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Montanore Watch - BREAKING: Fully Vaccinated Adults Account for Over 90% of COVID-Related Deaths!
Posted on February 25, 2023 by Constitutional Nobody
Key Points:
https://ussanews.com/2023/02/25/breaking-fully-vaccinated-adults-account-for-over-90-of-covid-related-deaths/
JESUS PRAYERS Needed Against - NWO = OWG KHZARIAN DEEPSTATE EVIL - THE ILLUMINATI AND ONE WORLD
GOVERNMENT WARMONGLERS NECON NAZIS =
DEPOPULATION AGAINST ALL HUMANITY -
WATCH
The Illuminati and One World Government
From Genesis to the Tower of Babel, to the
Egyptian Pharaohs, to Goat God's, to the World Bank, and the
FreeMasons, Secret Societies, Rosicrucians,
Rothschild bloodline, sexual perversions,
Marxism, Communism, Illuminati, Evil 666 -
https://www.bitchute.com/video/wzXLOeEAGm1d/
JESUS PRAYERS THANKS - SITUATION UPDATE GCR REPORT 2/20: JFK JR DECODE! HARRIS STARTS WW3?! EPSTEIN/CHASE BANK REVEAL! WOW!
WATCH
https://www.bitchute.com/video/IdhwLuCqaUg6/
https://www.bitchute.com/video/JrOIjbfGtLKs/
TRUMP LIFTS SPIRITS IN EAST PALESTINE, OHIO, WHILE BIDEN RESTS FROM
BANGING THE WAR DRUMS IN UKRAINE
WATCH
https://www.bitchute.com/video/YST1BSDWdsRw/
WATCH = NWO KHAZARIANS MAFIA MURDER OUR BROTHERS & SISTERS AND THE HUMANITY -
SECRET ISRAELI AND PFIZER CONTRACT EXPOSED BY STEVE KIRSCH AND STEW
PETERS
WATCH
https://www.bitchute.com/video/0eh6vANp9pOj/
Pp Watch - STEW PETERS: MARXISTS HIJACKED AMERICA, WHO IS RUNNING THE UNITED STATES - 2/20/23
WATCH
https://www.bitchute.com/video/wTE2J0hekgIK/
Evil eugenics MAID in Canada: Socialist left's massive genocide disguised as medical care
Mirror. Source
Evil Eugenics MAID In Canada: Socialist Left's MASSIVE Genocide Disguised As Medical Care https://odysee.com/@TimTruth:b/canada-maid-genocide:1
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5G is a weapon system - Don't be fooled by the fake narrative https://tinyurl.com/tf38xs3d ~ The agenda - They are destroying human kind https://tinyurl.com/2p82r3j9 ~ 60GHz in schools - Lena Pu and Mark Steele https://tinyurl.com/2c67ep66 ~ 5G target acquiring weapon system - This is not for control but an extermination technology https://tinyurl.com/4hetn32u ~ UK Government hacked https://tinyurl.com/337zjb4s ~ Report #133: David Noakes on GcMAF cancer treatments, FDA/MHRA/Pharma corruption, & wrongful charges https://tinyurl.com/ev8kms8n ~ BitChute { noakes falconscafe https://tinyurl.com/2h7z47ve } ~ The disciples of Ra: The deception of "medicine", viruses & vaccines https://tinyurl.com/2p8uc7as ~ Viruses don't exist https://is.gd/E4li0z ~ If you don't know what causes what they call a virus you will never know unless you read the science https://tinyurl.com/yj8j9pd2 ~ Assembling the kill grid ~ Excerpt: Mark Steele https://tinyurl.com/4cethr4b ~ Prof. Francis Boyle "The British must not take these frankenshots"! Interview https://tinyurl.com/3cbrwts2 ~ The MAC phenomenon in people "vaccinated" from COVID-19 https://tinyurl.com/2p8xhjz3 ~ Video summary of La Quinta Columna that shows evidence of genocide based on injectable analysis https://tinyurl.com/43bdk4na
Illegal organ trafficking of homeless people in Texas? Same thing happened during Hurricane Katrina https://tinyurl.com/ym7uyt3e ~ Homeless vet killing society https://tinyurl.com/y2ycpn6m ~ NATO satanism, testimony, Kay Griggs: Colonel's wife tell-all, oppression, deception, secret society https://tinyurl.com/2p8ybsjv ~ Horus matrix at Normandy Omaha Beach Overlord D-Day 666 Cemetery satanic ritual sacrifice https://tinyurl.com/yckjeu8r ~ The cover up continues - Share this with all vaccinated, who have been lied to by their doctors https://tinyurl.com/3w65f9ny ~ Whistleblower: Hospitals killing for organs, "This is absolutely evil and a crime against humanity!" https://tinyurl.com/4mp7h8vy ~ The world must know #PureEvil #HellOnEarth https://tinyurl.com/2p93msb3 ~ Bombshell: Pfizer vaccine study's massive list of "Adverse events of interest" https://tinyurl.com/yc7tyu2r
Did he just say snake venom? - Dr Bryan Ardis talks to Right Now https://tinyurl.com/4chrmwy8 ~ World premiere: Watch the Water https://tinyurl.com/3ybuwhxv ~ Part 1/3 - Dr. Bryan Ardis reveals bombshell origins of COVID, mRNA vaccines and treatments https://tinyurl.com/38earx4a ~ Biological weapons; Is there a link between the water supply system and the pandemic? https://tinyurl.com/2p8pvuze ~ Professor Darrel Hamamoto on persecution and inquisition at UC Davis https://tinyurl.com/4wkcjcu3 ~ The China-NHS lateral flow test, massive fraud, for those that lost work.. or murdered on COVID ward https://tinyurl.com/2mbamwmf ~ COVID-19 test fraud, also carcinogenic https://tinyurl.com/2p99uwws ~ Your future The SPARS pandemic 2025 - 2028 https://is.gd/kCajO1
Snuff Hill https://tinyurl.com/573ufnvj ~ Blood Hill https://tinyurl.com/ymckkptu ~ Fitzwilliam military cult https://tinyurl.com/bdhz7529 ~ Troy River https://tinyurl.com/2p86hv66 ~ Tent City https://tinyurl.com/56hfw4kf ~ 18 Brickyard Troy Depot, Troy School, Cemetery, Discount Tire, satanic stalking, ritual sacrifice https://tinyurl.com/2jvdutm2 ~ Bohemian Grove Jr, Bridgewater Associates - CIA corporate front, CIA role in snuff and pornography https://tinyurl.com/2p8v8yr5 ~ Hebron Coven ~ Part 1 to 4 of 9 https://tinyurl.com/yw952bnn ~ Body Organs Of Over 18,000 Syrian Children Sold in Six Years https://tinyurl.com/djarv3w8 ~ I saw kids in cages outside a masonic lodge being loaded into trucks https://tinyurl.com/46uxrvs5 ~ Amazon USB key - Part 1 to 2 - CYM Adrenochrome https://tinyurl.com/yckfvnn2
The men on the moon https://tinyurl.com/42dh2ejv ~ Moon truth https://tinyurl.com/mrxx5sks ~ 7 rockets hit dome ! https://tinyurl.com/46rd63v5 ~ Who shot the moon landing, classroom bloopers https://tinyurl.com/mw7xwh39
Oil is abundant and cheap https://tinyurl.com/3e2nkbbm
MAGA Prayers To Father GOD Needed - THE WORLD VS. THE KHAZARIAN MAFIA -- JIM WILLIE
WATCH
https://www.bitchute.com/video/PSIN2glcoaju/
Watch MAGA Thanks - Pray To Get Father GOD'S Remedies Back To US - ROCKEFELLER INFLUENCED THE WORLD TO REMOVE ALL THE NATURAL
REMEDIES FROM PRACTICE FOR HIS BENEFIT
WATCH
https://www.bitchute.com/video/uD36QiNCxC8O/
China Says Ready To "Join Forces With Russia" To "Defend National Interests" As Putin Confirms Xi Visit
Tyler Durden's Photo
BY TYLER DURDEN
WEDNESDAY, FEB 22, 2023 - 10:00 AM
Despite all latest among Washington's repeat warnings to Beijing against strategic or military cooperation with Moscow, China is now pledging to "join forces" with "like-minded" partner Russia to defend national interests. The statement came by the close of the first day of the director of the Office of the Foreign Affairs Commission of the Communist Party of China’s Central Committee Wang Yi's trip to Moscow.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/china-says-ready-join-forces-russia-defend-national-interests-putin-confirms-xi-visit
CH - TOXIC FUMES FROM OHIO MAY SERIOUSLY AFFECT EVERYONE EAST OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER 250 MILLION PEOPLE
WATCH
https://www.bitchute.com/video/hCb5IvRRkL7G/
$500 TRILLION LAWSUIT AGAINST THE FEDERAL GOVT AND OVER 140 MONOPOLISTS (REMOVED BY YOUTUBE IN 5HRS)
WATCH
https://www.bitchute.com/video/QFcfDjifRl6u/
Even the doctors fell for it
https://rumble.com/v2aenx2-more-than-130-canadian-doctors-have-died-suddenly-since-c19-killshots-began.html
5G – Microwave as a weapon Part 2 - Dr. Reiner Fuellmich and Barrie Trower https://rumble.com/v2a3th8-5g-microwave-as-a-weapon-part-2- dr.-reiner-fuellmich-and-barrie-trower.html | Towards The Light channel https://www.bitchute.com/cha…
https://www.bitchute.com/video/RaEZsuhWr2G0/
NWO Biden like a 3 year old -
Montanore Watch; Norton; Just the beginning of this video, listening to what 'Biden' has done....in a 1 year+
is very, very alarming......who is this guy,?,why destroy America???
Why Is the Biden Administration Determined to Help Terrorist Iran Get a Bomb?
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/18506/russia-china-nuclear-escalation
Just the beginning of this video, listening to what 'Biden' has
done....in a 1 year+ is very, very alarming......who is this guy,?,why
destroy America??? Because;
NWO
want depopulation from 7.5 billion people down to 500 million
as NWO deep state agenda been since WWI and WWII and
only getting worse -
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/18358/iran-deal-biden-obama
Montanore Watch; TRUMP EXPECTS TO SEE A ‘VERY BIG CROWD’ IN PA TONIGHT
by Timothy Frudd May 6, 2022.
https://www.rsbnetwork.com/news/trump-expects-to-see-a-very-big-crowd-in-pa-tonight/
President Donald Trump announced on Monday he will hold a major campaign
rally in Greensburg, Pennsylvania, on May 6, 2022.
According to Trump’s website, his speech will take place at 8:00 p.m. EDT.
The event will take place at the Westmoreland Fairgrounds in
Greensburg, Pennsylvania. Doors open at 3:00 p.m., and pre-program
speakers begin at 5:00 p.m.
Every mainstream media operation is simply ignoring the new movie;
“2000 Mules,”
https://2000mules.com/
which creator Dinesh D’Souza says proves beyond a doubt there was widespread
voter fraud in the form of ballot box stuffing in the 2020 Election.
