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In the Year 2024…A vision of
what is coming
As I awoke this morning, Sunday, Oct. 13, 2024, from restless
dreams, I found the insect-sized sensor implanted in my
arm was already awake. We call it a “bug.” U.S. citizens have
been required to have them since 2022 to access government
health care.
The bug knew from its biometric monitoring of my brain
wave frequencies and rapid eye movement that I would awake
momentarily. It was already at work launching systems, including
the coffee maker. I could smell the coffee brewing
in the kitchen. The information screens on the inside of my
panopticon goggles were already flashing before my eyes.
Images of world leaders were on the screen. They were issuing
proclamations about the fine health of their economies
and the advent of world peace. Citizens, they explained, needed
to work in accordance with the New World Order Growth Plan
to maximize wealth for all. I knew this was propaganda, but I
couldn’t ignore it. Removing your panopticon goggles is viewed
with suspicion by the neighborhood watch committees. Your
“bug”
controls all the channels….
Congress Still Screwing Our Nation
"These things I believe:
That government should butt out.
That freedom is our most precious commodity and
if we are not eternally vigilant, government will take it all away.
That individual freedom demands individual responsibility.
That government is not a necessary good but an unavoidable evil.
That the executive branch has grown too strong, the judicial branch too arrogant
and the legislative branch too stupid.
That political parties have become close to meaningless.
That government should work to insure the rights of the individual,
not plot to take them away.
That government should provide for the national defense
and work to insure domestic tranquility.
That foreign trade should be fair rather than free.
That America should be wary of foreign entanglements.
That the tree of liberty needs to be watered from time to time
with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
That guns do more than protect us from criminals;
more importantly, they protect us from the ongoing threat of government.
That states are the bulwark of our freedom.
That states should have the right to secede from the Union.
That once a year we should hang someone in government
as an example to his fellows. -- Lyn Nofziger
The Big Con is rapidly
approaching – the next Presidential election where candidates tell us they have
the solution to all our problems…
The middle class is being systematically destroyed. For much more on this, please see this recent article that was recently published. And now we are on the verge of another major economic slowdown. That is not what the middle class needs at all.
We are also
getting some very disturbing economic news out of China.
In 2014,
economic growth in China was the weakest in
more than 20 years, and Chinese export numbers are absolutely collapsing…things
are not very rosy.
·
An eroding lifestyle and lowered purchasing
power
·
Anemic, low-paying jobs
·
Restrictions on travel and privacy [actually,
our privacy has been virtually eliminated by the government]
·
Stifling over regulation which is killing
entrepreneurship and jobs
·
Declining international reputation
It would be easy to continue but you already know this
story…yet, many of you will re-elect the same flotsam which have steadily
undermined this nation and your freedom.
It doesn’t matter which party you vote for, they are equal opportunity
destroyers only interested in their next political fix or reelection so
they may continue to feed off the citizen and enjoy the benefits showered on
them by the special interests who are really pulling the strings.
Our rights, our privacy, our spending power, our
standard of living, our international reputation, our infrastructure, our
schools, etc. all continue to sink even while the fortunes of the political
elite continue to rise.
Most of us know
about the digital surveillance practices of the National Security Agency,
revealed by Edward Snowden almost two years ago. There are other authorities
under which the government spies on “We the People,” but the most egregious is
the hated U.S. Patriot Act. The act has been so abused that even its author,
Michigan Rep. James Sensenbrenner Jr., thinks it should be repealed.
So far, Congress has missed every opportunity to reform the Patriot Act and other vehicles that allegedly authorize government to spy on us — sometimes by very narrow margins. In August, however, a key provision of the act, Section 215, is scheduled to expire. If it does, the NSA will no longer be able to collect and analyze the bulk internet and telephone data of U.S. residents.
Considering the widespread revulsion at Snowden’s revelations, you’d think that Congress would make that a priority for debate. You’d be wrong. In fact, Congressional leadership and the White House are much more intent on adding yet another layer to their surveillance powers — one that makes the Patriot Act look like small beer.
Big Brothers United
The Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA), now before Congress, is an urgent response to illegal digital spying ... on multinational corporate behemoth Sony, Inc. (The corporation was allegedly hacked by North Korea in response to the trashy comedy “The Interview,” which depicted the assassination of Kim Jong-un.)
CISA would “give companies legal liability protections when sharing cyber threat data with the government.” The rationale is that cyberattacks on American private businesses are acts of digital warfare, so the NSA, CIA, FBI and the rest should know about them as soon as they happen. The problem is that current U.S. law, the Constitution and plain common sense in a democratic republic dictate that the private information we share with businesses is specific to those transactions, and not to be shared with the government except by order of a court.
But in one of those instances of bipartisanship that make a mockery of the “Red versus Blue” horserace approach to U.S. politics, party leaders on both sides of the aisle are determined to meet the threat to our corporate overlords by giving government spies access to everything Big Data has on us. Under CISA, the companies that know everything about you and your online activity will be able to hand it over to government … and you won’t have any legal recourse.
Somebody Pass the Freedom
Fries
Well, at least we know how to get Congress to act … just threaten the interests of a deep-pocketed corporation like Sony. When that happens, everything else goes on the back burner and our supposedly “deadlocked” system springs into action to limit our liberties even further.
If I’m right, it’s entirely up to us to defend ourselves against this new threat to our liberty. Stop using Google, Apple, Amazon and other companies that hoard our data. Give your business to encryption-based services like Silent Circle instead.
Congress must end unconstitutional government spying.
Representatives Mark Pocan and Thomas Massie just introduced the Surveillance State Repeal Act, which would to repeal the PATRIOT Act and restore our constitutionally protected civil liberties. Get off your ass and sign the petition to get rid of this traitorous set of laws.
REMEMBER: Just because something is law does not make it moral, ethical or right!
More of the vision…
By 2024 wiped-out
savers broke out in money riots soon after but
were quickly
suppressed by militarized police who used drones,
night vision
technology, body armor and electronic surveillance.
Highway tollbooth
digital scanners were used to spot and
interdict those who
tried to flee by car. By 2017, the U.S. government
required sensors on
all cars. It was all too easy for officials
to turn off the
engines of those who were government targets,
spot their locations and arrest them
on the side of the road.
Parting
Shot…Party Like its 1999
Most U.S. households don’t own stocks. They have not
participated in the Fed fueled stock bubble, and they are struggling with a
high cost of living. If I invested in
the stock market, which I quit doing several years ago, I’d get out of stocks
which include restaurant and retail….there’s so little discretionary
income left for most families, these are the first to go when the consumer is
pinched.
I routinely examine various economic indicators and in my opinion, we're ripe for another severed downturn.
Unless we see structural economic reform, the “New
Depression”…if I were a presidential candidate, I’d be playing up and offering
solutions to the demise of our middle class which is dying thanks to the
political elite class.
Historically, our economy does well during a presidential election cycles and to a degree,
especially compared to Europe, we are.
However, I see many of the same signs of a major downturn as I saw in
2008…
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