9/20/2011

The World Does Not Owe You a Living!

The world doesn’t owe you a living!
How many times have you been told this?


 Okay, Lets look at some meanings for this. 

The world does not afford you life for free. 

The world (Mother Earth) does not offer it’s delights to those who do not work for it. 
Well no, that’s not right, Mother Nature diligently offers her fruits on a daily basis for anyone who is willing to accept them.

Okay, maybe what we’re saying is “the system doesn't owe you a living”. 
Well, yeah that’s true. Well, why should it?

From the moment your lungs stop stiffening the oxygen from the water in your mother’s womb, and you start to convert the oxygen in the air into carbon dioxide, your in the red.

From the second your born, you owe the system. 

For, you were, no doubt born in a hospital with nurses, doctors, machines etc.

You eat, you drink, you poop. 

You might be thinking “hold on a second, I take a dump from time to time and it’s never cost me”

Well, your wrong. 
It costs the system every time you flush. 
The water has to get to your house, the water has to leave your house via a network of complex tubes all of which has to be maintained by the system, the purification and the re-entry into the irrigation system has to taken care of. So, Yes, the system is keeping a tab of all the things you owe it even before you get home from the hospital.

Congratulations! 

So, What is this System?

Well, to put it crudely, a bunch of men many years before you were born, realized that people need resources to survive, and if they could somehow streamline those resources to you without you going to get them, you could become very reliant on them. 

As a result they had gotten so efficient at, and very much rich at, making you very inefficient, so much so that most people cannot perform simplest tasks any more, even if they tried. 

We have become addicts because of the automated gathering of public resources. 
Unwitting addicts without you even realizing it. 

So now, post-industrial revolution, everything is done for you, to the point of complacency and we are suppose to meet any-and-all demands made by the descendants of these men.

The going rate for most people is about 50% of what you earn on housing cost, 20% tax, 20% on food, some on transport, and if there is anything left over you might be able to indulge in one of the few legal drugs available (coffee, cigarettes, alcohol).

So, What is this Work thing?

Well, your not gonna like this but, the rich system owners need Labour, it costs much Labour to keep this system going, very little of the system is automated with respects to the current levels of technology (but it is changing, rapidly) and has to be done by people. 

You see, this modern day version of slavery (Economic Slavery) is the only way to raise the funds necessary to pay the system owners ransom. 
But as I am sure you will see, its not really about the money, 
because it all ends up back in the hands of the owners in the end. 
The desired result is the Labour. 
So in short, Labour is Exchanged for the Right to Access the System.

I know what you must be thinking by now, that’s a Catch-22, indeed it is!, 
You need to Access Resources via the System but the System is the problem.

In order to emancipate this slavery, we have to remove the system that under pins it,
and thus remove our Access to these Automated Resources. 

This is something I have struggled with.

We need something else ready to replace this system when it goes, we need a Fair System, a System that works for all people or at least as many as we can make it work for, 

We need to find a way of having Access to the Resources we NEED without Wasting 75% of our Lives trying to achieve this, and in-turn it will Free Up Time to Innovate Our Environment, Bring back the Family Structure, Invest in an Open-Source network that offers the Greatest Minds to Work, Together, Freely for the good of All Humanity and NOT to Perpetuate War for Profits. 

95% of all genuine crime in the world can be put down to the system not working for them, why do people steal? 
Because the system does not offer them antiquate access, while others get to binge on far more than is necessary. 

Why do people get so addicted to drugs (including alcohol)?  Because they have a problem (systematic stress?, literally), and the system is not "interested" in helping or curing, instead it "sees" dollar signs and punishes and/or fines the perpetrator.

So when are We going to have a System that resolves this so we can render the Old One Obsolete?



Its Already Here...

3/29/2010

Statism is Dead

The Matrix is one of the greatest metaphors ever. Machines invented to make human life easier end up enslaving humanity - this is the most common theme in dystopian science fiction.

Why is this fear so universal - so compelling? Is it because we really believe that our toaster and our notebook will end up as our mechanical overlords?

Of course not.

This is not a future that we fear, but a past that we are already living.

Supposedly, governments were invented to make human life easier and safer, but governments always end up enslaving humanity.

That which we create to "serve" us ends up ruling us.

The US government "by and for the people" now imprisons millions, takes half the national income by force, over-regulates, punishes, tortures, slaughters foreigners, invades countries, overthrows governments, imposes 700 imperialistic bases overseas, inflates the currency, and crushes future generations with massive debts.

That which we create to "serve" us ends up ruling us.

The problem with the "state as servant" thesis is that it is historically completely false, both empirically and logically.

The idea that states were voluntarily invented by citizens to enhance their own security is utterly untrue.

Before governments, in tribal times, human beings could only produce what they consumed -- there was no excess production of food or other resources. Thus, there was no point owning slaves, because the slave could not produce any excess that could be stolen by the master.

If a horse pulling a plow can only produce enough additional food to feed the horse, there is no point hunting, capturing and breaking in a horse.

However, when agricultural improvements allowed for the creation of excess crops, suddenly it became highly advantageous to own human beings.

When cows began to provide excess milk and meat, owning cows became worthwhile.

The earliest governments and empires were in fact a ruling class of slave hunters, who understood that because human beings could produce more than they consumed, they were worth hunting, capturing, breaking in - and owning.

The earliest Egyptian and Chinese empires were in reality human farms, where people were hunted, captured, domesticated and owned like any other form of livestock. Due to technological and methodological improvements, the slaves produced enough excess that the labor involved in capturing and keeping them represented only a small subset of their total productivity. The ruling class - the farmers - kept a large portion of that excess, while handing out gifts and payments to the brutalizing class - the police, slave hunters, and general sadists - and the propagandizing class - the priests, intellectuals, and artists.

This situation continued for thousands of years, until the 16-17th centuries, when again massive improvements in agricultural organization and technology created the second wave of excess productivity. The enclosure movement re-organized and consolidated farmland, resulting in 5-10 times more crops, creating a new class of industrial workers, displaced from the country and huddling in the new cities.

This enormous agricultural excess was the basis of the capital that drove the industrial revolution.

The Industrial Revolution did not arise because the ruling class wanted to free their serfs, but rather because they realized how additional "liberties" could make their livestock astoundingly more productive.

