Ben Swann Reality Check: Monsanto and Crony Capitalism

Posted on September 19, 2013 by DRenegade

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Bank of International Settlements (BIS): The most powerful bank in the world announces the crash

Posted on September 19, 2013 by DRenegade

Translated from the original German article:

The Spaniard Jaime Caruana is the Chief of the secretive Bank for International Settlements (BIS). The BIS fears that central banks are no longer able to avoid the crash in the global debt crisis. Ben Bernanke has supplied the evidence on Wednesday. (Photo: Reuters)

The Spaniard Jaime Caruana is the Chief of the secretive Bank for International Settlements (BIS). The BIS fears that central banks are no longer able to avoid the crash in the global debt crisis. Ben Bernanke has supplied the evidence on Wednesday. (Photo: Reuters)

The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) is the current situation on the financial markets as worse than before the Lehman bankruptcy. The warning of the BIS could be the reason why the U.S. Federal Reserve decided to continue indefinitely to print money: Central banks have lost control of the debt-tide and give up.

The decision by the U.S. Federal Reserve to continue indefinitely to print money (here ) might have fallen on “orders from above”.

Apparently, the central banks dawns that it is tight.

Very narrow.

The most powerful bank in the world, the Bank for International Settlements(BIS) has published a few days ago in its quarterly report for the possible end of the flood of money directly addressed – and at the same time described the situation on the debt markets as extremely critical. The “extraordinary measures by central banks” – aka the unrestrained printing – had awakened in the markets the illusionthat the massive liquidity pumped into the market could solve the fundamental problems (more on the huge rise in debt – here ).

This clear words may have meant that Ben Bernanke and the Federal Open Market Committee, the Fed got cold feet. Instead, as expected, which is now formally announcing the end of the flood of money, the Fed has decided to just carry on as before.

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Our mental health system

Posted on September 19, 2013 by Bill Shuey

On Monday, September 16, Americans awoke to discover that another mass killing had occurred. This time the scene of the violence was at the Naval Yard in Washington, DC.

No doubt the gun control lobby will use this latest carnage — clearly caused by a mentally deranged killer — to bolster their never-ending attempt to take weapons out of the hands of law-abiding American citizens. The Firearms Transaction Record, Form 4473, question 11.f. requires that those who have been adjudicated as mentally incompetent or a danger to others must declare such conditions on the form. The key word being “adjudicated” — unless a court of some jurisdiction has adjudged a person as incompetent or a danger to others — the individual completing the form, though he may be nutty as a fruitcake, has every right to respond in the negative and purchase a firearm.

America’s mental health system is in shambles and a national disgrace. Military veterans — even those who may be a danger to themselves or others may have to wait for more than one year to be seen by a Veterans Administration (VA) medical facility. Many of the “homeless” are actually former military members who have mental disorders which remain continuously untreated.

Weapons were introduced to the world by the Chinese in the 13th century. A tube was filled with some type of projectile and then charged with gunpowder, thereby making a crude type of rocket. The first weapons were not made to shoot rabbits or birds — and the logic for today’s weapons has not changed since they were first invented and utilized to kill other human beings.

A rifle is an offensive weapon – a pistol or revolver is a defensive weapon – and a shotgun can be either a defensive or offensive weapon. One of the weapons the shooter at the Naval Yard utilized was a handgun which was taken from a law-enforcement official. Using the convoluted logic of the anti-gun lobby —firearms should not be carried by law-enforcement personnel because in this particular instance, the firearm was used to kill people. Silly! Not really any more silly than presuming that a firearm in my hands will be used to commit a crime or kill other than in self-defense. Any legal weapon, in the hands of a law-abiding individual is a tool of self-defense, and can mean the difference between life and death.

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Gov’t Health-Care Recipients Outnumber Full-Time Private Sector Workers, 101.5M to 97.2M

Posted on September 19, 2013 by DRenegade
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In 2012, according to data released this week by the Census Bureau, approximately 101,493,000 people in the United States got health-insurance coverage through government-run programs, including Medicaid, Medicare, the Children’s Health Insurance Program, military-related health-care programs, the Indian Health Service, and state-government-run health plans.

At the same time, according to Census Bureau data, there were only approximately 97,180,000 people who worked full-time in the private sector in 2012.

That means that even before the full implementation of Obamacare, there were already more people on government health-care in this country than people working full-time in the private sector.

The approximately 101,493,000 people on government health-care in the United States also outnumbered the combined populations of the United Kingdom and Canada, which, according to the CIA, currently have 63,395,574 and 34,568,211 people respectively.

