Alan C.
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It's difficult to make a precise prediction, but I'd be surprised if Obama makes it through his second term before something spirals out of control.
People are already noticing significant price increases of groceries and services. Despite complicity from media lackeys in perpetuating the lie that inflation is under 2%, the State isn't able to conceal the effects of their currency debasement. Every year, more Americans are squeezed to the point where they are unable to support themselves and have to consume their savings, sell assets, borrow money, or move in with relatives.
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Ben Bernanke: Currency debasement to continue into 2014
Bernanke promised to continue debasing U.S. fiat currency into 2014, although it will continue long past that. He is leaving office, so he can say anything.
There is simply no way that the government can ever stop debasing the currency. Far too many people are dependent upon government largesse.
The counterfeiting will continue in order to satiate the parasites until one of two things happen: 1) price inflation makes it impossible to survive, or 2) price controls are imposed causing shortages. Either will result in civil unrest like we've seen in Europe and South America.
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Comments are so sad sometimes...
psychosis - a mental disorder characterized by symptoms, such as delusions or hallucinations, that indicate impaired contact with reality.
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Check craigslist.
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Exorcism performed in Riverton [Wyoming] area home
A Riverton area woman was sent to the hospital...after an exorcism attempt reportedly caused her to have a heart attack.
According to Undersheriff Ryan Lee with the Fremont County Sheriff’s
Department, the 911 dispatch center received a call from a residence on
Firethorn Lane stating a 31 year old woman at the home was possessed by a
“Poltergeist” and had stopped breathing after she was sprayed with Holy
Water.Other occupants of the home then attempted to perform an exorcism at
which time they reported the exorcism activity caused her to go into
cardiac arrest.When deputies arrived the woman was found to be breathing, however
she was taken by ambulance to the Riverton Hospital for unknown reasons.
She was in stable condition when she arrived at the hospital.The occupants of the home stated that a demon had been in the house
breaking windows and dishes, as well as biting the occupants of the home
for the last two days; they asked a Deputy Sheriff to look into the
matter.Lee said the Deputy was unable to substantiate any criminal activity or that anyone had been bitten.
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West Virginia teen now facing year in jail over NRA T-shirt
A West Virginia eighth-grader who was suspended from school for refusing to change his National Rifle Association T-shirt faces up to one year in jail and a $500 fine after being formally charged with obstructing an officer.
Jared Marcum, 14, appeared before a judge Monday and was hit with formal charges that carry a maximum $500 fine and up to a year in jail. The Logan County Police Department initially claimed that Marcum was arrested April 18 for disturbing the education process and obstructing an officer. His father said that officers even went as far as threatening to charge Jared with making terror threats.
"In my view of the facts, Jared didn't do anything wrong," Ben White, Jared's attorney told WTRF. "I think officer Adkins could have done something differently."
Arresting officer James Adkins claimed that Marcum’s refusal to talk obstructed his ability to do his job, while White argued that Adkins never made reference to any violent acts or threats in his petition.
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Cops Plead Guilty to Helping Plant Drugs on Woman Sexually Harassed by Judge
"The judge, two deputies, and a handyman named C.J. who is employed at Judge Cochran's property conspired to plant the drugs on my client. And if the frame-up hadn't been discovered my client would've been facing 25 to 30 years in prison," Poston said, echoing the allegations made it the lawsuit.
Although the drug charge was dismissed a week later at the request of investigators when the frame-up wax exposed, Garmley is still suffering the consequences of her false arrest. Under Georgia law, it takes one year for the charge to be removed from Garmley's record, and the arrest has already cost her.
"My client was denied a much higher paid job due to the felony drug charge on her record and what the judge and cops did to her." -
Two Women Claim Texas Jailers Ran a 'Rape Camp' Behind Bars
"Beginning sometime in 2007 to at least August of 2010 the Live Oak County Sheriff's office ran a 'rape camp' known as the Live Oak County Jail," the complaint states. "In this facility, numerous jailers, all employed by the Live Oak County Sheriff's Office, repeatedly raped and humiliated female inmates over an extended period of time. These forced acts of lasciviousness included, but are not limited to, forcing female inmates to repeatedly perform oral sex on male guards, forcing female inmates to repeatedly masturbate the male guards, the male guards masturbating in view of the female inmates, male guards forcing digital penetrative sex acts in the female inmates', forcing female inmates to engage in sexual sex acts with other female inmates, including but not limited to forcing female inmates to have oral sex with each other, among other things.
