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Institutionalized Tyranny and Serfdom

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Institutionalized Tyranny and Serfdom

By

Joe Withrow

Author of “The Individual is Rising”

 

 

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“In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.” – Friedrich Nietzsche

Modern society does not care much for the individual.  National interest, public policy, and the common good are held up as the ideal.  We still hear lip service paid to the individual rights of man on occasion, but only within the context of individual servitude towards one or another State-driven collective goal.  Of course these goals are presented as moral and upright, but there is a little catch – no one can truly opt-out of supporting the chosen goals.  The State, in all its benevolence, is going to take your money to support the collective goals of society whether you like it or not.

Sadly, most individuals buy right into their societal servitude because the default programming does such a great job of convincing individuals of their own ineptitude.  The default programming steers individuals away from their own interests and passions and funnels them onto the same “lifestyle path” on which they are pushed to “be a productive member of society”.

The government educational system is the leadoff hitter in the programming lineup and children have been relinquished to the educational blob at progressively earlier ages over time.  Kindergarten was developed to precede First Grade.  Then Preschool was developed to precede Kindergarten.  Now we have pre-Preschool in place to precede Preschool.  We guess they ran out of creative names for this last one.

So the kids are herded into government schools where their creativity, critical thinking ability, and common sense are systematically destroyed.  They learn to unquestioningly obey their superiors at all times and to ask for permission to go to the restroom.  To top it off, the kids are spoon-fed faulty history and they are taught that government is a righteous institution forever and always seeking to make their life better.  Their teachers are mostly decent folks, mind you; they just don’t understand what government really is either.

Perhaps worst of all, students are conditioned to never seek a deeper understanding of the world around them and to never focus on discovering and developing their passion.  Instead, students quickly learn that grades and social status are the only worthy goals to be sought after. 

 

Prison School

 

The next leg of the default programming is college.  The kids were constantly told for at least a decade that they absolutely must go to college in order to be successful in life, so they load up on federal student loan debt when they hit 18 and march off to whatever college will have them.

While there are certainly some exceptions, especially in the more specialized fields, most students quickly learn that college is just another system to be gamed and completed.  Attaining the highest grades possible with the least amount of work is the name of the game for most students – just like it was in high school.  Social status is still a viable goal as well, but the playing field has changed.  Instead of football games and dances, social status is now earned in the basements of dirty fraternity houses with an abundance of crappy beer.

Students have been through 16-20 years of default programming within government-approved educational institutions by the time they graduate college.  Amazingly, a vast majority of these students have learned nothing about money, capital, or finance, and most are completely oblivious to how the world that awaits them actually works.  The poor saps that majored in finance or economics have actually learned less than nothing about money, capital, and finance and they come out with a completely warped view of the subjects.

Most graduates have seen each level of their education as an obstacle to struggle through so they take that mentality with them to the next level of the default programming – the corporate rat-race. 

Once in the rat-race, our degree-wielding worker bees struggle through the work-week and then pursue all manner of entertainment every weekend, regardless of the cost.  The dirty frat-house is traded for a metropolitan bar and the cheap beer might be upgraded to something a little better, bottom-shelf liquor perhaps. 

Now that they are responsible adults, they watch the news and discuss current events around the water cooler at work.  But there is a little problem:  the news is propaganda mixed with celebrity worship which serves to warp priorities and paint a distorted view of how the world actually works.

Thanks to this wonderful system of default programming, most good citizens come to believe things like:

  • The foreign wars raging in some desert thousands of miles away are being fought to protect my freedom here in the United States; after all, they hate us for our freedoms.
  • The TSA must grope and harass all of us before we travel so they can keep us safe from the bad guys.
  • Social Security is a noble program that just needs a little tweaking to make it more economical.
  • The government absolutely had to bail-out the Banks with my money for my own good.
  • The $17,500,000,000,000.00 national debt is no big deal – we borrowed it from ourselves.
  • Quantitative Easing is a very complicated monetary procedure designed to stimulate the economy; it is in no way, shape, or form a method to steal from me and perpetuate a massive Ponzi scheme.
  • The economy is recovering marvelously and my job prospects for the future are looking bright – my goal is early retirement!
  • Everything will be wonderful if we can just get everyone to vote for better leaders.

Of course there is a major gap that cannot be explained between these beliefs and what is actually taking place in the world which creates a great deal of cognitive dissonance within much of the population.

The simple fact is:  this is not what a free society looks like.

 

Not what a free society looks like.

 

Okay, so American culture may be a little schizophrenic. So what? Why should we care? We believe in laissez-faire and non-intervention, so how is it our problem?

Well, despite our best efforts we still have a sense of justice.  We just can't keep quiet while the default programming converts unwary human beings with infinite potential into willing victims of the collectivist Ponzi. 

You see, the default programming is designed to trick individuals into giving away their power – first to school teachers, then to professors, then to bosses, and always to government thugs and globalist bureaucrats.  All of that personal power is then used to further strengthen the systems of enslavement.  Of course the school teachers, professors, corporate middle managers, and the petty government officials and bureaucrats do not have a clue that this is what they are really doing – they have bought the propaganda proclaiming them heroes working for the common good of mankind.

