Monday, October 29, 2018

False Flag Bombs, Incredible Incompetence or Both?



Edit 03/21/2019: Once again there was another mass shooting and right wing conspiracy theorists came out with false flag conspiracy theories within hours after it happened. Like the last time there's no way they could have checked the facts, perhaps, unless they had inside knowledge, assuming they were partly right. And skeptics were just as quick to dismiss these theories without any more research, although there's good reason to be skeptical of them.

As I pointed out previously if this is another conspiracy to take away guns it must be the most incompetent conspiracy imaginable, since this is one of dozens these right wingers blame on false flags for this reason, and the people allegedly trying to take their guns are almost as incompetent as these conspiracy theorists. However, dismissing them as crazed right wingers might be overlooking something else going on. It takes a lot of organizing to come out with detailed claims so quickly, and we have demagogues on both sides arguing relentlessly without discussing some of the most important contributing causes of violence. And, as I pointed out below, there have been some more credible false flag operations or plans for them, including Operation Northwoods, and the Gulf of Tonkin among many more.

One thing that we can be certain of, assuming you check libraries for some of the best research about how early child abuse, economic inequality, poverty, wars based on lies, and other social causes contribute to higher violence rates, yet the media refuses to report on the best research on these subjects, which are more credible than any of these conspiracy theories, even some that I might come up with, which I don't try to pass off as conclusive.

However there are many other unsolved mysteries, including massive megaliths that have been moved thousands of years ago, and mystics that still haven't been explained influencing early development of society, and more recent events, as I pointed out in previous articles, including this one. This require a close look at the details which neither the skeptics or the loudest conspiracy theorists provide, but I'm not ruling out the possibility that somehow ancient aliens are influencing this for one reason or another.

But, even if you don't take that seriously, which, if you haven't checked the facts, you probably shouldn't rush into it, then there should still be little doubt that we need to do more to prevent early child abuse from escalating to more violence, fix economic inequality by standing up to epidemic levels of corporate fraud and develop a more diverse media that covers the best research on any given subject, among other things.

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As usual there are dozens of false flag claims about the recent bombing spree; and the mainstream media is quicker than usual to debunk them, or so they seem.

How can either the people coming up with these false claims or the ones debunking it possibly check their facts this quickly before they even conduct a thorough investigation?

Even without a thorough investigation there should be little or no doubt that the mainstream media and political establishment has been incredibly incompetent for years, if not decades, and they're constantly putting out an enormous amount of propaganda to convince a large segment of the public that there are only two options to choose from, whether it's the Democrats or Republicans; or either a fringe false flag conspiracy theory verses coming to the defense of the corporate media that claims to be a "free press."

Even though I'm not recommending that people jump on the "false flag" bandwagon too fast, especially without checking the facts, the government has admitted to seriously considering them, if not carrying them out, including Wikipedia: Operation Northwoods which was a plan presented to President Kennedy signed by Lyman L. Lemnitzer, which involved a plan to terrorize the American people and falsely blame it on Cuba. John Kennedy never implemented this plan and didn't speak publicly about it before he was assassinated, but most accounts say that he was outraged by it, although many of the top leaders in the military were much more eager to implement it.

Within a few months after submitting this plan Lemnitzer was denied another term as JCS chairman; but in 1975, President Gerald Ford appointed Lemnitzer to the Rockefeller Commission to investigate the CIA, long before his support for Operation Northwoods was publicly disclosed in 1997. This means that one of the planners of some major CIA dirty tricks was appointed to investigate them, which many people that keep track of the CIA might realize is not uncommon, raising even more doubts about the CIA and their willingness to participate in fanatical false flag operations.

Even if there is no false flag there's an enormous amount of evidence of incredible incompetence and bias in the mass media which is almost entirely controlled by six corporations that dominate over 90% of the national media; and several of the other biggest organizations, including The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and Time Magazine are owned by billionaires; and social media outlets like Facebook and Twitter are also owned by billionaires. This means that a fraction of 1% of the richest people in the country control over 95% of the media in the country and have a major impact on the small amount left.

Some of this incredible incompetence may seem relatively trivial like announcing breaking news with three new bombs found Thursday night about eight to ten hours after the news originally broke, but giving the impression that this might be on top of the ten that were found at that time, or Friday evening repeatedly announcing that there was thirteen, at a time when they had reported fourteen. The media has much more resources than the average person yet someone paying attention and listing these can easily document them as they go along, which they should have done to avoid these trivial mistakes, but some of the biggest problems are their epidemic levels of negligence by not reporting an enormous amount of the most important news or research that could show how to make violence much less likely.

One thing that should be more relevant when it comes to bomb scares is just how often they actually go off and how difficult they are to make; and there's little doubt that the media isn't even trying to inform the public about that. There are apparently thousands of bomb threats every year but almost all of them are completely empty. the majority of ones that do have an actual bomb turn out to be incompetence and useless, and the most common that actually go off are just soda-pop bombs, which is apparently made with baking soda creating a chemical reaction blowing the top off a bottle and making aloud noise that does little or no additional damage. Since 9/11/2001 there has only been one bombing that I know of after searching that killed people within the United States, which was the Boston Bombings.

It's not nearly as easy as the media has indicated over the past few decades to download instructions to make a bomb, and the fact that these bombs didn't come close to going off indicates they aren't as dangerous as they imply, even if the FBI claims otherwise.

At the end of his show, just before 4:00 PM Friday, Oct. 26, Ali Velshi said something like, they "give the people the best possible information they need to make important decisions" Velshi's thoughts on the week: Being put to the test 10/26/2018 I read these words at the end of my show, but they were written by Quiana Burns 10/26/2018 This sounds very good, of course, and if they actually did this then it should be great; however they don't even come close.

This is true about covering the causes of violence and how it escalates, which can be found by looking for good research in academic sources or alternative media outlets, but not the mainstream media; or when they only cover candidates they support enabling them to get the name recognition they need to get elected or the best research on just about any given subject, which is available through other sources, but almost completely absent in mainstream media.

If they had done a better job covering diverse issues and candidates then Trump never would have been elected in the first place! They routinely only cover candidates that collect enormous amounts of money from corporations that cater to their interests, and ridicule candidates that rise from the grassroots without any coverage from the media, like Jill Stein, although she did eventually receive some coverage and many of the best candidates are probably people that most of us have never heard of.



The same media that now claims to be calling Donald Trump out for inciting violence also gave him a TV show that enabled him to get wide spread name recognition. For decades they only gave coverage to candidates that serve corporate interests on both sides constantly breaking one promise after another, virtually guaranteeing that a large percentage of the public would be outraged. Then they provided obsession coverage of Donald Trump, who for some people seemed like the only person standing up to the establishment, even though people with a minimal amount of critical thinking skills would easily see through his obvious lies, especially while Bernie Sanders was getting some degree of coverage and proving a better alternative.