Even FOX is ignoring this explosive film. Shame on fake FOX News.
The mainstream media is desperate to discredit it and try to totally ignore this
earth-shaking revelation of a stolen election and an illegitimate President in the
White House.
https://usawatchdog.com/nuke-war-close-fox-ignores-2000-mules-inflation-vs-roe/
Watch "Joe Biden says he's built most extensive "voter fraud" org in history" on YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGRnhBmHYN0
$Montanore Thanks; Bob, updated Trump rally link...
https://gettr.com/streaming/pzn6l3a175
$CT Thanks; Bob, here is Trump on gettr if youtube cuts him off.
https://gettr.com/streaming/pzn6l3a175https://gettr.com/streaming/pzn6l3a175
TRUMP TOUTS SOUTH CAROLINA RALLY
WATCH
https://www.bitchute.com/video/Oviygrfa0smt/
$mr40 President Donald Trump Rally LIVE in Florence, SC 3/12/22
19,194 watching nowStarted streaming 56 minutes ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
Trump: NO Syrian refugees, take care of Americans first!
https://refugeeresettlementwatch.wordpress.com/2015/09/23/trump-no-syrian-refugees-take-care-of-americans-first/
OSAMA: IT’S ILLEGAL FOR STATES TO REFUSE SYRIAN REFUGEES -
http://www.infowars.com/barack-obama-its-illegal-for-states-to-refuse-syrian-refugees/
Sen. Sessions Releases BOMBSHELL List Of Refugees Turned Terrorist… Obama Is FURIOUS -
http://www.americasfreedomfighters.com/2015/11/29/sessions-bombshell/
CIVIL WAR ALERT: OSAMA Just THREATENED TO INVADE EVERY STATE That REFUSED Syrian Refugees … IT HAS BEGUN …
http://tothedeathmedia.com/civil-war-alert-obama-just-threatened-to-invade-every-state-that-refused-syrian-refugees-it-has-begun/
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God Bless
Rand Paul: People Are Calling For A “Libertarian Moment”
http://libertycrier.com/rand-paul-people-calling-libertarian-moment/
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) explains that the good people of the U.S. are calling out for a "libertarian moment."
His comments came during an address to the Republican Liberty Caucus of Texas at the Texas GOP convention here. Liberty, he said, “infuses traditional conservatism with the excitement, the energy, the outreach that we need.” Libertarian views and traditional conservative values complement each other, Paul added.
“The interesting thing about it is, as I go around the country, no matter who I talk to, whether it’s the establishment — the wealthy who support our party sometimes — or the poor, people say it’s time, time for this libertarian moment, this liberty moment,” he said. “It’s no longer something that scares people, it’s what [makes] people say, we can’t run the same-old same-old, we’re not going to win with the same-old, same-old.”
He was speaking to a Republican Liberty Caucus group in Texas, where he talked about his outreach plans for non-traditional Republican types.
He called for reforming the criminal justice system so it doesn’t disproportionately hit minorities and poor people; school choice; and promoting policies that help economic development in poorer areas.
“You have to show up, you have to show you care, people have to believe that you care and then we’ll win, be the dominant party,” he said. “In Texas you are, but we’re not nationally.”
Whole thing.
He's right that a GOP that becomes libertarian—more socially tolerant and inclusive and actually dedicated to limiting the size, scope, and spending of government—could become the dominant party nationally. It would also be a radically different Republican Party (and a better one).
We've written a thing or two about the Libertarian Moment here at Reason over the years. Though all signs are pointing to a Libertarian Era, amirite?
Another way of talking about this is to say, Libertarianism 3.0, you're ready for your closeup!
Indian, Chinese Central Banks on track to absorb 90% of Gold mine output -
Jun 10, 2014 06:35 GMT Source:Scrap Register
INDIA June 10 2014 10:35 AM
MUMBAI (Scrap Register):
Indian and Chinese central banks on track
to absorb the equivalent of 90% of all mined gold production this
year, said ETF Securities in its Precious Metal Weekly.
China, India and central banks absorbed just over 80% of global
mine supply in 2 013 according to recent data.
Recent data indicates that these three entities alone are likely to
absorb the equivalent of nearly 90% of mine production in
2014 said ETF Securities.
Demand from India is likely to increase with
the curtailing of the 2013 import restrictions.
Central banks purchased 122 tons of gold in Q1 which is essentially
unchanged year-on-year and China’s imports of gold from Hong Kong
are up 18% year-on-year as of April .
On a similar note, sales of US mint silver coins are on pace in
2014 to surpass the record 35 million ounces sold in 2013.
The US mint must purchase its silver from US sources and the amount
of silver mined in the US in 2013 was only 35 million ounces.
Most of the demand for silver is for industrial purposes and
inventories are the lowest in decades - the majority in ETFs.
E.g.,
Russia of the the world biggest oil producer -
will buy more GOLD 2014 than before is note even incl. in the
above demand - not the rest of the world eder -
GO CALVF -
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God Bless
Libertarian Party Presidential Nominee Michael Badnarik joins Gary
Franchi to discuss the Bundy Ranch Federal Standoff and analyze the
Nevada Constitution's wording that may surprise you.Harry Reid Is
Calling Bundy Supporters 'Domestic Terrorists' -
Bundy Ranch The Nevada Constitution and Neo Slavery -
Class-action suit against gold-fix banks -
AIS files class-action suit against gold-fix banks
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By Francesca Freeman
A U.S. investment-management firm has filed a lawsuit against the five banks that set the London benchmark gold price, alleging that the banks conspired to manipulate the price of gold for their own gain.
Documents seen by The Wall Street Journal show that AIS Capital Management, based in Connecticut, filed a class-action complaint late Monday against Barclays PLC, Deutsche Bank, HSBC Holdings PLC, Bank of Nova Scotia and Société Générale SA in the U.S. district court for the Southern District of New York.
The suit is on behalf of AIS and other investors who held or traded gold and gold derivatives that were settled based on the gold fix, or who held or traded COMEX gold futures or options, from 2004 to present.
The London gold fix is a global benchmark for the spot price of gold that is used, for example, by jewelers and central bankers to price deals and help determine the value of securities tied to gold, such as exchange-traded funds. That process, which plays a crucial role in the $20 trillion-a-year gold market, is under review by regulators in the U.K. and Germany.
AIS wasn't available for comment.
Barclays, HSBC and Société Générale declined to comment. A spokesman for Deutsche Bank said: "We believe this suit is without merit and will vigorously defend against it." Bank of Nova Scotia didn't immediately respond to requests for comment.
Write to Francesca Freeman at francesca.freeman@wsj.com
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Bank of England to Parlament: We shredded all our documents
Oops.
http://wallstreetonparade.com/2014/03/bank-of-england-drops-a-bombshell-on-parliament-it-shredded-its-crisis-era-records/
George Soros: Banks are parasites
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financialcrisis/10684896/George-Soros-blasts-parasite-banks.html
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=98656477
Bank of England to Parlament: We shredded all our documents
Oops.
http://wallstreetonparade.com/2014/03/bank-of-england-drops-a-bombshell-on-parliament-it-shredded-its-crisis-era-records/
George Soros: Banks are parasites
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financialcrisis/10684896/George-Soros-blasts-parasite-banks.html
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=98656477
George Soros: Banks are parasites
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financialcrisis/10684896/George-Soros-blasts-parasite-banks.html
George Soros blasts 'parasite' banks
George Soros, the billionaire investor, has warned that little has changed since the 2008 crisis in the 'parasite' banking sector
George Soros says Germany has three months to save the eurozone
George Soros, the billionaire investor, said Germany would do the least required to save the euro Photo: AP
By John Ficenec 12:00PM GMT 08 Mar 2014Comments247 Comments
George Soros, the billionaire investor, believes the banking sector is a “parasite” holding back the economic recovery and an “incestuous” relationship with regulators means little has been done to resolve the issues behind the 2008 crisis.
“The banking sector is acting as a parasite on the real economy,” Mr Soros said in his new book “The Tragedy of the European Union”.
“The profitability of the finance industry has been excessive. For a while 35pc of all corporate profits in the United Kingdom and the United States came from the financial sector. That’s absurd.”
Mr Soros outlined how the problems that caused the Eurozone economic crisis remain largely unresolved.
“Very little has been done to correct the excess leverage in the European banking system. The equity in the banks relative to their balance sheets is wafer thin, and that makes them very vulnerable.
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“The issue of “too big to fail” has not been solved at all.”
The proposed solution of a European banking union does not address the underlying problems, Mr Soros adds.
“A real danger to the financial system is the incestuous relationship between national authorities and bank managements. France in particular is famous for its inspecteurs de finance, who end up running its major banks. Germany has its Landesbanken and Spain its caixas, which have unhealthy connections with provincial politicians.”
In his new book Mr Soros outlines, in a series of interviews with Dr. Gregor Peter Schmitz, how he believes the European Union is in danger of becoming a thing of the past unless its flawed structure is reformed.
The German economy at the regions heart could also be its biggest weakness.
“What was successful in Germany before the crisis will not be successful as a prescription for the rest of Europe in the years ahead.
“In German the word Schuld has a double meaning (both “blame” and “debt”). So it is natural (selbstverstandlich) to blame the debtor countries for their own misfortunes,
“Germany’s tone, is sometimes self-righteous and even hypocritical…. In 2003 Germany was among the first countries to break the eurozone rules. ”
The prospect of Germany leaving the eurozone is very real and it would have serious implications as the euro would depreciate sharply and deutsche mark would go through the roof, Germany would find out how painful it is to have an overvalued currency.
Mr Soros, who famously “broke the Bank of England” by betting against the pound during the 1992 sterling crash, talks candidly about his most successful trade.
“I have a clean conscience. The big events in which I participated would have occurred sooner or later, whether I speculated on them or not.”
- “The Tragedy of the European Union” is available from March 11 at £12.99, published by PublicAffairs.
Karen Hudes talks about secret ET manipulation of humans -
Karen Hudes Either We Take Back Our Gold, Our Legality, or We'll Have WWIII -
Thanks, Montanore--you probably saw this, too
made 8hrs ago -
Thanks, Bob--you probably saw this, too
Trail of those dead bankers leads to.Gold!