When cows are placed in very confining stalls, they beat their heads against the walls, resulting in injuries and infections. Thus farmers now give them more room -- not because they want to set their cows free, but rather because they want greater productivity and lower costs.

The next stop after "free range" is not "freedom."

The rise of state capitalism in the 19th century was actually the rise of "free range serfdom."

Additional liberties were granted to the human livestock not with the goal of setting them free, but rather with the goal of increasing their productivity.

Of course, intellectuals, artists and priests were - and are - well paid to conceal this reality.

The great problem of modern human livestock ownership is the challenge of "enthusiasm."

State capitalism only works when the entrepreneurial spirit drives creativity and productivity in the economy.

However, excess productivity always creates a larger state, and swells the ruling classes and their dependents, which eats into the motivation for additional productivity. Taxes and regulations rise, state debt (future farming) increases, and living standards slow and decay.

Depression and despair began to spread, as the reality of being owned sets in for the general population.

The solution to this is additional propaganda, antidepressant medications, superstition, wars, moral campaigns of every kind, the creation of "enemies," the inculcation of patriotism, collective fears, paranoia about "outsiders" and "immigrants," and so on.

It is essential to understand the reality of the world.

When you look at a map of the world, you are not looking at countries, but farms.

You are allowed certain liberties - limited property ownership, movement rights, freedom of association and occupation - not because your government approves of these rights in principle - since it constantly violates them - but rather because "free range livestock" is so much cheaper to own and so more productive.

It is important to understand the reality of ideologies.

State capitalism, socialism, communism, fascism, democracy - these are all livestock management approaches.

Some work well for long periods - state capitalism - and some work very badly - communism.

They all fail eventually, because it is immoral and irrational to treat human beings as livestock.

The recent growth of "freedom" in China, India and Asia is occurring because the local state farmers have upgraded their livestock management practices. They have recognized that putting the cows in a larger stall provides the rulers more milk and meat.

Rulers have also recognized that if they prevent you from fleeing the farm, you will become depressed, inert and unproductive. A serf is the most productive when he imagines he is free. Thus your rulers must provide you the illusion of freedom in order to harvest you most effectively.

Thus you are "allowed" to leave - but never to real freedom, only to another farm, because the whole world is a farm. They will prevent you from taking a lot of money, they will bury you in endless paperwork, they will restrict your right to work -- but you are "free" to leave. Due to these difficulties, very few people do leave, but the illusion of mobility is maintained. If only 1 out of 1,000 cows escapes, but the illusion of escaping significantly raises the productivity of the remaining 999, it remains a net gain for the farmer.

You are also kept on the farm through licensing. The most productive livestock are the professionals, so the rulers fit them with an electronic dog collar called a "license," which only allows them to practice their trade on their own farm.

To further create the illusion of freedom, in certain farms, the livestock are allowed to choose between a few farmers that the investors present. At best, they are given minor choices in how they are managed. They are never given the choice to shut down the farm, and be truly free.

Government schools are indoctrination pens for livestock. They train children to "love" the farm, and to fear true freedom and independence, and to attack anyone who questions the brutal reality of human ownership. Furthermore, they create jobs for the intellectuals that state propaganda so relies on.

The ridiculous contradictions of statism -- like religion -- can only be sustained through endless propaganda inflicted upon helpless children.

The idea that democracy and some sort of "social contract" justifies the brutal exercise of violent power over billions is patently ridiculous.

If you say to a slave that his ancestors "chose" slavery, and therefore he is bound by their decisions, he will simply say:

"If slavery is a choice, then I choose not to be a slave."

This is the most frightening statement for the ruling classes, which is why they train their slaves to attack anyone who dares speak it.

Statism is not a philosophy.

Statism does not originate from historical evidence or rational principles.

Statism is an ex post facto justification for human ownership.

Statism is an excuse for violence.

Statism is an ideology, and all ideologies are variations on human livestock management practices.

Religion is pimped-out superstition, designed to drug children with fears that they will endlessly pay to have "alleviated."

Nationalism is pimped-out bigotry, designed to provoke a Stockholm Syndrome in the livestock.

The opposite of superstition is not another superstition, but the truth.

The opposite of ideology is not a different ideology, but clear evidence and rational principles.

The opposite of superstition and ideology - of statism - is philosophy.

Reason and courage will set us free.

You do not have to be livestock.

Take the red pill.

Wake up.

The Money That Is Sold Abroad Is You!

How does our Government repay its debt to foreign countries?

Hey Oh....

Come to decide that the things that I tried
Were in my life just to get high on

When I sit alone come get a little known
But I need more than myself this time

Step from the road to the sea to the sky
And I do believe that we rely on

When I lay it on
Come get to play it on
All my life to sacrifice

Hey oh listen what I say oh
I got your
Hey oh now listen what I say oh

When will I know that I really can't go
To the well once more time to decide on

When it's killing me
When will I really see
All that I need to look inside

Come to believe that I better not leave
Before I get my chance to ride

When it's killing me
What do I really need
All that I need to look inside

Hey oh listen what I say oh
Come back and
Hey oh look at what I say oh

The more I see the less I know
The more I like to let it go... hey oh... whoa whoa

Deep beneath the cover of another perfect wonder
Where it's so white as snow

Privately divided by a world so undecided
And there’s nowhere to go

In between the cover of another perfect wonder
And it’s so white as snow

Running through the field where all my tracks will be concealed
And there's nowhere to go

When to descend to amend for a friend
All the channels that have broken down

Now you bring it up
I’m gonna ring it up
Just to hear you sing it out

Step from the road to the sea to the sky
And I do believe what we rely on

When I lay it on
Come get to play it on
All my life to sacrifice

Hey oh listen what I say oh
I got your
Hey oh listen what I say oh

The more I see the less I know
The more I like to let it go... hey oh
Woah woah

Deep beneath the cover of another perfect wonder
Where it's so white as snow

Privately divided by a world so undecided
And there’s nowhere to go

In between the cover of another perfect wonder
Where it’s so white as snow

Running through the field where all my tracks will be concealed
And there's nowhere to go.

I said hey oh yeah oh yeah, tell my love now.
Hey hey yeah oh yeah

Bittersweet Symphony...


