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Why One Citizen Is Not Breaking Up With America This Valentine's Weekend
Submitted by John Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute,
“I love America and I hate it. I’m torn between the two. I have two conflicting visions of America. One is a kind of dream landscape and the other is a kind of black comedy.”? Bono
Almost every week I get an email from an American expatriate living outside the country who commiserates about the deplorable state of our freedoms in the United States, expounds on his great fortune in living outside the continental U.S., and urges me to leave the country before all hell breaks loose and my wife and children are tortured, raped, brutalized and killed.
Without fail, this gentleman concludes every piece of correspondence by questioning my sanity in not shipping my grandchildren off to some far-flung locale to live their lives free of fear, police brutality, and surveillance.
I must confess that when faced with unmistakable warning signs that the country I grew up in is no more, I have my own moments of doubt.
After all, why would anyone put up with a government that brazenly steals, cheats, sneaks, spies and lies, not to mention alienates, antagonizes, criminalizes and terrorizes its own citizens and then justifies it in the name of safety, security and the greater good?
Why would anyone put up with militarized police officers who shoot first and ask questions later, act as if their word is law, and operate as if they are above the law?
Why would anyone put up with government officials, it doesn’t matter whether they’re elected or appointed, who live an elitist lifestyle while setting themselves apart from the populace, operate outside the rule of law, and act as if they’re beyond reproach and immune from being held accountable?
Unfortunately, not only do we put up with a laundry list of tyrannies that make King George III’s catalogue of abuses look like child’s play, but most actually persist in turning a blind eye to them, acting as if what they don’t see or acknowledge can’t hurt them.
The sad reality, as I make clear in my book A Government of Wolves: The Emerging American Police State, is that life in America is no bed of roses. Nor are there any signs that things will get better anytime soon, at least not for “we the people,” those of us who belong to the so-called “unwashed masses”—the working class stiffs, the hoi polloi, the plebeians, the rabble, the riffraff, the herd, the peons and the proletariats.
For instance, we’re still being spied on by our own government. Incredibly, while the British courts recognize that mass government surveillance of cellphone and online communications is not only illegal but violates human rights, the U.S. courts and politicians continue to pander to the government’s whims, whether or not they run afoul of the rule of law. Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) actually wants to make the NSA’s mass surveillance a permanent practice.
Not only is the government unapologetic about spying on its citizens, but government agencies are using their collective surveillance data to carry out Orwellian pre-crime programs that attempt to nab “criminals” before they ever commit a crime. To do so, they have to study our social media posts, our buying habits, and where we travel to and from, and on and on.
We’re still being treated like serfs working for an overlord, with little actual rights when it comes to our property, our bodies, our children or our welfare. It doesn’t really matter what the justifications are for such taxes, regulations, prohibitions and fines if they result in us having little-to-no control over how we live our lives. In Seattle, for example, even one’s trash is subject to government regulation. Residents who fail to separate out their food waste for composting are fined for each violation.
We’re still bartering our freedoms away for the phantom promise of security, and we’re no safer and much less freer than we were two decades ago. First, it was the Patriot Act, which continues to sanction all manner of government intrusions into our lives, from the government tracking what cold medicine we use and how we spend our money to what we read and with whom we communicate. Then it was whole-body scanners in the airports, which were expensive, invasive and ineffective. Most recently, we’ve been subjected to a song-and-dance number about the need for body cameras on police officers to rein in abusive cops, with little said about how these surveillance cameras will be used to identify and track those in their range, or how difficult the footage will be to acquire if needed for our own defense.
We’re still being fooled into thinking that politics matter and that there’s a difference between the Republicans and Democrats, when in fact, the two parties are exactly the same. As one commentator noted, both parties support endless war, engage in out-of-control spending, ignore the citizenry’s basic rights, have no respect for the rule of law, are bought and paid for by Big Business, care most about their own power, and have a long record of expanding government and shrinking liberty.
Our communities are still being held hostage by militarized police. Despite the fleeting attention paid to the transformation of community police into extensions of the military, the transfer of military equipment from the federal government to localities continues unabated, with more than $28 million worth of tactical equipment distributed in the last quarter of 2014. The federal government, in conjunction with local police, has created a standing army on American soil—something those who drafted our Constitution believed would devastate our freedoms.
We’re still exchanging one set of wars for another, to the delight and profit of the military industrial complex. We’ve gone from waging war against Iraq and Iran to sounding the war drums against North Korea, Syria and ISIS wherever it happens to rear its head.
Every once in a while, we get tossed a bone to satisfy that gnawing, nagging hunger for something that looks and tastes like freedom, democracy and free enterprise. Political elections, town-hall meetings, awards ceremonies, sports spectacles, high-dollar lotteries, reality TV shows, morning news programs and patriotic-themed blockbuster movies: these are all the trappings of a so-called free nation without the substance (what Shakespeare referred to as a “tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing”). Indeed, Big Business, in conjunction with Big Government, have become very adept at distracting the citizenry so that “we the people” often have no clue as to the real nature of the political game being played.
Temporarily assuaged, easily distracted and suffering from an appalling case of public amnesia, we fall right back into our complacency and compliance, content to turn a blind eye to blatant abuses, forgive past transgressions, and forget all of the reasons why we should be mad as hell about the state of our nation.
So why do I stay? Why do any of us continue to put up with the gut-wrenching, soul-sucking, misery-drenched, demoralizing existence that is America today?
