"Where Did That Come From?"

By Rob Sandwell
Attribute to The Libertarian Enterprise

A friend of mine was talking with his girlfriend about marijuana use recently. He doesn't use the product, but he was explaining why he is in favor of the elimination of drug prohibition on moral and practical grounds.

She was deeply and emotionally opposed to the very idea. Drugs are bad. Drugs hurt people. Drugs, and drug users, and drug dealers, are evil. He pointed out that they both drank alcohol, which is far more dangerous than marijuana, and attempted to press her on her position. He wanted to know what the difference was. He wanted to know why she felt the way she did. She quickly became defensive and simply stated that she didn't have a reason for feeling the way she did, she just felt that way.

Think about that.

She didn't have a reason for feeling that way, but she did, and she had a strong emotional attachment to the idea, and that was enough for her.

A young lady I work with the other day was trying to tell me that soldiers are moral. I asked her if it's right to hurt people who never hurt you. I asked her if it's right to do so if someone tells you to, or pays you to. She said no. I asked her what the difference was between that and soldiers. It was at that point that she started screaming at me and demanding to know why I "hated this country so much," and telling me that "people like me" were the problem with the world.

I didn't make any positive declarations. I only asked her questions the entire time, but when confronted with something she believed but had obviously never considered herself, she became extremely emotional and aggressive.

Think about that.

Imagine if you woke up in the morning and suddenly realized you hated some group of people. White, Black, Christian, Atheist, doesn't matter. But you knew you'd never hated them before today, in fact, you'd never even thought about it.

How terrifying would that be? You'd think space aliens had planted thoughts in your head, or some evil trickster had hypnotized you in your sleep. The implantation of thoughts in your brain without your consent is a terrifying thing even to contemplate. And yet it happens to people all the time. It happened to these two girls. And when they were faced with it, instead of reacting with horror, instead of trying to figure out where the ideas came from, they not only ignored the problem, they continued to advocate those positions.

Think about that.

It isn't just women, these two examples just happen to be. I've known people who argued that they felt legality is more important than morality, and even after I showed them how their own actions and lives contradicted that statement, they continued to hold it. I've talked to people who say things like, "there have always been governments," or, "without public schools no one would get an education." Of course, these statements aren't just false, they're also quite silly. It shouldn't take a moment's thought to realize that.

But that's just it. They haven't even given the ideas a single moment's thought, yet they are not only proclaiming them as patently obvious, they are deeply emotionally wedded to them.

When you realize that you hold a strong emotional belief that you have never considered, that you did not arrive at as the result of some scrutiny or process, it should be an immediate red flag. You are being brainwashed. By the schools, by the churches, by the news, by the culture. Every day, you are being bombarded with false morality designed specifically to foster blind obedience.

I had a person I work with try to convince me that God puts those in power over us in that position, and so their rule is divine. He carried this belief beyond politicians, even to slave owners, even to individuals who would simply overpower him by force of arms. But when I confronted him with a few simple rational questions, the belief fell completely apart. How long had he held a strong emotional belief in the divine right of slave masters? What would he have taught his children of that belief? What more might he teach them?

Think about that. Think about everything.

I believe there are three rules we must teach our children if we have any hope of humanity seeing freedom some day:

1. Question everything.

2. Never accept an answer just because it is presented by an authority figure.

3. Anyone who has a problem with rules one or two is immediately suspect.

Legitimate authority is fine, but we must never allow anyone to use their authority to stifle questions. "Because I said so" means "I don't know." A legitimate authority figure will give you answers, or admit to ignorance. There is nothing wrong with ignorance, it can be cured. But only if it is recognized within ourselves and others.

What we can't do is simply accept the beliefs being thrust upon us by our society. Our society is broken. Our society is sick. Our children are brainwashed for eight hours a day for thirteen years in the state gulags and then sent home to waste their time doing meaningless homework assignments and reading books and watching television programs which reinforce their indoctrination. Our adults are robbed, beaten, and preyed upon to feed the insatiable maw of the state, and told that the only virtue is obedience. Our young men and women are sent to die in endless wars and robbed of their humanity and given brutality in its place.

This world is not sane. And so it produces insanity in its victims. It churns out people who hear voices in their head telling them what to believe about things they've never considered before. The first steps towards curing that sickness is throwing out the ideas in our heads which come to us unbidden, and questioning everything we are told about reality.

