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Ron Paul: "Reality Is Now Setting In For America... It Was All Based On Lies & Ignorance"
Submitted by Ron Paul via The Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity,
If Americans were honest with themselves they would acknowledge that the Republic is no more. We now live in a police state. If we do not recognize and resist this development, freedom and prosperity for all Americans will continue to deteriorate. All liberties in America today are under siege.
It didn’t happen overnight. It took many years of neglect for our liberties to be given away so casually for a promise of security from the politicians. The tragic part is that the more security was promised — physical and economic — the less liberty was protected.
With cradle-to-grave welfare protecting all citizens from any mistakes and a perpetual global war on terrorism, which a majority of Americans were convinced was absolutely necessary for our survival, our security and prosperity has been sacrificed.
It was all based on lies and ignorance. Many came to believe that their best interests were served by giving up a little freedom now and then to gain a better life.
The trap was set. At the beginning of a cycle that systematically undermines liberty with delusions of easy prosperity, the change may actually seem to be beneficial to a few. But to me that’s like excusing embezzlement as a road to leisure and wealth — eventually payment and punishment always come due. One cannot escape the fact that a society’s wealth cannot be sustained or increased without work and productive effort. Yes, some criminal elements can benefit for a while, but reality always sets in.
Reality is now setting in for America and for that matter for most of the world. The piper will get his due even if “the children” have to suffer. The deception of promising “success” has lasted for quite a while. It was accomplished by ever-increasing taxes, deficits, borrowing, and printing press money. In the meantime the policing powers of the federal government were systematically and significantly expanded. No one cared much, as there seemed to be enough “gravy” for the rich, the poor, the politicians, and the bureaucrats.
Warfare/Welfare State Requires Police Control
As the size of government grew and cracks in the system became readily apparent, a federal police force was needed to regulate our lives and the economy, as well as to protect us from ourselves and make sure the redistribution of a shrinking economic pie was “fair” to all. Central economic planning requires an economic police force to monitor every transaction of all Americans. Special interests were quick to get governments to regulate everything we put in our bodies: food, medications, and even politically correct ideas. IRS employees soon needed to carry guns to maximize revenue collections.
The global commitment to perpetual war, though present for decades, exploded in size and scope after 9/11. If there weren’t enough economic reasons to monitor everything we did, fanatics used the excuse of national security to condition the American people to accept total surveillance of all by the NSA, the TSA, FISA courts, the CIA, and the FBI. The people even became sympathetic to our government’s policy of torture.
To keep the people obedient to statism that originated at the federal level of government, control of education was required. It is now recognized that central control of education has actually ruined education, while costs have skyrocketed. National control of medical care has brought a similar result. This has meant more money for bureaucrats, as well as drug, insurance, and health management companies, and less money for medical care. Constantly more police are required to run our lives at greater costs while providing less benefit. “Nationalizing” both medical care and education has provided a great incentive to increase the policing powers of the federal government.
The predictable poverty that results from such a terrible system is now upon us and is a strong motivation for the militarization of local police as part of the expansion of the national police state. Temporary and perceived benefits of government overreach and expanded policing powers end up becoming the real problem. By the time it is understood that these “benefits” are artificial, government power and special interests have gained control of a system designed to serve them and not the people the programs were purported to help. The victims are left hanging and taught that too much freedom is the source of the problem, prompting even more support for the policing power of the state.
Today the failure of central economic planning and of the US as world policeman is everywhere to be found. This is especially noticeable in the police war on the lawbreakers — real and unreal — in America. The failures of social and economic policy of the past 50 years have led to a mounting friction between the local police and the rights of the people. Local police have been militarized and have become an integral part of the national police state. A police culture that accepts the principle of initiating unjustified violence against citizens has become a serious problem.
The news is constant. If it’s not Ferguson, it’s New York City. If not New York City, it’s Chicago or Detroit or Cleveland. And I believe the violence in our cities is only in its early stages. We had a taste of the conflict in the 1960s, but the fundamental values of equal justice and economic opportunity have receded further from reality. Failing to understand why the past 50 years of government expansion to eradicate poverty has only worsened the conditions of our cities will guarantee that the violent conflicts we see erupting today will only get worse.
Fight for Equal Protection Distorted by 'War on Poverty'
Fifty years ago, as a result of Martin Luther King Jr.’s leadership in a plea for equal justice, LBJ declared war on poverty. Poverty was seen at that time as the major contributing factor in the plight of those living in the inner city. King’s dream was to make sure all people will be judged by the “content of their character” and not by “the color of their skin.” Good advice, but it was never followed. Residual racism remains, but the excuse for every shortcoming in the failed cities is said to be due to the color of one’s skin.
The very expensive war on poverty has after 50 years only made matters worse, compounding the problems of poverty and inflation while hurting most of the people the “war” was supposed to help. Currently our government spends over $1 trillion per year on anti-poverty programs. Over the past 50 years, over $16 trillion was spent, i.e., wasted. And yet poverty and dire economic conditions remain the major factor in the violence that persists, which incites or gives the police the excuse to overreact to maintain order. The plans and expectations for the war on poverty must have been seriously flawed.
Although the degree of poverty is different for the various races in the United States, all categories — Asian, white, Hispanic, and black — have had a steady increase in real median income from 1964 until the year 2000, when the first of many bubbles started bursting. In all four race categories incomes are lower since then. With the economy moving into the next stage of liquidation of bad investment and debt, we should expect this trend to continue. Economic setbacks and a decrease in real income are not limited to blacks in the inner city. The setback for the young has been dramatically worse than for the older generations, aggravating the problem of violent crime in our cities.
The “progress” of the early years of the war on poverty is understandable because the payment that always must be paid was delayed. The deficits and the borrowing and printing of money were unsustainable. It should not be difficult to understand that the welfare benefits, the bloated government, the excessive salaries, and the promised pensions for thousands of nonproductive bureaucrats in Detroit would lead to bankruptcy. The benefits had to be reduced. If policies don’t change and the politicians continue to be elected by wild promises, the disaster will continue. How can the provocateurs blame racism for the plight of the middle class in Detroit?
We must get people to reject flawed economic policy if we want a real war on poverty. LBJ’s war on poverty was no more successful than his Vietnam War — or any war since, for that matter. A national government that can print money as needed to finance extraordinary extravagance can function longer than a city, state, or private entity, but it too must eventually “file for bankruptcy” albeit in a different fashion. As we are now seeing, the bankruptcy of a nation also involves poverty for many. This situation will continue to worsen. Since poverty is a major contributing factor to the violence of excessive police militarization, some fundamentals must be understood. The economic theories of Paul Samuelson, Paul Krugman, John Maynard Keynes, and all those who claim to know how to “regulate” the economy to benefit the poor, must be challenged and abandoned.
So far reality has not yet set in. The poor grow in numbers as the middle class shrinks and the privileged class that benefits from government spending and government control of the monetary system thrives. The political demagogues and the authoritarians feed the flames of resentment that develop between the rich and the poor as class warfare and racial strife take over. They care little and understand less what liberty is all about — the more chaos there is, the more laws they seek to pass.
The Victimized Inner Cities
This social disruption has motivated the enthusiastic growth and militarization of our local police departments. The law and order crowd thrives on excessive laws and regulations that no US citizen can escape. The out-of-control war on drugs is the worst part, and it generates the greatest danger in poverty-ridden areas via out-of-control police. It is estimated that these conditions have generated up to 80,000 SWAT raids per year in the United States. Most are in poor neighborhoods and involve black homes and businesses being hit disproportionately. This involves a high percentage of no-knock attacks. As can be expected many totally innocent people are killed in the process. Property damage is routine and compensation is rare. The routine use of civil forfeiture of property has become an abomination, totally out of control, which significantly contributes to the chaos. It should not be a surprise to see resentment building up against the police under these conditions. The violent reaction against local merchants in retaliation for police actions further aggravates the situation —hardly a recipe for a safe neighborhood.
Though poverty and excessive laws associated with the war on drugs are significant factors in the conflicts that are routine in the inner-city, the overreaction by both sides continues to make the situation much worse. As a result, policing in general is out of control, and anything suggesting racial confrontation leads to rioting, looting, and property destruction. Civil liberties are ignored by the police, and the private property of innocent bystanders is disregarded by those resenting police violence. When police overreact and unfairly enforce the law, it elicits a violent reaction from those on the receiving end. This only escalates the problem. It’s an invitation for outside provocateurs to rush in and aggravate the racial tensions — all the while never trying to understand the real reasons behind police militarization and the cause of poverty.
The military-industrial complex now systematically lobbies to provide to local police departments the newest and most sophisticated weaponry — just as they sell weapons to the United States government to fight undeclared wars overseas. Drug laws are pushed by many corporate interests as well. Pharmaceutical companies, alcohol companies, and private prison systems all support of the insane war on drugs. The victims are the poor who suffer with a messed up economy and have no easy access to jobs. A natural temptation is to become a drug dealer. Violent activities arising from the drug war making drug transactions a criminal undertaking create demand in communities for strict law enforcement.
Why do the race baiters have so much success in making this type of conflict a racial problem alone? Unfortunately many of them make a living off stirring up trouble. If the situation were understood in terms of police brutality and poverty, the evening news would be dramatically different. Turning it into strictly a racial conflict narrows the discussion, and the idea of responsibility for one’s action no longer needs to be discussed.
