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15 Signs That We Live During A Time Of Rampant Government Paranoia
Submitted by Michael Snyder via The End of The American Dream blog,
How does it feel to live under a government that is getting even more paranoid with each passing day? Yes, we live in a world that is becoming increasingly unstable, but that is no excuse for how ultra-paranoid the federal government has become. Today, every single one of us is viewed as a “potential threat” by the government. As a result, the government feels the need to intercept our emails, record our phone calls and track our expenditures. But they aren’t just spying on individuals. The government keeps tabs on thousands of organizations all over the planet, it spies on our enemies and our allies, and it even spies on itself. The American people are told that the emerging Big Brother police state is for our safety, but the truth is that it isn’t there to protect us. It is there to protect them. Our government has become kind of like a crazy rich uncle that is constantly spying on everyone else in the family because he believes that they are “out to get him”. The following are 15 signs that we live during a time of rampant government paranoia…
#1 Former CBS News reporter Sharyl Attkisson says that the federal government was so concerned about her reporting on Benghazi, Fast and Furious and other Obama scandals that they hacked her computer, monitored every keystroke and even planted classified material in an apparent attempt to potentially frame her.
#2 The United States has become the nation of the “permanent emergency”. In fact, there has been at least one “state of emergency” in effect in this country since 1979.
#3 In America today, almost everyone is considered to be a criminal. At this point, nearly one out of every three Americans has a file in the FBI’s master criminal database.
#4 Most people don’t realize this, but the FBI also systematically records talk radio programs. The FBI says that it is looking for “potential evidence”.
#5 In Wisconsin, 24 armed police officers are an armored military vehicle were recently sent to collect a civil judgment from a 75-year-old retiree. It is being reported that officials feared that he might be “argumentative“.
#6 According to guidelines that were recently made public, purchasing Amtrak train tickets with cash is considered to be “suspicious activity” and needs to be reported to the authorities.
#7 The IRS can now seize your bank accounts on suspicion alone. If you are successful fighting the IRS in court, you might get your money back years later.
#8 Thousands of Americans have their mail spied on by the U.S. Postal Service. If you are on “the list”, all of your mail and packages are shown to a supervisor before they are delivered to you.
#9 Most people don’t realize that the U.S. border is now considered to be a “Constitution-free zone” where officials can freely grab your computer and copy your hard drive.
#10 The feds have apparently become extremely concerned about what all of us are saying on the Internet. In fact, they have even been caught manipulating discussions on Reddit and editing Wikipedia.
#11 The U.S. government has become so paranoid that it even spies on our European allies. Needless to say, our allies over in Europe are quite upset about this but we continue to do it.
#12 To the government, each citizen is a “potential threat”, and this justifies the militarization of our entire society. The following is an excerpt from an excellent commentary by John Whitehead…
Just take a stroll through your city’s downtown. Spend an afternoon in your local mall. Get in your car and drive to your parents’ house. Catch the next flight to that business conference. While you’re doing so, pay careful attention to how you and your fellow citizens are treated by government officials—the ones whose salaries you are paying.
You might walk past a police officer outfitted in tactical gear, holding an assault rifle, or drive past a police cruiser scanning license plates. There might be a surveillance camera on the street corner tracking your movements. At the airport, you may be put through your paces by government agents who will want to either pat you down or run scans of your body. And each time you make a call or send a text message, your communications will most likely be logged and filed. When you return home, you might find that government agents have been questioning your neighbors about you, as part of a “census” questionnaire. After you retire to sleep, you might find yourself awakened by a SWAT team crashing through your door (you’ll later discover they were at the wrong address), and if you make the mistake of reaching for your eyeglasses, you might find yourself shot by a cop who felt threatened.
Is this the behavior of a government that respects you? One that looks upon you as having inviolate rights? One that regards you as its employer, its master, its purpose for being?
I don’t think so. While this hyper-militarization of the government is being sold to the public as a means of preventing terrorism and maintaining national security, it is little more than a wolf in sheep’s clothing. In fact, as I document in my book A Government of Wolves: The Emerging American Police State, what we are dealing with is a police state disguised as a benevolent democracy, a run-away government hyped up on its own power and afraid of its citizenry, whose policies are dictated more by paranoia than need.
#13 As our police departments have become militarized, SWAT team deployments have gone through the roof. As I wrote about recently, there were only about 3,000 SWAT raids in the United States back in 1980. But today, there are more than 80,000 SWAT raids per year in this country.
#14 The federal government is so paranoid that it is actually spying on itself. The “Insider Threat Program” encourages federal employees to closely watch one another and to report any hint of suspicious activity…
The federal effort, called the Insider Threat Program, was launched in October 2011, and it certainly hasn’t diminished since Edward Snowden disclosed details of the National Security Agency’s domestic spying. As McClatchy reporters Marisa Taylor and Jonathan S. Landay have described, federal employees and contractors are encouraged to keep an eye on allegedly suspicious indicators in their co-workers’ lives, from financial troubles to divorce. A brochure produced by the Defense Security Service, titled “INSIDER THREATS: Combating the ENEMY within your organization,” sums up the spirit of the program: “It is better to have reported overzealously than never to have reported at all.”
#15 Last, but certainly not least, there is the matter of the NSA constantly spying on all of us. The NSA is monitoring and recording billions of our phone calls and emails, and most Americans don’t seem to care. But they should care. I like how an article in the New York Post described what is happening to our society…
Through a combination of fear, cowardice, political opportunism and bureaucratic metastasis, the erstwhile land of the free has been transformed into a nation of closely watched subjects — a country of 300 million potential criminals, whose daily activities need constant monitoring.
