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"Neoconica" - America For The New Millennium

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Submitted by Thad Beversdorf via First Rebuttal blog,

I recently wrote an piece on the comprehensive breakdown of America.  In it I laid out, from an analytical perspective, the things that are leading America to an economic collapse.  But it might be interesting to take a look at a broader view of American life today.  Policy and economic discussions are useful but in them we can lose the tangibility of what it all comes back to, which is the well being of Americans.  Whether or not the national budget is 190% of GDP and whether interest rates will rise or not are important issues but only so far as they will impact the quality of life of the people.  And so let’s have a look at the lives of the American people.  Have the policies over the past 15 to 50 years led to substantial improvements in the day to day real lives of Americans?  Let’s have a look.  And while we’ve seen a couple of these more economic charts think about them in context of the other charts or other sides of life.

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Median Net Worth short

Median Net Worth 10 to 13 short

The above charts inform us that the bottom 80% of income households are making less than they did in the early 1980′s, and remember the number of two income households today is far greater than it was in 1980 making this a staggering reality.  However the top 20% and especially the top 1% have seen incredible income gains since the early 1980′s.  Total net worth for the bottom 80% of Americans has also been crushed.  Since 2001 median net worth for the bottom 80% is down some 30% and this is during a period where stocks have reached all time highs.  How could this be you ask??  Well this is not happenstance or simple unexplainable market forces.  Those things do not exist in today’s world.  These results are by design.

I get frustrated hearing, even from the most intelligent of people that the Fed is doing its best and that given enough time this will work out for everyone.  And that everyone is better off today than they used to be because this is America and that’s just the way America works.  But when we let the empirical data drive our perspective rather than our blind loyalty we see a very different story.  The data tells a story of a political class that has been implementing programs and policies that are making the working class sick.  We are given all sorts of medicines in the form of social programs and infinite debt to mask the symptoms but when we look at the actual medical test results we are not getting any better.  In fact, our condition continues to worsen.  Yet so many of us continue to listen to our political and economic shaman’s.  We have such faith.  And it is that faith that people like Ayn Rand recognized would be the death of America.  So let’s continue on our journey through the life of the working class American today.

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What’s interesting here is to note that the significant increase in incarceration rates of black men began just as LB Johnson’s ‘Great Society’ program went into effect in the late 1960′s.  Do you think there is relationship between taking an entire demographic’s sense of purpose and ambition away by handing them money each month and the degradation of that demographic?  This is not conjecture, look at the chart.  Black men, specifically inner city black mean where high school drop out rates are the highest, have been decimated since the mid 1960′s.

Our leaders have failed to acknowledge let alone implement policies to improve this situation.  One needs to ask why?  When a large portion of society is so obviously spiraling out of control, why is it that our policymakers have been either absent on the issue or incapable of developing policies to improve the situation?  Behaviour is logical.  If it appears illogical one of your premises is invalid or unsound.  What I mean by that is if policymakers fail to change a policy that is leading to what we assume is an unwanted result then we must consider if it is truly unwanted.  Politicians are very quick to change things that don’t benefit them.  And so if a policy is not changing it is likely because it is seen as serving their own interests in some way.

And let’s not miss the fact that it isn’t just blacks that are being incarcerated at much higher rates.  It seems the trend is higher incarceration rates for all.  That seems to conflict with the idea of a vastly improving quality of life in the land of the free.  In fact, have a look at the following figures.

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Considering China’s population is 5x that of the US, our prison population relative to other countries is pure insanity.  How can this be??  Either our society is failing to appropriately raise it’s children or our incarceration policies are completely out of line with the world.  Interesting that the private prison industry spent $45 million on lobbying efforts last year while the Correction Corp of America (CCA), which is the correction officers union, spent an additional $14 million.  Remember they lobby for legislation that keeps vacancy rates low.  One has to wonder, do our policymakers actually intentionally skew laws to ensure higher numbers of society lose their freedom?  Why why else would $60 million be spent on lobbying??  But let’s carry on with our journey through the life of the American working class.

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With all of the technological breakthroughs and improvements in nutrition how is it that obesity and cancer have gone to full blown epidemic status in this country?  Somebody understands this problem.  Someone has the answer.

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I believe most would agree the ideal environment for a child is in a well functioning two parent home.  Not to say good kids cannot come from single parent households, they can, however, the ideal is a healthy two parent household.  As such, the above trends are disturbing.  How could such ugly longterm trends be taking place in an improving society if we know the ideal is the opposite?  This means we are moving, at an accelerating rate, away from the ideal.  This does not appear to be a relatively new phenomenon either.  Yet it continues to worsen a quickening pace.

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With the rise in GDP and total earnings over the past 50 years why is that poverty is as high as it’s been since the mid 1960′s?  In terms of number of poor, we are actually setting records every year.

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real income to financial investment wealth

Why is it that while the wealthy have gotten so filthy rich the working class has been devastated as the above charts highlight?  Should we not look to make a change in our policies? Clearly the policymakers are idiots or assholes for if both were untrue the policies would change.  So while they could be both, they cannot be neither.  One cannot argue against that proposition whilst looking at the above charts.  Yet we the people still refuse to force our political class to answer for these realities!!  The above charts lead to the following penury….

