Monday, April 30, 2012

THE PATRIOT'S LAMENT

http://patriotslament.blogspot.com/


LOOKS LIKE A GOOD BLOG TO START FOLLOWING
ALONG WITH THEIR RADIO SHOW

Paul Craig Roberts: How Liberty Was Lost

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31167.htm


The collapse of truth in the US and in its puppet states is a major challenge to my view that truth and good will are powers that can prevail over evil. It is possible that my perception that moral progress has occurred in various periods of Western civilization reflects a progressive unplugging from the Matrix. What I remember as reforms might be events experienced through the rose colored glasses of the Matrix.

But I think not. Reason is an important part of human existence. Some are capable of it. Imagination and creativity can escape chains. Good can withstand evil. The extraordinary film, The Matrix, affirmed that people could be unplugged. I believe that even americans can be unplugged. If I give up this belief, I will cease writing.

Private Prison Corporations Are Modern Day Slave Traders

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31177.htm


 there is something even more horrifying than the moral turpitude of the prison capitalists. If private companies are allowed to own the deeds to prisons, they are a big step closer to owning the people inside them. Many of the same politicians that created the system of mass Black incarceration over the past 40 years, would gladly hand over to private parties all responsibility for the human rights of inmates. The question of inmates' rights is hardly raised in the debate over prison privatization. This is a dialogue steeped in slavery and racial oppression. Just as the old slave markets were abolished, so must the Black American Gulag be dismantled – with no compensation to those who traffic in human beings.


GT sez:

WHAT MANY OF YOU DON'T REALIZE IS THAT
WE ARE ALL NOW SLAVES TO THIS SYSTEM WE CALL THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

MAYBE IT'S TIME TO HAVE ANOTHER CIVIL WAR BETWEEN THOSE WHO LIKE, AND PROFIT FROM, THIS SYSTEM, AND THOSE WHO ARE BEING SLOWLY MURDERED BY IT.

YOU CHOOSE YOUR SIDE AND LIVE, OR DIE, WITH THE CONSEQUENCES.

I KNOW WHICH SIDE I AM ON.

Many U.S. police use cell phones to track suspects instead of getting legal warrants Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/035709_cell_phones_surveillance_warrants.html#ixzz1tY8Qqc8f

http://www.naturalnews.com/035709_cell_phones_surveillance_warrants.html


Privacy continues to come at a premium in the Information Age, as a new study found that police all over the country routinely ignore the Fourth Amendment by tracking cell phones.

In fact, departments are ignoring the Fifth Amendment as well, because much of the tracking takes place without a warrant, according to the results of a survey issued in early April by the American Civil Liberties Union.

Learn more:http://www.naturalnews.com/035709_cell_phones_surveillance_warrants.html#ixzz1tY8nYSRq

CISPA passes the House; epic privacy battle moves to the Senate Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/035724_CISPA_Senate_censorship.html#ixzz1tXwOp4af

http://www.naturalnews.com/035724_CISPA_Senate_censorship.html


(NaturalNews) If you're not familiar with "Washingtonspeak" - that odd, unique variance of the English language in which words don't really mean what they are supposed to mean - you might not know that the lawmakers who wrote the newCyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act(CISPA) aren't really too concerned about theprotectionaspect of the legislation, at least as it applies to the general public's concern about privacy.

Yes, the word "protection" is in the title, but a closer examination of thelanguageof the bill, as well as its intent, by those who know how things works on Capitol Hill, find that the only "protection" the bill offers is that afforded the federal government.

Learn more:http://www.naturalnews.com/035724_CISPA_Senate_censorship.html#ixzz1tXwgpQOc

Greece to Seize Money From Suspected Tax Evaders' Accounts, with Charges and Trials Later; More Capital Flight Coming Up

http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2012/04/greece-to-seize-money-from-suspected.html


Anyone with any common sense has already pulled all of their money out of Greek banks. However, the unthinking masses probably have not. This move will without a doubt cause more than a few to worry about accusations, true or false, and in the case of the latter, the illegal confiscation of money.