Perhaps I stay because I was raised to believe that anything worth having is worth fighting for, and I believe with every fiber of my being that freedom matters. In fact, I come from a long line of Americans who understood that there is a price to be paid for freedom, whether that means standing up to the British military, sitting down in a bus seat reserved for “whites only,” or pushing back against corporations who pollute our waters and pillage our lands for profit.
Perhaps I soldier on because I remember what it was like to grow up at a time when the only surveillance I had to worry about were the neighbors who reported back to my mother whenever I did something wrong, and I desperately want my grandchildren to experience that kind of carefree existence. I want them to know that there’s more to life than metal detectors, lockdowns, random searches and pre-crime units trying to nab them for a crime if they dare step out of line.
Perhaps I persevere because I know that there are genuinely concerned Americans out there, including some good cops, honest politicians and pragmatic idealists, who want to pitch in and turn things around for the better. As long as there is this small but vocal minority who cares enough to stand up and speak out, then all is not completely lost.
Perhaps I stick it out because I know that surveillance, overcriminalization, militarized police, power-hungry politicians and greedy corporations are not exclusive to America, and there’s nowhere you can escape to where tyranny cannot follow. No matter what you think of Ronald Reagan and his politics, he was right when he warned that, “If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on earth.”
Most of all, perhaps I keep fighting on because I’m just not ready to give up on America. At least, not yet.
In the words of that revolutionary firebrand Patrick Henry:
Gentlemen may cry, peace, peace — but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! — I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!
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Screw that, what's the ZH take on this?
http://philosophyofmetrics.com/2015/02/10/brics-sdr-to-bailout-eurozone/
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The "good" news is Obama is becoming more Bushlike every day. The bad news? The same.
02.15 13:00 ET BREAKING NEWS: Obama Goes Full Metal Bush – Deploys 3rd Inf. Brigade to Kuwait for Combat against ISIS
Nowhere to go for the USA tax slave. Wherever you are, you are subject to the US tax man. The only government that enslaves his people that much. Oh, by the way, do not try to open a bank account anywhere outside the US, your government made that impossible for you too.
The local neo-con radio station is busy shouting 50 shades as porno, degenerate culture destroying Commie crap. The same station is way down with "american sniper" as great apple pie patriotism and everyone should go out and kill 160+ women and children from other countries.
Yeah, I know porno when I see or hear it.
"concerned Americans out there, including some good cops, honest politicians"
no such thing as good cops or honest politicians. they are part of an organized gang who forcibly extracts wealth from ordinary people through threats of violence.
i have the right as a free man to live my life without their malign influence. if they really were honest, they would stay in the private sector, and no one would be forced to support their lifestyle, and all interaction with them would be voluntary.
Nothing says “I love you” like a ball-gag.
Oh, by the way, do not try to open a bank account anywhere outside the US, your government made that impossible for you too.
Cough, cough, bullshit... If you actually had any experience in this area, you would know how ignorant your comment really is...
BTW, I'm the crazy uncle telling all family members in the US to GTFO as soon as they can because believe it or not, life is much better when not living in fear of your own government...
WELL...
If I had a girlfriend like Stacy Herbert, Max, my 'personal government' life would be much better as well!
<sarc on, sarc off>
I guess I'll just have to stay here in the occupied CONUS with Judge Andrew Napolitano and Ron (President) Paul, and Steve, and Stan, and Alex, and the Oathkeepers, and the ORIGINAL members of 'Occupy Wall Street', and Micheal Rivero, and...
I don't need a 'better life'. I've already had one.
John,
I'm with you, let's stick it out and try and make America the dream it always had the potential to be. It's a cause worth fighting for. Tyrant oligarchs will oppose us at every step. But, it's something worth fighting for. Hey what else are you gonna do with your life?
SMG
to me this isn't about corporatists and bureaucrats boning the populaion up the ass. it's the clueless, gutless, spineless, lapdog, politically correct fools and moral cowards who call themselves my friends and neighbors. this place called amerika is nothing more than a feedlot for entitled bleeting sheep waiting to be sheared. i'm so fucking long bolt guns and abbatoirs.
Why don't you tell us how to open that foreign bank account, if it's so easy?
The best bank account is under your mattress; banks everywhere are scams nowadays.
I have a savings account at DNB in Oslo that I did through the mail and on-line. They are currently paying me 2.2% interest.
Just have to fill out an extra form at tax time.
Your friend,
Dog
My bank abroad (which I have to keep alone because I cannot share the account with a non-US citizen) called me in the close of the business day on Dec. 31, 2014, frantic to have me sign some forms to put them in compliance with FATCA. Nevermind that the bank charges fees for this or that they didn't even get my name correct on the forms or that when I protested and told them that you cannot lie on US gov't forms they acted like I was joking. Yeah - you can get a bank account, but I was greated with an incoherent English power-point presentation on the US gov't banking restrictions that could have been put together by a mongoloid 12 year old. This process involved a lot of talk to me about "why don't I just give up US citizenship" and join their weird little tribal cult of a country.
So it's definitely possible to open a bank account abroad - especially in a country that at the end of the day essentially controls the US banks - but it is NOT a clean experience that leaves you feeling safe. It helps that I have barely anything in that bank though. I have some phyzz that Mrs. Upgrayedd allows me to keep because I remind her that her only surviving European family member got out of that shitshow by carring gold to bribe the border. I have always kept enough phyzz around to negotiate a swift exit. Do you have to do that in the USA? No - so consider that as a reason not to join the freak and GTFO crowd.
so den, why not jus head on ovah to d'leftist religous sites brothah?
Time to invest in a solid short-wave instead.