Once the most secret of organizations, the NSA has become even more famous than the CIA, the public face of Big Brother himself. At its headquarters on Savage Road in Fort Meade, Md., its omnivorous Black Widow supercomputer hoovers up data both foreign and domestic, while its new $2 billion data center near Bluffdale, Utah — the highly classified Intelligence Community Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative Data Center — houses, well, just about everything. As James Bamford wrote in Wired magazine two years ago, as the center was being completed:
“Flowing through its servers and routers and stored in near-bottomless databases will be all forms of communication, including the complete contents of private e-mails, cellphone calls, and Google searches, as well as all sorts of personal data trails — parking receipts, travel itineraries, bookstore purchases, and other digital ‘pocket litter.’ ”
So what do you think?
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Am I considered paranoid if they really are out to get me.
The actual definition of, "paranoid" is irrelevant to the fact that they are out to get you similar to the fact that you are a genius has no bearing on their definition of a genius.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwuP7ILX32E
"Mother should I trust the government... ?"
-Pink Floyd, 1979
16 reasons Orwell is rolling over in his grave
http://www.planbeconomics.com/2013/06/16-reasons-you-should-listen-to-ge...
#16 Cognitive Infiltrators are posting neocon propaganda on Zero Hedge and manipulating the up/down votes system.
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/sarc?
Orwell certainly wasn't perfect. He got the date wrong.
It's a resounding no!
"So what do you think?"
I think the government has good reason to be afraid of us. Dole out all the welfare bennies you want. Threaten everyone else all you want. End of the day, we know they depend on us, not the other way around like they keep trying to make us believe.
If the Japanese were concerned with "rifles behind every blade of grass" in 1941. Imagine how afraid the criminals of the DC US, state house, country seat, and town hall should be now?! False-flag Sandy Hook afraid it would seem.
An American, not US subject.
See ya on the battlefield, as I'm not going "camping."
Especially when you consider the fact that the Gun Grab has been perhaps their most spectacular failure. What if these recent WH security breaches/fence jumpings were allowed to happen to make the Grifter In Chief's residence look vulnerable? Unless the Dims crank the vote fraud up to 11 they are about to get pummelled. Maybe the charges are already in place and BOOM!!! Cracker Tea Party goes full McVeigh!! Yet more racial division, Martial Law, economic collapse obscured again....
I tak e a different tack on the WH 'breeches', personally I think this was allowed or staged [take your pick] to expand the security perimiter around the Mulatto Marionette to keep the plebs further at bay for when the revolution starts. Just my 2c ~ YMMV
Relax they are having performance anxiety
Is being called a "conspiracy theorist" now a compliment? It would seem so.
NEW: Obama official calls Netanyahu "chickenshit", sparks fly
http://tinyurl.com/luntrox
Most of the "Obama officials" are dual citizens and former Israel prison guard, Jeffery Goldberg is a Mossad agent. This is a planted story designed to rile up the fanatic Israel backers in the U.S. Strangely, it seems that they are saying that Netanyahu is chickenshit because he DIDN'T attack Iran. They are going to try anything they can to derail the nuclear negotiations with Iran
Noting enemy action isn't paranoia......
biggest, most powerful criminal organization the world has ever seen
To the writers #4, the ENTIRE COUNTRY has now become a "constitution free zone"
"Am I considered paranoid if they really are out to get me."
Naw, Just change your handle to Cognitive Consonance.
my best friend's sister makes $80 /hour on the internet . She has been laid off for 7 months but last month her paycheck was $13987 just working on the internet for a few hours. visit site... www.Yelptrade.com
Please fuck off
"The difference between common-sense and paranoia is that common-sense is thinking everyone is out to get you. That's normal -- they are. Paranoia is thinking that they're conspiring." - J. Kegler
Well, we're boned.
Secret ancient Egyptian tech
http://andreswhy.blogspot.com/2008/01/ancient-egyptian-technology.html
It's the drugs these mutha fuckas are using.
If you fuck with people all day, and dope it up all night,
Shit will make you crazy.
But then,
Maybe some people ARE out to get them.
TEAbees Jeebees
“To die hating them, that was freedom.” - George Orwell
Take your meds. It's called corruption, not paranoia.
If not for the massive increase in jobs for cops, prison guards, prosecutors, judges and all the other jobs associated with the war on drugs, on "broken window" crimes and on bad drivers, many of these law enforcement job holders would be either unemployed or working as box boys at Publix. Think it over, if you are a high school graduate or a community college graduate, what other jobs out there can pay you $90,000 a year with overtime and give you a 50% pension after 22 years. That is the situation for New York City cops. The California Highway Patrol has over 20% of its officers making over $100,000 a year. Compare that to factory workers who produce something for relatively chump change wages on an assembly line. Lawyers know that if they get to be criminal court judges, besides the sadistic thrill of sending blacks to prison for decades, they get a steady stream of pay checks (without worrying about billable hours), a guaranteed parking space and future "favors" if their decisions help out politicians. Law enforcement and spying are vast public works programs. The only problem is that most of these programs are boondoggles, wastes of taxpayer dollars.
Maybe it's just been a long day, but we deserve it for putting up with it. When we as a collective group of dunderheads vote in Obama and his souless rabble, don't expect anything postive. We got what we deserve.
This isn't about Democrat or Republican. They are all equally worhtless in my sight. I want a man who has actually made tough business decisions and cut deals and has a modicum of integrity and honesty. I know, that's a freaking laugh riot.
Taake solace in encryption and going back to flip phones.
And another thing: anyone who runs a blog called "The End of the American Dream Blog" needs to take a rest, go smoke some weed, and get a happy ending down at the parlor. Sheesh.
Junction, I would upvote you, but I'm too afraid to.
the end is near by
one can tell
They need a small army to protect the obolo clan. That's how popular they are.
This is fabulous news. How happy to know that Moslem down the street is being watched, that kid with a BB gun is being monitored and that computer geek around the corner is being followed.
But, who ordered that SWAT team raiding my house because I posted on ZH? That's not right!
They can do all that, yet can't keep their own borders closed.
What a sham!
Brothers wising up.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUSRZo1BE5o
Finally.