The race factor seems to stir up the emotions. Mob-like responses can be achieved, which further inflames the situation. Out of control police and an entire segment of our population taught that responsibility for one’s actions is a negative are a volatile mix.
Justice under the law requires that people cannot be punished or rewarded because of the color of their skin, but unfortunately King’s claim that only a person’s character counts is forgotten.
The entitlement mentality is a source of much anger and misunderstanding. It leads people who see themselves as victims to one conclusion: they are entitled to be taken care of. They believe that more government transfer payments are the solution. They claim that they deserve to be taken care of and that, if they are not, there’s trouble to be had — which only opens the door to more police overreactions.
There is agreement with my contention that poverty is a big problem and the source of much trouble. Therefore, it is said, someone must take care of it. If one trillion dollars per year doesn’t do the job, then make it $2 trillion. If the war on poverty’s $16 trillion hasn’t worked, make it $32 trillion. This sentiment reflects the entitlement mentality that has taught many that some people have a “right” to government handouts and that the rich must pay. This is an idea that is deeply flawed, and it stirs up class warfare on top of racial animosities and police brutality.
The blanket demand that all wealthy individuals owe support to the poor through government welfare programs is not an example of equal justice under the law. It is an example of egalitarianism gone awry. Welfare, which is the use of force to transfer wealth from one group to another, is based on a moral principle of equality that in fact is not moral and does not work. The wealthy special interests, such as banks, the military-industrial complex, the medical industry, the drug industry, and many other corporatists, quickly gain control of the system. Crumbs may be thrown to the poor, but the principle of wealth transfer is hijacked and used for corporate and foreign welfare instead of wealth transfers to the poor.
Many people do indeed gain wealth unfairly with today’s system, which adds to the envy shared by many and especially the poor. But this is a problem that is not solved by indiscriminately placing blame on successful businesses. The result would be the country and the whole world becoming poorer while resentment rises. Honest profits of successful entrepreneurs are quite different than profits of the corporate elite who gain control of the government and, as a consequence, accumulate obscene wealth by “robbing” the middle class. To blame and destroy those who make an honest living by satisfying consumers without the use of special benefits from the government is destructive to liberty and wealth.
Reforms that are driven by envy of successful people making an honest living will not address the problem of poverty. Poverty is actually made worse by an aggressive sense of victimization.
Many factors are involved in the crisis of our cities, including the following:
True satisfaction comes from productive effort and self-reliance and not from a government transferring wealth in an effort to bring about an egalitarian society. The absence of an understanding of the nonaggression principle makes it difficult for positive reforms to develop. Unfortunately hypocrisy has come to equal “common sense.” Placing confidence in people who thrive on wielding government power and who spend a lifetime using it to benefit special interests is not a wise policy.
The people have too little confidence that most problems can be solved in a voluntary manner in a society that cherishes civil liberties. There’s never an admission that government problem-solving doesn’t work. Government-created problems are a road to poverty and resentment. Too many people believe that “free stuff” from the government can solve our problems. They mistakenly believe that deficits don’t matter and that wealth can come from a printing press.
The recent high profile episodes of racial conflict involving police killings and the violence in some neighborhoods have been a fertile environment for the demagogues and those who thrive on racial conflict.
Some have suggested that sensitivity training for all police personnel should be required, to teach proper ways to deal with the public. Though there’s a lot of extenuating circumstances that provoke overreaction by the police, I’m not optimistic that the problem will be helped much by sensitivity training. Retraining the police won’t touch the complex problems that pit the police against the victims of complex social conditions generated by hate, violence and bad economic policies. The high profile episodes of police violence and overreaction are a consequence of conditions that in many ways were generated by government policy.
If social engineering intended to produce economic equality fails, more of the same cannot possibly be the solution. Seeking and promoting equal justice has nothing to do with welfare redistribution. On the contrary: equal justice requires the end of welfare redistribution. Redistribution is a process that is always destined to help a small minority, whether in an economy like ours that endorses central economic planning or in one run by radical fascists or communists. While advocates claim that it’s the duty of government to pursue economic equality, all efforts fail to achieve that goal, while gutting the principle of equal justice.
The Rich Are Getting Richer, But Why?
Under an authoritarian regime, those in power take care of themselves. This always leads to poverty and discrepancy in wealth distribution. Eventually the social strife that is predictable leads to an overthrow of the government. The Soviet communist leaders never suffered from want, but even they were routed when the people in the Soviet system decided that they had had enough.
We must realize that we are not exempt from a breakdown of our system. The strife that we are witnessing is a reflection of a growing number of people who are recognizing the discrepancy between rich and poor, the weak and the powerful, Wall Street and Main Street. The courts are obviously failing at meting out justice fairly and impartially. Money and race have a lot to do with how arrests, convictions, and incarcerations are carried out. That provides motivation for some people to become angry and violently strike out against anyone who appears to have more than they do.
While the courts fail to follow the rules of equal justice, those who react violently believe that attacking almost anyone is justifiable in seeking what they claim is justice. Talk of the 99 percent and one percent is not just sloganeering. It reveals a problem generated by government and a situation in which some people believe that they have a “right” to be taken care of rather than just a right to live in a free and just society where all persons are treated equally under the law.
Indeed the rich are getting richer and the poor poorer. The extreme current inequality is not a consequence of free markets and true liberty. Rather it results from the welfare state that, as always, morphs into a system that provides excesses for the powerful few. Better management of the welfare system does not help. That only changes the types of authoritarians in charge. Both political parties are financed by Wall Street, the big banks, and the military-industrial complex. Getting rich by being part of the government class is the problem. Wealth achieved by hard work is quite a bit different. Opening the door to this opportunity is achievable by following the principle of life, liberty, and property.
The economic interventionist system under which we live today rewards those who benefit from government economic planning by the Federal Reserve, access to government contracts, and targeted special regulations to help one group over the other. The insiders benefit during the bubble phase of the business cycle and are the first ones in line for the bailouts. The poor, for whom welfare is supposedly designed to help and for whom the politicians justify the spending, end up with the crumbs while the Wall Street/banking elites thrive in good times and bad. There are two problems. First is conceding the principle that government has the moral authority to redistribute wealth. Second is believing the redistribution will be managed wisely and without corruption.
All government management ends up being unwise, corrupt, and wasteful. The money interests inevitably prevail. Belief that “good” bureaucrats and politicians can be found to manage the economy and achieve equity in distribution is a dream that always ends up a nightmare. To make even a modest attempt at this goal requires government to use aggression against one group for the benefit of another. This authority must be denied to government. We must limit the government’s role to protecting equal justice in defense of life, liberty, and property.
Currently the political system in America and in most of the rest of the world is not motivated to seek this limited goal for government. Thus the move toward unfair concentration of wealth in the few and a dramatic increase in the number of people living in poverty as the middle class shrinks. Since there is little understanding of the economic system that is a major contributing factor to the economic problems, it can be expected to exacerbate social and class conflict. The killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson plus many similar incidents are signs of a serious economic and political crisis that is not limited to police brutality and runaway violence.
Police brutality and militarization may well induce a violent event far beyond what we have seen in Ferguson. It also can serve as an excuse. But it is not the root cause of turmoil. The real cause is poverty, the entitlement mentality, and the breakdown of the rule of law. Moral decay and the national police state are the real culprits.
More police with improved training will not do much to deal with this growing conflict. Bowing to entitlement demands from the “victims” will not be helpful in a bankrupt system. We have too many police, too many laws, and too much exemption of government officials from the crimes they commit. Both adding police and increasing entitlements involve expanding the role of government in an effort to solve problems that too much government has already caused. Government can only be expanded by diminishing the people’s liberty. This problem can only be ended by maximizing liberty and getting people to realize that self-reliance, hard work, and the absence of coercive force by individuals and government is the only way to reverse the downward trend from which we are suffering.
The battle will no longer be to get the government to pick sides in a conflict between rich and poor, black and white, young and old, or the lawless police versus the lawless demands of entitlement recipients demanding their “fair share.” There has to be an understanding that productive effort and self-reliance on the part of everyone is required for a free society to thrive.
Our Liberties Under Attack
The economic and moral decay of American society is reflected in the loss of liberties. This problem affects all Americans and not just the poor in the inner city. Gradual erosion of personal and economic liberty has proceeded for a century. The loss of our liberty has sharply accelerated since the 9/11 attacks. We have done to ourselves what no foreign enemy could have possibly accomplished.
Government surveillance provides the state with information that enables it to know our every move. The protection of the Fourth Amendment is gone. Many Americans are comfortable with the sacrifice of liberty for safety and accept the notion that government’s key responsibility is to keep us safe. It’s a nice dream but the truth is it can’t do it. One thing for sure: if it tries, it will do so at the expense of liberty.
Welfare, for the rich or poor, cannot exist without the sacrifice of the principal of property ownership. Though it always starts small and justified for the “needy,” the principle of wealth transfer incentivizes the special interests and the rich to obtain benefit at the expense of the poor. This occurs in all societies and inevitably grows to a point where the production of wealth is diminished and the system collapses. This is what we are witnessing today.
