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Gerald Celente: ‘The Greatest Threat’ (Video)
Nice Rant!!!
http://investmentwatchblog.com/gerald-celente-the-greatest-threat-video/
Shermann
David Stockman - “2014 Is The Year Of The End Game”
"The Fed is engaged in what I refer to as ‘massive monetary central planning,’ erroneously believing that by pegging and fixing interest rates all up and down the curve, putting a ‘put’ under the risk asset markets explicitly targeting indices like the Russell 2000, and trying to generate wealth effects as a way of causing economic growth -- all of those things are part and parcel of the core of what you’ve described -- price fixing on a massive scale in the heart of the financial markets of capitalism.
And that’s the opposite of what is really required. If you don’t have free markets and honest interest rates and true price discovery in these markets, you are going to end up with waves of distortions, bubbles, all the symptoms that we have in this messed up economy that we have today.”
Eric King: “David, as you see it, why does the New York Fed feel the need to be essentially the biggest hedge fund in the world, fixing major markets?”
Stockman: “Because that’s the doctrine. The doctrine is that 12 people on the Open Market Committee can survey a $17 trillion domestic economy, or for that matter an $80 trillion world economy, think it all through, set some targets, and then manipulate the whole system through the crude instrument of short-, middle-, and long-term interest rate price fixing or pegging, and the other supplementary tools that they use, like forward guidance, wealth effects, and so forth. That’s the explanation.”
Eric King: “What is the danger going forward as you see it?
Stockman: “The danger is that none of these markets is stable. None of these markets reflects true supply and demand. None of them properly discounts real-world factors, whether it’s cash flows, economic future, and all the other things that markets are supposed to do.
The markets today jump to the tune of the minutes of the Fed meetings, of daily word clouds that are emitted by various Fed speakers. This really isn’t a capitalist financial market. It is entirely a ‘hothouse’ system driven by a rogue central bank that has totally usurped the role of capital and money markets.”
Eric King: “What are your thoughts as we move through 2014?”
Stockman: “This (2014) is the year of the end game. The party is over. We are now just at the point where they are rounding up the Wall Street drunks who are swilling on the fifth consecutive seasonally maladjusted phony recovery. That will become evident in the weeks and months ahead. Then I think the markets are going to have a pretty rude day of awakening.”
http://kingworldnews.com/kingworldnews/KWN_DailyWeb/Entries/2014/1/10_David_Stockman_-_2014_Is_The_Year_Of_The_End_Game.html
Ron Paul: Remember Fallujah?
http://www.fitsnews.com/2014/01/05/ron-paul-remember-fallujah/
Remember Fallujah? Shortly after the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the U.S. military fired on unarmed protestors, killing as many as 20 and wounding dozens. In retaliation, local Iraqis attacked a convoy of U.S. military contractors, killing four. The U.S. then launched a full attack on Fallujah to regain control, which left perhaps 700 Iraqis dead and the city virtually destroyed.
According to press reports last weekend, Fallujah is now under the control of al-Qaeda affiliates. The Anbar province, where Fallujah is located, is under siege by al-Qaeda. During the 2007 “surge,” more than 1,000 US troops were killed “pacifying” the Anbar province. Although al-Qaeda was not in Iraq before the U.S. invasion, it is now conducting its own surge in Anbar.
For Iraq, the U.S. “liberation” is proving far worse than the authoritarianism of Saddam Hussein, and it keeps getting worse. Last year was Iraq’s deadliest in five years. In 2013, fighting and bomb blasts claimed the lives of 7,818 civilians and 1,050 members of the security forces. In December alone nearly a thousand people were killed.
I remember sitting through many hearings in the House International Relations Committee praising the “surge,” which we were told secured a U.S. victory in Iraq. They also praised the so-called “Awakening,” which was really an agreement by insurgents to stop fighting in exchange for U.S. dollars. I always wondered what would happen when those dollars stopped coming.
Where are the surge and awakening cheerleaders now?
One of them, Richard Perle, was interviewed last year on NPR and asked whether the Iraq invasion that he pushed was worth it. He replied:
I’ve got to say I think that is not a reasonable question. What we did at the time was done in the belief that it was necessary to protect this nation. You can’t a decade later go back and say, well, we shouldn’t have done that.
Many of us were saying all along that we shouldn’t have done that – before we did it. Unfortunately the Bush Administration took the advice of the neocons pushing for war and promising it would be a “cakewalk.” We continue to see the results of that terrible mistake, and it is only getting worse.
Last month the U.S. shipped nearly a hundred air-to-ground missiles to the Iraqi air force to help combat the surging al-Qaeda. Ironically, the same al-Qaeda groups the U.S. is helping the Iraqis combat are benefiting from the US covert and overt war to overthrow Assad next door in Syria. Why can’t the U.S. government learn from its mistakes?
The neocons may be on the run from their earlier positions on Iraq, but that does not mean they have given up. They were the ones pushing for an attack on Syria this summer. Thankfully they were not successful. They are now making every effort to derail President Obama’s efforts to negotiate with the Iranians. Just last week William Kristol urged Israel to attack Iran with the hope we would then get involved. Neoconservative Senators from both parties recently introduced the Nuclear Weapon Free Iran Act of 2013, which would also bring us back on war-footing with Iran.
Next time the neocons tell us we must attack, just think “Iraq.”
Read more at http://www.fitsnews.com/2014/01/05/ron-paul-remember-fallujah/#3rBQAlZWWFiQbLiX.99
This about sums it all up. However, I am not so optimistic as to see the people EVER doing anything to stop what is happening. My guess is total anarchy or total domination of the sheeple by force at some point. To think an "uprising" with positive, new, caring leaders being the result is naive and way too hopeful, IMO. Just can't see it in a world where NO ONE wants to be the one made an example of by TPTB . . . no matter the impact they might spawn.
