Give Capitalism a Chance
posted 08/04/2010, 7:20 PM (Mises Institue) [Category: Commentary] It is a common assumption in today's world that capitalism is, at best, out of control and, at worst, outright evil. Everyone knows that it causes most of our financial, economic, and social problems, and that we need a referee — the government — to make sure that all is fair and that we innocent citizens are not taken advantage of by predatory companies and capitalists.
The fact, of course, is that everyone is wrong.
My urgent goal in writing The Case for Legalizing Capitalism was to create a one-stop refutation of all anticapitalist arguments, using plain economic logic and applying free-market (i.e., classical liberal) arguments and economic laws to today's political scene, across the entire political-economic spectrum. In short, the goal was to condense the world of the Mises Institute into one book.
During my study of free-market economics over the years, it occurred to me that this fascinating, economically sound reasoning for how the world really works and what would genuinely help our lives was widely discussed in the procapitalism, academic-type world, but that the general public was wholly unaware of these astounding insights.
I wanted to explain free markets in plain English to average citizens, so that they could understand which government policies help or harm them, and, as a consequence, so that they could vote in such a way as to improve their lives.
My main message is that most of our economic problems derive from previous government intervention in the economy. In its attempts to "help" us, the government has managed and regulated the economy, and passed laws that sounded constructive but that in fact hurt the economy and us.
Political economic reality is replete with the law of... (more)
Capitalism may be the most demonized term in the English language. Nothing is more evil and exploitative. Yet what is capitalism at its core?
It's free trade, voluntary trade. It's freedom and voluntarism. It's the division of labor to maximize production. Capitalism is simply freedom. It's the actions of humans in a free society to divide labor in order to maximize wealth and productivity.
That's because the perk has also cost states as much as $23 billion in lost revenue by some estimates, and they want it back. Rep. Bill Delahunt (D-Mass.) this morning enlisted Republican South Dakota Gov. Mike Rounds (R) and other state lawmakers to rally support for his proposed Main Street Fairness Act, which would make it easier for states to go after th... (more)
"That's because the *perk* has also *cost* states as much as $23 billion in *lost revenue* by some estimates, and they want it *back*."
Are you f&#%ing kidding me?
Not being robbed at gunpoint is a *perk*?
Not having the states stealing from people is a *cost*?
They *lost* this revenue which they have literally no claim to?
Now they "want it *back*", as if the products of other people's labor was ever theirs?
How much nonsense was fit into just that one sentence? It is so twisted on all points, it literally turns reality on its head.
The state is a gang of criminal robbers, they want to steal more peoples money so they can get more power over people, therefor they are working to create more laws to steal more wealth from the population and anyone who doesn't comply they will have their goons murder if they resist.
1. We'd have absolutely no taxes. That means everything across the board would be cheaper and everyone would have about twice as much money.
2. We'd have no foreign wars. The US spends $1 trillion dollars a year on our interventionist foreign policy. If we shut the whole government down, that's $1 trillion dollars a... (more)
The Alexandria Sanitation Authority has agreed to pay a group of local property owners an additional $16 million for land the city agency seized using its eminent domain powers.
The settlement comes after more than three years of court battles between the sanitation authority and the land's previo... (more)
So this man, who helped house and employ probably thousands of people, had the gangster government steal his property from him at half its value, took $2.5 million dollars to fight the ruling, and finally was forced to settle at a $6 million (plus) dollar loss.
At what do the criminals in suits say? "We believe the agreed compensation is a fair price for both parties. We are glad this matter is now resolved."
Agreed compensation? A fair price for both parties? Resolved? Are you #$%^ing kidding me?
These criminal gangsters put a gun to his head and threatened to pull the trigger. They took his own tax dollars and used them to steal his own property at gunpoint. And they have the unchecked audacity to act as though "justice is served"?
How much more obvious can it be our government is nothing but a gang of looters and thieves? These criminals should be rotting in a jail cell, they should be afraid to even look the public in the eyes, instead they're running around looting with impunity. - Chris
Why Socialism Fails
posted 07/12/2010, 6:15 PM (Reddit.com) [Category: Commentary] An economics professor said he had never failed a single student before but had, once, failed an entire class. That class had insisted that socialism worked and that no one would be poor and no one would be rich, a great equalizer. The professor then said ok, we will have an experiment in this class on socialism.
All grades would be averaged and everyone would receive the same grade so no one would fail and no one would receive an A. After the first test the grades were averaged a... (more)
InfoLib Commentary
America used to be about equal opportunity, not the equal redistribution of wealth. The second you have a government which concerns itself with wealth redistribution is the second your government turns into a tool of corporate conquest and privilege, whoever can game the system best gets all the stolen loot which is supposed to 'help the poor' or whatever other excuse they give. It doesn't work, it never will, and it never has.
Freedom on the other hand means a completely voluntarist society in which all services are provided by the free market based off actual demand. To put it another way, imagine if no one payed any taxes and there was no warfare/welfare state wasting trillions on bombs instead of computers, housing, food, and whatever else consumers actually demand. The society would be easily 5-10 times wealthier overall. The poor would be making 100k a year and we'd hear socialists griping even then about the evils of capitalism because the rich are making 100 billion.
In a free society you have to enrich others and provide a service others want in order to make money. Not so with government, all you have to do is lobby for corporate welfare and subsidies etc. or you can just loot the treasury directly like the 2.3 trillion which went "missing" from the Pentagon right before 9/11.
Socialism is not a way to help the poor, that's just a front they use to get the poor to go along with the government robbing everyone. The poor actually get hurt the most under socialism because goods are drastically more expensive (due to the "rich" being taxed 50%+ on all their income) and all the subsidized industries keeping prices high (think housing and health care).
There is an idiotic comic which says "Libertarianism is just Anarchy for rich people", despite libertarianism being a form of anarchy (anarcho-capitalism), the idea behind it is libertarianism is some scam for rich people. In reality, libertarianism is just freedom and a society without government coercion. It's freedom and equality and a utopia for all people.
It's a society where there is no upper class who gets to rule over everyone else for their own good. All services would be voluntary and dependent on public support to exist, just as is your local baker, so would be your local private mediation court and your private policemen (who would have to compete endlessly for your support). The only people who should be against it are the corporate welfare pimps who live off government handouts and government subsidies and obviously the federal reserve and their whole criminal cartel. - Chris, InfoLib
As much as I enjoy fireworks, I can't help but find it angering the way the 4th of July is nothing more than some hollowed out, almost sarcastic joke of a celebration. The whole tradition of celebrating freedom in America has turned into the government taking our taxpayer money and burning it in a spectacular show of largess on the taxpayer's dime.
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey of Adults shows that, when asked their views on changing the Constitution, 62% say it should be left alone. Twenty-four percent (24%) believe minor changes are needed, while only seven percent (7%) see a need for major changes.
Three percent (3%) believe the country should... (more)
"39% believe the current document does not put enough restrictions on what the government can do."
As Thoreau said, "That government is best which governs least." ...and that's why the best government is no government at all!
The "services" government provides are all a laughingstock joke, they could be replaced in the free market practically overnight with all the creative entrepreneurs we have in the world!