'Cause it's a bittersweet symphony, this life.
Trying to make ends meet,
You're a slave to money then you die.
I'll take you down the only road I've ever been down
You know the one that takes you to the places
where all the veins meet, yeah.

No change, I can't change
I can't change, I can't change
But I'm here in my mind
I am here in my mind
But I'm a million different people
from one day to the next
I can't change my mind
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,no,no,no,no

Well, I never pray
But tonight I'm on my knees, yeah.
I need to hear some sounds that recognize the pain in me, yeah.
I let the melody shine, let it cleanse my mind, I feel free now
But the airways are clean and there's nobody singing to me now.

No change, I can't change
I can't change, I can't change
But I'm here in my mind
I am here in my mind
And I'm a million different people
from one day to the next
I can't change my mind
No, no, no, no, no, no, no
I can't change
I can't change it

'Cause it's a bittersweet symphony, this life.
Trying to make ends meet
Trying to find some money then you die.
I'll take you down the only road I've ever been down
You know the one that takes you to the places
where all the veins meet, yeah.

You know I can't change, I can't change
I can't change, I can't change
But I'm here in my mind
I am here in my mind
And I'm a million different people
from one day to the next
I can't change my mind
No, no, no, no, no

I can't change my mind
no, no, no, no, no,
I can't change
Can't change my body,
no, no, no

I'll take you down the only road I've ever been down
I'll take you down the only road I've ever been down
Been down
Ever been down
Ever been down
Ever been down
Ever been down
That you've ever been down
That you've ever been down


3/17/2010

The State is Getting an Update in Technology

Something I have always suspected since Government and Corporations work together, against the People that support them both. I have found released in the Media yesterday (3/16/10)

(sources: http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2010/03/fbi-uses-phony-profiles-on-social-networks-to-gather-information-on-suspects/1, http://current.com/items/92324663_fbi-uses-fake-profiles-on-social-networks-to-track-suspects.htm)

The FBI and other federal agencies are going undercover on Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace and other social networks with phony profiles to gather information and communicate with suspects, according to an internal Justice Department document.

FBI agents, for example, have used Facebook to determine the whereabouts of a fugitive. Other investigators can check alibis by comparing stories a suspect tells police with their tweets sent at the same time.

A civil liberties group, The Electronic Frontier Foundation, obtained the 33-page document after suing the Justice Department.

According to the Associated Press, the document says Facebook is "often cooperative with emergency requests" from federal investigators while Twitter's lawyers demand a warrant or subpoena before it will turn over customer information.

The Justice Department says such covert investigations are legal and are governed by as-yet undisclosed internal rules, the AP says, quoting from the document.

In one section, Justice discusses its own lawyers, saying social networks are a "valuable source of information on defense witnesses."

"Knowledge is power," the document says. "Research all witnesses on social networking sites."

At the same time, the document warns law enforcement officials themselves to think prudently before adding judges or defense counsel as "friends" on these services.

See a related posting here on how the Italian police used Facebook to track down and capture one of the country's most wanted mafia suspects.



Socialism vs Communism

Its now obvious to me that most people do not know the difference between Socialism and Communism. Republican Propaganda has skewed Socialism so much that there is now a difference between Conservative Republican Socialism and TRUE Socialism. For those interested there is a link below after a few quotes from the page.

Let me repeat Wikipedia's quote. "Stalinism is a state in which exploitation is controlled by a ruling caste.... at the expense of the working class." This is the exact opposite of what Marx and Engels were trying to accomplish, and is precisely what George W. Bush and the Republicans are working so hard for.

Socialism is liberal. More people (preferably everyone) have some say in how the economy works. Democracy is liberal. More people (preferably everyone) have some say in how the government works. "Democracy," said Marx, "is the road to socialism." He was wrong about how economics and politics interact, but he did see their similar underpinnings.

To put it more simply: Liberals want the decision to be spread out among more people, preferably everyone; conservatives want the decision to be made by as few people as possible, preferably just one.

A common mistake is to confuse Socialism, the economic system, with Communism, the political system. Communists are "socialist" in the same way that Republicans are "compassionate conservatives". That is, they give lip service to ideals they have no intention of practicing.

http://www.romm.org/soc_com.html



3/16/2010

'America will Collapse'

Anyone who knows me personally knows that I have compared the United States with the Soviet Union. Now this is hitting the mainstream media, of coarse not in the United States but in Russia (The Former Soviet Union). At least they are connecting the dots.

3/10/2010

Current Events, the Truth of the Matter

In our country the Government and Wall Street have a relationship that can no longer be ignored. What use to be "Capitalism" has turned into Corporate Welfare. Corporate Welfare State or Corporatism, that is the Question.

Does the word "Corpocracy" come to mind? Probably not as most people are not familiar with the term, but If I said "Fascism" everyone would know what I meant. In Fact, the two terms basically mean the same thing. The only difference is in Fascism the Government takes over Corporations. In a Corpocracy the Corporations take control of the Government.

Basically, what I am saying is Corporations work too close with our Government. In fact, you see the same people going from Corporations to Government seats and back again.

"one of the most notable bits of U.S. corporatism is the 1886 court case Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad. This case had been brought before the Supreme Court to determine if corporations, as juristic persons, could be established as government-controlled tax entities, which were entitled to receive tax guidelines that were not granted to other citizens. Although the Supreme Court never issued such a ruling on the case, The Federal Government resumed as if it had; not only were corporations granted special tax exemptions, they were given many of the same rights as citizens themselves." Same rights include the right to own land and own other Corporations.

Furthermore, not only were corporations given equal rights, they were given more rights, such as the ability to file under an 1120 tax form. This protection granted to corporations—the act of corporatism through sovereign immunity—may directly conflict with The Bill of Rights, under its Ninth Amendment, which reads: "The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people." Either corporations as juristic persons are protected equally to other persons—and enumerated in a way that is not denied to other persons—or they are not equal, and therefore not protected under The U.S. Constitution.

Republican President Ronald Reagan echoed Republican President Herbert Hoover and others who claimed that Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal programs represented a move in the direction of a "corporatist state." In particular, these critics focused on the National Recovery Administration. In 1935, Herbert Hoover described some of the New Deal measures as "Fascist regimentation." In his 1951 memoirs he used the phrases "early Roosevelt fascist measures", and "this stuff was pure fascism", and "a remaking of Mussolini's corporate state". (For sources and more information, see The New Deal and corporatism.)

