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Idiotic Foreign Policy (If Any)

16 Tuesday Aug 2016

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In Washington, whatever the policies may be, common sense and intelligence certainly are foreign. Foreign as in alien, absent, and completely unknown. The crowd clustered around The Hill is so stupid that they could only be modern Americans. True, the owners – the banks and corporations and special interests, sometimes behind the scenes – they have smarts. But they are marred by an evil as deep as D.C.’s vapidity.

The only real policy in the District is stealing and wasting money through a never-ending game of domination (of everything and everyone). The foreign part? Let’s just call in “international affairs” to differentiate it from the domestic thievery and oppression. Internationally, let’s start with “policy” towards Iran.

Washington has had it out for Iran since the 1950s. The reason originally given to the American people for this animosity has long since been forgotten. The real reason I already covered, the power and the money thing. Still, today, Iran is bad. Iran is our enemy. We would go to war with Iran except we’ve lately discovered we’re not all that good at the sport anymore (see Iraq, etc.). Iran is bad.

There’s ISIS. ISIS is bad (sometimes). It would seem to the sensible that a terrorist organization that destroys nightclubs, beheads priests, and runs people down with delivery trucks would be bad full-time. The problem is that Washington created ISIS, intentionally as a CIA toy or accidentally in a drunken stupor. They made them, trained, them, armed them, funded them and then kicked them in the head to get the jihadis really angry. They’ve alternated between these things off and on for a good, long time now. Meanwhile, Washington and its inbreed allies in Europe have willfully imported the terrorists into the West. Insane! The cycle of lunacy goes on apace but, officially, the liars of Columbia will say ISIS is our enemy. ISIS is bad.

Then there’s Russia. Russia is descended from another big, criminally talented, power and money nation, the U.S.S.R. I recall as a child hearing we had a of problems with them and had had such for a while. Then, suddenly – “POOF!” – they were gone. All was quiet for a while and then along came the modern, civilized nation of Russia. Political BS aside, if nations were individual people, America and Russia would look like twins. The sensible (where’d he go??) might think our two countries would be cooperating at everything, being the best of friends. No.

Washington has again decreed that Russia is an evil empire. Russia hates us. Russia is our enemy. Some of the very lowest and dumbest dregs around D.C. actually want a war with Russia. We could not win that one. Neither could Russia. Not an all-out war. We’d all be dead. The Americans and Soviets of old knew this. Thus the grudging but relatively peaceful cold war. Putin and company still appear to have some sense. Washington has lost it all. Russia is bad.

So: Iran bad; ISIS bad; Russia bad. Today, wouldn’t you know it, news comes that Russia is bombing the living hell out of ISIS in Syria. They’re flying heavy bombers out of … wait for it … Iran.

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One might call this irony but, really, words cannot describe it. The closet we can get is, “Washington is our enemy” or “Washington is bad”.

 

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Political SummerSlam

05 Friday Aug 2016

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Speculation abounds that the Donald might be trying to throw the election to Hillary. Rumor is he doesn’t really want the office and he and the Clintons have been friends for some time.

I still think he’s in. It makes little difference either way. I’ve long said American politics has degenerated into a WWE (WWF for us seniors) carnival act. The Democrats and Republicans play “heels” and “faces” and then trade off as the scripted plot develops. Regardless of which side they’re on, the TV wrestlers all work for Vince McMahon and the overall goal is to keep fans watching and paying. It’s the same with the “two-party” system. The politicians all work for the banks and the goal is to get you watching (but not too close) and paying.

I’ve said and written that for years. Now, people on the Republican side are actually starting to mimic the Godfather of WWF fame.

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Life imitates art. Politics imitates professional wrestling. ‘Merica.

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Felonious Entanglement

03 Wednesday Aug 2016

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America’s first president warned his compatriots and their posterity to steer clean of entangling foreign affairs. (Geo. Washington, Farewell Address, 1796). He also advised against the ills of faction, or party-based politics as these tend to foster the death of civility while at the same time allowing for the expansion of laws. This wise admonishment was dutifully copied into history books and then promptly forgotten.

When, at unhappy times, faction meets entanglement, bad things happen.

Being born of European breed, it is only natural that America would have some alliance with and affairs in Britain and the Continent. Even Washington did; Lafayette, we remember. What Washington was warning of was affairs to the point of controlling and confusing excess. Sometimes the excess is demonstrated in ridiculous fashion.

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Europe and America still have much in common, including many of the same problems. Refugees, immigration, and terrorism are a few of those modern commonalities. France’s Hollande has made a career out of brilliant failure to address Islamic counterculture and terror in his own country. On his sleepy watch the French have endured attack after attack after attack – mass murder upon mass murder. He should resign and auto-exile.