Reading/
Dead Bankers and the Media Prediction the U.S. Economy Will
Collapse Around March 4, 2014 !
http://socioecohistory.wordpress.com/2014/03/01/dead-bankers-and-the-media-prediction-the-u-s-economy-will-collapse-around-march-4-2014/
also reading/
Gundersen: “Nuclear core has disintegrated” at Fukushima Unit 3
— Japan Energy Expert:
Location of melted fuel for 3 reactors is unknown, this has
never happened anywhere before
http://investmentwatchblog.com/gold-and-silver-from-now-on-all-that-matters-is-that-you-own-both/
http://www.pakalertpress.com/2014/03/01/where-is-our-money-473-million-in-bitcoins-vaporized-as-mt-gox-exchange-files-bankruptcy/
Reading/Massive die-off of oysters and scallops in
Pacific Northwest: 'Millions of shellfish dying' —
Never seen anything like it —
'By July mortality hit 95 to 100 per cent'
http://enenews.com/alarm-bells-massive-die-off-of-oysters-and-scallops-in-pacific-northwest-millions-of-shellfish-are-dying-by-july-mortality-hit-95-to-100-per-cent-deformed-shells-smaller-in-si
also/reading
60-DAY COUNTDOWN BEGINS -- U.S. Media Silent as BBC Confirms:
http://www.turnerradionetwork.com/news/322-pat
Fukushima Radiation Plume Arriving North American Coast
Hearst Newspaper:
Bad news, Fukushima radioactive releases may be “far greater
than originally stated” — Bloomberg:
Levels ‘significantly’ undercounted — Fairewinds: Data they
reported for nearly 3 years is wrong — Asahi Interview:
“Politicians are hiding the dangers of radiation”
Reading/Osama Threatens Putin!! false Flag Gold!
Reading/Russia’s Federation Council has unanimously approved
President Vladimir Putin’s request to use Russian military
forces in Ukraine....and scam World powers are now scrambling
to respond to the events with a scam Corp ,
United Nations Security Council meeting, a NATO scam meeting
to be held on Sunday and read
the scam Benghazi http://www.Obama-Impeachment.org
Obama twice refused to answer questions as to whether
the Americans under siege in Benghazi, Libya on
September 11, 2012,
http://www.glennbeck.com/2013/05/14/the-top-20-benghazi-lies/
and White House national security team
meeting to discuss potential options and
Benghazi Barack Obama warns Moscow ...............THIS IS
....my reading obove ..with reading/Russian plans
to put 140,000 troops on the Ukrainian border. with reading/
US Sends Warships To Crimea, Hundreds Of NATO Troops Land
In Western Ukraine
Tension in the Ukraine...
The increased defiant comments by Obama and Putin concerning
Ukraine sovereignty...appear to be escalating the growing
tension between the Russians and Americans...will certainly
translate in higher global gold prices...this political dilemma
might propel the next leg up for the entire gold sector!!!!
http://www.lifeinitaly.com/news/italian-debt-peak-1337-gdp-2014
http://socioecohistory.wordpress.com/2014/03/01/dead-bankers-and-the-media-prediction-the-u-s-economy-will-collapse-around-march-4-2014/
Long Gold Copper Silver 2014/9014!
Karen Hudes: Either We Take Back Our Gold,
Our Legality, Or We’ll Have WWIII (Video)
Wednesday, February 12, 2014 4:38
http://beforeitsnews.com/economy/2014/02/karen-hudes-either-we-take-back-our-gold-our-legality-or-well-have-wwiii-video-2594498.html
43 Trillion dollar lawsuit awaits Obama White House and banks -
Saturday, February 8, 2014 10:46
http://beforeitsnews.com/alternative/2014/02/43-trillion-dollar-lawsuit-awaits-obama-white-house-and-banks-2894030.html
http://nesaranews.blogspot.ca/2014/02/43-trillion-dollar-lawsuit-awaits-obama.html
http://www.infowars.com/43-trillion-dollar-lawsuit-awaits-obama-white-house-and-banks/
http://nesaranews.blogspot.ca/2014/02/theme-music-for-dark-cabal.html
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The Fed Is Hiring: Lots Of Cops
Tyler Durden's pictureSubmitted by Tyler Durden on 01/04/2014 10:53 -0500
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-01-04/fed-hiring-lots-cops
These criminals don't have enough money...they want MORE. $100 trillion just isn't enough!
http://21stcenturywire.com/2012/11/03/the-money-changers-rothchild-banking-dynasty-said-to-be-worth-100-trillion/
Columbia, SC, to exile its homeless - The city plans to forcibly
segregate them in the same year it celebrates
the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Movement.
http://money.msn.com/now/post--columbia-sc-to-exile-its-homeless
Alert: FEMA Camp Round Up Has Begun!!!
Saturday, October 5, 2013 17:32
http://beforeitsnews.com/blogging-citizen-journalism/2013/10/fema-camp-round-up-has-begun-2449078.html
Glenn Beck Warns: Move To Canada Before BS Osama -
Revolutionaries king pin Rothschilds super 666 red rebels
Start To ‘Scoop People Up’
Monday, October 7, 2013 15:08
http://beforeitsnews.com/obama/2013/10/glenn-beck-warns-move-to-canada-before-obama-revolutionaries-start-to-scoop-people-up-2456414.html
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These criminals don't have enough money...they want MORE. $100 trillion just isn't enough!
http://21stcenturywire.com/2012/11/03/the-money-changers-rothchild-banking-dynasty-said-to-be-worth-100-trillion/
NWO 666 anti-Christ red super cult try to find the most evil issues against
our Bother and Sisters -
Colorado Flooding is All Manmade -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ok9IUZOSTgc
Bombs In The Buildings!
World Trade Center 'Conspiracy Theory' is a Conspiracy Fact
Firefighters Discuss Bombs Going Off In Buildings On Main Levels
http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Evils%20in%20Government/911%20Cover-up/bombs_in_the_building-911.htm
"Pulling" Building 7 -
http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Evils%20in%20Government/911%20Cover-up/pulling_building_7.htm
9/11 Totally Exposed On 9/11/2013!
http://beforeitsnews.com/u-s-politics/2013/09/bigger-than-watergate-documented-white-house-false-flag-terrorism-brand-new-evidence-from-911-2448164.html
911 Memorial Features Occult Eye of Horus -
http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Evils%20in%20Government/911%20Cover-up/911_memorial.htm
New York Firefighters’ Final Words Fuel Burning Questions About 911
Evidence that could debunk the official explanation for the
collapse of the World Trade Center is being kept secret by the
Department of Justice on a flimsy pretext.
http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Evils%20in%20Government/911%20Cover-up/firefighters_hear_explosions_911.htm
911: The Road to Tyranny -
http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Evils%20in%20Government/911%20Cover-up/911_video.htm
911 Top 500 Questions (It's not the answered questions that should bother us, but rather the unquestioned answers)
http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Evils%20in%20Government/911%20Cover-up/911_top_500_questions.htm
Illuminazi 911 -
http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Evils%20in%20Government/Police%20State/illuminazi.htm
German Defense Minister Confirms CIA Involvement in 9/11: Alex Jones Interviews Andreas Von Buelow -
http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Evils%20in%20Government/Terror/cia_involved_in_911.htm
John O'Neill - Murdered On 911! -
Former FBI Deputy Director John O'Neill wanted to investigate
the terrorists who were planning to blow up the trade towers on
911, but he was prevented from ...
http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Evils%20in%20Government/911%20Cover-up/john_oneill-murdered_on_911.htm
The Sad Truth About 911 -
http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Evils%20in%20Government/911%20Cover-up/sad_truth.htm
The 911 Attacks Were An Inside Job!
http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Evils%20in%20Government/911%20Cover-up/inside_job.htm
Wargames Were Cover For the Operational Execution of 9/11
http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Evils%20in%20Government/911%20Cover-up/wargames_cover_for_911_attacks.htm
9/11: Smoking Guns -
http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Evils%20in%20Government/911%20Cover-up/911_smoking_guns.htm
200 People Jumped To Their Death On 911 -
http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Evils%20in%20Government/911%20Cover-up/200_people_jumped.htm
Official 911 Story is False -
http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Evils%20in%20Government/911%20Cover-up/official_story.htm
Bush Sued for 911!
http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Evils%20in%20Government/911%20Cover-up/bush_sued_for_911.htm
What Really Happened On 911?
http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Evils%20in%20Government/911%20Cover-up/911.htm
911 Facts!
http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Evils%20in%20Government/911%20Cover-up/911%20Facts.htm
ReThink911 Campaign by AE911Truth Sept 2013
http://www.reinvestigate911.org/
911 James Corbett: Starting a Real Criminal Investigation on the Events of 9/11 -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-SK_nN8Ko
"Pulling" Building 7 -
http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Evils%20in%20Government/911%20Cover-up/pulling_building_7.htm
9/11 Totally Exposed On 9/11/2013!
http://beforeitsnews.com/u-s-politics/2013/09/bigger-than-watergate-documented-white-house-false-flag-terrorism-brand-new-evidence-from-911-2448164.html
911 Memorial Features Occult Eye of Horus -
http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Evils%20in%20Government/911%20Cover-up/911_memorial.htm
New York Firefighters’ Final Words Fuel Burning Questions About 911
Evidence that could debunk the official explanation for the
collapse of the World Trade Center is being kept secret by the
Department of Justice on a flimsy pretext.
http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Evils%20in%20Government/911%20Cover-up/firefighters_hear_explosions_911.htm
911: The Road to Tyranny -
http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Evils%20in%20Government/911%20Cover-up/911_video.htm
911 Top 500 Questions (It's not the answered questions that should bother us, but rather the unquestioned answers)
http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Evils%20in%20Government/911%20Cover-up/911_top_500_questions.htm
Illuminazi 911 -
http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Evils%20in%20Government/Police%20State/illuminazi.htm
German Defense Minister Confirms CIA Involvement in 9/11: Alex Jones Interviews Andreas Von Buelow -
http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Evils%20in%20Government/Terror/cia_involved_in_911.htm
John O'Neill - Murdered On 911! -
Former FBI Deputy Director John O'Neill wanted to investigate
the terrorists who were planning to blow up the trade towers on
911, but he was prevented from ...
http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Evils%20in%20Government/911%20Cover-up/john_oneill-murdered_on_911.htm
The Sad Truth About 911 -
http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Evils%20in%20Government/911%20Cover-up/sad_truth.htm
The 911 Attacks Were An Inside Job!
http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Evils%20in%20Government/911%20Cover-up/inside_job.htm
Wargames Were Cover For the Operational Execution of 9/11
http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Evils%20in%20Government/911%20Cover-up/wargames_cover_for_911_attacks.htm
9/11: Smoking Guns -
http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Evils%20in%20Government/911%20Cover-up/911_smoking_guns.htm
200 People Jumped To Their Death On 911 -
http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Evils%20in%20Government/911%20Cover-up/200_people_jumped.htm
Official 911 Story is False -
http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Evils%20in%20Government/911%20Cover-up/official_story.htm
Bush Sued for 911!
http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Evils%20in%20Government/911%20Cover-up/bush_sued_for_911.htm
What Really Happened On 911?
http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Evils%20in%20Government/911%20Cover-up/911.htm
911 Facts!
http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Evils%20in%20Government/911%20Cover-up/911%20Facts.htm
ReThink911 Campaign by AE911Truth Sept 2013
http://www.reinvestigate911.org/
911 James Corbett: Starting a Real Criminal Investigation on the Events of 9/11 -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-SK_nN8Ko
9-11...the inside job.
http://www.disclose.tv/news/The_23_biggest_Coincidences_surrounding__911/93437#DTV
They always have drills and games around their false flags so they can cover their rears if something goes wrong.
9-11 was definitely an inside job.
