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Friday, September 19, 2014

Friday Follies: 11 Ways to Know our Nation is Run by Idiots, Canadians Warned About USA, More

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"Individuality is freedom lived."
-- John Dos Passos
(1896-1970) American novelist

Here’s our Friday roundup of government follies which could have an adverse affect on your freedoms…

Funny but sad if it weren’t so true…

Eleven ways to know if you live in a country run by "idiots"

http://thecrux.com/todays-entertainment-eleven-ways-to-know-if-you-live-in-a-country-run-by-idiots/

Canadian Government Warns Citizens to Watch Out for US Police Robbing Them

by The Free Thought Project

Over 61,000 of these incidents have occurred since 9/11, resulting in $2.5 billion being seized. American police are targeting their northern neighbors, according to a travel warning from the Canadian government.

FBI Facial Recognition System Is Now Fully Operational

According to MyFoxNY, the Federal Bureau of Investigation just launched its Next Generation Identification program, which is made up of two databases called Rap Back and Interstate Photo System. The Interstate Photo System facial recognition service, according to a press release by the FBI, “will provide the nation’s law enforcement community with an investigative tool that provides an image-searching capability of photographs associated with criminal identities.” Rap Back delivers criminal record status updates on individual suspects of interest who might have found themselves on the wrong side of the law in other jurisdictions.

Economic Patriotism: U.S. Ranks Near Last In Tax Competitiveness

As Democrats clamor to punish U.S. businesses who seek more favorable tax climates by relocating abroad, a new report finds that only two developed nations on the entire planet have a tax code less friendly to business than the United States. Read More…

Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa -- the emerging markets known as BRICS -- created a bank meant to rival the Federal Reserve and the International Monetary Fund. It's designed to provide an alternative to the dollar-centric institutions, and increase the value of their own currencies around the globe.

U.S. Army Report Urges Preparations For Troops to Occupy NYC, Other “Megacities”

"The next real war we fight is likely to be on American soil. Our civilian-military face-off"

All governments need crisis, no matter how much lip service they give to the idea of “peace.” Crisis is a well-known Machiavellian strategy to gain and solidify political power and persuade public opinion. Crisis provides the stage where governments can control all sides. We also sometimes call this the ‘Wag the Dog’ syndrome, diverting the attention of the citizen away from how the government is relieving them of their rights or cash or both.

Conventional Wisdom Is A Mass Illusion »
A recent poll by Rasmussen found that more than one-third of Americans had no clue which parties control the House and Senate. What a sad commentary that such a basic bit of information — taken for granted by this audience — is lost on an American populace so distracted by bread and circuses. More »

Injustice Department? Telephone call reveals Holder's lawless agency

A story that should have -- or would have -- garnered more coverage by major news organizations failed to achieve its proper attention thanks to the frenzy over the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria's murderous rampage, the media's obsession with football star Ray Rice's domestic violence story, and the media's knee-jerk protection of a failed President Barack Obama. In fact, not one Sunday morning news show even mentioned how the Justice Department attempted to conspire with a Democrat lawmaker to allegedly sabotage the probe of the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of conservative nonprofit organizations. More at: http://www.examiner.com/article/injustice-department-telephone-call-reveals-holder-s-lawless-agency

NSA Continues to Spy on Germany

It's no secret that the NSA's spies have been busy in Germany. However, it's now apparent that their activities in the country may reach much further than just targeting important leaders and suspects. Der Spiegel has published leaks showing that the US agency broke into the networks of both tech giant Deutsche Telekom and regional provider Netcologne as part of an effort to map as much of the internet as possible…

http://www.engadget.com/2014/09/15/nsa-broke-into-german-networks/?ncid=rss_truncated#http://cdn.at.atwola.com/_media/uac/guid.html

“I tell you, freedom and human rights in America are doomed. The U.S. government will lead the American people in — and the West in general — into an unbearable hell and a choking life.”—Osama bin Laden (October 2001), as reported by CNN

Obama is Like Nero, Fiddling While We Burn

What a strange and harrowing road we’ve walked since September 11, 2001, littered with the debris of our once-vaunted liberties. We have gone from a nation that took great pride in being a model of a representative democracy to being a model of how to persuade a freedom-loving people to march in lockstep with a police state.

What began with the passage of the USA Patriot Act in October 2001 has snowballed into the eradication of every vital safeguard against government overreach, corruption and abuse.

The breadth of global instability unfolding hasn’t been seen since the 1970s [or WWI and WWII] and we’ve never had a leader so ill equipped to handle the global chaos we see.

John Kerry reminds me of Neville Chamberlain during WWII, sucking up to Hitler and nothing makes the world more unsafe than American weakness. Since 2008 we have seen the administration more interested in spying on its allies and own citizens while brushing off dangerous enemies.

My relatives in Germany tell me the majority of the country no longer likes or trusts America. In July, German Chancellor Merkel ordered our CIA station chief to leave the country. Other leaders in that nation chastised her for not being forceful enough. It is fair to say we have managed to alienate our friends while emboldening radical Islamic terrorists.

Although not reported in US news channels, Germany is growing its army into a EuroArmy. For the first time in history a European army handed over part of its army to another…The Dutch Army handed over 11^th Airmobile brigade to the German military.

It is easy to see why so many recognize the huger power vacuum we’ve caused in the Middle East and elsewhere. Yet, many of our poorly educated wish more of the same by cheering Mrs. Clinton on to run for president – our nation does not need spineless leadership. Those who support more of the same are just another special breed of idiot.

Finally, a new trade agreement which creates a powerful trading bloc has been reach between Europe and four countries in South America [Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay and Paraguay].

