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The Dire State Of Our Nation (What You Won’t Hear From The Politicians)
Submitted by John Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute,
“As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged. And it is in such twilight that we all must be most aware of change in the air – however slight – lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness.” ? Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas
No matter what the politicians say about how great America is and how we, as a people, will always triumph, the fact is that the nation seems to be imploding.
Despite the dire state of our nation, however, you can rest assured that none of the problems that continue to plague our lives and undermine our freedoms will be addressed by our so-called elected representatives in any credible, helpful way, and certainly not during a State of the Union address.
Consider the following facts:
Our government is massively in debt. Currently, the national debt is somewhere in the vicinity of $18 trillion. More than a third of our debt is owned by foreign countries, namely China and Japan.
Our education system is abysmal. Despite the fact that we spend more than most of the world on education ($115,000 per student), we rank 36th in the world when it comes to math, reading and science, far below most of our Asian counterparts. Even so, we continue to insist on standardized programs such as Common Core, which teach students to be test-takers rather than thinkers.
Our homes provide little protection against government intrusions. Police agencies, already empowered to crash through your door if they suspect you’re up to no good, now have radars that allow them to “see” through the walls of your home.
Our prisons, housing the largest number of inmates in the world and still growing, have become money-making enterprises for private corporations that rely on the inmates for cheap labor.
We are no longer a representative republic. The U.S. has become a corporate oligarchy. As a recent survey indicates, our elected officials, especially those in the nation’s capital, represent the interests of the rich and powerful rather than the average citizen.
We’ve got the most expensive, least effective health care system in the world compared to other western, industrialized nations.
The air pollution levels are dangerously high for almost half of the U.S. population, putting Americans at greater risk of premature death, aggravated asthma, difficulty breathing and future cardiovascular problems.
Despite outlandish amounts of money being spent on the nation’s “infrastructure,” there are more than 63,000 bridges—one out of every 10 bridges in the country—in urgent need of repair. Some of these bridges are used 250 million times a day by trucks, school buses, passenger cars and other vehicles.
Americans know little to nothing about their rights or how the government is supposed to operate. This includes educators and politicians. For example, 27 percent of elected officials cannot name even one right or freedom guaranteed by the First Amendment, while 54 percent do not know the Constitution gives Congress the power to declare war.
Nearly one out of every three American children live in poverty, ranking us among the worst in the developed world.
Patrolled by police, our schools have become little more than quasi-prisons in which kids as young as age 4 are being handcuffed for “acting up,” subjected to body searches and lockdowns, and suspended for childish behavior.
We’re no longer innocent until proven guilty. In our present surveillance state, that burden of proof has now been shifted so that we are all suspects to be spied on, searched, scanned, frisked, monitored, tracked and treated as if we’re potentially guilty of some wrongdoing or other.
Parents, no longer viewed as having an inherent right to raise their children as they see fit, are increasingly being arrested for letting their kids walk to the playground alone, or play outside alone. Similarly, parents who challenge a doctor’s finding or request a second opinion regarding their children’s health care needs are being charged with medical child abuse and, in a growing number of cases, losing custody of their children to the government.
Private property means little at a time when SWAT teams and other government agents can invade your home, break down your doors, kill your dog, wound or kill you, damage your furnishings and terrorize your family. Likewise, if government officials can fine and arrest you for growing vegetables in your front yard, praying with friends in your living room, installing solar panels on your roof, and raising chickens in your backyard, you’re no longer the owner of your property.
Court rulings undermining the Fourth Amendment and justifying invasive strip searches have left us powerless against police empowered to forcefully draw our blood, forcibly take our DNA, strip search us, and probe us intimately. Accounts are on the rise of individuals—men and women alike—being subjected to what is essentially government-sanctioned rape by police in the course of “routine” traffic stops.
Americans can no longer rely on the courts to mete out justice. The courts were established to intervene and protect the people against the government and its agents when they overstep their bounds. Yet the courts increasingly march in lockstep with the police state, while concerned themselves primarily with advancing the government’s agenda, no matter how unjust or illegal.
Americans have no protection against police abuse. It is no longer unusual to hear about incidents in which police shoot unarmed individuals first and ask questions later. What is increasingly common, however, is the news that the officers involved in these incidents get off with little more than a slap on the hands.
If there is any absolute maxim by which the federal government seems to operate, it is that the American taxpayer always gets ripped off. This is true, whether you’re talking about taxpayers being forced to fund high-priced weaponry that will be used against us, endless wars that do little for our safety or our freedoms, or bloated government agencies such as the National Security Agency with its secret budgets, covert agendas and clandestine activities. Rubbing salt in the wound, even monetary awards in lawsuits against government officials who are found guilty of wrongdoing are paid by the taxpayer.
Americans are powerless in the face of militarized police. In early America, government agents were not permitted to enter one’s home without permission or in a deceitful manner. And citizens could resist arrest when a police officer tried to restrain them without proper justification or a warrant. Daring to dispute a warrant with a police official today who is armed with high-tech military weapons would be nothing short of suicidal. Moreover, as police forces across the country continue to be transformed into extensions of the military, Americans are finding their once-peaceful communities transformed into military outposts, complete with tanks, weaponry, and other equipment designed for the battlefield.
Now these are not problems that you can just throw money at, as most politicians are inclined to do. As I point out in my book A Government of Wolves: The Emerging American Police State, these are problems that will continue to plague our nation unless and until Americans wake up to the fact that we’re the only ones who can change things.
For starters, we’ll need to actually pay attention to what’s going on around us, and I don’t mean by turning on the TV news, which is little more than government propaganda. Pay attention to what your local city councils are enacting. Pay attention to what your school officials are teaching and not teaching. Pay attention to whom your elected officials are allowing to wine and dine them.
Most of all, stop acting like it really matters whether you vote for a Republican or Democrat, because it doesn’t, and start acting like citizens who expect the government to work for them, rather than the other way around.
While that bloated beast called the federal government may not listen to you, you can have a great impact on your local governing bodies. This will mean gathering together with your friends and neighbors and, for example, forcing your local city council to start opposing state and federal programs that are ripping you off. And if need be, your local city council can refuse to abide by the dictates that continue to flow from Washington, DC.
All of the signs point to something nasty up ahead. The time to act is now.
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Do you think that the legal actions that the Rutherford Institute take, often in defense of individuals costs nothing?
The only thing that can be expected from the next US president is more war, more murder, and more oppression of the gullible American people.
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
The American populace is easy to manipulate and subdue; Americans are extremely gullible and incapable to think for themselves (trained not to think critically). Additionally, the majority of these people are utterly ignorant about their own legal system and the contents of the Constitution.
We have a legal system? I had not noticed.
Point taken, just imagine the hoops this org and several others who attempt to argue constitutional law must face.
So much going on now days, its mind boggling.
Just keep informed is a good start
Job Situation: http://www.dailyjobcuts.com
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I place 100% of the blame on the average idiot "citizen" who gladly gives up his birthright for a free bowl of soup.
Idiocracy.
"I place 100% of the blame on the average idiot "citizen" who gladly gives up his birthright for a free bowl of soup."
No argument there, but
"Just keep informed is a good start".
Just keeping informed is a full time job! This albatross government has gotten so fuckin enormous you can barely keep track of who is trying to encroach on which rights. As you all must suspect by now, I don't believe in coincidence.
Most of those willing to give up their birthright for a free bowl of soup don't have the intellectual horsepower to keep track of all these incursions. Those with the intellectual horsepower usually have at least one incentive to turn a blind eye to at least some portion. Therein lies the problem.
