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9 Of The Biggest Myths People Believe About 'The System'
Submitted by Simon Black via Sovereign Man blog,
Years ago, an elderly, frail Japanese martial arts master once boasted a 200-0 record against his opponents.
He claimed to have a unique power that allowed him to inflict serious injury on people without actually laying a finger on them.
Was it Chi? Magic? None of the above. It was a total scam. But that didn’t matter.
You see, the legend of the master’s powers turned out to be far more powerful than reality.
His core following of students believed in the master so much that they would fling themselves across the dojo whenever he raised his pinky finger.
And anyone who saw the display would become transfixed by the perception of the mater’s extraordinary abilities. It was an incredible case of mass delusion.
Everyone believed it, including the master himself. He was so confident in his skills that he put up a $5,000 challenge that he could beat any fighter in the world.
A mixed martial arts champion accepted the wager, and the result wasn’t pretty.
As you can see in the video, the master is quickly knocked to the ground with a broken nose and a pool of blood. Observers scramble to find a doctor to come to his aid.
You can almost hear the sound of reality quickly taking hold from the gasps of his students. No one could bring themselves to believe that the master had been so quickly beaten.
To an outsider, it seems so obvious that this guy is a phony (just watch the video). But mass delusion is an incredibly powerful force.
We see the same effects in the West today—mass delusions everywhere.
People seem to believe their governments are almighty beings capable of performing magic—water into wine, debt into wealth.
Here are some of the biggest myths we see in the system today:
1. The dollar will continue to be the dominant currency.
This is a total farce. Grumblings grow louder around the world to establish a new non-dollar financial system, and China has taken the lead to make this a reality.
2. The US is still the dominant military power in the world.
If you measure by the quality of trained personnel, this is true. But what good is all of that military power if you can’t afford to do anything with it?
3. The police exist to protect the people.
Wrong again. With so much civil asset forfeiture taking place at the point of a gun (federally funded assault rifles), it’s clear they’re far more concerned about protecting those that maintain the status quo than protecting you.
4. Elections make a difference
Completely false. Most Western governments borrow money to pay interest on the money they’ve already borrowed.
In the US, they spend so much on mandatory entitlements and interest they could eliminate almost the entire government and still not run a balanced budget.
At that level of desperation, it matters not who’s in power.
5. Your bank is safe
Your bank might HAVE a safe. But if you look at objective data, many banks in the West have incredibly thin levels of capital and liquidity—the exact opposite of what a safe bank is supposed to have.
Oh yeah, they’re backed by poorly capitalized deposit insurance funds, which are guaranteed by insolvent governments.
And bear in mind that even if your bank is reasonably capitalized, you are still guaranteed to lose money on a tax adjusted, inflation adjusted basis if you you’re holding your savings there.
6. You have to go to college in order to get ahead
Quite the opposite—going to college in many cases can get you behind; just ask any 36-year old still paying down that $100,000 student loan debt.
The world is a big place full of opportunity. Skills and experience matter more than pieces of paper.
Here’s a better option, especially for young people: head overseas, and become an apprentice to a successful, knowledgeable individual that you respect.
Any young person who thinks that going to college is a good idea should just ask any of their unemployed friends saddled with $100,000 of debt if it was worth it.
7. I saw it on TV so it must be true.
Ufff. The mainstream media exist to paint a distorted version of reality so that people are kept placated, docile and largely clueless about what really goes on in the world.
8. Debt doesn’t matter because we owe it to ourselves
Whoever first said this must have a lot of whips and chains in his closet because he seems to enjoy pain.
If we owe the debt to ‘ourselves,’ that means that we will need to default on ourselves.
This means no more Social Security, Medicare, etc. It means causing the US Federal Reserve to become insolvent and spark a currency crisis. It means causing the collapse of every bank in the country.
Sure, no biggie.
9. The United States is the Land of the Free
Draconian surveillance efforts on its citizens. Punitive taxes, fines and regulation. Rising police state. Telling people what they can or can’t put in their bodies, how to grow their food, who to adore, who to hate. Preventing them to collect their own rainwater and live off the grid.
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I am a civil servant and here to help you
9/11 is the event that brought the truth out for me. I have good friends who are fire fighters, one is even a captain. Fire fighters do not "pull" adjacent structures to the main building on fire. They are trained to preserve adjacent structures. Secondly, steel reinforced buildings do not fall and implode inward from office furniture catching fire.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHWZcF55Tz8
If we could only debunk our society charlatans and their followers as easy as in that video?
That would be priceless.