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Financial stress is a killer.  Just google “effects of financial stress” and see what you find.  It’s ugly and as the above charts so clearly depict, financial stress is rampant in our country.  That said, if you believe the folks on television, and if you’re an American you probably do, then be happy because they have assured us everything is fine and they have the US stock markets at all time highs to prove it.  These TV talking heads will even tout piss poor economic indicators as good.  But it’s like touting stage 3 cancer because it’s better than stage 4 cancer.  Yet if we hear it enough times in combination with a completely manipulated but all time high stock market we begin to believe the lies.

But what about our future?  Perhaps we’re just setting up for a big acceleration of good times ahead.  Does it look like our coming generations are going to hit it out of the park?

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Well the costs for educating our children has doubled but our kids are not any smarter.  When compared to the rest of the world we have fallen way behind.

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In fact, we just fell below Iran.  I’d love to hear the spin on that one.

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Well this is not looking great for our future generations….  What about that nation’s fiscal state though I’m sure we’re wiser to the woes of overspending right??

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That does not seem to depict sound financial management.  In fact, that looks ridiculously irresponsible.  How is it that we can forecast spending more than we take in, forever?  Ah yes the magical money machine and the wonderful world of debt monetization.  At least it’s a plan eh?  Thing is, if your budgets simply forecast an ever increasing deficit meaning the plan is simply to print money going forward then, 1. why have a budget? 2. why are any of us paying taxes? 3. why are any of us working?.

You see if we can print infinite amounts of money with no expected consequence then just print a little extra and we can all spend our days at the mall.  Think about how much bigger the economy would be if we had all day to go shopping, not just on weekends.  I think we’re on to something.

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Leading cause of bankruptcies in America is healthcare you say, eh?  Can’t see why that would be.

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$1.5 trillion in student loans outstanding.  Well 60% of those are currently in arrears so very likely won’t be paid back.  That said, students’ losses are gains for someone.  So maybe we needn’t worry about this one.

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Ah yes, war.  War is one thing we do very well here in America.  Well we start wars very well.  But we seem to have a very difficult time ending wars.  Perhaps because we fight concepts.  We have wars on drugs, terrorism, obesity, etc.  And well wars on bad things just sound so good during election campaigns.   The obvious downside being fighting something that is not an animate enemy means it cannot be defeated, making it incredibly tough to end such a war.  This then results in endless amounts of money being put toward the war effort.  I wonder if these policymakers understand that such things require very large budgets that end up going to just a few companies that tend to donate very generously to both parties.  Oh and then there’s the ubiquitous fear mongering to sustain public support not that public support is required to fight wars anymore but it sure is useful in superseding the Constitution with legislation like the Patriot Act.

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I feel this kind of represents how happy and well adjusted our children are today.  Very cheery chart that one is particularly wouldn’t you say?  Incident rates having doubled since the 1980′s.

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Here’s our well adjusted healthy households.  Again this is likely a factor of day to day difficulties overwhelming any sense of peace in the home.

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The above 3 charts show just how much input the will of the American people has on American policy.  Our legislators and policymakers have absolutely no regard for the will of the people.  We are 100% irrelevant in terms of legislating.  They use our money and our young veterans to throw their weight around the world to serve their own interests while, it is becoming apparent, not serving the interests of the American people.

And so with all of this great progression and improvement in the day to day lives of the American people surely we see a trend toward embracing life, looking forward to each new day and all of the joy it will bring, no?

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The charts above are intended to ascertain whether or not things are improving in America these days.  From finances to health to education to family, the above charts attempt to present a picture of an improving nation.  A nation that is continually striving to improve the lives of its citizens.  What we find is a nation decaying with each new year.  A nation surviving on debt and government handouts with costs of imperative services rising faster each year while incomes continue to decline each year.  Health of our bodies and our families is fading while the number of wars we start accelerates.  And so it would seem that life is not improving in America.  Quite the opposite when one looks at a broad overview of American life.

But perhaps the charts are missing some intangible variable that gets lost in empirical data.  So perhaps Americans will provide us a different conclusion.  Perhaps Americans would tell us that despite all that we’ve shown above their lives actually have been getting better over the years.  I think it’s worth a shot and really it’s our last hope of making an argument that America is not sliding down the slope of its denouement but still a country on the rise.  Let’s have a look at what Americans are saying about the direction of the nation.

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What we find is exactly what one would expect having looked through the many charts above.  Not sure it could be any clearer than all of that above.  While the political class continue to serenade us with songs of rainbows and butterflies the real world is kicking Americans square in the ass.   Despite all of this evidence to suggest a deteriorating nation the prominent message from the political class and their media muppets is that things are great.  We’re always just a few months from Utopia but beware because, at the same time, there are evildoers out to kill us.  Our policymakers are both liars and criminals.  That’s just a fact.  They perpetually lie to us (all of us could provide and endless list of lies just over the past 10 years) and they breach the constitution every day while attempting to sell us that they have the authority to do so when we know nothing trumps the Constitution.  Yet we refuse to challenge them.