Expect to see a further plunge in money kept at Greek banks. Also expect capital flight of another kind: human capital. With this kind of crackdown, anyone capable of leaving would be wise to leave Greece immediately

Sunday, April 29, 2012



APRIL 30, 2012

Obama’s Use of Complete Sentences Stirs Controversy

Could Imperil Reelection Hopes, Experts Say

WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report) –In the first term in office, President Barack Obama has broken with a tradition established over the previous eight years through his controversial use of complete sentences, political observers say.

New polls indicate that millions of Americans are put off by the President’s unorthodox verbal tic, which has Mr. Obama employing grammatically correct sentences virtually every time he opens his mouth.

Mr. Obama’s decision to use complete sentences in his public pronouncements, as well as his insistence on the correct pronunciation of the word “nuclear,” has harmed his reelection hopes among millions of voters who find his unusual speaking style unfamiliar and bizarre.

According to presidential historian Davis Logsdon of the University of Minnesota, after eight years of George W. Bush many Americans find it “alienating” to have a President who speaks English as if it were his first language.

“Every time Obama opens his mouth, his subjects and verbs are in agreement,” says Mr. Logsdon.  “If he keeps it up, he is running the risk of sounding like an elitist.”

The historian said that if Mr. Obama insists on using complete sentences in his speeches, on Election Day the public may find itself saying, “Okay, subject, predicate, subject predicate – we get it, stop showing off.”

Elsewhere, consumers who believed that Nutella was nutritious have won a $3.05 million lawsuit, the highest award ever paid to morons.
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GT sez:
Obama drives me nuts when he ALWAYS says: 'tuh' instead of 'to'.
Listen to him...pretty soon it will stand out like a sore thumb.
It's also 'lazy speak'.

Toddler Terrorist: TSA Threatens Lockdown Over 4-Year-old Girl

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31169.htm


Recent controversial TSA security procedures have included patting down a wheelchair-bound boy, making a woman with a “cute figure” repeatedly go through the body scanner, and forcing a mother to produce a bottle of her breast milk for inspection, before allowing her breast pump onboard.

Thank You for Your Service? No Thanks!

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31168.htm


What service is actually being praised by those conditioned to say these empty words? Why are they thanking and praising nearly every soldier they see?

JIM SINCLAIR ON THE FRENCH ELECTION AND CANDIDATE HOLLANDE


The Most Important Development Since The MSM/MOPE Assault On Euroland Began

My Dear Extended Family,
Do not discount this. It has the potential of being the most important positive development in the euro since the beginning of the USA and GB’s MSM/MOPE assault on Euroland’s problems.

This I am told is the reason behind the Euro holding above $1.30 no matter how much the US and GB MSM/MOPE is thrown at it. This is another economic war taking place under the radar of the sheeple between the USA and GB on one side and Euroland on the other.

Russia and China might make the euro their reserve currency of selection if Hollande can pull off this plan. I might go to France to vote for him twice. He knows what the euro’s real problem is and will work to cure it.
This is extremely important in the dollar equation.

It may be the most important swing factor in the political scene of gold and the US dollar. Hollande could be the political figure of this century for the upcoming euro block.

It is possible. Do not discount this.

Respectfully,
Jim


French Front-Runner Says He’d Seek to Renegotiate Fiscal Treaty if Elected


http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/26/world/europe/hollande-says-hell-seek-new-fiscal-treaty-if-elected-in-france.html?_r=2&partner=rss&emc=rss

God Bless America Trailer



http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ul4CZrnEFxU

Loveless, jobless and possibly terminally ill, Frank has had enough of the downward spiral of America. With nothing left to lose, Frank takes his gun and decides to off the stupidest, cruelest and most repellent members of society with an unusual accomplice: 16-year-old Roxy, who shares his sense of rage and disenfranchisement. From stand-up comedian and director Bobcat Goldthwait comes a scathing and hilarious attack on all that is sacred in the United States of America.

