Does anyone else see a pattern? Do you realize many of the events that are occurring in our society on a regular basis are connected? Six weeks ago a young man killed 12 people at the Washington DC Navy Yard. He was clearly angry at the government for discharging him from the military. The MSM declared him mentally ill. A couple weeks later a dental hygenist from Connecticut tried to drive her car past White House guards and was shot dead. She was distraught by the actions of the government. The MSM declared her mentally ill. John Constantino, a 64 year old military veteran, self immolated on the National Mall a few days later as a protest against the government. The MSM barely covered the story, but declared him mentally ill. His neighbors begged to differ. Earlier this week a 20 year old man went on a shooting spree at LAX, killing a TSA agent. He specifically wanted to kill government employees. The MSM will declare him mentally ill in the near future. Last night another 20 year old man went on a shooting spree at the Garden State Plaza Mall and eventually killed himself. The MSM is blaming it on drugs.
The MSM propaganda machine is in the business of propping up the status quo. They are part of the status quo. The existing establishment is getting rich from the existing dynamic in this country. What we are witnessing is young people who are being driven off the deep end by the injustice, corruption, and lawlessness of our system. The acts of all these people are acts of hopelessness. Their “mental illness” is brought on by a culture of greed, materialism, and pillaging by the people controlling the levers of power. The MSM and Obama will blame guns for the problem, because they sense the rising anger in the country and want to disarm those who can see clearly what is happening. The scent of revolution is in the air.
These are not isolated instances. They are connected. There are 317 million people in this country and there are millions of young, disillusioned, angry people who are losing hope. When people have lost everything and have nothing more to lose, they lose it. This is a Fourth Turning. The mood of the country darkens by the minute. The instances of seemingly random violence will increase. I wouldn’t be going to any malls in the near future. They are such inviting targets for someone who wants to produce mass casualties.
The American sheeple respond well to fear and propaganda. But, if they start fearing malls, the existing establishment will crumble quickly. They need people to spend money they don’t have to keep this Ponzi scheme going. If you want to contribute to the downfall of the establishment, stop shopping. Today is election day. Don’t vote. Withdrawal all your support from the existing paradigm. If you have money withheld from your paycheck, increase the number of exemptions on your W-4 and reduce their tax revenues. Barter. Conduct cash transactions with people. Spread discontent whenever possible. Point out the corruption and evil of those in charge to anyone who will listen. It’s time for a little anarchy.
“Remember, remember, the Fifth of November, the Gunpowder Treason and Plot. I know of no reason why the Gunpowder Treason should ever be forgot… But what of the man? I know his name was Guy Fawkes and I know, in 1605, he attempted to blow up the Houses of Parliament. But who was he really? What was he like? We are told to remember the idea, not the man, because a man can fail. He can be caught, he can be killed and forgotten, but 400 years later, an idea can still change the world. I’ve witnessed first hand the power of ideas, I’ve seen people kill in the name of them, and die defending them… but you cannot kiss an idea, cannot touch it, or hold it… ideas do not bleed, they do not feel pain, they do not love… And it is not an idea that I miss, it is a man… A man that made me remember the Fifth of November. A man that I will never forget.”
Evey Hammond
Garden State Plaza Mall Shooting Ends With Gunman Taking His Life
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 11/05/2013 07:09 -0500
Last’s night latest mass shooting event, just three days after a comparable situation at LAX airport, and this time just minutes away from New York City, is over with the alleged gunman, Richard Shoop, 20, taking his life.
The gunman who opened fire inside a sprawling New Jersey mall was found dead inside the mall early this morning with a self-inflicted gunshot wound, authorities said.
Authorities identified the suspect as Richard Shoop, 20, of Teaneck, N.J., and said his body was found in a back area of mall around 3:20 a.m.
Police discovered his body more than six hours after they say Shoop entered the Westfield Garden State Plaza Mall Monday night and fired his weapon at least six times, Bergen County Prosecutor John Molinelli said at an early morning news conference. The gun, described as a modified rifle, was owned lawfully by his brother, Molinelli said.
Police are still sweeping the 2.2-million-square-foot building in Paramus to make sure all shoppers and employees evacuated. About 400 people were still inside the mall when police ordered a lockdown of the entire building.
There have been no other reported injuries at this time.
Shoop, according to Molinell, has a history of drug abuse and is known to law enforcement in Bergan County. Molinell said Shoop’s drug of choice was MDMA, also known as “Molly.”