And so we must ask ourselves why.  Why is it that despite knowing our politicians lie to us as the norm and break the law as part of their daily legislating that we the people do nothing about it?  One theory I have is that people honestly do not know what to do.  In fact, I hear this a lot.  I am often asked what we can actually do to materially change the way politicians behave?   And regrettably I do not have a good answer.   But I am certain that doing nothing will result in even more grotesque behavior by this political class.

Now when the constitution was followed the majority of legislative power was at the state level and because of that people had the power of propinquity.  That is when you can get in the face of your representative you can hold him accountable.  Also, citizens used to get very involved in the primary elections because it is where most of the individual’s voting power rests.  It is in the primary round that citizens can affect the end result by affecting who makes it to the final running.   Further when media was not just a tool of government as it is today given the mass amount of campaign money that ends up on the income statement of major mainstream media, public could drive the media message rather than the media message driving the people.  You see these are just the tip of the iceberg in terms of how the system has been slowly redesigned so as to avoid an impact by the will of the people.

The political class do not want our involvement.  There is a tremendous amount of power and money on the line.  Far too much to leave it to the will of the American people as too often our will conflicts with the objectives of our ‘representatives’ and their benefactors.  And so it is very true that it is much more difficult to affect change to the system today because it has been redesigned as such.  I don’t have a good solution but perhaps if enough people begin acknowledging the problem then American ingenuity and innovation will rise to the occasion and an equally powerful concentrating force for the will of the people will be created.  Then the American people can impose its will onto our policies that will then once again benefit we, the people rather than we, the slaves.

I say that in the technical sense, for the working class is being used to generate profits and to act as soldiers for the ruling class.  If we refuse to pay our hard earned profits we go to prison.  The vast majority of our armed forces come from very deprived socio-economic communities with essentially no other option but to sign up to soldier for a living.  While our lives continue to spiral downward, as evident in the charts above, this ruling class throws trillions of dollars around to facilitate their own interests.  Iraq, Syria and now Russia are all wars to satisfy the unrelenting thirst for power and money of this small group of horrible men.  They pay for such personal conquests by sacrificing the children of our nation’s poorest families and by suffocating our future generations in debt before they’re even out of the womb.  Yet we are told it is for our own good and despite our calls not to get involved in such things, these men do as they please.

However, so many of us still maintain that America is the greatest nation in the world.  We swear that America represents all that is good; freedom, democracy, merit based capitalism and the rights of the individual.  That is true America does represent such things.  However, I’ve made the suggestion many times that it is fraudulent to consider our current nation America.  America was a concept that promoted all that is good.  And so it would seem that the nation in which we find ourselves cannot be America.  Our nation today represents the will of the political class at all costs, period.  Their sole motivation is themselves.  Very different from America.  And so perhaps we need a renaming of our nation, at least until or if we the people decide to take it back and reintroduce the world to the concept that is America for as we discussed above you cannot destroy a concept and so there is hope to bring her back.  But until then we need a name for this geographic region and its new societal system.  I expect Neoconica is a fitting name.  But I’d certainly be interested to hear some other suggestions.

 

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Wed, 12/17/2014 - 21:09 | 5566126 lordbyroniv
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AmeriKa

Wed, 12/17/2014 - 21:12 | 5566142 SHEEPFUKKER
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land of the free shit and the home of the slaves

Wed, 12/17/2014 - 21:19 | 5566171 benb
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“We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false.”
– William Casey, CIA Director (from first staff meeting, 1981)

Wed, 12/17/2014 - 21:22 | 5566189 Future Jim
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Why focus on Neocons? Neocons are just Republican progressives.

Wed, 12/17/2014 - 21:25 | 5566203 benb
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The core Neocons are the descendents of the Bolsheviks that fled Soviet Russia to Mexico City.

 

Three or four banks control the economic policy of the United States and they control the fate of all the rest of us. - Dr. Paul Craig Roberts

Wed, 12/17/2014 - 21:27 | 5566210 Future Jim
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Exactly. and To most ZHers, it is pretty clear what is wrong with the people.

 

Wed, 12/17/2014 - 21:38 | 5566261 SofaPapa
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The seeds are set for a series of local rebellions.  As this article correctly and thoroughly points out, the United States no longer has a representative government.  The last time an imperial government was imposing its will on this continent, the colonists of that same imperial government went to war to secede.  That will likely be the way forward again.  I suspect over the next 50 years, the 'centralizers' are going to have their hands full putting out many small brush fires, combining into one hell of a conflagration.  Not sure where the first will start, but once the momentum builds, the effect is going to be a doozy.  The added factor, however, this time, is that we are also facing several Global ecosystem collapses (fisheries and fresh water being the two most obvious).  No amount of rebellion or anything else is going to repair those systems quickly.  The only way forward with diminished systems is going to be diminished populations, one way or the other.  Not looking promising.

Wed, 12/17/2014 - 21:49 | 5566301 Slave
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There is nothing conservative about the Republican party.

And there is nothing liberal about the Democratic party.

Thu, 12/18/2014 - 08:34 | 5567621 Grimaldus
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Correct. I am not sure why the author of this article blames "neocons" for this situation when it is clearly PROGRESSIVES that have brought us to this point. Neocons follow PROGRESSIVE rules.

