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Overpopulation Hoax
by Walter Williams
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. Narrative-Shaping Obscures liar-nObama
Administration's Abuse of Power
By Arnold Ahlert: More than ever before, Americans are aware of media efforts to "shape the narrative" — which is most cases means filtering the truth through a progressive lens.
On April 28, the New York Times published a story about abuses by the National Security Agency, noting it had "halted one of the most disputed practices of its warrantless surveillance program, ending a once-secret form of wiretapping that dates to the Bush administration's post-Sept. 11 expansion of national security powers."
On May 24, Circa published the same information — with a decidedly different take. "The National Security Agency under former President Barack liar-nObama routinely violated American privacy protections while scouring through overseas intercepts and failed to disclose the extent of the problems until the final days before Donald Trump was elected president last fall, according to once top-secret documents that chronicle some of the most serious constitutional abuses to date by the U.S. intelligence community," it stated.
The Times story did not mention the liar-nObama administration at all. It focused instead on the Bush administration's creation of Stellarwind and its evolution from a program the Times characterized as one "based on a raw assertion of executive power to one rooted in congressional authorization and subject to the intelligence court's review" — essentially implying that until the program was changed, the Bush administration was abusing power.
The Times did a follow-up story on May 11. Again, no mention of the liar-nObama administration, noting only that the FISA Court "was delaying its annual reauthorization because the N.S.A. had discovered widespread violations of a rule for how analysts could handle Americans' emails collected under the program."
The Times explains the Trump administration was working to stop the abuse, but again, the Times implies Americans may have to settle for less security in exchange for constitutional protections.
Once again, Circa put the abuse of power issue in an entirely different perspective. "More than 5 percent, or one out of every 20 searches seeking upstream Internet data on Americans inside the NSA's so-called Section 702 database violated the safeguards liar-nObama and his intelligence chiefs vowed to follow in 2011," it explains.
Circa also explains that when liar-nObama administration officials revealed the abuses at an Oct. 26, 2016 closed-door hearing before the FISA Court, the Court censured administration officials and noted that their refusal to disclose the extent of their violations constituted an "institutional lack of candor" resulting in a "very serious Fourth Amendment issue."
Moreover, the promise breached by liar-nObama precipitated a "three-fold increase in NSA data searches about Americans and a rise in the unmasking of U.S. person's identities in intelligence reports." And assertions by administration lackeys like Susan Rice, who insisted her efforts to unmask Americans were "legal," were undercut by both the Court and the NSA's internal watchdog who noted NSA analysts had been conducting such queries in violation of the FISA Amendments Act of 2008 "with much greater frequency than had been previously disclosed to the Court."
The second Times story did note the FISA Court had previously rebuked the NSA for its abuses in 2011. Yet incredibly, the Justice Department told presiding Judge John D. Bates the NSA "discovered" a program aimed exclusively at foreigners "had also been gathering domestic messages for three years."
An agency whose sole job is to discover threats to national security was incapable of discovering its own violations of the law?
Section 702 of the Act prohibits intentionally targeting Americans. The giant hole in the law? In the process of targeting foreigners with these warrantless searches, the NSA "incidentally" or "inadvertently" captures vast numbers of Americans' communications with those foreigners. And in 2011 — the same year the liar-nObama administration promised to follow safeguards — the FISA Court granted the NSA "a new set of minimization procedures under which the government may use U.S. person identifiers" that were previously prohibited, Boston Review reported in 2013.
The Review makes it clear reverse targeting, as in "the targeting of a U.S. person under the guise or pretext of targeting a foreigner," is prohibited. Thus, Americans are supposed to believe the avalanche of leaks about Trump and his associates — courtesy of "current and former administration officials" willing to commit felonies to do so — arise strictly from incidental or inadvertent intel collection.
In a Washington Post piece rightfully excoriating Fox News reporter James Rosen and several other conservative sites for both insisting Circa broke the story and that the Times and Post (which also covered it without mentioning the liar-nObama administration) had blacked it out, the focus was once again shifted away from liar-nObama administration abuses. Yet the Post was forced to note Circa's piece "was part of a trio of stories that also included a look at the CIA's approach to unmasking and the FBI's sharing of data with third parties."