Truth be told, we also have selfish reasons for opposing the default programming and schizophrenic culture – we are poorer because of them.  The default programming has created a lifeless economy where zombies consume a very large percentage of the ever-dwindling wealth.

Roughly fifty percent of the American population is now directly receiving some form of payment or benefit from the government – this is common knowledge.  On top of that fifty percent, there are numerous zombie industries consuming massive amounts of wealth – very nearly all of which is redistributed to these zombies from the small productive sector of the economy. 

The military-industrial complex destroys massive amounts of wealth in order to build tanks and planes and missiles to sell to the government – much of which are obsolete by the time they are sold and the rest are used to cause havoc in faraway deserts (for democracy, of course).  Government subsidized Big-Agra works to create Frankenfood which serves to squeeze the small-time farmer out of business and also wreak havoc on the health of the American population. 

Meanwhile Big-Pharma works diligently to create dishonest drugs and government-mandated vaccines designed not to cure anything, but rather to temporarily placate all of the serious and not-so-serious symptoms that frequently plague people addicted to genetically-engineered processed food loaded with high fructose corn syrup and MSG while perpetuating sickness and obesity – at a massive profit margin of course.  Local governments get into the wealth destruction act by authorizing and funding (at least partially) SWAT teams, military grade weapons, and sometimes even tanks for small police departments.  Something about Middle America seems to scare the daylights out of the "authorities". 

All of this misallocation of capital and wealth destruction is made possible by the Federal Reserve System and its banking sector which perpetually transfers wealth from all of us to the insiders while also conjuring money ex nihilo to purchase government bonds on all levels to keep the Ponzi going.

Of course zombies beget more zombies so the amount of wealth consumed and destroyed continues to increase over time.  We are all poorer as a result; poorer in monetary terms as well as in ways that cannot be quantifiably measured.

So we feel obligated to call it out. 

We just can’t help but envision a world in which the old principle of laissez-faire is respected and individuals are free to claim their natural-born sovereignty.  We envision such a world where the capitalist principles of sound money, free markets, and property rights drive vibrant economies geared towards production, innovation, and wealth-creation.  It’s a world where governments do not hold a monopoly of force over particular geographic areas and individuals are free to voluntarily associate with or disassociate from any society, organization, or institution that catches or loses their fancy.  The only rule is that these societies, organizations, and institutions must respect the natural rights of all individuals.

Now we are not suggesting that this laissez-faire capitalist vision of society should be forced on everybody… far from it.  We would just like for it to be an option.  There can be other options as well.

Want to live in a socialist utopia?  By all means!  But your utopia would have to be a voluntary association of individuals.  You know that 50% we mentioned earlier?  We bet many of them would be happy to join you!  We will be real interested to see if you can make it work for even a month without a coercive government to steal the fruits of individual labor and force individual servitude, however.

Speaking of, that is precisely what’s wrong with coerced collectivism as a societal structure – it requires forced individual servitude in order for it to limp along for any extended period of time.  If this isn’t tyranny, we don’t know what is.

 

Democracy At Any Cost

 

Liberty and Tyranny have done battle since the dawn of civilization.  'Democracy' was idolized in the early 20th century specifically to trick people into confusing one for the other.  "We must make the world safe for Democracy!" Wilson cried as U.S. troops crossed the Rubicon. 

The other warring nations on both sides must have looked at each other in confusion.  "Why in the hell would anyone want to make the world safe for democracy?" they must have asked each other.  After all, there was not one single nation that referred to itself as a democracy when World War I began.  The Allied powers featured republican governments teamed up with imperial governments and constitutional monarchies to fight the Axis powers which consisted of imperial governments teamed up with both absolute monarchies and constitutional monarchies.  There wasn't a democracy for as far as the eye could see.

There were 123 “democracies” in existence by the year 2007.  By good old Woodrow's logic, peace and prosperity must have been raining down from heaven! 

But as it turns out, roughly 500 million people have been violently killed in one government war or another since the world became safe for democracy.  The Universe, it seems, is not without a sense of irony.

Of course we know nothing will change until it all comes crashing down and hits rock bottom with a resounding thud.  We know the masses will just point and laugh; if they even pay any attention at all.  They could not care less about our laissez-faire vision, and our disdain for regulatory democracy might anger them.  But we also know that there is a Remnant out there.  These are the people who have conquered the default programming and are pretty peeved about being lied to for decades.  It is the Remnant that gives us cause for long-term optimism.

Here's to a laissez-faire vision of Liberty... and to a world safe from democracy.

 

Joe Withrow

08-04-2014

 

Cognitive Dissonance: For more of Joe’s thoughts on the “Great Reset”, the global paradigm shift, and regaining individual sovereignty please read “The Individual is Rising” which is available through Amazon in both paperback and Kindle editions here.

Please note that while I did edit this book for Joe I do not participate in any revenue from the sale of this book.

 

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Tue, 08/05/2014 - 13:29 | 5049716 kurt
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This whole article makes me somewhat uncomfortable. So how, using the article, can I smooth out that discomfort? 

