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FABER: Cut US Govt. By 50% Now!

“Eventually, you have either huge changes occurring in a peaceful fashion through reforms, or, usually, through revolutions,” he said. The U.S. is getting closer to such a revolution, he said, as is Europe.

“I think the timeframe would be within five to ten years you have a colossal mess … everywhere in the Western world,” Faber said. “I think the deficit here (in the U.S.) — irrespective of who is in [...]

The Supreme Court And Natural Law

James Miller
silverbearcafe.com
July 2, 2012

I won a bet today.

A few weeks ago I wagered with a coworker that the United States Supreme Court would uphold the Affordable Care Act otherwise known as Obamacare.  He reasoned that the federal government has no authority under the Constitution to force an individual to purchase a product from a private company.  My reasoning was much simpler.  Because the Supreme Court is a functioning arm of [...]

A “must-read” op-ed on yesterday’s Obamacare decision

From Miller’s Genuine Draft:

I won a bet today.

A few weeks ago, I wagered with a coworker that the United States Supreme Court would uphold the Affordable Care Act, otherwise known as Obamacare. He reasoned that the federal government has no authority under the Constitution to force an individual to purchase a product from a private company. My reasoning was much simpler.

Because the Supreme Court is a functioning arm of the [...]

In Japan, Fax Machines Are Still Key

Fax machines remain important in Japan because of language and culture

Chico Harlan
Washington Post
June 8, 2012

TOKYO — In Japan’s businesses and bureaucracies, in home offices and hulking companies, the fax machine is thriving.

Yes, the clunky device has fallen out of favor in so much of the world, a refuge for dust bunnies and stray cover sheets. But it is humming here.

Japanese still fax party invitations, bank documents and shopping orders. Business [...]

Defkalion Professionalism

Their professional tone and actions are what is consistent with what I would want to see in successful ventures.  This is an area Andrea Rossi has a ways to go, who in my personal interactions, do reflect a sincere, well meaning person.   Time will tell for both him and Defkalion.

If their device(s) performs as they indicate, they shouldn’t have any problems with money!   The networks and interested companies [...]

Six reasons even “ordinary” Americans should consider a second passport

From Sovereign Man:

It wasn’t too long ago that nearly every human being lived their entire lives without traveling more than 10 miles from home. For the small handful of people who actually did venture out, you could make it across the globe with no official documents whatsoever.

This began to change rapidly in the 1920s. The newly formed League of Nations began meddling in the business of international travel and worked [...]

The 72 Threat Fusion Centers Were Designed To Threaten You

Video Rebel’s Blog 
February 13, 2012

There are 72 Threat Fusion Centers. 50 state based and 22 urban centers set up during the Bush presidency in cooperation between the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Justice. They collect information from all 16 US intelligence agencies, the CIA, FBI, the military, state and local police agencies and privately owned corporations and organizations like the ADL and SPLC which some say should [...]

Jim Lewis: Nassim Taleb is wrong about the financial crisis and black swans

Black Swans And Complexity

Submitted by Jim Lewis

Nassim Taleb is wrong about the financial crisis and black swans.

The ongoing financial crisis is not the result of a perplexing phenomenon of complexity. It is the beginning of a train wreck we have seen for decades. We are not wandering into a surprise or horrified by the dark specter of a Black Swan rearing its long tailed head; this macro crisis appeared on [...]

Ventura’s Venture Against the TSA

Becky Akers
LewRockwell.com
November 15, 2011

He called it the “The Fascist States of America” and thrilled patriots everywhere when he promised, “I will never stand for a national anthem again. I will turn my back and I will raise a fist” after “a U.S. District Judge dismissed [his] lawsuit against full-body scanners at airports” on a technicality.

In that suit, “Governor Jesse Ventura, a/k/a James G. Janos … [sought] a declaration that the [...]

Ex-New Orleans mayor worried that CIA agents would ‘shoot me with a miniature, slow-acting poison dart’

Since Hurricane Katrina’s winds died down, Ray Nagin has cast his role as mayor of New Orleans as a me-against-the-world struggle to save his hometown against inept government officials and racist forces, sometimes even laying out vague conspiracy theories to bolster his worldview.

But that perspective has never been laid out as starkly as in Nagin’s self-published memoir, “Katrina’s Secrets: Storms After the Storm,” released Wednesday.

From [...]

Charles Hugh Smith: “The U.S. economy has become increasingly dependent on asset bubbles, financial legerdemain, credit expansion, Federal borrowing and the manipulation of risk trades to maintain the illusion of “growth.”"

by Charles Hugh Smith from Of Two Minds

Travesty of a Mockery of a Sham, Phase II

The facsimile of U.S. “growth” now depends entirely on Central State manipulation and stimulus of risk trades and financial slight-of-hand.

The U.S. economy has become increasingly dependent on asset bubbles, financial legerdemain, credit expansion, Federal borrowing and the manipulation of risk trades to maintain the illusion of “growth.” Compared to [...]

What is the Federal Reserve and Who Controls it?

by NightmareonMainSt

The Federal Reserve is not a governmental agency and neither the Congress nor the President have one iota of control over its day-to-day operations. The chilling truth is that the Federal Reserve, America’s central bank, is simply one component of an interlocking, international banking cartel that now controls the wealth of this planet. The ownership of the largest blocks of bank voting stock [...]

The Washington Post (June 12, 2010) writes, “Obama pleads for $50 billion in state, local aid” -

“President Obama urged reluctant lawmakers Saturday to quickly approve nearly $50 billion in emergency aid to state and local governments, saying the money is needed to avoid “massive layoffs of teachers, police and firefighters” and to support the still-fragile economic recovery” (¶ 1).

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/12/AR2010061204152.html

This is the same scapegoat the states’ use for all deficits, cuts, and layoffs are in the same sentence: teachers, police, and firefighters (The big three). These people [...]