The U.S. government has become a master of deceit

 

 

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“It is the function of mass agitation to exploit all the grievances, hopes, aspirations, prejudices, fears, and ideals of all the special groups that make up our society, social, religious, economic, racial, political. Stir them up. Set one against the other. Divide and conquer. That’s the way to soften up a democracy.”― J. Edgar Hoover, Masters of Deceit

The U.S. government has become a master of deceit.

It’s all documented, too.

This is a government that lies, cheats, steals, spies, kills, maims, enslaves, breaks the laws, overreaches its authority, and abuses its power at almost every turn; treats its citizens like faceless statistics and economic units to be bought, sold, bartered, traded, and tracked; and wages wars for profit, jails its own people for profit, and has no qualms about spreading its reign of terror abroad.

Worse, this is a government that has become almost indistinguishable from the evil it claims to be fighting, whether that evil takes the form of terrorism, torture, drug trafficking, sex trafficking, murder, violence, theft, pornography, scientific experimentations…

 

With every passing day, it becomes painfully clear that this is not a government that can be trusted …

 

 https://www.lewrockwell.com/2022/09/no_author/masters-of-deceit-the-governments-propaganda-of-fear-mind-control-brain-warfare/

 

Federal Bureau of Intimidation: The Government’s War on Political Freedom 

Masters of Deceit: The Government’s Propaganda of Fear, Mind Control & Brain Warfare 

Overthrow the Government: All the Ways in Which Our Rights Have Been Usurped 

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“We, The Extremists”

 LEFTIST RADICAl RATS ARE AT IT AGAIN-outright lies & manipulation…it’s what they do.

Forget “We, the People.” According to Democrats, the GOP’s “Commitment to America,” defending free speech (1^st Amendment), free exercise of religion (1^st Amendment), right to keep and bear arms (2^nd Amendment), security from unreasonable search and seizure (4^th Amendment), respect the Supreme Court, ending inflation, restoring affordable energy and accountability – is “extremist.”

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Leftist Lies: Gaslight Is Getting Harder to Keep Lit

The Biden administration has been deceiving for a while now, with the help of the mainstream media. But the nature of these lies is becoming so outrageous, even their allies are having increasingly trouble buying them. 

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Biden's Big Blunders Could Unleash “Economic Armageddon" in America…

  Biden & Socialist-Dems never confronted the left-wing violence that plagued America's major cities for months on end: riots in New York, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, Chicago, Portland and Seattle, among other cities. For a full week, the Democratic National Convention ignored that ongoing violence, driven by members of the Black Lives Matter and antifa movements. The media went right along with the narrative; despite $1.2 billion damage & 25 deaths…VP Harris applauded this but Dems shout fake whining about Jan 6th

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"Gold is the money of kings;
silver is the money of gentlemen;
barter is the money of peasants;
but debt is the money of slaves."
-- Norm Franz
American minister

 

 While the tax payer funded vacation tab for Obama and his VP reached a record $40 million, the average American is suffering…the Obama administration still strangles the economy with massive new regulations and red tape.  Dozens of areas of life affected from energy costs to finding a job…

 

A recent study confirms that overall, middle class wealth plunged by 28% just in the past decade. And just look around: We all know or have heard about people who were once comfortably middle class, but are now fighting to keep their heads above water.

 

Our economy is certainly not "recovering".  Despite what you may hear from the politicians and from the mainstream media, the truth is that the U.S. economy is in far worse shape than it was prior to the last recession.

 

We are the most over regulated nation on the planet and it is destroying our economy.  The average worker has not had a real raise (factoring in inflation) since the 1980s and living wage jobs have not returned.

 

For example, the percentage of working age Americans that are employed has stayed remarkably flat for the past four years.  We should be grateful that things have not continued to get even worse.  It is almost as if someone has hit the “pause button” on the U.S. economy. 

#1 The homeownership rate in the United States has dropped to the lowest level in 19 years.

#2 Consumer spending for durable goods has dropped by 3.23 percent since November.  This is a clear sign that an economic slowdown is ahead.

#3 Major retailers are closing stores at the fastest pace that we have seen since the collapse of Lehman Brothers.

#4 According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 20 percent of all families in the United States do not have a single member that is employed.  That means that one out of every five families in the entire country is completely unemployed.