I paid for that free soup.
You're welcome.
Here we go everyone, How to Double Down on Stupid.
Hire the very same IT firm (CGI Federal) who built ObamaLovesU.gov to build a little sumpin to interface with the IRS black hat society enforcers because..."However, a feature of the system that was installed by deliberate design that sends personal information to marketing and advertising firms has raised privacy concerns."....is a feature, not a bug!!!
http://www.examiner.com/article/irs-hires-firm-that-caused-healthcare-gov-disaster-to-write-obamacare-tax-system
What could possibly go wrong this time? ;-)
~"What could possibly go wrong this time?"~
~"The U.S. has become a corporate oligarchy."~
Nada. /sarc
As an IT guy the ObamaCare site fiasco gave me more than a few laughs. I mean it's a relational SQL database with data entry and queries from browsers over the web and whatever .gov back end software. No matter how big, that's all it ultimately all it is. If that project is bid out there's no fucking way Larry Ellison and Oracle don't get that done for less than a billion dollars. Probably far less and Larry gets the ego stroke of everyone seeing the Oracle logo when they sign up for healthcare.
It's like they were joking around at a fucking party full of insiders "Hey Bob. Your IT start up company is understaffed and near bankrupt plus your head programmer is a dope addict. I'm gonna do you a solid. here's the Obamacare site development contract. Make the site as shitty as possible because we want people as desperate as possible, begging us for help. Keep it under a few billion. But if you can't we'll attach any cost overruns to a defense appropriation bill or something. No big deal. But that thing can't work efficiently. We can't have the masses to start expecting results from their government."
Kinda like pissing into the wind I imagine.
A flaw that’s hard to overcome:
Believing in lies and misinformation that generates many wrong assumptions!
DJ Happy Ending
I place 100% of the blame on the average idiot "citizen"
zhandax
"Just keep informed is a good start"
So, the 2 questions left for us to sort it out:
Question A: Which idiot citizen are these two talking about? The sheeple? Or, the supposedly highly educated sheeple?
Question B: What is a good information to these both idiots’ citizens?
Well, my answer to you: Good luck! Because you can’t make chicken salad out of chicken shit.
But…., let’s try to help these idiots; by first:
Overcoming misinformation about QE:
By MEFOBILLS: QE money pulls and existing bond out of the secondary market, it only changes the composition to more credit as money, and less bonds.
These bonds then vector into the reserve channels of banks. There they then transfer onto the FED’s balance sheet, and banker then holds money. This money on reserves is now paid interest to keep a rate collapse toward zero.
Mostly QE changes the composition of money supply and increases public debt on ledger at central bank. The path of QE is into bank reserve channels, who then buy bonds, and bond holders then have their interest rates lowered. (Bond price up interest rates down.)
Lower interest rates have a knock on effect, or so the bankers think, whereby the sheeple will go out and take out a loan.
Second: It takes two to Tango: The Tricksters need the Sheeple
By Seer: There are two main sources of tricksters in the world:
1) Religions, rather, promoters of "organized" religions that tell us we're going to get off this planet by way of some invisible hand (and while here we're best to observe some hierarchy of elitists who are only here to spread "the word" for the common person's interest);
2) "Technology" promoters, who make promises of salvation from this planet -getting off of it- by way of rocket ship (and if we observe what the elitists of this camp say then we work toward this so that everyone, all "commoners," can "some day" benefit [just march on comrade] .
And I could go on…………………………
The problem is that the Justic System has being turned into the "legal" system...
Policy overrides Law...
Yes we have a legal system but not a justice system.
Oppression, wall street robbery, and war all have repercussions that will ultimately include serious backlash..
I'll agree with much of what this writer is outlining, especially the part of our Government being broke...
Taxes aren't the solution, big gov. is the problem, and that's why they keep raising the debt ceiling...
The gov. is completely out of control on spending & borrowing (which is far worse due to interest). :/
They NEVER stop wanting MOAR! MOAR Taxes, MOAR Fees and MOAR Fines! TPTB, never seem to want to shrink, prune or cut back, the Bloated Beast we now call our Government. And that's at all levels!!! And the amazing part, is that the money they collect from us, is used against us!
The ultimate degradation and the worst form of enslavement is forcing the populace to pay for their own servitude under physical threat of bodily injury, imprisonment, or death.
"I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." I read that quote engraved inside the cupola of a decaying building that had a statue of a dead president in it.
No shit. I've read several posts by him about them helping people out who are having their rights massively violated. Like that marine kid who posted uncouth things on Facebook and had himself baker-acted. Pretty sure he did that for free too. I bought his book, didn't really tell me anything I didn't already know, but it was a good read nonetheless, and had a lot of personal stories from people in it. I got no problem giving him or the Rutherford institute my money, never know when one of us could need their services. It's not like he is trying to sell you investment advice.....
The Pacific Legal Defense Fund spent I'm sure a few hundred thousand dollars representing that Idaho family (wanting to build their house on their land) against the EPA...that case had to worm through the administrative process, before making it to the judiciary, and finally the SCOTUS. Judicial Watch is another org that I've supported through the years with my meager means. But multiply those meager means, and some difference can be made.
Points well taken but you left out the pedophile rings operating throughout the USA for the benefit of the rich and powerful, who are usually protected by degenerate prosecutors.
Precisely, the ring is also in Washington, and it's effecting our laws too...
http://www.thewe.cc/thewei/_/us_terror_state/washington_times.gif
child eating is only a symptom, the cause came out of the 1860's when on the battlefields that married this country the blood of the evangelical christian from the North was fused with the white supremist from the South and born from that blood and dirt is your current group of elites. Follow the path back and you'll see I'm right! Ergo Fascist America has been here as part of the system all along and only in the last 50 years has it taken complete control. Smedley Butler warned everyone, Eisenhower wrote his exit speech expressly to warn all the citizens. Everyone went into group think around the idea of " patriotism" and completely shit the bed. This was a 80 YEAR COUP 1934-2014 and they've won it ALL.
Government and media keeping us distracted with underinflated football hysteria:
http://tinyurl.com/n3er2ej
FUCK HIM, fuck you, fuck everyone else reading this.
THE FUCKING GESTAPO ARRIVED ON MY FRONT PORCH TODAY TO ASK IF I HAD ANY INTENTION TO SUPPPORT ARMED REBELLION AGAINST THE CURRENT WAR CRIMINAL GOVERNMENT!
Really happened! Have his card in my front pocket in case I have something to tell him...like our war criminal regime needs any help from me 5 thousand miles away. Or that I have the revelation that I could possibly find a firecracker somewhere in the facist state of Commiefornia (shit you not!)
fucking shit, I think I'd prefer J Edger in hose stockings to the fucking pussies we have in our government.
I have to go throw up for a couple of hours.
Why the fuck would I have to be part or some armed rebellion when all I have to do is sit on my ass a couple weeks/months and watch to whole thing implode. THEN I might take a couple potshots, but our war criminal goobermint wouldn't exist anymore, would it? And those that were paid to protect it would be the first to exercise a few rights.
Thats messed up. Any clue what they so scared of?
There's someone somewhere that nailed it.
FERAL SERF.
They expect to subjucate us. They also expect we will comply.
There are/exist/wil be more feral serfs than them EVER! And they know it.
All that is required is "The Proper Crisis coupled with a National Crisis (as defined)
Ten or forty years later we'er back ont he path to, at least, orally emascualate the enichs at any central banks...
Max: I was starved for growth, but the best I could find was one of my colado's boys whose every turn was rotic.
Eventually I asked "What's the starting rate for one to be educated, How mcuh do I get?
