Oregon is a Diseased State as Vladimir Putin Renounces Liberalism

Source: Post Millennial

UPDATED: Renowned journalist Andy Ngo violently assaulted by Portland Antifa

June 29, 2019 | by Barrett Wilson

Update: New footage has been found and uploaded to YouTube by journalist Michelle Malkin. This video shows a clearer view and different angles of Ngo's assailants. It is hoped that it will lead to the identification and arrest of these suspects who are still at large. You can view the footage here:

Nasrallah: a War against Iran would Destroy Israel, the Saud and US Hegemony

Source: Resistance News Unfiltered

Speech by Hezbollah Secretary General Sayed Hassan Nasrallah on Friday, May 31, 2019, on the occasion of Al-Quds (Jerusalem) International Day.

Translation: resistancenewsunfiltered.blogspot.com

See the previous parts of this speech:

Resistance Axis, Arab & Muslim Peoples will Never Forsake Palestine

In the Next War, Missiles from Lebanon, Gaza, Syria & Iran will Strike Israel, Trump's Deal of the Century Doomed to Fail

Monsters Walk the Earth. Why These Three Countries Are the Real Troika of Evil

Source: Information Clearing House

By Philip Giraldi • June 28, 2019

"Information Clearing House" - There are monsters among us. Every day I read about an American "plan" to either invade some place new or to otherwise inflict pain to convince a "non-compliant" foreign government how to behave. Last week it was Iran but next week it could just as easily again be Lebanon, Syria or Venezuela. Or even Russia or China, both of whom are seen as "threats" even though American soldiers, sailors and marines sit on their borders and not vice versa. The United States is perhaps unique in the history of the world in that it sees threats everywhere even though it is not, in fact, threatened by anyone.

Food Blackmail, the Washington Consensus and Freedom

Source: Michael Hudson

Monday, June 24, 2019

Toronto Raptors’ Trip to Israel

Source: The Unz Review

The Obscenity of Jewish Power

by Kevin Barrett • June 26, 2019 • 75 Comments

Savage Black Nigger Immigrant Butchers Utah White College Student Then Torches the Body

Source: BuzzFeed News

The Search For A Missing College Student Came To End After Authorities Said She Was Killed, Then Burned In A Man's Backyard

Police found human remains and items that belonged to 23-year-old Mackenzie Lueck in the ashes of a backyard burn.

by Salvador Hernandez | BuzzFeed News Reporter | June 28, 2019

Salt Lake City police take a man into custody in connection with missing University of Utah student MacKenzie Lueck in Salt Lake City. Kristin Murphy / The Deseret News via AP

Revolting Footage of Kiev Sodomy-Pride Parade Grosses Out Russians

Source: Vesti News

Ukraine Officially Joins the West! State-Enforced Homosexual Parade in Kiev Finally Proves It!

 

The Civil War Now in America

Source: The Saker

by Eric Zuesse for The Saker blog | June 26, 2019 | 20 Comments

America is controlled only by its wealthiest, and they are solidly in control of both political Parties. However, now that they are in control, they are fighting bitterly amongst one-another. They are on two sides. Concerning foreign policies, and domestic policies, Republican Party billionaires hate especially Iran, and especially all progressivism. By contrast, concerning foreign policies, and domestic policies, Democratic Party billionaires hate especially Russia, and accept some progressivism. (They need to do the latter so that they can be considered to be liberals and thus tolerated or even admired by Democratic Party voters. That's necessary for them because, for example, Democratic Party voters would be just as turned off toward a politician who is financed by and fronts for the conservative Koch brothers, as Republican Party voters would be turned off toward a politician who is financed by and fronts for the liberal George Soros — and everybody knows that billionaires fund the major politicians; it's not a totally hidden fact. Soros and other liberal billionaires can claim to be 'public spirited', which is necessary for them in order to be able to appeal to liberals; but the Koch brothers and other avowedly conservative billionaires have no need to make that pretense in order to appeal to conservatives.)

'We need a lifeline' South African farmers plead for asylum as attacks escalate

Source: Daily Star

SOUTH Africans are pleading for asylum abroad as attacks on farmers in the country escalate

By Rachel O'Donoghue | 25 June 2019

PLEA: Mum Nicky has pleaded for asylum after her family was brutally attacked (Pic: JAMIE PYATT NEWS)

Durham LGBTQ center receives $113,000+ for creation of youth center

Source: CBS17

by Robert Richardson • Jun 25, 2019

DURHAM, N.C. (WNCN) – The LGBTQ Center of Durham received news of a six-figure funding increase right in the middle of Pride Month.