Police found a suicide note at Shoop’s home, but did not disclose what was written.
Bergan County spokeswoman Jeanne Baratta said the first call came in shortly after 9 p.m. that a gunman was inside the mall. Police initially responded to an “active shooter” alert after reports of multiple shots fired.
Baratta said SWAT teams and other police agencies converged on the mall. Authorities swept the mall because they were unsure whether the gunman was still inside. Paramus Mayor Rich LaBarbiera intially said police found one shell casing inside the mall.
Panicked shoppers raced toward the exits or hid inside the mall. Witnesses said they saw authorities running inside the mall with their weapons drawn. The mall was immediately placed on lockdown.
Multiple eyewitnesses said the shooter was armed with some kind of rifle, wearing a motorcycle-style helmet and black clothing.
WATCH: Police Respond to Shooting at New Jersey Shopping Mall
Mall restaurant employee Joseph Rivera said his co-workers saw the suspect “…in full body armor. He had a huge rifle and a helmet on.”
Eric Delgado, 20, was shopping with friends inside the mall when heard a gunshot and saw the gunman. After Delgado saw the gunman, he along with seven others hid in a dressing room for 45 minutes and heard a second gunshot.
“He didn’t seem that he wanted to kill anyone because he clearly could of because there were people two feet in front of him that he could have shot at, but he didn’t shoot at them. Instead he shot towards the ceiling…” Delgado said.
A staging area has been set up near Chili’s Grill & Bar for family members to be reunited with anyone inside the mall during the lockdown.
Law enforcement officials have been informed by management of the Garden State Plaza Mall that it will be closed today. No word on when it will re-open.
The Garden State Plaza Mall, about 25 miles west of New York City, features more than 300 retail stores including Neiman Marcus, Nordstrom, Lord & Taylor, Gucci and Louis Vuitton.
Police in Ames Iowa yesterday shot and killed a kid who stole his Dad’s pickup.
No shit.
http://www.iowastatedaily.com/news/article_d246348a-45a3-11e3-b01f-001a4bcf887a.html
EF
The pot is boiling. In “V” a simple shooting was all it took. I think it would take a Tianamen type event to rally the people, as its painfully obvious a shooting would never work.
TPC
Do you think something on this level would rally the people?
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Record US Income Inequality In One Chart
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 11/05/2013 09:40 -0500
It is well-known that US wealth inequality is now at record spreads, thanks to five (and counting) years of Fed-mediated wealth transfer from the poor and middle class to the superrich (while placating the lower social strata with distracting welfare trinkets and EBT). Perhaps nowhere is this more evident than in the following chart courtesy of just released data by the Social Security administration showing the net compensation breakdown by income bucket for America’s 153.6 million workers.
As an aside, in 2012 the average wage was $42,498.21, while the median one was far lower, ot $27,519.10.
But that is a broad average. Narrowing the data down, is what we have done in the chart below which shows that in 2012, the poorest 23.3 million working Americans, who earned between $0.01 and $4,999.99 at an average net comp of $2,024.79, earned a total of $47.2 billion. And on the other end, we looked at the richest 2,915 Americans who earned $10 million or over in the past year, an average of $22 million per worker, and cumulatively, some $64.3 billion.
In brief: in the past year, the poorest 23.3 million Americans earned 36% less than the richest 2,915 Americans. Needless to say, this excludes wealth from capital and asset appreciation, usually a benefit reserved exclusively for the latter; it also excludes the amount of taxes paid by either of these two income extremes.
…nothing to fear. Our brave doughnut destroyers have it all under control.
7 Cops Can’t Take Down Skinny Lunatic
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=b3b_1383599151
Gallup: U.S. Crime Is Up, but Americans Don’t Seem to Have Noticed
http://www.gallup.com/poll/165653/crime-americans-seem-noticed.aspx
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ObamaCare — The Gift That Will Keep On Giving
Monty Pelerin November 5, 2013 healthcare 0 Comments
In an earlier piece entitled ObamaCare — The Death of Liberalism it was speculated that this signature piece of legislation would prove to be an albatross around the neck of Obama and the Democrat Party:
The Democrats may have backed themselves into a corner from which there is no escape. They have taken an existential position on ObamaCare; they are all in and must fight for their Frankenstein monster no matter what.
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The potential for disaster is inherent in the fact that the program is not fixable. As bad as the public dislikes what they know about it now, this dislike will increase.
