January 24th, 2012
LewRockwell.com published an excellent article by Loyola Economics Professor Walter Block on the Fed. In a great paragraph in the middle he says,
“I regard the Fed as a criminal organization, since it engages in (well, aids and abets) counterfeiting. The Fed is to the U.S. economy as was the old central planning apparatus of the late and non-lamented Soviet Union to the entire economy of the U.S.S.R. The Federal Reserve System has been responsible since its inception in 1913 for destroying some 97% of the value of our dollar, the life blood of our economy. This organization has exacerbated the business cycle. It has created both inflation and unemployment. These people, along with HUD, Fannie and Freddie, are responsible for the depression that currently afflicts us. (For more on this read Ron Paul’s End the Fed and Murray Rothbard’s The Mystery of Banking and What Has Government Done to Our Money and The Case for a 100 Percent Gold Dollar).”
The only statement I disagree with in an otherwise factual and excellent article, I put in bold above. I sent him an e-mail which I share with you below.
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January 24th, 2012
It is great that U.S. Senator Rand Paul quite publicly had a run in with the TSA airport passenger screeners. Everyone hearing or reading about that KNOWS that Rand posed no threat to fellow passengers, the airliner or anything else. Nobody thinks the world is a safer place if Rand Paul strips down to his birthday suit before entering or leaving an airliner. The TSA ministrations are completely and obviously useless in this case.
Of course they would be every bit as useless were I to be going through the checkpoint. And you. And millions of other people. So why do we do this?
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January 23rd, 2012
The Daily Bell had a nice interview with Gerald Celente, Founder/Director of the Trends Research Institute. I would love to say it was news to me, because it is important and significant. What we get is another educated, knowledgeable researcher who KNOWS who is doing what to us and the easily, confidently-predictable results we can expect.
Click on the interview to get the his predictions and the whole interview. The clip I post below is simply reiteration that the manipulators are in charge.
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January 18th, 2012
Many of the best websites in the world are shut down today to protest U.S.Government plans to censor the Internet. At issue is free speech, which is inconvenient to totalitarian states and frustrating to government-granted media monopolies. I’m not that fancy, but put this information up as I fully support free speech and fully oppose government censorship.
The verbiage below is from Downsize D C. Click the link to reach their website where they make it easy to contact your elected politicians and champion the free flow of information.
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January 16th, 2012
This is the symbol in electronics schematics for a resistor. It is easy to draw, paint, create, machine embroider, etcetera, as well as easy to recognize and understand.
Resist the overthrow of civilization
Resist the degradation of humanity
Resist the conquest of our neighborhood
Resist commandeering of our property
Resist assaults to life, liberty, property, pursuit of happiness
I will be wearing it. I’ll let you know when I have a source for you.
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January 15th, 2012
I just completed my first pass through quantifying my priority setting. While people can vary dramatically in their assessments of the odds certain things will take place, the exercise and format are quite enlightening. Spreadsheets are a natural tool for this exercise, though paper and pencil can accomplish the same task.
Column A is the “possibility”; what might or could happen in 2012. What does anybody guess will happen? What do you read, hear or think may go right or wrong? What should you buy insurance for or against? What should you plan for? What can you hope for?
In column B you assign some odds to those possibilities. For example, I put down that one year out of 20 we will experience a major crop failure; assigning 1/20 to that possibility in column B. Research and discussion would be helpful, but your own guess will work fine on the first pass.
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January 13th, 2012
Kuna woman cited after hitting student in crosswalk
Deputies are urging drivers to use extra caution in and around school zones, after a Kuna student was hit Thursday morning. The Ada County Sheriff’s Office says a 13-year-old boy was in a marked crosswalk at North Ten Mile Road near Boise Street. A driver heading north on Ten Mile Road didn’t see him and hit him, causing the boy to be knocked to the ground. The boy was taken to the hospital for a leg injury and the 36-year-old driver was issued a citation.
Ada County Sheriff’s Office provides the following tips when driving in and around school zones …
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January 12th, 2012
I am beginning a project to create a better state constitution. I call it “open-source” as I don’t imagine any one person or top-down organization capable of creating a good constitution any more than I imagine one individual or top-down organization capable of creating honest operating systems.
Of course creation by committee of political appointees or by the masses can have poor or nonexistent results too. Therefore I open this project with the open-source title acknowledging that the results will benefit from having every word and phrase open to suggestions, additions and modifications as it goes.
I begin with an offer to consider inputs that are consistent with the spirit and intent that I establish with this first page.
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January 10th, 2012
This is my concept, executed crudely with my beginner-level use of linux office drawing tools. I’m not real proprietary about the drawing itself, but suspect I’ll be dissatisfied with significant alterations of the concept and design.
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
- Thomas Jefferson
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January 7th, 2012
From InfoWars.com
A TSA “Behavioral detection” officer was sentenced to two years in prison on conspiracy charges Wednesday after being found guilty of providing information to suspected drug traffickers and helping them get past security checkpoints with minimum scrutiny.