I call it murder. "Neoconia" is a headfake designed to hide the real criminals.

There is nothing bloodier than PROGRESSIVE big government, millions will die. Mass murder is always the endgame of tyrannical PROGRESSIVE big government.

http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/MURDER.HTM

Grimaldus

 

 

Thu, 12/18/2014 - 09:48 | 5567813 N2OJoe
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How do we change the way politicians behave? By joining an angry mob and dragging them out of their beds at night and beating them to death.

Ever wonder why they harp inseccantly about non-violence? BECAUSE VIOLENCE IS THE ONLY THING THEY FEAR!

Anything else is irrelevant and can be ignored indefinitely.

If you don't believe me, re-read the main article on this page or take any passing glance at History.

Wed, 12/17/2014 - 22:06 | 5566362 Antifaschistische
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agree sofapapa...

but we have a two edged sword.  True, many factors are tied to sheer headcount...polution for example.

but many of these facts like cost of healthcare in US, cost of education, divorce rates, etc.  are even more fundamentally destructive.   So, we've got both of these ships colliding in the future.   

Hang on to those you love.

Wed, 12/17/2014 - 22:23 | 5566419 ebworthen
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The New Rome has crossed the Rubicon.

Wed, 12/17/2014 - 23:29 | 5566663 TruthHunter
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The dip in cancer rates around 93 was a scam. They stopped

including VA data, so it "looked" better.  Gulf War 1 vets were

dropping like flies.

Thu, 12/18/2014 - 00:29 | 5566883 SlippedChain
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How about the fact that people will live at the edge of starvation and work their asses off to survive for generations before they rise up and effect any meaningful change.

I'm not kidding. Generations.

Wed, 12/17/2014 - 21:25 | 5566205 chumbawamba
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I can't believe people are still trying to figure this out even with an internet full of information.

I am Chumbawamba.

Wed, 12/17/2014 - 21:46 | 5566291 Philo Beddoe
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Are you trying to tell me the Earth is not flat?  

We are all just satellites orbiting around Kim Kardashian's ass.  

Wed, 12/17/2014 - 22:04 | 5566361 BigJim
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It's so big, it's collapsed and become... (drumroll)... a black hole!

Wed, 12/17/2014 - 22:24 | 5566424 ebworthen
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chumbawamba - LOL and BINGO all in one!  +10

Wed, 12/17/2014 - 21:34 | 5566237 dreadnaught
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im sure you meant regressives.  Anyway we should torture all Neo-CONs-just for a good larf! Starting with Dick Cheney: waterboard him, electric wires to genitals, 4 days in a 4x4 box; And i would PAY good money to see him 'rectally re-hydrated'!  lol

Wed, 12/17/2014 - 21:48 | 5566300 Dick Buttkiss
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And then, to be merciful, you would give him a heart implant.

Or not.

Wed, 12/17/2014 - 23:43 | 5566372 Bananamerican
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The Phoenix program (Vietnam)

A program designed, coordinated, and executed by the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), United States special operations forces, special forces operatives from the Australian Army Training Team Vietnam(AATTV),[1] and the Republic of Vietnam's (South Vietnam) security apparatus during the Vietnam War.

The Program was designed to identify and "neutralize" (via infiltration, capture, terrorismtorture, and assassination) the infrastructure of the Viet Cong.

Methods of torture used at the interrogation centers included:

Rape, gang rape, rape using eels, snakes, or hard objects, and rape followed by murder; electric shock ('the Bell Telephone Hour') rendered by attaching wires to the genitals or other sensitive parts of the body, like the tongue; the 'water treatment'; the 'airplane' in which the prisoner's arms were tied behind the back, and the rope looped over a hook on the ceiling, suspending the prisoner in midair, after which he or she was beaten; beatings with rubber hoses and whips; the use of police dogs to maul prisoners.[17]

Military intelligence officer K. Milton Osborne witnessed the following use of torture:

The use of the insertion of the 6-inch dowel into the canal of one of my detainee's ears, and the tapping through the brain until dead. The starvation to death (in a cage), of a Vietnamese woman who was suspected of being part of the local political education cadre in one of the local villages ... The use of electronic gear such as sealed [sic?] telephones attached to ... both the women's vaginas and men's testicles [to] shock them into submission.[18]

According to one former CIA officer few of the detainees who were interrogated survived—most of them were tortured to death, and those that survived the torture sessions were generally killed afterwards.[19] The torture was usually carried out by South Vietnamese with the CIA and special forces playing a "supervisory role".

Abuses were common. In many instances, rival Vietnamese would report their enemies as "VC" in order to get U.S. troops to kill them.[29] In many cases, Phung Hoang chiefs were incompetent bureaucrats who used their positions to enrich themselves. Phoenix tried to address this problem by establishing monthly neutralization quotas, but these often led to fabrications or, worse, false arrests. In some cases, district officials accepted bribes from the NLF to release certain suspects.

After Phoenix Program abuses began receiving negative publicity, it's alleged that another program of a similar nature, code-named "F-6", was initiated as Phoenix was phased out.