Friday, April 27, 2012

Agenda 21- Codex- Fema Camps-80% Depopulation = New World Order Terror Camps



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUWByt813fA&feature=related




http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=TzEEgtOFFlM


Agenda 21 – It’s Your World, We Just Want To Own You. Part 1



Bill Bonner
Bill Bonner
Pushing its key rate down to zero...the Fed gives its insider friends money for nothing. Trillions of dollars’ worth. 

The outsiders reach for their wallets. They know they are being robbed, but they have no idea how...or by whom. 

Instead of getting a fair return on their savings, they get practically nothing. 

The idea is to force them into riskier investments. The Fed admits its strategy without shame or remorse. And it works. The poor Mom & Pop saver takes his money to Wall Street. And then, Barry Dyke author of The Pirates of Manhattan II: Highway to Serfdom explains what happens. He calls it “a biblical transfer of wealth...from Main Street to Wall Street.”
Wall Street, the mutual fund industry and corporate America has hijacked America’s savings through 401(k) retirement plans. It uses workers’ savings in 401(k)s funded with mutual funds to fuel outrageous compensation packages, fund shaky companies going public, accelerate speculation and to finance the corrupt Wall Street business model. It is an unprecedented biblical transfer of wealth from Main Street to Wall Street and corporate America. It is an unprecedented transfer of economic and investment risk onto the little guy. Main Street America has been taken to the cleaners with 401(k)s. It is a biblical transfer of wealth which will take most Americans years to recover from.

The major problem today is that there is no savings or patient capital for regular Americans. The US Commerce Department found savings to be around 1% of earnings during the 2007 housing bust, up to 8% in 2008, down to 5.8% in September 2010 and slid to 3.6% in September 2011. There is a major difference between saving and investing, but to Wall Street and the mutual fund industry the only way to save according to them is to put it into volatile highly- complex no-guarantee stock mutual funds.

Putting money into a 401(k) is NOT SAVING. It is speculating. Here’s the proof. According to the Investment Company Institute 2011 Fact Book, Americans’ have 77.4% exposure to volatile equities in their retirement accounts. That is horrific. The Federal Reserve is at the heart of this savings debacle. By dropping interest rates next to zero, The Fed has forced Americans into volatile markets in search of yield. The only winners in this tragedy are the mutual fund giants, Wall Street and corporate executives with pay packages which would make King Solomon blush. In many respects this wealth transfer is worse than the Great Depression when people were more self- reliant and had a stronger family unit. 

The Fed, the federal government, bankers, government workers and highly paid executives rarely speculate with their own fortunes the way Americans are forced to speculate in their 401(k)s.
Mr. Dyke might have added that pushing money into Wall Street also pushes up prices on stocks, bonds, and other Wall Street products. At first, this makes the small investor feel smart. His ‘investments’ go up. Of course, not as much as the rich ‘1%,’ who own far more of America’s capital structure than he does.

But negative interest rates create bubbles. The Fed is now inflating its third major bubble in the last 15 years. This time, in US Treasury bonds. When it blows up, a good portion of the savings of American households — locked in pensions, mutual funds and insurance programs — gets blown to smithereens.

Then, there is consumer price inflation too. You can’t add $2 trillion to the nation’s base money supply without some effect on prices. It could take a while to show up, but it would take a doubling of consumer prices just to bring the current base money supply per person back to normal levels. And that assumes the Fed straightens up...and does no more money printing.

And who will bear the hurt? The clever elite? Those who understand the hustle? Those who own gold...houses...offices and apartment buildings? Or those whose wealth is counted out in drips and drabs...from wages and meager savings?

Oh Dear Reader...watch out!