Hilarious...
You are a Puutie licking dumbass.
Likely to be an advocate of the "eat shit and die" moves of the bath house boy working on Alison Williams.
Any asshole carrying a roadside bomb, whatever the color of their skin or the bomb, deserves a .338 round to send them to hell. If they are wearing a vest with explosives, all the better.
Whatever happened to no taxation without representation?
If that concept were to be truly applied, only the 1% would be paying a cent.
I think I just answered my own question!
And what happened to the idea that 'income', not 'wages', should be taxed.
You're half right.
You can go online and open a bank account at ANZ, Australia, while relaxing in your den in Springfield.
I do stipulate that having a bank account at ANZ may not solve all of your problems....
When I was a child, I opened a savings account at my local branch, in Manly. They gave me a cool plastic coin collection thing. It was just like a little bank vault, with three dials and a 'secret combination'. A slot in the top allowed me to drop my coins inside, but only I KNEW the 'secret combination' to open it. In two years, I had managed to save up almost AU$30.
In the summer of '69 (that would be about February), the sewer workers' union in Sydney pulled a 'wildcat strike', and dumped raw sewage in to Sydney Harbour. They didn't give a shit about the kids like me (who happened to be swimming at the time, and got the hell out after groups of toilet paper and human feces began to float in my path). I was just north of the ferry dock in Manly. They had these really neat hydrofoils; the 'Manly' and the 'Fairlight', back then...
I am awaiting the ANZ to get all 'NIRPY'.
I reckon "Manly" is the finest name for a burg ever invented. And as for "Manly Beach", with "Fairy Bower" just around the corner.... And catching the "Manly Ferry" over to the city. Fuck yeah. Manly as hell.
Never thought of it like that when I lived there. Bet you never have Monty.
Actually, I lived in Fairlight. I used to have to walk to Manly every weekday for school. The green grocer was there, and the fish and chips were made with the trash shark meat that was caught in the nets off the coast (4 servings for a dollar AU). I watched both 'You Only Live Twice' (James Bond) and 'One Million Years B.C.' (Raquel Welch) in the little theater down the street from my bank. We were there when they were building the Sydney Opera House. My dad used to make fun of them, saying that the construction equipment looked like 'Tinker Toys'.
I always thought it was strange that the Aussies called the entrance cliffs to Sydney Harbour 'North Head' and 'South Head', though. North Head was bigger, but South Head seemed to do all the thinking...
Nice one. I lived in fairlight for several years in my grandmother's big house on the corner of Lauderdale Ave and Woods Parade. It was converted into 7 apartments and had the best garden for kids. Then I lived in Balgowlah until I moved out of home in my late teens.
Failight...paradise.
'tonka toys' though wasn't it?
The differance betwwen say 1776 and now is that Americans have no ball's and will put up with anything . Look at all the murders the cop's do on a weekly basis and not one retaliation killing from thier familys of the murdered victim , the injustices commited by the courts not one judge shot , you see no ball's.
Sitting in my living room, commenting to your post while looking out my smaller of my three bay windows, with the flag of my former nation (NO GOLD FRINGE) flying from the 30-foot flagpole in my front yard, I see the skies above. They are coated with several low-level white lines left by the continuous aerosol spraying operations which I cannot stop (I would shoot them down if I had the ability via the weaponry to do so). The haze is once again beginning to spread unnaturally, like a spider weaving it's web. I am fairly-well educated, and fully realize that the ingredients in this atmosphere that is being generated include nanoaluminum and nanobarium particulates which I once again will have no choice to ingest via respiration; and I also know the side-effects on the human body from these poisions.
NO, the difference between 1776 and NOW is that the technologies that mankind has invented in order to slaughter its own population and make it supposedly 'kinder and gentler' hadn't yet been invented. When you are constantly poisoned with GMO's, drugs, things that cause Alzheimer's, and the various Cancers, and are educated from the cradle that YOU CAN DO NOTHING; and doing so is 'socially unacceptable', you become desensitized, weak, and helpless (because the human body has its' limits).
Welcome to 'Mystery Babylon'!
<sarc on>
OH, SHIT! Brian Williams just reported on the SAMSUNG TELESCREEN that the Russians have invaded Ukraine AGAIN! He's claiming that the official press vehicle he was riding in got shelled by Russian-made RPGs; and he's been stranded on the side of the road outside of Donbass for the past 2 days...
(Cut to Bush U.N. speech)
'Either you're with US, or you're with the TERRORISTS.'
<sarc off>
Soylent Green REALLY IS people, you know.
I prefer the 5'x8' Bennington flag in NyGlo. I consider the current US flag offensive.
Before I respond, I'm interested to know which two states are represented as being over all the others.
That was the symbolism of that whore singer riding a beast during the stupor bowl.
I missed that part.
In fact, I missed the whole thing. Well, I didn't 'miss' it; the way one misses things that give one temporary pleasure and tittilation...
Actually, I was waiting for Brian Williams to announce that he had single-handedly broken the 'deflated balls' scandal. He's a fucking JACKOFF, just like the 22 millionaire blacks with dreadlocks that play in this 'game of kings' are. 11 (12, counting Williams) are now suffering with 'deflated balls'.
AHH...the obligatory USCONUSMIL 'flyovers'... at the beginning of the 'game'... THE BIG GAME...
(ANNOUNCER)
Please, Let me have your attention! the US CONUS ANG Group will now fly over the stadium, in rememberance of the 9/11 attacks! Watch; as their planes stream the colors of our national flag...