Four key lessons from 2013
1) Politicians believe there are no consequences for destroying our liberty…
Stimulus and response. That’s the easiest way of summing this up. When politicians steal, and there are no consequences, they’re going to keep stealing.
Cyprus proved this point handily. The government froze bank accounts for everyone in the country (of course, the big bosses got their money out in time). And yet, there was no violent revolution in the streets. People just accepted it.
Poland nationalized pensions. Argentina imposed severe capital controls. The French are taxing everything under the sun. The US government was caught red-handed spying on… everyone.
And yet, there have been ZERO consequences. Citizens have been trained like caged animals to simply roll over and acquiesce. I imagine the politicians are thinking, “Holy Cow! I can’t believe we just got away with that…”
It only reinforces their behavior. With each destructive act, they become more bold, more brazen in dismantling our liberties, confident that they can continue to act with total impunity.
2) …Central bankers and economists believe there are no consequences to printing money…
The Fed expanded its balance sheet by $1.1 TRILLION in 2013, a whopping 38.5%. Nobody seems to mind. The stock market surged to all-time highs, the bond market remained stable, and everyone pronounced the ‘recovery’ was in.
I attended a dinner a few months ago where Ben Bernanke himself touted how much his quantitative had helped US economic conditions.
They really believe in what they are doing. They really believe that conjuring endless quantities of money out of thin air is the path to prosperity.
Not to mention, our modern society awards its most esteemed prizes for intellectual achievement to the likes of idiot savants like Paul Krugman who tell us that the Fed should be printing even MORE money. And people listen to him.
So we can only expect Ben “I can raise interest rates in 15 minutes” Bernanke, and his heir apparent Janet Yellen, to give us more of the same.
3) …Investors think there are no consequences to deficits, or debasement…
In 2013, headlines like “the US deficit is -only- $700 billion” were actually considered good news.
And markets have given all of these fiascos a pass– from the government shutdown to record-shattering debt levels to downgrades by the rating agencies. AA became the new AAA in 2013.
Nobody cares that the US government ‘borrowed’ a record amount of money from the Social Security Trust Fund. Or that they spent a record amount just to pay interest on the debt at a time when interest rates are at all-time lows.
Rather, they just keep investing… without a single thought to the possible risks. The fear of missing the big boom is greater than the fear of losing money. But then again, it’s not their money at risk. It’s yours.
4) …But Joe Six-Pack knows this is all crap.
In 2013, the collective net worth of the 300 richest people in the world grew to $3.7 trillion, 16.5% higher than 2012. Corporate profits were also at record levels.
Fortune 500s, the super-rich, rich, and even upper middle class have largely been beneficiaries of the central bank induced asset bubble.
But everyone else is getting hammered by inflation… watching their savings and livelihoods melt away before their very eyes.
A report from the US Census Bureau this year showed that median household income has declined for five straight years. And those living in poverty, using food stamps, or receiving unemployment benefits remained at record high levels in 2013.
Meanwhile, the wealth gap has grown to its largest since 1929– the year of that fateful financial collapse.
It’s time for a reality check: something is wrong with this picture.
We’ve become desensitized to everything. “Unprecedented” monetary policy. Record debts. Massive wealth gap. Government surveillance. Theft. Deceit. Inflation.
We’ve become so accustomed to getting screwed, it’s just par for the course now. We sit quietly and wait for the next round of beatings, shrugging it all off as the new normal.
This isn’t normal. This is not how a free society is supposed to function.
A free society does not spy on its own people, threaten them with drone assassination, and award an unelected banking elite with supreme authority to rob purchasing power from the masses in favor of a bubbly stock market.
And despite the conventional wisdom, this is not a consequence-free environment.
History is full of examples of entire nations that reached their breaking points… shouting from the rooftops “I’m mad as hell! And I’m not going to take it anymore!”
2013 already saw violent unrest in some of the most stable countries in the world like Singapore and Sweden, all underpinned by absolute disgust for the status quo.
Whether today or tomorrow, this year or next, there will be a reckoning. The system is far too broken to repair, it must be reset.
It’s simply absurd to look at the situation objectively and presume this status quo can continue indefinitely… that this time is different… that we’re somehow special and immune to universal principles.
This is not some prediction for doom and gloom. Far from it.
It’s actually a message of optimism. For the sooner these crackpot criminal politicians and their central banking ilk are stricken from power, the better off we’ll all be.
Unfortunately there’s going to be quite a bit of turmoil to get there.
Here’s to 2014. It’s going to be a hell of a year.
http://www.sovereignman.com/trends/four-key-lessons-from-2013-13345/
Interesting info on the ACA. Got this in an email so not sure if this is true or not but the points made would still be meaningful.
Here's a good one. Old, but good.
http://www.westernjournalism.com/obama-classmate-lying-drug-using-homosexual-foreigner/
NH
I can tell you with first hand knowledge that speech comes STRAIGHT out of the occultist's play book.
The Lucis Trust.
Compare that text to text written by Dane Rudhyar in the 1970's.
The theme is 100% in line.
This is why I told them to "fuck off" in the late 1980's.
They threatened me and I said "Whatever!"
I think my sense of justice overrides my common sense sometimes. LOL!
I'm glad it's that way.
