Opt Out of Government Controlled Big Brother Systems

The latest load of crap from the government propaganda agencies (main stream media outlets) continue to parrot government sponsored memes such as “fake news” and “Russian Hacking”.  Like unthinking drones and lemmings they seem to be under the impression that no one will notice that they never offer specific and concrete evidence or attempt cogent reasoning.  It appears that the only people who fall for it are the more well educated among us.  You know, the ones that have college degrees to certify that they have undergone a lobotomy of the common sense part of the brain.

We do know that Google, Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, etc, etc, have become feeds to help the government draw up their plans to oppress and control the unwashed masses, i.e., “deplorables”, libertarians, constitutionalists, preppers, conservative evangelical Christians, and anyone else critical of our socialist distopian overlords.  Historically, socialist utopias always involve killing a lot of people and grinding the rest into poverty so deep that they are devoid of the resources needed to fight for their liberty.

These fake narratives like “fake news” and “Russian hackers” are ridiculously transparent attempts to justify control over the internet and censor free speech.  Someone once said that censorship of free speech is the last step before the government becomes the enemy of the people.  Whether first or last, this step was not needed until the government realized that the Main Stream Media no longer controls the narrative.

Many people are attempting to pro-actively find alternates to the government monitored social platforms.  So here are a few sites free from politically correct censorship I am looking into.  If you know of others, please leave a note.

From Chris Campbell over at Laissez Faire…

• Instead of Reddit, try out Voat
• Twitter is for “statists”, so try Gab
• Instead of Facebook run by the weasel Zuckerberg , check out NextDoor

The Dollar Vigilante recommends and publishes its content on Steamit in addition to the “normal” channels.

And, as an alternate to Google and Bing, try StartPage

And anything “blockchain” based is a plus.

Our government is not our friend.  It does not have our best interest at heart.  It has gone off the rails and has become a lawless and rouge entity.  It is drawing battle lines against us.  Their current tools are lies, propaganda, and deception but more and more they are writing new laws to justify the use of force.  Freedom of information is needed to overcome this collectivist and socialist distopia where descent is crushed and the people are reduced to tax slavery.  I hope more and more people will continue to explore the world outside the matrix.

 

Latest on Facebook…

Facebook Fake Police…
…and…
Facebook’s Fake News Censorship Campaign
 

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What a 1040 should really look like

 

The current 1040, as designed by the IRS, violates the Supreme Court’s ruling on Income vs. Compensation (see previous article All Tax Software is Wrong for references).  So I took the liberty to create a proposed alteration that is more honest, preventing the deceit that was designed into the current one.

Example…

In this example we have separated compensation from income (which is derived from compensation) as ruled by the supreme court.  Suppose my compensation for my labor is 94,000 annually.  I voluntarily contribute $9000.  I say voluntarily because legally you are not required to “comply” by law but only made to believe that you have to by the IRS and since compensation (wages, salaries and tips) is not income.

Using the IRS tax tables to calculate the taxes due based upon my voluntary tax liability of $9000, and filing at the single rate, the taxes come to $903.

Some Ramifications…

• Mortgage deduction and itemization are not needed as the contribution can be adjusted.
• More money flowing into the hands of the people that actually produce.
• More money flowing into the hands of consumers.
• People can actually afford to pay their bills.
• More money available for private sector businesses.
• The shareholders of the Federal Reserve might not get there 6% dividend.
• Government would have to shrink.
• 90,000 IRS agents would be unemployed.
• Eventually, people would have to find meaningful work rather than enter the federal and state bureaucracies.
• Government theft and plunder would be severally curtailed.
• The government would not be able to treasury bonds to the Federal Reserve member banks.  Because most tax revenue goes to paying interest on previous loans, the US Treasury would not be able to issue unlimited amounts of government bonds.
• The government would not be able to continue funding unconstitutional agencies and programs because they would not be able to pay interest on the loans.  No pay interest, no get loans.  This will happen eventually anyway.
• The government my have to renege on the promises it should never have made.  It will have to do this anyway soon enough.
• Wall St. bankers and London financial houses may not get their bonuses.
• Our oppressors (the government bureaucrats and politicians) will have difficulty with their masters (the bankers).

There are many more.  Most good in the long run.  Some bad in the short term, especially for our wise and powerful overlords.

Don’t worry to much about government services.  Most exceed the enumerated powers and are unconstitutional anyway.

