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Jeez! What Ever Happened To The "Free World"?
Submitted by Simon Black via SovereignMan.com,
On August 12, 1961, Walter Ulbricht, the Chairman of the State Council in East Germany, signed an order to close the border and begin building a wall around East Berlin.
It happened quickly. Soldiers began tearing up the roads leading into West Berlin almost immediately and actually stood with weapons at the border with orders to shoot anyone who tried to cross.
Before long there were barbed-wire fences. Then concrete walls. Then dogs. Guard towers. And even anti-tank obstacles.
Of course, the East German government told people that the wall was for their protection, ostensibly to keep out rapists and thieves.
They said that there were too many foreigners coming in to East Berlin who unfairly bought up state-subsidized goods.
They also warned people of the looming threat of fascist invaders, and even went as far as to call the wall an “Anti-fascist protective rampart”.
As a child of the ’80s (I was born at the tail-end of the Carter administration), I remember how the Berlin Wall was a symbol of tyranny and oppression.
And from the steps of the Brandenburg Gate in West Berlin, Ronald Reagan told the world in a now-famous speech from 1987, “The advance of human liberty can only strengthen the cause of world peace,” before demanding, “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!”
Back then if you had talked about building a wall in America, they would have called you a Commie.
But now, in the Land of the Free, it’s all the rage to build a new wall.
They’re also talking about rounding up Muslims and having ‘databases’ just in case you have the audacity to be brown.
There’s already a massive level of surveillance in the Land of the Free. Everything you do online is monitored and tracked.
The police state grows by the day. Federally-funded police forces now don combat boots, Kevlar vests, and intimidating paramilitary attire to drive around in their urban assault vehicles as if they’re in downtown Mogadishu.
Nearly every federal agency down to the Fish and Wildlife Service has its own gun-toting police force… which makes it pretty unsurprising that Civil Asset Forfeiture has risen an average of 21% per year for the past two decades.
Yet despite all of this security and surveillance, the government still doesn’t feel that it’s enough.
The US State Department released an alert this week telling American citizens to avoid travel and public places… for the next THREE MONTHS.
Apparently we should all be cowering in fear in our homes, grateful that the NSA is reading our emails.
The Department of Homeland Security is bringing back “if you see something, say something” in the hopes of having the citizens all rat each other out.
Former CIA Director Jack Devine stated “I have never felt more uncomfortable than I do today,” and that today “is the most dangerous time ever.”
Someone needs to give this man a history lesson. Human civilization has had to deal with deranged threats for thousands of years.
Yes, there are some nut jobs out there—crazed, lone wolf gunmen, angry teenagers, and even terrorists with an agenda, all of whom intend to do harm to innocents.
But having traveled to nearly 120 countries on all seven continents, I can tell you from personal experience that the world is actually a pretty safe place.
Today I can hop on a plane and be on the other side of the planet tomorrow morning, even in a country where I don’t know a soul.
You couldn’t do that 500 years ago. You couldn’t even really do it 100 years ago.
Centuries ago, even moving outside your own village was fraught with risk and peril. So the time we’re living in today is actually one of the safest in the history of the world.
The far greater danger out there, more than angry teenagers and men in caves, is the palatable, distinct decline in freedom.
I don’t know where the ‘Land of the Free’ went… or where the ‘leader of the free world’ ran off…
But this is a far cry from those days in the ’80s when Western nations stood against tyranny and fear.
If you celebrate Thanksgiving, I’d encourage you to give thanks that you can see the truth. Give thanks that you’re rational and aren’t giving in to the propaganda.
But most of all, give thanks that, even though you may not be free right now, all the solutions exist to ensure that you can be once again.
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If you are going to have a welfare state, you have to have a wall. Manage the number of freeloaders.
actually the wall is to prevent those who pay for the freeloaders from escaping
everyone needs to be in the government
if they want to get in on the pillage action
Wasnt Reagan the same slime ball that funded the Contras to kill Nicaraguan civilians while at the same time letting the CIA smuggle in crack cocaine into USA inner cities. IF thats peace and freedom fuck them and their democracy farce.