Obama To Americans: You Don't Deserve To Be Free - Forbes
Good Gawd!!! This was actually in Forbes, and Has Hillary Clinton's Fingerprints all over it. Good Luck in 2016!!!
http://www.blacklistednews.com/Obama_To_Americans%3A_You_Don%27t_Deserve_To_Be_Free_-_Forbes/31640/0/38/38/Y/M.html
President Obama’s Kansas speech is a remarkable document. In calling for more government controls, more taxation, more collectivism, he has two paragraphs that give the show away. Take a look at them.
there is a certain crowd in Washington who, for the last few decades, have said, let’s respond to this economic challenge with the same old tune. “The market will take care of everything,” they tell us. If we just cut more regulations and cut more taxes–especially for the wealthy–our economy will grow stronger. Sure, they say, there will be winners and losers. But if the winners do really well, then jobs and prosperity will eventually trickle down to everybody else. And, they argue, even if prosperity doesn’t trickle down, well, that’s the price of liberty.
Now, it’s a simple theory. And we have to admit, it’s one that speaks to our rugged individualism and our healthy skepticism of too much government. That’s in America’s DNA. And that theory fits well on a bumper sticker. (Laughter.) But here’s the problem: It doesn’t work. It has never worked. (Applause.) It didn’t work when it was tried in the decade before the Great Depression. It’s not what led to the incredible postwar booms of the ’50s and ’60s. And it didn’t work when we tried it during the last decade. (Applause.) I mean, understand, it’s not as if we haven’t tried this theory.
Though not in Washington, I’m in that “certain crowd” that has been saying for decades that the market will take care of everything. It’s not really a crowd, it’s a tiny group of radicals–radicals for capitalism, in Ayn Rand’s well-turned phrase.
The only thing that the market doesn’t take care of is anti-market acts: acts that initiate physical force. That’s why we need government: to wield retaliatory force to defend individual rights.
Radicals for capitalism would, as the Declaration of Independence says, use government only “to secure these rights”–the rights to life, liberty, property, and the pursuit of happiness. (Yes, I added “property” in there–property rights are inseparable from the other three.)
They can't -- or won't -- cure the common cold, but they are making huge leaps in robotics. Is it difficult to imagine a future with a few men in charge of a world of robots to keep the sheeple slaves in line?
The video is interesting just to watch simply for car building as well. It just sparks the imagination on what the gov't is doing "behind the scenes" also???
Dr. Jim Garrow is a name you are going to be seeing a lot of in the truthful media for the foreseeable future. Garrow is a former deep cover CIA agent who has his hand on the pulse of the crises which are befalling America. What separates Dr. Garrow from many high level sources who are disgusted with the status quo, is that he is on the record and is publicly visible.
While many of the 200+ command level officers fired by Obama are informing many of us in the media about the current state of affairs, they are not on the record. Other than self-preservation, the major reason why these former military commanders are not on the record is because some of them are involved in planning a guerrilla war against the occupation forces commanded by this administration under the auspices of DHS. And this is precisely what Dr. Garrow stated on my December 22, 2013 show which you can listen to here. He also went on to say that a coup attempt is probable and that a prolonged guerrilla civil war is likely. All of my sources state that the coming civil war will be a guerrilla war.
http://thecommonsenseshow.com/2013/12/28/can-m-16s-defeat-f-16s-in-the-coming-civil-war/
DHS Insider: “Preparations Have Been Finalized to Respond to a Crisis of Unprecedented Magnitude Within the United States”
http://www.thedailysheeple.com/dhs-insider-preparations-have-been-finalized-to-respond-to-a-crisis-of-unprecedented-magnitude-within-the-united-states_122013
This is just another example of the generation of psychopaths that has been created by the entitlement mentality. These thugs believed that they should be exempt from paying for their movie theater tickets like other people, and become violent when they were thwarted.
http://www.thedailysheeple.com/a-mob-of-more-than-600-teens-laid-siege-to-a-florida-movie-theater_122013
ACA is freaking awesome!!!
http://joeforamerica.com/2013/12/zack-langford-3-year-old-denied-obamacare/
One day soon, there may not be any alternative.
The musical chairs will end.
Marked to market, gold is likely somewhere around $56,000 an oz.
Silver at a 16:1 ratio when unmanipulated.
I have never been a gold bug. I do not believe they will let it run wild. IMO
NH
Many here share a lot of the same thoughts, so you must share some of the frustration over how TPTB continue to prop up phony paper and securities and hold down silver and gold by having an unlimited spigot at the FED.
That said, I'd be going all in physical now, except that there are a few credible people, like Jim Rogers, who keep saying that gold and silver could still drop another 30% if the "taper" makes Treasury yields rise, so that those who traditionally buy gold/silver will view long-term T-bills at over 3%, and especially if they get near 5%, as a "safe haven" again. They also throw out there that India could cut way back on purchases of gold/silver, and that alone could beat down the prices 30%. It's all very confusing to try and get a good read on, as I know that China is unloading tons of gold and silver daily on their shores and packing it away in their vaults, as they prepare, I think, for an eventual collapse of the dollar or petrodollar. To watch our "leaders" stay the course on this "borrow and spend until something cracks" seems insane! To watch the stock market ignore all fundamentals other than flowing paper money out of the FED also seems nuts. Thoughts? Is anyone else getting a bit weary listening to some very good minds keep saying essentially the same things they have now for 4-5 years with the opposite results? Is there not a better plan than to continue to dollar cost average into metals as long as it takes?
Guess I'm wanting a crystal ball, and no one seems to have one -- lol.
US Threatens to Revoke Afghan Aid Unless Karzai Okays Occupation
How to Win Friends and Influence People!!!
http://news.antiwar.com/2013/12/26/us-threatens-to-revoke-afghan-aid-unless-karzai-okays-occupation/
The December 31 ultimatum demanding Afghan President Hamid Karzai authorize an open-ended occupation or lose all US military support at the end of 2014 didn’t work, so now officials are trying a different tack.
