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Paul Farrell Explains Why America Needs An "Evil Plan" In Advance Of The Next Revolution
Unlike many of his colleagues at MarketWatch, Paul Farrell has never hidden his contempt for the broken financial and social system currently imploding at every step, although courtesy of enjoyable and distracting $0.99 apps and semi-soft porn dancing shows on primetime, few seem to care or notice. For those who do notice, however, Paul has some words of caution: prepare an "evil plan" - Farrell explains: "Got your “Evil Plan” yet? You really need one. For self-defense, attacks, plain old survival. Why? Things are bad folks. And they’re going to get much worse. Trust no one. Believe nothing you hear. Nothing....While reading Hugh MacLeod’s best-seller “Evil Plans: Having Fun on the Road to World Domination” over Memorial Day I ran across a Newsweek feature, “Mad As Hell,” an ominous warning screaming: “The anger that fueled the Arab Spring is now boiling over in Europe. Could club-wielding protesters be in America’s future too?. What’s an “Evil Plan?” For MacLeod it started as personal, years ago when he broke free of corporate life, became an entrepreneur, made “a good living, doing what you love, without being accountable to some larger company.” That triggered a revolution." Alas, if only it was as easy for most as it is for MacLeod...
Farrell explains further:
At first MacLeod jokingly called his decision an “Evil Plan:” Declaring independence, he was no longer controlled by soulless companies, trapped like most Americans in jobs he hated, working to make the rich richer. But the real reason “Evil Plan” fit became clear years later: Some old friends still resent that he “pulled it off,” believe he’s “doing something morally reprehensible.” In their minds, his independence is an “Evil Plan.”
That got me thinking about Mubarak, Kadhafi, Assad and other Arab dictators. They resent the Arab masses for not “staying in their place,” hate them for demonstrating, demanding, rebelling against their dictator’s iron-fisted “rightful” rule. Yes, when the masses rise up, leaders see anyone who wants freedom as a traitor, anyone resisting authority is guided by an “Evil Plan.” And from Libya to Syria, leaders who believe they rule by a divine right also have the right to shoot anyone resisting their authority.
Looking back at history, America itself is the progenitor of the biggest "Evil Plan" ever conceived. It would only be symmetric if it follows up with the next "big" one too.
Greatest ‘Evil Plan’ ever was delivered to King George III in 1776
King George III must have seen our Declaration of Independence as an “Evil Plan,” right from the opening lines about: “All men are created equal” and “When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another ...” Yes, “Evil Plans” can be treasonous, punishable by death.
MacLeod’s reference to “Black Swan” author Nassim Taleb’s warning is the perfect answer to Newsweek’s question: “Could club-wielding protesters be in America’s future too?” Ironically, the Bush Doctrine of spreading democracy has suddenly reemerged, shifting into high gear from an Arab Spring to European Summer and next to an American Winter. The question is rhetorical. The answer is yes. It happened before, in 1776.
But can we pinpoint the timing of a revolution? No. No one saw the Arab Spring coming. Taleb offers a simple reason: “The bigger the historical event, the more random and unpredictable the consequences. Nobody saw 9/11, Pearl Harbor.” Nor predicted the JFK assassination, Hiroshima, Rome’s collapse, Black Plague or Microsoft and Apple’s beating IBM. Nor the 1929 Crash, 2000 dot-com crash, 2008 subprime meltdown. All game changers.
But our leaders ignored warning signs. “Everything just happened when it did, everybody was caught with their pants down, and everybody just had to deal with the massive unpredictable consequences afterward.”
Is Trickle Up capitalism, a long-time peeve of Farrell's and something we discussed over the weekend, to blame for what is coming?
But is an America Winter really next on some cosmic list of future Black Swans? Yes, and also quite predictable. Why? Because the same economic forces that drove the Arab Spring and today’s European Summer are setting up a hot American Winter.