Wed, 08/06/2014 - 22:29 | 5057151 blindman
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speak the truth as you say.
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or, more cowbell
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http://www.hulu.com/watch/536145

Tue, 08/05/2014 - 12:58 | 5049529 deerhunter
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a point of maturity is when an individual begins to find out the world isn't all his and "he",  wow,  and that is what is missing in American Society and will be the death of it

 

Tue, 08/05/2014 - 12:06 | 5049255 Azannoth
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So what is worse 1 Big Despot 3000 Miles away or 3000 (Little) Despots 1 Mile away ? a Great Conundrum

Tue, 08/05/2014 - 10:16 | 5048581 Die Weiße Rose
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Okay, so American culture may be a little schizophrenic. So what? Why should we care?....

"We believe in laissez-faire and non-intervention, so how is it our problem?"

(waterboard-confessions from Guantanamo-Bay, Cuba)

Tue, 08/05/2014 - 08:37 | 5048087 sam site
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You bring up a number of outstanding points.  You say "symptoms that frequently plague people addicted to genetically-engineered processed food loaded with high fructose corn syrup and MSG"

Few people understand there is a poisoning agenda of the public to chemically dumb down their clear and critical thinking skills which I suspect if you were to follow the Big Money is designed to safeguard the Fed criminal banking scams from detection and possible removal.  In Sep 2012 the French GMO Toxicity Study showed that our hidden rulers secretly switched conventional corn in 1996 with cancer-causing GMO corn.  Americans have been unknowingly eating toxic GMO food in 70% of our grocery store products.  If you want to see the proof view the cancerous rats from that study.

http://www.naturalnews.com/037249_gmo_study_cancer_tumors_organ_damage.html

If you want to learn about the poisoning agenda and neurotoxin MSG and the damage it causes to our brains view this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fB3xcN_eoPo

You also point out the slanted history we receive in our education, "kids are spoon-fed faulty history."  Did you know that 100 years ago there were nearly 6000 books exposing the Jesuits as evil plotters and assassins.  The Pope was declared the Antichrist by the Protestant churches and the Vatican delegation was banned from America from 1867 thru 1983 because of their role in instigating the civil war and assassinating Lincoln.  See this to understand Jesuit history.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqCdxMyh6eM

Four Popes who opposed the jesuits were poisoned in 1773, 1939, 1958 and 1978.  The Jesuits have been able to suppress all this history bacause they stole the Vatican gold and with their Rothschild banker agents have accumulated nearly half the worlds wealth and with an army of agents have secretly been able to establish the criminal Fed and took over the US in 1913.  This organized crime cabal masquerades as a religious order, but has massively distorted our world through control of our politicians, officials at all levels, our medicine, food, education and media. 

The Jesuit Fed stole our gold and caused the 30s Depression and shipped it to Hitler.  See this

http://home.hiwaay.net/~becraft/mcfadden.html

They caused all the wars from 1913 through today and because of the chemical poisoning agenda that induces a blind allegiance to the establishment, the American public still doesn't know they have been captured and completely controlled by this vastly distorted Cluster F we endure every day.   

   

Tue, 08/05/2014 - 10:33 | 5048669 shovelhead
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I guess the Joooes will be thrilled to be let off the hook for world domination.

Tue, 08/05/2014 - 14:40 | 5047814 SameAsItEverWas
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See Harry Elmer Barnes, History and Social Intelligence, Alfred Knopf, 1926.

In a very engaging manner Barnes gave us very rigorous proof of the observation that "human intelligence," at least collectively, is an oxymoron, and this is nothing new.  It's been that way for as far back as a historian could go.

Seeing people like Joe Withrow struggle to make sense of the current stupidity with nary a mention of Social Intellligence or even Barnes himself is baffling. 

It's kind of like what it would be to watch physicists who decide to start from scratch and derive all the rules governing matter and energy from scratch, because they somehow are unaware of all the prior work.  They're struggling to reinvent the wheel.

If one of my cats gorges too quickly on the sashima-grade ahi they love, the other will eat what's left on the floor, avoiding any hairballs or leaves of grass.  This new crop of socio-political commentators (who Barnes termed "publicists") all asking the same rhetorical questions and always naively regurgitating the same old platitudes reminds me that a good morsel should never go to waste.  But each and every one of them is walking around in the dark and only tentatively offering up some pitiful crumbs of insight, maybe adding just one new wrinkle to what the others have thrown us.  But it's crumbs from amateurs. 

Barnes was a historian's historian until he exposed most all of them as a pack of liars by politely calling them "court historians" while also pointing out the huge sums of money given them by US State Dept. and Department of the Navy, and then OSS, and then the Carnegie, Ford, Pew, and Rockefeller foundations and then the Council on Foreign Relations was dishing out money for publishing books on "American History."   Ever since FDR, whose reputation needed revision, they revised that history to make him look like a hero.  If historians can be so easily coopted, why stop there?  Just as the Federal Reserve ever since the 1970s has been funding most of the academic research on economics, the military and spy agencies have been funding most of the academic research in psychology and sociology.  Cui Bono?

Emboldened by seeing how easy it was to literally rewrite history they just kept on doing it and scared off anyone who dared speak of it, and so now there are only a tiny handful of non-coopted academic historians who manage to continue teaching only by maintaining total silence on the most important topics of the day.   "History" these days is nothing but propaganda and the mythological stories invented to give solace to the herd which needs comfort to counter the anxiety caused by the cognitive dissonance between what they see with their own eyes and the lies they hear on the news and see on the internet. 

