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TAX AND SPEND:

Here's something every young person needs to know:

"If you’re reading this and under 30, let me be absolutely clear about one indubitable point: your government is going to sacrifice your future in order to pay for its own mistakes from the past."

Advice follows.

FEDERAL RESERVE:

Fed forces price controls on debit card issuers. We know what this means: shortages.

Here's a fantastic story of the corruption between the Treasury, Fed and giant corporations like Goldman-Sachs.

"Recent disclosures from the Federal Reserve reveal that honesty was one of the earliest casualties of the 2008 financial crisis. These disclosures contain a number of juicy tidbits, like the fact that Goldman Sachs received tens of billions of dollars in direct and indirect succor from the Fed.

Thanks to these spectacularly large taxpayer-funded bailouts, Goldman was able to continue “doing God’s Work” – as CEO Lloyd Blankfein infamously remarked – like the work of producing billion-dollar trading profits without ever suffering a single day of losses.

Thanks to the Fed’s massive, undisclosed assistance, Goldman Sachs managed to project an image of financial well-being, even while accessing tens of billions of dollars of direct assistance from the Federal Reserve.

By repaying its TARP loan, for example, Goldman wriggled out from under the nettlesome compensation limits imposed by TARP, while also conveying an image of financial strength. But this “strength” was illusory. Goldman repaid the TARP loans with funds it procured days earlier from the Federal Reserve. Then, over the ensuing months, Goldman recapitalized its balance sheet by selling tens of billions of dollars of mortgage-backed securities to the Fed.

And the public never knew anything about these activities until two weeks ago, when the Fed was forced to reveal them...."

The aristocrats wanted to say that TARP was a good move by the government. It saved our "financial system" which is a euphemism for giant Wall Street corporations like Goldman-Sachs and taxpayers even earned interest. In order to make this fiction appear real, the Fed stole billions from the American people through the inflation tax and gave it to these giant corporations like Goldman-Sachs. The aristocrats claim we're all better off and most people buy it because the inflation tax is invisible. This is pure evil. The article explains how specific investors get screwed even more:

"Secret bailouts do not merely benefit recipients; they also deceive investors into mistaking fantasy for fact. Such deceptions often punish honest investors, like the honest investors who sold short the shares of insolvent financial institutions early in 2009.

Some of these investors had done enough homework to understand that no private-market remedy could ride to the rescue of certain financial firms. Therefore, these investors sold short the shares of certain ailing institutions and waited for nature to take its course. But the course that nature would take would be shockingly unnatural. We now know why. The Federal Reserve altered the course of nature, and did so without telling anyone."

I can't say this often enough: this is pure evil. The criminality of government aristocrats makes the mafia look like bratty children by comparison. It's good to be the king or one of his cronies. This is one aspect of the illusion of wealth that must inevitably collapse.

Because of public outcry, Fed allows small bank its Christmas display.

EDUCATION:

I'm not surprised that top-notch people excel in the marketplace regardless of what university they attended.

HEALTH CARE:

British government has already released genetically modified mosquitoes into the wild ostensibly to fight disease.

"It is important to note that these GM mosquitoes, known as OX513A, necessarily have to be of the Aedis aegypti type in order to achieve the goals publicly stated by the developers. Therefore, the millions of male mosquitoes that were released into the open-air environment in 2009, and again in2010, were all of the dengue fever carrying type.

The OX513A mosquitoes were developed by a British biotechnology company named Oxitec and their subsequent release was overseen by the Mosquito Research and Control Unit (MRCU) in the Cayman Islands, a British overseas territory.

Although Oxitec Limited was the developer who engaged in most of the groundwork for the GM insects, the project was not theirs alone. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the World Health Organization, The PEW Charitable Trusts, and government agencies in the United States, England, Malaysia, and others were all involved in the development and promotion of the GM mosquitoes.

What has been quite suspicious, however, is the fact that Dengue fever, which has been nonexistent in North America for decades, has recently surfaced in Florida. Initially, the fever was found in 2009, but by 2010 the cases had vastly increased. In July 2010, a CDC study was released to very little media attention indicating that about 10 percent of the population of Key West had been infected with Dengue fever. This had doubled from 2009 where 5 percent had been infected. One might wonder what caused a virus that had been almost entirely eradicated to suddenly reappear with such vigor. That is, one might wonder if the answer weren’t so blatantly obvious. Of course, official reports do not address whether or not the Dengue fever is connected to the millions of mosquitoes capable of carrying the fever which were released just miles away in the Cayman Islands."

