NC Renegades

If anyone was “worried” about the Verizon strike taking away 35,000 jobs from the pro forma whisper number of 200,000 with consensus expecting 160,000 jobs, or worried about a rate hike by the Fed any time soon, you can sweep all worries away: moments ago the BLS reported that in May a paltry 38,000 jobs were added, a plunge from last month’s downward revised 123K (was 160K). The number was the lowest since September 2010!

There is no way to spin this number as anything but atrocious.

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Okie-Dokey.

David DeGerolamo

The average professional in this country wakes up in the morning, goes to work, comes home, eats dinner, and then goes to sleep, unaware that he or she has likely committed several federal crimes that day. Why? The answer lies in the very nature of modern federal criminal laws, which have exploded in number but also become impossibly broad and vague. In Three Felonies a Day, Harvey A. Silverglate reveals how federal criminal laws have become dangerously disconnected from the English common law tradition and how prosecutors can pin arguable federal crimes on any one of us, for even the most seemingly innocuous behavior. The volume of federal crimes in recent decades has increased well beyond the statute books and into the morass of the Code of Federal Regulations, handing federal prosecutors an additional trove of vague and exceedingly complex and technical prohibitions to stick on their hapless targets. The dangers spelled out in Three Felonies a Day do not apply solely to “white collar criminals,” state and local politicians, and professionals. No social class or profession is safe from this troubling form of social control by the executive branch, and nothing less than the integrity of our constitutional democracy hangs in the balance.

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How can we submit to a government whose purpose is to ensure that we break their laws? I have little expectation of “good” coming from the government. I suppose the church needs to be examined with a similar lens. Unless you don’t want to see the truth.

David DeGerolamo

While it’s Donald Trump’s blunt candor which has been generating news stories throughout this election season, Barack Obama jumped back into the erudition spotlight recently with a devastatingly brutal condemnation of current political rhetoric. Specifically, the World’s Most Eloquent President told a crowd in Elkhart, Indiana: “Don’t fall for the okey-doke.”

The halls of History already ring with many a lesser phrase. “Four score and seven years ago,” “Give me liberty or give me death,” “Ask not what your country can do for you,” “I have been to the mountaintop,” and “I did not have sexual relations with that woman” all fall by the wayside when compared to Mr. Obama’s brilliantly galvanizing insight.

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The Obama administration is setting sodium limits for nearly every food imaginable, the latest in a series of efforts to change how Americans eat.

The voluntary standards are meant to nudge restaurants and the food industry into reducing the amount of sodium in foods they serve. And the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is offering its preferred salt amounts for everything from Gouda cheese to fish jerky.

The administration said the purpose of the sodium limits are to “support increased food choice.”

“Every day, Americans are getting too much sodium in their diet, and the majority comes from processed and prepared foods, not the salt shaker,” the FDA said. “That is why we have developed draft guidance with sodium reduction targets to encourage industry to gradually reduce sodium in a wide range of foods.”

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The potential for a truly devastating economic collapse has been real for some time.

And it is coming to America.

Though most Americans are accustomed to having shelves full of food and goods, and enough money to keep going, this sense of security is quite false.

The real economy is bottoming out, and the experts have been warning about the extreme stress in the system for some time.

Job growth has stagnated, personal and institution debt is teetering on edge and the central bank policies of the Federal Reserve have been widening the gap between artificially-boosted corporate interests… and all the rest who have been stymied by low-interest cash flowing to the top of the pyramid at zero interest (and failing to trickle down).

While the United States seems miles apart from the implosion taking place in Venezuela, looks can be deceiving. Even former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan is admitting it.

As Anarcho-Capitalist market analyst Jeff Berwick of The Dollar Vigilante warns:

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Most Americans have been conditioned to believe and to assume that the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution requires a “wall of separation between Church and State.” This concept is seldom challenged today.

But it is not actually a part of the Constitution or any of the Amendments;
It did not exist until well into the twentieth century.

The establishment and free-exercise clauses of the First Amendment state: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.”

The meaning was crystal clear to Americans and American jurisprudence for generations.

Very simply, the federal government was prohibited from establishing a single national denomination above all others (a state religion—endowed with public funding, special privileges, and penalties on other faiths that reject its doctrines—as Great Britain had) and secondly, the federal government could not interfere with the individual’s right to freedom of worship.

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by Brandon Smith

As I write this we are nearing Memorial Day 2016, and I realize that there will be numerous articles published over the next week which will examine the achievements and sacrifices of American veterans killed in action. With that subject thoroughly covered, I thought I might instead confront a topic that many people out there would rather not discuss. Get ready for the discomfort levels to increase dramatically, because we are going to tackle the problems surrounding women in combat.

Now, it has been incredibly trendy the past five years or so to ride the warrior woman bandwagon, and to speak against it is to automatically earn accusations of “misogyny.”  With the third-wave feminist and social-justice agenda increasingly out in the open rather than remaining subtly subversive, you really can’t walk anywhere without stepping in a big steaming pile of propaganda.

A large number of films and television shows released today, from Mad Max and Star Wars remakes to comic book movies and TV miniseries galore, all seem to be designed to promote the feminist ideology and the image of women “kicken’ ass”.  An important part of this ideology is the idea that men and women are “exactly”  the same in every capacity except genitals. That is to say, everything a man can do, a woman can do just as well or better, including fight and kill.

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Denmark will punish preachers who encourage criminal acts and blacklist “hate preachers” from Denmark, the government said Tuesday, after a documentary about imams advocating illegal acts sparked nationwide controversy in February.

The documentary showed hidden camera footage of imams in Danish mosques advocating the corporal punishment of children, stoning and whipping unfaithful spouses and requiring women to have sex with violent spouses.

“We will criminalize the sanctioning of punishable acts in religious education,” said the church and culture minister, Bertel Haarder. Doing so would not compromise the Danish constitution or international conventions, he said.

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In the united States of America, this would be Islamophobia. At least for now.

David DeGerolamo