Lately the reporting about the Swedish housing bubble has picked up speed. Suddenly all the news outlets are saying this and that and quoting ‘experts’ who argue that it may burst soon.
IF these idiot reporters had actually worked for a living, they would have “revealed” this news a year ago when anyone not occupied with scratching their belly would have known about this bubble. Since then the central bank and government lending institute have done everything they can to destroy the Swedish economy which include propping up the housing market with rising prices when the prices actually should have gone down.
I’ve seen several bloggers lately saying that the Nordic countries stand on a more solid ground when the worldwide depression soon hits us. Although this may be true, that does not mean we will be okay or manage. One of the main reasons for this is the mentioned bubble.
We will not be okay, we will crash and burn with the rest of them, so to all of you out there; please find that grassy knoll overlooking any number of central bank people walking by…
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
A glass of Vodka, please.
It seems I’m getting it right once again…
I’ve been saying for close to a decade now that somewhere around the first Q of 2010 the worst depression in human history would be a reality. Although I partly have revised this statement because it seemed that the trickery would work for yet another year or so, I do frantically and very amused grab after my bottle when I hear stuff like this:
US Consumer Confidence have plunged from 56.5 to 46.0. This is the lowest since February 1983. Now this is statistics and as such shouldn’t necessarily be taken for face value, but still… this drop is massive, this is the sort of plunge you aspect to see when news about an appending asteroid is cabled out.
Oh, but wait, this funny little excursion into the world of cornflakes and moldy ‘green shoots’ isn’t all there is.
The number of distressed banks in the U.S. rose to 702 in the fourth quarter, the highest level in sixteen years. And please remember, 120+ banks have already failed, poff, are gone. And even funnier, the number seems to increase for every quarter.
And since we know that the added debts to US last year was equal to about 10% of GDP which temporarily have added to GDP, were is the recovery we hear so much about?
Commercial real-estate has just started to implode, and not only in the US by the way…
US unemployment? Still going up, real figure now up at 20%.
But funniest of all, the real kicker that wakes me up at night laughing like a madman is that there’s no leverage left. They cannot do anything more. The borrowing have hit or is about to hit the ceiling, interest rates have been ridiculously low (in reality ‘0’) for a very long time, there’s no money left to do anything with.
The only thing left is the printing press.
The only thing the Federal Reserve can do now is to print, print and print shitloads of money and then pray that the hundred million or so Americans with guns don’t come after them.
And the Obamination?
Well, he could wave that shiny Nobel Peace Prize on TV and try to hypnotize people that all is well at the same time as more babies, women and entire families are wiped out by the US war-machine in Muslim countries.
This isn’t it, not yet, I am still waiting for that light breeze to knock over the deck of cards the enemy class has stacked up, but surely it cannot be far off…
Tomorrow I’m going to buy 50kg of suger and other useful items soon to be very expensive, what are you going to do?
I’ve been saying for close to a decade now that somewhere around the first Q of 2010 the worst depression in human history would be a reality. Although I partly have revised this statement because it seemed that the trickery would work for yet another year or so, I do frantically and very amused grab after my bottle when I hear stuff like this:
US Consumer Confidence have plunged from 56.5 to 46.0. This is the lowest since February 1983. Now this is statistics and as such shouldn’t necessarily be taken for face value, but still… this drop is massive, this is the sort of plunge you aspect to see when news about an appending asteroid is cabled out.
Oh, but wait, this funny little excursion into the world of cornflakes and moldy ‘green shoots’ isn’t all there is.
The number of distressed banks in the U.S. rose to 702 in the fourth quarter, the highest level in sixteen years. And please remember, 120+ banks have already failed, poff, are gone. And even funnier, the number seems to increase for every quarter.
And since we know that the added debts to US last year was equal to about 10% of GDP which temporarily have added to GDP, were is the recovery we hear so much about?
Commercial real-estate has just started to implode, and not only in the US by the way…
US unemployment? Still going up, real figure now up at 20%.
But funniest of all, the real kicker that wakes me up at night laughing like a madman is that there’s no leverage left. They cannot do anything more. The borrowing have hit or is about to hit the ceiling, interest rates have been ridiculously low (in reality ‘0’) for a very long time, there’s no money left to do anything with.
The only thing left is the printing press.
The only thing the Federal Reserve can do now is to print, print and print shitloads of money and then pray that the hundred million or so Americans with guns don’t come after them.
And the Obamination?
Well, he could wave that shiny Nobel Peace Prize on TV and try to hypnotize people that all is well at the same time as more babies, women and entire families are wiped out by the US war-machine in Muslim countries.
This isn’t it, not yet, I am still waiting for that light breeze to knock over the deck of cards the enemy class has stacked up, but surely it cannot be far off…
Tomorrow I’m going to buy 50kg of suger and other useful items soon to be very expensive, what are you going to do?
And so they pull a ray-gun out of their hat
Apparently fusion research is starting to pick off with American scientists at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California has seemingly a laser that soon will be used to produce nuclear fusion in a process that could deliver vast amounts of clean, reliable energy in a process fuelled by nothing more than water and the hydrogen that it contains.
Actually fusing hydrogen into helium is said to happen in 2011 or 2012. At this stage the system would be able to deliver 20 times more energy than the laser actually uses. The financial break-even would come in 10 to 12 years when the first laser-powered fusion electricity plant is built.
This fusion technology opens up so many possibilities that even I can look forward to the first human colonies in space during my lifetime. Only to mention one possibility of many.
As I’ve said before this sort of almost free and abundant energy is one of the very few means of breaking free of our current financial dilemma. The only other one is some sort of divine or alien intervention. Thankfully, or sadly, depending on your take on things, it will take too long for any such development to reach far enough and a decade or two (scientist always overestimate their progress) isn’t anywhere near enough time to save our world from total financial collapse.
However, if this news has merits we would have the means to take us out of the depression which creates both possibilities and dangers. A hope for the human race is that we by then have learned the facts, faced up to reality and thrown out all the leftie madness that put us into this mess. If so, most of this century will become the best time ever in human history.
Actually fusing hydrogen into helium is said to happen in 2011 or 2012. At this stage the system would be able to deliver 20 times more energy than the laser actually uses. The financial break-even would come in 10 to 12 years when the first laser-powered fusion electricity plant is built.
This fusion technology opens up so many possibilities that even I can look forward to the first human colonies in space during my lifetime. Only to mention one possibility of many.
As I’ve said before this sort of almost free and abundant energy is one of the very few means of breaking free of our current financial dilemma. The only other one is some sort of divine or alien intervention. Thankfully, or sadly, depending on your take on things, it will take too long for any such development to reach far enough and a decade or two (scientist always overestimate their progress) isn’t anywhere near enough time to save our world from total financial collapse.
However, if this news has merits we would have the means to take us out of the depression which creates both possibilities and dangers. A hope for the human race is that we by then have learned the facts, faced up to reality and thrown out all the leftie madness that put us into this mess. If so, most of this century will become the best time ever in human history.
Monday, February 22, 2010
The silence of the sheep’s
Big Maaaa is watching you....
One thing most people don’t understand is how politics and our democratic way of governing work. It is essential that deluded citizens start to recognize the signs, understand the foundation and why a law, no matter how benevolent it may seem at first, always leads to more laws and always leads to unintended consequences.
The lack of awareness in this case is the main reason why the political elite can continue to screw us and it is also one of the major reasons why our economies are going down the crapper.
It almost always starts out innocent. Often enough someone(s) needs to be saved and most of the time it is the Chiiiiiildreeeen who are in trouble.
Take alcohol as one example.
Throughout history countless of regimes have tried to ban, outlaw, tax, regulate and curse the making, selling and drinking of alcohol. Kings have tried it, Pharaohs have tried it, and even during Stalin’s communist terror-regime they tried it. Pretty much every country in the world has tried it, many of them several times over. It has never worked. Never.
One might assume that when a totalitarian state with close to absolute control like the Soviet Union, with an sociopath leader that could kill you for looking at him the wrong way, outlaws something with the threat of Gulag-camps, it could maybe work. It didn’t, in fact Russians drank like never before. Within a couple of years they canceled the law and started government owned distilleries instead…
US of A tried during the prohibition period during which Americans drank more than they’ve ever done before or since.
Both of these examples came with unintended consequences. In Russia people stopped working because getting vodka became harder and took more time. Hundreds of people also were recorded deceased from drinking anything remotely resembling alcohol. In the US It gave birth to the modern mafia, bootleggers became national heroes and the flatulent lifestyle created much more of the social problems the ban was supposed to stop.
People want to drink, why is this so hard to grasp? And we know it can be dangerous, we know it kills brain cells. We’ve known this since the dawn of time.
And what do our bellowed leaders do when these sorts of foolish attempts fail? They instead take action to tax alcohol, supposedly to make it more expensive so we’ll not drink so much. And what do we do? We smuggled it, make it ourselves or take other drugs instead. On which the legislator reacts with harsher punishment for smuggling and by throwing honest people in jail for making moonshine. And so it goes on in a never ending circle of madness.
Why do we let them do this over and over again?
Because of two things.
Firstly the massive bombardment of righteous propaganda. Family rights groups are out campaigning, absolutists accuse any drinker of devilish ways, and child-advocates argue that our Chiiiiiildreeen are far more likely to be abused or manhandled in an alcohol environment. And then it is all fueled by government wanting that extra income and that extra power that comes with regulations.
And secondly we are too complacent. So what if they raise taxes with 0.1%? Does that really matter? Maybe it is okay if they tax vodka more than wine, isn’t vodka more dangerous? And to only allow certain stores to sell alcohol may be a good idea, buying beer at the supermarket will expose the Chiiiiildreeen too early, don’t you think?
But it is here my main point comes in. If they do this once, only once, there’s no stopping them thereafter. After 0.1% comes another 0.1%, and then another. First it was vodka that was dangerous, and then it was cider because cider will attract Chiiiildreeen…
And the possibilities for any legislator are endless. The only hinder is the imagination of the powers that be.
Another example that is popular right now is internet. For many years only the occasional scary story popped up. Often it was some hacker that stole money or run amok within some government system. Sure they were after it from the start, at least comes to porn, but they hadn’t fully understood what this technology could be used for. They didn’t know how big the information-age would become and perhaps even more important, they didn’t know that you could run a business online – taxation possibilities!
But all of a sudden, coincidently coinciding with the emerging of blogs, alternative news and lots of new ways of communicating, they started to really react. Terrorists were common online, of course, and also file-sharers. Terrorists had an uncanny ability to send email to each other, presumably over yahoo or hotmail, and our leaders couldn’t let this slide. File-shares were twice as evil because they shared information they shouldn’t have and facts people shouldn’t know about at the same time as they stole billions upon billions from campaign contributors and future employers of politicians.
However, yet again, it was the Chiiiildreeeen that needed to be saved. Apparently pedophiles, which hardly existed before, came out of the woodwork to bounce upon any poor adolescent stupid enough to sit in front of a screen. Youngster could get drugs; buy alcohol (see above) or make bombs with the information existing online. Oh, so horrible!
With this as background they could impose the first set of laws directed at and specifically adjusted for internet. For whatever reason the already existing legislation, that already covered everything, wasn’t enough. Apparently terrorism, pedophilia and buying illegal substances were legal before they conjured up all these new laws come to internet.
But they soon realized this wasn’t enough. They needed access to all communication, how else could they really monitor all that goes on? So they took another step, and then another. Suddenly everything we do online passes through government supercomputers, new restrictions are imposed almost on a daily basis, and certain sites are being banned. But even this wasn’t enough. Sending thugs to people homes, knocking down their doors and steal all electronic equipment in sight was next. And it is still not enough. We still need to save the Chiiiildreeen, stop terrorists and lock up youngsters that download music.
When do you think it is enough? Do you really think they will stop now or soon? Not a chance.
Next they will go after bloggers and alternative media, which was a part of the plan from the very start. We will see licenses to keep “quality” high, university degree will become necessary to have your own portal, more sites will be banned and planted “evidence” will soon bust people here and there, just to make a totalitarian point.
The consequences of this is, at least in some areas, will be less activity online, fewer internet companies will start and normal law-abiding citizens will once again fill up our jails. We will also see alternatives pop up faster than the legislator can form new laws and as fascism grows, so does the resentment of generations to come.
This is how it works. This is how our democratic system always goes too far, always becomes the opposite of what was intended.
Anything you can think of has gone down the same road.
Do you remember how VAT-taxes were supposed to be temporary at a couple of percentage? How one bank bail-out was only the exception, not the rule? Remember how rent-control was supposed to help the poor but instead lead to less construction and higher rent and so hurts the poor?
And the constant “wars” they fight. Our leaders have declared war on drugs, poverty, inflation, unemployment, deficits and countless other enemies, most of which they themselves are the cause of. Not to mention real wars were they murder Muslims or, sometimes, each other.
Let’s take the war on drugs as example.
Government got it into their heads that drugs are bad for you hence outlawed them. Just as is the case of alcohol it sparked black markets, gave birth to mafias and today drug markets feed most of the terrorist organizations government also have declared war on. Without anti-drug laws most criminal organizations would go bankrupt within days. But instead government send militaries and police out to combat the very people government actually have conjured into existence. In the process the people government says they are out to protect, gets caught in the cross-fire and thousands dies each year because of bad drugs.
Even of you don’t agree fully with my conclusions, you at least need to acknowledge the fact that technology change, new information are revealed and that countries, people and cultures change over time. This also means that laws need to be adjusted, changed or get add-ons. The later is normally the case. They almost never delete a law, they only add to it, make exceptions for it or write another law that surpasses the old one. This is yet another reason why we have so many laws and why not even the most well-read lawyer can know more than a fraction of what’s what.
When you understand this development you’ll be better equipped to handle any propaganda thrown at you, but you’ll also be less inclined to believe anything the elitists tells you. But most importantly, when you fully understand this ongoing and never halting process you will know why our countries are heading for a fall, both financially and politically. Totalitarianism and economic collapse is coming our way, and this is one of the main reasons why.
We can always find reasons for banning, outlawing or taxing things in our surrounding. Did you know that the most dangerous thing in our entire existence is our own homes? It is true. A majority of all rapes, pedo-acts, violent behavior and accidents happens at home. How many don’t die from bunching down stairs? Falling down in the shower? And electrical outlets... oh my…
The truth is that anything and anyone can at any moment kill or hurt us; this is simply a big part of being alive. Deal with it, get over it and if you have any problems cooping, buy some sweet illegal drugs and flutter away for a while.
