According to Bloopbert News an attempt to discipline a teenager went horribly wrong when she broke free of two assistants trying to hold her down while the Principal paddled her reached into her purse, which was near by, pulled out a gun shooting several rounds injuring one of the assistants that was trying to restrain her then shooting an killing the Principal.

(This is a fictional story inspired by The Supreme Court and Corporal Punishment 06/17/2008 none of the names or events are real; and this is not intended to be a recommendation of how to address this situation, which would result in disaster if tried in defense of a real incident. Additional details below.)

One of the assistants asked to help restrain this student informed Bloopbert News that the Principal of a for profit Charter School, Brian Brutus, decided to discipline her for leaving school grounds to eat breakfast, which he claimed was against the rules, even though she returned before classes began. They were ordered to hold her in place while Brutus administered the paddling. They removed her purse, without checking the contents, from her and informed her that she would receive it back as soon as they were done, placing it on a desk nearby.

After administering two or three swats causing Jessie to scream in pain, she broke free swinging at the assistants, who backed off in surprise. Brutus said that he would now start all over and add three more swats as additional punishment for her resistance. Jessie that screeched out "NO" and ran for her purse; one of the assistants grabbed her, but as she turned around she pulled out the gun shooting her in the shoulder, before pointing it at the other assistant who ducked behind the desk as she fired a second time. At this time Brutus ran at her and she fired several shoots hitting him in the chest and one to the head before running out the door.

Jessie apparently ran to her fathers car and left before police arrived and is now at large. Brutus and the assistant that were shot were both transported to the hospital, but Brutus was declared dead on arrival from his wounds. The assistant is in stable condition with non life threatening wounds.

Police claim that Jessie should be considered armed and dangerous; however several of her family members and friends all claim that she has no history of violence, and that she would never have hurt anyone if they weren't abusing her. One of the students that was with her during the visit to get breakfast and was waiting for her paddling out in the hall claimed that they asked to withdraw from the school and that Jessie had that right since she was an adult after turning eighteen two weeks earlier. This was her last week before graduation.

Brutus refused to allow her to withdraw and said that she must take the paddling like any other student.

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Jessie was scared and didn't know what she could do under the circumstances. She had just left the school and didn't know how any of the teachers were, or if they had survived, although she was certain that one of them wasn't shot and the police would soon be looking for her. Going to breakfast was such a trivial thing and she couldn't believe that she was being beaten for something so petty; if she had done something like that to anyone she would be treated like a criminal; however it was widely known that when teachers do it the Courts have repeatedly ruled in their favor in the Southern States that still allowed corporal punishment, even in many incidents where students were seriously injured and required medical treatment.

How could a justice system be considered fair when it approves one case after another of corporal punishment even when the students require medical treatment in the emergency room?

She didn't intend to shoot any of them but they were bigger than her holding her down three on one while the Principal beat her, and she was fed up with the threat of being beaten after years in the Texas education system hearing about many more cases where teachers actually seemed to enjoy beating kids with impunity.

She had herd about numerous cases where one judge after another ruled that corporal punishment in schools was legal and was finally relieved to be through with this education system after only one more week; but now in a panic they used the flimsiest excuse to beat her again. Judge Herman Thomas had just been charged with illegally spanking male prisoners and there was another Judge right here in Texas who was just exposed by his own daughter who had video taped him beating her and it went viral even making the national news.

She only acted in self defense but the judges that will inevitably hear her case if she's brought to trial in Texas have repeatedly ruled that teachers and Principals have a right to beat children, and children don't have a right to self defense.

Could she get better treatment if she was able to get amnesty at her aunt's place in Wisconsin, assuming she could get there? or over the border in Canada? Perhaps she could demand fair treatment before they consider extradition assuming she came back; or could she find some way to change her name and start over?

It seems so hopeless, since the law isn't designed to protect kids on some states from their abusers instead it is designed to protect the abusers from justice enabling them to beat and in some cases even hospitalize them.

She had to at least try but if she was going to have a chance she had to move quickly.

She rushed home, but instead of parking at her own house she went around the block and parked in her friends garage and parked it where no one would see it long enough to get some stuff before she left. Then she cut across the back yard and quickly fetched some clothes, and her bank book, which had the savings she was planning to use for college, but now it didn't seem likely that she would be able to go after all.

Why did he have to make such a big deal out of something so trivial?

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I don't suppose this is the best fiction, I'll probably put the rest of this story on the back burner for a while to try to make it a little better. If I end this in a realistic manner there is little or no chance that it could turn out well. It should have been clear decades ago that the best way to end this is to stop child abuse in schools and whenever possible at home as well.

According to Wikipedia's List of school shootings in the United States there were quite a few shootings that were directly incited by incidents of corporal punishment going back a hundred years if not longer; however most of them were not directly related to corporal punishment in schools. One of the few that was directly related to corporal punishment was Robin Robinson, which was described by Phil Chalmers in the following excerpt:



This lead to him spending half his life behind bars; although he was released after attending juvenile detention early and often abusive and violent incarceration does little to rehabilitate; and he was arrested a second time after killing a former police officer and was presumably close to the end of a thirty year prison sentence when this book went to press, and may be out by now, although a quick search doesn't show the results.

Most of these school shootings; however weren't directly related to corporal punishment in schools; but according to the following study they're significantly more common in states with corporal punishment in schools:



I followed up with a rougher comparison that wasn't peer reviewed by organizing the Wikipedia article of shootings from 2010 to September 2016 and found that there were more school shootings in the states with corporal punishment than those without even though there are now fifty percent more without than there are with corporal punishment. Thanks to a few exceptionally high number of deaths in just four of the incidents, including Newtown, though there were more deaths in the ones without; but these aberrations make it less reliable for statistical purposes, and if they were adjusted per capita it would be significantly less, although I haven't done the math.

There is still enough statistical evidence to indicate that the states with corporal punishment in schools mostly in the South, have far higher murder rates than those without. There are typically six to eight in the top ten on any given year and only one in the bottom ten, and that one is Idaho which hardly ever uses corporal punishment. The only other state close to the bottom ten is Wyoming which also hardly ever uses it even though it is still allowed by the law.

It also appears that a rough look at statistics indicates that the Southern states still allowing corporal punishment in schools also have higher problems with improper sexual relations between teachers and students. Four of the five states with the most incidents including, Alabama, Kentucky, Louisiana, Vermont and Mississippi, in that order based on a rough study by Terry Abbott, who in 2001 served as chief of staff under Secretary of Education Rod Paige during George W. Bush's first term as president. The articles I found on this didn't list states beyond that but they did mention that the two with the biggest total were Texas and Pennsylvania, presumably coming in close per capita in the top ten; which means that seven out of the ones reported have corporal punishment, perhaps eight, since they also mention that Florida had a large number. California, which a higher population than any other state doesn't seem to rank high enough for much mention and it doesn't allow corporal punishment.

One of the most famous cases was Shelley Dufresne who happened to be a daughter of a judge and got off far more leniently than any other convicted sex offender could hope to. Even though her father and three other judges officially stepped aside when sentencing her she avoided jail time and being forced to register as a sex offender in return for ninety days of treatment at an inpatient mental health facility, serve three years of active probation and pay a $1,000 fine.

There is simply no way someone without political connections could get that lenient treatment for such a high profile case; and when it was accepted there was no national coverage of the light sentence although it must have been reported locally. This received an enormous amount of attention, nationwide, when it was first exposed.

There are numerous studies available and additional reports below many of which were compiled with help from Julie and George Edgar Worley who have been reporting on this for years if not decades. Some of the supporting articles I reported on in the past two articles of mine were also pointed out to me by them although I failed to adequately mention that at the time.

The best research is routinely reported in the academic world among those interested in the subject; but it rarely gets mentioned in the traditional press. When the traditional press does report on the subject they often give much better coverage for the least credible research and often fail to show the evidence showing how incompetent it is.

This is part of the reason why most people haven't heard about nearly any of these stories. There have been dozens if not hundreds of stories debunking false stories like "Pizzagate" and a few others lately but they fail to mention that for every high profile false news story there are many more accurate ones of abuse that is almost as bad if not worse.

Surprisingly, to many, there are an enormous number of reports of teachers, judges and police officers that really do have fetishes or other problems abusing children, and although I haven't done a statistical review of them, it seems clear that a large portion of them are in Southern states which consider this acceptable.

In an article I cross-posted on the Daily Kos, Springtown Texas expands sanctioned child abuse AKA corporal punishment on 09/27/2012, I received numerous responses, including one which no longer appears to be there, but there are several dead links. This one presumably was full of pictures that were gathered as evidence of abuses at schools where corporal punishment was used. No rational person would consider there photos, which did display partial nudity, to be sexy; however the fact that they were all young teen age girls led me to the conclusion that they might have been selectively displayed for reasons other than their original intent.

They were all shown with their backs to the camera and not showing their faces so that they would be difficult to identify and they all had severely bruised rear ends often legs or lower back as well. This appears as if it might have been done in a systematic way and since the photos weren’t otherwise intended to be alluring I don’t doubt the claim that these were compiled by people documenting them for abuse claims but they look like they could fit just as well in a Sadomasochism porn book. Philip Greven, author of “Spare the Child” has reported on how spanking is a major contributing cause to later sexual dysfunction including Sadomasochism.

By reporting so widely about the false news stories without telling people about the real ones they falsely give the impression that many of these stories should be considered "fake news;" but if you check them most of them are clearly reported in reliable outlets and are true or mostly true.

Amazingly during the presidential campaign they briefly reported that Jeb Bush supported what was known as a "Spanker’s Bill of Rights," not to defend children that were being badly abused but to defend those that were doing the abuse from potential prosecution, except in the most extreme cases.

Several of the reports that do mention Ingraham v. Wright the 1977 case that allowed this abuse mention seemingly mild comments by Lewis Powell that make it seem acceptable but Phillip Greven, (Spare the Child) goes into much more detail explain the abuses that were listed in the decision that Powell simply ignored when he made his decision. The decisions (linked to in the following excerpts from his book) provide even more details about abuses. Jonathan Kozol author or "Death At An early Age," also reported extensively on abuses many that he observed first hand in Boston to minority children. His book almost certainly contributed to the banning of corporal punishment in Boston Schools a few years after it was published. However it wasn't until over a decade later after Ingraham v. Wright that Massachusetts banned corporal punishment. Also Kozol reported that it was widely covered up so it is virtually guaranteed that it took years if not decades to eliminate corporal punishment in Boston even after it was banned. But since then it has been banned in thirty one states and these states including Massachusetts are routinely along the states with the lowest murder rates unlike Southern States still using it.

Philip J. Greven: "Spare the Child" 1991

Jonathan Kozol "Death At An Early Age" 1967 follow up addition 1985

Texas leads nation in teacher-student sexual assaults and relationships 06/01/2016 To put it in perspective, Pennsylvania comes in second with 45 cases. (Not adjusted per capita)

Education expert declares Alabama ‘ground zero’ for teachers having sex with students 03/31/2016

Alabama has highest rate of teacher-student sex, former top education official says 01/16/2015 Kentucky, Louisiana, Vermont and Mississippi round out the rest of the nation's top five worst states for teacher-student sex, according to Abbott's data. Texas led the nation by far in terms of the sheer number of cases recorded with 116 of the 781 accusations and convictions taking place in the Lone Star State. Alabama wasn't far behind, with 25 though, and took the No. 9 spot on that list.

Louisiana No. 3 for inappropriate teacher-student relationships, former U.S. education official says 01/29/2015

Destrehan High teacher Shelley Dufresne admits sex with student 04/09/2015

More teachers are having sex with their students. Here’s how schools can stop them. 01/20/2015

What Happened When Jeb Bush Hired an Evangelical Hardliner to Run Florida’s Child Welfare System 11/05/2015

In First Florida Governor Race, Jeb Bush Backed Controversial ‘Spanker’s Bill of Rights’ 01/09/2015

Bush in 1995: Corporal punishment may prevent school shootings 06/12/2015

Georgia Editorial: Corporal punishment: Put away the paddles 11/22/2016



Paddling at Tenn. school ends with student taken to hospital 06/10/2013

Boy's Paddling at Tx. School Leaves Big Bruises 05/21/2009

Police: Paddling gets Etowah Middle School assistant principal arrested for child abuse in Alabama 12/19/2016

Gov. John Bel Edwards floats narrow agenda for schools in upcoming session 03/29/2017 He wants to end corporal punishment for students with disabilities, narrow eligibility for private school vouchers, help schools recovering from natural disasters and shrink the role of test scores in teacher evaluations.

Remember Paddling Steve Halter, the principal of Booneville High School? He was featured on TruTV in the clips above and below. 09/17/2008

Lawsuit against Caddo principal over sexual abuse case 08/01/2016

Ex-student decries harsh punishment 03/17/2017 The Satanic Temple’s controversial efforts to eliminate corporal punishment in Springtown ISD have at least one alumni supporter.

Accused pastor crusaded against homosexuals 0/28/2010

Cover-up in Alabama?: Newsweek, ABC 20/20 reports expose abuse, torture of gay youths, troubled teens 03/10/2017

Herman Thomas: Could the ‘Spanking Judge’ Become the ‘Spanking Senator’? archive up to 2010

Arkansas Judge Resigns After Thousands Of Photos Of Him Spanking Male Defendants Surface 05/10/2016

Arkansas Judge, Accused of Coercing Defendants Into Spankings and Sex Acts, Resigns 05/10/2016

Haltom City Tx. officer investigated for spanking kids who ran from grandma 01/17/2017

Principal at Prestigious Md. School Suspended After Teacher Spanking Allegations 10/28/2015

Deacon Alan Morris, Sick teacher who had fetish for spanking schoolboys jailed over decades of abuse at top Altrincham Catholic school 08/28/2014

Saryna Parker a South Dade Fla. Middle School teacher arrested for battery on officer, child abuse 03/20/2017

Monty Lewis a Now-former Fresno Ca. police officer facing charges for knocking out teen 03/08/2017

Patrick Cahill a Former Woonsocket RI police officer arrested for assault on 16-year-old 04/04/2017

Officer Francesco Marlett Prince George's Co. Md. officer indicted for spanking child 05/03/2016

Can Childhood Spankings be Administered Because of or Lead to a Spanking Fetish? Darlene Barriere "I know this statement will outrage many, but allow me to elaborate using my own childhood as an example."

7 States Make Up 80% of School Corporal Punishment in US 01/17/2016

Alabama State Law Shields Fired School Contract Worker From Charges 04/24/2013 The unidentified contract worker was immediately fired after the boy's mother reported the corporal punishment, which is forbidden by Huntsville City Schools policy. But legal analysts say state law gives leeway to school workers to use corporal punishment, even if their local school district bans it.

Not guilty: Judge finds corporal punishment at Fuquay-Varina NC private school didn't go too far 09/10/2015

Why did Alabama paddle 19,000 students in one school year? 09/12/2016

Teachers Can Spank Kids Black and Blue 11/08/2016 Michaela Curtis went straight to the hospital and police when her son came home from school with dark bruises on his behind. But what she learned was the people who hurt her 7-year-old had every right to do so: They were his teachers.



Appeals Court Rejects Latest Challenge to Corporal Punishment 03/27/2014 The student then fainted and fell face-first to the floor, breaking his jaw and five of his teeth, court papers say.

A Federal Law Banning School Corporal Punishment Is Long Over Due 10/21/2016

Corporal Punishment : A Closer Look At An Untold And Unseen Crime In Our Society 03/07/2017

Tri-City ghosts: School vouchers raise the possibility of diverting money into abusive faith communities 03/07/2017

Is Spanking Bad? Corporal Punishment In Homes And Schools Banned in Zimbabwe 03/02/2017

Lawmakers hearing bill to ban corporal punishment in Kentucky schools 02/28/2017

New thought on Jessica Serafin case: old enough to drop out, old enough to vacate premises 03/18/2009

TWP’S Rx FOR BULLYING, TWP’S PERSPECTIVE ON “JESSICA SERAFIN” & STUDENT TEACHING CHRONICLES OF RENEE pt. V 12/29/2010

Teacher tells 'Dr. Phil' corporal punishment works 04/0/2017

St. Landry Parish La. mom upset after son was bruised from school paddling 03/31/2017

Corporal Punishment Complaint 04/05/2017 Principal Michele Price says Chadie did ask to stop because of the pain and was crying. While Morton believe he gave the swats fairly "without any anger or aggression". But according to the police report Chadie left school bruised and bleeding.

Lincoln High Tx. paddling investigation April 2009

TEA investigating Lincoln paddling incident April 2009 The Lincoln student was beaten so severely that the paddle split -- but was taped up so the beating could continue. The student suffered severe bruising and welts to his lower back, buttocks and upper thighs and was referred to a doctor for care, according to a DISD investigative report.

Even with a relatively small search quickly turns out an enormous number of wealthy people, celebrities, politicians that aren't held accountable for their crimes nearly as much as the vast majority of us.

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The claim that we have equal opportunity in the eyes of the law has turned into a pathetic joke, assuming there was ever any truth to it at all!

This pathetic joke may seem very funny to those that benefit from the incredibly unequal justice system; but it is highly unlikely that the worst victims of it find it funny! 
 

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Kalief Browder is one of the most famous recent cases where the justice system destroyed a life of someone who was either innocent of the crime he was accused of, as the Democracy Now article below implies that he probably was, or only guilty of a relatively minor crime without any access to due process or bail for almost three years before they finally released him. But it was of course to late since the emotional damage from spending that time, mostly in solitary, left so much damage that it led to his suicide.

I have no doubt that a more thorough search through history will indicate that there has never truly been equal rights to justice but at times there have been attempts to improve this, or as it often seems to turn out create the illusion of improvement when there is little or no improvements. One of the most effective improvements that actually did reduce inequalities, at least for a while is the Miranda v. Arizona decision which gave people the right to a lawyer if they couldn't afford one, or so we're told, and in many states it really did improve things. However I doubt if it was ever implemented as well in many other states and there are growing efforts to reduce or eliminate the few protections the poor, minorities and immigrants of what ever right they used to have.

Accused of Stealing a Backpack, Kalief Browder a High School Student Jailed for Nearly Three Years Without Trial 06/01/2014

"A School for Suicide": How Kalief Browder Learned to Kill Himself During 3 Years at Rikers Jail 03/03/2016

Kalief Browder, Held at Rikers Island for 3 Years Without Trial, Commits Suicide 06/08/2017

Mississippi County Sued for Indefinitely Holding Prisoners Without Charge or Access to Lawyer 10/01/2014

Additional stories from Democracy Now about Kalief Browder or epidemic injustices in the mass incarceration age.

Below are a long list of wealthy people that got off incredibly light for the crimes they committed, including murder, vehicular homicide, or accidents causing serious damage, rape, including of minors or pedophilia, and additional crimes. It didn't take long to search for these and if I do any additional searching which I probably will the list could get much longer. There are a few examples like John DuPont, Leopold and Loeb, and the Menéndez Brothers where they were convicted of crimes so big that the justice system felt they had to give them maximum sentences. Ironically in the case of the Menéndez Brothers there might have been some justification for some leniency, since there was almost certainly some truth to their claims that they were badly abused by their parents especially their father and the reason this went on so long might be because there was little or no accountability for Jose Enrique Menéndez, which may have contributed to his own murder.

In can't confirm all the details but I've seen enough research to show that children that are raised in non-abusive homes without major problems, of some sort, simply don't go on major killing sprees like this.

Anyone that pays attention to politics knows that the cost of campaigning has been skyrocketing far faster than the rate of inflation and the people that finance these campaigns don't do so because they want what's best for everyone they want "a return on our investment.” Literally coming out and saying that is supposedly what most people would consider a "Quid Pro Quo" which is what the pundits judges and politicians say they need to prove what they consider actual bribery; so the rich rarely ever say anything so obvious since it could get them prosecuted. However it doesn't take a genius to realize how weak this incredibly high bar is to prove corruption and even when it is reached they still ignore it.

Betsy DeVos, Trump’s Big-Donor Education Secretary said, "We do expect something in return. ... We expect a return on our investment.” 11/23/2016 This should be so incredibly obvious that she should be prosecuted; but instead they confirmed her anyway. To the best of my knowledge even the Democrats and Bernie Sanders who at least voted against her said little or nothing about this statement or called for prosecuting her since this should be clear evidence of bribery. If this isn't bribery then nothing they could say would be considered bribery according to those that pretend to defend democracy.



Even without an admission of the famous "Quid Pro Quo" there is an incredibly obvious correlation between skyrocketing campaign contributions and efforts to increase subsidies for rich donors and cut taxes at the same time which means they have to get money from someplace else to run the government. This means that one way or another they have to get that money from the rest of the public; and one of the politically correct ways of doing this is dramatically increasing fees on poor people that are prosecuted to the full extent and beyond of the law, as indicated in the following article.



Amazingly these fees almost certainly don't even reduce the deficit or cover court costs, since they're often trying to collect them from the poor who don't have money to pay for it and it often costs almost as much if not more to try to collect money that doesn't exist then they actually collect. Furthermore if you keep trying to take from those who have nothing and little hope of getting anything then it is inevitable that they resort to crime. Under these circumstances rehabilitation takes a distant back seat, if it is tried at all, to shifting the tax burden to those without political power, even if it is justified to repay for their crimes. But if repayment for crimes was the objective then clearly those that could afford it should be required to pay much more but of course those that donate to campaigns aren't held to the same standards as the rest of us.

As Jeff Guinn reported this was almost an open secret decades ago when Terry Melcher knew he could get away with anything so he shot out streetlights scaring the neighbors just for fun without fear of being arrested. "The city’s most famous citizens, the movie and television and singing stars and their assorted producers and directors, were understood to be sacrosanct. Officers catching them in the act of drunk driving or getting in scuffles or committing any crime short of cold blooded murder in the presence of too many unimpeachable witnesses were expected to politely intervene and ensure the celebrities got home safely. ..... The driver was Terry Melcher, son of singer actress Doris Day. ... 'I'm going to get it sighted in,' Melcher proceeded to shatter several newly installed street lights. The loud booms of the shots reverberated down the hill... ""Manson: The Life and Times of Charles Manson" By Jeff Guinn p.114-5

In his book, (excerpts below) Glen Greenwald writes about how Scooter Libby claims he was being persecuted because he was a celebrity but Greenwald demonstrated that clearly the opposite is the case. Even though Libby got off light for the crime he was being charged with he wasn't held accountable, anymore than anyone else in the administration for starting a war based on lies that led to the death of thousands of innocent people. This is actually a common trend where celebrities claim they're being prosecuted more because they're famous and when they win they say the same justice is available for everyone like Audrey Cox in the following story:



Anyone that doesn't get the same preferential treatment that rich celebrities gets knows full well that they could never get treatment so lenient repeatedly But celebrities like Audrey Cox Alice Walton and many others get away with things that none of the rest of us could hope to get away with.

This even includes sex crimes where there is massive amounts of panic encouraged by the mass media when it applies to people that aren't celebrities but as several stories including the following show the same doesn't apply for the relatives of the rich including a judges daughter:



With all the panic about sex abuse with children few if any other sex offenders could hope to get off this easy without even having to register as a sex offender. This case isn't completely over yet; there there is apparently another trial coming up any time. It was schedule to begin a couple months ago but there are no news reports about it. An actual trial or plea would have almost certainly made the news so the most likely explanation is another delay.

As I reported in Jessie Servos Kills Principal Injures Assistant After School Paddling, which is actually a fictional story but it included some additional true research, there are far more stories about child abuse that don't make much if any news that are true or close to the truth than there are false stories that are debunked like Pizzagate. This effort to debunk false news stories without mentioning the true ones that are very similar is misleading propaganda and gives people the wrong impression. There is is additional research that indicates that many child abusers started out as abused children and learned to behave the same way as adults when they became the next generation of child abusers. Without evidence of further wrong doing it is difficult to know for certain; but there is a significant possibility that she might have been the victim before she was the perpetrator; which could potentially mean that she knows something about people, perhaps powerful people that might have abused her when she was younger, assuming this pattern is applicable.

This pattern of abuse victims becoming abusers may also be playing out in a recent story about Jerry Sandusky's son arrested, charged with child sexual abuse 02/13/2017

Most of the crimes listed below are are crimes that many other people are also involved in and receive far different treatment but there are many other examples that should be considered far worse since the damage is much bigger on an industrial scale killing thousands if not millions. This includes wars based on lies industrial accidents like the faulty ignitions which is listed below and Firestone tires also killing many people and much more environmental disasters which kill far more but they spin it and suppress the research. As I explained in The rich have a right to profit from polluting and killing the poor if a poor person poisons one rich person or anyone else they will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law but when rich people do it on a massive scale it's considered good business; and the government often arrests the protesters without even stopping the pollution that kills thousands if not millions.

Many of the politicians that the media presents as some of the strongest supporters of the lower or middle class are among the worst ones when it comes to promoting the get tough on crime problems that are targeting only the lower or middle class, including Joe and Beau Biden. Joe was one of the strongest proponents of mass incarceration that targeted the class he was supposedly the champion of; and Beau began to follow in his footsteps when he attempted to gain fame by prosecuting "one of the worst pedophiles in American history" but "DEFENDS the judge who only gave a du Pont heir probation after admitting to sexually assaulting his three-year-old daughter."

These aren't champions of the working class at all; they're scam artists using propaganda to get elected and enforce an incredibly unjustifiable judicial system.

You would have to keep your head in the sand and only watch the media the government and consolidated oligarchies tell you to believe there is anything close to "equal justice for all!"



Beau Biden DEFENDS the judge who only gave a du Pont heir probation after admitting to sexually assaulting his three-year-old daughter 04/04/2014

Beau Biden prosecuted one of the worst pedophiles in American history 06/01/2015

Before He Was America's Wacky Uncle, Joe Biden Was a Tough-on-Crime Hardliner 08/07/2015

Glen Greenwald makes many similar arguments in "With Liberty And Justice For Some"

Alice Walton was also involved in an accident that killed a pedestrian but no charges were even seriously considered.

Drunken Driving charges dropped against Alice Walton Her record was also expunged and previous accidents including one that killed a pedestrian didn't even lead to charges even though she has a history, like her father of speeding well above limits.

Jared Fogle's ex-wife sues Subway, alleging it failed to alert authorities he was pedophile 10/24/2016

13 Infamous Celebrity Sex Offender Scandals — Prepare To Be Shocked! Jared Fogle; Bill Cosby; Josh Duggar; Mike Tyson; Anthony Kiedis; Jim Morrison; Tupac Shakur; Robert Kelly (a.k.a. R. Kelly); Michael Tyler (a.k.a. Mystikal); Roman Polanski; Paul Reubens (a.k.a. Pee Wee Herman); Jeffrey Jones; Jerry Sandusky

Celebrity child molesters: Is their fame a factor? 08/28/2014 Will Hayden; Remy Gonzales; Ian Watkins; Peter Yarrow; Andrew Clevenger; Paula Poundstone; Shane Sparks; Vincent “Don Vito” Margera.

25 Celebrities That You Forgot Committed Horrible Crimes Robert Downey Jr. ? Drug Charges; Mark Wahlberg ? Attempted Murder; Mike Tyson ? Rape; Mickey Rourke ? Spousal Abuse; Christian Slater; Lindsay Lohan; Charlie Sheen ? Assault and Criminal Mischief; Woody Harrelson ? Disorderly Conduct, Resisting Arrest, Drug Possession; Ozzy Osbourne; R Kelly ? Child Pornography; Jay-Z ? Attempted Murder; O.J. Simpson ? Burglary; Hugh Grant ? Sex in public with a prostitute; Martha Stewart ? Lying To Federal Investigators And Conspiracy; 50 Cent ? Drug Dealing; Lil? Kim ? Perjury and Conspiracy; Matthew McConaughey ? Drug Possession; Wesley Snipes ? Tax Fraud; Kobe Bryant ? Sexual Assault; Tim Allen ? Drug Trafficking; Sid Vicious; Will Smith ? Aggravated Assault; P Diddy ? Criminal assault with a deadly weapon; Justin Bieber ? DUI & Criminal assault;

"If you cannot afford an attorney one will be provided at State expense." True or False? False!

Has bail reform in America finally reached a tipping point? 04/03/2017

17 Wealthiest Murderers of History: Robert Durst; H.H. Holmes; Phil Spector; James Bob Ward; Harold Landry; Lizzie Borden; John du Pont; Michael Skakel; Issei Sagawa, “The Paris Cannibal” after only three years sent back to Japan where he lived free since; Eric and Lyle Menendez; Joran van der Sloot; Ethan Couch; Raya and Sakina; Dana Ewell; Vera Renczi; John Brooks; Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb

10 CEOs More Evil Than Martin Shkreli: Sam Walton

Affluenza: 10 Rich People Who Got Away With Horrible Crimes: Nick Oliveri Colin Read

Occupy: Justice for Sale: How Rich Corporations Get Away with Murder 04/0/2017

The 18 Most Horrifying Things Rich People Got Away With

5 Infamous Cases That Prove Getting Away With Murder Isn’t So Hard: Robert Blake; Richard James Herrin; Robert Durst; Isaac Turnbaugh; O.J. Simpson

Did They Really? Celebrity Crimes Revisited 09/30/2009

Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it; and as much as I want to continue supporting Bernie Sanders he continues to cave to the political establishment one time after another, often ignoring epidemic levels of corruption rigging elections and fear mongering that successfully incites one war after another based on lies.

I still like Bernie Sanders better than any other traditional politician; but he's coming up short more often and even campaigning for the establishment that he campaign against just last year.

As long as he continues to support progressive issues I'll support him but when he comes up short or tries to lead people to support establishment supporting corporations people need to speak out against it not blindly falling for same scam again after another candidate with excellent rhetoric leads public in wrong direction. This is how we got Hillary the nomination which led to Trump in office.

Bernie Sanders may still provide stronger opposition to unjustified wars than most politicians but he ignores the history behind this conflict and many others leading him to support a policy that will inevitably fail.

Contrary to all the propaganda that is now being repeated over and over again the United States has repeatedly had opportunities to negotiate with North Korea to reduce and possibly end hostilities but these negotiations have collapsed often not because of the fanatical behavior of the North Korean leaders but because of the war mongering actions of our own country; one of the worst examples was in 2001 when George W. Bush abandoned the agreements negotiated by Jimmy Carter with limited support from the Clinton administration.

The mainstream media, political establishment, and even Bernie Sanders continues to ignore this when deciding on the policies that we should adopt to them including this excerpt about his interview with Jake Tapper Sunday:



The traditional media fails to remind the public of the history behind this conflict and that negotiations began in 1994, with help from Jimmy Carter, and could have lead to nuclear disarmament and normalization of relations if they were pursued. Most reports that came during the Clinton presidency indicated that a large portion of the administration was actually opposed to Carter's overtures, although most records that I've seen recently fail to mention this; however he did make some progress in 1994 and more could have been made in 2000 and into the twentieth century if the Bush administration hadn't abandoned efforts and acted in an arbitrary manner dismissing negotiations.

The following excerpt from an article before Kim Jong Un's rule shows how much more success could have happened if the Clinton and especially Bush administration had been more willing to negotiate in good faith; this could have set the stage for a much friendlier relation when power was passed on perhaps even avoiding as belligerent a leader as Kim Jong Un:



Most of the reports that I have seen recently don't fully reflect the abruptness that Bush administration abandoned the talks or the way it was presented at the time; but in March 2001 Bush decided that he didn't want to continue the talks and wasn't willing to trust the North Koreans as much as the Clinton administration, even though they had made an enormous amount of progress, even if some members of the Clinton administration hadn't been so supportive. According the the chronology listed below on March 13, 2001: "North Korea, apparently reacting to Washington’s new tone, cancels ministerial-level talks with Seoul. The talks were intended to promote further political reconciliation."

Jimmy Carter proved as recently as 2010 that there was still opportunity to negotiate with North Korea when he arranged the release of Aijalon Mahli Gomes. No doubt there have been plenty of problems and some of it was the fault of the dictators of North Korea but contrary to the propaganda that is constantly being repeated over and over again they haven't always been as belligerent as the media and the most extreme right wingers make them out to be.

This same attitude isn't limited to North Korea. In 2001 after the attack on 9/11 Iran offered intelligence, or should I say espionage help, to help track down Al-Qaeda who was also there enemy and demonstrated that they were willing to improve relationships; but after accepting this help Bush turned around and declared them part of the "Axis of Evil." This antagonistic attitude is what enabled Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to get elected several years later.

The united States leaders has a long history of antagonizing their opponents until they become the enemies they seem to want to have as an excuse to maintain a permanent state of war.

This proves to be incredibly obvious when arrogant leaders like John McCain refers to Kim Jong Un as that "Crazy fat kid." McCain claims that Kim Jong Un is not "rational," which may be true but if he's so irrational and he has nukes how rational could it be to antagonize him?

John McCain isn't the only one that seems to treat foreign policy as a joke many media pundits do so as well. Brian Williams was ridiculed for talking about how the Tomahawk missiles were so "Beautiful" and some of the pundits at MSNBC that remained silent about Brian Williams turned around and criticized Fox news for glorifying the missile strikes with country music singing about how glorious it is to "fight for freedom" without exposing all the lies leading up to war. Geraldo Rivera was one of the pundits at Fox when that clip went on and either at the same time or another one he talked about how he through it was great when the "Bad guys" would fear Trump because he was so unpredictable.

This is all part of a non-stop effort to glorify war without checking the facts as they go to prevent another war based on Weapons of mass destruction that didn't exist, and Scott Ritter and Mohamed ElBaradei exposed those lies before the Iraq invasion but they got little or no media attention and now the media refuses to cover people exposing their current lies. 

John McCain, Donald Trump, George Bush and many media pundits routinely demonstrate that they're no more rational than Kim Jong Un is! there should be no doubt that their warmongering is as much of the problem as Kim Jong Un and that part of the reason Kim Jong Un is so irrational is because they're constantly goading him, and ignoring this history isn't going to help resolve this problem.

This has been reported numerous times in the past but when the war drums are repeated over and over again they routinely ignore it and only people that get little or no media coverage attempt to remind the public of this and regrettably this includes Bernie Sanders. The following articles have some additional information on this subject:

Chronology of U.S.-North Korean Nuclear and Missile Diplomacy

The Problem is Washington, Not North Korea 04/17/2017

Blame Bush for North Korea's Nukes 02/10/2005

Jimmy Carter arrives in North Korea in attempt to free US prisoner 08/25/2010

I usually don't try to jump on the bandwagon of some of the most farfetched conspiracy theories about false flags unless there's an enormous amount of evidence; but even if there isn't some evidence of this then the fanatical behavior of our political leaders refusing to remind the public of the most important history of this subject and basing their decisions on their own deceptive propaganda is as fanatical as many of these false flag conspiracy theories.

