Sunday, October 23, 2011
Non-Partisan Government Report: Federal Reserve Is Riddled with Corruption and Conflicts of Interest
Non-Partisan Government Report: Federal Reserve Is Riddled with Corruption and Conflicts of Interest
Saturday, October 22, 2011
Thursday, October 20, 2011
The Best Presidential Candidate No One’s Heard Of
The system want regulation however, this guy proves that less is better.
The Best Presidential Candidate No One’s Heard Of - Casey Research
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Bill Clinton talks to Simon Schama
He is a talker, smart guy and one you have to respect
Bill Clinton talks to Simon Schama - FT.com
"Internet Killed The Radio Store" - Mall Vacancies Hit All Time Record | ZeroHedge
It is happening...the internet is replacing the stores......How do you shop?
Ottawa seeks leniency for Canadians in U.S. tax hunt
The United States is vowing relief soon for thousands of law-abiding Canadians caught up in a global hunt for tax cheats who stash money offshore.
Ottawa seeks leniency for Canadians in U.S. tax hunt - The Globe and Mail
Ottawa seeks leniency for Canadians in U.S. tax hunt - The Globe and Mail
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Monday, October 17, 2011
Why daily low dose aspirin for heart attack protection should be discouraged
Wow.... was always told that aspirin was good for the heart. Answer....Not!
We really need to investigate the drug company claims for their products.
Why daily low dose aspirin for heart attack protection should be discouraged
Saturday, October 15, 2011
Solyndra Came Close to Landing Navy Deal - WSJ.com
I trust everything will become clear as to exactly the funding deal that Solyndra managed to get from the US taxpayers.
Solyndra Came Close to Landing Navy Deal - WSJ.com
Is it cheaper to be a vegetarian?
Think about it! Cheaper and better too.
Is it cheaper to be a vegetarian?
Monday, October 10, 2011
Sunday, October 9, 2011
Wall Street Couldn’t Have Done It Alone
Wall Street had the support of.....
Wall Street Couldn’t Have Done It Alone | The Freeman | Ideas On Liberty
Friday, October 7, 2011
Look out for Fascist Policies....Change was Promised and is Happening
The Eight Marks of Fascist Policy | ||
After reviewing this long history, John T. Flynn proceeds to sum up with a list of eight points he considers to be the main marks of the fascist state. As I present them, I will also offer comments on the modern American central state. Point 1. The government is totalitarian because it acknowledges no restraint on its powers. This is a very telling mark. It suggests that the US political system can be described as totalitarian. This is a shocking remark that most people would reject. But they can reject this characterization only so long as they happen not to be directly ensnared in the state’s web. If they become so, they will quickly discover that there are indeed no limits to what the state can do. This can happen boarding a flight, driving around in your hometown, or having your business run afoul of some government agency. In the end, you must obey or be caged like an animal or killed. In this way, no matter how much you may believe that you are free, all of us today are but one step away from Guantanamo. As recently as the 1990s, I can recall that there were moments when Clinton seemed to suggest that there were some things that his administration could not do. Today I’m not so sure that I can recall any government official pleading the constraints of law or the constraints of reality to what can and cannot be done. No aspect of life is untouched by government intervention, and often it takes forms we do not readily see. All of healthcare is regulated, but so is every bit of our food, transportation, clothing, household products, and even private relationships. Mussolini himself put his principle this way: “All within the State, nothing outside the State, nothing against the State.” He also said: “The keystone of the Fascist doctrine is its conception of the State, of its essence, its functions, and its aims. For Fascism the State is absolute, individuals and groups relative.” I submit to you that this is the prevailing ideology in the United States today. This nation, conceived in liberty, has been kidnapped by the fascist state. Point 2. Government is a de facto dictatorship based on the leadership principle. I wouldn’t say that we truly have a dictatorship of one man in this country, but we do have a form of dictatorship of one sector of government over the entire country. The executive branch has spread so dramatically over the last century that it has become a joke to speak of checks and balances. What the kids learn in civics class has nothing to do with reality. The executive state is the state as we know it, all flowing from the White House down. The role of the courts is to enforce the will of the executive. The role of the legislature is to ratify the policy of the executive. Further, this executive is not really about the person who seems to be in charge. The president is only the veneer, and the elections are only the tribal rituals