Barnes was no slouch and he lived to be 79 years old without ever being silenced.  The Encyclopedia American articles he wrote on History of History, and History of Nationalism stood unchanged for two decades each.  So how, exactly, could such a large body of work by the greatest social scientist of the 20th century be just as unknown as Antarctica was?   To me at least, the bizarre fact of Barnes' obscurity is a strange epitaph to his life's work to educate the masses, who he and many others naively believed would rise up and overthrow their oppressors if only they could see the truth being hidden from them by the age-old smoke and mirrors, but instead they're easily appeased by the bread and circuses, along with some economic crumbs throw their way like Obamaphones, and Cash for Clunkers, and now Reverse Mortgages for Seniors.

The sad truth is the all of those hopes are in vain.  The people seem to be very happy to live fearful lives of desperation in a prison of their own design and operated by their own.

There was last May some kind of national conference here of academic historians.  They apparently got a cheap rental rate on the student union building because it was just after graduation, so nobody was there.  Totally desolate.   But that was good for me because it was very easy to engage some of these historians in conversation.  I asked them all the same question:  Why are there no academic historians writing books on the tremendous changes in society that started before Y2K with the internet boom, Y2K itself, and the soon-to-follow 9/11 and our country's new permanent war against anyone who speaks out against this country?  Well, more or less.  I left out the slant.

But none of these "historians" could name a single one of their colleagues who has been writing about contemporary times.  It's as if we're living in a post-historical world.

What happened to all of the grad students who Barnes trained?  Have they all been driven off the college campuses? 

Tue, 08/05/2014 - 00:58 | 5047650 q99x2
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"the kids are herded into government schools where their creativity, critical thinking ability, and common sense are systematically destroyed."

College is a very competitive environment with people from all around the world competing against each other. If you don't have creative critical thinking abilities you don't do very well. 

Mon, 08/04/2014 - 23:50 | 5047529 Nobody
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I enjoyed the article until his rant about GMO food:
" serious and not-so-serious symptoms that frequently plague people addicted to genetically-engineered processed food loaded with high fructose corn syrup and MSG while perpetuating sickness and obesity"

Look, the long and short of it is that humankind has been genetically altering their food sources for eons. The addition of high fructose sugars and MonoSodiumGlutamate to our foods is not healthy, but also there is not a mandate that they be eaten. Corporate interests dictate the comings and goings and profit centers of every corner of the marketplace, but there are always alternatives. Small enclaves in everyday's lives that provide an alternative to this communal madness.
Search for them and be the individual that this article appeals to.

Mon, 08/04/2014 - 22:15 | 5047238 Reaper
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Democracy is the delusion of control, while our system is about control of the individual for the greater good, as defined by our rulers. What we have adopted is a modern Mandarin system in our schools and government. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandarin_%28bureaucrat%29 In the Chinese Imperial Examination, "the exams were based on knowledge of the classics and literary style." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_examination Our schools teach an orthodox history and, supposedly, our bureaucrats are selected by merit and examination. Our children are educated to take their assigned roles as functionaries of our government, either employed directly, employed privately, or feeding at the trough.

The system is stifling of new ideas, new methods, new inventions, because they are not within the old framework. The Chinese fought the British with boxers (karate/judo) and lost the Boxer War. As in the Mandarin system, our system rewards learning the dogma. The Chinese called their tyrant, Emperor, while we call our tyrant, president.

What was invented in the 1,300 years of the Mandarin system? Individuals invent, while collectives repeat the past, poorly.

Tue, 08/05/2014 - 06:23 | 5047900 Comte d'herblay
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Our 'Tyrant', with the early exception of the revisionist view of Lincoln, whom Booth should have shot 4 years earlier, is not the POTUS.  The FED chairman, as well as men who pull the strings of these puppets are the real tyrants, unseen, unheard, unrepentant in their megalomania. IF we knew who they were and could be gotten to, and wiped out, much would change for the benefit of the governed.

As of now, and for a long long time, government as portrayed in our textbooks is a propaganda machine, a total lie. 

Tue, 08/05/2014 - 14:37 | 5050236 bh2
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Careful there, amigo ... some obscure federal law probably declares it a crime to suggest before witnesses that a long-dead president should have been made dead even sooner.

Tue, 08/05/2014 - 00:03 | 5047524 blindman
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by what do the people survive?
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Tom Waits - Cold Water.wmv
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIvqEHe6cjY
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"Cold Water"

Well I woke up this morning
With the cold water
With the cold water
With the cold water
Woke up this morning
With the cold water
With the cold water
With the cold

Police at the station
And they don't look friendly
Well they don't look friendly
Well they don't look friendly
Police at the station
And they don't look friendly
They don't look friendly well
They don't

Blind or crippled
Sharp or dull
I'm reading the Bible
By a 40 watt bulb
What price freedom
Dirt is my rug
Well I sleep like a baby
With the snakes and the bugs

Well the stores are open
But I ain't got no money
I ain't got no money ...
Stores are open but I
Ain't got no money
Ain't got no money
Well I ain't

Found an old dog
And he seems to like me
Seems to like me
Well he seems to like me
Found an old dog and he
Seems to like me well
Seems to like me
Well he seems