Regards,

Bill Bonner
for The Daily Reckoning

The Forecaster - Martin Armstrong The Movie



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9mr_dhl55I&feature=relmfu

10 Disgusting Examples Of Very Young School Children Being Arrested, Handcuffed And Brutalized By Police

http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/10-disgusting-examples-of-very-young-school-children-being-arrested-handcuffed-and-brutalized-by-police/comment-page-1#comment-77734

BE SURE TO READ ALL THE COMMENTS AS THERE ARE
MANY PRO AND CONS ON THIS ONE

THIS ONE IS MINE:

After reading most of these comments, I am so glad I never got married or had children.
It wasn’t by choice though. I was just lucky that the girls I asked to marry me listened to their mothers instead or were unfaithful to me.
Then, for the rest of my life, I just could never afford to be married or could never find anyone that wanted to do what it took to be in an honest relationship with me.
I would hate it, now that I am almost 68 and very disabled, to be married to someone who didn’t love me and have children that didn’t respect me.
I lived through the tail-end of ‘the good old days’ and it wasn’t all that great either, but we had a fairly good economy in the fifties when I started my early years of schooling, but things started to fall apart with the assassination of Kennedy and the Vietnam War when it was obvious that our government was filled with liars and self aggrandizing thieves. And it’s only gotten worse until we are where we are now…a vicious society of selfish, arrogant stupid, unworldly people with outlandishly over sized EGOs who think we are the chosen people who have the god given right to lord it over all other peoples and nations.
Most of the people in my age bracket are the parents of the children who had this current crop of kids who are disrespectful and out of control.
Our government has created such a horrible system through inflation of our medium of exchange (money) that parents are now working so long (if they are fortunate to even have some type of income source) that they don’t have the time to have a family life. That and TV and modern music like RAP has influenced the kids to disrespect anyone with any life experience (meaning their elders) who could teach them history and explain the past mistakes prior generations have made.
But the fact that history does repeat itself seems to be true even though we now have almost all human knowledge at our fingertips with the internet and should now be able to quickly ‘educate’ ourselves and our young to be effective participants in the world.
The ultimate truth of the matter is that the psychopaths that have gained control of the halls of power throughout the world have a plan that has been in the works for decades if not centuries to rule the world, and part of that plan is to ELIMINATE BILLIONS OF US due to overcrowding and resource allocation of limited resources.
We are all now considered just sheep to be funneled down a chute either to be used as slave labor, or exterminated in the near future.
Economic collapse has been engineered and is now impossible to avoid which will cause worldwide violence as starving hoards, including the rich eventually, battle one another for the remaining scraps of food and materials.
This planet will survive, even a nuclear holocaust, as will many plants and animals, but human kind may not, and probably should not as it has become a plague on all other life forms since it came into being, and I don’t believe the Adam and Eve story is how it happened.
Whatever the Big Plan is that whatever force or power created for all of us, and this thing called life that we are experiencing, we here now may never know unless there is a hereafter. And NO ONE KNOWS FOR SURE if there is one.
You’ll just have to find out.
Until then, why is it we can’t treat one another with courtesy and respect for one another’s individual dignity as human beings and having value that can be shared by all?
And why is it that we SHEOPLE can’t join together and take down these CRIMINAL SOCIOPATHS that have gained control of the system (temporarily I might add, as they will suffer the collapse with the rest of us eventually.)
We’re all going to die eventually, so what are you all afraid of?
You love to call people heroes for doing some of the simplest acts of courage for simply doing the right thing that you would think a human being would be inclined to do in an emergency.
Why not be a hero and stand up for right, freedom and liberty as was intended by the men and women who founded this country?
Voting for Ron Paul may be our last chance to slow this disaster down. And even he may not be able to do it given our governments proclivity to kill those who try to stop the greedy criminals who are now milking us all for every last cent and asset we have and herding us all to our deaths.

More Bad Apples?



http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31186.htm

AND THESE ARE SUPPOSED TO BE HEROES?
CAN YOU IMAGINE HOW THEY TREAT WOMEN?
OR DEFENSELESS CIVILIANS IN COUNTRIES WE
HAVE INVADED TO BRING THEM DEMOCRACY?

SIMPLY REVOLTING!