Ron disappointed the schlock out of us, did he not COSMOS? And yet his administration's economic policies were not only what was needed but unfathomably successful (though most economists et al. won't admit this today). How to reconcile? I cannot. Gee wiz, nothing has been easy since Kindergarden, and Speed Racer, and H.R Puffnstuf.
PS. For the know-it-all naysayers who think they can trace Ronnie's policies to demise, you better fess up to the actions of "that woman" Monica Lewinsky's boyfriend. His administration truly began the demise with among other actions the repeal of the Glass-Steagall act. 'Tis true; get a grip. No, really it is true. Seriously. I am not kidding. Really, it is true. Yes, it is true. Yeah. Really, him. Remember him? The one that balanced the budget by borrowing from Social Security? Uh huh, that happened. It did. No kidding.
"There are two things that are important in politics. The first is money and I can't remember what the second one is." — Senator Mark Hanna, 1895
Sir, I knew the 80’s, I lived it. Mr. SweetDougisaTwat you sir don’t know the 80’s.
Give you an example: Reagan 1984 reelection
Next day headlines: Reagan Wins By a Landslide, Sweeping at Least 48 States
But, they (media) forgot to tell you that: Turnout was 53%. So Reagan in fact got about 30% of the popular vote.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_1984
I interpret the 1984 election stats as: when the free shit army stays home on election day, then we get good, or even great, Presidents.
The man was an actor, so what we got was a show. Rothbard buries him in "Ronald Reagan: An Autopsy". Put not your faith in princes...
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/rothbard/rothbard60.html
Really, Esc? Hmm. I lived the eighties, too. That era was a HELLUVA lot better to make money in than just about any era since. Are you on a financial site at this moment, or a political science site? A financial site, you say? Is that your interest, then? Very good. Kudos to you. Then I suggest you pull your head out of your ass and start thinking financial, sweetheart!
PS. The nineties were even more awesome in a financial sense but only because the policies of Hillary's Liar in Chief had not the time to fully percolate yet.
Thank you President Reagan for Alan Greenspan...
http://www.c-span.org/video/?172294-1/federal-reserve-board-chairman-nom...
Further to 'Thank you Ronald Reagan for Alan Greenspan'
http://www.c-span.org/video/?281958-1/federal-regulation-financial-markets
Anyone at all who respects Ronald Reagan for any reason whatsoever is so full of shit that the toilet will not flush. So sick of you idiots.
Everyone is full of shit-an anatomical fact. However, most lack analytical, disciminatary and cognative abilities. Reagan was the greatest president of the last century. Its just too bad he had to deal with a democractic majority congress and couldn't accomplish his vision.
Reagan's favorite patriot was Patrick Henry ("give me liberty or give me death") (think about the implications of that).
There is no doubt in my mind that I would bury you, ajax, in a formal debate [with evidence supplied]. You have no fucking clue what you are talking about. The only thing between your ears is what some other guy ejaculated up there, maybe your brother. I am ashamed of myself right now for even responding to you, you ignorant punk. How old are you? And, are you a shitskin?
Greenspan sucked the dick of each and every Presidential administration that reigned over his tenure. The damage that you imply was done was done under Slick Willie's administration. Sorry to make an ass out of you. It wasn't hard to do.
I remember in the 1980's you could say whatever you wanted before laws were introduced about defamation and the use of insulting words that may cause distress.
You thought the first wave of immigrant-turned-citizen's elderly family imports' collection of social security was bad. Imagine the new Muslim (and otherwise) "refugees" turned citizens who will bring their elderly and will collect SS without having put in a single second of work as a tax donkey to our system.
Old grandpas who worked their asses off (i.e., lots of ZHers) all their lives and paid SS are the ones who are screwed the most.
So yes - the wall is to keep the working citizen with a lifetime or near-lifetime of being taxed from leaving the plantation.
yep...people who poo-poo about illegals and state department refugees they are bringing in, forget (or never knew) that once legal status is granted to those "they only come here for a better life" people, they can bring in literally their entire extended families who will join the free shit brigade
Absolutely right. Most Americans are completely unaware of 'Chain Migration.' Teddy Kennedy is still fucking us from the grave...
the evolution of demise...
take what is available b/4 radical changes or__________(worse).
have good alternatives with some planning. be thankfully things are not
completly fucked. freedom, an illusion before your cog dis eyes and mind. poof, gone and too late.
they came for my asshole neighbor, and i couldn't help. next they came for me, but i was gone(ha,ha)...
vanished, soldout, phones shot, relaxing in a safe place far away from population centers...