Adding to this we're supposed to believe that a country that can't even keep their cities lit, as we're often reminded with these satellite photos has the technology to make nuclear weapons and hack into Sony pictures among other things.



This often seems to do far more to serve the propaganda purposes of the warmongers in the United States than it does North Korea's. Even though I would put to much weight in false flag conspiracy theories unless there was a lot of evidence under these circumstances I wouldn't completely rule it out; and the deceptive propaganda may be part of that evidence that there might actually be something to it even if the most irrational conspiracy theories turn out to be exaggerations as they often are.

Even if there is no false flag operation the entire political establishment including Obama who has also been silent about the most important history of this conflict does more to keep it going than to sincerely try to reconcile differences.

There is also growing reasons to doubt that Bernie Sanders is as progressive as he claims when he constantly endorses Democratic establishment candidates that oppose his progressive positions. I still like Bernie Sanders as much as anyone else, or at least I want to, but when he continues remaining silent about some of the worst war mongering and goes on the campaign trail for people like Hillary Clinton and not Tom Perez who were involved in rigging the election against him it is hard not to have some doubts.



Bernie Sanders attracted an enormous amount of support from the grassroots and became famous for collecting a record amount of small donations from people that really supported his agenda; but as much as I still like his positions that he often continues to support, of at least speak out in favor of, he's endorsing a growing number of Democrats that don't support them at all, often canceling out his own political views.

If people follow their leaders and they routinely behave like this then the belief in a Democracy is a tragedy and a farce; however it should be clear that many of his followers didn't accept his endorsement of Clinton nor do they accept his endorsement of Tom Perez which is what enabled Trump to win in the first place.







If we're going to avoid reelecting Trump or letting the Republicans increase their already unjustifiable majority in congress we're going to have to have a much stronger grassroots movement since the Democratic Party routinely demonstrates that they no longer care about Democratic principles, and it won't help for Bernie Sanders to try to convince us that the Democrats are the lesser evil when this is the best they're willing to do!









This is only a relatively brief review of some of the selective claims that they're using to scare people into supporting yet another war which may end up being based entirely on lies including some that may not have been exposed yet. This is part of a pattern of behavior that becomes clearer the more people look at history.

In order to get elected to higher office especially nationwide or statewide in large states the most important thing any candidate needs is name recognition. In order to get that name recognition they need coverage from the commercial media, controlled by only six oligarchies, that controls over ninety percent of the national news. If they want to prevent any progressive candidate from getting name recognition they need to win all they have to do is refuse to cover them.

Bernie Sanders was the most progressive candidate they provided coverage for since I can remember but they still didn't provide him with enough coverage to win especially with the political administration rigging the primaries, as several people including me explained in Can Hillary Clinton win without cheating? (Evidence of irregularities suppression or other cheating in at least eighteen states) Now Bernie is campaigning for the establishment he previously opposed like many other presidential candidates in the past including John McCain in 2000 and Barrack Obama in 2008; but when Obama won and McCain returned to the Senate they both got in line and supported the establishment they allegedly stood up to.

One of the most common methods used to manipulate the public is fighting wars based on lies. This has been exposed over an over again to those that know how to check the most reliable sources for their history. Sometimes this even comes from the mainstream media. A lot of this history was reported previously by traditional sources in the past but when it doesn't serve their current objectives they simply forget about history that doesn't serve their agenda.

I went into some of the past propaganda about North Korea in at least two past articles myself in Is 60 Minutes presenting anti-North Korea propaganda? and North Korea Nuclear Test Propaganda Is War Mongering

While we fight one war after another based on lies there are plenty of corporations making a fortune as demonstrated when Tomahawk maker's stock went up after U.S. launch on Syria 04/07/2017 and many more news stories that few people can keep track of. Amazingly despite all the propaganda about how "great" and "glorious" our veterans who are when they "fight for our freedom" they can't find the money to support them after they return whether it is at the Veterans Administration providing health care of counseling for PTSD or for providing retraining for other jobs in civilian life and they often treat them like charity cases, which I'm sure isn't what they expected when they signed up.

But there's never any shortage of money when paying off the military contractors making enormous profits from wars based on lies.

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Edit 04/21/2017: Within a day if not hours of the posting of this article the Trump administration has done several more things including some obvious blunders to incite war without reviewing the obvious historical flaws of their war mongering; and they've also increased the pressure on Iran almost replicating the same thing that the Bush administration did with North Korea in 2001. Rex Tillerson came out with tough talk accusing the Iranians of violating the spirit of the agreement although it was "only hours after the State Department said Tehran was complying with its terms." Once again he ignored a long history of antagonizing activities by the U.S. including the 1953 coup which was exposed decades ago although the United States didn't officially acknowledge it until a few years ago. The United States itself gave them the technology they needed to get started in the seventies when they were under the rule of the Shah who was still terrorizing his own people. The United States passed up numerous opportunities to encourage democracy before the tyrant they were propping up was overthrown. The United States routinely only supports democracy when the people oppressing their own people happen to be opposed to the United States and often do their part to set the stage for them to take over in the first place.

Ignoring history and demonizing other countries is not an effective way to avoid war and encourage democracy. This is especially true when we have a consolidated corporate media that only provides coverage for candidates that repeat the same deceptive propaganda about wars or any other subject. By only providing coverage for corrupt candidates the consolidated media is helping to rig elections and maintain a permanent state of war based on lies!

The following are some additional sources about the conflict with Iran including history that the mainstream media and political establishment rarely ever mention:

Tillerson Toughens Tone on Iran After U.S. Confirms Nuclear Deal Compliance 04/19/2017

Rex Tillerson accuses Iran of 'alarming provocations' 04/19/2017

Wikipedia: 1953 Iranian coup d'état

CIA admits role in 1953 Iranian coup 08/19/2013

Timeline of Nuclear Diplomacy With Iran

Does anyone even know who the police work for anymore?

Are they supposed to be acting on behalf of corporations that are more concerned about profit than anything remotely resembling justice?

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Remember that discussion about how the efforts to deregulate the airlines and eliminate the protections for consumers and workers to protect them from outrageous and even dangerous behavior from greedy businesses might not have worked out so well?

Remember how they said that maybe before they start eliminating enormous amounts or regulations they should figure out which ones really are incompetent?

Me neither!

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With growing amounts of privatization it is difficult if not impossible for many people to tell between private security or police in many cases; and on top of that the real police often seem to be acting on behalf of private corporations without question even when they're supposed to be working for the government to protect all citizens impartially.

At least that's the way it's supposed to work in theory, although it is hard to see how anyone could believe it comes close to working that way in practice.

If there is a dispute between a corporation, that in the case of United Airline sold a ticket seated the passenger and based on their own obvious mistakes decided to have police remove him, should the police automatically assume the corporation was in the right?

Clearly that is exactly what happened and one thing that seems to have gone unnoticed is that the police who were almost certainly following orders were either suspended or put on administrative leave while the investigation continues; but as far as I can tell we don't even know who gave the orders and they don't seem to be taking much if any blame at all.

This should concern both the police and consumers, since even if they do hold the police accountable the same system will give bad orders again and other incidents like this will happen over and over again. Actually many similar incidents have happened repeatedly and when they find the need to hold someone accountable it is almost never the decision makers.

Media reports about whether it was police or airline security repeat several versions about it over and over again that are contradictory; however checking the facts without help from the mainstream media seems to indicate that it was the Chicago airport police who dragged this person out but they apparently took orders from United Airlines without fully understanding what was going on or why.

The vast majority of the public doesn't even know what incentives the police have when enforcing the law, which is already designed to heavily favor multi-national corporations that finance campaigns. There is little or no effort to educate the public about this by either the media or the political establishment; while they pass one law after another or allow one acquisition after another that increases powers of multinational corporations.

This isn't the first major problem by police that answer to corporations without question by far; but the vast majority of problems are only reported at the local level and they rarely explain much if anything about how police and judicial activities are steadily being privatized so that the police are not accountable to voters or elected officials nor are the people that hire them; and in most cases we can't even tell who they are.

There have probably been dozens if not hundreds of cases where major problems came up from privatized security and if anyone is held accountable it is almost never the people giving the orders, instead it is often the people with the least amount of power. In some occasions it is even the police although they try to avoid that if they can, and they rarely pay the same price that a civilian would pay for committing the same crimes.

The following is a small sample of the stories of outrageous behavior where it is difficult to tell who makes the decisions and if people hired are trained to blindly obey orders or to look out for the best interest of the public as a whole in a reasonably unbiased manner, starting with United Airlines which already spent at least two or three times as much as it would have costed to handle this reasonably and will spend well over ten to twenty times as much before it is done.

When no one even knows who's making decisions does that mean all reasonable discretion is being abandoned?





The Chicago airport police are supposed to work for the city of Chicago not for United Airlines; but even if they did work for United Airlines that shouldn't give them the right to conduct an assault on a paying customer as a result of their own colossal blunder. Like many other problems with police this seems to indicate that they might be trained to follow orders without question or trying to figure out if there is any justification or concern for the rights of citizens they're allegedly protecting.

There have been so many other high profile examples of additional bad behavior by police, private or not, that no one can keep track of it including the following where they concluded that a customer would be allowed to buy gift cards then tased and arrested him anyway even after determining that he was also a legitimate paying customer at Walmart, this time a private security guard that hardly seems defensible unless people think it has to be defended to avoid blame.



This is just one of many problems that Walmart has had with their security guards, who often seem to work for subcontractors and are often off duty police officers, including the following, who was supposedly only a reserve officer at the time and after the fact they attempted to de-legitimize him by claiming the police force he worked for was defunct, but at the time it was still considered legitimate, and the officer may not have been fully informed or properly trained.



You often need a scorecard to figure out who security guards or police work for now and there is little or no effort to inform the public or keep those accountable that do the hiring. In most cases they don't hold the police or security officers accountable either unless there is an incident so extreme that they have to blame someone; but they still don't blame the people doing the training or even discuss the methods used to train police, or veteran, for that matter which is very similar.

When someone needs to be blamed it is always the person with the least amount of political power that can be blamed, usually with some justification. Walmart ahs also fired or prosecuted people for arresting throwing items out of a moving vehicle shooting and killing shoplifters that stole relatively minor items and posed no serious threat to safety; and they've been sued for use of excessive force numerous times including one example where they detained someone for failing to show a receipt for a jacket that he brought into the store with him and many other absurd situations.

This problem goes well beyond excessive force; the police working for the state routinely arrest workers for participating in union activities on behalf of corporations that donate enormous amounts of money to political campaigns, without addressing legitimate worker complaints.

when there's an enormous amount of environmental damage literally killing people and environmentalists protest after getting little or no response from elected officials instead of protecting the public from poison from oil or chemical companies the police routinely arrest protesters.

When protesters raise questions about shoddy merchandise or collapsing buildings in Bangladesh that kill workers instead of holding executives accountable and protecting workers they arrest protesters.



When the government invades one country after another based on lies including the ones about weapons of mass destruction that were exposed by Scott Ritter and Mohamed ElBaradei instead of arresting the people who caused thousands of deaths they arrest protesters.

They also arrest veterans who refuse to participate in illegal wars but then when Abu-Ghraib happened they arrested veterans who obeyed orders; in both cases the people who gave the illegal orders that led to these atrocities were not held accountable.

There should be no doubt that the police often don't protect and represent all the people equally or even close. They're here to follow orders; or at least that is the way it works in practice; although I'm sure there are many police officers who don't like this anymore than the public.

The best police, of course, don't approve of the worst activities of other officers; however they rarely speak out about it; and when they do they get little or no attention so it is up to the public to learn much more about holding police and especially those that hire and train them accountable. 

The people that give these orders aren't even democratically elected, as it became increasingly apparent during last years election. The evidence for this was public even before the election, but few people noticed since they rarely think about the election process.

The first thing any viable candidate for election in a national or statewide campaign needs is name recognition. The only way to get that in large states or nationwide is with the help of the media. the vast majority of the media in this country is now in the hands of six oligarchies and they can deny the best candidates the name recognition they need to win nationwide or in large states by simply refusing to cover them; and that is exactly what they do. Even in local races the media gives establishment candidates that cater overwhelmingly to the rich an enormous advantage and only some of the best informed local communities can overcome this. But even then the majority of power is in the hands of higher officials so this has limited impact.

There is an enormous industry to manufacture candidates that come up with promises that sound great during the campaign but routinely betray those promises once in office.

This does not fit the strictest definition of a conspiracy since this activity isn't completely secret although there clearly is a lot of activity that is done in secret that does fit the definition of a conspiracy.

We're not going to have a democracy until we have a diverse media and the public can control the interview process.

On top of that, if the government wants to fight wars based on weapons of mass destruction that don't exist or if corporations want police or security to intimidate or harass people that stand up for their rights they need to have people that are willing to blindly obey orders without question, and clearly they often have that.

There has been research studying how to get that for decades as well, and a large portion of it doesn't fit the definition of conspiracy either since it was reported in the academic world, although they weren't completely honest about it and spun the explanations, so some of it would involve conspiracy.

I went into this in a series of previous posts including Eli Roth’s Milgram/Obedience experiment much more extensive than most people realizePhilip Zimbardo, Lucifer Effect, and The Stanford Prison Experiment and American Psychological Association exposed again These articles go into detail about how they train people to blindly obey orders. The most famous research into this includes the Stanley Milgram "Obedience to Authority" experiments which were allegedly done to learn why the Nazi's were able to get their people to blindly obey orders without question so that they could avoid it. This sounds good but the articles explain that this was only taught to a relatively small percentage of the public in the academic world.

What Milgram never mentioned is that this research could be used for at least one other purpose, to figure out how to obtain blind obedience. And as Professor Alfred McCoy pointed out this research was done with the support of the Office of Naval Research, which later directly financed Philip Zimbardo's Stanford Prison Experiment, which as I explained was almost certainly used to develop boot camp indoctrination methods that are clearly designed to obtain blind obedience to authority, not to prevent it as Milgram stated or implied. This research was never done to prevent another Holocaust; it was done to develop indoctrination techniques.

This problem goes way beyond a few corrupt or incompetent security guards or police; it is the result of a social, political and media establishment that is out of control, or it is in control for all the wrong reasons.

If this is going to be solved much more needs to be done to teach the public who the police are accountable to and how psychological manipulation can be used to obtain blind obedience to authority so that police enforce laws that are clearly made by among the most corrupt people in society.

We also need a much more diverse media establishment that enables honest candidates to get coverage and a diverse group of the best educational researchers in many subjects to get coverage as well so that they can educate the public about how to make decisions in their own best interests, which is necessary in a sincere democracy.







For additional related articles see the following:

Slain shoplifter's family sues Walmart 03/09/2013

‘I Am Not Going!’ New Footage Shows United Airlines Passenger and Police Arguing Before He’s Dragged Off Plane 04/12/2017

Chicago Airport Police Scrutinized after United Passenger Dragging Incident 04/18/2017

United Airlines shows how inequality is putting the squeeze on customer service 04/12/2017

United Airlines Is Not Alone 04/11/2017

Before the Civil War there was no need to pretend to develop ethical guidelines when using black people for research or to worry about infringing on their rights, since they didn't think they had any.

Now there are plenty of efforts to pretend to respect the rights of minorities or other people when using them for medical research. There are also plenty of exaggerated conspiracy theories about abuses that are taking place in research experiments; however there is also evidence to indicate that they're not all exaggerations and that the people developing the ethical guidelines aren't the ones being used for research, with the possible exception of minor experiments that aren't very dangerous.

I'm not opposed to reasonable research or science; but when one class of people, perhaps you could call them an academic class that comes mostly from the ruling class, develop all the guidelines, and has access to the education necessary to understand them, and another class of people is used as research subjects that they don't understand this should be considered a problem, or virtual, if not literal slavery.

Under the current circumstances the vast majority of people being used for medical research don't have the educational background to understand the full risks their tasking or potential benefits. The people that advise them may have better educational background, but they may also have a subtle, or even blatant interest in misleading them, so they can get subjects for research. On top of that the vast majority of the benefits from this research goes to the ruling class, with little or no benefit going to the people that provide the research material. The academic world has supposedly developed ethical guidelines decades ago; however they're controlled by people with a clear bias, since, if they make them too strict they will lose some of their potential benefits, and the people that are being put at risk don't understand the research so they're not in a position to stand up for their own rights, when it counts.

Is there any doubt that the educated upper class of people are much more likely to get health care and that the benefits of patents that drive up the cost of medications or medical treatment goes almost entirely to the rich while poorer people, who are occasionally used for research, are much less likely to get access to health care. This situation makes it easier to offer the poor limited amounts of health care in return for participating in research, but there is no consideration of limiting the amount of profits the rich can make as a result of the patents developed with the research.

This could be dramatically reduced if we had Single Payer Health Care; however the rich control the political systems that are withholding it and they also control the media establishment that provides little or no discussion about the benefits of a Single Payer system. Despite their efforts to suppress coverage of Single Payer a growing number of people at the grassroots are learning about it yet the political establishment refuses to give it serious discussion or consideration, presumably because they represent campaign contributors not voters, who only hear from candidates approved by the mainstream media.

In the cases where there has been some reparations, it is almost always when people from the lower classes speak out loudly and receive help from some sympathetic people that have better education that can help guide them through the legal and medical process. Even then they rarely ever get full reparations, since the court system and academic world are both controlled by the upper class, and they rig the rules heavily in their own favor.

Some of the worst examples of abusive and often incompetent research on minorities, mostly black, was reported by Harriet Washington in “Medical Apartheid" including the following excerpt describing how James Marion Sims and Dr. T. Stillman openly experimented on blacks and even advertised for them as pieces of property with no regard for their rights as humans:



At several points in this book Harriet Washington debunks some of the exaggerations or false conspiracy theories that many minorities believe; however she confirms many others, and demonstrates that even if minorities are more inclined to believe some of the worst exaggerations, the opposite is often the case for people that aren't the victims of “Medical Apartheid,” who have an incentive to believe in the establishment, since they often get much better care.

She also admits to facing some of her own denials as a member of the establishment in the academic world and at least tries to do her best to recognize that some of these conspiracy theories are at least partially true when she writes the following:



The vast majority of research is only discussed in the academic world and there is very little attempt to educate the majority of the public about the risks behind this research, often until it is too late and many people find out the hard way. In many cases this happens when they find out about the negative side effects of medications they were given the impression were safe and wind up in law suits after the fact as I have pointed out in several previous articles, some listed below, including current lawsuits about talcum powder causing ovarian cancer the dangers of Miracle Grow or Round up and many more.

“Medical Apartheid” is probably the most thorough book I have seen yet that attempts to inform the public about this, but there is far more that many people can recognize if they understand the basic principles of science and research. For example, intentionally or not when there are environmental disasters in Flint Michigan, Chrystal City Texas, East Chicago Indiana, Love Canal New York, the disasters exposed by Erin Brockovich, Woburn Mass exposed by John Travolta in "Civil Action" and many others including those reported in "Dumping in Dixie" by Robert Bullard, they provide ample opportunity for research whether they could could be beneficial or not. However in all of these cases it should have been clear that before the disaster they already had enough research to determine that epidemic levels of pollution are disastrous and not worth the risks.

The most important lesson that we could learn if we tried isn't about medical research since these unintentional research projects are so incompetent and unethical; but about how corrupt our political economic and media institutions are!

These environmental disasters all have a lot in common with the research by Harriet Washington, since the vast majority of the benefits, when there are actual benefits to the research, goes to the wealthy with political power, while the vast majority of the sacrifices go to those without political power, often minorities especially blacks!



Additional research by Gary Webb also exposed that there was an enormous amount of incompetent research being done in the drug industry targeting mostly Hispanics or African Americans, and this was followed up by attempts to profit off it to finance some past wars based on lies including financing the Nicaraguan Contras in the eighties based on lies. Additional researchers including Alfred McCoy and Robert Parry has shown that this hasn't been limited to the Contras it began no later than Vietnam and that this activity has continued long after the Contras including events in Afghanistan and a plane that went down in 2007. the following except from Gary Webb's book shows some of the incompetent research that resulted from political corruption, or to read the full chapter for the full context see the link at end of excerpts:



The traditional media attempts to dismiss this as fringe conspiracy theory; however Gary Webb began his research by reporting on the Kerry committee report which was carried out by John Kerry and is part of the congressional record, so if his work is fringe then so is testimony before congress. Also the media pundits and CIA didn't attempt to discredit him by addressing his sources which include many additional court transcripts newspaper articles from traditional media and testimony from police and government attorneys, instead they attempted to smear him through unreliable methods that should, if anything add to his credibility, not detract from it! due to the incredible controversial nature of his reporting it appears as if even some of the supposedly progressive reporters from alternative media outlets may have been pressured to refute it, since on some occasions even a few authors from the Nation magazine claimed that some of his reporting wasn't accurate, but they didn't specify what was wrong with it.

If you read his book it may be clear that Gary Webb provided extensive sources for his claims and even, at times admitted that some of them might not be completely reliable, which is to be expected considering the subject matter, so it is an easy and reliable claim to say that some of it isn't true; even Gary Webb would admit that and did when he raised some questions himself. However and enormous amount of it is clearly true despite the spin that the government and mainstream media comes up with!

This research along with an enormous amount of additional research into drug running by many other authors, that the mainstream media refuses to cover, is enough to show that even if a large portion of it needs some review there is enough there to indicate that the drug war is based on lies, like other wars including the Vietnam war which was against a country that signed their own declaration of Independence, the Gulf War which was about weapons of mass destruction which didn't exist and many other wars based on lies that are only well disclosed in the alternative media outlets that the mainstream media recently attempted to portray as "Russian Propaganda." a close look at many of these outlets they referred to as "Russian Propaganda" quickly exposed that most of them had no connection to Russia at all and even the media that made that claim "walked it back!"

Michelle Alexander also exposed how the mass incarceration craze has eroded the appearance of justice which should now be considered a tragedy and a farce, or at least it would be if most people were aware of the news that is only reported at a low level in the alternative media outlets, in "The New Jim Crow," which is also very well sourced as far as it goes. However regrettably she spends very little time informing the public about the CIA involvement in running drugs and only mentions it briefly. Considering the subject matter and how much it applies to the expansion of mass incarceration it is hard to understand why she hardly even mentions it; however she did manage to get much more attention from the traditional media that most other alternative researchers and the work that she does is very good as far as it goes.

I can't help but owner if she was pressured to downplay the connection with the CIA and mass incarceration or if she would have gotten nearly as much attention from the mainstream media if she had reported more extensively on it.

Regardless of why Michelle Alexander didn't mention the CIA connection more, it is a major part of the reason for mass incarceration and it increases the availability of prison research subjects which Harriet Washington wrote about and it also increases the availability of traditional slave labor, which contrary to what most people believe is still legal under the thirteenth amendment according to Penal labor in the United States

In addition to being denied access to affordable health care even when the public is being used to develop medications that are making drug companies wealthy, we're also being denied access to news about the full extent of environmental destruction which is only reported in alternative media outlets or when it is reported in traditional outlets, it is scattered in locations far and wide so that most people are only aware of a small fraction of it. the public is also denied coverage of political candidates that don't bend over backwards to serve corporate interests, thanks to the consolidated commercial media which effectively rigs elections.

In order to have a viable chance to get elected any candidate need to start with name recognition, and with over ninety percent of the media in the control of just six oligarchies they can control who does or doesn't get name recognition, which is why two of the least like candidates, both of whom were under investigation by the FBI last year, managed to get the nomination ensuring that only candidates that serve corporate interests can get elected.

If we had diverse media there is no way either of these highly disliked candidates could have been elected and on top of that we would be in a much better position to minimize or eliminate unethical uses of research on those without political power for the benefit of those with political power, without full disclosure or informing the people being used for research of the full risks involved.

Even when some of us do pay far more attention to alternative media outlets it is easy to miss out on some of the reporting of some of these issues including what was apparently a massive prison strike that I didn't even hear about until I searched for it now and it only happened a few months ago. According to Prison Labor Is Unseen and "Utterly Exploitative," 10/06/2016 "An estimated 24,000 inmates missed work and as many as 29 prisons were affected, according to activists." Not only wasn't this reported in the traditional media which almost never reports some of the biggest grassroots movements but it wasn't reported nearly as well as I would have expected it to be in the alternative media.

The risks of horrifying research without fully considering the consequences, including some that was never intended to be done as research in the first place should be clear to anyone that takes a close look at many of the disasters resulting from past wars including WWI, WWII, The Vietnam War both Gulf Wars and many others all of which used chemical weapons although they weren't fully disclosed by traditional media and the results were often refuted even when there has been enormous amounts of evidence.

There was far more research into the damage done by Mustard Gas in both WWI & II, damage done by radiation during atomic tests in the fifties, Agent Orange in the Vietnam war, depleted Uranium in the Gulf Wars and who knows how many other undisclosed research projects than the vast majority of the public even suspect is going on; yet we keep fighting one war after another based on lies. this research is public for those that look for it but it is rarely reported by the traditional media; and when it is they often give preferential treatment to government denials even when they have no credibility. On occasions when they're faced with so much evidence that they have to admit to it they often do so quickly and briefly, for one and only one of these disasters at a time, before letting them fall down the memory hole without mentioning all the others and letting the public know that it is being repeated over and over again.



If more people knew half of this then it wouldn't be surprising that there are so many conspiracy theories about all the research that is being done without full disclosure. It should be more surprising that there isn't much more! Harriet Washington is one of the rare researchers that does such a good job sorting through all the real experiments and sorting out the false conspiracies in “Medical Apartheid" but regrettably she doesn't get nearly as much attention as she should.

One of the rare occasions where there is some discussion about some of this research is when it is done with the help of Planned Parenthood; however regrettably the discussion doesn't involve a rational review of the ethics of using poor people for research at all! Instead it has become a partisan political debate dividing people up to two sides, neither of which fully discuss the details properly. Harriet Washington also explored some of the misinformation on this subject as well and so did I in a previous article, Both sides of Planned Parenthood controversy ignore or misrepresent human research experiments where I pointed out that even though Planned Parenthood is supposedly a non-profit organization the people they were selling research material to were almost certainly for profit corporations that were making big money off the research they were doing. Cecile Richards was portrayed as a hero defending the rights of the poor yet she is being paid an enormous amount of money without mentioning that the research material they provide is being used to help multinational corporations increase their profits without requiring them to provide affordable health care.

Liberals and Progressives that might be outraged by this have remained silent thanks to the partisan debate about the abortion issue, and amazingly it is the right wing that is bring up this subject although they don't seem interested in learning from the research being done or providing affordable care. If this was brought in the open and discussed then it could and should be used as an other argument for Single Payer and to limit or in some cases eliminate patents which the public contributes to either by providing research subjects or in many cases subsidizing the rese4arch with tax payer dollars. When i reported on this previously it was being reported that Cecil Richards pay had surged from $300,000 to over $500,000; but apparently it may have surged even more after that close to a million dollars a year, yet she still doesn't explain how she's using research from the poor to enrich multinational corporations. This was reported by anti-abortion organizations based on tax returns from Planned Parenthood but mainstream efforts to refute this limited themselves to reports from before this came out, implying that it is probably true as far as I can find with an internet search.

We should be able to have this debate without assuming that this is the only way to get health care to the poor. If it was disclosed we could bring down the costs of health care and research dramatically and there would still be plenty of work for medical personnel including those providing abortion services, although if there was more contraceptive or other prevention methods unwanted pregnancies would almost certainly be less common.

However there might not be nearly as much work for bureaucrats making enormous amounts of money by pushing the interests of the wealthy at the expense of everyone else.

Not that this would bother some of us!

Planned Parenthood President’s Salary Reached Almost $1 Mill In 2014 10/12/2016



The following are a few of my past articles on this subject including research into psychological manipulation and indoctrination:

Multinationals Are Using Public For Research On Massive Scale

Wanted unsuspecting research subjects

Human Research Subjects

Philip Zimbardo, Lucifer Effect, Stanford Prison Experiment

Corruption or Bias in the American Psychological Association

Eli Roth’s Milgram/Obedience experiment much more extensive than most people realize

Anti-violence social experiments could be part of a slippery slope































Additional excerpts from Harriet Washington “Medical Apartheid”

Harriet Washington “Medical Apartheid” PDF at Original People

Walmart shootings continue to happen at much faster rates than just a couple years ago with at least eleven this month and at least five deaths, related to these shootings, alone not counting at least half a dozen other people that died at Walmart for other reasons. Three of these deaths were murder suicides, although one of the murders didn’t take place at Walmart and wasn’t counted. There were also several more injuries as a result of the shootings. A couple of the shootings were accidental, but these didn’t hit anyone. Last months count of shooting also rose from eight to nine, since there was one that happened on the thirty first but wasn’t in national news for a few days after that.



 

One of the shootings from 2012 where a manager was injured was allegedly a result of his own involvement in a conspiracy to rob the store; and another old shooting in Beavercreek Ohio cost the city $400,000 it was only the second police shooting they had in recent history and the other one involved the same officer.

There were eight other gun related incidents, mostly robberies or attempted robberies, one of which had a man that was also armed with a machete. One of them was a Walmart worker who was angry about a card game and made numerous threats to shoot up the store before they arrested him and found a gun that could have been used to carry out the threat. Walmart also settled an old lawsuit about selling ammo that was used in a murder from 2015. The terms of that settlement are as usual confidential so that no one can ever know whether or not justice is remotely fair when it comes to civil trials.

It’s not news that Walmart’s self-checkout aisles have been causing an enormous amount of problems including theft; however this time when a group of people found that it was giving out twenty dollar bills when it was only supposed to give out fives they went through the register over and over again until they got over a thousand dollars in change more than they should have. The state of Florida is using tax payer money to search for them and hold them accountable. This seems to be standard operating procedure; when there was a problem with the Electronic Benefits Transfer cards three years ago some of the recipients of them couldn’t get anything but others had their limits removed and when they took advantage of it instead of holding the people that made the mistakes accountable, they charged the people that took advantage of it.

When Walmart executives take advantages of rigged rules for their own profit they’re never held accountable but when it benefits customers or workers it appears to be the opposite.

One customer in Arizona found a note from a Chinese worker or “prisoner” who wanted to inform them about outrageous conditions. This was translated by several Chinese people who came up with almost identical translations. This, as usual raised concerns among customers and civil rights activists but business people and politicians, as usual don’t intend to do anything to investigate.

There were at least six different kidnappings attempted kidnappings or carjackings in six different states last month including one of an employee and four of children most of which failed but one of them was by someone pretending to be a Walmart security guard. There were also at least six attacks with knives, hatchets tomahawks or machetes including at least two that resulted in stabbings.

At least five people were found dead in there cars and one more died after running from police and falling off a cliff. The deaths in cars are usually not considered suspicious since poor people have to die somewhere. If human rights activists knew more about how many bodies showed up at Walmart they might want to understand the causes and prevent them; however business people that donate to campaigns don’t want to slow down business if it reduces profits by figuring these things out.

What happens if they find out that the epidemic fraud their business practices involve are contributing to these deaths or other crime problems?

Someone might want to fix it and it might not be good for profits so why keep track?

There were also at least four accidents high speed chases or purse snatchers that hit a customer retrieving it at least one resulting in a death, which means at least twelve people died at Walmart last month. This doesn’t count the vast majority of minor accidents which rarely make much if any news.

There were also at least four fire incidents, at least two of which were arson and one of those involved three separate fires that were successfully set while the arsonist escaped with stolen merchandise, at least temporarily as a result of the distraction. That’s unusual they almost always catch them faster when they try this trick that never seems to work, not that thieves and arsonists figure this out.

There were at least ten major assaults or brawls including one where a suspect slammed an employee from behind when he attempted to stop his girlfriend from shoplifting; and another major brawl that went viral on the internet, again.



Is there ever a month that goes by without a Walmart brawl on the internet?

Certainly not November or December but even the rest of the year they’re pretty common.

Walmart is always being sued. Some of the money customers give them is routinely used for their legal defense fund which gives them much better treatment than the rest of us in the courts. This month their lawsuits include cans that allegedly weren’t stored properly falling and hitting a boy and a professor that had his job title on his fishing license listed as cleaning toilets.

Why the hell does Walmart handle fishing licenses? Isn’t that the governments responsibility? Corporations seem to be taking over the government and treating it like a fully owned subsidiary and they have ‘Some of the best digital-forensics labs” now. Most of this is either done in secrecy or it is reported only at low levels where few people pay attention, which accomplishes the same thing.

Walmart was exposed for selling Tuna that was endangering Dolphins again. Boycotting Walmart is becoming increasingly less effective since the government gave them a big enough advantage to dominate the market except for the shares they divided among the other oligarchies that behave almost as bad, at least 95% of the public spent at least a little money at Walmart last year.

When you find a Syringe near the baby food the management will always tell you it’s still safe so don’t worry.

A rhino iguana and Dozens of slithery snakes showed up at Walmart last month for some reason and they got another public relations disaster when they fired an 88-year-old greater for not stopping a wild turkey from the store. He said they never gave him a manual that told him what to do when Turkeys go shopping; but it worked out OK another store hired him.

Remember when we used to expect to look forward to retirement?

Do people that buy there salads anywhere else but Walmart find decomposing bats in them? Twice?



Did you ever find heroin that might have been left behind by someone on the run in the pants pockets you bought at Walmart?

Ever get so drunk you set your underwear on fire then pull a knife out when the employers try to put it out?

Me neither, at least not that I’ll admit.

Stabbings aren’t limited to Walmart though several people were stabbed in an apartment complex as well.

I mention this because the person that allegedly did this was on LSD and they found him walking through Walmart naked.

Strange things happen at Wal-Mart!

Maybe next month will be the first time there are no shootings or other strange things at Walmart.

Any bets?