Just look at how fast the innovations on the internet take place, from social networking to tweeting, to all these file sharing sites, to Rapidshare and Megaupload, to Reddit, Digg and StumbleUpon! Imagine if that creative spirit was put to work providing services like courts and protection agencies!
At the very least allow people to compete in these industries! Repeal all these non-compete government-monopoly-enforcing laws and you'd see the best government the world has ever seen. Just as every few months out comes the best new computer or cell phone the world has ever seen!
Free-markets work! Coercive government monopolies do not! - Chris, InfoLib
Report: Russian Spies are "Goldbugs" Who May be Plotting to "Destroy the Value of the U.S. Dollar"
posted 06/29/2010, 11:34 PM (InformationLiberation) [Category: Economy] In what can only be described as a laughable piece of propaganda, CNN/Fortune is reporting the recently caught Russian spies are actually "Goldbugs" who may be secretly plotting to "destroy the value of the American dollar." That the US dollar has been collapsing in value for the last 100 years due to the Federal Reserve's inflationary policies is somehow conveniently missed. Instead, Russia is gearing up some Soviet style espionage plot to destroy the dollar by instituting a "new global curre... (more)
As investors, it’s essential to understand that for the near to medium term, the economic and investment outlook is the polar opposite of the rosy picture painted by officialdom and the quislings on Wall Street.
Because that understanding is so important to your wealth protection, we have taken it upon ourselves in these musin... (more)
I think this is accurate. Things have changed drastically in just this last year, the news cycle is now dominated by the actually most important news thanks to sites like Reddit and Digg etc. Drudge Report is now anti-new world order news 24/7. The liberty movement has exploded and even the con men on TV like Glenn Beck need to pose as "radical" libertarians to stay at all relevant.
The zeitgeist took about 5 years to switch but now the trends have finally materialized. People are ready to hear the truth, mainly I think due to the bailout robbery (late 2008) and the ensuing economic crash. The worse things get, in many ways, the better things will get.
There is a huge price to pay for being foolhardy, it's a law of nature. The U.S. by and large went along with the murderous wars, the mass theft of the warfare/welfare state, the government bubble, etc. There is going to be either a massive crash or a sustained "managed" collapse, the latter being much worse and possibly violent, I think the establishment is aiming for the latter. (not that I think they will pull it off, I think our government is going the way of the Soviet Union.)
We need to suffer a massive crash, one massive crash in everything would actually be ideal because then we could start the rebuilding process from a clean slate. A sustained depression with the government funneling money around to the least productive companies in our society is the absolute worst thing we could have happen. I think it's likely they will continue to do just that, but the political climate has changed so much it may no longer be feasible.
As an individual I think the best thing to do is buy some gold and silver and maybe get armed. The more rural a place you live in, probably the better. It might be worth it going to another country if you have the means to do so.
Just as important, probably more important, read about Austrian economics and understand the cause of the problems in the world, they're almost all economic and they're absolutely all due to government.
Our current system is completely fiat and akin to wily coyote running off the cliff, our society has not yet looked down. Eventually it will and things are going to have to change, an anarcho-capitalist/private law society is the most accurate description of a free society I've ever seen, setting up another government, even a minimalist one is a total waste of effort and time. - Chris
Backing up his rhetoric behind the scenes, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is quietly working on a new regulation to determine when insurance price increases are “unreasonable” and potentially prohibited by law.
Want to lower prices? Get government completely out of the industry, you'll see prices tank the same way you see them tank in the computer industry.
Of course, they don't want the companies to lower prices, the health care bill was written by industry lobbyists and is 100% guaranteed to raise prices as a result of 30 million new customers mandated by law.
If people are literally forced to buy your product, do you really think you'd have the same incentive to serve the consumer? The idea is laughable.
Be prepared for the worst and most expensive health care ever to grace god's green earth. - Chris
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I like how they say "corporations have more power than governments," a classic dystopian projection on the future, meanwhile who is it beating down the rioters in the street?
The government, of course!
The reality is corporations have no power beyond begging you to buy their product, their power is in servicing their customer's every whim. Government on the other hand has a territorial monopoly on force and adjudication, taxes and violence.
A corporation becoming too powerful can only happen due to government's monopoly on force, they can use the government to force people to buy their crap (like health insurance) and they can steal people's money for corporate welfare through taxation.
They really want everyone to believe the opposite is true, corporations have some secret power to control your mind and steal from you through giving you incredible values and low prices, whereas government is needed to fight the evil exploiting capitalist devils who want to ruin us by giving us everything we want, making us decadent and sluggish! Eeeeeeeevil !!! - Chris
Global organized crime becoming new superpower: U.N.
posted 06/22/2010, 7:36 PM (Reuters) [Category: General] (Reuters) - Governments must smash markets supplied by the global "superpower" of organized criminals trafficking drugs, people, arms and counterfeit goods, the U.N. crime chief said on Thursday.
Criminals are reaping profits in the tens of billions of dollars, Antonio Maria Costa, head of the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime, told Reuters about a report released by his agency.
But countries are not cooperating enough with each other and the United Nations, and are to... (more)
What a joke. The biggest criminal organization is the government itself! They counterfeit money with their central banks and they run the drugs through their intelligence agencies. They rob people and call it 'taxes' and they kill people and call it 'making the world safe for democracy.' If government wants to smash the evil in the world they would all shut their doors and rid the world of their miserable scourge. - Chris
Government Services: Where the Customer is Always Wrong
posted 06/15/2010, 9:29 PM (Center for a Stateless Society) [Category: Commentary] In the normal course of affairs, when we consume services offered on the market, we expect only to get the services we ask for, and to pay for just what we get. If we don’t want the service a business is providing, we don’t have to consume it or pay for it. And if someone else offers a superior version of the service on terms that we prefer, we can take our business elsewhere.
Reader reactions to the Red & Black Cafe story, where the manager of an anarchist coffee house in Portl... (more)
Try child labor involved in shooting people -- child labor you may have paid for through your US taxes.
According to a report Monday, American taxpayers may be paying for child soldiers in Somalia, with some children as young as nine. Somalia, which the US AID agency considers a "failed state," employs juvenile soldiers in its Transitional Federal Government, according to the United Nations and hu... (more)
The Somalian people do not want a government, they have their own system of mediation and private law. Somalia, relative to its neighbors, is actually doing quite well, they have a vibrant telecommunications industry and a bustling free market economy. The US deals with this little problem by funding war lords to "stabilize" (destabilize) the country and simultaneously funds the creation of a state. They cannot stand to have any society, especially in Africa, rising out of poverty and setting an example for the rest of its neighbors, therefor they foment war and division just like the old British empire did 100 years ago. - Chris
Civil forfeiture laws represent one of the most serious assaults on pri... (more)
If only the police actually were policing for profit! If only they had to serve their customers in order to make money! Instead they do it 'for the public good' and this is what we get.
Monopolies lead to worse service and higher costs, the government cannot be trusted with a monopoly over anything, let alone something as important as security.
Make policing an opt in service on the free-market and you'd have police who actually want to serve and protect instead of control freak parasites who want to bully and steal. - Chris, InfoLib
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 84% oppose a three percent (3%) tax on monthly cell phone bills to help newspapers and traditional journalism.