Wargames Were Cover For the Operational Execution of 9/11
http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Evils%20in%20Government/911%20Cover-up/wargames_cover_for_911_attacks.htm
9/11: Smoking Guns -
http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Evils%20in%20Government/911%20Cover-up/911_smoking_guns.htm
200 People Jumped To Their Death On 911 -
http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Evils%20in%20Government/911%20Cover-up/200_people_jumped.htm
Official 911 Story is False -
http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Evils%20in%20Government/911%20Cover-up/official_story.htm
Bush Sued for 911!
http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Evils%20in%20Government/911%20Cover-up/bush_sued_for_911.htm
What Really Happened On 911?
http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Evils%20in%20Government/911%20Cover-up/911.htm
911 Facts!
http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Evils%20in%20Government/911%20Cover-up/911%20Facts.htm
ReThink911 Campaign by AE911Truth Sept 2013
http://www.reinvestigate911.org/
911 James Corbett: Starting a Real Criminal Investigation on the Events of 9/11 -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-SK_nN8Ko
Breaking news: Rebels admit gas attack result of mishandling chemical weapons
Posted by Rottdawg on Aug 31, 2013 in Media, Politics, Quickies
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God Bless
Rand Paul: Obama 'Flouting the Law' by Continuing Aid to Egypt
Thursday, 22 Aug 2013 06:54 PM
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Army Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,
said the Obama administration is deliberating whether or not it
should use the brute of the US military in Syria during a Thursday
morning Senate hearing.
Gen. Dempsey said the administration was considering using
“kinetic strikes” in Syria and said “issue is under deliberation
inside of our agencies of government,” the Associated Press
reported from Washington.
Dempsey, 61, is the highest ranking officer in the US military and
has been nominated by Pres. Obama to serve a second term in that
role.
The Senate Armed Services Committee questioned him Thursday
morning as part of the nominating process when Dempsey briefly
discussed the situation in Syria.
http://beforeitsnews.com/alternative/2013/08/us-prepares-for-kinetic-strikes-against-syria-2744842.html
Russia claims evidence of chemical weapons use by Syrian rebels
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ed6T3gNkls
The NWO Red Rothschild Elite Banksters Cult Want America To Collapse -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcN3lT1FPeE#t=72
US Cities Face Financial Collapse -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ilG9JwNhOI
why continue to deflect from the real issue?
what is the purpose of what you post?
fill me in because I do not see it..
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dedicated to preserving the historic principles upon which
America was founded, whose columns are well known
internationally and are featured on top news sites worldwide.
A former presidential candidate in the Consitution Party and
current candidate for Lieutenant Governor, Chuck also pastors
Liberty Fellowship.
Join us at church or watch online each week.
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understanding what one wants to and does post
let one be real
to the understanding of why
and the epic of what is
with the program of why
what one does..
just the way it is
understand what you go through
trying to instill one's view
to those that have gone vacant
in their thought..
Those that can't handle the truth
would go beyond their comfort zone if they did
denial is their only recourse
until it hurts them worse than the truth
then it's too late..
Very good posts!
Those who are stuck behind veils one through five have little choice but to view the people who have pierced the veils beyond them as insane.
Regarding the veils. When I try to tell someone (friend/family/business associates) about who controls the Federal Reserve and who really is running the show, I will get called a 'conspiracy theorist' or 'extremist'. I've even had one friend and associate laugh right in my face. Some will tell me I'm wrong and that the system (and even the Federal Reserve) 'cares' about us. They can't get beyond the left/right paradigm in politics or go beyond what the MSM tells them is true. These are otherwise very smart people, but they're conditioned not to look beyond their own veil level.
Slavery and the eight veils
by Don Harkins
Over the last several years I have evolved and discarded several theories in an attempt to explain why it is that most people cannot see truth -- even when it smacks them in the face. Those of us who can see "the conspiracy" have participated in countless conversations amongst ourselves that address the frustration of most peoples' inability to comprehend the extremely well-documented arguments which we use to describe the process of our collective enslavement and exploitation. The most common explanation to be arrived at is that most people just "don't want to see" what is really going on.
Extremely evil men and women who make up the world's power-elite have cleverly cultivated a virtual pasture so grass green that few people seldom, if ever, bother to look up from where they are grazing long enough to notice the brightly colored tags stapled to their ears.
The same people who cannot see their enslavement for the pasture grass have a tendency to view as insane "conspiracy theorists" those of us who can see the past, the farm and into the parlor of his feudal lordship's castle.
Finally, I understand why.
It's not that those who don't see that their freedom is vanishing under the leadership of the power-elite "don't want to see it" -- they simply can't see what is happening to them because of the unpierced veils that block their view.
All human endeavors are a filtration process. Sports is one of the best examples. We play specific sports until we get kicked off the playground. The pro athletes we pay big bucks to watch just never got kicked off the playground. Where millions of kids play little league each spring, they are filtered out until there are about 50 guys who go to the World Series in October.
Behind the first veil: There are over six billion people on the planet. Most of them live and die without having seriously contemplated anything other than what it takes to keep their lives together. Ninety percent of all humanity will live and die without having pierced the first veil.
The first veil
Ten percent of us will pierce the first veil and find the world of politics. We will vote, be active and have an opinion. Our opinions are shaped by the physical world around us; we have a tendency to accept that government officials, network media personalities and other "experts" are voices of authority. Ninety percent of the people in this group will live and die without having pierced the second veil.
The second veil
Ten percent of us will pierce the second veil to explore the world of history, the relationship between man and government and the meaning of self-government through constitutional and common law. Ninety percent of the people in this group will live and die without having pierced the third veil.
The third veil
Ten percent of us will pierce the third veil to find that the resources of the world, including people, are controlled by extremely wealthy and powerful families whose incorporated old world assets have, with modern extortion strategies, become the foundation upon which the world's economy is currently indebted. Ninety percent of the people in this group will live and die without having pierced the fourth veil.
The fourth veil
Ten percent of us will pierce the fourth veil to discover the Illuminati, Freemasonry and the other secret societies. These societies use symbols and perform ceremonies that perpetuate the generational transfers of arcane knowledge that is used to keep the ordinary people in political, economic and spiritual bondage to the oldest bloodlines on earth. Ninety percent of the people in this group will live and die without having pierced the fifth veil.
The fifth veil
Ten percent of us will pierce the fifth veil to learn that the secret societies are so far advanced technologically and in the means of brainwashing and controlling the actions of people that their members do as offhandedly as we tell our children when they must go to bed. Ninety percent of the people in this group will live and die without having pierced the sixth veil.
The sixth veil
Ten percent of us will pierce the sixth veil where the dragons and aliens (Satan) we thought were the fictional monsters of childhood literature are real and are the controlling forces behind the secret societies. Ninety percent of the people in this group will live and die without piercing the seventh veil.
The seventh veil
I do not know what is behind the seventh veil. I think it is where your soul is evolved to the point you can exist on earth and be the man Ghandi was, or the woman Peace Pilgrim was - people so enlightened they brighten the world around them no matter what.
The eighth veil?
Piercing the eighth veil probably reveals God and the pure energy that is the life force in all living things - which are, I think, one and the same.
If my math is accurate there are only about 60,000 people on the planet who have pierced the sixth veil. The irony here is too incredible: Those who are stuck behind veils one through five have little choice but to view the people who have pierced the veils beyond them as insane. With each veil pierced, exponentially shrinking numbers of increasingly enlightened people are deemed insane by exponentially increasing masses of decreasingly enlightened people.
Adding to the irony, the harder a "sixth or better veiler" tries to explain what he is able to see to those who can't, the more insane he appears to them.
Our enemy, the state
Behind the first two veils we find the great majority of people on the planet. They are tools of the state: Second veilers are the gullible voters whose ignorance justify the actions of politicians who send first veilers off to die in foreign lands as cannon fodder -- their combined stations in life are to believe that the self-serving machinations of the power-elite are matters of national security worth dying for.
Third, fourth, fifth and sixth veilers are of increasing liability to the state because of their decreasing ability to be used as tools to consolidate power and wealth of the many into the hands of the power-elite. It is common for these people to sacrifice more of their relationships with friends and family, their professional careers and personal freedom with each veil they pierce.
Albert Jay Nock (1870-1945), author of "Our Enemy, the State" (1935), explained what happens to those who find the seventh and eighth veils: "What was the best that the state could find to do with an actual Socrates and an actual Jesus when it had them? Merely to poison one and crucify the other, for no reason but that they were too intolerably embarrassing to be allowed to live any longer."
Conclusions
And so now we know that it's not that our countrymen are so committed to their lives that, "they don't want to see," the mechanisms of their enslavement and exploitation. They simply "can't see" it as surely as I cannot see what's on the other side of a closed curtain.
The purpose of this essay is threefold: To help the handful of people in the latter veils to understand why the masses have little choice but to interpret their clarity as insanity; 2. To help people behind the first two veils understand that living, breathing and thinking are just the beginning and; 3. Show people that the greatest adventure of our life is behind the next veil because that is just one less veil between ourselves and God.
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Life Without Principle by Henry David Thoreau
Interesting views on life and the world in general
Comments on the deluded and wasteful lives that many people live
How the news is used to brainwash people, and perpetuate government
Life Without Principle
by Henry David Thoreau [18??]
AT A LYCEUM, not long since, I felt that the lecturer had chosen a theme too foreign to himself, and so failed to interest me as much as he might have done. He described things not in or near to his heart, but toward his extremities and superficies. There was, in this sense, no truly central or centralizing thought in the lecture. I would have had him deal with his privatest experience, as the poet does. The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer. I am surprised, as well as delighted, when this happens, it is such a rare use he would make of me, as if he were acquainted with the tool. Commonly, if men want anything of me, it is only to know how many acres I make of their land - since I am a surveyor - or, at most, what trivial news I have burdened myself with. They never will go to law for my meat; they prefer the shell. A man once came a considerable distance to ask me to lecture on Slavery; but on conversing with him, I found that he and his clique expected seven eighths of the lecture to be theirs, and only one eighth mine; so I declined. I take it for granted, when I am invited to lecture anywhere - for I have had a little experience in that business - that there is a desire to hear what I think on some subject, though I may be the greatest fool in the country - and not that I should say pleasant things merely, or such as the audience will assent to; and I resolve, accordingly, that I will give them a strong dose of myself. They have sent for me, and engaged to pay for me, and I am determined that they shall have me, though I bore them beyond all precedent.
So now I would say something similar to you, my readers. Since you are my readers, and I have not been much of a traveller, I will not talk about people a thousand miles off, but come as near home as I can. As the time is short, I will leave out all the flattery, and retain all the criticism.
Let us consider the way in which we spend our lives
This world is a place of business. What an infinite bustle! I am awaked almost every night by the panting of the locomotive. It interrupts my dreams. There is no sabbath. It would be glorious to see mankind at leisure for once. It is nothing but work, work, work. I cannot easily buy a blank-book to write thoughts in; they are commonly ruled for dollars and cents. An Irishman, seeing me making a minute in the fields, took it for granted that I was calculating my wages. If a man was tossed out of a window when an infant, and so made a cripple for life, or seared out of his wits by the Indians, it is regretted chiefly because he was thus incapacitated for business! I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself, than this incessant business.