Franklin D. Roosevelt in an April 29, 1938 message to Congress warned that the growth of private power could lead to fascism:

"The first truth is that the liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their Democratic State itself. That, in its essence, is fascism—ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power."

But that is old news. To bring it up to the day, there use to be a ban on corporate spending on political campaigns because, of coarse, they are not people but thanks to the Supreme Courts ruling in Citizens United vs Federal Election Commission case this ban has been removed fully establishing Corporate Personhood. Overturning a Law that has been in place since Teddy Roosevelt. This makes it obvious that "We The People" no longer have a voice in our own country, as if we really did beforehand.

Even President Obama (not that I support him) has criticized this ruling saying it "gives the special interests and their lobbyists even more power in Washington – while undermining the influence of average Americans who make small contributions to support their preferred candidates." Later he went on to say "this ruling strikes at our democracy itself" and "I can't think of anything more devastating to the public interest".

On January 27, 2010, Obama further condemned the decision during the 2010 State of the Union Address, stating that, "Last week, the Supreme Court reversed a century of law to open the floodgates for special interests — including foreign corporations — to spend without limit in our elections. Well I don't think American elections should be bankrolled by America's most powerful interests, or worse, by foreign entities."

But he is not the only critic of this ruling. To name a few Democratic senator Russ Feingold, John McCain, Sanda Everette (co-chair of the Green Party), Ralph Nader (lawyer and advocate of individual rights). As you can see its just one a few people, but people from all over the political spectrum.

But what is being done about it? NOTHING! Just like everything else, We're all going to just bitch about it. I'm not leaving myself out, I am bitching!

The United States has be hijacked!

The Merger between Corporate Power and State Power can be summed up in one word, and I hate to use this word but no other word can describe it better, Fascism. Yes, Fascism. The Fascist leader Benito Mussolini called his nation's system "the corporate state"

In his own words:
"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power."
- Benito Mussolini.


Sadly, we are seeing this in the United States. The Mass of Americans do not see what is going on because they do not understand Fascism. Americans has been taught to see Fascism by its symptoms and not its structure.

"While we, Americans, have been trained to keenly identify the opposite of Fascism, government intrusion into and usurpation of private enterprise, we have not been trained to identify the usurpation of government by private enterprise (Corporations)." Which is exactly what is happening.

The
Bourgeoisie is a Social Class of people that have come out of the Middle class to own the "means of production" through wealth, education, social, and economic power.

Karl Marx was right, as he saw the
Bourgeoisie would come to "own" the Capitalist society and this has happened as the Corporations that have grown up around us having a bigger pot of gold than "We The People". We have seen them buy our Congress and other seats of power. The Corporations make their own laws based on what interest they have.

Imperialism is considered the control by one state of other territories. Through political or military means (direct imperialism), the imperial power may take over the government of a particular territory, or through economic processes (indirect imperialism) OR "the creation and maintenance of an unequal economic, cultural and territorial relationship, usually between states and often in the form of an empire, based on domination and subordination."

Vladimir Lenin in 1916 wrote a book called "Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism" where he states:

"Imperialism emerged as the development and direct continuation of the fundamental characteristics of capitalism in general. But capitalism only became capitalist imperialism at a definite and very high stage of its development, when certain of its fundamental characteristics began to change into their opposites, when the features of the epoch of transition from capitalism to a higher social and economic system had taken shape and revealed themselves in all spheres. Economically, the main thing in this process is the displacement of capitalist free competition by capitalist monopoly. Free competition is the basic feature of capitalism, and of commodity production generally; monopoly is the exact opposite of free competition, but we have seen the latter being transformed into monopoly before our eyes, creating large-scale industry and forcing out small industry, replacing large-scale by still larger-scale industry, and carrying concentration of production and capital to the point where out of it has grown and is growing monopoly: cartels, syndicates and trusts, and merging with them, the capital of a dozen or so banks, which manipulate thousands of millions. At the same time the monopolies, which have grown out of free competition, do not eliminate the latter, but exist above it and alongside it, and thereby give rise to a number of very acute, intense antagonisms, frictions and conflicts. Monopoly is the transition from capitalism to a higher system."

I am a Libertarian Socialist. I am in no way a Marxist, a Communist, nor a Leninist but I cannot read these books on political theory and ignore the fact that things Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin have said are correct and are happening before our eyes.

People should not shun Karl Marx because he was the "Father of Communism" nor Lenin for his theories. I do not agree with things either one of them done but I would be ignorant and stupid to not see and ignore the parallels between today and their theories.

Books I would recommend:
"Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism"
"
The State and Revolution"
"Our Enemy, The State"
"Das Kapital"
"The Communist Manifesto"
"Wage-Labour and Capital"

Documentaries I would recommend:
"The Corporation"
"Secrecy"
"
Surplus: Terrorized Into Being Consumers"
"This Revolution"
"The War on Drugs"
"What a Way to Go: Life at the End of Empire"
"Where have all the Flowers gone?"
"Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media
"




We Should All Be Picketing Corporations

Although some Americans worry about the growing power of the government, few understand the real power that controls our everyday lives.

Private Corporate Monopolies determine the breakfast cereal you eat, the car you drive, the medical treatment you receive, the fashion of our clothes, the kind of toothbrush we use, the beer we drink, the health insurance we buy, and what we feed our pets.

They're the ones that threaten our Liberties!

Under the guise of "the free market," conglomerates merged and bought up smaller companies, until, today, they dominate their respective markets in every commodity offered for sale in the U.S.

In this race to consolidate, companies "rationalized" their offerings, in many cases dropping up to 40 percent of what they formerly produced. They buy from the same suppliers, use interchangeable parts and common ingredients, and re-name similar brands, essentially placing the same product in different packages. For example, one company produces all of the pet food under 150 different brands.

"People say we have an uncontrolled free market but we have the opposite," says Barry C. Lynn, senior fellow at the New American Foundation. "What we have today is a Laissez-Faire American version of Feudalism; a private government in the form of private corporations, run by private individuals who consolidated power to govern entire activities within our political economy."