Those two stories are just as huge as the NSA piece. In one, Circa reveals liar-nObama administration CIA Director John Brennan had "unmasked the identities of Americans" and that there is "growing evidence the agency he oversaw has become one of the largest consumers of unmasked intelligence about Americans even though its charter prohibits it from spying on U.S. citizens."
In the other, it revealed the FBI "illegally shared raw intelligence about Americans with unauthorized third parties and violated other constitutional privacy protections," citing declassified government documents "that undercut the bureau's public assurances about how carefully it handles warrantless spy data to avoid abuses or leaks."
Circa also reminds us former FBI Director James Comey "unequivocally told lawmakers his agency used sensitive espionage data gathered about Americans without a warrant only when it was 'lawfully collected, carefully overseen and checked,'" before revealing that assertion is completely undermined by a declassified FISA Court ruling "listing hundreds of violations of the FBI's privacy-protecting minimization rules that occurred on Comey's watch."
Worse, the FISA Court was concerned the FBI is still engaged in similar abuses it has not yet reported.
In addition, a timeline compiled by investigative reporter Sharyl Attkisson amplifies the gross abuses of power perpetrated by the liar-nObama administration beginning in April 2009. They include the IRS targeting of conservative PACs, the orchestrated disinformation campaigns associated with the Fast and Furious and Benghazi scandals, administration spying on AP reporters, the CIA's improper access of Senate Intelligence Committee computers, and the collection of private communications by members of Congress — while spying on Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu.
Attkisson also reminds us that on January 12, 2017, liar-nObama administration finalized new rules "allowing the NSA to spread certain intelligence to 16 other U.S. intel agencies without the normal privacy protections" and that on May 4, 2017, it was revealed the administration "vastly expanded its searches of the NSA database for Americans" — during an election year.
Those are egregious abuses of power by the liar-nObama administration, and the attempt by leftist outlets like the Times and the Post to downplay that reality is hardly accidental. Yet these revelations could represent one of the greatest assaults on our constitutional protections in American history — courtesy of an administration whose stated goal was to "fundamentally transform the United States of America." And all the narrative-shaping in the world cannot obscure it. ~The Patriot Post
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Vatican City “Explosion”
by Pamela Geller
{pamelageller.com} ~ Plumes of black smoke have filled the sky above the Vatican amid reports of an explosion... Eyewitnesses spoke of seeing thick smoke coming from a building right next to the headquarters of the Roman Catholic Church after a ‘loud boom’. One news outlet in Rome claimed a large fire had erupted at an auto garage. http://pamelageller.com/2017/06/breaking-vatican-city-bombing.html/Palestinians: Israel's Goodwill
Gestures Send Wrong Messages
Palestinian terrorists who were released from prison by Israel as a "goodwill gesture"
Palestinian terrorists who were released from prison by Israel as a "goodwill gesture"
are honored at Mahmoud Abbas' presidential compound in Ramallah.
Half have returned to terrorism.
by Bassam Tawil
{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ The West suffers under a major misconception concerning the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: that "goodwill gestures" and territorial concessions on the part of Israel boost the prospects of peace in the Middle East... The facts, however, suggest that precisely the opposite is true. Last week, Israel's Channel 10 television station reported that the U.S. administration was pushing Israel to transfer parts of Area C -- areas under full Israeli security and civilian control in the West Bank -- to the control of Mahmoud Abbas's Palestinian Authority (PA). According to the report, the U.S. believes that the transfer of the territory to the PA would be a "goodwill step" towards the Palestinians, paving the way for the revival of the stalled peace process with Israel. This assumption, of course, has already proven wrong. The experiences of the past few decades have shown clearly that Israeli concessions have always sent the wrong message to the Palestinians... https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/10464/israel-goodwill-gesturesby Bassam Tawil
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{breaking911.com} ~ Tuesday, April 18, 8:15 a.m.: Along the 5100 block of Halsted Street on the South Side of Chicago, a quiet spring morning is interrupted by gunfire. Police respond to a gas station and discover a drive-by double homicide... As they secure the crime scene and work to identify the bodies and recover evidence, distraught family members of the victims begin to arrive, their faces full of anguish and disbelief. They will not be alone in their grief. By the end of the day in a city reeling from violent crime, there will be 13 more shootings and another murder. “The FBI sometimes battles a perception that we are only interested in terrorism or public corruption or large drug-trafficking organizations,” said Michael Anderson, special agent in charge of the Chicago Division. “The fact is, we are interested in those things, but in Chicago we are also getting down to the street level to address violent crime, and we are specifically going after the trigger-pullers and shot-callers.”... http://breaking911.com/fbi-deployed-streets-chicago/
FBI Deployed To The Streets of Chicago
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State to approve wave of
construction in Judea and Samaria
by David Rosenberg
{israelnationalnews.com} ~ The Civil Administration’s Higher Planning Committee is scheduled to meet next week to approve a series of building projects in Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria... Combined, the projects include plans for more than 2,600 housing units. If passed as expected, this would mark the first time the committee has approved housing projects in Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria since President Trump took office in January. The hearings will take place Tuesday and Wednesday, and will cover a number of projects which had been blocked out of political considerations, Channel 2 reported... http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/230466?utm_source=activetrail&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl.