100 percent of what is collected is absorbed solely by interest on the Federal debt and by Federal Government contributions to transfer payments. In other words, all individual income tax revenues are gone before one nickel is spent on the services which taxpayers expect from their Government.”  Grace Commission, Letter to President Reagan – January 12, 1984

Most people believe their tax dollars are go directly to the expenses of government.  This false belief is used to encourage people to pay their fair share of the tax burden so they can go on enjoying the benefits of living in America.

For more on the subject of why the government does not need to steal from you go HERE

 

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All Tax Software is Wrong

Shocked and yet not surprised.  Sounds like a contradiction, or perhaps a very conflicted person in a confusing circumstance.  It is long been known by some of us who actually take the time to question the dominate paradigm (as opposed to just googling stuff to support one’s bias) that government agencies deceive their citizens, violate the constitution and the rights of those same citizens, and use violence to enforce their unlawful edicts.

The U.S. Treasury, it’s counter part “The FED”, and it’s police (the IRS) are no exceptions.  In really, they are the worse of all offenders globally.  They look at citizens as milk cows to be drained, but they are really more like parasites that are slowing killing the host, which by the way, is you and me.

For instance, did you know that your wages, salaries, or compensation for your labor or product is not the same as your income?  I bet you did not.  But the IRS 1040 makes it look like it is which is in direct defiance to various supreme count rulings.  What rulings you ask?  Well how about these…

“If there is no gain, there is no income.” [1] …It [income] is not synonymous with receipts. Simply put, pay from a job is a ‘wage,’ and wages are not taxable. Congress has taxed income, not compensation.” United States Supreme Court Conner v. United States. 303 F. Supp. 1187 (1969) pg. 1191: 47 C.J.S. Internal Revenue 98, Pg. 226. (Emphasis added).

Read it carefully, WAGES ARE NOT TAXABLE, and Congress has taxed income, not compensation.  Well that was pretty clear.  How about this…

“The claim that salaries, wages, and compensation for personal services are to be taxed as an entirety and therefore must be returned by the individual… is without support, either in the language of the Act or in the decisions of the courts construing it… it is not salaries, wages or compensation for personal services that are to be included in gross income. That which is to be included is gains, profits, and income derived from salaries, wages, or compensation for personal services.” United States Supreme Court, Lucas v. Earl, 281 U.S. 111 (1930). (Emphasis added).

The act referred to in the above quote is the infamous 16th Amendment, which is a topic for some other day.

Now for sure the government has tried to force another meaning on the language by trying to get the court to support the pillage and impoverishment of the American people by trying to fold all earnings (everything that comes in) as gross income.  That was also struck down.

“We must reject in this case…the broad contention submitted in behalf of the Government that all receipts – everything that comes in – are income within the proper definition of the term ‘gross income’…” United States Supreme Court Doyle v. Mitchell Brother, Co., 247 US 179 (1918).

And the IRS code still defines gross income correctly (as of this research) in IRS code Section 22 GROSS INCOME:

(a): Gross income includes gains, profits, and income derived from salaries, wages, or compensation for personal service…

All this should be painfully clear.  The wages you earn is compensation for you time and labor.  It is not income according the the 16th Amendment and the Supreme Court.  Income (which are the same as gains and profits) is derived from your compensation, not the same as your compensation.  When I get paid, which is my compensation or my wages or salary, I pay my mortgage, I buy food, put gas in my car, I pay the utility bills, I go to the movies, etc.  All that is not income to be taxed.  What is to be taxed is if I take what ever is left over and invest it and make a return on it (that is I make a profit or gain from that investment) that is what is taxable.  This is very plain and clear.

So why is the IRS 1040 built so incorrectly?  It is intentionally designed to give you the false impression that wages, salaries, compensation are synonymous with income.  This is in clear defiance to the Supreme court and the 16th amendment.

Also, 1099’s shouldn’t be in there either, that is also compensation, not income. (See what-is-income).

As long as people remain unaware of this, the government can continue to borrow money for its wars and for buying votes (welfare) and to fund its police and surveillance state.  When this theft stops, the FED stockholders won’t get there 6% dividend.

I hope you do know that most of your taxes go to support the federal governments borrowing schemes, not to build roads and bridges.  They have to borrow and tax you to pay the banks the interest due for this borrowing, and to cover benefits and pensions so the bureaucrats, courts and law enforcement will continue to do there biding.