There is a coarse and boisterous money-making fellow in the outskirts of our town, who is going to build a bank-wall under the hill along the edge of his meadow. The powers have put this into his head to keep him out of mischief, and he wishes me to spend three weeks digging there with him. The result will be that he will perhaps get some more money to board, and leave for his heirs to spend foolishly. If I do this, most will commend me as an industrious and hard-working man; but if I choose to devote myself to certain labors which yield more real profit, though but little money, they may be inclined to look on me as an idler. Nevertheless, as I do not need the police of meaningless labor to regulate me, and do not see anything absolutely praiseworthy in this fellow's undertaking any more than in many an enterprise of our own or foreign governments, however amusing it may be to him or them, I prefer to finish my education at a different school.
If a man walk in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer; but if he spends his whole day as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making earth bald before her time, he is esteemed an industrious and enterprising citizen. As if a town had no interest in its forests but to cut them down!
Most men would feel insulted if it were proposed to employ them in throwing stones over a wall, and then in throwing them back, merely that they might earn their wages. But many are no more worthily employed now. For instance: just after sunrise, one summer morning, I noticed one of my neighbors walking beside his team, which was slowly drawing a heavy hewn stone swung under the axle, surrounded by an atmosphere of industry - his day's work begun - his brow commenced to sweat - a reproach to all sluggards and idlers - pausing abreast the shoulders of his oxen, and half turning round with a flourish of his merciful whip, while they gained their length on him. And I thought, Such is the labor which the American Congress exists to protect - honest, manly toil - honest as the day is long - that makes his bread taste sweet, and keeps society sweet - which all men respect and have consecrated; one of the sacred band, doing the needful but irksome drudgery. Indeed, I felt a slight reproach, because I observed this from a window, and was not abroad and stirring about a similar business. The day went by, and at evening I passed the yard of another neighbor, who keeps many servants, and spends much money foolishly, while he adds nothing to the common stock, and there I saw the stone of the morning lying beside a whimsical structure intended to adorn this Lord Timothy Dexter's premises, and the dignity forthwith departed from the teamster's labor, in my eyes. In my opinion, the sun was made to light worthier toil than this. I may add that his employer has since run off, in debt to a good part of the town, and, after passing through Chancery, has settled somewhere else, there to become once more a patron of the arts.
The ways by which you may get money almost without exception lead downward. To have done anything by which you earned money merely is to have been truly idle or worse. If the laborer gets no more than the wages which his employer pays him, he is cheated, he cheats himself. If you would get money as a writer or lecturer, you must be popular, which is to go down perpendicularly. Those services which the community will most readily pay for, it is most disagreeable to render. You are paid for being something less than a man. The State does not commonly reward a genius any more wisely. Even the poet laureate would rather not have to celebrate the accidents of royalty. He must be bribed with a pipe of wine; and perhaps another poet is called away from his muse to gauge that very pipe. As for my own business, even that kind of surveying which I could do with most satisfaction my employers do not want. They would prefer that I should do my work coarsely and not too well, ay, not well enough. When I observe that there are different ways of surveying, my employer commonly asks which will give him the most land, not which is most correct. I once invented a rule for measuring cord-wood, and tried to introduce it in Boston; but the measurer there told me that the sellers did not wish to have their wood measured correctly - that he was already too accurate for them, and therefore they commonly got their wood measured in Charlestown before crossing the bridge. The aim of the laborer should be, not to get his living, to get "a good job," but to perform well a certain work; and, even in a pecuniary sense, it would be economy for a town to pay its laborers so well that they would not feel that they were working for low ends, as for a livelihood merely, but for scientific, or even moral ends. Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
It is remarkable that there are few men so well employed, so much to their minds, but that a little money or fame would commonly buy them off from their present pursuit. I see advertisements for active young men, as if activity were the whole of a young man's capital. Yet I have been surprised when one has with confidence proposed to me, a grown man, to embark in some enterprise of his, as if I had absolutely nothing to do, my life having been a complete failure hitherto. What a doubtful compliment this to pay me! As if he had met me half-way across the ocean beating up against the wind, but bound nowhere, and proposed to me to go along with him! If I did, what do you think the underwriters would say? No, no! I am not without employment at this stage of the voyage. To tell the truth, I saw an advertisement for able-bodied seamen, when I was a boy, sauntering in my native port, and as soon as I came of age I embarked.
The community has no bribe that will tempt a wise man. You may raise money enough to tunnel a mountain, but you cannot raise money enough to hire a man who is minding his own business. An efficient and valuable man does what he can, whether the community pay him for it or not. The inefficient offer their inefficiency to the highest bidder, and are forever expecting to be put into office. One would suppose that they were rarely disappointed.
Perhaps I am more than usually jealous with respect to my freedom. I feel that my connection with and obligation to society are still very slight and transient. Those slight labors which afford me a livelihood, and by which it is allowed that I am to some extent serviceable to my contemporaries, are as yet commonly a pleasure to me, and I am not often reminded that they are a necessity. So far I am successful. But I foresee that if my wants should be much increased, the labor required to supply them would become a drudgery. If I should sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I am sure that for me there would be nothing left worth living for. I trust that I shall never thus sell my birthright for a mess of pottage. I wish to suggest that a man may be very industrious, and yet not spend his time well. There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living. All great enterprises are self-supporting. The poet, for instance, must sustain his body by his poetry, as a steam planing-mill feeds its boilers with the shavings it makes. You must get your living by loving. But as it is said of the merchants that ninety-seven in a hundred fail, so the life of men generally, tried by this standard, is a failure, and bankruptcy may be surely prophesied.
Merely to come into the world the heir of a fortune is not to be born, but to be still-born, rather. To be supported by the charity of friends, or a government pension - provided you continue to breathe - by whatever fine synonyms you describe these relations, is to go into the almshouse. On Sundays the poor debtor goes to church to take an account of stock, and finds, of course, that his outgoes have been greater than his income. In the Catholic Church, especially, they go into chancery, make a clean confession, give up all, and think to start again. Thus men will lie on their backs, talking about the fall of man, and never make an effort to get up.
As for the comparative demand which men make on life, it is an important difference between two, that the one is satisfied with a level success, that his marks can all be hit by point-blank shots, but the other, however low and unsuccessful his life may be, constantly elevates his aim, though at a very slight angle to the horizon. I should much rather be the last man - though, as the Orientals say, "Greatness doth not approach him who is forever looking down; and all those who are looking high are growing poor."
It is remarkable that there is little or nothing to be remembered written on the subject of getting a living; how to make getting a living not merely holiest and honorable, but altogether inviting and glorious; for if getting a living is not so, then living is not. One would think, from looking at literature, that this question had never disturbed a solitary individual's musings. Is it that men are too much disgusted with their experience to speak of it? The lesson of value which money teaches, which the Author of the Universe has taken so much pains to teach us, we are inclined to skip altogether. As for the means of living, it is wonderful how indifferent men of all classes are about it, even reformers, so called - whether they inherit, or earn, or steal it. I think that Society has done nothing for us in this respect, or at least has undone what she has done. Cold and hunger seem more friendly to my nature than those methods which men have adopted and advise to ward them off.
The title wise is, for the most part, falsely applied. How can one be a wise man, if he does not know any better how to live than other men? - if he is only more cunning and intellectually subtle? Does Wisdom work in a tread-mill? or does she teach how to succeed by her example? Is there any such thing as wisdom not applied to life? Is she merely the miller who grinds the finest logic? It is pertinent to ask if Plato got his living in a better way or more successfully than his contemporaries - or did he succumb to the difficulties of life like other men? Did he seem to prevail over some of them merely by indifference, or by assuming grand airs? or find it easier to live, because his aunt remembered him in her will? The ways in which most men get their living, that is, live, are mere makeshifts, and a shirking of the real business of life - chiefly because they do not know, but partly because they do not mean, any better.
The rush to California, for instance, and the attitude, not merely of merchants, but of philosophers and prophets, so called, in relation to it, reflect the greatest disgrace on mankind. That so many are ready to live by luck, and so get the means of commanding the labor of others less lucky, without contributing any value to society! And that is called enterprise! I know of no more startling development of the immorality of trade, and all the common modes of getting a living. The philosophy and poetry and religion of such a mankind are not worth the dust of a puffball. The hog that gets his living by rooting, stirring up the soil so, would be ashamed of such company. If I could command the wealth of all the worlds by lifting my finger, I would not pay such a price for it. Even Mahomet knew that God did not make this world in jest. It makes God to be a moneyed gentleman who scatters a handful of pennies in order to see mankind scramble for them. The world's raffle! A subsistence in the domains of Nature a thing to be raffled for! What a comment, what a satire, on our institutions! The conclusion will be, that mankind will hang itself upon a tree. And have all the precepts in all the Bibles taught men only this? and is the last and most admirable invention of the human race only an improved muck-rake? Is this the ground on which Orientals and Occidentals meet? Did God direct us so to get our living, digging where we never planted - and He would, perchance, reward us with lumps of gold?
God gave the righteous man a certificate entitling him to food and raiment, but the unrighteous man found a facsimile of the same in God's coffers, and appropriated it, and obtained food and raiment like the former. It is one of the most extensive systems of counterfeiting that the world has seen. I did not know that mankind was suffering for want of gold. I have seen a little of it. I know that it is very malleable, but not so malleable as wit. A grain of gold gild a great surface, but not so much as a grain of wisdom.
The gold-digger in the ravines of the mountains is as much a gambler as his fellow in the saloons of San Francisco. What difference does it make whether you shake dirt or shake dice? If you win, society is the loser. The gold-digger is the enemy of the honest laborer, whatever checks and compensations there may be. It is not enough to tell me that you worked hard to get your gold. So does the Devil work hard. The way of transgressors may be hard in many respects. The humblest observer who goes to the mines sees and says that gold-digging is of the character of a lottery; the gold thus obtained is not the same same thing with the wages of honest toil. But, practically, he forgets what he has seen, for he has seen only the fact, not the principle, and goes into trade there, that is, buys a ticket in what commonly proves another lottery, where the fact is not so obvious.