See Something, Say Something
Fuck the RAT BASTARD .gov scums.
Anyone NOT on a .gov list should be ashamed of themselves.
I remember the late Daniel Schorr of CBS saying he was proud to be on Nixon's list.
Today, Tricky Dick would be on his own list!
#13 As our police departments have become militarized, SWAT team deployments have gone through the roof. As I wrote about recently, there were only about 3,000 SWAT raids in the United States back in 1980. But today, there are more than 80,000 SWAT raids per year in this country.
That's 80000/3000 so about 26.6 times more, which makes sense since the US population in 1980 was 270million and now it's what, like 5.9billion people, so the ratio works out to pretty much the same.
When all you have is a hammer SWAT team, everything looks like a nail reason to use your SWAT team.
Summed up perfectly, as always!
Double tapped
LOL. Pease go apply for a job at the BLS right now. The US population is under 400 Million. The world population is well over 5 Billion.
I believe he was kidding.
US prison system and number incarcerated should have been mentioned.
Also, a big omission of the article was any clear reference to the connection between the domestic police state
and the overseas global militarism and ambitions of "full-spectrum dominance".
Governments are not and cannot be "paranoid."
They are vicious and voracious.
Those within governments are psychopathic and treasonous.
An American, not US subject.
"Guillotine the anti-government machine."
Would a major US Bank installing high speed connections with high resolution cameras and real-time facial recognition directly linked to Fed/State/Local government databases bump anything off the top 15?
The government has been paranoid since inception.
The technology just got good enough for the government to feed its' paranoia.
Ergo, they went overboard with it now.
No need for Special Weapons And Tactics raids. Fucking park rangers have those now.
All this is getting way out of haand. Americans should be concerned because we are slowly being stripped of our freedoms. Not only is big-brother watching he is leaning on us big time.
This is beginning to look like the society we have read about the totalitarian society of Oceania described in George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. In Orwell's novel, all citizens of Oceania are monitored by cameras and are fed fabricated news stories by the government. More on this subject in the article below.
http://brucewilds.blogspot.com/2013/09/are-we-creating-orwellian-society...
Yet seemingly, more Americans than ever love 'freedom' and waving the flag. I picture a bunch of assholes like Henry Kissinger and Dov Zakheim sitting around in a mountain lodge, smoking cigars and saying "I had no idea it would be this easy to enslave the people. They're even dumber than we gave them credit for..."
www.TopTheNews.com
What if the government is not paranoid, but instead they are simply tasked with making a recording of this time period and saving it for a time in the future when humanity is ready to know its real past and it real purpose.
I am sure future generations would prefer if we stopped running up a huge tab they will pay. There are 16 Federal Security agencies-how much do you think they cost us? Well, we can't know that- it's a matter of national security.
I tell ya, it's getting so bad you can't trust nobody no more. The other night my wife's snoring woke me up in the middle of the night and then I said, hey, wait a minute, my wife doesn't snore so, I turned on the light and my wife had been replaced by an NSA agent.
i think they will have a problem when the energy gets scarce.
What's the over/under on me being the first ZHer to post from the browser known as Links?
All three branches of the Feral Government are treasonous, poisonous, vile and inherently criminal. All three branches should be charged under the RICO statute, which they've given themselves legal immunity from. What a racket!
The article above reminded me of these two recent articles:
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-10-18/reading-road-map-police-state
Reading The Road Map To A Police State
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-10-18/orwell-was-only-wrong-about-date
Orwell Was Only Wrong About The Date
The oldest book on the Art of War starts by saying that "success in war is based on deceits," and ends by saying that "spies are the most important soldiers." That also applies to the ways that the ruling classed controlled those that they ruled over.
"The Road Map To A Police State" in the USA began with the international bankers recapturing control over the American money supply. The basic system is debt slavery backed by wars based on deceits. Since the debt slavery system has generated numbers which have become debt insanities, that will provoke death insanities. Furthermore, there are deeper reasons, which the vast majority of people refuse to address, namely, that money is NECESSARILY measurement backed by murder, because the debt controls are NECESSARILY backed by the death controls.
The history of that has been the manifestation of the development of the general energy laws through human civilizations, which were extremely PARADOXICAL because social success became based on backing up deceits with destruction, and enforcing frauds. The foundation of the government was always the application of the principles and methods of organized crime, which have AUTOMATICALLY gotten worse, faster, at exponential rates. The pattern of the privatizations of the public money supply is being repeated by the effective privatizations of the public murder systems.
THE RUNAWAY FASCIST PLUTOCRACY JUGGERNAUT, WHICH WAS DUE TO THE INTERNATIONAL BANKSTERS, AS THE BIGGEST GANGSTERS, CAPTURING CONTROL OVER, AND EFFECTIVELY PRIVATIZING, THE POWERS OF GOVERNMENT, REQUIRED THE DEVELOPMENT OF A FASCIST POLICE STATE, IN ORDER TO PROTECT ITSELF AND ADVANCE ITS AGENDA.
Those systems have become criminally insane, with BOTH the ruling classes, AND most of those they rule over, SHARING in an utterly absurd bullshit world view, that perceives everything in as backwards of ways as possible, everywhere from the most profound aspects of the philosophy of science, through to political science, and back again, in vicious feedback loops due to the series of short-term social successes achieved by backing up lies with violence, in order to wage a war against consciousness, that has achieved awesome levels of ignorance and fear.
Since the government is the biggest form of organized crime, controlled by the best organized gangs of criminals, who are more and more using the powers of "We the People" in ways that have become PRIVATIZED, the contradictions inherent in that situation are constantly being amplified to more astronomical sizes. There appears nothing in that social situation which can prevent its collective madness and criminal insanities from driving severe social storms through psychotic breakdowns. By and large, the established systems and their controlled opposition groups were already integrated, so that almost all of the proposed "solutions" are bogus bullshit that backfires. Those problems run throughout the most errors in the basic philosophy of science, through every aspect of political science.