Instead he chooses to intercede in American politics with haughty words and unclear motives. Hollande, who has lain down for the French, is disgusted that one man at least says he might stand up for Americans. His counterpart in Germany, equally ineffective in operation if a tad more evil in theory, has wisely if oddly remained silent. If she will not also resign, at least she keeps quite. Entanglement with those two might be unwise to say the least.

France and Germany both have many connections with America, not least of which are their economic ties. They, along with Switzerland and the failing EU, have powerful central banks. The Swiss host the most powerful of all such institutions, the Bank for International Settlements (BIS). With such money-changers we often find the intersection of entanglement and funny money, oftentimes with not-so-funny reactions.

America’s latest president recently made scandalous use of that interwoven, Monopoloy money, printing press relationship. He did so to facilitate the latest blunder in a decades-old string of entanglement in another part of the world.

In the 1950’s the people of Iran elected a new government – democratically and in pursuit of self-determination – then said to be approved conduct by the American elite. The elite, ever a fickle and criminal bunch, had a change of collective black heart. In 1953 the CIA essentially overthrew the new prime minister and his reform-oriented government in order to permanently keep the Shaw Mohammad in power. The Shaw declared himself emperor in 1967. This was good business for the military-industrial complex. It was also a fantastic example of entanglement writ large.

In 1979 the Shaw placed an order with the MIC for the purchase of American fighter jets, secured with a $400 million deposit. The transaction was poorly timed as the Iranian people had nearly simultaneously had enough of the Shaw’s oppression and, accordingly, ousted him in favor of religious zealots. 1979 also saw the advent of the long-lasting Iranian policy of hostage taking for political purposes.

True to form, around 2014 the Iranians seized several Americans on dubious charges and held them as pawns in their never-ending match with D.C. Around the same time the Iranians’ case against America for the return of that $400 million (plus interest) was moving through arbitration in the Hague. There was also the issue of Iran’s nuclear projects.

In January of 2016 all of these issues appeared to have been neatly wrapped up; Hussein Obama himself tied a little bow atop the package. Iran agreed to international monitoring, hostages were released, and the court case was settled. At first and independent glance it appeared the deal was a triumph of statesmanship. Maybe it was. Now the details are emerging; they do not look promising.

The Obama administration this year stealthily transferred $400 million in cash to Iran. This was the first payment (all on a single airplane to Tehran) under a $1.7 Billion settlement of the old 1979 case. The administration says it was done to facilitate the terms of the legal case. Critics say it amounted to a ransom payment. Both are likely correct. I, upon hastily reading a few laws, wonder if it did not also amount to a felony.

The $400 million payment was assembled of various European currencies and delivered on palates in a cargo plane. The money came from those European central banksters and was arranged by mysterious Swiss types – probably in the BIS. The administration admitted it could not (openly) send U.S. currency as that would violate U.S. law against paying cash to Iran.

Following the unpleasantness of 1979 the U.S. enacted laws prohibiting investment and most other transactions with Iran. Knowing the D.C. lust for criminalizing everything, I looked for something and found it.

It’s not just outright payments that are prohibited. Any attempt to evade the law and any conspiracy to do so also amounts to a violation. See: 31 C.F.R. § 560.203.  If you or I had attempted to invest money in Iran for whatever reason and had converted our U.S. dollars into Euros or Francs in order to do so, we would already be in jail for conspiracy to evade the law. The penalties are both civil ($250,000 or twice the amount of the transaction) and criminal ($1 million fines and 20 years in prison). 50 U.S.C. § 1705. In other words, it’s a felony.

A felony for you and I, that is. We all know now that the law does not apply to the government itself. No law so applies. D.C. isn’t so much above the law as it is the law. Thus, it is lawless. Any FBI agent who dares issue an investigative report here wastes his time and commits career suicide.

Criminal or not, if these payments were a final end to the Iranian debacle, they would be (tax) money well spent. They are not. Once the meddling starts, it has no end.

This is why Washington forewarned us. We ignore his advice at our peril.

With Recoveries Like These…

01 Monday Aug 2016

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Friday the Commerce Department, as reported by the Wall Street Journal, officially confirmed what many have known for some time – the current, post-financial crisis, recession “recovery” is one of the longest in modern history and THE weakest.

Even seven years after the recession ended, the current stretch of economic gains has yielded less growth than much shorter business cycles.

In terms of average annual growth, the pace of this expansion has been by far the weakest of any since 1949. (And for which we have quarterly data.) The economy has grown at a 2.1% annual rate since the U.S. recovery began in mid-2009, according to gross-domestic-product data the Commerce Department released Friday.

For so many it feels like the recession never ended. This, by the way, was the recession that they never actually admitted had begun. Remember that? The lies? “Bankin’ industry’s never been stronger!” – even as it teetered on the edge of total collapse.