The Inequality Gap is that force. The gap divides the Super Rich 1% from the rest of America. In “The American Interest” a few months ago Francis Fukuyama, a leading neoconservative, wrote: “A study by Thomas Piketty and Emmanuel Saez shows that between 1978 and 2007 the share of U.S. income accruing to the top one percent of American families jumped from 9% to 23.5 % of the total. These data point clearly to the stagnation of working-class incomes in the United States: Real incomes for male workers peaked sometime back in the 1970s and have not recovered since.”
Warning: The last time this Inequality Gap was this big was just before the 1929 Crash and the Great Depression. Trickle-up capitalism: The rich get richer, the masses get poorer. It happened with Arab dictators, in Europe, and it’s coming to a head in America.
Capitalism is class warfare: Today, a generation of Reaganomics missteps has created relentless trickle-up gains, the top 1% got richer. But real income for the have-nots, the bottom 99% has stagnated. Capitalism is destroying the economy, negating the “will of the people” and fueling the coming Second America Revolution. Except this time our George III is a conspiracy of Wall Street, Washington, Corporate America and the Forbes 400 Super Rich.
"You have to consider the possibility that God does not like you..."
The ultimate ‘Evil Plan:’ When leaders betray the people’s trust
Toward the end of “Evil Plans,” MacLeod reveals a secret: “Evil Plans are gifts: You were given a gift by the Creator, God, the Universe …Whatever. Until you have returned the favor, life will have a certain, feckless emptiness to it.” Yes, even leaders answer to the same higher authority as you and me.
So here’s the big message: When leaders — whether Arab, European or American — rebel against that higher authority at that very moment their “Evil Plans” become “evil” in the classical sense. They are violating the sacred compact between that higher authority, the leader and his people. They lose their right to rule, as did Mubarak, Assad and Kadhafi. And a revolution is ignited.
So today, our world is witnessing a battle of “Evil Plans,” between rulers in Arabia, Europe and America, and the masses they have betrayed.
That same breach must have been much on the mind of Jonathan Chait, a senior editor of th New Republic, when he wrote his damning indictment of the “Ryan Plan” in a Newsweek article. The headline: “War on the Weak: How the GOP came to view the poor as parasites — and the rich as our rightful rulers.”
The same could be said of Arab dictators; here, the GOP’s “rightful rulers” see the public as “parasites.” The goal of the “Ryan Plan” was to destroy Medicare as we know it by converting it into a voucher system favoring GOP’s donors. The public revolted.
The conclusion is something that could have been sourced in a Mike Krieger letter:
Bottom line: You really do need an “Evil Plan.” Now. For self-defense, for counter-attacks, for survival. Things are bad out there. And they are going to get worse. Trust no one. Believe nothing you hear. Nothing.
Why? The collective mind-set of America’s leaders, in both parties, in banking, everywhere, is in cover-up mode, hiding behind hype, lies and happy talk. Lacking discipline, they are out-of-control money addicts, self-destructive, unable to stop themselves.
Ironically, the best form of retaliation is not to oppose "them" directly: the public, the regulators, the taxpayers should really just stand aside and let the banking syndicate eat itself alive. The more pushback there is, the easier it is to effectuate the ongoing middle class destruction. Which is why the contrarian approach is to simply let the world's financial kleptocracy do what it wants, and get it done fast: it will still achieve its end goal of terminal wealth transfer, but in doing so the parasite will finally kill the host, leading, finally, to the long-overdue reset which everyone wishes for, yet nobody knows how to achieve.
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...and lots of people did see it coming...and took appropriate action.
What is most irritating is that there is an attitude, which is common amongst the sheep - that if someone concludes and explains they believe that there will be a crisis of some magnitude....if they cannot put an exact DAY on the crisis - then they are shouted down as a fraud.
What morons don't realise is that this is like trying to guess the result of a rigged poker game - you might know the best player, you might know who will win, but you don't know in which round the dealer will make the play.
Even now, on the brink of the next banking crisis - which will be far more damaging than the last - if you can't say the day and time - then you're discounted. Afterwards a glut of people wander around claiming that 'nobody told them' - when actually they were told quite clearly - they just weren't given an exact timeline.