Political advisers including Frank Luntz who virtually confesses to sabotaging democratic process for clients have been studying how to manipulate voters for decades, and they conduct plenty of focus groups, polling, or other forms of research designed to enable them to develop techniques to convince voters to support candidates that have no intention of serving their best interests; instead catering to the interests of the donors over and over again. A large portion of this research is what they call "proprietary" or a "trade secret" which means that corrupting the democratic process is protected by law enabling conspiracies to commit epidemic levels of fraud against the majority of the public.

However, even though it's not justifiable to keep it secret, it's virtually guaranteed that they would recognize that if they pushed too far it would be a matter of time before the public was so outraged that they would take it out on their leaders one way or another. This was even recognized in the Deceleration of Independence which says, the public are "more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed."

Someone from the political establishment had to know that while they were pushing an incredibly bad agenda and taking advantage of all the research on how to manipulate people that it would back fire and someone like Donald Trump might take advantage of it, especially while they were giving him the enormous amount of obsession coverage he needed to get elected.

So if traditional explanations for current events doesn't quite add up without a false flag conspiracy theory then this needs to be taken into consideration. There's an enormous amount of evidence to indicate that they actually know enough to manipulate the public more effectively than they are; and a false flag conspiracy theory this big would be so risky that it's virtually guaranteed to go wrong one way or another.

Another major problem with right wing false flag conspiracy theories is quite simply that Donald Trump is actually helping push the extreme corporate agenda that they claim he's opposing when he promises to "Drain the Swamp."

If there is a far-fetched false flag conspiracy theory could Donald Trump be part of it? Why would they come up with something so complicated when they can manipulate the public without such extreme measures?

When considering this these right wing false flag conspiracy theories clearly seem insane and unbelievable; however, without a false flag conspiracy theory or some other explanation, the current political insanity would also be insane and unbelievable.

Another major problem is that the academic world has an enormous amount of research showing how violence often starts at an early age and escalates later in life; but the mass media practically never informs the majority of the public about it, enabling high rates of violence. This adds to the overwhelming amount of evidence of incompetence or corruption by commercial media which has no qualms about speech that contributes to violence, but fails to report on research that prevents it.

I went into this more in Copyright And "Intellectual Property" Are endangering Lives And Democracy! where I explained that the media and political establishment are using copyright and intellectual property laws to regulate educational speech, which the six oligarchies that control the vast majority of the press can have their ideology distributed, almost without challenge. The mainstream media even makes an enormous amount of money off of some major contributing causes of violence as well. They sell ads for insurance and gambling, both of which contribute to other types of crime and violence, yet they rarely ever report on the research that shows how.

There are dozens if not hundreds of people killed every year for life insurance including over thirty emotionally unstable parents over the past sixty years killing more than fifty children to collect their insurance money, in some cases succeeding, at least temporarily. The information exposing these scams is often reported on the internet in very low profile articles enabling the mass media to profit by selling ads that contribute to violence. Within the past day or two John Berman pointed out on CNN that the reason Trump isn't trying to bring people together is because dividing people is how he attracts his followers, which is true; however the same goes for almost all politicians, although they often do a better job pretending to bring people together in times of crisis. If there is some kind of a false flag operation going on it seems far more reasonable to consider the possibility that Trump might be part of it, than that it's designed to take him down, but as long as we keep accepting the candidates that corporate media provide coverage for they can switch back and forth, with both of them catering to the same corproate interests, while we keep bickering over the latest argument.

If, as Ali Velshi said, they want to give the public the best possible information they needed to make decisions, including about reducing violence, they would provide coverage of more credible researchers like James Garbarino, Dorothy Otnow Lewis, or Barbara Coloroso, all of whom have conducted research into how violence starts with early abuse and escalates later in life and have indicated that they would be willing to help them educate the public. Barack Obama has been no better, when he was president his had plenty of opportunities to invite some of these people to speak out on this subject during the many disasters that took place on his watch but he didn't, although; after Hillary Clinton lost the election his Secretary of Education John King finally spoke out against corporal punishment in school as I went into in Obama’s Opposition to Corporal Punishment Needs to be Finished by Grassroots; however this received very little coverage from the traditional media and he soon left office so it's only the people that were already trying to teach the public about this that took much notice.

Now they're getting upset that Donald Trump isn't doing as good a job consoling families and arguing about gun control without discussing any of the other contributing factors that lead to escalating violence.



Simply going back to the same lip service that didn't work before won't do the trick nor will Trump's new call for the death penalty which the Death Penalty information Center has demonstrated that States Without the Death Penalty Have Had Consistently Lower Murder Rates and that only about two of the states with the highest murder rates ban the death penalty in any given year while only two with the lowest rates have the death penalty; and those two practically never use it, with New Hampshire's last execution in 1939 and Utah only executing two people in twenty years.

The same states that still allow corporal punishment in schools have the highest murder rates, highest incarceration rates, and highest support for the death penalty, even though it clearly doesn't work. They have the highest poverty rates or income inequality, and lowest rates for education.

They also have the highest support for Donald Trump, and in the Democratic primaries they had the highest support for Hillary Clinton. Thanks the front loading of the primaries in 2016, Hillary Clinton was able to win the Democratic nomination primarily by wining the states that she couldn't carry in the general election, which is part of the reason why Donald Trump was elected in the first place!

Donald Trump's supporters demonstrate their attitudes at the rallies supporting him and they show how willing they are to believe fringe conspiracy theories. However, the evidence may show that they're supporting all the wrong causes, which seems to be what the political operatives are counting on. If there is a fringe conspiracy going on, Donald Trump's supporters may just be falling for it instead of standing up to it; and, since the Democrats aren't doing much if any better when they have power, Democratic voters that accept the lesser of two evil argument, accepting the candidates presented to them by the mass media aren't doing much better and may be enabling the Duopoly system. To some degree even without a fringe conspiracy this is also true, since there's plenty of evidence to show that the wealthiest people control all powerful organizations and they hire plenty of researchers and talking heads to manipulate the majority turning them against each other.



There's plenty of research to show what can and does successfully reduce violence; but the mass media rarely ever reports on it; instead constantly repeating the same propaganda over and over again, so there's no doubt that even without a fringe false flag conspiracy theory, there's an incredible amount of incompetence and corruption by the media and both political parties.

Now instead of reporting on the most effective research that could teach the majority of the public about how to minimize or eliminate violence there's an increased call to limit speech they don't like, one way or another. Thanks to the outrage against Alex Jones and Infowars the media and political establishment managed to get an enormous amount of progressive support for censoring him on Facebook and Twitter. There were warnings that this would be the first step to censoring other outlets including progressive media; and in a few cases at least this has already come true, including shutting down the Free Thought Project, Anti-Media, TeleSUR, and numerous cop watch media outlets for a little while before allowing them back often claiming that it was a mistake. Now they're talking about banning Gab, which I haven't heard of until after the recent shooting in Pittsburgh, but this is normalizing censorship, even as the media continues to ignore some of the best research about how to reduce violence.