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No doubt they caught some VC but think of the innocent "collateral damage" run thru that process as well...and the sadistic indifference of all the "heroes" engaged in Phoenix, to their fates...and you see the true nature of the society/ institutional culture that spawned it. Tip of the spear? More like "tip of the pitchfork"

Wed, 12/17/2014 - 21:20 | 5566176 flacon
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Stupid people refer to the current administration as "New Conservatives" (ie Neo-Con). 

Wed, 12/17/2014 - 21:20 | 5566180 chumbawamba
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It's a corporation.  It already has a name: it's called the UNITED STATES:

28 USC 3002

 

(15)“United States” means—

(A)a Federal corporation;
(B)an agency, department, commission, board, or other entity of the United States; or
(C)an instrumentality of the United States.

http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/28/3002

I am Chumbawamba.

Wed, 12/17/2014 - 21:31 | 5566228 Future Jim
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what does "a Federal corporation" mean?

Wed, 12/17/2014 - 21:45 | 5566280 chumbawamba
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Good question.  But the answer is simple: it's a corporation chartered by the federal government, i.e. the general government or union of the states.

I know, then, that the next question will be: what came first?  The chicken or the egg?

How can the federal government charter itself?  It's not, it's a naming trick.  Note the uppercase letters.  It's a different entity from the United States, which is a different entity from the United States of America.

Oh what tangled webs we weave...

I am Chumbawamba.

Wed, 12/17/2014 - 21:57 | 5566327 Usurious
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from the other day...

 

Thu, 12/04/2014 - 11:05 | 5516718 Chupacabra-322 Vote up!

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''They're all involved in an elaborate scheme based on contrat law & Criminal deceit to Fraud The American People by CONSENT (Black Law's Dictionary) & being an accessory to the deceit & Criminal Fraud by contracting with the Criminal State.
We are "Governed" into a Political, Educational, Religious & Economic UNITED STATES, CORP based on contract law which is based on Criminal Fraud, deceit & illusion.

The Private Corp UNITED STATES, CORP uses the cover of being a functional Government when in reality they are not. Much like the Criminal Federal Reserve uses The "Federal" in their name & use it as cover to give the illusion that they are a branch of the US Government when they are not.

Through bankruptcies, Criminal Contract Fraud & deceit the Charlatans have incrementally incorporated the US as well as your souls (birth cert) which are securitized via the Criminal Federal Reserve through to the IMF.

They're functioning off corporate version of the THE CONSTITUTION. It's the reason why The Global Criminal Oligarch Cabal Bankster Intelligence Crime Syndicate continues to lie, cheat, deceit, rape & pillage with impunity.

The only power the have over you is with CONSENT (Black Law's Dictionary). Pay no Taxes. Peaceful Non-Participation, Non-Compliance & being an accessory into their Criminal system/s based on Criminal Fraud, Debt Bondage & Enslavement.

Look. It's there parchment! There's 2 Constitutions, one from 1776, one from the Act of 1871. One says for the united states. The other says OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, INC.

They removed the organic language from the 13th Amendment of 1776 which Gaurenteed our individual rights and replaced the whole amendment in the forgery look alike.

Please tell me your aware of this? Search Trading with the Enemy Act also. That proves we lost the Constitution a long time ago, we practice commerce, that's it.''

 

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-12-04/its-all-coming-end-bill-gross-w...

Wed, 12/17/2014 - 21:59 | 5566342 chumbawamba
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Unfortunately, it takes a lot of dedicated study for that not to seem like a huge pile of crazy.  But, the information is out there for those who seek it.

I am Chumbawamba.

Wed, 12/17/2014 - 22:11 | 5566381 BigJim
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Can this information be used, Chumba?

I mean, don't get me wrong; it's interesting and all. But can a person living in the US actually avoid paying (say) income tax, or speeding tickets or what have you, and not get dragged into court and thrown into jail a la Irwin Schiff?

Wed, 12/17/2014 - 22:12 | 5566382 BigJim
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dup

Wed, 12/17/2014 - 22:31 | 5566450 Future Jim
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Does it matter? Does that really change anything? It could be doing the same unconstitutuional things whether it is the legitimate government or not.

Even if it is the legitimate government, Either the things it does are constitutional, or they are not. Either we will let it do unconstititional things, or we will not. Either we will pay the debts it says we owe, or we will not. Either the majority like what it is doing or they do not.

Thu, 12/18/2014 - 08:17 | 5567578 Kobe Beef
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If it matters to an armed, organized, motivated Cadre, then it matters to history. 

The only question is are we that Cadre? Are we those men?

Wed, 12/17/2014 - 21:55 | 5566328 chumbawamba
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Some more useful questions to consider:

Are you a citizen of the United States?

If so, are you maybe a citizen of a corporation?

Isn't that usually called an employee?

Does not a corporation always have a president, vice president and secretary?

Is the Constitution perhaps a corporate charter?

Hint: research the East India Company.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_India_Company

Of course, Wikipedia only scratches the surface (and edits out the pertinent part, like the joint ownership of the Pope and the Rothschilds.  But look at their flag.  Seem familiar?