Holy Jeebus...read what I wrote and I think I was drunker'n normal...
But the FBI visit DID happen.
Our government is creepier than shit.
They were probably going down the Zero Hedge member list. I'm waiting for my visit. They know who I am. Agreed, Fuck Them and the black Chevy Suburban they rode in on.
Dup
The time to act is now.
indeed... out of dodge before it trully implodes....
as for the rutherford institute... -roflmao.... support those fuck heads ? and change from an
oligarchy headed by a muslim... to a fascism headed by a bunch of extreme religious nutcases....
no... let me go and throw up.....
as for religion.... ALL of them no exception..... get rid of them..... burn it all
I contributed this past year. It's the very least that I can do.
'Merica is awesome according to Obama don't Cha know!?!?
I think we are fucked.
We are headed for something real bad....
Americans won't act until they have a definitive reason to, but the gubberment, already being armed to the teeth, have a contingency plan, and that is FEMA camps & implant chips. (In case you think it's not gonna happen...) https://plus.google.com/s/rfid%20implant
They plan to collapse the markets, end the banking system, and replace it with online only commerce & banking.
What is the million dollar question? (How can I do more and more of what I do now with less & less?) Online Commernce & Banking = FAR LESS JOBS & OVERHEAD COST! (Business wise it makes perfect sense in the Informational Age)
Arron Russo: Reflections and Warnings
https://video.search.yahoo.com/video/play;_ylt=A86.J75.5cNUJUsAU9YnnIlQ;...
Hate to bust your fantasy, but USA has ALWAYS been this way.
From using slavery for 400 years yet declaring USA is the land of "freedom and democracy" to exterminating the native population via bio warfare and via killing the food supply the natives depended on, USA has ALWAYS been just a myth that has NOTHING to do with reality.
The Fedetral Reserve is yet another perfect example of fantasy not correspondenting with the Reality. It was created 101 years ago to control USA's monetary supply and USA economy, yet most of the Americans think they live in free-market "Capitalism".
yeah, the downvotes have started coming already, baby!
I'll give ya an up vote. America has always been a two-class society. Anyone who disagrees either doesn't know the history or is hanging on to the grand illusion.
It has always had Classism. But I think it has had more than just 3 Classes.
Immigrants always fell into either the poor class or a forth Class of those that can't vote or turn to the Law for help. What do you call Miners or Rail Road workers who are in debt, have no money, and are abused by management. What do you call Dock workers if not poor & powerless. These are groups that needed a union to lift themselves up and protect them from abuse of all kinds.
Like US Markets need protection from Fraud in all asset classes, workers who are poor need protection to lift themselves up. This is why Free (Slave) Trade doesn't work.
Blacks, Hispanics, Jews, Irish, Italians, Polish, Germans, Chinese, Japanese... they all have had some experience in a forth class. Today in the Federal Government you have advantages if you are a woman or a minority type group over the white man. But outside of that I think we have 6 classes total with the addition of middle/poor with debt & Prisoners or Felons.
I don't usually vote...but I gave all three of you up votes.
"Coming events cast their shadows before." - Thomas Campbell
think. understand. do nothing cept enjoy the day. hope and change is for non realists that are locked in some matrix brain washed delerious stuptor. fuckem and they are the majority. i have observed most american live in a state of fear provided by matrix think. they(not me are told that they need; insurance, protection from terror, a new car, education-joke, a material gaget to make life better, work like they could lose their shitty job and let some semi-sociopathic looser rule their day(biggest fear i see). scared loosers with no idea how controlled they are.
fear, baby fear-that is the human weakness preyed upon endlessly, mediaized through our core. americans and humans in general are without waking consiousness of why they do what they do and rationalize there actions on false paridyns of bullshit. hello, how can i control you today? ha,...
I think we're like the boiling frogs syndrome. It has been going on for a long time but it's continually getting hotter & hotter.
one frog to another-i tink its getting hot today, ha said da other frog, tink it is feeling kinda balmy and i like it, hey did ya listen to the hope and change state of da union, all balmy and gooooooooooooooood...
If you have any level of freedom- from just a little bit - to totally free - you will naturally have more than one class.
If you have complete government control you will also have more than one class.
There is no system yet invented that will not have more than one class.
So what is your point?
Start digging into the REAL history behind such events as the Boston Tea Party, and exactly who was pushing for Independence . . . . .
Seems reality isn't quite what The West likes to indoctrinate via the Western School System. . . . .
The entire Western power edifice has been carefully "constructed", unfortunately this "construction" has meant "Aircraft Hanger Sized" closets full of inconvenient skeletons, and the day when those hangar doors will be unable to remain closed is approaching VERY fast . . . . .
The Real History of America & it's fight against the English Bankers begins here...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qIhDdST27g
Yes..."in order to form a more perfect union..." has always been an idea in progress. The difference today versus 50 or 100 years ago, is today, there is no facet of my life that isn't regulated if not at the federal level, then by the now dead sovereign states who are merely administrative subdivisions of the federal government, with one proviso; they too can tax everything that I want and more importantly, need to live.
"The difference today versus 50 or 100 years ago, is today, there is no facet of my life that isn't regulated"
Unless you were black, asian, mexican, native american, or a woman.
"Yes..."in order to form a more perfect union..." has always been an idea in progress."
Why are we living in the past, trying to live up to the ideals of men long dead? We can make those quotes ourselves. We can write history ourselves. The ideals of the past have merit, but at this point, they have only led us to right now.
Please stop with the bolshitvek race meme.
Which ideas would you propose to emulate from some contemporary man?
The writings of the Founders are even more relevant today than in the late 17th Century.
"Please stop with the bolshitvek race meme."
The irony of the current white anger against government and rights is that the white man in america is now simply treated as the minorities that were treated identically in the past. The same people who did nothing to defend the rights of the least of our citizens.
They are coming for you now. That quote and bit of wisdom must not have had much impact.
So my appreciation for the Constitution, and the very studied thought written into said document, is merely my white anger? Your postings are kinda scattered. I find no fault in the conditions negotiated by the Framers, the signatories to the Constitution. I do have repulsion for those Americans who for a hundred years following the War of Northern Aggression, had no more concern about the Constitution (i.e. blacks) than Americans are today, even though the threats to the individual today are overwhelming regardless of race. I think a cogent argument can be made that the black 'condition' prior to the 1960's was less damaging to them; economically, spiritually, and socially than their current circumstances.
This ability to recognize and distinguish such human behavior, and to act, is missing from our supposed advanced liberal technological society. Some other, I believe B. Franklin said that only a "virtuous" people would defend and preserve the Republic gifted to the future generations.
Extract from Thomas Jefferson’s “Bill for the More General Diffusion of Knowledge”
experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms, those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny; and it is believed that the most effectual means of preventing this would be, to illuminate, as far as practicable, the minds of the people at large, and more especially to give them knowledge of those facts, which history exhibiteth, that, possessed thereby of the experience of other ages and countries, they may be enabled to know ambition under all its shapes, and prompt to exert their natural powers to defeat its purposes ... whence it becomes expedient for promoting the publick happiness that those persons, whom nature hath endowed with genius and virtue, should be rendered by liberal education worthy to receive, and able to guard the sacred deposit of the rights and liberties of their fellow citizens, and that they should be called to that charge without regard to wealth, birth or other accidental condition or circumstance
Family_PTJRS-Omited Text (Dixon & Holt, 1784); no manuscript copy survives. Published in PTJ, 2:526–35.