For Republicans, it will be the gift that keeps on giving. The passage of time only makes matters worse because more adverse effects become apparent:
The botched sign-up process is bad, but it is only the beginning. Here are but a few of the consequences from ObamaCare:
■Sticker-shock has yet to be felt by the public. Premiums are not going down, they are going up — and substantially! That people are unable to sign up because of the incompetence of the implementation may, in retrospect, be considered a positive. The roar from the public when they learn how much more they will have to pay is likely to be deafening.
■Dissatisfaction will extend well beyond sticker-shock. People are having their insurance, which they were assured they would be able to keep, canceled.
■Jobs are not being created as a result of ObamaCare.
■Full-time jobs are turning into part-time jobs in order to avoid the regulations associated with ObamaCare.
■Some people will lose their doctors in the shuffle.
■Waits to see a doctor will extend as the demand-supply relationship shifts. More people will be demanding more medical care.
■The existing supply of doctors will be insufficient to deal with the demand. Queues and rationing are inevitable.
■The practice of medicine will become more demanding and less rewarding.
■Patient-doctor relationships will deteriorate.
■Those doctors who are able are likely to retire early, further exacerbating the supply issue.
■The best and brightest will no longer go to medical school. Talented people can make good livings without all these headaches and income constraints.
■Eventually the supply imbalance will be remedied but with less qualified and talented medical personnel.
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This Holy Grail of liberalism, pursued since the days of FDR, has finally been attained, but at what cost?
Winning this battle may very well cost the victors the war. Adverse effects, many of which are not perceived yet, lay ahead. This “gift” is one that will keep on giving for Republicans who vehemently opposed the program. It will get progressively (no pun intended) worse for Democrats. Robert Stacy McCain compares the deterioration process to George Bush’s Iraq issue:
What this resembles, quite frankly, is the way George W. Bush’s popularity tumbled in his second term after the insurgency in Iraq started inflicting significant casualties on U.S. troops with no apparent end in sight. Bush was re-elected in 2004 because voters believed (by a relatively narrow majority) that we should “stay the course” in Iraq, and that the insurgency was being defeated. But as 2005 gave way to 2006 and the U.S. death toll in Iraq kept mounting, the perception began to grow that we had taken on an impossible task, that our troops were stuck in a pointless mission they could not win, and there was a political backlash that caught most Republicans by surprise.
ObamaCare is a quagmire, and Democrats have no exit strategy.
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One cannot overestimate the damage this program will inflict on the notion of big government and its supporters.
Current rage will only increase as the ramifications of the program become known. Additional lies, deficiencies, costs and disruptions are coming. These revelations will stretch out over the next couple of years. Each one will diminish support for the program and those who imposed it.
Obama’s arrogance will not allow him to scrap arguably his only accomplishment (one need stretch the definition of “accomplishment” to apply it here). Initial reactions have already been so bad that a re-start of anything nearly as comprehensive would be political suicide. The Democrats will choose to try and ride out the pain and dissatisfaction.
Strategically and tactically, history may look back at this obstinance as the greatest political miscalculation of all time. For the country, one can only hope it is a turning point in the march to Statism.
Hubris is never good. Hubris absent competence is devastating.
I noticed Halloween was a dud this year. Kinda hard to have great Holiday sales when Millennials are so deep in debt that they don’t have children. This year is going to have one of the worst 4Q earnings in decades.
Americans are either too obese, lazy, ignorant, uninformed, content with mediocrity, to spark a revolution over small instances especially when all seems serene and orderly on Uncle Sam’s plantation. Only a complete economic collapse where the trade pipelines break down and oil and food are scarce will spark full blown anarchy.
But even then our populace is too stupid and self-serving to reconstruct our nation back to the once cherished principles of our founding fathers.
EVERYONE in Amerika suffers from at least one mental disorder. Most of you curs suffer from SEVERAL!
(Billy, for example, suffers from “I gotta protect my momma’s honor from fucking strangers I’ve never met and who never insulted my momma in the first place Disorder.)
At least according to DSM-5 ( Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition) … which is THE bible for Psychiatrists …. and contains literally THOUSANDS of mental disorders … many (most) beyond absurdly ridiculous.