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Beyond the obviousness that this is some sort of internet takeover, to address the ridiculous idea the newspapers need to churn some profit. What the newspapers want is essentially a state enforced monopoly. The reason they're dying is not because people are stealing their content, anyone who reposts content from anywhere is giving links to a site which they would not have gotten otherwise. The media is dying not because of news aggregators etc., it's because they face *gasp* open competition on the free market.
If they wanted to keep their content private they could move to a subscription only model like WSJ or even worse Newsday which fell flat on its face. If they thought they could make more money doing it then they would switch, they don't and they won't.
The truth of the matter is the old monopoly media which existed largely due to government handouts deserves to die a miserable, painful, excruciating death. They do nothing an independent reporter couldn't do better, just look at Dahr Jamail and his reporting on the war in Iraq and Afghanistan, independent news is the only news of value, some rag like the NYT is just pure government propaganda, useful only for a laugh to see whatever nonsense the government wants you to believe next.
Open competition, no matter what market it is, eventually drives profits down to almost zero, as Jeffery Tucker said "Capitalism is a conspiracy to drive profits down to zero." (paraphrasing)
The media now has to compete with tens of millions of people covering the news in their own unique way, they can't compete, there is no way in hell, their only choice is to shut their competition down with some licensing scheme and jail people if they don't submit. If you read the FTC's latest report, you'll know that's exactly what they're planning. - Chris
FLASHBACK: GOPer Angle Spoke Out Against Fluoride In Water Supply
posted 06/09/2010, 4:55 PM (TPMDC) [Category: Brave New World] "Before the vote, Assemblywoman Sharron Angle, R-Reno, sought to postpone the vote so she could add an amendment to block fluoridation in Washoe County. The Washoe County Commission in 1992 rejected fluoridation, and Angle said the Legislature should not approve fluoridation in her county without a vote of its people."
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This is a really funny media hoax. We're all supposed to bow down before the mighty liberals on the mountaintop declaring fluoride and all the contaminants which are regularly present in it is wonderful nectar from the gods created for our endless and limitless ingestion.
That she would even dare to request a vote on the matter, that she would dare to highlight the fact fluoride, which is poison itself, is almost always contaminated with arsenic and other deadly poisons somehow merits her being kicked out of politics altogether and sent home crying in shame.
Some people literally worship the police state and love sucking down their forced medication. - Chris
Joining host Dennis McCuistion, Thomas E. Woods, Jr. (Ludwig von Mises ... (more)
If you give an institution the monopoly power to tax and a monopoly over courts, how can you expect it not to become an out of control tyranny?
All monopolies lead to worse service and increased costs, the idea you would set your government up as a total monopoly is absolutely absurd.
There are a few solutions, one of them is to break up the US into 20,000 separate republics like Lew Rockwell talked about, this would force people to engage in free trade and the incentive structure would be changed because people could vote with their feet and move out of any jurisdiction which was taxing them too much or was out of control in any way.
A much better solution, I believe, is what Hans-Hermann Hoppe talks about which is creating a private sector for all the government industry.
Everyone would buy insurance to protect themselves and everyone would be armed and be able to hire police to defend their property.
The judicial system would be done by the insurance courts and there would be simple laws and actual incentive to give good judgments.
People would be free to live as they please on their own private property and there would be no forced integration and no system of coercion.
People would interact only out of their own volition and could vote with their dollars.
No one would be ruling over anyone yet the society would be completely civilized and have a powerful judiciary and a strong guerrilla army.
There could be no wars of aggression because there would be no state, and if anyone tried to invade us, to quote one Japanese General, "there would be a rifle behind every blade of grass."
We would quickly become the most prosperous nation on earth because that's the product of freedom. We would set the perfect example for the world and it would be like the US in the glory days right after the revolution.
Now THAT'S change I can believe in! - Chris, InfoLib
In Brutal, his aptly titled memoir of the years he spent working for Boston Mob boss – and protected FBI asset – James "Whitey" Bulger, Weeks describes how... (more)
Why the Obsession with Capitalism?!
posted 05/20/2010, 11:40 PM (InformationLiberation) [Category: Commentary] I've been exposed to the works of Lew Rockwell and the Mises Institute for years now, I would always read Lew's site and enjoy it but I had no fundamental understanding of real economics. I thought like most people 'Hey what about the evils of corporations?! Why is the government the only evil, they're run by big business!'
This is of course true, but it is a slight of hand.
The government has a power monopoly on force. The 'state', as they say, is the ultimate se... (more)
The Death of Aiyana Jones: 'Showtime Syndrome' Claims a Child
posted 05/19/2010, 2:48 AM (William Norman Grigg) [Category: Commentary] In physics, the term "observer effect" describes how examining a phenomenon can change it, because of the influence of the instruments used to make the observation. Something similar happens to human interactions when cameras are present. The irresistible impulse to play to the lens makes human behavior mannered and self-aware. Every statement becomes a performance, every gesture a pose.
The steady onslaught of police propaganda shows of the "COPS" genre constitutes... (more)
Over the past 20 years, how many times have we heard European statists extolling the virtues and benefits of the socialistic welfare state? Europeans have proven that socialism works, the statists have repeatedly claimed over the years. Just look at how successful all that free government dole has proven to be in Europe.
Do you think the same people dropping bombs on weddings in Afghanistan and murdering innocent people en masse` are really going to have economic policies intended to help people?
You think these people want to be restrained by free market capitalism where they can't print up endless funny money to finance their murderous empire?
You really think the welfare state and the so-called safety nets concocted by literal lawless murders are here to help you?
These people hate you.
They view the citizens of this country with the same contempt as the foreigners they bomb without even blinking an eye. Just look at how congress voted to put sanctions on Iran without even having a debate, as Ron Paul said that is a serious act of war. They are seriously preparing to start another murderous war with another foreign country with 75 million innocent people who did absolutely nothing to us, a country which is bending over backwards not to be attacked by us, they don't give a damn, they vote for war as if they're voting to honor presidents' day.
How much more obvious can it be the criminals which run our government are not here to help? Yet they all support the welfare state, they all support the 'regulations' to fight the greedy free market capitalists... Our economy is collapsing because the producers of this country can no longer handle the parasitic government sucking them dry, the host is now being killed, there is not going to be any wealth to redistribute, there is not going to be any programs to help the poor, if our currency collapses and people don't blame the federal reserve and the government and instead blame free market capitalism, it's over.