This endless borrowing is a major reason why MRI’s are many thousands of dollars when the true cost is $100 as in Japan, or why a hospital bed is $1500 a night for a shared room but a four star hotel runs $200 in the god-forsaken town of Washington DC.  (See The Market Ticker )  Government and the FED have driven everything sky high then they come to the rescue with something like EBT cards.  Government is the disease masquerading as the cure.   If that doesn’t work they lead us to war against a scapegoat.

To be far, perhaps TurboTax, TaxAct, H&R Block and TaxSlayer are just trying to get you to fill out the form the way the IRS expects you to.  Or perhaps they are counting on the deception to continue so the dominate paradigm will continue?  If it stops, so does their revenue.

One more thing.  To the American Christian you unthinkingly quotes “Render to Caesar what is Caesar’s”.  If you understood your own law and history, you would know that what is due Caesar is the tax on the profit or gain (income) from wages, not tax on the wages themselves.  Yes, you have to pay your lawful taxes, not unlawful ones, which is what we have been doing.

“The Constitution of these United States is the supreme law of the land. Any law that is repugnant to the Constitution is null and void of law.” Marbury v. Madison, 5 US 13

Stop taking the blue pill

References…

Conner v. United States, 303 F. Supp. 1187 (S.D. Tex. 1969)
http://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/303/1187/1623533/

Lucas v. Earl 281 U.S. 111 (1930)
https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/281/111/case.html

Doyle v. Mitchell Bros. Co. 247 U.S. 179 (1918)
https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/247/179/case.html

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Good News – no wait…

 

From the US Warmongers dept. Soros behind US lead Ukrainian Coup? Geez, I’m shocked! Apparently it involves military provocation, the US Treasury and FED to help the usurper Poroshenko to gain control of the country’s financial markets, a Nuland and Soros link.

From the “Mark of the Beast” dept. Trendies Ready for Ultimate Wearable: “Chip Implanted in Their Skin Used for Payments”

From the Government is Inept dept. TSA: Worthless and from perhaps the best source of news on the planet – yes how things have changed – Russian TV (RT America) TSA Fails…  I thought Israel was our allie?  They have an unblemished record of safety.  How do they secure their airlines?  Just saying.

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Kleptocrisy – the New World Order

The Joke Is On Us

A Financial Wipeout Is Coming That Will Shock The World As Governments Move To Control People

Very important articles on how you are being conditioned to accept the New World Order and the rule of our Central Planners, how they will cripple your access to your money and prevent bank runs. They can be found HERE and HERE.

Highlights include…

• Two incomes necessary by design so the state can raise your children (public school).  Central Bank Inflation is used to force both parents to work while public education fills in the gap by design.
• Massive unemployment, a war against cash and savings as governments move to control people.
• The increasing unsafe banking system, from cybercriminals to limiting ATM withdraws will may eventually reach $100 and preventing people from keeping cash in safe deposit boxes.
• Limiting cash withdrawals is a way of stopping the bank runs that governments know will be coming.

The other benefits of restricting cash is that governments can now totally control people’s spending.  It will also make it easier for governments to access people’s cash in order to do forced transfers into government bonds.  This will be done in a desperate attempt by governments to prop up debt and deficit spending.  – Egon von Greyerz

Keynesian Failure Inevitable 

Over the past seven years the Federal Reserve printed $3.7 (60 Trillion worldwide since 2008) trillion with the hopes of spurring economic growth. But ask yourself, who did this money actually go to?

At the onset of the financial crisis Ben Bernanke didn’t run around America like Ed McCann–knocking on doors and handing people checks to pay off their underwater mortgages.  On the contrary, the first tranche of money in the form of TARP and the AIG bailout went to banks in order to allow them to remain solvent.

Then, three rounds of QE bought distressed assets on the books of banks with hopes this would allow them to make new, less questionable, loans.  But, who were the banks supposed to lend to? Consumers were already loaded with debt because they didn’t get a Fed bailout. – Michael Pento

However, the developed world’s current condition of secular stagnation is brought on by central bank debt monetization; which leads to asset bubbles, debt saturations and the desolation of middle classes. In reality, the economy is mostly suffering from the stagnating brains of those who control governments and banks.  And it is this blatant form of secular stagnation that will soon bring down the entire global economy.  Michael Pento

Stock Markets always go up during bank credit expansion – until they crash

For those with significant amounts of cash held by banks, the ominous developments suggest that time is very short to get as far away from those financial institutions as possible.  Robert Fitzwilson of the Portola Group  