#5 There are 1.3 million fewer jobs in the U.S. economy than when the last recession began in December 2007.  Meanwhile, our population has continued to grow steadily since that time.

#6 According to a new report from the National Employment Law Project, the quality of the jobs that have been “created” since the end of the last recession does not match the quality of the jobs lost during the last recession…

§  Lower-wage industries constituted 22 percent of recession losses, but 44 percent of recovery growth.

§  Mid-wage industries constituted 37 percent of recession losses, but only 26 percent of recovery growth.

§  Higher-wage industries constituted 41 percent of recession losses, and 30 percent of recovery growth.

#7 After adjusting for inflation, men who work full-time in America today make less money than men who worked full-time in America 40 years ago.

Source: Michael Snyder is the Editor of The Economic Collapse Blog.

 

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In This Issue:

1.        American consumers are tapped out

2.       7 Tips to Keep Your Furnace Running Well

3.       Backyard chickens for eggs, 21 fail-safe to get a fired started

4.       Garbage cans for food storage

5.       Automatically Guilty-Government enjoys seizing your bank accounts

 

Are American consumers tapped out?

By Robert Romano

The economy grew at a 2.8 percent annualized rate in the third quarter, reports the Bureau of Economic Analysis, up from 2.5 percent in the second quarter and 1.1 percent in first quarter.

Meanwhile, personal consumption has steadily slowed down the past three quarters from 2.8 percent, to 1.8 percent, to 1.5 percent in the third quarter.

Why the contradiction? Consumer spending is usually thought to drive economic growth, not run contrary to it. So what gives?

"The acceleration in real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth in the third quarter primarily reflected a deceleration in imports," among other items, the Bureau reports.

Which tells you much of what you need to know, since the trade deficit counts against the GDP. When the trade deficit narrows, economic growth is seemingly boosted, and when it increases, it detracts from reported growth. Sure enough, this year the trade deficit has dropped from $523 billion in the first quarter, to $509 billion in the second, and to $493 billion today.

Yet the slowdown of imports corresponds directly to the slowdown of consumer spending — Americans were buying less of everything. That is actually not a good sign going forward.

Get full story here.

 

 

PM’s Roundup of Useful Resources…

 

Chemical Names, A List Showing the Older Names vs the Modern Names (link)

Howard at PreparednessAdvice.com has put up a nice list of “old” vs. “new” chemical names that you might find useful someday: “As you may know, I am always researching old books to learn the ways of our ancestors. One thing I have had a rough time with is the old chemical names. The following is…

Continue reading Chemical Names, A List Showing the Older Names vs the Modern Names (link)

 

 

7 Tips To Keep Your Furnace Running Efficiently This Winter (link)

Remember that preparedness isn’t just about being as self-sufficient as possible, it’s also about ensuring the systems you rely upon (even grid-tied ones) are functioning as well. Of course, I would suggest hiring a licensed HVAC tech to look over your furnace but these are some simple suggestions you can follow to do the majority…

Continue reading 7 Tips To Keep Your Furnace Running Efficiently This Winter (link)

 

Raising Backyard Chickens for Eggs
Have you ever thought about raising your own backyard chickens for eggs to save money? Doing so may have many economical and health benefits.

 

 

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31 Gallon Garbage Cans for Food Storage (link)

Large steel cans (such as the 31-gallon cans mentioned in the article) are a great way to store bulk foods to keep them safe from pests, accidental punctures, and more. About the only drawback I see is that they’re nearly impossible to move once loaded down with food so be sure to enact a variety… (the Poor Man uses smaller cans)

Continue reading 31 Gallon Garbage Cans for Food Storage (link)

 

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The Nanny State- Your Weekly Dose of Government Misinformation

 

Police State America

I have written some guest blogs in the past dealing with aspects of the issue of America becoming a Police State and will link to them at the end of this piece. There are so many issues that call for our concern and attention in this country today, that dealing with the entire dysfunctional state of our country becomes daunting due to the wealth of material.