- Chris, InfoLib
"Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master." - George Washington
Presented by Jeffrey Tucker at "The Inflationary Path to Despotism," th... (more)
This is my second favorite video I've seen of Jeffery Tucker who runs the Mises Institute, in this video he explains what money is, its history and its significance. He also talks about what happens when money 'no longer makes the world go round' because its value collapses. He talks of the Weimar republic and how while the government was running the printing press the economy was booming and price inflation was just a few percent a year, at the time no one really noticed it was a problem. Yet overnight basically the people realized their money was worthless and their currency suffered hyperinflation, their country collapsed, and next up they're under Hitler and invading sovereign nations for the glory of the fatherland. This video is extremely enlightening (and terrifying). - Chris
Presented by Jeffrey Tucker at the "Economics for High School Students"... (more)
This video is so shockingly brilliant I can't believe I've never been exposed to these ideas before. Entertaining, fascinating, and hilarious, this is a must watch. - Chris
[This speech was delivered on October 28, 2006, at "Imperialism: Enemy of Freedom," the Mises Institute Supporter's Summit. Audio | Video]
The US Population just passed an important demographic marker this year. It finally reached 300 million. The reactions to the news were predictable. Many on the Left celebrated the growing diversity of the population, ... (more)
InfoLib Analysis
I think this is one of the best articles I've ever read. I've changed a lot recently through delving very deeply into real economics (Irwin Schiff, Mises, Rockwell etc.). I think it's one of the most important issues in the world. Learning how free market economics (despite horrible oppression) brought us the incredible advancements we have today and how it is the source of all progress is extremely enlightening and very mentally freeing.
There is so much confusion in the whole fake-science field that is 'economics', mass economics is basically just propaganda for the government to print money and do whatever it wants. Real free market economics (which is basically just freedom) is a completely different ballpark which has basically nothing to do with the economics you learned in college etc. Real economics at its core is just freedom, it's the freedom to produce and create what you want, to do your own work and keep the products of your own labor, to exchange goods and services on a voluntarily basis for the betterment of all. It is not a source of evil which needs to be controlled or regulated to prevent "monopoly" or "looting" or whatever excuse they give, that's the big lie the fake-economists aka government propagandists aka statists are put in place to push.
I think it is extremely important to draw a line between the evils of government and the evils of business. When you really start to see the picture more clearly you come to realize all the evils of business are really evils of government, because the government and it's aura of legitimacy is the real source of the illegitimate rule of a few gangster-bankers and con-men who have basically hijacked the world, not so-much through business savvy but through enshrining the legitimacy of 'the state' in people's minds (and its power to control/regulate the *literally* free markets [as in markets which are free, as opposed to markets which are enslaved and controlled]).
If you haven't been watching all the economics videos from the Mises Institute which I've been posting the last month or two, I would highly recommend you do. My mind has been opened to a whole other world which is absolutely fascinating and consistently mind blowing. There is no freedom without free markets, and now with the health care mandate coming down on us the government has claimed the right to FORCE you to buy a product from a private company, you had better believe if they are allowed to get away with it they will expand that power beyond your wildest imagination into every aspect of your life. - Chris
60% Say Capitalism Better Than Socialism
posted 04/24/2010, 3:55 PM (Rasmussen Reports) [Category: Economy] Sixty percent (60%) of U.S. adults nationwide say that capitalism is better than socialism. A new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey finds that 18% disagree, while 21% are not sure.
Adults under 30 are closely divided on the question. While Republicans and unaffiliated voters overwhelmingly say that capitalism is better, just 43% of Democrats agree. Twenty-four percent (24%) of Democrats say socialism is better.
Seventy-six percent (76%) of investors favor capi... (more)
Big business does NOT want free-markets. They want government enforced monopolies and heavy regulation in order to shut their competition out and create a massive hurdle for any other entrepreneurs which seek to engage in their market. Big business wants big government because they use big government as a hammer to smash their competition.
Just look at the health industry and how the FDA and all the horrible regulations are used to shut out alternative treatments and even vitamins (yet Vioxx and Prozac are just fine).
The greatest friend of freedom is true free-market capitalism, it creates a situation where the corporations compete to provide incredible service at the cheapest costs, everyone wins.
The greatest enemy of freedom is central planning and crony capitalism where the corporations buy the government and use it as a tool of monopoly, oppression and control. It's imperative people realize this is the case, we do not have free-market 'capitalism' as things stand, we have a criminal kleptocracy who's job is to loot the economy for the bankers and bankrupt our nation and then blame free-markets and a lack of regulation for the collapse (which if believed will lead to full on despotism with price controls, massive taxation, and perpetual bankruptcy). - Chris, InfoLib
Take the case of an Associated Press/CNBC poll released on April 20, 2010, detailing Americans' opinions on legalizing marijuana. The poll was widely reported as declaring that 55 percent in the U.S. are opposed to ending prohibition.
The war on drugs is second only to federal reserve banking and the income tax as the biggest racket on the face of the planet. Keeping drugs illegal (and the perception people want them to be illegal) is literally a trillion dollar business.
There are trillions of dollars and the entire justification for the totalitarian police state on the line, you better believe they wouldn't hesitate to fake a poll or run a psy-op to get people to believe the opposite.
If they asked people, "would you support the legalization of drugs if it meant the end of the militarized police state?" how many people do you think would say no?
If you asked them "if you found out the CIA and military intelligence ran over 90% of all the hard drugs in the United States and they use their obscene profits to overthrow foreign governments and carry out political assassinations and their entire racket depends on drugs being illegal, would you support the legalization of drugs in order to end their criminal empire?" how many people would say no then!! - Chris, InfoLib
The CFL Bulb Is Not Environmentally Friendly
posted 04/24/2010, 3:34 PM (The New American) [Category: Science/Technology] For millions of environmental activists the Compact Fuorescent Light bulb (CFL) has become a popular mascot rivaling the World Wildlife Fund's panda bear symbol. Corporations, governments, and NGOs have jumped on board General Electric's green CFL bandwagon, singing the praises of the now-familiar curly lamps.
Many companies seeking to burnish their green bonafides celebrated Earth Day 2010 on April 22 by handing out CFLs in their communities. One such business is Harrah's Enterta... (more)
We were using one of these CFL bulbs before they were trendy, I had it right behind my head where my computer was, for the longest time I would get headaches without knowing the cause, I figured it was the light but I wasn't really sure, I would turn it off at times because I just though instinctually it was the problem. Sure enough when I switched back to incandescent the headaches went away completely. If I am forced at gunpoint to switch back to these things I'll be lighting candles instead. - Chris, InfoLib
Check out my comment on reddit here. Lots of people suffer from this 'plebe syndrome' as I call it. They really believe the simplistic brainwashing that everyone is basically worthless and their lives have no value and they can stand for nothing. No one knows any truth, no one can do anything, and blah blah blah. I don't want to tell anyone how to live their life but it's a bit ridiculous. I really think people choose to embrace this plebish propaganda just because they don't want to take any responsibility for their lives. It's utter nonsense, if people believe it, it will stomp out their soul. - Chris, InfoLib
Libertarianism in Ancient China
posted 04/16/2010, 10:17 PM (Murray N. Rothbard) [Category: History] The three main schools of political thought: the Legalists, the Taoists, and the Confucians, were established from the sixth to the fourth centuries BC. Roughly, the Legalists, the latest of the three broad schools, simply believed in maximal power to the state, and advised rulers how to increase that power. The Taoists were the world's first libertarians, who believed in virtually no interference by the state in economy or society, and the Confucians were middle-of-the-roaders on this critical ... (more)
"The more artificial taboos and restrictions there are in the world, the more the people are impoverished — The more that laws and regulations are given prominence, the more thieves and robbers there will be." - Lao Tzu
George W. Bush 'knew Guantánamo prisoners were innocent'
posted 04/11/2010, 12:02 AM (The Times) [Category: Tyranny/Police State] George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld covered up that hundreds of innocent men were sent to the Guantánamo Bay prison camp because they feared that releasing them would harm the push for war in Iraq and the broader War on Terror, according to a new document obtained by The Times.