Louis Brandeis, former Supreme Court Justice, warned about this when he wrote, "Those who won our independence by revolution were not cowards. They did not fear political change. They did not exalt order at the cost of liberty. To courageous, self-reliant men, with confidence in the power of free and fearless reasoning applied through the processes of popular government, no danger flowing from speech can be deemed clear and present, unless the incidence of the evil apprehended is so imminent that it may befall before there is opportunity for full discussion. If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence." Concurring, Whitney v. California, 274 U.S. 357 (1927).



Unfortunately at that time the Supreme Court had already established a patterns of behavior of censoring critics of the government, including anti-war protesters when Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. wrote "The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing a panic," in Schenck v. United States which was about an anti-war protester during the first world war who had never made false claims.

So even without a fringe false flag operation there's a major problem going on; however some of the most effective censorship doesn't involve actually suppressing good research; instead it's more insidious. I've found that the Free Thought Project, Anti-Media, TeleSUR, and the cop watch media outlets that were briefly censored are more credible than the traditional media in most cases, but the most insidious efforts to censor the best research is often to simply ignore it. These media outlets have actually increased their circulation as a result of news about attempted censorship, which didn't last long. But some of the most effective research about preventing violence is from acceptable media outlets that aren't getting much attention at all like Murray Straus, whose web page was recently taken down about a year after he died, even though he wanted his research to be available to the public which is why I've brought some of it back and included a link to his old page which is on the Way back machine on a new Blog Murray Straus.

I'm usually not a fan of Alex Jones and InfoWars; however, in the following excerpt citing a CNN analyst they might have made a legitimate point worth considering:

Video: CNN Analyst Admits False Flag Mail Bomb Theory Is "Possible" 10/26/2018

In an exceptionally rare moment of clarity during a CNN broadcast, an analyst admitted that it is entirely possible that the devices sent via mail to prominent anti-Trump figures is part of a false flag operation to further demonize the President.

CNN national security analyst Juliette Kayyem made the comments Thursday night on Don Lemon’s broadcast.

“What people need to know is the theory of the case is not known yet. So it is possible that this was a black flag- or a hoax operation by someone with political sentiments that align with anti-Trump sentiments. That’s possible,” Kayyem said.

“Do I think that’s probable at this stage? No.” Kayyem clarified.

“I’m looking at the rest of the evidence and to me, as someone who knows something about these cases, I’m looking at this saying it is more probable than not that this is someone who has anti-democratic animus.” she continued.

“But we shouldn’t just dismiss the black flag theory only because we don’t want investigators to dismiss it.” the analyst added.

“In other words, good investigators right now are looking at the totality of the information. They should keep an open mind. If all the information leads in one direction, follow it. So it’s just a question of probability versus possibility.” Kayyem concluded.

The false flag theory has been bolstered by findings that confirm the devices were incapable of exploding, and were designed specifically to look the part but not to cause real destruction. Complete article


Juliette Kayyem on Twitter: It's important that we recognize information in cases like these can lead in many different directions and investigators need to keep an open mind. But there's a difference between possibility and probability. 10/26/2018

The author goes on to refer to "Everyone’s favorite lunatic Maxine Waters" as if InfoWars is more credible than she is. He also refers to what he calls a batshit crazy idea by Chuck Todd that the Russians did it "This feels like a spot — I have this fear that it could be some Russian operation too, in designed to do what’s happening now. In some ways, we shouldn’t rule anything out. It is dividing us.” (also cited on "Chuck Todd: I Fear The Russians Could Be Behind The Mail-Bomb Scare" Maxine Waters may not always bee perfect and she ahs jumped on the bizarre Russian election meddling theory, but she's usually more credible than Alex Jones or InfoWars; but Chuck Todd demonstrated that the mainstream media often comes up with their own absurd conspiracy theories, often indicating that fringe conspiracy theories are now mainstream as well as from alternative media outlets.

This was written shortly before Cesar Sayoc was publicly exposed as the alleged bomber and this is probably not what Juliette Kayyem would consider a false flag operation; however right wingers are still trying to push that theory, like they have many others. Juliette Kayyem and numerous other media pundits have claimed that many of these fanatics, including Cesar Sayoc are often "radicalized" online, as if a normal rational person might go online and suddenly become a radical nutcase, or at least that's the impression the media often gives. This is at best only partially true, assuming the final stages of a "radicalizing" process takes place on line.

Better academics, who are often completely absent from the mainstream media, like James Garbarino or Dorothy Otnow Lewis, have often reported on research that clearly indicates that most if not all mass murderers come from abusive homes where they're taught to deal with their problems with violence from the beginning; and the same abusive upbringing also teaches children to blindly obey their leaders, in this case Donald Trump. If this is the case then Cesar Sayoc may have been radicalized over decades to react violently, then responded to trump's absurd rhetoric by going on the bomb spree, assuming this isn't a fanatical false flag operation designed to simulate reality.

There may be other cases where unstable people raised in abusive environments might also go onto the internet and find accurate news and respond to it in a violent manner which is extreme and ineffective way of dealing with problems. Examples of this might include the two shooters of cops in Dallas and Baton Rouge in 2016 that were trained by the military to respond to problems with violence and then came home and found that after they fought wars based on lies they realized that their own communities were being betrayed and police were killing black people with impunity; or other examples could be groups that go online and find out about accurate information about the U.S. fighting wars based on lies then going on shooting sprees. When the media refers to a "radicalization" process that they claim happens online, they ignore some of the most important facts that they often want to cover up. this requires a reasonable amount of discretion, and in some cases they may have had legitimate grievances which they responded to in extreme measures, or other they were also responding to outright lies.

If there's no false flag operation or other fringe conspiracy going on it's hard to imagine why they wouldn't have better researchers reporting on the news. However if there is a false flag or other type of conspiracy going on that requires that the best researchers are virtually banned from the mainstream media then this might begin to make sense.

But, if there is a fringe false flag operation going on of some sort, even though Alex Jones and other right wingers are ignoring a lot of inconvenient facts, what could be big enough to make something this insane seem like a reasonable objective for the media and political establishment?

Before I go any further I'd just like to say that even if you don't agree with some of this, there should be no doubt that there's plenty of research about how to prevent violence, without going into what many people consider fringe conspiracy theories. And there should also be no doubt that we need a diverse media covering all candidates. There is no reasonable justification for allowing a fraction of one percent to control over ninety percent of the media and decide which candidates are eligible for media coverage needed for them to get name recognition needed to make them viable candidates.

However, even though I think it's important to focus attention on things that we can be certain of; there's no longer much doubt that the official version of the truth is often as absurd as many conspiracy theories.