“My judgment is no troops, no aid,” warned US Ambassador James Dobbins, who insisted that political support for humanitarian aid was entirely tied to the presence of occupation forces, and that if Karzai doesn’t sign off, the Afghan government will lose billions in aid.
US officials are playing up what a “disaster” the loss of aid would be for Afghanistan, while insisting that the everyday lives of Afghans is dramatically improved because of US largesse.
That claim seems unwarranted, and the Afghans are likely to see it the same way. While many in the Karzai government got rich off the corrupt contractor deals, Afghanistan is still a wreck 12+ years into the occupation, and most of the aid has notoriously gone into building projects Afghans didn’t need or want.
It is almost as if Wall Street has not learned any lessons from the last two major stock market crashes at all. Just look at Twitter. At the current price, Twitter is supposedly worth 40.7 BILLION dollars. But Twitter is not profitable. It is a seven-year-old company that has never made a single dollar of profit.
Not one single dollar.
In fact, Twitter actually lost 64.6 million dollars last quarter alone. And Twitter is expected to continue losing money for all of 2015 as well.
But Twitter stock is up 82 percent over the last 30 days, and nobody can really give a rational reason for why this is happening.
http://www.thedailysheeple.com/the-stock-market-has-officially-entered-crazytown-territory_122013
22% growth in stocks to about 4% growth for corporate profits in 2013, while FED pumps almost $4 TRILLION into the markets to keep the rise going for 4 years now. Is it just me, or does that spell "bubble" and potentially massive "trouble?"
Oh heck. HOPE AND CHANGE has the "reigns", so party on!
Mariah's pitch and control are amazing. Guess that's why she's a bazillionaire. O Holy Night is one of the top 5 most difficult songs to sing well.
Merry Christmas All ...
O Holy Night - Serena Sang Higher Note than Mariah Carey's Version
Black Budget: US govt clueless about missing Pentagon $trillions (VIDEO)
Under the new and “improved” NDAA, I’m a belligerent for writing this, and you’re a belligerent for reading this. God help you if you email someone about it or share it on Facebook. We’re all going to be busted as belligerents under this one.
http://www.thedailysheeple.com/bigger-badder-ndaa-2014-quietly-passed-the-house-and-senate-yesterday-and-it-is-on-the-way-to-obamas-desk_122013
Sweden: EU Iran sanctions can be eased in Jan.
There is no reason why the European Union could not relax some
sanctions on Iran in January,
Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt said
http://www.worldbulletin.net/?aType=haber&ArticleID=124991
Is 666-Khazarian Rothschilds banksters cult to murder Bildt -
as 666 did with Hammarskjold? -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dag_Hammarskj%C3%B6ld
Beware: Don't eat any animal-. or sea-food from the global?, Pacific, Gulf of Mexico etc.
before geiger counter OK it -
http://www.geigercounters.com/AboutGgr.htm
Love all Father God's Creation -
love every leaf, every ray of light -
love the animals and the plants -
love each thing thou with perceive -
the mystery of Father God in all -
Radiation 666 nwo across the United States - issued email alerts today
for two western U.S. cities, Reno, Nev., and St. George Utah. -
See more at:
http://healthydebates.com/radiation-alerts-hit-u-s-cities/#sthash.KM2IBmsH.dpufRadiation
Alerts Hit U.S. Cities
http://healthydebates.com/radiation-alerts-hit-u-s-cities/
http://www.rense.com/
http://enenews.com/marine-biologist-all-sea-stars-along-west-coast-of-north-america-could-be-wiped-out-some-look-completely-healthy-except-for-guts-coming-out-in-strings-speculation-that-fukushima-radioac
China Issues Warning! Bans All US West Coast Shellfish
Friday, December 13, 2013 16:51
http://beforeitsnews.com/health/2013/12/china-issues-warning-bans-all-us-shellfish-from-west-coast-2515536.html
http://rense.com/
http://enenews.com/unprecedented-china-bans-all-imports-of-shellfish-from-u-s-west-coast-official-theyve-never-done-anything-like-that-that-ive-ever-seen-includes-washington-oregon-a
http://enenews.com/study-dead-sea-creatures-covered-98-of-seafloor-last-year-150-miles-off-california-coast-had-been-less-than-1-previously
http://rense.com/
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=94985026
http://enenews.com/another-20-navy-sailors-uss-ronald-reagan-crew-with-thyroid-cancer-leukemia-brain-tumors-bleeding-blindness-children-becoming-sick-after-responding-to-311-crisis-japan-govt-and-tepc
http://www.veteranstoday.com/category/medical-and-health/medical-and-disability-benefits/
ATTENTION MY BROTHERS: Dr. Busby: By 2020. Their project was 2020. If it continues…
Jim Fetzer: 2020 !
Dr. Busby: By 2020, that would be
the end of Israel.
Jim Fetzer: 2020 — and this is already 2011!
Leuren Moret: The sperm count in the last ten years has declined
40 percent in Israeli men.
It was already at least 20 percent in decline because of
nuclear technology, but at this rate, by 2020, just as Dr.
Busby has said, basically Israeli men will be sterilized.
At 20 percent sperm count, men are considered to be sterile.
[See HAARETZ: “Study: Quality of Israeli sperm down 40% in
past decade” by Ofri Ilani (11.05.09)]
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/11/03/new-bombs-and-war-crimes-in-fallujah/comment-page-1/
Jim Fetzer: Are we aware of what might be the specific causes
of this reduction in sperm count among the Israeli …
Dr. Busby: It’s uranium. It’s the uranium. The uranium is
floating all around the Middle East.
Scientists Insist Iraq, Israel, EURO etc. nuked by UN ? -
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2013/12/06/scientists-insist-iraq-nuked-by-us/
Broken promises is the least of Americans' worries at this point. The true nature will hit the sheeple in the face at some point.