Minnetta Walker was arrested last March by federal agents at Buffalo Niagara International Airport.
Investigators discovered that Walker had helped traffickers move large amounts of cash through the airport, escorting them through security lines, directing them away from the naked body scanners and patdown security lines, and ensuring their luggage bypassed screening areas.
Shucks, Minnetta deserves some kind of award for working the modern version of the underground railroad. I think a small bribe to get around the JBT assault gauntlet would be money well spent. Perhaps it can become an official option… the third line…
Door #1 subservience, humiliation and cosmic ray nudity
Door #2 subservience, humiliation and get felt up by perverts
Door #3 skip the above with sliding-scale bribe
I might consider flying again.
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January 4th, 2012
A fellow traveler sent the following collection of quotations to me. They are all on the subjects of economics and the Federal Reserve – ones he understands quite well as an accountant and CFO of a 1,830-employee corporation.
“The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks.”
Lord Acton
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January 2nd, 2012
A cheerie little article at LewRockwell.com explains that for 63% of USA adults, economic collapse is their #1 fear. It goes on to explain how fully justified that is; how rational that 63% is being.
Their fears are well founded. The economic collapse will be far and away the most catastrophic event in their family’s history. Unfortunately, that’s a child’s bare foot print compared the the crushing jackboot of The Plan‘s other half.
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December 31st, 2011
My wife and I are planners. We both naturally incline towards having big pictures guide our goals which, in turn, make up our short term project lists.
In the decade we’ve shared, we have had good luck assembling our hopes, wishes, dreams and day-to-day realities in occasional goal setting sessions. To the left is Page One of my notes from our first session for 2012.
While I wrote that it is “safe to assume THIS YEAR”, today I realize that the converse is actually more accurate:
It is unsafe to assume that the dollar will not crash in 2012.
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December 28th, 2011
There is a master plan. It is not good for you. It is good for the planners. Nearly all the ingredients are in place, ready to plop in the pot as soon as it gets up to temperature, which is to say, any time now.
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December 25th, 2011
I would like to share some good news with you. I spend so much time and electronic ink on worrisome topics that we all need a break.
Regardless of which disruption our little world undergoes, you have major advantages going for you. You know what’s coming, why and have good ideas of which things will be particularly useful in that future… and which are really quite unimportant.
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December 22nd, 2011
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It’s called the FAST Mobile Module. It looks like an outdoor school trailer on wheels, complete with multiple screening rooms, three ramp entry lanes for greater “throughput” and state-of-the-art physiological and behavioral technologies that can detect an individual’s “mal-intent”–that is, intention to do harm.
The Mobile Module may one day roam the country, its high-tech sensors measuring heart rates, skin temperatures, body movements, breathing, pupil dilation and other physiological indicators to predict whether or not someone will commit a crime in the future.
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December 16th, 2011
In October 2008 I slightly modified a cartoon depicting the sacred O reassembling the Constitution. Waves of Optimism were washing across the USA. I was amazed at how widespread and comprehensive the delusion was… amazed, disgusted and quite frankly, nervous for our liberties. I’m not bragging about my crystal ball, but complaining that so few see the obvious.
Regardless, the future was there to see. I saw it. With my crude drawing skills I then drew a rare-for-me political cartoon. It got less than rave reviews from friends and family. You can see why they should have panned it. However, they weren’t being art critics, they were complaining about my politics and, of course vehemently refuting my vision of the future.
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December 15th, 2011
In 1875 the French people began collecting individual donations to create what was to become The Statue Of Liberty. The people (not the government) of France through voluntary, private donations caused it to be erected in a USA port because that country represented freedom to them. The beacon of liberty was to shine from there to all of the people of the world.
FREE TO GOOD HOME
One used monument 93 meters tall, 229 tons in weight. It is no longer appropriate for current neighborhood
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December 14th, 2011
It is important and I can’t say it better… from the publishers of Laissez Faire Books comes this article on our freedom of communication. Intro below:
The secretary of state — our roving ambassador from the land of the free — travels the world to denounce governments that would interfere with digital freedom. “They aim to impose a system, cemented in a global code, that expands control over Internet resources, institutions and content,” said Hillary Clinton at The Hague of several measures pushed by China, Russia and others, “and centralizes that control in the hands of the government.”
Statements like that give new meaning to the word hypocrisy, for the U.S. government is behind some of the most far-reaching interventions that could smash digital freedom. A bill making its way through Congress called the Stop Online Piracy Act, or SOPA, has an alarming number of supporters and some measure of support within the Obama administration.
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December 14th, 2011
While the Senate and House of the USA are burning our Constitution in effigy with HR 1540 & SB 1867, Predator drones are already being utilized against the people of the USA. The rulers assure us this won’t happen even while it is happening. The first victims are involved in a civil matter over range laws and 6 cows who may or may not have transferred their ownership from one range to another.
That became a federal case why? The Predator and a small army were called out why? An outside observer might note the COINCIDENCE that these three farmers are active supporters and advocates for The Constitution Of These United States.
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