, believe it or not, the establishment is busy freaking out over the prospect of the Taliban actually achieving what the UN/US/NATO neo-colonizers only ever gave lip service to: eradicating Afghanistan’s poppy crop.
And how, exactly, can they spin the Taliban’s successful eradication campaign—the same campaign that they were calling a total sham just months ago, mind you—as a bad thing, you ask?
Well, the arch-conspirators at Chatham House (aka the CFR mothership in London) have attempted to spin away the Taliban’s amazing accomplishment by arguing that, yes, the Taliban have accomplished the previously unimaginable in virtually eliminating poppy production in the country, but it’s actually just a grand ploy by the Taliban to trick people into liking them by actually improving their country! The cads! Don’t trust them! Besides, the last poppy ban didn’t last very long because of . . . some unnamable reason . . . so this one probably won’t either.
The presstitutes at Time, Filter, The World and other pushers of approved propaganda, meanwhile, have all (by some remarkable coincidence or other) simultaneously hit upon the exact same talking point: if Afghan poppy farmers stop feeding the world heroin markets, then European junkies will turn to Fentanyl. So—wouldn’t ya know it?—cheap Afghan opium was actually a good thing all along, and by cutting off its supply the Taliban are the bad guys once again!
His commentary starts out by noting the remarkable success of the Taliban’s poppy ban, acknowledging that it was accomplished by a “sophisticated, staged approach” that exempted the crop that was about to be harvested, and pointing out that the current ban is actually even more comprehensive than the Taliban’s previous ban, as it prohibits the trade and processing of opiates, not just poppy cultivation.
But Byrd is quick to point out all of the ways that this remarkably successful narcotics eradication program is actually bad for Afghanistan (and the world!). The country’s poppy farmers have lost $1 billion of revenue—revenue that, his analysis fails to spell out, those farmers could have earned by feeding the world heroin markets. This economic downturn, he writes, will cause a migration crisis, with poor farmers trying to cross the border in the hopes of making it to Europe. And this will all lead to more heroin overdoses in Europe as dealers adulterate their supply to offset rising costs.
So far, so boilerplate. It’s where Byrd ventures into “solutions” to this “problem” of decreasing opium supplies that we start to see the dark specter of future intervention at play. In this final section, he raises the question of an “international response” and then proceeds to list all of the things that will not work.
The situation “may provide a well-grounded justification for more humanitarian assistance” in Afghanistan, but “this would just be a band-aid to provide temporary relief unless and until the opium ban is rescinded or undercut.”
Programs offering rural development aid “could be helpful” but “the modest amounts of money involved will at best have a marginal impact.”
And as for the expected migrant crisis? Well, there’s no help there, either. “Trying to block people flows at the Afghan border will work only imperfectly, and to the extent it is successful will worsen privation and hunger within the country.”
All of these negative points are meant to leave us with one overwhelming (and unstated) conclusion: this “problem” will not be “solved” as long as the Taliban are in power. If only someone could come along, depose the Taliban, and get the drugs flowing again . . .
Of course, this conclusion has to be left unsaid. After all, Byrd’s analysis is being published by the “United States Institute of Peace,” a made-up, feel-good institution that, its “About” page informs us, was “founded by Congress and dedicated to the proposition that a world without violent conflict is possible, practical and essential for U.S. and global security.” All of which sounds fine and dandy until you use the globalese decoder ring to discover what a “world without violent conflict” actually means to the Washington warhawks: a world in which every state in the world does what their US State Department overlords tell them to do, no questions asked.
It seems the Taliban haven’t gotten the message. And so, around we go again on the seemingly never-ending regime change merry-go-round.
What provocation will be used this time to motivate the people of the world for another trip to the graveyard of empires? Another “catalyzing, catastrophic event” like 9/11 to pin on some Al-CIA-da patsies? Or something that can tie I-CIA-sis to Russian operatives to American homegrown domestic terrorists, perhaps? Whatever it is, you better believe it will be spectacular.
Those who are interested in learning about the possible next steps in this unfolding agenda may be interested in joining myself, video editor extraordinaire Broc West and Ryan Cristián of The Last American Vagabond for a live pirate stream watch along of COVID-911: From Homeland Security to Biosecurity this Sunday night (September 10, 2023) at 9 PM EDT.
Meanwhile, as always, the people of Afghanistan are dismissed by nearly everyone. They are treated as mere chessboard pawns who amount to little more than an afterthought in the great game of empire.