The world’s financial elite ignore thousands of years of history that proves money printing never works, and everyone celebrates every round of quantitative easing with new market highs. The era of quantitative easing has spawned an extraordinary financial bubble that shares the same characteristics as the housing bubble whose origins began with the same central banks determined to give everyone a house. This bubble, like others will end badly.  John Ing

All Insolvent Governments will follow the example of Greece

History is strewn with precedent where bankrupt governments scratch and claw at anything they can get their hands on, did anyone not expect this?  Greece is mathematically broke and in the same boat as a homeowner who lost a job.  They are digging into retirement balances, the credit cards are all maxed out, they have already borrowed from relatives and are in the process of selling their furniture and anything else not nailed down.  They are broke, any monies lent to them might as well have been placed on a bonfire for the heat value because they will not be paid back.  Bill Holter

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The Disease masquerading as the Cure

“The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy” Jesus, John 10:10a

“Government is a disease masquerading as its own cure.”  Bob Lefevre

“I’m from the government and I’m here to help.”

 

As Bastiat pointed out in “The Law”, If government wants to run everything, control everything, manage everything, take responsibility for everything, they must also take all the blame for everything.

Our government (USA) is just one of the many biblical “beasts”.  By “beast” I mean what the scripture means, that is, an Empire.

The US Government has been illegitimate for quite some time, that is, illegal when measured against its own founding and governing documents.  Very early in its own history it attempted to exceed its constitutional confines and expand beyond its enumerated powers.  Particularly in the 20th century it has succeeded spectacularly in becoming a rouge entity, a vast plundering, murdering, destructive mechanism while at the same time dressing itself in white hat and robes.  Truly a “white washed sepulchral”.

Yet today, most of its citizens remain comforted in their ignorant belief that “we” are the “good guys” making the world safe for democracy, holding terrorism at bay and elevating the standard of living for everyone around the globe.  All the while the government has plundered the world through debt (destroying the middle class in the process); terrorizing its own citizens through militarizing the police; stealing directly from the people via taxation, fines, regulations, asset forfeiture; demonizing groups within society; and demonizing foreign leads as pretext to justifying wars.  Just like the devil, it steals, then murders, then destroys.

But tyranny is always clever,  so they hire scholars and award grants to professors who will rationalize and justify their evil deeds by cloaking them in nobility.  The very socialistic instructors at our institutions of higher learning apply the white wash themselves.  The government parades them as experts.  After all, we all listen to experts.

So lets rate our institutions shall we?  These are just my opinions of course.  And who am I?  Nobody.  Just another citizen with a bulls-eye on his head and not comfortable with it being there.  Of course your list may be different or use this one and add to it as you wish.

 