@Normalcy Bias
"Teddy Kennedy is still fucking us from the grave"
Ted Kennedy is not responsible for the Immigration Act of 1965 by Kevin MacDonald PhD
Ted Kennedy was the vehicle, just as Obama is today.
Btw, I learn from your posts, thank you. I will check out your link.
jews or no jews; there are leaders and followers...
So true and our leaders are in lock step with the banksters who dictate the marching cadence through control of the campaign finance mechanisms...
March on, march on, the death knell of the republic can be heard louder and more clear than ever in my lifetime.
DaddyO
But this is a far cry from those days in the ’80s when Western nations stood against tyranny and fear.
Is this some kind of joke? Or am I missing something?
Today I can hop on a plane and be on the other side of the planet, you couldn’t really do it 100 years ago.
Of course not, because science, oil exploration, and industrial age was at its beginning.
Centuries ago, even moving outside your own village was fraught with risk
Centuries ago?
A new study argues that the dark sides of human nature, particularly the moral conflicts which erupt from betrayals of trust, were responsible for our dispersal around the globe 100,000 years ago.
http://www.newhistorian.com/did-our-dark-side-push-late-pleistocene-dispersal/5446/
It's not a joke... it's the truth as told by the MSM/PBS propaganda pandas.
Critical thinking skills are so 1700's...
'Jeez! What Ever Happened To The "Free World"?'
WW3 – Turkey/ISIS/Russia – The Countdown Has Begun......http://beforeitsnews.com/conspiracy-theories/2015/11/us-gives-their-prox...
Yes the countdown has started.
We just need China to be in attendance along with American, British and German boots on the ground.
So look forward to more false flag ISIS attacks in the US, UK and Germany with a Turkish/CIA/MI6 backed Uygur attack on a major Chinese city to get the party started.
Think of the United States now as a giant feed lot, cattle penned in until they get slaughtered. Only you have sheeple now, working and paying taxes (except the 0.01%), with the media using Judas Goats like Buffet, Gates and Zuckerberg to show how you too can get rich. Of course, no one tells the cattle about the guys with sledge hammers to kill them and then hook them up before being butchered with sharp knives. Awesome!
It's funny that you use Raygun as a demigod of "freedum" LOFL, he's the one who really started the fascist ball rolling.......hahahahahahahhha
Right wingers have no one left to cling too.
Speaking of free-dumb and free-world and Orange County lottery mentality etc etc can anyone here help me out?
I live in Europe and I like US football, I watch the games streaming free/live on a few internet sites eg 'stream2utv.me' works well for me BUT my sister who lives just outside of LA has problems watching her favourite team on tv and my internet sites aren't working for her. SOS zhedge members living in the US. Which free NFL sport streaming sites/links work well for you? Can you help me to help my sister? Thanks and merci.
She could install ZenMate (free) and set up a VPN proxy outside USA. Then do exactly what you do.
"She could install ZenMate (free) and set up a VPN proxy outside USA. Then do exactly what you do."
Yeah thanks zz2ipper. I had Zenmate installed for a while but after only 30 days bbciplayer wouldn't work any longer unless I bought a contract with zenmate. So I moved to hola! which is still working well for me and I told my sister to install it (free) to change her ip address overseas for watching NFL football. She tried. She didn't understand.
There must be free streaming sport sites which work well inside the US. Anyone know what they are?
Who the hell down-voted me for asking advice on this site of which I have been a 'member' for quite a few years now? Just fuck off you stupid down-voter. Had you asked for help I wouldn't have down-voted you, you piece of shit.
Happy Thanksgiving Day you stupid asshole.
Grow some skin sir. My guess is that your horrible little down vote came from your earlier rant. Your mind is narrow and your language course.