I had expected the second crisis to be here now, but I underestimated the a) Commitment of the central banks b) The gullibility of the people c) The slipperyness of the politicians
All 3 have vastly exceeded my expectations - but this cannot last forever - and I would suggest - the collapse will be worse as a result
An addition for the sheep to consider:
Never speculate, especially, with respect to the future...
Confuchius.
"it will still achieve its end goal of terminal wealth transfer, but in doing so the parasite will finally kill the host, leading, finally, to the long-overdue reset which everyone wishes for, yet nobody knows how to achieve."
Article is the finger... this sentence is the moon...
Thanks Tyler.
vvvvv
Winston Churchill noted that most great civilizations began with a disaster. A plague, drought, war, volcanism, could precipitate changes that could otherwise not be accomplished by the volition of men. The farmer continues to suffer the tax man during status quo. When the plague kills his wife, parents, eldest son, and youngest child the farmer no longer suffers the tax man ... he raises his scythe and kills him on the spot. Why not? What's to lose. Suddenly the stifling old order gets overthrown and new energy is injected into the system. Japan, Russia, and Germany rose from the ashes of WWII. The question for us is do we wait for a disaster or do we precipitate action on our own?
Any revolution born in violence is destined to end that way.
The only hope is to break the cycle. The best method is voluntary cooperation amongst each of us, building natural community, and thus, natural law and spontaneous order in spite of the forces of the ruling classes and their so called legal order.
It's as simple as being a good neighbor (albeit with an infinite horizon). Besides, the "they" that rule have no moral authority over anyone who does not directly give it to them. All they have is force and fraud.
www.RegenerationX.org
Excellent Flash presentation, N/A. Thanks for posting this. I would encourage everyone here to take a few minutes and watch it.
I'm of the belief that a sustainable community can only be achieved and maintained if it is kept small, perhaps no more than several hundred people. Everybody works and provides a useful good or service that can be offered for the improved quality-of-life for all. Once the community designates individuals to rule by arbitrary diktat or veiled threats of force, such as in our current political environment, then everyone loses.
Perhaps these are unrealistic expectations, however I hold out hope that this is what will rise from the ashes of the inevitable revolution that is rushing towards us all.
@anony
What happens when 40 million Americans are starving because the food stamps ran out?
Zombies
They'll just wander about WalMart stuffing their face while filling a cart to either abandon later, or take out the old person at the door with as they make their escape attempt.
Do like a buddy of mine did years ago...fill the cart, then pull the fire alarm...run out with the cart.
The best 'evil plan' is one of "enhanced non-participation" with the parasites that be; friends don't let friends bank with the TBTF.
Trashing the dollar AGAIN and ramping the Roach Motel [SPY] AGAIN was a very bad idea this morning. I suspect that by tomorrow [or maybe even 11:30 est today], this bad idea will be quite clear to all.
You see, dead cats don't actually bounce. It's just an expression. And this market is clearly a dead cat, baby.
Funny...I still haven't seen even one criminal syndicate Wall Street banker mention what happened on the S&P last Wednesday. It's funny, because it was so clear that even the most jr. criminal banker, one that does not have a house on the vineyard yet, should have seen it and commented. Apparently, Wall Street is still short truth.
agree with the sentiment
disagree with many of the details
Excessive spending must be stopped. It doesn't matter who or why they happened. The ship is going down. The water is almost over the decks. Cut now, cut deep, or we're doomed.
Arab Spring is an exploitation of mass discontent by very elitists you deride. Western fingerprints are everywhere. The Libyan rebels have no armor or artillery, but they had a central bank set up in a week. Soros and Obama dumped a hundred mill into a worthless dump called Gaza. Until Mubarak evaporated and the new gov has lifted the border sanctions. I'm sure those investments will boom. Cutting deals with the MB and Hamas. That will end well.
This disaster is not capitalisms fault. It's a thing called crony-capitalism that has been going on for decades. Public/private partnership coupled with central planning and socialistic policies to placate the masses. OR known by its more recognizable and incendiary name-fascism.