Poll ended
When will the US economy collapse so not even journalists can lie about it anymore?
Votes:
Turn of 2010/2011 79 (48%)
Summer of 2011 72 (44%)
It would seem that most people agree with the experts and say that US of A can withstand reality for another year or so. I wouldn’t be so sure myself, but it seem likely that they can hold out for while yet so maybe the voters in this case are right.
We’ll see soon…
In the meanwhile I created a new poll to see what country you idiots out there think will collapse next in Europe.
It should be UK, but the trickery that goes on there may keep them above water for a while. Spain is kept alive because of the huge black labor market and because their economy isn’t totally thrashed yet. Italy has been in trouble for so long now that it seems they will never falter. Portugal is in deep trouble and maybe I would put my money on them.
What do you think?
Votes:
first Q of 2010 26 (16%)
Turn of 2010/2011 79 (48%)
Summer of 2011 72 (44%)
It would seem that most people agree with the experts and say that US of A can withstand reality for another year or so. I wouldn’t be so sure myself, but it seem likely that they can hold out for while yet so maybe the voters in this case are right.
We’ll see soon…
In the meanwhile I created a new poll to see what country you idiots out there think will collapse next in Europe.
It should be UK, but the trickery that goes on there may keep them above water for a while. Spain is kept alive because of the huge black labor market and because their economy isn’t totally thrashed yet. Italy has been in trouble for so long now that it seems they will never falter. Portugal is in deep trouble and maybe I would put my money on them.
What do you think?
The boring climate question
I’m actually starting to find this manmade global warming hoax a bit boring. Earlier I almost felt like I was alone. Sure there were libertarians; a couple of real scientists and some people that actually surpassed their shoe-size in IQ, but the environment for telling the truth were highly toxic. Anyone saying or arguing against the tricksters was immediately considered to be a fridge element.
So now when so many are jumping onboard and we every day can read and hear about “deniers”, it’s not as much fun anymore. I like being the outsider looking in at the sheople, but a year or two more of this development and I will find myself belonging to the mainstream majority. Huah…
Although I do still have two hilarious things I can amuse myself with.
Firstly I was against this hysteria from the start. I’ve argued against the ozone-layer madness that was supposed to have killed us all by now, and I even remember how the elitists claimed that we were heading for a new ice-age.
The scary scenarios comes and goes, but my voice have always been there as a reasonable rational one saying what’s what. So, yet again, I can say; “I TOLD YOU SO!”
And secondly all of these scams have cost tens of billions and lead to tens of thousands of unnecessary deaths, and we are still throwing billions around and still murdering poor people because one single car is much worse than starving people. And this is funny shit!
We could have lowered taxes or, in a more leftie way of looking at it, hired more nurses and helped the poor with direct aid, but instead we continue to literarily thrown away and burn money for no reason whatsoever.
Besides, it isn’t over.
Our enemies will continue to milk this scam for as long as they can and the restriction will stay in place no matter what. And the imposed taxes will also stay, because we cannot lower the power of government, no sir.
And sooner or later they will twist the hoax into something new. Maybe they suddenly will find yet another horrible consequence of driving cars, or maybe we need to consider the chiiiiildreeen in some not yet disclosed way.
Most likely, however, they will move on to the next con. Maybe they will go back to the ice-age thing; maybe it will be cosmic rays that will destroy us all. Who knows, but you can be sure the next scare is just around the corner.
Another thing we can be sure of is that you, the sheople out there, you will buy the next one as well, as you always do. Idiots.
So now when so many are jumping onboard and we every day can read and hear about “deniers”, it’s not as much fun anymore. I like being the outsider looking in at the sheople, but a year or two more of this development and I will find myself belonging to the mainstream majority. Huah…
Although I do still have two hilarious things I can amuse myself with.
Firstly I was against this hysteria from the start. I’ve argued against the ozone-layer madness that was supposed to have killed us all by now, and I even remember how the elitists claimed that we were heading for a new ice-age.
The scary scenarios comes and goes, but my voice have always been there as a reasonable rational one saying what’s what. So, yet again, I can say; “I TOLD YOU SO!”
And secondly all of these scams have cost tens of billions and lead to tens of thousands of unnecessary deaths, and we are still throwing billions around and still murdering poor people because one single car is much worse than starving people. And this is funny shit!
We could have lowered taxes or, in a more leftie way of looking at it, hired more nurses and helped the poor with direct aid, but instead we continue to literarily thrown away and burn money for no reason whatsoever.
Besides, it isn’t over.
Our enemies will continue to milk this scam for as long as they can and the restriction will stay in place no matter what. And the imposed taxes will also stay, because we cannot lower the power of government, no sir.
And sooner or later they will twist the hoax into something new. Maybe they suddenly will find yet another horrible consequence of driving cars, or maybe we need to consider the chiiiiildreeen in some not yet disclosed way.
Most likely, however, they will move on to the next con. Maybe they will go back to the ice-age thing; maybe it will be cosmic rays that will destroy us all. Who knows, but you can be sure the next scare is just around the corner.
Another thing we can be sure of is that you, the sheople out there, you will buy the next one as well, as you always do. Idiots.
Sunday, February 21, 2010
Man Bulldozes Home Before Foreclosure Sale
I would have prefered if he had bulldozed the bank or the nearest IRS office, but this is great stuff anyway.
"As far as what the bank is going to get, I plan on giving them back what was on this hill exactly [as] it was. I brought it out of the ground and I plan on putting it back in the ground." // Terry Hoskins
MOSCOW, Oh. -- A Clermont County man does the unthinkable and bulldozes his home rather than face foreclosure.
As a result, he could now face legal action.
A pile of rubble now sits at 2066 Laurel Point Isabella Road in Clermont County.
Two weeks ago, Terry Hoskins of Moscow admitted to taking a bulldozer and tearing it down rather than face foreclosure.
A picture from the Clermont County auditor's Web site shows what it used to look like. It was valued at close to $300,000.
The Clermont County Sheriff's Office says the home was in foreclosure and set for sale on Feb. 23. That date has since been canceled because there is no home to auction.
Hoskins told the Associated Press that he had struggled with River Hills Bank in Clermont County for years and had problems with the Internal Revenue Service.
According to Hoskins, the IRS placed liens on his carpet business and the bank claimed his house as collateral.
That business is set for auction sale on March 2.
Hoskins filed for bankruptcy but decided two weeks ago to tear his house down himself rather than the bank taking it.
"As far as what the bank is going to get, I plan on giving them back what was on this hill exactly [as] it was. I brought it out of the ground and I plan on putting it back in the ground." // Terry Hoskins
MOSCOW, Oh. -- A Clermont County man does the unthinkable and bulldozes his home rather than face foreclosure.
As a result, he could now face legal action.
A pile of rubble now sits at 2066 Laurel Point Isabella Road in Clermont County.
Two weeks ago, Terry Hoskins of Moscow admitted to taking a bulldozer and tearing it down rather than face foreclosure.
A picture from the Clermont County auditor's Web site shows what it used to look like. It was valued at close to $300,000.
The Clermont County Sheriff's Office says the home was in foreclosure and set for sale on Feb. 23. That date has since been canceled because there is no home to auction.
Hoskins told the Associated Press that he had struggled with River Hills Bank in Clermont County for years and had problems with the Internal Revenue Service.
According to Hoskins, the IRS placed liens on his carpet business and the bank claimed his house as collateral.
That business is set for auction sale on March 2.
Hoskins filed for bankruptcy but decided two weeks ago to tear his house down himself rather than the bank taking it.
On our way down the abyss
Another couple of articles today that illuminate our current financial situation. Although as usual without conclusions or real background information, it is still nice to see someone from the mainstream media, at least indirectly, warning about our impending doom.
The truth is that we’ve reached the end of the line. There are no more trickery, borrowing or printing that can once again inflate the bubbles. This is it. When the depression, that never went away – it is still lurking behind the scenes – hits the world, it will overshadow anything ever seen before.
This time it isn’t only one or two markets, it’s not just inflation or only debt-mountains. No. This time it is all of them and then some.
The welfare state has grown out of control. Socialism have rampaged through the markets, fascism is growing and hindering the last bastions of freedom such as the Internet. But more importantly then any ideological label is that the rich, the powerful, the elitists, the enemy class, have consolidated their power and the oligarchical structure of übermench have gone global.
In reality it isn’t about left VS right anymore. Sure you can find lots of examples of leftie righteousness running amok, but for the most part our market economies are still there. They are overregulated, controlled and taxed beyond belief, but still there and the ones in charge want to keep ‘em there. You see it is the free market or the small portion of capitalism we have that creates value and wealth and if they take that away there’s no-one left to tax or steal from, and you can be damn sure they know it.
So we have a sort of center-left fascist mix we really should give a new name. Maybe ‘Populist Statism’? ‘GramscoFabiaNazism' perhaps?
It is very likely that this way of governing will sooner or later tip over into a more pure socialist or, probably more plausible, fascist order. To a large extent we’re seeing it already.
Even though the Church of Climatology, one of many scams used to further consolidating power and bring forth world governance, has been exposed as the lie that it is, we’re still seeing far gone signs of elitist appreciation of this religion. And even if the public outcry becomes too strong, they can always use that money and those scams to found any number of government policies and departments.
But this post is really about economy, not ideology. It is about facts, not opinion.
In reality the debt accumulation that already several years ago had gone too far, have put a serious dent in the elitist power structure.
The coming years most countries have obligations on top of the already amass debt that corresponds to 300%-400%-500% or more of GDP. This leaves politicians with very little choice. Either cut expenditures or rise taxes, maybe a combination of both. And do you think people will be happy when all the promised welfare checks go away?
Public debts are bad, but private and company debts are also at an all-time high. Remember the ‘Minor Depression’ we had in the 1930’s? Back then, before the crashes, most people didn’t have huge debts and certainly not credit card debts. Most people own their homes, most people worked in producing companies and it was only a couple of main problems that lead up to that petite little thing.
The debts aren’t the only problem though. Debts alone we could handle, it would be tough but doable.
How they’ve yanked up the printing-machines so far would also be manageable, seen as an isolated problem. Inflation will steal more of our actual income and the indirect tax that comes with will further bring power to the enemy class. When I say “so far” you should know that some, if not many, countries will continue to print money as a way of paying off debt. If that is the case, which is very likely, we’re faced with a worse situation. But as said, the inflation problem alone our civilizations would survive.
Power-grabbing scams such as manmade global warming, Tobin-taxation and GDP-trickery we would also be able to cope with. If they were isolated or sole problems.
Even the ever expanding control-grid and the never ending increase in bureaucracy isn’t enough to have us crashing and burning.
And if it was only one or two countries we could handle it, but it’s not, it’s almost all of them. A worldwide problem consistent of many problems. Those mentioned here and many others.
So when we add it altogether and really think about where this is going, how do you think it looks then?
The boat isn’t just sinking, it has already sunk. We’re gobblegobbling on our way down while the band keeps playing and the crew announces that everything is fine. You all keep eating, keep shopping at the promenade and don’t worry about a thing. Nothing to see out the window folks, keep moving. The captain and his marry band of bandits that raided your cabins while you were feasting are however gone. They are still on the surface broadcasting messages of ‘everything is fine’ to the populace down below.
You need to know who to really blame for this. Our elitists will of course conjure up ‘Muslims’, ‘greed’, or any other ‘scape-goat to cover their arses and stay in power. Don’t buy it.
Truth to say, if you really want to know who to blame, you need only to look in a mirror. You voted for them, you wanted it, you said nothing and have done even less.
But you’ve also been fooled.
When the entire spectra of everyone from journalists to big business, from government to scientists, from unions to the biggest banks i.e. the entire enemy class says something and argue for it over decades, you can be partly forgiven for listening.
Schools spitting out mindless automatons and peer-pressure have done the rest.
So when you roam the countryside in the future, looking for food, shelter and work, please listen to what I now say.
Don’t blame us that said this was coming, don’t blame markets or companies in general, don’t blame Muslims, Jews or any other group of people. Put some of that blame on yourself, but as soon as you’ve realized what role you played, put the blame were it really belongs; with banksters, politicians, journalists and all of their direct supporting personnel.
And as said before, when you encounter one of our enemies on your travels, please make sure to bury the corps and mark the ground so the next traveler knows were to stop for a piss and a little jig.
The truth is that we’ve reached the end of the line. There are no more trickery, borrowing or printing that can once again inflate the bubbles. This is it. When the depression, that never went away – it is still lurking behind the scenes – hits the world, it will overshadow anything ever seen before.
This time it isn’t only one or two markets, it’s not just inflation or only debt-mountains. No. This time it is all of them and then some.
The welfare state has grown out of control. Socialism have rampaged through the markets, fascism is growing and hindering the last bastions of freedom such as the Internet. But more importantly then any ideological label is that the rich, the powerful, the elitists, the enemy class, have consolidated their power and the oligarchical structure of übermench have gone global.
In reality it isn’t about left VS right anymore. Sure you can find lots of examples of leftie righteousness running amok, but for the most part our market economies are still there. They are overregulated, controlled and taxed beyond belief, but still there and the ones in charge want to keep ‘em there. You see it is the free market or the small portion of capitalism we have that creates value and wealth and if they take that away there’s no-one left to tax or steal from, and you can be damn sure they know it.
So we have a sort of center-left fascist mix we really should give a new name. Maybe ‘Populist Statism’? ‘GramscoFabiaNazism' perhaps?
It is very likely that this way of governing will sooner or later tip over into a more pure socialist or, probably more plausible, fascist order. To a large extent we’re seeing it already.
Even though the Church of Climatology, one of many scams used to further consolidating power and bring forth world governance, has been exposed as the lie that it is, we’re still seeing far gone signs of elitist appreciation of this religion. And even if the public outcry becomes too strong, they can always use that money and those scams to found any number of government policies and departments.
But this post is really about economy, not ideology. It is about facts, not opinion.
In reality the debt accumulation that already several years ago had gone too far, have put a serious dent in the elitist power structure.
The coming years most countries have obligations on top of the already amass debt that corresponds to 300%-400%-500% or more of GDP. This leaves politicians with very little choice. Either cut expenditures or rise taxes, maybe a combination of both. And do you think people will be happy when all the promised welfare checks go away?
Public debts are bad, but private and company debts are also at an all-time high. Remember the ‘Minor Depression’ we had in the 1930’s? Back then, before the crashes, most people didn’t have huge debts and certainly not credit card debts. Most people own their homes, most people worked in producing companies and it was only a couple of main problems that lead up to that petite little thing.