The WSJ provides several informative graphs. In describing the graphs they lay off of the “recovery” talk and correctly label the upward-trending parts of the business cycle as “expansions”. Except, there hasn’t been much of the upward of late.

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That’s us, over far right, the littlest bar. WSJ/Commerce Dept.

You’ll immediately note that as time goes by the recoveries (expansions) are steadily getting weaker. This graph notes annual GDP changes. Their next graph shows cumulative changes over decades or, rather, between recessions. By that one, America’s best days were in the 1960s and the 80s/90s. Of course, that particular graph allows one to compute a rough average time between recessions.

Yes, the current “recovery” started seven years ago but the precipitating recession started nearly nine years back. Recovered or not, we’re overdue for another recession. Nice, huh?

This story and the graphs show the strength (or lack thereof) of recovery, not the magnitude of the recessions. The financial crisis was huge. We’re nowhere near being made whole again. And now the entire economy is changing.

If any of the forgoing alarms you (you awake, out there?), you may lay the blame for your concerns at the feet of our friends at the Federal Reserve and our trusty “servants” in Washington. In a world with a responsible government and without a central bank cartel (the USA before 1913) recoveries were as sudden and short-lived as the recessions – both merely punctuated periods of steadier growth. Growth without the benefit of Fed funny money.

Not content with the status quo the Fed and the criminals in D.C. set out to “manage”the economy, which the Fed accomplishes in much the same way a bad drunk “manages” a car. (It goes really, really fast …. until it hits a tree).

Part of their brilliant management scheme for the past nine years has been to foster ridiculous government spending while simultaneously flooding banks (not just American ones) with cash. The banks have not released much to the general economy. Rather, they have played Monopoly and roulette with derivatives and other gambles of their own making. They haven’t played too well, either. Currently there is a race to see which major bank will collapse under its own weight first. Right now it looks like Deutsche Bank but who knows? Then comes another financial crisis. Recession. More funny money. Rinse and repeat.

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Those of you who wasted your time watching THE party’s two political conventions, with all the blabbing about seemingly everything, may remember hearing nothing about these issues. They certainly don’t have any solutions to offer. Ron Paul did but the masses wrote him off as crazy and unelectable. Now we have a recovery which is crazy and unsalvageable.

Happy August the first!

20 Trillion Reason$ to Love Government

21 Thursday Jul 2016

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Democrats are (once again) celebrating Hillary’s inexplicable ability to avoid the jailhouse. Republicans are celebrating Trump for Trump’s sake. It’s so exciting!

They should all take a brief pause to celebrate a mutual achievement, many years in the making. The on-books U.S. federal debt has hit TWENTY TRILLION DOLLARS ($20,000,000,000,000)!!!! Hooray for government!

Actually, it’s a hair under $19.4 Trillion. Or, it was; it has gone up many millions of dollars while I’ve been typing these sentences. But, heck, I’m celebrating early. Here’s where it stood just a minute or two ago:

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Courtesy: U.S. Debt Clock.

Yes, your “share” of the debt is almost $60,000. Each one of your children “owes” $60,000 – today – tomorrow (hell, later this morning) it will be more.

The debt, if it must be divvied up, should be allocated among about 600 corrupt men and women – the President, members of Congress, Treasury officials, and Fed Governors. They each “owe” roughly $32.33 Billion. By the way, $19.4T is about 105% of our GDP.

That’s just for the federal debt, as officially and wrongly accounted. The total on-book liabilities including state, corporate, and your own debts comes closer to $66 Trillion (358% of GDP).

These are big numbers. They keep getting bigger.

A more honest accounting figures in the total of all liabilities like Medicare and Social Security shortcomings, which must under law be paid … somehow. The net present value of those liabilities is over $100 Billion (554% GDP). And, that’s what we owe, and need the money on hand to pay off, today. We’re in the hole. Deep.

Then, for honesty’s sake and as a precaution, one should calculate in the U.S. derivatives market. That means all of the side bets made by banks, insurance companies, and different funds – a sort of end around the Fed to create more money than really exists. That number is over $420 Trillion (what’s the point% of GDP). The global derivatives exposure pushes the number well over $1 QUADRILLION (Ha Ha % of GDP)! These extraordinary inclusions are important and necessary because, though they are private and fictitious, in the event of eventual default or collapse, they will be placed on the backs of the people. The banks are too big to fail, remember. Your share of that is something like $3,125,000. Got your checkbook ready, just in case???

Now for some predictions by me.

Presidents tend to serve two terms almost as a rule these days. I’d say there is, right now, a 65% chance Donald John Trump will be the 45th President. At the end of his second term the “official” U.S. debt will probably be somewhere around $40 Trillion. In the off-chance Hillary Rodham Clinton is elected, at the end of her second term the debt will also be about $40 Trillion. Again, that’s the loosely accounted debt. The real figure will be closer to a quarter Quadrillion, the hypothetical deviratives-based debt exposure closer to $2Q.