However I previously explained further details of what, if anything, might be important enough to carry out such an absurd false flag operation in several articles including Researching Poor, Slaves, Prisoners, To Benefit Ruling Class With Alien Technology? when I added to a previous conspiracy theory that involved Philip Corso's claims that he exchanged technology obtained after the Roswell crash where an alien craft allegedly was found. When it comes to extraordinary theories that skeptics say require extraordinary evidence there is additional evidence to support this theory includes megaliths that were moved thousands of years ago that were often at least ten to twenty times bigger than any megaliths that were successfully moved with ancient technology during experiments that had to cheat when they moved anything between ten and forty tons and didn't even try anything bigger despite the fact that ancient civilizations moved the Colossi of Memnon weighing 720 tons about 420 miles and many other massive megaliths between fifty and a thousand tons.

This should be enough evidence to indicate that we have a major unsolved mystery; yet mainstream academics simply act as if this mystery doesn't exist. There are additional unsolved mysteries to support this theory, although none of them are quite as clear cut.

If there is something to this and they are conducting research on humans to develop advanced medical treatments with the help of alien technology, then it's reasonable to assume they might also be conducting a large amount of additional research in a variety of other scientific fields. Since they now claim that Climate Change has been influenced by human activity, it clearly indicates that intentionally or not some degree of geoengineering is possible which as I went into in Hurricane Apocalypse Coming With or Without Fringe Conspiracy Theory is something they would want to research if they were trying to study alien technology.

Some degree of evidence that they're advancing medical research at a rapid pace is provided in Spectacular Heart Transplant for Sophia But at What Cost, which speculates about the possibility that recent medical advancements are being made as a result of all this alleged alien technology. If this theory isn't true, though, there would have to be another explanation for how ancient megaliths were moved, and why scientific technology started accelerating at such a rapid pace in the past sixty years, and even more so in the past twenty years. There would also have to be another explanation of many other unsolved mysteries and why the mainstream media is allowing all this coverage of the ancient aliens show, which does have plenty of flaws, while they're suppressing some of the best research on many subjects, including how to reduce violence.

With or without an ancient alien conspiracy theory there has to be some explanation for the insane political activity that has been escalating for decades, but became increasingly absurd during the 2016 when they provided an enormous amount of coverage for candidates that were both under FBI investigation and should have been ruled out instead of allowing them to get the nominations of both major parties, ensuring that the presidency would be a disaster no matter which candidate won. As I pointed out in June 2016 in Yes Virginia There Is A Trump And Clinton Conspiracy there was plenty of credible evidence from reliable sources that the media was rigging the election by rigging the coverage, but in addition to that, after taking a close look at the Book of the Apocalypse and comparing the characteristics of the "Whore of Babylon" to Hillary Clinton it became clear that she had many more of the characteristics than a reasonable skeptic might expect, and that her activities as Secretary of State increased the similarities after some people first came up with this theory. This seemed like a fringe theory at the time, but additional activities since then including the Al Smith dinner, the election of Trump instead of rigging it for Hillary Clinton and non-stop insanity since then, make this theory stronger, when it should have collapsed.

If this is partly true then it's possible that many of the people involved might have tried to convince themselves that they're doing what they can to improve the best interest of the majority of the public in the long term, by using them for research in the short term to advance science then share it with everyone later; although even if they believed this they might not follow through, and some at the top may never have intended this and not shared their intentions with them. This led me to consider the possibility that they though that this might have been some kind of a reverse psychology PsyOp in Is GOP Committing Political Suicide? Or Is Kavanaugh An Insane PsyOp? However, even if this is partly true, it wouldn't be the most effective way to look out for the best interest of the majority since that would simply involve preparing people for the truth in the most effective way possible and providing full disclosure at the same time, which is not what they're doing.

By refusing to communicate in an honest manner they've demonstrated that they're not interested in the best interests of the majority of the public whether this theory is true or not; instead there should be little doubt that the people controlling the media, government and other large corporations are using the majority for their interests not ours.



But if there is something to this, then there's a strong possibility if not a virtual guarantee that the dietary supplements Alex Jones is advertising could be part of the research being done with alien technology!

Alex Jones seems to be part of a patterns of behavior where the only people that discuss some of these subjects in a somewhat high profile manner seem like lunatics and make blunders so big and obvious that it's hard to imagine why they wouldn't fix their mistakes once in a while. there are plenty more of these obvious blunders on the History Channel "Ancient Aliens" series which has plenty of fringe researchers; but if you look close enough and do enough fact checking you might find that occasionally they get something right and when skeptics like Michael Shermer or Joe Nickell try to address some of these unsolved mysteries they often resort to distraction tactics to avoid saying they can't figure this out and there really is something worth researching.

A lot of the people that believe many of the most irrational claims by people like Trump also believe that there's a "Good God" that they expect to come in and save the day; however the Bible they worship doesn't actually describe god this way all the time, if you look at it carefully. Instead it describes a God that is manipulative and vindictive, often betraying those that worship him, assuming he exists at all. for example Exodus 14:4 claims that he "shall make Pharaoh stubborn," instead of advising him to comply, giving him the excuse to take vengeance on all the Egyptian people, even those taught to blindly obey Pharaoh, like the faithful are taught to blindly obey their leaders. This is just one of many passages in the Bible that should raise major doubts about how good God is assuming he exists at all.

this is part of a pattern of behavior, those that don't question their religious leaders, or God don't question Donald Trump either, often because they're told by their religious leaders that they should support him. However, unlike other cult leaders Trump didn't rise from the grassroots learning how to manipulate people at the local level. Instead he rose as a result of an enormous amount of air time by the mainstream media he pretends to hate, with their advisers dating back to his days at the Apprentice, when he developed his reputation. He also had more advisers telling him how to manipulate his supporters after he began running for president, raising the possibility that they were helping him all along for some absurd reason.

Furthermore, if there is an advanced intelligence of some sort that people know of ads God, and if he has some undisclosed motive for manipulating the public, then it would make more sense for him to create irrational cults that blindly obey their leaders. This Ancient Aliens may not be perfect but it doesn't ignore many major unsolved mysteries and might begin to explain some of them.



The following are some additional sources for this article:

Cesar Sayoc ‘Found A Father In Trump,’ Family Attorney Tells Anderson Cooper 10/26/2018 He “was attracted to Trump reaching out to these types of outsiders ... telling them that it’s okay to get angry,” said Ron Lowy. ..... Lowy said Sayoc did not appear to be sophisticated enough to carry out the bomb operation alone. “I wouldn’t be surprised to find out there were either others who helped prod or encourage him to do this or that the bombs were so crudely made they never could have worked.”

‘He’s 14 years old living in an adult body,’ says Cesar Sayoc’s former lawyer 10/26/2018 “He’s half Filipino, on his father’s side, and he’s half Italian,” Lowy said. “He’s been living and creating this fantasy for a very long time. He’ll deny it’s a fantasy. But I will suggest to you it’s probably a result of emotional issues that come from his father abandoning him and returning to the Philippines when he was a child."