Example 1: —– There is something called ‘Generalized Worry Disorder’. It’s a “catch-all” that can literally include every person in Amerika. You can read about this monstrously retarded bullshit here … all succinctly explained in a mere 14 pages; —- > http://www.dsm5.org/Research/Documents/Andrews%20et%20al_Generalized%20Worry%20Disorder.pdf
Example 2: —– Even TODDLERS are not exempt!!! From a nutjob psychiatrist site; —— “Toddlers become dysregulated with some frequency. They have limited language skills, and limited frustration tolerance, and seemingly limitless desires that sometimes HAVE TO BE THWARTED …”
Read this until you believe it; PSYCHIATRY IS A PSEUDO-SCIENCE … i.e., bullshit. There isn’t even ONE biological or chemical test that can either confirm or deny EVEN ONE of the thousands of DSM-V codes. Not even something as seemingly easy as schizophrenia.
What does that mean for you, me, all of us? Well, The State can literally declare you a danger to yourself or others AT THEIR WHIM …. and have you institutionalized either in a mental hospital or prison. All it takes is one State Psychiatrist to make a simple declaration. This should scare the bejeebus out of you … because you have NO fucking defense, not even another psychiatrist who disagrees.
We all know Russia used this tactic upon millions of their citizens. America is fast moving in the same direction.
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P.S. Ms Freud is a psychologist, not a psychiatrist. Big difference. She does not prescribe drugs, ever. She does not label people, ever. She has a low regard for DSM-V.
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Additional resource for those interested: Video, “The DSM: Psychiatry’s Deadliest Scam” … 1 hr 18 minutes. Eye-opening. —— http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcuhhJ1BaMk
Jay…..you are dead on the money. When the music stops there won’t be enough chairs to go around
I am leaning towards ink poisoning as a cause for making these young people go off the deep end. Cheap Chinese tattoo ink is causing debilitating depression. After the first tat you want another and another until a toxic level of the neurotoxin has built up in the brain and death looks like the only way out.
Just sayin
Of course these issues are related. The people that are snapping are the people that wanted to work for a living, or had jobs. They’re the ones getting screwed the worse, so 100 million people can sit on their asses and eat free food. People are angry everywhere you go, especially people that work. Taxes are getting worse and worse, but you see government employees driving Mercedes and retiring at 50 with massive pensions.
And Obamacare is going to push people over the edge, as their one remaining safety blanket, health insurance, is cancelled and they have to pay 300% more for crappy Obama Insurance that nobody will take. There’s a reason why the Feds bought 8000 AR-15’s and 2 billion rounds of ammo for federal employees; it’s so they can gun you down before you gun them down. And once the FSA gets SNAP cut, they’ll be let off the chain and will commit unspeakable crimes.
Just wait until the government loots your savings account, your checking account, your IRA to remain solvent and continue the flow of free shit. Socialism and liberals will continue the theft until they’ve run out of other people’s money, and not a minute before.
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110% correct AWD. The younger one’s that are doing all the shooting don’t understand. They’ve all been told they’re great, and been given medals and grades that say they’re great since 5yrs old. Then they get out in the real world and don’t understand it, it truly messes them up. This will get far worse.
Admin is right. As usual. We need to starve the beast. I’ve been trying to think of ways to withdraw from the depraved system. It would be hard to withdraw fromTarget and supermarket chains, although there is a local one in the Inland Empire that I could justify supporting (independently owned). Around here we have good farmers markets to buy local produce, which I should commit to totally.
I don’t see how to get along without a banking system, but my credit union seems less exploitive than evil Chase, which I abandoned four years ago. I have reduced my debit card usage by about 80%, using cash instead.
I am considering not voting in 2014. I fear, though, that election may be critical to dislodging the Democratic party from its powerful perch. We could all vote for candidates who are from neither major party. “Throw them all out” seems to have some small possibility if the current atmosphere prevails.
I can’t imagine there will be a viable presidential candidate from either Dems or GOP in ’16, so I probably won’t vote as a form of protest against the whole stinkin’ system.
I wish we could start having some general strikes. We are going to have to start sacrificing somewhere before anything can change.
Any more ideas about how to starve the beast?
Aww, Stuck.. I’m honored for the shoutout.
But hanging on to shit long after it’s past? Obsess much? My rebuke sting your ego a bit too much?
See, some of us still believe in things like Honor and it serves as a guide in life. Most, like Stucky, consider it an anachronistic, vestigial holdover from an earlier time that serves no useful purpose today. And they act accordingly.
@ Gayle..
The Truth About Voting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igbBItLemsM
Death Before Dishonor was a popular tat amongst military men back in my day…I wonder if in the feminized PC military of today it still is?