EVERYONE HAS SOME POWER TO ROB, WITH THE POWER TO KILL TO BACK THAT UP BEING THE MOST EXTREME FORM OF THAT POWER TO ROB. Governments assemble and channel that power to rob and kill. There has developed vicious spirals of the effective privatization of governments' collective powers to rob and to kill. Of course, in that context, it is barely possible to exaggerate the significance of developments such as listed above, with this one currently taking the cake: "The “Insider Threat Program” encourages federal employees to closely watch one another and to report any hint of suspicious activity…"
The basic problem is that human realities are always organized lies operating robberies. Politics is ideally supposed to be ways that social animals work out dynamic equilibria between the different systems of organized lies operating robberies. However, the biggest bullies' bullshit view of the world has become way too successfully dominant to enable any better balancing to still be achieved. Our current civilization operates through its two primary State Religions, the monetary system and national security, in ways whereby most people do not recognized the degree to which those have actually become absurd State Religions. Instead, we are in social situation where the war against consciousness has been too successful for too long, so that almost everyone believes in bullshit, and therefore, almost all political "solutions" to our problems are merely more bogus bullshit, only piled deeper.
The human death controls are NECESSARILY central to human ecology, and that NECESSARILY surrounds the political economy. The currently existing social facts are that our established death controls systems ARE being operated through the maximum possible deceits, in order to back up debt controls being operated through the maximum possible frauds. All together, that has driven our civilization into states of criminal insanity, both with respect to social polarization, and moreover with respect to the destruction of the natural world. Natural selection became internalized as human intelligence, then the artificial selection systems enabled by that intelligence ended up developing on the basis of social successes through deceits and frauds.
Inside of that situation, it is practically impossible to have any rational public discussions about anything important. The basic social facts are perceived through presumptions throughout the philosophy of science, and especially political science, which are as backwards and distorted as they can possibly be. Human problems are being pumped up and UP by orders of magnitude, by relative progress in physical and biological sciences and engineering, while there is nothing like that in social science and engineering, because the essential features of social science and engineering has been their previous successes were based upon deceits and frauds.
Since the currently established systems (which includes all the significant controlled opposition groups, that were integrated into those systems) OPERATE ON THE BASIS OF THEIR SOCIAL SUCCESSES BEING ACHIEVED THROUGH DECEITS AND FRAUDS, NONE OF THE PEOPLE DOING THAT CAN ADMIT ANY OF THE BASIC SOCIAL FACTS.
The paradoxes that there MUST BE, and ARE, death control systems, that developed to most successfully operate through the maximum possible deceits, in order to back up debt control systems which operate through the maximum possible frauds, means that the ways that the government actually operates is as close to 100% based on legalized lies backed by legalized violence as it can get, (which includes that almost all the publicly significant opposition groups also operate within the same deceitful and fraudulent frames of reference.) Ideally, human beings develop mental models of their world, with mental models of themselves within their mental models of their world. However, the history of successful warfare based on backing up deceits with destruction, and then successful finance based on backing up frauds with force, has resulted in the mental models of most people becoming stark raving mad, while their own madness prevents them from being able to correct that. There was always natural selection, and human beings developing intelligence, therefore, must have discovered and developed natural selection as forms of artificial selection. However, the existing human systems of artificial selection are being operated through the maximum possible deceits and frauds, which requires most people to maintain attitudes of evil deliberate ignorance and willful blindness, in order to continue to be socially successful within those well-established systems, which are already deeply entrenched in the combined money/murder systems.
Governments were always military organizations, where that military was large scale application of the principles and methods of organized crime. The groups who were the best at applying the methods of organized crime to the political processes have captured effective control over the powers of governments and thereby have effectively privatized the governmental powers to rob and to kill. Originally and innately, power is distributed. Everyone has some power to rob and to kill. That is the source of "We the People" theoretically organized into a democratic republic operating through the rule of law. That is a good theory. However, the reality has become that the war against consciousness waged by the ruling classes against those they ruled over has become too successful, for too long, so that too many people believe too much in BULLSHIT, and that includes the controlled opposition groups to the established systems, which never provide genuinely better "solutions" because they too stay within the same frame of reference as the overall biggest bullies' social stories do. We do not have better social science, that enables better social engineering, because the actual historical development of those things through social pyramid systems was based on slavery, through backing up lies with violence, which systems became more sophisticated, as the current forms of legalized lies, backed by legalized violence.
The biggest bullies' bullshit dominated the philosophy of science, and political science, so much, for so long, that all of the public discussions about the military and monetary systems are almost totally based on BULLSHIT. The basic concepts used, namely false fundamental dichotomies, and their related impossible ideals, makes it practically impossible to better understand the facts, and therefore, practically impossible to actually resolve any political problems in better ways.
MOST OF ALL, IT IS PRACTICALLY IMPOSSIBLE TO AGREE UPON THE BASIC FACTS REGARDING THE COMBINED MONEY/MURDER SYSTEMS, BECAUSE THOSE ARE CURRENTLY OPERATING THROUGH THE MAXIMUM POSSIBLE FRAUDS AND DECEITS. IT IS ESPECIALLY IMPOSSIBLE TO GET THE CONTROLLED OPPOSITION GROUPS TO ADMIT THAT THERE MUST NECESSARILY BE SOME MURDER SYSTEM, TO BACK UP SOME MONETARY SYSTEM. INSTEAD, WHAT MOSTLY HAPPENS IN THE PUBLIC SPACES IS LIES ABOUT HOW THE REAL SYSTEMS WORK, OPPOSED BY LIES ABOUT HOW THEY SHOULD WORK.