In a new book, "Cornered: The New Monopoly Capitalism and The Economics of Destruction," Lynn describes the many past struggles in America between small elite Oligarchies and Democratic government. Throughout our history, Americans have beaten back the attempts of monopolies to control various industries.

The Boston Tea Party fought to overturn Monopolization of Commerce by the private British East India Company. Alexander Hamilton's attempt to help his friends out with the whiskey tax, led to the Whiskey Rebellion. People acting through government prevented a small elite from controlling our railroads, steel mills, the oil industry and other concentrations of power.

"In the case of railroads, people realized they could consolidate power discriminating against some companies by charging them higher rates and stripping them of cash," says Lynn. "The American people then decided that if you had a monopoly hauling goods, you have to charge everyone the same rate. We used our government to keep them from consolidating political and economic power."
According to Lynn's research, early Americans made decisions to balance power between farmers, consumers and the market itself. This is why we created "open and public markets." Labor, managers, engineers, shareholders, and local communities ran our corporations, which are social institutions. The ultimate function of a well-regulated open-market system is not to ensure an 'efficient' distribution of resources, but "to reveal, harness, and direct power within a society in order to ensure the widest possible distribution of political freedom and the greatest possible degree of political and economic stability," says Lynn.

With the election of Ronald Reagan, Conservatives redefined "free enterprise" to mean the unfettered power of an individual to amass as much wealth as possible, while liberals sought to use planning and efficiency to lower costs, even if it resulted in the loss of some economic freedom. Using theories developed by Chicago School of Economics leaders such as Milton Friedman and Alan Greenspan, Reagan directed the Justice Department to base anti-trust decisions on a vision of efficiency as measured solely by lowered costs. "Before Ronald Reagan we accepted inefficiencies to protect a free political system," says Lynn. "In 1981, we changed laws to a consumer welfare test, measured by price and economies of scale; hence, any consolidation can appear to promote the welfare of the consumer. Unlimited growth was made acceptable. This was a revolutionary overthrow of our Anti-Monopoly laws."

Today Libertarian Think Tanks such as the CATO Institute, serve as "the vanguard of a Neo-Feudalist Movement" to attack Democratic government. They and other Conservative propagandists have spent $30 billion in the past 30 years to promote their agenda and convince people that massive layoffs, foreign competition, and higher prices are the result of "natural free-market forces." Squeezed from all sides, some Americans react by becoming Corporate shock troops attacking their own government. "Those who control our Corporations managed an Orwellian achievement to redefine the use of brute Corporate force as 'market forces,'" says Lynn. "We still believe in a consumer utopia, but we have an illusion of choice. Corporate powers manipulate our decision-making and direct us to buy certain goods at certain prices."

Institutional power shifted to Wall Street and large financial institutions. Today a small elite runs Corporations to serve themselves as they concentrate their power. Some Americans are waking up to the reality of their situation, but Congress lacks the will to regulate Corporate Power. "If we choose to protect our republican way of government, which depends on the separation of powers within our economy and our political system then we have only one choice, says Lynn. "We must restore Anti-trust Law to its central role in protecting our economic rights and breaking up dangerous concentrations of power."

3/09/2010

Downpressor Man

(I ask you not to mindlessly read these lyrics, Absorb and comprehend the Message as it is the most important part of this song by Peter Tosh)

Downpressor man, where you gonna run to?
Downpressor man, where you gonna run to?
Downpressor man, where you gonna run to?
All along that day...

You gonna run to the sea, but the sea will be boiling...
When you run to the sea, the sea will be boiling...
When you run to the sea, the sea will be boiling...
All along that day...

You gonna run to the rocks, the rocks will be melting...
When you gonna run to the rocks, the poor rocks will be melting...
When you run to the rocks, the rocks will be melting...
I said, all along that day...

So I said, Downpressor man, where you gonna run to?
I said, Downpressor man, where you gonna run to?
I said, Downpressor man, where you gonna run to?
All along that day...

You drink your big champagne & laugh, hahahahaha...
You drink your big champagne & laugh, hahahahaha...
You drink your big champagne & laugh, haha...
All along that day...

I wouldn't like to be a flea, under your collar man...
I wouldn't like to be a flea, under your collar man...
I wouldn't like to be a flea, under your collar...
All along that day...

You can run, but you can't hide...
You can run, but you can't hide...
You can run, but you can't hide...
Telling you, all along that day...

You gonna run to the Lord, begging him to hide you...
You gonna run to the Lord, begging him to hide you...
You gonna run to JAH, begging him to hide you...
All, all along the day...

And I say, Downpressor man...
where you gonna run to?
where you gonna run to?
Downpressor man...
where you gonna run to?
(Downpressor man)
I said all along, along that day

(downpressor man)
Downpressor man
Downpressor man
Downpressor man
Downpressor man
Where
Downpressor man
Where you gonna run to?
Downpressor man
I don't know, where you gonna run to?
All along that day
Downpressor man
You can't run
You can't bribe JAH JAH

Can't call him, in a bar...
... drink some ....
Can't bribe him around the corner
can't ....

Downpressor man, Lord
Downpressor man
I said, Downpressor man
Don't run
Downpressor man
Where you gonna run to?
Downpressor man
You can't bribe no one...
Them no want the money
.... money
'Cause money gets funny
Downpressor man

-In Memory of Peter Tosh

1/16/2009

Who Controls The Federal Reserve System?

Now that we know the Federal Reserve is a privately owned, for-profit corporation, a natural question would be: who OWNS this company? Peter Kershaw provides the answer in "Economic Solutions" where he lists the ten primary shareholders in the Federal Reserve banking system.
  1. The Rothschild Family (London)
  2. The Rothschild Family (Berlin)
  3. The Lazard Brothers (Paris)
  4. Israel Seiff (Italy)
  5. Kuhn-Loeb Company (Germany)
  6. The Warburgs (Amsterdam)
  7. The Warburgs (Hamburg)
  8. Lehman Brothers (New York)
  9. Goldman & Sachs (New York)
  10. The Rockefeller Family (New York)
Now I don't know about you, but something is terribly wrong with this situation. Namely, don't we live in AMERICA? If so, why are seven of the top ten stockholders located in FOREIGN countries? That's 70%! To further convey how screwed-up this system is, Jim Marrs provides the following data in his phenomenal book, "Rule By Secrecy." He says that the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, which undeniably controls the other eleven Federal Reserve branches, is essentially controlled by two financial institutions:
  1. Chase-Manhattan (controlled by the Rockefellers) - 6,389,445 shares - 32.3%
  2. Citbank - 4,051,851 shares - 20.5%
Thus, these two entities control nearly 53% of the New York Federal Reserve Bank. Doesn't that boggle your mind? Now, considering how many trillions of dollars are involved here, and how the bankers are WAY above our "selected" officials in Washington, D.C., do you think the above-listed banks and families have an inordinate amount of say-so in how our country is being run? The answer is blindingly apparent.