‘Gitmo is complete violation of int’l law’
http://rinf.com/alt-news/breaking-news/gitmo-is-complete-violation-of-intl-law/
What Washington is doing at its notorious prison at the Guantanamo Bay US Naval Base in Cuba “is a complete violation of international law,” says Abayomi Azikiwe, editor of Pan-African News Wire.
The Guantanamo Bay prison is “a camp which is on occupied Cuban territory [because] Cuba is a sovereign country [and] the United States has a naval base there,” said Azikiwe in a phone interview with Press TV on Thursday. “On that base, they are holding prisoners illegally.”
“These people have been subjected to no due process and this should be an issue that not only human rights organizations should be concerned about but also those within the United States Congress. The United States Congress should immediately pass a resolution closing the prison at Guantanamo Bay,” he added.
While a new US congressional deal, which still has to be approved by both chambers on Capitol Hill, seeks to ease restrictions on sending Guantanamo prisoners home, defense lawyers and rights advocates say it “does not close Guantanamo or anything close.”
Shutting down Guantanamo was a central theme of US President Barack Obama‘s presidential campaign in 2008.
The Guantanamo prison in southeastern Cuba holds over 160 men seized during the US military’s “counter-terrorism” operations. Most of the prisoners have been held without charge or trial for more than a decade.
“There is absolutely no legal or security basis for” holding prisoners at Guantanamo, Azikiwe said.
On Thursday, Marine Major General Michael Lehnert, the US general who opened the prison, also said that opening Guantanamo was a mistake and that it should be shut down because the prison complex “validates every negative perception of the United States”.
Azikiwe also referred to the force-feeding of the Guantanamo prisoners who went on a hunger strike earlier this year and called it “a blatant violation of human rights.”
“It is also a situation where people do not have any fundamental rights to defend themselves [or] to have evidence presented against them and this is being carried out by a country that claims to be a beacon in the leadership of international law,” he pointed out.
"The 'education' of President Obama is an 'amusing process' " - George Will
Fitting quotes for the day
http://www.aroundthehouse.com/25-great-truths
Our problems today have been talked about for many years.
GREAT TRUTHS
<!--[if !supportLists]-->1. <!--[endif]-->In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress.
-- John Adams
2. If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed.
-- Mark Twain
3. Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But then I repeat myself.
-- Mark Twain
4. I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.
--Winston Churchill
5. A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw
6. A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money.
-- G. Gordon Liddy
7. Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.
--James Bovard, Civil Libertarian (1994)
8. Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer of money from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries.
-- Douglas Case, Classmate of Bill Clinton at Georgetown University.
9. Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
-- P.J. O'Rourke, Civil Libertarian
10. Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.
-- Frederic Bastiat, French economist(1801-1850)
11. Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it! If it keeps moving, regulate it! And if it stops moving, subsidize it!
--Ronald Reagan (1986)
12. I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
-- Will Rogers
13. If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free!
-- P. J. O'Rourke
14. In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other.
--Voltaire (1764)
15. Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you!
--Pericles (430 B.C.)
16. No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session.
-- Mark Twain (1866)
17. Talk is cheap, except when Congress does it.
-- Anonymous
18. The government is like a baby's alimentary canal, with a happy appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan
19. The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings. The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery.
-- Winston Churchill
20. The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.
-- Mark Twain
21. The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.
-- Herbert Spencer, English Philosopher (1820-1903)
22. There is no distinctly Native American criminal class, save Congress.
-- Mark Twain
23. What this country needs are more unemployed politicians
--Edward Langley, Artist (1928-1995)
24. A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have.
-- Thomas Jefferson
25. We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
-- Aesop
26. The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest amount of feathers with the least possible amount of hissing.
-- Jean-Baptiste Colbert (1619-1683), French Minister of Finance
FIVE BEST SENTENCES
1. You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity, by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity.
2. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.
3. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.
4. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.
5. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work, because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that is the beginning of the end of any nation!
How Edward Snowden is Transforming the Global Political Landscape (VIDEO)
http://xrepublic.tv/node/6453
Shermann
ObamaCare Website Crashes When CNN Tests Upgraded Version
Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2013/12/01/obamacare-website-crashes-when-cnn-tests-upgraded-version#ixzz2mGnAx6nQ
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2013/12/01/obamacare-website-crashes-when-cnn-tests-upgraded-version
Wall Street Journal
Nov. 29, 2013 7:05 p.m. ET
Even as President Obama reluctantly granted Americans thrown off their health plans quasi-permission to possibly keep them, he called them "the folks who, over time, I think, are going to find that the marketplaces are better." He means the ObamaCare exchanges that are replacing the private insurance market, adding that "it's important that we don't pretend that somehow that's a place worth going back to."
Easy for him to say. The reason this furor will continue even if the website is fixed is that the public is learning that ObamaCare's insurance costs more in return for worse coverage.
Mr. Obama and his liberal allies call the old plans "substandard," but he doesn't mean from the perspective of the consumers who bought them. He means people were free to choose insurance that wasn't designed to serve his social equity and income redistribution goals. In his view, many people must pay first-class fares for coach seats so others can pay less and receive extra benefits.
Liberals justify these coercive cross-subsidies as necessary to finance coverage for the uninsured and those with pre-existing conditions. But government usually helps the less fortunate honestly by raising taxes to fund programs. In summer 2009, Senate Democrats put out such a bill, and the $1.6 trillion sticker shock led them to hide the transfers by forcing people to buy overpriced products.