None of this will ever be paid. These numbers exceed the GDP of the entire world. The higher numbers are likely equal to, or exceed, the value of the entire earth and its contents. The only way to pay off such ridiculous amounts would be to print more money – which would have to be accounted as additional debt. Hilarious.

The politicians and the banksters would be content to let this cycle go on forever if that were possible. It is not. The people, the majority, don’t understand or care. It doesn’t hit home until the lights go out and the grocery store is derelict – ask those in Venezuela.

The only sane solution is to blank the books – entirely. The whole of all the debts should be repudiated and forgotten. This will happen at some point. It has to. We might as well make it an official decision. Thereafter, it might be wise to make debt illegal. How about a war on debt!? Debt issuance, by governments, banks, etc., could (should) be a felony; debt creation via usury and creation of supply inflating, funny money – capital felonies.

If that were now the law, we would need about 600 tall trees and 600 lengths of good rope. I think you’ll admit those are far easier and cheaper to come by than your $60,000 alternatives.

What is Wrong? Random Facts, Figures, and Opinions on Race, Violence, Government, and Some Other Stuff

08 Friday Jul 2016

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Historically, I experience a summer slow-down in blog views. It’s that time of year again. I’m also tired of late and working on other things. Yesterday, I took a great little mini vacation. I had a great time.

This morning, recovering, I looked at the news; it seems like the whole world is coming unglued. It isn’t, any more than usual, but it looks very bad. I don’t know if my following list provides perspective or not, but here it is.

Neither of these men needed to be or deserved to be gunned down.

There is no war on the police, per se, though there easily could be.

“Blowback” is a real thing.

There are 14 other occupations in America more lethally dangerous than being a police officer. Some are many times more dangerous. Logging is a dangerous job.

The cops are not out to murder blacks, per se, though it certainly seems like it.

The cops kill more whites every year than blacks. It’s the percentages and perceptions that drive BLM. You really can’t blame them, though…

Statistically speaking in terms of homicides, black people represent the largest danger to other black people.

A glance and a search around the internet will reveal more than a few whites being beaten, tazed, harassed, and killed by the cops – for nothing.

Still, white people are most dangerous to other white people.

There are criminals out there but most “crime” in America shouldn’t honestly be classified as such.

There are many bad apples in the barrel but many police officers are just plain people doing a job the best they can.

Too many people, of all colors, professions, etc., are killed all the time for essentially nothing. This should really end.

A murderer is a murderer, even if he wears a special costume and a badge.

It’s wrong to murder anyone, even if they’re wearing a badge.

America is a safer place now than it has been in decades. One wouldn’t think that given all the news of murders, hatred, and terrorism. It’s the speed of the reporting and all the camera phone.

The instant and constant reporting is new to human history.Maybe it’s a good thing, maybe it will help stamp out the last vestiges of violence and stupidity.

Different peoples are different. That’s why they’re different peoples.

Most people, despite being different, are really almost all the same on a day-to-day and individual to individual level. Most get along pretty well together.

Most individuals are, all in all, fairly decent.

Groups of people start having problems.

Many (maybe even a majority of) Americans, regardless of age, sex, race, income, geographical location, etc., have a really hard time properly operating a motor vehicle.

Those groups of individuals who, as groups, start to have problems, resort to government as a solution to their problems.

Government never has any solutions.

Government, once it takes hold, gains a life of its own, a life of dominance and control.

If the government can’t find a problem to not solve, it will create one. Or a hundred.

Certain little elite numbers of people and institutions traditionally seize on government power to further their own interests.

These elites are highly effective in plotting different people (or even similar people) against each other. This creates an atmosphere of fear and chaos which greatly assists the perception that more law may be the answer. It’s a self-sustaining machine, very expensive and very dangerous.

Many turn a blind eye to all of the above (unless it directly affects them) not because they are stupid, but because they would rather concentrate on the more pleasant, even trivial aspects of life. Understandable. Some are just stupid. Others are lazy. Again, the cameras and phones may help clarify or cure some of this.

“On the street” blacks and whites tend to look and behave mostly the same to me.

Many blacks and whites “on the street” irritate the hell out of me (if I let them).

I have a lot of friends, white and black. I’m rather fond of them.

There are other colors than black and white. The same rules generally apply to them as well.

For my own trivial pursuits, I like football. It’s getting really difficult to watch the average game; I keep waiting and waiting (usually until the end of the fourth quarter) for the football to break out of the otherwise ridiculous circus side-show.