Seen them fellows
with the card board signs
Scrapin up a little $
To buy a bottle of wine
Pregnant women and
The Vietnam vets I say
Beggin on the freeway
Bout as hard as it gets

Well I slept in the graveyard
It was cool and still
Cool and still
It was cool and still
Slept in the graveyard
It was cool and still
Cool and still and it
Was cool

Slept all night in a Cedar grove
I was born to ramble
Born to rove
Some men are searchin for the
Holy Grail
But there ain't nothin sweeter
Than ridin the rails

I look 47 but I'm 24
Well they shooed me away
From here the time before
Turned their backs
And they locked their doors
I'm watching T.V. in
The window of a furniture store

and I woke up this morning
With the cold water
With the cold water
With the cold water
i Woke up this morning
With that cold water
With the cold water
With the cold ....

Mon, 08/04/2014 - 22:06 | 5047202 Unlawful Justice
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“roughly 500 million people have been violently killed in one government war or another since the world became safe for democracy. “

“Monkey killing monkey over pieces of the ground”~ Tool

What species could call it self intelligent, and kill its own...over Words and Beliefs…insanity rules!

 

Its time has come, for the Ego to go, and human beings to wake up to who we are.

Tue, 08/05/2014 - 08:27 | 5048045 Farmer Joe in B...
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It would also help greatly if we surgically removed religious impulses from humankind, as well.  

No religion = Less war/death/destruction

Tue, 08/05/2014 - 14:40 | 5050254 bh2
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What a remarkable conclusion. Some of the most heinous mass-murdering regimes in history have been motivated by causes unrelated to any particular religious beliefs.

Mon, 08/04/2014 - 22:28 | 5047296 Mrs. Cog
Mon, 08/04/2014 - 20:53 | 5046887 TeethVillage88s
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The author is much like me in that I site many things I don't like about Government Spending, Wars, Legislation, and inaction.

I'd like to take on the hard part in suggestions. But I don't want a Utopia. I'd rather have effective management methods be used to compare costs and keep government costs down. I would also like our nation to retain ownership of common assets instead of privatize them to foreigners or corporations. I call it reverse privatization. But maybe it is a recognition of commons and public utilities that we all need to live together and to promote public order.

A) We spend $10 Trillion in 10 years for Spying, Defense, Veteran Benefits, and Military Assistance & Aid... I'm pretty sure we can fix Social Security
B) Each year, we spend $1 Trillion in each SS, Medicare/MEDICAID, and Defense MIC...Is no one watching as federal contract prices rise every year?
C) How much does our Military Spending benefit Investors & Executives in MIC-Defense Industry, Engineering overseas for Water, Power, and Oil & Gas overseas... and Corporations don't want to pay Income Taxes on this?
D) Auditing, Inspection, Investigation, Inspector Generals Offices, GAO Office... CBO, Treasury, Comptroller of the Currency.... None of these guys see inflation in Federal Contracts, Education Costs, Health Care Costs, Education Debt, Health Care Debt, Decline of Household Wealth,

1) Banks don't invest in Recession or Economic Weakness... You get a Choice either Currency Controls OR Public Banking and Recognition of Public Commons including Public Utilities to provide low cost energy, water, gasoline, and removal of some aspects of speculation in commodities

2) Population is growing, but number of self employed & small businesses are in long decline... and even the number of banks are in long decline... you get a choice simplify banking rules including Standardized Financial Instruments and an End to 90% of Private Banking, increase Fed Prime Lending Rates, create separations in different kind of banking, and fully fund FDIC OR See your monopoly as Federal Reserve Dealers and main customers for the Federal Government come to an End

3) Foreign Direct Investment in the USA is greater than Private Domestic Investment... this means US Banks & Corporations are not Patriotic and not Doing what they should be doing in the US Economy, we have Capital Flight, Brain Drain from Industry, Few National Stock Piles for Economic Shocks, Capital Stagnation, Mal-Investment, Large Amounts of Capital flowing to Speculation or paper trades... US Banking system is not working in a way that serves with integrity... So you have a choice TBTF Banks will be broken up into 8 Separate smaller Banks under Anti-Trust type Actions OR We will declare Money & Credit a public Utility which is the right of every US Citizen and we will Close Down the Federal Reserve banking system and begin Treasury Open Market Activities and student loan lending.

Tue, 08/05/2014 - 03:44 | 5047801 TeethVillage88s
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Bump 4 Asia, anyway here is some solutions to criticize.

Tue, 08/05/2014 - 04:01 | 5047809 TeethVillage88s
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BTW I don't think Germans would try this shit on their citizens after the Beer Garden Putsch, Communism Growth, Socialism Growth, Nazi Growth after the Treaty of Versailles.

US Citizens are sort of pussies in comparison to these 20th Century Citizens of Germany... probably lots of other European countries too after World War I.

I'd just like to get a baseline for People and one for the odd balls that get Allergies, Sinus, Asama Problems, and all that seems weird to our past as Vikings and Waring nations. WTF did Vikings have Hay Fever?? (Or is it Fluoridation??)

- Were we all Vikings, Franks, Huns, Germans, Anglos, Saxons, Celtics,... Phoenicians, Etruscans, Hellenic, Venetians... Canaanites, Hittites, Judeans, Arabs, Berbers??