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In 2006 Wake Up Wal-Mart did a study, "Is Wal-Mart Safe?" based on incidents in 2004, (PDF) about crime at Wal-Mart which showed that it increased when Wal-Marts opened up and that crime was higher at Wal-Mart than at other retailers. Since then Wal-Mart Shootings began compiling a list of gun related incidents at Wal-Mart and demonstrated that they have a large number of them, including on average more than one shooting per week somewhere in the country. In January of 2014 another study, "Rolling Back Prices and Raising Crime Rates?" provided additional statistical research indicating that Wal-Mart might be contributing to higher crime rates or at least a slowing of the decline in crime. The study found that. “on average, communities with Walmarts had 17 more property crimes and two more violent crimes per 10,000 people than those communities without Walmarts.” I reviewed this more in Wal-Mart’s crime problem, Rolling Back Safety more than prices? where I explained that although this study is helpful they could have done better with additional data that is available and I reviewed some of that. I also added my own review about why I think that Wal-Mart policies have been contributing to higher crime in a previous blog, Wal-Mart high crime rate continues un-investigaterd and have provided additional information under the author tag Walmart Crime Watch.

Stacy Mitchell has also compiled a list of other studies about Wal-Mart and how they impact society, Key Studies on Big-Box Retail & Independent Business. To the best of my knowledge Wal-Mart has done as little as they seem to get away with, often relying on rhetoric that isn't backed up with action, when it comes to addressing any of their critics concerns, including crime. One of the responses they’ve come up with is what they call "Restorative Justice" which gives first time shoplifters a chance to avoid being arrested or any criminal record if they take an on line course which costs $400 up front or $500 in payments, plus perhaps reparations. This has been part of the privatization process and often denies suspects of the due process or access to a lawyer, perhaps even intimidating and extorting from some people that might not even be guilty. Walmart seems to be trying to find a way to turn crime into a profit making situation instead of looking for the most effective ways to reduce it. Making Change at Walmart is asking If you or someone you know has gone through @Walmart's "Restorative Justice" program for first-time suspected shoplifters, send us a DM. 03/30/2017 to ensure that it isn’t doing more harm than good. The following are a list of incidents that occurred in April 2017. According to the "Is Wal-Mart Safe?" the average store in their sampling had 250 incidents per year, indicating that these are only a fraction of the crime reports at Wal-Mart, and presumably, the ones most likely to make the news on the internet nationwide. This isn't statistically representative, as the 2006 or the "Rolling Back Prices and Raising Crime Rates?" study or some of the studies cited by Stacy Mitchell; but it does provide some additional information that may help recognize how many problems there are at Wal-Mart.

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Man arrested for setting fires at Henry Co. Wal-Mart 04/02/2017



Man's Arkansas Walmart shopping trip ends in arrest 04/01/2017





Woman injured in Kearney Nebraska's Walmart parking lot crash lot dies 04/03/2017

30 car batteries stolen from Tarboro NC Walmart 04/02/2017

Salem Ill. Police Arrest Two People Who Spent Six Hours in Walmart Store 04/01/2017





2 charged after elderly woman robbed at knifepoint in Ky. Walmart parking lot in February 04/01/2017





Mississippi Walmart evacuated after smoke pours from AC unit 04/03/2017

Tums, socks among items stolen by woman from Warwick RI Walmart 04/03/2017

Man pleads not guilty to shooting in Iowa Wal-Mart parking lot 04/03/2017

Law enforcement tracks down suspect in thefts at Fla. Wal-Mart and Goodwill store 04/03/2017





Suspect accused of using stolen debit card at Colorado Walmart 04/03/2017





Police: two women already banned from NC Walmart caught shoplifting 04/04/2017





Credit card taken from Chatham County high school used at NC Walmart, deputies say 04/04/2017

Police: Man dressed as woman steals steaks from NC Walmart 04/04/2017

Video: Trio wanted for allegedly stealing from Tx. Wal-Mart 04/04/2017

Walmart Opens New Training Academy in Bangor Me. 04/04/2017

Investigators: Suspects stole credit cards from vehicles, used them at Va. Walmart 04/04/2017





2 men steal TVs from Kosciusko Mississippi Walmart; Reward offered for info on suspects 04/04/2017

West Monroe Louisiana Police search for Walmart theft suspects 04/04/2017

Man charged with using fake credit cards at Pa. Wal-Mart 04/05/2017

Butler County Ohio Walmart becomes training academy for 25 stores 04/05/2017





Amherst County Sheriff’s Office searching for group suspected of stealing from Va. Wal-Marts 04/05/2017

Man charged with manslaughter after shooting suspected diaper-thief outside Fla. Wal-Mart in February 04/05/2017

Two people arrested for stealing nearly $3,000 in merchandise from Hayden Idaho Walmart 04/06/2017

Hamburg Police want to identify NY Walmart shoppers 04/06/2017

Amherst Co. Sheriff's Office investigating quick-change scheme at Madison Heights Va. Walmart 04/05/2017

Florida man arrested in Walmart credit card fraud in Cumberland County Pa. 04/05/2017

Police seek help in identifying suspect seen stealing from Richland Wash. Walmart 04/05/2017

Undercover detective says truck driver arranged to meet 'teen' for sex at Randolph Co. Ind. Walmart 04/06/2017



Walmart donates bicycle lights to Carlisle Pa. Police 04/06/2017

Plattsburgh NY Walmart evacuated following suspected natural gas leak 04/07/2017







Do you know these people? Pa. Walmart theft suspects sought 04/0/2017

Sting operation thwarts illegal sale in Alabama Walmart parking lot 04/06/2017









Counterfeit cash used to buy chainsaws from Hilton Head Island SC Walmart 04/07/2017

3 separate retail thefts in 1 day reported at East Lampeter Twp. Pa. Walmart 04/07/2017

91-year-old Walmart employee fixing to retire from town of Ulster NY store 04/07/2017

Woman accused of NY Wal-Mart shoplifting 04/07/2017





Four people indicted in connection to Tyler Tx. Wal-Mart robbery 04/07/2017

Boyfriend Arrested For Assault After Made-Up Ky. Walmart Attack 04/07/2017 Not reported previously either this month or last.

Billings Montana man killed in crash with delivery truck near Heights Wal-Mart 04/07/2017

Muncie man sentenced in Ind. Walmart meth lab case 04/07/2017

Bomb threat prompts evacuation of Mechanicsville Va. Walmart 04/09/2017











Official: Pair accused of stealing TVs from York County Va. Walmart 04/10/2017 The York-Poquoson Sheriff's Office is asking for help identifying two people accused of stealing TVs from the Tabb Walmart, an official said.

Police arrest suspected South Lubbock Tx. Walmart shoplifter after brief chase 04/08/2017

Police searching for man accused of credit card fraud at NH Walmart 04/09/2017



Two bikes stolen from kids at Ariz. Walmart 04/10/2017

Waukesha Wisc. County Sheriff's Department Recovers 1,300 Cloned Walmart Cards 04/0/2017

Blotter: Two arrested for shoplifting at ND Walmart 04/10/2017

Suspect Wanted for Stealing Televisions from Wal-Mart: Police 04/10/2017

Police want to question man about NY Walmart theft 04/11/2017

Woman’s wallet reportedly stolen from her purse during shopping trip at Fla. Wal-Mart 04/11/2017

Mother, daughter struck in Lancaster SC Walmart parking lot 04/11/2017



Man wanted in connection with thefts at La Vergne Tenn. Walmart 04/12/2017

ATTEMPT TO IDENTIFY: Suspects Involved in Retail Theft at Pa. Walmart 04/11/2017

Drunk Man Confronts Former MMA Fighter Outside a Walmart, With Unexpected Result 04/11/2017

Couple arrested for Ind. Walmart theft and drug paraphernalia 04/11/2017



Conviction overturned, Piqua man facing new charge in connection to attempted Ohio Walmart 5015 carjacking 04/11/2017

Suspect steals televisions twice from Walmart in York County Va. 04/11/2017

EBRSO: Women wanted for stealing money from College Drive La. Walmart 04/10/2017

Ex-firefighter gets no jail time following sex act in Troy Ohio Walmart lot in Nov. 201604/12/2017

Four honored for extinguishing intentionally set fire at Pooler Ga. Wal-Mart 04/12/2017 Four people were honored Wednesday for their heroic actions in extinguishing a fire that closed the Pooler Wal-Mart for several days last month and caused millions of dollars in damage.





Man arrested for string of grand larcenies at Walmarts across NY state 04/13/2017





Ten years ago, he set off a bomb in an NC Walmart. Here’s how they caught him. 04/13/2017

Ga. Walmart shopper charged with forgery after handing cashier $1,500 in counterfeit bills for purchase 04/13/2017

Man suspected of pricetag-switching at Fla. Wal-Mart tracked down at nearby Arby’s in The Villages 04/13/2017

Man accused of shooting Ga. Walmart guard last month was banned from different store location 04/13/2017 The shooting, the second in five months at the Fairington Road store, left the worker with a foot injury. He had to have surgery but was recovering well a few days later, according to WSB-TV.

Suspicious package found at Crowley La. Walmart 04/13/2017 Chief Broussard says the State Police Bomb Squad is en route to the scene and police are reviewing surveillance footage that is believed to show a subject leaving the package on the property.

VIDEO: Couple steals a pool from Fla. Walmart in brazen theft caught on camera 04/13/2017





Sidney man allegedly uses heroin in Piqua Ohio Walmart bathroom 04/12/2017

Suspects sought in theft at Carencro La. Walmart 04/12/2017

Small Fire Closes Concord NH Walmart 04/12/2017

Police seek to ID suspect in retail theft at Pa. Wal-Mart 04/12/2017

Police investigate GECU, Wal-Mart robberies 04/10/2017

Man, woman accused of robbing man at gunpoint, spending $600 at NC Walmart 04/14/2017

Wal-Mart said to be in advanced talks to buy Bonobos men’s fashion retailer 04/14/2017





City officials: Bomb threat to Tenn. Walmart was prank call 04/15/2017

Thanks to Social Media Couple Identified In Fla. Walmart Theft 04/14/2017

State College police investigating theft at Benner Pike Pa. Wal-Mart 04/14/2017

Elderly woman robbed outside N. Fort Myers Fla. Wal-Mart 04/15/2017

Fla. Walmart theft suspect surrenders via Facebook 04/16/2017



Police identify body found in Brewer Me. woods by Wal-Mart 04/20/2017

Woman in Dallas Tx. arrested after luring boys to Wal-Mart store 04/16/2017

Rutland man flees Vermont Wal-Mart with Stolen Register 04/16/2017



West Side Ohio Wal-Mart Reopens After "Suspicious Bag" Investigation No bomb Found 04/1/2017

Walmart in Denham Springs La. forced to close by flood water, reopens 04/15/2017









Woman arrested in Yakima drug bust at Walmart parking lot 04/1/2017



Police: 2 arrested with liquid meth in Ga. Walmart parking lot 04/18/2017

All-clear given at south Austin Tx. Walmart after bomb threat 04/19/2017





Ware man wanted by police arrested at Mass. Walmart 04/19/2017

Customer blames WV Walmart for injuries 04/18/2017

Men rob Ky. Walmart employee at gunpoint 04/18/2017

Lee Co. officials search for thieves involved in Ga. Walmart car break-in 04/18/2017

Accomac man guilty in Md. Wal-Mart TV thefts 04/18/2017



Police: Bandit fails in bid to rob Suisun City Ca. Walmart 04/18/2017



Police searching for man who allegedly used counterfeit checks at La. Walmart 04/18/2017

Lancaster man had cart loaded with merchandise stolen from Pa. Wal-Mart 04/17/2017

La Vergne police search for 3 in 2 separate Tenn. Walmart cases 04/19/2017





Two charged for shoplifting at Westminster Md. Walmart 04/1/2017

Family arrested for theft, fraud after allegedly removing price tags from Tx. Walmart merchandise 04/20/2017

Investigators looking for suspect who allegedly stole TV from Ga. Walmart 04/19/2017

Oxford Woman Accused of Shoplifting at Walmart: Naugatuck Conn. Police 04/19/2017

Police: Man runs out of Vermont Wal-Mart carrying cash box 04/20/2017







Teen arrested for attempting to steal merchandise from Arkansas Walmart 04/20/2017

Three suspects steal TVs from Hendersonville Tenn. Walmart, flee 04/20/2017

Missing man’s body found in Walmart parking lot, coroner says 04/20/2017 He said, “At this time, after consulting with law enforcement,it appears this death was not caused by another human and was caused by the decedent. That is only a preliminary thought as I have more testing to perform and an exam to perform on the body.”

Crews battle fire in Pueblo Colorado near Walmart 04/19/2017

Largo Fla. Walmart evacuated after reports of chemical smell inside store 04/21/2017

Suspect in fatal Ashland Va. Walmart shooting in February released on bond 04/21/2017



Thieves steal car by towing it from Tenn. Walmart parking lot 04/21/2017

Villager thrilled to have golf cart back from suspected thief who had been living in woods near Fla. Wal-Mart 04/21/2017

3 arrested for shoplifting at Iowa Walmart 04/21/2017

Police search for suspects in Ky. Walmart theft case 04/22/2017

Buffalo man gets probation, fine for theft at Amherst NY Walmart 04/21/2017

One arrested, one still wanted in Whiteville NC Walmart theft 04/21/2017

Ca. Walmart thefts solved, arrest made 04/1/2017

Help ID woman in keyed van incident at SC Seneca Walmart 04/21/2017

Two Oxnard teens accused of attacking Ca. Walmart employee 04/20/2017

Two Glynn Co. Ga. Walmart shoppers arrested with weed plant in car 04/21/2017



Second man in Walmart robbery in St. Charles Missouri gets 10 years in prison 04/22/2017

Bomb threat prompts temporary closure at Ohio Walmart 04/22/2017



Person of interest in Wal-Mart robbery in North Fort Myers Fla. sought 04/23/2017

Police: Suspect accused of stealing multiple drones from Pa. WalMart 04/23/2017

Police: Man stole ‘cart full’ of items from Pa. Walmart 04/23/2017



Shoplifter pulls knife on store manager at Schillinger Alabama Walmart 04/23/2017

NY Walmart larceny suspects found with $500 worth of stolen meat, other items 04/21/2017

Kentucky State Police ask for help identifying suspects in Hanson Walmart robbery 04/22/2017

Thief Stole 40-Inch TV From NY Walmart: Cops 04/24/2017

State police: Dunlo couple stole electronics from Somerset Pa. Walmart 04/24/2017

Man wanted for shoplifting lawn mower from Madison Mississippi Walmart 04/24/2017





Two alleged Walmart shoplifters charged in Hanover Township NJ 04/24/2017

Girls cited for shoplifting makeup, clothes at Colorado Walmart 04/23/2017

Man charged with burglary of Ind. Walmart 04/24/2017

Arrested After Being Disorderly at Delaware Walmart 04/23/2017

"Don't do it, bro", Anthony Burgess, arrested in NY Walmart parking lot 04/24/2017

Man gets prison in $300K credit-card scheme at Mich. Sam's Club, Walmart 04/25/2017











Woman accused of telling Pa. Walmart a bomb would go off at noon 04/26/2017

Video camera at Walmart helps police ID robbery suspect 04/26/2017

Police blotter: Escapee caught, man arrested for assaulting girlfriend at Montana Walmart 04/26/2017

Brown County Sheriff's Office searching for suspects who stole credit card numbers to buy Wisc. Walmart gift cards 04/26/2017





Police: Two women used counterfeit $100 bills at Bedford Va. Walmart 04/25/2017

A shoplifting call at Mililani Hawaii Walmart turns into auto theft case 04/27/2017

Police seek man wanted for shoplifting from Conway SC Walmart 04/27/2017

2 arrested outside Milpitas Ca. Walmart on suspicion of auto theft 04/26/2017

Report: TV shoplifters return to Austintown Walmart for second helping 04/26/2017

No foul play suspected after man, 31, found dead in vehicle at Ga. Walmart 04/27/2017

Omaha Nebraska police investigate viral Facebook post about attempted abduction at local Walmart 04/27/2017 OPD said there is no evidence to substantiate the claims, and there is no risk to the public



Crime: Man shows gun at NC Wal-Mart during theft 04/27/2017

Man allegedly stole $250+ worth of merchandise from Ware Mass. Walmart 04/28/2017



Bakersfield Ca. police looking for man who allegedly threatened Walmart worker 04/27/2017

WalMart La. shoplifter caught on camera stealing security cameras, electronics 04/27/2017

Brandon Fla. Walmart rolls back hours and calls to local law enforcement 04/28/2017 The move was motivated by a study of customer shopping patterns, analyzing which hours and locations saw the most traffic, said Ragan Dickens, Walmart's national media relations director. Now, employees at stores like the Brandon supercenter will spend the hours between midnight and 6 a.m. restocking shelves, cleaning aisles and making other enhancements to "improve customers' experience," Dickens said.

Police arrest 3 for IdahoWalmart burglary 04/28/2017

How DFW businesses get their products on Wal-Mart shelves 04/28/2017

Opelika Ga. police trying to ID suspects who used counterfeit checks at Walmart 04/2/2017









Judge: Nampa Idaho Walmart June 29, 2016 parking lot shooter can't take back plea 04/28/2017



Kansas City, Kansas Police investigating after suspicious device call forces evacuation of Legends Walmart 04/30/2017 No Bomb found threat included false claim implicating man in a van at store.

Women claim disabled man was assaulted at nail salon in NM Walmart 04/30/2017

Alleged shoplifter arrested accused of repeatedly targeting Albuquerque NM Walmart 04/30/2017

I first became suspicious of this when he appeared on "The Day After Roswell" episode of the UFO Files about eight to ten years ago. He seemed to be using some of the tactics that he complains about skeptics using against him; and even though I agree that both Philip Corso and Bob Lazar have their credibility problems, if the U.S. Government really did retrieve alien technology, as even Stanton Friedman seems to believe, then it would be inevitable that they try to research the technology and replicate what they can.

Yet Stanton Friedman doesn't do much if anything, that I know of, to explore what kind of progress they might have achieved in reverse engineering.

This doesn't seem to make any sense at all.

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(A briefer version of this was originally posted at Above Top Secret but additional commentary has been added here.)

A good UFO researcher has to be a rational skeptic.

A good rational skeptic follows the evidence, whether it confirms existing beliefs or challenges them; however thorough scrutiny is advisable before coming to conclusions.

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However it does fit in with what I call the "Recruit a group of crackpots" (re posted below) hypothesis which I posted years ago, and I'm sure it is similar to others theories as well. I explored this more in my most recent post UFO Hypothesis with what I consider a rational use of Occam's Razor.

Stanton Friedman may have provided some of the back ground for this hypothesis with his well known MJ-12 documents where they included one pseudo-skeptic, Donald Menzel and one UFO researcher Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter. This implies a possible pattern of behavior that would make sense if they wanted to control disclosure from both sides of the debate. If this was a beginning of a pattern then it would make sense to have the leading spokesperson for UFO research on their side if possible. they could give him an enormous advantage if they have control of the media which is increasingly likely with the consolidation of the media.

Also if the claims by Philip Corso are partly true and a large portion of rapidly developing technology is a result of tacit or intentional help from aliens then they must have anticipated that there would be some evidence and the more control of the debate they have the more effective they can make it seem unlikely at least to the masses that aren't paying attention.

If this is the case then a lot of other researchers that go along with the program might also be influenced by the CIA as well including Michael Shermer, who is obvious to some of us, and clowns making an enormous amount of mistakes that get coverage and make the UFO subject seem absurd.

Most conspiracy theories are often portrayed as fringe because so many of them are full of obvious blunders; however there are an enormous amount of ones that don't have these obvious blunders and in many cases the government comes out with releases of classified documents that admit to them. But they're released quietly and quickly forgotten by the MSM. This goes back to the Contactee movement of the fifties, which many people believe were propped up by the CIA to make UFOs seem fringe. If they were propped up By the CIA, as some believe, it may be more likely that they helped draw attention to quacks that were coming up with absurd stories than that they created them. 

This is why I think it is helpful to organize some of the most basic facts about legitimate unsolved mysteries, since some of the conspiracy theories will inevitably fall through. When absurd theories are often proved false there are still legitimate unsolved mysteries like how they moved massive megaliths thousands of years ago, when experiments to replicate them failed or why so many people have seen things they can't explain, including pilots that have often tried to shoot them down. Even if there are no alien visitations it should concern people if the military if trying to shoot down figments of their imagination or weather balloons.

I reviewed some of those including massive megaliths that couldn't be moved with experiments in 107 Wonders of the Ancient World and Why so few arrests for Crop Circles makers? Is there microwave evidence?

Also another obvious implication is that if the CIA would be monitoring these conspiracy theory boards. That should be obvious to most here. and they would almost certainly, at a minimum have commentators on them. If possible they would even want to have influence, one way or another, with some of the moderators.

Not that I would expect confirmation or denial on that, but I can't believe I'm the only one speculating on it or even the first one to mention the possibility.

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At the time I originally posted this hypothesis, I was vaguely aware that William Cooper had also claimed that Stanton Friedman, and as it turns out many other UFO researchers, were working for the CIA, however I did not attempt to cite him as a source since I didn't consider him reliable, and for the most part still don't. However, it may turn out to be relevant and his name did come up when I previously Posted the "Recruit a group of crackpots" hypothesis, which I'll re-post here, to see original discussion see "Recruit a group of crackpots" hypothesis:
 

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"Recruit a group of crackpots" MJ-12

Some of you may recognize the line "Recruit a group of crackpots" from Roswell staring Martin Sheen.

This was a fictionalized version of Roswell but it appears as if it may involve more truth than most people suspect although that is speculation as is much of the information about UFOs.

They go on to discuss how they could leak information through unreliable sources. "Leaks won't necessarily be bad as long as we control the way they are leaked." Once the information comes from an unreliable source they can ridicule the source and by association all the information associated with the source. If this was put into action it could explain far fetched authors that make a large amount of obvious mistakes but address some things that the orthodox scholars ignore. As some have also speculated about it could also explain the contactee movement of the fifties and sixties.

The alleged members of MJ-12 include Donald Menzel dominant skeptic of his time who used ridicule and distraction techniques to debunk UFOs and Admiral Hillenkoetter board member of NICAP. This could be the beginning of a pattern of behavior. They could have gone on to continue putting people in high places on both sides of the issue or where ever they are needed to control the way UFOs are discussed.

Most if not all of the high profile experts about UFOs seem to make at least a few obvious and simple mistakes that never should make it into books or shows that have been proof read. Many of them make a lot of foolish mistakes.

Intentional or not this leads to a lot of confusion. One of the biggest problems is lack of organization. One of the most obvious cases is the Condon Report (to read a free online copy click here) which is very badly organized as many including Allen Hynek have pointed out. Among people that have taken the time to read it many including myself have come to the conclusion that it shows evidence for a major unsolved mystery. If there are no UFOs as Condon claims why are there so many pilots chasing stars, planets, weather balloons etc.

One thing that I can be sure of there is a lot of contradictory information about UFOs and much of it is so obvious that it virtually guarantees that there is an effort to confuse the issue by many people. Either people reporting UFOs or those "debunking" them or I suspect more likely both.

Whether MJ-12 (or some thing doing the same job with a different name) exists or not If you want to figure out what is going on with UFOs right now you have to look at a lot of information from a lot of different sources and you can't trust much if any of it completely without verification.

Whether the government is hiding something about UFOs or not it is not being open about many subjects especially under G. W. Bush. the government needs to be held accountable which is why I also started a string to discuss Election Reform.

Whether you want to know more about UFOs or any other thing involving the government it would be much easier to find out if we had an open honest government. .....

If this group exist as I suspect they do they are essentially conducting a controlled disclosure conspiracy.

One of the tactics MJ-12 might use to confuse the issue (assuming that is what they want to do) is to put disinformation in books that they have influence over. This could be referred to as kind of a poison pill. In many cases it is a very obvious mistake or something that can easily be dis proven. this wouldn't necessarily be limited to UFO information.

An example of a poison pill would be if they put something like a claim by someone who built a seismograph in his garage that can detect earthquakes worldwide, or an astronaut who claims to have seen a tractor trailer from space with the naked eye. Or in a case unrelated to UFOs an author might claim that there was a problem with the air conditioning because the CIA couldn't tell the air conditioning guy how many people would be in the building. If there are logical flaws to these examples as I believe there are then they would raise doubts about the authors who wrote them. This could raise doubts about whole books that included these flaws. For this reason it is important to sort through information about UFOs carefully without taking them as a package deal. These books also have many more credible parts of the story but if the authors have credibility problems the credible portions need to be confirmed. In some cases there is plenty of confirmation which indicates it is probably true. In other cases there may not be sufficient confirmation in which case it may be better to look at it as a hypothetical.

The internet could be used by many people to share information about UFOs and they know it. If they want to control the way information is leaked on line that is incredibly easy. All they have to do is start a troll patrol. This troll patrol would search for message boards and chat rooms and try to bait people and pick fights with them. In many cases it is very easy to do this. If sincere people start arguing with the trolls the trolls win. Once it turns into a argument full of name calling it looks like a bunch of fools and there is little or no chance of exchanging rational ideas. The circumstantial evidence of this can be seen at just about any message board that discusses UFOs. Once the conversation becomes productive the trolls come in and you know what happens. They would try to find ways to avoiding being to obvious though.

This is a good reason why people should ignore trolls instead of arguing with them. If people don't allow themselves to be drawn in and the trolls keep baiting them it will be to obvious and they will usually stop.

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When I first posted this someone responded by saying "'Recruit Crackpots' would explain some things like William Cooper." My response at the time was, "this is the first I heard of Cooper but a quick look at Wikipedia (Milton William Cooper) indicates he might fit the theory," however that wasn't quite true, although I didn't remember it at the time, I had heard of him but ignored the first couple encounters I had with his work since I didn't think it appeared credible. I read Jacques Vallee who wrote about his meeting with him and presented him as highly unreliable, and I had briefly glanced at his book "Behold a Pale Horse," initially declined to read it because it seemed to have so many credibility problems.

I still don't think he had credibility, when he was still alive, and as I have said in the past, when information comes from an unreliable source it shouldn't be trusted unless it can be confirmed independently; however it shouldn't be completely dismissed unless it can be refuted, although it shouldn't be considered important without corroboration.

I have read his book since then and found that the vast majority of it is seriously flawed; however some of it made a lot of sense. It is hard to imagine why a rational person that could make good arguments some of the time could be so farfetched and absurd other times; however that is routine when dealing with researchers or conspiracy theorists involved in the UFO subject, which is why I consider the "crackpot hypothesis" worth consideration. The following is the excerpt where he claims that Stanton Friedman and several other well known people involved in UFO research might be working for the CIA although he came to his conclusions for different reasons that I:



I'm familiar with a few of these names which I suspect he may have been right or close to the truth about. I can't rule out the possibility that Dr. J. Allen Hynek might have had connections to the CIA; but he is one of the rare UFO researchers that makes few obvious blunders, or at least if you exclude the ones he made before he came out and admitted that he couldn't explain a large number of the sightings the Air Force was pressuring him to explain away. It seems unlikely that he was actively trying to deceive the public. However there are few if any high profile researchers, either skeptics or believers since he died that received much if any media attention that don't make lots of blunders that they almost certainly should have caught.

A couple credible quotes from his Wikipedia page include, "Ridicule is not part of the scientific method, and people should not be taught that it is. The steady flow of reports, often made in concert by reliable observers, raises questions of scientific obligation and responsibility. Is there ... any residue that is worthy of scientific attention? Or, if there isn't, does not an obligation exist to say so to the public—not in words of open ridicule but seriously, to keep faith with the trust the public places in science and scientists?" And when asked about his change of opinion he said, "Two things, really. One was the completely negative and unyielding attitude of the Air Force. They wouldn't give UFOs the chance of existing, even if they were flying up and down the street in broad daylight. Everything had to have an explanation. I began to resent that, even though I basically felt the same way, because I still thought they weren't going about it in the right way. You can't assume that everything is black no matter what. Secondly, the caliber of the witnesses began to trouble me. Quite a few instances were reported by military pilots, for example, and I knew them to be fairly well-trained, so this is when I first began to think that, well, maybe there was something to all this."

This doesn't mean that Hynek believed in many of far-fetched claims about warp drive, wormholes, or that he accepted the often flawed claims about Alien Abduction, although he did admit that there might be something to some of them even if there are flaws that need to be worked out.

Philip Klass is far more believable, since his alleged efforts to debunk UFOs often involved taking temper tantrums or using ridicule, which as Hynek said is highly unscientific. Klass even seems to have taken a temper tantrum when discussing Hynek in one of his books saying that he changed sides and treated him like a traitor instead of trying to address the issues. Klass has also been known to recommend that evidence that he disagrees with should be simply thrown in the rubbish. He was often a lot like Zahi Hawass when confronted with things he couldn't explain; instead of admitting that there was an unsolved mystery they both often take temper tantrums, which is highly unscientific. One of his temper tantrums was during one of his planned debates and Zahi Hawass Storms out of Debate with Graham Hancock before it Begins, additional details here. Graham Hancock and Robert Bauval both have many problems with their theories; however there are some unexplained mysteries that Zahi Hawass can't explain and instead of addressing them or at least admitting that he can't explain all the details he takes temper tantrums like this to avoid inconvenient facts.

Appeals to emotions is one of the things that Stanton Friedman has criticized about some of the worst pseudo-skeptics; however, even though he doesn't make his own appeals to emotions as often he does the same thing on some occasions. One of those occasions is when he angrily said that William Cooper was lying about him working for the CIA.

Like Stanton Friedman, Linda Moulton Howe, also often makes very logical arguments when it suits her purposes indicating that she is very credible and can figure relatively simple things; but then on occasions simply declines to acknowledge serious flaws in her claims, including a common belief about the possibility of benevolent aliens. She's most well known for her research into Cattle Mutilations going back to the seventies. These mutilations were never explained and haven't ended; however, for the most part, the traditional media stopped reporting on them, giving the public that isn't familiar with alternative media the impression that they may have ended, or, in most cases, they stopped thinking about them at all.



Stanton Friedman, Linda Moulton Howe and many other researchers often try to make the argument for a benevolent alien hypotheses; however they fail to consider one of the most obvious things that benevolent aliens would do if this were the case.

They would communicate!

This is especially true if they were involved, one way or another in the moving of massive megaliths thousands of years ago, implying that they had some impact on the development of our early civilization.

As I have pointed out numerous times, including in "God's Not Dead" But Is He Nice? if an unknown advanced intelligence of some sort, whether you call it God or an advanced alien intelligence was looking out for the best interest of humanity they wouldn't do it in "Mysterious," or more accurately deceptive, ways. In the case of the Christian, Jewish or Muslim God, this is indicated by their own holy books. One of the simplest examples, as pointed out in the article about “God not being dead,” is Exodus 14:4 where the Bible says that the reason Pharaoh didn’t obey was because God made him obstinate or stubborn, and God used this as an excuse to terrorize the entire Egyptian population; and in Mathew 10:34-7 where Jesus says, “it is not peace I have come to bring, but a sword,” and goes on to say that if they don’t love Jesus or God more than they love their own family members. This is not the behavior of a benevolent God, but of a cult leader.

Of course this is based on the assumption that the Bible is the literal truth; however if it wasn’t and it was inspired by an unknown advanced intelligence, that religious people refer to as God, or that some theorists now believe might be aliens of some sort, then God or the aliens, would have made a point of letting the human race know that this isn’t what they meant once they saw that civilizations were fighting massive wars based on the beliefs handed to them from their religious leaders.

A benevolent God or aliens simply wouldn’t abandon the human race after influencing the creation of all these ancient wonders, and perhaps their religious beliefs if they were primarily interested in providing guidance that helps us.

At times there have been many people that have argued that the public can’t handle the truth; however more often than not, this isn’t presented in a high profile manner. If it was it wouldn’t be likely to hold up very well, for one simple reason.



If they were concerned about the public’s ability to handle the truth and really didn’t believe that they could the obvious thing to do would be to prepare them so eventually they could handle the truth as soon as possible and there is no way that a massive charade would do that.

Furthermore, if they didn’t think all people could handle the truth they would present it to as many people as could and ask them to help prepare the rest of the public.

That isn’t what is going on at all.

If there was an open debate accepting diverse views from many different people then these ideas and many more would be discussed and when researchers encountered obvious problems with their beliefs about benevolent God or Aliens they would correct them eventually. But this doesn’t happen in UFO research or many other fields including economics, health care or foreign policy, where people with ulterior motives are controlling the debate.



This is a basic well accepted principle within the scientific community, or at least they claim that it is well accepted and often make statements supporting principles like this.

When some of the most notable scientists make good statements about the scientific process and then don't follow them, then it's up to us to use our own discretion. 

However many of the so-called leaders of the scientific community often ignore this in practice or endorse pseudo-skeptics that have an incredibly long history of ignoring basic scientific methods, like Michael Shermer, who as I pointed out in several articles including Mind of the Market: Is Michael Shermer a Skeptic? Scam artist? or Idiot? has a history of repeatedly making incredibly unscientific arguments including claims that “Markets are Moral” and defending a charity as an example of this in his book while it was simultaneously being exposed as a fraud. My article about that doesn’t even cite the expose as the strongest evidence to discredit this charity; instead if points out the obvious flaws about spending money to collect money, ensuring that a large portion of the money given to charities collected with the help of high priced ads goes to waste.

This is something that any person using scientific methods can easily figure out, yet Michael Shermer simply declines to do so and he makes many other similar blunders, yet some of the most well know scientists, including Sam Harris and Richard Dawkins, cite him as an example of scientific leader.

Yet many of the most obvious motives that aliens might have are rarely discussed by either UFO researchers or skeptics, including Stanton Friedman or Linda Moulton Howe, who claims she believe that there are aliens and some of them are looking out for our best interests while others are trying to sabotage them, in a variation of the good versus evil beliefs often adopted by most religions.

If this were the case then the ones that were good, assuming they exist would simply communicate and warn us about the evil ones.

Surprisingly, Stanton Friedman now seems to be acknowledging that governments would seek to reverse engineers alien technology and argues that they would want to “quarantine us” because they consider us “evil," without acknowledging several obvious flaws in the following article:



Stanton Friedman is, of course right that if they wanted to communicate they could have, but that would go back to when they first arrived, possibly thousands of years ago.

If they were concerned about “quarantining us” because we’re “evil” wouldn’t the obvious thing to do be to start by communicating? Shouldn’t Stanton Friedman be able to figure that out, assuming he was even trying?

Stanton Friedman simply declines to acknowledge the possibility that these aliens assuming they exist, as he claims might have been around for thousands of years and might have been responsible for the advanced activities like moving megaliths that happened in history, even though experiments failed to replicate them. This and other evidence that might indicate that, as I pointed out, in the earlier article about this, Philip Corso might be partially right and that a lot of our technology that has been developing rapidly over the last few decades may have been developed either through reverse-engineering, which he now acknowledges the government would inevitably try, or through an open line of communication with the aliens, if they have visited us.