Central Banks and the member banks who own them…Yes JP Morgan, Goldman-Sachs, Deutsche bank, Rothchilds, Rockefellars, BIS, IMF, etc., this includes you.  For setting up this ponzi scheme to rob the peoples of the world of their wealth and resources.  For making them pay for their enslavement through usury (interest) by substituting paper currency for real money.  For creating the necessity for income taxes (IRS in the USA) so the central banks can pay their stockholders dividends.  For financing both sides of every war and conflict.  For allowing politicians to borrow vast sums of currency so promises can be made that cannot be kept and votes can be bought and in the end stiff the people with the bill.  For putting love of money above love for your neighbor.  You are the first leg of the triad, the master thieves, that make possible the murder and mankind and the destruction of the wealth that has taken people lifetimes to build. Central banks are a heinous, evil anti-freedom and anti-capitalist concoction that is only enabled through the violence (laws) of government. And they exist solely as an extra hidden tax (inflation) and to keep insolvent governments operating longer than they otherwise would. – Jeff Berwick	5 out of 5 pentagrams
The Government, including its lunatic leaders, its various departments and agencies and the bureaucratic drones and that keep it functioning.For colluding with the bankers on Jekyll Island and giving the gift of the Federal Reserve and IRS to the American people for Christmas in 1913.  For providing the “muscle” the banks need to force hard working people to pay for the currency printed out of thin air by the FED so Treasury Bonds can be bought so politicians can buy votes to stay in power (welfare) and make up laws to plunder the people to pay the banks their usury, all the while exempting themselves from the laws they create for others.  For meddling in every area of society by flooding it with debt (so called currency or “Federal Reserve Notes”).  For impoverishing the people by eroding the purchasing power of the “money” they are forces to use by passing unconstitutional legal tender laws.  For its relentless war on liberty and property.  For its endless attempts to disarm the population so they can be more easily controlled and terrorized.  For the Judges who, being on the federal payroll, no longer see a need to constrain the government because they, not the Constitution, now determine what the law says.	5 out of 5 pentagrams
Industrial Military Complex, Prison Complex, including its contractors and corporations providing government with the means and equipment necessary to oppress the people, wage endless wars, provide debtors prisons, spy and terrorize the peoples of this and all nations.These subsidized corporate welfare whores could not compete and indeed would not even exist in a free market.  They depend upon favors from government, legal protections written into law for their benefits, and access to government revenue stolen from the American tax serf.	4 out of 5 pentagrams
Police and Municipalities, DHS, ATF, FBI and any other entity involved converting law enforcement via militarization into the equivalent of Nazi Brown shirts (SD).For ever escalating asset forfeiture against motorists cloaked behind the failed “war on drugs”.  For the new culture of intimidation and violence as part of the terrorizing the the citizen which is always used as governments move towards tyranny.Fortunately some Sheriffs, policemen and some military personnel are “Oath keepers”.	3 out of 5 pentagrams
The main stream media.  Including the rags like New York Times, Washington Post, Time, Newsweek, USA Today, ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, FOX, CNBC, MSNBC. For regurgitating the endless economic lies streaming from government agencies.  For covering pointless items ad-nauseam while omitting anything critical of The Powers That Be (TPTB).  For encouraging people to look to government as a solution instead of the cause.  They ignore the real and obvious systemic problems in the economy while promoting the agenda of the warmonger in the white house.  They don’t know the difference between a Keynesian and an Austrian economist, or if they do, they aren’t telling.  They are the mouth-pieces of collectivism and slavery.	2 out of 5 pentagrams
Amusement Industry.  For keeping the American people asleep until the time of their slaughter.  American Idol, sporting events, iPhones, iPads, Tinder, Disney World.  Those are some of the obvious ones.  But our all-wise overlords have amusements for every taste imaginable.For Christians they have very well paid tele-evangelists spinning tales of the rapture and “THE” anti-Christ so that this troublesome group will be unprepared and easily eliminated.  As Spurgeon remarked “the clowns entertaining the goats”.  No longer is it “fashionable” to prove all things and hold fast to that which is good.For the unrefined there is Honey BoBo.  For the progressive, there is Jon Stewart or Two and a half Men. For nerds there is The Big Bang Theory.  Whatever it takes to keep the people pacified and unaware of the catastrophe building around them.	1 out of 5 pentagrams

Well that’s my short list from the nightmare I had last night.   I have to go back to work now.

 

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The POT Thickens

By now many of you have heard of the 11 year old boy who was suspended from school for a year because he had a Japanese maple leaf in his backpack which he brought to prison, I mean, to school. Apparently, the “well educated” staff reacted in accordance with the zero tolerance policies that are in place all over the Virginia commonwealth (and the US). The enforcement of these moronic policies falls to school administrators that our institutions of higher learning has successfully lobotomized the common sense and wisdom portions of their brains.   There is much that could be said about the incident such as HERE and HERE, but it seems as if two obvious and ominous possibilities exist.

1. The bureaucrats in charge of our public school systems are mindless drones that need strict policy guidelines that they can reflexively obey.  Even though they are among the most highly educated among us, often considering themselves somewhat elite, they have no ability to differentiate because truth, fiction, hear-say, unsubstantiated accusations, and do not engage in independent thought and do not know how to apply any kind of common sense.  Thus our public schools are run by over educated morons.  So do yourself a favor and save your kid from such “schools”.
   
2. Or they know exactly what they are doing.  The objective of zero tolerance policies is to inculcate in children a fear and questioning obedience to the rules and policies of the state.  The are intentionally using these kind of policies as part of a larger effort to produce a society of lemming and compliant surfs to do the bidding of our all-wise overlords.

Even though the school bureaucracy acted like completely moronic lemmings and the sheriff’s department did their best to look like mindless drones, the family is forced to pay for lawyers and negotiate with the school administrative staff to get their kid back into school.  Instead they should receive a written public apology from the school and sheriff’s department.  All bureaucrats and prosecutors involved should be fired immediately.  And the Virginia Dept. of Education and every politician who voted to implement such policies should be sued.  Alas, the world is not perfect.