I am Chumbawamba.

Thu, 12/18/2014 - 07:35 | 5567509 Kobe Beef
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What you describe as "employee" here, is legally defined as "person". "Person" is an office in the corporation, and thus subject to its charter. When one consents to "person" hood, one becomes subject to Maritime Contract Law, aka the UCC, aka USCorp, aka the East India Company 2.0.

And you're right: there is a whole internet full of information about this.

Cheers,

Beef

Wed, 12/17/2014 - 21:20 | 5566173 drendebe10
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"Government isin't the solution to our problem.  Government is the problem."  Ronald Reagan

 

Elected ruling political elite + gummint bureaucrats:  ctrl-alt-del

Wed, 12/17/2014 - 21:21 | 5566188 chumbawamba
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And an empty-headed politician with placating words isn't?

I am Chumbawamba.

Wed, 12/17/2014 - 21:12 | 5566129 giovanni_f
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The US isn't great, was never, will never be. It takes more to be great than military might and  Kim Kardashian apps.

Wed, 12/17/2014 - 21:31 | 5566226 highly debtful
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I disagree. Your nation is still remarkable in many ways. But you should start by losing that stupid and dangerous concept of exceptionalism. And your priority right now is to create order in your own house. I haven't given up on you guys, because in the past Americans have been known to be able to rise to the occasion whenever the circumstances called for it. Why would that be different now?

Wed, 12/17/2014 - 21:43 | 5566274 SofaPapa
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The charts on education and family structure are the answer to your question.  The Americans you are talking about who solved problems came from much more solid social networks, and it was those social networks which laid the backdrop for the creative problem solving.  Take out the foundation, and the walls crumble. 

Thu, 12/18/2014 - 08:14 | 5567568 Kobe Beef
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Ordo ab Chao. The New World Order will be built upon the ashes of the old.

The Cultural Marxists were right: destroy the culture, destroy the Nation. Lenin explicitly called for the smashing of the Family. Where Communism failed, Freedumb, Feminism, and Family Court succeeded. 

And Consumerism is such a more attractive lifestyle option for the Proletariat than Communism. Why, just look at all these choices for marketing your own special independent self. Eat, Pray, Love! If it feels good, do it! You can have it all! And won't they be soo jealous of your success! Sure, you have no real friends, family, or community, but we'll sell you a make-believe digital version of the thing to occupy your time on the Farm, while we Shear, Skin, and ultimately Liquidate you. 

Whom the Gods would destroy, they first make successful. Then spoiled. And thus insulated from reality: finally, irrevocably, insane. 

Rant off.

Cheers,

Beef

Wed, 12/17/2014 - 21:38 | 5566257 benb
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...was never...

I think it was in some respects great for a long time. We have been fucked over internally for so long now especially by elements of the CIA that there is not much character left.

"Whenever I watch TV and see those poor, starving kids all over the world, I can't help but cry. I mean I'd love to be skinny like that, but not with all those flies and death and stuff." Mariah Carey

 

 

Wed, 12/17/2014 - 21:57 | 5566339 CH1
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I think it was in some respects great for a long time.

Between, say, 1640 and 1789?

Well, you did say "some respects." So, we go maybe to 1830?

Wed, 12/17/2014 - 22:01 | 5566349 benb
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CH - Government aside, a lot of inventions and inovation came out of the US for quite a while.

Thu, 12/18/2014 - 04:15 | 5566516 giovanni_f
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Nothing the world will look back to in 500 years and say 'great'. With the demise of the US, the 2500 year-old occidental spirit will come to an inglorious and shameful Kardashianesque end. There is nothing - absolutely nothing - the US has to bequeath to the world in form of lasting, eternal values. Most things the US brags itself  for were invented elsewhere, most of it in Europe, esp. Germany (e.g., Computer, Rockets, Diesel enigine), China, India, Arabia. The US is a consumer of other people's spiritual achievements, just like running on fuel that it cannot produce itself. The strength of the US lies in the capability of materially leveraging existing resources  to the maximal degree. The US is powerful and has military might never seen before - but it lacks the ingredients for greatness entirely.

Wed, 12/17/2014 - 21:12 | 5566148 Professorlocknload
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How 'bout Goldman Saxony?

Wed, 12/17/2014 - 21:13 | 5566152 Steroid
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America is great the problem is the United States!

Wed, 12/17/2014 - 21:14 | 5566155 Fun Facts
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These are the charts that the ZWO has intended to produce.

Please extrapolate from current trends.

Copy and paste these results to every other western country held hostage by their central banking syndicate.

Wed, 12/17/2014 - 21:19 | 5566159 Usurious
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United States of Kissinger & Associates

 

Fuck you henry

 

http://www.zerohedge.com/article/inside-global-banking-intelligence-comp...

Wed, 12/17/2014 - 21:17 | 5566163 Gaius Frakkin' ...
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AGAIN... the politicians are just a consequence of a broken people.

Wed, 12/17/2014 - 21:44 | 5566282 SofaPapa
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Seems like chicken and egg, because the policies enacted have also been actively (not passively) accelerating the "breaking" of the people.