Thursday, April 26, 2012

US Dollar VS Gold: Epic Money Battle

By: Jim Willie, Guest Writer for USAWatchdog.com

http://usawatchdog.com/gold-will-win-money-war/

THIS ARTICLE IS SO GOOD I WOULD HAVE TO HIGHLIGHT THE ENTIRE ARTICLE
IT'S A MUST READ

Obama Outlaws All Protests In US Ahead Of Historic Banking Collapse

http://www.whatdoesitmean.com/index1575.htm


One of the few American writers commenting on this frightening new law, Jeanine Molloff, recently wrote in the Huffington Post, “… this bill, better known to those in the DC beltway as the 'Trespass Bill' -- potentially makes peaceable protest anywhere in the U.S. a federal felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison.”
Malcolm X
“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” 
 
Malcolm X

MARTIN ARMSTRONG'S LATEST ARTICLE

Armstrong Economics: The Rule of Law(Martin Armstrong, 4/26/12)

22 Red Flags That Indicate That Very Serious Doom Is Coming For Global Financial Markets

http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/22-red-flags-that-indicate-that-very-serious-doom-is-coming-for-global-financial-markets

CALL TODAY APRIL 26, 2012 THE VOTE IS TOMORROW

CREDO Action | more than a network, a movement.
Dear Friend,
We need to speak out today to stop a bill that would greatly expand the power of the federal government and big corporations to spy on us as we use the Internet.
The legislation is official named the "Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act," but more commonly called by the acronym "CISPA."
Supporters of CISPA are cynically using the legitimate need to protect our vital national interests from cyber attacks as an excuse to give the government and private companies the authority to read, watch and listen to everything we do on the Internet.
The folks behind CISPA claim that national security interests make this surveillance necessary. But the bill's language is so vague and overreaching that it opens the door for rampant abuse of our online rights:
  • CISPA would allow companies and the government to bypass privacy protections and spy on your email traffic, comb through your text messages, filter your online content and even block access to popular websites.
  • CISPA would permit companies to give the government your Facebook data, Twitter history and cellphone contacts. It would also allow the government to search your email using the vaguest of justifications — and without any real legal oversight.
  • CISPA contains sweeping language that could be used as a blunt weapon to silence whistleblower websites like WikiLeaks and the news organizations that publish their revelations.
  • CISPA would create a culture in which we refrain from speaking freely online for fear that the National Security Agency could come knocking.
This week, in response to concerns from civil liberty and consumer advocates, members of Congress proposed five amendments they said would allay those concerns. But even with these changes, CISPA would still give the NSA — the domestic spying agency — additional power to snoop on our texts, our emails, our web history and everything else we do online.
The White House agrees that this is a problem. Yesterday, it made the surprising move to publicly oppose CISPA.
While the White House's opposition to CISPA is welcome, CISPA is just the latest in a series of ill-conceived attacks on our online civil liberties.
So we need to send a clear message to everyone in Congress that we shouldn't sacrifice our civil liberties in the name of national security.
That is why we need you to make a call regardless of where your member of Congress stands on this issue.
Members of Congress who are with us, need to know their constituents support them. And members of Congress who aren't with us, need to be put on notice that their constituents don't want them to sell us out.
With a vote expected tomorrow, we need you to make a call today. Tell your member of Congress to stop the online spying bill. Click the link below for a sample script and the number to call:
Thank you for standing up for our civil liberties.
Matt Lockshin, Campaign Manager 
CREDO Action from Working Assets

An Open Letter to President Obama

http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2012/04/24/an-open-letter-to-president-obama-.aspx

"Dear Mr. President,
It seems to me that you opened up a very large can of worms last week when you sought to combat price manipulation in the energy markets. Within that now-opened can, I believe you will find one worm made of gold and another cast in silver..."

THE AMERICAN GULAG SYSTEM

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lyric-hughes-hale/american-gulag-a-lot-more_1_b_1415459.html


the American Gulag is the name given to the US prison system that holds an unprecedented 2.3 million human beings of whom “…more than 100,000 work in federal and state prison industry programs. This doesn't mean the usual cooking, cleaning and peeling potatoes, but work that produces products for sale -- about $2.4 billion dollars annually and has its own trade shows. UNICOR, the trade name of the government-owned Federal Prison Industries”, creating what is, in fact, the largest slavery system established in modern times by a Western nation.