What Men Like in Men: An Argument from 1902
Editor’s Note: The following article appeared in a 1902 issue of Cosmopolitan Magazine (which started out as a quality family magazine before becoming a women’s rag). I think it raises an interesting question: What do men like or admire in other men? Lots of articles these days are about what men find attractive in women or what women find attractive in men, but rarely discussed are the qualities that men respect and admire in each other. It seems like men sort of intuitively know what traits we respect in other men, but we often cannot articulate them. This article attempts to put such thoughts into words.
I’d be curious to know if you think the same traits that the author found noteworthy in men over 100 years ago are still ones that modern men admire in each other. What traits would you leave out or add in? Share in the comments!
Please remember as you read this article that it was written in 1902. So the author has some opinions — particularly about women — that might offend modern sensibilities.
“What Men Like in Men”
By Rafford Pyke
Billy
No obsession here. Every day is a NEW day here on TBP … that has always been my stance. Previous day’s sins are forgiven and forgotten.
I agree with your comments regarding honor. Just to be VERY CLEAR … my original comment yesterday had NOTHING to do with your mother, and everything to do with you. I have nothing against your family …. WHY WOULD I?? ….or, you, for that matter.
Your birthday wish to Ms Freud brought tears to my eyes.
As one who is filled with The Holy Spirit today, I wish you peace and tidings of great joy.
Billy and Stuck hugging it out.
From Jim’s article, “… If you want to contribute to the downfall of the establishment, stop shopping….”
Obamacare is doing just that, as billions will be funneled from the masses to the elite leaving less in pockets for this thing called “shopping.”
Carbon Taxes are already doing this to Australia, and O has already been implementing his own nightmare here.
The Western way of life is getting ready to become something I fear we are incapable of imagining. I’m going to guess those that have Russian or Chinese backgrounds/relatives are going to be feeling deja vu’, but this is going to dwarf even there past when shit goes does.
Sensetti, while your comment about cheap Chinese ink is funny, it also is a distraction from the truth. Our entire way of life, from “food” that kids that age survive on, their “smart” phones, vaccinations and fluoride in the water are the real demons. Words matter, giving those huge corporations the pass for their very real crimes won’t help any of us.
I’m living proof of that, no ink, no other-than-normal-ear piercings, and suffered depression for over a decade, in a large part thanks to the Standard American Diet and accepted medical advice.
When we combine the deliberate destruction of our brains, our immune systems, our neurological systems, with intentional under-education and the realization that your future is nothing more than a slave to the system, no fucking wonder people are going off the deep end.
And just to think this is only the slow beginning of our descent into another society. Scary shit that is.
I found this quote. Thought AWD would like it:
I wanted to let you know what I received my “obamacare enrollment packet” from the White House.
It contained;
An aspirin and a band-aid
An ‘obama Hope & Change’ bumper sticker
A ‘ It’s Bush’s Fault’ yard sign
A ‘Blame Republicans first’ poster
A ‘Tax the Rich’ banner
An application for unemployment and a free cell phone
An application for food stamps
A prayer rug
A letter assigning my debt to my grandchildren
And lastly, a coupon for a machine that blows smoke up my rear end
Everything was made in China and all directions were in Spanish. Keep an eye out, your obamacare enrollment packet from the White House should be arriving soon.
admin…I noticed too! What the hell has TBP become….some Kumbaya , twisted nipple hippy commune love fest site?
What happened to the old sandpaper, barbwire, tiger in a phonebooth and baby batter bangter ?I’m not so sure this hippy commune snugglism would have held much fire back in the Smokem’ till they froth at the mouth or quit for three months daze.
LOL..times sure do change.
Flash
Many never got to experience TBP in its infancy when Smokey ruled the roost. Some of his best stuff:
http://www.theburningplatform.com/2012/08/31/a-phone-booth-mountain-lion-barbed-wire/
flash,
thanks for posting, shoudl be an interesting read. the art of manliness is quite a site.
Have to vote today, citizens here in my county are being scared into yet another tax increase. Even here.
Nice quote Llpoh, hilarious.
Smokey was priceless. He’d have had a field day with Obama and the liberals.
Obama’s approval rating has sunk to 39%, and he just keeps on lying. He’s now having to make up lies to cover his old lies.
Obama denies ‘you can keep it’ videotaped promises
President Barack Obama told his enthusiastic supporters Monday night that he never promised what video recordings show him promising at least 29 times.