Real capitalism would have sorted itself out in 2008 and reset the system. Names like JPM, GS, AIG, BoA, HSBC, Fannie and maybe even FED and EU, would exist only in history books.
Exactly! There's a huge difference between capitalism and corporatism. Apparently there are a lot of communists that wish to suggest otherwise however.
I would expect analyses to become more reality-based and properly discriminative if the "capitalists" would demonstrate the same good faith in response to their "communist" critics. As you point out, you can't have a legitimate discussion of anything real when the language it is conducted in is so malignantly corrupted.
speaking of evil plans, I wonder if that was the point of QE all along, is it really just a part of the (to turn a often over used phrase) endgame? Was the point of QE to get the US economy addicted to stimulus, even to the point where it will no longer be able to stand alone again in it's current incarnation? Then to complete the evil plot suddenly withdraw said QE and watch the whole thing collapse...or continue the stimulus injections and turn the economy from the proverbial patient on life support to the patient in hospice with QE being the pain meds that both mask and ease it passing? Are we at the point now where it's a catch 22 with either action leading to the same end just one will delay the outcome while the other will be a much quicker death? I don't know much about the complexities of economics on a national/global scale and what little knowledge i have gained has come through self education, reading history and great sites like ZH so I'm seriously wondering is there any way this ends in anything less than an utter collapse of the finical system as we, as I knew it...and was this all planned right from the start?
TPTB are not stupid. Therefore, the only other answer is that this is indeed being done on purpose. We are being looted. Everyone knows what happens after the looting stops too.
At the apex of oligarchs, it was never forgotten that the system installed in 1913 was cyclical in nature.
It's only the subordinate rich that are panicking, as they didn't invest in power as much as they did the scam.
Oh, my "evil plan" was to start my own company too. Except I would sell defective products on purpose. Then I would berate complainers. Call them communists, anti-business, entitlement leeches, basement-dwelling whiners, etc. All while I hide behind my corporate charter and all the money I earned. Yeah, I'd rub the word "earned" in their faces too. Afterall, I wouldn't have this money if I wasn't more productive than them, would I? Actually I might even get indignant and dismissively address them as "peasant" for good measure. Only problem is this voice telling me that's wrong...can't seem to drink it away but maybe a pension theft will do the job.
“The bigger the historical event, the more random and unpredictable the consequences. Nobody saw 9/11, Pearl Harbor.” Nor predicted the JFK assassination, Hiroshima, Rome’s collapse, Black Plague or Microsoft and Apple’s beating IBM. Nor the 1929 Crash, 2000 dot-com crash, 2008 subprime meltdown. All game changers".
What?
Yeah, me too.
He then goes on to write:
"But is an America Winter really next on some cosmic list of future Black Swans? Yes, and also quite predictable. Why? Because the same economic forces that drove the Arab Spring and today’s European Summer are setting up a hot American Winter."
Well, then, it's not a Black Swan if it's predictable.
I don't know why I'm tearing apart an article I should like. Maybe it shows you that for all his positive (from my point of view) rhetoric, perhaps he's just another shill?
Nothing happens by accident, or comes out of nowhere. Some of it, sure, but in hindsight we learn that the game changers were always planned. Archduke Ferdinand, Pearl Harbor, 9/11...and then there's the stuff that didn't happen but we were told they did: Gulf on Tonkin, Saddam and the baby incubators in Kuwait, Saddam's nukes. They didn't even bother to make anything up for Lybia, it was just an unapologetic "executive decision". That ought to tell you that we are no longer in an advanced state of decay in the republic and that we are in full-on despotism.
And yet no one will do anything.
Dead men don't protest
I am Chumbawamba.
While it's a foregone conclusion that the American Empire will end this way, what of Canada?
