* Earth Hour 2008:
First Annual North American Burglars’ Invitational Tournament
Sunday, March 30, 2008
Earth Hour 2008
* Earth Hour 2008:
First Annual North American Burglars’ Invitational Tournament
Monday, March 17, 2008
Preaching to the Choir
Among people who undertstand that the fedgov is really "ripping off" the Citizens, it is common to pass around "horror stories" illustrating the point. Here's one forwarded by a friend:
(I responded:) It angers me as it does you, but to whom would one logically forward it? To other likeminded friends and acquaintances? Are they not usually as aware of this and similar problems as we? I'd rather not waste the bandwidth to remind my friends of something they already know: we are so screwed.
To whom would one logically complain? -- To the beneficiaries? You've just read typical responses from those who come here to "cash in" rather than to "join up." Their numbers are increasing, and "our" government only increases the inducements.
-- To the socialist/communist schools whose brainchild and sustenance this is? Imagine how unhappy they'd be to hear that they're slowly ruining you and undermining your country, when all their adult lives they've been advocating your undoing and the overthrow of your nation (but lacking the cajones to do their own "wet work".)
-- To the socialist/communist/fascist who "represents" me (or you) in CONgress? Oh, that'll get 'em right ... er ... somewhere! They're not THAT stupid. Think they don't appreciate the function of the Public Fool System? Think they don't understand that they've been selling you out since they first got a seat on the Planning Commission? That's how they "earn" the elitist backing to run for office in the first place. If they screw up and give you more than skillfully parsed BS, they'll be out of a job next election.
There's only one thing they do understand, and that's a landslide of votes for someone decent (so they can't "adjust" the vote count in a close election.) Well, there's another ... technique that's ultimately as effective, but it's frowned on in our oversocialized society, though it may eventually become the only realistic alternative. (Read Molôn Labé!, Unintended Consequences, or Enemies Foreign and Domestic, to see how that works.)
It is way too late for business as usual. If you can't afford the time/money commitment to make a new career of fighting well-heeled rats in the political arena (I know I can't), keep your powder dry until the national collapse, and have your bugout bag packed and getaway car fueled. Minimize your "contributions" to their schemes. Make plans for whatever you think is coming. It will.
Watch: http://www.nationalexpositor.com/News/1079.html
Listen to: http://www.nationalexpositor.com/News/1064.html
Something IS wrong ! !
This from a University professor:
This is a subject close to my heart. Do you know that we have adult students at the school where I teach who are not US citizens and who get the PELL grant, which is a federal grant (no pay back required) plus other federal grants to go to school?
One student from the Dominican Republic told me that she didn't want me to find a job for her after she finished my program, because she was getting housing from our housing department and she was getting PELL grant which paid for her total tuition and books, plus money left over.
She was looking into WAIT which gives students a CREDIT CARD for gas to come to school, and into CARIBE which is a special program for immigrants and it pays for child care and all sorts of needs while they go to school or training.
The one student I just mentioned told me she was not going to be a US citizen because she plans to return to the Dominican Republic someday and that she 'loves HER country.'
I asked her if she felt guilty taking what the US is giving her and then not even bothering to become a citizen and she told me that it doesn't bother her, because that is what the money is there for!
I asked the CARIBE administration about their program and if you ARE a US citizen, you don't qualify for their program. And all the while, I am working a full day, my son-in-law works more than 60 hours a week, and everyone in my family works and pays for our education.
Something is WRONG HERE, Right?????
Part of the Problem : ? Think about this: If you don't want to forward this for fear of offending someone -- YOU'RE PART OF THE PROBLEM! It is Time for America to Speak!!!
If you agree -- pass this along, if you don't agree -- delete it!
I passed it along..
(I responded:) It angers me as it does you, but to whom would one logically forward it? To other likeminded friends and acquaintances? Are they not usually as aware of this and similar problems as we? I'd rather not waste the bandwidth to remind my friends of something they already know: we are so screwed.
To whom would one logically complain? -- To the beneficiaries? You've just read typical responses from those who come here to "cash in" rather than to "join up." Their numbers are increasing, and "our" government only increases the inducements.
-- To the socialist/communist schools whose brainchild and sustenance this is? Imagine how unhappy they'd be to hear that they're slowly ruining you and undermining your country, when all their adult lives they've been advocating your undoing and the overthrow of your nation (but lacking the cajones to do their own "wet work".)
-- To the socialist/communist/fascist who "represents" me (or you) in CONgress? Oh, that'll get 'em right ... er ... somewhere! They're not THAT stupid. Think they don't appreciate the function of the Public Fool System? Think they don't understand that they've been selling you out since they first got a seat on the Planning Commission? That's how they "earn" the elitist backing to run for office in the first place. If they screw up and give you more than skillfully parsed BS, they'll be out of a job next election.