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Obama: ‘Raising the Debt Ceiling…Does Not Increase Our Debt’

Posted on September 19, 2013 by DRenegade

In a speech at the Business Roundtable headquarters in Washington, D.C., Obama dismissed concerns about raising the debt ceiling by noting that it’d been done so many times in the past:

“Now, this debt ceiling — I just want to remind people in case you haven’t been keeping up — raising the debt ceiling, which has been done over a hundred times, does not increase our debt; it does not somehow promote profligacy.  All it does is it says you got to pay the bills that you’ve already racked up, Congress.  It’s a basic function of making sure that the full faith and credit of the United States is preserved.”

Obama went on to suggest that “the average person” mistakenly thinks that raising the debt ceiling means the U.S. is racking up more debt:

“It’s always a tough vote because the average person thinks raising the debt ceiling must mean that we’re running up our debt, so people don’t like to vote on it, and, typically, there’s some gamesmanship in terms of making the President’s party shoulder the burden of raising the — taking the vote.”

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Striking Nation: Anarchists, riot police clash outside Athens

Posted on September 18, 2013 by DRenegade

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From YouTube:

Tear gas is fired in Greece, as protesters clash with riot police in the country’s capital. Thousands of public sector workers took to the streets today in a nationwide strike to protest more spending cuts. In a separate rally a group of demonstrators marched against the fascist Golden dawn party after the killing of an anti-fascist activist yesterday. rocks were thrown at police who responded with tear gas.

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Keane: White House ‘delusional’ to think Assad will give up his weapons

Posted on September 18, 2013 by DRenegade

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The Problem Is Obvious

Posted on September 18, 2013 by DRenegade

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Say It Ain’t So, Joe! Biden Visits Iowa in Suspected Presidential Bid

Posted on September 18, 2013 by DRenegade

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Truckers To Shut Down America

Posted on September 18, 2013 by DRenegade

From the Facebook page: Truckers To Shut Down America:

The American people are sick and tired of the corruption that is destroying America! We therefore declare a GENERAL STRIKE on the weekend of October 11-13, 2013! Truck drivers will not haul freight! Americans can strike in solidarity with truck drivers!

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Karen Hudes Predicts Lawlessness when U S Dollar Loses International Currency Status

Posted on September 18, 2013 by DRenegade

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h/t Tom R

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Hope Redefined

Posted on September 18, 2013 by DRenegade

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President Barack Obama at DC Central Kitchen

President Barack Obama serves chicken sausage gumbo on Sept. 10, 2011 at the DC Central Kitchen. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

We live in a culture where basic tenets have been redefined. The majority of people in the United States would classify themselves as Christian but do not follow the Bible’s basic tenets. Liberty is an illusive concept confused with freedom. Our military and federal officials have sworn an oath of allegiance to defend the Constitution but the reality is that our “leaders” have become the domestic enemies of whom we were warned. Morality, virtue and courage cannot be defined by most people which is the ultimate redefinition.

Let’s consider the essence of our country’s foundation: public virtue:

A cornerstone of good citizenship in re­publican states, public virtue involved the subordi­nation of individual self‑interest to serving the greater good of the whole community. Revolution­ary leaders believed that public virtue was essential for a republic to survive and thrive. If absent, gov­ernments would be torn apart by competing pri­vate interests and succumb to anarchy, at which point tyrants would emerge to offer political stabil­ity but with the loss of dearly won political liber­ties.

Public virtue has not been redefined: it has become forgotten.

And then there is the concept of hope. Our pResident based his first campaign on hope and change. As we now know, this “fundamental transformation” of our country’s hope is self-evident. The information below shows the consequences of succumbing to personal interests instead of  “serving the greater good of the whole community“. Which leads us to the greatest redefinition: community organizer.

There is hope for people who understand our original basic tenets including public virtue. The price to regain our “dearly won political liberties” for our children will be as high as the price paid by our founding fathers.

David DeGerolamo

Census on Obama’s 1st Term: Real Median Income Down $2,627; People in Poverty Up 6,667,000

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Is The Fed Ready To Cut America’s Fiat Life Support?

Posted on September 18, 2013 by DRenegade

by Brandon Smith

It is undeniable that America is thoroughly addicted to fiat stimulus. Every aspect of our economy, from stocks, to bonds, to banks, and by indirect extension main street, is now utterly dependent on the continued 24/7 currency creation bonanza. The stock market no longer rallies to the tune of increased retail sales, growing export markets or improved employment expectations.  In fact, “good” economic news today is met with panic and market sell-offs! Why? Because investors and banks still playing equities understand full well that any sign of fiscal improvement might mean the end of the private Federal Reserve’s QE pajama party. They know that without the Fed’s opiate-laced lifeline, the economy dies a fast and painful death.