No doubt that they have passed laws and rules so generic as to cover any contingency such as “look-alike” drugs.  The defense will be the same as in NAZI Germany, “it was legal”.

An additional sad and disgusting note.  After reading the story one finds that these jerks from the school board and Sheriff’s office knew they were wrong and tried to delay, conceal and stonewall the plain truth of the matter.  One of the serious problems of our society if that people no longer care about what is true.  They care only about following policy rather than applying common sense, conviction statistics rather than justice, prefer intimidation over freedom and ideology over truth.  But what should one expect when truth becomes relative?

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Turning the Screw

People protest outside a tax office in central Athens against auctions of homes ,high taxes and foreclosures in February 2014.

The policy of collectivist governments and central planners, be they democratically elected politicos, petty tyrants, or imperial despots, is the same.  Control of resources which primarily means people.  Not food, not oil, not iron ore, but people.  People grow the food, run the machinery that drills the oil, and they mine for ore.

But the life styles of government bureaucrats, our political overlords and the elitists among us is not free or cheap.  It is very expensive.  It is expensive to buy votes (welfare), run a police state (surveillance, arrest, terrorize, jail, maintain a domestic standing army, pay for pensions and benefits), pay the ever increasing bureaucracy (pensions, benefits), run propaganda centers (public education).  And when things get really bad, there is always war.

Behind all this government activity are the banks, always ready to fund any enterprise with currency that is printed up or given to them (deposited) by the ignorant masses and then leveraged up (fractional reserve banking).  Like the government, the banks have no resources of their own.  So they must pass laws forcing citizens to do all transactions with government approved legal tender (excluding black market activities).

So what resources do the banks control, particularly the FED and its member banks (this applies to any central bank)?  Again, it is you.  Banks control you by directly loaning your money back to you at interest and indirectly through taxation.  Make no mistake, taxation is for the banks, not for roads and bridges, not for judges and the military.  Taxes help keep the over leveraged insolvent banks alive because taxes pay for all that interest that the governments owes that bank on all those loans it had to take out to cover the state’s immense budget shortfalls.

Before the FED, we had no income tax.  It was only when the FED and the IRS came into existence (both just before Christmas 1913) that true american socialism was able to get the needed funding for the collectivist central planning sociopaths we today call politicians.  That funding via central bank bond purchases has allowed the state to expand and control education, the welfare state, engage in wasteful public works and wage war.

So it comes as no surprise that the IMF (International Monetary Fund) and Greece’s other creditors (primarily German and French banks) want the new Greek government to put the screws on the people to pay for taxes owed the government.  Really?  No, they want the government to extract back tax debt and tax the “underground” economy so the government can make payment to the creditors.  Of course they do.

“Greeks consider taxes as theft,” said Aristides Hatzis, an associate professor of law and economics at the University of Athens. “Normally taxes are considered the price you have to pay for a just state, but this is not accepted by the Greek mentality.”

The IMF wants Syriza to crack down on tax evasion.  Never mind that the EU with the help of Goldman-Sachs tinkered with the books to get Greece into the EU.  People say that Greece should never have been allowed in.  But the EU had to allow them in as Greece sits at the crossroads of East and West, between Russia and NATO and the Middle East.  So the ECB (European Central Bank) lent a boat load of money to a country they knew was a huge credit risk.  The stupid Greek governments built up and expanded the public sector with salaries and pensions and vacations and early retirements (54) so that most of the country had to suck from the government tit.  They became quite used to being dependent.  The crisis is now upon them because their own government cannot keep its promises and the predatory lenders are wanting their interest or wanting the Greek government to have a “fire” sale on all Greek assets and reduce the people to the status of feudal serfs.

Same game plan for the United States by the way.

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Citizen vs. Government

Excellent summary of what is taking place in America and to some degree in all western “civilized” countries. Some high lights…

There is little difference between Democrat and Republican politicians. The two “opposing” parties might as well be renamed the Bloods and the Crips. They both stand for the same thing and that is bigger government and less freedom.

Both parties want the same thing and that same thing has to do with your wealth and freedom. Both will do whatever it takes to be in charge. The country does not matter. Only their position in the trough matters.

Government has had to re-define rights and behaviors (many of which are supposed to be constitutionally protected) as dangerous or illegal.  They have to do this to maintain control over their primary exploited resource, you.   To see a partial list of problem children can be seem HERE.

But now the Obama administration is removing all references to Islam from terror training materials, and instead the term “terrorist” is being applied to large groups of American citizens.