There's only one thing they do understand, and that's a landslide of votes for someone decent (so they can't "adjust" the vote count in a close election.) Well, there's another ... technique that's ultimately as effective, but it's frowned on in our oversocialized society, though it may eventually become the only realistic alternative. (Read Molôn Labé!, Unintended Consequences, or Enemies Foreign and Domestic, to see how that works.)
It is way too late for business as usual. If you can't afford the time/money commitment to make a new career of fighting well-heeled rats in the political arena (I know I can't), keep your powder dry until the national collapse, and have your bugout bag packed and getaway car fueled. Minimize your "contributions" to their schemes. Make plans for whatever you think is coming. It will.
Watch: http://www.nationalexpositor.com/News/1079.html
Listen to: http://www.nationalexpositor.com/News/1064.html
Sunday, March 16, 2008
Why the Fuss About Global Warming?
A highschool buddy asked:
Climate is what we expect; weather is what we get.
-- Robert A. Heinlein
The same leftist political stripe of people (in some cases, the identical people, e.g., Paul and Anne Ehrlich) who in the '70s, made a lot of noise about the impending "Ice Age," began screaming in the '90s about "Global Warming." After a few cold years cooled that concept, the greenies began to beat the drum for the latest bugaboo, "Climate Change" (which, if memory serves, is what we unenlightened usually call, "weather.")
Oddly enough, their cure for all three putative ills turns out to be the same: de-industrializing and impoverishing the uSA and its allies, at least down to the level of, say, the Peoples' Paradises of China and Russia. Of course greenies believe themselves to be fighting the (evil) multinational corporations.
Odder than that though, great trusts, controlled by the (same, evil) owners of multinational corporations, names like Ford, Carnegie, Rockefeller, fund the environmentalist organizations, making it possible for them to afford to harangue politicians, scare the public, etc. Might the multinationals and the enviros share some undisclosed interests? But a politician, however scientifically savvy, who fails to reflect the political conclusions of his/her constituency is not long for the office. And a corporation which fails to be owned by "informed people" is ripe for the takeover.
Of course America’s (relatively) stringent -- therefore expensive -- environmental regulations have done their part, along with inflated wages, to chase the evil manufacturing from American shores, to places like China, Russia, India, so much so, that the only remaining stick with which the enviro-saints can effectively beat their unholy fellow Americans, is that at least so far, most of us have been able to continue purchasing (foreign-made) consumer goods, because the prices have been relatively low. (This will change.)
Of course with all of the voluminous (7,000+ pages, in some cases) "Free Trade" agreements of the past decade, "America's" major industrial corporations were able to make the necessary moves abroad early and profitably, leaving their competitors wondering how they got left behind until they were taken over, the uSA less able to defend itself, Americans less able to keep up payments on the car and house, but overall, less blameworthy for the horrors of climate change (except for the CO2 we continue to guiltily exhale.)
Global warming/climate change is but one of the strategies that have been employed to impoverish America unto bankruptcy. Why would international bankers want to do that? Well, why would they want to have caused the last (Great) depression? the last two world wars? many other smaller ones? How could any of these human tragedies been good for the owners/controllers of multinational corporations?
Well, profits from the sales of armaments, munitions, medicine, and endless rebuilding are great! (Someone once observed that there are two things at the price of which, no one in need ever balks: medicine and ammunition -- life and death.) WWII was a cost-plus orgy, and once we were in it, had to be that way. Nobody wanted to lose. Whether the slimy deals made, and dirty tricks pulled, by certain Americans and allegedly "American" organizations in the years leading up to that war, may have helped to make it "necessary," is another matter.
Moreover, when a great nation undergoes a major depression, tremendous "buying opportunities" are created for those with deep pockets and either (1) fantastic luck, (2) extreme prescience, or (3) inside information. Many great old fortunes were tremendously enhanced in the wartime decade following the "Great Depression."
Over and above the profits to be reaped from wars and from impoverishing people, once a great nation becomes involved in war or bankrupted, major changes in its laws and political structure are far easier to effect, especially by those who knew what to expect, and had a well-developed strategy for how to "play it."
Hegelian dialectic is not merely for forcing a conclusion in a debate. Sufficient preparation brings about an undesireable condition as "thesis," strategic planning offers an equally undesireable opposite condition as "antithesis", impelling the desperate to choose the desired (prearranged) compromise (snare) deal as "synthesis."
Example: A consortium of banks and corporations offers loans for development to Nation X at a hopeful time in its history, temporarily ignoring its shaky economy, promising a bright future for its enhanced export capacities. Once the deal is signed, and the development built, other nations (coincidentally?) put up stiff competition, lowering the price of the exported goods, leading to default on the loan, and resumed (worsened) poverty for Nation X, and disgrace for its overly optimistic leaders. "Not to worry," say the bankers, "We'll refinance the loan on manageable terms, but you'll need to make a few changes in collateral. All of those publicly-owned properties like hydro-electric dams, water-supply facilities, roads, bridges, harbors will need to be 'privatized' (sold to us on favorable terms.) Etc."