It is actually that easy, problem is it will not happen in that ime frame. Simple solution is to STOP complying with the 'system' in every and any way possible............
It has been tried many times in the past…. By others, of course
1953 Iranian coup d'état
1954 Guatemalan coup d'état
1958 Lebanon Crisis
1959/1961 Cuba, Bay of Pigs Invasion
And this list is long....
“Americans are about to find out what 3rd world have been dealing with all their lives” --Georges, at Zero Hedge
Well, this is interesting, "Professor" Gruber didn't make 400k pushing ObamaCare...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2835384/Obamacare-architect-Jonathan-Gruber-billed-federal-state-governments-5-9-million-advice-videos-surface-showing-undercutting-landmark-law.html
...he made 5.9 MILLION.
It was for the cheeelrun.
When zerohedge starts to publish names and addresses, I will be duly impressed.
ZHers are posting names and numbers along with addresses
Here's Gruber's: 5438911
Here's some more good info on a putz' home address and phone number. Someone went to great lengths so he could feel the love.
http://westernrifleshooters.wordpress.com/2014/11/10/shriveled-putz-shar...
DaddyO
Bunch of whiners...
And this author of this so called article is a typical US hater because we won't fold to his progressive utopian dream...
Get this: Try leaving this country and see what it's like in the rest of the world...
After the first few times of having to go outside into a outhouse to take a piss/shit, or having to take a shower with no hot water... you will be crying to come back home...
Um, we actually did, why do you think the Sears Catalogue became so popular no so long ago.
@MeMadMax: Just keep drinking the Kool-Aid Delusional Putz, obviously you don’t know your ass from a hole in the ground. Might want to leave your parent’s basement and obtain a passport. How many outhouses are now in Detroit and soon coming to a city near you? BTW, people like you and there are no shortages, is why the USA is so Fucked Up. Time for the USA to get it’s much deserved collective enema. LOL
They do make magic every day. The world economy is bankrupt and the stock markets are just a construct. But yet, the factories keeping making things, people are currently waiting to eat at Applebee's and cars are selling at a record clip. Without the wizardry, the world economy crumbles and the barter system returns. I'd say that is pretty magical indeed.
I wouldn't call this party "magic" any more than getting a new credit card and maxxing it out is financial "magic."
We no longer live even off the fat of our past productivity, that's all gone. We are living it up on our children's dime. They will be living in dirt and working like dogs under the heel of the banks and government to pay for our current party.
Dear Zerohedge,
Please fuck off with the shitty videos that keep playing audio after I mute it that break up so bady the ad is incoherent anyway. I'm trying to watch this video of this martial arts equivalent of Paul Krugman get his face smashed in.
Thanks,
A is A
Listen A is A.
It is up to you young grasshopper to fine tune your "OWN" experience.
CBS has the "biggest loser", Cspan is 24 hours of the biggest liars.
Some people lose weight and others lose dignity.
Hitler knew the bigger the lie the more people would believe it.
What's interesting is that people can be trained to see what the PTB want you to see, despite the proof right in front of their eyes. I think it has a lot to do with trusting authority and not wanting to be put in the position of being an outsider because you don't follow the herd.
There is a saying that most people see what they want to see. It's a bit trite and lacks detail, but there is a great deal of truth in it. It could be improved by making it longer and changing some words, but then it wouldn't be as catchy. People frequently see what they expect to see especially when something real rare happens.
But, but...we were taught in Engineering and Physics classes that Jet fuel (Kerosene) melts Steel.
That's why we see jet engines melting all the time.
p.s.
Jet Fuel -- Max adiabatic burn temperature 2,500 K (2,230 °C) (4,040 °F) Open Air Burn temperature: 1,030 °C (1,890 °F)
I wasn't aware skyscrapers are built with the same type of steel that is used in jet engines.
But regular steel does lose roughly half of its strength at 500 °C (930 °F).
Yes, the hot sections of jet engines are very specialised alloys and turbine blades are 'grown' as single crystals. The engine and blades are full of air cooling paths. The flow through the engine keeps it from melting, if that flow is disrupted and the engine 'surges' so the cooling airflow fails then the core of the engine does rapidly melt. I'm a pilot and I've had engines surge and melt. They look like a lava flow inside when that has happened.
The blades are not single crystals and are hardened by grain boundary precipitates which requires many separate crystals for strength. http://www.keytometals.com/article54.htm
IIRC they use (or used to use) 154CM to construct the vanes of the turbine as well as some other smaller parts.
They probibly have more advanced metals nowadays.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/154CM
Its also used in some (usually mid-range) quality knives as a blade steel.