After reading Howitt's account of the Australian gold-diggings one evening, I had in my mind's eye, all night, the numerous valleys, with their streams, all cut up with foul pits, from ten to one hundred feet deep, and half a dozen feet across, as close as they can be dug, and partly filled with water - the locality to which men furiously rush to probe for their fortunes - uncertain where they shall break ground - not knowing but the gold is under their camp itself - sometimes digging one hundred and sixty feet before they strike the vein, or then missing it by a foot - turned into demons, and regardless of each others' rights, in their thirst for riches - whole valleys, for thirty miles, suddenly honeycombed by the pits of the miners, so that even hundreds are drowned in them - standing in water, and covered with mud and clay, they work night and day, dying of exposure and disease. Having read this, and partly forgotten it, I was thinking, accidentally, of my own unsatisfactory life, doing as others do; and with that vision of the diggings still before me, I asked myself why I might not be washing some gold daily, though it were only the finest particles - why I might not sink a shaft down to the gold within me, and work that mine. There is a Ballarat, a Bendigo for you - what though it were a sulky-gully? At any rate, I might pursue some path, however solitary and narrow and crooked, in which I could walk with love and reverence. Wherever a man separates from the multitude, and goes his own way in this mood, there indeed is a fork in the road, though ordinary travellers may see only a gap in the paling. His solitary path across lots will turn out the higher way of the two. Men rush to California and Australia as if the true gold were to be found in that direction; but that is to go to the very opposite extreme to where it lies. They go prospecting farther and farther away from the true lead, and are most unfortunate when they think themselves most successful. Is not our native soil auriferous? Does not a stream from the golden mountains flow through our native valley? and has not this for more than geologic ages been bringing down the shining particles and forming the nuggets for us? Yet, strange to tell, if a digger steal away, prospecting for this true gold, into the unexplored solitudes around us, there is no danger that any will dog his steps, and endeavor to supplant him. He may claim and undermine the whole valley even, both the cultivated and the uncultivated portions, his whole life long in peace, for no one will ever dispute his claim. They will not mind his cradles or his toms. He is not confined to a claim twelve feet square, as at Ballarat, but may mine anywhere, and wash the whole wide world in his tom.
Howitt says of the man who found the great nugget which weighed twenty-eight pounds, at the Bendigo diggings in Australia: "He soon began to drink; got a horse, and rode all about, generally at full gallop, and, when he met people, called out to inquire if they knew who he was, and then kindly informed them that he was 'the bloody wretch that had found the nugget.' At last he rode full speed against a tree, and nearly knocked his brains out." I think, however, there was no danger of that, for he had already knocked his brains out against the nugget. Howitt adds, "He is a hopelessly ruined man." But he is a type of the class. They are all fast men. Hear some of the names of the places where they dig: "Jackass Flat" - "Sheep's-Head Gully" - "Murderer's Bar," etc. Is there no satire in these names? Let them carry their ill-gotten wealth where they will, I am thinking it will still be "Jackass Flat," if not "Murderer's Bar," where they live.
The last resource of our energy has been the robbing of graveyards on the Isthmus of Darien, an enterprise which appears to be but in its infancy; for, according to late accounts, an act has passed its second reading in the legislature of New Granada, regulating this kind of mining; and a correspondent of the "Tribune" writes: "In the dry season, when the weather will permit of the country being properly prospected, no doubt other rich guacas [that is, graveyards] will be found." To emigrants he says: "do not come before December; take the Isthmus route in preference to the Boca del Toro one; bring no useless baggage, and do not cumber yourself with a tent; but a good pair of blankets will be necessary; a pick, shovel, and axe of good material will be almost all that is required": advice which might have been taken from the "Burker's Guide." And he concludes with this line in Italics and small capitals: "If you are doing well at home, STAY THERE," which may fairly be interpreted to mean, "If you are getting a good living by robbing graveyards at home, stay there."
But why go to California for a text? She is the child of New England, bred at her own school and church. It is remarkable that among all the preachers there are so few moral teachers. The prophets are employed in excusing the ways of men. Most reverend seniors, the illuminati of the age, tell me, with a gracious, reminiscent smile, betwixt an aspiration and a shudder, not to be too tender about these things - to lump all that, that is, make a lump of gold of it. The highest advice I have heard on these subjects was grovelling. The burden of it was - It is not worth your while to undertake to reform the world in this particular. Do not ask how your bread is buttered; it will make you sick, if you do - and the like. A man had better starve at once than lose his innocence in the process of getting his bread. If within the sophisticated man there is not an unsophisticated one, then he is but one of the devil's angels. As we grow old, we live more coarsely, we relax a little in our disciplines, and, to some extent, cease to obey our finest instincts. But we should be fastidious to the extreme of sanity, disregarding the gibes of those who are more unfortunate than ourselves.
In our science and philosophy, even, there is commonly no true and absolute account of things. The spirit of sect and bigotry has planted its hoof amid the stars. You have only to discuss the problem, whether the stars are inhabited or not, in order to discover it. Why must we daub the heavens as well as the earth? It was an unfortunate discovery that Dr. Kane was a Mason, and that Sir John Franklin was another. But it was a more cruel suggestion that possibly that was the reason why the former went in search of the latter. There is not a popular magazine in this country that would dare to print a child's thought on important subjects without comment. It must be submitted to the D.D.'s. I would it were the chickadee-dees.
You come from attending the funeral of mankind to attend to a natural phenomenon. A little thought is sexton to all the world. I hardly know an intellectual man, even, who is so broad and truly liberal that you can think aloud in his society. Most with whom you endeavor to talk soon come to a stand against some institution in which they appear to hold stock - that is, some particular, not universal, way of viewing things. They will continually thrust their own low roof, with its narrow skylight, between you and the sky, when it is the unobstructed heavens you would view. Get out of the way with your cobwebs; wash your windows, I say! In some lyceums they tell me that they have voted to exclude the subject of religion. But how do I know what their religion is, and when I am near to or far from it? I have walked into such an arena and done my best to make a clean breast of what religion I have experienced, and the audience never suspected what I was about. The lecture was as harmless as moonshine to them. Whereas, if I had read to them the biography of the greatest scamps in history, they might have thought that I had written the lives of the deacons of their church. Ordinarily, the inquiry is, Where did you come from? or, Where are you going? That was a more pertinent question which I overheard one of my auditors put to another one - "What does he lecture for?" It made me quake in my shoes. To speak impartially, the best men that I know are not serene, a world in themselves. For the most part, they dwell in forms, and flatter and study effect only more finely than the rest. We select granite for the underpinning of our houses and barns; we build fences of stone; but we do not ourselves rest on an underpinning of granitic truth, the lowest primitive rock. Our sills are rotten.
What stuff is the man made of who is not coexistent in our thought with the purest and subtilest truth? I often accuse my finest acquaintances of an immense frivolity; for, while there are manners and compliments we do not meet, we do not teach one another the lessons of honesty and sincerity that the brutes do, or of steadiness and solidity that the rocks do. The fault is commonly mutual, however; for we do not habitually demand any more of each other.
That excitement about Kossuth, consider how characteristic, but superficial, it was! - only another kind of politics or dancing. Men were making speeches to him all over the country, but each expressed only the thought, or the want of thought, of the multitude. No man stood on truth. They were merely banded together, as usual one leaning on another, and all together on nothing; as the Hindoos made the world rest on an elephant, the elephant on a tortoise, and the tortoise on a serpent, and had nothing to put under the serpent. For all fruit of that stir we have the Kossuth hat.
Just so hollow and ineffectual, for the most part, is our ordinary conversation. Surface meets surface. When our life ceases to be inward and private, conversation degenerates into mere gossip. We rarely meet a man who can tell us any news which he has not read in a newspaper, or been told by his neighbor; and, for the most part, the only difference between us and our fellow is that he has seen the newspaper, or been out to tea, and we have not. In proportion as our inward life fails, we go more constantly and desperately to the post-office. You may depend on it, that the poor fellow who walks away with the greatest number of letters, proud of his extensive correspondence, has not heard from himself this long while.
I do not know but it is too much to read one newspaper a week. I have tried it recently, and for so long it seems to me that I have not dwelt in my native region. The sun, the clouds, the snow, the trees say not so much to me. You cannot serve two masters. It requires more than a day's devotion to know and to possess the wealth of a day. We may well be ashamed to tell what things we have read or heard in our day. I did not know why my news should be so trivial - considering what one's dreams and expectations are, why the developments should be so paltry. The news we hear, for the most part, is not news to our genius. It is the stalest repetition. You are often tempted to ask why such stress is laid on a particular experience which you have had - that, after twenty-five years, you should meet Hobbins, Registrar of Deeds, again on the sidewalk. Have you not budged an inch, then? Such is the daily news. Its facts appear to float in the atmosphere, insignificant as the sporules of fungi, and impinge on some neglected thallus, or surface of our minds, which affords a basis for them, and hence a parasitic growth. We should wash ourselves clean of such news. Of what consequence, though our planet explode, if there is no character involved in the explosion? In health we have not the least curiosity about such events. We do not live for idle amusement. I would not run round a corner to see the world blow up.
All summer, and far into the autumn, perchance, you unconsciously went by the newspapers and the news, and now you find it was because the morning and the evening were full of news to you. Your walks were full of incidents. You attended, not to the affairs of Europe, but to your own affairs in Massachusetts fields. If you chance to live and move and have your being in that thin stratum in which the events that make the news transpire - thinner than the paper on which it is printed - then these things will fill the world for you; but if you soar above or dive below that plane, you cannot remember nor be reminded of them. Really to see the sun rise or go down every day, so to relate ourselves to a universal fact, would preserve us sane forever. Nations! What are nations? Tartars, and Huns, and Chinamen! Like insects, they swarm. The historian strives in vain to make them memorable. It is for want of a man that there are so many men. It is individuals that populate the world. Any man thinking may say with the Spirit of Lodin -
"I look down from my height on nations,
And they become ashes before me; -
Calm is my dwelling in the clouds;
Pleasant are the great fields of my rest."
Pray, let us live without being drawn by dogs, Esquimaux-fashion, tearing over hill and dale, and biting each other's ears. Not without a slight shudder at the danger, I often perceive how near I had come to admitting into my mind the details of some trivial affair - the news of the street; and I am astonished to observe how willing men are to lumber their minds with such rubbish - to permit idle rumors and incidents of the most insignificant kind to intrude on ground which should be sacred to thought. Shall the mind be a public arena, where the affairs of the street and the gossip of the tea-table chiefly are discussed? Or shall it be a quarter of heaven itself - an hypaethral temple, consecrated to the service of the gods? I find it so difficult to dispose of the few facts which to me are significant, that I hesitate to burden my attention with those which are insignificant, which only a divine mind could illustrate. Such is, for the most part, the news in newspapers and conversation. It is important to preserve the mind's chastity in this respect. Think of admitting the details of a single case of the criminal court into our thoughts, to stalk profanely through their very sanctum sanctorum for an hour, ay, for many hours! to make a very bar-room of the mind's inmost apartment, as if for so long the dust of the street had occupied us - the very street itself, with all its travel, its bustle, and filth, had passed through our thoughts' shrine!
Would it not be an intellectual and moral suicide? When I have been compelled to sit spectator and auditor in a court-room for some hours, and have seen my neighbors, who were not compelled, stealing in from time to time, and tiptoeing about with washed hands and faces, it has appeared to my mind's eye, that, when they took off their hats, their ears suddenly expanded into vast hoppers for sound, between which even their narrow heads were crowded. Like the vanes of windmills, they caught the broad but shallow stream of sound, which, after a few titillating gyrations in their coggy brains, passed out the other side. I wondered if, when they got home, they were as careful to wash their ears as before their hands and faces. It has seemed to me, at such a time, that the auditors and the witnesses, the jury and the counsel, the judge and the criminal at the bar - if I may presume him guilty before he is convicted - were all equally criminal, and a thunderbolt might be expected to descend and consume them all together.