Canada does not have an empire. It is a client state of the US. Right now the conservative government is debasing our currency to maintain trade with the US. If the US dollar goes into Hyperinflation though, we might not be able to keep pace and we'll quietly get off the bus to Palookaville. We'd look to China, Germany, UK, Brazil, Venezuela, France etc. for trading partners. We are a more inclusive country. We don't go looking for foreign entanglements. We have a process for resolving conflicts. There is no under-slave class here to do our shit work. In Canada you actually have to gut your house yourself and cut your own grass. We'll be fine.
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During the coming CW, I intend to finish what Benedict Arnold started: plan on being annexed, you egg-sucking socialisti.
Let's see, in Europe, it appears that out of every five protesters, three of them carry sticks, one carrys a knife, and one carries the molotov cocktails. (On average). They are always beaten back, showered with tear gas, arrested, dispersed, and return home to try it again the next day. They fight austerity passively, most of the time unsuccesfully.
In contrast, here in America, out of every five protesters, i promise you three are carrying guns (that are visible) and have more stashed on their person, one carries automatic weapons, as well as knives, plenty of ammo, and a gas mask. And one carries the old grenades he kept from Nam, (don't forget, he is particularly still pissed off from forty years ago) and in remarkably good health for a sixty year old. They played with molotov cocktails when they were kids, so no fun in that anymore, we won't use those.
A "revolution" here in America will consist of three internal componets, as well as special interest (dictatorial) groups.
First componet is immigration war, second componet is race war, third componet is war against the govt, the fourth componet cannot exist without the previous three being joined in unison. The police will run, as they will be no match, leaving only the military to try to stop it.
If this is what has to happen to stop the ignorance, then so be it, i am prepared.
What i am not prepared for, is how to explain it to my son.
Are you?
Well, if I were following that path, I'd include ear and eye protection as well, yes?
Just sayin.
Many in the military realize how bad things are and will not participate in the killing of their countrymen and women.
One would have to believe that among all the egotistical megalomania in the military there are many who truly believe in honor and loyalty and would adhere to the oath they took on the constitution.
Besides if people aren't getting paid and are risking their lives they are as likely as not to take their toys, i.e. weapons, home and will not play the game anymore.
Except "NATO" will be the agency shooting into the crowd in the US... Don't necessarily need American troops for that...
and which member nations have enough troops to supply the required manpower for "shooting into the crowd in the US"?
LOL. In what universe you think the Spanish, Dutch or Polish governments, let alone soldiers, will invade the US, even on request, and start shooting civilians? Or do you think the English are still pissed off about that revolution thingie a few centuries back, and would go in on their own? Seriously?
http://www.canada.com/topics /news/story.html?id=403d90d6-7a61-41ac-8cef-902a1d14879d
things are actually more "global" than many realise.
Let's all run and hide...here comes the Canadian army/navy/air force! Oh, why did they invade us? Did somebody tell a lesbian joke?
The idea that protestest marches that are not carried by a majority of citizens, and thus are massive and widespread, stand any chance is bogus. The police have been equipped with all kinds of weapons, have training that for years put the target on american citizens, and have the attitude of being a seperate group within society with special rights. For unarmed protest to succeed you need to rally a large amount of people that are willing to put themselves in harms' way, for a common goal. I don't see that attitude in the USA, I do see it in Europe and South America.
If americans pick up their guns finally, there's instantly a civil war. They'll find the army opposing them as well. Totally different situation from unarmed protesters (most in europe are unarmed by choice). The moral upper ground will be lost. Shooting a full clip in the direction of an Apache Gunship (or worse: a modern armored drone) is as useful as throwing icecream at a 747. I understand that you're proud of your sidearms, but if owning these clouds your minds, it is not an asset. Comprehending that there is something as a "game" and taking a strategical advantage requires insight and determination, and that's not what I'm seeing in the USA today as well. When people are hungry, most will trade their ARs for some GMO corn and the "safety" of a tent in some camp. There they'll be sterilised and will live out their pitiful, short life, dreaming of past riches of owning an SUV and shopping at Walmart. The end. The idea to just don't cause trouble now is strong. I may be wrong about that. Until now it hasn't happened because the masses have no idea or interest in what is going on. Even if it is possible to stage an armed revolt, they'll have you by the balls, because of control over food, modern weapons and communication. IMO the civil war could be won, but that's hardly a given. An interesting case can be found in the second uprising of Cataline (62 BC), written down by Sallustius.