(WHOOSH)
(ANNOUNCER)
Yes, 'Merkuh remembers...
(pregnant pause)
And now, let us all pledge our allegience to this 'One Nation Under FED', by putting up with a no-talent hack singing the 'national anthem'...
Well, if I was going to be forced to watch this bullshit, I couldn't enjoy it without being really fucked up. Some Doritos (T.M.), and some Budweiser (T.M.), and I'll sit and watch the girls in the kitchen with their phat asses discussing their sexual issues (because they have phat asses and guts and rolls of phat on thier necks, and triple chins)... at the Stuporbowl Party...
OH, SHIT! Anyone got some weed? I can't take it...
Dear MontgomeryScott,
You sound like I did before I left the CONUS. When you see the Matrix, and it only makes you angry, then you might benefit from emigrating. Consider your skill set and have a look around at jobs overseas. It'll change your life.
Cheers,
Beef
Most will convince themselves its jet trails. Well I say if those are from jets, then they should be crashing left and right because they're zigzagged all over the sky! And the next day, EVERYONE has allergy symptoms and angry or depressed or all of the above!
+1 for openly mentioning SAI.
You mention defending yourself from these environmental attacks. Most people do not understand that fedgov is responsible for these attacks, because if one did defend themself, they will quickly find out who is pulling security.
Why haven't you gone full freedom yet?
Probably has to due with all the flouride they put in the water, same stuff Hitler used in the concentration camp's water. Chemical castration in a way.
Then, 'Abitdodgie' why don't you share with us what you're doing to shoot some judges, cops, etc...?
Is it too early to start shooting? I'm serious. We all know Civil War II is coming. I hear all these patriots talking about fighting for America, but I don't see any action. Inaction is an easy trap fall into, so...
It's never too early for pranking. A bag of frozen shrimp wedged under a car or in a hubcap is a fine way to ruin the enemy's day/week/reek. Tactical Superglue is too. Plus, pranking has the benefit of training in surveillance, nocturnal small-group tactics, and entry/evasion techniques.
But most importantly, it breaks the all-too familiar cycle of sitting at home alone, bitching on the internet all night. We all must know by now that another cigarette, another drink, another debate and further rumination will not actually do anything.
Repeal FATCA
Americans don't even realize it exists...
That is not true. You can open a bank account outside of the US but you have to report it , including the highest amount you have in that account in a year. If you use turbo tax and fill out the section about foreign bank accounts, it directs you to the forms and agency you need to file the report.
"Most of all, perhaps I keep fighting on because I’m just not ready to give up on America. At least, not yet."
It is taking you too long to give up on AmeriKa, Sir. You better get out now or it might be too late later on. Keep dreaming on what it was is not good. Gotta let go and take care of your family NOW.
Newsflash to the visually impaired:
There is only one political party in America.
The voters do not choose who is on the ballot to vote for.
"America is about to engage in the same behavior of citizen subjugation in preparation for a coming war. Only this time, protesting will not be permitted and protesters will be “dealt with”. Along these lines, I am in receipt of the following which is very troublesome:
One of my colleagues in the media sent me the press release. Within 15 minutes, I had two very high level confirmations of what this meant. One of the sources is a high ranking government official with oversight responsibilities and the other is an ex-military intelligence asset with multiple and strong connections to dissident military types serving today. However, this is a story that writes itself. I really do not need unnamed sources in order to demonstrate where this is likely headed. The President’s intention to transfer intelligence information on American citizens from the NSA to the DHS is both ominous and the purpose is self-evident. My sources simply serve to reinforce the obvious intent. Also, this information is beginning to leak out in the independent media.
<img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-LoU1RbJphqQ/VN-HEb8vuFI/AAAAAAAACyg/HSnFGBO1aao/s640/Obama's%2Bfirst%2BReichstag%2BMoment.jpg" alt="" border="0" />Anyone who has read my articles over the past two years knows that I have obtained information that the NSA’s massive data mining of every person is inextricably tied to creating a Threat Matrix Score for each and every American based on key word analyses of their cell phone conversations, emails, social media statements, etc. Also, a “known associates” file is maintained to determine the amount social reach a potential dissident has. For example, the bigger their reading audience or listening audience or Facebook following, the higher a person’s Threat Matrix Score."
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2015/02/14/obama-to-use-dhs-for-lightning-strikes-on-american-dissidents/
"that the country I grew up in is no more"
It hasn't been for a VERY long time! We just didn't know it back then.
Thinking of down voting you to lower my Threat Matrix Score......,,
Nah...changed my mind + 1000
Never capitulate!!!!
"Never capitulate!!!!"
Original version, 8:31, by the Canadian band 'Triumph'.
"NEVER SURRENDER"!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHz48OAuXD4
FUCK the 'threat matrix score'!
(painting a big target on my head)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fdcIwHKd_s
"It should be stated that the USD will categorically remain as one of many reserve currencies with it’s position secure in the SDR basket composition, alongside the Chinese renminbi, among others, potentially even the Russian ruble. The path of the Special Drawing Right is being drawn along the transition points of the multilateral structure."
"Multilateralism" and "multipolar" are the new "globalization." Notice how Putin has given multiple speeches now about his desire to end the "unipolar" world? The Fed/Petrodollar complex will be controlled demolitioned, the BRICS will be given the reins of the IMF/BIS, and the game will start all over again.
Chatham House (the British CFR) authored a paper about it, too: http://www.chathamhouse.org/sites/files/chathamhouse/field/field_documen...