"In addition to the repeated sexual assaults, numerous female inmates were sexually harassed. Certain male guards would strip the female inmates of their clothing and provide only shaving cream to conceal their genitalia. Certain male guards would sometimes force the female inmates to shower in front of them while instructing them to shave their vaginas. In other instances, while detailing their degenerate sexual fantasies, the jailers would pin the girls against a wall, grope their persons, verbally berate them, digitally rape their vagina and/or anus, then force them to perform oral sex.
"In order to facilitate their carnal impulses, these guards would withhold food and water, engage in physical abuse, restrict privileges and verbally and emotionally abuse the women - even threaten to kill them in order to compel their compliance."
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College students ask President Obama to spy on FOX NEWS employees
Students at George Mason University (GMU) signed a petition early this month asking President Obama to listen in on the "private conversations" of all Fox News employees and their families.
The petition, which was circulated on GMU's flagship campus in Fairfax, Va, near Washington D.C., by Media Research Center video reporter Dan Joseph, described the right-leaning news channel as “a threat to media integrity and an informed populace.”
“We want the to be able to legally read their private e-mails and listen in on phone conversations between Fox News employees and their associates and their families," Joseph explained to students, asking for their support.
Reactions were mixed. While a handful of students appealed to a "the First Amendment" and the right to privacy, several described their "hate" for the news channel.
“Can you give me some time to think about this?,” asked one student before eventually providing his signature.
Another student expressed frustration that such a surveillance program would likely conflict with constitutional law.
“It’s virtually impossible but its a good cause,” she said. “I like your cause.”
In all, eleven GMU students signed the petition in about 45 minutes, according to Joseph.
On May 19, 2013, the Washington Post reported that the U.S. Department of Justice had monitored Fox News Reporter James Rosen's personal telephone calls and read his emails as part of an investigation into a leak.
The DOJ obtained permission through a FISA court for the wiretap after Attorney General Eric Holder personally signed a complaint naming him a "criminal co-conspirator" in the case.
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Thomas Penfield Jackson, Outspoken Judge, Dies at 76
...a federal judge who ruled in 2000 that Microsoft was a predatory monopoly and must be split in half, only to see an appeals court reverse his order because he had improperly discussed it with journalists...
I posted this, not because I'm particularly interested in this judge, but because I remember Tom DiLorenzo's excellent article from 2000.
Anti-trust, Anti-truth by Thomas DiLorenzo
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You're right. They sent out an announcement a few days ago saying that Stef couldn't come. [
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"Any formal attack on ignorance is bound to fail because the masses are always ready to defend their most precious possession -- their ignorance." - Hendrik Willem van Loon
I rarely read YT comments because they tend to be a cesspool of inanity and incoherence, but Stef's responses were still enjoyable.
I wouldn't respond to irrational postings with the intention of changing the minds of the people who posted them because their minds aren't likely to be changed. However, others can learn a great deal from it. The overwhelming bulk of Western society grew up with decades of government schooling, television, religion, and abuse. That damage ossifies into a shell which isn't easy to break through.
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NYC debates crackdown on counterfeit luxury goods
Bargain hunters from around the world flock to Manhattan's Chinatown for bags, jewelry and other accessories bursting onto sidewalks from storefronts along Canal Street.
Among the goods are luxury items labeled "Prada" or "Louis Vuitton" or some other luxury brand " counterfeits sold for a pittance. In some cases, handbags going for $2,000 on Fifth Avenue can be had downtown for, say, $20.
They're seductive fakes.
Until now, the law enforcement focus has been on catching the sellers. But if a proposed bill passes the City Council, customers caught buying counterfeits could be punished with a fine of up to $1,000, or up to a year in prison.
The New York City legislation, if passed, would be the first in the United States to criminalize the purchase of counterfeits.
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After winning a lawsuit last month, a couple in Texas are looking to collect $6.8M from the psychic who defamed them.