FROM JSMINESET

LOOK AT THIS CARTOON VERY CAREFULLY

Bill Bonner
Disabled by Leadership
How Employment and Economic Growth are Hindered by Politics
Bill Bonner
Bill Bonner
Reckoning from Baltimore, Maryland...

Nothing special in yesterday’s financial news. So let’s turn from farce to fraud...that is, to politics. 

President Obama has to defend his policies, pretending that they have brought a real recovery. One of the pillars of his case, say the papers, is that unemployment has gone down. 

The trouble with this as a re-election strategy is that the people who need to vote for Obama are the people who know it isn’t true. 

Washington Blog reports:

  • There are 243 million working age Americans.
  • There are 142 million employed Americans.
  • Only 101 million of the employed Americans are working more than 35 hours per week. This means that only 41.6% of all working age Americans have a full-time job.
  • According to the government drones at the BLS, 88 million Americans have “chosen” to not be in the labor force — the highest level in US history.
  • The percentage of Americans in the workforce at 63.8% is the lowest since 1980 and down from a peak of 67.1% in 2000. The difference between these two percentages is 8 million Americans.
  • The BLS reports there are only 12.7 million unemployed Americans in the country, down from 15.3 million in 2009.
  • The BLS reports the unemployment rate has dropped from 10% in late 2009 to 8.3% today. Over this time frame the working age population grew by 5.7 million, while the number of employed Americans grew by 3.6 million. Only a government drone could interpret this data and report a dramatic decline in the unemployment rate.
Since 2000, the working age population of the US has grown by 30 million. But the actual number of people with jobs has grown only by 12 million. 

And if they reported the unemployment rate today the same way they did during the Great Depression, unemployment would be at 22% — only slightly below the level of the ’30s. 

So, what happens to all the people who don’t find work? They go on disability! 

The Wall Street Journal reported yesterday that Social Security’s disability trust fund will run out of money in four years — in 2016. It will be amazing if it lasts that long. Because the disability rolls are growing twice as fast as the employment rolls. 

Yes, dear reader, since the recession ended, officially, in June ’09, for every new person who has found a job, two supposedly have been disabled. At least, they’ve been added to the list of people receiving SSID benefits.

Could you get on disability, dear reader? Maybe. We went to the website to see if we could qualify. You just have to show that you have a condition that will prevent you from working for at least a year. And you must show that you’ve been employed in the past. If you’re 60 years old, for example, you need to show 9-1/2 years of previous employment. 

During the Nixon administration, approximately 2% of the labor force was disabled. Now, it’s over 6%. 

Disability, not employment, is Obama’s real achievement. Since June 2009, he’s added 4.7 million people who are judged too crippled, too stupid, too fat, or just too lazy and depressed to find work.

Of course, you can’t blame them. The feds set up a zombie economy. It protects and rewards zombie industries — healthcare that doesn’t really make people healthier, education that doesn’t make them any smarter, defense that doesn’t make them any more secure and finance that takes the feds’ money and pockets it. 

It turns both rich and poor into parasites. 

And more thoughts...

Europe is turning against its elite austerity pushers. Sarkozy lost the first round to the socialist candidate. The Dutch government of Mark Rutte handed in its resignation to Queen Beatrix. The “technocrats” in Italy and Greece wonder how long they can hold on.

America, meanwhile, is settling down to a presidential election. On the one hand is a candidate who seems to have no firm convictions and no real ideas about how to move the country out of its post- crisis funk. On the other hand, is...well...the same thing. 

As usual, the candidates are disappointing. But politics is a tawdry profession that invites hustlers and hollow men. No matter what kind of system you think you have, it is always the same. It is always dominated by the same fellow — grasping, status-hungry, ambitious... He is a world improver...a bully...a scold...a power-broker... He is a fixer...and a user. He uses the power of the government — that is, the power to force people to do what you want, at the point of a gun if necessary — to fix himself, his friends, and, he often believes, the entire world. At best, the politician is a conniving opportunist. At worst, he’s a madman or a mass-murderer. 

In a democracy, the candidate himself is often just an empty shell...ready to be filled up by a clever scalawag or rich donor. 