US and Canada Are Backing an Elite White Supremacist Minority in Venezuela

Source: The Unz Review

Ny David William Pear • June 18, 2019 • 88 Comments

"Racism is one of the main engines and expressions of the current counter-revolution. In Venezuela the revolutionary struggle to end white supremacy and for self-determination is slow, and complicated by white elites, backed by US imperialism, and by the denial of many that racism persists." Quote from Venezuelanalysis.com, "Racism Without Shame in the Venezuelan Counter-Revolution"

'Trump’s $50-billion Middle East plan is a win-win for Israel & a loss for Palestine'

Source: RT News

22 Jun, 2019

© Reuters / Fabrizio Bensch

The new multibillion US investment plan unveiled without the political solution part is beneficial to Israel, but not to Palestine, experts told RT.

Post This Everywhere

Well worth a re-read and posted everywhere - "The Gentlemen's guide to forum spies"

Know your enemies by what they post and how it is posted.

Technique #1 - 'FORUM SLIDING'

If a very sensitive posting of a critical nature has been posted on a forum - it can be quickly removed from public view by 'forum sliding.' In this technique a number of unrelated posts are quietly pre-positioned on the forum and allowed to 'age.' Each of these misdirecting forum postings can then be called upon at will to trigger a 'forum slide.' The second requirement is that several fake accounts exist, which can be called upon, to ensure that this technique is not exposed to the public. To trigger a 'forum slide' and 'flush' the critical post out of public view it is simply a matter of logging into each account both real and fake and then 'replying' to pre-positioned postings with a simple 1 or 2 line comment. This brings the unrelated postings to the top of the forum list, and the critical posting 'slides' down the front page, and quickly out of public view. Although it is difficult or impossible to censor the posting it is now lost in a sea of unrelated and un-useful postings. By this means it becomes effective to keep the readers of the forum reading unrelated and non-issue items.

Ukrainian Nationalism: A 1000 Year Papal Plot Driven by Hatred of Eastern Christianity

Source: Russia Insider

by The Saker | Fri, Jun 21, 2019

The Saker first published this article on his blog in February of 2014, as the crisis in the Ukraine was accelerating. The first half of the article has excellent historical analysis, the 2nd half deals with events in Ukraine at the time.

So, You Want to Do Iran Hey?

Source: RR Conner

History of the Huey

The first flight of the Huey was by Pilot, Floyd Carlson on October 22, 1956 in Fort Worth.

UH-1 aircraft have totaled more than 27 million flight hours since Oct. 22, 1956 when the first model of the huey was flown.

What's With This Black Reparations Social Movement?

Source: The National Sentinel

Danny Glover's plea for slavery reparations feeds into all the negative stereotypes about blacks

June 19, 2019 by Jon Dougherty | 6 Comments

(NationalSentinel) When actors and actresses have made their fortune and they no longer have to scrimp, save, and bust ass to land a job, they generally become 'political activists' and almost always stump for Left-wing causes.

Credit Card Debt Spikes In Hawaii As Economy Falters

Source: Zero Hedge

by Tyler Durden | Sat, 06/15/2019

Total credit card debt among American consumers jumped 29% since 2015, reaching a whopping $807 billion in 1Q19, according to the latest Experian data. In the past year, as the economy cycles down, overall credit card debt rose 6%.

More than 60% of Americans used credit cards for basic purchases in 1Q19. That's an 11% increase when compared to 1Q16, and a 3% increase from 1Q18.

The average American carries four credit cards with a balance of $6,028.

The Maximum Pressure Campaign Presses Toward War

Source: Lobe Blog

June 14, 2019 | Paul Pillar | 16 Comments

Mike Pompeo (CNN)

The statement by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on the latest incident involving tankers in the Gulf of Oman is questionable on multiple counts, beginning with his immediate, semi-automatic attribution of responsibility to Iran. The origin of the fires and explosions on the tankers is still undetermined, grainy videos notwithstanding. The Japanese company that owns one of the tankers reports that the crew's description of what hit the ship doesn't square with the U.S. administration's version. And no one has yet explained why the Iranian regime would go out of its way to embarrass Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan—which has been one of the leading buyers of Iranian oil—by sabotaging a Japanese tanker on the very day Abe was meeting with Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.