The steel did not melt, it deformed. A building 100 stories high, with localized defoming, will collapse. Simple.
Conspiracy theorists love to quote retired New York deputy fire chief Vincent Dunn, who said "I have never seen melted steel in a building fire." But they conveniently omit the second half of his sentence: "But I've seen a lot of twisted, warped, bent and sagging steel. What happens is that the steel tries to expand at both ends, but when it can no longer expand, it sags and the surrounding concrete cracks."
http://skeptoid.com/episodes/4054
Selected facts might refute a simplistic blame for 9/11, but they don't refute a knowledgeable deliberate act that destroyed the twin towers. http://www.szs.ch/user_content/editor/files/Downloads_Brandschutz/fire%2...
And the building next to it will collapse too, kinda like a sympathetic fall, or "pull", as they say.
lmfao.
There are still fuckwits like wintermute spewing their disinfo crap here on ZH?
As if the exaust valves on most cars dont see those temps every day. Or thermal oxidizers that run those temps 24/7. Never mind the melted granite. We wont go there.
Steel beams drooping over wood beams.
Steel beam fireproofing.
But hey …. don’t let science and engineering get in the way of a good story........
Here is a fireproofing contractor if ya need one .... funny part is their logo is an insulated steel beam .. too funny.
How long does it take to get a one inch thick steel I beam that hot? With a low temp fire ie no extra oxygen.
You weren't in metallurgy classes. The blades in most jet engines in the hot sections are made of nickel and cobalt alloys and are coated with infused aluminum for hot corrosion protection. The vanes in cooler sections of jet engines do not need as much high temperature strength retention. Jet engines don't melt, because fresh air is mixed with the burning fuel for a lower temperature on the blades. Like most, you confuse the heat resistant and strength characteristics of various alloys of steel and nickel/cobalt alloys at higher temperatures. The steel in skyscrapers is hot rolled at much lower temperatures than the melting point, because the alloys used lose all strength at the lower temperatures used to hot roll. Other iron alloys, such as cast iron used in frying pans, do not lose all strength so that they cannot be bent at higher temperatures. Blacksmiths heat selected steel alloys, which lack strength at higher temperatures to form them with a hammer. No blacksmith can hammer a frying pan into another shape.
Chuck Norris could... just saying'
This soft rolled steel has more elastisicty and will deform rather than shatter when stressed enough?
Just wondering.
Thats what would make sense to build a building from if this is true.
I-beams used in construction are formed from ingots which are heated and deformed at high temperatures to form those beams. Blades which are in the hot areas of jet engines are very different alloys, which do not deform at their operating temperatures. http://www.tkmna.com/tkmna/Products/CustomSteelProfiles/HotRollingSteel/...
Cobalt and nickel alloys are used for their high strength retained at high operating temperatures. They are protected from corrosion by infusing aluminum into the surfaces, but not the interiors of the blades. http://turbolab.tamu.edu/proc/turboproc/T35/04ASME.pdf Iron alloys are used in jet (turbine) engines which operate at lower temperatures. Higher operating temperatures result in more efficiency and less use of fuel as per thermodynamics. High temperature properties would be irrelevant in buildings except in the case of fire. http://www.szs.ch/user_content/editor/files/Downloads_Brandschutz/fire%2...
Nothing I've reported negates that 9/11 wasn't planned and executed by many more others than the reported airplane hijackers.
Ooh, Kirk, you forgot Sunday was Visitors Day at the asylum? A couple of folks come by who actually do understand metallurgy and thermodynamics, and suddenly your wingnut is showing.
Well, you can always fall back on “NORAD was told to stand down!” (also false) or any of the other classic prayers from the Church of Moonbatology. Punked by a pilot, a metallurgist and a blacksmith…time to change your screen name to escape the shame and loss of face?
Strained peas and TCAs on the back table. Help yourself, but remember to put on your bib.
Listen Douche.
Do you work for USSA government because of the pension promise or for the glory gained from protecting the Homeland? Or both? Curious.
Kirk is not to blame. His knowledge is limited as is the knowledge of 99.9% of the posters here about the metallurgy of jet engines or skyscrapers. Knowledge is power, presumption may or may not be correct. Fifty years ago, I began as a metallurgist working on jet alloys. That was not as profitable as being in metal and FX markets and I moved. 9/11 is a complex issue, where many make presumptions. I ask Cui Bono? And how would they act to cui bono? Kirk presumes he knows cui bono? Is he mistaken? Likely not.