Theoretically, it should be possible for human beings to become more intelligent about natural selection, as well as artificial selection. However, the degree to which that was historically done through backing up lies with violence, and so, everyone was relatively successful within those kinds of social pyramid systems, MEANS that we are stuck in some seriously insane social spirals, headed towards psychotic breakdowns, due to the final failures of being able to back up lies with violence on an astronomically amplified scale. There is NO DOUBT that we live in a time of "Rampant Government Paranoia!"
Militarism is the supreme ideology, and it deserves to be, because the human murder systems are the most important systems, especially since those are what back up the monetary systems. Government are, and necessarily must be, military organizations, based on the history of the development of the human murder systems. There are no possible real solutions outside of those basic facts. However, the degree to which the history of successful warfare was based on backing up deceits with destruction, which then became the foundation for economics being based on enforcing frauds, has resulted in the powers to rob and to kill, which belong to everybody, being concentrated in ways which were paradoxically privatized.
Of course, the paradoxical privatization of the powers of governments to rob and to kill drive that government toward "Rampant Paranoia!" Of course, those governments are becoming more criminally insane every day! What else could be possible within social situations where success was based on backing up deceits with destruction, and enforcing frauds? Those vicious spirals can NEVER make those deceits and frauds become factually correct, BUT, their enforcement can drive them to create a society which becomes more criminally insane!
I recommend that we should go through a series of intellectual scientific revolutions, which correct the errors made when the biggest bullies' bullshit dominated the philosophy of science, which then applied to political science. We should rebuild society upon a basis which permits better social science and social engineering. However, since the foundations are now rotten, that can not be done unless we admit and address the central issues of the existence of the death controls, backing up the debt controls, which are the primary things that governments do, but which have become more and more privatized, while "We the People" have mostly been brainwashed to believe in bullshit, so that it was possible for the governmental powers to rob and to kill actually ending up becoming more and more effectively privatized.
There is no genuine way forward by going backwards to old-fashioned false fundamental dichotomies and their related impossible ideals. NONE of the old-fashioned religions and ideologies can provide useful solutions to the runaway problems. That includes the mainstream orthodox views of science, which are also dominated by the biggest bullies' bullshit, the same as every other social enterprise. What We the People, or at least enough of Us, ought to do is go through a series of profound paradigm shifts in the ways that we think about almost everything, and especially the ways that we think about politics.
However, meanwhile, the actual social situations are becoming more criminally insane, since the public powers of government are being more and more privatized, through the MAD Money as Debt system, backed up by the MAD Mutual Assured Destruction system. It continues to be the case that we have electronic monkey money, backed up by apes with atomic bombs. Our real problems have become many orders of magnitude greater than ever before in known human history, because most progress in science and technology has been channeled through social pyramid systems which were based on being able to back up lies with violence, so that the government has become based on systems of legalized lies, backed by legalized violence, whereby the best organized gangs of criminals have applied the methods of organized crime to the political processes to effectively privatize most of the powers of "We the People."
Since natural languages tend to be based on presuming dualities as the ways that people think, going beyond those false fundamental dichotomies requires changing the language that we use, so that we may be able to think differently. At the present time, the basic facts about death controls are buried under the maximum possible bullshit, and that includes how the controlled opposition groups to the established systems think about those issues too. Governments have attempted to monopolize the power to rob and the power to kill. Meanwhile, the best organized gangs of criminals have been able to capture control over governments, in order to effectively privatize the uses of those powers to rob and to kill, as manifested through the combined monetary and military systems.
Those are obviously profound political problems, which should be resolved by thinking in profoundly different ways about those problems, which is what I have been outlining in my comments above, as well as in various other comments that I have posted on Zero Hedge. We ARE headed towards the runaway debt insanities provoking death insanities. The established debt slavery systems have grown at an exponential rate to insane sizes, which can not continue, and therefore, will eventually collapse into crazy chaos. The best organized gangs of criminals that drove that to happen the most are attempting to prepare for that, through the same means as those which drove those problems in the first place, namely, the effective privatization of the public powers of governments to rob and to kill.
The essential issues are how to transform the powers to rob and to kill into some better systems of dynamic equilibria between the different systems of organized lies operating robberies. Doing that will take paradigm shifts in politics, developing a different language, that enables thinking differently about those problems. We are going to be forced to do that due to the established systems driving their debt insanities through to death insanities, especially since none of the controlled opposition groups are going to propose any genuinely better resolutions to those problems, since they continue to operate within the same frame of reference of false fundamental dichotomies and related impossible ideals that the biggest bullies' bullshit originally developed in the first place, in order to justify and rationalize the ways that the powers of "We the People" ended up being effectively privatized in criminally insane ways. Clearly, since those are the real social facts, there are plenty of good reasons why that kind of government is more and more manifesting "Rampant Paranoia!"
rampant paranoia was instilled because the battle drum could be heard before it could be seen. The rhythm drove them insane. It's an ancient rhythm, a mystic rhythm. So yes the old mysticism is still in play in our information age...
Like it or not folks, the best information we have to go by today is contained in the AR5. Listen. WG4 publishes this Hallow Eve and there ends the provision of actionable information...
"Ideally, we should be retooling the fascist, oligarchical plutocracy, in order to accomplish necessary purposes by making greater uses of information, that enable a higher consciousness to operate the death controls that back up the debt controls. Both of those things combined need to be understood through radically different paradigm shifts, which appreciate their realities as manifestations of general energy systems. Both of those things require radical transformations in the basic philosophy of science, which then apply to political science, and therefore, to the transformations of the money/murder systems." -Radical Marijuana
AR5 informs us of death insanities.
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AS does Radical Marijuana - necessarily
MASTER OF UNIVERSE, I am assuming that by AR5 you are referring to the AR5 writing and review process, regarding the IPCC reports. I just happened to be watching the second Cosmos series, hosted by Tyson, episode 12, where he reviews the evidence regarding human beings causing climate change, which is a topic I have been thinking about for several decades, while I have been recording my thoughts about that for several years in this thread: Humans blamed for climate change ...