In a nation where the people are (a) used to believing that they have a right to say what their government does and, (b) armed, such moves cannot be made too quickly or overtly. Allowances must be made, and plans laid, to fool and/or disarm those who would mount effective opposition. But once a man is forced to focus all of his waking hours on keeping his family housed and fed, he has little time, energy, or money to spend in opposition, especially when he is offered a plausible (if B___S___) explanation for why his former trade must be sent abroad, and his earnings increasingly taxed.
The multinationals have not only not decreased their global output of CO2 ,and pollutants, they've increased them, by moving the production to nations where the energy production is less efficient and dirtier, and emission standards are a joke, if not non-existent. And their profits are just fine, thank you very much. Witness Halliburton's move to Dubai.
The simultaneity and interdependence of (1) the Public Fool System, the world's premiere sheeple factory; (2) the collapse of the dollar and with it, pension plans; (3) the disappearance of jobs paying traditional American wages; (4) the unwritten -- but obvious -- invitation to outlaw border-crossers to become replacement "Americans;" (5) the repeal of ordinary bankruptcy laws; (6) the draconian -- but as yet unused -- federalized/militarized police forces trained in urban warfare, martial law, detention camps; (7) the spying on ordinary people, tracking their finances, and pushing for spychip IDs; (8) the advent of designer diseases, (9) the moves to create a federalized healthcare system wherein once the government refuses to provide care, one has no legal alternative but suffering and death; all could be mistaken as preparatory steps for "instant police state," to someone with a suspicious turn of mind.
Fortunately, I am a trusting soul. I rely on the fact that no such thing has ever happened here before, and am thereby reassured that my imagination has merely run wild for an hour or so. Now, back to the solid reality that is the land of the free and the home of the brave!
I can't figure why the big multinationals need to stop or slow CO2 emissions - it's essential to their profits and their way of life.
It should be obvious that the fuss about the human role in global warming is political - reality doesn't seem to enter into it. And, politicians, world wide, work directly or indirectly (mostly directly) for the multinationals (including drug dealers, who may be also be working for the larger corporations.) So why the fuss about global warming? What am I missing here? Any ideas?
Climate is what we expect; weather is what we get.
-- Robert A. Heinlein
The same leftist political stripe of people (in some cases, the identical people, e.g., Paul and Anne Ehrlich) who in the '70s, made a lot of noise about the impending "Ice Age," began screaming in the '90s about "Global Warming." After a few cold years cooled that concept, the greenies began to beat the drum for the latest bugaboo, "Climate Change" (which, if memory serves, is what we unenlightened usually call, "weather.")
Oddly enough, their cure for all three putative ills turns out to be the same: de-industrializing and impoverishing the uSA and its allies, at least down to the level of, say, the Peoples' Paradises of China and Russia. Of course greenies believe themselves to be fighting the (evil) multinational corporations.
Odder than that though, great trusts, controlled by the (same, evil) owners of multinational corporations, names like Ford, Carnegie, Rockefeller, fund the environmentalist organizations, making it possible for them to afford to harangue politicians, scare the public, etc. Might the multinationals and the enviros share some undisclosed interests? But a politician, however scientifically savvy, who fails to reflect the political conclusions of his/her constituency is not long for the office. And a corporation which fails to be owned by "informed people" is ripe for the takeover.
Of course America’s (relatively) stringent -- therefore expensive -- environmental regulations have done their part, along with inflated wages, to chase the evil manufacturing from American shores, to places like China, Russia, India, so much so, that the only remaining stick with which the enviro-saints can effectively beat their unholy fellow Americans, is that at least so far, most of us have been able to continue purchasing (foreign-made) consumer goods, because the prices have been relatively low. (This will change.)
Of course with all of the voluminous (7,000+ pages, in some cases) "Free Trade" agreements of the past decade, "America's" major industrial corporations were able to make the necessary moves abroad early and profitably, leaving their competitors wondering how they got left behind until they were taken over, the uSA less able to defend itself, Americans less able to keep up payments on the car and house, but overall, less blameworthy for the horrors of climate change (except for the CO2 we continue to guiltily exhale.)
Global warming/climate change is but one of the strategies that have been employed to impoverish America unto bankruptcy. Why would international bankers want to do that? Well, why would they want to have caused the last (Great) depression? the last two world wars? many other smaller ones? How could any of these human tragedies been good for the owners/controllers of multinational corporations?