Wed, 12/17/2014 - 21:16 | 5566164 p00k1e
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Over look it.

Sing along!!

Peter, Paul, And Mary ~ Live ~ Puff The Magic Dragon ~ 1965

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RC2tlNmz4ao  

Wed, 12/17/2014 - 21:21 | 5566187 Yen Cross
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 I'm told through " private equity" circles Zero/Hedge is on the block.

  Is this true Tyler?

 

Wed, 12/17/2014 - 21:29 | 5566217 eXMachina
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As in for sale?

Wed, 12/17/2014 - 22:07 | 5566376 Yen Cross
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   Sad

 

Wed, 12/17/2014 - 21:34 | 5566247 Sub MOA
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"Tylers not here , he went away" 

Wed, 12/17/2014 - 21:26 | 5566208 KnuckleDragger-X
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We have met the enemy and it is us....

Wed, 12/17/2014 - 21:28 | 5566212 Caveman93
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Shit, I picked a bad week to schtop drinkin.

Wed, 12/17/2014 - 21:31 | 5566221 Duc888
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"America is awesome"

 

36 seconds in.

LOL

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bhl8bT7JXg

 

We tortured some folks.

 

 

 

 

Wed, 12/17/2014 - 21:38 | 5566262 A Lunatic
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Dateline 2016, the Republicans have control of both House and Senate, Bush III is elected NeoconUS and WWIII looms on the horizon, and by horizon I mean immediately........

Wed, 12/17/2014 - 21:46 | 5566286 Usurious
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Jeb will have been SELECTED, not elected.........

he knows where all the dead bodies are as does Hiltlery, so what diff does it make.......

but otherwise, I agree with you

Wed, 12/17/2014 - 21:44 | 5566284 XuscitizenSweden
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I left the states in '78 and moved permanently to Scandinavia in '81.

America doesn't exist anymore.

What use to be the USA has become an offshore real estate investment for Israel, managed by tribe members....from 'Sea to Shining Sea' - Hollywood to Wall St- LA to NYC.

Wed, 12/17/2014 - 22:21 | 5566416 Infinite QE
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Amen to that. Even the architecture can be classified as pre-Jew or post-Jew. All those beautiful homes and buildings built by the people from Europe. Then as the Jew banksters gained more and more control everything became like a strip mall to the point now that most homes are like styrofoam boxes built to last maybe 10 years.

Wed, 12/17/2014 - 21:49 | 5566310 Jack Burton
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Quality of life, at work, at home, out in public, in health care, in police encounters, in spying on us, in education. Quality of life sucks, it is horrible compared to when I was a young man. America was a dream land of freedom, hope and opportunity when I was a kid, it has gone down hill at light speed since 2000. Are the rich much better off, of course they are. Though, are you one of those 1%?  The tipping of the playing fields by the Federal reserve policies has destroyed workers and savers, and transfered all their capital into the hands of speculators and banks. The private sector losses were transfered to the middle class. We owe 18 trillion now, and Obama's war madness sends our debt higher by millions every second.

Obama is the trojan horse of the war mongers. They lured idiot blacks, liberals and workers into voting for a radical war mongering republican who put a "D" by his name, and groveled with his tounge to the stupid liberal classes. Now we see the satanic John McCain clone coming to the fore in the guise of a Black Messia. A product of clever marketing and a secret pact to lie his way to the White House. Black Massia, is really the insane war monger the 1% always wanted, and it was them who put him into power, making fucking fools of all those liberals and minorities who ate up the Obama lie.  That is waht it was right form day one, The war monger Israeli Bitch Clinton versus the great liberal Obama. Oh how they must have laughed when the Black messia spoke to millions of crying liberals on election night! THEY knew who this black messia really was, and what he was really elected to do. You like todays economy and war mongering? This was the plan all along. All the wealth went to the 1%, now the wars of Obama will claim the kids of the fools who voted for him.

Wed, 12/17/2014 - 22:41 | 5566476 Future Jim
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"the fools who voted for him"

BTW, Who did you vote for?

I voted Ron Paul 2008 and Gary Johnson 2012.

Thu, 12/18/2014 - 04:16 | 5567307 Dull Care
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Funny that I consider W to be  a 'D' ruse to fool conservatives. There is one party, the welfare-warfare party. The D's started WWI,WWII,Vietnam,Serbia etc and have no issue with confronting Russia and China today. Most R's seem to have no restraint on foreign policy either. It's truly a nightmare.

Wed, 12/17/2014 - 21:59 | 5566347 kchrisc
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"Have the policies over the past 15 to 50 years led to substantial improvements in the day to day real lives of Americans?"

They are not, and never were, "policies." They were and are schemes. As such, the day to day lives of the average American has not improved.

The governmnet gets them at the starting gate. The banksters get them in the backstretch, and the governmnet is there again at the finish line. And then there is always the risk one will "euthanized" by a gun and badge thug.

An American, not US subject.

Wed, 12/17/2014 - 22:00 | 5566348 Haole
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Fourth Reich, BTChez.