I believe that the IPCC reports have tended to deliberately ignore the more cosmic factors, such as changes in the Sun and Earth's magnetic field, which appear to temporarily be giving us a break from the runway greenhouse gas mechanisms, which otherwise could have already been developing much more serious positive feedback loops. That cosmic "lucky break" seems to be giving us some time to adapt. However, it would still appear to take a series of political miracles, in a world dominated by social pyramid systems based on backing up lies with violence, for human beings generally to stop having overwhelming attitudes of evil deliberate ignorance toward what they are really doing.
While the older generations of human beings may benefit from the apparent "lucky break" from some cosmic factors mitigating the greenhouse gas mechanisms triggering runaway catastrophic climate changes, it still looks like younger generations will suffer that fate, unless there was some series of technological miracles, along with even greater political miracles. Those political miracles are the most problematic. The science of climate is hyper-complicated, and still open to reasonable debate. However, there is no doubt in my mind that our society is controlled by integrated systems of legalized lies, backed by legalized violence, which are criminally insane in ways which make it practically impossible for human beings to respond to problems that are beyond the control of the human systems which are being controlled by Huge Lies backed up by Lots of Violence, in ways which make all our real problems continue to get worse, faster ... as we DO head towards the resulting death insanities!
Indeed, "the battle drum" that most people are actually marching to is still primarily tribal. The ruling classes of the Anglo-American (Zionist) Empire that dominates the current government of the USA is effectively controlled by old-fashioned, tribal, organized crime gangs, whose systems of deceits and frauds may well benefit them in the short-term, while tending towards destroying almost everyone, including them, in the longer term. However, those kinds of tribal organized crime gangs are still the dominant political forces around the world, no matter how utterly out of touch with reality that kind of tribalism has become in a world where electronic monkey money is being backed up by apes with atomic bombs, whose beliefs are very old-fashioned religions and ideologies, including the State Religion Ideologies of the combined money/murder systems, whose apparent goals are criminally insane, but which are still being successfully implemented, because backing up lies with violence works all too well in the short-term, as practised by the dominate tribal organized crime gangs.
The current tribes that dominate the American government are driving the established social systems in which the American military is motivated to do things on the basis of false flag attacks, in order to back up the fraudulent American money system. Combined, those social facts make it practically impossible to have any rational public debates regarding the bigger problems that the human species faces, because the biggest problems we face now are the ways that different groups of human beings are organized into different organized crime gangs, in conflict with each other, while the best organized of those crime gangs has captured effectively privatized control over the American monetary and military systems, to use that public power to advance their agenda, while the majority of Americans appear to have been so brainwashed to believe in bullshit that they can not perceive the radical truths enough to resist themselves being fleeced to exhaustion, while being set up to be mass murdered.
Attempting to recognize and face any facts regarding what human beings are doing to their natural environment as a whole is pretty well impossible within social pyramid systems based on a minority successfully using lies backed by violence to control the majority. It is extremely difficult in that context to determine what the facts are, and even more dangerous to attempt to change those facts!
If it turns out to have been the case that burning all the fossil fuels as fast as we could does cause runaway feedbacks that change the climate in the ways that appear to be theoretically possible, then the levels of death insanities which are approaching have nothing remotely close to compare to in known human history. As I said, we seem to, right now, be getting a "lucky break" from some cosmic factors that are mitigating and postponing the runaway greenhouse gas mechanisms driving catastrophic climate changes. However, so far, even having the luxury of more time to adapt does not seem to be enough, since the established social systems are still based on the combination of lies and violence, deliberately causing fear and ignorance, which vicious cycles right now are worse than the possible vicious spirals of humans causing the Earth's climate to change, especially since that combination of lies backed by violence, driving social attitudes of evil deliberate ignorance and willful blindness, makes any nice theories about human beings doing something better look politically impossible ...
While it is theoretically possible to imagine creative alternatives in the form of technological miracles, the required political miracles to actually implement integrated systems of those alternatives appears to be impossible, due to the basic ways that the government has become criminally insane, due to its control having been captured by the combinations of tribal organized crime gangs, able to trick and fool masses of mainstream morons, such as how the bullshit "war on terror" was started by the ruling classes doing inside job, false flag attacks, in order to become the basis of the current manifestations of Rampant Paranoia, as runaway social insanities, manifesting through the government of the USA.
I think I understand people's suspicion of the UN because I've grown suspicious of the UN after what happened in 2009 at COP15 in Copenhagen. What I saw happen there was; Hliary Clinton running around waving pretend money in the air, Barak Obama falsely claiming great progress had been achieved, and key UN rep Connie Hedegaard quitting as the conference began! I hope I correctly understand when you point out the UN is a tool cast by the biggest bullies to maintain their bullshit stories.
As you said recently here, not everything is a hoax just because. The UN and the World Meteorological Organization (the two co-sponsors of the IPCC) while born into pyramid social system by the biggest bullies and are enforcers of their worldview, it is possible that this UNFCCC (framework convention on climate change) is a genie that is proving difficult to put back in the bottle. They pulled it off in Copenhagen and from what I see these days, they are already hard at work derailing COP21 in Paris next year. Anyone reading Zero Hedge can easily see all the nations on earth signing on to a global agreement , NOT! That's why I mention that with the release of WG4 this Friday, the IPCC is finished their work and there may never be an AR6...
Now it's the politicians turn. I saw Hugo Chavez pounding the podium in Copenhagen highlighting the actions Venezuela was taking. Venezuela of course gets the same treatment "globull warming" gets here at Zero Hedge so many readers will conflate the two, and hey, maybe they will be proven correct in the fullness of time. But by coinkidinks, poor old Hugo won't be standing at the podium in Paris. Maybe there will be someone who can fill those shoes, someone who, like Hugo, stood up to the bullies? Hmmm, weren't you just saying here recently that Russia may be slightly outside the biggest bullies bullshit? I can certainly see your view that, as Bob Dylan said three decades ago, "this world is ruled by violence but I guess that's better left unsaid" where neither of you do, thankfully, leave it unsaid! lol The point I'm trying to make is that regardless of what remains unclear when we study climate science, the lack of progress in our political science is sticking out like a sore opposed thumb, clever monkeys that we thought we were!