Because the real problem isn't drug prohibition or war or false morality or corrupt religionists. The real problem is the theft of imagination. It is the theft of rational thought. It is the theft of that very thing without which we are merely dumb beasts to be herded, milked, and led to slaughter.

It is worth everything you are to think for yourself.
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824k Jobs will Disappear on Feb 5th

Analysis by Bloomberg Multimedia HERE
"When the government releases Friday’s employment report, nearly a million jobs could be erased. The change won’t show up in the monthly report. Rather, the expected drop will show up in the governments revised job losses from April 2008 to March 2009, showing the labor market was in much worse shape than we knew at the time."
(Editor - At least people who believe government statistics knew at the time.)
Full Analysis from Bloomberg

Full Analysis from Bloomberg

Derivatives Scam Slides into the Sunshine

By Roger Wiegand

In this report, we list a summary of events creating and causing our global economic problems in chronological order covering the last ten years. It is helpful to understand where we’ve been and where we are going for personal security and potential gains in trading and investing. Our Northern Advisor is one our most brilliant sources of information. He has provided things for me that in my view are priceless and without parallel. I have known him to be extraordinarily far-sighted and extremely accurate on his forecasts. His perspective is one that is truly unique.

“What is different about using AIG as the cover to move dirty funds is that they were the conduit for stolen money going directly to Goldman Sachs (and indirectly to the other Boyz). Since AIG isn't an 'official' government agency, it would be hard to claim 'national security' to sidetrack an investigation. This money shuffle through AIG is the one weak link that might open a legal window into the greatest theft of all time.” - Northern Advisor
It appears the entire derivatives story once regarded as a conspiracy fairy tale is now on the table and it is very ugly. Here are the key points following the scam from beginning to end:

1. We had a 70 year K-wave top in 2000 (1929-1999) with a crashing Nasdaq after a go-go tech rally followed by subsequent market failures.

2. Greenspan would not endure a recession and responded by dropping interest rates to pathetic lows; for years.

3. Congressional housing proponents, vote-grubbing boyz, wanted a chicken in every pot and a house for everyone, irregardless of their ability to make payments, real estate taxes, repairs, and take general good care of a home. Those giveaway loans were blatantly outrageous and reckless.

4. Mortgage underwriting rules were thrown to the wind. Anyone with a job and a pulse could buy a house. Some without jobs were approved on no-doc loans. Some with names from graveyards (no pulse) were granted loan approvals given to application scammers and thieves.

5. Global bankers were enabled to use relaxed Enron-like trading rules to write derivatives of all kinds. Rules were nearly meaningless as borrowers and lenders alike went nuts tossing billions.

6. Housing boomed and derivatives of several kinds were sold with reckless abandon. Bankers made enormous fees. Risk was not considered whatsoever. Their motto was “Let ‘er’ rip.”

7. Housing and other derivatives bubbles came to a stratospheric peak in 2005-2006 and blew-up. We did forecast the housing debacle when June, 2005 lumber futures went into the tank followed by crashing derivatives.

8. Housing and derivative paper sank to very low values, or zero as lenders and borrowers imploded. The housing failure fallout could continue in most US regions for the next three to five years.

9. Damages were so severe that if left to their own devices, many of the global banks would have failed taking the entire economic system into the dark ages of finance. Bear Stearns, Lehman, and Bank of America were selected as sacrificial lambs, as certain other banks seized the moment to defile and dispose of their competition. “Never let a good crisis go to waste.”

10. USA and other nations’ central bankers pumped currencies and bonds to the moon. They were printed and originated with wild abandon to cover-up the mess and contain the damage. It continues today. Japan or China or both could crash first. Five Euroland nations are on the edge of collapse. The U.K. is basket case and more than one country in South America is caving into big trouble.

11. In the USA, TARP money was stolen from taxpayers and funneled through conduit AIG to crooked, failed bankers to reliquify their balance sheets with free money. They are supposed to lend some out for growth but are holding it tight earning free interest from the government; taking no risks.

12. In the next criminal act, Fannie and Freddie have been given a wide-open checkbook for the next three years. All the USA bad real estate paper will be funneled into these bankrupt entities and then they will be flushed and disbanded. These loans were not paid or legally bankrupted-discharged, but summarily, surruptitiously, hidden and dumped.