The videos show Obama promising 300 million Americans that “if you like your health-care plan, you will be able to keep your health-care plan, period.”
But that’s not what he really said, Obama announced Monday in a speech to about 200 Organizing for Action supporters, gathered at the St. Regis hotel in D.C.
“What we said was you could keep it if it hasn’t changed since the law was passed,” he told Obamacare’s political beneficiaries and contractors.
That claim is not supported by his videotaped statements, which don’t include any mention of his new “if it hasn’t changed” exception.
But the newly-revealed exception is justified by a higher-priority promise in Obamacare, Obama declared.
“If we had allowed these old plans [to continue]… then we would have broken an even more important promise — making sure that Americans gain access to health care that doesn’t leave them one illness away from financial ruin,” he announced.
“So the bottom line is, is that we are making the insurance market better for everybody,” he declared, prompting loud applause by supporters eager to ignore his three years of fraudulent statements.
Obama’s higher promise is now causing the cancelation of insurance policies chosen by at least 3.5 million Americans.
The cancellations are spreading from the individual market to the small-group market. For example, Kentucky’s Department of Insurance has reported that 150,000 people in small-group plans — typically created for employees of small companies — are losing their insurance.
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2013/11/05/obama-denies-you-can-keep-it-videotaped-promises/#ixzz2jnfNsO4y
Any more ideas about how to starve the beast? ——— Gayle
SHORT LIST:
1.—Identify the necessities of life
Food for example. No need to necessarily abandon Supermarket Chains …. they are not the culprit. But, you certainly can starve the big Food Inc. companies by making conscious choices … which eventually become “automatic” choices when done often enough. For example, Jim posted that Big-Food-Inc chart the other day, and I noticed that we have not bought a single Coke product in a few years.
2) —– After the necessities, truly understand and identify what’s most important to you.
3) —– Eliminate everything else.
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If you want a longer list ………
Lying About Lies: Why Credibility Matters to Obama
The president is lying to reinvent the history of his you-can-keep-it promise on health care.
It might not seem possible that President Obama could do more harm to his credibility and the public’s faith in government than misleading Americans about health insurance reform. But he can. The president is now misleading the public about his deception.
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In a speech Monday night to his political team, Obama said: “Now, if you have or had one of these plans before the Affordable Care Act came into law and you really liked that plan, what we said was you can keep it if it hasn’t changed since the law passed.”
No, no, no, no, no–that’s not what the Obama administration said. What it said was:
“That means that no matter how we reform health care, we will keep this promise to the American people: If you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor, period. If you like your health care plan, you’ll be able to keep your health care plan, period. No one will take it away, no matter what.” – President Obama, speech to the American Medical Association, June 15, 2009, during the debate over health insurance reform.
“And if you like your insurance plan, you will keep it. No one will be able to take that away from you. It hasn’t happened yet. It won’t happen in the future.” – Obama, remarks in Portland, Ore., April 1, 2010, after the bill was signed into law.
These quotes are courtesy of Washington Post fact-checker Glenn Kessler, who gave Obama four Pinocchios for the you-can-keep-it whopper, repeated countless times by Obama. “The president’s statements were sweeping and unequivocal—and made both before and after the bill became law,” Kessler wrote. “The White House now cites technicalities to avoid admitting that he went too far in his repeated pledge, which, after all, is one of the most famous statements of his presidency.”
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Easiest way to start a revolution: end cheap entertainment, especially television.
That probably won’t work.
America is a cheap drug; everywhere you turn there is an option to continue the high, if only for a little bit longer, at least till the next paycheck.
Flash: Currently reading number 10. When the Music Stops….
Incredible read so far, and a scenario I think many have envisioned.
It goes into detail about how disgusting an American civil war could be. I highly encourage people to read this article.
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By Catherine Austin Fitts
I was reading a commentary this morning by a Swiss money manager whose opinion I respect. He commented that there was a widespread perception that something is very wrong, though people can’t quite put their finger on what that is. He argues that the problem is monetary policy and the resulting debasement of our currency and culture, including our language.
This raises a chicken and egg question that keeps coming up in my discussions these days. Is our problem financial or political? That is to say, is what is happening on the asset side of our global balance sheet a symptom of mismanaged finances or rather the cause of an mysteriously organized financial system being used to harvest the general population?
My opinion on this point is quite clear. Our problems are squarely on the asset side of the balance sheet. Our problems are first and foremost political problems related to concrete asset management issues.