And now, on the verge of another 9/11 anniversary, here we are remarking yet again: plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.
Higher interest rates are absolutely strangling the real estate industry, and there is no relief in sight. The sudden shift from a very low-interest rate environment to a much higher interest rate environment has paralyzed sales. As I have discussed previously, very few homeowners that are currently locked into a mortgage at a low-interest rate want to sell, because buying a home to replace the one that they are selling would mean taking on a mortgage at a much higher rate of interest. And millions of potential home buyers have been chased out of the market because of the exceedingly high mortgage payments that they would be facing if they pulled the trigger on a purchase right now. So sales of previously-owned homes have dropped by more than 32 percent over the past two years. In other words, about a third of the entire previously-owned home market has already been wiped out.
When home sales crash, everybody who works in the real estate industry suffers.
And it turns out that home purchases by investors are falling at an even faster rate. Wall Street Silver posted the following to Twitter earlier this week…
I was stunned when I first saw that, but I also knew that I had to confirm if this was true or not.
That’s how much investor purchases of homes have fallen since last year, as of the second quarter, according to data from Redfin, as homebuying looks less profitable than during the pandemic housing boom.
Investors, just like private buyers, think it’s a bad time to buy a home.
We have got a major crisis on our hands, and it is not going to go away any time soon.
Things are even worse on the commercial real estate side.
The WSJ analysis put total bank exposure to commercial real estate at $3.6 trillion, which it estimates is 20 percent of their deposits. Holdings of CMBS and loans to nonbank lenders accounted for $623 billion of that total at the end of last year.
In the past decade, regional banks went to town on commercial loans, never expecting how quickly the tide would turn against them. Today, losses on loans are leading banks to cut back on lending, furthering the drop in property prices and more lender losses — in other words, a doom loop.
Banks are already pulling back. Debt origination fell by 52 percent for the second quarter year-over-year, according to Newmark; lending volume among banks fell by 48 percent. M&T Bank said it would reduce commercial lending as nearly 1 in 5 of its loans to office landlords was in trouble.
So many of our financial institutions are going to be in very serious trouble because of this.
If the Federal Reserve were to push interest rates all the way to the floor immediately, that would help.
But instead, Fed officials continue to insist that rates are going to go even higher, and that is going to escalate this crisis into a full-blown real estate apocalypse.
And higher rates will also do an incredible amount of damage throughout the rest of the economy as well. This is a point that the Shark Tank’s Kevin O’Leary made very well during a recent interview with Fox Business…
In a recent interview on Fox Business, Kevin O’Leary, the “Shark Tank” investor slammed so-called “Bidenomics” for leaving small businesses behind. He warned that chaos is about to kick off for the “little guy”, which are the 33.2 million small businesses in America, due to the Federal Reserve’s aggressive rate hikes.
“They’re struggling because the Fed has raised rates up to 5.5% in a matter of months,” O’Leary said. “You’re going to hear a lot of people crying about this in the next few months because they can’t borrow anything anymore and they can’t run their businesses.”
He is right.
Small and mid-size businesses all over America are really struggling right now.
Economic activity is slowing down all around us, and they are starting to lay off workers.
Well, one look at this month’s adjustment and it’s literally a shocker: you will not hear anyone from the Biden admin or associated economist cheerleaders mention this, but the BLS reported that in August the number of full-time jobs dropped again, sliding by 85K to 134.2 million, and followed the whopping 585K plunge in July which brings the two-month total drop in full-time jobs to a whopping 670K, the biggest 2-month plunge since the covid lockdowns in early 2020 when 12.5 million full-time jobs were lost in one month!
When the official numbers that the government gives us start looking this bad, you know that the hour is late.
And the job cuts just keep on coming. On Wednesday, we learned that Roku will be conducting a third round of layoffs…
Video streaming company Roku shares spiked Wednesday after it announced plans to lay off more than 300 people, or about 10% of its workforce, and pull certain content from its streaming platform to ease operating expenses.
This is the third round of layoffs from Roku in recent months after the company let go of about 400 employees total between November and March. The company had roughly 3,600 full-time employees across 14 countries at the end of last year, according to its annual report.
I actually really like Roku, and so I hope they can turn things around.
But the reality of the matter is that everyone is going to have to deal with the very hard times that are now upon us.