All mainstream economic news currently revolves around the Fed, as pundits clamor to divine whether the latest signals mean the free money will flow, trickle, or dry up.

Most expect the central bank to make an announcement today on the details of its reduction in stimulus initiatives. Generally, the Fed does not have a tendency to slip information to the media on the possibility of a policy change unless they plan to follow through. Every bailout and QE announcement over the course of the past five years has been preceded by weeks and even months of “rumors” acclimating the mainstream and the markets to the idea of each action long before it was ever implemented. If the Fed avoids clarity on the taper in the coming week, I expect that they will still assert stimulus cuts before the end of this year.

Certain developments, though, are giving false hope to the markets that the stimulus fantasy will go on forever. The resignation of Larry Summers from the “running” for Fed Chairman (as if Obama isn’t being told exactly who he is to pick for the position) has so far put a dash of cheer into the Dow Jones. Strangely, investors seem to believe that without Summers, continued quantitative easing is assured. The reality is that the decision to cut stimulus has likely already been long established and the face of the new chairman will have little relevance.

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Judge Napolitano on the Worst Supreme Court Decisions

Posted on September 18, 2013 by DRenegade

Photo of Judge Andrew P. NapolitanoMises Institute: When it comes to Supreme Court cases, what do you think were some of the most damaging to the cause of liberty?

Judge Napolitano: Without sounding cynical, my answer is: Almost all of them. Here is a short list of the most constitutionally offensive cases: Marbury v. Madison, which establishes the federal government as the final judge of its own power; McCullough v. Maryland, which establishes the primacy of the federal government over the states and establishes the concept of implied federal power; Dred Scott v. Sanford, which establishes the principle that a class of human beings can be defined as non-persons because of an immutable characteristic of birth; Wickard v. Filburn, which permits the Congress to regulate personal, private, and even trivial behavior; Korematsu v. United States, which permits the attribution of guilt and the infliction of punishment based on an immutable characteristic of birth; Roe v. Wade, which permits murder based on the age of the victim; and National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius, which permits the Congress to tax any event or non-event it wishes.

Mises Institute: Are there any easy fixes? Could we just tweak the text of the Constitution in certain places to greatly improve things? If so, what would you change? If not, why not?

Judge Napolitano: Because the Constitution is only as effective as an instrument to guarantee liberty as is the fidelity of those in whose hands it has been reposed for safekeeping to its underlying principles, the short answer is: Have a majority of Supreme Court justices committed to the plain language and original intent of the document, and the preservation of the natural law? However, if I were free to do so, I’d change “We the People …” to “We the States …” I’d define the regulation of interstate commerce as “keeping the movement of goods between merchants across interstate borders regular,” I’d add “explicitly” to the Tenth Amendment, and I’d repeal the 16th and the 17th amendments.

Judge Andrew P. Napolitano joined the Mises Institute in August as the Institute’s Distinguished Scholar in Law and Jurisprudence.

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What the Washington Navy Yard Shooting Really Means…

Posted on September 18, 2013 by DRenegade

By Paul Rosenberg, FreemansPerspective.com

Freeman's Perspective

There was a shooting earlier this week in DC. The details are still sketchy as I write this, but it appears that a deranged man decided to kill other people for some reason. In response, the usual talking heads will be debating whether this is actual TerrorTM or merely something like it. But the T-word will be spoken in the same grave way we speak of cancer – a thing to be dreaded above all else.

Certainly this shooting was a horrible, tragic thing – especially for the families involved. But that said, any talk about an “age of terror” is utter crap.

Terror is NOT worse now than it was before 9/11 – it’s just that we’ve been bombarded with fear for more than a decade, creating a culture-wide residue that poisons every mind it touches. In actual fact, you are eight times more likely to be killed by a cop than a terrorist. Does that mean that we should all have a collective panic attack and beg for anti-police police?

Now here’s the truth they don’t want you to know: You are taught to fear because fear makes you easy to manipulate. If someone is making you afraid, they’re also making you into an easy mark – a sucker.

Think of how many things people have accepted from governments just because they were afraid. Things like complete online surveillance, crotch searches at airports, random searches on the highways, and so on. Do you think those would have been accepted in 1920? Of course they wouldn’t, because people hadn’t been sufficiently frightened at that time.

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