Watch US spy for Israel Jonathan Pollard Kvetching* about Israel.

June 02, 2019 | by Gilad Atzmon

In a rare interview with Israel's Channel 12, Jonathan Pollard, the American who betrayed his country for the Jewish State has spoken of his frustration with the Israeli government, which it claims has forgotten about him. Back in the 1980s Pollard was an intelligence analyst for the United States Navy. He was caught selling US government secrets to Israel and spent 30 years in prison.

Throughout Pollard's time in prison, the Israeli and Jewish pressure groups lobbied relentlessly for his release, claiming that the spy did not harm American interests, but was simply trying to help Israel. Ever since his release, Pollard has been required to wear an ankle monitor at all times. His Internet browsing is strictly regulated by the US government and he is not permitted to leave his New York home after sunset. He is also not permitted to leave the US, and Washington has refused to allow him to move to Israel.

The Hitlerization of Jeremy Corbyn (Among Others)

Source: The Unz Review

by C.J. Hopkins • June 13, 2019 • 53 Comments

Every time you think the corporatocracy's manufactured anti-Semitism hysteria cannot possibly get more absurd, they somehow manage to outdo themselves. OK, stay with me now, because this is a weird one.

'Eye-Popping': Analysis Shows Top 1% Gained $21 Trillion in Wealth Since 1989 While Bottom Half Lost $900 Billion

Source: Common Dreams

"The top one percent owns nearly $30 trillion of assets while the bottom half owns less than nothing."

by Jake Johnson, staff writer | June 15, 2019

CEO and founder of Amazon Jeff Bezos participates in a discussion during a Milestone Celebration dinner September 13, 2018 in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Adding to the mountain of statistical evidence showing the severity of U.S. inequality, an analysis published Friday found that the top one percent of Americans gained $21 trillion in wealth since 1989 while the bottom 50 percent lost $900 billion.

CNN Thrives On War Reporting (Propaganda)

CNN Article Pointing to Iran

by Christopher Jon Bjerknes | June 14, 2019

A recent CNN article by Nic Robertson is drawing the conclusion that the circumstantial evidence surrounding the recent bombings of ships in the Gulf of Oman points to Iran. I would like to point out that the Gulf War was very good business for CNN and established the network as a major player in mass media. The Wikipedia article covering CNN states,

"The first Persian Gulf War in 1991 was a watershed event for CNN that catapulted the channel past the "Big Three" American networks for the first time in its history, largely due to an unprecedented, historical scoop: CNN was the only news outlet with the ability to communicate from inside Iraq during the initial hours of the Coalition bombing campaign, with live reports from the al-Rashid Hotel in Baghdad by reporters Bernard Shaw, John Holliman and Peter Arnett."

Abolishing Time Is The right Way to Go Returning to a More Natural Life (Sky Clock)

Source: GIZMODO

A Norwegian City Wants To Abolish Time

by Ryan F. Mandelbaum | Jun 16, 2019

Kjell Ove Hveding (second from left) and others destroying a clock. (Photo: Kjell Ove Hveding)

Every day, the Earth rotates. The Sun appears on the horizon in the morning, and then some time later, it sets. We've built our lives and societies around this periodicity, with days that are divided into hours, minutes and seconds, all kept track of by clocks.

Chinese company making F-35 parts?! Embarrassing "discovery" further erodes "Huawei spying" hysteria

Source: RT News

June 15, 2019

© Reuters / Axel Schmidt

After a Chinese company was found manufacturing circuit boards for the F-35 jet, the UK Ministry of Defense insisted there is nothing to worry about, rendering the fuss over omnipresent Beijing spies increasingly silly.

Good Bye, MSNBC, You're History

Source: Russia Insider

MSNBC in Turmoil, Ratings Crash 32% After Relentless Lying About Russiahoax

by Byron McKeeby Nan | June 15, 2019

Reports are surfacing about a quiet shake-up of personnel at MSNBC after the cable news station lost more than 30% of their audience after the Mueller debacle.

Foreign banks willing to join Russia’s alternative to SWIFT

Source: RT News

June 15, 2019

Moscow International Business Center © Sputnik / Maxim Blinov

Banks based in several states are planning to participate in the Russian-developed money transfer network that serves as an alternative to the traditional SWIFT system, according to the head of the Central Bank of Russia (CBR).