The accusations were made by Lawrence Wilkerson, a top aide to Colin Powell, the former Republican Secretary of State, in a signed declaration to support a lawsuit filed by a Guantán... (more)
Of course they're innocent, there was also reportedly 60+ children who were kept in this hellish concentration camp.
> No leaders of Al Qaeda found at Guantanamo "Another official who has visited the seaside detention facility called Camp Delta said U.S. authorities had netted 'no big fish' there. 'Some of these guys literally don't know the world is round,' the official said."
"Two weeks after President Barack Obama signed the big health care overhaul into law, Americans are struggling to understand how — and when — the sweeping measure will affect them.
Everyone likes to say, "Hitler did this," and "Hitler did that." But the truth is Hitler did very little. He was a world class tyrant, but the evil actually done by the Third Reich, from the death camps to WWII, was all done by German citizens who were afraid to question if what they were told by their government was the truth or not, and who, because they did not want to admit to themselv... (more)
Under the emergency regulations invoked by [Governor Deval] Patrick, insurers were required to submit proposed increases--along with actuarial data--30 days before their effective date so they could be reviewed by Insurance Division staffers and consultants. In the past, th
I had quite the topsy turvy dream last night, I was dreaming about the government instituting price controls and the criminalizing effect it would have on the average citizen. (Quite the topic for a dream, I know!)
I was reading Ron Paul's book Mises and Austrian Economics: A Personal View and learning how he ran for congress because he saw the incredibly destructive and tyrannical nature of price controls. Price controls turn the average producer of goods into a criminal because they are not allowed the most basic freedom to charge what they need for their own goods, it creates a black market overnight where every average citizen who wants to engage in basic commerce all the sudden is a member of a criminal underworld!
Price controls are in the health care bill, supposedly to stop "gouging," the reality is the health care bill was written by the top health insurance companies in order to force everyone to buy their crap product so they could lower service and increase costs, to say you're going to counter that effect by using price controls is a disingenuous hoax, the price controls will only be used to destroy select companies or industries which the government wants snuffed out, it's an absolute nightmare! - Chris, InfoLib
Ban Lifted: Pilots can take antidepressants on job
posted 04/02/2010, 5:03 PM (Associated Press) [Category: Big Brother/Orwellian] WASHINGTON — The government is lifting a 70-year-old ban on letting pilots fly while on antidepressants, citing improvements in the drugs and an unforeseen side effect of the restriction: Depressed pilots kept flying but just kept their conditions secret.
"Our concern is that they haven't necessarily been candid," Federal Aviation Administrator Randy Babbitt told reporters in a conference call.
The change in policy, which includes a degree of amnesty for pilots who ... (more)
Not even a month has passed since the story of some air traffic controller simply letting his kid talk over the communication systems and the media threw a massive hysterical hissy-fit saying how dangerous and outrageous it was, demanding that heads roll.
Now just weeks later they say it's A-OK for pilots to take hallucinogenic anti-depressants which cause suicidal thoughts and are are linked to almost every mass shooting spree within the last 20 years and the media doesn't give a damn and calls it progress.
This is a perfect example of the utter hypocrisy and downright insanity that quantifies itself as the "mainstream media." - Chris
Two federal agencies along with regulators in California and Canada are scrambling to figure out what is behind this relatively recent threat, ordering new research on pesticides used in fields and orchards. Federal courts are even weighing in this month... (more)
"The truth will set you free." Until people realize that our government manufactures crises as a pretext to control the population nothing can ever change and no real debate can ever be had. If you buy into the premise there are an endless series of boogeymen looking to "kill us for our freedoms" then you've bought the con, whether it be Al-CIA-da, "global warming" erm, "climate change", "too big to fail", "a coming health care crisis", it doesn't matter. If you believe in their fake boogeymen the debate becomes "what do we do about it," and no matter what freedom loses. The only option is to say "have the courage to do nothing", but even that empowers the official lie. - Chris
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
Czars to Serfs: Shut Up, and Pay Up
posted 03/13/2010, 2:50 AM (William Norman Grigg) [Category: Commentary] A wealth of unnecessary and petty [regulations] here engenders a whole army of clerks, each of whom carries out his task with a degree of pedantry and inflexibility, and a self-important air solely designed to add significance to the least significant employment. He refrains from speaking, but you can see him thinking, more or less: "Make way for me; I am a cog in the mighty machine of state."
~ Astolphe Louis Leonor, the Marquis de Custine, Empire of... (more)
Presented by Thomas E. Woods, Jr., at "The Great Depression: Wh... (more)
I was laughing hysterically watching this video, it is so unbelievable I watched it with my jaw wide open, this is an absolute must see! - Chris
Utah: To legally collect rainwater you must register with the state and buy a "standardized container"
posted 03/10/2010, 10:42 PM (InformationLiberation) [Category: Tyranny/Police State] Apparently in Utah having a law passed requiring citizens to register with the state and buy a "standardized container" in order to collect rainwater is a major victory. The government for decades has "owned the water rights" and deemed collection of rainwater a criminal offense. "The bill requires would-be harvesters to register online with the state and supply information about how much is to be collected and the collection point." reports Deseret News.
Bill Gates talks about 'vaccines to reduce population'
posted 03/06/2010, 9:04 PM (F. William Engdahl) [Category: Brave New World] Microsoft founder and one of the world’s wealthiest men, Bill Gates, projects an image of a benign philanthropist using his billions via his (tax exempt) Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, to tackle diseases, solve food shortages in Africa and alleviate poverty. In a recent conference in California, Gates reveals a less public agenda of his philanthropy—population reduction, otherwise known as eugenics.
Gates made his remarks to the invitation-only Long Beach,... (more)
Twilight of the Psychopaths
posted 02/22/2010, 10:22 PM (Dr. Kevin Barrett) [Category: Commentary] "Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it.” – John Lennon, before his murder by CIA mind-control subject Mark David Chapman
When Gandhi was asked his opinion of Western civilization he said it would be a good idea. But that oft-cited quote is misleading, assuming as it does that civili... (more)
Glenn Beck Associates Tea Parties With Austin Bomber, Asks If Austin Bomber Is "Radical Constitutionalist"
posted 02/19/2010, 10:15 AM (InformationLiberation) [Category: Commentary] Coaxed in rhetoric and uncertainty Glenn Beck on his TV show immediately after the Austin plane attack clearly suggested there may be a relation between the bomber and the Tea Party movement. He went into a scripted screed about how the tea parties need to get away from anyone calling for a revolution, "whether it’s a Tea Party revolution or a communist one." He knows full well the Tea party movement is about a restoration of our constitution and bill of rights, no one has ever suggested a vio... (more)
Well, that's a relief. After teasing viewers for day... (more)
They are blatantly trying to incite terrorism against Muslims and advocate a full on military war domestically against them. Notice how the video cuts from troops "fighting terrorists" in Iraq and insinuates they are needed to be "fighting terrorists" here in America as well. The uninformed viewer watching this could actually believe the military is currently engaged in a full on domestic military war against "terrorists" based off the way they cut the video. This is total military police state propaganda based off a complete fabrication which they know is 100% an unfounded lie! - Chris
How an Economy Grows and Why It Doesn't
posted 02/14/2010, 10:37 AM (Irwin Schiff) [Category: Economy] This book superbly explains economics in a simple and easy to understand comic book format, it's a work of genius which if read and understood by everyone would restore economic freedom and prosperity practically overnight. - Chris, InfoLib
With wit and humour Schiff explains:
1. The roots of economic growth.
2. The economic benefits of underconsumption.... (more)
“Officers break laws to keep law and order,” announced the headline of Harding’s February 3 “On the Beat” column. Harding explained that because “[t]hose who serve in law enforcement occupy a special... (more)
Give me liberty or give me jail
posted 02/08/2010, 11:16 PM (Mountain Xpress) [Category: Tyranny/Police State] William Kevin Innes, an Asheville man arrested last June and charged with trying to pass off a private currency as legal tender, has sent a plea from jail asking community members for help in securing his release before his trial, which is slated to begin next month.
In the undated, handwritten letter, titled "Injustice Comes to Asheville," Innes asserts that his "alleged crime" amounts to no more than "trying to help small businesses by promoting the use of a local-acting, precio... (more)
Utter lies and garbage, it was extremely clear the bills were not supposed to be federal reserve notes. The whole idea behind it was they are NOT Federal Reserve notes! They are silver backed certificates which can be used in place of the Federal Reserve's fiat money.
This patriot is being put through absolute hell over a blatant lie, not to mention AFAIK the government stole tens of millions of dollars worth of private citizens silver being kept in vaults. The government agents who are violating his rights and stole the property of his customers are the ones who need to be up on trial, they are full on blatant criminals.
Andrew Wakefield, Scientific Censorship, and Fourteen Monkeys
posted 02/08/2010, 11:16 PM (Generation Rescue) [Category: Brave New World] Dr. Andrew Wakefield is being discredited to prevent an historic study from being published that for the first time looks at vaccinated versus unvaccinated primates and compares health outcomes, with potentially devastating consequences for vaccine makers and public health officials.
It is our most sincere belief that Dr. Wakefield and parents of children with autism around the world are being subjected to a remarkable media campaign engineered by vaccine manufact... (more)
The vaccinators have launched a massive campaign recently to link autism to everything BUT vaccines.
The fact of the matter is there is a segment of the population whom if you just put a person in a white scientist coat in front of them and they told them to drink a bucket of fluoride, take 20 vaccines, and scarf down sterilizing starlink corn they would do it and think they were giving themselves super powers.
The tide is changing and they know it so they need to propagandize with extra furor to get the sheeple who still believe their garbage to become more violent and vigilant in attacking anyone who doesn't follow their cult brainwashing.
They're trying to shut everyone up in classic cult brainwashing fashion by claiming anyone who doesn't agree with the dear leader prancing around in his white cape needs to be ostracized and attacked because they somehow threaten everyone else by not believing their garbage.
It is not working. Just look at the swine flu hoax collapsing, people are more skeptical than ever and it's hard to say if anything will turn it around. Look for them to blow something up or stage some bio-terror attack and blame it on truthseekers, they don't have many other options. - Chris, IL
As part of its budget for the next year, Darpa is investing $6 million into a project called BioDesign, with the goal of eliminating “th... (more)
Just total lunatic mad scientists hell bent on unleashing genetic Armageddon, nothing to see here folks. Please return to your regular programming where we fearmonger you about global warming maybe possibly causing the planet to get a degree or two warmer.
The IPCC's remit is to provide an authoritative assessment of scientific evidence on climate change.
In its most recent report, it stated that observed reductions in mountain ice in the Andes, Alps and Africa was being caused by global warming, citing ... (more)
A TSA agent was arrested on January 3rd in Terminal One at LAX, a source told NBCLA. He had just gotten off duty and was behaving erratically, saying, "I am god, I’m in charge."
Meanwhile, a TSA Internal Affairs investigation turned up evidence of LAX TSA agents using drugs at an after-hours party.
Note they are trying to link this to drugs and yet the link is not explicit, they connect two different stories with the word "meanwhile" because they are not related. Total propaganda yet the majority of the people who read this no doubt believe the guy must have just been some drug head and not a power mad government control freak. - Chris, IL
Appearing on Fox News Saturday, a retired U.S. general called for "very serious, harsh profiling," singling out in particular all 18-28 year old Muslim men, calling for them to be "strip searched" at airports.
The media the world over is whoring for the body scanners to be put in everywhere and for everyone to submit to being virtually and psychologically molested, this all happens conveniently right as the body scanners were set to be rolled out in January of 2010, what a coincidence.
Anyone who can't see through this fraud has to be completely blind. - Chris, IL
Those who do not paint their opposition as "deniers", implying the dooms-day theories of catastrophic global warming are somehow a fact and can only be accepted or denied, more "moderately" paint their opposition as "skeptics." This gives the false impression the ... (more)
This might not be the most important article but reading Orwell's "Politics and the Engligh Language" reaffirmed my commitment to speak as forwardly and directly as possible. - Chris
Breaking Down the Lies and Propaganda in Obama's Speech to our Children
posted 09/09/2009, 6:56 AM (InformationLiberation) [Category: Commentary] You can read the full text here. I could analyze the deception in every line but for the sake of simplicity I will just comment on the underlying propaganda and the most egregious statements. For the record I am not republican and this site was virulently anti-Bush for years. We are human beings first and we are against tyranny and government oppression. We are not communists or socialists or any other "ist." We are human beings w... (more)
I highly recommend everyone read the comments in this post in order to understand "the emotional plague" in all its forms. It is important to recognize some people are genuinely insane, for any normal person it is extremely hard to relate to someone who is so diseased in the mind, it is very important to understand them though so that you can "inoculate" yourself against their true plague. These "types" are a thousand times greater threat than any "swine flu", and don't worry, protecting yourself from them doesn't require any toxic vaccine! ;) - Chris
The Educational System Was Designed to Keep Us Uneducated and Docile
posted 09/09/2009, 6:56 AM (The Memory Hole) [Category: Commentary] It's no secret that the US educational system doesn't do a very good job. Like clockwork, studies show that America's schoolkids lag behind their peers in pretty much every industrialized nation. We hear shocking statistics about the percentage of high-school seniors who can't find the US on an unmarked map of the world or who don't know who Abraham Lincoln was. Fingers are pointed at various aspects of the schooling system—overcrowded classrooms, lack of funding, teachers who can't pass co... (more)
The real purpose of "public" schools.
Dealing with the Brainwashed Masses
posted 08/18/2009, 2:52 PM (InformationLiberation) [Category: Commentary] Many people who are just recently waking up are not sure how to deal with people who are brainwashed. They wish to help them but they don't know how exactly to go by doing it. I am not advocated some sort of "method" or anything of the sort, but I would like to explain some common pitfalls and misperceptions people have about how to deal with these "types."