‘False Flag’ Theory on Pipe Bombs Zooms From Right-Wing Fringe to Mainstream 10/25/2018

“False flags,” explained: How the concept of “false flags” traveled from the conspiratorial fringe to cable news. 10/25/2018 This article acknowledges it might be a false flag, before making a case that it's highly unlikely or at least that they don't have evidence yet, "Maybe it’ll turn out that the motivations were a form of political jiujitsu, or a false flag. Or maybe the motives will turn out to be something completely off the wall, not tethered to political polarization at all. We just don’t know." More balanced articles like this from mainstream media generally get much less coverage than those ridiculing false flags or ruling them out.

What we're seeing with the mail bombing suspect is an example of something that has been studied in counterterrorism, stochastic terrorism. It's a way of describing radicalization through media and mass communication that inspires random acts of violence. 10/27/2018 7:10 AM

The evidence in this case that is strong for the sort of idea of how he became radicalized is that the people he targeted like Brennan and Clapper weren't household names until Trump took them on. 10/27/2018 7:20 AM

American deaths in terrorism vs. gun violence in one graph 10/03/2016 For every one American killed by an act of terror in the United States or abroad in 2014, more than 1,049 died because of guns. According to the US State Department, the number of US citizens killed overseas as a result of incidents of terrorism from 2001 to 2014 was 369. In addition, we compiled all terrorism incidents inside the United States and found that between 2001 and 2014, there were 3,043 (2,990 on 9/11/2001 53 since then) people killed in domestic acts of terrorism.* This brings the total to 3,412.

Except for 9/11 most of these were the result of shootings; perhaps the only ones from bombs were the three from the Boston Bombings, which also included at least one death of a police officer and another of the suspect as a result of shootings.

The Annual Explosives Incident Report 2014

The Annual Explosives Incident Report 2015

The Annual Explosives Incident Report 2016

The Annual Explosives Incident Report 2017

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Wednesday, October 24, 2018

Glorifying War Endangering Safety, Democracy And Veterans!



We worship wars based on lies.

This isn't such a good idea, no matter how much propaganda both political parties and the mass media comes up with. Nor does this change when one political party goes completely out of it's mind; and the other one the media is willing to cover, only does a slightly better job pretending to defend the majority of the public, occasionally coming up with better rhetoric claiming to only support wars for a just cause.

There were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq; the Vietnam war didn't involve defending democracy by fighting the people that signed their own Declaration of Independence based partly on ours; and most if not all other wars are based partly on lies, including the ones about taking babies out of incubators, and the fact that we routinely arm many of our enemies while they're on our side of another conflict before they turn against us, maintaining a permanent state of war.

Yet, even when many of these lies are disclosed we routinely glorify the veterans that fight these wars, calling them heroes, while often demonizing the people that tell the truth about these wars based on lies.

Intentionally or not, there often seems to be a massive propaganda effort to glorify war, often even coming from progressives that you would expect to oppose wars based on lies, sometimes even the reformers that the mainstream media refers to as "radicals" Bill McKibben who recently tweeted This really is a remarkable ad. Keep working, everyone--November could be remarkable 10/13/2018 citing Seth Moulton's group Serve America saying "Before these badass women decided to run for Congress, they served our country. This is the leadership we need in Washington. Let’s show up for them in November!"

This is part of a massive organized campaign to recruit veterans for Congress, often challenging the fanatical positions of the GOP and Trump administration appearing to be the lesser of two evils; however, the result is an extension of a massive propaganda effort to glorify the military, and one war after another that we fight based on lies; and it routinely has the opposite results that many progressives like Bill McKibben are trying to accomplish. One of the biggest threats to the environment that progressives are trying to protect is the military, yet they routinely help them to glorify it, distracting from the fact that we fight one war after another based on lies.

Veterans that sign up to "serve our country" are routinely led to believe that they're "fighting for our freedom" with an enormous amount of propaganda, and some of them often find out the hard way that they've been betrayed by their leaders, often abandoned after they no longer have any use for them. Many of these people learn that they haven't been recruited to fight wars to defend freedom after all, instead they learn about the lies that led them into war, but they're often under a lot pf pressure to accept these lies. The same boot camp indoctrination teaching them to blindly obey orders is also used to intimidate them if they speak out against these wars based on lies and go along with the program.

A few of them join organizations like Veterans for Peace or some other organization to protest wars based on lies or support progressive causes, however these don'e seem to include the candidates running for Congress, or at least not the ones that get enough positive media coverage to win the nomination. The candidates that are running for office with the support of the mainstream media or the traditional political parties aren't exposing the lies used to lead us into war, they're helping provide propaganda to reinforce the image of fighting for our freedom, and helping distract people from the many problems that are caused by these wars, including veterans that come home with PTSD and have a lot of emotional problems, including suicide or, in some cases, there have been a lot of high profile shootings sprees, including one about a month ago where a South Carolina police officer was killed and several more that were badly wounded, including another that just died.

It's difficult to find good statistics on whether or not veterans are more likely to go on shootings sprees; however there are some that indicate that they're at least as likely if not more, as the rest of the population, which shouldn't be to surprising, when considering that they're trained to kill people for their country. As indicated below, based on a partial review of the shootings of police officers, a higher percentage of the cop killers are veterans than the rest of the population; and numerous studies have shown that military veterans and police officers that also go through authoritarian boot camp training have higher rates of domestic violence within their own families.

Propagandists seem to have learned long ago that the most effective way to glorify wars based on lies often involves burying the truth where few people ever see it, and promoting the propaganda over and over again, often without challenge, including from so-called liberal pundits or politicians. This is exactly what the traditional media does. For a long time one of the most progressive voices on the mainstream media was considered Rachel Maddow, although she doesn't do nearly as good a job as she used to; but she's always been coming to the defense of veterans, or so it seems, often calling for veterans parades, and providing a limited amount of coverage about some of the problems they go through, although the most detailed coverage of these problems has never been in the mainstream media. This is part of an indirect strategy of indirectly glorifying the war by diverting blame away from the veterans that aren't involved in the decision making and indicating that even if the Iraq war was based on lies then it wasn't their fault, although this was considered a complexly unacceptable excuse when trying Germans after WW II.

The one thing the mass media never does, including the most progressive pundits, or perhaps the ones that do the best job pretending to be progressive, is to remind the public that it's almost always the people from the working class that are most likely to die as a result of these wars, but it's the people from the political class that tell the lies about it, which is why they don't have anyone like George Carlin or people from the anti-war movement on traditional media.