Groundbreaking Report Gives Us a Glimpse of the US Military’s Gigantic Carbon Footprint

Source: GITMO

by Brian Kahn • Thursday, June 13, 2019

There are a lot of superlatives that can be used to describe the U.S. military. It represents the biggest chunk of the federal budget. It's extremely good at killing people. And it's also a prolific carbon emitter and serial oil user.

On Edward Dutton's RACE DIFFERENCES IN ETHNOCENTRISM—and Why White Ethnocentrism Will Return

Source: The Unz Review

by Lance Welton • June 8, 2019 • 67 Comments

In September 2015, the European Union was subject to what has become known as "The Great Migration." [Prepare yourselves: The Great Migration will be with us for decades, by Fraser Nelson, Telegraph, September 3, 2015]In a matter of weeks, hundreds of thousands of people—most of them young and male, from Syria and other parts of the Muslim world—illegally overwhelmed the hapless southern European border controls. Before long, columns of them were marching through Eastern Europe, determined to get to Germany or the UK and "claim asylum"—ignoring the assorted “safe countries" through which they'd already passed. Finland-based English anthropologist Dr Edward Dutton was fascinated by the huge differences in how different ethnic groups reacted to these supposed "refugees."

This Technology Should Have Stayed In America Instead of Being Outsourced To Israel

Ed.'s note: Imagine where America would be today with this technology remaining in America instead of Israel appropriating it over the past 40 years? This is even more relevant with Israel building an Intel microprocessor manufacturing plant in Israel worth an estimated $11 billion.

How NeoCon Billionaire Paul Singer Is Driving the Outsourcing of US Tech Jobs to Israel

The Birth of Silicon Valley - Startup Hub - Intel, Apple, Google, Facebook - Documentary

More: 

U.S. Senate Warns Israel Over Deepening Ties With China, Citing ‘Serious Security Concerns'

Forward with intensity. 

The US Intelligence Community Is Tearing the Country Apart from the Inside

Source: Russia Insider

This article from our archives was first published on RI in July 2018

by Dmitry Orlov | June 14, 2019

Orlov is one of our favorite essayists on Russia and all sorts of other things. He moved to the US as a child, and lives in the Boston area.

He is one of the better-known thinkers The New Yorker has dubbed 'The Dystopians' in an excellent 2009 profile, along with James Howard Kunstler, another regular contributor to RI (archive). These theorists believe that modern society is headed for a jarring and painful crack-up.

He is best known for his 2011 book comparing Soviet and American collapse (he thinks America's will be worse). He is a prolific author on a wide array of subjects, and you can see his work by searching him on Amazon.

US Troops Wipe Out a Contingent of Afghan Security Forces With an Airstrike for the Second Time in a Month

Source: Check Point Asia

Not The Onion

by Jason Ditz | 13 Jun 19

For the second time in less than a month, US forces carried out airstrikes “in self defense” in Afghanistan, only to discover that they were actually attacking Afghan security forces. The Wednesday strike ended up wiping out an entire unit, though officials have yet to disclose the exact number of deaths, beyond it apparently being everyone present.

Wtf Is This? (Entire Societies Are Being Engineered)

frEak sociEty @ West Pride 2014 

Objective: Health #17 - Attack of the Soyboys - The Feminization of Men‌‌

Source: SOTT.net

Sott.net | Sun, 09 Jun 2019

We all know the stereotype of the Soyboy - males lacking in manliness, utterly subservient, usually declaring themselves to be a 'male feminist' and generally wallowing in the self-hating guilt of being an oppressive male. It's a clever meme based on the conception that soy consumption leads to a feminization in men. But it's just a meme, isn't it?

News Flash for the US Department of State....

Sunday, June 9, 2019 | By Anna Von Reitz

….and also for the United States Department of State, the US State Department, the United States State Department, the US STATE DEPARTMENT, or however else you wish to cobble things up and rename and shuffle and shamelessly, criminally misconduct your business operations:

We, the American States and People, are not Municipal Citizens of the United States, did not ever even reply to the offer made by Franklin Delano Roosevelt specifically to Municipal Citizens of the United States --- and were under no obligation to reply, since his remarks were obviously not addressed to us.