And Zhou Xiaochuan, the head of the PBOC and recently promoted to Deputy Minister of Finance in the IMF, published a paper (via the BIS, of all places) about the need for a Gold/Silver standard... to be instituted by the IMF: http://www.bis.org/review/r090402c.pdf
A bit more reading, if you're interested: http://redefininggod.com/2015/01/globalist-agenda-watch-2015-update-12-d...
It's starting to make sense why Putin and Kissinger are such "good friends," dining at each other's houses and whatnot. "Meet the new boss, same as the old boss." Quite literally the same. Sucks to realize the game that's being played on us, but it's becmoing more and more obvious as the days pass: The BRICS are the Democrats to the Anglo-American Establishment's Republicans. Two sides of the same One World coin.
kissinger is on putin's payroll. like him or not he is the ultimate real politicker. he understandfs the evil man is and knows how to use it in cold blooded fashion. he and putin are a perfect match. putin also knows the depravity of power mongers. they listen closely to each other both as student and teacher. kissinger knows how dc foreign policy works.
kissinger also told some daily news gossip columnist that israel would no longer exist in ten years. that was a coupla years ago. wouldn't that be an interesting developement?
Vlad is only pretending until he can meet The Man and Bop Him, just like Homey the Clown.
I hope you're joking. Did you read any of the documents provided? In case your attention span is short, here's a nice little one-liner for 'ya:
“Special consideration should be given to giving the SDR a greater role. The SDR has the features and potential to act as a super-sovereign reserve currency. Moreover, an increase in SDR allocation would help the Fund address it s resources problem and the difficulties in the voice and representation reform. Therefore, efforts should be made to push forward a SDR allocation.”
-Zhou Xiaochuan, PBOC Head and IMF Deputy Financial Minister
Does that sound like a country that wants to become the world reserve currency, or a country that's about to leverage its gold for a seat at the Round Table? As China goes, so goes Russia; an East divided against itself cannot stand. Period. Don't say you weren't warned.
This is round about what Jim Willie suggested in one of his recent interviews.
Willie's geopolitical analysis is always very enlightening, but his "BRICS are the good guys and anyone who says otherwise is an idiot" trash is becoming too much for me to stomach. He claims there's "no evidence" to suggest that it's the case, but as I've posted above, there's PLENTY of evidence to support the theory, straight from globalist documents. Why are Russia and China not only in the IMF and BIS, but ardent supporters of merely "reforming" them?
Why did Goldman Sachs coin the term BRICs, and why are the Eastern powerbrokers using the name created for them by their supposed "enemy?"
http://www.goldmansachs.com/our-thinking/archive/archive-pdfs/brics-drea...
I get the feeling that once the "utopia" the BRICS are supposedly going to create for us turns out to be the next step towards a globalized nightmare, the Golden Jackass will mysteriously vanish on us. Time will tell.
i haven't gotten that impression from wille that brics are the good guys. rather, that the brics are doing what they need to do, to extract themselves from the western-dominated market of fraud, corruption and extortion.
If the BRICS interest you, take a look at this. The Shanghai Co-operation Organisation (SCO) is BRICS on steroids.
I stumbled over this yesterday, never heard of it before. If it is true, Putin is so many moves ahead that the game is over, and we don't even know it.
http://thewealthwatchman.com/united-eurasia-pt-2-the-powerful-organizati...
I'm sure I came across a report the other day where SWIFT was invited to join the Russian equivalent. The MSM would definitely keep that quiet.
BTW thanks for the link to the SCO info.
good link
thanks, sd
The author makes a lot of baseless assumptions and claims. Given the fact that the € currently accounts for 34% in the SDR basket and approximately accounts for 25% in international foreign exchange reserves. I fail to see the mechanism that would allow 'brics sdr' to bailout the eurozone.
Rory_Breaker
Thanks for the link. I quickly browsed the article and found it very insightful..... And so were the posts.
Found this exchange very telling, and that should be shared:
SRV (@srves339)
I fail to see how Libya “evaded direct American control”… they had the highest standard of living in Africa, issued debt free money, provided no cost healthcare and education to all citizens, and stable leadership (a dictator, but one who served the people, not the banks and corporate elite).
They now have a “Rothschild” central bank and a debt based system, their leader was murdered, their gold was confiscated, their oil (and anything else of value) is being privatized, and their economy and society is in ruins (American interests can be well served without a formal takeover).
…… clearly all major banks could be at risk, and the entire system comes crashing down…
JC Collins
….. in regards to Libya, I said that they avoided American control, not banker control. These are two different points.
The US has been controlled and used by the international bankers as well, though on a much larger level.
As I have written previously, the US was used as the tool to accomplish this.
But since American business interests have attempted to establish a strong foothold in the country and this has been successfully resisted. International banking interests and American interests have been slowly diverging over the last few years.
http://philosophyofmetrics.com/2015/02/10/brics-sdr-to-bailout-eurozone/...
Sir, Libya may be able soon to say 'no' to us.
Bomb them back into freedomz!
We disagree on many points, and this you should be made to know.
HOWEVER:
I downloaded and read M. Qua'da'fi's 'Green Book', and read it. The fucking Rothschild bankers in the Western world really hated him for DARING to oppose THEIR plutocracy. The 'tipping point' was his attempt as ambassador (NOT a leader, as his tenure ended in 1979) for the Libyan People to set up a REAL trading currency (the 'African Gold Dinar').
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COdKmHkPoOo
I no longer participate in the CONUS tax collection scheme. I shall NOT be a part of the slaughter of a people whose desires are that of the Constitution which I have sworn an oath to. My decision was made at a great cost.