A small group of bankers long ago discovered how to completely control government. Government long ago discovered how to completely control the people. Both groups have done a remarkably good job for themselves. Kudos to them (and damn them). All of this is mostly done in the open. Oddly, the people still haven’t figured it out. Shame on them (and hopes they will yet wake up).

Mencken wrote about imaginary hobgoblins. They still don’t exist for the most part. Some, however, have actually come to life. ISIS comes to mind.

Banning guns won’t help blacks, most cops, or anyone else. These things are just tools. It makes as little sense as banning chain saws to “help” loggers.

Gun bans don’t work. Neither to wars. That is unless by “work” one means “help the government become even stronger and more dangerous”. Then, they work great.

People like James Pearce and Gersh Kuntzman denounce and blame ordinary persons for committing imaginary crimes and for being “nuts” in the criminally, nutty manner possible. This isn’t a case of the pot calling the kettle black. This is a case of psychopathic lunatics trying to project their own illnesses onto the general population. What happened to the asylums?

This rant went on a little longer than I intended. I’ll stop it now.

Paul Ryan Rescues Banksters, Globalists

24 Tuesday May 2016

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Do not panic. That foul odor wafting through the air today was not the result of an explosion at a hog rendering plant. You did not smell a rat. Well, actually you did – a rat named Paul Ryan. The little Speaker who couldn’t finally got some traction with his first signature legislation in the House. He, under orders from Jacob Lew and the international monied powers, crafted a “bipartisan deal” to bail out..er..restructure Puerto Rico’s $70 Billion debts.

A bipartisan action is generally applauded as it is seen as cooperation between the Bloods and Crips of Congress. What it really means, most of the time, is that a royal screwing is coming.

The Commonwealth of Puerto Rico is an unincorporated U.S. Territory. The people there have been granted near statehood, with a governor, a general assembly and some other criminal offices. The locals have petitioned for full statehood. Oddly, the United Nations considers P.R. a separate and sovereign nation. Whatever one calls the Island, the voters there and their elected clowns are adults. They should act like adults. Make a debt, pay a debt. Or not. Just don’t expect someone else to pick up the tab. Speaker Ryan has other ideas.

I warned about this coming theft several weeks ago:

Puerto Rico is not about to default on its debt payments, but is defaulting (has [past tense] defaulted) on them. All things being equal this would not concern me much. What got my attention in the Wall Street Journal’s article last night was the smug arrogance of the Empire’s chief henchman, Jack Lew. He’s the creep who is kicking Old Hickory off the Twenty. Well, he’s been chosen to make that suggestion to the Fed puppet-masters.

In a letter to Congress, Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew warned on Monday that a U.S. “taxpayer-funded bailout may become the only legislative course available” if the proposed restructuring legislation isn’t approved.

The island’s debt is held by mutual funds, hedge funds, bond insurers and individual investors, who were attracted in part by tax benefits and high yields. The default Monday casts serious doubt on the commonwealth’s ability to make other future payments, which “means that other defaults are very likely on other Puerto Rico credits,” said Paul Mansour…

-WSJ, May 2, 2016.

Well, of course. Let one government and its supporters screw up and the other government and all its supporters (willing or no) will foot the bill. It’s the only course available. Letting nature take its course is not an option – that would be bad for the hedge funds, banks, and insurance companies. They pay a lot of money for their (their, like the own it and it belongs to them) government. They have to get their money’s worth. The bulk of the people remain blissfully unaware.

You may be blissful about this garbage but you’re no longer unaware. The Hill and the WSJ have notified you and I’ve told you twice now.

A people and their crooked “leaders” make mistakes. It happens to the best of us. A default would be bad for P.R. but it wouldn’t be the end of the world. Things might actually get better – financial correction they call it. But then the big boys would lose on their investments and they NEVER lose. At least not while they have your taxes to loot.

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The local spendthrifts will keep on spending, the Wall Street cabal will remain neck-deep in caviar, and the GOP establishment claims a victory. Yes, those “conservatives” everyone loves (and their “liberal” friends like Nanny Nancy Pelosi) think robbing the people to pay satanic hucksters is a victory. By the way, the only real opposition to this scheme in Congress has come from “socialist” Bernie Sanders:

The Puerto Rico legislation still hasn’t been scheduled on the House floor. Bishop will mark up the bill in his committee on Wednesday, leaving the full chamber just one day to take it up before lawmakers leave town Thursday for the Memorial Day recess.

Some lawmakers want a quick vote on Puerto Rico this week. The longer it hangs out there, the thinking goes, the more time political foes will have to try to stir up opposition. On the left, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), a Democratic presidential candidate, urged his Senate colleagues Monday to oppose the legislation, ripping the oversight board as “undemocratic” because it’s comprised of “unelected” appointees.

  • The Hill, May 24, 2016.