The growth of the state necessitates government surveillance of all our financial transactions to enhance the collection of tax revenues. Because there is never enough money for the “do-gooders,” the tactics of the tax collectors have become more vicious. Violation of our liberties is excused by the majority in order to ensure that all people “pay their fair share.” When conditions deteriorate, capital controls are imposed to prevent moving assets out of the country. Our monstrous tax code reflects the hundred-years development of our income tax system and is one of the greatest invitations for our “caring” government to pursue the impossible goal of the fair distribution of all wealth.
The vicious drug war, which dates from the early 1970s, provides another excuse for knowing everything about everybody at all times. Its selling point is to keep people safe from themselves. Pursuing this principle guarantees that liberty will be decimated in the process. It invites the government’s interference in our spiritual and intellectual well-being. What one reads and believes becomes of interest to the manipulators who want to care for us for our own good. And they never rest from seeking this goal.
This concession to the state invites controls on everything we put into our bodies: what we eat, drink, or inhale. It takes a lot of bureaucrats, politicians, and money to manage the process. The people, we have been told, are “too stupid” to make their own decisions about their own lives. We are to believe that politicians who invite themselves to rule over us are all-wise and that we should be thankful to sacrifice our liberty for this “service.” Authoritarians actually believe that we should be grateful to them for all the good things that they do for us. We must remember that if the people don’t rebel against a police state it only grows in size and becomes more ruthless.
In addition to all these trends — which includes the federal government monopolizing and administering medical care and education — government surveillance becomes the darling of the gurus who love the technology that allows the government to know our every move, every day, without limits.
With the disaster of 9/11, an existing acceptance of government monitoring, along with technological advances, helped allow a new age to be ushered in that makes the horrors of George Orwell’s 1984 look less threatening by comparison.
The Federal Government’s War on Us
Tolerance is a favorable trait when it means acting without aggression toward others, but tolerance of the monster that has evolved in our government is not good. Instead of adding more government agencies to spy on the American people, we should be talking about eliminating the ones we have, at a cost the American taxpayers of over $80 billion per year.
We have lived with the global war on terrorism for over 13 years now, and the threat of terrorist attacks against Americans and American allies is worse than ever. Though a global threat exists, the greatest dangers for American citizens here at home have been caused by our own government. Our government’s attacks on our liberties have been overwhelming and worse than anything any foreign power has ever done.
It’s the federal government that leads the charge in all our domestic wars, which, in addition to the global war on terrorism, include the war on drugs, taxpayers, and poverty, all of which contribute to the constant war on our privacy. Today every American is a suspect. Our president has established a policy that an American citizen can be assassinated without even being charged with a crime. The national police are made up of over 100,000 bureaucrats and police officials who carry guns to enforce federal law on the American citizens. The Founders and our Constitution intended that policing powers would be the responsibility of the individual states. That was forgotten a long time ago.
Not only do employees of agencies like the CIA, FBI, and BATF carry guns, employees of OSHA, EPA, Fish and Wildlife, and many other agencies enforcing regulations do so as well. The notion of total homeland security being provided by a heavily armed Department of Homeland Security was foreign to America up until just recently. Today, whether it’s riots in our cities or chaos after a national disaster like a hurricane, the Feds are there taking charge over all local officials and property owners, . It shouldn’t surprise us that our local police departments have become an arm of a runaway federal police mentality that mimics an army.
The Founders did not even want a standing army. They wanted only a militia. Today we endure, at the expense of our liberties, a national police force armed like an invading military force. We are destined to see a continued escalation of violence in our cities as the internal conflicts grow. Instead of the police quelling the violence, they unfortunately have become part of it.
It’s evident we have a national police force harassing the people and failing to protect liberty and property. It fails to quell riots while. Too often it incites them. We are also stuck with a huge “standing” army, marching around the world and engaged to some degree in over 150 countries, “making the world safe for democracy” and serving as a private police force for American corporations overseas.
The US Empire: Who Does it Serve?
When Obama announced a shift in geopolitical interest to the Far East —– to keep an eye on China —– one TV anchor pointed out that the move seems quite logical since we have a lot of “business interests” in the region. It is, in fact, far from logical if one looks at the tragic mess US government interventionism has caused in the Middle East and the conflict the US government is stirring up with Russia over Ukraine.
Old-fashioned colonialism was deemed necessary by various European powers to secure natural resources along with control over sea lanes and markets for selling manufactured goods. European-style colonialism — supporting a mercantilistic economy — came to be seen as politically unrealistic and unnecessary. When free-trade principles were utilized, colonialism did not die; it only changed form. Mercantilism in various forms and degrees drove trade policies of nations with strong economies and militaries. Though the United States is the world’s military powerhouse, controls the oceans and airspace, and has a presence in the four corners of the earth, few people refer to America as a colonial power. But in many ways it is, which has prompted our interests in oil and mineral rich countries. We are frequently involved in choosing the “elected” leaders, as well as hand-picking dictators, in many countries as well. This is not exactly what the Founders had advised.
International militarization of our policies is just as dangerous to our liberties and economy as is the domestic policy that drives our authoritarian governments to regulate our every move. We are now subject to an out-of-control domestic police force while the US military maintains our Empire overseas.
The “one percenters,” generally speaking, are internationalists who are not champions of individual liberty and free trade. They are supporters of managed trade and international institutions like the WTO where the interests of the one percent can influence the rulings that frequently have little to do with advancing advertised goals of low tariffs and free trade.
The international monetary system is a powerful tool for the select few. Easy credit, government guarantees, and generous contracts are a great benefit to those in charge. Non-compliant nations, or any country that is deemed unfriendly, can be punished with severe sanctions without moral or economic justification. US corporations benefit from our military presence worldwide. The military-industrial complex profits not only by selling weapons to the US government, but also by being the world’s chief arms provider.
It is a fact that many weapons we send into areas such as Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria frequently end up in the hands of our enemies. ISIS obtaining US weapons led to the US military then taking action to destroy the weapons. The military-industrial complex is immediately available to replace the weapons while earning generous profits. This is great if you happen to be an insider manufacturing or selling these weapons. It is quite a lucrative business, all at the expense of the American taxpayer.
The United States military presence around the world provides a “private” police force to protect US and other international companies against any local resistance or leaders that turn unfriendly. Our military presence overseas has nothing to do with protecting our freedoms and defending our Constitution. Those are lies and are used for the purpose of gaining the support of the American people for wars that should never have been fought. After long periods of tragic losses and expense, the American people generally wake up and realize what has happened. But what we need to do is wake the American people up earlier and get them to realize that the resistance has to be heard from the people when the government is preparing for war, not after the war has begun or even ended.
Military personnel are idolized, and, if any one raises a question on whether or not all soldiers are universally “heroes,” that person is accused of being unpatriotic, un-American, and unsupportive of the troops. In fact, the real heroes are the ones who expose the truth and refuse to fight foreign wars for the international corporations. Disengaging our troops from around the world and refusing to defend American neocolonialism is pursuing a course compatible with the qualities that Americans claim to stand for.
Liberty at home is never enhanced by war abroad. Preemptive wars are especially antagonistic to the goals of peace, commerce, and honest friendship. War “is the health of the state,” it has been said, and the state is the enemy of liberty. Wars overseas justify the wars at home against the American people. It is expected that liberties will be sacrificed when a country is at war. Pro-war neoconservatives are blatantly honest by arguing that for freedom to exist the sacrifice of liberty is required. This admission is truly discouraging. It hardly makes sense that voluntarily sacrificing liberty is worthwhile, if the goal is to preserve liberty. Time is short to reverse this trend.
Not only are our policies destructive to liberty, the economic costs are prohibitive. So far the bills have not been paid, but they are rapidly coming due. Both the deeply flawed policy of military interventionism abroad and the failed errors of central economic planning at home are now threatening our liberties and our general welfare. The recent breakout of violence in our cities between police on one side and people who have been thrust into the stagnation of poverty as a consequence of bad government social and economic policy on the other side should not be a mystery if one could see the forest for the trees. Economic problems are “blowback” and unintended consequences of well-meaning welfare programs that have been usurped by the powerful special interests demanding benefits off the top.
Yes, it’s tempting to believe the falsehoods of economists who claim that transferring wealth for fairness sake is beneficial, but history shows that it never works. The same humanitarians argue that all spending is crucial and beneficial, deficits don’t matter, borrowing is good, and taxing is the equalizer. If government still comes up short they say just turn on the printing presses. That is the philosophy we have been living with for 85 years, and the evidence is now in. It is clear to most Americans that these policies have not worked. Yet they are not ready to concede that it is less government and more freedom that is the solution.
The obsession with continuing all the same policies has increased our poverty, increased violence between the classes, and lowered the standard of living for all except the elite one percent. And worst of all, the sacrifice of liberty was for naught. Losing both liberty and the right to truly own property undermines the ability to create wealth. When this process gets out-of-control the economy goes into a death spiral, in the beginning of which we currently find ourselves. Without a correction to the basic understanding of the proper role of government, the downward spiral will continue.
Blowback All Around: We Are Less Safe
Economic blowback and unintended consequences is one thing, but blowback from our needless and aggressive policies around the world is another, and every bit as dangerous. As we find ourselves increasingly engaged economically and militarily around the world, we can expect many more attacks on American interests. With so many military personnel abroad, they will be the easiest targets to be hit. But attacks similar in nature to the 9/11 attacks will remain a threat to our homeland. We will not be attacked because we are free and rich. The attacks will come from angry people who have had friends and relatives killed by America’s careless and often vicious use of our military force in their countries.