THOU SHALT NOT MURDER.
I REFUSE.
Fify shades of boring as fuck shit.
Waste of money too.
yah, why see that when there's so much double anal porn to catch up on.
Not to mention there is free porn everywhere.
This to me is akin to being cowered every day by the same tough kid with a mouth threatening to beat the living shit out of some smaller kid until one day it gets real and the tough kid gets bitch slapped and schooled in the finer points of fisticuffs by the much more agile and cagey little fellow. The big government leviathan has about reached that point. You will be able to record the next revolution on a 60 minute vhs tape. Let it build, the progs have made the same fatal mistake that every tyrant throughout history makes in that it believes it is infallible.
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=3ec_1258739942
"but the most hideous crime was suppressing the soul of a nation"
Right. Because US citizens have been making such a determined effort to roll back Leviathan.
It took many, many years of abuse before Lexington and Concorde happened. That's probably why when something does go down, the government will be shocked. Just look at their response to the Bundy Ranch fiasco.
You really think the current US population has any of the qualities of their patriot ancestors? Hell no, they are a bunch of meth addicted losers. To tell the truth, the illegals who risk everything to come to the US have a lot more balls than your average food stamp loving citizen. Wake up, there is NEVER going to be an uprising because all these people care about are their iPhones and the latest video game.
The Brits had a similar opinion of the colonists after having fought along side them in the French and Indian War. Of course, they didn't iPhones then, but the point remains that they thought Americans were worthless cowards after the way most of them performed during that war. Then Lexington and Concord hit and they were utterly shocked that those colonists actually put up a real fight.
I don't think you've spent much time in Wal-mart looking at the qualities of your future freedom fighters. They are fat fucks barely capable of getting off their couches let alone fighting anyone. By contrast the colonists were a hardy group of resourceful people who could take care of themselves quite well with the skills needed to survive on the frontier. Your freedom fighters only skills are swiping their food stamp cards at the cash register and opening a beer!
I think that if you go into Walmart, you are apt to see a freak show now and then. I also think that if you equate Walmart with America, and that's it, you're a one dimensional fool.
Oh, and the founding fathers tended to drink a lot of beer too.
I don't think you've spent much time in Wal-mart looking at the qualities of your future freedom fighters. They are fat fucks barely capable of getting off their couches let alone fighting anyone. By contrast the colonists were a hardy group of resourceful people who could take care of themselves quite well with the skills needed to survive on the frontier. Your freedom fighters only skills are swiping their food stamp cards at the cash register and opening a beer!
and yet US citizen big jim?
If you could roll it back there would never be a need for revolution yet they take place every day. It's the natural ebb and flow of human existence, you happen to be living in the flow, get over it.
Not sure I understand the down-votes on the Fifty Shades comment above- it IS related to America's weird current state of mind
Our children are on the streets these days as prostitutes and these thugs, these filthy, porno entrepreneurs in Hollywood, get the green light from our politicians to produce ever degrading films, even to establishing a growing business industry for pornography. Where is the concern for America’s future represented by its abandoned young people fleeing dysfunctional and often sexually abusive family members prompted by the film industry? What politician, for money, delivers to these Hollywood pimps, saying in effect: Take as many children and young people as you like; just keep the lobbying support coming?
That said, I think the down vote is in protest to "Filthy Shades", not to the messenger.
Sister Mary Rose McGeady wrote in “Sometimes God Has a Kid’s Face” of the abandoned and lost street children in today's world of sex, abuse, and terror, desperate kids who've turned to their last hope, Covenant House that annually reaches more than 61,000 homeless kids a year in six countries.
To the kids desperate to find someone who cares:
"Our children are on the streets these days as prostitutes..."
Remember that if you object to having Jeffery Epstein and Alan Dershowitz rape and defile your 14 year old daughter, you're an anti-Semite!
Perhaps I am afflicted with Stockholm Syndrome.
<Love the country, not the government. There IS a difference.>
I get your point, CD, but even there I'll dare create some cog dis by saying...
"Country"? WTF is that? Please define. Do you mean:
the huge bipolar distribution of wealth, the millions incarcerated (mostly for just cause), the drugs, the crime, the vice, the poverty, the junkie bums, the dark places in inner cities where few dare to thread, the EBT crowd slugging it out at Walmart, the trailer trash, the Hollywood types, the LBGT, the tax evaders, child molesters (in or out of clerical robes), the perverts, junkies, mental patients on the streets, liars, cheats, double-crossing phonies, the fraudsters on Main St and Wall St, the politicians, the cruise-control 'Public Servants', the...?
Is that what you mean? Are these the tens of millions that you'd be willing to fight, bleed and die for? Or are you a hopeless romantic, and prefer to cling to the IDEA of what America was, our could be? Which is it?
Like you, my friend, I too USED to believe in this romantic notion of "my country, right or wrong". But no more. I've come to realize that this was just an indoctrinated fantasy, that serves the 0.1% elite, the TRUE owners and masters of this... "Banana Republic par Excellence".
A man (or woman) really has to think deep and hard what ideas and causes they would be willing to materially sacrifice, or risk life and limb. Put in that context, I came to realize that the number of people I'd be willing to bleed or die for, suddenly becomes very, VERY small (compared to "the country"): Family and some personal friends.
I humbly submit that if everyone thought or acted in a similar manner, then we would not have soldiers dying or killing overseas, and bullying other nations. And if everyone on earth acted that way, the sociopaths and their political lackeys would have to do their own dirty work. Since we all(?) know that they are allergic to real work and physical courage, the problem of national aggression would take care of itself.