Our financial issues are a symptom of a political problem.
How many people can we support on this one beautiful planet, how are we going to use our resources and technology, how are we going to distribute and govern power? What are the rules (that is law, cultural practice) and who is responsible to enforce those rules? Where does evil come from? Why do we have an economy dependent on war? What are the challenges of shifting to a peaceful economy? What are the fundamental human rights to be respected? What can be transacted and what can’t?
These are some of the driving questions.
Think of financial systems as tools within a governance system. It is not possible to understand the tools, let alone reengineer them without understanding and addressing the governance system, including the goals of the governing leadership and the risks they are managing.
Watch Sir James Goldsmith’s interview with Charlie Rose in 1994 arguing against the latest round of trade treaty agreements and the creation of the WTO. Goldsmith is describing an invisible governance system which is planning on implementing a policy that can best be described as madness and, at worst, genocide. Indeed, it is the economic policy we are dealing with today. Goldsmith’s brilliant, passionate plea to the American leadership and people remains the single best description of our economy today.
You bet people feel something is wrong. They can feel that they are governed in a process that views them and increasingly treats them as expendable. They are being invaded, harvested, and depopulated.
To address these questions, we need transparency. That means we need to have an honest conversation about what is really going on. Which is difficult as I find that this is not permitted in serious financial circles.
For example, it is not appropriate to discuss UFOs, although arguably the black budget is the multi-trillion dollar driving force in science and technology as well as the economy today. Indeed, it appears to me that the current aerospace boom is not just about Boeing Dreamliners, By any estimate space ships represent a much more formidable cost per manufactured item than jet fighters and commercial airplanes. Hence, I would think this is something savvy investors would want to know about. On that topic, you want to listen to the Solari Report interviews with Dr. Joseph Farrell and Richard Dolan, including the one we will post this week.
Hollywood has no problem leading us through an endless series of topics that serious financial circles consider untouchable. Enemy of the State, the Matrix and The Truman Show taught us about NSA, Facebook and Google long before Edward Snowdon had a security clearance. Godfather I, II and III explained how the US economy worked decades before the European Union lawsuit against RJR Nabisco made clear the integration of narcotics cash flows into Wall Street and Washington and the levitation of corporate earnings. Hundreds of millions have been spent over the last few years on producing a series of movies involving space and space travel.
I remember one of the last times I flew out of Zurich. The plane took off and as it ascended upwards, we broke through the early morning cloud cover to observe an intensive pattern of chemtrails being sprayed in criss cross fashion across the sky above the city. The Swiss are arguably the most advanced culture in the world in terms of protecting their environment. So why is it that geoengineering is going on over the Alps with materials that, if like what is being sprayed in the United States, are full of heavy metals and no one is discussing it?
The silence in financial circles is unbearable. The financial blogoshere has become the global repository for the the world’s greatest material omissions.
I would say to my esteemed colleague from Zurich that I wish that it were true – that monetary policy is the problem before us. However, I don’t think that is the case. He eloquently argues that we should not disassociate our management of the financial system from the real productive assets that create real wealth. We should also not use financial concepts to disassociate our diagnosis of what is going wrong from the covert forces at work on the asset side of the balance sheet.
The time has come to discuss real people who seem to consider us expendable, the concrete material challenges we face and the invisible forces at work, including those we do not yet understand.
Did you know that humans share 50% of their genetic code, DNA, with BANANAS?
Virgina is lost- Conservatives split their vote again and handed the keys to the insane libtards. This comment says it all from the SHTF blog
Wolf359 says:
Comment ID: 2837185
November 5, 2013 at 8:49 pm
For all you 2-party system haters who throw away votes voting for 3rd party candidates instead of working in the republican party to change it from within by promoting constitutionalism and libertarianism you lost another election and gift wrapped a governorship to a big government marxist in Virginia.
Cuccinelli and Sarvis who by the way was promoted and supported not only by demoncrats but by rhino vichy republicans in an attempt to stifle the tea party backed cuccinelli and install a big spending marxist like mcauliffe. Combined they had 53% of the vote to the marxists 47%.
Would have easily won the election but instead Virginia will now see a new york and california style gun bans and free tax payer paid abortions for 12 yr olds.
Get ready for 1 party rule for that is what is coming and by the time enough people realize the benfits of libertarianism it will be too late and nothing will be left.
I have been independent my whole adult life but I am going to join the Republican Party and try to make a difference. The enemy ‘s at the gate, maybe I can help hold the line even if it’s just in my home State.