It is not that difficult to feel resentment against a country that comes thousands of miles from home and bombs, invades, and punishes with sanctions, other countries that have never initiated force against it. As long as our foreign policy remains the same we can expect serious blowback attacks — and for them to increase in number as our prowess is diminished. Economic factors will determine this, and the loss of dollar hegemony will aggravate the situation.
The US government’s foolishness in foreign affairs has plagued us for 100 years. The escalation of our presence around the world since 9/11 continues. It is a policy “bubble” of gigantic proportions. This “bubble” of intervention is about to burst. Any serious look at our last 13 years of intervention around the world should convince all skeptics of how foolish, dangerous, and expensive it has been. The US operates with an attitude that it has the power and therefore the responsibility to be involved in deciding almost every foreign leader, whether elected or appointed as a dictator.
We have been engaged in picking and financing political factions in revolts in countries including Egypt, Libya, Pakistan, Yemen, Afghanistan, Iraq, Kurdistan, Syria, Ukraine, Somalia, Nigeria, the Philippines, Liberia, Georgia, Haiti, and Lebanon.
These involvements impose a huge tax and inflation burden on the American people. Trillions of dollars have been spent, and the debt continues to mount. The abject failure of our efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan elicits a loud call from the neoconservatives for more money, troops, weapons, and bombs, with zero hope of a successful mission. ISIS, now considered our greatest threat, is not even a country, but our occupation and destruction in the region motivates even a ragtag bunch to expel foreign forces from their homeland. ISIS has rallied enormous support and resources to undermine our allies in the region. That assessment is difficult, of course, since it’s hard for anyone to identify exactly who our allies are and distinguish them from our avowed enemies.
US foreign policy has helped create the disastrous situation in Syria. We declared that Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad had to go. We supported rebel factions. We armed them. They turned on us and used their American weapons against us with an amazing resistance headed by the ruthless ISIS, an outgrowth of al-Qaeda. It’s quite an irony that ISIS is well entrenched in northern Iraq, since before we decided to invade Iraq and kill Saddam Hussein no al-Qaeda were present in Iraq. Now the neocons are getting their way and American forces are returning with reinforcements and weapons to save Baghdad from the jihadists.
No one can make this stuff up. It’s too bizarre for fiction. Unfortunately, with the help of the media and our government, the American people have remained oblivious to the stupidity of our policies of the past 13 years. A day will come though when the full cost of this policy is dumped on the American people. Then they will get the message. Then it will be too late to gracefully exit and restore sanity without cataclysmic changes being forced on us. The major challenge will be the survival of our liberties.
What to expect in 2015?
Foreign Affairs
More American troops will be sent overseas to places like Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, and Ukraine. There will be no military victories to brag about. More American military personnel will be killed in 2015 than in 2014. Military contractors will be used in growing numbers and their casualties will not be counted as military casualties.
The Ukraine civil war will not end, and the United States will be further bogged down in this conflict. Relations with Russia will continue to deteriorate. The neocons in Congress will gain even more influence over our foreign policy. Punishing sanctions will continue to be made more severe and push Russia further into China’s sphere of influence. Gold will gain credibility as we isolate the Russians from the financial markets.
Sanctions on Russia will alienate Europe against the United States. The British oil industry will suffer from the “conspiracy” of the US and Saudi Arabia to drive oil prices down to punish Russia.
The military-industrial complex will continue to thrive and make even more money with the greater influence of the neocons in the new Congress. Supplemental budgets for the military should be expected, along with covert assistance and additional foreign aid to finance the management of our Empire.
Our enemies’ strength will grow and prompt even more abuse of American citizens’ privacy and free expression. We should not be surprised if there is a reigniting of the conflict in the Balkans. The first of the color revolutions in 2000 in Serbia can hardly be claimed a permanent victory. Generally, bombs from outsiders don’t solve internal problems. Those problems must eventually be solved from within a country rather than from outside interference.
The US and NATO announced that the 13 year war in Afghanistan has ended. There has been neither the pretense of "Mission Accomplished" nor an admission of outright failure, along with an exodus. In reality the war has not ended and instead will continue for a long time. No victory for US policy is possible. The conflict will actually spread and increase in intensity since our goals are undefinable and therefore the war is un-winnable.
Sanity will not return to US leaders until our financial system collapses — an event for which they are feverishly working
Domestic issues
An honest assessment of the economy will not reveal any significant improvement in 2015. Inflation will continue to plague us, possibly even with the government-rigged CPI figures showing an increase. But the true inflation of the Fed’s credit creation, as well as the subsequent mal- investment and the various bubbles bursting will accelerate. Debt in all categories will continue to increase at unsustainable rates. The Fed will not permit interest rates to rise — at least on purpose. Eventually the market will demand that rates do rise, however.
Tax revenues will continue to rise, aiding the policy of the government spending the people’s money rather than those who earned it. Regulations, even with (or maybe especially with) a Republican Congress will continue to increase and make the Federal Register more incomprehensible. Friction between the middle class and the one percent, many of whom are living off government privileges, will escalate further and be reflected in confrontations especially in the large cities. Financial currency controls will continue to expand especially with cross-border transactions.
Blowback and unintended consequences from our sanctions and foreign policy in general will continue to threaten our domestic security and our economy, as well as our liberties.
Relations with Cuba will be improved with the president’s effort to resume diplomatic relations, but the radicals and isolationists who oppose free trade will place roadblocks in the way and slow the process.
A major geopolitical or economic event, greater than the crisis of 2008, is fast approaching. The precipitating event will be a surprise to the majority of politicians and economists. There are many “next shoe to drop” possibilities, and one could happen any time or any place.
Wall Street will be protected, and the trillions of dollars of big banks derivatives will be absorbed by the Fed, the FDIC, and ultimately by the American taxpayers in the next financial crisis. There’s no doubt the poor will get poorer and the rich richer until the spirit of revolution in the people calls a halt to the systematic destruction of freedom in America.
Conclusion: Toward a Peaceful Revolution
Authoritarianism has overtaken our economic system as the welfare mentality takes over at every level of government. Once the initiation of force by government is accepted by the people, even minimally, it escalates and involves every aspect of society. The only question that remains is just who gets to wield the power to distribute the largess to their friends and chosen beneficiaries. It’s a recipe for steady growth of the government at the expense of liberties, even if official documents and laws written to limit government power are in place. Planting even small seeds of monopoly power in the hands of a few people in government, whether democratically elected or not, will always metastasize like a cancer. This was Jefferson’s concern when he advised that “[t]he tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time.” He believed the people must warn the rulers that taking up arms against the government is legitimate if the government fails to protect the people’s liberty.
This should be a consideration. But if the spirit of liberty is not alive and well in the hearts and minds of the people, violence alone against the government will not be a solution. History has shown that, more often than not, people who rebel against abusive governments, whether run by kings or modern day dictators, do not gain much — overthrowing one dictator and replacing him with another just as bad.
A clear understanding of the nature and source of liberty is required for revolutions to be beneficial. Restraining the few who thrive on the use of force to rule over us is the challenge. Fortunately they are outnumbered by those who would choose liberty yet lack the will to challenge the humanitarian monsters who gain support from naive and apathetic citizens. All positive revolutions must be philosophic in nature to make a difference. Violence alone achieves nothing.
Before we can actually restore our liberties, we most likely will have to become a lot less free and much poorer. This is sad since correct and workable answers are available to us if only the people understood them and demanded liberty and honesty, rather than being dependent on excessive government power and believing the false promises of politicians.
Even with the problems we face today and the bleak outlook for the coming year there’s much to encourage us. During this next year there will be the continuation of many more people recognizing the failure of government to create peace and prosperity. More widespread understanding of this truth is required in order to bring about a successful revolution.
The freedom movement, especially with many young people involved, will grow in numbers and influence.
Current monetary policy and the Federal Reserve will continue to lose credibility, especially with the next bailout. Although “too big to fail” will stay in place, it will further alienate Main Street America causing it to rebel against the system.
The real problem of course is that too many “stupid people” are IN our government and have high visibility on the major TV networks. There will be plenty of people, not officially associated with government, who will rebel against various governments around the world. The sentiments supporting secession, jury nullification, nullification of federal laws by state legislatures, and a drive for more independence from larger governments will continue.
We should not be discouraged. Enlightenment is not nearly as difficult to achieve as it was before the breakthrough with Internet communications occurred. Besides we must remember that “an idea whose time has come” cannot be stopped by armies, demagogues, politicians, or even Fox News or MSNBC. The time has come for the ideas of liberty to prevail. I smell progress. Let’s make 2015 a fun year for LIBERTY.
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SOME...note that word SOME...Jews and SOME Christians are knowingly ZIONIST while SOME are just useful tools without understanding the underlying agenda.
Yet useful tools, knowing or not, ARE COMPLICIT as ignorance is NOT a VALID DEFENSE.
Lots more than Jews in the NWO.....
But who is at the top and decides who gets in and who stays in at the levels below them?