Tue, 08/05/2014 - 14:42 | 5050266 bh2
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"Were we all Vikings, Franks, Huns, Germans, Anglos, Saxons, Celtics,... Phoenicians, Etruscans, Hellenic, Venetians... Canaanites, Hittites, Judeans, Arabs, Berbers??"

 

Pretty much, yes. Winners of blood-conflict survive. Losers don't.

Mon, 08/04/2014 - 20:42 | 5046822 Vendetta
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I find the widespread brainwashing about globalization and outsourcing quite remarkable.  No historical record  of such a 'strategy' ever working for a country and making it prosperous... even the long tentacles of the former british empire didn't employ such a tactic... they stole resources but didn't gut their domestic manfucturing then turn around and import the stuff... remarkable job of brainwashing and propaganda effectively making otherwise good folks illiterate regarding what the true nature of trade used to be and should be.

Mon, 08/04/2014 - 22:08 | 5047215 joegalt
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This "strategy" only works in a Fiat world where the exporter wants your funny money.  What happens when he says no mas?

Mon, 08/04/2014 - 20:55 | 5046900 TeethVillage88s
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But the UK Economy does seem to be the Future or the Now for the USA. Can't help also to see a sort of Forth Reich German Raj in the USA. Empires looks the same.

Mon, 08/04/2014 - 20:29 | 5046748 Dagny Taggart
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Another insightful piece Joe.

I finished your book last week and it was good. We get so mired in the vision of our own world and with how those around us view and deal with modern day changes, along with what we hear from alternative media sources, that we forget. We forget the whole world is starting to wake up. It's no small thing. Thanks for the reminder.

Mon, 08/04/2014 - 21:32 | 5047030 joegalt
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Thanks so much Dagny, I am glad you enjoyed the book.  The default programming has done a great job of cutting us off from our inner power but there are so many beginning to wake up to the deception.

Tue, 08/05/2014 - 14:44 | 5050274 bh2
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Waking up in a coffin is too late by half.

Mon, 08/04/2014 - 19:13 | 5046392 radiobomb
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being happy with the modern versions of democracy is like having stockholm syndrome.   

Mon, 08/04/2014 - 18:46 | 5046293 blindman
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlbunmCbTBA
Television - Marquee Moon
.
I remember
Ooo how the darkness doubled
I recall
Lightning struck itself

I was listening
Listening to the rain
I was hearing
Hearing something else

Life in the hive puckered up my night,
A kiss of death, the embrace of life
Ooo there I stand neath the Marquee Moon,
Just waiting

I spoke to a man
Down at the tracks
And I ask him
How he don't go mad
He said 'Look here junior, don't you be so happy
And for Heaven's sake, don't you be so sad'

Life in the hive puckered up my night,
The kiss of death, the embrace of life
Ooo there I stand neath the Marquee Moon,
Hesitating

Well a Cadillac
It pulled out of the graveyard
Pulled up to me
All they said 'get in', get in
Then the Cadillac
It puttered back into the graveyard
Me, I got out again

Life in the hive puckered up my night,
A kiss of death, the embrace of life
Ooo there I stand neath the Marquee Moon,
I ain't waiting nuh ah

I remember
How the darkness doubled
I recall
Lightning struck itself

I was listening
Listening to the rain
I was hearing
Hearing something else

Mon, 08/04/2014 - 19:10 | 5046341 ebworthen
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Thanks for that blindman, never heard it, great stuff.

Incredible guitar playing, and a raw clean sound.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfO9lpbbW_4

Mon, 08/04/2014 - 20:58 | 5046605 blindman
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not off topic but to the point.
.
Television - Friction (tom verlaine)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwrCUEMl76U
.
I knew it musta been some big set-up.
All the Action just would not let up.
It's just a little bit back from the main road
Where silence spreads and the men dig holes.
I start to spin the tale
You complain of my dic-tion

You Give Me Friction
you give me Friction
You give me Friction
.
My eyes are like telescopes
I see it all backwards but who wants hope?
If I ever catch that ventriloquist
I'll squeeze his head right into my fist.
SOME come a trackin' in,
What is it, what's the prediction?

I'll betcha it's Friction...
i'll bet you it's friction
i'll bet you it's friction
out of snake, get out of skin. .(.)..
.
ooh Stop this head motion...set a sails.
You know all us boys gonna wind up in jail.
well I don't wanna grow up
There's too much contra-diction
and too much friction
but i dig friction
you know i'm talkin' bout friction
f.r.i.c.t.i.o.n.
friction, friction, friction .
.
comment: i like this track (it) very loud.
the extrovert in the gender i guess? there
is often a price, and further prize, to pay
for the gratification of friction.
if you do not know you might learn,
that is the possibility life offers. anyway,
love this tune.....

Mon, 08/04/2014 - 19:16 | 5046409 blindman
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great tracks there bro. ! all of em'

Mon, 08/04/2014 - 18:39 | 5046272 honestann
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Their teachers are mostly decent folks, mind you; they just don’t understand what government really is either.

Sorry.  Humans are responsible for their actions.  And above all, anyone who claims to be an "expert" and "authority" is responsible for their actions, and responsible for the damage they cause.  Ignorance is no excuse.  Why?  Because no great knowledge or intelligence is required to "leave others alone".