No, you are just about as stupid as they come. Please do educate yourself and learn about the real Reagan. Not the Reagan GHWB & Co. would have you believe. Someone whose primary aim was to dismantle the Federal Reserve and the CIA is not what we would define as a fascist ..
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2014/01/05/the-wanta-reconstructing-america...
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2015/05/04/neo-so-much-more-than-nukes/
Troll bitch
He was a debt-laden stooge for the MIC and Wall Street, educate yourself and stop jerking off in front of the mirror flexing your biceps and get some work done
"Human civilization has had to deal with deranged threats for thousands of years."
Human civilization has had to deal with deranged fools for thousands of years.
Fixed it!
Human civilization has had to deal with deranged fools for thousands of years.
“I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.” Isaac Newton (again)As for the 'database' thing - you ALL are already in MANY databases.
This article reminds me of my stupid brother in law who says don't worry all will be ok the government have our backs.
Lol, love the picture of the old fuck who increased government spending every year on this article. When will the fascination with that Statist die?
Supposedly the wall would have come down 5 years earlier but Ronnie's sabre-rattling bolstered support for hard-liners behind the wall.
And if you're gonna have an opulent County Club, you're gonna need "Barriers to Entry", as money people like to say.
"Barriers to Entry", as money people like to say.
Yes, exactly. Bernie Madoff used that ruse spectacularly didn't he? :)
I'm going SHORT on the TRUTH.
I am pretty sure it's gonna crash in value in the 21'st Century.
Yep, you can stay at 5-star hotels and travel safely through International Airports just about anywhere.
Somehow I don't imagine this guy goes traipsing through the slums of Rio, retracing the Kokoda Trail in New Guinea, or sampling the cuisine in the no-go parts of Los Angeles. Those people don't have any money to attend financial conferences.
I live in one of the places which gets painted as terribly dangerous in the US. You have to use your head - but I haven't had a moment of fear here. In fact - the last time I felt a tinge of fear was when we arrived at a beach in the US before sunrise and walked along the beach in the moonlight.
"Those people" don't have shit to offer any cognitively-aspired society. You can take their cuisine, as well, and shove it up your type II diabetic arsehole. Soul [heavily breaded then deep fried] food? Corn meal? Think about it, dumb dumb.
PS. Cannot "attend financial conferences"? What fucking fantasy land are you living in? Those "people" cannot understand math beyond a [caucasian/asian] third grader's ability. And they want to attend financial conferences!? Really!? Where would they be from may I ask? Ferguson, Missouri? Baltimore, Maryland?
Whats going on with ZH? The artilces have been horrible. Is the author actually comparing muslim head choppers to east germans?
Also, you can enter into this country, provided you go to the consulate and get a Visa. Try doing that in west berlin.
Absolutely stupid waste of digital ink.
Amazing to 'spin' comments and quotes out of context, ignore history, and stir in goofy ideology - and produce this drivel!
Reagan was an B level Hollywood actor. He reached the pinnacle of his career not in Hollywood, but in politics. Him and his handlers were bought and paid for by the military industrial complex, all in the name of "freedom". Let's not forget the $800 hammer and the $4k toilets, all in the name of fighting the Sandinista's. Paid for by your taxes.
The presidents that came after him were the same thing, they just weren't that good at acting the part. Hell, Clinton and HW Bush didn't even bother. Obama only cares about golf and shafting the white man as much as possible. As for what comes next, it's pretty much irrelevant. It will just be more of the same, but it will end in a bunch of nuclear fireballs, because the Pentagon believes it can win a war with Russia.
#Winning! Game over folks !
Regarding Reagan your remarks are likely correct. But, his tenure nonetheless was damn good for the financial prosperity of the country--decades worth my friend. And, there is little evidence if any that he was ever enriched during his tenure similar to the Clintons and this nigger clown presently in office. Yes, the Clintons have been heavily wealthified for their political particpation, as was/is the Obamination. We are talking tens of millions here, pal.
PS. Shit skins of every shade despise the memory of Ronald Reagan. One has to wonder why that is. Why is Ron so hated among the Free Shit army, even today?