I beg to disagree, you see the filthy whitey goyim is an interesting animal...those who know the truth still knowingly serve their talmudic overlords faithfully as well as with their unkowing ignorant bumbling idiot counterparts who do not know the truth and still suckle from the magnificent teet of the Yellen. The filthy whitey goyim is a captured prey animal that is at the complete mercy of the talmudic shepherd, they will be led bled and eventually discarded but they still feel they are superior and have a say so because of their pale skin and need for sun tan yes truly an interesting creature indeed
His call for revolution is a call for the deaths of millions, and martial law. The people need to keep their heads down and be invisible, not be pawns to TPTB, including this one.
I learned something today. It would be good for you to learn and incorporate into your postings.
Revelations 3:9
Behold, I will cause those of the synagogue of Satan, who say that they are Jews and are not, but lie-- I will make them come and bow down at your feet, and make them know that I have loved you.
That is God's way of telling us that we are wrong when we blame entire races or religions or whatevers. You need to do something to prove yourself right or wrong. Go look in the phonebook (online version is fine) and find the first jewish name in your town. Call them and find out just how they are controlling the Federal Reserve and generally making life miserable on the planet. Come back with your proof or admit your failure.
Can you do that for us Stumpy? Can ya?
+ infinity
Thanks for this verse. I am a Christian who cringes whenever bible verses are posted into ZH comments but this one is gold.
You claim to be Christian and yet you cringe upon reading the written Truth?
Everytime I see scripture, used, or, misused I celebrate.
When used properly it spreads the Truth which is a joyous experience. The angels rejoice.
When misused it gives opportunity for needed correction. Again the angels rejoice.
The Word is truly a Double Edged Sword. They are words of Salvation and redemption and, yet, coincidentally, they are words of conviction and damnation.
So I celebrate my own destruction and damnation as I am deserving of God's swift justice. Yet I will continue to celebrate the Truth unto the grave.
So you go on and keep cringing, Satan, and I will keep celebrating. For I already know your end because I know my end.
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entire races, hmm? that's news to many "Christian" posters here, I'm sure.
does it also work for "fat people" and "women"? because they are another very obvious Christian target oft seen here, by those most devout.
I'm sure there must be a verse that can be referenced as to why it's okay to hate some peoples, as long as you love your gods.
So you are overweight? Gluttony is one of the seven deadly sins.
I do not recall reading any ridicule about fat people other than that about the Wal Mart EBT crowd. And that is generally not sexist. There are plenty of obese men in Wal Mart too. But YOU generalized that to women.
T'was not I, nor anyone else that I can recollect. bitch.
I also believe that you seem to think it is about hatred of people rather than disdain of a sinful lifestyle.
And that only reveals what you believe as you are transferring your general attitude upon others whom you really do not know.
Don't forget Cat, this 'god' casts people into lakes of fire and stuff - forever!
Rather hateful judgmental psychopathic act, no?
If a human did that to another human, they'd be a total dead-shit, you'd want to execute them, right?
But not 'god', their god is perfect, holy, 'divine' ( ... hey buddy, ya wanna buy a bridge?)
The other 'god's' threaten/recommend similar, or worse.
So is it any wonder the believers are unrelenting haters who do absolutely atrocious things to people, for allegedly godly ends? They are just following their 'god's' lead and example, after all.
People make their own hell, after a 'god' and their profit$ of some shit goat herder's religion gives them archaic barbaric 'teachings' from some vile 'good' book.
And most people 'respect' this, and defer to its' convenient justifications for rank maliciousness towards others.
The more fundamentalism in an area, the more vicious, 'evil' and miserable that area becomes. Look at the globe, where is the most open fundamentalism expressed? Do these places correlate with the most violence, hatreds, vicious govt abuses and enduring misery and dysfunction?
Gee, how can that be?!
On the contrary, how can it not be, and why would anyone be surprised by the results?
The last thing I want to see is our govt importing more of these crazy people, who are such experts at professing innocence and innocuous intent. They are warped cynical liars at the best of times, and in this case, the much touted 'precautionary principle' should most definitely be enacted.
Fundamentalism in any religion is quintessentially mental illness. It may not be 'PC' to say that, yet, but that does not make it any less true, or overwhelmingly obvious.
fauxhammer
He did. Here it is:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7o6VKD1Eg-8
Any questions, asshole?
Good video...a bit dated, but good. Ron Paul has my respect.
Thanks, fuckface
You're welcome, ballbag.
Carry on.
Fauxhammer, don't stop with that video. There are dozens. Before you jump of RP, find me another person who has videos like that posted all over the place, proving him right years, sometimes decades, later. There aren't any. It still blows my mind that people call him crazy or say he doesn't know what he is talking about. He has been right far more than he has been wrong.
Funny, how they did the same thing with Ross Perot.
Perhaps it's the Messiah complex that puts people off? Or the fact that they're politicians, which is fair reason enough, isn't it? The politicians you may think of as "good ones" are just the ones you don't know very well yet. One of the problems with "principled but pragmatic", is the result can be (and is) anything that you didn't vote for.
So what exactly is the point of voting ... or campaigns?
There is a predominant net of reasons I don't vote; every politician I've ever voted for in the past ten years has massively increased public debt (enslaved me to bankers for decades), withdrawn services I already paid into, raised taxes, imposed MANY new fines, added a sea of new laws, provisions and duties-of-care on me, which strangle everything I do, and last time they even fined me for not voting and extorted payment by trying to remove my licence to drive and function.
It doesn't matter if you get the one you voted for it turns out they're way worse anyhow, so there is zero point voting, democracy is not merely (arguably) corrupt, it simply doesn't work as advertised, like every other part of government.
There is a scam going on in my home town right now of creating fake jobs for the next election. The jobs are completely bogus! They don't exist! They're unpaid training courses for 8-weeks for 200 positions, with no employment contract, and no wages! And it's running over the course of the election! Then these people will be out on their arse! Training courses being passed off as full time 'Job' placements, with no fucking wage, and no job at the end of it!
And desperate people are still signing up for it!
The politician and party the set it up will come to town very soon and brag about this facade of all these new 'jobs' being created by his government to help the economy and local people, blah blah!
And 95% of people will accept that as real, on face value, and most of them will vote for the skunk in a few weeks.
And her Majesty's 'Opposition' party is about 10 times more corrupt, insidious and thoroughly despicable and inimical to the public interest than that guy is.
I'll start your homework for you....Rockefeller, Rothschild, Warburg and the small fish like Dimon and Blankfiend who do their bidding. Please read None Dare Call it Conspiracy as a primer.....
I don't think Ron was trying to create a detailed hit list here but more to outline again the simple fundamentals of life liberty and property that must be instilled in the youth with the help of the very few older adults who understand the mess we've created.
Is it so hard for you to imagine the 536 people he is talking about? Past and present.
Deflect much?
You are so right!
Ron didn't talk much about the banksters who control the printing presses. Fiat currency and the dollar as the global reserve currency, these are at the root of much of this evil, which cannot survive without its control over the world financial system.
“I'll have those niggers voting Democratic for the next 200 years. [Touting his underlying intentions for the "Great Society" programs, LBJ confided with two like-minded governors on Air Force One]”
? Lyndon B. Johnson
FORWARD SOVIET!
Sounds about right.
People as uninformed and as gullible as Americans have no future. Americans are a dead people that history is about to run over. - Paul Craig Roberts
I had dinner with a young couple last night that had never heard of Ferguson or what happened in Paris last week.
That's better than 50% of Americans...at a minimum.
The lies sound so much more wonderful than the harsh truth and almost nobody is aware or prepared.....
Why would anyone want to be freezing and exposed to the elements in those tiny lifeboats? The Titanic's first class dining room is opulent, spacious, and warm...
Let's get something straight. There is only 'cradle to grave welfare' for people with brown skin or darker. Everyone else not so much, if any.
Ima git mah check or ama burn mah house down!
"we lie when the truth sounds better."
More like we lie to make it appear to be the truth.
Taxes, no different then paying the mob for "protection", just in this case from the IRS.
most people are not responsible
for their own reality....
thus lies the problem
Here is a taste of reality someone posted on ZH yesterday. Multi-trillion fraud against Americans.
2 hour plus video of obscure wealth income funds held by over 40,000 local, state and federal agencies producing enough income to lower taxes significantly and completely fund gov. pensions. The biggest organized crime syndicate the world has ever known.
Have a look at this if you dare.
"The Biggest Game InTown" about the Government CAFR wealth shell gamehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkwjtbTjTsE
So Close said ""If Americans were honest with themselves......" ain't gonna happen. We can't even call a fat person fat or a criminal a criminal. we lie when the truth sounds better.
Your statement is particularly funny to me since I spent some time this weekend with Chinese people who were asking me "why can't you say people are fat?" I wasn't sure what to say...for the same reason we can't tell people they sing horribly, so they go on believing they are the next star on America's Got Talent. We have created a world of facades where everyone is wonderful.
America has become a island that they put socialist on to tax each other to death
It has become a combination of "Animal Farm" and "Lord of the Flies". None are so blind as those who refuse to look at the real world.
It's a toxic stew of all the darkest dystopian novels and films. It's as if everyone who read and watched them collectively thought "That's awful, let's try it!"
Perhaps that's what happens when you teach idiots to read and allow them enough free time to watch a movie... or maybe that's just how dark the world is and we've fooled ourselves into believing otherwise.
I'm more cynical than usual lately.