Nor can we be presumed to be subject to any undisclosed, unilateral or implied commercial contracting process, as our commercial vessels have been dry-docked and otherwise moth-balled since 1868. We couldn't have been operating in commerce nor be subject to any commercial law in 1933 and the issuance of commercial vessels in our names as purported gifts is just self-interested fraud.

Wtf?

Source: Parents

Pregnant Woman Found Slain with Baby Ripped Out, Allegedly Lured by Woman in Facebook Mom Group

Marlen Ochoa-Lopez's family believes she was lured to her death by a woman she met in a Facebook mom group who promised her baby clothes.

By Greg Hanlon • May 16, 2019

Do We Face A Global Food Disaster?

Source: Katehon

June 4, 2019 • F. William Engdahl

No, this is not at all an endorsement of the apocalyptic scenarios of AOC or that famous young Swedish climate expert, Greta. It is, however, a look at unusual weather disasters in several key growing regions from the USA to Australia, the Philippines and beyond that could dramatically affect food availability and prices in the coming year. That in turn could have major political implications depending on how the rest of the growing season develops.

More Police Raids as War on Journalism Escalates Worldwide [Assange Effect]

Source: Consortium News

by By Caitlin Johnstone | June 5, 2019 | 23 Comments

A centrally-planned conspiracy is not necessarily behind this trend, writes Caitlin Johnstone. It may simply be the reflex of an ailing empire.

The Australian Federal Police have conducted two raids on journalists and seized documents in purportedly unrelated incidents in the span of just two days.

Iran's Jewish Rulers

by Donny Ahzmond

June 3, 2019

YouTube's Complete Corruption Revealed

Source: Heresy Central

2019-05-26 | by David Martin

In July of last year, we published an article entitled, "YouTube Censorship Really Hits Home." In that article, we told of our discovery that some of our song parodies had been taken down from YouTube. I had collaborated first with the Cheverly Brothers to set four political parodies of Everly Brothers' songs to music and then with Gary King, the video maker for Jim Fetzer, to make them into videos. Those videos turned out to be collateral damage in the taking down of Fetzer's video channel by YouTube.

Something good came out of the experience, though. Fetzer, as described in the article, had turned to the independent video platform, 153News, to carry his video channel. King had used his own software to produce his Cheverly Brothers videos, so it was a relatively easy matter for him to put them up at 153News. If you want to find those videos at 153 News now, just go to the bottom of the pages, respectively, for Drones, You Won't Fool Me, Bibi's Clowns, and Devoted to Truth at my DCDave web site. The hyperlinks that used to take you to YouTube now take you to 153News.

Defiant Italy To Launch 'Parallel Currency' To the Euro

Source: Townhall Finance

Italy Poised To Launch Euro Parallel Currency

by Mike Shedlock | Jun 05, 2019

Italy faces an "Excessive Deficit" ruling, the first in EU history. Italy's response is a parallel currency proposal.

U.S.-China Trade War Portends Painful Times for U.S. Semiconductor Industry

Source: IEEE Spectrum

Semiconductor industry mavens in the United States anticipate damage from U.S.-China trade policy and call for a national strategy for semiconductor manufacturing

 By Tekla S. Perry | June 5, 2019

"There is going to be a lot of pain for the semiconductor industry before it normalizes," says Dan Hutcheson.

Social-Cultural Interference

Bill Kristol: "White Working Class Should Be Replaced by Immigrants" 

And what About the 1,500 Americans Killed at Slapton Sands Before D-Day April 27-18, 1944?

World leaders mark 75th anniversary of D-Day landings 

How AMD really took the fight to Intel at Computex 2019

Source: Pocket-lint

by Dan Grabham | 3 June 2019

 - It was a huge Computex for Intel and AMD this time around

Israeli Military Intensifies Attacks On Syria

Source: The Saker 

June 3, 2019

'Absolutely reprehensible': Israel to auction off EU-funded classrooms it confiscated from Palestinians last year

Source: Mondoweiss

by Yumna Patel  |  June 3, 2019

A decision by Israeli authorities to auction off prefabricated classrooms that were confiscated from a Palestinian village last year is causing controversy among local and international leaders.

Secrets of Cannabis Revealed

Source: AIM

May 31, 2019

We turn our attention to another "truth" that has been hidden and suppressed from the general public – the incredible health benefits of cannabis and hemp, not to mention the hundreds, if not thousands, of commercial, industrial, and residential uses of weed.