The debts aren’t the only problem though. Debts alone we could handle, it would be tough but doable.
How they’ve yanked up the printing-machines so far would also be manageable, seen as an isolated problem. Inflation will steal more of our actual income and the indirect tax that comes with will further bring power to the enemy class. When I say “so far” you should know that some, if not many, countries will continue to print money as a way of paying off debt. If that is the case, which is very likely, we’re faced with a worse situation. But as said, the inflation problem alone our civilizations would survive.
Power-grabbing scams such as manmade global warming, Tobin-taxation and GDP-trickery we would also be able to cope with. If they were isolated or sole problems.
Even the ever expanding control-grid and the never ending increase in bureaucracy isn’t enough to have us crashing and burning.
And if it was only one or two countries we could handle it, but it’s not, it’s almost all of them. A worldwide problem consistent of many problems. Those mentioned here and many others.
So when we add it altogether and really think about where this is going, how do you think it looks then?
The boat isn’t just sinking, it has already sunk. We’re gobblegobbling on our way down while the band keeps playing and the crew announces that everything is fine. You all keep eating, keep shopping at the promenade and don’t worry about a thing. Nothing to see out the window folks, keep moving. The captain and his marry band of bandits that raided your cabins while you were feasting are however gone. They are still on the surface broadcasting messages of ‘everything is fine’ to the populace down below.
You need to know who to really blame for this. Our elitists will of course conjure up ‘Muslims’, ‘greed’, or any other ‘scape-goat to cover their arses and stay in power. Don’t buy it.
Truth to say, if you really want to know who to blame, you need only to look in a mirror. You voted for them, you wanted it, you said nothing and have done even less.
But you’ve also been fooled.
When the entire spectra of everyone from journalists to big business, from government to scientists, from unions to the biggest banks i.e. the entire enemy class says something and argue for it over decades, you can be partly forgiven for listening.
Schools spitting out mindless automatons and peer-pressure have done the rest.
So when you roam the countryside in the future, looking for food, shelter and work, please listen to what I now say.
Don’t blame us that said this was coming, don’t blame markets or companies in general, don’t blame Muslims, Jews or any other group of people. Put some of that blame on yourself, but as soon as you’ve realized what role you played, put the blame were it really belongs; with banksters, politicians, journalists and all of their direct supporting personnel.
And as said before, when you encounter one of our enemies on your travels, please make sure to bury the corps and mark the ground so the next traveler knows were to stop for a piss and a little jig.
Saturday, February 20, 2010
Environazis and Eugenics
One of the most trusted spokespersons of the Church of Climatology, the Tällberg Foundation, had an article in one of Sweden’s biggest newspapers today. Of course it’s about the need for a new world order. The argument seem to be that since the countries of the world cannot make the right decisions to follow the hoax of manmade global warming we need a world government to usher in some unifying, and forcefully imposed, resolutions.
Did anyone just hear the power turn on in the reeducation camps?
In this article we can read this (My own translation from Swedish):
“Even if 192 nations would agree upon the ‘perfect agreement’ we still miss the authority that comes with economic, law-enforcement and military power that could correct the nations whom for different reasons wouldn’t follow commitments and targets.”
Yeeeaah… okay, sounds nice don’t it? Get into line, or else!
It is hard to make this shit up, but it is not so hard to understand conspiracists when reading sentences like this. World domination is the endgame and the environazis people don’t even try to hide it.
But wait, it gets better.
Even if we ignore other statements in this particular piece about how scientists shouldn’t be allowed to be hired, work for or educate themselves within national boundaries, there are still other fun things about this foundation and their head-boys.
On their website we can read:
“Humankind is overextending earth’s annual biocapacity by 125 percent. Short-term consequences will increase prices for energy, food, water and resources for the ever-growing global population. Long-term consequences could be devastating to all forms of life on the planet.”
There are many other similar statements and it seems that these people argue for population control. They are very concerned about inhabitant’s fornicating too much which apparently could destroy the environment. Too many babies, each one a carbon-monster, may ruin Mother Nature.
Add it all together and the conclusion leaves you with a very scary scenario.
The next step may not be gas chambers, but you don’t need any higher level of imagination to see Chinese-style controls or a worldwide registration agency for anyone wanting children. And if totalitarian ideas like this are allowed to fester and put out in media it is just a matter of time before some maniac takes it to the next level.
And remember, this entire concept is based on the biggest lie ever told; that of manmade global warming. A concept there’s not a single shred of evidence for.
The environazis of the Climate Church are among the scariest people that ever emerged on this planet and if you’re not scared of them then something is very wrong in that head of yours.
Did anyone just hear the power turn on in the reeducation camps?
In this article we can read this (My own translation from Swedish):
“Even if 192 nations would agree upon the ‘perfect agreement’ we still miss the authority that comes with economic, law-enforcement and military power that could correct the nations whom for different reasons wouldn’t follow commitments and targets.”
Yeeeaah… okay, sounds nice don’t it? Get into line, or else!
It is hard to make this shit up, but it is not so hard to understand conspiracists when reading sentences like this. World domination is the endgame and the environazis people don’t even try to hide it.
But wait, it gets better.
Even if we ignore other statements in this particular piece about how scientists shouldn’t be allowed to be hired, work for or educate themselves within national boundaries, there are still other fun things about this foundation and their head-boys.
On their website we can read:
“Humankind is overextending earth’s annual biocapacity by 125 percent. Short-term consequences will increase prices for energy, food, water and resources for the ever-growing global population. Long-term consequences could be devastating to all forms of life on the planet.”
There are many other similar statements and it seems that these people argue for population control. They are very concerned about inhabitant’s fornicating too much which apparently could destroy the environment. Too many babies, each one a carbon-monster, may ruin Mother Nature.
Add it all together and the conclusion leaves you with a very scary scenario.
The next step may not be gas chambers, but you don’t need any higher level of imagination to see Chinese-style controls or a worldwide registration agency for anyone wanting children. And if totalitarian ideas like this are allowed to fester and put out in media it is just a matter of time before some maniac takes it to the next level.
And remember, this entire concept is based on the biggest lie ever told; that of manmade global warming. A concept there’s not a single shred of evidence for.
The environazis of the Climate Church are among the scariest people that ever emerged on this planet and if you’re not scared of them then something is very wrong in that head of yours.
It wasn’t me, it was the monkey driving!
In Arizona officials have installed high-speed cameras alongside certain roads.
In Sweden they’ve installed these things for the second time running. The first time, a couple of decades ago, it didn’t work out so well since people blasted them into pieces or attacked them with blunt instruments. But the elitists will not halt and now we can see those things pretty much everywhere. Every time I see one I wish I had one of those James Bond cars with built-in rockets.
Anyway, since the Grand Canyon State began enforcing speed limits with roadside cameras, motorists are raging against the machines: They have blocked out the lenses with Post-it notes or Silly String. During the Christmas holidays, they covered the cameras with boxes, complete with wrapping paper. One dissenting citizen went after a camera with a pick ax.
Surprisingly the authorities have admitted that the cameras were thought of as a revenue generator, expected to bring in more than $90 million in the first fiscal year of operation. This is something Swedish politicians never would admit - it’s all about the Chiiiiildreeeeen, not money...
My hero of this story is Dave VonTesmar, who has achieved some fame through his efforts to fight the tickets with a monkey mask. Allegedly sped past the cameras at least 40 times
His white station wagon is equipped with various rubber disguises, including the famous monkey mask, a Frankenstein, koala, panda bear and a ghost mask that glows in the dark.
I suggest people start booby trapping these things so whenever a official tries to replace a broken one or check it for some reason, it blows up.
In Sweden they’ve installed these things for the second time running. The first time, a couple of decades ago, it didn’t work out so well since people blasted them into pieces or attacked them with blunt instruments. But the elitists will not halt and now we can see those things pretty much everywhere. Every time I see one I wish I had one of those James Bond cars with built-in rockets.
Anyway, since the Grand Canyon State began enforcing speed limits with roadside cameras, motorists are raging against the machines: They have blocked out the lenses with Post-it notes or Silly String. During the Christmas holidays, they covered the cameras with boxes, complete with wrapping paper. One dissenting citizen went after a camera with a pick ax.
Surprisingly the authorities have admitted that the cameras were thought of as a revenue generator, expected to bring in more than $90 million in the first fiscal year of operation. This is something Swedish politicians never would admit - it’s all about the Chiiiiildreeeeen, not money...
My hero of this story is Dave VonTesmar, who has achieved some fame through his efforts to fight the tickets with a monkey mask. Allegedly sped past the cameras at least 40 times
His white station wagon is equipped with various rubber disguises, including the famous monkey mask, a Frankenstein, koala, panda bear and a ghost mask that glows in the dark.
The monkey in question:
I suggest people start booby trapping these things so whenever a official tries to replace a broken one or check it for some reason, it blows up.
Thieving soul-killing bastards
The Moderates (the supposed ‘conservative’ ruling party in Sweden) has been rocked by lots of scandals lately. Mostly it has to do with certain individuals paying for other peoples membership-fees in a way of getting votes in internal elections for the lists to parliament.
For me this isn’t news, and as the lack of bashing from political adversaries tells us; this sort of thing goes on all around. I have lots of examples of the same trickery from my time within politics, but basically this is how the game is played. People get rallied together to vote in a certain way, bribes are paid, promises handed out and one position is sold in exchange for another position. As example if one politician gets elected he will then hire some of his friends that helped with the trickery.
All the political parties do it, and for some officials it is the only way of getting elected.
In other words it’s hardly shocking or surprising and anyone out there raising an eyebrow is simply a fool for not knowing this sooner.
However, today I read something in connection to this mass of scandals that actually did shake and upset me a little.
Apparently the same party have lend out a million to a member, playing bank, at a very low interest rate. The lender, a politician with very high salary, had been handling his finances as uselessly as the government govern Sweden. And so he’s no longer able to borrow from any normal lending institute. But borrowing from the party were he’s member seems okay.
Now, this isn’t really the thing that should upset anyone, if it weren’t for the fact that most of that money is collected from the tax payers. You see in Sweden the political elite have decided that in order to have ‘democracy’ the political parties need contributions from the treasury. Of course only the few political parties already in power get money, you need to climb over a certain threshold first, effectively keeping any pesky newcomers outside with much less cash.
So when one of their own mismanages his obligations he can apparently apply for a loan within the elitist fun-club, getting his misty and dirty hands wrapped around YOUR MONEY!
But you ordinary Joe’s out there, you need to go to a bank were you’ll get screwed by con-artists because your cash flow is so low because of too high taxes and too many regulations.
Isn’t it time to get that pitchfork yet?
For me this isn’t news, and as the lack of bashing from political adversaries tells us; this sort of thing goes on all around. I have lots of examples of the same trickery from my time within politics, but basically this is how the game is played. People get rallied together to vote in a certain way, bribes are paid, promises handed out and one position is sold in exchange for another position. As example if one politician gets elected he will then hire some of his friends that helped with the trickery.
All the political parties do it, and for some officials it is the only way of getting elected.
In other words it’s hardly shocking or surprising and anyone out there raising an eyebrow is simply a fool for not knowing this sooner.
However, today I read something in connection to this mass of scandals that actually did shake and upset me a little.
Apparently the same party have lend out a million to a member, playing bank, at a very low interest rate. The lender, a politician with very high salary, had been handling his finances as uselessly as the government govern Sweden. And so he’s no longer able to borrow from any normal lending institute. But borrowing from the party were he’s member seems okay.
Now, this isn’t really the thing that should upset anyone, if it weren’t for the fact that most of that money is collected from the tax payers. You see in Sweden the political elite have decided that in order to have ‘democracy’ the political parties need contributions from the treasury. Of course only the few political parties already in power get money, you need to climb over a certain threshold first, effectively keeping any pesky newcomers outside with much less cash.
So when one of their own mismanages his obligations he can apparently apply for a loan within the elitist fun-club, getting his misty and dirty hands wrapped around YOUR MONEY!
But you ordinary Joe’s out there, you need to go to a bank were you’ll get screwed by con-artists because your cash flow is so low because of too high taxes and too many regulations.
Isn’t it time to get that pitchfork yet?
The Gorgon trap
UK retail sales volumes fell 1.8% in January. The fall was more than three times worse than analysts had predicted. Cornflake economists got it wrong? No way…
This at the same time as the number of people claiming unemployment benefit has hit its highest level since 1997 and there are now a total of 8 million economically inactive people of working age – the highest number on record.
Add to this the news that for the first time ever a UK government needed to borrow money in January with an overdrawn by £4.339 billion last, compared with a surplus of £5.3 billion in January last year, and way short of the £2.8 billion surplus that cornflake economists had expected. Wrong again? Oh no, how can that be..?
About a month ago I said that the signs were pointing to an all-out collapse within a year (although I've argued for Mars/April 2010 for many years), these numbers seem to point to an earlier date, at least for UK.
If we also check private debt numbers, which are at an all time high, and take a look at the housing market UK cannot be more than a couple of bad company reports away from crashing and burning.
As mentioned before the flickering madman and his gorgonites have utterly destroyed Britain and will go down in human history as one of the worst governments ever seen.
This at the same time as the number of people claiming unemployment benefit has hit its highest level since 1997 and there are now a total of 8 million economically inactive people of working age – the highest number on record.
Add to this the news that for the first time ever a UK government needed to borrow money in January with an overdrawn by £4.339 billion last, compared with a surplus of £5.3 billion in January last year, and way short of the £2.8 billion surplus that cornflake economists had expected. Wrong again? Oh no, how can that be..?
About a month ago I said that the signs were pointing to an all-out collapse within a year (although I've argued for Mars/April 2010 for many years), these numbers seem to point to an earlier date, at least for UK.
If we also check private debt numbers, which are at an all time high, and take a look at the housing market UK cannot be more than a couple of bad company reports away from crashing and burning.
As mentioned before the flickering madman and his gorgonites have utterly destroyed Britain and will go down in human history as one of the worst governments ever seen.
Friday, February 19, 2010
Airline of doom – the safer way of flying, and other cautionary tales
At any normal airport we have body scanners, dozens of controls, pictures taken over and over again. There are guards everywhere, cameras covering every crack and safety measures into the absurd. Still, we know terrorists will bypass any security features and more planes will get hijacked. No matter how much they try, there’s always a way to blow up a plane.