Where does the money come from?
We all know that the Federal Reserve CORPORATION prints money - then loans it, at interest, to our government. But wait until you see what a total scam this process is. But before we get to the meat of this issue, let's remember one thing about the very essence of banking - primarily that money should have some type of standard upon which its value is based. In the case of America, we operate on what is called a "gold standard" (i.e. our money is backed by gold).
So, with that in mind, let's look at how money is actually created, and at what cost. If the Federal Reserve wants to print 1,000 one-hundred ($100) bills, their total cost for ink, paper, plates, labor, etc. would be approximately $23.00 (according to Davvy Kidd in "Why A Bankrupt America"). Now, if you do the math, the total cost of 10,000 bills would be $230.00 ($.023 x 10,000). But, and here's the catch - 10,000 $100 bills equals $1,000,000! So, the Federal Reserve can "create" a million dollars, then LEND it to the U.S. Government (with interest) for a total cost of $230.00! That's not a bad deal, huh!
The banking industry calls this process "seignorage." I call it outright THEFT. Why? Well, regardless of the immense profit margin ($1,000,000 for $230), plus the huge interest payments, our government then needs to STEAL the American people's money to payoff their debts via a Mob-like agency called the IRS. So the bankers steal from the government, then the government turns around and steals from the people. I'm no genius, but who do you think is getting screwed in this process? US - the people at the bottom rung of the ladder.
What's worse is that - now catch your breath - there's NO MORE gold left in Fort Knox! It's all gone. In other words, the GOLD STANDARD that our financial system was based upon is now an illusion. We can't convert our money into gold --- only other currency. The entire underlying basis for our money is now a lie - a sham. The Federal Reserve has become so arrogant that they've become a literal MONEY MAKING MACHINE, creating currency out of thin air! So that's where the Fed gets their money - they literally make it, then lend it to us so they can make even MORE money off of it.
Money As A Religion
The above-detailed process has become so ridiculous that William Grieder, former assistant managing editor of the Washington Post, wrote a book in 1987 entitled, "Secrets of the Temple: How the Federal Reserve Runs the Country" that details how the Controllers have conditioned us to accept this absurd situation.
"To modern minds," he writes, "it seemed bizarre to think of the Federal Reserve as a religious institution. Yet the conspiracy theorists, in their own demented way, were on to something real and significant. The Fed did also function in the realm of religion. Its mysterious powers of money creation, inherited from priestly forebears, shielded a complex bundle of social and psychological meanings. With its own form of secret incantation, the Federal Reserve presided over awesome social ritual, transactions so powerful and frightening they seemed to lie beyond common understanding."
Mr. Grieder continues, "Above all, money was a function of faith. It required implicit and universal social consent that was indeed mysterious. To create money and use it, each one must believe, and everyone must believe. Only then did worthless pieces of paper take on value."
Do you get it? MONEY is an ILLUSION! Why? Because the gold standard upon which our money is supposed to be based has been eliminated. There's no more gold in Fort Knox. It's all GONE! Now, money really IS only paper!!! In the past, money was supposed to represent something of tangible value. Now it's simply paper!
Taken one step further, many of us don't even use paper money any more! Why? Well, here's a scenario. Many places of employment directly deposit their employee's paychecks into the bank. Once the money is there, when bill time comes around, the person in question can write out a stack of checks to pay them. Plus, when they need gasoline they use a credit card; and groceries a debit card. If this person goes out for dinner on Friday night, they can charge the tab on their diner's card. But what about the tip? They simply scribble in the amount at the bottom of the check. So far, the person hasn't spent a single dollar bill. Plus, if you bring electronic banking into the picture, we've virtually eliminated the use for money. And, God forbid, what happens when encoded microchips are implanted into the backs of our hand?
In essence, money has become nothing more than an illusion - an electronic figure or amount on a computer screen. That's it! As time goes on, we have an increasing tendency toward being sucked into this Wizard of Oz vortex of unreality. Think about it. Americans as a whole are carrying more personal debt than in any other time in history. Plus our government keeps going further and further into the hole, with no hope of ever crawling out. But we have less and less actual MONEY! We're being enslaved by the debt of electronic blips on a computer screen! And 70% of the banks that control this debt via the Federal Reserve exist in foreign countries! What in God's name is going on? As author William Bramley says, "The result of this whole system is MASSIVE debt at every level of society."
We're getting screwed in a sickening way, folks, and the people doing it are demented magician-priests that use the ILLUSION of money as their control device. And I hate to say it, but if we allow things to keep going as they are, the situation will only get worse. Our only hope ... ONLY HOPE ... is to immediately take drastic action and remedy this crime.

China and Russia Preparing

A visibly angry Prime Minister Putin addressing the media of France blasted the United States plans for dealing with the collapse of the Western Banking system by stating,

We all need to think about changing the architecture of international finances and diversifying risks. The whole world economy cannot depend on one money-printing machine

-Vladimir Putin

The America Media Ignoring Putin’s warning as the financially troubled Nation prepares to further implode their economy by injecting a staggering $1 Trillion into their stock and banking markets by doing nothing more than printing up more money as they have completely bankrupted themselves, and which has brought them to this latest crisis.