Among them are…

• Citizens that have “bumper stickers” that are patriotic or anti-U.N.
• Those that display the Gadsden Flag (“Don’t Tread On Me”)
• Those that are against illegal immigration
• Those that advocate for states’ rights
• Anyone that holds a “political ideology that considers the state to be unnecessary, harmful,or undesirable”
• Those that “take action to fight against the exploitation of the environment and/or animals”
• Anyone that is opposed to Agenda 21
• Anyone that “visits extremist websites/blogs”
• Evangelical Christians
• Those that talk about “the New World Order” in a “derogatory” manner
• Anyone that “complains about bias”
• Those that “believe in the right to bear arms”
• Anyone that is concerned about FEMA camps
• Anyone that “is frustrated with mainstream ideologies”
• Anyone that “complains about bias”
• Anyone that “establishes website/blog to display extremist views” – Opps

And on and on it goes.  After all, you have no right to dissent unless you have a valid government issued licence for such dissent.

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How banks destroy nations

In his post HERE, Charles Hugh Smith points out very important points as to how banks loot a nation and impoverish a people.  Banks and lenders are assumed to be capitalistic.  But that is not reality.

In a free market where real capitalism is actually practiced, when lenders make bad loans, ignore risk, and ignore the credit worthiness of the borrower, the “lenders who ignored risk management; they get destroyed.”  This is supposed to be how it works, indeed, this is how it has worked in times past.  “As imprudently issued loans default, the losses pile up and the lender become insolvent. At that point, Capitalism kicks in and the management is fired, the stock goes to zero, the lender’s assets are auctioned off and the creditors are issued whatever remains after wages, taxes, accounts payable, etc. are paid.”  That’s it.  HE continues, “There’s nothing complicated about it: Capitalism requires the discipline of losses being taken by those responsible, the firing of incompetents and the destruction of imprudent lenders.

In other worlds, bad loans eventually wipe out the lender, as they are suppose to.  Idiots who do not properly vet the borrower and analyze the risk get whacked.  But now, there is little need, because why? Because they have effectively done two things.

• They have used their control of the media (propaganda) to sell the story that it is the borrowers fault.  Somehow the narrative is “the lenders are blameless, the borrowers are at fault and should pay.”  

  While it is true no one should borrow money that they can’t pay back, the “primary fiduciary responsibility is on the lender to not offer loans to marginal borrowers and those at high risk of defaulting on their debts.”

  “Let’s set aside the propaganda for a moment and get real: anyone with the slightest knowledge of Greek finances and the power structure of the Greek economy/society knew it was insanely risky to loan Greece billions of euros. No one can deny this, yet somehow the lenders deserve to be paid for their avarice, stupidity, incompetence and total disregard for the standards of prudent lending? No, they deserve to be destroyed–closed down and their assets auctioned off.”

• They have shifted the responsibility from themselves to the citizens of the sovereigns who borrow from them.  In other words, the tax base and resource pillaging will be used to payback bad loans.  The lender(s) are no longer on the hook for anything.  Risky loans are not longer a threat to their existence.  This is what happened with the IRS and the Federal Reserve member banks.  You taxes are collected to pay back the loans has taken out on “your behalf”, not for schools and roads.  Before the FED, there was no income tax.  It wasn’t necessary.  The purpose of the IRS is to backstop the FED.  Nothing more.

• In the case of Greece, politicians put the people on the hook because they work for the elites that rule Greece.  These elites “have preserved their positions through control of the media (propaganda) and through old-fashioned favoritism, sharing the spoils of power with the country’s politicians. Greek legislators, in turn, have held on to power by rewarding a small number of professional associations and public-sector unions that support the status quo.” 

So the European Central Bank has the nation and its people on the hook.  What does that mean?  It means the time and labor of the people is owned by the banks.  It means that those Aegean Islands will be sold to the bank for “pennies on the dollar”, it means pensions have to be cut so less is paid into the system allowing the banks to take more.  It means their is a “Fire Sale” sign above the Acropolis.  The ECB has made many very stupid loans.  But in today’s world, stupidity is rewarded if you are a parasite and produce nothing of value except the invention of new and unique ways to plunder the productive.

It will end when bankers swing from the lamp posts.  Tax collectors will pay for their duplicity.  Governments and banks are broke and desperate to perpetuate their existence and will attempt to plunder the world before they go down, citizens be damned.

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