For all you 2-party system haters who throw away votes voting for 3rd party candidates -S
O. BS. Its not supposed to be a two party system. Look back over the last hundred years +- and it is these two parties who have created all the idiotic legislation big central government we have today.
Dont expect me to vote FOR the problem you think will be cured by the same two parties that created the mess in the first place.
KB I don’t expect you to do shit or care how you vote.
I know what this Cat’s gonna do. I’m gonna spend some of my time and money to make sure the few liberals in my state are unseated starting with Pryor.
Calamity says:
“I noticed Halloween was a dud this year. Kinda hard to have great Holiday sales when Millennials are so deep in debt that they don’t have children. This year is going to have one of the worst 4Q earnings in decades.”
it’s been a dud for years since the boomers who ought to be handing out the candy are out trick or treating or attending a Halloween party in drag. why is a 20 yo waitress out seeking candy?
Back to the topic at hand.
“PSYCHIATRY IS A PSEUDO-SCIENCE … i.e., bullshit.”
—-Stucky
Right on, bro. How anyone can support a multi-billion dollar “how the brain works” global industry built upon the THEORIES of a 19th Century person and his fellow travellers is beyond me.
@ Admin
I don’t disagree with your prefacing comments because I can’t. I just want to know how many of these nut cases were on psychotropic drugs. Then, and only then, can we talk turkey.
Johnson and Johnson just settled a lawsuit amounting to $2.2 billion in fines over drugs. Two of the three drugs in question were psychotropic. Gee, what a surprise. How fortunate that J&J got those two drugs rolled into a lawsuit with another drug. Coincidence?
IT’S THE DRUGS, STUPID!!!!
Stuck-Your comment about psychiatry is right on. I have been saying for years-this is TPTB’s angle into the 2nd Amendment. No one wants crazies to have firearms. Declare the gun owners crazy-poof, no legal gun owners. So who decides? (rhetorical question).
llpoh-yep (as usual).
AWD @ 12:31-yep. Too bad those twisting off aren’t better focused on the source of their problems. Shooting up malls doesn’t solve anything.
Pretty much everyone else on this post-group hug. Yech, Smokey would be embarrassed to be associated with this much harmony.
Hey Stucky,
Peace offering-
Saw you posted a Rucka video slamming the Mulatto Messiah a few days ago. Rucka is a goddamned genius.
This shit is hysterical.
sensetti, As long as the popular vote exists in it’s current form ,wherein any illiterate/literate mirror fogger 18 or over can vote without doing the least bit of research or knowledge of the issues or candidates there can be no rational expectation of a return to limited government or any exercise of fiscal responsibility thereof.
The popular vote in national elections should be discontinued in favor of representative vote by state elected official who in turn are elected under strictly controlled voter guidelines.
Allowing crony corporatist Senators (17th Amendment) to be elected by a mass of entertainment driven narcissists instead of being appointed by state legislatures was almost as big a central command and control fascist coup d’état against state sovereignty as the US Constitution was in replacing the Articles of Confederation.In all things government ,bigger is not better.
And, until the popular vote is limited to those proven responsible, expect no reprieve from the jackboot of creeping tyranny.
Bet on it.
buttttttttt, I’m totally sure if we just elect more Republicans all our dreams will come true.
Guest Post: Congress Sells Out To Wall Street, Again
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-11-05/guest-post-congress-sells-out-wall-street-again
Originally posted at Represent.us blog,
The U.S. House just passed a bill called H.R. 992 – the Swaps Regulatory Improvement Act – that was literally written by mega-bank lobbyists. It repeals the laws passed in 2010 to prevent another meltdown like the one that crashed our economy in 2008. The repeal was co-sponsored by a former Goldman Sachs executive and passed with bipartisan support from some of the House’s largest recipients of Wall Street cash. It’s so appalling… so unbelievable… so blatantly corrupt… that you’ve got to see it to believe it:
In 2010, Congress passed the “Dodd-Frank” law to clamp down on risky “derivatives trading” that led to the financial collapse of 2008. Dodd-Frank was weakened by banking lobbyists from the start and has been under attack by those lobbyists ever since. Now a new law written by Citigroup lobbyists (we couldn’t make this stuff up if we tried) exempts derivatives trading from regulation, and was passed this week by the House of Representatives with broad bipartisan support.
It sounds bad… but don’t worry, it gets much, much worse: