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When Government Evil Triumphs, Freedom Falls
When Government Evil Triumphs, Freedom Falls “Government is said to be a necessary evil. The saying appears to be without merit. For can anything be at once necessary and evil? True, all governments have had a history of evil-doing, more or less. However, it does not follow from this experience that their good is […]
It’s What’s Happening Beneath the Surface That Matters: Moral Decay and Rising Inequality
It’s What’s Happening Beneath the Surface That Matters: Moral Decay and Rising Inequality These disintegrative forces are easy to see but elusive to pin down. Nobody defines themselves as self-serving, greedy and lacking in virtue. Everyone feels trapped in the system. With the media’s hyperactive three-ring circus blasting 24/7, it’s easy to forget that everything consequential […]
What Is the Deep State?
What Is the Deep State? “… there is another government concealed behind the one that is visible at either end of Pennsylvania Avenue, a hybrid entity of public and private institutions ruling the country according to consistent patterns in season and out, connected to, but only intermittently controlled by, the visible state whose leaders we […]
Couple Forced to Destroy 40yo Pond on Their Own Property Because Govt Owns the Rainwater
Couple Forced to Destroy 40yo Pond on Their Own Property Because Govt Owns the Rainwater Butte Falls, OR — An Oregon couple has been told they must destroy a 2-acre pond on their land — the property’s most attractive feature — because the government said so. Although Jon and Sabrina Carey purchased the 10-acre property […]
Ron Paul on Trump’s Election: Beware of the Shadow Government
RON PAUL ON TRUMP’S ELECTION: BEWARE OF THE SHADOW GOVERNMENT Former congressman and presidential candidate Ron Paul appeared on RT to talk about the election of Donald Trump as president, and he voiced major skepticism on whether Trump will actually follow through on many of his campaign promises. Paul referenced Trump’s independence as being a […]
Hamilton’s Curse (Reprised)
HAMILTON’S CURSE (REPRISED) The following article is (after very light editing) something your author wrote early in October of 2008, when the padlocks on the Lehman office building doors were still swinging. The reader will, he hopes, find that most of the presentiments expressed and the analysis submitted sadly turned out to be more accurate than otherwise. It […]
Governments Change, the Corporatocracy Endures
Governments Change, the Corporatocracy Endures Ultimately, the dominance of global capital (the Corporatocracy) is not financial– it’s political. One little-remarked consequence of the central banks’ policies of near-zero interest rates and quantitative easing is the unrivaled dominance of mobile global capital, i.e. the Corporatocracy. The source of corporate political power is the ability to borrow essentially […]
When Government Controls All Wealth
When Government Controls All Wealth Sliding Into Absurdity BALTIMORE – Stock markets continued their rebound on Wednesday. The Dow rose 284 points… or just over 1.5%. London’s FTSE 100 Index was up 3.6%. And Europe’s equivalent of the Dow, the Euro Stoxx 50, was up 2.7%. No wonder the Dragon and his partners in crime […]
When Fear-Mongering Fails!
When Fear-Mongering Fails! Fear is the go-to emotion that government preys upon. It’s so reliable. The fear of the unknown causes most individuals to give away and sacrifice every liberty that they were naturally born with. A population that is perpetually afraid ultimately ends up fearing liberty itself! Government’s sales pitch is that you need them. […]
A Japanese Ponzi Scheme?
A Japanese Ponzi Scheme? TOKYO – In the early years of the twentieth century, Charles Ponzi, an Italian migrant to North America, had a seemingly brilliant moneymaking idea. He would offer huge returns on worthless investments, thereby convincing a growing number of people to give him their money, which was used, in lieu of profit, […]
Blind Robbery! How the Fed, Banks and Government Steal Our Money
BLIND ROBBERY! HOW THE FED, BANKS AND GOVERNMENT STEAL OUR MONEY Editor’s Note: Philipp’s terrific new book “Blind Robbery! How the Fed, Banks and Government Steal Our Money” is now available (Publisher: FinanzBuch Verlag (June 6, 2016)). You can find it at Amazon here. Below is the introduction. The book gives an excellent outline for beginners as […]
It Takes a Village to Maintain a Dangerous Financial System
It Takes a Village to Maintain a Dangerous Financial System Abstract: I discuss the motivations and actions (or inaction) of individuals in the financial system, governments, central banks, academia and the media that collectively contribute to the persistence of a dangerous and distorted financial system and inadequate, poorly designed regulations. Reassurances that regulators are doing […]
The Media Divides Us With Gorillas to Enable the Crimes of the Government
The Media Divides Us With Gorillas to Enable the Crimes of the Government (ANTIMEDIA) United States — By now, we’ve all witnessed selective outrage in real time — a misdeed, tragedy, or other infuriating item blows up national headlines and almost immediately receives backlash in the vein of, ‘well, why isn’t anyone irate about ___ ?’ It’s […]
The Keys to Human Prosperity: Individual Liberty and Rule of Law
THE KEYS TO HUMAN PROSPERITY: INDIVIDUAL LIBERTY AND RULE OF LAW We live at time when, increasingly, the U.S. government operates in arbitrary and discretionary ways. Government regulatory agencies seemingly have unrestrained powers over land-use, business manufacturing and enterprise, the workplace and the environment under broad legislative mandates. And proposals are now frequently being made […]
Governments Create Monopolies and Cause Worker Exploitation, Not Free Markets
GOVERNMENTS CREATE MONOPOLIES AND CAUSE WORKER EXPLOITATION, NOT FREE MARKETS The world is threatened with a renewed wave of anti-capitalism and anti-business sentiments and policies. Many who cheered the demise of Soviet communism in the early 1990s, presumed that this meant that, by default, the case for free markets and competitive enterprise had won in […]