This political mugging is especially unfair to the people whose plans on the current individual market are being taken away. The majority of these consumers are self-employed or small-business owners. They're middle class, rarely affluent. They took responsibility for their care without government aid, and unlike people in the job-based system, they paid with after-tax dollars.
Now they're being punished for the crime of not subsidizing ObamaCare, even though the individual market was never as dysfunctional or high cost as liberals claim. In 2012, average U.S. individual premiums were $190, ranging from a low of $123 in North Dakota to a high of $385 in Massachusetts. Average premiums for family plans fell that year by 0.5% to $412.
Those numbers come from the 13,000 different policies from 180 insurers sold on eHealthInsurance.com, the online shopping brokerage that works. (Technological wonders never cease.) Individuals can make the trade-offs between costs and benefits for themselves. This wide variety is proof that humans don't all want or need the same thing. If they did, there would be no need for a market and government could satisfy everybody.
That is precisely what the Obama health planners believe they can do. Regulators mandated a very rich level of "essential" health benefits that all plans in the individual market must cover, regardless of cost. This year eHealth EHTH reported that its data show individual premiums must be 47% higher than the old average to fund the new categories in the individual market.
Meanwhile, ObamaCare's plans are limited to essentially four. Yes, four. The law converts insurance products on the ObamaCare exchanges into interchangeable commodities that finance the same standard benefit at the same average expense over four tiers known as bronze, silver, gold and platinum.
So, for example, a bronze plan covers 60% of health-care expenses and the beneficiary pays a lower premium to pick up the remaining 40% out of pocket. Platinum carries a higher premium for a 90%-10% split. But there can be little deviation from the formulas—that is, there is little room for innovation or policy choice—to suit customer preferences.
In any case all four tiers are scrap-metal grade, because the rules ObamaCare imposes to create a supposedly superior insurance product are resulting in an objectively inferior medical product. The new mandates and rules raise costs, so insurers must compensate by offering narrow and less costly networks of doctors, hospitals and other providers in their ObamaCare products. Insurers thus restrict care and patient choice of physicians in exchange for discounted reimbursement rates, much as Medicaid does.
Nearly half of the ObamaCare plans are tightly managed HMOs, according to a McKinsey & Co. analysis. In states like California, Missouri and New Hampshire, many networks are 40% or 45% the size of those offered for normal commercial coverage. Patients face the prospect of waiting months and driving miles to clinics and county hospitals.
Narrow networks can be a useful cost-control tool, to the extent people choose to give up medical options in return for lower premiums. But that's rarely what people want when they're choosing with their own money. Some 82.5% of eHealth customers in 2012 purchased preferred provider organization plans (PPOs) that are structured so patients can visit virtually any physician.
The awful irony of this new ObamaCare health system is that all adults now enjoy mandated pediatric vision benefits, even if they don't have kids, but parents can't take their daughter to an expensive children's hospital if she gets really sick. Everybody gets "free" preventive checkups with no copays, but not treatment for a complex illness from specialists at an academic medical center.
If the old individual market was as bad as Mr. Obama said it was, then he shouldn't pretend it's a place worth going back to, even for a year's delay. His "fix" is necessary politically because ObamaCare's willful destruction of this alternative is the worst act of government mayhem since FDR's National Recovery Act. The Affordable Care Act's main achievement is turning out to be diminishing affordable care.
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303460004579192081764514664
Ry on Awake Radio second half Bill Still joins in (VIDEO)
An Interesting Discussion!!!
The truth is a most unpleasant pill, but it is the only pill that has the power to cure.
I think you have come very far philosophically. You are a success story for accepting some very hard truths in my book. Moved forward and haven't looked back.
I commend you.
Very true. I am guilty of that as well at times. Nobody likes their beliefs and loyalties dashed by facts..........
People who can't handle truths are the first to react and not respond to them...
With a high school graduation rate of about 65%, 18 year-olds who cannot figure simple addition/subtraction math, who cannot write real English and cannot understand what they are reading even after the third or fourth try, the person who sent me this in an email said he could actually envision the Democrats introducing this as a real bill.
Just look at all the "talking heads" on TV who can't grasp the fact that a well-trained person armed with a concealed gun at a school is more effective at protecting the kids than the entire police department only 1/2 mile away. We're talking about people with low comprehension here, so enjoy what could, in many ways, be an actuality of the future.
Washington, DC
President Barack Obama is considering sweeping legislation that will provide new benefits for many Americans. The Americans With No Abilities Act. Advocates of the millions of Americans who lack any real skills or ambition are hailing AWNAA as a major legislative goal.
Roughly 50 percent of Americans do not possess the competence and drive necessary to carve out a meaningful role for themselves in society,' said California Senator Barbara Boxer. 'We can no longer stand by and allow People of Inability to be ridiculed and passed over. With this legislation, employers will no longer be able to grant special favors to a small group of workers, simply because they have some idea of what they are doing.'
In a Capitol Hill press conference, House Majority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid pointed to the success of the U.S. Postal Service, which has a long-standing policy of providing opportunity without regard to performance. Approximately 74 percent of postal employees lack any job skills, making this agency the single largest U. S. employer of Persons of Inability.
Private-sector industries with good records of non-discrimination against the Inept include retail sales (72%), the airline industry (68%), and home improvement 'warehouse' stores (65%).
At the state government level, the Department of Motor Vehicles also has an excellent record of hiring Persons of Inability (63%).
Under The Americans With No Abilities Act, more than 25 million 'middle man' positions will be created, with important-sounding titles but little real responsibility, thus providing an illusory sense of purpose and performance. Mandatory non-performance-based raises and promotions will be given so as to guarantee upward mobility for even the most unremarkable employees. The legislation provides substantial tax breaks to corporations that promote a significant number of Persons of Inability into middle-management positions, and gives a tax credit to small and medium-sized businesses that agree to hire one clueless worker for every two talented hires.