Because you and the previous poster are just that mal-educated .. See my previous. I'm tired of repeating myself this past year. Like I'm living in a parallel universe. What is up is actually down. No wonder we are in such a mess. A hole we keep digging for ourselves and wonder why we can't seem to get out of it. This is not liberal vs. conservative vs. libertarian vs. the socialist / communist vs. the constitutionalist. This is just the stupid. The willfully ignorant vs. the truly educated and informed ..
jcdenton, you genuinely strike me as a complete financial moron and a pussy. I'll pony up my education and IQ against yours any day, sweetheart.
PS. If political science is your bag please vacate this site; you are irrelevant here, you sissy.
cuz the free shit army as you call it was getting crumbs compared to the billions Reagan's pals got for themseves. The Free shit army knows what the truth is, while you just know how to call people names.
You forgot the /sacasm, some people might confuse you with being a complete moron.
hoyeru,
Amen, brutha! How's 'bout you payin maaaah share to the Free Shit Army from now on. Thanks, mafugahh!
PS. On a serious note, the "Free Shit Army" has an average IQ of 85, genetically determined. How is it that you think that they would discern the truth of anything?
The asshole also, along with his Republican cohorts, passed the MLK holiday - after pretending to be "Mr Conservative who was going to reign in this Civil Rights crap".
He got a damn good payoff from the Japanese, 20 Million as I recall for a speech shortly after he left office.
Bullshit. No one was paying 20M for a speech in 1989. That wasn't reflected in his net worth, either. You are just a shit-for-brains. Do you take after your mother or your father?
Did you know that in Old Rome, Actors and Prostitutes couldn't do politics, because they were trained liars???
"Yes, there are some nut jobs out there—crazed, lone wolf gunmen, angry teenagers, and even terrorists with an agenda, all of whom intend to do harm to innocents."
More dangerous than a bunker buster.
You forgot to list my mother, second husband, and most politicians.
(BTW, love your username. :)
What happened? Time and joos.
I realize, Mr Black, that you of the Jewish community favor immigration from non-white lands into white lands. That is OK, but to dress it up with BS, that is not OK, that is DISHONEST.
Norbert Schlei
German-Jewish politician Gregor Gysi calls native Germans "Nazis" and their extinction "fortunate"
“more native Germans die than there are born” and that is “very fortunate, because the Nazis are not good at having offspring”.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riQh4Qpvxm4
Professor Kevin MacDonald’s ‘The Culture of Critique’ Reviewed written in 1999
"Gregor Gysi" looks like a Swiss German name to me.
The man who created "one nutted capitalism" : the only rule for investment is "shareholder value", destroyed the tripod of past values : the only rule of capitalism is to reconcile CLIENT SATISFACTION, Salaried contractual satisfaction, AND shareholder value; all the while you do your duty as Corporate payer of taxes, abiding by the rules of the nation state. And you DONT run off to Cayman ISlands!
By going from a tripod to a I-POD, Reaganomics killed the goose that laid the golden egg making it the house of Gordon Gekko.
The rest was "inevitable"...Lance Armstrong became the icon of Steroid pumped capitalism.
I don’t know where the ‘Land of the Free’ went… or where the ‘leader of the free world’ ran off…
Haven't you heard?!!!!...
"Coveting" has many patent(s) and is and always has been the sacker of peaceful Nation(s) regardless of the model words of the rule of law that are supposed to be the most impenetrable force and guardian that protects ALL of them !!!
I can say that I was 18 in 1980 and voted for Reagan twice. Whatever the mans failings were, he is still miles ahead of anyone elected since. You had to have lived as an adult under every president since Kennedy to really appreciate Reagan.
Reagan was a puppet / marionette, just like all the others.
After Hinckley was used to persuade him to the PTB's idea of how things should work.
DaddyO
Analog, you are have no clue. Ron was one of the last to exert any influence whatsover. Since Ron we have had an embarassment, an idiot, and now a golfer. Next will be a boob[s], I am afraid.
Even though you call yourself a Twat, I will listen to you: Prove that I have no clue, that Reagan was not a puppet.
And, additionally/instead prove those folowing were as you claim (percieve).
Before you answer, read about the PNAC, Project for the New American Centruy.
http://www.rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/project_for_the_new_american_...