The difference between fiction and reality is fiction has to make sense.... Tom Clancy
Well the realization of giving 1 million monkeys keyboards can be disappointing.
Reading posts by me proves the point.
Carry on cynical.
What advanced species are you talking about there? Only 1 million?
Most of us needed an infinite number of them to get here!
If America was honest , we would run The Tribe out of here tomorrow.
We are not allowed to be critical of these members who stick together in a tight group that serves only it's own tribe members, always seeking to extract wealth and exercise power over the non-tribe members. While we can not be critical of them, it does help to expose who the "ruling elites" in America are. Start with Neocon Washington, The Banks, the Federal Reserve and inside the "deep state". If you turn back the curtain, the levers are being pulled by this tightly loyal tribe, who care nothing for non-tribal members.
They will deny they are totally engaged in self service to their group. If they come to you and say this, they are telling a lie, and they know it. They get angry because we are not supposed to be clever enough to know the power Zionists exercise over the entire USA.
don't forget the entire Military Industrial Complex
Everyone should read Eisenhower's exit speech in it's entirety, there he laid out a road map of ALL the problems America would face for the next 60 years, nothing has been more prophetic than that speech
it's like he had a time machine and watched it all unfold then went back in time an warned us ALL. Nobody listened....
find a link to the enitre speech through here;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eisenhower's_farewell_address
Eisenhower really matured after burning and beating the Bonus Marchers and waging total war on German civilians in his younger days.
Better late than never I guess.
Yes he was part of the establishment but as a parting gift he called them out v.e.r.y clearly and nobody listened but that speech says it all and we're exactly where he said we'd end up. Corpro-fasciist oligarchy behind a thin veil faux regulatory captured democracy. everyone was paid off in some fashion, even the common american with false wealth borne on the backs of other nations commodities thru either a military or petro dollar hegemony.
America loves "the tribe" too much to run them out, because they refuse to bite the hand that feeds them. I am not talking about the folks on here who are awake to this, but I am talking about the general public out there.
The religious right licks the boots of Israel. The secular Americans out there love Zionist produced music, movies, TV shows, comedians, casinos, debt-based banking and the flag waving defense industry way too much.
America throwing the Tribe out is as absurd as having an organized insurrection of sheep against the practice of eating mutton to paraphrase Bertrand Russell.
The speechhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eisenhower%27s_farewell_address#The_speech
hear hear, Jack.
You just made the ADL blacklist, buddy.
If America *were* honest or motivated... and I'll take motivated over honest at this point.
Actually, it requires the honesty to motivate people.
If America was honest, there would be no Tribe. Since so many are looking for a free ride the Tribe has been enabled.
If Americans knew and understood the truth, they would drag the entire Tribe out and hang them.
To understand those tribal is to acknowledge that they are highly intellectual, of common ideology, bloodline and purpose, with a character refined and embedded in their dna, and that process has been evolving their genetics to higher states for millenia. No other racial group can rival them, and once they are entrenched in the power positions of any country, its game over.
They control everything. They hold sway on nearly every aspect of life. Most of us goy have been subjected to decades of conditioning via media and entertainment, and are absolute zombies who are incapable of thinking for themselves. Goy have been conditioned to not utter a single negative thing about jews lest they be labeled a nazi, always abide by political correctness so no one can get to the bottom of issues, they are exposed to the dumbing, vile, family-destoying programming to keep everyone disunited and at each others throats so everyone is incapable of identifying and holding responsible the real culprits responsible for the countries demise... the list goes on and on what these guys do to attain their ends, but all will remain too foolish and callow to ever make a difference. Everyone is in denial about the tribe and their power over all because their minds have been programmed to reject such a notion. Yes, we are screwed.
Yes, that sums it up!
The tribe have undermined, exploited and eventually been run out of almost every country they have ever inhabited. It is a result of their ability to out perform their hosts as a tiny minority. Their success comes from millennia of self loyalty as a people. If I were a Rabbi I would be more honest and open about these very real and legitimate facts and attempt to temper this problem in my people. The so called Jewish 'problem' has been labeled a problem by less successful indigenous people because the Jews are paradoxically so successful at survival ultimately for their own survival and collapse in their host society's due to a lack of self control of this success. Gods people are responsible for America's demise as much as anyone but their real problem is themselves. Perhaps the final solution is actually total Jew control of the planet.
The Tribe's material success due to the exceptional Jew meme died in when The Maestro's Frankenstein creation collapsed on its face in 2008. Just being crooked and colluding while maintaining a straight, lying face is a kind of "exceptional" that needs to be stopped, not admired and boasted about. Of course some Jews realize this. Some brave ones even speak out.
https://mobile.twitter.com/haaretzcom/status/527684198358716416/photo/1
Zionism is Jewish Fascism.
CB, Check this out...clever in a bad way.
http://www.energyenhancement.org/old_rothschild_and_rockefeller-Mises-Ha...
y'know, if people would just humble themselves a tad, then such mythologies taught as
whether via "jewish" or "manifest destiny" or "white skin traditions" or WHATEVER
would be laughed at as the BAIT they are.
but people love to position themselves in the hierarchy, it's the "innate competitiveness" they believe they were born to. . . truly few question the "reality" they believe in, nor can they fathom parallels and alternatives.
Well it seems we broadly agree on one topic.
If he was honest he would name the responsible people.
Relations with Cuba will be improved with the president’s effort to resume diplomatic relations, but the radicals and isolationists who oppose free trade will place roadblocks in the way and slow the process.
Dr. Paul...it reads as if you are a proponent of free trade. Free trade fucked an asshole into the USA damn near 3000 miles wide. Please consult your local memory hole.
No it didn't Philo - not by itself, nor the concept of free trade either. Crony capitalism and government interference are always the culprit, followed closely behind by an apathetic electorate who refuses to hold their elected representatives to account, followed closely behind by a morally corrupt, morbidly obese, lazy, self-indulged and supremely Ignorant society-at-large.
Who benefited from free trade? Certainly not main street. When you have an absolute advantage in most things it is best to keep your mouth shut and close the door. David Ricardo was wrong for the reasons you mentioned above.
Who benefited from free trade? Certainly not main street.
Well gee, at least that isn't lost on you as you advocate for free trade with the dictators of Cuba. LOL!
Yes, I was advocating free trade with Cuba. It was clear in every word I typed. Only a fucking retard would come to any other conclusion.
Free Trade doesn't work for the printer of the GRC due to the never ending trade deficit it imposes on the host.
Innovation is the wild card, no disrespect to your flying spittle.
It's simple math knucklehead.
Imagine a 3D printer, admitting affordable substrate at today's cheap rates and producing something that grows into a durable polymer middle finger, just for you fucksmith.
Why are you so offensive? Mommy didn't breast feed you enough?
If all the 'free trade' governments ramble about actually was just that, the whole of humanity would have benefited.
The fact that only a very few have benefited tells you that it is NOT.
America has become a fascist, police state with the highest incarceration rate in the world (740 per 100,000 compared to 51 in Japan and 30 in India), with the NSA spying on the Supreme Court, Congress and White House and every citizen, with captured regulators and fake markets that serve only the 0.1% (the 0.1% now have more wealth than the bottom 90%), eternal war against a faceless enemy called terror which can never surrender, illegal bombing and droning of poor medieval countries (the Nobel Prize Winner has bombed 7 Muslim countries), a bloated defense budget of over $1 trillion a year with 900 military bases in over 130 countries - the evidence for a police, fascist state is inexorable.
And a drugged, dumbed-down and zombified population. Democracy is failure when the majority become low-information-voters.
Anybody who voted for Keating 5 McCain in 2008 is a low-information voter.
Yes, of course. There is no real choice allowed. I used to chuckle when the zino-squad used to attack Iranian elections, saying candidates had to be vetted by the immams. We have the same thing except our candidates must be vetted by the priests of funny-money before standing for election.
it's the "nationstate" model, to have "low-information-voters".
because anyone truly informed, aware, would never waste their time voting for anything beyond their own towns/localities.
all else is fiction, distractions.
People don't care about liberty or freedom. They care about comfort. The difficulty comes in demonstrating that freedom generally leads to a more comfortable and equitable system for all. It's not an intuitive position. The more natural impulse is mistrust of others. Unfortunately, history has demonstrated that this mistrust is well-founded.
revolutions are fought on an empty belly. that is why the welfare programs are so important. they are anti riot programs. paul is absolutely correct in all of his observations. he makes the mistake of equating liberty with financial success. he is right to a degree. it is much easier to make money without .gov interference much of which is in the form of barriers to entry. he is correct about the power of the human spirit in liberty.
what he cannot or does not address is the simple fact that excess labor is the root cause of all the anti liberty measures. unfortunately, idle masses make .govs nervous and they seal their own fate by tightening the screws. they will tighten them to the maximum tolerance level of the people as tacit tolerance is acceptance.
ron has the right solution for the aftermath.
reckon "ron" will share that secret info with his wall-worshiping son?
seriously, what does it take for some to stop making excuses for their "beliefs"?
Graham Nash - Military Madness
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czUx2gvjdJk
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War is always by Deception
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoB80Yk9NYg&list=PLB3D15EE7A8BB4532
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1Qt6a-vaNM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIhdReD6MAo&list=PLB3D15EE7A8BB4532&inde...