Google, YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, Comcast, Instagram suffer devastating outages as Trump goes to war with Big Tech's malicious censorship and fraud

Source: Natural Health

Sunday, June 02, 2019 | by Mike Adams

(Natural News) It is no coincidence that two days after the Trump administration announced a massive DOJ anti-trust investigation into Google, dozens of tech companies have been disrupted via sweeping internet outages that many are calling the "internet kill switch."

Wtf FBI?

Source: True Pundit

FBI Brass Ran Up $65K World Series Tab of Freebies in Luxury Box of LA Dodgers Owners While Team Was Target of FBI Grand Jury Probe

May 30, 2019

Numerous FBI executives lived it up in the executive suite and lounge of the Los Angeles Dodgers' owners during the 2018 World Series, attending the sky-high-priced event for free — at the same time the Dodgers were a target of a federal grand jury investigation.

Federal sources said a team of high ranking FBI brass from the Los Angeles field office attended a World Series game between the Dodgers and the Boston Red Sox and racked up a massive game tab rivaling $50,000 to $65,000 in freebies, including drinks, food, executive club access and mingling with baseball all stars and Hollywood celebrities in the posh owner's digs during the October 2018 affair.

US 'Regime Change' in Venezuela: Fake, Fake, Fake!

Source: antiwar.com

by Justin Raimondo | February 08, 2019

It's the smartest political maneuver I've seen in quite a while, a set up job to beat all set up jobs – a dirty trick by a master trickster and it's being played out right out there in public, not in the shadows as is usually the case.

I'm talking about the fake invasion of Venezuela, a project assigned by the President to the neocon faction in the administration.

Hey wait a minute – the neocon faction? There isn't supposed to be any such thing! If you recall Trump explicitly attacked the neocons in his first foreign policy speech. Why is he appointing his mortal enemies?

And they are indeed his enemies: Elliott Abrams denounced him as unfit to be President and compared him to George McGovern – a dangerous isolationist whose followers must be driven out of the Republican Party.

New York Citizens Benefit from Baby Harvesting

Source: AIM

June 2, 2019

Shocking, but true. The citizens of New York State, whether they know it or not, are enriching themselves from the sale of baby parts. Learn how and why. Now that you know this, citizen of New York state, you must say and do something or you are complicit in profiting from the murder of innocents.

We are a group of concerned citizens residing in the state of New York and also in the City of New York.

Since the start of the Cuomo administration New York state has become the most moved out of state in the country (2). This year alone the state has experienced a budget shortfall of over 2 billion dollars (3).

In the city of New York an agency run by Mayor De Blasio's wife cannot account for over $850 million dollars (4) of taxpayer money.

Portugal becomes the first euro zone country to issue debt on China's market

Source: CNBC

Portugal's Finance Minister Mario Centeno told CNBC that the issuance is a "positive step in managing Portugal's external debt in the medium term."

QUELUZ, PORTUGAL - DECEMBER 05: The President of the People’s Republic of China Xi Jinping and Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Costa. Horacio Villalobos | Corbis News | Getty Images

Portugal has become the first ever euro zone country to issue bonds denominated in the Chinese yuan.

Why Do Jews Lie So Much? - Let's Find Out

Dershowitz on Europeans and Irrationality

May 31, 2019 | by Gilad Atzmon

Noam Chomsky wrote of Dershowitz that he is a "remarkable liar" and "slanderer." These problematic traits Chomsky noted of the former Harvard professor have proved useful. I might not have seen Dershowitz' most recent recycled rant had he not mentioned my name and, as always, lied about me.

"Tax Processing Centers" --- Public Warning Notice --- Demand for Action

Friday, May 31, 2019 | By Anna Von Reitz

The latest in a long line of Tax Frauds committed by the US Territorial and Municipal US "Government" corporations is on the way.

I am referring to the advent of "Tax Processing Centers" --- these bogus private operations are springing up all over the country and forewarned is forearmed.

What appears in your mail is one of those particularly irritating letters that are glued together around the edges and that you have to deconstruct very carefully to avoid tearing.

These missives are addressed to Municipal Public Transmitting Utilities --- names that appear in ALL CAPS --- and use what appear-to-be Middle Initials, but without a period to designate it as such. Observe the form of the NAME: JOHN M DOE. The names being used now are also devoid of hyphens or other punctuation: LINDA A SMYTHE ANDERSON, instead of Linda A. Smythe-Anderson.