Folks, let's have and keep "Clarity, Perspective and Balance", please.
It's the idea that Cog is referring to. Not some geographical features.
Yeah! What she/he/it said. ^^^^^^
:-)
Borders.
Language.
Culture.
We hold these truths to be self-evident: That man has been given unaleanable rights by his Creator; and among these is Life, Liberty, and the Persuit of Hapiness.
The idea of putting one corrupt group in subjugation to another corrupt group (the 'invention' of a 'government') is like the idea of the BLIND leading the BLIND. Greed and Avarice are FED with the power that comes with the willing subjugation of another human being.
I am going to get my Happiness as soon as Brain Williams defines it and Obama makes an EDICK. /SARC
@noben "A man (or woman) really has to think deep and hard what ideas and causes they would be willing to materially sacrifice, or risk life and limb. Put in that context, I came to realize that the number of people I'd be willing to bleed or die for, suddenly becomes very, VERY small (compared to "the country"): Family and some personal friends."
Bolded part: So when you talk about allegiance to [paraphrasing] 'family & personal friends', you're essentially narrowing the issue down to a TRIBE mentality. Or am I incorrect in this assumption?
Producers vs. Parasites. To the death. That's the way I see it.
Exactly, America and the US is not the same.
I know it is schizophrenic but once you have realized this the rest is much easier.
yah there is north america, cental america, native america... america will be until the land is gone. The united states is just a blip in americas existence.
Doug Casey made this same point years ago - there is the 'United States' and there is 'America'. The two are not the same, nor equal.
Countries...
Artificial lines drawn on maps to divide humanity into maneageble sized groups for exploitation, with the added feature of being able to set one group against another so they never fight the real enemy, government.
Yes sir. But realistically speaking most people raised to be nationalistic simply can't go cold turkey and stop rooting for their home team. So we try to tone down the mania and allow for some decompression before cutting the last ties that bind.
Think of it as a nicotine patch for nationalists.
fuck ya
There once was countries like there were once families and communities. People who shared history, culture and language. Fighting for country is as futile today as fighting for the traditional sense of family. Multiculturalism has destroyed our "borders". As such we now have no defense beyond our own hands. We have few alliances, most don't even know the names of their neighbors. We now live in chaos, knowing not who is friend or for, frantically stacking our gold and ammo like it will provide what society has lost. It won't. What is lost is lost. When there is nothing left worth fighting for, there's nothing left to save.
"Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it." - Mark Twain
LOVE HURTS :(
Especially is you take it up the rear end.
I've heard.
yah but do it long enough, you get numb to the the pain and it becomes an addiction.
LOL. I think we're both using artistic license, by using double entendre (literal and figurative) language. :-)
This hurts too. Funny how the media doesn't really give a shit. Some people are worth more than others I guess.....
Police Execute Man With His Hands Up - YouTube
and handcuffed his dead body? WTF!
Because holding onto the idea that was The United States is far more attractive than accepting reality.
+1. FWIW, I remember with sentimental nostalgia the America before 2000.
The 60s-70s still had a degree of innocence and optimism, and any STD was treatable.
The 80s no longer had all STDs treatable (thanks to HIV), but were good economic times.
The 90s had good/great economic times, but the political rot seemed to seep into society, with its Political Correctness (and its hypocrisy and social conditioning) popping up everywhere.
2000? Well, we all know what happened there. And it's been downhill ever since - even with the fake economic era of 2000-2007 (housing bubble).
2000-2016: Bush, Bush, Obama, Obama. [dry heaves]
> 2016: "New & Improved" Clinton 2.0 or Bush 3.0? Mad Men will be so proud. Are we still alive, or dying in a nuclear winter? And why haven't we done a "full French Revolution" on DC and NY banksters?
fuck ya
True, these united States no longer exist. What we have today is the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, a fascist corporation!
I just stay here for the free porn. That's it.
In the old America, porn cost money and water was free. What happened, America?
With my water almost 3 times as it was 5 years ago I would rather go back to paying for porn. At least you could discuss the merit/flaws of the film with like ninded people at the loacl DVD/VHS store.
My water is free. The electricity and equipment that I need to pull it out of the ground, however, is not. I'm just waiting for some jackass up in Santa Fe to decide that the state is hurting for more funds and try to change that. There's a reason that my irrigation well went in by my own hand and without a permit.
my cousin lives in east san diego county, and he had to install a meter when he put his well in, for monitoring.
I was supposed to install one too. I was also supposed to pull a permit and get an inspection. Instead, I just went and got the pipe and the drive point, borrowed a driver, built a tripod with a double pully system and spent 2 days beating the crap out of the thing, didn't pull a permit, didn't get it inspected and didn't put a meter on. The house is on a different well in the front, so if anybody says anything, I can point to that well and the inspector can go to hell. But my neighbors are all about driving their own irrigation wells without government approval too, so nobody is going to say anything.
When I was kid I tried jerking off to the porn from Nartional Geographic Africa edition but nothing happened. Just a sore cock.
I can relate to your feeling. Thanks for sharing.
Yep those were the good ole days. Jacking off to the J.C penny's and sears lingerie sections, man how times have changed.
I stay because I have Schadenfreude syndrome and with so many miserable people the United States is my utopia.
How quaint....
"He stopped loving her today..." Actually Feb. 7.
John Whitehead died last week at the age of 92.