The bailout will happen; consider it a done deal. Really $2 Billion or the whole $70 Billion is but a barely noticeable drop in the fed’s ocean of economic woe. Things like this add up though. When the whole system comes crashing down don’t count on the banksters to be found let alone lend a hand. They’re gathering the last of the cash (yours and mine) and preparing to flee. However, come hell or high water, the politicians will be easier to find. They’ll still expect to be re-elected. Remember this story and all the others. Hold them accountable or rinse and repeat with similar results.

Dying to Vote?

18 Wednesday May 2016

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This morning I drove between two government welfare operations (a “school” and some sort of dance hall/basketball court). Dozens of merry-looking people lined the street (many of them heavily heavy) waving and holding signs proclaiming the need to vote for one criminal busybody or another. The otherwise pleasant neighborhood was clogged with hideous campaign signs. I waved at a few of the sign holders and laughed to myself.

Ah! Another election. Another chance for the slaves to make suggestions about their overseers. Another chance to remember Mencken: “Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.” Later at the supermarket I observed some of the overweight and/or disabled and/or EBT-empowered citizenry sporting cute little “I voted!” stickers. I am so happy for them. I’m glad they are proud they think they made a difference. I know they didn’t but it is good for folks to have something to believe in.

I believe in freedom. I have it. I have it because I take it. I do not need to waste time playing political games with people who despise me and who are not fit to shine shoes let alone hold important offices. I know the concept is so simple that it cuts against the grain of what most have been taught. I get it. They vote to feel comfortable. I say let them. I’m happy for that one in a million that finally notices that after election after election after election, after all the lies and broken promises – that nothing changes. It’s a rigged game and the house always wins. I’d love to see people stop playing. If everyone stopped the politicians and their false god would shrivel up and try to slink away by night.

Some people get militant about elections and “their” state. It is usually the militants. They are generally given to a particular faction. They even get militant about militancy – often in conjunction with their partisanship. Facebook provides a lot of examples. Take this one:

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One sees the darndest things on Facebook.

This post is an attempted admonishment of people like me, insinuating that by not supporting the criminal regime we insult the memory of dead soldiers (valiant every one of them).

Let’s start with the picture. I said it was about partisanship. “Republicans who stay home elect Democrats.” I suppose this is not targeted specifically at me, the anarchist. Shame on the non-voting Republicans! Shame! But, what happens if they decide to vote and vote Democrat? What it the Democrats do the opposite? What if everyone stays home and nobody votes? Who cares, really? I’ve noticed over the long years that both parties tend to push the same thing – their god of omnipresent government. It never works out for anyone except the politicians, some bureaucrats, the banksters and other corporate criminal hacks. Again, why participate in such a stupid scheme?

For non-voting Republicans the shame goes deeper than just seeing the other team in office. “Keep this in mind when you turn your back on the millions who died to give and keep your right to vote as you choose to stay home and not vote.” Modern Republicans tend to be jingoistic and pro-military – to the point of making the armed forces a demi-god under almighty government. Support the troops!

As with the subject picture, this caption is complete and total bullshit. Millions did not die to give you the right to vote. But, if they did, then they also would have given you the right to not vote. Rights do not have to be used. The freedom thing again – to do or not to do as one chooses.

In fact, “millions” dying is a stretch to begin with. The author of the caption obviously means the millions of American soldiers who died. At the outside maximum only 1.354 Million men have died in all of America’s wars. Out of that number only 664,440 actually died in combat.

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Who knew we were in the middle of Operation Inherent Resolve? Resolve what? To vote? Wikipedia.

Wikipedia lists about 80 American wars or conflicts. That’s about one war every three years since we told off King George. We’re a warlike people it seems. Most of those wars had absolutely nothing to do with voting. At best I would say three were somewhat election related and those are very complicated cases. The Revolution set us free from England. That war was over before the current Constitutional (ha!) form of government was created. The statutory right to vote, indeed the existence of the government for and under which to vote was not around when those 25,000 soldiers (maximum estimate) died. Can they really be counted for Facebook shaming purposes?

The English struck back in 1812. Presumably they did not want to deprive Americans of the right to vote; they just wanted to change the voting system. Do we include the 15,000 (maximum estimate again) who died fending them off?

Then there is the strange case of the Civil War. It wasn’t a civil war by definition – more a war to stop a second revolution. It wasn’t a declared war either. The “wisdom” goes that Lincoln couldn’t get a declaration of war against the Confederacy because that would have required a facial acknowledgment of the CSA as a distinct nation. Semantics and legalities aside, Lincoln killed a whole hell of lot of people. The War of Northern Aggression was America’s deadliest conflict to date. 214,938 men were known to have perished in combat and an estimated 750,000 died all toll.