DavidPiere - welcome back. I think I'm about to disappear again [sound of trolls clapping], because the train wreck is in progress. There's going to be a lot of yelling and screaming, but nothing more can be done until the dust settles. Stay warm in the Great White North.
I'm on ZH most days
Very poor Noise to Signal Ratio lately.
It's a balmy 0 degrees today.
The 1/2m. of Christmas snow is settling fast.
No ice on the Sushwap... yet.
I hardly see you post anymore. We're having a cold snap here too. When I woke up this morning, it was 15C, about 60F. We have ice in the refrigerator. ;) All the best.
D.P.
THAT IS A BRILLIANT LINK.
thank you.
p
It's new... comprehensive... names names... very long ... very historic.
Stay well... not so blind... blindman!
I have it book marked.
Yes, excellent!
he is a dangerous radical and a racist and i am sure he rapes women and children.
nah, if that were the case he WOULD be president since it would make him a media darlin.
" It is now recognized that central control of education has actually ruined education, while costs have skyrocketed"
I spent the holiday in a famly members home, both public school teachers, and of course another dozen or so local teaches dropped in over the holdidays. I was privy to the converations. It was easy to gauge the relative intelligence of those conversing and figure out what things they felt were important.
Ron Paul is correct. Public Education is Public Indonctrination. Designed to mold a member of the state, not a human being. The needs of the state are all important in Public Education. Secondary to this "state need", public education is concerned with the "ease and comfort of teachers".
I look back at my public school education. They made me into a rabid patriot, a corporate groupy and nearly totally ignorant of history. I was fit only for enlistment into the Imperial Armed Forces. Just as the plan had been since I was 5.
Many years later please do not forgot that Ron Paul is not Jesus. Ron Paul is still subject to peer review until such a time that there is youtube video of him turning water into wine.
Maybe you can provide us with a YouTube video(or any evidence, for that matter) that Jesus turned water into wine, or even existed, for that matter.
I had a diametrically opposite experience being educated, in fact so opposite it saddens me to hear so many americans complain about their education system. 2 degrees and nothing like you've talked about what so ever, in fact the opposite but then I wasn't educated in the states. The entire world of educated folk have not suffered the same as you.
I was indoctrinated just as Jack was and did not realize untile a couple of years ago. I am 49. Maybe you were indoctrinated, maybe you were not. Maybe yours was more powerful and maybe not.
Sorry for your lost time--- I was able to decern the system at an early age due to my "bad atitude" and destructive anti-social behaviour, failing grades and skipping for the most part.
Thanks. I was kind of like you, but then got married young, had 4 kids and became a corporate slave in order to take care of them. Now they are pretty much grown, the fog has lifted, the dust has settled and I can start see once again.
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# "I had a diametrically opposite experience"
I agree with Fred Flinstone, above. I think your powers of perception might be a bit off due to your indoctrination if you are talking about public education in the Western world.
In the anglo countries, the dumb-down approach is certainly the MO. I used to talk to Germans, decades ago and they were very sharp and aware about geo-political realities. More recent discussions have shown the dumbing down, avoid critical thinking in inconvenient areas has taken hold there as well.
Can you share the location of this magical place where real public education is still taking place? Maybe you are Russian?
The purpose of public education is not indoctrination to the state or any other such nonsense. The purpose of public education is to provide a basic education to the majority of the population instead of the historical model where only the elite were provided an education. I prefer the current system to the previous model.
LOFL - forgot the /sarc tag there......or at least hope you did. Otherwise that is about THE most ignorant thing I've ever read on Zerohedge.
Right. Either forgot the /sarc tag or is swimming in Kool-aide.
-- That's what they are constantly preaching to the captive audience of students in school, anyway!
With the greatest of respect TCA, educating the lower classes in addition to the upper classes certainly was the laudable indent of education reformers. Unfortunately, its implementation was taken over by those with the money to do so with very different intentions. The lower classes are not taught the truly useful subjects that the upper classes are in their pricey private schools. Upper classes learn history of empries and war thereby learning how power is gained, maintained, and lost. Lower classes learn parables called history of their country to inculcate unquestioned patriotism. Upper classes are taught finance and money to manage their inheritance. Lower classes are taught word processing and typing or mechanics to get a job. And please don't argue that universal literacy came from universal education because history demonstrates that widespread literacy occurs in nations with free men/women who are invested in their communities enough to read local newspapers and teach their own children - like revolutionaly America....
Eye to eye here, Jack.
R.Paul once said "I never thought that freedom would be such a hard sell"
I have never been able to wrap my brain around that fact either.
I have watched voters for decades now, vote themseleves fewer and fewer freedoms. So I guess my idea that freedom was a natural born instinct was and is incorrect!
Lack of freedom is a survival behavior for the majority and freedom is a survival behavior for the very few.
The freedom behavior runs counter to the social hierarchy in nature.
No, it has to be fought for all the time, every day. TV, radio, movies, internet, cell phones have drowned out whatever truth in media there is, it's hard to find. But no matter how much fighting, freedom's not going to be possible again here, at least not for several generations who won't be our kids, or grandkids.
"have a little faith man" --there is much freedom under the radar--and our kids are learning how to find and use it-- they will not devulge their advantage but its there--trust me on this.
The people elect their representatives who promise to secure their interests in Washington and then both parties promptly forget each other to pursue their own interests.
It's just as simple as that.
How many bosses hire people and then subject them to no accountability for their actions or lack thereof?
Damn few in the private sector.
after years of hearing the bush clan, clinton, and Obola speak of freedom, which in turn brought with it the other word, liberty, and usually involved killing a great number of people somewhere on our planet...i have finally seen it quite differently as: freed OM. and that has made a very great difference in how i feel about life, liberty, and my finally... freed OM.
Absolute freedom cannot exist as long as the "other" exists. If you are the only person in the universe, maybe your free, but probly not, because the external material world will impinge upon that freedom. Only death will set you free in an absolute sense. So quit talking about freedom as a holy grail and begin working more important problems...like how can we get along together.
I always wonder if Rand reads (or listens to) his father's good sense in the middle of counting all that AIPAC money...
www.TopTheNews.com
RTM, another golden oldie. Good to see you too. Interesting what the RP OP inspires.
Interesting too how you have transcended your original purpose. Soon, there will be no one around who knows who RoboTrader is/was.
Well Ron PAul joins PC Roberts and Dave Stockton in going totally contrarian to current political mantra; worth noting.
All three started on the right wing of the Republican aisle. These were not "liberals".
What Reaganomics has begott, along with its following presidencies, who didn't change one iota; in fact added more to the momentum of welfare destruct and economic divide; as well the Power/Empire mantra abroad; now reaps the whirlwind of its own making.
The libertarians in Congress, of which his son, do not sing the same song. Repubs are very tolerant to protecting banking privileges.
I think you might be a bit dogmatic in your left / right labelling. I can see the argument about RP as a useful safety valve for the PTB, but his last campaign did expose what a scam the US election system is for anyone motivated enough to look. We would not know Lois Lehner for example w/o the heavy handed response the good doctor provoked.
Pro-liberty vs. Anti-liberty / creeping totalitarianism is a much more accurate distiction, imo.
yah, quite an "exposed scam" that Paul family runs. . .
gay billionare loves strict "Christian libertarian" family lines. get those voters while they're young - college aged boys who loved the de-criminalise marijuana" promise, and were fine to ignore the Sanctity of Life agenda(s).
so Thiel appears to be quite the "angel investor" yes?
don't know what it will take for people here to give up the hero-worship. . .
Spot on, makes me barf to see people fawn over the next vapid politician who puts on the Libertarian Austrian economics mask, and hold the lamp of goodness aloft to 'guide the way' - pathetic theater. If the fawning were libertarian in more than label they wouldn't buy one bit of it.
I don't object to the inevitable process of policy (as opposed to politics), or economics (as opposed to their rhetoric), I object to the cynical mass manipulation they ALWAYS embody, and the cult of suckers and dupes and suck-ups they need to assimilate to 'make it'.
Then all you have is a politician.
He's not you, he's not your savior, he's not your friend, he doesn't give a damn about you, and he will not be honoring his idealist rhetoric, but he will plow you in on a whim.
Lie-ber-tee
Who is Dave Stockton?
On the bright side everyone hates the NWO. With only slight support the populations of the world will help to crush it.
Go Greece, cradle of Western Civ. Throw the monkey-wrench into the gears on January 27th.
Boy this came from the heart. I like his son Rand Paul too and maybe he's a little more current date but you can tell who he learned from. Rand Paul's background too is being a doctor. One thing about doctors is they understand the real world and deal with it every day, and we have a name for that, it's called "patients", in other words other humans. This is why it is so hard for doctors at times as you get all these analytical virtual values and cores they are required to meet, many of which are falling on their ass now as so many were created with United Healthcare mentorship at HHS, as just hedge funds, those numbers only go so long and with more players in any field, the harder it gets, but they will not relent on doctors. They are in a hard spot.
The tools of those in control are the ones with the brains and algorithms as they can pay for the talent to write such. It's really a nasty environment to work in too as we have folks like Emanual Derman and Paul Wilmott who created the "modeler's manifesto of the medical Hippocratic oath" of "do no harm" out there. Yeah where has "do no harm" gone...it's a good question. When the models and the math are manipulated to where risk fiddling takes over with numbers that don't give the true story, yes indeed it's a fake world. We can look forward now to some News Riggig next I think. A few months ago relative to news feeds and journobots, Nanex and I were talking about this being the algorithmic rig on the map and sure enough, this week, MIT did an article that confirmed it.