Personally I rather fly with a company that allows for guns, bombs and terrorists onboard, just so I can skip all the unnecessary crap that comes with every flight. And if you have a whole plane filled with armed people, they will all carefully watch each other since if one starts shooting everyone would die. The pilot could have a bomb under his seat so if anyone tries to commandeer the flight, it blows up. On such a flight I would feel pretty secure, most likely sleep like a baby throughout the entire voyage.
Speaking of, I want to see a disgruntled train-driver go off the deep end. We’ve seen it at the movies, but strangely not in real life yet.
Where are the original terrorists?
Why not hijack a supertanker and drive it with full speed into a New York harbor? Why does it only need to be planes?
How about inducing a volcano eruption? Why not build a death-ray? Surely there are some super villain wannabees out there?
What I’m trying to say is that planes are so yesterday. Why insist on spoiling the fun for the flying when there are so many other ways of getting a point through. Terrorists need to man up, get some perspectives and use their imagination. How else can we stop travelling altogether?
Personally I rather fly with a company that allows for guns, bombs and terrorists onboard, just so I can skip all the unnecessary crap that comes with every flight. And if you have a whole plane filled with armed people, they will all carefully watch each other since if one starts shooting everyone would die. The pilot could have a bomb under his seat so if anyone tries to commandeer the flight, it blows up. On such a flight I would feel pretty secure, most likely sleep like a baby throughout the entire voyage.
Speaking of, I want to see a disgruntled train-driver go off the deep end. We’ve seen it at the movies, but strangely not in real life yet.
Where are the original terrorists?
Why not hijack a supertanker and drive it with full speed into a New York harbor? Why does it only need to be planes?
How about inducing a volcano eruption? Why not build a death-ray? Surely there are some super villain wannabees out there?
What I’m trying to say is that planes are so yesterday. Why insist on spoiling the fun for the flying when there are so many other ways of getting a point through. Terrorists need to man up, get some perspectives and use their imagination. How else can we stop travelling altogether?
The countdown continues
The Gorgon of UK has really dragged his serfs towards absolute despair. In Britain January is the month when corporations make a large part of their tax payments. Historically speaking the government has never needed to borrow any money this month. Never. That is, until now.
I think it is safe to say that the one-eyed Scotsman and his gorgonites are the frontrunners comes to which government is the worst in modern history.
I got a job-offer the other day from a company in southern England. Good pay and a decent position. Needless to say, I turned it down. When that shit hits the famous fan very soon, I don’t wanna live out on those isles.
But luckily for UK, they aren’t alone...
I’ve already covered most of the industrialized world and pointed out the fault, cracks and deteriorating madness that makes up the greatest depression that ever hit humankind. But it is fun with a couple of updates.
Apparently only 21% of US voters believe that the federal government enjoys the consent of the governed. If we compare this with the estimated number of people that supported the British king during the war for independence, which was around 20%, we find a very nice correlation. You think Joe Stack was an exception? Think again.
Another document seems to have come forward yet again claiming the Saudi’s are giving Israeli fighter-jets and bombers free passage through their air-space. Presumably for strikes into Iran. Oil is still pretty low at $78 a barrel, but how long will that last if the Israeli/US/Iran scenario plays out?
In Africa the problems continue. As stated before tens of millions of people in the South and Eastern parts of the ‘dark’ continent are balancing on that thin line between being alive and utter starvation.
We’ve had a coup in Niger, we have political problems in Kenya, and the great economic spokesperson of the western world, Robert Mugabe, is at it again. This time around he wants to sell diamonds to whomever and whenever he wants, apparently making certain people a tad upset.
In Chad inflation is running amok and strikes are on the rise. In the Democratic Republic of Congo inter-ethnic clashes continues and in several districts schools haven’t been open for close to a year.
And in this mess (and much more, takes many pages to describe it all) a new food security update which focused on some southern African countries, is stating that food prices have risen rapidly and are still climbing in several countries.
Isn’t the world a fun place?
Thursday, February 18, 2010
Banned again…
Getting banned by mainstream media again, at least in Sweden. I also noticed a sudden drop on search-engines...
Oh my, didn’t know this Texas thingy was that bad. Not a popular thing among the elitists as it seems…
UPPDATE: Apparently I'm back... strange. :)
Oh my, didn’t know this Texas thingy was that bad. Not a popular thing among the elitists as it seems…
UPPDATE: Apparently I'm back... strange. :)
Joe Stack’s letter Part II
The conspiracies are running wild.
Mr. Stack was against taxes; wouldn’t that make all Tea Party people and libertarians into terrorists?
A false flag attack to further impose restrictions on the American populace?
Was he actually hired by the Israelis?
I have no idea, but whether or not any of this is true (which is probably not the case) the government will seize this opportunity either way. As I said, here comes police state US!
Mr. Stack was against taxes; wouldn’t that make all Tea Party people and libertarians into terrorists?
A false flag attack to further impose restrictions on the American populace?
Was he actually hired by the Israelis?
I have no idea, but whether or not any of this is true (which is probably not the case) the government will seize this opportunity either way. As I said, here comes police state US!
Joe Stack's letter
Since FBI closed down the site I hereby give you the letter in full.
If you’re reading this, you’re no doubt asking yourself, “Why did this have to happen?” The simple truth is that it is complicated and has been coming for a long time. The writing process, started many months ago, was intended to be therapy in the face of the looming realization that there isn’t enough therapy in the world that can fix what is really broken. Needless to say, this rant could fill volumes with example after example if I would let it. I find the process of writing it frustrating, tedious, and probably pointless… especially given my gross inability to gracefully articulate my thoughts in light of the storm raging in my head. Exactly what is therapeutic about that I’m not sure, but desperate times call for desperate measures.
We are all taught as children that without laws there would be no society, only anarchy. Sadly, starting at early ages we in this country have been brainwashed to believe that, in return for our dedication and service, our government stands for justice for all. We are further brainwashed to believe that there is freedom in this place, and that we should be ready to lay our lives down for the noble principals represented by its founding fathers. Remember? One of these was “no taxation without representation”. I have spent the total years of my adulthood unlearning that crap from only a few years of my childhood. These days anyone who really stands up for that principal is promptly labeled a “crackpot”, traitor and worse.
While very few working people would say they haven’t had their fair share of taxes (as can I), in my lifetime I can say with a great degree of certainty that there has never been a politician cast a vote on any matter with the likes of me or my interests in mind. Nor, for that matter, are they the least bit interested in me or anything I have to say.
Why is it that a handful of thugs and plunderers can commit unthinkable atrocities (and in the case of the GM executives, for scores of years) and when it’s time for their gravy train to crash under the weight of their gluttony and overwhelming stupidity, the force of the full federal government has no difficulty coming to their aid within days if not hours? Yet at the same time, the joke we call the American medical system, including the drug and insurance companies, are murdering tens of thousands of people a year and stealing from the corpses and victims they cripple, and this country’s leaders don’t see this as important as bailing out a few of their vile, rich cronies. Yet, the political “representatives” (thieves, liars, and self-serving scumbags is far more accurate) have endless time to sit around for year after year and debate the state of the “terrible health care problem”. It’s clear they see no crisis as long as the dead people don’t get in the way of their corporate profits rolling in.
And justice? You’ve got to be kidding!
How can any rational individual explain that white elephant conundrum in the middle of our tax system and, indeed, our entire legal system? Here we have a system that is, by far, too complicated for the brightest of the master scholars to understand. Yet, it mercilessly “holds accountable” its victims, claiming that they’re responsible for fully complying with laws not even the experts understand. The law “requires” a signature on the bottom of a tax filing; yet no one can say truthfully that they understand what they are signing; if that’s not “duress” than what is. If this is not the measure of a totalitarian regime, nothing is.
How did I get here?
My introduction to the real American nightmare starts back in the early ‘80s. Unfortunately after more than 16 years of school, somewhere along the line I picked up the absurd, pompous notion that I could read and understand plain English. Some friends introduced me to a group of people who were having ‘tax code’ readings and discussions. In particular, zeroed in on a section relating to the wonderful “exemptions” that make institutions like the vulgar, corrupt Catholic Church so incredibly wealthy. We carefully studied the law (with the help of some of the “best”, high-paid, experienced tax lawyers in the business), and then began to do exactly what the “big boys” were doing (except that we weren’t steeling from our congregation or lying to the government about our massive profits in the name of God). We took a great deal of care to make it all visible, following all of the rules, exactly the way the law said it was to be done.
The intent of this exercise and our efforts was to bring about a much-needed re-evaluation of the laws that allow the monsters of organized religion to make such a mockery of people who earn an honest living. However, this is where I learned that there are two “interpretations” for every law; one for the very rich, and one for the rest of us… Oh, and the monsters are the very ones making and enforcing the laws; the inquisition is still alive and well today in this country.
That little lesson in patriotism cost me $40,000+, 10 years of my life, and set my retirement plans back to 0. It made me realize for the first time that I live in a country with an ideology that is based on a total and complete lie. It also made me realize, not only how naive I had been, but also the incredible stupidity of the American public; that they buy, hook, line, and sinker, the crap about their “freedom”… and that they continue to do so with eyes closed in the face of overwhelming evidence and all that keeps happening in front of them.
Before even having to make a shaky recovery from the sting of the first lesson on what justice really means in this country (around 1984 after making my way through engineering school and still another five years of “paying my dues”), I felt I finally had to take a chance of launching my dream of becoming an independent engineer.
On the subjects of engineers and dreams of independence, I should digress somewhat to say that I’m sure that I inherited the fascination for creative problem solving from my father. I realized this at a very young age.
The significance of independence, however, came much later during my early years of college; at the age of 18 or 19 when I was living on my own as student in an apartment in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. My neighbor was an elderly retired woman (80+ seemed ancient to me at that age) who was the widowed wife of a retired steel worker. Her husband had worked all his life in the steel mills of central Pennsylvania with promises from big business and the union that, for his 30 years of service, he would have a pension and medical care to look forward to in his retirement. Instead he was one of the thousands who got nothing because the incompetent mill management and corrupt union (not to mention the government) raided their pension funds and stole their retirement. All she had was social security to live on.
In retrospect, the situation was laughable because here I was living on peanut butter and bread (or Ritz crackers when I could afford to splurge) for months at a time. When I got to know this poor figure and heard her story I felt worse for her plight than for my own (I, after all, I thought I had everything to in front of me). I was genuinely appalled at one point, as we exchanged stories and commiserated with each other over our situations, when she in her grandmotherly fashion tried to convince me that I would be “healthier” eating cat food (like her) rather than trying to get all my substance from peanut butter and bread. I couldn’t quite go there, but the impression was made. I decided that I didn’t trust big business to take care of me, and that I would take responsibility for my own future and myself.
Return to the early ‘80s, and here I was off to a terrifying start as a ‘wet-behind-the-ears’ contract software engineer... and two years later, thanks to the fine backroom, midnight effort by the sleazy executives of Arthur Andersen (the very same folks who later brought us Enron and other such calamities) and an equally sleazy New York Senator (Patrick Moynihan), we saw the passage of 1986 tax reform act with its section 1706.
For you who are unfamiliar, here is the core text of the IRS Section 1706, defining the treatment of workers (such as contract engineers) for tax purposes. Visit this link for a conference committee report (http://www.synergistech.com/1706.shtml#ConferenceCommitteeReport) regarding the intended interpretation of Section 1706 and the relevant parts of Section 530, as amended. For information on how these laws affect technical services workers and their clients, read our discussion here (http://www.synergistech.com/ic-taxlaw.shtml).
SEC. 1706. TREATMENT OF CERTAIN TECHNICAL PERSONNEL.
(a) IN GENERAL - Section 530 of the Revenue Act of 1978 is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new subsection:
(d) EXCEPTION. - This section shall not apply in the case of an individual who pursuant to an arrangement between the taxpayer and another person, provides services for such other person as an engineer, designer, drafter, computer programmer, systems analyst, or other similarly skilled worker engaged in a similar line of work.
(b) EFFECTIVE DATE. - The amendment made by this section shall apply to remuneration paid and services rendered after December 31, 1986.
Note:
· "another person" is the client in the traditional job-shop relationship.
· "taxpayer" is the recruiter, broker, agency, or job shop.
· "individual", "employee", or "worker" is you.
Admittedly, you need to read the treatment to understand what it is saying but it’s not very complicated. The bottom line is that they may as well have put my name right in the text of section (d). Moreover, they could only have been more blunt if they would have came out and directly declared me a criminal and non-citizen slave. Twenty years later, I still can’t believe my eyes.
During 1987, I spent close to $5000 of my ‘pocket change’, and at least 1000 hours of my time writing, printing, and mailing to any senator, congressman, governor, or slug that might listen; none did, and they universally treated me as if I was wasting their time. I spent countless hours on the L.A. freeways driving to meetings and any and all of the disorganized professional groups who were attempting to mount a campaign against this atrocity. This, only to discover that our efforts were being easily derailed by a few moles from the brokers who were just beginning to enjoy the windfall from the new declaration of their “freedom”. Oh, and don’t forget, for all of the time I was spending on this, I was loosing income that I couldn’t bill clients.
After months of struggling it had clearly gotten to be a futile exercise. The best we could get for all of our trouble is a pronouncement from an IRS mouthpiece that they weren’t going to enforce that provision (read harass engineers and scientists). This immediately proved to be a lie, and the mere existence of the regulation began to have its impact on my bottom line; this, of course, was the intended effect.
Again, rewind my retirement plans back to 0 and shift them into idle. If I had any sense, I clearly should have left abandoned engineering and never looked back.
Instead I got busy working 100-hour workweeks. Then came the L.A. depression of the early 1990s. Our leaders decided that they didn’t need the all of those extra Air Force bases they had in Southern California, so they were closed; just like that. The result was economic devastation in the region that rivaled the widely publicized Texas S&L fiasco. However, because the government caused it, no one gave a shit about all of the young families who lost their homes or street after street of boarded up houses abandoned to the wealthy loan companies who received government funds to “shore up” their windfall. Again, I lost my retirement.
Years later, after weathering a divorce and the constant struggle trying to build some momentum with my business, I find myself once again beginning to finally pick up some speed. Then came the .COM bust and the 911 nightmare. Our leaders decided that all aircraft were grounded for what seemed like an eternity; and long after that, ‘special’ facilities like San Francisco were on security alert for months. This made access to my customers prohibitively expensive. Ironically, after what they had done the Government came to the aid of the airlines with billions of our tax dollars … as usual they left me to rot and die while they bailed out their rich, incompetent cronies WITH MY MONEY! After these events, there went my business but not quite yet all of my retirement and savings.