As James Burke said 25 years ago, it was the scare of runaway climate change coming faster than we ever thought possible that forced political change. AR5 completed on Halloween 2014, how poetic : )
We are now one melt away from Paris. Humans will produce many gigatons of CO2 and other greenhouse gasses by the time next years arctic ice melt is done and of course there's the methane issue. The pattern looks to me as a crash in the extent is followed by a couple of years of less than full recovery followed by an even deeper crash, as happened in 2012 when extent fell down into the '3' (3.63) for the first time since tracking began in the late 70's when the value was 7.2. Since 2013 was 5.38 and this year was 5.28, there is a possibility we could see a '2.XX' value next year. Halloween 2015 might be verry scarry as The Count used to say...
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with the change in the autumn weather, I'll soon have more time and I will try to find out what the IPCC research discovered with regards to the cosmic influences you mentioned. And get back to unitary mechanisms too!
Thanks for the reply RM : )
Thank you for your contributions, as always, you are striving to inform, and for that I thank you!
Thanks, DelusionalGrandeur, although promoting delusions of grandeur applies to me as much as anyone else!
The more they spy the more they know how universally they're hated. So it ain't really paranoia if it's true. Their spy castle in Utah needs massive cooling power because public hatred for them is burning up their computers.
Water war porn will take out mother boards. Someone didn't figure out the geographic location for long term perpetual purposes. It will be shifted back to east coast. Unless they build a snow cone machine.
/sarc
A wasteland still being stripped with starving preys to be starved further. The predators are still gouching because it is in their DNAs.
Many species of the preys deserve it as they are not even herded but just enjoy the traps.
I will repeat this post because in my opinion it’s important to open eyes those who have good intention in their heart but have been misled by elite / regimes of different sides. How I see things is I look at what government is doing – looking at its work, methods and results. And from there it’s basically two sides: those who work in good of common people and protect their individual rights & freedoms, and those who manipulate their people take their rights away and work for elite benefits. Now you look from that perspective and you are going around in so called “alternative media” as this (which actually is not alternative at all – but about that little later) than I’m sure you are aware about US oligarch regime crimes and that they are not working for the people. What you are lacking in information at some sites is about other elites / regimes / oligarchs and how they treat their people. So because of this lack of information you can be easily manipulated to think that there is only one evil elite that rules west and others can be looked at as opposition to this evil – so automatically they are the good guys VS evil west. Well it’s not so at all. If you go back to what I started and those criteria how I divide governments – than you will realize that for example Putin oligarch regime, China elite regime – is not working for their people and is not protecting their individual rights and freedoms. They use the same tactics, the same crimes, the same manipulation in order to gain their elite more power more wealth and hides it under different banners. I’ post links about Putin regime in the end – check them out.
This manipulation with your mind is possible using different kind of channels that you think is alternative media – when actually it’s Putin regime asset for brainwashing you. Also US oligarch regime has their alternative media to brainwash you. So it’s really hard to stay focus and not to get lost in this war over your mind. But those criteria I posted can help you.
What Putin regime assets as RT, Zerohedge (because obviously it is Putin regime asset as you will not be able to find any criticism towards from this site towards actions Putin regime do to their people by limiting their freedoms, by internet censorship and of course will stay in line with Putin regime lies that they are not invading Ukraine - when there is evidence about Putin regime tanks in Ukraine that are not in any country army but only in Russian) does is they are mixing truth with lies. You know – you have to add some sugar for bitter poison. They are well aware about US oligarch crimes and they are well aware that MSM is hiding them from people in west and they are well aware that people in west is seeking the truth that exposes these crimes – so what they do is this – they expose US oligarch regime crimes for what you are so interested in and in this way they are taking your attention and confidence to this source so that you trust them and thank them for bringing truth. And what they do then is they add their Putin regime lies that you automatically accept as truth because they were saying truth about US oligarch regime crimes (not always though). So this is the way they mix truth with lies in order to make you think from their perspective. If they add more paid trolls than mostly this scheme will work and people will live under Putin regime brainwashing machine. So now you know. Now it’s a choice for you to think this trough and start looking at information more with critical thinking. Yes, world is not so simple as we think.
Here are some links to look at and think of if you are cheering for Putin regime:
http://globalvoicesonline.org/2014/07/05/russia-internet-censorship-laws-crackdown/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/russias-putin-signs-law-extending-kremlins-grip-over-media/2014/10/15/6d9e8b2c-546b-11e4-809b-8cc0a295c773_story.html
http://www.rferl.org/content/russia-ad-ban-hurts-television/25449900.html
http://www.hrw.org/news/2013/04/24/russia-worst-human-rights-climate-post-soviet-era
http://www.forbes.com/sites/paulroderickgregory/2014/04/12/russian-tv-caught-red-handed-same-guy-same-demonstration-but-three-different-people-spy-bystander-heroic-surgeon/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkaVIIOE9ys
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/6a2b93aac55c40c9a1b0b0bcc11a07d9/russia-gives-approval-sanctions-compensation
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/russias-rosneft-asks-48-billion-state-wealth-fund-sanctions-bite-1471332
"When government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny."
Some things are the same wherever you go. Some people do honest productive work. Its to bad nobody listens to them on this planet.
Anthony is .gov
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETfzfy0jy74
Is just me or has Tim Cook turned into the personification of a toothpick CEO? Brittle, yet worn down to a broken tip. Tim, you don't dictate to society, the world tells you. If you want to be a innovator, listen to your customers. That's why Steve Jobs was a success and you're a failure.