13. Crooked bankers discovered they are “Too Big To Fail” and are doing it all over again with a tacit “no penalty” understanding. Estimated derivative balances today are $204 Trillion Dollars. No one will stop them until everything collapses in one final crashing swoon.

14. The order of collapse could be moving from current deflation to inflation, hyperinflation, back to deflation and lastly, world war to escape the final disaster. War is always the final solution to divert the attention of Sheeple from their pathetic broken economic existence.

15. Civil disorder appears this summer in several countries instigated by hungry, jobless people from all working classes. So far its been contained to car fires, vandalizism, protest marches and small riots. The deeper we go into Greater Depression II, the worse it gets expanding into stronger and more wide-spread violence.

16. The larger questions become: What happens on the other side after the war? Who will lead the world? Will the US Dollar continue to be the world’s reserve currency? Will we attempt to return to the gold standard? Will those who were responsible for these disasters pay the price? If so how? Will they go to jail? Will they escape the wrath of the Sheeple? What will the economic world look like after the monster obligatory war? Who will control global energy?

17. The controller of global energy resources, we think could be either Russia or the USA-the ultimate winner. We would prefer to believe America will win and survive but we cannot know for sure. Congress and the current administration (along with some members of prior administrations) are all equally at fault. The Sheeple, The Herd, The Middle Class, and The Bubbas are gearing-up for a massive revolt. Who pays the price? Who escapes? How bad will it get? No one can say for sure but we live in interesting times in a world being changed for good.

On February 1, 2010, President Obama presented his fiscal year 2011 national budget. Since all the bad housing paper is being off-loaded into Fannie and Freddie, they were excluded from this new budget. Further, those two money-debt monsters have an open checkbook for the next three years to keep buying bad mortgages. The new budget is $3.8 Trillion US dollars and demands $1.9 Trillion in brand new taxes on the rich and on wealthy businesses.

We do not expect this budget to be approved as presented but there is no question taxes will rise for all Americans and all American businesses. This will further destroy any hopes of recovery. Larger corporations are moving overseas and will do so with an increased frenzy. Many of them have most of their assets out of the US already. It will be very easy to relocate the rest, fire American employees and move on to greener international pastures.

Individual wealthy Americans will do the same. Many of them have sold out and gone to foreign lands as they saw the hand writing on the wall. This atmosphere will inhibit formation of new businesses as the prospective owners when seeing these unrealistic obligations will elect to (1) Not open any new business. (2) Go into business overseas. (3) Reduce current profitable American businesses and lay-off employees. (4) Shut down their US businesses, take the cash from a potential sale and retire or move away.

When big manufacturing moved overseas, it gutted the Midwestern United States. This rustbelt region formerly composed of 85 million Americans is dying a slow death. Those that can are leaving for good. The City of Detroit once held nearly 2 million people. Today it is less than 900,000 and has 50% unemployment. Yet the Michigan governor thrashes around trying to encourage new companies to locate there. People are not so stupid as to go along. They are voting with there feet. I know; I was one of them. Michigan unemployment is officially in the teens. Reality says 25% of Michigan is out of work and its getting worse faster than ever. California, Nevada, Arizona, Florida, New York, New Jersey and Illinois are all in the soup.

Many still believe Asia is the future. We think it was for a few years but China, in our opinion, is on the verge of a fiscal meltdown. We are not alone in our thinking. Many top analysts see things they way we do. All economies when engaged in extremes eventually return to the norm. China is no different.

In our view, Canada has been the best choice of any western nation; even better than Germany, which has proven to be an economic powerhouse. Germans are stuck in the middle of a sinking ship called Euroland. On the other hand, Canada is rich is natural resources, and their bankers wisely stayed out of derivatives and related messes. With the exception of some problems in manufacturing, Canada is the future.

Our next window for buying precious metals shares could open this week as gold has begun a new rally along with several other commodities. We are watching to ensure this new rally is for real but have already been invested in gold, silver, and grain with futures spread positions for 2010.

Additionally, we buy and recommend the purchase of gold and silver coins for personal and retirement portfolios. Our standard recommendation is for an individual to use 10% of their investment cash for precious metals and not sell them whatsoever. This applies to the first $100,000 of any single account with further adjustments on a sliding scale for larger accounts.