Too bad this article is so poorly sourced. It tells a captivating story, but it's all assertions.

Some voices in the mainstream medical establishment are pointing out how damaging government's program of pushing sugars and grains into our food supply and our psyches has been.

"“The country’s big low-fat message backfired,” says Dr. Frank Hu, professor of nutrition and epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health. “The overemphasis on reducing fat caused the consumption of carbohydrates and sugar in our diets to soar. That shift may be linked to the biggest health problems in America today.”

…Americans, on average, eat 250 to 300 grams of carbs a day, accounting for about 55% of their caloric intake. The most conservative recommendations say they should eat half that amount. Consumption of carbohydrates has increased over the years with the help of a 30-year-old, government-mandated message to cut fat."

No matter how hard it tries, government can't completely quash the truth.

GLOBAL WARMING:

Britain experiencing coldest December on record.

POLICE STATE:

The way the government has forced corporations like Bank of America to cut off and isolate WikiLeaks illustrates how corporations are agents of the government and so tightly coupled to the government that it's impossible to differentiate them. This is fascism.

The way they are treating this whistle-blower is horrible. They're using the prevention of injury watch to punish and break him down.

The truth about terrorism:

"The announced goal is to identify terrorists and eliminate them or prevent them from carrying out their nefarious acts. This is simultaneously a small task and an impossible one.

It is small because the number of persons seeking to carry out a terrorist act of substantial consequence against the United States and in a position to do so cannot be more than a handful. If the number were greater, we would have seen many more attacks or attempted attacks during the past decade — after all, the number of possible targets is virtually unlimited, and the attackers might cause some form of damage in countless ways. The most plausible reason why so few attacks or attempted attacks have occurred is that very few persons have been trying to carry them out. (I refer to genuine attempts, not to the phony-baloney schemes planted in the minds of simpletons by government undercover agents and then trumpeted to the heavens when the FBI "captures" the unfortunate victims of the government's entrapment.)"

"Yet, at the same time, the antiterrorism task is impossible because terrorism is a simple act available in some form to practically any determined adult with access to Americans and their property at home or abroad. It is simply not possible to stop all acts of terrorism if potential terrorists have been given a sufficient grievance to motivate their wreaking some form of havoc against Americans. However, it is silly to make the prevention of all terrorist acts the goal. What can't be done won't be done, regardless of how many people and how much money one devotes to doing it. We can, though, endure some losses from terrorism in the same way that we routinely endure some losses from accidents, diseases, and ordinary crime."

Fortunately for us, few of the people who want to kill us have the means. But the longer we wage war against middle eastern Muslims, the more of them will develop the both the desire and the means to kill Americans.

"The sheer idiocy of paying legions of twenty-something grads of Harvard and Yale — youngsters who cannot speak Arabic, Farsi, Pashtun, or any of the other languages of the areas they purport to be analyzing and who know practically nothing of the history, customs, folkways, and traditions of these places — indicates that no one seriously expects the promised payoff in intelligence to emerge from the effort. The whole business is akin to sending a blind person to find a needle inside a maze buried somewhere in a hillside.

That the massive effort is utterly uncoordinated and scarcely able to communicate one part's "findings" to another only strengthens the conclusion that the goal is not stopping terrorism, but getting the taxpayers' money and putting it into privileged pockets. Even if the expected damage from acts of terrorism against the United States were $10 billion per year, which seems much too high a guess, it makes no sense to spend more than $75 billion every year to prevent it — and it certainly makes no sense to spend any money only pretending to prevent it."

It's all about looting the people to enrich and empower the ruling class.

Ex-cop explains how police departments manipulate crime reporting to their benefit.

Homeland security recruiting neighborhood busybodies as informants. Great.

The TSA is a perfect example of supporting Franklin's observation that people who surrender freedom for security deserve neither safety nor security, and they get neither safety nor security.

WAR:

Don't ask, don't tell repealed.

General Petraeus understands the need for propaganda from the media when fighting wars, and the government's propaganda arm complies.

"In the US Army manual on counterinsurgency, the American commander General David Petraeus describes Afghanistan as a "war of perception . . . conducted continuously using the news media". What really matters is not so much the day-to-day battles against the Taliban as the way the adventure is sold in America where "the media directly influence the attitude of key audiences"."

The Taliban understand this too.

MEDIA:

Troll releases data showing a link between births and cell phone towers to see if the media will present this correlation as causation.