By this time, I’m thinking that it might be good for a change. Bye to California, I’ll try Austin for a while. So I moved, only to find out that this is a place with a highly inflated sense of self-importance and where damn little real engineering work is done. I’ve never experienced such a hard time finding work. The rates are 1/3 of what I was earning before the crash, because pay rates here are fixed by the three or four large companies in the area who are in collusion to drive down prices and wages… and this happens because the justice department is all on the take and doesn’t give a fuck about serving anyone or anything but themselves and their rich buddies.
To survive, I was forced to cannibalize my savings and retirement, the last of which was a small IRA. This came in a year with mammoth expenses and not a single dollar of income. I filed no return that year thinking that because I didn’t have any income there was no need. The sleazy government decided that they disagreed. But they didn’t notify me in time for me to launch a legal objection so when I attempted to get a protest filed with the court I was told I was no longer entitled to due process because the time to file ran out. Bend over for another $10,000 helping of justice.
So now we come to the present. After my experience with the CPA world, following the business crash I swore that I’d never enter another accountant’s office again. But here I am with a new marriage and a boatload of undocumented income, not to mention an expensive new business asset, a piano, which I had no idea how to handle. After considerable thought I decided that it would be irresponsible NOT to get professional help; a very big mistake.
When we received the forms back I was very optimistic that they were in order. I had taken all of the years information to Bill Ross, and he came back with results very similar to what I was expecting. Except that he had neglected to include the contents of Sheryl’s unreported income; $12,700 worth of it. To make matters worse, Ross knew all along this was missing and I didn’t have a clue until he pointed it out in the middle of the audit. By that time it had become brutally evident that he was representing himself and not me.
This left me stuck in the middle of this disaster trying to defend transactions that have no relationship to anything tax-related (at least the tax-related transactions were poorly documented). Things I never knew anything about and things my wife had no clue would ever matter to anyone. The end result is… well, just look around.
I remember reading about the stock market crash before the “great” depression and how there were wealthy bankers and businessmen jumping out of windows when they realized they screwed up and lost everything. Isn’t it ironic how far we’ve come in 60 years in this country that they now know how to fix that little economic problem; they just steal from the middle class (who doesn’t have any say in it, elections are a joke) to cover their asses and it’s “business-as-usual”. Now when the wealthy fuck up, the poor get to die for the mistakes… isn’t that a clever, tidy solution.
As government agencies go, the FAA is often justifiably referred to as a tombstone agency, though they are hardly alone. The recent presidential puppet GW Bush and his cronies in their eight years certainly reinforced for all of us that this criticism rings equally true for all of the government. Nothing changes unless there is a body count (unless it is in the interest of the wealthy sows at the government trough). In a government full of hypocrites from top to bottom, life is as cheap as their lies and their self-serving laws.
I know I’m hardly the first one to decide I have had all I can stand. It has always been a myth that people have stopped dying for their freedom in this country, and it isn’t limited to the blacks, and poor immigrants. I know there have been countless before me and there are sure to be as many after. But I also know that by not adding my body to the count, I insure nothing will change. I choose to not keep looking over my shoulder at “big brother” while he strips my carcass, I choose not to ignore what is going on all around me, I choose not to pretend that business as usual won’t continue; I have just had enough.
I can only hope that the numbers quickly get too big to be white washed and ignored that the American zombies wake up and revolt; it will take nothing less. I would only hope that by striking a nerve that stimulates the inevitable double standard, knee-jerk government reaction that results in more stupid draconian restrictions people wake up and begin to see the pompous political thugs and their mindless minions for what they are. Sadly, though I spent my entire life trying to believe it wasn’t so, but violence not only is the answer, it is the only answer. The cruel joke is that the really big chunks of shit at the top have known this all along and have been laughing, at and using this awareness against, fools like me all along.
I saw it written once that the definition of insanity is repeating the same process over and over and expecting the outcome to suddenly be different. I am finally ready to stop this insanity. Well, Mr. Big Brother IRS man, let’s try something different; take my pound of flesh and sleep well.
The communist creed: From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.
The capitalist creed: From each according to his gullibility, to each according to his greed.
Joe Stack (1956-2010)
02/18/2010
If you’re reading this, you’re no doubt asking yourself, “Why did this have to happen?” The simple truth is that it is complicated and has been coming for a long time. The writing process, started many months ago, was intended to be therapy in the face of the looming realization that there isn’t enough therapy in the world that can fix what is really broken. Needless to say, this rant could fill volumes with example after example if I would let it. I find the process of writing it frustrating, tedious, and probably pointless… especially given my gross inability to gracefully articulate my thoughts in light of the storm raging in my head. Exactly what is therapeutic about that I’m not sure, but desperate times call for desperate measures.
We are all taught as children that without laws there would be no society, only anarchy. Sadly, starting at early ages we in this country have been brainwashed to believe that, in return for our dedication and service, our government stands for justice for all. We are further brainwashed to believe that there is freedom in this place, and that we should be ready to lay our lives down for the noble principals represented by its founding fathers. Remember? One of these was “no taxation without representation”. I have spent the total years of my adulthood unlearning that crap from only a few years of my childhood. These days anyone who really stands up for that principal is promptly labeled a “crackpot”, traitor and worse.
While very few working people would say they haven’t had their fair share of taxes (as can I), in my lifetime I can say with a great degree of certainty that there has never been a politician cast a vote on any matter with the likes of me or my interests in mind. Nor, for that matter, are they the least bit interested in me or anything I have to say.
Why is it that a handful of thugs and plunderers can commit unthinkable atrocities (and in the case of the GM executives, for scores of years) and when it’s time for their gravy train to crash under the weight of their gluttony and overwhelming stupidity, the force of the full federal government has no difficulty coming to their aid within days if not hours? Yet at the same time, the joke we call the American medical system, including the drug and insurance companies, are murdering tens of thousands of people a year and stealing from the corpses and victims they cripple, and this country’s leaders don’t see this as important as bailing out a few of their vile, rich cronies. Yet, the political “representatives” (thieves, liars, and self-serving scumbags is far more accurate) have endless time to sit around for year after year and debate the state of the “terrible health care problem”. It’s clear they see no crisis as long as the dead people don’t get in the way of their corporate profits rolling in.
And justice? You’ve got to be kidding!
How can any rational individual explain that white elephant conundrum in the middle of our tax system and, indeed, our entire legal system? Here we have a system that is, by far, too complicated for the brightest of the master scholars to understand. Yet, it mercilessly “holds accountable” its victims, claiming that they’re responsible for fully complying with laws not even the experts understand. The law “requires” a signature on the bottom of a tax filing; yet no one can say truthfully that they understand what they are signing; if that’s not “duress” than what is. If this is not the measure of a totalitarian regime, nothing is.
How did I get here?
My introduction to the real American nightmare starts back in the early ‘80s. Unfortunately after more than 16 years of school, somewhere along the line I picked up the absurd, pompous notion that I could read and understand plain English. Some friends introduced me to a group of people who were having ‘tax code’ readings and discussions. In particular, zeroed in on a section relating to the wonderful “exemptions” that make institutions like the vulgar, corrupt Catholic Church so incredibly wealthy. We carefully studied the law (with the help of some of the “best”, high-paid, experienced tax lawyers in the business), and then began to do exactly what the “big boys” were doing (except that we weren’t steeling from our congregation or lying to the government about our massive profits in the name of God). We took a great deal of care to make it all visible, following all of the rules, exactly the way the law said it was to be done.
The intent of this exercise and our efforts was to bring about a much-needed re-evaluation of the laws that allow the monsters of organized religion to make such a mockery of people who earn an honest living. However, this is where I learned that there are two “interpretations” for every law; one for the very rich, and one for the rest of us… Oh, and the monsters are the very ones making and enforcing the laws; the inquisition is still alive and well today in this country.
That little lesson in patriotism cost me $40,000+, 10 years of my life, and set my retirement plans back to 0. It made me realize for the first time that I live in a country with an ideology that is based on a total and complete lie. It also made me realize, not only how naive I had been, but also the incredible stupidity of the American public; that they buy, hook, line, and sinker, the crap about their “freedom”… and that they continue to do so with eyes closed in the face of overwhelming evidence and all that keeps happening in front of them.
Before even having to make a shaky recovery from the sting of the first lesson on what justice really means in this country (around 1984 after making my way through engineering school and still another five years of “paying my dues”), I felt I finally had to take a chance of launching my dream of becoming an independent engineer.
On the subjects of engineers and dreams of independence, I should digress somewhat to say that I’m sure that I inherited the fascination for creative problem solving from my father. I realized this at a very young age.
The significance of independence, however, came much later during my early years of college; at the age of 18 or 19 when I was living on my own as student in an apartment in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. My neighbor was an elderly retired woman (80+ seemed ancient to me at that age) who was the widowed wife of a retired steel worker. Her husband had worked all his life in the steel mills of central Pennsylvania with promises from big business and the union that, for his 30 years of service, he would have a pension and medical care to look forward to in his retirement. Instead he was one of the thousands who got nothing because the incompetent mill management and corrupt union (not to mention the government) raided their pension funds and stole their retirement. All she had was social security to live on.
In retrospect, the situation was laughable because here I was living on peanut butter and bread (or Ritz crackers when I could afford to splurge) for months at a time. When I got to know this poor figure and heard her story I felt worse for her plight than for my own (I, after all, I thought I had everything to in front of me). I was genuinely appalled at one point, as we exchanged stories and commiserated with each other over our situations, when she in her grandmotherly fashion tried to convince me that I would be “healthier” eating cat food (like her) rather than trying to get all my substance from peanut butter and bread. I couldn’t quite go there, but the impression was made. I decided that I didn’t trust big business to take care of me, and that I would take responsibility for my own future and myself.
Return to the early ‘80s, and here I was off to a terrifying start as a ‘wet-behind-the-ears’ contract software engineer... and two years later, thanks to the fine backroom, midnight effort by the sleazy executives of Arthur Andersen (the very same folks who later brought us Enron and other such calamities) and an equally sleazy New York Senator (Patrick Moynihan), we saw the passage of 1986 tax reform act with its section 1706.
For you who are unfamiliar, here is the core text of the IRS Section 1706, defining the treatment of workers (such as contract engineers) for tax purposes. Visit this link for a conference committee report (http://www.synergistech.com/1706.shtml#ConferenceCommitteeReport) regarding the intended interpretation of Section 1706 and the relevant parts of Section 530, as amended. For information on how these laws affect technical services workers and their clients, read our discussion here (http://www.synergistech.com/ic-taxlaw.shtml).
SEC. 1706. TREATMENT OF CERTAIN TECHNICAL PERSONNEL.
(a) IN GENERAL - Section 530 of the Revenue Act of 1978 is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new subsection:
(d) EXCEPTION. - This section shall not apply in the case of an individual who pursuant to an arrangement between the taxpayer and another person, provides services for such other person as an engineer, designer, drafter, computer programmer, systems analyst, or other similarly skilled worker engaged in a similar line of work.
(b) EFFECTIVE DATE. - The amendment made by this section shall apply to remuneration paid and services rendered after December 31, 1986.
Note:
· "another person" is the client in the traditional job-shop relationship.
· "taxpayer" is the recruiter, broker, agency, or job shop.
· "individual", "employee", or "worker" is you.
Admittedly, you need to read the treatment to understand what it is saying but it’s not very complicated. The bottom line is that they may as well have put my name right in the text of section (d). Moreover, they could only have been more blunt if they would have came out and directly declared me a criminal and non-citizen slave. Twenty years later, I still can’t believe my eyes.
During 1987, I spent close to $5000 of my ‘pocket change’, and at least 1000 hours of my time writing, printing, and mailing to any senator, congressman, governor, or slug that might listen; none did, and they universally treated me as if I was wasting their time. I spent countless hours on the L.A. freeways driving to meetings and any and all of the disorganized professional groups who were attempting to mount a campaign against this atrocity. This, only to discover that our efforts were being easily derailed by a few moles from the brokers who were just beginning to enjoy the windfall from the new declaration of their “freedom”. Oh, and don’t forget, for all of the time I was spending on this, I was loosing income that I couldn’t bill clients.
After months of struggling it had clearly gotten to be a futile exercise. The best we could get for all of our trouble is a pronouncement from an IRS mouthpiece that they weren’t going to enforce that provision (read harass engineers and scientists). This immediately proved to be a lie, and the mere existence of the regulation began to have its impact on my bottom line; this, of course, was the intended effect.
Again, rewind my retirement plans back to 0 and shift them into idle. If I had any sense, I clearly should have left abandoned engineering and never looked back.
Instead I got busy working 100-hour workweeks. Then came the L.A. depression of the early 1990s. Our leaders decided that they didn’t need the all of those extra Air Force bases they had in Southern California, so they were closed; just like that. The result was economic devastation in the region that rivaled the widely publicized Texas S&L fiasco. However, because the government caused it, no one gave a shit about all of the young families who lost their homes or street after street of boarded up houses abandoned to the wealthy loan companies who received government funds to “shore up” their windfall. Again, I lost my retirement.
Years later, after weathering a divorce and the constant struggle trying to build some momentum with my business, I find myself once again beginning to finally pick up some speed. Then came the .COM bust and the 911 nightmare. Our leaders decided that all aircraft were grounded for what seemed like an eternity; and long after that, ‘special’ facilities like San Francisco were on security alert for months. This made access to my customers prohibitively expensive. Ironically, after what they had done the Government came to the aid of the airlines with billions of our tax dollars … as usual they left me to rot and die while they bailed out their rich, incompetent cronies WITH MY MONEY! After these events, there went my business but not quite yet all of my retirement and savings.
By this time, I’m thinking that it might be good for a change. Bye to California, I’ll try Austin for a while. So I moved, only to find out that this is a place with a highly inflated sense of self-importance and where damn little real engineering work is done. I’ve never experienced such a hard time finding work. The rates are 1/3 of what I was earning before the crash, because pay rates here are fixed by the three or four large companies in the area who are in collusion to drive down prices and wages… and this happens because the justice department is all on the take and doesn’t give a fuck about serving anyone or anything but themselves and their rich buddies.
To survive, I was forced to cannibalize my savings and retirement, the last of which was a small IRA. This came in a year with mammoth expenses and not a single dollar of income. I filed no return that year thinking that because I didn’t have any income there was no need. The sleazy government decided that they disagreed. But they didn’t notify me in time for me to launch a legal objection so when I attempted to get a protest filed with the court I was told I was no longer entitled to due process because the time to file ran out. Bend over for another $10,000 helping of justice.