At what temperature does steel become white-hot and molten? What are the odds of not one, not two, but THREE buildings falling into their own footprint?
I took metallurgy. Aced it. Understand thermodynamics well also. What I would call a working knowlege. I call Bullshit.
Another fuckwit rises from the ashes and debris of failed logical constructs.
Noop-1004,
I slept blissfully through the fairy tale of 9/11.
It was the banker bailout which started me asking questions.
My life has not been the same since.
I don't want the steak. I want truth.
Yes, sort of my timeline. +1. Truth is the key.
Being arrested along with a family member outside an animal testing lab was my wakeup call. Inside Huntingdon Life Sciences they are allowed to abuse animals and we were arrested under section 5 'causing alarm and distress thereby' for swearing. Oh the irony.And then to be branded terrorists.
Some people have a lot to answer for!
FUCK THIS BULLSHIT ALREADY!
WHEN ARE THE MASSES EVER GOING TO WAKE THE FUCK UP.......WAKE UP!
Same timeline for me. More recently, this truth seeking has also taken a spiritual connotation.
Me, too. The banker bail-out and the townhall with my useless congressman. We should have hung him that night.
Calling Dr Charles Mackay
"I am a civil servant and here to help" relieve you of your tax money. So I can have full medical, 2 weeks of scik days, 5 weeks vacation, retire at 55 and live well on my no lay off clause 90K a year desk job. !! How about that eh?
If anyone promises you all that, you know they are full of shit - except for the relieving you of the tax money part - they're real good at that.
If by civil servant, you mean attempting to deprive me of my natural right to earn a living w/in legal means as your way of paying your bills then I do not consider that actual "help".
After six months of wasting my time and theirs, the IRS finally agreed that I was right and paid me a sum nearly 1/20 of the amount they falsely claimed that I owed them.
Do you really want to know how many hours I spent to get that straight over a six month period?
IRS once sent me a notice that my return was wrong and I'd underpaid my (personal) Federal income taxes. Being a tax accountant at the time, I simply copied their notice and wrote the Fed tax Code and Reg section numbers (with no other explanation) as to why it was NOT wrong, sent it back to them... and I never heard another word from them. Knowledge is power... sometimes.
@JB
YES!
Collect a huge paycheck and other compensation just for getting in other people's way. It's what comes from the new entrepreneurship. The receipe for this enterprise, you wannabe executives, is:
1. make a business plan and get financing (that is - get a law passed with funding that involves bureaucrats hassling people who can't escape the intrusion; the more civil servants required the better, because as "CEO/Director/head bureaucratic scum", your pay will be commensurate with their number!).
2. find a street-front and/or web address (that is - take whatever office space and employees the gov gives you for free)
3. put your marketing plan into action (that is - get that new law in front of your victims...er, citizens, by getting it into the papers. Since it's news, the advertising is free!)
4. start pulling in that revenue from satisfied customers! (well, okay, start collecting those taxes, fees and, fines from hapless victims you are "helping" and who are trying to escape your "help")
5. then, sit back and feel the satisfacation of providing employment for thousands (alright, so you're some sick version of Robin Hood, stealing/bothering/wasting the time of - random citizenry so that a bunch of inept civil servants can collect compensation at about twice the private sector rate)
Wow! Isn't it great to be a successful businessman/woman (bureaucrat weasel)? Ain't Amerika great!
/S
Offer to install red light cameras, at no cost to them. Then you operate the racket, and give .gov a percentage.
Of course, it's for the safety of the children.
( it's a wonder any of us made it out of infancy, without their protection)
There should be a special hell for these pricks. They are right up there with tow truck/ impound operators.
I am a civil servant and here to help you - is one of the biggest lies
Almost as big as - We are glad you are here.
I shall love you in the morning as much as I do tonight- for lies that takes some beating
It was an angel, Joseph, honest!
Freeze! I am an officer of the la......rgest bidder!!
10. If I read Simon Black articles & open up bank accounts in 33 countries & 5 continents, then my life will be better.
Best bet for keeping your cash cold and hard is BofA (Bank of Antarctica).
Underrated comment.
Give it time. Sure to become a cult classic.
Grubergate?
Fox Business Network anchor Melissa Francis dropped a bombshell on her show Friday, revealing that when she worked at CNBC, she was silenced by management for questioning the math behind ObamaCare on television.
In the shocking clip that has picked up major traction on social media, Francis explains that she is not surprised by the lack of media coverage of "Grubergate" because many liberal media outlets are all too happy to help the architects of ObamaCare cover up the truth.
http://insider.foxnews.com/2014/11/16/bombshell-melissa-francis-says-she...