If they have been communicating with aliens for decades, and developed advanced technology as a result then this would have a massive impact on recent developments.

As I pointed out in several past articles possible motives for the aliens could include massive amounts of research that they might not be willing to do on their own planet or, if their own environment was different than ours it could include research that they couldn’t do on their own planet.

My past articles on this subject indicated that if, as most scientists claim, there is something to Climate Change then there is no doubt that we’re currently researching it, however the typical belief is that it is an unplanned experiment that they’re only studying reluctantly. If on the other hand there has been an advanced intelligence influencing our development for thousands of years then it opens up the possibility that it could be at least partly planned.

Additional articles demonstrate that pharmaceutical research has definitely been using many people as research subjects, often without full disclosure. This is easy to recognize for anyone with basic scientific background about research methods. If there are aliens influencing our development and perhaps sharing technology with our leaders, either intentionally or accidentally when they allow them to obtain it after they crash then it opens up the possibility that there is more to that as well.

If they were trying to disclose this information in the most effective way possible there is no way they would be going about it like this. However if they wanted to continue using people for their own interests, whatever they might be there are more possibilities that might explain this and they might want to confused the issue, which is what they’re doing.

It is conceivable that many of the people involved in this research might be arguing for disclosure of some sort, but they clearly aren’t doing a good job at it. They might have some plan to do it when it suits their own purposes, or at least they might tell each other that, but this could be used as an excuse among themselves to enable them to believe they’re doing what is in the best interest of the human race.

However if this is the case by preserving the culture of deception whether they intend to or not they could be ensuring that it continues to be delayed in definitely and that the claim that they will eventually disclose that they’re doing could be just something they tell the people that are calling for it from within, and stall them, perhaps even until it is too late assuming there is such a time.

By handling it this manner they’ve successfully turned the discussion of UFOs into a fringe subject that most people don’t even pay attention to; so if there is something to it, instead of preparing them so that they could “handle the truth,” they’re convincing a large portion of the public that it isn’t even worth considering except as a joke.

The media encourages this by providing incredibly incompetent coverage of this subject and many others, which people familiar with the basics of any given subject can easily recognize.

By providing an enormous amount of coverage to obviously incompetent researchers, like Giorgio Tsoukalos, it should be clear that they're not taking this subject seriously, but if people pay close enough attention they might realize that although many of his claims are seriously flawed like when he claimed that they couldn't have dug the Seti I's burial tunnel for his tomb because his lighter went out due to lack of oxygen that would have also made impossible for them to breath; some of his other claims are legitimate like the fact that they have been unable to replicate efforts to move massive megaliths, even if he does rely on exaggerated estimates of the megaliths. If people are familiar enough with archaeology then they might realize that even the tomb of Seti I hasn't been fully explained even if Giorgio Tsoukalos didn't raise what sounded like reasonable doubts. It's till an enormous tomb along with many other massive carvings around the world that are incredibly difficult for a primitive society to build; and in the case of some of them in India, and perhaps elsewhere, they also have serious air quality problems which would have made it even more difficult if not impossible.

Occasionally even though researchers like Giorgio Tsoukalos, William Cooper, David Icke, Graham Hancock and many others don't seem credible they raise some important issues that traditional researchers can't explain.

They also use a similar tactic when it comes to so-called scientific debunkers like Penn Jillette Or James Randi, who claim to defend science, yet they're comediennes not academic scientists. Since their primary job isn't science it makes it seem acceptable when they turn it into a joke making appeals to emotion. Some of this might be reasonable but when it is done to much, and people forget that real science shouldn't be treated like a joke then it can easily turn into propaganda or pseudo-science that they're claiming to argue against.  



One thing they fail to even consider is that if, as many skeptics claim, there is nothing to UFO research, why is the media providing so much coverage to the subject? If there are no aliens visiting, then there is an enormous effort to make it seem as if there is, which would involve a conspiracy as big as the one that is covering it up assuming they are visiting. Mainstream Skeptics also fail to question why the media is so bad at providing much if any good educational material on any given subject., including many other scientific subjects. Michael Shermer, who is typical of people from the skeptic community routinely ridicules conspiracy theories stereotyping them as fringe, yet if they're not conspiring to provide propaganda instead of good education on the mainstream media what other explanation could their be for their incredibly bad media coverage?

Why don't they question the consolidation of the media when it is clearly a major part of the reason why scientific discussion in the mass media is so incredibly incompetent?

Real rational skepticism doesn't ignore inconvenient facts when it suits their purposes, nor do rational skeptics decline to acknowledge unsolved mysteries when there clearly are plenty of them. They may not be able to solve all of them but if they were as scientific as they claim they would keep an open mind and it least consider different possibilities.

Some of these unsolved mysteries aren't as simple as many of us have been led to believe and it takes more time to sort through the details than many of the so-called experts imply. It doesn't help when the same media outlets repeat the same ideas over and over again without allowing diverse views or questions about unsolved mysteries. those that pay enough attention must know that the media establishment isn't even trying to do a good job covering this subject, or any other subject.



The following are a few of my past articles about this subject:

107 Wonders of the Ancient World

UFO Hypothesis with rational use of Occam's Razor

Why so few arrests for Crop Circles makers? Is there microwave evidence?

Multinationals Are Using Public For Research On Massive Scale

Wanted unsuspecting research subjects

"God's Not Dead" But Is He Nice?

Yes Virginia There Is A Trump And Clinton Conspiracy

Mind of the Market: Is Michael Shermer a Skeptic? Scam artist? or Idiot?

Lost city around Angkor Temples found

Massive effort to move 340-ton megalith is no longer routine

Is “Prism” news? or is it ECHELON?







The following are some additional sources:

The Secret Government: A Covenant With Death - Origin, Identity and Purpose of MJ-12 by William Cooper

[PDF]Behold a Pale Horse - StopTheCrime.net

Prominent Ufologist Stanton Friedman: 'Aliens are here and will quarantine us' 03/26/2017

Stanton Friedman Responds To Allegations Of Being A Deep Cover Operative; Stan Deyo Weighs In 07/16/2005

Philip Corso and Paul Hellyer - Initiating Public Debate Over the Weaponization of Space &

UFO Sightings by Astronauts

15 Quotes From NASA Astronauts That Will Make You Believe In Aliens 02/19/2017

Transcript: Interview with Donald Trump 05/11/2017

A shocking percentage of the public is incredibly bad at basic fundamental math!

Otherwise they would realize that the fundamental principles of both the Gambling and Insurance industries are based on fraud!

They would also realize that Trump's statement isn't remotely accurate and sounds like the misleading commercials about cheap insurance that don't pay out nearly as much as they imply. It doesn't take much to realize that the more Colonial Penn Gerber Life or other cheap insurance offers spend on their ads for insurance the less they have available to pay out claims, especially if they intend to be a profitable company!

This guarantees that they must be hiding something in the fine print!

The public is constantly told that the insurance companies are competing for their business; but this competition can't possibly change basic fundamental math. Instead of competing by doing a better job they compete by coming up with more deceptive ads to convince the public they're getting a better deal than they are.

Insurance is pooled risk; which means that everyone puts in a little money in the form of premiums then when one policy holder has an accident or needs health care or something the pool of money is available to help them out, or at least it's supposed to be. But they also have to take bureaucratic expenses and profits out of that pool of money. So the more they compete with deceptive ads the worse the deal for customers, since the money spent on those ads is no longer available for claims. The same goes for commissions, office expenses money donated to political campaigns and epidemic levels of fraud.

What they don't tell you is that the media, insurance companies, and politicians who collect enormous amounts of money from both these industries have an incentive to sweep it under the rug so that the vast majority of the public is unaware of how big this problem is, and that it is contributing to hundreds of deaths per year, and who knows how many injuries or billions of dollars in fraud.

They don't tell the public that a large number of people involved in the insurance industry are often involved in many of these scams, including murder, but not limited to that.

They don't tell the public that there are also an enormous number of police officers involved in insurance fraud, including murder although other types of fraud are more common including arson, auto theft but the most common insurance fraud by police is almost certainly workers compensation fraud.

They don't tell the public that instead of organizing information about this so that we can find out how widespread this is they often pass trade secrecy laws that enable the insurance industry to hide the data.

The is FBI also in a position to provide data that could enable the public to understand how widespread this problem is but they do little or nothing.

They don't tell the public, at least not in a high profile manner, that according to Insurance Fraud 2016 and numerous other sources that about 10% of property/casualty losses are due ton fraud. Nor do they often explain the fundamentals of insurance which is that it is pooled risk. This means that everyone contributes to the pool of money used to pay out claims, but first expenses have to be taken out, and in the case of for profit insurance, the profits also have to be subtracted before money is paid out.

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No matter how much money insurance companies spend on advertising or lobbying they can't change basic math!

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There's little or no chance that the average policy holder gets more than sixty to seventy cents on the dollar for the money they pay in premiums. It may not be possible to eliminate bureaucratic expenses; but if they at least explained the basic principles to the customers and voters they could at least understand simple ways to minimize them.

Why not let the public know how big a percentage of the premiums are paid out to policy holders, and how much is used for other expenses?

Could it be that if the public did know they would realize that insurance should be kept to a minimum if it is bought at all; and the people controlling large institutions are getting a cut of the loot?

If anyone paid close attention they might have noticed that the media briefly reported on a requirement that eighty percent of the premiums collected for the so called Affordable Care Act are supposed to be used on health related expenses. This is almost certainly much better than typical insurance, assuming they actually do it and don't hide non-medical expenses by claiming they're medical expenses. This might explain why the insurance industry was outraged by this rule. the reporting on this was very brief so most people won't remember it. However due to high costs of medication or other medical expenses the cost of the Affordable Care Act policies is still far higher than other countries that have Single Payer.

It is virtually guaranteed that many of the highest advertised insurance plans don't do nearly as well and many may only pay less than fifty cents on the dollar to claims, although there is little or no way for most people to know this.

What the defenders of the current system don't want the public to know is that they're the only ones benefiting from it.

If the majority of the public knew more about the basic principles of insurance they would realize that the current system is a scam and they would be better off with a different system, perhaps Single Payer, like many other countries already have!

As long as the public remains ignorant of these basic principles the insurance industry will continue providing financial incentives for epidemic amounts of fraud that many people including their own agents, doctors, police officers and other professionals involved in related industries are carrying out on a large scale, even if they're only reported as isolated incidents!



A few years ago a couple went to a Casino to gamble while they waited for their home to explode, unintentionally killing two of their neighbors, so they could collect insurance money from it.



This is just one of thousands of insurance scams that are endangering the public that gets reported as an isolated incident. If you look through enough of them it becomes apparent that a lot of the people interested in trying to get rich off insurance scams are often also interested in gambling where the odds are also rigged against the players.



Most of the public doesn't seem to understand one of the most basic principles of propaganda described in a quote, often ironically attributed to Vladimir Lenin, "A lie repeated often enough becomes the truth," or at least it seems to. However advertisers, media pundits, political strategists, and many other college educated people are well aware of this propaganda tactic, although they rarely if ever try to explain it to the majority of the public.

These advertisers repeat lies about how "you can win" at the lottery or casino or hyped up lies about magical replacements of merchandise "protecting" you, without telling the public that the more they spend on these deceptive ads the less they have for actual claims!

Judging by the propaganda that is repeated over and over again, without explaining the basics of gambling, advertisers or political manipulation it isn't unreasonable to assume that the reason why they don't explain it to uneducated people is because they're doing their best to use these propaganda tactics to manipulate them.

In addition to providing an incentive for hundreds of murders per year plus an enormous amount of additional fraud in other types of insurance, unlike a Single Payer system a for profit insurance declines to provide coverage for mentally ill people that would almost certainly prevent many crimes committed by them, perhaps including the following example:


It wouldn't be hard to find an enormous number of additional cases where serious crime could have been prevented by recognizing the root causes of violence and preventing them before it leads to murder of some other crime. In this case treatment just before the murder might have done the trick; however if we provide better child care education and other social programs to help it will prevent it from coming close to this.

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The goal shouldn't be to maximize profits and growth for the insurance industry; it should be to minimize risk to the public by preventing causes of violence!

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People who want to find this research can.



The current for profit system is far more concerned with maximizing profits by expanding their business without necessarily providing consumers with their money’s worth. In fact the more they minimize their pay outs for legitimate concerns the higher their profits are as long as they can avoid taking much if any blame for the crimes that are being committed either as a result of the incentives provided by insurance or the lack of real efforts to understand and reduce the root causes of crime.

A few other things that they fail to mention is as I pointed out in previous articles is that Police are often among the most common perpetrators of insurance fraud and as I pointed out in Life Insurance and media companies are encouraging lots of murders over two percent and perhaps as many as six to eight percent of the murders listed on Murderpedia involve a possibility, if not a guarantee, that a leading motive for these murders was life insurance. If this is representative of the typical murder rate then that means that between three and twelve hundred people are murdered each year partly as a result of their life insurance policies.

On top of that some of the people most likely to be involved in insurance fraud are often insiders or professionals that are either in the insurance industry or a related industry that deals with them on a regular basis. Below is a list of a small fraction of these insurance agents or other professionals including more than two dozen additional murders either carried out by insurance agents or other professionals or targeting them sometimes both. This is only a small fraction of the insurance fraud that happens every year.

My statistics about between two and eight percent of murders being committed partially for life insurance might be a little rough; however they're far better than any information that I can find from any of the so called experts. After searching for the percentage of people killed for life insurance the closest thing I could find was someone asking the same question, How many people get killed in hope of a life insurance payout? And how does it affect insurance policies? This question was only answered by professionals that obviously had an incentive to downplay the importance of this issue and minimize concerns about life insurance. They didn't even consider the possibility that they might do a statistical analysis of murders from either the records of the FBI or insurance companies.

You would think that criminologists might want to do this analysis, since the records will provide some sort of answer and they're in abetter position than I to do the work; but there seems to be little or none of this that I can find. Why don't they do statistical research to find out how many people are killed with insurance as a motive? how many of these murders actually result in payments from the insurance companies? how many professionals of various types are involved in it? There is data that can be found through the internet but it isn't nearly as good as what's in the FBI files or files that the insurance companies have which are almost certainly proprietary. If their files can be used to understand and reduce violence why should the law protect their secrecy instead of requiring disclosure? to help prevent those with political power profit at the expense of the rest of us?

Are the insurance companies powerful enough to minimize research into this subject? If they aren't why isn't much better research available?

We do have enough information to know that a lot of people did get away with murder at least for a while and collect from these policies, because in many cases they do it again and eventually get caught.

The insurance companies, politicians collecting donations from them, and media establishments collecting advertising revenue, are far more concerned with keeping people buying insurance and expanding this business as much as possible than they are with minimizing the crime they provide an incentive for, since they’re getting a cut of the loot!

As I pointed out in a previous article, Politicians increase crime; Grass roots efforts reduce crime; Politicians steal the credit on one issue after another when it comes to the contributing causes of crime there is almost always a way to reduce it; however there are also industries that profit off of it one way or another. One of the biggest contributing causes of crime is poverty but instead of trying to reduce that by reducing income inequality they continue supporting corporations that are involved in union busting activities outsourcing and other activities that ignore social problems, or what they call “negative externalities.” Supporting an incredibly corrupt insurance industry is another example of how politicians are far more concerned with serving the best interests of campaign contributors than they are with looking for the best interests of the public by educating them about the best research available and making their decisions based on that research.

The biggest criminals aren’t the insurance agents listed below that have been caught with blatant insurance fraud or the police that are also caught with enormous amounts of fraud or any other policy holder involved in fraud; it is the CEOs that are making enormous profits, and bribing politicians with what they call campaign contributions, and the media with advertising dollars, to ensure that neither of them let the majority of the public know how big a problem this is and how it can be prevented.

This doesn’t guarantee that Single Payer will eliminate all insurance fraud; at least one of the incidents listed below is Medicare fraud which is a government insurance system; but it would dramatically reduce many of them. Furthermore if they required full disclosure of all the information needed to understand how it contributes to crime then it could be greatly reduced, although some exceptions might be made to defend privacy, which can be done by changing some names.

A couple additional scams have been exposed in the following couple of articles:

The Life Insurance Industry’s Big Secret 12/04/2012





The following are reports of insurance fraud that are carried out with help from insurance agents or other professionals in related fields, starting with a couple dozen examples where either insurance agents were involved in murder or they were murdered. This may include some cases where the murders were to cover up other types of fraud:

Insurance Agent, Researcher Charged in Illinois Murder-for-Hire Scheme January 21, 2010

North Carolina Insurance Examiner Missing, Agent Arrested for Murder May 20, 2008

Convicted murderer David Duyst, who shot wife in 2000, denied a new trial 02/08/2011

Shawn Smoot Insurance agent indicted in murder of Knoxville woman set to turn himself in Monday 06/20/2012

Slain Sanford insurance agent's boyfriend Richard Barnes faces judge 12/09/2014

Joseph Caronna Tenn. Insurance Agent Goes To Trial In Murder, Fraud Case 10/25/2012

Insurance Agent Charged With Soliciting Customer's Murder 04/22/1988

Police: Two Louisiana fraud investigators killed; suspect, John Melvin Lavergne dead 06/08/2011

Ernest Basden and Sylvia White conspired to kill Billy Carlyle White who was an insurance salesman to claim life insurance benefits January 20, 1992

Albert Foulcher was convicted of the murder in 1993, at Pailhés near Montpellier, of another insurance agent - the man from whom he had bought a business in 1984. Committed five murders between January 19, 1993 and January 8, 2001 before committing suicide on January 17, 2001

Ralph Davis, an insurance broker, murdered Susan Davis, his wife in 1986. Between June and July 1986 Davis forged three checks on his wife’s personal bank account in the amount of $ 900 and also forged his wife’s signature on a change of beneficiary life insurance form to make himself the beneficiary of the policy.

Markham Duff-Smith, a 46-year-old insurance broker whose voracious thirst for the lavish lifestyle led to the murders of his wealthy mother, sister, brother-in-law and 14-month-old nephew, was executed on June 29, 1993. Murders to collect from estate not insurance.

Prosecutors argued Brenda Andrew also was having an affair with Rob Andrew's insurance agent, James Pavatt. Attorneys said Pavatt and Brenda Andrew conspired to kill Rob Andrew for an $800,000 life insurance policy on November 20, 2001 Little is known about James Pavatt's early life, although it is known that he was in the Air Force and served in Southeast Asia. He was attached to the Military Police. He was married to Suk Hui Pavatt for nine years before divorcing her in 2001. At that time he was working as an agent for Prudential Insurance. Former co-workers characterize him as very cold, and manipulative. One co-worker said there was something about Pavatt that struck him as "off-center". "He always talked about shooting dogs. Every time he saw a dog he would talk about shooting it," the man said. Someone else who knew Pavatt described him as "creepy."

Teresa Stone admits conspiring with her minister and lover to kill her husband, Independence insurance agent Randy Stone - To collect insurance money March 31, 2010

The Philadelphia poison ring was a murder for hire gang led by the Petrillo cousins, Herman and Paul Petrillo, in 1938. The leaders were ultimately convicted of 114 poison-murders and were executed by electric chair in 1941. Paul's cousin, Morris Bolber, was among the 14 others in the gang, all of whom were sentenced to life imprisonment. 05/1/2017 ... Paul ran an insurance scam business from the back of his tailor's shop ... The murders began in 1931, with Herman enlisting associate thugs to kill men he had arranged to insure, to collect on the double indemnity accident insurance.

Olen Edward Hutchison, of Campbell County, was convicted of conspiring with several other men, including M. C. Curnutt an insurance agent, to drown Hugh Huddleston during a fishing trip in 1988 to collect almost $800,000 in insurance money and other benefits.

Ruth Snyder first persuaded her husband to purchase insurance, but with the assistance of an insurance agent (who was subsequently fired and sent to prison for forgery) "signed" a $48,000 life insurance policy that paid extra ("double indemnity") if an unexpected act of violence killed the victim. March 20, 1927 Henry Judd Gray convicted of being her accomplice
Ruth Brown Snyder 05/0/2017

Debra Milke and her four-year-old son, Christopher, shared an apartment with co-defendant James Styers and his two-year-old daughter. While Milke worked at an insurance agency, Styers, an unemployed and disabled veteran, watched Christopher. December 2, 1989 In September, 1989, shortly after beginning a new job, Milke took out a $5000 life insurance policy on Christopher as part of her employee benefit plan. Debra Milke's sentence was overturned after she served twenty five years.
James Lynn Styers December 2, 1989

As a former prosecutor, part-time judge and prominent criminal defense attorney, Fredric Tokars worked on all sides of the criminal justice system. November 29, 1992 Unbeknownst to her, Fred Tokars took out several insurance policies totalling $1.7 million on Sara's life. Lawrence denied any involvement in the murder — by himself or by Fred Tokars — for about seven months. But after a plea agreement he claimed Tokars offered him $25,000 cash and a $910,000 investment in their joint business to arrange Sara Tokars' murder.

Ronald Mikos convicted for Killing a witness who was going to testify against him in a Medicare fraud investigation January 27, 2002 The same jury had on May 5, 2005 convicted Ronald Mikos of defrauding Medicare out of $1.2 Million by billing the Health and Human Services program from surgeries he never performed.

Masumi Hayashi is a Japanese woman convicted of putting poison in a pot of curry being served at a 1998 summer festival in the Sonobe district of Wakayama, Wakayama, Japan. July 25, 1998 After her arrest, she and her husband were indicted on a number of insurance fraud charges as well. Her husband was subsequently convicted and imprisoned for insurance fraud. Prior to the murders, Masumi had been an insurance saleswoman.

Pamela Ann Smart (née Wojas) (born August 16, 1967), is serving a life sentence for first-degree murder, conspiracy to commit murder of Gregory Smart, an insurance salesman, and witness tampering in New Hampshire. 05/1/2017 Nicolosi claimed that Smart seduced Flynn to get him to murder her husband, so that she could avoid an expensive divorce and benefit from a $140,000 life insurance policy. .... Pam even agreed to pay them from the insurance money that she would collect.

Why dishonest claims turn violent 03/02/2017 Prentice Ponds, Michael Howell,



The following are additional examples of professionals, mostly insurance agents involved in other types of fraud.

Former Lincoln County commissioner sentenced in insurance fraud case 01/13/2017

Insurance Agents Charged In $100 Million Fraud Scheme 02/20/2012 In an indictment announced Feb. 16, federal authorities accuse three agents--Michael Binday, 48, the president and owner of a Scarsdale, N.Y. insurance agency; James Kevin Kergil, 57, an insurance agent based in Peekskill, N.Y.; and Mark Resnick, 56, an insurance agent based in Orlando, FL--of conspiring to defraud major insurance companies into issuing life insurance policies to straw buyers, when the true owners of the policies were third-party investors and financiers. All three agents have been arrested. In a statement announcing the indictment, Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said that the three insurance agents “concocted an elaborate scheme, using straw buyers and third-party agents, to deceive life insurance providers into issuing policies to unintended beneficiaries.

Insurance adjuster Jeffrey Cohen Sentenced to 37 Years in Prison in Massive Insurance Fraud Scheme 12/10/2015

Ramapo podiatrist Ira Bernstein admits plotting to kill wife 12/09/2016 Bernstein and his lover, Kelly Gribeluk, have now both admitted in Rockland County Court that they conspired to hire a local businessman to kill Susan Bernstein, as well as to have two insurance investigators beaten up to discourage them from bringing fraud allegations about Bernstein's podiatry practice to authorities.

31 arrested in organized insurance fraud scheme 05/20/2015 Espinosa, who owned and operated Nationwide Adjusters, was arrested in 2014 for allegedly working with recruiters and “finders” across the county to locate homeowners willing to allow him to set fires or flood their homes.

Mary Kumar Mass. Insurance agent charged in scam Bizarre case leads to confusion, victim's arrest 05/31/2016 According to Provost’s report, Middleton police were aware of Prestige Insurance customers who were not insured despite making regular payments. Police also learned Kumar was the point person for customers making auto insurance payments.

Bakersfield Ca. agent arrested for insurance fraud scheme involving more than 100 policies 08/29/2016

Dennis Avera Jr., Darien Ga. Insurance agent arrested on fraud charges 04/11/2013

Christopher Lowell Jackson, Insurance agent from Athens Ga. charged with fraud; surrenders license 01/18/2017

Vicki Lee McGinley, Bakersfield California insurance agent arrested on counts of identity theft and insurance fraud 08/29/2016

Macie Anedra Yawn Eastman Ga. insurance agent arrested, charged with fraud 12/17/2015

Jimmie Harper Jr., Putnam WV insurance agent charged with arson, witness tampering 03/22/2016

David Sampy, Former La. Insurance Agent Arrested on Fraud Charges 03/29/2017

Donato Ramirez, Freedom Ca. area insurance agent arrested for auto insurance fraud 05/24/2016

Thelga Mahalia Nelson, Former city of Metter Ga. insurance agent arrested on felony fraud charges 04/05/2017 The investigation alleges that Nelson - a former Georgia licensed insurance agent - sold customers fake workers' compensation insurance coverage and pocketed the premium.

Troy Shrum Grundy County Tenn. insurance agent indicted for theft and insurance fraud 03/18/2017

Marta Cristina Cunha, Union County NJ insurance agent charged with identity theft, insurance fraud 12/23/2016

The Insurance Scam That’s Fleecing Low-Income Drivers — And How Police Are Making It Worse 05/23/2015 The racket is a growing problem in New York City and South Florida, according to an insurance industry group, but seems most prevalent in Michigan, where premiums are inflated by a state mandate that drivers purchase insurance plans that have unlimited lifetime medical benefits, among other features. Victims in Michigan are thrown even deeper into crisis when police, as is common there, accuse victims of being in on the scam and seize their vehicles and other assets under civil forfeiture laws.

Eddie Butler Greensboro NC Insurance Agent Charged With Embezzlement, Identity Theft 08/16/2017

La. State Police make numerous arrests for insurance fraud 03/10/2015 During the month of February 2015, Troopers received information on suspected insurance fraud by a State Farm insurance agent operating in Marrero, LA.

Ali Kakande, 37, and Salaiman Lutale, 35, Former Ca. Insurance Agents Arrested for $300,000 Insurance Fraud 04/06/2017

Deborah Elaine Thomas, Opelousas La. Insurance Agent Arrested 04/25/2011

Charles W. O'Neal, Sr., Macon Ga. insurance agent to appeal fraud charges 08/31/2016

Carl Eudell Orlando Fla. insurance agent accused of opening insurance policy with stolen identities 09/28/2016



The following are more fraud cases committed by people not involved in the insurance industry and this is only a small fraction of the reports. The more you search for more the more you’ll find.

6 charged for allegedly setting Va. homes on fire to collect insurance money 03/13/2017

28 charged with insurance fraud in scams involving over $1.1 million in potential fraud 04/06/2017

Six Arrested in $900K Insurance Fraud Scheme Involving 30 Virginia Fires 03/13/2017

Staged crashes lead to multiple arrests in Jefferson Davis Parish Louisiana 07/26/2016

Salinas doctor arrested, charged with 37 felonies 05/17/2016

Ten Pitt County NC residents accused of being in staged auto accident ring 08/01/2016 Investigators with the state Department of Insurance says the group staged seven different vehicle crashes between April and August of last year so they could defraud some $25,000 from seven insurance companies.

21 Shocking Murder for Life Insurance Plots (#4 Was Caught on Video!)

Man pleads to homicide in girlfriend's death along Eagle Creek trail 05/11/2017

Brothers convicted in murder plot for $2.5 million in insurance money 06/24/2016

Josh Hudler appears in court for killing dad in 2014 murder 11/30/2016 Prosecutors say the son wanted his father dead for the man's insurance money.

Linda Gillman suspected of planning to have ex-husband killed 12/29/2016 A woman is accused of planning to pay $25,000 in life insurance money to have her ex-husband and his new wife killed.

Brother’s ex-boyfriend murdered with tire iron in $2.5 million insurance scam 11/02/2016

Wife accused of killing husband tells jury 'you have to acquit Ms. Teng' 01/06/2017

Yeardley Love's Mother Asks Judge to Wait on Insurance Decision 01/02/2017

Huguely, Yeardley Love's Mother resist quick ruling on insurance 07/04/2016

Two charged in Amarillo, both arrested in attempted capital murder for hire 03/09/2017

Court decision could be overturned over $2m insurance payout following wife's murder 12/09/2016

Feds to seize $5 million in life insurance proceeds linked to murder of housekeeper in Colleyville 12/05/2016

Death Penalty Stands for West Hills Woman Who Had Her Husband Murdered 12/01/2016

Amherst man gets 60 years for killing his fiancée for insurance money 12/15/2016

Marc Van Beers, Aurore Martin: Diabolical Belgian Honeymoon Killers In Life Insurance Money Scam Subject Of ‘The Perfect Murder’ On Investigation Discovery 07/06/2016

Five Of The Most Notorious Life Insurance Murders Of All Time [Video]

4th husband of thrice-widowed woman convicted of murder says she's innocent 08/13/2016 First accomplice may have been next victim
Trial begins for alleged 'black widow' accused of plotting husband's 2006 murder 08/10/2016 Again, she collected on the insurance payout and then on the house after it burned down, prosecutors say.

Michele Williams, Greg Williams: CBS ’48 Hours’–Texas Black Widow Murdered Rich Hubby For Insurance Money 09/03/2016

Key murder case witness admits she lied about life insurance money 01/20/2016
Acquitted of wife's murder, Lincoln County man sues to recover her insurance money 04/15/2016

Wife Wanted Husband Murdered While Trick-or-Treating: Police 12/2/2016 A Spokane Valley, Washington woman is behind bars after detailing multiple plots to kill her husband for life insurance money.

Holland woman who had ex-boyfriend murdered for $1.2 million windfall loses appeal 05/19/2016

Fla. Arson and Insurance Fraud Arrest 05/20/2016

Tx. Man arrested for insurance fraud following house fire 11/22/2016

Kemper County Mississippi man charged with arson, fraud 10/13/2016

Clarksburg WV woman accused of insurance fraud in 2013 fire 08/05/2016 A 30-year-old Clarksburg woman has been charged with felony insurance fraud in connection with a May 19, 2013, fire that destroyed an Enterprise home and killed a dog, a Harrison sheriff’s sergeant said.

9 Extreme Insurance Schemers of 2015 Chosen

Minneapolis man who killed mom over imagined bedbug infestation wants her life insurance money 12/12/2016

Philippine police collar army reservist Kirby Patricio Tan linked to insurance murders of two Japanese 01/15/2017

Uloma Walker-Curry had husband killed to collect insurance: prosecutor 09/14/2015

Tennessee woman who went to prison for murdering mother for insurance maintains she's innocent 03/24/2017

Walmart has had an enormous crime problem going back decades.

This isn't new; however last August there was a massive surge in reporting on this crime problem in the mainstream press. Prior to that there have been numerous reports from alternative media outlets that have reported on the major crime problems or a handful of isolated reports from traditional media outlets that usually only report about a small fraction of the problem at local levels.

Instead of recognizing the root causes of crime and preventing them, even when it is very simple, they’ve come up with something they call “Restorative Justice” which seems to mean that when they catch a thief instead of calling the police they threaten them into signing on for an on line course that costs them four hundred dollars or five hundred if they can’t pay up front. According to one source, listed below, instead of paying a private corporation to handle their program “CEC (Corrective Education Co.) pays them for each participant who signs up,” which seems to imply that they’re trying to turn their crime problem into a profit opportunity, instead of something that should be reduced in the most effective way possible.

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When it comes to reducing crime it doesn't help to worship the God of economic growth like economists, politicians, and media pundits seem to do.

For profit prisons and other so-called crime reduction institutions, including this one, have an obvious conflict of interest since they increase profits when business grows providing them with an incentive to misrepresent their progress, especially if there isn't full disclosure.

Privatization of the Justice System is happening with minimum of scrutiny from the majority of the public and the corporations involved donate a lot to campaigns and, in some cases like Walmart, buy an enormous amount of ads giving both the media and the political establishment a motive to look the other way, which they do when alternative media outlets don't expose it.

In the case of Walmart they had at least one hundred and four shootings last year, which thanks to a surge in shootings during the holidays broke a record. There were at least an additional forty-two in the first four months of this year and eight so far this month. This clearly implies we're on the way to breaking the new record this year!

If as they claim shoplifting reports are down as a result of this Restorative Justice program it clearly isn't helping more violent crime and a more thorough review of arson stabbings carjackings and other violent crime will almost certainly show they're rising as well.

(Making Change at Walmart is asking If you or someone you know has gone through @Walmart's "Restorative Justice" program for first-time suspected shoplifters, send us a DM. 03/30/2017 to ensure that it isn’t doing more harm than good.)

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As I reported in a previous article about Wal-Mart’s crime problem, Rolling Back Safety more than prices? there have been at least two statistical studies showing that Walmart has worse crime than other stores, even Big-Box stores. Walmart has refuted the accuracy of both these studies and denied any responsibility for any of their crime problems. As my previous article indicates their denials have little or no credibility and they refuse to acknowledge some of the most obvious causes of their crime problems including oppressive working conditions.

That article pointed out a dozen cases where employees were involved in shootings hostage situations, fist fights, bomb threats and many other conflicts that are often directly related to oppressive working conditions; one of the most obvious examples was a worker in Reno Nevada who shot three of the managers and told the police it was directly related to oppressive working conditions. The same store had another employee a year later threatened to blow the place up and shoot the boss. In many other cases there may be other connections that aren’t quite as clear or aren't reported in the media. 

There are also many similar problems with disgruntled customers that are outraged at the low quality of service, or misleading promises from advertisements or Black Friday shopping promotions. Looking through enough Walmart crime reports it is clear that many of the activities that lead to their high crime problems are easy to recognize, if they want to recognize them.

Where's the “Restorative Justice” for disgruntled workers that are subject to oppressive union busting tactics or for customers that are fed up with deceptive advertisements or poor service?

When many of these people organize Walmart is extremely slow in addressing legitimate concerns and, instead of acting impartially, the government routinely uses tax payer money to suppress protests at Walmart.

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Last night before I finished this article there was a terrorist attack in Britain at an Ariana Grande concert and the calls demanding that everyone, or at least all high profile pundits and politicians, condemn these brutal attacks have been repeated over and over already, as they often are after attacks like this; so I condemn those attacks!