Well, profits from the sales of armaments, munitions, medicine, and endless rebuilding are great! (Someone once observed that there are two things at the price of which, no one in need ever balks: medicine and ammunition -- life and death.) WWII was a cost-plus orgy, and once we were in it, had to be that way. Nobody wanted to lose. Whether the slimy deals made, and dirty tricks pulled, by certain Americans and allegedly "American" organizations in the years leading up to that war, may have helped to make it "necessary," is another matter.
Moreover, when a great nation undergoes a major depression, tremendous "buying opportunities" are created for those with deep pockets and either (1) fantastic luck, (2) extreme prescience, or (3) inside information. Many great old fortunes were tremendously enhanced in the wartime decade following the "Great Depression."
Over and above the profits to be reaped from wars and from impoverishing people, once a great nation becomes involved in war or bankrupted, major changes in its laws and political structure are far easier to effect, especially by those who knew what to expect, and had a well-developed strategy for how to "play it."
Hegelian dialectic is not merely for forcing a conclusion in a debate. Sufficient preparation brings about an undesireable condition as "thesis," strategic planning offers an equally undesireable opposite condition as "antithesis", impelling the desperate to choose the desired (prearranged) compromise (snare) deal as "synthesis."
Example: A consortium of banks and corporations offers loans for development to Nation X at a hopeful time in its history, temporarily ignoring its shaky economy, promising a bright future for its enhanced export capacities. Once the deal is signed, and the development built, other nations (coincidentally?) put up stiff competition, lowering the price of the exported goods, leading to default on the loan, and resumed (worsened) poverty for Nation X, and disgrace for its overly optimistic leaders. "Not to worry," say the bankers, "We'll refinance the loan on manageable terms, but you'll need to make a few changes in collateral. All of those publicly-owned properties like hydro-electric dams, water-supply facilities, roads, bridges, harbors will need to be 'privatized' (sold to us on favorable terms.) Etc."
In a nation where the people are (a) used to believing that they have a right to say what their government does and, (b) armed, such moves cannot be made too quickly or overtly. Allowances must be made, and plans laid, to fool and/or disarm those who would mount effective opposition. But once a man is forced to focus all of his waking hours on keeping his family housed and fed, he has little time, energy, or money to spend in opposition, especially when he is offered a plausible (if B___S___) explanation for why his former trade must be sent abroad, and his earnings increasingly taxed.
The multinationals have not only not decreased their global output of CO2 ,and pollutants, they've increased them, by moving the production to nations where the energy production is less efficient and dirtier, and emission standards are a joke, if not non-existent. And their profits are just fine, thank you very much. Witness Halliburton's move to Dubai.
The simultaneity and interdependence of (1) the Public Fool System, the world's premiere sheeple factory; (2) the collapse of the dollar and with it, pension plans; (3) the disappearance of jobs paying traditional American wages; (4) the unwritten -- but obvious -- invitation to outlaw border-crossers to become replacement "Americans;" (5) the repeal of ordinary bankruptcy laws; (6) the draconian -- but as yet unused -- federalized/militarized police forces trained in urban warfare, martial law, detention camps; (7) the spying on ordinary people, tracking their finances, and pushing for spychip IDs; (8) the advent of designer diseases, (9) the moves to create a federalized healthcare system wherein once the government refuses to provide care, one has no legal alternative but suffering and death; all could be mistaken as preparatory steps for "instant police state," to someone with a suspicious turn of mind.
Fortunately, I am a trusting soul. I rely on the fact that no such thing has ever happened here before, and am thereby reassured that my imagination has merely run wild for an hour or so. Now, back to the solid reality that is the land of the free and the home of the brave!
Friday, March 14, 2008
Where I'm Coming From
Here’s where I'm "coming from." Dismiss me as you will, but not (I hope) without examination.
1. The country has been systematically sold out over decades by many (most?) of those of both parties who swore oaths "to protect and defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign or domestic." Often, as soon as they were sworn in, they became the very domestic enemies they swore to guard against, by taking actions specifically prohibited by the Constitution. Why? Because anyone who chooses to make a career as a politician soon realizes that re-election, not to mention rising to higher office, depends on keeping on the good side of those who provide the campaign funds, and who control the organs of publicity -- newspapers, magazines, radio and TV networks. "Ya gotta dance with them who brung ya."
Few aspiring politicians, even very decent people (just like the rest of us) are such lifelong saints that they would wish to have every last detail of their lives minutely examined in public. Take any officeholder, present or past, and with enough detail of some past error revealed (and magnified and repeated endlessly) in the press, on talk shows, and on the nightly news, and eventually a majority of the public would come to believe that the true essence of that person would be accurately represented by that amplified screw-up.
For example, JFK, a veteran, war hero, and much-beloved president at the time of his death, has come to be known best by the current generation, as a skirt-chasing horn-dog, and if not exactly deserving of assassination, at least marginalized to the extent, that the underlying motives to kill him are so little understood, that anyone who fails to accept the specious conclusions of the Warren Report, point blank, is dismissed as a nut.