But I thought the Obamacare Tax Bill was a success?
And here's what the Judge had to say:
http://insider.foxnews.com/2014/11/16/stupid-stupid-does-judge-jeanine-b...
LULZ !!!!!!!!!!!!
YES YES YES we have a winner !! BINGO ! Kabooom ! YOU DA MAN !
Boolshitso!
Great Video.
Normally Simon Black doesn't make a point, but this time his analogy is spot on.
And this should complement it
“Our time bomb is mysticism. Its delivery system is language. And its hiding place? The unfathomable coils of our DNA.” -- Reg Morrison
http://www.amazon.com/The-Spirit-Gene-Humanitys-Illusion/dp/0801436516
"Everyone has a plan...until they get punched in the face"
Mike Tyson, the great philosopher of reality!
As a former boxer, no truer words have been spoken....
Yes...getting punched in the face fucking hurts and it clears the mind very quickly. It'll make big heroes cry for their mummies...
...and there's a lot of tears on the way when this shit show ponzi finally collapses.
Hedge accordingly.
It's a printathon to the bottom. The concept that wealth can be created from thin air without production has the Federal Reserve amazing even magicians and Ponzi masters like Madoff.
Thanks for putting this up. I had heard about this while I was studying in Tokyo always wondered.
I wonder if the guy can stop lead too?
Its backed by the full faith and credit of the US government. LOL!
A gold standard fixes everything. Except the value of my labor.
Dying sucks, even for a nation. What is happening now though is Global and to an extreme likely not ever more potentially cataclysmic.
The system is being rapidly exposed as fraudulent and shamelessly corrupt. In the USSA it's a turf war over which gang runs it into the ground most quickly.
Authentic change won't occur without stupendous cost. The 'american people' have been effectively rendered slaves within a Potemkin society run by eventual dignitaries of Hell.
Delusion #1:
Government is there for you; to serve you.
An American, not US subject.
#2: Obedience benefits you; serves you.
Good man, those delusions greatly benefit any FSA member.
PASS THE BOTTLE: Things are just so f*cking great, it’s driving people to drink. No wonder the MSM is reporting consumer confidence is at a seven year high. Everyone they interviewed was drunk.
http://investmentwatchblog.com/pass-the-bottle-things-are-just-so-fcking-great-its-driving-people-to-drink-no-wonder-the-msm-is-reporting-consumer-confidence-is-at-a-seven-year-high-everyone-they-interviewed-was-drunk/
I don't understand the change in strategy. Why didn't the master wave his fingers and get so close to MMA fighter ???
obviously the guy was jamming his waves and threw the master into confusion
Putin = MMA guy!
Serious question. So what year was it all exposed. 1971. 1986. 2001. 2008 ????
Took until 2008 for me.
it was always hidden in plain sight. It is an ongoing process
Henry Ford knew it.
The Austrians have understood since 1911.
The problem is it takes a bit of time to think things through and most people haven't got that kind of time. They're kept too busy by the monetary system.
The article makes some good points, but those who can print money can't be insolvent. Many people have lost a lot of money waiting for governemts that can print money go broke. Also, the Fed won't go broke due to its fiscal backstop.
"those who can print money can't be insolvent."
Unless creditors will not accept that printed currency as payment.
Legal tender laws mean you have to.
Wrong. You have to take it from the government that prints it IF you are a subject of that government and subject to its laws. If you are a foreign corp or govt or individual? Nope.
It did not work out well for Zimbabwe. Like it or not. We have a good deal in common with them.
Ah yes... the old (new) MMT ("Modern Monetary Theory") bullcrap... IIRC, did I see one of the founders of MMT (L Randal Wray at UMKC) was posting on the VonMises Institute's web site sounding an awful lot like a newly converted Austrian?
My answer to the MMT doctrine (that a government that can print can't go broke) was Zimbabwe - yes, they can force their subjects to take the hyperinflated worthless paper, but what did they do when the foreign company that was selling them "currency paper" refused to take their worthless "money"? After they printed on cheap rag paper for a while, they went belly up and converted to a US Dollar-pegged currency. Ooops! (ie my reasoning was that the MMT-ers didn't think far enough. Yes, a govt can print all they want, but that doesn't mean that everyone has to TAKE that worthless funny-money. So if you have Billions of Zlotys but no one will sell you anything if you pay in Zlotys, you're broke.)