So now we come to the present. After my experience with the CPA world, following the business crash I swore that I’d never enter another accountant’s office again. But here I am with a new marriage and a boatload of undocumented income, not to mention an expensive new business asset, a piano, which I had no idea how to handle. After considerable thought I decided that it would be irresponsible NOT to get professional help; a very big mistake.
When we received the forms back I was very optimistic that they were in order. I had taken all of the years information to Bill Ross, and he came back with results very similar to what I was expecting. Except that he had neglected to include the contents of Sheryl’s unreported income; $12,700 worth of it. To make matters worse, Ross knew all along this was missing and I didn’t have a clue until he pointed it out in the middle of the audit. By that time it had become brutally evident that he was representing himself and not me.
This left me stuck in the middle of this disaster trying to defend transactions that have no relationship to anything tax-related (at least the tax-related transactions were poorly documented). Things I never knew anything about and things my wife had no clue would ever matter to anyone. The end result is… well, just look around.
I remember reading about the stock market crash before the “great” depression and how there were wealthy bankers and businessmen jumping out of windows when they realized they screwed up and lost everything. Isn’t it ironic how far we’ve come in 60 years in this country that they now know how to fix that little economic problem; they just steal from the middle class (who doesn’t have any say in it, elections are a joke) to cover their asses and it’s “business-as-usual”. Now when the wealthy fuck up, the poor get to die for the mistakes… isn’t that a clever, tidy solution.
As government agencies go, the FAA is often justifiably referred to as a tombstone agency, though they are hardly alone. The recent presidential puppet GW Bush and his cronies in their eight years certainly reinforced for all of us that this criticism rings equally true for all of the government. Nothing changes unless there is a body count (unless it is in the interest of the wealthy sows at the government trough). In a government full of hypocrites from top to bottom, life is as cheap as their lies and their self-serving laws.
I know I’m hardly the first one to decide I have had all I can stand. It has always been a myth that people have stopped dying for their freedom in this country, and it isn’t limited to the blacks, and poor immigrants. I know there have been countless before me and there are sure to be as many after. But I also know that by not adding my body to the count, I insure nothing will change. I choose to not keep looking over my shoulder at “big brother” while he strips my carcass, I choose not to ignore what is going on all around me, I choose not to pretend that business as usual won’t continue; I have just had enough.
I can only hope that the numbers quickly get too big to be white washed and ignored that the American zombies wake up and revolt; it will take nothing less. I would only hope that by striking a nerve that stimulates the inevitable double standard, knee-jerk government reaction that results in more stupid draconian restrictions people wake up and begin to see the pompous political thugs and their mindless minions for what they are. Sadly, though I spent my entire life trying to believe it wasn’t so, but violence not only is the answer, it is the only answer. The cruel joke is that the really big chunks of shit at the top have known this all along and have been laughing, at and using this awareness against, fools like me all along.
I saw it written once that the definition of insanity is repeating the same process over and over and expecting the outcome to suddenly be different. I am finally ready to stop this insanity. Well, Mr. Big Brother IRS man, let’s try something different; take my pound of flesh and sleep well.
The communist creed: From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.
The capitalist creed: From each according to his gullibility, to each according to his greed.
Joe Stack (1956-2010)
02/18/2010
Suicide man targets IRS!
The Market Ticker has already revealed the latest news-scam with the plane crashing into an office-building in Austin, Texas. I’ve also seen online how people already are saluting this man as a true American hero.
I haven’t really confirmed all of this yet, but if it is true, Mr Joe Stack have set an example. To all of you out there planning to go on a shooting-spree or are about to snap, please target those who actually are responsible for our current dilemma. Innocent people shouldn’t be your target, public officials however…
The Market Ticker here
READ: Joe Stack Suicide Note
UPDATE: FBI have apparently closed down the suicide note site... They can do that you know... Freedom of Internet? yeah, right...
Read the letter here instead
The sad thing is that this probably becomes yet another reason for the American government to strike down on their own people. Police state – here USA comes!
I haven’t really confirmed all of this yet, but if it is true, Mr Joe Stack have set an example. To all of you out there planning to go on a shooting-spree or are about to snap, please target those who actually are responsible for our current dilemma. Innocent people shouldn’t be your target, public officials however…
The Market Ticker here
READ: Joe Stack Suicide Note
UPDATE: FBI have apparently closed down the suicide note site... They can do that you know... Freedom of Internet? yeah, right...
Read the letter here instead
The sad thing is that this probably becomes yet another reason for the American government to strike down on their own people. Police state – here USA comes!
The Greek tragedy
Any good Greek tragedy apparently needs theatrical masks. Usually covering the entire face and head, with holes for the eyes and a small aperture for the mouth, as well as an integrated wig.
So when Greek opposition lawmakers argues, on stage, that Germans should pay reparations for their World War Two occupation of Greece before criticizing the country over its yawning fiscal deficits, you know there’s a mask covering a real tragedy here. Or, in other words, a dog is buried alongside a cat, two gold-fishes and a shoe that formally belonged to a sponge-diver. Covering the burial place is lots and lots of manure.
“How does Germany have the cheek to denounce us over our finances when it has still not paid compensation for Greece's war victims?", says one actor while sneezing into a Euro-bill.
The tension is growing, what will the German stage-actor respond with?
Before we get to that potential answer we need to look at the whole setting.
In that liminal space between the audience and the stage, between myth and reality, were we have the intentional cooking of the books to get into the EU, making good use of Evil Inc; Goldman Sachs to hide the real numbers. On the stage we have the puppets dancing around playing out the tragedy to the audience whom uselessly stare at the spectacle, booing when the puppets tries to explain the current state of affairs, applauding when the story goes over into socialist promises.
Behind the stage we have greedy drooling puppet masters that don’t really know how the play will end. If they let the Greeks on the stage fall down the trap-door, the whole project of Hitler-geldt may eventually collapse. And they cannot help them out either, their own rules prohibit them. So the only solution is to introduce deus ex machina into this tragedy. In this case such sudden interaction will partly be in the form of other countries buying Greek securities, and in part the evilness of IMF. The effect, although no-one in power says that, is a bail-out. You know, the very thing they actually cannot carry out, but through the backdoor this can still be accomplished.
Well, as some other backdoor action we know from psychical interaction lubrication may be needed, but there might still be some pain involved. In this case IMF, that just the other day argued for hyperinflation, will propose certain deeds that lefties will regard as rape by a 2by4. In actuality the con-artists and cornflake-economists of IMF will recommend inflation and pro-bubbles in order to enhance the tragedy.
But the theatrical characters and their puppet masters are hiding another surprise the audience will not really appreciate. This because the Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and British actors have their own problems that sooner or later will be introduce unto the stage. If that is so, the whole theatre may actually collapse, with actors and audience alike. You see the foundation of the theatre was build on a muddy hillside with already rotten tree-bulks, and now it is raining and soon a earthquake will rock loose the set and slide it down the hill into the abyss below.
We have actually been in similar situations before. Back then things escalated into planet wide conflicts, two times in a row actually, and both times Germans played one of the key roles.
We’re far off from having combat-boat dressed Germans throwing sun-symbols around on stage, but as in any decent tragedy there are twists that will be played during the show. France protectionism, Argentina arguing over the Falklands again, trade wars between China and the US, and the entire Middle East is a playground for conflicts are only a few of the fuses already lit.
What needs to be considered is what will happen during the next round of financial calamities. If you hadn’t realized it before, the depression never ended, it is only postponed and swept under the rug, temporarily that is.
The Greek tragedy follows the Icelandic equivalent as well as the Baltic States, Ukraine and some others and should only be seen as another act, not the whole play.
With this in mind, does it really matter what the German actor says?
So when Greek opposition lawmakers argues, on stage, that Germans should pay reparations for their World War Two occupation of Greece before criticizing the country over its yawning fiscal deficits, you know there’s a mask covering a real tragedy here. Or, in other words, a dog is buried alongside a cat, two gold-fishes and a shoe that formally belonged to a sponge-diver. Covering the burial place is lots and lots of manure.
“How does Germany have the cheek to denounce us over our finances when it has still not paid compensation for Greece's war victims?", says one actor while sneezing into a Euro-bill.
The tension is growing, what will the German stage-actor respond with?
Before we get to that potential answer we need to look at the whole setting.
In that liminal space between the audience and the stage, between myth and reality, were we have the intentional cooking of the books to get into the EU, making good use of Evil Inc; Goldman Sachs to hide the real numbers. On the stage we have the puppets dancing around playing out the tragedy to the audience whom uselessly stare at the spectacle, booing when the puppets tries to explain the current state of affairs, applauding when the story goes over into socialist promises.
Behind the stage we have greedy drooling puppet masters that don’t really know how the play will end. If they let the Greeks on the stage fall down the trap-door, the whole project of Hitler-geldt may eventually collapse. And they cannot help them out either, their own rules prohibit them. So the only solution is to introduce deus ex machina into this tragedy. In this case such sudden interaction will partly be in the form of other countries buying Greek securities, and in part the evilness of IMF. The effect, although no-one in power says that, is a bail-out. You know, the very thing they actually cannot carry out, but through the backdoor this can still be accomplished.
Well, as some other backdoor action we know from psychical interaction lubrication may be needed, but there might still be some pain involved. In this case IMF, that just the other day argued for hyperinflation, will propose certain deeds that lefties will regard as rape by a 2by4. In actuality the con-artists and cornflake-economists of IMF will recommend inflation and pro-bubbles in order to enhance the tragedy.
But the theatrical characters and their puppet masters are hiding another surprise the audience will not really appreciate. This because the Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and British actors have their own problems that sooner or later will be introduce unto the stage. If that is so, the whole theatre may actually collapse, with actors and audience alike. You see the foundation of the theatre was build on a muddy hillside with already rotten tree-bulks, and now it is raining and soon a earthquake will rock loose the set and slide it down the hill into the abyss below.
We have actually been in similar situations before. Back then things escalated into planet wide conflicts, two times in a row actually, and both times Germans played one of the key roles.
We’re far off from having combat-boat dressed Germans throwing sun-symbols around on stage, but as in any decent tragedy there are twists that will be played during the show. France protectionism, Argentina arguing over the Falklands again, trade wars between China and the US, and the entire Middle East is a playground for conflicts are only a few of the fuses already lit.
What needs to be considered is what will happen during the next round of financial calamities. If you hadn’t realized it before, the depression never ended, it is only postponed and swept under the rug, temporarily that is.
The Greek tragedy follows the Icelandic equivalent as well as the Baltic States, Ukraine and some others and should only be seen as another act, not the whole play.
With this in mind, does it really matter what the German actor says?
The Church of Climatology
The worshippers of the ‘green’ deity have been drumming out their message of hatred for quite some time now, murdering hundreds of thousands of people by denying them access to cheap electricity and arguing that one single car, according to the righteous bible of the Climate Church, is a much worse thing than millions of starving.
The priesthood – government hired and paid for ‘scientists’ – often working for the UN, have solemnly declared humanity a danger to humanity. Babies are carbon monsters, house-pets are horrible environment-thrashing machines that need to be put down, and anyone not recycling is the devil.
The Great Privileged ones – politicians of the age – only working for themselves, has been imposing taxation, regulations and control to see to it so that no one breaks the code of the Church. Not caring of the environment, but rather for the sake of power-accumulation. But schysch, that is forbidden to talk about.
Sadly for this religion their entire foundation isn’t there anymore. The scientists, looking for approval from the high and mighty, have been found with their hand in the cookie-jar, fiddling the numbers to suit the belief so they can get more money. All the tricksters have been exposed. NASA has been caught lying, the Chinese researches have been casting numbers around and the famous hockey-stick curve is based on the findings of ONE single tree. And the gate’s keep on coming divulging how deep the scam really goes.
The church is in shambles and actual thinking people that have known all along that this is a hoax are laughing at the misery this house of worship and its followers have bestowed on people.
Sadly this religion goes deep into the consciousness of our societies, so the powers that be will still make the best out of it, duping more sheople to give up their independence, freedom and cash to the leaders of this swindle.
How long are you going to let them get away with this crap?
The priesthood – government hired and paid for ‘scientists’ – often working for the UN, have solemnly declared humanity a danger to humanity. Babies are carbon monsters, house-pets are horrible environment-thrashing machines that need to be put down, and anyone not recycling is the devil.
The Great Privileged ones – politicians of the age – only working for themselves, has been imposing taxation, regulations and control to see to it so that no one breaks the code of the Church. Not caring of the environment, but rather for the sake of power-accumulation. But schysch, that is forbidden to talk about.
Sadly for this religion their entire foundation isn’t there anymore. The scientists, looking for approval from the high and mighty, have been found with their hand in the cookie-jar, fiddling the numbers to suit the belief so they can get more money. All the tricksters have been exposed. NASA has been caught lying, the Chinese researches have been casting numbers around and the famous hockey-stick curve is based on the findings of ONE single tree. And the gate’s keep on coming divulging how deep the scam really goes.
The church is in shambles and actual thinking people that have known all along that this is a hoax are laughing at the misery this house of worship and its followers have bestowed on people.
Sadly this religion goes deep into the consciousness of our societies, so the powers that be will still make the best out of it, duping more sheople to give up their independence, freedom and cash to the leaders of this swindle.
How long are you going to let them get away with this crap?
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
545 PEOPLE
545 PEOPLE
By Charlie Reese
Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them.
Have you ever wondered, if both the Democrats and the Republicans are against deficits, WHY do we have deficits?
Have you ever wondered, if all the politicians are against inflation and high taxes, WHY do we have inflation and high taxes?
You and I don't propose a federal budget.. The president does.
You and I don't have the Constitutional authority to vote on appropriations. The House of Representatives does.
You and I don't write the tax code, Congress does.
You and I don't set fiscal policy, Congress does.
You and I don't control monetary policy, the Federal Reserve Bank does.
One hundred senators, 435 congressmen, one president, and nine Supreme Court justices equates to 545 human beings out of the 300 million are directly, legally, morally, and individually responsible for the domestic problems that plague this country.
I excluded the members of the Federal Reserve Board because that problem was created by the Congress. In 1913, Congress delegated its Constitutional duty to provide a sound currency to a federally chartered, but private, central bank.
