Paul Rosenberg: ‘Production Versus Plunder’, Part 2

“A zero-sum assumption is that there is a fixed pool of any specific good and that in order for you to have more, someone else has to accept less. This is the essence of the common slogan, ‘there are only so many pieces of pie.’ If you want an extra slice, someone else has to accept one less. A positive-sum assumption, on the other hand, assumes that the pool of assets can be expanded. In other words, if there are not enough slices of pie for your liking, you can make a new pie for yourself. The important thing about zero-sum and positive-sum assumptions is that they form a mental pattern, an analysis program in our brains, coloring wide areas of thought.”

http://www.thedailybell.com/editorials/36225/Paul-Rosenberg-Production-Versus-Plunder–Part-2/

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NJ gov. pension double-dippers take home $74 million in 2014

“In New Jersey, 540 public employees boosted their salaries last year with multiple government jobs that topped $100,000 — which will lead to sky-high retirement payments for years to come, the Asbury Park Press found. Seventy-seven high-paid multiple job holders were in Monmouth and Ocean counties, with Murray reaping the largest paycheck. Not too far behind was Ocean County Freeholder James F. Lacey. He was paid a total of $192,000 as Brick MUA’s administrator and a member of the county’s elected governing body. It’s all legal, and highly paid multiple job holders took home $74 million in taxpayer money in 2014, down by just $3 million from 2013.”

http://www.app.com/story/news/investigations/watchdog/government/2015/04/10/double-dippers-boost-pensions-new-jersey/25572393/

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Police: 13-year-old took $25K, passed out $100 bills to classmates

“A 13-year-old Claggett Middle School student who had taken $25,000 from his grandfather over spring break passed out thousands to classmates in $100 bills this week, police said.  Medina and Medina Township police departments are investigating and trying to recover the money.  McNabb said the 13-year-old stole the cash from his 83-year-old grandfather, who lives in Medina Township.  Police said it’s too early to speculate whether charges could be filed.  McNabb said Medina Detective Mary Gross is handling the investigation. So far, the police have recovered about $7,000 of the money.”

http://medinagazette.northcoastnow.com/2015/04/10/police-middle-school-student-stole-25k-passed-7k-classmates/

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Federal judge: CIA can keep Panetta review secret

“A federal judge has ruled that the Central Intelligence Agency need not release documents pertaining to a review the agency’s then-director ordered in 2009 of materials the Senate requested about CIA’s interrogation program many senators contend involved the torture of terror suspects.  The memos, often referred to as the Panetta Review after former director Leon Panetta, became fuel for a CIA-Senate tussle last year after some Senate Democrats said conclusions in those records were at odds with claims current CIA Director John Brennan made in the agency’s official response to an in-depth Senate Intelligence Committee investigation of the interrogation effort.”

http://www.politico.com/blogs/under-the-radar/2015/03/judge-cia-can-keep-panetta-review-secret-204797.html

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The Only Truly Compliant, Submissive Citizen Is a Dead One

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“Americans as young as 4 years old are being leg shackled, handcuffed, tasered and held at gun point for not being quiet, not being orderly and just being childlike—i.e., not being compliant enough.  Americans as old as 95 are being beaten, shot and killed for questioning an order, hesitating in the face of a directive, and mistaking a policeman crashing through their door for a criminal breaking into their home—i.e., not being submissive enough.  And Americans of every age and skin color are being taught the painful lesson that the only truly compliant, submissive and obedient citizen in a police state is a dead one.”

https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/john_whiteheads_commentary/the_only_truly_compliant_submissive_citizen_in_a_police_state_is_a_dea

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Interview with Peter Thiel, the Popular Contrarian

“We’ve had this extraordinary era of bubbles in our society: There was the dot-com bubble in the ‘90s — which was, of course, full of crazy and misguided optimism — [and] the housing finance bubble in the last decade. I would argue you have a government bubble today, an education bubble, and still bubbles in various other areas where you have these sort of psycho-social phenomena. I always find myself very distrustful of intense crowd phenomena and I think those are things that we should always try to question, especially critically. But at the same time, it’s not simply going against the crowd; it is always the much more important question to try to figure out what the truth of the matter is.”

http://www.realclearmarkets.com/articles/2014/11/25/interview_with_peter_thiel_the_popular_contrarian_101401.html

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Feds Raid Texas Meeting, Fingerprint All Attendees, Seize Phones

“Federal and local police forces raided a political meeting, taking unusual measures to document every attendee by taking fingerprints and photographs, and seizing every cell phone and all recording equipment in the meeting hall.  The raid took place on February 14, 2015, at VFW Post 4892 in Bryan, Texas. At 10:10 a.m., an ‘army of policing agencies with flashing emergency lights’ showed up, shut down the meeting of ‘congenial and unimposing’ Texans and forced them to hand over their private effects and biometric data. The meeting was the monthly gathering of a group known as the Republic of Texas. Participants share a common vision of an independent Texan nation.”

http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=49846

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NYC officials remove activists’ Snowden statue from Brooklyn park

“Dressed in reflective yellow construction gear while working under the cover of darkness early Monday, a small group of artists installed a tribute to NSA-leaker Edward Snowden in a Brooklyn park.  But it was gone by midday. A spokeswoman for New York’s Parks Department told Mashable earlier in the afternoon that they were looking into the statue’s removal. Shortly after that Vine’s Jeremy Cabalona posted video of NYC Parks Department workers covering up the Snowden statue with a blue tarp.”

http://mashable.com/2015/04/06/snowden-sculpture-fort-greene-brooklyn/

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NSA Spying to Cost US IT Companies $47 Billion Over Three Years

“The US National Security Agency’s (NSA) PRISM surveillance program could cost US-based cloud and outsourcing vendors an overall three-year loss of $47 billion in revenues, a Forrester Research study revealed.  Lost revenue from spending on cloud services and platforms is expected to amount to over $500 million in the period between 2014 and 2016, according to the analysis, released by the independent technology and market research company on April 1.  Twenty six percent of business and technology decision makers outside of the United States have already reduced or halted spending with US-based service providers, Forrester said.”

http://sputniknews.com/us/20150406/1020513007.html

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Getting U.S. Visa Took Longer Than Building Instagram: Co-Founder

“Instagram almost didn’t happen, and the U.S.’s convoluted immigration system would have been to blame. Before Mike Krieger created the wildly popular photo-sharing app with business partner Kevin Systrom, he was living in Silicon Valley on a temporary work visa. If not for some lucky breaks navigating the country’s immigration process, our world of artfully filtered, boxy photographs might look very different today. While tech companies want to free up more H-1B visas, others in the U.S. are pushing for restrictions, saying foreign workers take American jobs and lower wages.”

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-04-08/getting-a-visa-took-longer-than-building-instagram-says-immigrant-co-founder

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