Hordes of middle-class Americans are being pushed into poverty, and hordes of impoverished Americans are being forced into the streets.
The United States has seen the biggest ever spike in homeless people living on the streets – as preliminary figures showed a record 11 percent increase in one year.
There are nearly 600,000 rough sleepers across cities and towns in America, and the jump from 2022 to 2023 so far is the highest since the government started tracking the data in 2007, according to the WSJ.
Places like Oakland and San Francisco in California have become hotbeds for homelessness, as people living on the streets are like ‘drug tourists’ who arrive to have easy access to narcotics.
But this isn’t supposed to be happening.
The Biden administration told us over and over again that “Bidenomics” was working.
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre abruptly ended a news conference by US President Joe Biden on Sunday, cutting the president off mid-sentence as he rambled about “the third world” and his conversation with Chinese Premier Li Qiang.
Biden took a number of scheduled questions from the press while on a visit to the Vietnamese capital of Hanoi, before telling reporters that he was “going to bed.” However, Biden kept answering additional questions, including on his talk with Li at the G20 summit in India on Saturday.
“It wasn’t confrontational at all,” Biden said. “We talked about making sure that the third world…the, uh, the, uh, the southern hemisphere has access to changing…”
As Biden continued to mumble, Jean-Pierre announced that “this ends the current press conference.” After attempting to answer another question, Biden turned around and walked off stage.
WATCH: Joe Biden's staff cuts off a rambling Joe Biden mid-sentence and abruptly ends his news conference.
Biden’s press conferences are typically tightly managed by his aides, with the president handed cue cards and told which journalists to turn to for questions. Nevertheless, Biden still occasionally leaves the stage mid-sentence, often visibly confused and guided by his staff.
According to a recent Wall Street Journal poll, 73% of all voters think that the 80-year-old Biden is too old to serve as president, while 60% believe he lacks the mental capacity for the position. While Republicans have repeatedly hammered Biden over his apparent cognitive decline, Democrats are increasingly concerned about the president’s health too. According to an NBC News survey in June, 43% of Democrats said that they had moderate to major concerns about Biden’s health, up from 21% in 2020.
Biden’s trip to Vietnam came as the US attempts to strengthen its ties with more Asian nations in a bid to counter Chinese influence in the region. On Sunday, Biden and Vietnamese General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong announced a bilateral trade and investment deal, which included measures to boost semiconductor manufacturing and research in Vietnam.
September 11 – 9/11 – is a dark day in the annals of American history as it was on this day in 2001 that the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda* launched devastating attacks on some of the United States’ most iconic landmarks.
On 11 September 2001, a series of coordinated terrorist attacks were carried out by the extremist group al-Qaeda* against the United States.
Two hijacked planes crashed into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, causing the buildings to collapse and another plane hit the western part of the Pentagon near Washington, DC. The fourth hijacked aircraft was forced by the passengers to crash-land near the city of Pittsburg in the state of Pennsylvania to prevent it from causing any more civilian deaths.
Nearly 3,000 people were killed in the attacks, including passengers and crew members on the planes, office workers, and emergency responders.
Take a look at rare photos of the terrorist attacks in Sputnik’s gallery.
A New York Army National Guard Soldier mans a checkpoint at the World Trade Center in New York City on 14 September 2001 after the 9/11 attacks which brought down the Trade Center’s Twin Towers. More than 14,000 members of the New York Army and Air National Guard, the City’s Naval Militia and the Guard were on duty months after the attack.
President George W Bush, then president, was reading a storybook to a class of children in the Emma E Booker Elementary School in Sarasota, Florida, when he was told about the attack.
President Bush is seen through the windows of the Oval Office in the White House, Washington as he addresses the nation about terrorist attacks at the World Trade Center and the Pentagon building.
A crying woman stands on the street with an ambulance in the background. The attacks claimed the lives of 2,977 innocent people of various nationalities and backgrounds.
This photo released on 17 September 2001 by the US Navy Visual News service shows rescue workers conducting salvage operations descending deep into the rubble of the World Trade Center in New York.
Onboard the aircraft carrier USS EISENHOWER, US Navy Sailors watch televised news reports, showing the World Trade Center, during the terrorist attacks.
“Our citizens should know the urgent facts…but they don’t because our media serves imperial, not popular interests. They lie, deceive, connive and suppress what everyone needs to know, substituting managed news misinformation and rubbish for hard truths…”—Oliver Stone