“George Orwell’s dystopian novel continues to come true in too many ways.”
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Rand Paul: Is 1984 Now?
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Paul Craig Roberts: America Totally Discredited
“Tthe United States government has lost its credibility throughout the world and will never regain it, unless the Bush and Obama regimes are arrested and put on trial for their war crimes. Obama’s destruction of US credibility goes far beyond diplomacy. It is likely that this autumn or winter, and almost certainly in 2014, the US will face severe economic crisis. When the proverbial hits the fan, the incompetent and corrupt Federal Reserve and the incompetent and corrupt US Treasury will have no more credibility than Obama and John Kerry. How long will it be before American citizens are shot down in their streets by ‘their’ government as occurs frequently in Washington’s close allies in Egypt, Turkey, Bahrain?”
http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2013/08/30/america-totally-discredited-paul-craig-roberts/
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An Important Weimar Republic History Lesson
“Why did the German government not act to halt the inflation? It was a shaky, fragile government…More than inflation, the Germans feared unemployment. In 1919 the Communists had tried to take over, and severe unemployment might give the Communists another chance. The great German industrial combines — Krupp, Thysen, Farben, Stinnes — condoned the inflation and survived it well. A cheaper mark, they reasoned, would make German goods cheap and easy to export, and they needed the export earnings to buy raw materials abroad. Inflation kept everyone working.
So the printing presses ran, and once they began to run, they were hard to stop.”
http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2013/08/an-important-history-lesson.html
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How Bad Can Things Get?
“The typical American household has made no preparation for anything but the state-debt-feudal Status Quo: they have essentially no food, cash or energy in reserve, leaving the household extremely vulnerable to the slightest disruptions in income, energy and food delivery. How bad can things get? I confess to following Andy Grove’s dictum that ‘only the paranoid survive.’ Clearly, a healthy appreciation for risk and the benefits of advance planning should obstacles arise offers selective advantages. Even if 9 of 10 problems run into the ditch, it pays to look ahead and think about what responses are likely to be the lowest cost and most successful should any of the 10 reach us.”
http://charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/2013/08/how-bad-can-things-get.html
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Mike Gogulski: Is America still a democracy? Who cares? It’s DANGEROUS!
“If you look at the visible signs of how the country has been developing for the last 25 years, the signs of the emergence of a police state are obvious and everywhere. The Department of Homeland Security recently purchased something like one billion rounds of high-powered rifle ammunition. These are not to be used in wars. The US government has just purchased three bullets for every man, woman and child inside the country. When you add to these things the endless American wars that have been going on since ‘peace’ after World War II, the question becomes: ‘Is America a democracy? Who cares? It’s DANGEROUS!'”
http://www.nostate.com/4258/is-america-a-democracy-who-cares-its-dangerous/
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SWAT overkill: Our military weaponry is now aimed at us
“Your elected representatives are pissing away massive amounts of your hard-earned money on a local arms race that continues to escalate, with no end in sight. Ready access to heavy equipment discourages the more subtle practices of community policing, wherein cops walk a beat and know the people they are serving and protecting. Military hardware creates barriers, and fosters a sense of ‘us versus them.’ Consider this bizarre twist: In our fear of foreign attackers, we are amassing obscene amounts of military weapons, and turning them on our own citizens. The asses we’re kicking are our own.”
http://www.readthehook.com/110051/swat-overkill-our-military-weaponry-now-aimed-us
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The Most Awesomest War Ever! [2003]
“Some would have us believe that concern over the gargantuan power held by a handful of men in Washington is beyond the pale of civilized conversation, yet this blind faith in American democracy is hardly warranted. Today’s president uses unbridled military might to destroy ‘rogue nations’ overseas, yet the day may again be approaching when that same power is used on ‘rogue Americans’ in our own neighborhoods. Today, Americans console themselves with the thought that ‘we’ are only destroying the lives of America-hating foreigners. Will we be so willing to brush aside the deaths of people whom the State tells us are ‘America-hating’ Americans?”
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/mcmaken/mcmaken77.html
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Seminal Moments
“They were big, intimidating fellows all decked out in dark, navy blue uniforms and bomber jackets. Each had their pants legs stuffed into black, leather boots, trying to go for that snazzy, SS look. None had the ‘have a nice day’ smile on their faces either. Now, I’m not a small guy, standing over 6′ 2″. But these guys were gorillas. Even the one female looked tough as galvanized nails. They were absolutely there to intimidate. I was both angry and curious. I was angry since I knew it was my taxes that paid for them to act like Xanax-fueled chimps. But I was also curious to see if all the stories of nasty US patrol guards from my Internet readings were true. I can assure you the answer is a resounding ‘yes.'”
https://www.internationalman.com/78-global-perspectives/997-seminal-moments
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Ten Reasons the U.S. Is No Longer the Land of the Free
“Since 9/11, we have created the very government the Framers feared: a government with sweeping and largely unchecked powers resting on the hope that they will be used wisely. The indefinite-detention provision in the defense authorization bill seemed to many civil libertarians like a betrayal by Obama. While the president had promised to veto the law over that provision, Levin, a sponsor of the bill, disclosed on the Senate floor that it was in fact the White House that approved the removal of any exception for citizens from indefinite detention. Dishonesty from politicians is nothing new for Americans. The real question is whether we are lying to ourselves when we call this country the land of the free.”
http://fff.org/explore-freedom/article/ten-reasons-the-u-s-is-no-longer-the-land-of-the-free/
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The Worst Law Most Americans Have Never Heard Of
“While there is still an opportunity for you to avoid getting boxed in by a desperate and out-of-control government, nobody knows exactly how much time is left. And once official capital controls are implemented (#3), your wealth is trapped and things tend to unravel pretty quickly. Developing your internationalization game plan does not mean you have to leave your home country. It is possible to achieve a certain level of international diversification without needing to leave your living room, for example, by opening a foreign bank or brokerage account remotely. The idea is to create your own personal insurance policy to immunize yourself from the common destructive measures of a desperate government.”
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