The grandest illusion Governments carry out is that they are enemies of one another......nothing further from the truth
http://newworldorderg20.wordpress.com/
http://newworldorderg20.wordpress.com/2014/11/13/1945-british-national-archives-document-reveals-prime-minister-clement-attlee-desire-for-new-world-order-with-russia-u-k-and-u-s/
http://newworldorderg20.wordpress.com/2014/11/07/jpmorgans-deal-with-gazprom-cements-thier-relationship-of-course/
http://newworldorderg20.wordpress.com/2014/10/27/the-u-s-gives-russia-free-military-equipment/
http://newworldorderg20.wordpress.com/2014/11/05/china-not-an-enemy-chinas-richest-billionaires-are-buying-american/
An interventionist god is myth.
Its for the children.
"If you don't hold it ...."
... you get Corzined ... like the Germans.
homo sapiens is the primate species that adapted the bee/termite/ant model.
Homo sapiens is evolved to ingest ideas handed down to them from the tribal leaders ("run the antelope into this brush corral and then shut the gate on them!"). That meant homo sapiens had to be able to internalize ideas handed down to them from the leaders.
That worked fine 100K years ago, but today the leaders are effectively parasite/predators on homo sapiens. And their weapon they use on us is propaganda, which we willingly soak up. After all that is what we were evolved to do.
We are antlike-ape, the ape that used the ant-bee-termite model. We are not evolved to think logically outside of a certain non-abstract domain.
Ants are the busiest creatures in the world but they always have time to go to a picnic.
The first thing Alexander Hamilton did upon becoming the first Treasury Secretary is create a national debt. Sure this went over like a led balloon in the South but the reality is a national debt is an asset not a liability. (Unlike say...housing. Interestingly you can borrow against your house but not the National Debt.)
I do agree DEFICITS MATTER. The past fiscal year deficit was 400 plus billion...a huge number...but 180 billion less than forecast. That's a big miss for those that follow these things.
This is not to say Government is spending too little or that the shale boom won't turn to bust here. For the time being though fuel costs look set to collapse here...and perhaps imminently. Gasoline was under two bucks a gallon in Norfolk, VA (for obvious reasons) and have had a similar collapse in Delaware as well. That' was the end of super low prices however and everything only got more expensive and destitute as I headed North.
i did see SA calling for gold to hit ten thousand an ounce which seemed pretty optimistic. I'm following the cost per pound to send something to the vacuum of space. Apparently Space X really can do it for under 1000 a pound and that makes a lot of "space economics" possible if true.
I mean seriously...if Lithuania can launch their own satellites now "space is cheap."
On a GAAP and GAAS basis, not a cash basis, the federal government is running deficits of about $6.6TRILLION a year. This is according to shadowstats.com. Your $400 billion figure is not correct.
There's lies, damned lies, and then there's Obola opening his mouth only to let the fa-jizzle dribble down his chin.
This reminds me of a story about a Spaniard in search of Mayan gold who tried to convince the Mayans that he was a God by claiming he was impervious to arrows, at which point they tested his claims. Not enough people are willing to test the claims or push the boundaries set forth by those in perceived positions of power and authority. This must change. Authority must be questioned and challenged as necessary......
2. The US is still the dominant military power in the world.
Not as dominant as they used to be but still the most dominant power in the world IMO.
>2. The US is still the dominant military power in the world.
Do you remember enough of the Cold War that the US's technological superiority would be enough to overcome the USSR's numerical superiority. Shame that was never put to the test, because Osama Bin Laden did indeed prove the US is a paper tiger. The US military today is a one-shot weapon these days, because there are few spare parts...and because the electronic systems are all 10 to 20 years olds.
A few well placed EMPs in a first strike would completely cripple the US and it's ability to retaliate.
The same can be said for all other countries. If the US isn't the most dominant military power, then who is?
I guess I'll need to write an article for Zerohedge explaining this is far greater detail. But in a nutshell, there are no spare parts for the US war machine. (Which is why I stated we are a one-shot military)... In a large conflict, after the US has shot it's load, the only thing left for it to do would be to go nuclear. Which is why currently the defense industries are having to scour the globe looking for electronic parts, and also why they need to have those parts verified as not being counterfeit. You would have guessed the US military would have had EOL weapons systems contracts with US semiconductor manufacturers, but thinking that far out ahead would give everyone far too much credit for having any mental acuity whatsoever. I am trying to look at this logistically. And it is all looking like the internet meme of "Epic Failure"...
I wanted to add one additional item to the above.
If the US is the most dominant military on the planet, why haven't they won a war in the past 7 decades?
The US goes to war to enrich the MIC, not to win.
The longer they can keep it going, the more money they make.