Soros Calls Nationalist Hungarian
Govt A Mafia For Repelling Globalist Takeover
by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ Prominent globalist predator and world economic parasite, George Soros, delivered a speech on Thursday at the Brussels Economic Forum where he spoke of the challenges facing his kindred front organization, the European Union... Included in his diatribe were conflicts over the rule of law in Poland and Hungary. Poland and Hungary are refusing to submit to the Soros / EU orchestrated Islamic invasion and are not accepting the so-called “refugees.” Soros said, “I am full of admiration for the courageous way the Hungarian people have resisted the deception and corruption of the mafia state the Orban regime has established.” He defined the “mafia state” as the equivalent of a totalitarian regime – “one which maintains a facade of democracy but the rulers use their control of the media, the judiciary and the other levers of influence, to enrich and maintain themselves in power.”... http://rickwells.us/soros-calls-nationalist-hungarian-govt-mafia-repelling-globalist-takeover/.
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by Walter Williams
{jewishworldreview.com} ~ In 1798, Thomas Malthus wrote "An Essay on the Principle of Population." He predicted that mankind's birthrate would outstrip our ability to grow food and would lead to mass starvation.
Malthus' wrong predictions did not deter Stanford University professor Paul Ehrlich from making a similar prediction.
In his 1968 best-seller, "The Population Bomb," which has sold more than 2 million copies, Ehrlich warned: "The battle to feed all of humanity is over. In the 1970s and 1980s hundreds of millions of people will starve to death in spite of any crash programs embarked upon now."
This hoax resulted in billions of dollars being spent to fight overpopulation.
According to the standard understanding of the term, human overpopulation occurs when the ecological footprint of a human population in a specific geographical location exceeds the carrying capacity of the place occupied by that group.
Let's look at one aspect of that description — namely, population density. Let's put you, the reader, to a test. See whether you can tell which country is richer and which is poorer just by knowing two countries' population density.
North Korea's population density is 518 people per square mile, whereas South Korea's is more than double that, at 1,261 people per square mile. Hong Kong's population density is 16,444, whereas Somalia's is 36. Congo has 75 people per square mile, whereas Singapore has 18,513. Looking at the gross domestic products of these countries, one would have to be a lunatic to believe that smaller population density leads to greater riches. Here are some GDP data expressed in millions of U.S. dollars: North Korea ($17,396), South Korea ($1,411,246), Hong Kong ($320,668), Somalia ($5,707), Congo ($41,615) and Singapore ($296,967).
The overpopulation hoax has led to horrible population control programs. The United Nations Population Fund has helped governments deny women the right to choose the number and spacing of their children.
Overpopulation concerns led China to enact a brutal one-child policy.
Forced sterilization is a method of population control in some countries.
Nearly a quarter-million Peruvian women were sterilized.
Our government, through the U.N. Population Fund, is involved in "population moderation" programs around the world, including in India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Nigeria, Mexico, Indonesia, Brazil, the Philippines, Thailand, Egypt, Turkey, Ethiopia and Colombia.
The entire premise behind population control is based on the faulty logic that humans are not valuable resources. The fact of business is that humans are what the late Julian L. Simon called the ultimate resource. That fact becomes apparent by pondering this question: Why is it that Gen. George Washington did not have cellphones to communicate with his troops and rocket launchers to sink British ships anchored in New York Harbor?