So nobody gets to the point of being a viable candidate for high office without first being vetted by people who own the networks and major newspapers, nor without making the kinds of promises that can get them $bazillions to spend on the campaign. Those who can provide such funds and influence are deep insiders, heirs to centuries-old mega-fortunes. They own or control not only networks, newpapers, and magazines, but banks, munitions, drug, oil, and chemical companies, among others. They are able not only to profit from wars, regardless of who "wins," but to profit from bankrupting nations, then buying up the distressed assets on the cheap. They own entire governments.
We get to choose (at least major party-supported candidates) only from among people who have already mortgaged their future offices, if they haven’t sold their souls outright. I suspect that people without secret, well-documented, but inflammatory ("useful"), embarrassments in their pasts, don’t rise very far.
There is also a valid question whether votes, electronically tallied (in some cases, by machines with modems and internet connections) without a verifiable trace, necessarily represent the true vote of the citizens, especially in districts where dead people and illegal aliens vote.
2. I believe and contend, on the basis of the reading I have done, that America has been tricked and maneuvered into its wars (at least since the Revolution) for the purposes of enhancing the political control over her affairs of (not to mention further enriching) certain ultra-wealthy banking families. True, our military has risen gallantly to the challenges, and acquitted itself honorably -- even in those wars where obviously they have been prevented from winning, by the decisions and actions of the civilian authority. But clearly, some agenda, aside from the publicly asserted purposes, has been the true interest in the Korean and Vietnam wars. I count the present wars in Afghanistan and Iraq (not to mention the one they are trying to ignite in Iran) in that category.
You may accept the self-contradictory official stories of the 9-11 attack in New York and D.C. I don't. I have seen too many video clips of TV broadcasts taken that day, heard too much first-hand testimony from people who were present that day, seen too many reports of the physical evidence, and heard expert testimony from too many dissenting experts, to accept the government story as valid pretext for wars that were in the planning stages before the planes crashed. I believe some within the government participated knowledgeably, at a minimum, in a coverup of the truth, if not directly in the design and management of the exercise. "Your mileage may vary."
Further, I believe the purpose of dragging this nation into various wars has as much to do with completely reversing the Revolution, and bringing America completely to heel, by impoverishing us, while using the claimed security needs of each successive war to ratchet the enhanced anti-constitutional executive powers to such a level, that some future outrage will be used to spring on us the full array of police state mechanisms that have been in preparation since the 1970's. People behind razor wire and under machineguns, can yell all they want about their stolen liberties, until they run out of breath -- to no effect.
I think we’re on a similar track to national enslavement and destruction as Germany was after WWI.
1. The country has been systematically sold out over decades by many (most?) of those of both parties who swore oaths "to protect and defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign or domestic." Often, as soon as they were sworn in, they became the very domestic enemies they swore to guard against, by taking actions specifically prohibited by the Constitution. Why? Because anyone who chooses to make a career as a politician soon realizes that re-election, not to mention rising to higher office, depends on keeping on the good side of those who provide the campaign funds, and who control the organs of publicity -- newspapers, magazines, radio and TV networks. "Ya gotta dance with them who brung ya."
Few aspiring politicians, even very decent people (just like the rest of us) are such lifelong saints that they would wish to have every last detail of their lives minutely examined in public. Take any officeholder, present or past, and with enough detail of some past error revealed (and magnified and repeated endlessly) in the press, on talk shows, and on the nightly news, and eventually a majority of the public would come to believe that the true essence of that person would be accurately represented by that amplified screw-up.
For example, JFK, a veteran, war hero, and much-beloved president at the time of his death, has come to be known best by the current generation, as a skirt-chasing horn-dog, and if not exactly deserving of assassination, at least marginalized to the extent, that the underlying motives to kill him are so little understood, that anyone who fails to accept the specious conclusions of the Warren Report, point blank, is dismissed as a nut.
So nobody gets to the point of being a viable candidate for high office without first being vetted by people who own the networks and major newspapers, nor without making the kinds of promises that can get them $bazillions to spend on the campaign. Those who can provide such funds and influence are deep insiders, heirs to centuries-old mega-fortunes. They own or control not only networks, newpapers, and magazines, but banks, munitions, drug, oil, and chemical companies, among others. They are able not only to profit from wars, regardless of who "wins," but to profit from bankrupting nations, then buying up the distressed assets on the cheap. They own entire governments.
We get to choose (at least major party-supported candidates) only from among people who have already mortgaged their future offices, if they haven’t sold their souls outright. I suspect that people without secret, well-documented, but inflammatory ("useful"), embarrassments in their pasts, don’t rise very far.
