Monthly Archives: August 2014

How to Lose a Constitution—Lessons from Roman History

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“Rome at the time of the Catalinarian conspiracy was not the Rome of centuries before, when honor, virtue, and character were the watchwords of Roman life. By Cicero’s time, the place was rife with corruption and power lust. The outward appearances of a Republic were undermined daily by civil strife and a growing welfare-warfare State. Many who gave lip service in public to Republican values were privately conniving to secure power or wealth through political connections. Others were corrupted or bribed into silence by government handouts. The Republic was on life support and Cicero’s voice was soon to be drowned out by a rising tide of political intrigue and violence and popular apathy.”

http://www.fee.org/the_freeman/detail/how-to-lose-a-constitutionlessons-from-roman-history

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Dr. Kissinger on the ‘New World Order’ – Editorial or Policy Statement?

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“Dr. Henry Kissinger has written an article entitled, ‘Henry Kissinger on the Assembly of a New World Order’ posted at The Wall Street Journal. It’s an important article written by an important man. Dr. Kissinger, the Journal tells us, ‘served as national security adviser and secretary of state under Presidents Nixon and Ford.’ And his article is ‘adapted from his book ‘World Order” – apparently set for a September 9th unveiling from publisher Penguin Press. You really have to read between the lines to understand what Dr. Kissinger is saying. Kissinger, probably with the consent of others, has apparently decided to send a message about what must be done to alleviate the world’s current perilous situation.”

http://www.thedailybell.com/editorials/35605/Anthony-Wile-Dr-Kissinger-on-the-New-World-Order–Editorial-or-Policy-Statement/

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Bill Bonner: What Is the Point of Government?

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“There is no faster path to disaster than enthusiastic leadership. Exhibit A: World War I. Exhibit B came next: the disaster known as the Great Depression. In the previous depression, 1920-21, President Harding and Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon simply ignored it. No leadership required. Two years later the depression was over.  But in 1929, when the next one came, President Hoover and then President Roosevelt met it with aggressive leadership. Advancing the preposterous notion that they knew better than business people and investors, they promised to mitigate the Depression with ‘countercyclical policies,’ thereby stretching out the Depression for almost a decade.”

http://bonnerandpartners.com/what-is-the-point-of-government/

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Germany’s Green Energy Revolution May Be on Verge of Failure

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“German officials and legislators created laws that ‘guaranteed a fixed feed-in tariff for 20 years, guaranteeing a fixed income’ for producers. Yet this guarantee was probably generated without doing a proper cost-benefit analysis. Now German taxpayers are stuck paying bills they cannot afford. Not only that, but Germany is closing coal and nuclear powered plants at an accelerated rate. And the new energy creation must be deployed via power lines that must either be built or upgraded. The result is that German consumers are facing ever higher energy bills, so much so that a rising percentage of Germans are choosing to have their power shut off rather than pay escalating fees.”

http://www.thedailybell.com/news-analysis/35258/Germanys-Green-Energy-Revolution-May-Be-on-Verge-of-Failure/

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3,600 new laws in three years as EU strangles UK firms [2013]

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“The European Union’s ‘addiction’ to red tape was laid bare yesterday.  Since the 2010 general election Brussels has handed down almost 3,600 pieces of new regulation and directives affecting British businesses.  The 13million words contained in the deluge of bureaucracy would take more than 92 days to read in all.  UK companies have had to fight proposed EU legislation such as measures to ban the Union Jack from packs of meat, enforce quotas in boardrooms and prohibit refillable olive oil jugs in restaurants.  The EU has found time to issue regulations on anchovy fishing in the Bay of Biscay, the labelling of spirits and the use of rosemary extracts in certain low-fat meat and fish products.”

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2458354/3-600-new-laws-3-years-EU-strangles-UK-firms.html

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The EU Eats Itself

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“The dynamic at work in the EU is not one that can be halted. The rampant cronyism, destructive regulatory surge, economic dysfunction and industrial rot will only continue and expand. It is entrenched in the guts of the bureaucracy and embedded in the DNA of this entire surreptitious and misguided venture.  Eurocrats are now at a point where they are regulating how much power can be used by domestic appliances. Lord knows where Brussels goes from here. But not to a good place.  The EU is eating itself. Soon there will be nothing left – neither money nor moral justification.”

http://www.thedailybell.com/news-analysis/35603/The-EU-Eats-Itself/

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Vacuum sales rocket 44% as households scramble to buy before EU ban

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“Online electrical retailer ao.com told This is Money it had its best ever day for vacuum cleaner sales last Friday as customers picked up a model with a power rating above 1,600 watts before they are outlawed by the EU. Sales were up 40 per cent last week on the same period last year.  Tesco also saw sales rocket by 44 per cent over the past two weeks as panicked customers rushed to get their hands on popular 2,000W models. The Cooperative Electrical shop reported a similar rise of 38 per cent.  Critics say cleaners satisfying the new rule may use less power, but householders will have to use them for longer so they are likely to use the same amount of electricity in the long run.”

http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/news/article-2737625/Vacuum-sales-44-EU-ban-sees-scramble-powerful-models.html

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EU to ban high-energy hair dryers, smartphones and kettles

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“The power of hairdryers could be reduced by as much as 30 per cent in order to be more eco-friendly, a draft study commissioned by Brussels suggests, threatening many of the models favoured by hairdressers and consumers for speedy blow-dries.  Günther Oettinger, the German EU energy commissioner, said that legislation preventing consumers from buying high-wattage appliances was necessary to fight climate change.  Mark Coray, former president of the National Hairdressers’ Federation, said curbing the power of hairdryers would simply mean blow-drying took longer.”

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/eu/11061538/EU-to-ban-high-energy-hair-dryers-smartphones-and-kettles.html

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CFR: Print Money and Hand It Out Directly to Consumers

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“The idea that Foreign Affairs writers and editors believe that freely handing out currency is going to strengthen the economy and solidify good will for the current central banking system is either naïve or sinister. We arrive at the possibility of ‘sinister’ because it appears to us that the globalists have perhaps given up on arriving at a more structured and rationalized internationalism via stealth. Instead, they are apparently moving forward with the age-old tools of economic ruin and military engagement. Giving away currency would surely be another step toward destroying the modern system and setting the stage for a new one, presumably even more internationalist.”

http://www.thedailybell.com/news-analysis/35597/Shock-CFR-Suggests-That-Central-Banks-Print-Money-and-Hand-It-Out-Directly-to-Consumers/

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Bill Bonner: Here Come the Money Helicopters

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“Bypassing the banks, they will put their newly digitized money directly into the hands of the people whose votes they need to buy. This kind of flagrant money creation is becoming intellectually respectable, as a kind of final solution to the problem of insufficient demand.  Martin Wolf, the influential chief economics commentator at the Financial Times, has already suggested it publicly. Now, here comes an article in Foreign Affairs magazine titled: ‘Print Less and Transfer More: Why Central Banks Should Give Money directly to the People.’  Recognizing that QE and ZIRP are not making it to the top of the charts, the establishment is getting behind more direct inflationary measures.”

http://bonnerandpartners.com/come-money-helicopters-debt/

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