Our current cycle for commodities and commodity related currencies has begun. While we hear objections to technical patterns for these current markets we would argue that now is the time to get busy and buy. Our record while not perfect has been quite correct on trend and that is the objective.

In the spring of 2009 we did forecast the gold price at $1250-1260 for the December, 2009 futures. We touched $1226. The interim move was substantial and profitable for those with positions including our own.

Summary
Be very careful as we move forward in time. Trading is going faster and more volatile with wider trading ranges in precious metals and other markets. Try to be in position ahead of time rather than locking yourself into trades at the very last minute. Futures traders should always use stops and shares traders as well. Personally, I can see unbelievable opportunities to trade that we would never see again for many years. Turn these problems into opportunities. Those on the right side of the trade might get rich. Those on the other side are just victims. Stay Alert. –Traderrog.

Roger Wiegand
Editor Trader Tracks Newsletter
The Jay & Rog Blog at webeatthestreet.com

Whoops – The Censor Missed One

CNBC talking head lets the truth slip out and no one notices.

The Truth?

That last year the US Govt needed to raise an additional 1.5 trillion through borrowing to fund our welfare/warfare state and 80% of that was purchased by the Fed Reserve. Think about that, 80% bought by the people with the printing press. Can’t go on like this with destroying our currency.

This was accurtaley described as a Ponzi scheme, and she is right.

Martial Law vs. Christian Responsibility

by Robert Hawes

The "Higher Powers": Martial Law vs. Christian Responsibility
It is one thing to know something intellectually, and quite another to see it suddenly happen before your eyes. I experienced such a moment in 2005, during the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, when I watched (via the Internet) as police officers went door-to-door in New Orleans neighborhoods, forced law-abiding citizens into the streets, cuffed them, and then searched their homes for firearms before leaving them bewildered and helpless. There were no warrants involved. No probable cause was mentioned. No charges of wrong-doing were filed. Intimidation and brute force were the order of the day. And as much as I wish I could believe otherwise, I'm afraid that what we saw in New Orleans is merely a preview of coming attractions.

Since September 11, 2001, the federal government has been busily advancing preparations for the day when it might impose martial law throughout the United States, thus presenting us with the specter of the sort of thugery we witnessed in New Orleans being carried out all across this "land of the free." A quasi-legal apparatus has already been put into place for this, via such legislation as the PATRIOT Act, the John Warner Defense Authorization Act, the Military Commissions Act, and the National Security and Homeland Security Directive. But legislation, although important in creating the illusion of legitimacy, is only one of the two boots with which the authoritarian state tramples
freedom; the other is propaganda, and it is even more essential than force because it allows the state to conquer by stealth, and thus with a minimum of effort.

The state that employs only force to achieve its aims will rule only as long as it can subdue the people; but if it can successfully use propaganda, it can rule indefinitely because the people will subdue themselves. Propaganda deludes the slave into seeing his servitude as sacrifice, even as an honor. It transforms political prisoners into the enemies of the people, turns massacres into purgings, makes partisanism look like saintly perseverance, sells torture as retribution, portrays dissent as sabotage, and masks aggression in the guise of crusading. As Adolf Hitler observed in Mein Kampf, "By an able and persistent use of propaganda heaven itself can be presented to the
people as if it were hell and, vice versa, the most miserable kind of life can be presented as if it were paradise."

And of all the varied forms of propaganda, religious propaganda is by far the most effective; for, it provides fallible men with the sanction of heaven, which must not be resisted nor even questioned. Our government is well aware of this and, from all indications, is ready to use religious propaganda in order to help pacify the American population in the event that martial law is declared.

For years, rumors circulated to the effect that the U.S. government would use members of the clergy in efforts to pacify Americans should martial law ever be declared. Many scoffed at the idea, calling it so much conspiracy theory nonsense. Then, in 2007, KSLA Channel 12 in Shreveport, Louisiana, reported that, following Hurricane Katrina, "clergy response teams" were utilized to assist the government with public relations (click here to watch the video). According to the story, such teams will likely be used in future emergency situations, with an emphasis on their potential role in a
martial law scenario. Here's a quote from the story:

“Such clergy response teams would walk a tight-rope during martial law between the demands of the government on the one side, versus the wishes of the public on the other. "In a lot of cases, these clergy would already be known in the neighborhoods in which they're helping to diffuse that situation," assured Sandy Davis. He serves as the director of the Caddo-Bossier Office of Homeland Security and Emergency preparedness.