Instead they have politicians and pundits that do a much better job pretending to be progressive like Elizabeth Warren who voted for a massive increase in military spending, bigger than even Donald Trump asked for, along with several other supposedly progressive politicians, but this was hardly mentioned in the traditional press. Or like Van Jones who was supposedly one of the radicals from the Obama administration, who supported Bernie Sanders, or at least he claimed he did; but, when the primaries were half way through in 2016, like several other so-called Sanders supporters, he began defending Hillary Clinton against Donald Trump with most of the time he had on the media, instead of reporting on how the primaries were being rigged against Sanders at the time. Van Jones once said about Trump, “You can’t polish this turd,” however if they provided the same media coverage for Trump that they do for the problems of wars based on lies and the social problems it causes when veterans came home with emotional problems, they might come close, and part of the efforts that they come up with to glorify war based on lies is to portray it as the lesser of two evils.

Mainstream media spent a fair amount of time for a while, covering the problems with suicide by veterans, and some of the mass shootings, but they never covered the large number of shootings within families of veterans or incidents where many veterans killed each other, nor did they cover some of the most important contributing causes of all these problems which includes their training and abusive hazing during boot camp.

What the mainstream media almost never mentions is that boot camp indoctrination is designed to teach blind obedience, through intimidating tactics that often include massive amounts of abuse to control recruits as indicated in some of the following stories:

Marine’s PTSD Claim Scorned By Leader Who Caused It 07/12/2014

CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. – Sources from 1st Battalion 8th Marines say that a Marine claiming severe post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, is being openly mocked by the Marine who is the leading cause of it.

Cpl. Donald Bogdan, a squad leader in Charlie Company, expressed both amazement and contempt about the claims of PTSD by Lance Cpl. Sean O’Connell, who is both Bogdan’s assistant automatic rifleman and the frequent recipient of Bogdan’s physical and psychological torture.

“Is that little bitch still saying he’s got PTSD?” asked Bogdan, according to sources in second squad, after hearing O’Connell was making another attempt to see a military psychiatrist. “What a fucking boot! Nothing even happened in-country,” he said, omitting multiple incidents in which he openly mocked, shunned, and physically assaulted O’Connell.

“I told him his PTSD is all bullshit, and if he claims it again the next time we have MCMAP [Marine Corps Martial Arts] I’m going to break his arm,” Bogdan added. “When I first picked [O’Connell] up last year, the dumb-ass didn’t know how to patrol, never remembered what he was supposed to do, always had this confused look on his face — I mean basically the kid was going to get someone killed. He had to understand that we’re a family and a family is only as good as its weakest link: that’s why I pulled him into the head one night and beat him unconscious.” Complete article


Military Hazing, PTSD, Alcoholism, Murder and Suicide: It's Everywhere and Dangerous 08/14/2012

For Veterans Medical care, the philosophy seems to be “delay, delay, delay until the Veterans die!”

(PORTLAND, OR) - All branches of the military have an ignominious history of extreme hazing. The Marines seem to be proud of the dictum “We break down (the recruits) so we can build them up.” The Army certainly has a similar philosophy and the Army Infantry is even as stringent as the Marines but obviously does not the press coverage.

My grandson recently went through basic training at Fort Benning after going through a similar training in a year of High School in the National Guard Army-style program. He was graded top of his class of 100, but he came out with grade 3 PTSD. He then spent a year in the Middle East and became totally disenchanted with how the Army ran and the absolute obedience demanded of lower ranks with the Privates at the bottom of the “snake pit”.

I had warned him of my own previous, similar, experience in WWII. I was a college graduate in Chemistry when I volunteered and ended up as a Combat Infantryman, Battalion Scout, Pointman and Forward Observer, all of which were frequently suicide missions.

I was taught a dozen ways to kill an enemy with the dictum, “Shoot first and ask questions later”. As far as I was concerned, I was trained to be a psychopathic killer with a hair trigger with my finger on the trigger and a microsecond to reflexively act. All the Combat Infantrymen in my Battalion and Regiment were trained the same way. Complete article


Veterans Affairs Office Decides To Trust Women About PTSD 07/13/2011

A woman in the military is more likely to be raped by a fellow soldier than killed by enemy fire. One in 5 women who seek veterans’ health care say they experienced sexual trauma during their service.

We’ve known these shocking statistics for years now. Less discussed is the Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) afflicting many veterans who survive sexual violence: A startling study released yesterday found that 80 to 90 percent of New Mexican women veterans with PTSD say the cause was sexual assault, not warfare.

Despite this, victims of sexual violence have faced huge obstacles in securing military disability benefits, once required to submit proof the assault had occurred. But that may now be changing, thanks to yesterday’s revised policy from the Department of Veteran Affairs. After talks with Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (D-Maine), Secretary of Veteran Affairs General Allison Hickey announced that the agency will “ease [its] standards of proof” for sexual assault-related disability benefits. Complete article


The mainstream media almost never mentions these stories, and on the few occasions they do, it's only briefly; and it's quickly forgotten by many people while the contradictory propaganda propaganda is constantly repeated over and over again. This is one of the most fundamental principles of propaganda, "A lie repeated often enough becomes the truth," or at least it seems to, especially if it's not challenged. The mainstream media is now dominated by six oligarchs that control over 90% of the national media; some the biggest exceptions including the Washington Post owned by Jeff Bezos, Time Magazine owned by Marc Benioff, and the Los Angeles Times owned by Soon-Shiong are all controlled by billionaires; and the biggest social media platforms including Facebook and Twitter are also controlled by billionaires.

This means that a fraction of 1% of the richest people in this country control or influence almost all of the national media we use to make decisions, and these people don't have to fight wars based on lies and do nothing to expose this deceptive propaganda, enabling the elites to manipulate the majority of the public with their propaganda.

The people that control the media have access to some of the best research available to the public, and more since they also have access to research that is proprietary or secret, often with that secrecy protected by law. This includes research on psychological manipulation of the public and on how early abusive child rearing tactics can be used for indoctrination purposes, and how it also leads to escalating violence.

However they demonstrate with their actions that they're far more concerned with using this research, or their own ideologies, to use the media to manipulate the majority of the public than they are with educating people about how violence escalates from early child abuse. Previously in Dobson’s Indoctrination Machine I explained how early child abuse leads to escalating violence later in life and how his teachings on corporal punishment is designed to teach blind obedience, instead of teaching children to develop critical thinking skills and learn how to recognize when their leaders are lying to them.

This indoctrination process is most common among religious people, especially in the Bible Belt, where the largest number of recruits for the military come from, although the highest recruitment rates are from rural areas in the north west with lower population. I was unable to find polling base don states to see whether or not people in the Bible Belt are more likely to support various wars including the Iraq War, which was based on weapons of mass destruction that the government knew didn't exist, but there are numerous studies or polls, some listed below, that indicate that religious people are more likely to support wars, including the Iraq War.