However these same demands for universal condemnation typically don’t come for wars based on lies like the Iraq invasion, nor do they include demands for the prosecution of those responsible for wars based on lies; and the Muslims know that these universal condemnations are extremely one sided, which might be part of the reason for additional terrorist attacks since then.

There are similar condemnations for poor people committing violent acts or even shoplifting; however these universal condemnations don’t apply to those in political power that distort the research so that the most effective solutions to violent crime or terrorism aren’t implemented.

Therefore in addition to condemning the terrorist attacks I also condemn extremely one sided demands for universal condemnation, without acknowledging the contributions that the most powerful have provided in inciting both the terrorist attacks and violent crime by people with little or no resources or access to education or economic opportunity!

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One of the biggest problems they have is of course with shoplifting. It isn’t hard to recognize that their store design and lack of employees to watch the merchandise is a major contributing cause to this as well. Thirty years ago almost all groceries stores or department stores were much smaller and customers had to go through the exit door right in front of the service department or some workers that would easily see if they were taking our enormous volumes of shoplifted items. Now the store design is different for many Big-Box Stores and it is hard if not impossible for workers to keep track of where anyone is, even with cameras everywhere.

Surprise, surprise, dozens if not hundreds of people are walking out with entire shopping carts full of merchandise. Sometimes they go back over and over again until they get caught.

I am not making this up hardly a month goes by without at least a few if not half a dozen or more showing up and that adds up quickly. There's no way of knowing how many there are that didn't get noticed. 

They also have an enormous problem with self-check-out lanes that were intended to save money. They already knew that they were having large crime problems before they installed this on a massive scale. Surprise, surprise, there’s an enormous amount of crime at the self-check-out lanes including theft and angry customers because they have one problem after another with the checking out and there are often few people to help them when these problems happen. At times Walmart responds to this by watching people on camera and may have spent as much money as they allegedly save by trying to catch thieves in the act. If they report this to the police then taxpayers pick up an enormous amount of the tab for what should be considered institutional entrapment.

The majority of the public has no way of knowing how much crime is increasing at the self-check-out lanes; however Walmart almost certainly has those records. Walmart has a history of keeping this information secret and it may be protected by proprietary information laws which means that people that have access to this information would be banned by law from showing it to the public if it shows that they’re increasing profits by endangering customers or increasing police costs dealing with their crime problems. If that is the case and they keep it secret it wouldn’t be the first time; “The High cost Of Low Prices” disclosed that they once suppressed an internal study that showed they could increase safety by having a security guard patrol the parking lot so they could avoid hiring one saving money without a public relations disaster, until it was leaked.

These are just a few of the most obvious causes of their high crime problem and they’re simply not hard to recognize or confirm.

The obvious thing to do might seem to recognize the root causes of crime and prevent them by reversing cuts to save on employees having them handle registers as they used to, design stores so that thieves can’t walk out with entire shopping carts full over and over again and stop oppressing their own workers and misleading customers that are so angry.

Does Walmart do this? Of course not; they’re in total denial and for one reason or another so is the majority of the political establishment and the media that refuses to report on the obvious.

Anyone that reports on these obvious solutions is often treated as fringe and can’t get any attention from the traditional media establishment.

We’re just a bunch or Conspiracy Theorists so perhaps you shouldn’t pay attention to us, unless of course the evidence is overwhelming, which it is, although it is rarely reported in the traditional press which collects enormous amounts of money from Walmart and other Big-Box stores in ads or by politicians who collect enormous amounts of campaign contributions from Walmart or other large corporations.

Actually an enormous amount of the evidence to Walmart's crime problems doesn't fit the strictest definition of conspiracy at all, since it isn't completely secret. However it is often only reported at local news media outlets or researched by alternative media outlets. The mass media rarely reports on the biggest problems caused by their advertisers, including Wal-Mart or oil and insurance companies.

Besides it’s not just conspiracy theorists that have researched this problem there are still some good reporters and sociologists around that manage to get enough funds for research that doesn’t cater overwhelmingly to corporate interests, including Stacy Mitchell who reported on work from several sociologists and indicated in the following excerpt that went to press before Walmart’s crime problem got so bad that even the traditional media felt they had to report on it for a little while. The following excerpts went to press in 2006 and could have been used to recognize and reverse their crime problem, if Walmart or the political establishment were willing to listen:



Al Norman has also been reporting on their crime problems for years including his article, Surfing Wal-Mart’s Crime Wave 05/14/2016 Unfortunately neither Walmart or the political establishment is willing to listen to researchers that look into the subject with the safety of the public in mind instead of way to maximize profits for large corporations. these private security firms are often involved in many lawsuits that also only get reported relatively briefly like the following article from the same corporation that contracts with Walmart although this incident took place at Goodwill Industries:

Wait a minute Goodwill Industries the charity contracting with a for profit company like this? Well, Google "Goodwill Industries store lawsuit," apparently they're not nearly as good as many us wanted to believe, this is just one of many problems for them as well but here's the article:



All this trouble for an alleged theft of $6.97? Before the retail industry consolidated into a small number of oligarchies small businesses had much more basic sense than to turn something like that into a federal case. But this is very common for Big-Box stores where all the decisions are made in far away corporate offices concerned only about profits. Walmart has had problems with a security officer chasing and beating a shoplifter for a 59c donut and shootings incidents involving theft of sandpaper or underwear.

Tax-payers foot an enormous amount of the bill for Walmart's high crime problem! This is what they consider a "negative externality," which means that Walmart doesn't have to take these expenses into consideration when figuring out their profits so as long as no one pays attention they don't have to worry about it; however this should be considered another enormous subsidy to Walmart from the taxpayers, who often give them additional tax breaks that small businesses don't get. This is one of the points that Stacy Mitchell made in her book. There are an enormous amount of people outraged with Walmart; which should mean that they would be at a major disadvantage when it comes to attracting customers. However as she explains in her book they take advantage of their political connections to get breaks their competitors don't have running them out of business; then once they dominate the market they don't have to be as competitive and cities that give them those tax breaks lose revenue from small businesses that don't get them and get stuck with the tab for their high crime problems.

However if you Google "Walmart Restorative Justice" the vast majority of articles from the traditional media ignore many of the most important and obvious problems with Walmart crime, including, Walmart's 'Second Chance' Program for Shoplifters, 11/01/2016 which is supposed to be a magazine with expertize in security. This article implies their solution to this problem is a "the six-hour education course," and "CEC offers scholarships to those who are unable to afford the $400 fee. CEC says that less than two percent of shoplifters who complete the CEC educational program reoffend, compared with estimates as high as 80 percent for those who do not participate in a restorative justice program."

Um, OK

I’ve often said that ridicule or appeals to emotion are highly inappropriate methods of debunking false claims or propaganda.

They’re going to solve crime by giving them a six hour course; they don’t mention this is an online course in this article nor do they mention the lawsuits, they’re facing or that this “scholarship” means they sign an agreement to pay and additional $100 in payments and that they could face debt collectors. They don’t mention the enormous amounts of additional crime problems that Walmart have and make it appear as if they’re trying to do the shoplifter a favor.

They claim “less than two percent… reoffend.” The author of this article is supposed to have some kind of security expertise. She doesn’t raise any doubts about this claim or ask for the data behind it or how they came to this conclusion. Nor does she inquire about how they know the shoplifters for this program are non-violent offenders.

Some good child psychologists, sociologists and criminologists spend an enormous amount of time explaining how early child abuse leads to escalating violence and other social problems, abandoned inner cities, poverty economic inequality, lack of education and many other problems lead to crime and other social problems. They often explain that improved mental health opportunities early child care and counseling all can help reduce long term crime.

This can be slow and tedious and it often takes a lot of time; however when these social problems are addressed they do a much better job reducing crime than waiting until it's too late and expanding prisons after the fact.

We're supposed to believe they do much better than these good researchers at a for profit corporation that does this better with a "six-hour education course?"

Anyone that spends a moderate amount of time look at recidivism rates knows that less than two percent is a truly astounding rate that is incredibly hard to believe and might want to know more details about how they accomplished this with a six hour on-line course.

Some people that read this article without thinking it through might not recognize these obvious problems and many more; however anyone with a minimal amount of knowledge, even without a college education, in crime prevention would be highly skeptical of these claims.

This is an incredibly obvious propaganda piece, and many of the other articles about this subject also ignore most of the problems with Walmart’s crime problems as well or that this company is more interested in making a profit than they are with reducing crime.

I still don't think that ridicule or appeals to emotion are the most scientific way to debunk claims like this but if they can't even do a better job lying than this then it is hard to resist. Walmart often uses ridicule to dismiss their critics; but their arguments are so bad that hardly anyone with a minimum amount of critical thinking skills believes them. Perhaps, only those that are accustomed to blindly believing authority figures, and accept Walmarts so-called experts as authority figures are inclined to believe their rebuttals; or perhaps only those that simply don't pay enough attention to the details. 

But if you don’t think I successfully avoided ridicule or appeals to emotion in my rebuttal feel free to do your own fact checking. 

Most of these articles talk about how this program reduces calls to the police; but they neglected to report about these calls to the police while they were rising as Walmart was expanding. For a long time the traditional media remained mostly silent about this subject. Occasionally there have been a handful of articles scattered around the country going back decades, in the past four years they often go at least four or five months with few or none before a police department speaks out about it; when this happens it isn’t uncommon for two or three departments around d the country to speak out at the same time, but only at the local level. The study from “Wake Up Walmart” "Is Wal-Mart Safe?" (PDF), compiled a few statements from articles that go back at least five years before the study was done in 2006. Unfortunately like the study that was done Wal-Mart’s crime problem, Rolling Back Safety more than prices? three years ago Walmart simply denied all the problems in the face of an enormous amount of evidence and governments did little or nothing to force them and crime has gotten significantly worse since then, possibly contributing to their record breaking number of shootings last year and possibly again this year with even more.

Time Magazine’s article Low Prices, High Crime: Inside Walmart’s Plan to Crack Down on Shoplifting 11/1/2016 is slightly better than the vast majority of them reporting on a few of the other crimes and at least mentioning the lawsuits pending but even this one doesn’t mention the vast majority of their crime problems and ignore the root causes of crime and how to prevent it.

Now that most media outlets security corporations or any other related business are run by for-profit organizations that often have the same ideology about privatizing everything control a large portion of the information we get about so-called educational material it often seems as if scientific research has turned into a commodity. Alleged scientific research that looks like it can increase profits, at least in the short term, gets financed and reported far and wide, regardless of how credible it is.

Research that sorts through the details and gets good peer review from sincere people are often relegated to the fringes and reported only where a small number of people can see it. If we can’t get more reliable peer reviewed research to make our decisions it will be a disaster one way or another. If we allow so-called experts like Diane Ritchey, Mike Lamb, Darrell Huntsman, who contributed to the article cited above, or many others repeating similar propaganda to control policy decisions about crime then they might get rich temporarily but it will be at the expense of the vast majority of the public which will have to deal with the increased crime that results as a result of their incompetent recommendations designed to make them rich without doing much if anything to reduce crime, and possibly making it much worse.

There is something seriously wrong when for profit security organizations are recommending policies that will put as at risk but increase their profits and enable them to expand their business.

According to "Caught: The Prison State and the Lockdown of American Politics" By Marie Gottschalk, Walmart is also one of the corporations profiting off of forced labor in the private prison industry. They’ve been buying produce that was grown by prison labor in the south and may have also bought other prison goods. They’ve financed the American Legislative Exchange Council, which has been heavily promoting for profit prisons, and even after it was exposed and most other corporations stopped financing them they continued to do so. Of course they also have a long history of importing good made by slaves in China and other oppressive regimes.

Most small businesses are not in a position to benefit from prison labor, and frankly the decent ones wouldn’t even want to. This gives Walmart a competitive advantage and adds to the unfair competition tactics exposed by Stacy Mitchell in her book that enabled them to dominate the market even though an enormous amount of their own customers hate them.

Instead of passing laws that protect the public and reduce crime elected officials pass laws that enable an oligarchy system and endanger the public.

These are just a handful of the articles available on this including what I consider the best ones; however the vast majority of the people that are writing about this are involved in the security or media industry and many of them seem to support privatization of government services to for profit organizations. One response to the following article said, “Walmart needs to find a way to turn shoplifting into a profit center,” which seems to be the attitude of many educated professionals, that seem to be very selective about the fact’s they’re willing to acknowledge. However if you look past the article and the first several responses there are a few that raise legitimate questions which I reposted here:



However in all fairness, even though I’m not a fan of Walmart, many of the biggest contributing causes of high crime rates, whether it is in their store or not, have little or nothing to do with Walmart. As I have pointed out in numerous articles one of the biggest contributing causes to crime, especially violent crime is early child abuse including corporal punishment that teaches children to respond to their problems with violence. Another is abandoned inner cities; however Walmart expanded mostly in abandoned rural areas before trying to start store in big cities, where some politicians especially in places like New York where they still won’t allow them to open resisted them or they waited until the rural areas were saturated before opening in cities. Scott Wolfe and criminologist David Pyrooz, the authors of the study I reviewed in Wal-Mart’s crime problem, Rolling Back Safety more than prices? came to some similar conclusions, although they didn’t go into the same details.

They said that “Walmart tends to expand in communities with less social capital — and less likelihood of citizen opposition — and in areas with higher-than-average crime rates.” This is true as indicated by the following two articles that show that some the states they expanded the most in also have the highest murder rates, incarceration rates, and the most support of corporal punishment in schools among other things:



According to the FBI Murder Rates listed at Death Penalty Information Center five of the states that spend the most at Walmart are among the ten states with the highest murder rates; two more come in at eleventh and thirteenth; the other three are in the lower half but not the bottom ten. Five of these states are also among the ten states with the highest incarceration rates, three more are in the top half and only one of the remaining two are in the bottom ten. This correlation is consistent with studies showing Walmart has more crime than other stores; however it is highly unlikely that Walmart directly influences these high rates. It is more likely that they come from a common cause. These states have higher use of corporal punishment and poverty and lower education available to them; and they’re less able to stand up to oligarchies as indicated in the study previously reviewed Wal-Mart’s crime problem, Rolling Back Safety more than prices?



Six out of these nineteen states are among the ten states with the highest murder rates; an additional three are close and have been in the top ten sates in the past few years; none are in the bottom ten nor have they been in the past few years, although Wyoming came close consistently. Fourteen out of nineteen of these states are also among the only nineteen states that still allow corporal punishment in schools. Ten out of the top eleven states for incarceration rates among the states where Walmart is the biggest employer. An additional five are in the top half, two more are only barely in the bottom half and none are in the bottom seventeen. (Source for incarceration rates listed in "Caught: The Prison State and the Lockdown of American Politics" By Marie Gottschalk 2015 PDF

There is also a clear correlation with religious faith and high business or employment at Walmart. Most of the states that have a lot of business at Walmart are among the most faithful and most of the least religious states are not; with one notable exception, Utah which ranks high among participation at church services, although it is slightly lower when people consider “religion an important part of your daily life.” Utah is the only state that is mostly Mormon and Mormons are the only religion where the leader of the religion Gordon Hinkley came out strongly against the use of corporal punishment. Utah is the only one of the most religious states to routinely get into the bottom ten when it comes to murder rates. However even though they have fewer Walmarts than other religious states they do seem to have a fair amount of police calls to the Walmart’s that they do have. New England is probably the area with the least amount of crime at Walmart’s and four out of six New England states routinely make the bottom ten states when it comes to murder rates.

These religions, including Mormons all teach followers to obey authority and they’re much less likely to support unions.

It is unlikely that Walmart directly causes this correlation with high murder rates; however it does take advantage of the authoritarian attitudes in states that still use corporal punishment. It also relies heavily on union busting tactics and other authoritarian methods which almost certainly contributes to these high murder rates and Walmart’s high crime rates, so it probably does indirectly impact both crime at Walmart and murder rates in the states where it does business most.

If you check the Walmart crime reports below and other old ones then you might find that there are plenty of times where armed robbers don’t even bring their own weapons; instead they just steal machetes, axes, knives, baseball bats or other weapons and pull them out if they’re approached by security when they walk out with carts full of goods. There have also been plenty of cases where their guns, which apparently aren’t always kept very secure, have been stolen. In one example, a few years back, they had a new security case to lock up the guns; the keys were taped to the back. It should have been obvious that the keys were supposed to be removed before displaying the guns in the store but just in case they wrote on the case a reminder to remove them.

No one read it, apparently, or perhaps those that read it assumed management would take care of it.

If no one found the keys and stole the guns I would have no way of knowing this.

I’m not positive but I think that might have been the time that stolen guns from Walmart were used in a standoff with police nearby.

If they encouraged reasonable discretion in their workers and hired more management with critical thinking skills they could avoid many problems like this; but they prefer blind loyalty from people that aren’t inclined to stand up to authority.



I did a series of articles in 2014 about leading causes of violent crime in 2014 including the ones mentioned as well as education, income inequality, gambling, Union busting, and the death penalty listed below:

Ignored evidence linking corporal punishment, poverty and crime grows

Does lack of education increase violent crime? Religion?

How much does Income Inequality Affects Crime Rates?

States with high murder rates have larger veteran populations

Teach a soldier to kill and he just might

The tragedy of gambling politics in United States

How does gambling and gun control impact violent crime?

Politics, not technology, caused botched executions

Democrats do a bad job on crime; Republicans and the Media are worse!!

Politicians increase crime; Grass roots efforts reduce crime; Politicians steal the credit

Life Insurance and media companies are encouraging lots of murders

Union Busting adds to corrupt bureaucracy and incites crime



The following are a list of the surge of articles that came out starting last August about Walmart’s high crime rates along with links to the monthly Walmart Crime reports which show large samplings of their major crime incidents. These links go back to August of 2013, although the only ones listed below are since the surge of articles; however you can find them by searching the archives at the beginning of each month going back to 2013.

Wal-Mart Crime report August 2016

KSL Investigation uncovers Wal-Mart generates highest number of police calls in many Utah cities 08/12/2016
Okla. Walmart’s Out-of-Control Crime Problem Is Driving Police Crazy 08/17/2016
Violent crimes at Walmart top 200 this year as police slam giant retailer for security practices 08/17/2016
Springfield Missouri Police, Wal-Mart Cooperate In Attempt To Reduce Theft At Stores 08/18/2016
Report: NC Walmart is hot bed for crime 08/19/2016
A different Target-vs.-Wal-Mart measurement: Crime 08/22/2016
In Portland Oregon area, police called to Walmart twice as much as Fred Meyer 08/22/2016
Working 4 You: Arkansas Walmart Faces Criticism for Call Loads to Police 08/22/2016
South Amarillo Tx. Walmart hoping to fix security issues 08/24/2016
Walmart's crime problem keeps police busy 08/31/2016

Wal-Mart Crime report September 2016

Wal-Mart takes its own approach to shoplifting 09/24/2016
Walmart, in parts of the metro, ranks high on number of police calls 09/29/2016

Wal-Mart Crime report October 2016

Coronado Mall, Walmart among top places Albuquerque NM police are called out to 10/14/2016
Walmarts are still hotspots of crime, but Springfield Missouri police see progress 10/25/2016
WFAA: Wal-Mart tops list of police calls in five North Texas cities 10/26/2016
One retailer keeps Minn. Twin Cities cops most busy, and it's Walmart 10/27/2016

Wal-Mart Crime report November 2016 Black Friday Shoot Outs

Walmart keeps local police departments busy including Las Vegas 11/22/2016

Wal-Mart Crime report December 2016

Activists launch campaign highlighting Walmart crime stats, law enforcement impact 12/07/2016
Wal-Mart's high call rate keeps Sioux Falls SD police busy 12/16/2016
SC Town Walmart sees slight increase in shoplifting 12/29/2016
Minn. Walmart called local police more than 600 times this year 12/28/2016

Wal-Mart Crime report January 2017

Wal-Mart Crime report February 2017

Walmart tops list of Colorado Springs businesses with most police calls 02/06/2017
Police calls to Western NY Walmarts Cost $400,000+ 02/08/2017
WREG investigates the high number of Walmart calls to Memphis Tenn. Police Department 02/27/2017

Wal-Mart Crime report March 2017

Theft tops long list of police calls to Ohio Walmart last year 03/13/2017
Police crack down after rise in thefts at Coweta Okla. Walmart 03/16/2017
Minn. Brooklyn Center Walmart Launches Partnership with Police to Prevent Crime Around Store 03/25/2017
Dickson Tenn. police: Walmart thefts drain police resources 03/31/2017

Wal-Mart Crime report April 2017

Since last August when there was a surge in police reports about Walmart’s crime problem they’ve been claiming that they’ve been addressing this problem with what they call a “Restorative Justice” which they’re trying to portray as a success, since there are allegedly fewer calls to the police as a result of it. In some cases even the police call it a "great program." However it doesn’t take a genius to figure out that if they stop calling the police as often for petty offenses it will result in fewer police call; unfortunately the calls for major offenses including shootings stabbings arson etc. almost certainly aren’t going down at all; if anything they seem to be going up.

As I pointed out in Walmart’s “Restorative Justice” Endangers Public Without Reducing Crime major incidents like shootings are breaking records since they escalated this “Restorative Justice” and it isn’t even hard to figure out what many of the biggest problems are, which for some bizarre reason Walmart simply ignores. They broke a record with at least 104 shootings last year and 53 shootings already this year, only five months in and the biggest time for high crime including shootings is often during the holidays which don’t come until the end of the year virtually guaranteeing a new record this year unless something changes fast, which doesn’t seem likely.

As I pointed out in my recent article about “Restorative Justice” it’s not hard to recognize that Walmart’s efforts to reduce crime aren’t effective at all despite their claims and “Making Change at Walmart” have easily recognized this as well; and in addition to protesting them this month demanding better security they’re asking people that have participated in this program to share their stories with them. Amazingly one New York store openly made a deal with the district attorney agreeing not to prosecute for shoplifting “less than $100,” which might make some degree of sense; however when it is reported in the news it might encourage more shoplifting for items under $100 which the local police complained about. However if this is one of the locations where they’re using “Restorative Justice” then it will be part of the plan anyway and they will presumably threaten them with prosecution if they don’t pay $500 for the program, which sounds like extortion and bypasses the justice system and it’s checks and balances and some of security experts and lawyers clearly agree, which is why they’re facing law suites as a result.

There were at least ten shootings with at least three deaths this month, including two alleged thieves killed by police; and at least one more near-by which led to a stand off at Walmart when the person responsible went to their parking lot after it. One of these shootings involved a man threatening to kill himself after killing a seagull and there was another stand off with another person that also threatened to kill himself at Walmart.

There were also at least ten other gun related incidents including at least five or six armed robberies an assault and at least one armed carjacking with a total of at least three kidnappings or attempted kidnappings including one carjacking where the carjacker was only wearing her underwear and bra and crashed into the store.

I don’t have to make these things up; this is Walmart!

There weren’t any suicides this month although they are quite common; but there were at least four more dead bodies in addition to the ones that died in the shootings. Most of these dead bodies are usually not considered suspicious, since they’re usually poor people without health care, often homeless, that have to die somewhere.

They also had a group of men come in with hammers smashing a case to steal cell phones.

They have to know that this is on camera and that they’re guaranteed to be on the news; but this is actually a semi-regular activity.

There was another man that came in to the store took a bat from the sporting goods store and simply went over to the TVs and started smashing them before going out to parking lot bicycling around until police came and surrendered peacefully. There has to be more to some of these stories but police typically don’t report it, or perhaps the media is the ones declining to investigate.

Some people simply hate Walmart and there are probably some people so accustomed to being thrown in jail on a regular basis that they don’t see it as a deterrent in the age of mass incarceration.

Research could be done to figure out some of these things; however the political media and economic systems are mostly if not all designed primarily for short term profit. If research indicates that profitable corporations might be a contributing factor to some of this crime it is often not done or suppressed.

They had at least three stabbings or attempted stabbings this month along with a couple arsons including one by a 7-year-old and another by an employee that wanted to get out of work early as a result of an argument with a co-worker. A significant amount of their employees crime problem results from arguments between co-workers; in some cases there are some indication that it might be at least partially a result of oppressive labor practices; however in most cases, if that is part of the problem, it’s not likely to make it into the news.

They only had one major crash hitting four vehicles; although they always have many more fender benders that aren’t likely to be reported widely. They had at least two or three brawls including a couple with a police officer and one where another officer was helped by a Coast Guard petty officer, and numerous other purse snatches, assaults or threats on employees.

Walmart responded to a racist rant by banning the woman after it went viral, which is the only way a for-profit corporation might be expected to respond to it. If we still have a government that doesn’t transfer all it’s responsibilities to for profit corporations they can respond to problems like this by increasing education and providing social services for abused kids in racist families which could dramatically reduce racism.

That’s clearly not the plan for multi-national corporations like Walmart that want to transfer all government responsibilities to for-profit corporations.

Walmart’s having more problems with alleged organic milk, E. Coli, connections to slave labor, and they’re trying to settle their bribery lawsuit for much less than the Obama administration was willing to settle for. They also obtained another verdict against a city that tried to stand up to them. A close look at Walmart’s history clearly indicates that they obtained their dominance through their political connections not by keeping customers happy. But these connections didn’t stop them from losing a lawsuit about trade secrets.

They’re seeking an “Anti-Corruption Certification.”

If they do a good job with the wink and nod bribery methods or using their political connections there’s a good chance they might get it but what reasonably well informed person would believe this means anything?



Walmart continues to have their share of strange animal incidents including a deer that may have been trying to go shopping inside the store when a man decided to tackle him and a Black Bear that settled for wandering around the parking lot before returning to the woods.

At least the teenage bears and deer weren’t throwing around sex toys and videotaping it.



Strange things happen at Wal-Mart!

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In 2006 Wake Up Wal-Mart did a study, "Is Wal-Mart Safe?" based on incidents in 2004, (PDF) about crime at Wal-Mart which showed that it increased when Wal-Marts opened up and that crime was higher at Wal-Mart than at other retailers. Since then Wal-Mart Shootings began compiling a list of gun related incidents at Wal-Mart and demonstrated that they have a large number of them, including on average more than one shooting per week somewhere in the country. In January of 2014 another study, "Rolling Back Prices and Raising Crime Rates?" provided additional statistical research indicating that Wal-Mart might be contributing to higher crime rates or at least a slowing of the decline in crime. The study found that. “on average, communities with Walmarts had 17 more property crimes and two more violent crimes per 10,000 people than those communities without Walmarts.” I reviewed this more in Wal-Mart’s crime problem, Rolling Back Safety more than prices? where I explained that although this study is helpful they could have done better with additional data that is available and I reviewed some of that. I also added my own review about why I think that Wal-Mart policies have been contributing to higher crime in a previous blog, Wal-Mart high crime rate continues un-investigaterd and have provided additional information under the author tag Walmart Crime Watch.

Stacy Mitchell has also compiled a list of other studies about Wal-Mart and how they impact society, Key Studies on Big-Box Retail & Independent Business. To the best of my knowledge Wal-Mart has done as little as they seem to get away with, often relying on rhetoric that isn't backed up with action, when it comes to addressing any of their critics concerns, including crime. One of the responses they’ve come up with is what they call "Restorative Justice" which gives first time shoplifters a chance to avoid being arrested or any criminal record if they take an on line course which costs $400 up front or $500 in payments, plus perhaps reparations. This has been part of the privatization process and often denies suspects of the due process or access to a lawyer, perhaps even intimidating and extorting from some people that might not even be guilty. Walmart seems to be trying to find a way to turn crime into a profit making situation instead of looking for the most effective ways to reduce it. Making Change at Walmart is asking If you or someone you know has gone through @Walmart's "Restorative Justice" program for first-time suspected shoplifters, send us a DM. 03/30/2017 to ensure that it isn’t doing more harm than good. The following are a list of incidents that occurred in April 2017. According to the "Is Wal-Mart Safe?" the average store in their sampling had 250 incidents per year, indicating that these are only a fraction of the crime reports at Wal-Mart, and presumably, the ones most likely to make the news on the internet nationwide. This isn't statistically representative, as the 2006 or the "Rolling Back Prices and Raising Crime Rates?" study or some of the studies cited by Stacy Mitchell; but it does provide some additional information that may help recognize how many problems there are at Wal-Mart.

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Police seek to identify fighting couple at East Windsor Conn. Walmart 05/01/2017

Good Samaritans foil purse snatcher's plans inside Northland Missouri Walmart 05/01/2017

Wal-Mart settles lawsuit with NH pharmacist 05/01/2017

Tooele man arrested in Utah Wal-Mart voyeurism case 05/02/2017

Judge dismisses charges in Fredericksburg Va. Walmart parking lot beating death 05/02/2017

Man Accused Of Exposing Himself To 9-Year-Old In Md. Wal-Mart 05/02/2017

Opelika police trying to identify 2 suspects in Ga. Wal-Mart theft 05/02/2017



Man follows woman home from Ga. Walmart, flashes her in his car 05/02/2017



Citations issued to driver in Nebraska Walmart parking lot death in March 05/02/2017

Chicopee Mass. police investigating stalking after man follows woman through Walmart, posts pictures online 05/02/2017

Police searching for Ariz.Wal-mart shoplifters 05/03/2017

Man pepper sprayed in Tx. Walmart parking lot 05/02/2017

Couple allegedly steals Alabama Walmart electronics with false check 05/02/2017

Fla. Walmart worker breaks into Volusia home while on break, police say 05/03/2017

Woman accused of stealing liquor from La. Walmart identified 05/01/2017

Dorchester Road North Charleston SC Walmart evacuated for bomb threat 05/01/2017

Police looking to identify Okla. Walmart shoplifter 05/03/2017

Police: Man caught ‘huffing’ air cans in baby section of Texas Walmart he was banned from 05/03/2017

Family hopes for justice after deadly Clinton Tenn. Walmart shooting 05/03/2017



Judge orders competency exam for Minn. Walmart suspect 05/03/2017

Police continue to seek public help in finding NY Walmart theft suspect 05/03/2017









Grovetown Ga. Walmart shoplifters still not found 05/04/2017

Driver cited after van crashes into pole near Bristol, Va. Walmart 05/04/2017

Woman tried to use fake bills to get money order from East Windsor Conn. Walmart, police say 05/04/2017





Fraudulent purchases at 33 Wal-Marts made with data from Union County Pa. gas pump skimmer 05/04/2017

Walmart responds to bikes in their dumpster at Streetsboro Ohio store 05/04/2017

2 people accused of shoplifting TVs, household items from Ga. Walmart identified 05/04/2017

Nebraska Walmart thief takes plea deal 05/04/2017

Victim hospitalized after attack at Naples Fla. Walmart 05/04/2017



Traffic stop leads to chase, arrest near Ca. Walmart 05/04/2017

Suspect wanted for stealing $1,400 in merchandise from Franklin Tenn. Walmart 05/05/2017



Wal-Mart employee charged with stealing $16,000 from New Hartford NY store 05/05/2017

PD: Man caught on camera stealing 2 TVs from Arkansas Walmart 05/05/2017

Man arrested in Wisc. Walmart theft case also charged with February felonies 05/05/2017



Central Texas woman confronted at Walmart for breastfeeding 05/05/2017

Suspects seen stealing, returning over $1200 in items from Pasco Wash. Walmart 05/04/2017



Beaufort SC Wal-Mart briefly closed due to fire Saturday 05/06/2017

Bomb threat at Walmart on Decatur & Charleston Las Vegas Nevada turns out to be hoax 05/06/2017





Walmart on Cummings Hwy Chattanooga Tenn. reopens, bomb threat cleared 05/06/2017

Peorian indicted on charges of theft at East Peoria Ill. Walmart 05/07/2017

Walmart is Selling the Most Racist Product Ever 05/07/2017

Outage causes shock to Glenmont NY Walmart employee 05/07/2017

West Warwick RI Man Arrested for Shoplifting BB Gun at Walmart 05/08/2017

Witness to Orlando police lieutenant Debra Clayton's killing in Fla. Walmart parking lot speaks out 05/08/2017

Man steals $2,846 in electronics from Jefferson County Wal-Mart, police say 05/05/2017

Police: suspect drives Land Rover to Arkansas Walmart to steal merchandise 05/08/2017

Woman Reports Up-Skirting at Manassas Va. Wal-Mart 05/08/2017









Man accused of exposing himself Sunday afternoon on Pa. Walmart parking lot 05/09/2017

Suspicious object discovered outside Walmart in Johnson City NY 05/08/2017 The Endicott Bomb Squad has not said what the item is, but say it will be taken away for examination.

Police working to identify two men accused of shoplifting from Okla. Walmart 05/09/2017

Crime: 19 cellphones 2 BB guns stolen from NC Wal-Mart in separate incidents 05/10/2017





Idaho Falls Walmart sees produce shortage 05/09/2017

Man jailed after shoplifting at Tx. Walmart 05/10/2017

Woman, Pushing Tot in Cart, Commits Identity Theft at Ca. Wal-Mart: Deputies 05/09/2017
Woman Accused of Identity Theft at a Santee Ca. Wal-Mart Arrested: SDSO 05/24/2017

Woman sought in connection with Pa. Wal-Mart theft 05/09/2017

Police: Woman distracted cashier, stole $500 from register at Va. Walmart 05/09/2017

Woman arrested after stealing from Missouri Walmart, leaving child at the scene 05/09/2017

Driver hits several vehicles in Bend Oregon Walmart parking lot 05/09/2017 4 people injured; may have involved medical issue



Accident closes offramp near Walmart in Avon 05/10/2017

Clearwater Fla. police seeking trio suspected in Walmart thefts 05/10/2017

Newly released surveillance video shows accused killer Markeith Loyd inside Fla. Walmart 05/10/2017



Springfield Ill. woman arrested for alleged attempted purse snatching at Walmart 05/10/2017

Walmart looking into note found recounting forced labor in China 05/10/2017

Kearny NJ Police Department: Cops were kept busy at Walmart 05/10/2017

Westfield Mass. detectives seek to ID man suspected of stealing nearly $800 in cash from Walmart 05/11/2017

Opelika Ga. police searching for men accused of stealing Wal-Mart cash registers 05/11/2017

Child left in hot car while woman shops for pizza at Fla. Walmart 05/11/2017

Thieves get away with nearly $2,000 in iPads from Hilton Head SC Wal-Mart 05/11/2017

Ashland Va. Police arrest man accused of indecent exposure at Walmart 05/11/2017



2 men wanted for using stolen credit card information at Tenn. Walmart 05/11/2017

Search for Conn. Walmart cell-phone thieves 05/11/2017

Tracy Morgan has forgiven Wal-Mart driver who nearly killed him 05/11/2017

Couple sues Wal-mart for injuries sustained at Lewisburg WV store 05/11/2017

Pa. Walmart thieves identified; police probe additional related thefts 05/11/2017



Man sentenced to life in 2014 Stafford Tx. Walmart shooting death, officials say 05/11/2017

California Couple Arrested for Shoplifting at Walmart with Children 05/11/2017

Hamden Conn. Police investigate fraud claim at Wal-Mart 05/12/2017

Suspect wearing Walmart employee vest robs bank in Norwalk Conn. 05/12/2017



Richland Township police investigate theft from Pa. Wal-Mart 05/12/2017



Suspects found with heroin, baby in car at Madison Walmart 05/1/2017

Mother jailed after young child left in hot car outside Jacksonville Wal-Mart 05/12/2017

Walmart on Billings Montana West End evacuated due to bomb threat 05/13/2017 When officers arrived at the scene, management said an unknown male caller said there was an explosive device in the store and demanded cash and gift cards.