Not being explained to the American People, in the millions of words currently assaulting them by their Propaganda Media about their Economic Collapse, is the almost childlike equation that their Nations debt is virtually worthless on the World markets as the US Dollar has no real value as their US Federal Reserve System is broke, and as we can read from their own statement, but in much more convoluted terms designed to completely confuse their own people:

“The Federal Reserve has announced a series of lending and liquidity initiatives during the past several quarters intended to address heightened liquidity pressures in the financial market, including enhancing its liquidity facilities this week. To manage the balance sheet impact of these efforts, the Federal Reserve has taken a number of actions, including redeeming and selling securities from the System Open Market Account portfolio.

The Treasury Department announced today the initiation of a temporary Supplementary Financing Program at the request of the Federal Reserve. The program will consist of a series of Treasury bills, apart from Treasury’s current borrowing program, which will provide cash for use in the Federal Reserve initiatives.

Announcements of and participation in auctions conducted under the Supplementary Financing Program will be governed by existing Treasury auction rules. Treasury will provide as much advance notification as possible regarding the timing, size, and maturity of any bills auctioned for Supplementary Financing Program purposes.”

In simple terms: When the US Federal Reserve System announced it was broke, the US Treasury turned on its printing presses to create new Treasury Bills which have no value whatsoever, except giving the illusion of liquidity to the unsuspecting American public so they will cease withdrawing their dollars from their crashing banks and stock markets prior to their savings becoming completely worthless.

To the astounding plan unveiled by the US Government to address their financial collapse, one could justifiably be confused to if they are reading a pronouncement from the old Soviet Politburo, instead of the largest capitalistic economy system in the World, and as we can read as reported by the Bloomberg News Service:

“The Bush administration sought unchecked power from Congress to buy $700 billion in bad mortgage investments from financial companies in what would be an unprecedented government intrusion into the markets.

Through his plan, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson aims to avert a credit freeze that would bring the financial system and the world's largest economy to a standstill. The bill would prevent courts from reviewing actions taken under its authority.

“He's asking for a huge amount of power,'' said Nouriel Roubini, an economist at New York University. ``He's saying, `Trust me, I'm going to do it right if you give me absolute control.' This is not a monarchy.'”

As reported in a September 20th report, ‘Seven Days That Shook The World’: Democracy In America Dies, US Senator Jim Bunning was, indeed, correct when he stated,

“The free market for all intents and purposes is dead in America. The action proposed today by the Treasury Department will take away the free market and institute socialism in America.”

But, to the fullest extent of this US financial crisis we can read as reported by the Washington Post News Service:

“What we are witnessing may be the greatest destruction of financial wealth that the world has ever seen -- paper losses measured in the trillions of dollars. Corporate wealth. Oil wealth. Real estate wealth. Bank wealth. Private-equity wealth. Hedge fund wealth. Pension wealth. It's a painful reminder that, when you strip away all the complexity and trappings from the magnificent new global infrastructure, finance is still a confidence game -- and once the confidence goes, there's no telling when the selling will stop.

But more than psychology is involved here. What is really going on, at the most fundamental level, is that the United States is in the process of being forced by its foreign creditors to begin living within its means.”

And, what the American economy, and its people, are not even close to being prepared for is how both China and Russia are going to be dealing with the new “Peoples Republic of Wall Street” in demanding their debts be paid immediately in full.

One particularly crushing response to the United States current crisis circulating in the Kremlin today, written by Alexander Dugin, described as the “New sage of the Kremlin”, advocates the combining of both Russia’s nearly $500 billion and China’s 20,000 tons gold reserves to back a new gold-backed Eurasian Currency modeled on the Euro, and which if implemented would ‘shock’ the American dollar to such an extent that it would cease exist on International markets.

This report further notes that the United States is already preparing for such a response from Russia and China by this past weeks invoking of the Gold Reserve Act of 1934 by the US Government in a desperate move to protect their money markets for the first time since the Great Depression, and of which the vast majority of Americans remain oblivious to the fact that their personal gold holdings can still be confiscated by their Government at anytime of their choosing despite the 1975 laws allowing these people to own gold again.

Gold has been confiscated many times even in recent days, Here is a good example.

In all of these events, and as we have mentioned many times before, the greatest enemy of these American people appears to be their own ignorance as they, seemingly, have absolutely no idea on how to protect themselves, but which even Russian schoolchildren knows is the exchanging of a collapsing currency for one that is doing better, and which millions of ordinary Russians did during the collapse of the Soviet economy by purchasing American Express Travelers Cheques in US Dollars and British Pound Sterling.

To whatever becomes of these American people entering what is, in essence, a Third World Economy, it remains a main fact that they continue to ignore the many warnings from outside their country of the many catastrophes still to come, even to their false bravado of laughing these warnings off as they plunge into the abyss.

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Sources:

Bob Barr's Conversion


Bob Barr
Conversion of a Republican


1/11/2009

Esoteric Agenda

Here is a Great Documentary about a lot of what you would call Hidden History.
A lot of things in here are not taught to you in Schools, you actually have to do the research on your own.

Anyway Here is is...
Enjoy




1/02/2009

Loose Change

Loose Change

The Ultimate Rant...

After unsuccessfully trying to sleep for a few hour I decided to get up, get online, and bitch. I’ve got a whole lot to bitch about and I’m going to Rant on until I get it all out. Oh, and for you skepics out there I’ve taken the time to source my rant so if you don’t belive me take the time to check it out for yourself.

I’ll start with the wonderful "War on Drugs" which isn’t really considered a "war" at all, the term is just used to justify the use of police or military force against the "criminals", so its a war put in place by the government against its own citizens (how wonderful) and to top it all the govenment gets huge revenues from putting its own citizens in jail or prison. The war on drugs hasn’t prevented drug use at all, if anything its actually funding and making drugs cheaper (1). Cocaine use has increased more than fivefold since 1988 (Thank You Drug War! thats exactly what we need. dumb-asses).
Not to mention the shit like this



Reagan secretly illegally trained and armed the Nicaraguan Contras, which they funded by the shipment of large quantities of cocaine INTO the United States using U.S. government aircraft and U.S. military

One million Americans are incarcerated each year on drug related charges, about 225,000 are for simple possession of marijuana, the 4th most common cause of arrest in the United States.[13]

In the 1980’s the number of arrests for drug offenses rose 126% [14]

The United States has a higher proportion of its population incarcerated than any other country in the world [15]


Okay, speaking of incarcerating the population, lets get off the drug topic and go straight to our beautiful and "free" country. To be a country based on "freedom" its ironic that we have the LARGEST prison population IN THE WORLD (Proof:: 1 2 3) (Statistics)




According to a report released by the US Department of Justice on November 30, 2006 1 in every 32 adults are either in jail or prison, on probation, or on parole (4)
WHAT A FREE COUNTRY!