My point is that they are just ideas. And as good as they are, they were executed poorly from the start. The same men who wrote those thoughts never followed through on them. They were applied very narrowly based on those they deemed worthy. Mostly their friends and family. Everyone else was exempted. Have you ever thought this suspicious?
We certainly can hang onto those words, the same words that saw us through a hundred years of slavery, the oppression of countless minorities, of women, etc. Those same words that have brought us to the current state we're in. We can argue their meaning, their definition, what those founders "meant", and do so under the pomp of the judiciary, but tell me, where has that gotten us? And specifically, when has it gotten us anywhere? What time period?
You can never remove the arvace and greed from the human condition; whether in the US or the USSR or Mao's China. The historical record between the three mentioned 'great' nations should speak volumns as to what that Constitution 'got us.'
The oppression to which you speak was indeed rectified via that Constitution, and without the need for revolution. Nor were millions murdered for the ideals of the cult of personality or Party. Race is a thread within US history, but it is just that... a thread. It was not the central thread, and the fact that it appears to hold such importance today is for reasons that speak to the greed and lust for power of some within this society, not due to any fundamental failure of society.
logged in to upvote this.
If I have to listen to another fucktard drone on about race, slavery, and god knows what else...
There is simply not a single black person alive today that is effected by the past history of slavery on this continent. Period. End of story. And as for all the so-called "whiye privledge" then I should have reaped some benefit from my anscetors who were quite wealthy-one signed the Declaration of Independence-but alas I do not (nor do I care) becasue there is always class migration. Nothing is static even in the ever more unfree anti-liberty zone of The USSA.
The tribalist bullshit is deliberately forced upon us so as to divide us one against the other so that TPTB maintain power and keep bleeding us dry.
I will falconflight take exception with the post below re: American Indians. While there may have not been an Holocaust-like extermination plan (perhaps the technology was all that was missing) there was a deliberate, strategic war that accomplished the same thing. A war that was prosecuted by mass murdering tyrants and psychopaths from government with names like Grant, Lincoln, etc. This cannot be denied and it cannot be ignored as a fact of history that is at least a shameful as slavery if not even more shameful since entire cultures were destroyed and well, death is kinda final.
Funny how we see no do-gooder government or avtivist types calling attention to this. Maybe becauise there is no real poulation from which to derive power by preaching to them about it?
Ideas move men, societies, and nations. Much of the record of mankind reflects ideas that are born out of the desire to lord over man. The American experiment was an attempt to try something else...a different path. As distressed as I currently am, I cannot say that the experiment hasn't produced some of the brightest moments in human history.
"The same men who wrote those thoughts never followed through on them. They were applied very narrowly based on those they deemed worthy. Mostly their friends and family. Everyone else was exempted. Have you ever thought this suspicious?"
They did follow through on them. The mistake you make is in applying the mindset of today to the same from 250 years ago.
You have to realize that the founders were deeply religious men, and were much, much smarter than the crop of people today. They come from an era where education was celebrated.
Combine their religion and high education and you realize when they said "All men were created equal" they meant men in the biblical sense. In case you did not know, "Adam" and man are used interchangeably in the bible, and "Adam" translates in hebrew to "blush red". In other words, in order to have these rights, you had to be able to "blush red".
Who is "coming" for us?
The BLACK MAN? THE MEXICAN MAN? ISIS? THE LATINO PISSED OFF CUBAN....MAN?
I speak as an expat having lived in the US most of my life...
BLACKS? NO LEADER (and FUCK OBAMA)....rudderless with bimbo Sharpton steering their 1.867 babies aborted DAILY (average; see blackgenocide.org)..... culture of rap, thuggery and crime.....13% in 1980 (census)...13% today, 30 FUCKING YEARS LATER.
Most Jamaicans shun "AA" biggest reason? "They squander their opportunites"....and they are correct.
Mexico is a pain in the ass....period.
The BLACKS are what you are foisting up here.....fuckin A...dude...I have REAMS of factual data that will blow the flying fuck out of ANYTHING you have....they are prolific killers of their own (proven, and this ain't no religious thing with me - it's raw data), the FACTUAL statistics on blacks and crime is stunning, shocking, and FACTUAL....
blackgenocide.org
a BLACK run site stating FACTS
so please..UNTIL MOTHERFUCKING SHARPTON, JACKSON, AND BARRY SOETERO FUCKBAMA ADDRESSES THIS ISSUE.....FUCK THE BLACKS...(and they never will...Soetero is so for abortion, he gets into it...but drone killers have to have their pastimes)
"BLACK LIVES MATTER"
NOT TO BLACKS THEY DON'T
You write like a racist.
Fuck You..that all ya got?
Again...FUCK YOU
Racist...what a weak post. Go poop on Huffington's log of shit.
FACTUAL....motherfucker....not some shit spun by some douchebag political asshole...
100% CORRECT FALCON
The USA did not have slavery for 400 years my friend. Under the second constitution; from 1790 to 1866, slavery was legal in some states.
There was no systemic...governmental plan to exterminate the Indians; not via smallpox or killing the bison or any other method. Well, at least not in North America.
The Spaniards and the other Iberians in South and Central America had a different prospective toward the "savages" and were much more aggressive toward that population than were the British, and later the Americans.
If you want to remain in denial over official policy toward native Americans OK. The alternative explanation then becomes unregulated rip-roaring capitalism. In the case of the buffalo this meant exploiting a resource until it was exhausted. This particular episode is pretty much a metaphor which embraces the attitudes and behaviour of the largely white Anglo Saxon peoples, a situation exacerbated by various flavours of loony tune Crosstianity, whose philosophical underpinnings subvert the most elementary logic. Shit happens and resources become exhausted if not carefully managed, not actually rocket science as a concept, but seemingly anathema to some people posting on here. The myth that people came on the Mayflower to America to escape religious persecution etc. is pure bullshit: they were smugglers who didn't believe in paying taxes. They and their inheritors posting on here blame 'gubmint' for the consequences of their own behaviour over time. There is no doubt that governments over time become a thoroughgoing nuisance; that's one take on it. The other is that increasingly complexity does not yield to rugged frontier mentality simple solutions; part of Amerika's problem is that it is a highly developed society underpinned by an 18th century mindset. You at least have a Constitution, which whilst not perfect, at least provides both a route map and a fundamental point of reference in times of difficulty. I've stood as close to the VP's of some US corporations as I am to this pad and I've never failed to be amazed by the bum sucking that goes on in all of them. It's not uniquely Amerikan, but the attitude that "he may not be right, but he's the boss" is taken to extremes over there and the same sycophancy is accorded people with loadsa money, no matter how stupid or objectionable. The ability to think has - and remains - at a discount in Amerika. Again it's not unique, but it is greatly magnifiied as compared to the UK and Europe. This is at least part of the reason we're all in such a bind, because no matter that the king has no clothes, we're striongly discouraged from pointing it out. One of the consequences of this is the barefaced use of shedloads of money used to buy political office: he/she's rich, so they must be smart. And this is called democracy?
God save the Queen, and her London base of debauchery and lawless financial dealings.
There is plenty of Shit to spread around.
I hope you are being fucking sarcastic or just plain ignorant.
They use their psycopathic lackeys so that they have a fall-guy if things go south.