That John Whitehead was born in the Roaring 20's, as opposed to the dawn of the Baby Boom years...
https://www.rutherford.org/about/about_john_whitehead/
My bad. Too many Johns. Also a murdered R & B artist named John Whitehead.
Don't name your kid John, or Cody, or Mohammed.
Online Bank Robbers Steal Up to $1 Billion
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-02-15/online-bank-robbers-st...
Banks stole $7.7 trillion
http://theweek.com/articles/479867/federal-reserves-breathtaking-77-tril...
Yeah, did you see how some of those robberies consisted of taking an account with $1000, changing its balance to $10,000, then transferring $9000 to another account? They did what the banks do all the time by debasing the money, then taking what they created for themselves. "Money" is largely just numbers in a ledger these days, and these crooks proved it. Unlike the banks, they seem to be honest about the fact that they're crooks though.
it's just data required for passing more Draconian legislation written long ago.. yeaaah sleepover bandits
" there’s nowhere you can escape to where tyranny cannot follow"
I think I found a place. Been good to me since 1971. Downsides - very low on malls and bandwidth.
Where?
Now if he told you that all the morons would start piling in and turn it into the dump they left.
Kinda like what they're doing to Florida.
And what Mexico and the third world is dong to the US.
West Africa at a guess. I'd rather fight and die in a pile of brass in the US than live anywhere in Africa.
The grand boubou/bubu is one of the names for a flowing wide sleeved robe worn by men in much of West Africa, and to a lesser extent in North Africa, related to the Dashiki suit.
i'd guess he lives in wyoming, near jellystone park, and is named after boo-boo bear, yogi bear's sidekick:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boo-Boo_Bear
Having lived overseas in a number of countries, I don't see any alternatives.
Which countries?
Iran before the fall of the shah, france, Germany Spain, Israel egypt, PI, Malaysia, India, Costa Rica. Egypt. traveled to a bunch more and also went to some fun places uncle Sam sent me...
Yeah - for real guys. Yes the US is insanely upsetting - largely because it is your country that you gave to and which you believe in. We often get angriest at those closest to us. That doesn't mean that leaving will present anything better. I'm with Boondocker - I'm actually coming back to the USA now because frankly I prefer to be in a collapse there (tha fuck away from cities) rather than in countries where semi-collapse (compared to the US) is always in play and I already know how mafia, gangs, and corrupt motherfuckers will steal and run the local-level show.
Same.
So why do I stay? Why do any of us continue to put up with the gut-wrenching, soul-sucking, misery-drenched, demoralizing existence that is America today?
The reason is fairly pretty simple. What's the end game for uprooting your life, and abandoning some of your immediate family not to mention extended family and friends, only to live in another country? To merely survive alone? No thanks. If I can't have my family and life long friends, what's the point?
Not to mention you just may miss the opportunity to help at a most critical juncture. I'm sticking around until the credits end.
one of my fondest wishes is to live to see this occupying yankee government laid low.
it's not long now, an unstoppable decline is already happening. the only problem is they're going to take the rest of us down with them if we stay, turning the country into a militarized police state clinging on to power.
I'm bitterly clinging in anticipation of open season, no limit, by any means.
Only limited to the number of rounds in your arsenal.
Hence my "moar ammo" schtick.
+1
laomei - I tried to give you a thumbs up but the arrow pointer is inactive. Thats odd. I often find your comments a little off kilter, today they were very similar to my own. Thanks.
Italics at the beginning of a comment prevents the use of arrows, it seems.
doesn't prevent it, as you can see by the up arrow.
just stops the un-initiated noobs.
So we can commend brother laomei:
1) Left click on the grey background, where the username / date / time / post # is.
2) Hit the Tab key twice
3) Hit the Enter key once
Ta-da!
"America" is the embodiment of the ideal that all individuals are free, sovereign and are the soul of the land. Their government was instituted to protect that freedom, sovereignty and soul.
"America" no longer exists. Only the land remains.
I'm with you, laomei...
My wife is Thai with family there. I try to envision what my pre-teen childrens' life will be in 15 or 20 years, and I struggle to determine what is best for their future: perhaps a vibrant SouthEast Asia vs. a crime-ridden, towards-third-world crappy America? I don't know.
I know that America will never be the same as it was before (even 30 years ago) and I don't see a reversal of that trend happening.
The only thing that I do now is to try to put myself in a position to have choices, namely having no debt, saving money, and keeping my IT skills sharp.
Same issue for me now with the kid(s). I would love to be closer to family, to afford them the same experiences I had growing up. To be able to establish deep ties and understanding of old family roots. Experience the, we'll call it "freedom" of youth. No worries about school crap, pollution, etc.
But, on the other hand, I am very concerned about where the us is headed. it's not on a good path, and that world of some 30 years ago is DEAD. Mourn for the loss, but it's DEAD. It will never come back because it's DEAD. Buy a property in the US, split more time there, perhaps that's the solution, but a move back? I cannot see that in the cards. Too much stupid bullshit.
It ain't perfect here by a long shot... but the streets are safe, healthcare is cheap and decent, there are jobs, the marketplace has literally everything you could want (some of it at a price though). So it's a hard choice.
Maybe the Id inside. Most of the folks on ZH probably have a hidden - or not so hidden - bloodlust stewing inside. And it's not as if it's unwarranted, nor easy to turn away from the front-row train wreck unfolding before our very feet, even though said wreck threatens our own personal sovereignty.
"Don't ask me anything about only 2% of my foundation money actually going to help people in distress." -- Bono
Feed the Muslims there .... or Obono will ship them here !
He wants to ship them here either way.