Ultimately, the ramifications for our country means we’ll likely be left out in the cold and will no longer call the shots.

Long time readers already know how I feel about out our lack of leadership, our incredible unmanageable debt and the un-Patriot Act – it is an affront to every freedom loving American, which seems to be a shrinking class of citizen!

If you are among the thinking, consider: Sign the Petition to Repeal the Patriot Act

http://wh.gov/lfgGf

Yours in freedom,

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Friday, September 5, 2014

The Rise of the Part Time Worker in America

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"A wise man neither suffers himself to be governed,
nor attempts to govern others."
-- Jean de la Bruyere

The Rise of the Part Time Worker

While fast food workers demonstrate for higher wages, many are planting disinformation about how raising the minimum wage will kill businesses and raise the price of food. Really? It never has in the past. What hurts business are onerous regulations and an outdated tax system

The Poor Man has always said, simply STOP taxing the first $25,000 of income at ALL levels for every person. This will provide an immediate raise and it won’t cost businesses a cent. The cost of living is rising faster than the average person can keep up thanks to the Fed.

The US, at 35%, has the highest corporate tax rate in the world which is why so many US firms have moved overseas. We have only short sighted politicians to blame for a crap economy.

The Washington-Wall Street Cartel is Shafting the US Worker

People are disenchanted with the existing system. They don’t trust the government, they don’t trust the banks, and they don’t trust the media and they’ve Lost confidence in government.

If you were to ask 10 Americans if they have confidence in Congress, less than one would now say yes.

And it’s not just disgust with the legislature. It’s all of government. Confidence in President Obama is at its lowest level ever.

There's a reason America is floundering economically. There's a reason for the ever-widening divide between the "haves" and the "have-nots" in the United States that we’ve not seen since the Great Depression.

Our country is no longer a free market, capitalist republic. America has devolved into a socialist plutocracy..

Since 1979 we've gone from a high of 19.5 million manufacturing jobs to 11.5 million at the start of the recession in 2009. Our combined governments now employ more people than our manufacturing sector. That's a shocking amount of job loss. Ever since the U.S. economy has been globalized, we've seen a steady stream of jobs going overseas to much cheaper labor markets like China and Mexico and other third-world nations.

In fact, there are a number of shocking facts that explain what has happened to workers since we started killing off our manufacturing and shipping jobs overseas which General Electric began in the mid-1980s:

· The U.S. Department of Commerce data shows that “U.S. multinational corporations, the big brand-name companies that employ a fifth of all American workers… cut their work forces in the U.S. by 2.9 million during the 2000s while increasing employment overseas by 2.4 million.”

· When NAFTA was passed in 1993, it was sold to the public as a job creator. The Peterson Institute for International Economics predicted that 170,000 jobs would be created in the U.S. during the first two years alone. The opposite happened. According to the Economic Policy Institute, NAFTA has contributed to a net loss of one million U.S. jobs by 2004.

· According to Public Citizen, over 845,000 American workers lost their jobs because their factories were moved to Canada and Mexico. These folks have had to go on Trade Adjustment Assistance, which provides up to 117 weeks of cash payments in addition to regular unemployment insurance.

So instead of being gainfully employed by American companies, these displaced workers have their salaries taken care of by taxpayers. It's a win for big business: they can reap bigger profits from lower wages while the taxpayers are on the hook for $234,126,500 a year in Trade Adjustment Assistance and another $43,227,212 annually for Reemployment Trade Adjustment Assistance and many of these firms park their profits overseas, out of reach of the US tax system.

For those lucky enough to find a new full-time job – Two-thirds of them took a pay cut of 20% or more.

The Rise of the Part-Time Worker

While "official" government statistics* have shown a steady increase in job numbers since 2009, it is the kind of jobs created that is worrisome. Almost 20% of the entire labor force is working part-time. This has been a 30-year trend, which has only accelerated since the recession.

This is alarming for a couple of reasons. For one, part-time workers rarely get employer benefits, so that burden for health care and other benefits is kicked to the taxpayer.

That's why the stock market is hitting all-time highs while the quality of life for the rest of us is going down the tubes.

It's also great for government employment stats, since they can put part-timers on their fancy reports and count one person working three jobs as THREE workers! For example, in June the jobs report claimed to have added 288,000 jobs — that's 52 consecutive months of reported job growth. What they didn't mention in the headlines is that full-time jobs actually dropped by 530,000 from May.

· Before the crash in 2007, the average household in the top 5% of earners had 16.5 times as much wealth as the average U.S. household. Now the top 5% has 24 times as much wealth as the average overall household.

· The top 20% of U.S. households watched their income grow by an average of $8,358 a year from the crash until 2012. The lowest 20% of earners? They witnessed a $275 decline per year. And that is data right from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

· The average wage for new jobs is 23% less than the average annual wage of jobs that were lost during the recession.. And while the latest jobs report bragged that the economy gained 209,000 jobs, there was zero wage growth.**

I believe a major stock market correction is in our future. Stock prices continue to rise to all-time heights, all based on one thing: the Fed being forced to keep printing fake money so Wall Street and stock investors can get rich on the misery of the rest of us…several years ago I pulled all my investments out of the stock market and put it into farm land and bullion.

*Over the past 12 months more full-time jobs were created overall according to economist Scott Anderson with the Bank of the West. He also says we still have 3.2 million who have given up finding work which will affect our long-term economic growth.

**Wage growth has essentially been zero but some argue it has averaged two percent, less than the rate of inflation. For a wage increase to have any meaningful impact it would have to be in 4% area but most Americans haven’t had a real raise since the 1970s when the cost of living is factored in.

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