So what's next to rig? We know news may be rigged already but wait till the bots go to work on it with unsurpassed speed...yikes...news feeds just might even become a much hotter topic. Here's the tweet with the link to the MIT story, news rigging headed to Wall Street...automated bots to write more of news now. A couple other folks chimed in here too. Good thing there's sites like this, mine and many others out there that humans around to get real news and opinions out there.
Croydon Curmudgeon, Maywater Compliance and Eric Scott Hunsader retweeted you 15h:@nanexllc News rigging-we've talked about, here's the next Chapter via MIT http://bit.ly/1ACRECH (we were right on target here I think:)
The only way Rand is a good guy is if he's biding his time for a more opportune moment. ... Like Putin did.
ron paul has delivered over 4000 babies, and maintained his principles through 24 years in congress. that's an impressive track record.
This article has one hell of a lot of truth in it.
End the FED. The shit doesn't stop until the FED is stopped.
The problem is hydra is not just the fed, its every north/south American and European Central bank and most of the ones in Africa also.
If you somehow managed to decapitate "THE FED" they would purposefully send America into a planned 30 year great depression until enough of us died from starvation so that another branch of Hydra can come back in and take-over again under some new name, and you can bet that system will be even more enslaving than this one given the current level of technology available for their disposal.
Why do you think the government and central bank has de-industrialized america???? so that you have no where to run, there is no industry left in America to rebuild, we would essentially be in a situation sooooo bad, that we would probably start a new callender "Year one A.F. ,.. After FED" ;P
No need to be a total defeatist. America successfully kicked out the globalist banksters twice in the past. The first time, we got the War of 1812 as retribution, ... which we won. The American navy shockingly kicked ass against the greatest sea going power the world had ever seen. Old Iron Side, The USS Constitution is still afloat in Charlestown. The second time, Old Hickory, Andrew Jackson kicked them out and we were more or less free until Christmas Eve 1913.
Andrew Jackson quotes: # The bold effort the present (central) bank had made to control the government ... are but premonitions of the fate that await the American people should they be deluded into a perpetuation of this institution or the establishment of another like it.
# Gentlemen, I have had men watching you for a long time and I am convinced that you have used the funds of the bank to speculate in the breadstuffs of the country. When you won, you divided the profits amongst you, and when you lost, you charged it to the bank. You tell me that if I take the deposits from the bank and annul its charter, I shall ruin ten thousand families. That may be true, gentlemen, but that is your sin! Should I let you go on, you will ruin fifty thousand families, and that would be my sin! You are a den of vipers and thieves.
That is the bailout game. . .
"If you dont bail us out you will cause mass death and martial law".
Thats how the bail-outs were justified pure and simple.
The response to that should have been "true should I deny bailouts a million families would suffer, but if I give you the bailouts 50,000,000 will suffer and that is your sin!"
We relive history, except this time around the people making the reply caved in.
between the free shit army and the 1% the rest of us have NO HOPE. the best thing to do is stay out of the way when the free shit army gets thrown under the bus by the 1%. Good luck with that because it won't be easy.
Like many Ron Paul understands collapse is underway but then sees a world in which the government and socialism triumph.
Margaret Thatcher said socialism only works until you run out of other people's money to spend. She was right.
When dollar collapse comes we will see a greatly enfeebled central government (stooges gotta be paid) and, if the country is to survive, a return to industry. Perhaps things fall apart but the mere loss of a currency has never caused great catastrophe before (lots of pain and the rise of Hitler yes but Mad Max?...no.) I see a hyperinflationary collapse of the dollar allowing a cleaning of the house of debt. More importantly it will end the governments ability to rule without demanding more tax money. We are now in a state in which the federal government can borrow and in doing so, ignore the will of the people...because they don't need the people, only the lender of last resort. When this round of fiat fails the next one will have to be much better managed. Welfare will be for the destitute. Raising taxes will get much closer attention. Freedom will expand not only here but in the various socialist paradises of Europe as well.
Maybe I'm too optimistic but doomers (like me) often can't see the future realistically because we see the present so darkly.
Ron Paul needs to explain how things fall apart for everyone EXCEPT the government when the very thing that is falling apart (the currency) is the same thing that gives the government it's power now.
# Perhaps things fall apart but the mere loss of a currency has never caused great catastrophe before
South Sea Bubble collapse --> "Let them eat cake." --> French Revolution --> Robspierre / The Terror --> Napoleon and 2 decades of devestating, near total war in Europe and around the world.
That was pretty extreme wasn't it?
What you'll see is a suspension of the US Constitution and most/if not all of the Bill of Rights and it will be voted in by the American people themselves.
Possibly it will be spun that way. The reality is that the American people don't get to decide much more than dog catcher.
The Sheeple get what the Sheeple deserve.
Now get to work Mr. Bullard, I mean Mr. Evans.
Ron's thinking, unfortunately, has one major flaw: there ain't gonna be a "peaceful" revolution.
O come-on , like anyone using the words "peaceful revolution" is really calling for a "peaceful" revolution.
There is no such thing.
When you see someone touting "peaceful" and "non-violent" that pretty much translates to "If I go outright and tell you to go riot and make changes, they will come arrest me and the msg dies".
The entire point of "non-violent" protests/demonstrations/media promotion for revolutions is to garnish enough people to the cause, so that when there finally IS A VIOLENT REVOLUTION you have enough people on your side to make it a quick and less bloody one.
Ron Pauls role is not that of a leader of a violent revolution to correct injustices, his role is that of the torch bearer , to keep the flame of freedom (FREEDOM NOT LIBERTY) bright enough so that it doesn't go out completely.
There is no such thing as a peaceful revolution.
You have billionaire bankers with guns and private armies extracting wealth from the masses while passing laws to protect themselves... and you have everyone else.
There is no peaceful solution to that.
The entire system is designed to make peaceful revolution IMPOSSIBLE... because the governments and banks know that the public will not react with violence (putting their own lives on the line for change) until its too late for them to even have a violent revolution.
The banks are betting we are all too feminized/castrated from the fluoride and lithium in the water to have the balls to ever respond to the increasing tyranny.
Thats just the truth of the matter no sugar coating about it.... if you need me to read between the fucking lines for you . . . the bankers are right.
Dre:O come-on , like anyone using the words "peaceful revolution" is really calling for a "peaceful" revolution.
There is no such thing.
I respectfully disagree. I for one do NOT want to see my country trashed. I'd bet that if the disgruntled actually had a voice that a three week work strike would grind things to a halt. It would demolish the skimmerz. The shitbags on the Red team and the shitbags on the Blue team would be foaming at the mouth to get "muricans" back to work. Those leeches who make money off of the other peoples backs would be hurting the most. They would capitulate within a week.
Think what would happen if Truckers, Doctors, Tradesmen got in on this. Not a single shot need be fired. So many here want a shooting Revolution, it's bizarre. That would tear this country apart and would not be able to be "corrected" in generations. So many times I hear people want to run the bases... but they want to run past second base without stopping, and skip right past third base (widespread work strikes) and just slide into home plate cocked and locked. Makes no sense to me. My mini rant is over.
as a rule work stoppages are pretty violent cause there are some who go against the stoppage ---and that is a problem.
True, but facing the abyss, the idea of a general strike might gain traction and ultimately produce a less violent transition than current complacency.
Americans have not experienced real, significant hardship yet. When that arrives, perhaps enough people will get motivated.
So we all agree any revolution will be violent, but some will be less violent than others.
It all matters how bad the breakdown is.
Iceland...
Even people who actually HAVE jobs typically don't even have 1000 dollars saved up to deal with an emergency. How the hell are people living paycheck to paycheck going to participate in a work stoppage?
Jobs may not seem so important where we are going.
Ship of Fools is sinking and no one is going to have a life raft is the rescue fails. Police and military members know what the tax burden means for their children. Slavery. The only thing standing between America and her return to original intended state is the law enforcement officers and military members. But, thanks to the internet, they now realize the game is rigged and they are being used as pawns by Israel, via bribes, extortion and duress.
Peaceful revolution is possible. It's a matter of numbers (largest army on the face of the earth resides on US soil).
"law enforcement officers and military members....now realize the game is rigged and they are being used as pawns by Israel, via bribes, extortion and duress."
Unfortunately, no where even remotely close to enough of them realize it. Many seem to be on board with it as they see their security provided for.
The Berlin Wall fell peacefully. No one thought that would ever happen.
too much armed hatred has been stirred up in amrka for other'd peoples, it is inevitable there will be violence, working as intended.
all sides appear to desire some type of "revenge" before they go out in a blaze of glory - (thanks Hollywood & TeeVee - the template is well embedded in the minds).
a quick skim of these threads alone, on any given ZH day, should tell you all you need to know.
Then it's become like The Tower of Babel collapse where there is no sane person left who can make his voice heard.
I did, I just didn't think it would happen that fast. Just like north and south Korea, China and Taiwan, or the Kurds, eventually will re-unite. You can't keep the same people apart or different peoples together for long.
Democracy killed the Republic.