 

The issue of our country’s continuing descent into a”Police State” equaling all we know of the vile systems in the USSR and the former East Germany is an issue that concerns me.. The situation is  dire and the consequences have produced not only horrible injustices, but also the many unneeded maiming and deaths of innocent individuals. Our country imprisons more people per capita than any other country in the world by far. Part of the reason for that is the “War on Drugs” an abject failure that falls most heavily upon people with low incomes and people of color. One such incident caused Professor Turley to pen two blogs this week. They were about a man falsely suspected of drug possession who had all his bodily orifices and cavities checked in the local Arizona police’s vain attempt to find evidence of guilt. None was found and the procedures were not only traumatic, but invasive. Thus the “War on Drugs” is one major contributing force to turning our country into a Police State.

 

(Turley has been advisor to the Poor Man on his series on how to rid the nation of dysfunctional politicians and to restore America to semblance of the free country it once was).

 

Continued here:

http://jonathanturley.org/2013/11/09/police-state-america/

 

The Parting Thought – Nothing to worry in the land of the free!

 

 Government Seizing Bank Accounts-Are you Automatically Guilty?

Consider the plight of Terry Dehko and his daughter Sandy Thomas. They run a small grocery store in Fraser, Michigan. Because their insurance only covers a cash limit of $10,000, they frequently make smaller deposits. One day last January, the government seized $35,000 of their assets, not in the store, but in the store account.

 

Officials said Dehkos had violated federal money-laundering rules, which forbid people to “structure” their bank deposits so as to avoid the $10,000 threshold that triggers banks to report a transaction to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).

 

There was no evidence of guilt. Dehko was not charged with any crimes, and the IRS supported Dehko's claim. Nonetheless, Dehko is offered 20% of the amount taken from him.

Grabbing Hand of the Law

The Economist explains the plight of Dehko in its report The Grabbing Hand of the Law

In criminal cases, the government can confiscate assets only after a conviction. Under “civil forfeiture”, however, it can grab first and ask questions later. Property can be seized merely on the suspicion that it has been involved in a crime. Citizens have no right to a swift hearing. For a small business, that can be fatal.

In many civil-forfeiture cases the agencies that seize the assets keep most of the proceeds, and can use them to pad their budgets or buy faster patrol cars. It is hard to know how common this is, but the Institute for Justice (a libertarian law firm that is representing the Dehkos) notes that the federal government shared $450m of seized assets with state and local authorities in 2012.

The grabbers do not always prevail. A motel owner in Massachusetts recently won back his motel after prosecutors tried to seize it because one guest in 13,000 had been arrested for drug offences. In October in California, prosecutors who were trying to seize a building because two of the tenants were marijuana dispensaries (which are legal under Californian law), gave up and let the landlord keep it.

But this is scant comfort for the Dehkos, who are struggling to hold on to the store they have run since 1978. “It’s kind of scary that they can do this to you,” says Ms Thomas. “In America, you’re supposed to be innocent until proven guilty.”

 

On a Related Note…

If you have cash in a US bank, you can expect to have the federal government take it all the next time US banks find themselves in trouble.  

The days of the federal government stealing money from taxpayers, or borrowing it from the Federal Reserve, to save troubled banks -- as in they did in the 2008 crisis -- may be over. Congress is considering imitating the theft in Cyprus and letting troubled banks "bail in" depositor money in order to make themselves solvent. 

Jim Sinclair, chairman and chief executive officer of Tanzania Royalty Exploration Corp., and whose family started Goldman Sachs, Salomon Brothers, Lehman Brothers, and others, has been warning of this for a while. 

“Bail-ins are coming to North America without any doubt, and will be remembered as the ‘Great Leveling,’ of the ‘great Flushing’. Not only can it happen here, but it will happen here...It stands on legal grounds by legal precedent both in the US, Canada and the UK."

The monetary system is much closer to collapse and the bail-in is imminent. In fact, US banks presented the Federal Reserve with a bail-in plan to pay for large banks' restructuring in the event of a future crisis, The Wall Street Journal reports. The plan was presented to the US Federal Reserve in an attempt to preempt tougher rules from the regulators.

The private meeting was reportedly attended by officials from Wells Fargo & Company, Bank of America Corp, Citigroup Inc. and several other banks. The bail-in mechanism would be designed to place a greater burden on creditors, as opposed to the taxpayers (theft victims), in the event of a bank’s collapse

Read more: http://freedomoutpost.com/2013/11/government-seizing-bank-accounts/#ixzz2jfnRXZXm

 

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