By all kinds of traps and signboards, threatening the extreme penalty of the divine law, exclude such trespassers from the only ground which can be sacred to you. It is so hard to forget what it is worse than useless to remember! If I am to be a thoroughfare, I prefer that it be of the mountain brooks, the Parnassian streams, and not the town sewers. There is inspiration, that gossip which comes to the ear of the attentive mind from the courts of heaven. There is the profane and stale revelation of the bar-room and the police court. The same ear is fitted to receive both communications. Only the character of the hearer determines to which it shall be open, and to which closed. I believe that the mind can be permanently profaned by the habit of attending to trivial things, so that all our thoughts shall be tinged with triviality. Our very intellect shall be macadamized, as it were - its foundation broken into fragments for the wheels of travel to roll over; and if you would know what will make the most durable pavement, surpassing rolled stones, spruce blocks, and asphaltum, you have only to look into some of our minds which have been subjected to this treatment so long.
If we have thus desecrated ourselves - as who has not? - the remedy will be by wariness and devotion to reconsecrate ourselves, and make once more a fane of the mind. We should treat our minds, that is, ourselves, as innocent and ingenuous children, whose guardians we are, and be careful what objects and what subjects we thrust on their attention. Read not the Times. Read the Eternities.
Conventionalities are at length as had as impurities. Even the facts of science may dust the mind by their dryness, unless they are in a sense effaced each morning, or rather rendered fertile by the dews of fresh and living truth. Knowledge does not come to us by details, but in flashes of light from heaven. Yes, every thought that passes through the mind helps to wear and tear it, and to deepen the ruts, which, as in the streets of Pompeii, evince how much it has been used. How many things there are concerning which we might well deliberate whether we had better know them - had better let their peddling-carts be driven, even at the slowest trot or walk, over that bride of glorious span by which we trust to pass at last from the farthest brink of time to the nearest shore of eternity! Have we no culture, no refinement - but skill only to live coarsely and serve the Devil? - to acquire a little worldly wealth, or fame, or liberty, and make a false show with it, as if we were all husk and shell, with no tender and living kernel to us? Shall our institutions be like those chestnut burs which contain abortive nuts, perfect only to prick the fingers? America is said to be the arena on which the battle of freedom is to be fought; but surely it cannot be freedom in a merely political sense that is meant. Even if we grant that the American has freed himself from a political tyrant, he is still the slave of an economical and moral tyrant. Now that the republic - the respublica - has been settled, it is time to look after the res-privata - the private state - to see, as the Roman senate charged its consuls, "ne quid res-PRIVATA detrimenti caperet," that the private state receive no detriment.
Do we call this the land of the free? What is it to be free from King George and continue the slaves of King Prejudice? What is it to be born free and not to live free? What is the value of any political freedom, but as a means to moral freedom? Is it a freedom to be slaves, or a freedom to be free, of which we boast? We are a nation of politicians, concerned about the outmost defences only of freedom. It is our children's children who may perchance be really free. We tax ourselves unjustly. There is a part of us which is not represented. It is taxation without representation. We quarter troops, we quarter fools and cattle of all sorts upon ourselves. We quarter our gross bodies on our poor souls, till the former eat up all the latter's substance.
With respect to a true culture and manhood, we are essentially provincial still, not metropolitan - mere Jonathans. We are provincial, because we do not find at home our standards; because we do not worship truth, but the reflection of truth; because we are warped and narrowed by an exclusive devotion to trade and commerce and manufactures and agriculture and the like, which are but means, and not the end.
So is the English Parliament provincial. Mere country bumpkins, they betray themselves, when any more important question arises for them to settle, the Irish question, for instance - the English question why did I not say? Their natures are subdued to what they work in. Their "good breeding" respects only secondary objects. The finest manners in the world are awkwardness and fatuity when contrasted with a finer intelligence. They appear but as the fashions of past days - mere courtliness, knee-buckles and small-clothes, out of date. It is the vice, but not the excellence of manners, that they are continually being deserted by the character; they are cast-off-clothes or shells, claiming the respect which belonged to the living creature. You are presented with the shells instead of the meat, and it is no excuse generally, that, in the case of some fishes, the shells are of more worth than the meat. The man who thrusts his manners upon me does as if he were to insist on introducing me to his cabinet of curiosities, when I wished to see himself. It was not in this sense that the poet Decker called Christ "the first true gentleman that ever breathed." I repeat that in this sense the most splendid court in Christendom is provincial, having authority to consult about Transalpine interests only, and not the affairs of Rome. A praetor or proconsul would suffice to settle the questions which absorb the attention of the English Parliament and the American Congress. Government and legislation! these I thought were respectable professions. We have heard of heaven-born Numas, Lycurguses, and Solons, in the history of the world, whose names at least may stand for ideal legislators; but think of legislating to regulate the breeding of slaves, or the exportation of tobacco! What have divine legislators to do with the exportation or the importation of tobacco? what humane ones with the breeding of slaves? Suppose you were to submit the question to any son of God - and has He no children in the Nineteenth Century? is it a family which is extinct? - in what condition would you get it again? What shall a State like Virginia say for itself at the last day, in which these have been the principal, the staple productions? What ground is there for patriotism in such a State? I derive my facts from statistical tables which the States themselves have published.
A commerce that whitens every sea in quest of nuts and raisins, and makes slaves of its sailors for this purpose! I saw, the other day, a vessel which had been wrecked, and many lives lost, and her cargo of rags, juniper berries, and bitter almonds were strewn along the shore. It seemed hardly worth the while to tempt the dangers of the sea between Leghorn and New York for the sake of a cargo of juniper berries and bitter almonds. America sending to the Old World for her bitters! Is not the sea-brine, is not shipwreck, bitter enough to make the cup of life go down here? Yet such, to a great extent, is our boasted commerce; and there are those who style themselves statesmen and philosophers who are so blind as to think that progress and civilization depend on precisely this kind of interchange and activity - the activity of flies about a molasses - hogshead. Very well, observes one, if men were oysters. And very well, answer I, if men were mosquitoes.
Lieutenant Herndon, whom our government sent to explore the Amazon, and, it is said, to extend the area of slavery, observed that there was wanting there "an industrious and active population, who know what the comforts of life are, and who have artificial wants to draw out the great resources of the country." But what are the "artificial wants" to be encouraged? Not the love of luxuries, like the tobacco and slaves of, I believe, his native Virginia, nor the ice and granite and other material wealth of our native New England; nor are "the great resources of a country" that fertility or barrenness of soil which produces these. The chief want, in every State that I have been into, was a high and earnest purpose in its inhabitants. This alone draws out "the great resources" of Nature, and at last taxes her beyond her resources; for man naturally dies out of her. When we want culture more than potatoes, and illumination more than sugar-plums, then the great resources of a world are taxed and drawn out, and the result, or staple production, is, not slaves, nor operatives, but men - those rare fruits called heroes, saints, poets, philosophers, and redeemers.
In short, as a snow-drift is formed where there is a lull in the wind, so, one would say, where there is a lull of truth, an institution springs up. But the truth blows right on over it, nevertheless, and at length blows it down.
What is called politics is comparatively something so superficial and inhuman, that practically I have never fairly recognized that it concerns me at all. The newspapers, I perceive, devote some of their columns specially to politics or government without charge; and this, one would say, is all that saves it; but as I love literature and to some extent the truth also, I never read those columns at any rate. I do not wish to blunt my sense of right so much. I have not got to answer for having read a single President's Message. A strange age of the world this, when empires, kingdoms, and republics come a-begging to a private man's door, and utter their complaints at his elbow! I cannot take up a newspaper but I find that some wretched government or other, hard pushed and on its last legs, is interceding with me, the reader, to vote for it - more importunate than an Italian beggar; and if I have a mind to look at its certificate, made, perchance, by some benevolent merchant's clerk, or the skipper that brought it over, for it cannot speak a word of English itself, I shall probably read of the eruption of some Vesuvius, or the overflowing of some Po, true or forged, which brought it into this condition. I do not hesitate, in such a case, to suggest work, or the almshouse; or why not keep its castle in silence, as I do commonly? The poor President, what with preserving his popularity and doing his duty, is completely bewildered. The newspapers are the ruling power. Any other government is reduced to a few marines at Fort Independence. If a man neglects to read the Daily Times, government will go down on its knees to him, for this is the only treason in these days.
Those things which now most engage the attention of men, as politics and the daily routine, are, it is true, vital functions of human society, but should be unconsciously performed, like the corresponding functions of the physical body. They are infrahuman, a kind of vegetation. I sometimes awake to a half-consciousness of them going on about me, as a man may become conscious of some of the processes of digestion in a morbid state, and so have the dyspepsia, as it is called. It is as if a thinker submitted himself to be rasped by the great gizzard of creation. Politics is, as it were, the gizzard of society, full of grit and gravel, and the two political parties are its two opposite halves - sometimes split into quarters, it may be, which grind on each other. Not only individuals, but states, have thus a confirmed dyspepsia, which expresses itself, you can imagine by what sort of eloquence. Thus our life is not altogether a forgetting, but also, alas! to a great extent, a remembering, of that which we should never have been conscious of, certainly not in our waking hours. Why should we not meet, not always as dyspeptics, to tell our had dreams, but sometimes as eupeptics, to congratulate each other on the ever-glorious morning? I do not make an exorbitant demand, surely.
THE END..
Agreed Montanore although,
it's getting beyond one's current comfort zone to see the trees that unfortunately prevents it
from actually sinking in..
The fruit of a virtuous people
The responsibility of Liberty rests with the individual. The freeman must be careful not to get ensnared by 'promises' of a better future at the expense of Liberty. A free man is bound to keep his promises -- honesty and integrity are necessary supports for men and women in association with each other in order to produce, to trade, to marry, to prosper, etc.. The virtuous will keep their word and respect the rights and property of others. The freeman must be careful not to encumber more debt than he can repay, and the compassionate will abide by "forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors." Yes, the free man will err, and will have to make amends -- the degree to which he must depends on the virtues of his fellows.
When the Law is defined as the process by which disputes are resolved, then there is Liberty -- when the Law becomes a tool for taking that which is unearned to give to another, or to shut a man up for merely telling the truth, or to essentially play god, there is oppression. Whenever you find a happy community of people living in mutual helpfulness and respect for one another, there is little need for 'laws' to keep it that way -- that is the fruit of a virtuous people.
~ E Archer ~
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I always enjoy listening to Mr. Griffin. He thinks and speaks clearly. And, of course, what he says is always right on target.
Everyone needs to read his book "The Creature from Jekyll Island."
A Discourse on Government by G. Edward Griffin
"Government is not reason. It is not eloquence. It is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master."