Meet Phillip Sheradin, just one on the many like him:
"In August 1867, Grant appointed Sheridan to head the Department of the Missouri and pacify the Plains. His troops, even supplemented with state militia, were spread too thin to have any real effect. He conceived a strategy similar to the one he used in the Shenandoah Valley. In the Winter Campaign of 1868–69 he attacked the Cheyenne, Kiowa, and Comanche tribes in their winter quarters, taking their supplies and livestock and killing those who resisted, driving the rest back into their reservations. Professional hunters, trespassing on Indian land, killed over 4 million bison by 1874, and Sheridan applauded: "Let them kill, skin and sell until the buffalo is exterminated". When the Texas legislature considered outlawing bison poaching on tribal lands, Sheridan personally testified against it, suggesting that the legislature should give each of the hunters a medal, engraved with a dead buffalo on one side and a discouraged-looking Indian on the other."
Then there is :
"The US Army sanctioned and actively endorsed the wholesale slaughter of bison herds.[5] The federal government promoted bison hunting for various reasons, to allow ranchers to range their cattle without competition from other bovines, and primarily to weaken the North American Indian population by removing their main food source and to pressure them onto the reservations during times of conflict.[6][7] Without the bison, native people of the plains were often forced to leave the land or starve to death.
Here, some reading to get you started with your history lesson:
http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/971110?sid=21105145328421&uid=4&uid=2
Great post Adahy
Would just like to add that both Sherman and Sheridan learned their techniques of burning and looting during the Civil War on Southerners. Sherman was a bona fide insane individual, and Sheridan made the phrase about the "good Indian".
George Custer's only experience as a "indian fighter" was his attack at the camp of Native American Black Kettle known as the Battle of Washita River. There he was very good at attacking unexspectingly a group of peaceful Americans and killing innocent woman and children, then burning everything they owned, this being in the middle of the winter. At The Little Big Horn this was his same plan, but unfortunetly for him he picked the wrong crowd. No peaceful Black Kettle this time, but Sitting Bull, Gall, Rain In The Face, and the great Crazy Horse.
A great book on Americas wars against the Native Americans out west is "Son Of The Morning Star" by Evan Connell. Not only good history and very informative, but an amusing, well written book quite unlike any I have ever read. A TV movie was made on it, and can be seen on YouTube.
As Russell means has stated. We are all on the reservation now.
Welcome to the reservation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LA-S64QY3o
A good watch...
Thanks for posting this. I had not thought of Russell Means in a very long time, did not know he had even died.
I did some landscape work for a woman that somehow was connected to AIM and knew Russel Means and The Wouned Knee Siege, said she had actually been there. Her father was a big time New York lawyer, and she being i guess about forty was living pretty grand with no occupation, this being about early eighties. She knew all about the weapons they had, just alot of information and she got real passionate talking about it. She turned me on to the struggles of the Native Americans and how not to trust the government.
Unfortunately she died of cancer about ten years ago, and her house just sits empty and all grown up now.
May want to check your facts: Answer: Explain to your students that the first African slaves arrived in the New World in the 1620s. Ask your students how long slavery DID exist in North America, if it was abolished in 1865. Answer: Subtract 1620 from 1865; slavery existed in North America for 245 years
The first African slaves were indentured servants like everyone else. Anthony Johnson was one of them and ended up with a 250 acre farm and some indentured servants himself. Then one tried to cheat him and Anthony took him to court, and won him as a life long slave. Slavery had come to America.
Oh and Anthony Johnson......was a black man.
It took 600,000 white people fighting and dieing in the Civil War to free the blacks from the insitution brought to America by a black man.
History is a bitch for the "liberal" race hustlers who want to divide us all.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Johnson_%28colonist%29
Jager06, slavery was introduced in America, quote "when the first African slaves were brought to the North American colony of Jamestown, Virginia, in 1619, to aid in the production of such lucrative crops as tobacco".
History is a bitch for uneducated WASPs.
http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/slavery
Sorry to tell you this, but you are wrong LEA.
It was a black man that went to court and made slavery legal in what was to become the United States.
Nice picture of the slave being whipped though on the web site you listed. Keep up the whites bad, blacks are victims line.
History?? HAHA!
You navel gazers love to quote each other until you have finished your mind wash thought control don't you?
Instead of quoting another desperate liberals rant disguised as factual reporting in the form of a misguided textbook, go take a look at some source documents. Be original.Look for yourself and make up your own mind what the court order states, what the Kings findings were, what the original text of a leaders diary, personal notes and actual speeches were. What you will find is that quotes used in modern schools are cherry picked excerpts taken out of context to support your liberal self loathing meme.
Which of course supports the Orwellian nightmare you have all managed to create for yourselves.
History is a bitch for those that can read something other than Huffpo.
Oh, I almost forgot. While you are out there educating yourself, take a look at some numbers on who owned the most blacks at the outbreak of the Civil War. Yeah...1.4% of white people owned slaves, I know a travesty, truly. But the total numbers owned? Majority owned by other blacks. Isn't that weird? I hope you can find it in yourself to challenge the emotionally charged ideas that you and your peers have internalized and repeat to each other as mind wash mantras.
Have some fun, visit a library and read real words out of a real book, with real original documentation, not someones commentary about someones commentary on someone else idea of the possible subliminal meaning behind a 5 word quote of a document.
Best Wishes!
I don't fucking vote.
but your'e fuckin' right.
Look just a little above this to see why I;m pretty pissed.
WRONG. Look at the lives of people in the 50s compared to today. A man without a college education could easily find decent work, get married, buy a house, have 2-3 children and support them, etc. Now? You will work, your wife will work, you will depend on foodstamps and tax breaks and you will rent an apartment just to survive. Get your head out of your ass clown.
But there weren't women in the work force and those women came in at low wage rates.
- Illegal Labor/Black Market Wages
- Women at lower wages
- Prison Labor
- Sharecroppers
- Produce from Hawaii, Caribbean, Central & South America
- Indentured Servants
We have been manipulated into believing that is a person who is not "employed" they do not work or contribute. This may be largely true in today's world but that is not the way it was, not too long ago. Women being pulled into the "work force" did several thing, but the dominant one was converting their labor from an untaxed to a taxed entity. Further, those who become earners by caring for the children of these formerly untaxed individuals, became tax payers as well. Many people in years past were self employed individuals who worked largely for cash in service industries. The corporatization of society has driven most out of business and into "legitimate" employment, ensuring full taxable income exposure. One of the issues that doesn't get much discussion is our workplace participation rate, that we all know is at historic highs. What is missing is when it was last this high, how many people, homemakers, mothers, and small self employed people were working but not on the "official" income earners list. This about ring fencing us into the collective.
Yes, there are many things to consider beyond self employed farmer declines for 100 years, and the number of incorporated businesses, nonincorporated businesses, and that women in 1930-1950 who went to college were not allowed to work for culture or role as home-maker reasons.
It is a good discussion beyond the dry numbers from FRED Charts.
Also I agree there is a lot to what you are pointing out. From the numbers that I see for Work Place Participation in Europe or other countries... the USA has a very High Work Force Participation Rate.
OWS is still burned into our Alternate news Sources, Tent Cities are growing in LA, we know US Wages are low and Competition for Jobs keeps Wages Low... it makes sense that many people would be disenfranchised from taking a Career, Dedicating themselves to a corporate boss, Delay Entering the workforce, set lower expectations & goals for when they are 35 years old... much like I see Europe.
I heard Apprenticeship in France is like 20 years... you don't make money till you are a Master Tradesman after 20 Years.
I think this is the "New Normal" for the USA.