A member of one such clergy response team, Dr. Durell Tuberville, was interviewed by KSLA, and stated that Christians have a responsibility to obey the government, no matter what. "The government's established by the Lord," said Tuberville. “That's what we believe in the Christian faith. That's what's stated in the scripture. As a Christian myself, I understand where people like Dr. Tuberville are coming from. I remember
my ninth grade Government teacher telling our class (Christian school, mind you) that Soviet citizens had no right to defy their government because, no matter how ppressive the Soviet State was, it was “ordained by God" (when asked about whether the American patriots were right to rebel against England, however, he equivocated). This reasoning is based on several passages of scripture, but particularly on the following remarks made by the Apostle Paul in Romans, chapter 13
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Natural Order vs Compulsory

Hans Herman-Hoppe and Ron Paul

Never Believe the Govt Stats

Thanx to Zero Hedge and Credit Trader


This chart shows total jobless for a 40+ year stretch - make of it what you will citizen.


There is no such thing as a jobless recovery, who would ever believe such nonsense?
CHART SOURCE

Just another Lie from the Chosen One

He promised televised dialogue around the health care reform throughout the campaign.

Yeah right - like bringing the troops home, letting the public read all laws for 5 days before signing them, rolling back the constitutional overreach of W, stopping torture and not having any lobbyists in his administration.

Here are several examples of O-Bomb-a making another promise only to be forgotten.

Keep the Faith – Humanity is Winning

As we look into 2010 and anticipate the upcoming year one could become pessimistic or discouraged.

Despite what our federal overloads tell us about the economy we know it is not better or on even on the path to improving. Debt and unemployment continue to grow; we now have a national dialogue to expand our military aggression throughout the world. Of course, we will be asked to continue to offer up the remnants of our freedom in order for big brother to protect us from the evil doer’s

Still, despite this I feel that we have reasons to feel more optimistic than ever in the struggle of free humanity against the global finance oligarchs.

Here are three of the biggest victories of 2009:

The Swine flu hoax flopped – even though the bird/pig/human flu was supposed threaten our very existence with the only hope offered us; a poisonous shot.
The MAJORITY of the public didn’t buy it. The game failed.

HR bill 1207 to audit the federal reserve passed the house. Even though it was assaulted in committee and the bankster gangsters’ congress critters attempted to derail it – they failed.
Just 5 years ago the federal reserve was untouchable and could not even be discussed in the state approved media – let alone challenged. On a related note, Congressman Ron Paul the author of HR 1207, could not even vote for his legislation when it hit floor because it was thrown into another horrible piece congress trash. We have one man with principle in the entire cesspool of congress.

Copenhagen Failed. Billed by as “hopenhagen” , the hopium addicts, as all addicts do, lost control of their addiction and the lies holding up this scam are falling. Aided greatly by "climategate" scandal the world is now becoming aware that taxing the western economies to the point of creating third world living standards will not solve the problem. A problem that we have now learned did not exist.

These victories only 12 months ago would have been unthinkable. Humanity is going through an awaking. It is painful at times as the chains fall away and we see the world for what it is for the very first time. Still, the truth will set us free.

Because of these victories the criminals are starting to realize the game is up and are fleeing. Like rats from a sinking ship they are heading for the hills in hopes of remaining ahead of the pitchforks and lamp post decoration events. Nowing that the we are seeing them for what they are legisl;tors that were considered locks only a year ago are not seeing reelection.
From the HOR:
Dennis Moore – (D) Kansas; 10 years
John Tanner – (D) Tennessee;20 years
Brian Baird – (D) Washington; 12 years

From the Senate:
Chris Dodd – (D) Connecticut; 30 years
Byron Dorgan (D) North Dakota; 17 years

Possibilities, Senator Harry Reid has people lining up against him in Nevada, and Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi will have to fight for her seat as well against a Liberty minded candidate.

Listed are DemocRATS, however the GOP, (Graft Or Pilfer) is filled with criminals as well. As mentioned only one man of princple in congress - Ron Paul.
If the Federal Reserve can be gotten by the liberty movement – we can do anything.

Love will conquer all. Blessed are the peacemakers for they are the children of God.

In liberty- c2084

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