That's been updated to the John Hay Initiave.
http://www.choosingtolead.net/
Welcome to Reality.
Reagan was a puppet, just like all the others.
The only true propaganda: 'the Federal Reserve is your friend'! GOD uses Gold and Silver only during trading or barter. If nothing else it educates trading partners about the worthlessness of joo-confetti printed by the Federal Reserve.
What is to celebrate about my ancestors feeding European immigrants so they could live to slaughter them, then plunder, pave and pollute this once beautiful, bountiful swath of land now labeled USA?
Ummmm, you are the first person who has told me that. And since men lie to me all the time ....
Ooh! which reminded me: I've driven across Florida's panhandle on Interstate-10 several times over the past years. During that time a 12'-high fence was erected along both sides of the highway. That part of Florida is almost jungle-like, almost nothing there, a LOT of effort went into clearing a path for that massive fence - it goes from the FL/AL border almost all the way to Tallahassee (the FL capitol). There's close to less than nothing along that strech of I-10, WTF?
Florida has the 17th largest economy on the planet.
They can afford it.
You should drive through other parts of the state.
Unbelieveable, but true - it is so depressed economically (and socially) I am almost motivated to see what the GDP numbers are based on.
I have, what is your point?
NAFTA highway to a port. Without the fences, any trucks hauling US food supply will be hijacked when the curtain is pulled. Everything we have ever read about the superhighway is true. Notice the very few exits on these monsters. I had a dream about this in 1980s. And it showed huddling, starving Americans working as slaves in factory at hubs, living in highrise prison apartments. There is a bill to be paid. All by design. By debt or by sword. 911 Reparations is all that will save the US citizens. Tax slaves will be the new field and factory worker. Young strong Mexicans included. Globalization is a trap.
http://www.peaktraffic.org/nafta.html Map of NAFTA superhighway
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-10-23/three-chinese-warships-dock-flo... - Jacksonville FL, 3 chinese ships dock at Mayport Military base.
Centuries ago, even moving outside your own village was fraught with risk and peril.
And "government" has scarcely changed since then. There is still an aristocracy, and they use their "government" to cause false scarcity and fear. That's how they maintain their almighty order.
They are no longer needed, if they ever were. Time to evolve past control and authority.
America is the answer to this evolutionary question.
some walls keep sheep in some keep wolves out
I would IMMEDIATELY expel the author to Mexico, so he can live free on the OTHER side of the terrible wall.
"They’re also talking about rounding up Muslims and having ‘databases’ just in case you have the audacity to be brown."
Completely false and utterly misrepresented. I know this is Zero Hedge but try to keep the drool cup filling paranoia inside normal limits.
Until you do, blow me.
Every ancestor I have was logged onto a list when they got off a boat on the east coast. I fill out census forms. Do you? Social Security numbers are used to track us. What do you suppose would be used to track incoming migrants if they did not write down name, address and phone number? Infrastructures require this. Just imagine allowing people to come into your country and then roam freely, anonymously. It is just poor business.
Reagon the IRAN-CONTRA conspirator, pumping tonnes of cocaine into the heart of Amerika, while his lovely wife Nancy was out there telling the kids to 'Jusy Say No'.
Beautiful stuff.
Free world of cabalCock$uckerLiarObamma == Free Homosexual world , with drugs thrown in as icing on cake
where violence is a matter of conducting business for big money.
What is happening to humankind ?
Nobody seems to speak against the evil of perversion, mind altering drugs , gore & blood
Where have the intellectuals gone , those who would embrace poverty than work with evil
Where are those MPs whose soul used to stir up against the darkness
Is the humankind turning into zombies
or The Brave New World is already upon us
Everyone conditioned
hijacked by the banking mafia
"just in case you have the audacity to be brown"
mass immigration is one of the three causes of the ongoing downward economic death spiral - all three are deflationary.
most of that mass immigration will be non-white.
the consequences of creating an over supply of labor don't care about moral signalling - sooner or later the effects of that over supply of labor will hit your kith and kin whether in terms of jobs or crime or housing costs or political turmoil and it won't make any difference how PC you were.
it's just supply and demand - always there like gravity. if you ignore it you will fail.