we undergo to confer some legitimacy on the institution. In reality, the nation-state lives and thrives outside any “democratic mandate.” Here we find the power to regulate all aspects of life and the wicked power to create the money necessary to fund this executive rule. As for the leadership principle, there is no greater lie in American public life than the propaganda we hear every four years about how the new president/messiah is going to usher in the great dispensation of peace, equality, liberty, and global human happiness. The idea here is that the whole of society is really shaped and controlled by a single will — a point that requires a leap of faith so vast that you have to disregard everything you know about reality to believe it. And yet people do. The hope for a messiah reached a fevered pitch with Obama’s election. The civic religion was in full-scale worship mode — of the greatest human who ever lived or ever shall live. It was a despicable display. Another lie that the American people believe is that presidential elections bring about regime change. This is sheer nonsense. The Obama state is the Bush state; the Bush state was the Clinton state; the Clinton state was the Bush state; the Bush state was the Reagan state. We can trace this back and back in time and see overlapping appointments, bureaucrats, technicians, diplomats, Fed officials, financial elites, and so on. Rotation in office occurs not because of elections but because of mortality. Point 3. Government administers a capitalist system with an immense bureaucracy. The reality of bureaucratic administration has been with us at least since the New Deal, which was modeled on the planning bureaucracy that lived in World War I. The planned economy — whether in Mussolini’s time or ours — requires bureaucracy. Bureaucracy is the heart, lungs, and veins of the planning state. And yet to regulate an economy as thoroughly as this one is today is to kill prosperity with a billion tiny cuts. This doesn’t necessarily mean economic contraction, at least not right away. But it definitely means killing off growth that would have otherwise occurred in a free market. So where is our growth? Where is the peace dividend that was supposed to come after the end of the Cold War? Where are the fruits of the amazing gains in efficiency that technology has afforded? It has been eaten by the bureaucracy that manages our every move on this earth. The voracious and insatiable monster here is called the Federal Code that calls on thousands of agencies to exercise the police power to prevent us from living free lives. It is as Bastiat said: the real cost of the state is the prosperity we do not see, the jobs that don’t exist, the technologies to which we do not have access, the businesses that do not come into existence, and the bright future that is stolen from us. The state has looted us just as surely as a robber who enters our home at night and steals all that we love. Point 4. Producers are organized into cartels in the way of syndicalism. Syndicalist is not usually how we think of our current economic structure. But remember that syndicalism means economic control by the producers. Capitalism is different. It places by virtue of market structures all control in the hands of the consumers. The only question for syndicalists, then, is which producers are going to enjoy political privilege. It might be the workers, but it can also be the largest corporations. In the case of the United States, in the last three years, we’ve seen giant banks, pharmaceutical firms, insurers, car companies, Wall Street banks and brokerage houses, and quasi-private mortgage companies enjoying vast privileges at our expense. They have all joined with the state in living a parasitical existence at our expense. This is also an expression of the syndicalist idea, and it has cost the US economy untold trillions and sustained an economic depression by preventing the postboom adjustment that markets would otherwise dictate. The government has tightened its syndicalist grip in the name of stimulus. |
Thursday, October 6, 2011
California and Bust
It is starting already.....in California
The financial crisis deepens – many government services people have come to rely on will stop. The government simply won't collect enough tax revenue to pay the pensions, benefits, and salaries of government employees. States and municipalities will declare bankruptcy. Huge cutbacks will take place. Riots and protests (like those going on in New York City and Greece right now) will become commonplace.
Tuesday, October 4, 2011
Monday, October 3, 2011
Two weeks of protests on Wall Street have spawned demonstrations across the U.S — Rick's Picks
Its the beginning.....more to follow. The question is how will the system react this time. Interesting to note the "system"? is actually supporting this as well. I really don't know what is going on. It is beginning to be upside down, inside out situation.
Two weeks of protests on Wall Street have spawned demonstrations across the U.S — Rick's Picks
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