Joe Bankston and Gena Charlton sued the offending psychic, Presley 'Rhonda' Gridley for defaming them when she told police in June 2011 that there was a mass grave in their backyard.
Gridley, a self-described 'psychic' and 'reverend' told police that they would find a mass grave with 25 to 30 bodies in their backyard, with the bones of missing children in the walls and 'stuff written all over the walls in blood.'
When the police started their investigation, they repeated Gridley's claims to the local press who reported them as facts.
When the investigation ended with no bodies in sight, Bankston and Charlton sued Liberty county, various media outlets and Gridley.
'Over the course of the day, media defendants began to exaggerate and eventually make up facts about Plaintiffs, including that a mass grave existed on the property, including the bodies of children,' the suit said.
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Fox News' Ralph Peters: 'Bring Back The Death Penalty' For Edward Snowden
This is the former military guy who previously said that he would execute leakers.
Who is a bigger threat to civilization; whistleblowers or obsequious goose-steppers?
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Feinstein: NSA Leaker Committed 'Treason'
“I don’t look at this as being a whistleblower. I think it’s an act of treason.” She said that Snowden had violated his oath as a government employee to uphold the Constitution: “He violated the oath, he violated the law. That’s treason.”
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Have you been regularly on the boards?
I've been known to make a post or two on occasion. [
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Most Americans Support Being Spied on by NSA
“A majority of Americans – 56% – say the National Security Agency’s (NSA) program tracking the telephone records of millions of Americans is an acceptable way for the government to investigate terrorism,” reports Pew Research Center.
A comparison with a previous poll from January 2006
highlights the fact that more Americans are now likely to support NSA
surveillance despite the huge scandal it caused for the Bush
administration. Under Bush, 47% found NSA wiretapping of Americans
unacceptable whereas just 41% find it unacceptable under Obama.The poll also finds that whereas 61% of Democrats found
blanket NSA surveillance unacceptable under Bush, only 34% oppose it
under Obama – underscoring once again how partisanship is used to
dismantle American freedoms no matter who is in office.The survey also reveals that just one on four Americans
are following the NSA story “very closely,” whereas the other 73% are
presumably more interested in the release of the new XBox and season 17
of Dancing With the Stars.. . .
As Robert Gellately of Florida State University has highlighted, Germans under Hitler spied on and denounced their neighbors and friends not because they genuinely believed them to be a security threat, but because they expected to selfishly benefit from doing so, both financially, socially and psychologically via a pavlovian need to be rewarded by their masters for their obedience.
That “Good German” syndrome is very much alive and kicking amongst Americans today, most of whom seem to be completely at ease with the fact that their government is becoming tyrannical while willing to make any excuse imaginable to deny that the United States is beginning to resemble a high-tech plutocracy which treats its own citizens as the enemy. -
House Speaker John Boehner: NSA Leaker a ‘Traitor’
Of course, John Boehner is the real traitor.
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You'll have an opportunity to meet Stef, and some of us, in August.
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The major intellectual achievement is showing the integrity and fortitude to critically analyze and question assertions in the face of hostility.
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Obama: 'We Don't Want to Tax All Businesses Out of Business'
"I know that there are a few Republicans here in the audience,"
Obama said Friday at a fundraiser for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign
in Palo Alto, Ca. "If you talk to us, it turns out we're pretty
common-sense folks.""We don't think government can do everything," he said. "We don't
think that top-down solutions are the right way to go. We believe in
the free market. We believe in a light touch when it comes to
regulations.""We don't want to tax all businesses out of business," Obama said.
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Hi Nala. Gosh, I haven't seen you around here in a long time. I remember you, and your story. I hope you're doing well. Have you been lurking or were you taking a long break?
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...as well as the reporter involved.
It will be interesting to see if the usual suspects publicly advocate for murder like they did with Julian Assange.
Ben Bernanke: Currency debasement to continue into 2014
in Libertarianism, Anarchism and Economics
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I've noticed portions getting smaller; especially in canned goods and breakfast cereals.
One of the more amusing examples of this is the "half-gallon" of ice cream. They're now 1.75 or 1.5 quarts, but people still refer to them as a "half-gallon."