Ephrata Pa. police seek to ID Walmart theft suspect 05/14/2017

Elderly man arrested in Fla. Wal-Mart theft 05/14/2017

$7.5 million settlement proposed between Walmart, employees over same-sex marriage benefits 05/15/2017

Car Break-In Spree Suspect Caught At NC Walmart 05/14/2017

Rapper Travis Scott Arrested After Concert At Arkansas Walmart AMP 05/14/2017

Flowood Mississippi Walmart evacuated Saturday afternoon due to a bomb threat. 05/13/2017











Police looking for alleged flasher at Gastonia NC Walmart 05/15/2017

Shoplifter Falls Flat on Her Face Running Out of Fergus, Ontario Walmart 05/16/2017

Salem Ohio Walmart open again following bomb threat 05/15/2017

VIDEO: Car catches fire in Leland NC Walmart parking lot 05/15/2017

Ignacio man arrested on suspicion of filming upskirt video at Colorado Walmart 05/15/2017

Man charged with robbing Mississippi Walmart customer 05/15/2017

Discrimination claims at Walmart, Coca-Cola 600 changes and more 05/16/2017

Woman Says Man Exposed Himself At Grapevine Tx. Walmart 05/16/2017

Suspected meth dealers arrested in Ga. Walmart parking lot 05/16/2017

Police: Woman leaves newborn in Ohio Walmart parking lot 05/16/2017



Nampa man to spend minimum of 6 years in prison over Idaho Wal-Mart shootout 05/16/2017

Georgetown SC police work to track down couple who left money at Walmart 05/17/2017



Jersey City man tries to steal $236 worth of bacon, Redbull from NJ Walmart: cops 05/18/2017

State police seeking help finding pair for NY Walmart larceny case 05/17/2017











Police Looking For Suspects Who Stole From NW Oklahoma City WalMart 05/17/2017

Lowville man accused of shoplifting at NY Walmart 05/18/2017

19-year-old accused of grabbing stranger's breasts inside Nebraska Wal-Mart 05/16/2017

Florence police release photo of man wanted for questioning in SC Wal-Mart assault 05/18/2017

Mom arrested after police find 4-year-old headed to Ky. Wal-Mart alone 05/1/2017





Clinton Tenn. Walmart shooting suspect accused of leaving woman to die in separate crime 05/18/2017

Lawsuit: Wal-Mart store design, defective barriers complicit in deadly Pella Iowa crash 05/19/2017

Four sentenced in Ga. Walmart check fraud scheme 05/18/2017

Scottsburg parents claim man is lurking in children’s section of Ind. Walmart 05/18/2017

Police: Man Sought For Stealing $1,000 Worth Of Meat From Pa. Walmart 05/19/2017

Woman arrested after overdosing in Myrtle Beach SC Wal-Mart restroom, report says 05/19/2017

Man wanted for allegedly filming 'upskirt' video of woman, daughter, 10, in Va. Walmart 05/19/2017





Hewitt Tx.: Four arrested in Walmart theft cases 05/19/2017

Officials: Five S.C. men targeted Va. Walmart stores to commit credit card fraud 05/19/2017

Police search for woman involved in theft at Tallahassee Fla. Walmart 05/19/2017





Mental evaluation sought for alleged 2015 Pa. Walmart gunman, trial halted 05/22/2017

Man jailed after pushing cartload of merchandise past self checkout lane out of Fla. Wal-Mart without paying for it 05/22/2017





Man allegedly assaults ex-wife at Montana Wal-Mart infant section 05/22/2017

Walmart announces guaranteed pay for military workers 05/23/2017

Man charged with taking upskirt photos of women at Jupiter Walmart 05/23/2017





Owings Woman Arrested for Shoplifting at Dunkirk Md. Walmart 05/23/2017

Opelika Alabama police say men ran out of Walmart with cookware sets, vacuum cleaners 05/23/2017

Wal-Mart bolsters Central Florida footprint with 2 new warehouses, 2,000 jobs 05/23/2017

Person wanted for allegedly stealing credit card; attempts to buy items at Md. Walmart 05/23/2017

Rowlett Wal-Mart Reopens After Suspicious Package Found, Evacuation Ordered 05/23/2017 Bomb squad did not give any details about the package, but added that it did not appear to be part of a hoax or designed to cause any panic.

Boulder Colorado’s Walmart, subject of protests when it opened, to close next month 05/23/2017 The mega-retailer Walmart on Tuesday announced plans to close its Boulder outpost, a Neighborhood Market concept, less than four years after opening.

Florence police search for man accused of shoplifting from SC Walmart 05/23/2017



Suspects steal personally owned wheelchair from Fla. Walmart 05/23/2017

Deputies looking for women wanted in connection to Ga. Walmart theft 05/23/2017





First-degree murder charge dropped in fatal February Ashland Va. Walmart shooting 05/25/2017

Students survive 48 hours in Ind. Walmart without going insane or getting arrested 05/24/2017

Port Arthur Tx. Walmart bomb threat worries shoppers 05/24/2017









Police looking for Pa. Walmart TV thief in Lower Nazareth 05/24/2017

Police: Hudson Valley NY Man Caught Masturbating At Local Walmart 05/25/2017

State police seek public’s help finding Watertown NY Walmart larceny suspect 05/24/2017

Crime Stoppers: Duo steals customer's phone at Alabama Walmart 05/24/2017

Man charged with exposing himself on Pa. Walmart parking lot 05/25/2017

Fayetteville police release suspect photos after SUVs burgled, stolen cards used at NC Walmarts 05/25/2017

Police: Man steals employee's vehicle from metro Oklahoma City Walmart 05/25/2017

Woman arrested after spotted walking out of Fla. Wal-Mart with purple suitcase 05/25/2017

Hagerstown Md. Police seek public's aid in identifying robber of cash center in Walmart 05/25/2017





Springfield Mass. Walmart shopper denies groping 3 female customers; bail set at $2,500 05/26/2017

Henrico Va. Police searching for suspect after sex assault at Walmart parking lot 05/26/2017

Police identify suspect in Santa Fe NM Walmart bomb scare 05/26/2017 Police say Pacheco was seen acting suspiciously while walking through the store before telling a cashier that he left a bomb in the building.

Walmart store in Coventry RI evacuated over small fire 05/26/2017 The fire was reported at about 7 a.m. It started in the pool chemical aisle, as a bottle of liquid chlorine leaked down and into an electrical outlet.

20-year-old to spend 8 years in prison for assaults on Rims, at Montana Walmart April 21, 2016 05/26/2017

Sparks Police search for man who stole bill exchange machine from Nevada Walmart 05/26/2017



Medford Wisc. Walmart reopens after bomb threat 05/26/2017

State Police: Woman tries to steal underwear, cherries from NY Walmart 05/26/2017





Inflated hotel prices? This family decided to camp at SC Wal-Mart, and they’re loving it 05/28/2017









UPDATE: Police to analyze calls after bomb threat hoax at Detroit Lakes Minn. Wal-Mart 05/29/2017

Wal-Mart cash theft suspect jailed for alleged violations 05/30/2017

Pair charged in purse theft at Tx. Walmart 05/26/2017







Pair of women arrested after allegedly concealing merchandise in handbags at Fla. Wal-Mart 05/30/2017

Authorities hope to identify two behind theft at metro Okla. Walmart 05/30/2017

Police: Man donned Walmart vest, tried to steal TVs 05/31/2017

Investigators looking for woman who shoplifted from Ga. Walmart 05/30/2017

Man arrested after allegedly stealing tablet from Idaho Walmart 05/30/2017



Mayetta man with outstanding warrant captured hiding in South Dakota Walmart 05/31/2017

Driving Under The Influence Of Drugs and three separate thefts At Ill. Walmart: New Lenox Blotter 05/30/2017

Charges dropped against remaining defendants in Fredericksburg Pa. Walmart beating case 05/30/2017





Moncks Corner police investigating suspicious activity at SC Walmart 05/31/2017

Employee caught smoking inside Walmart McDonald's in Orange Park Fla. 05/31/2017

Teen accused of April 2016 Ind. Walmart beating will return to jail after judge revokes bond 05/31/2017

Man scammed out of $6,000 in Walmart gift cards: Mayfield Heights Ohio Police Blotter 05/31/2017

EPD arrests man hours after finding stolen 4Runner near Ca. Walmart 05/31/2017 “Near Walmart” is now the way many media outlets refer to Walmart’s parking lot; prior to the large number of police reports last August they virtually always referred to these incidents as happening in “Walmart’s parking lot.”

Update 10/17/2017: According to Human smuggler found at Tx. Walmart with 39 illegal immigrants in trailer pleads guilty, faces life in prison 10/16/2017 this case appears to be mostly if not entirely resolved, even though it should be clear that this smuggling ring must be much bigger. The only other suspect this article mentions is another undocumented worker they claim is involved, which presumably is right; however they've done nothing to figure out where the labor is going even though there is evidence that contractors indirectly working for major corporations are almost certainly benefiting from it, as the original article below clearly indicates!

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James Mathew Bradley Jr. has dropped out of the news cycle, for now but apparently they might be seeking the death penalty against him for his part in the human smuggling operation that killed at least ten or eleven people last July in San Antonio Texas. There doesn't seem to much if any attempt to report on other people organizing this smuggling operation or explaining where these immigrants would be working once they got into the United States.

But it should be obvious that there is much more to this story than the media has reported, and that if they wanted to they could report much more on it and, assuming that he's part of a bigger smuggling effort they might offer him a good deal if he testifies against those that are organizing it, as most reports about organized crime indicate the government operates. However that would be assuming they want to catch the people at the top of the smuggling ring, which might not be their intention at all.

There are occasional stories that say this isn't an isolated incident, including the following article, although they don't go into full details and are quickly forgotten one these stories fade from the headlines:



The fact that they had cars coming to pick people up so quickly implies that they probably had some people in the area to minimize the damage. Also there is little or no reporting about asking the truck driver if he would cooperate in any efforts to find other people involved in this smuggling ring.

There's an enormous amount of talk about the "rule of law" and how this is allegedly what justifies our immigration system that enables this. If you listen to the talk on the mainstream media many of the loudest voices claim that it are the immigrants that are threatening the "rule of law" by coming here "illegally," even though it doesn't take much research to determine that it is extremely difficult for many of these immigrants to survive in other countries that often have oppressive governments, some supported by our own government. They're rarely involved in the decision making process, and even if they could be they often don't have access to an educational system or reliable news to enable them to participate in the democratic system.

Perhaps we should consider what the purpose of the "rule of law" that these loud pundits are talking about all the time that they claim justifies their oppressive immigration policies.

Are our immigration laws designed to minimize crime prevent civil rights violations and defend democracy?

Or are they designed to give those with political connections access to cheap labor so they can profit by violating peoples civil rights, using divide and rule tactics to drive down wages?

No doubt that if these questions were asked by the mainstream media they would clearly say that the first option is what the laws are designed to do since it clearly sounds much better; however any rational human rights advocate familiar with immigration laws much know that even though the second option isn't the literal truth it is far closer than anyone would want to admit! This is why they don't even ask some of the most basic questions in the mainstream media.

It doesn't take a genius to figure out that the people that control the media, large corporations, the two leading political parties are all much wealthier than the majority of the public, especially the immigrants they're constantly demonizing. It also doesn't take a genius to realize that the reason why they're so much wealthier is that one class of people does the vast majority of menial work for very little pay enabling the smaller class of people that control large institutions to make enormous profits. They decide which candidates we get to hear from and which ones we don't and we never get to hear from those that try to do a good job on this issue or any other one, if it interferes with their profits.



It also doesn't take a lot of research to find out that when members of the ruling class take advantage of our immigration system they're rarely ever held accountable, or if they do get exposed they face a slap on the wrist at most.

One of the most fundamental basics of the economic system our ruling class worships is, of course "supply and demand." If they investigate this and follow it to the top who will they find provides the demand?

We have an enormous amount of information, although it is scattered in low profile areas to answer that, at least partially, it is the ruling class and many of the people that control our government including Donald Trump and several members of his cabinet ass well as at least one nominee that was forced to withdraw after he was exposed in one scandal to many, although it wasn't the one about illegal immigrants that forced Andrew Puzder to withdraw.



Donald Trump has been involved in numerous scandals where he was caught hiring undocumented workers, and at times tried to manipulate the immigration laws so that he could get away with it legally. This includes an old report where he hired Polish Contractors to demolish a construction site preparing it for a new building and a more recent one, while he was president where Mar A Lago made a lame attempt to hire American workers while simultaneously asking for permission to hire 70 temporary workers from overseas. This ad was hidden in a location where few would see it and the reason clearly appears to be to get his waiver for foriegn workers he must first claim that he attempted to hire local workers and failed.

Andrew Puzder, his first choice for head of the Labor Department was one of at least seven Cabinet nominees including, Zoe Baird, Kimba Wood, Linda Chavez, Bernard Kerik, Tim Geithner, and Wilbur Ross, that were exposed for hiring undocumented workers. Both Tim Geithner and Wilbur Ross were approved anyway. Meg Whitman former GOP governor nominee of California and head of Hewlett Packard and Lou Dobbs who rants and raves against undocumented workers stealing jobs and many other were also exposed for hiring undocumented immigrants. Donald Trump and most of these other people that get caught often claim that they didn't know about it after the fact although there is often evidence to indicate that either he should have known or almost certainly did know.

They're like the Corleone family they have "a lot of buffers."

Heavily relying on "outside contractors" is one of the most common way of avoiding responsibility for labor violations; and an enormous amount of the people that have been responsible for enforcing these laws have profited by using this method and avoiding accountability; however these are only a small fraction of the workers that are being smuggled in and most of these high profile cases probably got in through different means than the one exposed in Texas.

But the point should be clear when these people with connection get caught at worst they might not get an appointment to a Cabinet but are never prosecuted for providing the demand for all these undocumented immigrants; while the immigrants that work for extremely low wages often are and they often get threatened with deportation to help avoid accountability for those that do profit like the Polish workers working for Trumps contractors and the undocumented worker formerly working for Meg Whitman.

Where are the vast majority of these workers going? It doesn't take much to find that some of them are being used for sex crimes, and the majority of the reporting from the traditional media is probably about that but an enormous amount of them are working for contractors that almost certainly sell their products to many of the largest oligarchies that control almost all of the economy. However they have enough lawyers to advise them to maintain plausible deniability, or at least what they consider plausible, and they can rely on their allies not to enforce laws that the rest of us are accountable to.

According to the following excerpts from the ACLU there are well over fourteen thousand people smuggled into the United States each year, many of them under oppressive work environments:



Trade Secrecy or Proprietary Information laws do far more to make it difficult to sort through all the details of this than they do to help expose and prevent it. If not for these laws many sincere labor rights organization could trace the supply chain of many products and ensure that they're not relying on oppressed workers whether they call it slavery or not. Lawyers and public relations people working for the wealthy routinely spin it so that they can restrict the rights of workers as much as possible without calling it slavery, even though it often accomplished the same thing. If one segment of society makes all the decisions and gets all the benefits while another larger segment does all the work that is slavery or something way to damn close.

Many of the goods that are made by workers that are smuggled into the United States or across other state lines into sweatshops that ship their goods to the United States almost certainly get sold to oligarchies including Walmart, Target and many other legitimate corporations that are often exposed, at least briefly when factories in Bangladesh collapse.

"Each year, more than 100,000 people from countries such as Mexico, Guatemala, the Philippines, and South Africa come to America on what is known as an H-2 visa to perform all kinds of menial labor across a wide spectrum of industries: cleaning rooms at luxury resorts and national parks, picking fruit, cutting lawns and manicuring golf courses, setting up carnival rides, trimming and planting trees, herding sheep, or, in the case of Valdez, Gonzalez, and about 20 other Mexican women in 2011, peeling crawfish at L.T. West Inc." The article, The New American Slavery: Invited To The U.S., Foreign Workers Find A Nightmare 07/21/2015, explains how in some cases Louisiana police have been used to intimidate workers that tried to stand up for their rights and were treated like slaves. a large portion of the farm good or undocumented immigrants that work in these jobs probably aren't always in full compliance with these laws; however they almost always work for contractors so like the Corleone family Donald Trump and other members of the ruling class have a lot of buffers. Apparently a variation of this program, the H-2B visa program is what Donald Trump uses to hire his workers at Mar A Lago.

Donald Trump has recently made several speeches falsely claiming that the Republican Party is the Party of Lincoln, however for all practical purposes they're only the Party of Lincoln in name only. Lincoln said, "that no man is good enough to govern another man, without that other's consent. I say this is the leading principle---the sheet anchor of American republicanism."Peoria Speech, October 16, 1854 quoting the Declaration of Independence, which the founding fathers seem to have quickly forgotten when they enshrined slavery into the constitution, "That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed," the Declaration goes on to say, "That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness."

All this chatter about how these undocumented immigrants are violating the law routinely ignores the fundamentals of the democratic process. If the wealthy are allowed to pass laws regulating the rights of the working class they should have the consent of the working class; instead they created a charade where the wealthy control all the information given to the working class to make their decisions and only allow them to hear from a small number of candidates that cater overwhelmingly to the rich giving the working class one promise after another during campaigns and breaking almost all of them once in office.

The United States has supported coups in Guatemala, Chile, El Salvador, Honduras and many other countries creating many of these refugees; then instead of protecting their rights they use them for labor under oppressive conditions while the ruling class takes all the money. The ruling class controls all the large institutions that dominate the economic system and use their control of this system to rig everything; and this is just one of the ways they use to force the working class to drive down their own wages through "competition" even though the oligarchies that control the market don't pass on the benefits of this competition to the consumers. Workers get their rights and wages suppressed while economists, public relations executives, advertisers, union busters, political pundits, campaign workers, and other manipulative trades get paid much more, even though they don't contribute to the quality of merchandise. These higher paid jobs aren't designed to contribute to society, but to deceive the public and scam them.

Lincoln also said "Labor is prior to and independent of capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration." First Annual Message to Congress December 3, 1861 However neither political Party is doing much if anything to defend labor, instead controlling the electoral process by only providing media coverage to ideologues that support an economic system that rewards certain types of fraud as long as it benefits those with political connections.

If the political establishment was concerned about solving the immigration problems they created they wouldn't have created them in the first place! These policies were designed to enable those with political power to maximize their profits at the expense of those without political power. The political establishment is providing nothing but propaganda to defend democracy while rigging everything so that one class of people does the vast majority of the work while another get all the benefits.

When Donald Trump talks about bombing "the shit out of them," whoever he seems to want to bomb, he doesn't worry about the consent of those he's bombing, nor does he worry about the lies most wars are based on; when he hires labor under oppressive conditions he doesn't worry about the consent of the laborers, when he decides that he's going to deport millions of people who've been living here most if not all their lives he doesn't worry about their consent. Instead he's supporting voter suppression laws and many of the political manipulation that he railed about during the campaign, which is standard operating procedure for the so-called "outsiders" that the media occasionally presents as an alternative to the establishment candidates.

The constitution doesn't say that a fraction of one percent shall control the media and decide which candidates get name recognition needed to get elected!

However by consolidating the media into six oligarchies they've enabled a small percentage of the public to control the propaganda used to make decisions to avoid addressing the consent of the governed!

Now thanks to the consolidated control of the political establishment and media they've been able to create a totally disfunctional government that only serves the interests of those controlling it!



At least until enough people wake up and stop accepting the candidates that the mainstream media presents to us!

For the most radical racists and those living comfortably this may seem like a bunch of ranting and raving; however Donald Trump's decision to withdraw protection from "Dreamers" and other immigrants even includes many veterans that were recruited and trained to fight wars based on lies about weapons of mass destruction. Are we going to say to them, "Thanks for going to Iraq and fighting for oil, but now that we don't need you anymore get the hell out?" With all the talk about fighting terrorism there is little or no consideration to the fact that even though some of them may be irrational there may also be some that tried to address concerns peacefully and eventually came to the conclusion that the government wasn't cooperating and went to bizarre extremes. Instead of inciting terrorism by refusing to address legitimate concerns the government should be teaching the public about the root causes of violence including early child abuse, abandoned inner cities, economic inequality and other causes.

Of course it shouldn't just be the veterans that were deceived into fighting wars based on lies that should be entitled to participate in the decision making process; if we want to honestly declare our country to be the "leader of the free world" our politicians need to do their best to provide accurate education and news to everyone and allow as many people as are impacted by the decisions made by the government to participate in the democratic process instead of deporting those we don't agree with and increasing voter suppression activities!



There are plenty more reports about virtual slavery that has direct or indirect connections to multinational corporations, although most of them aren't covered by mainstream media; the following are a portion of the ones I found:

Human Trafficking: A Big Business Built on Forced Labor 04/03/2013

Virtual Slavery Indian workers in Tulsa, Oklahoma, were packed into cramped dormitories and forced to work 16-hours, six days a week, for less than minimum wage. When they complained, they were patrolled by armed guards. 06/11/2002

Despite U.S. laws, thousands still virtual slaves in America 12/13/2009

Employers using temps to skirt immigration laws 08/26/2017 He pointed to a 2005 case in which Wal-Mart paid $11 million to settle accusations that it used cleaning contractors that hired unauthorized immigrants.

Human trafficking risks in Asia’s supply chains: How should businesses respond? 08/04/2017

What Is Human Trafficking? 03/26/2017

Anti-slavery Movement Says Trump Approach To Fighting Slavery “Falls Short” 02/16/2017

'Horrific' human-smuggling case in Texas not an isolated event, officials say 07/23/2017

8 arrested in Texas human-trafficking ring that victimized children 05/03/2017

Thousands of undocumented immigrants said they were forced to work for $1 a day or less 03/05/2017

Immigrants Brought Over as Slaves, Report Says 07/24/2017

ACLU: Human Trafficking: Modern Enslavement of Immigrant Women in the United States

Undocumented families adjust to living under the constant threat of being torn apart 03/16/2017

If someone tips ICE off that I’m illegally in the U.S., will I be deported?

According to ICE, worksite immigration busts have increased tenfold over the past five years. 05/23/2009

Immigration Status Discrimination







Truck driver charged with human trafficking could face death penalty 07/24/2017

Fiancée of Truck Driver Accused in Deadly Human Smuggling Case: ‘He Was Scared’ 07/25/2017



What Donald Trump Knew About Undocumented Workers at His Signature Tower 08/25/2016

The Story Behind Donald Trump’s Undocumented Polish Workers 02/25/2016

A Few Times Donald Trump Has Allegedly Profited From Illegal Immigration 08/30/2016

Mar-a-Lago seeks out US workers - but only briefly 08/10/2017

Andrew Puzder is just the latest Cabinet nominee with a 'nanny' problem 02/07/2017

How to Bring Down a Cabinet Nominee 01/10/2017 Four out of The latest 10 Cabinet appointees to fail failed because of hiring illegal aliens.



Lou Dobbs, American Hypocrite While he railed against "illegals," undocumented immigrants tended to his estates and prize horses. A special Nation investigative report. 10/07/2010



Housekeeper Nicky Diaz: Meg Whitman Treated Me Like a Piece of Garbage 09/29/2010

It's increasingly difficult to deny that there is Climate Change going on and that it is virtually guaranteed that it is partly a result of carbon dioxide and other changes to the environment made by man. Almost all the traditional scientists agree on this yet the entire government and economic establishment is refusing to take the steps to minimize it. However even if the Climate Change deniers are partly if not entirely right there's still an enormous amount of damage being caused by environmental destruction, especially in third world countries and the poorest parts of the developed world where residents don't have the political clout to prevent powerful corporations from profiting off the destruction of the environment.

There are also a growing number of conspiracy theories about Geoengineering claiming that corporations are profiting off of cloud seeding technology or that they're using weather as a weapon; no doubt most rational people are skeptical of these theories especially the most far-fetched and exaggerated ones. However, the government has admitted that they have done some research into cloud seeding during Vietnam and both China and Russia claim they're also doing some of it, successful or not. Leading scientists have also admitted that fracking is creating earthquakes and the U.S. Geological Survey doesn't completely deny this although they claim that most of it is done by waste water disposal, which means that it's still man-made inducements of earthquakes.

Even though the most extreme of these theories probably won't hold up to scrutiny there is a growing amount of evidence, both new, and in some cases old that have been documented in obscure locations to indicate that more extensive weather control might be possible and that some research is at least being considered, if not actual modification. The conspiracy theorists have recirculated the following admission from Dr. Michio Kaku; and additional evidence, previously written off as religious superstition, might indicate that some efforts to research weather modification might be much older than most people suspect



A reasonable amount of skepticism of this article is appropriate and Snopes was quick to fact check it; however they admit that some degree of weather control might be possible. Furthermore this story was circulated last year Scientist Dr. Michio Kaku Admits Government ‘Weather Control’ On CBS News 10/21/2016 and in 2014 Dr. Michio Kaku admits government weather control on CBS News 02/18/2014 yet Snopes doesn't mention this. They also missed this article which was posted on the 8th and attributed the recent revival to another source that posted it one day later, indicating that their efforts to debunk are poorly researched, since I was able to find all this in no more than a few minutes. They say, at this time that, "We contacted Kaku for further comment, but did not receive a response by press time." If they had debunked the previous claims then they could have cited that and there would have been plenty of time for Michio Kaku to get back to them, which might indicate that they haven't looked to closely into it. It also means that Michio Kaku might not be worried about debunking it since he's had plenty of time to respond to those claims as well.

This was updated a day or two after Snopes posted this article to say that Michio Kaku says the story is "100% false;" however Michio Kaku clearly does think that some form of weather modification is possible and there are other sources claiming that cloud seeding has been used in an attempt to increase rain in certain locations, although it is hard to imagine why they would want to do it during hurricane season when they know it would result in a disaster, assuming it works at all.

Even though some of the conspiracy theorists have taken some things out of context Snopes and Michio Kaku both avoided directly addressing the question of whether or not any weather control experimentation is going on like further research on cloud seeding the government admitted that it tried in Vietnam.

This should be considered inconclusive, at least but Michio Kaku clearly does believe that weather modification might be possible and it's worth researching in the future.



The same source says that Pope Francis: Donald Trump Voters Are to Blame for Hurricane Irma 09/11/2017 which isn't quite what the Pope said but it is clearly implied. This site, like many others including traditional media might participate in a little spin and perhaps should have reported that they were reinterpreting an old clip but they're not necessarily completely wrong. Regardless of whether or not this article is being misrepresented there should be no doubt that much more action needs to be taken to protect the environment and the Pope is right on this even if he may not always support the best scientific research.

In Portugal, Pope Francis recently Proclaimed Two Fátima Siblings Saints 05/13/2017; which, as many Catholics believe, might be evidence of "God's" ability to control the weather at least to some degree; and surprisingly, there is plenty of evidence to indicate that something far-fetched and hard to believe did happen there and it does involve the prediction of it months ahead of time, and extremely bizarre weather, according to thousands of witnesses. I mentioned the possibility that several unsolved mysteries including the movement of massive megaliths, UFO and Fatima might be evidence of a unknown advanced intelligence that might have been influencing early development of civilization in UFO Hypothesis Far More Credible Than Catholic Claim of A "Miracle Of The Sun" and Could Steve Bannon Be Providing Propaganda To Enable Climate Change Research Project? Some of this also involves claims from Philip Corso that he acquired technology from alien craft that was retrieved at Roswell and shared it with multinational corporations to reverse engineer it reported in his book "The Day After Roswell." as I have reported in previous articles, there are problems with his claims; however if they're partly true they could help explain a lot of major unsolved mysteries, including how ancient megaliths have been moved, how raped development of technology sped up so much in the last seventy years and even more so in the last few decades, and perhaps many other unsolved mysteries as well, although many more details need to be worked out.



The following excerpt indicates how one faithful believer concludes the incident at Fatima is evidence of "God's" ability to control the weather:



In "Heavenly Lights: The Apparitions of Fatima and the UFO Phenomenon" Joaquim Fernandes and Fina D'Armada review a large number of reports of unusual similarities between the incident at Fatima and UFO reports. The strongest evidence is probably reports of unidentified flying objects, of some sort reported in many location where the technology shouldn't have been developed at the time they were reported. In 1917 airplane technology was very limited yet thousands of people reported seeing something moving within the atmosphere, although, due to their belief system they seem to have concluded that it was the Sun, which would have been totally impossible. However not all of them claimed it was the Sun and there were numerous reports that it was globe, a disc or some other type of flying craft, including at least one person that assumed that it was a vehicle to transport "Our Lady."

Some of the other similarities that they compare include the ability to control animals, apparitions that allegedly appear to seers including the three children at Fatima, thunder, lightning, unusual clouds, rapid heating or cooling that have been reported at both Fatima and many UFO sightings. If it's possible, as Michio Kaku believes, to influence the weather, and there has been some influence on the development of our society by an unknown advanced intelligence of some sort, whether it's aliens or what people perceive as "Gods," for hundreds of years then this unknown advanced intelligence could have had some of the technology to do it all along, and could be continuing to research how to do more. Or if, as many UFO researchers, including Philip Corso, claim there are aliens that have been visiting us and they've made contact with some people within the government already, then it's conceivable that they could be helping to develop weather control technology teaching them how to use it.

If contact has been made it's virtually very likely that the aliens might have understood climate change much better than our most advanced scientists, although there's no guarantee that they can be trusted to look out for our best interest, nor is it guaranteed that our government is looking out for the best interest of the majority, if anything the opposite is guaranteed, since they're behaving so irrational.

Are our political leaders suicidal? are they willing to take our entire civilization with them while they destroy the environment? Are they ideological fanatics that actually believe their own lies? some of them might be but there should be little doubt that many of them aren't, and yet they're only putting up a token opposition to the environmental destruction that will eventually lead to our collapse.

As far fetched as it sound, a theory about weather control research that requires intentionally allowing Climate Change to happen could explain this absurd and irrational behavior; however this wouldn't mean that they can guarantee the restoration of the environment at all. Nor does it change the fact that they clearly act as if the vast majority of the public is expendable to be used for their own benefit.

Extremely far-fetched conclusions about the God's manipulating the weather were also made in 1964 when an extreme storm took place when the secular authorities decided to move a statue believed to be of Tlaloc that Aztec rain God, although some scholars thought it might have actually been his sister. They had to promise the people of Coatlinchan to provide large amounts of public works to get their consent, but some of them were still outraged and attempted to sabotage the move. But the secular authorities went ahead and moved it and some came to the conclusion that Tlaloc was angry and sent enormous amounts of rain as told in Time Life Lost Civilizations series:Aztecs: Reign of Blood and Splendor (1992) p.45-47 and another description in the following article:



How likely is it that a God would have sent that rain in outrage over the moving of a statue? Hard to imagine what his motive could possibly be; but the enormous effort it took to move it with modern technology, and the fact that experiments to moves something so large with ancient technology failed clearly indicates that there's a major unsolved mystery, which combined with the extremely odd weather is an even bigger mystery. Did Tlaloc flood Mexico City in outrage over moving his statue? Was it part of a Geoengineering experiment? or just a coincidence?

Also whether it is because of Tlaloc, a miracle, a bizarre Geoengineering experiment or just natures unpredictable cycles, Lake Chapala was shrinking and in danger of becoming a dead lake, but it revived itself from its worst declines, first after a drought in the fifties then more recently after a second decline, when Ralph Graves wrote this article about ten years and it has recovered even more since then.

This was shortly before some of the first efforts to Geo-engineer the weather were allegedly planned according to What Is Geoengineering and Why Is It Considered a Climate Change Solution? 04/06/2010 which reports that Lyndon Johnson received an early report about climate change and addressed Congress about it, aproximately ten months after the unusual storm that came during what is normally the dry season. His scientific advisers recommended research into far-fetched efforts to control the weather that they almost certainly didn't understand, ignoring efforts to protect the environment by limiting carbon emissions.



This isn't much to go on, but I'll give it a guess on one possibility that might have happened, assuming that some contact had taken place between aliens and government scientists by then, as the MJ-12 documents and Philip Corso seem to imply might have happened.

If, at this point, the aliens already had some ability to manipulate the weather and understood cloud seeding and perhaps other technology that might help partially control the environment, and wanted to do more research, but needed cooperation from leading government researchers and policy makers, they might have made contact, and as the bible often says, made another covenant with government scientists. The government scientists would have wanted something in return, and they might have demanded some kind of evidence that some weather control was possible and other advanced technology would be shared with them. This could have included advanced computer technology genetic engineering technology and technology that would advance space travel, and who knows what else.

The government scientists would have already been familiar with the incident at Fatima and if they had contacted the aliens as far back as 1947 when the Roswell incident allegedly happened then they would have had plenty of time to do some research into that and speculate about the possibility that it could have involved some weather manipulation. Some kind of deal might have been worked out and they might have come up with some plan as to how the research project would work out and if or when it would end. It is highly unlikely that the government scientists would have gone along with the plan if they thought it would have led to the destruction of the environment and the end of their civilization.

The aliens might have offered a demonstration of some sort that could be dismissed as a superstitious belief in Pagan Gods and this could have been provided during the movement of the statue. It would provide a mythical explanation that doesn't make any sense to rational people, but seems credible to religious people that happen to believe in one particular mythology. These mythologies, whether they're Christian or Pagan including the ancient Aztec or Mayan mythologies are often used to manipulate the masses and control them whether or not there is an advanced intelligence. If there is then they could be using them as part of a control process; and even if they aren't governments have been manipulating the public with their religious beliefs for thousands of years.

