"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." ~ H.L. Mencken
Civil Disobedience
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"Whaddaya mean I couldn't be the President / Of the United States of America? / Tell me something / It's still WE, the PEOPLE, riiiight?"
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"It was an attack that came as a complete surprise to everybody ... with the exception of Billy Mitchell, who had predicted it with eerie specificity nearly 20 years earlier. His lack of reaction was mostly due to his being dead at the time, but still."
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The grandest vomiting fountain of hypocrisy - 'Compassionate liberals' and 'Christian values' combine to criminalize basic charity for the poor. Next time some pinhead spews about their 'values,' remind them of their hatred for the downtrodden...
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"Creamer is now credited for writing 628 pages of Obamacare while he was in prison. Creamer is a senior Democratic operative who defrauded banks in order to keep his Marxist/Communist community organization afloat by engaging in 16 counts of bank and tax fraud."
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"Creamer is now credited for writing 628 pages of Obamacare while he was in prison. Creamer is a senior Democratic operative who defrauded banks in order to keep his Marxist/Communist community organization afloat by engaging in 16 counts of bank and tax fraud."
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"Creamer is now credited for writing 628 pages of Obamacare while he was in prison. Creamer is a senior Democratic operative who defrauded banks in order to keep his Marxist/Communist community organization afloat by engaging in 16 counts of bank and tax fraud."
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"Creamer is now credited for writing 628 pages of Obamacare while he was in prison. Creamer is a senior Democratic operative who defrauded banks in order to keep his Marxist/Communist community organization afloat by engaging in 16 counts of bank and tax fraud."
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"There are two motives to manipulate the gold price, according to Dimitri Speck. The first one is to reduce inflation expectations...The other motive is to lower long term yields of bonds by stimulating the demand for bonds. The rationale is that if gold does not rise, bonds would be favoured. Other motives include a desire for a strong dollar, apart from an interest of central banks and the banking industry to keep the faith in their services."
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"Last year, the project’s main contractor, SAIC, was forced to repay the city $500 million as part of a deferred prosecution agreement. Meanwhile, a top SAIC official is poised to become the next Secretary of the Air Force. The Senate is expected to soon hold a confirmation vote for Deborah Lee James who was in charge of “corporate responsibility” at SAIC at the time of the CityTime scandal."
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“How would people react if it was 1943 and the city was supplying water to an internment camp caging Japanese-Americans? It’s really the same thing. The NSA is blatantly violating basic rights protected by the Constitution. The city is selling out its own citizens, the people of Utah and all of America for a few economic development dollars. It’s pretty disgusting when you think about it.”
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“There’s no indication that agencies undertake any kind of regular retrospective review to assess how good they are at predicting the conduct they’re targeting.” Of course not! The targeting was NEVER about protecting the country, it was all about harassing random people just to show them who's boss...
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"09/79 Silver was $49.45 and the CPI was 74.6. 10/13 the CPI was 233.546. That is an increase of 213%.
11/29/13 Silver, adjusted for inflation, would be $154.78 per Oz. today. Today’s price is an 87.1% discount to the 1979 price, 34 yrs. ago."
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"In September, the final month of the fiscal year, the State Department spent about $180,000 — and racked up a total of more than $400,000 for the whole year, three times the entire liquor tab for all of 2008."
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"Slowly but surely the Chinese currency is catching up to the world's reserve and moments ago, according to SWIFT, the Yuan just surpassed the Euro in trade (remember trade: that's how countries once upon a time would generate capital flows in a time when central banks weren't there to literally print domestic funding needs) finance usage leaving just the USD in front."
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"The Japanese government and Tokyo Electric Power have concealed and downplayed the entire effects of Fukushima disaster because their system has been operated by secret under the motto “atomic power is always safe.” In this regard, we should recall many experts had long warned that the Fukushima power plant could be exposed to danger such as natural disasters, but Tokyo Electric Power ignored their opinions."
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