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Catiline
The only hope the USA has is that when the police beats down widespread unarmed protest marches, the army guys will intervene and turn on their masters in Washington DC. I wouldn't bet on it, but it is a remote possibillity. Look at the "Bloody Sunday" massacre in St. Petersburg in 1905 for an example. This was before Lenin with the help of the german government set up camp in Russia. It set off a number of protests in Russia, though that revolution did not succeed, because of lack of coherence. Large scale unified peaceful protests, that do not disappear even through intimidation, supported by all parts of society (excluding the police and the financial elite). THAT is what the usurpers in Washington DC are afraid of.
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/RUS1905.htm
http://www.suite101.com/content/krasnaia-red-presnia-uprising-a33940
I made a point before to stage a mass exodus of intelligent, educated people, their families, and their possessions (PMs). The door is still open, there's still a possibillity to do something of the sort. That is not going to last very long. Everyone without high level connections will then be trapped. Compare this to the Hugenots escaping France, after the betrayal at the St. Bartholomew's wedding in 1572. Roughly a hundred thousand left the country, most were eductated, reasonably well to do. They thrived in the countries they fled to, and formed a positive contribution to these economies and cultures.
Do any of you americans even have an exit plan? Do you need a massacre to change your mind? Ordinairy americans have never left the USA, mostly. They have no idea how much bigger the world is, nor have any information about simular, past events. They're stuck. Most ZH-ers are not. We could use some freedom loving americans in europe. You'll then have to eat using cutlery of course. ;-)
There seem to be a few things from your list of why it's "impossible" to defeat the USSA military machine. First on the list might be their great record of "success" in Afghanistan (after pissing away trillion$ & trillion$) attempting to defeat a poor and ill equipped native opposition who are set on nothing more than kicking the US, UN, UK etc. etc. mercenaries right out forever.
One might also dredge up the US military's fabulous record in Viet Nam, Iraq, and so on and so on.
As far as is known the only war thay have been on the winning side of is WWII and they cleverly joind that weenie roast only after it had been going for some years and was almost over. That was 2/3 century ago. Shooting at your home town folks would seem a bit over the top; and to what end?
You both are missing the point. After the universal ponzi collapses, 15-20 states are going to secede. They'll be taking their National Guard units with them: heavy weapons, A-10s, etc. It's called "Civil War", not "protest marches". And the regime doesn't even trust its own military to massacre the citizens; that's the why of Blackwater et al.: gangs of cut-throats who'd kill their own mothers for a paycheck. I think we can handle them.
tad shouty, hmm? are you practising for your upcoming battles?
while I applaud your position on the govt. mercenaries, you do realise "someone" is currently spraying "something" on a daily basis in amrkn (and other NATO countries) airspace, and biowarfare is the real deal - it really wouldn't take much to change out the tanks and spray something more "effective" should "they" need to. . .
http://weathermodification.com/index.php
^ "commercial version"
http://coto2.wordpress.com/2010/07/28/case-orange-60-years-of-geoenginee...
"One would have to believe that among all the egotistical megalomania in the military there are many who truly believe in honor and loyalty and would adhere to the oath they took on the constitution."
interesting belief, citation needed
+100. . . given the training on how to think & compartmentalise situations, why anyone would believe such anachronisms as "honour and loyalty" would come into play is mind boggling.
the military is voluntary, there are copious amounts of information as to what is going down in the world, yet folk are still signing up to kill, maim, poison and steal on behalf of corporations & bankers.
if their paymasters label their neighbours as "terrorists" - they will fulfill their obligations.