Attributed to George Washington This program consists of unedited responses to questions presented to G. Edward Griffin by a camera crew creating a documentary on the U.S. Constitution. In this session, he answers the most difficult questions imaginable in the fields of political and social science. The depth and clarity of his response is amazing, especially considering he is speaking extemporaneously without benefit of script or notes. In an era when many people are just now waking up to the WHAT of current events, here are issues for the brain that go far beyond that shallow pool into the deep water of WHY and HOW. Also included is a bonus feature entitled Winning for America, Mr. Griffin's commentary on the Ron Paul 2008 campaign and a long-term strategy for victory offered by Freedom Force International. With these programs together, be prepared for a most rewarding journey.
What is the Mandrake Mechanism?
(The following is an excerpt from The Creature from Jekyll Island:by G. Edward Griffin: Chapter 10, "The Mandrake Mechanism" pages 186-195
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THE MANDRAKE MECHANISM.. A DETAILED VIEW
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BUILDING THE MANDRAKE MECHANISM
(The following is an excerpt from The Creature from Jekyll Island: by G. Edward Griffin: Chapter 23, "The Great Duck Dinner" pages 477-481)
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These excerpts are excellent but there is nothing like the book itself: http://www.realityzone.com/
What Is Libertarianism? What Does the Libertarian Party Stand For?
Ron Paul -
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Syria: disillusioned rebels drift back to take Assad amnesty -
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The West is losing in Syria. ? -
Thursday, July 25, 2013
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Rand Paul slams Obama's plans for Syria involvement -
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10 Ways That The Iron Grip Of The Big Brother Prison Grid Is Tightening On All Of Our Lives
Posted date: 2013-07-18 00:26:00
Michael Snyder
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Do you ever feel trapped in an invisible control grid that is slowly but surely closing in all around you? Do you ever feel like virtually everything that you do is being watched, tracked, monitored and recorded? If so, unfortunately it is not just your imagination. Our society is rapidly being transformed into a Big Brother prison grid by a government that is seemingly obsessed with knowing everything that we do.
They want a record of all of our phone calls, all of our Internet activity and all of our financial transactions. They even want our DNA. They put chips in our passports, they are starting to scan the eyes of our children in our schools, and they have declared our border areas to be “Constitution-free zones” where they can do just about anything to us that they want.
The Bill of Rights has already been eroded so badly that many would argue that it is already dead. The assault against our most basic freedoms and liberties never seems to end. The following are 10 ways that the iron grip of the Big Brother prison grid is tightening on all of our lives…
#1 Automated License Plate Scanners
All over the United States automated license plate scanners are being installed. Sometimes they are mounted on police vehicles, and other times they are put on stationary locations like bridges and road signs. These automated license plate scanners are collecting a staggering amount of information about the travel patterns of millions of innocent American citizens every single day…
Police are recording and storing information on millions of license plates that aren’t related to suspected violation of the law or any known activity of interest to law enforcement, according to data collected by the American Civil Liberties Union through Freedom of Information requests in 38 states.
According to the Washington Post, automated license plate scanners recorded the locations of vehicle plates 85 million times in the state of Maryland in 2012.
And as more of these scanners get installed around the nation, the amount of information that the government collects about the movements of our vehicles will continue to increase.
#2 Government Workers Ordered To Spy On The “Lifestyles, Attitudes And Behaviors” Of Their Fellow Workers
Did you know that the Obama administration has ordered federal workers to spy on one another?…
Federal employees and contractors are asked to pay particular attention to the lifestyles, attitudes and behaviors – like financial troubles, odd working hours or unexplained travel – of co-workers as a way to predict whether they might do “harm to the United States.”
Managers of special insider threat offices will have “regular, timely, and, if possible, electronic, access” to employees’ personnel, payroll, disciplinary and “personal contact” files, as well as records of their use of classified and unclassified computer networks, polygraph results, travel reports and financial disclosure forms.
If you do not spy on your fellow workers and something goes wrong, you could lose your job or potentially even be prosecuted yourself.
#3 Eye Scanners In Our Schools
According to CNN, iris scanners are already going into schools all over the country, and soon they will be used in banks, at airports and at ATM machines…
In the next year, industry insiders say the technology will be available all over– from banks to airports. That means instead of entering your pin number, you can gain access to an ATM in a blink. Used in an airport, the system will analyze your iris as you pass through security, identifying and welcoming you by name.
Will we soon live in a world where we no longer use passwords and instead use our eyeballs?…
“Imagine a world where you’re no longer reliant on user names and passwords,” Eyelock CMO Anthony Antolino told CNNMoney. “If we’re going through a turnstile and you have authorization to go beyond that, it’ll open the turnstile for you, if you embed it into a tablet or PC, it will unlock your phone or your tablet or it will log you into your email account.”
#4 Biometric Chips In Our Passports
Did you know that all U.S. passports contain biometric identity chips? The following is from a recent CNSNews.com article…
According to the website, the Enhanced Border Security and Visa Entry Reform Act of 2002 required foreigners participating in the Visa Waiver Program–which permits entry into the United States without a VISA for a limited period of time–to have these integrated circuits or chips on their passport.
“As a security measure, Congress has legislated that all countries participating in the Visa Waiver Program with the United States must issue passports with integrated circuits (chips), to permit storage of at least a digital image of the passport photograph for use with face recognition technology,” the website states.
The website also says that since 2007 the State Department has been issuing U.S. passports bearing the chips. The department did this on its own authority, and not in response to any statutory mandate enacted by Congress.
#5 All Your Financial Transactions Tracked By The Government?
Most Americans have never even heard of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, but one U.S. Senator is warning that this agency wants to keep a record of all of your financial transactions…
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is looking to create a “Google Earth” of every financial transaction of every American, Sen. Mike Enzi (R-WY) warned today in a Senate speech opposing confirmation of Richard Cordray as CFPB director.
“This bill (creating the CFPB) was supposed to be about regulating Wall Street. Instead, it’s creating a Google Earth on every financial transaction. That’s right: the government will be able to see every detail of your finances. Your permission – not needed,” Sen. Enzi said.
#6 Complaining About The Tap Water Makes You A Terrorist?
Have you ever complained about the water?
If so, you might be a terrorist.
The following is a brief excerpt from a recent article by Anthony Gucciardi…
Concerned about the high levels of arsenic in your water, or perhaps the known levels of radioactive contamination? Well you must be a terrorist, according to the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation (TDEC) and Homeland Security, who consider issuing such complaints to be classified under terrorist activity.
It all started when Tennessee residents in Maury County recorded an exchange with the deputy director from the state’s environmental entity TDEC, who issued a warning that complaining about low quality tap water could put you in Guantanamo.
#7 DNA Databases
The United States already has a database that contains the DNA of approximately 11 million criminals…
The biggest database is in the United States — the FBI’s Combined DNA Index System, or CODIS, which holds information on more than 11 million people suspected of or convicted of crimes.
It is set to grow following a May Supreme Court ruling that upheld the right of police forces to take DNA swabs without a warrant from people who are arrested, not just those who are convicted. (Policies on DNA collection vary by state; more than half of the states and the federal government currently take DNA swabs after arrests.)
But of course authorities will never be satisfied until they have all of our DNA. And we are definitely moving in that direction. The following comes from my recent article entitled "The Coming National DNA Database"…
A national DNA database is coming. Barack Obama has already said that he wants one. A major Supreme Court decision last month paved the way for one. The DNA of those that commit “serious crimes” is already being routinely collected all over the nation. Some states (such as New Jersey) are now passing laws that will require DNA collection from those charged with committing “low level crimes”. And a law that was passed under George W. Bush allows the federal government to screen the DNA of all newborn babies in the United States. So how long will it be before we are all required to give DNA samples to the authorities?
#8 Copying Your Hard Drive At The Border
How would you feel if you went to cross the U.S. border and officials grabbed your computer and made a copy of the hard drive?
As incredible as that sounds, it is happening all the time. As I wrote about recently, if they do take your computer, you might not get it back for an extended period of time…
Two years ago The Constitution Project issued a report on the issue, “Suspicionless Border Searches of Electronic Devices: Legal and Privacy Concerns with the Department of Homeland Security’s Policy.”
The group explained: Customs and Border Protection and Immigration and Customs Enforcement “officers may detain electronic devices for significant periods of time. For CBP, detentions can be extended well beyond the minimum five-day guideline with supervisory approval. If the device is detained by ICE, the detention can last for ‘a reasonable time,’ which according to its Directive can last 30 days or more.” Neither agency sets any firm time limit.
#9 NSA Snooping
Thanks to Edward Snowden, we now know much more about NSA snooping. Sadly, the NSA seems to want to collect every piece of data about everyone in the world that they possibly can.
And right now the NSA is building a place to store all of that data. It is being constructed out in Utah, and it will be the largest data center in the history of the world. It is going to have approximately a million square feet of storage space, it is going to cost nearly 2 billion dollars to build, and it is going to take about 40 million dollars a year just to pay for the energy needed to run it. For much more on this, please see my previous article entitled "21 Facts About NSA Snooping That Every American Should Know".
#10 Obama Now Has The Power To Seize Control Of The Internet?
Why does Barack Obama keep releasing very important executive orders very late on Friday afternoons?
Is he trying to sneak things through that nobody will notice?
For example, it is being reported that Barack Obama has just signed an executive order that will allow him to seize control of the Internet during a national emergency…
Another late-Friday afternoon release from the White House — this one on how agencies should communicate with the public in emergencies — has Internet privacy advocates crying foul over a possible power grab.
The executive order — “Assignment of National Security and Emergency Preparedness Communications Functions” — was released last Friday in the late afternoon.
This executive order is apparently worded so vaguely that it would allow Obama to do just about anything he wanted to as far as the Internet is concerned…
Essentially, it says the government can take control of private telecommunications technology, presumably including those used for the Internet, for government communications in an emergency.
“Under the Executive Order the White House has … granted the Department [of Homeland Security] the authority to seize private facilities when necessary, effectively shutting down or limiting civilian communications,” wrote the Electronic Privacy Information Center in a blog post.
Are you alarmed by all of this?
You should be.
Sadly, most Americans don’t even realize what is going on. Most Americans are just working really hard to make it in this very difficult economic environment, and when they turn on their televisions the mainstream media doesn’t warn them that they are rapidly losing their freedoms and liberties.
Please share this article with as many people as you can. We need people to get educated about what is happening. What we are experiencing right now is kind of like "death by a thousand paper cuts."
The Big Brother control grid is closing in on us in hundreds of different ways, but it is often happening so gradually that people don’t really feel it.
This article first appeared here at the American Dream. Michael Snyder is a writer, speaker and activist who writes and edits his own blogs The American Dream and Economic Collapse Blog. Follow him on Twitter here.
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The Rothschilds 500 TRILLION DOLLARS -
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Here's what must be done to set the country back on the proper path of liberty:
1. End the Fed.
2. End the Income Tax (instant economic boom)
3. Renounce their debt and declare a restart (jubilee)
4. End the military empire
5. End the alphabet soup agencies
6. Return to constitutional money based on gold and silver
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