The Bible Belt states are among the nineteen states that still allow use of corporal punishment in schools, presumably they also are more likely to use it at home, and they also have some of the highest murder rates in the country; just a glance at the FBI reports show that the South is typically the worst. In 2015/2016 the average murder rates in states that still allowed corporal punishment in schools was 5.98 per hundred thousand people compared to only 4.54 in states that no longer allow it. The states that still allow corporal punishment in schools are also more likely to have police officers killed in the line of duty by gunfire as well, making up only about forty percent of the population, but usually having over half of police officers killed by gunfire. In the past eight years, since Ohio banned corporal punishment in schools, six years had over fifty percent of police killed by gunfire in states that allow corporal punishment, with a couple having almost 65%; the other two years had almost exactly 40%, so they always have their share or more. Three of the four years before that they also had more than fifty percent, and only one of them had forty percent, at a time when both New Mexico and Ohio still allowed corporal punishment, so this was the only year where the states allowing corporal punishment had a lower rate than those not allowing it; and that year had three high profile shootings in states without it that killed a total of eleven officers causing a spike in those states. There are many other Corporal punishment is routinely used to teach children to blindly obey orders and accept beliefs without question.

There's also evidence to indicate that veterans with emotional problems are more likely to go on shootings sprees including U.S. Mass Shooters Are Disproportionately Veterans by David Swanson 11/17/2017 and some additional articles I wrote below. The mass shootings get much more attention, but the vast majority of problems with violence from veterans is much more likely to be against their own families or other veterans. This doesn't mean that all veterans are violent, of course, and a close look at some of the few reports about this problem often indicates that other veterans and family members of veterans are often the ones doing the most to solve this problem, although they get little or no help from the media or politicians including those running as veterans, who often express concerns about PTSD, but never discuss how hazing and pressuring them to blindly fight wars based on lies contribute to the problem.

As of this writing, there have been forty-six police officers killed this year, and at least five of them were killed by four veterans, and one more was killed by a former cadet that went through JROTC boot camp training. At least four of these police shootings were double murders, so there's at most forty-two killers of police officers, which comes to about 9%, but only about 7% of the adult population are veterans, and that rate has been sharply declining for decades, so a large portion of these veterans are older veterans, and the majority of people convicted of murder, including of police officers, are much younger so this percentage should be even higher if adjusted by age. Furthermore, in most of the stories that I could find they didn't specify whether they were veterans or not, although about a half dozen or so did provide background that virtually guarantees they weren't. This means that a few more of them could have also been veterans. But the majority of cop killers aren't veterans and almost certainly come from troubled abusive homes, often in abandoned inner cities where there's little or not educational opportunities; the same goes for all other murders. However the same politicians that are pushing wars based on lies are also ignoring the education system that is abandoning these people as well.



As I went into in Philip Zimbardo, Lucifer Effect, Stanford Prison Experiment and Eli Roth and Stanley Milgram's Obedience to Authority experiment much more extensive than most people realize the Office of Naval Research, perhaps with the help of the CIA has been studying how to train cadets to blindly obey orders and supported research that they claimed was doing the opposite. One of the leading researchers into the indoctrination of veterans was Philip Zimbardo, who became president of the American Psychological Association in 2002, which was also the year that they had a meeting in August to revise the ethical guidelines for the APA watering them down dramatically, and outraging some psychologists including Susan Linn who expressed shock in her book "Consuming Kids" because they removed the "Social responsibility" clause, in addition to enabling the atrocities at Abu Ghraib they also enabled psychologists to study how to manipulate children when marketing to them, which was Linn's specialty.

The people that give orders for these wars based on lies are practically never held accountable, and when they need someone to blame, assuming they can't cover up problems they routinely use those with the least amount of political power to take the blame including Sgt. Ivan “Chip” Frederick who had Philip Zimbardo testify as an expert-witness at his trial; however, his account of this story doesn't acknowledge the work he did to develop interrogation techniques, and it's unlikely that Sgt. Frederick recognized that he had a major conflict of interest as a result of this.

Veterans that recognized that this war was based on lies and refused to serve were also prosecuted and there are many more stories where veterans were betrayed by the military and abandoned; however the reports of these stories aren't covered widely in the mass media, often only reported briefly in obscure articles, or in alternative media outlets.



Many of these veterans are not surprisingly in denial about some of the worst atrocities committed in these wars based on lies, often doing what they're told to do, and many of them even say things like, "it's not my job to get involved in politics," or many variations of this; and some of the ones that do, accept the propaganda they've been given, often even when it's seriously flawed. However there are a lot more that pay more attention and speak out when they realize they've been betrayed. In some of the highest cases like when Chris Kyle wrote in his book about an alleged fight with a celebrity, he seems to think that it's appropriate to fight people that are being disrespectful by pointing out the fact that they've been betrayed by their leaders; however, in this case a jury found that he lied about this in a lawsuit. There are still many more that resulted in fight, though including, perhaps, when he was shot and killed while taking someone with PTSD to a rifle range, as part of his treatment.

Some of those that do recognize they've been betrayed help explain why, including Vietnam veteran Lynda Van Devanter, author of "Home Before Morning" who claimed that one of the reasons they often remained in denial is because of all the trauma they faced they couldn't admit to themselves that they fought the Vietnam war based on lies, since they had been led to believe that what they were doing was fighting for freedom; so even though the evidence indicated they'd been betrayed they were slow to face it, which is virtually guaranteed to be a major contributing cause of high rates of PTSD and other emotional problems.



Now, intentionally or not, there's a massive effort to make the military seem like they continue to fight for our freedom, and are often more credible than some of the fanatical politicians like Donald Trump. This includes efforts to demonstrate that they're advancing women's rights by recruiting more of them and they've been recruiting minorities more for decades, as well; however that doesn't mean they treat them as well as the officer class, which is where most of the politicians come from that the media is willing to cover.

They even have half a dozen or more CIA agents, including Abigail Spanberger, or other espionage officials (they refer to themselves as intelligence officials but there's noting intelligent about forcing the public to base their decisions on lies controlled by covert organizations) openly running for office. Anyone that does a minimum amount of research can find out that these espionage organizations have been lying to us for decades and studying how to rig elections at home and abroad is part of their routine. Intentionally or not one of the most effective methods they're currently using seems to be manipulating voters on one side that support fanatics like Trump or Dave Brat so that espionage agents, especially female espionage agents seem like a good choice or the lesser of two evils.

If they actually were a good choice they would have done much more to speak out against all these wars based on lies, and if they wanted to defend women rights or minority rights, they wouldn't be doing their part to glorify war!



As in previous articles, I would like to note that the people most involved in recognizing and fixing these problems are often veterans but ignoring them won't help fix it and as I pointed out in Teach a soldier to kill and he just might and States with high murder rates have larger veteran populations there are much more problems than most people realize; and even though the first response of many is to blame the veterans themselves and assume there must be something wrong with them, the bigger problem is the politicians and commanders that are training them to kill based on lies then abandoning them. they often have access to some of the best research to show how to reduce violence; but instead use it to increase indoctrination so they can control veterans and voters.