Out of Prisons and on to what "freedoms" we have left... ... ... ... ... Well, actually I can’t name any freedoms we have left...
The NSA spys (5) on americans (5.1) through our phones (6) , through our computers (7) , and any other form of communication you can think of. But wait, it gets better, they don’t just spy on you... They spy on the whole world (8) They just spy on us DIRECTLY. [pic] But its okay, after all its NOT ILLEGAL, ANYMORE thanks to the USA Patriot Act which Bush signed into LAW even though Congress NEVER got the chance to READ it!! (Thank you, Mister Monkey).

Bush may have honestly made it to the Presidency the 1st time, but the second time... COME ON... We don’t even have a say-so when it comes to who is our president anymore thanks to the electronic voting (9) (9.1). Anyone that has access to a computer and the internet can hack an election, if they know what they are doing! (10) (11) (12) (13) And all these voting machines are made by BIG CORPORATIONS. Corporations run every aspect of our lives, Directly and Indirectly!!

When you go to the store to buy food almost all the food you buy comes from one HUGE corporation, or another one being, ConAgra either Directly or Indirectly (not all, but almost all).
When you go buy a product from General Electric (GE) your not just funding GE but also all of their Assets like GE Money, GE Healthcare, The Media: All the NBCs, A&E Television Networks, The Biography Channel, The History Channel, Military History Channel, MSNBC (co-owned with Microsoft), CNBC (co-owned with Dow Jones), Sci Fi Channel, USA Network, Universal Studios, and TiVo.
When you buy a Mitsubishi car or other product your also funding the Nikon Corporation, Nippon Oil Corporation, Mitsubishi Gas Chemical Company, Inc., Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation (part of Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings Corporation), and the Mitsubishi Aluminum Co., Ltd. but thats not all there is just too much to name.

And all that may not mean a damn thing to you but think about this.
IBM one of the biggest corporations on the face of the planet. They just may be a good thing, right? I mean after all if it wasn’t for them you wouldn’t have the computer you are reading this on now. But what if one day you found out they Assisted and Helped Adolf Hitler? Its TRUE. IBM was Founded in 1889 and Incorporated in 1911. Without IBM it would have been EXTREMELY hard for Hitler to kill the Jews as he did. (14) (15) (16) (17) Now of coarse they didn’t have computers yet, but they did have the IBM punch card and card sorting system which automation the killing of the Jews and other "undesirables".


"
More than 2,000 such multi-machine sets were dispatched throughout Germany, and thousands more throughout German-dominated Europe. Card sorting operations were established in every major concentration camp. People were moved from place to place, systematically worked to death, and their remains cataloged with icy automation." (18)



The machines were not sold, they were leased, and regularly maintained and upgraded by only one source: IBM. IBM subsidiaries trained the Nazi officers and their surrogates throughout Europe, set up branch offices and local dealerships throughout Nazi Europe staffed by a revolving door of IBM employees, and scoured paper mills to produce as many as 1.5 billion punch cards a year in Germany alone. Moreover, the fragile machines were serviced on site about once per month, even when that site was in or near a concentration camp.


I’m not going to say anymore on the subject, if you wanna know more check it out for yourself.

Monsanto, OMFG, probably one of the most Evil Corporations on the Planet. They Kill You! and your not even aware of it! All Cows Milk come from Monsanto. They put a Synthetic Drug in the Cows to Produce more milk called Bovine Growth Hormone or BGH (20), the Brand name of this Drug is called Posilac. Now this Drug is Illegal in most of the World but Here in the Good Ol’ United States Monsanto Pressured FOX News (another Corp.) to Supress the Investigative Report & Health Risks and They did Supress it, soooo It never got out to the General Public (21). BGH is known to cause breast, prostate and colorectal cancer (22), a higher risk of diabetes and a shorter lifespan (23), and has been linked to an increased number of twins born to humans. (24)
When you buy Roundup, Milk, or anyother Monsanto product you ARE FUNDING CANCER and God-knows what else! They made Agent Orange which was used in The Vietnam War! Agent Orange Killed one of my Best Friends because he was in the Vietnam War! And It continues to kill hundreds if not more. These are JUST SOME of the Terrors that come from Monsanto, there is no way I could cover them all.

Myspace, something you are probably a member of RIGHT NOW. Myspace is Owned by the News Corporation and the News Corp. also owns Twentieth Century Fox, Fox Television Studios, FOX NEWS, The DirecTV Group (DirecTV Satellite Service), Turner South, Newspapers All Over The World (Including New York Post and The Wall Street Journal in the USA), and Of Coarse MySpace and Photobucket!

Now that you know how Myspace is connected to everything else in Society Think about this... According to the "Terms of Use Agreementwhen you access the Myspace website or ANY website owned in anyway by Myspace you agree to these "TERMS"... In these TERMS it states:

By displaying or publishing ("posting") ANY Content on or through the MySpace Services, you hereby grant to MySpace a limited license to use, modify, delete from, add to, publicly perform, publicly display, reproduce, and distribute such Content solely on or through the MySpace Services, including without limitation distributing part or all of the MySpace Website in any media formats and through any media channels..."

This Allows them to USE ANY Content they wish on FOX NEWS in anyway they wish including ADDING stuff to your content you post... Think about what you are doing! But thats Not all thats in the Terms of Use, Read it, See what you ARE AGREEING TO and think about what you Post... Remember the "Chris Crocker" incident ("LEAVE BRITNEY ALONE") on YouTube (Owned by Google)? LOL

Okay, I’ve been on this Rant for about 7 or 8 hours now and I think I feel better now. So, I’m going to get off of here and Finish my day off... Remember my Rant and Protect yourself as much as possible from Corporate America!
Check things out before you become a Member! And Research things before you include yourself in them...

I’m Off....


Peace & Love
And Fuck Corporate America!





"When the Power of Love Overcomes the Love of Power... The World will Know Peace"
-Jimi Hendrix

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