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Warning: Avoid This Corrupt, Third-World Country At All Costs
Submitted by Simon Black via Sovereign Man blog,
John Anderson, an American tourist from San Clemente, California, was driving down a poorly-maintained highway when he saw flashing lights in his rearview mirror.
After a brief exchange with the local police officer, Anderson was shocked when the cop started searching his vehicle.
Anderson had $25,180 in US dollar cash in the car, which by the way was not a crime according to the local laws.
When the cop saw it, he told Anderson that we would take it and threatened him with arrest if he protested.
Anderson couldn’t believe it. This is the sort of stuff you always hear about in these third world countries—corrupt cops and state robbery.
Ultimately Anderson gave in; the cop let him go and did not charge him with a crime, but took every last penny in the vehicle.
And for the last two years, Anderson has been trying to unsuccessfully fight it in the country’s Kangaroo court system.
Clearly we should all avoid going to such dangerously corrupt third world countries.
Except in this case, Anderson was in the United States of America. And he is far from being the only victim of this highway robbery known as Civil Asset Forfeiture.
Since 9/11, police forces in the Land of the Free made over 62,000 seizures without charging anyone with any crime, stealing $2.5 billion in cash alone.
The cost of taking legal action against the government is so high, that only about 17% of the victims actually challenged the seizures.
And even then, only 41% of those that challenged have been able to get their money back.
This means that the government has a better than 93% success rate in outright theft.
This is worse than mafia—it’s blatant theft with impunity from the people that are sworn to protect and serve. It’s the kind of thing that is thought to only occur in heinously corrupt countries.
Here’s the good news: many people are waking up to the reality that they’re not living in a free country.
They are starting to understand what I call ‘the criminalization of existence.’
Every last detail of our lives is regulated—what we can/cannot put in our bodies, whether we can collect rainwater or unplug from the grid, how we are allowed to educate our own children, etc.
Driving this point home, a Tennessee woman was actually thrown in jail earlier this month for ignoring a city citation to trim some overgrown bushes in her yard.
This isn’t freedom.
The irony is that, even though many people are starting to realize this, they’re looking to the very institution that has enslaved them to solve the problem.
It is their own government that has created this system.
It is the government that passed US Code section 983 (Rules for Civil Forfeiture), allowing the police to commit highway robbery.
It is the government that continues to arrogantly, brazenly spy on every citizen despite overwhelming public outcry.
It is the government that continues to bring forth new regulation at an absolutely astounding rate.
Just today (this is 100% true), the US federal government published an eye-popping 490 pages of new rules, proposals, and regulatory notices.
To give you a little taste, today’s regulations include:
- Stringent requirements for properly handling spearmint oil;
- New tolerance specifications for a-alkyl-w-hydroxypoly sulfate
- Additional powers awarded to the Department of Education to decide “whether certain postsecondary educational programs prepare students for gainful employment.”
- A decision to centrally manage the 2014 ‘total allowable catch of Pacific Cod’ in the Bering Sea.
There’s even a new rule upholding fines for unauthorized playing of digital recordings.
You can’t make this stuff up—they are regulating nearly everything.
It’s government that does this. They are the problem, not the solution.
Looking to government to solve the problem that they themselves created is completely irrational. They are incapable of righting themselves.
The solution – the power – is with the individual.
All the tools and all the resources to distance yourself from this system already exist.
On one hand, there’s always the possibility of leaving. The American Dream is still alive and well… it’s just no longer in the United States. Not to mention all the financial, business, investment, and lifestyle opportunities for the taking.
But even if you stay, there are dozens of ways to take back your freedom.
For example, why hold 100% of your savings and assets in that jurisdiction when they could easily confiscate everything?
There are so many great, safe jurisdictions in the world to bank, to invest, to own property, and to store assets. And you can set all of this up without leaving town.
The solutions are out there. It’s time to consider them before becoming a statistic.
P.S. Here’s more proof that the official inflation numbers are completely phony… yet another market that has reached an all time high.
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Move to Gstaad & live the good life
I know people here like to beat up on Simon, but when the man is right, the man is right.
Parasite Obolinite to meet with Federal Jew Reserve Counterfeiters on Monday to discuss ways of stealing what little we the people have left away from us for good...
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/10/31/us-usa-fed-obama-yellen-idUSKB...
A friend banana republic with benefits.
Make no mistake - when this breaks (and it will) they'll be studying 'why' a thousand years from now.
"...surprised when the officer started searching the vehicle..."
what do you think those foil strips are in the currency for?
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us code 793? i bet the banks and wall street had nothing to do with that...
Corruption? Let's discuss the mind and medicine for a moment... Mental illness and psychiatrists... The Jews are the mentally ill criminals, but they don't seek treatment... Their victims suffer and seek treatment but medication does not rid them of their symptom of enslavement...
Powerful and above the law police is a sign of a dying empire.
Soon the Cops will simply wait behind you in line at the Bank... When you make a withdrawal the cops will confiscate it under the guise of it being suspicious. You will have to go to court to demonstrate that you were not going to buy drugs with it...
Most non-US Banks no longer want individual accounts from US citizens because they don't want the hassle of complying with FATCA - surely the most arrogant piece of legislation ever passed anywhere. This means that overseas Americans are restricted to US Banks. Which doesn't really solve the problem the International man of mystery refers to?