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Overnight edit, was thinking there is much more:
- You have to consider Wage Compensation, Outsourcing, Male Labor Participation rate, Decapitalization, cost benefit of both Private Industry Training & Public Tech or College, and Quality of Money Creation in terms of Capital Investment versus financial schemes or gambling
- Male Suppression in USA, Male Labor Participation Rate is terrible for our Culture & US Future
- Money Velocity proves this problem of Labor Participation for USA the Most productive Nation on Earth
- Money Velocity & Multiplier Effect from Manufacturing Topped out 1979 (Manu Top) or 1981 (MZMZ or M1V)
http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/MANEMP (Employees: Manufacturing 12.1 M Persons, Top 1979, 19.5 Million people)
- Doesn't matter the Race in USA, the Male is dropping out of the Labor Force
- Greenspan's Hot Economy of the 1960s-1970s, has gotten "Cool", low velocity, low investment in Capital Equipment & Facilitates, higher Financial Gambling type schemes, higher creation of Rentier Schemes and "Jobs"
- Out Sourcing, Off Shoring, Tax Inversion, Tax Loopholes = great profits for a couple of guys in the USA, but not for the consumers, not for Main Street, And as Education & Skill Training Cost Rise Exponentially, the Payoff is no longer "Present", Education does not pay for most peasants, nor for Employers... the low demand for Labor of all kinds with high competition and high labor supply create a long-term problem for the Viability of the USA
- STEM SKILLS Glut, it is true, we have the best workforce in terms of skills, as jobs go overseas the workforce is idle and must compete with broader field of labor, Greatest Workforce in the World is idle, we have Doctors and computer programers in regions where the demand for skills is very low to next to nothing, but you can find that across skill sets as the problem of Location is "still" a factor
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http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/M1V (Top was 2007 Q4 at 10.7, now down to 6.3)
http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/M2V (Top was 1997 Q3 at 2.2, now down to 1.5)
http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/MZMV (Top was 1981 Q1 at 3.5, now down to 1.4)
http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/Mult (Top was January 1987 at 3.1, now down to .7)
Best Historical FRED Chart for Velocity is maybe M1V as you see back to 1960 the steady clime till 1981. Peak for Male Participation in Labor force was 1949 at 87.4%.
http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/LNS11300031 Labor Force Participation Rate - 20 years and over, Black or African American Men (only back to 1972)
http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/LNS11300001 Labor Force Participation Rate - Men
2014-12: 69.2 Percent, Monthly, Seasonally Adjusted, LNS11300001, Updated: 2015-01-09 (Only goes back to 1948, Steady Decline from 1948)
http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/LNU01300028
Civilian Labor Force Participation Rate - 20 years and over, White Men
2014-12: 71.8 Percent, Monthly, Not Seasonally Adjusted, LNU01300028, Updated: 2015-01-09 (Only goes back to 1954, Steady decline from 88.4%)
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Don't worry it is just US Manhood at stake!!
- There is a comparison that should take place between US Fascist types and our Artistic, creative, and Liberal types
- We could gain by having mandatory military service for many reasons, but here just want to say that it would help show the difference between fascist Americans & liberal Americans... we need to integrate, we need liberals to be more conservative, and need military fascist to be more liberal in the arts areas at least
It never was about what we are or were. It has always been about what we ought to be. When Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence he was a slave holder with a yen for brown sugar. He could have just as easily written we hold these truths to be self-evident that all white men are born equal. Few of his readers would have blinked. Instead he wrote all men which at the time referred to the species. He was one of the brightest candles in the cupboard. He knew what he was doing. He was setting a standard for which we all needed to strive.
What has changed is that because of a fraternity prank that cost a few thousand lives we have placed ourselves in a permanent state of war. We have suspended any pretense of the rule of law and established a dictatorship by committee ruled by oligarchs.
The terms we use to describe our enemies are so broad and so vague that they can be applied to any of us. Consequently the committee can at any time determine that any one of us is an enemy of the state. Because this determination is capricious and arbitrary, we all are at risk.
We would be wise to listen to the words of Solzhenetsyn:
“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”
? Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
we are sitting on a powder keg and eventually something will set it off. then we will see what happens
The Criminal Fraud UNITED STATES, CORP. INC. is now officially a Totalitarian Authoritarian Oligarch Criminal Cabal Fascist Militarized Police State.
The Criminal Fraud UNITED STATES, CORP. INC. is now officially a Totalitarian Authritarian Fascist Militarized Police State.
The government is the largest single consumer of resources and energy. Its growth is exponential and unstoppable except for one caveat. The energy that it needs to survive has reached its limits of production. The political façade and the economic system this government has created are dependent on exponential growth of dept. The promises made and the debt issued cannot be sustained. It is not being sustained. Contraction is everywhere. The visible contractions are nothing more than the birth pangs of collapse.
Either government contracts along with the overall contraction of economic activity or it collapses. When federal checks bounce its over.
So, what? Got any real suggestions?
sure, hallucinate that jeb bush is the savior. he IS a 4th degree knight of columbus, uh, er, that matters? Or, a black, then a woman, before the position is removed? (the prediction of someone rather informed, (about the past)), so maybe he doesn't know future plans?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAptBXzDX4g
Last thing we need is another fucking Bush in the White house, or Hitlery for that matter!
Hillary is a Whacked-Out War Freak. Efidence: Libya and Syria.
Look to your family first. Garden. Connect with people of like mind. Prepare as best you can for social and economic chaos. Hide and watch. What happens in your local circumstance may not be what you imagined. I believe collapse is baked into the cake.
This is going to end at some point. Be prepared for the coming collapse and the end of the 50 (or 57) State Union as we know it.
Listen. The meek will only inherit the earth when there's nothing left on it worth inheriting. When the collapse comes, you needn't expect to survive long even as a slave, no matter what you do or what so-called preppers tell you to do. So don't speak of the collapse that lightly.
Some of our prophecies speak of us reaquiring turtle island after it is so ruined that no one else wants to live here anymore. Then we are to spend several millenia returning it to the way it was.
Yeah, I know it's just prophecy, but what you said reminded me of it. It's a weird night.
Armed, Law abiding Citizens and a full blown Fascist Police State cannot coexist.
Not exactly. Most of the Fascist Police State is codified in law or statute. Lawful does not equal moral. More often than not, they are opposed.
Or being legal, is not necessarily lawful, and certainly not necessarily constitutional, no matter what the black robes write. The Fugitive Slave Act was found constitutional by the SCOTUS, but some states like Wisconsin refused to enforce, and the State SC ruled it null and void...unconstitutional. Nullification is a political right all but forgotten.
A very good point. As an old German explained to me: "You do not understand young man, everything we did was within the law". This was maybe back in '56 or '57.
A good point. As an old German told me back in '57 or thereabouts: "You do not understand young man, everything we did was legal"
yes, the militarized fascist police will blow the armed Law abiding Citizen out of existence.
Problem no longer exists.
Many here envisage the "final showdown" between "Civilians" and the State Apparatus to be along the lines of WW2, or maybe the more recent Mid East engagements.
Ain't going to happen, folks.
"They" are well-practiced in False Flag events, and extremely well practiced in incrimination techniques. They have, and so will, use such techniques to discredit / ostracise the "troublesome individual", family or group.
In the very unlikely even that the Sheeple do start to take note of events, and start to think / plan to protect "their" interests, remember all those trillions of US$ given to the MIC to "develop" all those "Save us from the Terrorist" weapons / defence systems? "They" have access to ALL that "Secret" stuff, immediately or at really short notice (minutes not hours), you dont.
"They wouldn't dare to do this to "Organised Civilians" "!! Really?? Nagasaki / Hiroshima say otherwise. Nuclear strike, Chemical / Biological attack? Or just another "unfortunate accident, that could NEVER have been foreseen!", and a Heaven sent opportunity to further strengthen "loopholes", via volumes of "Emergency Regulation" - "MUST be passed QUICKLY without full scrutiny, in order to PREVENT TERRORISM"! (Regulations that were already 99% drafted, "just in case". Strange, that; seems we've heard that comment before, post 9/11 . . . .)