Finally, the AWNAA contains tough new measures to make it more difficult to discriminate against the non-abled, banning, for example, discriminatory interview questions such as, 'Do you have any skills or experience that relate to this job?'
'As a Non-abled person, I can't be expected to keep up with people who have something going for them,' said Mary Lou Gertz, who lost her position as a lug-nut twister at the GM plant in Flint, Michigan, due to her inability to remember 'righty tightey, lefty loosey.' 'This new law should be real good for people like me,' Gertz added. With the passage of this bill, Gertz and millions of other untalented citizens will finally see a light at the end of the tunnel.
Said Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL): 'As a Senator with no abilities, I believe the same privileges that elected officials enjoy ought to be extended to every American with no abilities. It is our duty as lawmakers to provide each and every American citizen, regardless of his or her inadequacy, with some sort of space to take up in this great nation and a good salary for doing nothing.'
You want to know why I despise the liberal mind and the millions of OBOY supporters and the entitled attitude and the liberal, Barry generations coming up?
Watch this entire video, and tell me that these are not the TYPICAL (I didn't say exclusive) OBOY supporters! Most liberals are related to this garbage, and they sicken me. They will claim this has nothing to do with their belief systems, and that only shows their true ignorance. They fed and supported raising entitled generation after generation with their liberal theology -- no God, no family unit, no morals, free crap for all!
THIS is the generation that is raised on violence and pornography and broken homes. THIS is the generation that believes "rich whitey" OWES them something. THIS is the generation spawned by LIBERAL belief systems. Liberal morons can make fun of even the worst in their minds, like "hicks in the south," yet those people keep to themselves. They may collect guns and "prepare" for a future of violence and conspiracy that liberals think insane, but they do not run around attacking innocent people.
Where is the liberal MSM and the teflon leader on issues like this? Waste millions DEFENDING one of this TRASH culture like a TRAYVON with his grill, F-word mouth, and a lot like this video generation, because he met up with another scum of the wrong color to be ignored.
Shut down a whole city in Boston but ignore the millions of these pond scum roaming the streets. Thank God that "if I had a son," he'd look nothing like these evolutionary monkeys in this video. Yep, it's out there, so deal with the "truf." This is now AmeriKa. Home of the entitled and violent and sociopathetic! Proud to have ONE OF THEIR OWN in the "white" house. I should not have included the racial overtones, but just the sheer numbers of these scum who now roam the streets, and the total ignoring by those in charge of the REAL problems in the country angers me enough to not pull the punches. So, liberals will ONLY see a "racist" old white man and continue to ignore the evil they fuel with their liberal ideas. Fine. Own it. It's theirs. And it is coming for them one day.
THIS is the LIBERAL generational spawn, and it will eventually come and feed off of them and those they love, because there aren't enough conservatives left to satisfy their growing appetite. I hope liberals ENJOY what liberal thinking so vigorously supports currently in their ignorance.
the question is, does he cheat at golf?
NH
BUYER’S REMORSE AND ROMNEY WAS RIGHT
Funny how things turn out. ObamaKare shits the bed. Obama’s multitude of lies are spinning out of control. Nutsy Pelosi babbles like an idiot (more than usual). Eric Witholder is going to be impeached (if the Congress finds their balls). The IRS scandal. The NSA scandal. The Census Bureau posted lies about unemployment being down before Nov 2012. And The Kenyan Rodeo Clown and his entire Administration is a global laughingstock. And it appears that Romney was right all along; as were the rest of us who predicted that an unqualified idiot in the WH, simply for “history’s sake”, would be a REAL bad idea. Too bad America allows idiots to vote not for country, not for adult leadership, but for a living at the government tit.
WHY AMERICANS SHOULD BE FURIOUS
and itching to revolt.
EXCERPT: “The winners in the new Washington are not just the former senators, party consiglieri and four-star generals who have always profited from their connections. Now they are also the former bureaucrats, accountants and staff officers for whom unimagined riches are suddenly possible. They are the entrepreneurs attracted to the capital by its aura of prosperity and its super-educated workforce. They are the lawyers, lobbyists and executives who work for companies that barely had a presence in Washington before the boom. During the past decade, the region added 21,000 households in the nation’s top 1 percent. No other metro area came close.”
“Lobbyists will not run my White House, and they will not drown out the voices of the American people when I’m President.” Obama 2008 (Apparently they DO!)
“I won’t take money from PACs, won’t take money from federal registered lobbyists.” Obama 2008 (The money, it flowed in like wine…)
“We’re Going To Have To Change The Culture In Washington So That Lobbyists And Special Interests Aren’t Driving The Process.” Obama 2008
“First, we will close the revolving door that has allowed people to use their administration job as a stepping stone to further their lobbying careers.” Obama 2007
“We face a deficit of trust – deep and corrosive doubts about how Washington works that have been growing for years. [And Obama has made it worse] To close that credibility gap we must take action on both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue to end the outsized influence of lobbyists; to do our work openly; and to give our people the government they deserve.” Obama 2010
Apparently Obama lied and lobbyists thrived.
Politicians go from their offices to K Street and funnel more of the taxpayer’s money into their pockets and the pockets of their homies and no one is better at this than Barack Hussein Obama MMM! MMM! MMM! And here is the sick joke. Under the leadership of FUBARack, the nation has gone into a tailspin and the next time some dickhead yammers about “the recovery” in front of the Gunny, they’re gonna be chewing on their teeth.
FACT: 91 MILLION Americans out of the workforce. The worst since the Great Depression.