Surely, all of the physical resources — such as aluminum alloys, copper, iron ore and chemical propellants — necessary to build cellphones and rocket launchers were around during Washington's time. In fact, they were around at the time of the cave man. There is only one answer for why cellphones, rocket launchers and millions of other things are around today but were not around yesteryear. The growth in human knowledge, human ingenuity, job specialization and trade led to industrialization, which, coupled with personal liberty and private property rights, made it possible. Human beings are valuable resources, and the more we have of them the better.
The greatest threat to mankind's prosperity is government, not population growth. For example, Zimbabwe was agriculturally rich but, with government interference, was reduced to the brink of mass starvation. Any country faced with massive government interference can be brought to starvation.
Blaming poverty on overpopulation not only lets governments off the hook but also encourages the enactment of harmful, inhumane policies.
Today's poverty has little to do with overpopulation. The most commonly held characteristics of non-poor countries are greater personal liberty, private property rights, the rule of law and an economic system closer to capitalism than to communism. That's the recipe for prosperity.
Overpopulation Hoax
{jewishworldreview.com} ~ In 1798, Thomas Malthus wrote "An Essay on the Principle of Population." He predicted that mankind's birthrate would outstrip our ability to grow food and would lead to mass starvation.
Malthus' wrong predictions did not deter Stanford University professor Paul Ehrlich from making a similar prediction.
In his 1968 best-seller, "The Population Bomb," which has sold more than 2 million copies, Ehrlich warned: "The battle to feed all of humanity is over. In the 1970s and 1980s hundreds of millions of people will starve to death in spite of any crash programs embarked upon now."
This hoax resulted in billions of dollars being spent to fight overpopulation.
According to the standard understanding of the term, human overpopulation occurs when the ecological footprint of a human population in a specific geographical location exceeds the carrying capacity of the place occupied by that group.
Let's look at one aspect of that description — namely, population density. Let's put you, the reader, to a test. See whether you can tell which country is richer and which is poorer just by knowing two countries' population density.
North Korea's population density is 518 people per square mile, whereas South Korea's is more than double that, at 1,261 people per square mile. Hong Kong's population density is 16,444, whereas Somalia's is 36. Congo has 75 people per square mile, whereas Singapore has 18,513. Looking at the gross domestic products of these countries, one would have to be a lunatic to believe that smaller population density leads to greater riches. Here are some GDP data expressed in millions of U.S. dollars: North Korea ($17,396), South Korea ($1,411,246), Hong Kong ($320,668), Somalia ($5,707), Congo ($41,615) and Singapore ($296,967).
The overpopulation hoax has led to horrible population control programs. The United Nations Population Fund has helped governments deny women the right to choose the number and spacing of their children.
Overpopulation concerns led China to enact a brutal one-child policy.
Forced sterilization is a method of population control in some countries.
Nearly a quarter-million Peruvian women were sterilized.
Our government, through the U.N. Population Fund, is involved in "population moderation" programs around the world, including in India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Nigeria, Mexico, Indonesia, Brazil, the Philippines, Thailand, Egypt, Turkey, Ethiopia and Colombia.
The entire premise behind population control is based on the faulty logic that humans are not valuable resources. The fact of business is that humans are what the late Julian L. Simon called the ultimate resource. That fact becomes apparent by pondering this question: Why is it that Gen. George Washington did not have cellphones to communicate with his troops and rocket launchers to sink British ships anchored in New York Harbor?
Surely, all of the physical resources — such as aluminum alloys, copper, iron ore and chemical propellants — necessary to build cellphones and rocket launchers were around during Washington's time. In fact, they were around at the time of the cave man. There is only one answer for why cellphones, rocket launchers and millions of other things are around today but were not around yesteryear. The growth in human knowledge, human ingenuity, job specialization and trade led to industrialization, which, coupled with personal liberty and private property rights, made it possible. Human beings are valuable resources, and the more we have of them the better.
The greatest threat to mankind's prosperity is government, not population growth. For example, Zimbabwe was agriculturally rich but, with government interference, was reduced to the brink of mass starvation. Any country faced with massive government interference can be brought to starvation.
Blaming poverty on overpopulation not only lets governments off the hook but also encourages the enactment of harmful, inhumane policies.
Today's poverty has little to do with overpopulation. The most commonly held characteristics of non-poor countries are greater personal liberty, private property rights, the rule of law and an economic system closer to capitalism than to communism. That's the recipe for prosperity.
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