I excluded all the special interests and lobbyists for a sound reason.. They have no legal authority. They have no ability to coerce a senator, a congressman, or a president to do one cotton-picking thing. I don't care if they offer a politician $1 million dollars in cash. The politician has the power to accept or reject it. No matter what the lobbyist promises, it is the legislator's responsibility to determine how he votes.
Those 545 human beings spend much of their energy convincing you that what they did is not their fault. They cooperate in this common con regardless of party.
What separates a politician from a normal human being is an excessive amount of gall. No normal human being would have the gall of a Speaker, who stood up and criticized the President for creating deficits.. The president can only propose a budget. He cannot force the Congress to accept it.
The Constitution, which is the supreme law of the land, gives sole responsibility to the House of Representatives for originating and approving appropriations and taxes. Who is the speaker of the House? Nancy Pelosi. She is the leader of the majority party. She and fellow House members, not the president, can approve any budget they want. If the president vetoes it, they can pass it over his veto if they agree to.
It seems inconceivable to me that a nation of 300 million can not replace 545 people who stand convicted -- by present facts -- of incompetence and irresponsibility. I can't think of a single domestic problem that is not traceable directly to those 545 people. When you fully grasp the plain truth that 545 people exercise the power of the federal government, then it must follow that what exists is what they want to exist.
If the tax code is unfair, it's because they want it unfair.
If the budget is in the red, it's because they want it in the red ..
If the Army & Marines are in IRAQ , it's because they want them in IRAQ
If they do not receive social security but are on an elite retirement plan not available to the people, it's because they want it that way.
There are no insoluble government problems.
Do not let these 545 people shift the blame to bureaucrats, whom they hire and whose jobs they can abolish; to lobbyists, whose gifts and advice they can reject; to regulators, to whom they give the power to regulate and from whom they can take this power. Above all, do not let them con you into the belief that there exists disembodied mystical forces like "the economy," "inflation," or "politics" that prevent them from doing what they take an oath to do.
Those 545 people, and they alone, are responsible.
They, and they alone, have the power.
They, and they alone, should be held accountable by the people who are their bosses.
Provided the voters have the gumption to manage their own employees.
We should vote all of them out of office and clean up their mess!
Charlie Reese is a former columnist of the Orlando Sentinel Newspaper.
What you do with this article now that you have read it.......... Is up to you.
This might be funny if it weren't so darned true.
Be sure to read all the way to the end:
Tax his land,
Tax his bed,
Tax the table
At which he's fed.
Tax his tractor,
Tax his mule,
Teach him taxes
Are the rule.
Tax his work,
Tax his pay,
He works for peanuts
Anyway!
Tax his cow,
Tax his goat,
Tax his pants,
Tax his coat.
Tax his ties,
Tax his shirt,
Tax his work,
Tax his dirt.
Tax his tobacco,
Tax his drink,
Tax him if he
Tries to think.
Tax his cigars,
Tax his beers,
If he cries
Tax his tears.
Tax his car,
Tax his gas,
Find other ways
To tax his ass.
Tax all he has
Then let him know
That you won't be done
Till he has no dough.
When he screams and hollers;
Then tax him some more,
Tax him till
He's good and sore.
Then tax his coffin,
Tax his grave,
Tax the sod in
Which he's laid.
Put these words
Upon his tomb,
Taxes drove me
to my doom...'
When he's gone,
Do not relax,
Its time to apply
The inheritance tax.
Accounts Receivable Tax
Building Permit Tax
CDL license Tax
Cigarette Tax
Corporate Income Tax
Dog License Tax
Excise Taxes
Federal Income Tax
Federal Unemployment Tax (FUTA)
Fishing License Tax
Food License Tax
Fuel Permit Tax
Gasoline Tax (currently 44.75 cents per gallon)
Gross Receipts Tax
Hunting License Tax
Inheritance Tax
Inventory Tax
IRS Interest Charges IRS Penalties (tax on top of tax)
Liquor Tax
Luxury Taxes
Marriage License Tax
Medicare Tax
Personal Property Tax
Property Tax
Real Estate Tax
Service Charge T ax
Social Security Tax
Road Usage Tax
Sales Tax
Recreational Vehicle Tax
School Tax
State Income Tax
State Unemployment Tax (SUTA)
Telephone Federal Excise Tax
Telephone Federal Universal Ser vice FeeTax
Telephone Federal, State and Local Surcharge Taxes
Telephone Minimum Usage Surcharge=2 0Tax
Telephone Recurring and Non-recurring Charges Tax
Telephone State and Local Tax
Telephone Usage Charge Tax
Utility Taxes
Vehicle License Registration Tax
Vehicle Sales Tax
Watercraft Registration Tax
Well Permit Tax
Workers Compensation Tax
STILL THINK THIS IS FUNNY? Not one of these taxes existed 100 years ago, and our nation was the most prosperous in the world. We had absolutely no national debt, had the largest middle class in the world, and Mom stayed home to raise the kids..
What in the hell happened? Can you spell 'politicians?'
And I still have to 'press 1' for English!?
By Charlie Reese
Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them.
Have you ever wondered, if both the Democrats and the Republicans are against deficits, WHY do we have deficits?
Have you ever wondered, if all the politicians are against inflation and high taxes, WHY do we have inflation and high taxes?
You and I don't propose a federal budget.. The president does.
You and I don't have the Constitutional authority to vote on appropriations. The House of Representatives does.
You and I don't write the tax code, Congress does.
You and I don't set fiscal policy, Congress does.
You and I don't control monetary policy, the Federal Reserve Bank does.
One hundred senators, 435 congressmen, one president, and nine Supreme Court justices equates to 545 human beings out of the 300 million are directly, legally, morally, and individually responsible for the domestic problems that plague this country.
I excluded the members of the Federal Reserve Board because that problem was created by the Congress. In 1913, Congress delegated its Constitutional duty to provide a sound currency to a federally chartered, but private, central bank.
I excluded all the special interests and lobbyists for a sound reason.. They have no legal authority. They have no ability to coerce a senator, a congressman, or a president to do one cotton-picking thing. I don't care if they offer a politician $1 million dollars in cash. The politician has the power to accept or reject it. No matter what the lobbyist promises, it is the legislator's responsibility to determine how he votes.
Those 545 human beings spend much of their energy convincing you that what they did is not their fault. They cooperate in this common con regardless of party.
What separates a politician from a normal human being is an excessive amount of gall. No normal human being would have the gall of a Speaker, who stood up and criticized the President for creating deficits.. The president can only propose a budget. He cannot force the Congress to accept it.
The Constitution, which is the supreme law of the land, gives sole responsibility to the House of Representatives for originating and approving appropriations and taxes. Who is the speaker of the House? Nancy Pelosi. She is the leader of the majority party. She and fellow House members, not the president, can approve any budget they want. If the president vetoes it, they can pass it over his veto if they agree to.
It seems inconceivable to me that a nation of 300 million can not replace 545 people who stand convicted -- by present facts -- of incompetence and irresponsibility. I can't think of a single domestic problem that is not traceable directly to those 545 people. When you fully grasp the plain truth that 545 people exercise the power of the federal government, then it must follow that what exists is what they want to exist.
If the tax code is unfair, it's because they want it unfair.
If the budget is in the red, it's because they want it in the red ..
If the Army & Marines are in IRAQ , it's because they want them in IRAQ
If they do not receive social security but are on an elite retirement plan not available to the people, it's because they want it that way.
There are no insoluble government problems.
Do not let these 545 people shift the blame to bureaucrats, whom they hire and whose jobs they can abolish; to lobbyists, whose gifts and advice they can reject; to regulators, to whom they give the power to regulate and from whom they can take this power. Above all, do not let them con you into the belief that there exists disembodied mystical forces like "the economy," "inflation," or "politics" that prevent them from doing what they take an oath to do.
Those 545 people, and they alone, are responsible.
They, and they alone, have the power.
They, and they alone, should be held accountable by the people who are their bosses.
Provided the voters have the gumption to manage their own employees.
We should vote all of them out of office and clean up their mess!
Charlie Reese is a former columnist of the Orlando Sentinel Newspaper.
What you do with this article now that you have read it.......... Is up to you.
This might be funny if it weren't so darned true.
Be sure to read all the way to the end:
Tax his land,
Tax his bed,
Tax the table
At which he's fed.
Tax his tractor,
Tax his mule,
Teach him taxes
Are the rule.
Tax his work,
Tax his pay,
He works for peanuts
Anyway!
Tax his cow,
Tax his goat,
Tax his pants,
Tax his coat.
Tax his ties,
Tax his shirt,
Tax his work,
Tax his dirt.
Tax his tobacco,
Tax his drink,
Tax him if he
Tries to think.
Tax his cigars,
Tax his beers,
If he cries
Tax his tears.
Tax his car,
Tax his gas,
Find other ways
To tax his ass.
Tax all he has
Then let him know
That you won't be done
Till he has no dough.
When he screams and hollers;
Then tax him some more,
Tax him till
He's good and sore.
Then tax his coffin,
Tax his grave,
Tax the sod in
Which he's laid.
Put these words
Upon his tomb,
Taxes drove me
to my doom...'
When he's gone,
Do not relax,
Its time to apply
The inheritance tax.
Accounts Receivable Tax
Building Permit Tax
CDL license Tax
Cigarette Tax
Corporate Income Tax
Dog License Tax
Excise Taxes
Federal Income Tax
Federal Unemployment Tax (FUTA)
Fishing License Tax
Food License Tax
Fuel Permit Tax
Gasoline Tax (currently 44.75 cents per gallon)
Gross Receipts Tax
Hunting License Tax
Inheritance Tax
Inventory Tax
IRS Interest Charges IRS Penalties (tax on top of tax)
Liquor Tax
Luxury Taxes
Marriage License Tax
Medicare Tax
Personal Property Tax
Property Tax
Real Estate Tax
Service Charge T ax
Social Security Tax
Road Usage Tax
Sales Tax
Recreational Vehicle Tax
School Tax
State Income Tax
State Unemployment Tax (SUTA)
Telephone Federal Excise Tax
Telephone Federal Universal Ser vice FeeTax
Telephone Federal, State and Local Surcharge Taxes
Telephone Minimum Usage Surcharge=2 0Tax
Telephone Recurring and Non-recurring Charges Tax
Telephone State and Local Tax
Telephone Usage Charge Tax
Utility Taxes
Vehicle License Registration Tax
Vehicle Sales Tax
Watercraft Registration Tax
Well Permit Tax
Workers Compensation Tax
STILL THINK THIS IS FUNNY? Not one of these taxes existed 100 years ago, and our nation was the most prosperous in the world. We had absolutely no national debt, had the largest middle class in the world, and Mom stayed home to raise the kids..
What in the hell happened? Can you spell 'politicians?'
And I still have to 'press 1' for English!?
Pointy Icicles impaling athletes
Apparently there are Olympic Games going on in Vancouver. Hadn’t really noticed since I actually focus on more relevant news.
Don’t get me wrong, I am a sports buff and I do follow football (‘soccer’ for in-bread Americans) and a couple of other activities, but the Olympic Games never really did it for me. The main reason is that they seem to incorporate “sports” like synchronized swimming and short track speed skating. And when they start to talk about adding Chess and other games it’s not even amusing anymore.
Why not tic-tac-to? How about winning an Olympic medal in jumping on one foot?
If there were sports like ‘ice-pole dancing’, ‘naked snow-wrestling’ or “impaling other athletes with icicles’ I would be the first to watch, but the current array of sports seldom does it for me.
Oh, and the horrific opening ceremonies…
They always need to bring in some mongoloid to (try to) run with the torch, and they always make it sooo bloody interesting to see who’s the final person that will light the fire. Yawn…
Every time I’ve been stupid enough to watch an opening ceremony in the past I’ve felt the urge to bring out the chainsaw and run through the lines of contestants. Let’s see how they try to run and throw things without legs and arms.
And the national feeling we’re supposed to have I find despicable. It’s the individuals that win or lose not a country. It should be about displaying accuracy, skills and strengths in contests with others, but it’s not. Instead we count national medals and it’s all about “us” against “them”. “We” are the ones that have won, not that particular athlete.
Well, you can still get caught up in the hype sometimes, but generally speaking it’s just boring.
So why do I write about it you may ask? Well, I’m bored and watching the spectacle right now and apparently Canada is leading over Norway in hockey with 6-0, and it is a re-run (Canada won with 8-0). How interesting…
Don’t get me wrong, I am a sports buff and I do follow football (‘soccer’ for in-bread Americans) and a couple of other activities, but the Olympic Games never really did it for me. The main reason is that they seem to incorporate “sports” like synchronized swimming and short track speed skating. And when they start to talk about adding Chess and other games it’s not even amusing anymore.
Why not tic-tac-to? How about winning an Olympic medal in jumping on one foot?
If there were sports like ‘ice-pole dancing’, ‘naked snow-wrestling’ or “impaling other athletes with icicles’ I would be the first to watch, but the current array of sports seldom does it for me.
Oh, and the horrific opening ceremonies…
They always need to bring in some mongoloid to (try to) run with the torch, and they always make it sooo bloody interesting to see who’s the final person that will light the fire. Yawn…
Every time I’ve been stupid enough to watch an opening ceremony in the past I’ve felt the urge to bring out the chainsaw and run through the lines of contestants. Let’s see how they try to run and throw things without legs and arms.
And the national feeling we’re supposed to have I find despicable. It’s the individuals that win or lose not a country. It should be about displaying accuracy, skills and strengths in contests with others, but it’s not. Instead we count national medals and it’s all about “us” against “them”. “We” are the ones that have won, not that particular athlete.
Well, you can still get caught up in the hype sometimes, but generally speaking it’s just boring.
So why do I write about it you may ask? Well, I’m bored and watching the spectacle right now and apparently Canada is leading over Norway in hockey with 6-0, and it is a re-run (Canada won with 8-0). How interesting…
The Palin syndrome
The female that most within European media think is (or rather are lying about) heading the Tea Party movement, Sarah Palin, have become a tad upset. Apparently the cartoon show of Family Guy had an episode of the animation featured Chris - the Griffin family's son - bringing home a girlfriend with Down's syndrome.
When quizzed by his parents about her family, she said that her mother used to be Alaskan governor.
This is not really accurate since the Palin who actually has the disease is one of the sons.
I’m one of those people that think that anything goes comes to jokes and humor, and this is no exception. Also I believe that reacting to this publically will only give higher ratings to the show as only consequence, so what’s the point of being upset?
Besides, will this not be a positive thing for Sarah comes to her political agenda? Of course it will. It’s not only the Gorgon of UK that can use his children’s misfortunes to win votes.