There is also a valid question whether votes, electronically tallied (in some cases, by machines with modems and internet connections) without a verifiable trace, necessarily represent the true vote of the citizens, especially in districts where dead people and illegal aliens vote.
2. I believe and contend, on the basis of the reading I have done, that America has been tricked and maneuvered into its wars (at least since the Revolution) for the purposes of enhancing the political control over her affairs of (not to mention further enriching) certain ultra-wealthy banking families. True, our military has risen gallantly to the challenges, and acquitted itself honorably -- even in those wars where obviously they have been prevented from winning, by the decisions and actions of the civilian authority. But clearly, some agenda, aside from the publicly asserted purposes, has been the true interest in the Korean and Vietnam wars. I count the present wars in Afghanistan and Iraq (not to mention the one they are trying to ignite in Iran) in that category.
You may accept the self-contradictory official stories of the 9-11 attack in New York and D.C. I don't. I have seen too many video clips of TV broadcasts taken that day, heard too much first-hand testimony from people who were present that day, seen too many reports of the physical evidence, and heard expert testimony from too many dissenting experts, to accept the government story as valid pretext for wars that were in the planning stages before the planes crashed. I believe some within the government participated knowledgeably, at a minimum, in a coverup of the truth, if not directly in the design and management of the exercise. "Your mileage may vary."
Further, I believe the purpose of dragging this nation into various wars has as much to do with completely reversing the Revolution, and bringing America completely to heel, by impoverishing us, while using the claimed security needs of each successive war to ratchet the enhanced anti-constitutional executive powers to such a level, that some future outrage will be used to spring on us the full array of police state mechanisms that have been in preparation since the 1970's. People behind razor wire and under machineguns, can yell all they want about their stolen liberties, until they run out of breath -- to no effect.
I think we’re on a similar track to national enslavement and destruction as Germany was after WWI.
Preparing for the Police State
As one who is dismayed by the decline of sovereignty, liberty, and prosperity in my nation, I have been trying to assemble a coherent point of view from the political/economic/social facts and causes of the last few years. Sufficeth it to say that I have concluded that both Democrat and Republican parties equally share the blame -- the Democrats, largely for adhering to their political principles, the Republicans, largely for abandoning theirs -- for the impending economic collapse and likely resultant civil strife.
I hesitate to term such strife "civil war," because I hope the contending factions -- America's Black, White, and Hispanic cultures -- may yet come to their senses, and realize that blaming and fighting each other will only strengthen the hand of those whose long term moves have been to set them against each other for fun and profit, but strife there will be.
When large numbers of people, whose major economic choices have been predicated on a falsely portrayed stable and growing economy, begin to lose first their high-wage jobs, then their cars, finally their houses, there will be a reaction beyond mere despair and self-blame. The jobs of citizens have been "outsourced' to foreign lands, and the replacement lower-wage jobs to which they might have resorted, have been largely "insourced" to outlaw migrants.
These latter have been all but formally invited by traitorous federal, state, and local governments, which have compelled us citizens to cover through taxation, all of the other living costs that the employers of "those who only want to do the jobs that Americans won't do," can escape paying under such wink-and-nod law enforcement, and hence can add to their "bottom lines." Such invitees can hardly be expected to behave as unentitled to the modest incomes and social benefits they receive, having been taught since childhood that the poverty they must leave home to escape is, in some unexplained way, our fault.
Not to put too fine a point on it, the radical Democrats have used the resultant social destabilization and crime to accuse the average American of undeserved wealth, "laziness" and "racism", and to call for expanded social programs. The neocon Republicans have used it for expanding the presidentially-declared war and growing the profits of a few selected insider corporations. The "moderates" of both parties have "gone along for the ride," fearing criticism from presstitutes controlled by the two extremes.
Meanwhile, the nation has become well beyond broke. In addition to the acknowledged "national debt" of merely $9.4 Trillion (~ $30,000 per capita.) I don't know about you, but if pressed for "my share" (and that of my wife), to save our lives, I suppose we could scrape that much together, but it would leave us indefinitely continued in employment, just as we are trying to retire.
There are worse things, of course. Like figuring out how to help my kids and grandkids, who haven't had the time to accumulate "their shares" of the "national debt." And when one begins to add in at least a portion of "Social(ist In)Security," and of "Medi(s)care," plus other federal retirement schemes -- civil service, railroad, and CONgressional (estimated to total somewhere between $50 and $90 Trillion) there simply isn't enough total value in the nation's assets to "pay off" the $300K per capita. Re-fi anyone?
Of course "we" are putatively "the world's only superpower," and "we" could tell most of our creditors some version of what "we" in effect told most of the nations to whom "we" now owe it, "Use our dollar to conduct business or we will come to your country, rape your daughters, and kill you." Most of them might be intimidated enough to merely gripe and take whatever payments "we" send -- most, but not all. Such an offer might not fly at all in a large, recently industrialized nation that has a 25% surplus of young, horny dudes over daughters.