I loathe your products, BlackBerry fan. Leadership is not your skill-based platform.
Ask Obama on his efforts in dictating to mass Global markets has worked out.
Perhaps the worst part of all this new militarization and police state activity is the fact that in spite of it all the average tax payer is probably less safe than they were just a few years ago. Real social services are declning, taxes keep going up, and the only ones that can pay them are bearing the brunt of all the effects of mass illegal immigration, drug cartels, gun runners etc. They also get hit with all the 'hidden taxes' like overzealous parking and traffic ticketing & increased fees for practically every service imaginable.
On top of all that, the leftist cultural Marxists and 'social justice warriors' who run our social policies in the schools, media, government and private sector continue to push their agenda and strip away individual rights too - particulary for any group that are not in the 'victim' class (mainly white non-Jewish males). Men pretty much get the shaft all the time despite building almost everything around that you see. "Domestic violence", "Frivoulous Divoroce" and "Divorce Rape" can utterly destroy a man finaicially and emotionallly after years of putting all their efforts into a system that betrays then 24/7. Meanwhile it's "you go girl" and "fat is beautiful" for our increasingly land-whaleish and entitled female population. Sounds great where do I sign up?
Why anyone would not have a Plan B to exit the US at some point is beyond me. It's a God-awful mess these days. Of course, America is so "Free" that you can't leave. We're also the ony country to tax and enforce it's laws on citizens who travel, live and/or work abroad.
So right. Our country defines smart, creative, productive men as the enemy. We are the target of social and economic hatred. In fact, it's politically correct, even trendy, to hate us.
It's time to go Galt; move to a Gulch and isolate. Stop contributing to the system that oppresses by keeping earnings below the fed tax rate, live on land with a garden and can own food supply, and put farm use tags on vehicles to avoid as much property tax as possible.
The only way to win is to stay out of the way and let the beast consume itself. That'll happen when it begins to starve; I think it's already started. If one is sufficiently off the grid and living just above the margin, it won't be profitable for the beast to pursue.
I've considered going overseas, but when the SHTF you'll be the rich foreigner and the target of wrath if for no other reason than for shitbags to make a political statement. Staying stateside in a well-selected location should be as safe as one can get (especially if one has off-the-books iron).
People dish out attitude as if it were online flames or down arrows. Politicians have steamrolled principles, riled hateful sentiments and provided mechanisms to enable select groups of people to legally and mercilessly destroy others. Unfortunately, productive men are at the bottom of the dogpile.
I agree with most of what Michael Snyder says.
However, he doesn't explain that what is happening is a standard feature of every flavour of totalitarian government. Whether it be the toned down version we know as "democratic socialism" or its even nastier offshoots: Communism, Marxism and Fascism etc.
In context, we see the economy and society crumbling around us. Socialist governments always respond to such threats to their power and control by imposing ever more government, ever more societal controls and ever more interference in economic activity. Ultimately they introduce a socialist police to enforce their wishes and this is when is begins to get nasty. Known in Germany c1930s/1940s as the Gestapo. In post WWII East Germany it was the Stasi. Different countries use different names but the aims are the same: impose total control of the population to prevent anyone from starting a revolution and to keep themselves in power. The downstream consequences of their actions are simply ignored.
In the US & UK this is what we see happening month after month. The US Dept of Fatherland Security and militarised police, a massive ratcheting up of "terror threats". In the UK the Met Police have become the "political enforcers" and rarely have time nowadays to investigate genuine crime against the individual. New offences which amount to "thought crimes" are introduced to make it possible for virtually anyone to be "disappeared" without being charged. Outspoken intellectuals are at high risk of being dealt with in this way. What Mao Zedong called "the spectacled ones". Similar thing under Pol Pot and all other historical totalitarian despots.
Follow not what they say, but what they do.
Traditional Western values of free market economics, freedom of speech, liberty and personal responsibility etc are being systematically trashed for no other reason than to keep the power-crazed despots in control. As always, by the time that the masses wake up to this, much of the damage will have been done and recovery from it becomes that much harder.
by the time that the masses wake up to this, much of the damage will have been done and recovery from it becomes that much harder.
It's too late for recovery. THe mechanisms of oppression are already in place. It's a matter of getting out of the way and letting it collapse.
What government worshippers don't realize is the mechanisms they've begged government to establish don't have any precision at all. The controls by which these mechanisms operate aren't based on legitimate natural law.
It's a bunch of rules that aren't based in principle, but instead nebulous utopian concepts intended to affect the way one feels (like egalitarianism and fairness, neither of which are principles that exist in nature). The whole model looks good on paper but can only exist with heavy subsidies, and NOBODY is ever content because decisons are made according to popular sentiment, not principle.
Eventually, those that helped build the machine will become it's victims. Only the nastiest, most vindictive and sociopathic will scheme their way to safety. The rest will be grist for the mill.
It cannot be undone. Reason and rational thought have nothing to do with it. It will have to collapse because of philosophical and ideological weakness.
Harry Balzak
The "rules" of the US government and its co-joined TBTF corporations are definitely
NOT based on "nebulous utopian concepts ... (like egalitarianism and fairness)",
but instead on more materialistic motivations like selfish greed and power over others.
Agreed; the rules applied to control the proles are nebulous utopian concepts. These are the rules that the state uses to pit it's subjects against one another. Their favorite being envy.
Agree with everything you say Harry...
When I used the term "recovery" I had in mind a complete collapse/rebuilding of the structures that have become so corrupted over the years to the point where they are beyond repair. This is why recovery will be so difficult.
I'm certainly tired of being paranoid about my paranoid government. Too many have descended into chronic cynicism and it gets the wrong juices flowing. Focus locally, filter globally.
"He is filled with fury, because he knows that his time is short."
the only paranoia is from conservatives and libertarians who fear everything
Dr. Fever said it best nearly 40 years ago:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTPzTG1Lx60