When quizzed by his parents about her family, she said that her mother used to be Alaskan governor.
This is not really accurate since the Palin who actually has the disease is one of the sons.
I’m one of those people that think that anything goes comes to jokes and humor, and this is no exception. Also I believe that reacting to this publically will only give higher ratings to the show as only consequence, so what’s the point of being upset?
Besides, will this not be a positive thing for Sarah comes to her political agenda? Of course it will. It’s not only the Gorgon of UK that can use his children’s misfortunes to win votes.
And so the story continues…
The Finance Mentalist of Sweden has solemnly declared that economic growth will go up during 2010. Maybe it will, measured in GDP, but in reality? And what will happen to Swedish GDP, as well as many other countries’, when that depression we’re in continues and worsens during the coming years?
But we can probably rest assured. When the Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda and our bellowed Mentalists’ says something, who can argue?
But we can probably rest assured. When the Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda and our bellowed Mentalists’ says something, who can argue?
The plan to silence dissent
For a vile and repugnant plan to work, the planers need to make sure to re-write any oppositional thought, cast it around and make it into something it’s not in order to attack it. This is a very common way of handling dissidents and free thinking individuals.
The problem with modern day society was, in the eyes of the powers that be, and before the age of internet, competition among media and journalists. As long as reporters fought over stories and we had a vide variety of papers with many different owners the elitist structure had somewhat of a problem. How could any politician lie and get away with it if journalists were lurking around every corner looking to break any juicy story?
For a brief moment in human history, the media actually did their job. Not always of course, and they could be manipulated or silenced in different ways, but even within totalitarian regimes there was, and still is, oppositional journalists whom risked their lives to tell the truth. Silently, and for no apparent reason this has changed.
Media today isn’t an auditor of government, they aren’t checking the facts or looking behind the curtain, and worse still, most of the time they seem to be in cahoots with those in power despite not being bribed or directly controlled. How did this happen?
Lefties would most likely argue that amassing of ownership in fewer hands with oligarchs directly owning or indirectly having great influence is the main problem. And I do admit, this is a problem, especially since many of those oligarchs goes to bed with other elitists daily and the fact that media moguls make a very important contribution to the enemy class.
But that’s not it, such power accumulation may hold a potential problem, but in a world with competition and freedom of speech existing, it wouldn’t matter, if there was a story it would come out and if one journalist wouldn’t write about something because of fear of getting fired, there would always be someone else that would. And if all else fails, people or enterprising entrepreneurs could always start their own paper or news station. But this is a situation that simply will not do for those in charge so in steps government and presto, all of a sudden such outs and potential for alternatives evaporate.
You see government has had a plan from the very start. Not really a conspiratorial thought-out plan, and for the most part the intent wasn’t what we actually got, but as always when government intervene the end result becomes worse or the complete opposite of what was initially intended.
One of the first things that happened was that journalists needed to get a specific education. If they didn’t go to government owned or subsidized schools with curriculums formed by state bureaucrats, it became very hard to get a job as truth-seeker. Well, you could still be famous or rich and they would put you on and let you tell a story, but otherwise, to become an actual journalist it wasn’t enough to have curious mind and wanting to investigate injustice of the world anymore, no, you also needed to first conform to a certain form of higher schooling.
The government of course claimed this was a good thing; it made journalists better educated which in turn would increase the quality. And journalist-unions agreed.
Another thing that happened early on was that government started to subsidize media or give them money so freedom of speech could be withheld with lesser thought on making a profit. Again it backfired.
I do actually believe that most politicians wanting this and still arguing for it, has good at heart. But as the case always is when you put the best of use of the state violence-monopoly, the intent doesn’t matter; the end-result will always worsen any situation.
You see, when a company suddenly gets ‘free’ money to do what they always done, they incorporate this money unto their books. Over time it becomes a part of the profit which makes them less inclined to make additional effort. In many countries (like Sweden) the government even gave more money to some within media then to others. Competition? Riiiight…
Then came a death-sentence for many unbelievers when government imposed aimed taxation. Through VAT-taxes or certain fees to be paid it became almost impossible for any potentially new paper or media-outlet to fight its way into the market. Most government even directly controls who can start and send TV and radio.
Over time the regulations, the taxes and the control functions mentioned (and some others) created a situation whereas journalists became partly dependent on the state, but even worse, became lazy. Today almost all reporting comes to us from a third of fourth (or more) steps away from the initial finding.
It goes something like this.
A reporter gets hold of a story; he can have got it from some government, from a big business or through his own investigation. The journalist in question then sells the story to routers or any other worldwide agency, and then all others buys that story, translate it and print it. No-one checks the facts, no-one argues against the initial report. If the story is big enough papers and such might send out their own people to built upon it and then they may check everything but since they’ve already said ‘A’, they cannot really say ‘B’ and certainly not ‘C’ because that would undermine their own initial reporting.
So whenever you read something or watch the news, it comes down to you from several steps back, often translated one or two times in the process. With this in mind do you really think what you see and read always is the truth?
This far you probably agree with me. Whatever the color of your politics may be, this is facts and as such cannot really be ignored.
But wait, there’s more.
You see journalists also have a tendency to sleep with those in power. More often than you think, quite literarily ‘sleep with’. Marriage between a politician and a news-anchor isn’t that uncommon, and since many papers have a political agenda ties between the powers tightens even further. And even those that don’t marry within the elitist structure are very dependent on “sources” and “whistleblowers” inside the sphere.
It is here that Internet comes into play.
The internet has blown all this away. Suddenly it doesn’t matter if you’re educated or how much money you get from government, you can still reach a worldwide audience. Anyone can be a journalist, anyone can find out the truth by cross-checking facts or talking with nearby spectators directly online instead of waiting for the next day paper edition.
Internet revolutionized our entire way of life and this is certainly true comes to information. Internet isn’t about terrorists sending emails back and forth (which they never do) and it isn’t about pedophiles picking up kids left unsupervised, it’s about the free flow of information. As such nothing in our entire history comes close to internet in importance.
You can read about a story from different angles, double-check it, read others opinions of it and make up your own mind hours, sometimes even days, before it reaches mainstream media. In effect turning the old media structure into yet another spectator needing to react.
Over time this has developed and today all people growing up with the free flow of information can quite easily see through much of the elitist agenda. I would even argue that we don’t need schools anymore. Why would we? Everything exists online, and if you have an interest in a certain topic you can read until your eyes bleed and consequently learn more than any school could ever teach you.
In the eyes of the righteous this is a problem.
How can you persuade people about the bible story when anyone can go online and read about how Sumerians’ told it first and how the church meeting in Nicea voted (!) on what story to tell and not to tell? How can you convince citizens about how scary a flu is when anyone with an hour over can check statistics and facts that makes them ignore the scare as well as the vaccine? Is it even possible to hide away a scandal today? And when anyone can read an article and then look up who the writer is and find out that that person actually stand to gain power or wealth if people listen to that story, will that not put a dent in the agenda?
So again government needs to regulate, control, tax and monitor what’s going on.
We cannot have people roaming around finding out things without first having an agency check how relevant the facts actually are.
And aren’t there pedophiles on Facebook? Didn’t some anarchist send an email on how to make a bomb? Didn’t grandma read about Hitler’s sexy wife? And how about those kids downloading porn eh? Certainly we need departments checking this.
And those pesky bloggers, how dare they write about the latest scandal mainstream media is ignoring!?
If you listen to politicians and most of the mainstream and old media; the best and brightest invention of human history is a playground for child-molesters, terrorists, political fridge groups and illegal file-shares. The shining hope of freedom and education has been twisted around into something evil the elitists can fight.
In my eyes this is a very dangerous situation and if this way of silencing any dissent is allowed to continue, and if we let this beacon of light end up in the hands of the enemy class, well then we can say goodbye to democracy.
Internet is freedoms last stand, and I hope more of you out there realize this before it is too late.
The problem with modern day society was, in the eyes of the powers that be, and before the age of internet, competition among media and journalists. As long as reporters fought over stories and we had a vide variety of papers with many different owners the elitist structure had somewhat of a problem. How could any politician lie and get away with it if journalists were lurking around every corner looking to break any juicy story?
For a brief moment in human history, the media actually did their job. Not always of course, and they could be manipulated or silenced in different ways, but even within totalitarian regimes there was, and still is, oppositional journalists whom risked their lives to tell the truth. Silently, and for no apparent reason this has changed.
Media today isn’t an auditor of government, they aren’t checking the facts or looking behind the curtain, and worse still, most of the time they seem to be in cahoots with those in power despite not being bribed or directly controlled. How did this happen?
Lefties would most likely argue that amassing of ownership in fewer hands with oligarchs directly owning or indirectly having great influence is the main problem. And I do admit, this is a problem, especially since many of those oligarchs goes to bed with other elitists daily and the fact that media moguls make a very important contribution to the enemy class.
But that’s not it, such power accumulation may hold a potential problem, but in a world with competition and freedom of speech existing, it wouldn’t matter, if there was a story it would come out and if one journalist wouldn’t write about something because of fear of getting fired, there would always be someone else that would. And if all else fails, people or enterprising entrepreneurs could always start their own paper or news station. But this is a situation that simply will not do for those in charge so in steps government and presto, all of a sudden such outs and potential for alternatives evaporate.
You see government has had a plan from the very start. Not really a conspiratorial thought-out plan, and for the most part the intent wasn’t what we actually got, but as always when government intervene the end result becomes worse or the complete opposite of what was initially intended.
One of the first things that happened was that journalists needed to get a specific education. If they didn’t go to government owned or subsidized schools with curriculums formed by state bureaucrats, it became very hard to get a job as truth-seeker. Well, you could still be famous or rich and they would put you on and let you tell a story, but otherwise, to become an actual journalist it wasn’t enough to have curious mind and wanting to investigate injustice of the world anymore, no, you also needed to first conform to a certain form of higher schooling.
The government of course claimed this was a good thing; it made journalists better educated which in turn would increase the quality. And journalist-unions agreed.
Another thing that happened early on was that government started to subsidize media or give them money so freedom of speech could be withheld with lesser thought on making a profit. Again it backfired.
I do actually believe that most politicians wanting this and still arguing for it, has good at heart. But as the case always is when you put the best of use of the state violence-monopoly, the intent doesn’t matter; the end-result will always worsen any situation.
You see, when a company suddenly gets ‘free’ money to do what they always done, they incorporate this money unto their books. Over time it becomes a part of the profit which makes them less inclined to make additional effort. In many countries (like Sweden) the government even gave more money to some within media then to others. Competition? Riiiight…
Then came a death-sentence for many unbelievers when government imposed aimed taxation. Through VAT-taxes or certain fees to be paid it became almost impossible for any potentially new paper or media-outlet to fight its way into the market. Most government even directly controls who can start and send TV and radio.
Over time the regulations, the taxes and the control functions mentioned (and some others) created a situation whereas journalists became partly dependent on the state, but even worse, became lazy. Today almost all reporting comes to us from a third of fourth (or more) steps away from the initial finding.
It goes something like this.
A reporter gets hold of a story; he can have got it from some government, from a big business or through his own investigation. The journalist in question then sells the story to routers or any other worldwide agency, and then all others buys that story, translate it and print it. No-one checks the facts, no-one argues against the initial report. If the story is big enough papers and such might send out their own people to built upon it and then they may check everything but since they’ve already said ‘A’, they cannot really say ‘B’ and certainly not ‘C’ because that would undermine their own initial reporting.
So whenever you read something or watch the news, it comes down to you from several steps back, often translated one or two times in the process. With this in mind do you really think what you see and read always is the truth?
This far you probably agree with me. Whatever the color of your politics may be, this is facts and as such cannot really be ignored.
But wait, there’s more.
You see journalists also have a tendency to sleep with those in power. More often than you think, quite literarily ‘sleep with’. Marriage between a politician and a news-anchor isn’t that uncommon, and since many papers have a political agenda ties between the powers tightens even further. And even those that don’t marry within the elitist structure are very dependent on “sources” and “whistleblowers” inside the sphere.
It is here that Internet comes into play.
The internet has blown all this away. Suddenly it doesn’t matter if you’re educated or how much money you get from government, you can still reach a worldwide audience. Anyone can be a journalist, anyone can find out the truth by cross-checking facts or talking with nearby spectators directly online instead of waiting for the next day paper edition.
Internet revolutionized our entire way of life and this is certainly true comes to information. Internet isn’t about terrorists sending emails back and forth (which they never do) and it isn’t about pedophiles picking up kids left unsupervised, it’s about the free flow of information. As such nothing in our entire history comes close to internet in importance.
You can read about a story from different angles, double-check it, read others opinions of it and make up your own mind hours, sometimes even days, before it reaches mainstream media. In effect turning the old media structure into yet another spectator needing to react.
Over time this has developed and today all people growing up with the free flow of information can quite easily see through much of the elitist agenda. I would even argue that we don’t need schools anymore. Why would we? Everything exists online, and if you have an interest in a certain topic you can read until your eyes bleed and consequently learn more than any school could ever teach you.
In the eyes of the righteous this is a problem.
How can you persuade people about the bible story when anyone can go online and read about how Sumerians’ told it first and how the church meeting in Nicea voted (!) on what story to tell and not to tell? How can you convince citizens about how scary a flu is when anyone with an hour over can check statistics and facts that makes them ignore the scare as well as the vaccine? Is it even possible to hide away a scandal today? And when anyone can read an article and then look up who the writer is and find out that that person actually stand to gain power or wealth if people listen to that story, will that not put a dent in the agenda?
So again government needs to regulate, control, tax and monitor what’s going on.
We cannot have people roaming around finding out things without first having an agency check how relevant the facts actually are.
And aren’t there pedophiles on Facebook? Didn’t some anarchist send an email on how to make a bomb? Didn’t grandma read about Hitler’s sexy wife? And how about those kids downloading porn eh? Certainly we need departments checking this.
And those pesky bloggers, how dare they write about the latest scandal mainstream media is ignoring!?
If you listen to politicians and most of the mainstream and old media; the best and brightest invention of human history is a playground for child-molesters, terrorists, political fridge groups and illegal file-shares. The shining hope of freedom and education has been twisted around into something evil the elitists can fight.
In my eyes this is a very dangerous situation and if this way of silencing any dissent is allowed to continue, and if we let this beacon of light end up in the hands of the enemy class, well then we can say goodbye to democracy.
Internet is freedoms last stand, and I hope more of you out there realize this before it is too late.
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