Always follow the money - once you see that, a lot of jigsaw puzzle pieces fall into place.
Since WWII the US hasn't been in a situation that it wants to do what it takes to finish the job. The boys in charge enter these wars to fill their pockets but in most of these conflicts a clear win was simply impossible. The 2003 invasion of Iraq for instance didn't pose much difficulty but what were they supposed to do once the Iraqi military was defeated?
Even the European side WWII wasn't a clear win, Western Europe was liberated but Eastern-Europe plus a large part of Germany was captured by Stalin.
>but what were they supposed to do once the Iraqi military was defeated?
Conan! What is best in life?
Conan: Crush your enemies. See them driven before you. Hear the lamentations of their women.
Personally, if I got to play "dictator-president-figurehead" of the US, I would have kept the territory, and the oil. Because otherwise you are wasting blood and money. And then you don't have to go back and fight for the same crap more than once.
Why do you insist on complicating things when the reality is "Rome -1, Carthage - 0"? Anything else is bullshit.
Or as Dad taught me; Don't fight. It's stupid. Your pretty, stay that way.
But.... If you MUST rumble, remember " there is no fair fighting" . Win at all costs. Show no quarter, and expect none.
The real question is, who is going to risk a large-scale conflict with the US? Of all non-nuclear powers, there's not a single country that can realistically take on the US. And when nukes come in to play, both sides can any lose.
Osama Bin Laden did a pretty good job baiting us into shooting a trillion dollar plus wad.
Using $500,000 guided missiles to kill a Toyota pickup. Priceless.
Especially if your selling the missiles, I suppose.
All I know is that after I shot my load is that I roll over and go to sleep.
Pretty sure it'll apply to nations, too.
Bankers and thier army of lawyers?
EMPs would take out a lot of the civilian infrastructure, but as long as the military folks adhere to protocols and the rules they're supposed to adhere to (like no private SW radio antenna sticking outside the ship's hull), an EMP would not bother most US military equipment - current fiction notwithstanding. Weapons are supposed to be "hardened" against such pulses. For examples, look at the GOES solar satellites...
And it wouldn't take out All of the civilian infrastructure. There are growing numbers of civilians who know what a Faraday Cage is, how to build/make them, and are doing so.
(For small electronics - get you a metal GI can, put foam rubber or some insulating material inside it so that whatever you're shielding doesn't touch the bottom, sides, or lid, put the GI can lid on securely and ground the can... and *poof* you have a Faraday cage. And even easier, put your cell phones and small electronics in the microwave - which is a natural Faraday cage.)
Looks like the US is weak militarily. What frightened the USS Donal Cook in the Black Sea:
http://www.voltairenet.org/article185860.html
If this is true, looks like someone needs to tighten up onboard electronic security... or build more modern systems. If the Donal Cook is equiped with ELINT gear and protection systems, I would expect the CO and a few of his/her subordinate officers and petty officers to get the boot - and I'd make sure the boot went in clear up to their tonsils!!
At the same time, it was awfully nice of the Russkies to let us know they had this capability BEFORE we got into a shooting war with them... gives us time to develop and test counter-measures. (and that may have been the Cook's primary mission?)
We are the government we know whats best.
We have the best government money can buy. And that's not saying much, is it?
1. The dollar will continue to be the dominant currency.
Everytime I turn on CNBC, someone comes on and says, the above! As if repeating it like a mantra will make it hold true. Pathetic.
If what you say is true (I don't even turn on MSM) then the wheels are about to fall off of the bus.
"Everything that is not allowed is forbidden"
Everything you want to do, is illegal.
http://www.mindfully.org/Farm/2003/Everything-Is-Illegal1esp03.htm
A short piece by Joel Salatin. He wrote a book with the same title. This is about farming, but it applies to EVERYTHING. Just different numbers in front of the statutes.
This is why you have to regularly practice against a resisting opponent. If you don't have real opponents you end up delusional.
10. Capitalism will live forever
Actually true capitialism will outlast this bullshit now called capitialism, once more and more people work outside the shitstem.
Your neighbor needs a piece welded on his tractor, you weld it and in turn you get some food.
"I promise I won't come inside you."
How often has that been used? And they/we even meant it at the time!
10. That Simon Black is not part of the system
10. Liberals dream of sucking off obama. oh wait, that's true.
I am 18 years old and all I can see is people around me having a discussion whether 'we' should vote for monkey socialist X or fatfuck conservative Y. But lets not talk about how hard we get fucked everyday by this wonderful system
Shut your jib young man!