In a monarchy, sometimes the king is real power...often it is a dark figure peering out from behind the dolt in the purple robes. 

Even in a dictatorship, the real ruler may not be the dictator himself; it could be a group of powerful men. 

The more power at stake...the harder the man-on-the-make works to get it. In extreme cases, he will stop at nothing...neither at assassination nor theft nor fraud. 

Yes, occasionally a decent man gets into office, usually by accident. Rarely does he last long. And when he is gone, the historians tell us was a failure he was. “He didn’t do anything,” they say.

Of course, every society has its limits...its norms...its traditions. A man whose ambition is too naked or whose methods seem too ruthless won’t get what he is after; people won’t stand for it.

But, under pressure, the limits stretch. People welcome his clumsy lies. They ignore his crimes and excuse his ham-handed techniques. Later, they get fed up with him...but often not for many, many years. 

On the whole, people are not very smart. They’ll believe almost anything. Washington Blog warns:
The next six months leading up to the November elections will surely provide a shining example of the degraded society we’ve become. Both parties and their propaganda machines, SuperPacs, and corporate media sponsors will treat the igadget distracted masses to hundreds of hours of lies, spin, and vitriol, designed to divert the public from the fact that both parties act on behalf of the same masters and have no intention of changing course of the U.S. Titanic to avert the iceberg dead ahead. We will be treated to storylines about race, gun control, the war on women, energy independence, global warming, the war on terror, the imminent threat of Iran and North Korea, Obamacare, Romneycare, and of course the economy, stupid.
The New York Times reports that shoppers in oil-rich Venezuela wait in long lines to buy common foodstuffs; it doesn’t seem to occur to them that their inconvenience is a by-product of Hugo Chavez’s price controls. Instead, they blame greedy businesses...and wait.

In America, more than a decade after 9/11, they wait in long lines as crippled 90-year-olds get felt up by TSA agents. “You can’t be too safe,” they say, as if their lives were put at risk by Lutheran grandmothers. 

In Spain, Greece, Ireland...and practically all modern countries...they wait for government to figure out how to give them retirement incomes, healthcare, and full employment.

Of course, the politicians can’t solve economic problems for a very simple reason: they are the cause of them. 

Who set up the euro? Who set interest rates and lending standards? Who caused the bubbles by lending too low for too long? Who then ‘fixed’ the crisis — by lending more, at even lower rates, to the very institutions who had just proven such bad custodians? 

Who spends more than he makes...year in and year out? Who promises even more spending — even as he is facing bankruptcy? Who counterfeits money — printing trillions of dollars with nothing more behind them than the “good faith” and “full credit” of an insolvent government? Who starts ‘wars’ that cost trillions of dollars and hundreds of thousands of lives...and then, standing over the wreckage, announces victory...and slithers away?

That’s right. The feds...the fixers...the world-improvers...do all these things. But how could it be any different? 

A decent man is too busy — improving his business, his home, his family — to take much interest in politics. Besides, he knows it is a flim-flam. He’s seen how hard it is to make any real improvement at home, even when you are close to the facts and on the job full time. Imagine trying to improve things far away, where you don’t really know what is going on!

An honest man knows better than to interfere in other peoples’ business. His own business is tough enough. He cares deeply about the things around him...and tries to make his world better in every way he can. But he would be embarrassed to pretend to solve other peoples’ problems. Even if he is only offering advice, he does so reluctantly...carefully...and tentatively.

If he is smart he knows that you can’t really make things better by bullying and threatening people. An economy works best by doing the one thing that the fixers can’t allow — letting people make their own deals, find their own jobs, and solve their own problems. 

It’s the one thing the fixers can’t do, and the one thing every candidate regards as political suicide — just getting out of the way. Instead, the successful politician needs a plan, a program, a tax credit, a spending proposal. He needs to be in charge. He needs to be an activist, promising to reward enough voters to get elected. He can’t have no answer. He can’t have no interest. He can’t have a trace of modesty or a realistic assessment of the situation or his ability to understand it, let alone do anything about it. Instead, he must pretend to care about the sick, the lame, the blind, the fat, the shiftless, the one-armed, tongue-tied, sex-addled wonton- turning immigrant from Taiwan...and have a program, right in his back pocket, that will make that poor man’s life better.