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Democracy is a form of slavery, and cannot be otherwise.  All that is required to understand this is... to look at what "democracy" means.

Democracy does not mean "taking a vote to decide which is the favorite flavor of ice cream".  Democracy means "taking a vote to decide what kind of theft and force and obligations to impose on unwilling individuals".  Which is precisely what "slavery" means.

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Recently lasvegaspersona may have said it best:

There are two kinds of people in the world, those who believe they own others, and those who do not.

That pretty much says it all.

Unfortunately, due to brainwashed parents, the educational system and mainstream media... almost every individual on the planet today believes in overt, in-our-faces slavery.  Morons.

Tue, 08/05/2014 - 03:52 | 5047806 Ghordius
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honestann, while you are pontificating on the evils of democracy, a simple question: do you realize that democracy is never alone? it's a system of government

now, if you already have a government (the standard historic starting point since the start of the Neolithic Age), your choices are:

1 - getting rid of government (never successfully attempted),

2 - setting up a structure in government that protects the individual from tyranny (often successfully attempted, for example by many republics) or

3 - having government becoming a tyranny (happens often)

in all this, democracy is only a flavour, one of the applicable principles in Option 2, and sometimes Option 3

The enemy is tyranny, not democracy as such. Democracy has to be tempered as all systems of government

Wed, 08/06/2014 - 00:20 | 5052694 honestann
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#1:  correct, so far, this has not ever happened.
#2:  can't happen if government has any power.
#3:  always happens, not often happens.

You left out #4, which is "frontier"... to move where no "government" exists.  One of the major problems with the modern era is the fact that control over every square millimeter of land on earth is "claimed" by one pack of predators-DBA-government or other.

In past times, humans who got "fed up" could indeed move to "no mans land" and live an independent life mostly free of organized human predators (government).  This provided a difficult but not impossible "outlet" for the bravest, brightest, most creative and independent humans on the planet.  No more.

At this point, the only #4 that may be viable in the medium & long term is outer space, which indeed is a permanent solution for individualists via #4.

Yes, democracy is indeed one flavor of slavery.

democracy == tyranny.

Geez!  This should be immediately obvious!  Being enslaved by the "majority" is no better than being enslaved by a bunch of oligarchs.  In fact, THEY ARE ABSOLUTELY IDENTICAL in practice.  How so?  Because the oligarchs gain control of education and media, then proceed to brainwash everyone to support their agendas.  And so, slavery by the majority is exactly the same in practice as slavery by oligarchs.

The only "system" that is NOT tyranny is... NO SYSTEM.

Tue, 08/05/2014 - 06:11 | 5047889 Mitzibitzi
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Precisely.

It seems to me that just about any form of government could be made to work, if absent the element of tyranny (and the cronyism, misallocation of funds and resources, lies, schemes, etc that accompany it).

How often has this been done?

We've had a go at dictatorships, democracies, republics, communism, various other flavours of socialism, monarchies and fuedal systems of a host of types... you name it and, as a theory of governance, it's probably been tried at some level or other.

How often has it been tried without the corrupting influence of the rent-seeking parasite classes? Just maybe, for the 20-30 years after the establishment of the US Constitution - the rent-seekers were surely there from day one but it seems to have taken them about a generation for any great number of them to really inveigle their blood-sucking tendrils throughout the system. And, of course, the Founding Fathers are hardly going to set up a system that's antithetical to their own interests, so they were undoubtedly in on the ground floor.

And that's about it. Can't remember who said it regarding the Soviet system, but it was something like...

"You say Communism doesn't work? I say it's never been tried!"

And neither has Democracy, as far as I can see.

Tue, 08/05/2014 - 10:15 | 5048562 shovelhead
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The real problem with a representative Republic is that it requires an INFORMED and ACTIVE community of voters to provide the checks and balances on the representative body.

The absences of this power over the elected creates a vacuum that will be filled by others with interests opposed to the electorate and favorable to themselves and will create legislation to legalize and 'normalize' this distortion in the fabric of the commonwealth.

The best way to avoid temptation is to remove it's source. Allowing special interests to contribute more to a candidates campaign than it's individuals members limits should be a flagrant violation of law.

This is where the fatal flaw in the American experiment in self governance lies. 

If it is more beneficial to work for advancing private interests rather than the public interest, then we should not be surprised when this proves to be the case.

We are electing men, not angels.

 

Tue, 08/05/2014 - 09:00 | 5048184 Ghordius
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Democracy has been tried in it's "purest" form by ancient Athens. The Demos was the body of the armed citizens that was also the army (and fleet) of the city. Technically, an "isocracy"

but without going into that, one little thought:

- Communism is what every baby experiences after birth. A baby has only needs, and is looked after by the all-powerful "party leadership". Note: the baby has no clue what "private property" is. A Pure "Moocher"

- Socialism is what every child experiences after a certain age. Including the "socialization" into whatever society that child grows into. Note: the child starts to learn what is "his" and what isn't "his"

from the point of view of the individual, the most amazing process is when this individual starts to learn that the universe is not all "his" and "he", and that he is an individual

from the other point of view, the second most amazing process is when the same individual forgets that he was born, raised and socialized, and does not realize that without other humans around, his thought processes unravel and he becomes mad. Forgets that he is part of some greater whole because humans aren't solitary creatures, in fact humans are one of the most sociable creatures that walk around this planet. You just have to think for a moment that speech and thought processes are interwined

but don't listen to me, listen to Maggie Tatcher that claimed "there is no such thing as society, only individuals" /s

Wed, 08/06/2014 - 00:26 | 5052712 honestann
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There are only two kinds of people on earth.  Those who claim to own people, and those who do not.  (from lasvegaspersona).