I think the veterans and low ranking military will side with the patriots, the Pentagon and most of the cops will side with the kleptocracy, and the indolent will side with the kleptocracy in exchange clownbux, false promises and FEMA-flavored soylent green. There will also be quite a few mercenaries, special forces and other carefully selected psychopaths who will side with the kleptocracy. The revolution will be won by whoever gains the vast Mushy Middle, a majority of mid-ranking military plus their equipment, and a sizeable minority of the cops. In order to break the propaganda spell on these decicive fence-sitters, thousands of peaceful protestors must be martyred. Basically, the side that shoots first loses. Therefore, expect a lot of false flags against patriot groups.
Agreed, Temporalist. Many in the US military will reply with a hearty "fuck you" if ordered to fire at Americans.
I just hope there are enough of them...
Sure, sure. One will drive at least an armoured car, or even tank. Another will fly a chopper. I promise you, sure, I promise you.
Speaking of fantasy...
US citizens will never rise for a fight for liberty as liberty is alien to them.
They will join as their nature dictates them fights to decrease liberty.
It has been the way since 1776.
And they do not need to rebel to achieve that, only to join the US army, which they are doing by droves.
US citizens unable to see themselves as they are.
As the poor, freezing natives found in Afghanistan, wiping out Russian choppers was but a trivial task with the right "toys".
Doing the exact same thing to the USSA military machines would be no more of a challenge.
We would not care to pursue a career as a helicopter crew shooting at Americal villagers. Not only no, but Hell No!
Military toys may enrich GM, Boeing, Halliburton, etc. but would be counterprodictive used against millions and millions of terminally pissed off Americans.
you know many states are advocating for drones to be used "locally"? and many local police forces have and use them now? among other "crowd control" toys. . .
protesters? - here in amerika?!?!?
Reistance to an oppression of liberty is a natural and biological reaction. Just letting the bankers self destruct (if that's even an option) isn't realistic. Resistance is coming, although I still maintain that they will hold things together until at least the end of 2012. THEN things get interesting.
"Our Country won't go on forever, if we stay soft as we are now. There won't
be any AMERICA because some foreign soldiery will invade us and take our
women and breed a hardier race!"
-Lt. Gen. Lewis B. "Chesty" Puller, USMC
Chesty saw the future. He was a dick but he had this one right we are a nation of pus kins. But the guberment taught me soem good life skills for when the shit hits the fan.
Semper Fi bitchezes
Mutts are the best dogs to own...
jeez dude, get thee to the 21st Century.
today's invading soldiery poisons the earth around them, deforming future generations of babies, both enemy & invader.
tho' I'm sure the rape 'n' pillaging still happens, evolution being slow as shit 'n' all. . .
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WTF? Seriously, no one gives a shit about your pig latin.
And on a similar note about the economy and the Jane and Joe 6 packs:
Job Openings Fall First Time in Three Months"Job openings in the U.S. decreased in April for the first time in three months, showing companies started to lose confidence in the expansion’s durability even before hiring slumped in May."
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-06-07/job-openings-in-u-s-fell-by-151...
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"Today, a generation of Reaganomics missteps has created relentless trickle-up gains, the top 1% got richer. But real income for the have-nots, the bottom 99% has stagnated. Capitalism is destroying the economy, negating the “will of the people” and fueling the coming Second America Revolution. Except this time our George III is a conspiracy of Wall Street, Washington, Corporate America and the Forbes 400 Super Rich. "
glad to see an article laying blame where a good bit of it belongs, on the back of an actor playing at his greatest role. now, somebody needs to lay waste to newt and bubba as follow ups
Reagan??? No. Let the left-right political shit drop.
It's about fiat currency and the friends of the state skimming off the top... for a long time. It's about Wall Street skimming off the top of everyone's investments, since saving and dividends stopped. This is what happens in a long-term fiat economy.
Better get a few friends you can trust. Because if things get that bad it is rather hard to pull security and accomplish the task of staying alive 24-7 without a few trusted buddies to help out. Thank goodness we are an armed populace and wont be taking to the streets with nothing but rocks and bread helmets.
Well said. That's the core of survival.