Additional details of this need to be confirmed before it would be considered a probably theory, let alone proven fact; however if part of what is going on is research into climate change and other weather control efforts, it would be virtually impossible to get the cooperation of the public that are being used to bring it about without receiving the benefit of it. Wars based on lies are routinely used as a justification to keep secrets from the public, with or without a more far-fetched conspiracy theory, and if such a conspiracy is partly true it can be used to help cover it up and almost certainly has been. This includes the Vietnam war where they allegedly did their first cloud seeding experiment; and it might also include the first Gulf War, which led to Saddam Hussein setting his oil wells on fire, which would have dramatically increased the amount of Carbon-dioxide in the air; it could also include authoritarian control of China enabling them to create all those sweatshops without any pollution controls that turned it into the smoggiest area in the world where people often have to wear respiration masks when going out in public.

This is also providing research opportunities to study the impact of health on people in China and comparing it to the health of people in areas that are less smoggy. Research like this is going on with or without a fringe conspiracy theory; and it is part of the reason why some Chinese are starting to stand up to their government and demand that they take the lead when it comes to renewable energy, while large portions of the United States, including those that control the federal government are pushing the most irrational environmental practices.

At the grassroots level people are paying a high price for it, yet many of the "faithful" are lining up behind demagogues and religious leaders denying Climate Change and other environmental problems, while claiming to be "pro-life" as a result of their indoctrination and lack of critical thinking skills.

They're making blind senseless sacrifices without understanding why, even though there's no guarantee there is any benefit for anyone at all!



Many of these religions including Christian, Aztec or Mayan, worship blind senseless sacrifices that make no sense to rational people; however, even though they claim to defend a higher moral belief system, they routinely sacrifice the innocent, or people with the least political power so that the most powerful people, and most guilty, can control the decision making process. With or without a far-fetched conspiracy theory like this there is plenty of evidence to prove that it is routine to sacrifice those without political power for the benefit of those with political power. If there was a merciful God, as Christians believe then he simply wouldn't remain silent about all these atrocities committed in his name inspired by religions he allegedly created.

If on the other hand there are aliens or some other form of hidden advanced intelligence that has been perceived as Gods, which have been conducting research of some sort or have some other ulterior motive then it might make more sense.

There would still have to be plenty of details worked out to make this credible and answer many major unsolved mysteries; however the official version of truth isn’t making sense when many of the facts are checked, so some degree of speculation is worthwhile, at least until we get an explanation that holds up to scrutiny.

Looking through many of the alleged prophecies from many sources including the Bible, Quran, Nostradamus, Edgar Casey and who knows how many other sources might indicate that there are some similarities between them and what is going on; however they’re typically vague and unreliable and can often be interpreted to support any belief system that people want, often contradictory versions. But as I pointed out in Yes Virginia There Is A Trump And Clinton Conspiracy and a few other articles, there are far more similarities between the characteristics of the Whore of Babylon and Hillary Clinton than a rational skeptic would expect; and since I posted that instead of this bizarre theory falling apart which I would have expected if there was nothing to it there seem to have been more similarities between current events and the absurd description given in the Book of Apocalypse, assuming you don't think I'm interpreting things to support my own beliefs, which is of course what other skeptics would claim.

Additional events that seem apocalyptic include the insane policy taken with North Korea that is happening that could distract from serious reform that is needed to confront the Climate Crisis. As I have explained in numerous articles including Even Bernie Sanders Ignores History of North Korea Conflict! there should never have been this confrontation and if the government acted rationally they could have easily avoided it. Jimmy Carter helped negotiate a deal that could have eased tensions between our countries in the nineties and if George Bush hadn't arbitrarily pulled out of it for absurd reasons this never would have happened.



Furthermore the government and the media both know how to do a far better job covering campaigns and if they wanted to avoid electing an insane clown like Donald Trump they could have and would have by simply providing more coverage for rational candidates instead of presenting two of the most unpopular and corrupt candidates in history as the inevitable nominees of both parties. They understand that in order for any candidate to be viable they need name recognition that can't be obtained unless the consolidated corporate media provides reasonably fair coverage, which they don't!

By providing obsession coverage to this insane clown and treating Clinton as the inevitable nominee the media and political establishment did far more to rig the election for Donald Trump than the Russians ever could have, assuming there is anything to this Russian conspiracy theory the media is obsessed with!

No doubt large portions of this theory sound insane to many people; however the official version of truth is almost as insane if not more insane!



It may be easy to dismiss this as a bizarre conspiracy theory, which it might be; however whether this is close to the truth or not the government is doing one insane thing after another and there should be some simple things that the public should easily understand.

There should be no doubt that much more effort needs to be done to protect the environment and that conservation renewable energy should be replacing fossil fuels as quickly as possible. In addition to that there are many improvements by creating local control of the economy that could reduce waste that could help protect the environment.

There should be no doubt that we need a far more diverse media and that we need to allow the public to control the interview process of our elected officials instead of allowing the oligarchies rig elections by refusing to cover honest candidates.

There should be no doubt that we should stop fighting one war after another based on lies and selling weapons all over the world to people that routinely turn them against us! There should be no doubt that diverting irrational military spending and waste to to education health care and infrastructure development as well as other social programs that are proven to work.

There should also be no doubt that allowing the government and corporations to shroud all their activities in secrecy is a bad idea and that we need to demand full disclosure of all the information that is impacting the public. A functioning democracy requires that the public be allowed to have accurate information to make their decisions!

I could go into a long list of other things, yet the government and media is doing the wrong thing on almost every one and more!

It really is a conspiracy; but if we could at least start a reform process then it might be reasonable to put some of the things that we can't agree about on the back burner while figuring out the details and acting on the things we can agree on.

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Edit 09/30/2017: Since I posted this there has been another strange sighting of an unusual cloud in Maracaibo Brazil that many thought looked like a "Huge alien ship" although, except for the unusual cloud there were no alleged UFOs that I know of.



After finding this article about unusual clouds an internet search to verify it turned up another unusual cloud that was interpreted as the "Virgin Mary" by Catholics on an annual pilgrimage, just last April.



In both cases traditional scientists have explained them away. Whether their explanation is right or not, many faithful people will come to their own conclusions; and if someone can control the myths they use to make important decisions they can partially control the decisions made by followers. This is also a major coincidence and possible unsolved mystery, although it would require additional information to confirm or refute the possibility that it might also be part of weather control experimentation.

For additional information on these unusual clouds see the following:

The strange cloud shaped "alien ship" that horrified millions of users 09/27/2017

Huge 'alien ship' cloud appears over Maracaibo, Venezuela 09/30/2017

'Virgin Mary' appears for the faithful: Astonishing moment cloud 'resembling mother of Jesus' floats over Venezuelans taking part in Divine Mercy pilgrimage 04/28/2017





The following are some additional sources:

Debunking the Sun Miracle Skeptics 09/09/2010

The Apparitions at Fatima

The Virgin of Zapopan: Her visit to Lake Chapala 08/01/2000

September storms prompt Lake Chapala revival 10/03/2014

What made the rain in Hurricane Harvey so extreme? Russ Schumacher Associate Professor of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University 08/29/2017

Artificial warming trial reveals striking sea-floor changes 08/31/2017

U.S. Geological Survey: Induced Earthquakes Myths and Misconceptions

Thanks To Fracking, Earthquake Hazards In Parts Of Oklahoma Now Comparable To California 09/07/2016

The Conspiracy And Science Of Weather Control And Modification 05/10/2017

Wikipedia: Weather warfare

Wikipedia: Cloud seeding

Wikipedia: Operation Popeye

Does cloud seeding work? China takes credit for the storms now bringing a reprieve from severe drought, but is that claim valid? 02/19/2009

China creates 55 billion tons of artificial rain a year—and it plans to quintuple that 10/22/2013

Russia spends millions on 'cloud seeding' technology to ensure it doesn't rain on May Day public holiday 05/02/2016





The following are some of my past articles with additional details of related theories often about religion ancient wonders or UFOs

107 Wonders of the Ancient World

Is “Prism” news? or is it ECHELON?

A Brief History of the Mormon Church

Why so few arrests for Crop Circles makers? Is there microwave evidence?

UFO Hypothesis with rational use of Occam's Razor

"God's Not Dead" But Is He Nice?

Multinationals Are Using Public For Research On Massive Scale

Yes Virginia There Is A Trump And Clinton Conspiracy but could it be related to a far-fetched Apocalypse Prophecy or a weak copy of it?

Wanted unsuspecting research subjects

Is Stanton Friedman working for the CIA to refute reverse engineering claims?

Deadly Monopolies and Medical Slavery?

Deadly Monopolies With Alien Technology?

UFO Hypothesis Far More Credible Than Catholic Claim of A "Miracle Of The Sun"

Could Steve Bannon Be Providing Propaganda To Enable Climate Change Research Project?

Even Bernie Sanders Ignores History of North Korea Conflict!

Are we supposed to take the insane behavior of our political leaders, including Donald Trump and John McCain, as well as Kim Jong Un, the clown they're trying to antagonize, seriously?

I try to be a rational skeptic about far-fetched conspiracy theories; however the official version of truth is as insane and absurd as many of these conspiracy theories; and the mainstream media is starting to come up with one irrational conspiracy theory after another, and trying to convince us that these are credible!

Either we're being run by a bunch of irrational ideological fanatics that are bringing us to the brink of nuclear war or there's something even more far-fetched going on.



Do Donald Trump and John McCain really think that the most effective way of dealing with an irrational tyrant with nuclear weapons is to call him names like an elementary school kid?

If this is an act, it is almost as insane as if they're really trying to incite a nuclear war!



Regardless of which, the confrontation of North Korea could have been avoided; as I have reported previously, Jimmy Carter helped negotiate a deal that would have eased tensions and prevented nuclear development for weapons; however Bush pulled out of it for arbitrary reasons that made no sense. Bush also accepted cooperation from Iran in the aftermath of 9/11 then instead of taking advantage of this opportunity to ease tensions he also arbitrarily added them to the "Axis of Evil" as well clearly inciting more wars that weren't necessary. For those not familiar with this I'll include some additional links below.

There should be no doubt that at best ideological fanaticism is responsible for our being in a permanent state of war!

The truth is that the establishment and alternative media both have far more rational foreign policy experts than the demagogues they present to the public, even though it may not seem like it if you cat your news from the traditional media.

And, in addition to refusing to remind the public about the history about this conflict, the media has demonstrated that they're incompetent at covering breaking news and went on with prepared programming even while the latest missile was being launched instead of reporting the breaking news. As reported in numerous alternative media outlets or good nonfiction books like Robert McChesney's "The Problem With The Media" and "Rich Media Poor Democracy," the consolidated media has gutted their funding for investigative reporting and dramatically increased their funding for prepared propaganda that is repeated over and over again.

Even without reading some of the best research on this subject it is easy to recognize that the media is controlled by only six oligarchies and they all repeat the same pattern of behavior jumping from one story to another providing obsession coverage for a day or two then quickly forgetting it without any diversity. If one network or Cable News show is covering one subject so are the rest while ignoring many of the most important news stories.

At about 6:26 give or take a minute or two Eastern time both CNN and MSNBC came out with breaking news about the latest missile launch beginning what was, for a little while obsession coverage. However CBS and perhaps the other network news didn't even report it at all on the evening news. At 7:00 both Hardball on MSNBC and The Story with Martha MacCallum on Fox ignored it implying that they're probably prerecorded or plan their propaganda ahead of time and didn't bother interrupting their regular staged show.

The only one of the major networks that covered it at that Hour was Erin Burnett the "Breaking News Queen" was the only one that reported on it. For her, starting every news show with the phrase "Breaking News" is routine, like a large portion of the media, although she does it much more than most, which uses it so much that it no longer means anything anymore; and when they do have breaking news that should be treated as important it's like the boy that cried wolf and they don't seem serious about anything. This has, not surprisingly, led people to be skeptical of all this hype; it's like the boy that cried wolf!

This isn't the first time they stirred up the North Korean scare then quickly moved on to another obsession du jour, making it seem as if it isn't so urgent. A couple of weeks after Trump made his absurd "fire and fury" threat, which looked like something an immature little kid might come up with, he said that he thought North Korea was behaving better, for a little while, perhaps trying to give people the impression that his threats were working. However, there was no evidence to support this like most of his other absurd claims.

Bush's pulling out of the deal with also isn't the first or last obviously wrong practice that could have avoided war, including the narrow number of candidates that are routinely covered by the mainstream media, which ensures that only the candidates they support can get name recognition in the first place. This is how both Bush and Trump got elected in the first place, when neither one of them could have gotten the nomination if they provided reasonably diverse coverage of candidates in the press. I went into this more in The 2000 election revisited where I reminded people that before the 9/11 attacks and even before the first primaries back in 1999, the media virtually declared the Bush and Gore were the inevitable nominations and then they provided obsession coverage for the candidates of their choice to enable them to get the nominations.

This is standard operating procedure and it is why decent candidates that might be inclined to keep their promises never get any media coverage. It's also why so many people were outraged and looking for someone to stand up to "the establishment," although the assumption that Donald Trump would ever stand up to the establishment, which he has been benefiting from is absurd. However a large percentage of the public hasn't developed the critical thinking skills to check their own facts, which is what makes them so susceptible to deceptive propaganda.

There is no way that Donald Trump could have been elected if the media hadn't been giving him an enormous amount of coverage for decades to ensure that he had plenty of name recognition. This of course increased dramatically when they gave him his show "The Apprentice" that clearly targeted the moist susceptible people to propaganda; and it increased even more when he entered the presidential race in the most absurd fashion, by calling Mexican't rapists, and making appeals to emotion.



We're supposed to believe that this was all unexpected, however the political establishment has been studying how to manipulate the public for decades, and researchers like James Carville and Frank Luntz have been doing focus groups or other research to study how people respond to political manipulation so they can develop more effective ads to get votes even while they cater overwhelmingly to the corporate interests that finance political campaigns and the media.

They've known for quite a while that an enormous amount of people were angry at the political establishment; but instead of at least trying to address some of these concerns, to reduce the outrage they keep pushing for more fanatical policies that they must know had to backfire at some point!

With all the political research they do how can they possibly not know that if they keep pushing the country closer to the edge it's a matter of time before it backfires? Instead of trying to educate the public better and trying to prevent some kind of inevitable disaster they keep pursuing more radical polices moving further to the right. There should be little or no doubt that another major part of the reason Donald Trump was able to get elected was becasue they rigged the Democratic nomination for an incredibly corrupt candidate that is almost as bad if not worse than Donald Trump! the truth of the matter is that if they provided reasonable coverage for a diverse group of candidates that discuss many issues there would ahve been no way that either of these two clowns could have gotten the nomination.

On top of that they could have discussed ranked choice voting; the basics of Single Payer versus for profit insurance which spends and enormous amount of premium money on lobbying or advertising and keeping large portions for profit making less available for actual claims; educating the public about all these wars based on lies; informed the public about how union busting is causing inferior merchandise eliminating factory direct options and even increasing crime and many other things, which the oligarchies censor!

And those paying attention to the alternative media outlets might remember the famous “Pied Piper” attachment to a leaked Email!



Podesta Email [AGENDA & MEMO] Friday Strategy Call at 8:00 AM ET 04/23/2015 Includes “Pied Piper” PDF attachment showing they wanted to encourage an irrational candidate so that Hillary could win in the general election

Clinton's behavior has been almost as insane as Donald Trump's which is why he was able to get elected! Instead of trying to address many of the most important issues she relied on this insane "Pied Piper" strategy hoping to go up against an irrational candidate so that she wouldn't even have to do a good job pretending to do a good job to get elected; and she still appears to be living in fantasy land with several interviews and her new book showing that she's totally clueless about why everyone hates her so much!

The reason so many people were so outraged and Trump was able to get elected is that int was incredibly obvious that they rigged the media coverage for her; and instead of admitting that they were caught red handed when the Emails were leaked they tried to convince the public that they should have the right to rig the nomination for someone the people hate!

Any rational skeptic would agree that an insane Wag the Dog hypothesis where they're creating this confrontation for some far-fetched conspiracy is extremely hard to believe; however it is also extremely hard to believe that the political establishment could be so clueless that they allowed this clown to get elected and push us to the brink of nuclear war!

There should be no doubt that something insane and absurd is going on, which opens the door for one of those far-fetched conspiracy theories to be true or close to the truth!



In Trump's speech to the U.N. he said that Kim Jong Un, or as he phrased it, "Rocket Man is on a suicide mission for himself;" however if the official version of truth presented by the mainstream media, which I'm skeptical of, is true, so is Donald Trump and all the political manipulators that enabled him to get obsession coverage he needed to get elected while suppressing coverage for honest or rational candidates are also on a suicide mission.

I find this extremely unlikely; they have proven that although they're manipulative corrupt and deceptive they're not inclined to destroy themselves by choice. A Wag the Dog Conspiracy hypothesis may seem extremely unlikely but the insane behavior of the political establishment is as unlikely if not more unlikely; and even if the most far-fetched Wag the Dog conspiracy Theory doesn't hold up there's an enormous amount of evidence that a less far-fetched conspiracy is going on and the media is distorting the information they present to the public and that they've been caught lying about one war after another.

A large portion of past lies have been exposed and even the traditional media has often reported it and the government often has often admitted it although they both only discuss these lies briefly then quickly forget it and often treat people that keep track of their lies and admission as conspiracy theorists. Those more familiar with the most reliable alternative media outlets are much more likely to be familiar with these, and I have reported on some of them in numerous articles in the past including a recent one, Wars Based On Lies Has Long History Of Political Support, where I reviewed a long list of the lies used to get us into wars in the past; Even Bernie Sanders Ignores History of North Korea Conflict, which reviews the history of the negotiations with North Korea; and Is 60 Minutes presenting anti-North Korea propaganda?, which raises major doubts about some of the past reporting by Anderson Cooper on a "North Korean prisoner who allegedly escaped after 23 brutal years," however instead of going on with his life he went on a speaking tour that seems highly couched and doesn't seem to indicate that he is nearly as traumatized as other people abused that bad that wouldn't be emotionally capable of providing anti-North Korea propaganda.

I gave attempted to provide reliable sources for all these articles but if your not already doing your own research and checking your own facts I hope you'll consider it when you have time. Also, the last of those three articles was written in 2013 when I suspected there should be major doubts about his story, although sixty minutes wasn't reporting on it. In 2015, apparently, Blaine Harden wrote a book about this and also raised more doubts. To the best of my knowledge Sixty Minutes hasn't provided a high profile retraction; however apparently they did edit there internet article about it, North Korean prisoner escaped after 23 brutal years Last Updated Jan 18, 2015 8:30 PM EST, to say, "Editor's Note: This story first aired in December 2012. Since then, questions have been raised about the truthfulness of some of the account that Shin Dong-hyuk gave about growing up in a North Korean prison camp. In January 2015, Blaine Harden, who had written a book about Shin's experiences, said that Shin had changed key parts of his story, including the timing and circumstances of his time in prison, his torture, and his eventual escape. Harden first disclosed these discrepancies to The Washington Post and also sent a statement to 60 Minutes. We have not yet been able to reach Shin for comment."

At the time I wrote my article, if I had received attention from the mainstream press, my best guess is, that they would have treated my article as fringe conspiracy theory, as they often treat many other reports that expose their propaganda; however I would not have been aware that they seem to have confirmed my concerns and demonstrated their own propaganda tactics once again by reporting the deceptive propaganda far and wide while only reporting the doubts about it in a low profile manner.

They appear to be doing the same thing all over again with Will Ripley's reporting from within North Korea!



They're trying to portray North Korea as fanatical and authoritarian as they previously portrayed the Soviet Union; however, the even though the Soviet Union was extremely authoritarian and a closed society they weren't always as bad as the United States portrayed them, and they never allowed our reporters to go in and get into the Soviet Union at all let alone report about how their propaganda is so misleading openly within North Korea while allegedly being watched by their authoritarian guards that are supposedly watching reporters as well as the Soviet Union did.

Anyone that remembers how authoritarian the reporting about the Soviet Union and other tyrannical states might agree that this is even less credible than the story about Shin Dong-hyuk, which their disclaimer almost admits it is seriously flawed.

There should also be major doubts about whether a nation that can't keep the lights on for the vast majority of the country can develop this nuclear technology at all and the missiles to deliver them especially the Hydrogen Bomb which is more advanced than they probably should have been able to develop. However if they're right and they did develop this then one thing that is odd that they rarely if ever mention is the possibility that they could deliver it using other means. If they can develop bombs, even just the less severe ones, like the ones dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki there should be more concern that they could smuggle it far closer to the United States without a missile system. I seriously doubt all this propaganda about them developing this technology but if they did then the delivery could be lower tech and that should be enough reason not to antagonize them!

Even if more far-fetched conspiracy theories aren't true, or partly true, there's an enormous amount of deceptive propaganda going on that has been routine for decades. For one reason or another we have a clownish president that has been caught one time after another in many scandals and scams including numerous ties to the mafia which can be found with a Google search, although most articles only report on one or two when further search will turn up more, Trump University lawsuit which was an obvious fraud and dozens if not hundreds more scams including his infamous tape where he bragged about being able to "grab them by the pussy. you can do anything," when your a celebrity. There is something seriously wrong with a media that provides obsession coverage for this demagogue to get elected that won't provide coverage for progressive candidates like Jill Stein or many even lesser known candidates unless they collect an enormous amount of bribes, thinly disguised as campaign contributions from the corporations that the media serve!

This absurd behavior including the rhetoric about a nuclear apocalypse, or "wars and rumors of wars" and the extreme weather are appearing to be increasingly Apocalyptic; however unlike the serious threat that is presented by the Bible it's being presented like an unbelievable satire that people shouldn't take seriously. And most people don't seem to be; however there are real threats that we should worry about even though the scare about North Korea may be based on propaganda not a real threat. One of them is that they could use this deception to lead us into another war based on lies!



Still as someone trying to be a rational skeptic it should be clear that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence to take them seriously, even if the official version of truth is now as far-fetched as what most people consider far-fetched conspiracy theories. But there has been extraordinary evidence of many major unsolved mysteries for hundreds of years, although many people claiming to be rational skeptics refuse to admit to it. But some of this evidence is inadequate to fill in all the answers, just enough to raise major doubts about the official version of the truth. One of the clearest and most conclusive that I know of is the large number of megaliths well over a hundred tons that have been moved long distances by ancient civilizations even though when they do experiments between ten and forty tons they cheat and still can't move them long distances; and they don't even try to move bigger ones with ancient technology. Additional unsolved mysteries include alleged mystics like Edgar Cayce, Padre Pio, Uri Geller and many others, as well as many UFO sightings that have still not been explained. These require more review to demonstrate a major unsolved mystery than the megaliths but those that take the time to check the details might not be able to explain it.

If you Google "Donald Trump Apocalypse" there are a surprising number of people that are speculating that Trump really might bring on the Apocalypse including some credible scientists according to Donald Trump could be about to trigger the apocalypse, elite Doomsday Clock scientists conclude 01/26/2017 which reports that "Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists" has moved the "Doomsday Clock" closer to midnight based on Trump's irrational comments about both Climate Change and Nuclear War and this was before the recent increase in tensions with North Korea!

However it still seems to clownish and irrational to believe!

A Wag the Dog Conspiracy Theory seems as rational if not more rational, even if it is also far-fetched; but why?

In my recent article Hurricane Apocalypse Coming With or Without Fringe Conspiracy Theory I explained that an enormous amount of research about Climate Change and attempts to control the weather are being admitted to by the government and mainstream scientists including Dr. Michio Kaku, although they're often mixed up with fringe conspiracy theorists that often exaggerate and misrepresent them so it often seems like fringe science. However if there is something to it they have to do some research on it, and that appears to include according to admissions from government scientists, to cloud seeding in Vietnam to increase rain, which is also being allegedly done by both China and Russia; fracking that can induce earthquakes; and if Climate Change is caused by man, as most scientists claim, that is a form of geoengineering indicating that as Dr. Michio Kaku, further weather control is possible.



This theory also takes into consideration numerous other major unsolved mysteries including UFOs and the possibility that there may have been an unknown advanced intelligence that has been influencing our civilization for thousands of years and that it enabled the movement of the megaliths and influenced early religions, possibly inspiring religious texts including the Book of the Apocalypse.

There are a surprising number of similarities that a rational skeptic wouldn't expect if there is nothing to alleged prophecies about the Apocalypse, however if they're coming partially true it's being done in a clownish manor that doesn't seem serious. As I reported previously, in "Yes Virginia there is a Trump and Clinton Conspiracy" there are a lot of similarities between Hillary Clinton and the "Whore of Babylon" and they only increased since then, even with her absurd denials about what went wrong as if it is a clownish act.

Trump is also acting like in irrational clown that shouldn't be taken seriously yet he's president of the United States and appears to be pushing us to the brink of a nuclear war. There's even a building previously owned by Jared Kushner on 666 fifth avenue leading some to speculate about a connection to the "Mark of the Beast." The Book of Apocalypse also indicates, assuming you take one interpretation or another seriously, that when it suits "God's" purposes he'll arrange to have "the beast taken prisoner" and "hurled alive into the fiery lake of burning sulphur," which assuming you think Trump might be the "Beast" might mean that he'll be removed from power.

Whether you take the Book of Apocalypse seriously or not there's good reason to suspect that Donald Trump might be removed from power before he finishes his first term with all the investigations about him, legitimate or not. There has been good reason to suspect that the president elected in 2016 could justifiably be impeached, since spring of 2016 before we even knew which crook would win! This was because the media gave so much obsession coverage to these two incredibly corrupt candidates while refusing to allow reasonable coverage for honest candidates. On the Democratic side establishment candidates almost universally lined up behind Clinton and when Bernie Sanders was cheated, even he lined up behind Clinton; on the Republic side they ran a large number of incredibly bad candidates that the public recognized as establishment candidates that have been scamming them for decades.

It was rigged so that two incredibly corrupt candidates that could justifiably be impeached were the two nominees!

Then if you take the Book of Apocalypse seriously, "thousand years are over, Satan will be released from his prison and will come out to lead astray all the nations in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, and mobilise them for war, his armies being as many as the sands of the sea."Apocalypse: 20:7-8 As long as we keep trusting "God," as religious people have been taught to do, he can lead us into temptation and stage wars when ever it suits his purposes!

It would be a far better idea to demand disclosure of the truth what ever it is, whether it is an Ancient Alien Conspiracy or not, and make decisions for ourselves! It certainly won't be the version of an Ancient Alien conspiracy described in the History channel series by that name since they do such a bad job checking their facts; however if it was peer reviewed along with full disclosure some of it might turn out to be true. If more people had developed critical thinking skills and recognized that the media is so corrupt they could have elected many more third Party Candidates and prevented this disaster from approaching in the first place bringing about the reforms that we need.

Perhaps the simplest thing that should raise doubts is that it is virtually guaranteed that the people running the show know how to do a better job pretending to do a good job, but they're not even trying!

This may be far-fetched to many people but whether a crazy Ancient Alien conspiracy theory is true or not it should be a good idea to protect the environment, educate children, prevent routine wars based on lies, allow diverse media that isn't monopolized by the rich and provide full disclosure of what our government is doing! Yet the government gets every one of these wrong!

If we could bring about the government and media reform we need while reversing the damage to the environment then we can simultaneously bring about a disclosure process to release all the information that the government has been keeping secret from us. This would have to be fact checked carefully since they have an incredibly long history of lying and have been repeatedly caught and if this is a fringe conspiracy then that will be exposed by the evidence, which is fine. I'm not trying to push a theory if it doesn't hold up and no doubt there are problems with it and it needs many more details to be filled in if it is partly true.

However even if it is false, most of the propaganda coming from the mainstream media and the government is also false and that needs to be exposed!



Are we supposed to believe that not only can't Donald Trump stop him from making tweets as absurd as this but that the media can't stop themselves from giving him the obsession coverage that he needed to get elected while suppressing honest grassroots candidates? Or is this a "Madman" diplomacy strategy? If so could they possibly do it without willing help from the media? Something insane is definitely going on!

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Edit 10/20/2017: North Korea has let another reporter provide propaganda that seems to do more to serve the ineterests of the people that provided obsession coverage that enabled Trump to get elected and are now trying to make him seem like a demon according to a MSNBC report as described in NBC News correspondent: Senior North Korean officials watch 'Morning Joe' 10/19/2017 Once again, if this country was so draconian they wouldn't have been so likely to cooperate with American efforts to provide this propaganda. This only adds to news that doesn't make any sense and seems like a large portion of it was staged. With or without a fringe conspiracy theory there were plenty of opportunities to improve relations over the decades, and either they're ideological fanatics that refuse to do so or the truth is as fringe as the conspiracy theory.





The following are additional sources with further details:

Just What Were Donald Trump's Ties to the Mob? 05/22/2017

A Brief History of Donald Trump and the Mafia 04/28/2016

Trump to UN: 'Rocket Man is on a suicide mission' 09/19/2017

Trump ‘ready for pre-emptive strike on North Korea’s nuclear sites’ 09/16/2017

Donald Trump's unpresidential presidency keeps hitting new lows 09/18/2017

Trump's 'rocket man' tweet claims Korea sanctions biting, but experts unsure 09/18/2017

John McCain on Twitter: What, did they want me to call him a crazy skinny kid? 03/29/2017

If the media wanted to provide coverage for candidates that actually try to do a good job neither of these two clowns could get the nomination! 09/18/2017

CNN’s Will Ripley Talks Trump With Everyday North Koreans 02/15/2017

Trump's 'fire and fury' threat to North Korea sparks new fears of war 08/08/2017

We Need One Sane Leader in the U.S.–North Korea Standoff. Pressure’s on You, Kim Jong-un. 08/09/2017

Kim threatens to nuke US after McCain calls him ‘crazy fat kid’ 03/30/2017



The following are my past articles with additional back up evidence or speculation to explore major unsolved mysteries:

107 Wonders of the Ancient World

Is “Prism” news? or is it ECHELON?

A Brief History of the Mormon Church

Why so few arrests for Crop Circles makers? Is there microwave evidence?

UFO Hypothesis with rational use of Occam's Razor

"God's Not Dead" But Is He Nice?

Multinationals Are Using Public For Research On Massive Scale

Yes Virginia There Is A Trump And Clinton Conspiracy but could it be related to a far-fetched Apocalypse Prophecy or a weak copy of it?

Wanted unsuspecting research subjects

Is Stanton Friedman working for the CIA to refute reverse engineering claims?

Deadly Monopolies and Medical Slavery?

Deadly Monopolies With Alien Technology?

UFO Hypothesis Far More Credible Than Catholic Claim of A "Miracle Of The Sun"

Could Steve Bannon Be Providing Propaganda To Enable Climate Change Research Project?

Even Bernie Sanders Ignores History of North Korea Conflict!

There was another school shooting in Washington bringing the gun control debate back, which is the only thing they discuss, even though it is almost certainly not the most important contributing factor, although preventing emotionally unstable people from getting guns will almost certainly make it less likely that they can shoot up schools.

There was more talk about armed guards or teachers as a way to prevent this from escalating and talk about how school shootings continue to go up.

But it's actually been a while since the last big school shooting and after glancing at the list of school shootings, it appears that the number of school shootings peaked in 2014 when there were thirty-six shootings with seventeen deaths. This wasn't the year with the biggest death toll which was 2012 with a total of forty-two thanks to the exceptionally large number killed at Newtown Connecticut. When there are exceptionally large death tolls it skewers the statistics, for what it's worth.

There were only fifteen shootings with nine deaths in 2016, and with only about three months left to the year only five shootings and six deaths in 2017, which is still too much of course, but it has dropped sharply, with little or no notice until another shooting happened, and even then some automatically assumed it was continuing to rise.

But why has it dropped so significantly?

Has anything been done to bring these shootings down? If so why isn't the media reporting on it so that it can be brought down even further?

I can't explain why it has dropped so much but, as I have reported in previous articles there's plenty of research about the leading causes of violence and how it escalates starting with early child abuse escalating to bullying hazing and other forms of violence later in life including domestic violence murder and even blind support for wars, often based on lies.

This research can often be found in libraries alternative media outlets or academic reports on studies, many of which are available on the internet; however they're almost completely absent from the traditional media. This conclusion isn't a fringe conspiracy theory, since it is based on information that is publicly available and can be confirmed, assuming people don't limit themselves to sources provided by the traditional media and political establishment.

There might be some research showing why and how these shootings have gone down, but the media hasn't reported it to the vast majority of the public. I can't say for certain but I have seen some evidence to indicate that a growing number of people are acting at the local level to learn from alternative media, once they recognize how incompetent and corrupt the traditional media is, whether it is because they're catering to oligarchies only concerned with maximizing profits regardless of what their policies do or not. One of the most obvious examples that I have found was Richmond California.

I wouldn't be surprised if the reason for the reduction of school shootings has a lot to do with well informed people acting at the local level.

However more should be done to inform the people at other areas of the most effective ways to reduce violence including school shootings. If we could do this not only would school shootings continue to go down and stay down but so would all violence. If more isn't done to educate the public about the leading causes of violence this could just as easily be reversed and shootings could go back up.

A large portion of this should be obvious, however many of the people that make the decisions about public policy are more concerned about controlling the public and serving corporate interests, so instead of acting on the best research they act on ideological grounds that enable them to push their agenda, often to increase profits for campaign donors, one way or another, even though it may not seem related to violence or school shootings.

When the Columbine shootings happened there was a lot of reporting about bullying and that Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris were often targeted and the latest shooting, as well as many in between, also clearly seem to involve retaliation or anger for bullying. Some reports about the Washington school shooting indicate that the person he killed was one of the kids that had targeted him for bullying, although the shooter didn't necessarily seek him out, while other claim that he was a hero that tried to talk him out of it. It will probably take some time to sort it out and this is similar to what happened after Columbine, unfortunately some of the people with the most political clout that also were partly in denial got the most attention then, and only those that looked closely at the details would have been able to recognize it.

Part of the problem might be that some of the "coolest kids" might, in some cases, feel less need to respect the rights of those that are considered outcasts, often including athletes or children of wealthy families, which might have been the case in Columbine; and instead of admitting that their bullying might have been a major contributing factor they down play it and they often have the support of adults running the school or the press. Once a shooting happens then it's tempting to put all the blame on the perpetrator without trying to figure out if there were any additional contributing causes.

This may have been demonstrated with David Cullen, who wrote "Columbine" released on the ten year anniversary, and worked for Salon, and on numerous occasions was invited to appear on television. His book states, "There's no evidence that bullying led to murder, but considerable evidence it was a problem at Columbine High." (p.158) This is almost all he wrote about the problems with bullying, dramatically downplaying the impact the most reliable sources reported about how angry Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris were about the bullying that went on at Columbine ignoring some of the incidents reported by Brooks Brown who was a student at Columbine and had a disagreement with the shooters about a year before it happened.