Of course, those numbers have to be divided into two sides. 364,511 died fighting for Lincoln; 299,524 died for Davis and Co. (By government math those numbers add up to 750,000). If by modern geography I identify myself with the Confederate dead, then wouldn’t it stand to reason that the 364,511 Union troops died trying to take away my (my ancestors) right to vote? Oh yeah, all those marauding Union troops came to my family’s home under orders from a Republican. Details…

Going with the above supposition, I’ll count the 299,524 CSA dead along with the maximum estimates of those killed in the other two wars for a grand total of 339,524 dying for the right to vote. If you subtract the Union dead from that number (they did die trying to take away the right, right?), then the total number of dead soldiers deceased for the electorate is 24,987 – terrible, but not in the millions. If the Yankees run a similar scenario, they come up with another number nowhere near one million, let alone millions plural.

The other wars? No voting consequences. WWII, Korea, Vietnam, and the Cold War were arguably results of WWI and the awful aftermath. America entered WWI at the behest of bankers and other criminals who stood to make a lot of money. Ask Smedley Butler about that. The Germans did not ever want to take away your “I voted!” stickers. Neither did Ho Chi Minh. Saddam was no threat to the ballot. A huge number of our wars were fought against American Indians for the sole purpose of genocide (wave the flag about that). I cannot believe Wikipedia actually included the 34 killed on board the U.S.S. Liberty but, even so, those men died while minding their business in international waters while monitoring someone else’s war. No votes affected.

As sure as people will keep voting, America will keep on fighting more wars. I challenge the assertion that all those who died and those that surely will die deserve our respect (fighting for the vote or not). Columbia County, Georgia is a hotbed of pro-military, flag-waving, GOP voters. It is also the home of U.S. Army Sergeant Chris Muse. I have no idea if Sgt. Muse is willing to lay down his life in the very real possibility the Apache decide to attack an Evans polling place. I do know the police seem to think him capable of kidnapping and raping a 14-year-old girl. Should said girl’s parents thank Muse for his “service”? Should they go out and vote about it? Were I the girl’s father I would rather hang the criminal upside down and disembowel him with a rusty hacksaw. Then again, I am not a Republican.

This pitiful episode and others were about power, money and killing – not voting, freedom or slavery. Google.

No Republican nor Democrat nor any other fairy-tale believer am I. I am repulsed by the idea of giving my sanction to the government – the government known for wantonly killing at home and abroad for no other reasons than to exterminate Injuns and enrich slimy merchants. If you vote, you do so to honor murder and mayhem, not to honor the right of voting itself.

Keep yours ugly signs, your stickers, your child molesters, and your death merchants to yourself if keep them you must. Or, in the better alternative, join me in happy, unobtrusive freedom.

Mapping Out More Government

11 Wednesday May 2016

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The New York Times had an interesting piece about the growth of metropolitan super-regions, which are reshaping the country and the economy. The Times sees problems:

America is reorganizing itself around regional infrastructure lines and metropolitan clusters that ignore state and even national borders. The problem is, the political system hasn’t caught up.

America faces a two-part problem. It’s no secret that the country has fallen behind on infrastructure spending. But it’s not just a matter of how much is spent on catching up, but how and where it is spent. Advanced economies in Western Europe and Asia are reorienting themselves around robust urban clusters of advanced industry. Unfortunately, American policy making remains wedded to an antiquated political structure of 50 distinct states.

The New America. NYT.

Not to worry, those “antiquated” 50 states are not going anywhere. And, of course, there’s no chance of losing the Imperial Union. What the Times envisions is another layer of government – the megalopolis or regional level. Think of it as a bureaucracy of states, cities, counties, and the feds working together on transportation issues. At least that is where it will start. In reality it will just amount to a new tax jurisdiction adding more and more rules and regulations … to make our lives just a little better.

The existing cities and states are doing a terrific job as-is. 203 out of 229 of the largest cities and metro areas in the nation have experienced a rapid decline in middle class living since the turn of the century. Here is that map:

Financial Times.

The Gray Lady is giddy about the possibilities, particularly in curing the economic ills of rural areas. “Such [high speed rail] networks would just as easily help poor and rural areas, like Appalachia. Upgraded transportation corridors between New York, Washington and Atlanta could finally lift Appalachia’s isolated and stagnant towns stretching from New York to Alabama by facilitating investment in farms and vineyards, food processing and eco-tourism.”

People in West Virginia had better watch out tonight. American talking heads are always preaching trains. We’re only $450 Quadrillion away from Hyperlooping from Gotham to Smallville. In reality the small town locals will only experience higher taxes and a passing flock of carpetbaggers and maybe some “refugees”. Any “eco-tourism” will likely mean eco-traffic more than anything else. Ask anyone in Gatlinburg about that and the “tourons” as they call the tourist morons who clog the roads in their never-ending search for t-shirts and cheeseburgers.