Of course, "our" government can probably once more arrange to get China (or whoever else refuses to just shut up and go away) to fire the first shot, placing the blame on "the enemy," whereupon WDII will have successfully given birth to WWIII, but it's not likely to do us, and our kids (or them and their kids, for that matter) any lasting good.
Meantime, "success" in these pre-choreographed World Wars (whatever that may mean in a thermonuclear context) usually goes to those who can manufacture their way to victory -- which usually means those who can afford to manufacture their way to victory, which usually means whoever can borrow enough to afford to manufacture, ... etc.
But since wars are usually arranged to enable the creditors of excessive national debt to collect on their foreclosures, I'd be willing to bet that sufficient offers of further credit might be rather few and pricey for "us." At last count, America's manufactures were about a 20% shadow of their former selves, with some essential industries now moved entirely abroad, and the remaining few trained employees scattered and otherwise employed.
A local proud neocon (and social Darwinist) radio talkstitute was loudly opining this evening, that anyone who ever gets sweet-talked or tricked into a sucker deal bears the full responsibility of covering his end of the deal, up to and including submitting to full-on chattel slavery, if that is what it takes to "pay off" -- the perpetrator of the con who, as "smart businessman," is incapable of blame.
According to his doctrine, it is inevitably your fault alone, if you believed the lies you were told from the cradle up, even if those who inculcated them in you were as ignorant of the facts as you, and if, on the basis of an intergenerational con game, you were suckered into decades-long deals (e.g., buying an overpriced house, working a suddenly "outsourced" trade, accepting a "retirement package") you eventually could no longer sustain, once those who had conned you, had (ever so smartly) pulled the economic rug out from under you.
Naturally, he is more than proud of a country in which such rules (ones he advocates -- currently in the ascendancy) allow smart businessmen -- like, presumably, himself -- to pick the bones of their "inferiors." Where else could he do so well?
Since the guidance of the nation has long been in the hands of power-trippers left and right, we have lost virtually all of our rights, and exercise such freedom of action as we do, more by virtue of governmental slack -- the calm before the oncoming storm -- than by explicit and scrupulous governmental recognition of the Rights of Man.
Spokesmouths of the neocons (e.g., General Tommy Franks) have been at pains in past years, to explain that the next "terrorist attack" on American soil will spell the formal end of our remaining "constitutional" liberties, under the currently unenforced provisions of the Military Commissions Act, the PATRIOT Act II, and the yet unused capabilities of FEMA. I took him as "not kidding." There is also little likelihood, if (by the Grace of Diebold) the incipient dictatorship is yielded to the radical left, that such plans will be more than slightly re-tailored.
I invite you to read a few of the linked articles, or to proceed from what you already understand, and tell me how you approach the likely outcomes of current trends.
The Grim Reality of Economic Truths
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=8261
FUNDING FOREIGN MILITARY WHILE DUMPING ON AMERICAN VETERANS http://www.newswithviews.com/Devvy/kidd349.htm
Mankind at the Turning Point: Interdependence is Totalitarian http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=8245
Republicans and “Free Market” Zealots Bring Death To America http://vdare.com/roberts/080312_republicans.htm
In Los Angeles, Hispanic Gangs Ethnically Cleansing Black Neighborhoods http://vdare.com/walker/080310_gangs.htm
Martial Law, Inc.
KBR: A Halliburton Subsidiary http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=8258
I hesitate to term such strife "civil war," because I hope the contending factions -- America's Black, White, and Hispanic cultures -- may yet come to their senses, and realize that blaming and fighting each other will only strengthen the hand of those whose long term moves have been to set them against each other for fun and profit, but strife there will be.
When large numbers of people, whose major economic choices have been predicated on a falsely portrayed stable and growing economy, begin to lose first their high-wage jobs, then their cars, finally their houses, there will be a reaction beyond mere despair and self-blame. The jobs of citizens have been "outsourced' to foreign lands, and the replacement lower-wage jobs to which they might have resorted, have been largely "insourced" to outlaw migrants.
These latter have been all but formally invited by traitorous federal, state, and local governments, which have compelled us citizens to cover through taxation, all of the other living costs that the employers of "those who only want to do the jobs that Americans won't do," can escape paying under such wink-and-nod law enforcement, and hence can add to their "bottom lines." Such invitees can hardly be expected to behave as unentitled to the modest incomes and social benefits they receive, having been taught since childhood that the poverty they must leave home to escape is, in some unexplained way, our fault.