My 46 year old ass does not want to hear any of your compaints. Just get to work so you can keep the ponzi going to make sure I have social security coming to me in the future.
/sarc
The FED.
I reckon myth number 1 is that people believe that they have money in their bank account. The reality is really as mind bending to them as "there is no spoon".
I imagine the cypriots understand these days but the rest of the developed world not so much.
I think the term, " I trust my money with my bank" is a misnomer.
"Gumby, the bank won't open its doors and I'm hungry" said Pokey.
Gumby said "lets go take what three little pigs have" to Pokey
The three little pigs had been practicing with NV and in the morning Pokey and Gumby were all fucked up.
Prepare! I'm a pig!
ZH’ers love to ridicule the ignorant population for believing all the “lies”. But the ZH conspiracy theorists for the 911incident and others, are the dumbest people around.
* Who the f*** does the CIA recruit to carry out mass murder?
* Who is in charge? Some agency psycho?
* What if it went wrong and one of the structures didn’t fail?
* How does a huge team arrive, turn off security systems, drill the columns and plant explosives all night? Wouldn’t the janitors become suspicious? Just kill them too? Why not?
* What if some security camera footage survived at a remote location?
* After the job was complete how do you keep a terminally ill team member from deciding to talk, maybe years later? Kill the whole f***ing team? Then you have to kill the team that killed the team to keep them quiet too.
* The trail of evidence would be impossible to hide for long. The tightest security ever was for the Manhattan Project and it leaked out big time.
Yes, there is little question the American people can be led around like sheep. They will believe the propaganda machine and can be kept content with massive handouts. People dying in wars means little, so long as stocks go up and handouts continue. The massive deficit and its implications is way over their heads, they only want to be sure they can get the newest I-Phone using a credit card.
Bernays and Goebbels knew how easily a population could be lied too and led around to do the oligarchs bidding. It works well doesn’t it? No riots, rich get richer and laugh all the way to the bank. No hyper-inflation, or inflation at all, another ZH’ers favorite. b.s. topic.
This is the ‘New Normal’, live it, embrace it. Dow to 30k if they want it there, and they do.
You ignorant slut. If you can watch Building 7 come down and think it was anything other than a controlled demolition, you are too brainwashed and ignorant to bother with.
Don't get worked up. This is most likely AI produced and distributed under monitoring, kind of like a market algo, independent but with circuit breakers, and human overlords monitoring results. Notice the pattern, message delivered first with some tripe at the end that the algo designer thinks will resonant with the readership on the Hedge. My personal belief is the hedge is used as a testing ground for these algos based on previous dialogs where the algo seemingly dead ended with it's logic branching.
More proof of the 9-11 litmus test. FUD vs physics with an unlimited budget. Defend the big lie at all costs, that seems to be the prime directive.
"Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuC_4mGTs98
Temerity Trader = Tool = Fool
You have no idea of what is going on and how it is being accomplished.
Please stay in your hole.
gee, poor Bill Cosby. he musta pissed someone off to be getting the media treatment he is receiving recently. wasn't it Clinton where the media made him out to be a good guy and attacked all the women he raped....er, uh I mean 'allegedly' raped? funny double standards.
The Huffingyon Post community is one large pile of mass delusion.
agreed!
4. Elections make a difference
They don't because so few exercise their right and responsibility to become knowledgable and contribute and finally to even vote. Just three or four more Mike Lees, Rand Pauls and Ted Cruzs would likely have pushed out a corrupt lying fck named Mitch McConnell as the Senate Majority Leader elect. But, only about 15% voted in the Party primaries, consequently the same Party pigs are reelected or the new hacks that will vote as Party members (Just like other failed societies). The anti establishment candidates in the the party primaries couldn't beat the Mitch McConnells, so Yes, elections don't matter.Choice is tweedle-dum (republicans) and tweedle-dee (democrats). Democrats being marginally better than the murdering republicans.
Most democracies have lots of parties, no the US.
Choice is tweedle-dum (republicans) and tweedle-dee (democrats). Democrats being marginally better than the murdering republicans.
Most democracies have lots of parties, no the US.
Obomber the Osama Slayer likes killing people too ya know.
All the chillrens will learn to love Big Brother and so will their parents.
Read the video comments. The power of delusion is infinite. The master supporters insist he threw the fight and any MA master can destroy any opponent. They cite that the MMA backed away as proof the MMA was losing, clearly testing the MA Master for technique and weakness.
The Myth of the Inscrutable Asian is just that...live in Asia for any length of time and the true nature of Asians becomes very apparent.
Martial Arts were great until the revolver was invented.