Television especially tries to turn us all into marketers, we are told we need to "sell ourselves" etc. and "create an ima... (more)
-- he's one of the few American lawyers whose practice includes vaccine exemption and waiver issues;
-- he advises other attorneys seeking help for their own clients on vaccine exemptions;
-- he co-founded Citizens for Healthcare Freedom (CHF) as "a grassroots, nonprofit organization supporting an exciting new Consumer Health Freedom Act in North Carolina" where he lives and practices l... (more)
The "So and So is a Shill" Trap
posted 07/15/2009, 6:39 PM (InformationLiberation) [Category: Commentary] We live in a world where celebrities and the media are placed on a stage, they talk down to us literally and figuratively, this puts us in the role of being able to either cheer, boo, or say nothing. When we watch a commercial we are put into the role of a consumer, we can only say we want a product or we don't. When "our leaders" talk to us all we can do is cheer or boo. This is by design because it makes us all feel we are worthless plebes whose only role in life is to rah rah rah or boo bo... (more)
Please see my post in this article in the comments section. - Chris, IL
After watching ABC's Earth 2100 tonight I could not help but feel t... (more)
InformationLiberation Analysis:
I saw some of this last night, it's the most insane predictive programming I have ever seen, they tell some fictionalized story of a woman's life in the future where the entire world is destroyed due to overpopulation, global warming and resource depletion.
The earth is a hellhole, the whole middle of the United States is an unlivable desert with no water, they tell a fictional story of a plague killing people en masse and how everyone has to be quarantined to fight it, the US is in total bedlam but NY and California are the only places you can live because they are "sustainable" cities.
The 'fictional' character who is telling the story speaks of how much 'hope' she gets from seeing all the solar technologies etc., as she is saying all this they have some musical interlude where they have Obama's voice speaking about how all the changes we made in the past saved us (in the shows present) etc. It really sounded like Obama actually personally recorded this in a studio just for this propaganda piece.
At the end they say how this whole disaster scenario is not set in stone, and how we can avert catastrophe (even though they made this whole thing up) if we only change our way of life and re-engineer our entire society through living "sustainably." What they don't tell you is something like air conditioning is not considered sustainable, eating meat is not considered sustainable, having appliances in your house is not sustainable, having suburban housing is not sustainable, driving a car or using any fossil fuels is not sustainable, these are all things globalist millionaires like Maurice Strong (who no doubt lives a life of poverty and chastity) feel must no longer be allowed to be used by those of us in the "affluent middle class."
We are talking about the total destruction of our entire way of life, turning the US into a literal third world dictatorship where the new crimes will be things like taking too many showers, using too much air conditioning, using too much heating, failing to recycle, throwing away too much trash, etc. If these people get their way it will be hell on earth, this propaganda is so dangerous it must be exposed for what it is.
Read the quotes of these top globalists below and ask yourself if this is a world you want to live in, if this is a world you want your children to live in, hell, ask yourself if you even want the freedom to have children, because they feel that is a liberty which can no longer be afforded to the general public, and they have no qualms voicing that is how they feel. They are trying to make this world a reality and they have literally trillions of dollars to spend to see that it is made this way. We cannot all just lay down and wait to die, this agenda must be fought and resisted by every thinking human being on the planet, they cannot change things without our acquiescence and compliance, the responsibility lies completely in the hands of the average person themselves to stop this agenda, you and I and all of us have the power to stop this through our noncompliance, don't let anyone tell you otherwise. - Chris, IL
"Current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class - involving high meat intake, use of fossil fuels, appliances, air-conditioning, and suburban housing - are not sustainable." - Maurice Strong, Rio Earth Summit
"We need to get some broad based support, to capture the public's imagination... So we have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified, dramatic statements and make little mention of any doubts... Each of us has to decide what the right balance is between being effective and being honest." - Stephen Schneider, Stanford Professor of Climatology, lead author of many IPCC reports
"Unless we announce disasters no one will listen." - Sir John Houghton, first chairman of IPCC
"It doesn't matter what is true, it only matters what people believe is true." - Paul Watson, co-founder of Greenpeace
"We've got to ride this global warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we will be doing the right thing in terms of economic and environmental policy." - Timothy Wirth, President of the UN Foundation
"No matter if the science of global warming is all phony... climate change provides the greatest opportunity to bring about justice and equality in the world." - Christine Stewart, fmr Canadian Minister of the Environment
"The only way to get our society to truly change is to frighten people with the possibility of a catastrophe." - emeritus professor Daniel Botkin
"We require a central organizing principle - one agreed to voluntarily. Minor shifts in policy, moderate improvement in laws and regulations, rhetoric offered in lieu of genuine change - these are all forms of appeasement, designed to satisfy the public’s desire to believe that sacrifice, struggle and a wrenching transformation of society will not be necessary." - Al Gore, Earth in the Balance
"Isn't the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn't it our responsiblity to bring that about?" - Maurice Strong, founder of the UN Environment Programme
"A massive campaign must be launched to de-develop the United States. De-development means bringing our economic system into line with the realities of ecology and the world resource situation." - Paul Ehrlich, Professor of Population Studies
"The only hope for the world is to make sure there is not another United States. We can't let other countries have the same number of cars, the amount of industrialization, we have in the US. We have to stop these Third World countries right where they are." - Michael Oppenheimer, Environmental Defense Fund
"Global Sustainability requires the deliberate quest of poverty, reduced resource consumption and set levels of mortality control." - Professor Maurice King
"Complex technology of any sort is an assault on human dignity. It would be little short of disastrous for us to discover a source of clean, cheap, abundant energy, because of what we might do with it." - Amory Lovins, Rocky Mountain Institute
"The prospect of cheap fusion energy is the worst thing that could happen to the planet." - Jeremy Rifkin, Greenhouse Crisis Foundation
"Giving society cheap, abundant energy would be the equivalent of giving an idiot child a machine gun." - Prof Paul Ehrlich, Stanford University
"The big threat to the planet is people: there are too many, doing too well economically and burning too much oil." – Sir James Lovelock, BBC Interview
"My three main goals would be to reduce human population to about 100 million worldwide, destroy the industrial infrastructure and see wilderness, with it’s full complement of species, returning throughout the world." -Dave Foreman, co-founder of Earth First!
"A total population of 250-300 million people, a 95% decline from present levels, would be ideal." - Ted Turner, founder of CNN and major UN donor
"... the resultant ideal sustainable population is hence more than 500 million but less than one billion." - Club of Rome, Goals for Mankind
"If I were reincarnated I would wish to be returned to earth as a killer virus to lower human population levels." - Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, patron of the World Wildlife Fund
"I suspect that eradicating small pox was wrong. It played an important part in balancing ecosystems." - John Davis, editor of Earth First! Journal
"The extinction of the human species may not only be inevitable but a good thing." - Christopher Manes, Earth First!