Sounds familiar ? ? ? ?
It has, so far.
Join the resistence.
I agree with many of your points.
But you deliberately leave out much.
what about mass immigration?
What about anti-white and anti-male multiculturalism being cramming into young minds in school?
What about affirmative action policies crippling the effectiveness of our government?
Nice Government Banking racket you got going there.... Be a Shame if something happened to it...
polishing the brass on the Titanic.....
The mention is debt is under emphasized.
All of the signs point to something nasty up ahead. The time to act is now.
So when are 5 million of us going to visit Washington D.C. to shut it down completely until they say "uncle"?!!!... Can't be too much to ask considering the chimp we put in the White House had 3 million of us show up for his first inauguration!
That...
Or refusing to shop, go to work or pay bills for at least month!
Either one has a price and will cost you, but it's the message and legacy you leave behindwith those actions that counts!!!
Indeed shutting down the system is trivially easy. All we need do is lock up our credit cards for 3 months and go on a consumer spending strike. The system would collapse. No need to attack the militarized police. Just starve the beast that feeds them.
The sad truth is that the American people like the system just the way it is.
Been on my own personal spending strike for 7 years now. I am happier than I ever was before. Who needs all that shit anyway?
When you take away their cheap Costco food, Xbox, Iphone, intenet porn and thousands of channels of crap.
Virtue, Integrity When the Revolution Come
As each day of derivative clock down repayment approaches, you’ll see more fiat printing and new gadgets to make your life easier. New robots and cashless society, under the pretense of higher inflated product cost, too offset future pension payouts & wage increases.
A new black market will kill this new vision. Along with shooting down a drone that passes on any personal property invasion. Insurance companies will terminate their DHS insured drone policy coverage. Passing a bill to shoot down a snooper drone will be pressed as another security law violation. Long term imprisonment. Watch the drones fall out of the sky without any bullets grazing a drone wound..
Future issues. Comedy will evolve. Cough, cough.. same technology that we can use to disable a Obama GM car in a high speed chase to the local EBT liquor store. /LOL
Government, being nothing more than a criminal syndicate of theft and violence, always accomplishes the opposite of the stated goal. Always.
The banksters need to repay us.
meh. so what's new....
no solutions proposed herein solve anything in a meaningful way.
The stall.
Stop playing the game and return to being a human. There is no other solution.
Thats good im gonna use it.
I would stop, quit my job and drop everything if there was a group intending on walking into D.C. I believe that day will come and I will gladly offer up what I have including guns & ammo. In the end I will die if I have to, defending our rights, including the ones we have lost. I love my country & literally broke down and blubbered in front of my parents and wife when this asshole fucker got his 2nd election. These pussies in congress need to grow some dicks!!! I'm sick of everything! FUCK THE FED RESERVE TOO!!!
Like some on here you're long on venom and somewhat short on analysis. You need to understand the problem before you start reacting. He's not my president and as a global citizen, some of what he's largely failed to do has disappointed me. However, from a fairly detached perspective I'm unable to comprehend the torrents of bile, abuse, misinformation and pure fabrication that are levelled at Obama. At the end of the day he seems to be singing from the same hymn sheet as all of his predecessors since WW2, with the possible exception of Eisenhower. Whilst I have no truck with political correctness, much of what is levelled at the man on here is just old fashioned resentment fuelled by racism. My advice to you is to man up, stop blubbering, take your friends dick out of your mouth and try to engage your brain; I'm being charitable here.
I'm being charitable here.
Rookie mistake....this is Fight Club.
I'm unable to comprehend the torrents of bile, abuse, misinformation and pure fabrication that are levelled at Obama.
Millions have died at the hands of socialism....which is a cute name for communism and marxism....can you comprehend that?
They starved 11 million in Ukraine. Killed millions in China. A whole bunch in the Vendee in France. Che let some blood in Cuba. Venezuela is now a ruinous heap. I could go on....but you get the point. There is no new thing under the sun.
It doesn't address the points I've made: Obama is not responsible for any of this and whereas I don't have figures to hand for Amerika's kill count from 'Nam onward, it runs to millions, never mind what the US has done to it's own people and is still doing. Any intelligent person knows that the presidency is just a figurehead, that the decisions are made by an unholy combination of international finance, the US military-industrial complex (which Ike warned about) and loony tune neocons, of which you appear to be at the very least, a supporter of. The Amerikan dream was purchased at the price of nightmare for the poor peoples of the world, including many Amerikans and not just native , pre-Columbian ones. Now Amerika's rampage of theft and brigandry is coming to an end and pussies like you start crying foul and look for someone to blame. Look in the mirror.
Your preparation for our future mussy overlords is admirable. It will be noted at prayer, I'm sure.
You make a few valid points, but also offer up a straw man or two in your assertions. We are all aware that Obama is a figurehead. The problem for him is that he is the public face of "his" policy. So, he receives the vitriol he justly deserves for shouldering his burden. He's repeatedly alluded that "the buck stops with him", however in practice, he always blames others for "his" failures. This behavior is childish, and galling to a culture accustomed to stronger leadership and a more self sufficient worldview. Speaking for myself, I think it is the height of folly to assume that Americans all share the same culture. We don't.
You claim racism, just as most socialists do, when speaking about the US. However, my experience doesn't agree with that assessment. I've lived in east Asia, south Asia and Europe. All of these places are far more racist than where I grew up. The most racist people I've ever met were... black.
I accept many, even most of your caveats. Throughout his presidency Obama has been stonewalled by the Republicans and effectively prevented from carrying out many of his stated policies. I must confess that I was very surprised that he managed to get his health care programme through the legislature, and since I don't know the details of what is involved I'd not presume to comment on the issue. What I can say, is that to judge by the vitriol aimed at it on ZH, it would appear to have upset a lot of people; perhaps the sort of peoople I saw interviewed on TV here, who told the reporter that: 'Your Health Service is set up to get rid of old people and kills them'. As an Englishman who is also a European I was pretty shocked by this view expressed by several Amerikans, people whose grasp of things English and European were risible to say the least.
I do wonder which recent strong leadership you're referring to? The idea that you have a self sufficient world view is pretty hard to square with the historical fact, that as a nation, since Cuba c. 1898 right up to the present, the US has continually fomented unrest in the world and engaged in military adventurism. Certainly since WW2 this has grown apace and tends to subvert the notion iof self-sufficiency, unless theft of other nations resources falls under that rubric. I am well aware that not all Amerikans are the same and I've met some fine people during my travels in both Asia and Europe, but as I've noted on here previously, these were people who had travelled, people with an education and marketable skill sets with a good understanding of cultures outside of mainstream US. Not only do I recognise these differences, I also believe that the contradictions inherent in what others see as a somewhat disunited Amerika, will eventually lead to the Balkanization of the Union.
I agree with you too on the subject of racism, though in my experience it has manifested between the Hindu's and the Muslims, between the Chinese and Africans. I'm still, at 73, impressed by the energy, the enthusiasm and general good-heartedness of Amerikans, it is perhaps a case of lions led by donkeys.
Do better, assholes. I'm all out of patience not naming the invaders and destroyers of my culture.
Thow down or die.
This alarmist trash isn't wooing any of our fine critical thinkers here at ZH... right? Oh yes, Americans are being thrown in jail left and right for praying in their living rooms, of course! Shite.
critical thinkers here at ZH
I haven't noticed many....we've got some intellectuals that stop in from Huffpo from time to time.