Wed, 12/17/2014 - 22:01 | 5566352 Reaper
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Hubris is a personal flaw ,as well as the flaw of so many classes of people.    What god or manifest destiny declared Americans superior morally or in any other way?   What hubris to believe in your own imagined greatness.     For whose glory will Americans die in neocon wars?  A Bush, an Obama, a McCain, Israel?   "Praise God and pass the ammuition" would need to be corrected to "Hope a god is with you, because you ain't that good."    Master race?  Master nation?  Master fools?  

Trusting in your chosenness is stupidity.

 

Wed, 12/17/2014 - 22:15 | 5566392 Berspankme
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The power to stop the bullshit is in our hands, all of us. But most americans refuse to make short term sacrifices to make it stop. If the vast majority banded together in civil disobedience, refused to shop, refused to comply we could make it end. But everybody wants to get theirs so the bullshit continues and it will until we all choke on it. The fault is with the people. Bad leaders come and go but the people always have the power if they are willing to use it

Wed, 12/17/2014 - 22:15 | 5566395 shovelhead
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I can't believe that it's gotten this far without someone coming up with "Jewtopia".

You guys are slipping.

Wed, 12/17/2014 - 22:16 | 5566397 shovelhead
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Wed, 12/17/2014 - 22:35 | 5566465 t0mmyBerg
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I call it "The nation formerly known as the United States of America". So like the artist formerly known as prince we can call ourselves by some androgynous and ambiguous symbol.  or just use an acronym like Tnfkausa or Tenefkausa or something.  or maybe just home of fucking useless twits who squandered the glorious patrimony they inherited and literally pissed it away by electing lying god damned scumbag politicians and allowing them to stay in office forever.  Kind of long though

Thu, 12/18/2014 - 08:33 | 5567607 Kobe Beef
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I named it the USSA. Brought to you by the same Internationale that made the USSR. See Antony Sutton for details. 

Wed, 12/17/2014 - 22:40 | 5566482 Cloud9.5
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Karma is a bitch.  I worry for us.

 

 

Wed, 12/17/2014 - 22:46 | 5566512 ISEEIT
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The Human species is in decline. We are created to be so much more.

From what I'm familiar with, the existence of our species has always been meta-historically pretty brutal. This is really just history repeating itself.

 

The ugliest part to me is how personally impactful this plunge of the cliff has been. Because I'm aware of much that apparently isn't 'common' knowledge (yet), I suffer seeing what likely comes next.

This F'ing country is run by a bunch of sociopath monsters. The entire culture is terminal.

 

Birth.

Life.

Death.

 

Looks like it'll be painful.

Wed, 12/17/2014 - 22:57 | 5566547 shovelhead
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I see dead people.

Thu, 12/18/2014 - 05:44 | 5567386 honestann
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Brilliant and oh so appropriate reply.

Can't remember from which movie, though.

Thu, 12/18/2014 - 08:35 | 5567620 Kobe Beef
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Man: an animal capable of reason.

-Jonathan Swift

Thu, 12/18/2014 - 09:44 | 5567834 Refuse-Resist
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Birth, Copulation, and Death.

 

This is your life.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbmwi3rMSb8

Wed, 12/17/2014 - 22:52 | 5566533 Bumbu Sauce
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Confirmation Bias trash for the reprobate imbeciles.

Wed, 12/17/2014 - 23:44 | 5566717 MuleRider
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How about Shititopia???

Thu, 12/18/2014 - 08:30 | 5567604 kubera9
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There's no need for a neologism.  The erstwhile USA is an AMERICAN FEDERAL EMPIRE, not a constitutional republic or a union of free states any longer.  The pretense on the part of government, of adherence to Constitutional limitations, will soon be dropped.  It's the banks.  On one side they run fake "left" operations like Obama, occupy, race-baiting, etc. - on the other side they run the death/debt machine, from the fake neocon/neo-trotskyite "right."  What do you get for the international banking cartel that has everything? Banks want global totalitarian collectivism, to consolidate their gains.  They don't care if it's left or right.  They care who's on top.  As Mussolini said: "Our fascism is whatever we say it is."  

Thu, 12/18/2014 - 08:53 | 5567616 MickV
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The "United States officially ended with the installation of Hussein Obama, Muslim NON natural born Citizen (because he was born BRITISH, of a British subject father). The NWO used Blacks, the Intelligista (media and academia) and the young and stupid (and election fraud) to muscle in an ineligible POTUS. It was their wet dream.

If the "executor of the laws" is an illegal entity then there is no law, and no "Constitution" and no "United States". The law is only what the evil greedy men in power say it is.

Hussein Obama, stooge of the NWO, now presides over the Cloward Piven destruction and rape of America and the scraping of her bones. What a land of idiots we became to allow this criminal into our White House. History will look back and see the Congress and the judiciary as dens of traitors, as they all know Obama is not eligible. Obama was never even legally sworn in.

It ended in 2008. George to George.

"A Republic" that we could not keep, because we turned against its principles and against truth, justice and liberty. It didn't really last very long.

Thu, 12/18/2014 - 08:45 | 5567648 MickV
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This about sums it up. Truth.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rpn0vh2Rj0Y

Thu, 12/18/2014 - 09:42 | 5567817 Raging Debate
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Name of America now? Call it Federated Bankland.

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