Shortly after starting an account at Open Salon in 2010, I realized that he was also there and informed him of an article that I had reposted there, as a courtesy, which initially he ignored. After he made similar statements that seemed to ignore the root causes of violence I brought it up again on his Blog, in a public forum and raised my objections, which are reported in an article below. One of the so-called experts that he cited was Robert Hare, who has many awards, and he considers very credible, however even some of his statements seemed to imply that he believed that child abuse and bullying lead to escalating violence. I wasn't very familiar with him at the time but a simple search through his most popular book, "Without Conscience" which was on Google quickly turned up some of these comments, but David Cullen insisted and after I got around to reading the whole book it was clear that he was supporting David Cullen's views, however as I pointed out in Children Psychopaths? And Mitt Romney’s Bullying History he was incredibly incompetent, despite all his credentials awards and political support. Amazingly he has a history of using the courts to suppress his critics instead of making arguments to refute them. His book was full of appeals to emotion, and his alleged arguments for the "nature" cause of violence were primarily based or upbringing that really should have been in the "Nurture" category. As pointed out in the previous article mentioning him there were many other problems with his work.

I was surprised at how much he was in denial at one point saying, 'I researched it heavily, and just found no data to support it, so I said so in the book briefly and moved on. The last thing I wanted to do was to perpetuate more myths As for child abuse, again, there is no evidence of any. Of course we can construct all sorts of scenarios of what MIGHT have happened to the two kids, but I believe that would fall under the category of "making stuff up."'

However I cited numerous examples where there was serious bullying, and numerous experts that reported that there was a pattern of behavior of escalating violence that is much more common when children are abused at an early age, that leads to escalating violence. I did not claim that I had evidence of child abuse; however it is often not easy to find and I cited several experts that found that almost all if not all violent mass murderers suffered from early abuse, and that after a closer look it was worse than what most people suffer from. One of the experts that I cited was James Garbarino, who does some very good work but apparently didn't look at some of the legitimate myths about Columbine, including the trench coat mafia, and Dave Cullen argued that the experts I cited didn't directly research Columbine; however another one that I added on was Barbara Coloroso, who I wasn't as familiar with at the time, and she did look closer at it.

She lives in Littleton, and apparently was familiar with the culture there and may have even known the two killers and other children from the school. However one of the subjects that she writes about in at least one of her books are the teachings of James Dobson, who is also from the same area and apparently his religious teachings are very popular there and they involve using corporal punishment to educate or discipline children in a very different manner from Barbara Coloroso and her books point out the reason why she disagrees with him. I suspect, based on the views of the two and the stories that followed the Columbine shootings that the majority of the people in her area were more inclined to follow James Dobson's teachings than hers.

I went into James Dobson's views more in Dobson’s Indoctrination Machine where I explained that his strict authoritarian methods of child rearing, that involved starting to use corporal punishment on toddlers when they're no more than eighteen months old, before they even learn how to talk well, develop critical thinking skills or understand why they're being punished, teach children to obey out of fear, not because they understand what's wrong with what they might be doing to incite punishment. It teaches them to blindly obey orders and believe what they're told to believe without question and it leads to escalating violence and blind obedience to authority.

These child rearing methods are even more common, and more severe in the Southern Bible Belt, which also has the highest murder rates. On any given year six to nine of the states with the highest murder rates are among the only nineteen that still allow corporal punishment in schools; and only one, Idaho, which doesn't use it nearly as often in schools, routinely makes into the bottom ten states for murder rates.



Many claim, of course that not all people that suffer from child abuse turn into mass murderers, which is true, of course but they're more likely than those that aren't abused and if they don't become mass murderers, they suffer other problems that result from it. Excessive violence as an adult is just one of many problems that children have, as adults, as a result of the long term psychological abuse at an early age. Other problems include increased amounts of mental health issues, which are also associated with higher rates of violence, and it should be clear that the best way to treat these mental health issues, when possible, is to prevent them from developing in the first place by stopping child abuse and teaching better child rearing tactics as Barbara Coloroso and James Garbarino do.

The following article which shows a correlation between bullying, schizophrenia, and being a loner with violence and school shootings also shows that escalating violence "comes from a deep rooted traumatic experience or bad upbringing:"





Not all experts agree on everything of course, and understanding the most effective ways to reduce violence shouldn't be based on just one or two articles, especially since it's clear that there is a lot of controversy about these subjects, however most of the experts either believe that early child abuse is a contributing factor causing various mental illnesses including schizophrenia, or if child abuse doesn't cause schizophrenia, it makes it worse, some different views are posted at the bottom but the following is one of the typical studies showing that schizophrenia is more likely among abused children:



When sorting through contributing causes for escalating violence and the controversies that surround them, recognizing ulterior motives might help, and there are far more of those in the ideological push for Charter Schools and School Choice which Diane Ravitch, Jonathan Kozol often point out in a lot of their research. These Charter Schools weren't initially intended to be part of a corporate take over of schools where a profit motive became a leading factor; however in many cases that is exactly what happens, as Ravitch often points out. they were initially intended to try some different teaching methods, often for special needs, on a small scale basis, to learn new teaching methods.

One of the biggest problems with Charter Schools is that they often siphon off the resources from public schools and take the easiest kids to teach as a way of distorting the results, which is why Kozol, Ravitch and teachers unions have been so critical of them. Another major problem is that most of them also rely on authoritarian discipline methods as some schools in Chicago and other parts of the country have been exposed doing, including the following example from New York, where the Nation Magazine demonstrates that an increase of of violence in 2015, being used to justify more Charter Schools probably should do the opposite:



I have no doubt, based on an enormous amount of credible research, that one of the biggest contributing factors to escalating violence, if not the biggest is child abuse leading to bullying, hazing, domestic violence murder and even school shootings; however it isn't the only contributing factor, as I have pointed out in some articles listed below. Perhaps the second biggest contributing factor is abandoned inner cities where there are no educational or economic opportunities. These abandoned inner cities are often where they're pushing the flawed Charter Schools the most. They're also closely related to economic inequality, and lack of Democratic input on the education and economic system from local communities, which are additional major contributing factors.

A large portion of the problem is the lack of resources for schools especially low income schools, and lack of efforts to educate all children equally. Additional problems include a social and economic system that is forcing both parents to work two jobs spending less time educating their own children while still being unable to make ends meet. A large portion of this is being driven on ideological grounds controlled by a small fraction of the public that control the political, economic and media establishments, and are reluctant to listen to the most effective researchers on any given subject.

Does this sound like a fringe conspiracy theory?

Before you come to that conclusion consider one of the most extreme efforts to take over the education system by an online for profit organization as exposed by numerous researchers including Mary Bottari From Junk Bonds to Junk Schools: Cyber Schools Fleece Taxpayers for Phantom Students and Failing Grades 10/02/2013 She exposed how Michael Milken, former junk bond king who went to jail for epidemic levels of fraud in the eighties has been successfully making a fortune off of cyber education system that is incredibly ineffective.

Amazingly not only was Michael Milken a notorious scam artist allowed to start this school and rake in enormous amounts of money, but even after well over a decade of being exposed at the grassroots level it is still running, and the mainstream media refuses to report on it, or at least not in a high profile manner! This isn't because it isn't a major scam or because the reporting that Mary Bottari provided is false, it's not; there are occasional news articles from the mainstream media admitting to parts of it and other grassroots researchers like Susan Linn, and Juliet Schor have also exposed it.

If this isn't some kind of a conspiracy it is ideological fanaticism and an oligarchy run amok!

Michael Milken and K12 is only the most obvious of these scams, but a closer look which the best researchers like Jonathan Kozol or Diane Ravitch are doing clearly indicates that the school reform movement is being run by economist, lawyers, lobbyists, and ideological fanatics far more concerned with maximizing profits for Wall Street investors than they are with providing good education and addressing legitimate social concerns. Researchers like Susan Linn, Roy Fox and Juliet Schor have also exposed how the school privatization movement is also turning schools into indoctrination centers with the help of advertisers that are being relied on to partly finance education, however it has interfered with education by making commercial interests far more important than education; and the best researchers like Barbara Coloros or James Garbarino have done far better to expose how early child abuse leads to escalating violence than the people the media cover to promote either gun control only without mentioning educational reforms or even worse, the plan to turn schools into armed camps to defend against school shooters.

I try to be a rational skeptic and don't want to sound like a fringe conspiracy theorist; however the political establishment is routinely ignoring all the best researchers on any given subject, so I can't rule out the possibility that this is some kind of conspiracy; either that or it is authoritarian fanaticism running amok!

An article shortly after the Washington school shooting, Md. Teachers Take Firearms Training In Response To Uptick In School Shootings 09/20/2017, falsely claims there's an "Uptick In School Shootings" which appears to be typical of news reports from the traditional media which often doesn't even do the simplest fact checking. The article also says, “Never in a million years would I have guessed that one response to what happened in our town would be to arm teachers,” said former Sandy Hook teacher Abbey Clements. “Can you imagine if children were hurt by you in that situation? How would you live with yourself.”

Where is all the reporting about school advertising, school inequality, or most important psychological research into the effects of how child abuse leads to escalating violence?

It's not in the mainstream media which has turned into a fanatical corporate propaganda organization controlled by a fraction of one percent of the public, but it is available in alternative media outlets or in libraries.

If arming school teachers or shooting down school shooters is the most effective way of solving this problem, where are the reports where it actually worked? They don't seem to exist that I know of but even if they did, they could only have limited success since it won't take long for a suicidal kid with emotional problems to shoot one or two people before either being killed by an armed guard or teacher or committing suicide.

What about reports where it has already proven to back fire or at least the potential for arming teachers is there like this report about Juvenile found gun that teacher brought to NKY school 08/31/2017 This is just one of many reports where the armed people that are allegedly going to defend us either allow children or crooks to get a hold of their guns or accidentally shoot themselves or others, or ins many cases they go on killing sprees or commit suicide. Anyone that follows gun control advocates on Twitter can find dozens if not thousands of these examples. Of course in all fairness those that follow gun-rights advocates on Twitter can find examples where guns are used to stop crime; however after close scrutiny the gun-rights advocates often prove to distort their data more than the gun control advocates.

But if teachers and parents did more to address social problems, which many of them already are, then it would do far more to reduce school shootings even more and keep them down. Those that are already doing a better job could probably teach those that need the help the most if the media that is catering to ideological fanatics would give them some air time!



The following are additional articles about the shooting in Washington, past school shootings, attempts to arm teachers, and the correlation between Child Abuse and Schizophrenia:

List of school shootings in the United States

Teachers could be armed by the end of the school year 02/07/2017

Spokane County Sheriff Blames Everything But Guns For School Shooting 09/14/2017

Washington School Shooting Suspect Wanted to Teach Bullies a ‘Lesson’ 09/15/2017

Teen killed in Washington state school shooting 'tried to talk' armed classmate 'out of it': Sheriff 09/15/2017

Thoughts About School Shootings From A Future Teacher's Perspective 10/01/2016

Sexual abuse in childhood tied to schizophrenia NOVEMBER 2, 2010

Child Abuse Leaves Mark on Brain February 13, 2012

Schizophrenia may have link to child abuse June 13, 2006

Child Abuse Can Cause Schizophrenia, Conference Told June 14, 2006

Schizophrenia Usually Caused by Child Abuse? Proof Lacking June 16, 2006

Do Child Abuse and Maltreatment Increase Risk of Schizophrenia? Apr 30 2012

ACC reviews policy after research shows sexual abuse may cause schizophrenia November 29 2015

According to Death penalty Information center murder rates by state there were seven states using corporal punishment in schools in the top ten states for murder rates in 2016 up from six in 2015, which was lower than usual, seven or eight is typical. And Idaho, the only state using corporal punishment in school climbed out of the bottom ten so there are now none in the bottom ten, and only four of the states that use it the least in the bottom half. The correlation with use of corporal punishment in schools and murder rates has been clearer and more consistent than the vast majority of statistics for social problems.





The following are some of my past articles about child abuse leading to escalating violence:

Does child abuse and bullying lead to more violence?

David Cullen’s response denying bullying connection to Columbine

Dobson’s Indoctrination Machine

Child abuse and bullying link in study long over due

Daddy's Hands, Hard as steel when I’d done wrong

Public relation campaign for child abuse prevention

The real victim rights advocates

Cause and Effect of Hatred

Bullying research forgotten already??

Children Psychopaths? And Mitt Romney’s Bullying History



The following are some of my past articles about additional contributing causes of violence and how they can and often are reduced when people are educated at the grassroots level:

Ignored evidence linking corporal punishment, poverty and crime grows

Does lack of education increase violent crime? Religion?

How much does Income Inequality Affects Crime Rates?

States with high murder rates have larger veteran populations

Teach a soldier to kill and he just might

The tragedy of gambling politics in United States

How does gambling and gun control impact violent crime?

Politics, not technology, caused botched executions

Troy, Cameron, Gary all innocent? And executed?

Democrats do a bad job on crime; Republicans and the Media are worse!!

Politicians increase crime; Grass roots efforts reduce crime; Politicians steal the credit

Life Insurance and media companies are encouraging lots of murders

Union Busting adds to corrupt bureaucracy and incites crime

After the slowest month for shootings last August, they went back up in September with at least nine shootings, including two immediate deaths; and the person arrested for one of those shootings died a few weeks later, although the explanation for his death is still under investigation. One of these shootings didn't actually take place on Walmart property; however it resulted from a fleeing shoplifter that trespassed into an office building that was supposed to be closed to the public, so it was still a result of activities at Walmart. Another one was a result of a drug transaction and also resulted in a stolen pick up.

There were at least another eleven gun related crimes including three carjackings, two of which also resulted in chases. Several others involved armed robberies; and one of them involved someone stealing firearms from Walmart, which doesn't seem to secure their own guns nearly as well as most firearms dealers and leaves them unattended unlike most arms dealers. Walmart has had many more guns stolen from their stores in the past including one where it was used in a police shoot out and another where they never took the key that was taped to the display case in the back off when they set it up.

As far as I know these kinds of foolish mistakes only seem to happen at Walmart.

In addition to the two carjackings that led to a chase there were at least a dozen more crashes, chases drunk drivers as a result of activity at Walmart or chases of shoplifters that began at Walmart. At least two of these involve people that intentionally crashed into Walmart and another two resulted in deaths. there were also two bodies found at Walmart parking lots, which brings the Walmart body count for the month counting the ones from shootings crashes or other reasons up to at least seven.

Raytown Missouri Alderman Eric Teeman recently said, "Walmart’s bleeding this town," as a result of their large problems with crime there. earlier this year they had an officer involved shooting where a shoplifting suspect was killed after disarming the officer of her taser and she shot him with a firearm. In a deal they offered Walmart ten years ago they agreed to give them tax breaks to come to town so according to Teeman and other local officials even though they have an enormous crime problem there they're not paying taxes to help finance the police; which means the taxpayers are subsidizing a major crime problem.

This may be among the worst deals towns have given Walmart, from the perspective of their citizens, but it isn't the only one like it. Walmart has been negotiating deals like this behind closed doors for decades, as researchers like Stacy Mitchell has reported, and over the opposition of a lot of local leaders they often push through deals that give Walmart major advantages over the competition and this enables them to increase their profits once they wipe out the competition; but the local towns get stuck with the tab for increased police activity and lost tax revenues from the businesses that didn't get these subsidies.

Even while they're being exposed for gouging one town in one part of the country they're constantly trying to do the same thing in other parts of the country. Reporting on this is usually low profile which is how they get away with it.



The only thing new about this problem is that it's being reported in the traditional media; but they still only report it at the local level where it doesn't get much attention!

In another example of what might be preferential treatment by those with political connections a judge was arrested at Walmart and charged with assault after he demanded a receipt after turning in some jewelry he found in case the owner didn't claim it. When the clerk refused, perhaps because it wasn't policy or she wasn't trained to provide receipts for that purpose, he allegedly became aggressive grabbing her hand hurting her, and she decided to press charges. the trial date was set unusually fast, but then before trial charges were dropped.

Few people who weren't lawyers would even think of asking for a receipt under those circumstances, they would either keep it or turn it in; however even though it is unlikely that it would draw so much attention if it weren't a judge it is also unlikely that the charges would be dropped so quickly, if at all, if it was anyone else without political connections.

Walmart also had at least half a dozen knife or hatchet related crimes, mostly thefts and at least one of them involved a stabbing, while most were only used for threats. They had at least one more brawl and one more fire that may have been an arson, although the cause hasn't been reported yet.

Several employees have been stuck or punched and at least couple elderly people in their seventies and eighties were robbed or assaulted, more fights including one where someone was struck with a club, and at least one pepper spray incident, which is typical at Walmart. One of their bomb threats this month involved someone that threw a back pack in the store saying it was a bomb, presumably on camera, which is unusual. They usually just call it in or leave a note so it's harder to catch them but there are practically never actual bombs, especially if they make a threat. Except for one in Mississippi a couple years ago where a threat was made and a bomb went off the few actual bombs they get are not accompanied by threats.

Walmart had at least a couple more recalls this month including a jogging stroller and another cheap dresser that fell on children; you would think they would learn to make them so this wouldn't happen but every time they recall one dresser for falling on children they start making others, some that eventually get recalled as well.

Walmart is being protested as part of a "Make America Worse" campaign and sued for discrimination again. They're being investigated for Securities fraud and not paying for California deposits. The protests in South Africa have turned violent.

There is an enormous amount of evidence to indicate that this company is doing everything they can to restore a monopoly system without competition and they clearly have an enormous amount of political help, otherwise they wouldn't have gotten this far. Arkansas nominated one of their officials in the Attorney Generals office and one state is now allowing people to pay child support at Walmart, an advantage which isn't available to competitors.

If we're going to have a monopoly system we should stop pretending it is a free market and demand disclosure and reasonable regulations that doesn't allow them to get away with epidemic levels of fraud. I'm not sure that nationalization is the way to handle it but they're being subsidized so much by the government that it might be justified, and is definitely worth much more consideration.

Alice Walton just sold an enormous amount of her stock, only a month or two after her brother did the same. She did well, although not quite as well as her brother; however I can't help but wonder if they know something we don't. Insiders routinely get much better deals on Wall Street than the rest of us.

They want to come into peoples homes and stock their refrigerators when they're not home now. What could go wrong? One of their gas stations gave the wrong gas ruining a few engines, and they offered to reimburse people for the gas; as usual with Walmart if people want full reimbursement for the damages they must sue, and they won't have the same legal help, perhaps unless they make as much noise with the public; that is often the only way to get Walmart to respond.

How did this country allow this oligarchy to get so powerful? They certainly couldn't have done it without help from the media and political establishment and an enormous amount of complacent people not paying attention.

A former candidate for Louisiana mayor was arrested for disorderly conduct rapping while the police told him to get off the counter.

Have you ever had a two foot snake come out of the toilet paper after returning from Walmart?

How often do you see people wearing diapers and a gorilla mask at your Walmart dancing and greeting people before pretending to steal bananas that were already paid for?



If you were watching Walmart surveillance video and had access to the intercom system while watching a couple making adult videos in the aisle would you announce of the intercom, "Attention adult Walmart customers we have special entertainment show, however please keep your children away."

No? Well, neither did the people at Walmart; and the police didn't figure it out until later when they found the video on the computer of the couple after catching them at the library, as well.

Strange things happen at Wal-Mart!

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In 2006 Wake Up Wal-Mart did a study, "Is Wal-Mart Safe?" based on incidents in 2004, (PDF) about crime at Wal-Mart which showed that it increased when Wal-Marts opened up and that crime was higher at Wal-Mart than at other retailers. Since then Wal-Mart Shootings began compiling a list of gun related incidents at Wal-Mart and demonstrated that they have a large number of them, including on average more than one shooting per week somewhere in the country. In January of 2014 another study, "Rolling Back Prices and Raising Crime Rates?" provided additional statistical research indicating that Wal-Mart might be contributing to higher crime rates or at least a slowing of the decline in crime. The study found that. “on average, communities with Walmarts had 17 more property crimes and two more violent crimes per 10,000 people than those communities without Walmarts.” I reviewed this more in Wal-Mart’s crime problem, Rolling Back Safety more than prices? where I explained that although this study is helpful they could have done better with additional data that is available and I reviewed some of that. I also added my own review about why I think that Wal-Mart policies have been contributing to higher crime in a previous blog, Wal-Mart high crime rate continues un-investigaterd and have provided additional information under the author tag Walmart Crime Watch.

Stacy Mitchell has also compiled a list of other studies about Wal-Mart and how they impact society, Key Studies on Big-Box Retail & Independent Business. To the best of my knowledge Wal-Mart has done as little as they seem to get away with, often relying on rhetoric that isn't backed up with action, when it comes to addressing any of their critics concerns, including crime. One of the responses they’ve come up with is what they call "Restorative Justice" which gives first time shoplifters a chance to avoid being arrested or any criminal record if they take an on line course which costs $400 up front or $500 in payments, plus perhaps, reparations. This has been part of the privatization process and often denies suspects of the due process or access to a lawyer, perhaps even intimidating and extorting from some people that might not even be guilty. Walmart seems to be trying to find a way to turn crime into a profit making situation instead of looking for the most effective ways to reduce it. Making Change at Walmart is asking If you or someone you know has gone through @Walmart's "Restorative Justice" program for first-time suspected shoplifters, send us a DM. 03/30/2017 to ensure that it isn’t doing more harm than good. I did my own review of this program as well at Walmart’s “Restorative Justice” Endangers Public Without Reducing Crime. The following are a list of incidents that occurred in September 2017. According to the "Is Wal-Mart Safe?" the average store in their sampling had 250 incidents per year, indicating that these are only a fraction of the crime reports at Wal-Mart, and presumably, the ones most likely to make the news on the internet nationwide. This isn't statistically representative, as the 2006 or the "Rolling Back Prices and Raising Crime Rates?" study or some of the studies cited by Stacy Mitchell; but it does provide some additional information that may help recognize how many problems there are at Wal-Mart.

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Public safety: Elderly woman's purse stolen at Wisc. Wal-Mart, along with store items 09/01/2017

Lynnwood Wash. Walmart reopens after Thursday night fire 09/01/2017

Complete Story On Mississippi Wal-Mart Incident Surfaces 09/01/2017

Authorities: Man faked slip-and-fall at Deptford NJ Walmart 09/01/2017

Lusby Man Arrested for Shoplifting from Dunkirk Md. Walmart 09/01/2017



Lady Lake man won’t be prosecuted in attack on 71-year-old greeter at Fla. Wal-Mart 09/03/2017

Man ‘huffed’ dozen Dust Off cans near Bluffton SC Wal-Mart, police say 09/04/2017

Authorities looking for Ga. Walmart woman 09/05/2017

Shopper steals $3,000 in gift cards from Mount Prospect Ill. Walmart 09/03/2017

Macclenny mom warns of men following women, children at Fla. Walmart 09/04/2017















SD Wal-Mart evacuated after bomb threat; nothing found 09/06/2017

Framingham Mass. Police Respond To Bomb Threat at Walmart 09/05/2017

Shoplifting case turns into drug bust near Ariz. Walmart 09/05/2017

Police: Woman tried to steal meat from Virginia Beach Walmart 09/05/2017

Bomb threat total is 3 after call to jail, second call to SD Wal-Mart 09/06/2017

Hawaii Walmart theft suspect sought 09/06/2017









Police: Joliet man tries to steal bottle of gin from Ill. Walmart 09/06/2017

Pewaukee police reports: Applebee's receipt presented at Wisc. Walmart 09/06/2017

Police Seeking NY Walmart Thief; Reward Offered For Info 09/07/2017

Jackson Tenn. police asks for help identifying suspects in Walmart thefts 09/06/2017

Simpsonville PD: Rumors of attempted kidnapping at SC Walmart discovered to be invasion of personal space 09/05/2017

Muldrow woman arrested in Okla. Walmart parking lot 09/06/2017

Nearly $500 in merchandise stolen from Indiana County Pa. Walmart 09/07/2017

Experts disagree on competency of accused Pa. Walmart shooter 09/08/2017

Crime: Beer, steaks stolen from NC Wal-Mart 09/08/2017







Livingston woman who left 9-year-old boy at Tx. Walmart agrees to 4-years of probation 09/07/2017

Police: Scammers used counterfeit money at Nebraska Walmart 09/07/2017

Valley View Va. Walmart bus stop shelter years in planning, still not built 09/08/2017

Customers frustrated after Fla. Walmart closes before Irma hits 09/08/2017







Police seeking help identifying suspects in Granby NY Walmart larceny 09/08/2017

Fort Smith Arkansas police seek three suspects in Walmart thefts 09/08/2017









Couple arrested at NC Walmart 09/11/2017

She denied taking another customer’s wallet at Walmart. Video says otherwise. 09/09/2017

Livonia Mich. police briefs: shoplifting reported at stores 09/11/2017

Man wanted in Albemarle NC Walmart robbery 09/11/2017

Man called Ill. Walmart cashier, ordered up a $9,000 theft of prepaid Visa cards, police say 09/12/2017

Police: Two women arrested by police for theft at Walmart in Shorewood Ill. 09/12/2017









3 people steal nearly $2,000 in merchandise from Ga. Wal-Mart 09/12/2017

Woman robs CrossFit gym, uses stolen banking info at Ca. Taco Bell, Walmart 09/13/2017

Stranger approaches Mesa toddler in shopping cart at Ariz. Walmart 09/12/2017

More than 50 people have been arrested for looting in Miami during and after Hurricane Irma - including 26 who targeted one Fla. Walmart 09/13/2017

Man Used Device To Shoplift At Walmart: Naugatuck Conn. Police 09/13/2017







Surveillance video leads to return of Ky. Walmart customer’s stolen wallet 09/12/2017

Autopsy results released for woman found dead in bathroom of Oklahoma Walmart last June 09/14/2017

Police: Auburn woman stole 152 items from NY Walmart 09/14/2017

Leicester Mass. Police Arrest Man In Walmart Purse-Snatching, Assaults 09/14/2017

Man on the run after stealing woman's keys, vehicle from metro Oklahoma City Walmart 09/14/2017

Montana Police blotter: Wacky boiler, assault, DUIs, banned from Walmart, threatened with shovel 09/14/2017

A taxi driver took her to Ga. Walmart, waited two hours while she shopped and then she refused to pay the fare 09/15/2017

Unions, progressive student orgs speak out against Trump/Walmart ties in Mich. 09/14/2017

Thefts from Napa Ca. Walmart lead to 2 arrests, one citation 09/14/2017









Police seek identity of man in connection with improper photography at Tx. Walmart 09/14/2017

She left Mississippi Walmart with groceries before the store realized her cash was fake, cops say 09/14/2017

Franklin Tenn. Police Seek Walmart Credit Card Cons 09/14/2017

Motorized scooter stolen from Arkansas City Kansas Walmart 09/15/2017







How Walmart profits while pricing below cost 09/15/2017

Fairhope PD busts crime ring of Alabama Walmart thieves 09/15/2017

Rockingham NC police seek suspects in Walmart larcenies 09/15/2017

NH 'Fugitive of the Week' arrested after Walmart TV theft 09/15/2017

Pair accused of stealing nearly $2K from Pinellas Co. Fla. Walmart 09/15/2017

Judge revokes Doris Payne's probation in Ga. Walmart shoplifting case 09/15/2017











Woman accused of switching price tags to get $123 discount at SC Wal-Mart 09/17/2017

Two Arrests Made in Wisc. Walmart Parking Lot 09/17/2017

One person on the loose after shoplifting two televisions from a Ga. Walmart 09/18/2017

Woman arrested on trespassing charge at Fla. Wal-Mart at Buffalo Ridge Plaza 09/18/2017











Man steals over $1K of cigarettes from Ga. Walmart, police still searching 09/19/2017

Macomb Mich. prosecutor: Broker stole seniors' life savings, blew it at Walmart, Target 09/19/2017

Kingston NY woman arrested after leaving 5-year-old inside car in Walmart parking lot, police say 09/18/2017

Bomb threats to Roeland Park Missouri Walmart land man in jail 09/19/2017

Disabled Tx. man falsely accused of shoplifting waits on Walmart apology 09/19/2017

Man seen spraying insecticide in mouth at Tenn. Walmart arrested on drug, other charges 09/18/2017

Man accused of sexually assaulting boy last July in Pa. Walmart faces more charges 09/18/2017

Indecent Exposure Arrest Made At Claremore Okla. Walmart 09/18/2017

Police: Milford woman arrested for serial shoplifting at Delaware Walmart 09/18/2017



Man arrested for exposing himself to Okla. Walmart shopper 09/19/2017

Stafford NJ Walmart investigation leads to 140-pound fentanyl bust 09/19/2017

Police: Man opens sliding doors, steals TV from NY Walmart 09/19/2017

Multiple Ga. Walmart thefts lead police to widen dragnet for suspects 09/20/2017









California Men Arrested After Caught Stealing Two 55 Inch TVs from Md. Walmart 09/19/2017

Police: Thieves try to steal $187 worth of Red Bull drinks from Ill Walmart 09/20/2017

Police: Woman scams Visa gift cards, lottery tickets from Fort Myers Beach Fla. Walmart 09/20/2017





What happened to employee and boyfriend accused of Elk Grove Walmart robbery? 09/20/2017

Boy rides stolen bike out of Walmart: South Euclid Ohio Police Blotter 09/20/2017

Anderson SC firefighters responded to gas leak at Walmart 09/20/2017

Police: Quick thinking Minn. Walmart cashier ends criminal spending spree 09/20/2017

Multiple Ga. Walmart thefts lead police to widen dragnet for suspects 09/20/2017

Police seeking suspects in financial fraud at Ga. Walmart 09/21/2017

Anti-Slavery Organization International Justice Mission Announces Grant from Walmart Foundation to Address Human Trafficking in Thai Fishing Industry 09/21/2017

Judge: Alleged Pa. Walmart October 2015 shooter can stand trial 09/21/2017

Coupons probe at NY Walmart store leads to 3 arrests 09/21/2017

Woman covered bar codes to pay less at Pa. Walmart, police say 09/21/2017

Too good to be true: Texting scam offers $1,000 Walmart gift cards 09/21/2017













Shepherdsville Ky. Police make large drug bust in Walmart parking lot 09/22/2017

Second person cited in Ill. Walmart parking lot on animal cruelty charge 09/22/2017

Gun left in rental car at HIA; flower pot destroyed; Walmart crimes: Offbeat Pa. Police Blotter 09/23/2017 A man is facing charges after state police in Somerset County said he "punched the screen" of a self-checkout lane at a Walmart.

Lee Co. Ga. Walmart flasher arrested 09/22/2017

Skateboarder steals elderly woman's purse at Poway Ca. Walmart 09/22/2017

She was in a SC Walmart bathroom for 6 hours. When cops found out why, she went to jail 09/24/2017









Teen gets three years for March stabbing at North East-area Md. Walmart 09/22/2017

Elk River Minn. Walmart evacuated while suspicious package was investigated 09/24/2017 bomb squad determines “It turned out to be much ado about nothing,”









Hudson NH Hannaford, Walmart Thief Arrested: Police 09/25/2017

Police looking for Anna Ill. Walmart thief 09/25/2017

Alice Walton Walmart Heiress Is Now the World's Richest Woman 09/21/2017

3 wanted after cases of beer stolen from Spring Hill Tenn. Walmart 09/26/2017

He tried to leave SC Walmart with steaks in his pants, police say 09/26/2017

Man charged with sexual battery after ‘inappropriately hugging’ women at a Norman Okla. Walmart 09/26/2017









‘Redneck rebel’ sticker scratched damaging window of truck in Mich. Walmart handicapped spot 09/26/2017

Update: Police investigate bomb threat at Layton Utah Walmart 09/26/2017

Maryville Tenn. Walmart employees cited with theft after taking advantage of self check-out error 09/24/2017

26 Puppies In Van At NJ Walmart Nets Animal Cruelty Charges For Trio: Prosecutor 09/26/2017

April SC Walmart Shooter Slapped With Multiple Charges 09/26/2017









Gallatin Tenn. Police search for suspects in Walmart theft 09/27/2017

Mom, Son Arrested For Shoplifting After Plan To Distract Pa. Walmart Employees Backfires 09/27/2017

Ga. Protestors rally at Tate against 'Trump and Walmart agenda' 09/27/2017

Teen car thieves drive SUV into pond, get caught buying dry clothes at Ill. Walmart 09/27/2017

Man arrested in Poway Ca. Walmart purse snatching 09/27/2017

Cleveland couple arrested for shoplifting at Ohio Walmart: Brooklyn Police Blotter 09/28/2017

Woman accused of ‘returning’ items for cash at Pa. Walmart 09/27/2017

Internet equipment snatched from SC Walmart 09/27/2017

Man who took video up a woman’s skirt at Kansas Walmart told police he just felt a need 09/27/2017

Men square off in Woodhaven Mich. Walmart parking lot over anti Trump bumper sticker 09/27/2017

Suspects sought in Gallatin Tenn. Walmart theft and vandalism 09/27/2017

Man accused of using counterfeit money at Fla. Walmart 09/27/2017

Homicide suspect arrested after trying to use stolen credit card info at Pa. Walmart 09/28/2017

Pair steals elderly woman's purse in NY Walmart parking lot 09/28/2017











2 homes searched in connection to Fla. Walmart burglary during Irma 09/28/2017

Authorities arrest suspect in Cedar Rapids Iowa July Walmart parking lot shooting 09/28/2017

Sneaky Shoplifter Busted At Gwinnett Ga. Walmart 09/28/2017

Update: Former Tx. Walmart manager receives 25 year sentence for aggravated robbery 09/28/2017

Man Robbed in WV Walmart Parking Lot 09/28/2017

Sheriff: Pair stole checks that funded shopping spree at Midlands SC Walmart 09/29/2017

LaFayette Ga. PD seeking Walmart theft suspect 09/29/2017

Pennington receives prison term for NC Walmart August bomb threats 09/29/2017

Walmart post is a hoax 09/28/2017

Elderly woman bruised after purse stolen in Md. Walmart parking lot 09/29/2017







Police: Man exposed himself to child at Billings Heights Montana Walmart 09/30/2017

Police Search For Man Caught On Video Taking ‘Upskirt’ Photo At NJ Walmart 09/30/2017