The last thing he can be...is the very thing you most want in a politician...

..someone who doesn’t really give a damn. 

Regards,

Bill Bonner
for The Daily Reckoning

Wednesday, April 25, 2012

FROM NATURAL NEWS.COM

Don't make this big mistake...


The big mistake that "preppers" are making right now is buying up large quantities of stored food, ammunition, emergency medicine, radios and other gear -- and then forgetting about it!
I cannot emphasize the foolishness of such an approach. I can assure you, because I've heard this first hand, that there are huge numbers of less-than-ethical people who aren't buying anything except a rifle and some bullets. Astonishingly, their entire "preparedness plan" consists of -- and these are their own words -- "Using our guns to acquire everything else we need."
That means, of course, going from house to house, community by community, raiding, looting and stealing from anybody who has something they want. Seriously, this is the plan! One guy I know of, who is a respectable professional in society today, is also a pilot. When I asked him if he was going to buy a small plane so that he could fly out of Dodge when the SHTF, you know what he told me? "Nope, I'm just buying another pistol. With the pistol, I can GET a plane." (Wow. I was just shocked to hear it.)
This psychology is rampant across the culture. It's far worse than you think. There are huge swaths of individuals and groups who are locked and loaded, ready to simply take what they want by force once there is an absence of law enforcement in their area. This is the "gang mentality" that is very real, and very deeply ingrained in the minds of many people across America and the entire world.
Defending yourself against these armed gangs isn't too difficult, it turns out. Even armed gangs are looking for easy targets that reduce their risk of injury or death. All it takes to encourage a typical armed gang to go somewhere else is to send some lead flying in their direction, especially if it's from more than one person in your household, community or town. But doing that requires a set of skills, an early detection system, and some basic knowledge of firearms and ammo. As most NaturalNews readers lack this information, I have decided to present it in a non-hunting, non gun culture way, from one reasonable person to another, where each of us is a law-abiding, ethical citizen who simply wishes to protect our families, communities and private property from looters and thieves.
I hope it never comes to this. I really do. But I'm also not so naive that I think we can just call 911 and expect the local government to send guys with guns to fight on our behalf. That might work in a peaceful city, but once things break down, dialing 911 is about as useful as wishing on a falling star.

Sinclair - Shorts Now Trapped & Gold Could Gap Up to $3,000

http://kingworldnews.com/kingworldnews/KWN_DailyWeb/Entries/2012/4/24_Sinclair_-_Shorts_Now_Trapped_%26_Gold_Could_Gap_Up_to_$3,000.html

“You have seen in the last month, a phenomena. If you have eyes in your head, you have to know when the gold banks enter into the gold market, offering more for sale than would be mined in the next five years, they are not in there to sell anything. They are in there to manipulate the price.”

Tuesday, April 24, 2012

The Germans, 1933-45: They Thought They Were Free

But Then It Was Too Late
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11845.htm

Excerpt from pages 166-73 of "They Thought They Were Free" First published in 1955 By Milton Mayer

"Suddenly it all comes down, all at once. You see what you are, what you have done, or, more accurately, what you haven’t done (for that was all that was required of most of us: that we do nothing).

A MUST READ ARTICLE, AND BOOK, IF EVER THERE WAS ONE, TO EXPLAIN WHAT IS HAPPENING TO THE  UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND OTHER COUNTRIES AS THE PSYCHOPATHS ATTEMPT TO RULE THE WORLD

US Calls For Russian Airborne Troops To “Take And Hold” Denver Airport

http://www.whatdoesitmean.com/index1574.htm

Not known to many Americans is that over the past decade both the CIA and NSA have transferred their main bases of operations to the Western US.  The CIA announced their transfer to Denver in 2005 with many speculating their main base of operations has been placed beneath the Denver InternationalAirport. The NSA, likewise, has transferred their main base of operation to Utah and created what is now called the United States biggest spy center in Bluffdale.