"Childbearing should be a punishable crime against society, unless the parents hold a government license. All potential parents should be required to use contraceptive chemicals, the government issuing antidotes to citizens chosen for childbearing." - David Brower, first Executive Director of the Sierra Club
How to Brainwash the Masses
posted 03/19/2009, 7:05 PM (InformationLiberation) [Category: Commentary] There is an idea these days which is widespread and pervades most peoples minds like a virus, it spreads throughout their psyche and sucks out their reason, all the while they are completely oblivious. This idea is that of a perfect guru, a truth seeker who is free of all faults and must be nothing more than the second coming of Jesus in order to be heard.
This idea is given to us through popular culture, it suits the powers that be that people hold this idea, people take ... (more)
Complete and Total Mind Control
posted 03/12/2009, 4:40 AM (InformationLiberation) [Category: Commentary] I was watching "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon" earlier and I saw the creators of "Digg.com" on the show. What struck me was that these people did not seem at all like programmers, but instead like actors.
If one studies the history of sites like Facebook, or DailyKos, they are riddled with CIA connections.
As I watched these characters on TV I couldn't help but think perhaps the CIA ties which bind ... (more)
Thoughts on Barefoot Gen
posted 01/24/2009, 7:53 AM (InformationLiberation) [Category: Commentary] If you've yet to see it, Barefoot Gen is a must see movie depicting a young boys struggle with life in Japan before, after, and during the nuclear bombing of his country. It is an extremely powerful film which you will never dare see in American theaters or on American television.
Thoughts on the Film
I feel like more can be learned through such terrible human tragedy than through the highest and m... (more)
The Messiah is Here
posted 01/21/2009, 11:44 AM (InformationLiberation) [Category: Commentary] The Messiah is here,
he'll sate all our needs,
all that's required,
is we do what he please,
Change is coming,
but we all must believe,
get behind the leader,
serve your country they plead,
But what of those of us who do not believe,
what of those of us who won't do as they please,
how will we be treated,
if we don't fall to our knees?
The world has been conned,
the world doesn't see,
the only chang... (more)
Things are bad: What do we do about it?
posted 01/10/2009, 1:27 AM (InformationLiberation) [Category: Commentary] Everybody knows things are bad in the world. Everything is not peachy. The problems are innumerable, the economy, our freedoms, our happiness, our quality of life, we are suffering in all aspects of life and though we hope for a better future we feel as though the things which are outside of our control will only get worse. The situation we are in is overwhelming, we feel like there is something we can do but we don't know what to do! Whenever anyone is faced with this overwhelming situation... (more)
"It is precisely this "simplicity" in human intercourse that is so incomprehensible to the armored organism. Everything natural and profound is simple. The simple, grand lines of emotional expression are known to characterize the great painter, musician, poet, novelist and scientist. But the simple is alien to the armored organism. Its impulses are so complicated in their form of expression, the manner of their utterance ... (more)
The Century of the Self: The Untold History of Controlling the Masses Through the Manipulation of Unconscious Desires
Operation Gladio: "One of the most secret programs that ever existed"
It is a common assumption in today's world that capitalism is, at best, out of control and, at worst, outright evil. Everyone knows that it causes most of our financial, economic, and social problems, and that we need a referee — the government — to make sure that all is fair and that we innocent citizens are not taken advantage of by predatory companies and capitalists.
“I haven’t been down [to the property] since [the sanitation authority] took control of it,” said Charles Hooff III. “I’m just too bitter.” (Andrew Harnik/Examiner)
Is it wrong that all I can see while watching the firework shows is taxpayer money going up in smoke? 
Concerned that child labor may be involved in stitching your t-shirt?
"Before the vote, Assemblywoman Sharron Angle, R-Reno, sought to postpone the vote so she could add an amendment to block fluoridation in Washoe County. The Washoe County Commission in 1992 rejected fluoridation, and Angle said the Legislature should not approve fluoridation in her county without a vote of its people."
In physics, the term "observer effect" describes how examining a phenomenon can change it, because of the influence of the instruments used to make the observation. Something similar happens to human interactions when cameras are present. The irresistible impulse to play to the lens makes human behavior mannered and self-aware. Every statement becomes a performance, every gesture a pose. 
As with many instances in politics, actuality can often be obscured behind the wrong frame: ask a question just the right way and results can be wildly tilted, one way or another.
For millions of environmental activists the Compact Fuorescent Light bulb (CFL) has become a popular mascot rivaling the World Wildlife Fund's panda bear symbol. Corporations, governments, and NGOs have jumped on board General Electric's green CFL bandwagon, singing the praises of the now-familiar curly lamps.
The three main schools of political thought: the Legalists, the Taoists, and the Confucians, were established from the sixth to the fourth centuries BC. Roughly, the Legalists, the latest of the three broad schools, simply believed in maximal power to the state, and advised rulers how to increase that power. The Taoists were the world's first libertarians, who believed in virtually no interference by the state in economy or society, and the Confucians were middle-of-the-roaders on this critical ... 
George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld covered up that hundreds of innocent men were sent to the Guantánamo Bay prison camp because they feared that releasing them would harm the push for war in Iraq and the broader War on Terror, according to a new document obtained by The Times.
The following is a PSA responding to the question arisen by Obamacare supporters as documented in this McClathy story "
As 
"Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it.” – John Lennon, before his murder by CIA mind-control subject Mark David Chapman 
Coaxed in rhetoric and uncertainty Glenn Beck on his TV show immediately after the Austin plane attack clearly suggested there may be a relation between the bomber and the Tea Party movement. He went into a scripted screed about how the tea parties need to get away from anyone calling for a revolution, "whether it’s a Tea Party revolution or a communist one." He knows full well the Tea party movement is about a restoration of our constitution and bill of rights, no one has ever suggested a vio... 
William Kevin Innes, an Asheville man arrested last June and charged with trying to pass off a private currency as legal tender, has sent a plea from jail asking community members for help in securing his release before his trial, which is slated to begin next month.
The revelation will cause fresh embarrassment for the The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which had to issue a humiliating apology earlier this month over inaccurate statements about global warming.
Cass Sunstein has long been one of Barack Obama's closest confidants. Often mentioned as a likely Obama nominee to the Supreme Court, Sunstein is currently Obama's 
In the wake of the failed Christmas Day attack on a Detroit-bound flight, a large number of so-called experts have raised the ire of civil libertarians in their pursuit of increasingly draconian security measures.
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Alan G. Philips is an attorney with the following credentials: 
We live in a world where celebrities and the media are placed on a stage, they talk down to us literally and figuratively, this puts us in the role of being able to either cheer, boo, or say nothing. When we watch a commercial we are put into the role of a consumer, we can only say we want a product or we don't. When "our leaders" talk to us all we can do is cheer or boo. This is by design because it makes us all feel we are worthless plebes whose only role in life is to rah rah rah or boo bo... 
I was watching "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon" earlier and I saw the creators of "Digg.com" on the show. What struck me was that these people did not seem at all like programmers, but instead like actors. 
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Everybody knows things are bad in the world. Everything is not peachy. The problems are innumerable, the economy, our freedoms, our happiness, our quality of life, we are suffering in all aspects of life and though we hope for a better future we feel as though the things which are outside of our control will only get worse. The situation we are in is overwhelming, we feel like there is something we can do but we don't know what to do! Whenever anyone is faced with this overwhelming situation... 
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