Not to put too fine a point on it, the radical Democrats have used the resultant social destabilization and crime to accuse the average American of undeserved wealth, "laziness" and "racism", and to call for expanded social programs. The neocon Republicans have used it for expanding the presidentially-declared war and growing the profits of a few selected insider corporations. The "moderates" of both parties have "gone along for the ride," fearing criticism from presstitutes controlled by the two extremes.
Meanwhile, the nation has become well beyond broke. In addition to the acknowledged "national debt" of merely $9.4 Trillion (~ $30,000 per capita.) I don't know about you, but if pressed for "my share" (and that of my wife), to save our lives, I suppose we could scrape that much together, but it would leave us indefinitely continued in employment, just as we are trying to retire.
There are worse things, of course. Like figuring out how to help my kids and grandkids, who haven't had the time to accumulate "their shares" of the "national debt." And when one begins to add in at least a portion of "Social(ist In)Security," and of "Medi(s)care," plus other federal retirement schemes -- civil service, railroad, and CONgressional (estimated to total somewhere between $50 and $90 Trillion) there simply isn't enough total value in the nation's assets to "pay off" the $300K per capita. Re-fi anyone?
Of course "we" are putatively "the world's only superpower," and "we" could tell most of our creditors some version of what "we" in effect told most of the nations to whom "we" now owe it, "Use our dollar to conduct business or we will come to your country, rape your daughters, and kill you." Most of them might be intimidated enough to merely gripe and take whatever payments "we" send -- most, but not all. Such an offer might not fly at all in a large, recently industrialized nation that has a 25% surplus of young, horny dudes over daughters.
Of course, "our" government can probably once more arrange to get China (or whoever else refuses to just shut up and go away) to fire the first shot, placing the blame on "the enemy," whereupon WDII will have successfully given birth to WWIII, but it's not likely to do us, and our kids (or them and their kids, for that matter) any lasting good.
Meantime, "success" in these pre-choreographed World Wars (whatever that may mean in a thermonuclear context) usually goes to those who can manufacture their way to victory -- which usually means those who can afford to manufacture their way to victory, which usually means whoever can borrow enough to afford to manufacture, ... etc.
But since wars are usually arranged to enable the creditors of excessive national debt to collect on their foreclosures, I'd be willing to bet that sufficient offers of further credit might be rather few and pricey for "us." At last count, America's manufactures were about a 20% shadow of their former selves, with some essential industries now moved entirely abroad, and the remaining few trained employees scattered and otherwise employed.
A local proud neocon (and social Darwinist) radio talkstitute was loudly opining this evening, that anyone who ever gets sweet-talked or tricked into a sucker deal bears the full responsibility of covering his end of the deal, up to and including submitting to full-on chattel slavery, if that is what it takes to "pay off" -- the perpetrator of the con who, as "smart businessman," is incapable of blame.
According to his doctrine, it is inevitably your fault alone, if you believed the lies you were told from the cradle up, even if those who inculcated them in you were as ignorant of the facts as you, and if, on the basis of an intergenerational con game, you were suckered into decades-long deals (e.g., buying an overpriced house, working a suddenly "outsourced" trade, accepting a "retirement package") you eventually could no longer sustain, once those who had conned you, had (ever so smartly) pulled the economic rug out from under you.
Naturally, he is more than proud of a country in which such rules (ones he advocates -- currently in the ascendancy) allow smart businessmen -- like, presumably, himself -- to pick the bones of their "inferiors." Where else could he do so well?
Since the guidance of the nation has long been in the hands of power-trippers left and right, we have lost virtually all of our rights, and exercise such freedom of action as we do, more by virtue of governmental slack -- the calm before the oncoming storm -- than by explicit and scrupulous governmental recognition of the Rights of Man.
Spokesmouths of the neocons (e.g., General Tommy Franks) have been at pains in past years, to explain that the next "terrorist attack" on American soil will spell the formal end of our remaining "constitutional" liberties, under the currently unenforced provisions of the Military Commissions Act, the PATRIOT Act II, and the yet unused capabilities of FEMA. I took him as "not kidding." There is also little likelihood, if (by the Grace of Diebold) the incipient dictatorship is yielded to the radical left, that such plans will be more than slightly re-tailored.
I invite you to read a few of the linked articles, or to proceed from what you already understand, and tell me how you approach the likely outcomes of current trends.
The Grim Reality of Economic Truths
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=8261
FUNDING FOREIGN MILITARY WHILE DUMPING ON AMERICAN VETERANS http://www.newswithviews.com/Devvy/kidd349.htm
Mankind at the Turning Point: Interdependence is Totalitarian http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=8245
Republicans and “Free Market” Zealots Bring Death To America http://vdare.com/roberts/080312_republicans.htm
In Los Angeles, Hispanic Gangs Ethnically Cleansing Black Neighborhoods http://vdare.com/walker/080310_gangs.htm
Martial Law, Inc.
KBR: A Halliburton Subsidiary http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=8258
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