They usually don't stay very long however.
The last person I ran into that recomended Huf po asked me to run for office. Then ripped me off. Needless to say. Not what I think of as an intelectual. Or a critical thinker. She also was a big fan of the krugster.
Our government is massively in debt
No shit, it should take less than a 3 yr old to figure out
Hi, I'm 2 yrs old, 50 billion a month = economic prosperity, in the maret I'm in, and until they fake prop it up agin, becaus3 they always will. I hate to say it but bank on que4
e-trade baby: "BTFD", "BTFATH"
What to do?
For detailed instructions see the Nuremburg Trial transcripts. The entire process by which AH took over Germany is outlined in great detail. A general outline is provided in his book.
I'd hate to sound cynical, but I think that very few here have the economic and physical courage to do anything significant.
Keyboard protesters? Totally. Anonymously, of course.
God forgive that we'd have the balls to post social media (FB), or even organize a local ZH chapter. Not likely to resonate.
Clever one liners, OTOH...
Kalifornia, Uber Alles
Hey, you wanna know how to make a trillion? Just buy a quadrillion worth of stuff on your credit card, and get the trillion as a cash back.
I bet a larger percentage of Russians compared to Mericans thought the above seemed credible.
Bunch of b s . the mericins. Have left the show moved to the burbs and are self absorbed little fucks that care only for having new cars than the neighbors, coworkers or wife's family. They care little for children community or anything but vain self aggrandizing consumerism. If you are waiting for the best and brightest to step up and save the republic that train left the station Round 1987 when mutual funds and 401's replaced the family and the community. You poor white trash hopefuls are FUBAR.
Bunch of b s . the mericins. Have left the show moved to the burbs and are self absorbed little fucks that care only for having new cars than the neighbors, coworkers or wife's family. They care little for children community or anything but vain self aggrandizing consumerism. If you are waiting for the best and brightest to step up and save the republic that train left the station Round 1987 when mutual funds and 401's replaced the family and the community. You poor white trash hopefuls are FUBAR.
Netanyahu speeches in Congress on Boehners invitation, without even telling the Obama gang. tsk tsk
http://rt.com/news/225539-netanyahu-congress-usa-rift/
John Wayne (from THE ALAMO)
lol
There is a tipping point where enough people feel strongly enough against the gathering police state to take decisive action to arrest it. Clearly that point has not yet been reached.
One of the reasons for this is that there are plenty of people who feel quite happy with their lives being ordered by the government or simply by "the authorities". Far more than is generally acknowldged. Another reason is that these draconian State powers are often introduced quietly and applied very slowly and selectively in the beginning, so that millions of people feel unaffected by them and think "it'll never happen to me". They look for reasons to justify the draconian actions - "there's no smoke without fire" or "s/he must have done something wrong" etc - which allows them to take no action with a clear conscience. When it happens to them they are shock-horrored!
I think most people affected or incensed by these draconian measures know deep down that the only effective solution is to re-take control of government which is now completely out of control and no longer represents the people. The rot has been gathering for many decades and is now very wide and very deep, like a cancer.
That takes me back to my first comment: "there is a tipping point".
I like to work off the assumption that the Danger to the US .gov, the banking System, the FED, and the Lobbying System... will come from within.
I have various scenarios:
- Foreign Allies Turn on the USA
- NATO Breaks Up
- Employees of Federal .gov break down and can no longer keep lying for Management
- Federal Management & Network Insiders no longer can keep hiding the truth from their kids, grandkids, and community
And some much worse Crisis:
- WW III, Nuk war
- Failure of US Infrastructure, Food Distribution
- Collapse of US Banking System, Credit System, Petro Dollar
- Investors Flee US LT Treasuries, US Bonds, US Stocks
- Disease
- Wealthy People withdraw 90% of All US Capital & put it offshore
- Civil War
- Fascism, Neonaziism in the USA begins training our Teens for Soldiering, Killing, War, uniform services
Solutions:
- Prosecute 5,000 Bankers & 100 US Congressmen
- End Money & Gift Giving in US Congress
- National Referendums
- Money & Credit are recognized as Utilities, each person is allowed to create his own Credit
- Wall Street Banks get their power to create money & Derives Limited, are forced to cut assets, forced to split up under Anti-Trust Laws, Shadow Banking is outlawed, all money & finance must be auditable under standard Financial Instruments & Accounting & Financial ratings
Or some other stuff.
"There is a tipping point where enough people feel strongly enough against the gathering police state to take decisive action to arrest it. Clearly that point has not yet been reached."
Before you can ever get people to that point you have to drag them away from the tv, then you have to sit them down, then tie them up, because what you need to explain to them, goes against everything that they have ever known. This will take hours to talk some sense into them. Heck just to educate them on what money is and that it needs to be backed by something that the .gov and bankers cannot print out of thin air will take you one day or longer.
How many days does it take from there?
Some years down the road you will get to the 100th monkey syndrone and the remaining idiots will just follow the rest not kowing why, other than because the masses are doinig it.
I know, I have tried, I tell people that we need sound money to stop the .gov and bankers from stealing our wealth and they just look at me thinking if what I say is true then why isn't anyone else talking this way as well.
The problem is most people are followers, they just want to follow the croud ,and do what the croud does, and want what the croud wants.
How do we get to be the croud that can have some followers.
BTW, that one is good.
"Police agencies, already empowered to crash through your door if they suspect you’re up to no good, now have radars that allow them to “see” through the walls of your home."
Anything that can scare the hell out of pedophiles and child-beaters, that rely on secrecy, is great.
The Tea Party came out of nowhere.
Podemos in Spain came out of nowhere.
When established politicians aren't doing their job new parties rise.
It does seem like things have to get very bad before this happens, we are getting there.
In the UK our established parties are a uniform blob of sameness "LibLabCon"
A new party came along that would tackle mass immigration - UKIP - they are doing very well.
New parties are springing up all across Europe.
But if you don't believe in Government there is only one solution, get out your guns and start a revolution.
This does tend to lead to chaos and blood shed as in France and Russia before.
"In the UK our established parties are a uniform blob of sameness "LibLabCon""
Lib-Lab-Con = empty words-empty head-empty suit.
Nigel Farage has got Big Balls (Leader UKIP)
Nigel Farage insults Herman van Rompuy, calls EU President a "DAMP RAG"
"The Tea Party came out of nowhere" - and was co-opted by the business class within a single year. If you think this bunch is any better than any other politician you are nuts.
Has anyone noticed that even the MSM doesn't refer to the worthless son-of-bitches as 'Representatives' any more, instead calling them 'Law-makers'? Hummmm....
Yet, interestingly enough, and by the way completely Unconstitutionally, the Executive branch agencies issue their "interpretations" of what Congress really "intended", when they passed the law, as written by special interest groups, corporations, "think tanks", or front groups for more controversial groups.
The Constitution contains no provisions for one branch of the Federal government triad to either abdicate it's authority or to transfer it's responsibility to another branch of the triad or to a non-governmental entity.
Yet, the Imperial Presidency has stripped away many of the responsibilities of Congress. Executive branch agencies issue new laws, rules and regulations without authorizing legislation. The President makes law by issuing Executive Orders.
The big question is, "How does Obama, supposedly a Constitutional law scholar, get away with such blatant Constitutional abuses?
The NSA, the National Security Agency, voluminous files gives Mullah Hussein Obama's access to enough damaging information to sink anyone's career in Washingtom, D. C., New York City, etc. Note what happened to General David Petraous and a host of other Generals and politicians.