FACT: 49 MILLION Americans on welfare. Granted, a large number of those are ghetto rats too stupid, lazy, or useless to get a job. That is, if they can even find a job but the fact remains that far too many Americans on sucking on the government teat, which the Democrats love.
FACT: The REAL unemployment rate is almost 15% and has been that or HIGHER since January 2009 (Forbes).
FACT: The Fed has pumped 85 BILLION dollars of fake money into Wall Street in order to pump up stocks for two reasons, one, in order to keep skimming the profits like the Mafia at a Las Vegas casino and two, to use the DOW as a distraction for the masses. The “oh look the DOW is at 16,000…” looks great until like a gold spray-painted turd you hit it with a stick and the stink fills the room.
FACT: Quantitaive Easing 1, 2, 3, 4… helps Bernanke, Obama, and their buddies, no one else. Why? Because by taking money from their right pocket and buying up debt and putting it in their left pocket makes everything look sweet. However, as of January 2009 when Obama took office, the Fed held $475.9 billion worth of U.S. Treasury bonds but as of August 2013, the Fed held over 2 trillion dollars worth. Worthless paper propping up a house of cards.
FACT: Now here is a factoid STRAIGHT out of the communist manifesto, which The Red Diaper baby in the Spite House was weaned on: “the middle class is taking home a smaller share of the overall income pie than has ever been recorded before.” (US Census Bureau.) By destroying the Middle Class, Obama and his minions like Valerie Jarrett can pit groups against one another as they get richer.
FACT: Obama’s EPA has been running around shutting down drilling, mining, refining, and coal power plants and what is the result? Jan 2009 gas was $1.85 and now, over 4 bucks and even worse, especially for those on a fixed income, utility bills have skyrocketed over the last five years, far over the rate of inflation!
Perhaps the worst economic fact rarely, if ever told to the public is this: “The global economic competitiveness of the USA has DROPPED in rankings, for four straight years, 2009-2013 while at the same time the velocity of money is at its lowest since 1946.”
We’re in a world of hurt and the idiots in DC dance around like there is nothing wrong but real people are really being hurt and this all comes down to the fact that the Democrats AND the Establishment Blue Blood RINOs like McLame, Grahamnesty, Snowe, Collins, and the rest of the herd are lining their pockets and when the crash comes, and it is coming, they’ll be fine just like the politicians and their cronyies during the Great Depression were okay. Oh, and don’t worry America, 25 MILLION illegal aliens are fixing to get their amnesty and will be able to OPENLY belly up to the public trough because our politicians are busy pander to the “hispanic vote.”
Here is some new math for ya:
1. 91 million Americans out of the work force.
2. Divide by 150 rounds of Obama golf.
3. Sum total, 606,666 jobs lost for every round of golf.
Now THAT is focusing “laser-like” on job creation.
http://www.stltoday.com/news/national/govt-and-politics/d-c-awash-in-contracts-lobbying-wealth/article_53336d9b-a75f-5a1a-bb19-d46d3186a960.html?
http://www.theantiliberalzone.com/
WEEP FOR THE REPUBLIC
when these idiots take over. Thanks to helicopter parents and mommy and daddy paying their way from kindygarden soccer to being edumacated at higher learning places like Haaaaavaaahhhhd (which gave us Ted Kennedy, Larry Summers, Paul Krugman, Austen Goolsby, Obummer, and a bunch of other morons) these thimblebrains think money simply just…IS. Why, it grows on trees don’t ya know? GOD help the Republic!
Here's a good time. I'd post some excerpts, but there's so much funny and sad stuff here, that I'll just let people skim it all.
http://www.theantiliberalzone.com/category/obama-is-a-dumbass/page/2/
Obama Deceived Us & Can't Even Apologize Correctly! (VIDEO)
This About Sums it Up!!!
http://xrepublic.tv/node/6201
Shermann
All that is just an idiotic sideshow.
The real problem is your REAL government was taken over by a foreign corporation running parallel to the established Republic of 1787 by gang of shysters who feign being "public officials" thereby gutting the three branches of government by unconferred authority to create a despotic world government in which you have no secured or protected unalienable Rights as a man made in the image of your Creator. Only government granted privilege and benefits as just another animal to be tended in the menagerie.
While perhaps not totally accurate, this gives at least SOME insight.
http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/esp_sociopol_rothschild01.htm
Here's the Bush and Barry legacy, and it's turning into much more Barry now than even Bush. History will not be kind to these idiots who simply keep kicking the can down the road and saying "SCREW those who come after me . . . let them figure out the mess."
The Recovery That Wasn't
Only Thing "Improving" Is Stock Market
For an example of how this will play out, look to our neighbors in the south...
Venezuela's Caracas Stock Index is crushing it. It's up over 620% just this year.
It's the best-performing stock market in the world...
But people there can't even get toilet paper. They have to ration electricity. There were 400 blackouts larger than 100 megawatts in 2011. That doubled to 800 blackouts in 2012.
In October, a woman there lost her unborn child after fist-fighting someone for the last bag of cornflour in a Caracas supermarket.
But their stock market is at all-time highs.
The only thing "improving" is the stock market.
A national debt at $17 trillion... the Fed printing $85 billion per month, with no end in sight.
The trampling of your civil rights by the NSA.
The IRS targeting of people for their political beliefs.
The bankruptcy of Detroit.
The utter militarization of police.
The Justice Department's hacking of AP reporters' emails.
Where is the recovery... economic, social, or political?
It doesn't exist.
40% of the country says capitalism isn't working.
And I'd have to say that's because we're not operating in a capitalistic system any more...
We have corporatism. The bailing out of banks and the purchase of junk bonds and manipulation of rates by the Fed is anything but capitalism.
http://www.outsiderclub.com/the-recovery-that-wasnt/587
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