“Evil Plans are gifts: You were given a gift by the Creator, God, the Universe …Whatever. Until you have returned the favor, life will have a certain, feckless emptiness to it.” ----------------------------------------------------------------------
WE do have problems and we do need workable solutions. This is not over till the fat lady sings and she is now back stage. Keep in mind that the Communist party did very well in the Great Depresson. However, the Communist did not produce any viable/lasting solutions to the problems. Destruction of the system is not the solution. A rabid response is not workable. Bitching is good but needs direction. We can not have another one trick pony in control of America.
"“Could club-wielding protesters be in America’s future too?” The answer is yes. It happened before, in 1776."
and again in 1861, and was crushed by government soldiers firing on citizens.
Just resist, drag your feet, the more you make the more $$$ .gov gets from you, you, essentially, fund your own destruction.
The pigsters are laughing and the joke is on you.
Yes, just opt out of their insane system.
The last paragraph is pure gold. +1
"the public, the regulators, the taxpayers should really just stand aside and let the banking syndicate eat itself alive."
A true evil plan leaves scorched earth in its wake. A true evil plan wins justice. To leave the banking syndicate alone is to forgive and forget. It's to allow them free pass to Monaco with their billions in wealth. Retreat is not retaliation.
In real life, revenge is ugly, risky, expensive and damaging (to you).
How about just letting it go and leaving them in your dust? MUCH healthier.
"Road Warrior" was your predictive programming for the collapse event...
Better learn how to use a home reload kit and find and chain your leather clad gimp...
Road Warrior was fiction.
Maybe violence will be required, but pitching-in with the neighbors is a MUCH larger issue.
Anyone can promote a revolution, but what do you build on afterwards? Libertarianism or Anarchism doesn't give you a strong enough base for a lasting society. Note the French Revolution of 1787. We've been living through the great "falling away" from Christianity for the last hundred years, so we can't have another American Revolution again, either.
Israel will be abandoned by all the nations.
How to achieve is the easy part....Glass-Steagall
All these rules that those fuckers use, are a direct result, of the first weakening, then repeal of Glass-Steagall.
So how to undo it? Re-enact it...and use it's powers to wipe from existance that which is illegal under it....by aggregating and containing them into an unwind facility and forbid them to ever be traded.
Ship righted via Glass-Steagall. Reset button pushed.
Now, this is in America, but there is nothing to stop it from being done elsewhere, and once the button has been pushed in America, or even somewhere else 'systemic enough', the rest will go down and be forced to either go down, or enact it themseleves.
Glass-Steagall is the legal RESET button.
Outright collapse sends us to a new dark age and is more like reset the video game by throwing the console against the wall. We have a legitimate way to hit reset, and we should take it.
Glass-Steagall (and their 'evil plans' are stopped dead in their tracks)
As long as there is Netflix, there will be no revolution. Yawn. The only solution is to leave the US.
The problem causing the rich/poor income disparity has nothing to do with Capitalism. America has not had Capitalism since the early 1900's. The creation of the Fed, followed by the New Deal ended any real Capitalism in America. The New Deal was a failed attempt to institute Socialism and other efforts (such as Great Society) have followed that had much the same objective, but have never truly succeed in instituting socialism. Today America has a Corporatist Oligarchy more closely akin to Fascism than anything else.
Several years ago I started to write a warning letter to my state and federal representatives. I realized that I was completely outraged, on a daily basis, about what was going on. And if I, as a law-abiding liberal, wanted to commit mayhem, then I assumed a goodly chunk of the population felt the same way. I didn't mail the letter--I didn't want a visit from Homeland Security.
Things have only gotten worse. I'm at the point where I expect the system to crash, so I'm hoarding supplies. Our leaders have been ignoring us for years. We're in two unnecessary wars and going broke because the government borrows to pay for them while refusing to tax the rich. Instead they'd rather fuck over the poor and elderly. I've been praying for a second French Revolution because I don't see another solution.
I count THREE unnecessary wars.
Evil plan? ... what happened to 'I have a cunning plan'? ... as per Black Adder?