EVERYONE except anarchists are the first type.

Only anarchists are the second type.

Thus, only anarchy is not slavery and tyranny.

This is trivial, obvious and inescapable.  Accept the obvious, then stop trying to justify slavery and tyranny.

Tue, 08/05/2014 - 10:36 | 5048684 goldsansstandard
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Maggie should have been more clear.
People do form groups and name them as societies.. That is a fact.
Society is formed by individuals associating with each other.

The type of society where the association is not voluntary is called a State.

That is just one form of society.

Most of us here would prefer a more voluntary society.

We think that it might be more compassionate, and effective, Like my Grandfather's Workmans Circle.

Mon, 08/04/2014 - 22:33 | 5047278 HardAssets
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How many people believe in Freedom today ?  Freedom defined as doing as you wish & living as you like, as long as this doesn't interfere with the rights of others ?

Instead, people are beat over their heads since the time they were children to 'do the right thing'.  This is defined in whatever way those in 'authority' wish. 'The right thing' usually coincided with what the king or priest wanted. In more recent times it is supposed to be determined by 'the Proletariat', 'community', or 'People'. Of course all these seem like substantial terms, but are only words, concepts, phantoms. Real decisions are made and real power is held by a relatively few at the top. And, they usually benefit greatly and personally from their position.

Unfortunately, the 'do the right thing' moralist types often want to spread their vision of 'Utopia' far & wide. They will 'save' people . . . even if they have to kill them to do it. At minimum, there willl be plenty of moralizing busy bodies who will think 'there outta be a law' when someone else does something they disapprove of. Many places had laws against smoking, drinking, dancing, etc. And if that doesn't work - they can send those who they have been successful in brainwashing with all the moralizing to come after you. Take your stuff. Throw you in prison. Hurt or kill you.  All to 'do the right thing.'

If you can sell people on 'do the right thing' moralizing over freedom, - then you've got them. A forked tongue con man can brow beat people into giving up their hard earned wealth and freedom. "After all, its for the children. Do the right thing. Its for the community. Its for the country." etc, etc

Note:  These ideas are taken from an interview of a propaganda master (psuedonym 'Ellis Medavoy') who worked at the highest levels for the elites in order to shape society. He was interviewed over a period of time by investigative reporter Jon Rappoport.

Tue, 08/05/2014 - 01:34 | 5047693 blindman
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the pinnacle of it is to get the people
to bear the cost and risk of preservation
of privatized and corporate owned natural
resources, the nugget at the heart of a
sweet morsel treat, delicious and no one
sees a thing.
.
it all falls under the heading of freedom,
financialization and deep credit markets.
.
there will always be control of resources,
technology and the marriage of the two.
the question is who or what has the right
to this influence? the money determinant meme
has proved to be a con of the first order.
what next?

Tue, 08/05/2014 - 01:08 | 5047665 Terminus C
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The structural necessities of life (kill to live) are not conducive to your definition of freedom.  Humans are on top of the food chain because we are the best at taking the ultimate 'right' (to life) from other living creatures (including other humans and their resources).  This is genetically hardwired.

Strong survive, weak accept slavery and scraps or death.

Mon, 08/04/2014 - 21:44 | 5047091 joegalt
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You are on a roll!  This is why there are no political solutions to be found for the significant problems of our day.  Democracy was never much more than legalized plunder as Frederic Bastiat pointed out back in 1850.  Modern democracy is like the Superbugs I keep hearing about - it morphed into something downright deadly.

Mon, 08/04/2014 - 21:44 | 5047090 Reaper
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Democracy is the delusion that wisdom and intelligence is additive. If a thousand fools vote for a harmful thing, it is still harmful. School teachers instruct in the dogma of government, while the system rewards those who learned within its rote.

Why must I trust a demos to chose my leader? What is decent about a teacher teaching obedience to some masters? I reject any master, including the demos. moron+moron+morn+...= moron.

Tue, 08/05/2014 - 13:57 | 5049942 Renfield
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<<Democracy is the delusion that wisdom and intelligence is additive.>>

Well said. I still think the smallest government is the least pernicious. It is just a matter of time before a criminal/sociopath sits at the controls, in any form of government, so when they get there my idea is that they should do the least damage (rather than a government that is set up to do the most good).

Wed, 08/06/2014 - 10:29 | 5049270 Sedaeng
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the United States is a 'representative constitutional REPUBLIC'...

Great Britain is a 'constitutional MONARCHY'...

in what context is the word 'democracy' being discussed here? the 'ideal' of democracy? if we are referring to the [practice] of democracy please reference the country that is supposedly a 'democracy'.

 

Mon, 08/04/2014 - 20:13 | 5046682 nmewn
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If I weren't married...

Plus number four ;-)

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