Private enterprise will inevitably make good use of demographic and geographic shifts. Wonders can and will be accomplished at the local level or trans-local levels if the cities and states get out of the way. There’s no need to add any outside fees and rules. And the feds? Well, you ran off King George, put a man on the moon, turned the economy over to European banking criminals, and killed a helluva lot of folks. What more could we possible ask of you. Thank you and goodbye.

In better, brighter news, the CERN researchers have artificially accelerated nano-particles to speeds faster than the speed of light (hyperloop that!). In the near future we may have the ability to launch politician and bankster laden spacecraft away from Earth and into the nearest star. That would be worth whatever fee is involved. Let’s map that one out.

After the Lord Mayor’s Show

07 Saturday May 2016

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The voters of London have elected a new mayor. Sadiq Khan is the first Muslim mayor of the Imperial Capital City, indeed the first elected mayor of any major Western Capital. The Drudge Report is aghast as is some of the right-ish media. I am not.

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Drudge. May 7, 2016.

I have been a harsh critic of the mass migration/invasion of Europe and the West by incompatible third-worlders, particularly by radical Islamists. I am not as pessimistic (realistic, maybe) as Taki; I think the problems are far-gone but not gone too far just yet. It was with this perspective that I analyzed the London election. Things are not always what they seem on the surface. As far as it goes, I rather like Mr. Khan.

First, consider the demographics behind the election. London is a massive city with nearly 10 million residents centered in a metropolitan region of nearly 15 million. Status-wise it is a combination of New York City and Washington, D.C. Until the rise of those cities in the previous century London was the financial and political center of the world (it still vies heavily for the title). London, unlike its American relatives, is an ancient city; Londinium was settled by the Romans in 43 AD. It was fully resettled by Island natives two centuries before William swept across the Channel (with a certain Lovett in train, by the way).

London was the capital of an Empire which controlled vast swaths of the Americas, Africa, and the East, near and far. Over the past five decades from its former colonies have come a multitude of non-Westerners. The City is now about half non-white, non-native British; more than 40% of the population is foreign born. This recent sea-change explains, partially, how a Muslim named Kahn could get elected.

Now, let us look at the man who was elected. Khan’s parents are Indian, by way of Pakistan (both former British colonies). The family arrived in London in the late 1960s. Sadiq was born in 1970, the fifth of eight children.

Khan, like many immigrants prior to the welfare/terrorism/”refugee” hoards, was a hard worker from an early age. He ran a paper route and worked construction before going to law school. After school he worked as a solicitor (trial attorney). His specialty was human rights.

Some of his cases handled as a solicitor have an American-sounding slant. In Bubbins vs. The United Kingdom, [2005] All ER (D) 290, European Court of Human Rights, (Mar., 2005), Khan successfully represented the family of an unarmed Britain gunned down by police snipers (sound familiar, America?).

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Khan, not particularly dangerous looking. Wiki.

Politically, Khan has held various elected and appointed positions including powerful shadow offices. Under the British model, the out-of-power party always maintains a shadow government, inactive but ready to assume operation unless or until called in via a political change, which can occur rapidly under the parliamentary system.

Khan is a British Liberal’s liberal but not necessarily a Muslim’s Muslim. His stance in favor of gay “marriage” earned him a death sentence and led an Imam to declare him no Muslim at all. It appears his politics will suit the current flavor of London well. If he maintains his defense of human rights, he may be a breath of fresh air.

Now for a brief glimpse at the competition. In Britain, as in America and other places, many cheer on “their” party and candidates with psychotic fervor. Labor and Tory are nearly synonymous with Democrat and Republican. The “conservatives” usually demonstrate one can’t spell “conservative” without “con”.

Against Khan the Tories ran one Zacharias Goldsmith (nee Goldschmidt). Like many Tories, Goldschmidt says the right things for the wrong reasons. London is a major finance center. Zac opposes tax increases, not because they amount to theft, but because he desperately wants to protect banksters. He has good reason as his extraordinarily wealthy family is in league with the Rothschilds. The Gold-Ss (whatever money-changing term in whatever language) also immigrated to Britain – having  crept in during the mid Seventeenth Century.

Whatever his conservative positions are, behind them one will expect to find that Zac holds them out of expedience and only to promote his family’s interests. He is of a class Cato once equated with murderers. He, unlike Khan, has never done manual labor and likely doesn’t give a damn about human rights. I may be wrong but I doubt it.

I have not in too deeply investigated the election beyond the news stories. If I lived in London and if I bothered to vote, I would have likely supported Peter Whittle or some other UKIP candidate – I relish throwing away a good vote. Between the two major parties the people seem to have picked the better man, certainly the lesser of two evils.

Now for the clean up if you happen to know what my title means.