The following are some additional sources and stories about veteran violence:

Kayla Williams spoke to Soledad O'Brien on CNN about the suicide of her colleague Alyssa Peterson and explained how she was also forced to take part in torture interrogations during which detainees were assaulted, stripped, blindfolded, and then confronted with a female interrogator.[2] Williams also said she is still haunted by these events years later.

Alyssa Peterson died on September 15, 2003 from a "non-hostile weapons discharge" at the Tal Afar airbase on the Syrian-Iraqi frontier. Subsequent investigation revealed that she had been placed under suicide watch after refusing further participation in interrogation sessions which she said constituted torture of Iraqi prisoners. "We told her that you have to be able to turn on and off the interrogation mode -- that you act differently towards the people we meet with outside of the detainee facility," one fellow soldier stated. "She said that she did not know how to be two people; she ... could not be one person in the cage and another outside the wire." She refused to participate in this, according to journalist Ann Wright, "for saying no to torture, is dead, perhaps by her own hand".

Fred Hopkins, 74, Suspect in deadly South Carolina police ambush identified as elderly Vietnam veteran 10/04/2018

Many express their sympathy for Investigator Farrah Turner who died weeks after being shot in South Carolina mass shooting 10/2/2018

Authorities Arrest Navy Veteran, William Clyde Allen III, in Connection With Suspicious Envelopes Sent to President Trump 10/03/2018

Insider Speaks: San Diego Psych Doc Exposes Marine Corps’ Broken Mental Health Care Culture, and How to Fix it 09/11/2012 Even if the overt message is “seek help,” the covert message is “you should be strong and man up.”

After Boot Camp Scandal, Lawmaker Calls for Hazing Review 10/29/2016 "I am concerned about the recent media reports depicting a culture of hazing and abuse at the Parris Island Marine Corps Recruit Depot," she wrote to Reps. Mac Thornberry, a Republican, and Adam Smith, a Democrat, in a letter first reported by Marine Corps Times. "These media reports seem to be indicative of a larger, pervasive hazing problem that has harmed soldiers' mental health, caused serious injury, diminished unit cohesion, and even cost lives."

Marine Corps drill instructor convicted of abusing recruits 11/17/2017

Marine Boot Camp Covered Up Recruits' Hazing-Related Medical Issues 09/18/2016

Report Finds Sharp Increase in Veterans Denied V.A. Benefits 03/30/2016

Corporal Punishment in U.S. Public Schools: Prevalence, Disparities in Use, and Status in State and Federal Policy 01/12/2018

McKibben: Time to Declare a War (Literally) on Climate Change 08/15/2016

Elizabeth Warren Votes for Massive Increase of War Budget 10/02/2017

Veterans Campaign

VoteVets.org

Meet America's New Generation of Veteran Leaders

Female Veterans Lead 2018 Charge 12/08/2017

Candidates Tout Careers in Espionage 08/10/2018 Campaign season features several contenders for the House, most Democrats, with backgrounds in espionage, counterterrorism and foreign policy

Protestants and Frequent Churchgoers Most Supportive of Iraq War 03/16/2006 Least supportive are non-Christians and people with no religion

U.S. evangelical support for Iraq war slipping 10/27/2006

Most Evangelical Leaders Still Support Iraq War 02/12/2008

POLITICS-U.S.: Conservative Christians Biggest Backers of Iraq War 10/09/2002

Religious Groups Issue Statements on War with Iraq 03/19/2003 Bishop Adam J. Richardson, president of the Council of Bishops of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, said in a March 12 interview that he was troubled by the support of possible war by some in Christianity’s conservative wing. “I think that, from my perspective the right-wing faction of Christianity is doing Christ a disservice by attempting to back their jaundiced views with Scripture, trivializing the Bible in public view and making a mockery of the best traditions of biblical scholarship.”

Bush And God 03/09/2003

The Iraq War and Christian Faith by Joseph L. Cumming, April 20, 2004 Ted Haggard, elected in early March as president of the National Association of Evangelicals, sought to mobilize 1,000,000 people to pray on March 3rd (03-03-03) that war might be averted. He did this because he was convinced that in November 2002 God had given him a vision in which he saw “pictures of suffering, pictures of children in Iraq, and the people in America suffering because of a war.”2

The Persian Gulf War: A Case Study in Just War Theory Laurence W. Jones 1998

American Public Support for U.S. Military Operations from Mogadishu to Baghdad 2005

Here’s what we know about the man charged with shooting 4 York Co. police officers 03/16/2018 Christian Thomas McCall, 47, The York man charged in the killing of a York County deputy and wounding three other law enforcement officers earlier this year is an Army veteran, according to new information.

Pfc. Raymond W. Begay Marine Convicted of Involuntary Manslaughter in Killing of Fellow Private 07/26/2018

Army veteran describes shooting rampage on base that killed soldier from Jacksonville 10/17/2018

Iraq War veteran charged in deadly Solon shooting 'did not know wrongfulness of actions' due to mental illness, doctor finds 09/26/2018 Matthew Desha, a combat veteran of the Iraq War, believes God, Satan and the Illuminati are all trying to influence his trial on aggravated murder and other charges in the 2016 killing of Deborah Pearl, doctors have found.

Police: James Harris Jackson, Army veteran arrested for murder went to NY to attack black people 03/24/2017

Eric Brown, 45, Retired Navy veteran accused of killing girl found on lawn of Charlotte church 11/09/2017

Marine Veteran Arrested in Machete Killing in Taiwan Left Service as a Private 09/06/2018

TSA Touts Orlando Fla. Bomb Suspect, Army veteran Kevin Christopher Brown, Arrest 10/1/2018

Army combat veteran’s call for help lands him in jail 05/30/2018

Veteran sets himself on fire in protest outside Georgia Capitol 06/26/2018

Fort Polk La. soldier sentenced for making and using a chlorine bomb April 12, 2017 on post 09/25/2018

Robert Decoteau III, Mass. Veteran set to plead guilty after causing a pipe bomb panic found dead at home, spokesman for DA's office confirms 03/27/2018

Ex-soldier pleads guilty to wife’s gruesome murder 10/24/2018

Low blow — soldiers arrested after allegedly kicking South Korean policeman in the genitals 10/23/2018

Former Army employee admits taking bribes for work at military bases 10/23/2018

Report: Accused murderer 'blacked out' before shooting, killing Highlands Co. deputy 05/09/2018 Joseph Edward Ables, 69, who is listed as unemployed and disabled, said he was a Vietnam War veteran who suffers from PTSD, the report said.

Suspect has Nogales roots 04/30/2018 David Ernesto Murillo, 28, and his older brother were in the school’s JROTC program.

Isaias De Jesus Valencia, 39: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know 03/11/2018 3. A Neighbor Said He Served in the Military & Was in ‘Extreme Need of Mental Health Care’

After deadly Henry County police shootout, five boys left fatherless 02/10/2018 Tierre Guthrie, 39, ex-Marine suspect