Friday, July 29, 2011

When I was a boy, I went to all my neighbors and stole their garden hoses. I took them to the field behind my house. I climbed to the top of the giant tree in the center of the field and tied off the garden hoses to the highest branches I could climb. I would repel down the garden hoses and pretend I was part of some select group of soldiers. I had a bow that I acquired. I would fashion arrows out of the reeds I found in the field. I would climb to the tallest branch with my bow and arrows and perch there watching over my field.
"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion."

— Henry David Thoreau

Wednesday, July 27, 2011

The Power of the Purse





I've posted alot of documentaries on this blog. This one is probaby the best when it comes to understanding U.S. Economy. ...this may sound like a boring topic, but it's not. This documentary explains the who, what, where, when, and why of the reasons the U.S. in its current condition. There's nothing more important than understanding what the fuck is really going on this world because what it boils down to is a handful of people have been controlling the American economy. These people have made us all slaves to a system that doesn't care about We the People.

They want us to struggle.

They want us to be debt slaves.

They want us to accept constant turmoil.

They want us to not really understand what's being done to us. The more complex life is, the easier it is for them to rob us blind, but if you understand what's happened historically, you can see what's coming and why. You could also learn who the real political leaders are like Ron Paul.

Monday, July 25, 2011

The "Explosive" Raw Footage from 9/11 (27 minutes of people talking about explosions in the Twin Towers)



This post marks my 1,000 blog post. I think exposing 9/11 again for the fraud that was seems like the most appropriate way to commemorate such a moment in my blogging history.

Monday, July 18, 2011

Debt Ceiling Drama

by Ron Paul


The debt ceiling debate is providing plenty of opportunity for political theater in Washington. Proponents of raising the debt ceiling are throwing around the usual scare tactics and misinformation in order to intimidate opponents into accepting more debt and taxes. It is important to distinguish the truth from the propaganda.

First of all, politicians need to understand that without real change default is inevitable. In fact, default happens every day through monetary policy tricks. Every time the Federal Reserve engages in more quantitative easing and devalues the dollar, it is defaulting on the American people by eroding their purchasing power and inflating their savings away. The dollar has lost nearly 50% of its value against gold since 2008. The Fed claims inflation is 2% or less over the past few years; however economists who compile alternate data show a 9% inflation rate if calculated more traditionally. Alarmingly, the administration is talking about changing the methodology of the CPI calculation yet again to hide the damage of the government's policies. Changing the CPI will also enable the government to avoid giving seniors a COLA (cost of living adjustment) on their social security checks, and raise taxes via the hidden means of "bracket creep." This is a default. Just because it is a default on the people and not the banks and foreign holders of our debt does not mean it doesn't count.

Politicians also need to acknowledge that our debt is unsustainable. For decades our government has been spending and promising far more than it collects in taxes. But the problem is not that the people are not taxed enough. The government has managed to run up $61.6 trillion in unfunded liabilities, which works out to $528,000 per household. A tax policy that would aim to extract even half that amount of money from American families would be unimaginably draconian, and not unlike attempting to squeeze blood from a turnip. This is, unequivocally, a spending problem brought about by a dramatically inflated view of the proper role of government in a free society.

Perhaps the most abhorrent bit of chicanery has been the threat that if a deal is not reached to increase the debt by August 2nd, social security checks may not go out. In reality, the Chief Actuary of Social Security confirmed last week that current Social Security tax receipts are more than enough to cover current outlays. The only reason those checks would not go out would be if the administration decided to spend those designated funds elsewhere. It is very telling that the administration would rather frighten seniors dependent on social security checks than alarm their big banking friends, who have already received $5.3 trillion in bailouts, stimulus and quantitative easing. This instance of trying to blackmail Congress into tax increases by threatening social security demonstrates how scary it is to be completely dependent on government promises and why many young people today would jump at the chance to opt out of Social Security altogether.

We are headed for rough economic times either way, but the longer we put it off, the greater the pain will be when the system implodes. We need to stop adding more programs and entitlements to the problem. We need to stop expensive bombing campaigns against people on the other side of the globe and bring our troops home. We need to stop allowing secretive banking cartels to endlessly enslave us through monetary policy trickery. And we need to drastically rethink government's role in our lives so we can get it out of the way and get back to work.

Sunday, July 10, 2011

“Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out brief candle!
Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.”

–Macbeth Act V Scene 5