PTI,
Just another trait of a dying empire.....also a broke one
AE 9/11 Truth researchers plan lawsuit to seek release of 500,000 documents held by FEMA, NIST
Did he have the cash sitting on the dash board?
Two things --
1) Leave the USSA. Seriously. Get out. Warning signs are flashing everywhere. Journalists, bankers and leakers have been getting offed recently. Are you fuckers going to wait until someone like Alex Jones or Michael Savage gets assasinated, or someone is kicking in your door. Make contingency plans. Even if its just temporary for a few years, if you can get your employer to send you to Germany, Austria, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Norway, Singapore, Australia or New Zealand for a secondmant -- DO IT!
2) At this point in time we are all on notice of crap like this. If you are smart/dumb enough to carry around almost $30k in cash -- then you are smart enough to pull off your door panel, pull out your tacho, or remove the radio in your car and stick your cash -- along with a dozen or so print out of articles like this.
leave the mafia? no way...
Powerful and above the law police is a sign of a dying empire.
"We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tt2yGzHfy7s
A better question is why all of these people answered the cops questions and allowed them to search their cars without a warrant?
Most people don't realize they actually have certain rights anymore.
Look at Lois Lerner.....if we can't put her behind bars.....how is the system going to work for us little people?
And how should s/he try to stop them from searching your car? It's not like they ask - or care if you object.
They still need probable cause and a warrant to search your car, unless YOU give them permission... You have to stand up for your rights... You do not have to answer any of their questions either, none...
Actually, sadly, that is not really true. The (illegal) search comes first, with or without justification/warrant. The need for proof of probable cause/permission/justification only comes later, when you (the infringed) have your day in court and attempt to make an issue of it. By that point, of course, you are already within the grinding gears of "justice", have obtained a lawyer, etc.
This is not bad advice. The problem is, it is just plan unrealistic for most people.
Especially when people in those countries you have listed, are all trying to get to other countries on your list for the similar reasons.
And for Americans looking to leave, remember, the tax man will never leave you alone. One of the benefits of being from the land of the free.
Star Wars would have been a different movie if told from the perspective of the Empire.
He is the thing though --
The socio-economic problems in these nations are materially different than in the USSA.
For example, 4 times in the past 100 years Germans have had all their wealth wiped out. Literally everything went to zero (except one time where everything went to 239874328902348907234).
They didn't go on the streets, start burning down buildings, rioting, and getting out of control. They go "shit" the elect austrians or someone new, and then start rebuilding again.
What would happen in every USSA city when either
1) WIC cards and their $800 only is enough for a liter of milk and no more?
2) WIC cards don't work anymore.
The US will be a crazy place to be.
Next, most large international institutional companies (which will go out) have secondment programs. Go to your boss (Hey Mr. Boss-Man, Wify and I want to stretch our legs a little for the next few years. Could I do a 3 year secondment in Zurich? That would be great!)
It is tough, and moving is a bitch, but as I watch American news, the white upper-middle class is being habitually demonized by the Left as the problem to all their woes, and labeling these people (with a leased BMW and a McMansion) as the top 1% -- and if shit goes wrong, the American oligarchs will not be getting their homes burned down, their stuff stolen and their wives and daughters raped -- it will be the upper middle class in the middle of suburbia who will take the worst of it.
There was an excellent documentary I saw (I cannot find it now) about the people who left Zimbabwe for other countries right before the collapse and land grab. But seriously, housing prices in many places in NORTHERN Europe are MUCH MUCH MUCH cheaper than most people think they are. Its definitely worth a thought.
All current indicators point to the 21st century US peeps not being that bright, I expect confirmation by Wednesday.
just get some lead from home depot and make a lead box, with lid like a shoe box. put your wallet and all cash in there, and they cannot do a radar sweep and see the bills. all the rfid chips light up
Carbon paper is easier to work with and just as effective
Life is hard. Life is a test. You can run away but no matter where you go, there you are. I have bad knees. Running isn't for me.
I will stay.
I will fight.
What are they going to do, kill me? Everybody dies. The skalds do not make songs about mice who run and hide. They make songs about men who fight like demons. I prefer to have songs made about me so that I may live forever in memory.
Listen Replacement.
You are right. Americans have to stay and fight.
It's the FBI, man.
Was that Timmothy McVey guy on to something "BIG"? He said: "FBI is the head of the snake and must be chopped. That will send the appropriate message to the lower level law "ENFORCEMENT" units."
You need to take a hard "LOOK" at that USSA FBI group. It's the shit that they got away with that started the municipal LE guys thinking that's it OK to militarize.
Military tanks at Waco? WTF? Put your USSA FBI under a microscope and tear it apart.
Corrupt and crazy? That would be Muslims who behead anyone who doesn't pray the way they do five times a day. Muslim women are so freaking fugly that hide behind burkas.
Stop hijacking thread,you f... troll.
Speaking of this thread
I can't believe this thread is getting so much attention. I made the first comment <ABOVE> which was intended as pure <SARC> because just about every Simon Black article is ripe with opportunities for <SARC>
Simon's solution for fucking everything is to move to another fucking country. [in more or less words].
Specifically ~ the latest motive for doing so would be because of the 'corrupt police state' & these types of forefiture antics. YEAH ~ IT SUCKS. But it's also something that most people around here:
1. Have known about for a long time [which makes SB just another uncreative feeder 'late to the trough']
2. Have probably developed whooping cough trying to use this example [& others] to explain to the SHEEPLE out there what's really happening around [which is very different from the 24/7 propaganda blitz they get from the TV & MSM], & subsequently been greeted with anything from blank stares to outright hostility.
I'm fucking done with all that. The sheep don't want to listen & that's it. So I'm gonna save my energy [& voice]. As far as 'THE LATEST' version of how my liberties are being stripped??? Simon I PROMISE YOU, I'm way ahead of you on that, so I don't need your shitty advice telling me about stories I already know, and telling me I need to BUG OUT.
Because if I BUG OUT. If I uproot my entire existence to go live in a country that 'HOPEFULLY' offers me some measure of PEACE [which would come at a cost which likely would be significantly higher that what the donut munchers are trying to steal from me], then, well, you can KEEP your advice. Not everyone can be a dashing jetter like SIMON BLACK, dispensing advice from a blog while he pretends to be your friend trying to tell you how stupid you are & gee, if you just had a couple mil, you could roll the dice & go live somewhere else [with no guarantees that thing would even be any better & quite likely may be worse].
I can get the same fucking advice from Janet Yellen telling me how to break the chains of poverty.
Anyway ~ that's the explanation for the first comment above [if the same people who junked that one want to junk this, be my guest]. The rest can just skip on below and learn all they need to know about GoPro devices & Castle Laws. [knock yourself the fucking out].
As for me, I'll just use my common sense & continue to manage the bullshit as best I can [including the Simon Black articles].
Peace
Bugging out is the only option, which is why I am leaving of the US for good in December...
Sun Tzu : The Art of War
If it becomes obvious that your current course of action will lead to defeat, then retreat and regroup.
Notwithstanding all the BS, I refuse to allow a tyrannical apparatus to dictate my state of being.
If at some point they go full retard & physically cross my perimeter, then I guess we'll have to duke it out.
This whole thing reminds me of the train scene in DOCTOR ZHIVAGO. A train full of Moscovites 'bugging out'. [Actor] Klaus Kinsky was in chains in that boxcar being transported to Siberia. His comment to all the people [none of whom were inclined to question anything about their predicament to the authorities, while Kinsky was criticizing them not stop].
"All of you people are cattle. I am the only FREE person on this train"
I'm getting too old to fight and would rather just step out of the way of the inbound train while I can... I learned a long time ago that we are but cogs in the machine, easily replaced and forgotten, flotsam on the sea of life... So I'm going to spend my golden years in a warm climate with friendly natives and no Stasi probing every orifice of my body, mind and bank account...
sorry.Double post.
There aren't too many Jewish cops..
It all makes sense:
They want your money to be kept in the bank where they can see what you're doing with it and where they can sieze it electronically without due process should they so decide..
These incidents are conditioning. The idea is to scare the crap out of you. The message? LEAVE YOUR DAMN MONEY IN A BANK WHERE WE CAN WATCH IT!
You mean where they can invest it and MAKE INTEREST ON IT...
sshhh... use your inside voice
They want your money kept in the bank to keep the credit creation ponzi going. If you take your cash out of the bank and stuff it under your mattress, the banking pyramid system runs a very real risk of collapse.
I often wonder about that. Sometimes you would hear these stories that somebody was caught trying to smuggle thousands of Dollar or Euro over the border. How in all these thousands of cars passing a border do they manage to catch them? They must have some system that detects money in the car. And foil strips in currency might just be part of that.
Wrap your cash, not your head, in tinfoil.
Better yet, have magnets stashed all over the car. That should get you stopped a feww times and drive the pigs crazy why they cant find the loot.
"Fuckin' magnets, how do they work?!" —Insane Clown Police
Since when is Gold magnetic ?
;-)
Just keep your cash in a RFID blocking wallet like I do, which I got to block the annoying unsafe RFID contactless 'feature' of some of my cards, or have RFID blocking bags.
I very much doubt that there is anything magnetic in notes and doubt that circuitry would be attached to the strip(s); too easily be defeated with a bulk magnetic media eraser or a brief period in a microwave oven.
+1
Old speakers with large magnets are readily available at your nearest Goodwill, thrift store, garage sale... always have some on hand for wiping data.
"always have some on hand for wiping data"
WTF? Are you still living in the 80s and using floppy disks? Do you have any idea how powerful the magnets are in "spinning rust" hard drives? Do you think a magnet will do anything to flash storage?
I bet you are one of those people afraid of using a magnetic screwdriver on their PC.
The magnets that help float the actuator that moves the heads in a hard drive are so powerful that it is somewhat painful to have them on either side of your hand pulling towards each other. Get two stuck together, and they are very difficult to seperate.
If you think speaker magnets will do much to a sealed hard drive, you are very much mistaken. You'd need to leave them in close proximity for a LONG time to have much effect, if at all.
Funny you should mention that. Was playing with a couple of those magnets and they got too close and SNAP! Pinched the end of my finger. There was blood from the ripped skin and a bruise that lasted a week. It was so cool I've done it twice more since.
Rare earth magnets FTW.
You'd be appalled at the damage even a few seconds exposure to a working magnatron tube (aka microwave) will do to a hard drive (or cd/dvd rom, flash drive) though. The US DOD destroys classified data this way.
Move your paper money into gold and hide it throughout your steel/aluminum frame car. Gold is not magnetic. $25k would buy you about 20 ounces these days. One ounce coins aren't very big either.
Doesn't need any special detection ability, just random chance and probabilities.
Pull over 100 cars a shift, target those with interstate plates or other signs of long distance travel (luggage, bumper stickers) and the odds are a few have plenty of travelling money. Better yet to find just one joint and you know the mark will surrender the cash. I'll bet much of that cash is never logged in and is pocketed by the fine boys in blue.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaff_(countermeasure)
Does anyone think there is not a radio frequency that will respond to the unique size of the foil strips in cash, even through a metal car body?
Even if you dont have a joint, whats to stop them from dropping one in your car? In LA cops were busted for planting evidence in cars. Also there was a video once of an undercover cop planting evidence at a smoke shop. They will plant the joint and justify taking your cash so you cant get it back. Maybe best thing is to travel with a rental, that way if they do you can argue it wasnt yours.
All US Police forces are a registered corporate entity, you don't have to contract with them if you don't wish to. Obviously needs some cojones and legal knowledge to resist at the barrel of a gun
Well, it's very unlikely that such a tiny magnetic field, if any, could be detected (dipole field falls off as inverse cube of distance anyway) in the presence of much larger fields. The strips of Al (I believe) buried in the bills would likely be detectable at their resonant RF frequency, but again, only from a very short distance - especially while in a car.
There is a much simpler explanation for how they would know about your cash: any large deposiit or withdrawal of cash gets reported, right? Police could easily match up each name on a bank list with a vehicle and license plate. Voila! The police in a given area (particulary one with automatic plate readers!) could work from a list of persons having made large cash withdrawals recently and get a "hit" while on patrol.
And when you heard about automatic plate readers, you probably said something about "Well if you haven't done anything wrong..." Shame on you!
Nice strawman. You guys didnt read the article about chaff, did you? Its not about detecting any magnetic field. Its about a response to a radio frequency, based on the wavelength of the radio wave and the length of the aluminum strip. There are plenty of technical resources available. Making a cash detector would be simple.
but I must have struck a nerve cuz the misdirectors and trolls seem to be jumping all over this
I think the average person underestimates the difficulty in detecting passive devices (like an Al strip or "chaff") from any distance. Everyone is familiar with the use of chaff to confuse radar, but that is a scattering effect, not a detection method. Chaff works by merely interfering with something else (a radar reflection) and only if large numbers are present... where money is involved, it would be impossible to distinguish from your car...unless you had tons of money in your car ...in that case they'd probably see it... I've heard scare stories about the government tracking you from satellites using whatever money you may have in your wallet. That's tinfoil hat stuff.
Active devices (containing transistors, eg) are another matter. Nowadays with the advent of flat, flexible electronics and batteries, someone could hand you a bill, or leave one on the ground for you to "find" and then track you from a considerable distance until the battery ran down. But, that would involve a very special Federal Reserve Note!
FWIW - I just did a little first hand investigation:
1. The bills I have (could only find some one's and five's in my office) do not have metallic strips. Possible that organic conductors are buried in them, but doubt they would resonate well.
2. There is magnetic ink all over the damned things! (which does not mean they are producing a magnetic field of any sort)
So, check the money you have I guess.
The new $100 bills, produced in the last few years, have obvious foil strips in them.
Everyone is familiar with the use of chaff to confuse radar, but that is a scattering effect, not a detection method.
So you are saying that the scattering affect, making big holes in an otherwise empty reflected space, is not detectable?
Chaff works by merely interfering with something else (a radar reflection) and only if large numbers are present
That is perhaps true, but over great distances, which is the whole idea of chaff. Leaping from there to flatly stating that a simple detector couldn't be created to work over short distances (like along a highway) through the metal of a vihicle is...quite a leap.
You may be right about that. If the strips were superconducting and there were no lossey materials in or near the bills (implying a very, very hi Q) then, sure they could be detected inside a passing vehicle and speed wouldn't be an issue with the dipole resonance at a little over 2 Ghz.
But the real world Q-factor for a bill with an embeded strip of unknown alloy... that's beyond my experience. Maybe it's not as difficult as it sounds to me.
Yeah Ed, and what about those plate readers? I know for a fact they can be read from a ways away. I happenned to be in heavy traffic following closely behind another vehicle, with a semi close behind me. I had neglected to put the new tabs on the vehicle I was driving, due to them being at another location. Sure enough, A Highwayman meets me and hits the brakes, spins around and stops me. Now I am pretty sure he wouldnt have had the vision and time neccesary to notice that as I had mud all over the plates and this was at 60 mph. He asks why the current tab isnt on the plates. I explained the situation and all was cool. I am pretty sure he knew from the readout on his computer that the tabs were purchased. Anyway its amazing that people can't see the obvious in front of their fucking noses isn't it?
Yep, all those magnetic strips and magnetic ink in bills should be easily read from a short distance. I bet the cop knew before even pulling them over they had a boat load of cash.
Yea, a metal detector that somehow does not detect the metal in the car.
You are talking science fiction there.
Its not the mmetal theyre detecting, its the magnetic field.
Yeah because alternators don't create magnetic fields either...
@Flagit : I remember watching one of the true life crime shows where they located and busted a serial bank robber by using this technology back in the 1990's. The wrappers used on stacks of $20's and $100's back then had a special magnetic strip and with the proper equipment they could pin point the vehicle at close range.
Its the same thing just now those wrappers with magnetic strips are embedded in the actual bills. This technology has been used by law enforcement for upwards of 20 years to bust bank robbers so to state this is science fiction is incorrect.
need to get hold of a gauss meter and some mu metal to see if it can be shielded
It all makes sense:
They want your money to be kept in the bank where they can see what you're doing with it and where they can sieze it electronically without due process should they so decide..
These incidents are conditioning. The idea is to scare the crap out of you. The message? LEAVE YOUR DAMN MONEY IN A BANK WHERE WE CAN WATCH IT!
it doesn't even have to be as big and obvious as the foil strip. Take a look at this; smart dust from Hitachi; http://www.snopes.com/photos/technology/smartdust.asp
"what do you think those foil strips are in the currency for?"
They don't use this just to grab cash. Houses and cars too. John Oliver did funny bit on it:
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Civil Forfeiture (HBO)One of the highlights - Tenesee cop "speaking" spanish and what the cops do with the money they refer to as "pennies from heaven":
"Tenny mucho mucho deniro in su trucky-trailer" - lmfao.
The things a whore will do for money.
Exactly - the armed & dangerous uniformed thief knew the $$$ was there BEFORE the vehicle was pulled over - hardly a random stop. Use smaller monetary denominations - avoid those new $100 dollar bills or better yet - convert the funny money to gold & silver...
The above poster mentioned Gstaad in Switzerland. Ya know, it's interesting how almost everyone around the world -- Chinese, Russians, all Africans, Iranians, and so on -- want to move live in the USA ... but NOT the Swiss. I don't know many Swiss but when I ask if they want to move here they look at me strangely and ask, "Why would I leave Switzerland?" Even the two Chinese I know how moved from Beijing to Zurich say they'd never leave Switzerland.
Must be pretty nice there; expensive but nice.
It is hard to get in, so that when your goal is achieved, you value it more.
...
RaceToTheBottom
Gee, wouldn't it be nice if every western country had an immigration policy like the Swiss?
When I was last in Basel about a month ago, the streets were swarming with third-worlders. I fear that Swiss immigration policies are not what they once were.
Ah...but the 3rd worlders were US Citizens.
"It is hard to get in"
USA : "It is hard to get out"
Like East Germany used to be.
Don't be fooled. I have a Swiss friend that says that there are 8 million cops in CH. That is the population over there. Cause everybody keeps an eye on each other. There is no worse censorship than self imposed censorship and people loving it that way. It is the same in countries as Germany, Holland and Austria. Don't do anything out of the ordinary cause that makes the sheep nervous.
So the insane clown outfit I wear daily would arouse suspicion and a police response in Switzerland? Well, I'm staying in Detroit then.
Every country in Europe is different, as well as regions within countries. Northern Germans, for example, tend to have much disdain for southern Germans. CH has its own weirdness for anyone and everyone except the Swiss. Impossible to describe, but if you stay for a while and are awake, you realize you are practically already a card-carrying serf in the NWO. Life in a strait jacket is absolutely fine as long as the claustrophobia doesn't bother you and you never try to move your arms.
Also, the place is falling apart at a remarkable rate. Most of the Swiss just don't (or refuse to) see it yet.
How is it falling apart? This is a topic which I seriously consider, so some pointers on what to watch out for are much appreciated.
Youth are pretty much lost, demotivated, do not have any big picture goals nor want much to serve in the military. Neither does the country think about its own defense. The event a few months ago was hilarious: Plane flies illegally into Swiss airspace. But alas, it arrived at night and the Swiss Air Force is closed at night. No money for anything except daytime operations. They also voted against replacement fighter jets for their ageing fleet.
Population is introverting badly. Met a Swiss person who told me that 10-15 years ago, people on the trains would spontaneously strike up conversations. Now deader than a doornail - feels more like a morgue. Drug use is up, perversion level high, and the greed competition is so severe as to be almost funny. Everyone trying to rip off their neighbors in the worst way. If you want a hint at the origins of their devastating fear of poverty, check out this: http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-29765623 . A standard trick is to send people bills for services they did not purchase. If someone pays, they are doubly screwed as 1) they lose their money, and 2) payment implies agreement, so it cannot be later contested. The Swiss have a little quip: "They tried". This is a euphemism for any sneaky attempt to rip each other off. It is practically accepted as the norm.
The place is quiet, beautiful, and generally orderly and safe, at least for the moment. Yet they caved whole heartedly to the U.S. banking imposition (modern-day inquisition), and their central bank only plays at claiming they work for the country. The country is full of old people and immigrants and even the locals are now having trouble getting jobs. They have the great advantage of the their independence from the Euro mess for the moment, but are pressured on all sides and seem to have little will to really resist. The coming gold vote will be an interesting indicator. Personally, I would not live there.
Nah man, it's not like that at all. Good times in CH... very nice people. They are not f*cked in the head like the Austrians.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_Jante
"Ya know, it's interesting how almost everyone around the world -- Chinese, Russians, all Africans, Iranians, and so on -- want to move live in the USA ... but NOT the Swiss."
Spoken like a true 'exceptional'. Here's some news for you Pal, hot off the press. No, the rest of the world doesn't all want to move to Amerika. Me included. No the rest of the world doesn't just include Russia, Africa, China & Iran. And No, again, we're not all Swiss.
I really wasn't going to post a reply to this, but then I thought "Fuck me, has the US contingent of ZH contributors really sunk to such a low intelligence level? Have all the Huffington Post and Reuters comments section posters suddenly got nothing better to do? Isn't there a Kim Kardashian show that needs some attention somewhere? I must post something in way of reply to point this out".
Bring back the maths exam to allow membership...Save us Tyler...Please.....
I know a young couple, one from Peru, and one from New Zealand, and both medical specialists; they had the option of staying on permanently in the USA for their medical careers, but they chose New Zealand. Their Plan B is Peru. Staying on in the USA was never considered....
The untold millions who want to relocate to the USA are mostly individuals from overpopulated hell-holes, who watch too much American TeeVee.
I just had the chance to recently and turned it down. 10+ years ago i would have been all for it.
Times change i guess.
I voted with my feet over 3 years ago. I had a successful business I thoroughly enjoyed, a beautiful house that I had always said I would never sell, and I lived in one of the most beautiful states in the country with Rocky Mountain trout rivers to fish whenever I pleased. But the trajectory was clear, and the pace was quickening, and I simply decided that getting chemtrailed every day, and the clearly emerging police state, along with all the other carnage being inflicted on Americans, that I could wait no longer. I liquidated everything and left. I was a bit early, but better than a day late. I am gone, and I aint ever going back. Once my eyes were opened I simply could not go on as if everything was going to be okay - clearly it will not be. The inflection point grows nearer every day.
It sound as if you can perceive reality, and are able to react to it. Thats something 95% of the sheeple are not able to fathom. But I do wonder how you could manage to get out of this beartrap with any skin left? I mean I can think of a million ways the tax man would fuck you into tuesday before ever letting you go. Or did you decide to just leave and start at zero in a new land? I have often thought about that, but it seems an impossibility with advancing age and family here. Then I wonder at which country wouldn't just use me like a rented mule if I landed on their shores. I wouldn't have any qualms about the people in those countries, its their govt I abhor. And it seems to me that each and every govt in the world is totally corrupt or it would have been fucked over by the CIA/Mossad/KGB etc. by now.
I was VERY lucky in that the business I had for over ten years had me spending a lot of time in Thailand. I fell in love with the country and over the years made some good friends including a woman who is now my life partner and my love. I had equity in the home I sold, I had a big inventory in my business which I liquidated, and I had already purchased a condo ($9,000, yes 9k and now the annuual expense of HOA, power, water, internet is $550 per YEAR) and some land in Thailand over the years. My monthly financial footprint now is incredibly small as I live simply and am not one to participate in the consumerist way of life much. I am building an organic farm, and entrenching myself in the local mountain community where my land is. These people all know how to live off the land and by western standards are poor. By my standards they are smart, wise, and self-sufficiant in ways my American friends neither recognize nor value. They would see them as peasants or some nice novelty. I see them as my teachers and my neighbors. I am far happier here than I ever was running the hamster wheel in the States. Life here is by no means perfect, and Thailand has its own (globalist induced, and self inflicted) problems, but I am far more free here than I ever was in the U.S. It did however take leaving the U.S. for extended periods of time and experiencing things here for that realization to finally happen. I used to be a true believer. American was the best, the most free, the bastion of light for the world, etc. Then I woke up and realized that 99% of what I believed was a total fantasy and total falsehood. The U.S. is a war machine and the destroyer of other cultures globally and has been since at least WWII. I believe we are all headed for a global paradigm shift, and I choose to make my stand here rather than than there. We will all just have to wait and see how it plays out. Follow your heart and stay as far away from the sheep as you can get - my two cents............
Why?
Postmodernism.
No absolute wrong or right that lead to the fractions and a lack of ethics and situational morality
(ethics - what should be - morality - what is; when there is great diversion between the two, you get what we got).
The 'why' is well understood even now. "Why we allowed it" is what they'll be studying in the future.
I'm going to step out for a bit. But you know propaganda & public relations as well as any man.
- Primitive forms of propaganda have been a human activity as far back as reliable recorded evidence exists.
- The Behistun Inscription (c. 515 BC) detailing the rise of Darius I to the Persian throne
- The Arthashastra written by Chanakya (c. 350 – 283 BC)
- Chandragupta Maurya (c. 340 – 293 BC), founder of the Maurya Empire, employed these methods during his rise to power.[18]
- The writings of Romans such as Livy (c. 59 BC – 17 AD) are considered masterpieces of pro-Roman propaganda.[
- Quintus Fabius Pictor (3rd century BCE)
- 12th-century work, The War of the Irish with the Foreigners, written by the Dál gCais
- Propaganda during the Reformation, helped by the spread of the printing press throughout Europe, and in particular within Germany
Some people won't believe anything that is not written down somewhere. Why don't we learn this in K-12????
And why don't we learn more about what it takes to run & keep an Empire in old Europe, because we still use all the tricks and the winners write history and control education and books. Americans need to all become History Academics. Not just about Madison Ave, K Street, Public relations and Lobbying.
When you trust bankers & Lawyers to Run your government, you give up both security & Freedom. Think Fed, think Wall Street, think Money Trust, think Robber barons, think continuing resolutions, think war.
You are absolutely wasting your time.
CogDis is never going to respond to this.
Sorry.
Why wouldn't I?
<Enquiring minds want to know.>
Never assume anything.
"When you trust bankers & Lawyers to Run your government, you give up both security & Freedom. Think Fed, think Wall Street, think Money Trust, think Robber barons, think continuing resolutions, think war."
Think "A Kept Culture", my latest article coming to Zero Hedge tomorrow.
Thanks. Keep up the good work.
Yes, a kept culture, using a cookie cutter system that works in any town, state or country. Tax their land to force them off it in order to earn the paper currency that you print... Then just print yourself more and more currency and buy their land away from them...
History in general is a collection of crimes, follies, and misfortunes among which we have now and then met with a few virtues, and some happy times. ~Voltaire, L'Ingénu
History... is, indeed, little more than the register of the 'crimes, follies, and misfortunes' of mankind. But what experience and history teach is this - that peoples and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it. ~Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, The Philosophy of History, "Introduction," 1807
And my all time favorite!
If an historian were to relate truthfully all the crimes, weaknesses and disorders of mankind, his readers would take his work for satire rather than for history. ~Pierre Bayle, Historical and Critical Dictionary
"A decision to centrally manage the 2014 ‘total allowable catch of Pacific Cod’ in the Bering Sea."
LOL. Will they also manage the cesium content of the cod?
ZINGER!
It is so high levels in local populations of fish can be averaged out in the to be only available total figures.
A thousand years from now the USA will be no more interesting to people than the Mongolian Empire - and that was 750 years ago. It will just be yet another empire that was.
Your focus should probably be on the successful survival of the American Republic and liberty. For your own sake....
Your focus should probably be on the successful revival of the American Republic and Liberty.
Made the necessary correction - deal with it.
Thank you for saying Republic.
YES! I am so sick hearing this country referred to as a Democracy (which by any other name is still MOB RULE) that I wanna spit up.
Yea, but unfortunately, they'll be giving the same lame answers as why the Roman Empire collapsed.
Look through any mainstream history or take any class in college and you won't hear anything about currency debasement, bread and circuses, an expanding welfare state, etc.
They'll say things like Global Warming caused it, panics due to disease, perhaps even immigration.
But certainly not the government. They're NEVER responsible.
Actually, you are incorrect.
Immigration, especially from Asia, was a major factor in Roman Empire's disintegration.
Another major factor was the Roman army not having proper calvary.
Read somer JFC Fuller if you want proper understading of this issue.
they will study nothing, you dream, they not have papaer trace of total stuff happened for rome, you think in digital era they will take archives of now ? this is shit period, nothing will remain, we will explode way before.
Probably alot sooner than that. More like 20 years from now.
"Make no mistake - when this breaks (and it will) they'll be studying 'why' a thousand years from now."
Bullshit.
A thousand years....(3014).... from now the historians will be asking why after a 1000 years the Sheeple of America haven't revolted. Probably they had the chance by 2114. But for the last 900 years it was too late. The Chinese still don't like dissent after a 1000 years.
You mean Fried Banana Republic (I mean have you seen the size of our populous), there fixed it for ya!
Ironic that he is meeting with the worlds largest counterfeiters
The counterfeiters are going to iron out the details of their agreement to leave commodities affordable while they simply print themselves all the money they want to directly purchase farms, ranches, businesses, homes, rentals, etc. That way the plebes will not revolt. They will gladly continue to accept their enslavement and impoverishment...
Weimar here is updated link:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/10/31/us-usa-fed-obama-yellen-idUSKB...
Obama to meet Federal Reserve chair Yellen Monday: White House "This meeting is a continuation of that important dialogue on the state of the economy, financial reform, and other economic issues," the official said.
More like a Tweet, than a news release. Control. Everything is secret.
Prolly Janet will say, it is Congress that writes legislation we can't help on the economy, but if you would like we can give you an update on the good economic measures. No Tailwind from Housing yet, I'm afraid.
Perhaps you can ask Congress for more Greenshoots?
Nice work
End the FED.
end the fed..but..Btfd
When Simon acknowledges that 9/11 - the event he correctly identifies as the excuse - was a constructed event by high insiders, then he'll catch a break. Wringing the hands and looking down the nose at our 'stupid reactionary policies' is an insufficient critique.
I'm not forced to agree.
There is enough wrong that 9/11 is irrelevant. All the other issues indict the gov't beyond doubt, so let's focus on verifiable facts, of which we can convince others.
The power of this myth drives all their false justifications for war and attacks on our liberty.
Break the myth of 9/11 in the public mind and it breaks their power.
9/11 is not "irrelevant".
Amen.
But isn't kinda fun to beat up this former military intelligence officer? I mean, beating up on the government isn't any fun (and it isn't getting us anywhere)! LOL
Who else knew what country it was after only reading the headline?
Based on the state of the worlds ocean fish stocks (and particularly the atlantic cod population) the pacific cod regulation is probably needed. Simon, don't throw the baby out with the bath water.
Agreed. Also, based on the predatory state of higher education and federal student loans, something needs to change. More baby than bath water. Of course it should have never gotten to this. Tragedy of the commons for the fish, greedy admin and club med lifestyles for students "forced" tuition increases thus out of control debt.
"It’s the kind of thing that is thought to only occur in heinously corrupt countries."
You would claim that our War Criminal Government s not corrupt?
It IS absolutely corrupt, there is no law or edict they can proclaim that we can not ignore.
Gentleman....We have been installing these at my electronic store like crazy. It may be a wise investment. THis is the one that I installed in my car. It is an In car DVR that continues to record for 2 weeks at a time when you start the car. After 2 weeks it starts to record over itself....recording times vary depending on how big of SD card you put in. So with the SD card I inserted, I always have a 14 day window if I need to go back and need this for some reason. I have mine hidden behind me mounted on the roof near the rear window, it looks like part of my 3rd brake light. It records in Full HD and has sound and is very clear. On Ebay just type in "IN CAR DVR" for many different options, but this one for $38 bucks works for me. Came from China...took 2 weeks to get. You will never know its there...and if some crock of shit like this happens....You got what you need. Also, if you get in a wreck...you have what you need. Don't you think this is worth $38 bucks? NOTE: This is not my auction, and I am not associated with this company. Just helping you guys.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/NEW-HD-Smallest-In-Car-Dash-Camera-Video-Registe...
Great! Uh, what's a DVR? And what's an SD card?
I know that an SD card has to be big, from what you posted, but does it mean hooker blowjob big, or wife blowjob big?
Why do I need an SD card for a blowjob to begin with?
2 weeks for full hd recording... on a sd card... sure, you saw pink rabbits fucking alice too i suppose.
the guy talk about a 808 cam which record in 720dp for about 50min on battery integrated with micro sd compatible up to 64go and whatever size the sd, battery down after 50min so about 1.8gb records...
ppl theses days do not check facts, they just sheep who upvote, downvote without thinking.
go to bed, have nice life, lil sheeps you will be taken care of, regulary shaved, for sure...
pm for the win, and iphone 6 is strongest phone ever built
This article is unfair to corrupt third world countries. In Mexico the Federal Police were well armed with serious Assault rifles and flak jackets; and they set up random road blocks and searched cars and campers; but in a fairly desultory way; they were looking for the person who was trying to bring some of those kilo bags of cocaine back north with him; and they never stole anything. I like corrupt countries because there's a simple way to settle minor problems; you just negotiate the pay off and away you go. Much simpler than a system that wastes months of your life with court appointments and postponments, and then you get to pay the bribe.
Does the author really think this is not happening in the United Republic of Banana States?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kEpZWGgJks
THis is a HUGE problem in the Free America of States these days.....
We foreigners are just surprised...Americans of olden days would NEVER have let this pass. Minimum would have been that the police officer in question would have had a nasty accident falling off his own stairs and bumping his head all the way down. As late as after WWII there were small wars , I think in the south (Tenessee...?) where returning veterans were treated the same way by crooked cops and city hall and it ended with the veterans getting together , raiding the local National Guard arsenal. The remaining cops had to give up after a prolonged shoot-out when threatened with that the doors to the police building would be satchel charged and they themselves would be the subject of flamethrower therapy.
What´s the matter with you modern Americans?
The police have unlimited powers in a fascist, police state. All this theft by the police was permitted after 9/11 to suppress dissent and protest.
Meanwhile, over $60 billion are wasted a year on DHS which did not even exist before 9/11. It exists only to terrorize you and violate your privacy.
Under NDAA, Obama can imprison you for life without trial and even assassinate you.
Meanwhile the NSA, with a reported budget of over $70 billion, spies on every including Congress, Supreme Court and the White House making a mockery of the constitution.
Bloomberg the fascist mayor of New York instituted stop-and-frisk in direct violation of the constitution and nearly 7 million New Yorkers were violated.
And the slaves in the land of the free have to bear all the cost of their violations.
Forward - to more fascism. And more fear.
You spy on your enemy. That says it all.
In a supreme Orwellian twist, Merkel was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom from the Nobel Prize Winner in 2011. Must be for the NSA spying on Merkel since 2002.
How many world leaders have been compromised by NSA spying? And how many have had the integrity to resign?
Integrity? Dawg, you expect too much.
There is precedence in Germany. Willy Brandt resigned when it was found his aide was a spy (from Wiki):
Around 1973, West German security organizations received information that one of Brandt's personal assistants, Günter Guillaume, was a spy for the East German state. Brandt was asked to continue work as usual, and he agreed, even taking a private vacation with Guillaume. Guillaume was arrested on April 24, 1974.
Guillaume had indeed been a spy for East Germany, supervised by Markus Wolf, head of the Main Intelligence Administration of the East German Ministry for State Security. Brandt resigned as Chancellor on May 6, 1974
It's been awhile since I've commented on your thread, but you get better and better with each passing year. I never miss an opportunity to read the information you post.
those times are long gone.
The cocksuckers in charge will never resign over such minor issues. Kiddie porn, maybe. Not even then, I'm afraid - look at the cover up in the UK (Saville and other higher ups).
No chance in hell there is integrity left - only filth. And lawyers.
Yes, because he was effectively a Russian spy.
After taking the oath as Chancellor , Brandt was asked to sign the "Kanzlerakte" ( Chancellor File ) , and refused ... saying that it would be Treason.
That is ... until ex-Chancellor Schmidt advised him to sign it ... which he then did.
There has much speculation as to "what is the Kanzlerakte ?" .
One can only assume that it is a Letter from the Allies to the German Chancellor that demand obedience to the Allies.
PS: there were a few articles decades ago in German Establishment Newspapers discussing this ... like Der Spiegel before it became a NATO rag.
Links are out there somewhere on the Web. ... just Google "kanzlerakte Bahr" for example.
Aha : http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanzlerakte
Only in German , Google Translate : http://tinyurl.com/n9h7rcr
Seems they edited it since I last looked ... now it's all supposedly just Conspiracy Theory