Money and Finance as if You MatteredDuring the 2008 credit crisis, a horde of central bankers, Treasury officials and large corporations screamed that the end of the world was upon us — unless trillions of your money were spent (or created) to prop up the existing financial and banking systems.
The presumption was that the existing structure must never be changed, or the Fed's control over the financial and monetary system ever brought into question. Everything is just as it should be. This is a minor blip on ... (more)
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Chimps Throwing Poop And 29 Other Mind Blowing Ways That The Government Is Wasting Your MoneyWhy do chimpanzees throw poop? The federal government would like to know and is using your tax dollars to investigate the matter. Every single year, we all send huge amounts of our hard-earned money to the federal government. We hope that they will spend that money wisely. Unfortunately, that is simply not the case. You are about to read some examples of how the government is wasting your money that are absolutely mind blowing. Anyone that claims that there is... (more)
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Rats on cocaine love Miles Davis, and other dumb animal research paid for with tax dollarsI'm going to go out on a limb here and say this may be the single most useful study the government has ever done. - Chris |
We're All Branch Davidians NowNineteen years ago, just outside Waco, Texas, the FBI demonstrated once again that the state at its core is a killing machine. Monarchy, democracy, or republic – any government as conventionally defined is a legal monopoly on violence. The state is always inclined toward oppression, division, conquest, and bloodshed, because these are its tools of trade.
Matters are no different here. The myth of a free America was always seen with bitter irony by those not ble... (more)
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Public Schools In Action: Teacher Refuses to Let Kindergartner Use Bathroom "During Test," Teacher Makes Her Sit In Her Own Excrement, Gives Her Trash Bag To Wrap Around Herself AfterwardBoy, public schools sure are essential services, what would we do without them?
In this story out of Missouri, a public schoolteacher refused to let a little 6-yr-old kindergarten girl go to the bathroom "during a test," the little girl embarrassingly relieved herself while in the classroom, and rather than clean up or take actions to fix the situation, the teacher made her sit in her own excrement for 15 minutes until the test was over, then handed her a garbage bag to wrap aroun... (more)
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Businessman Sentenced to Jail Because His Sign Changed Too FrequentlyHaving more people in prison than Stalin had in his gulags is not enough, in this story out of New York a businessman has been sentenced to jail because the sign in front of his business changed it's message more frequently than "once every ten minutes."
Clearly, this is a jailable offense and the people of New York are safer now that this rogue criminal is off the streets.
LOCKPORT, N.Y. (WIVB) - A judge in the Town of Lockport has sentenced a local businessm ... (more)
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Mexico: Businessman Who Reported Police Crimes Found KilledA Mexican businessman who refused to pay local federal police protection money and claimed he was kidnapped and tortured as a result was found killed in his home Thursday.
The businessman had allegedly reported the officers and 10 of them were arrested and indicted "on several counts of extortion, kidnapping, injuries, abuse of authority and possession of heroin and marijuana."
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The Bizarre World of Plastic FeesMost everyone is really down on financial companies these days. What kind of scam are they running, anyway? It seems as if everywhere we turn, there are fees, fees, fees. Because most everyone has some kind of credit or debit card, the popular mind is particularly focused on them, expecting to find signs of exploitation and graft.
Let's look a bit closer.
A friend of mine is in a Virginia diner and receives an odd offer with the check. There is a note: If you pay wi... (more)
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The Too Big To Fail Banks Are Now Much Bigger And Much More Powerful Than EverThe Democrats, the Republicans and especially Barack Obama promised that something would be done about the too big to fail banks so that they would never again be a threat to destroy our financial system. Well, those promises have not been kept and the too big to fail banks are now much bigger and much more powerful than ever. The assets of the five biggest U.S. banks were equivalent to about 43 percent of U.S. GDP before the financial crisis. ... (more)
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TSA Treats 95-Year-Old Wheelchair-Bound Veteran Like a "Terrorist," $300 StolenWheelchair-bound 95-year-old veteran Omer Petti and his 85-year-old partner Madge Woodward were treated like terrorists by TSA agents at San Diego International airport, ostensibly so TSA workers could separate them from $300 dollars in cash which subsequently went missing.
“Can you imagine an 85-year-old lady and 95-year-old retired Air Force Major in wheelchairs being treated like terrorists?” Petti asked the Detroit News’ Marney Keenan.
Give... (more)
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Man Strips Naked In Airport Security Checkpoint In Apparent Protest Of TSA
Though many people feel they may as well strip naked when passing through airport security, most don’t actually do it.
But one man, John Brennan, apparently couldn’t take it anymore.
Though he was fully-dressed as he passed through the original secu... (more)
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Yes, CISPA Could Allow Companies to Filter or Block Internet TrafficRep. Rogers is adamant that CISPA, the Cybersecurity Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, is cybersecurity legislation intended to help protect critical infrastructure intrusions and private and government information. But as we've written in the past, CISPA is a bill that allows for companies to spy on use... (more)
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From Innovation to Rent SeekingIt's often thought that the technology sector is the least regulated and therefore has been the most productive during the past couple of decades. Famously, Bill Gates had no interest in politics. "In the beginning, Microsoft tried to ignore the powerful political forces arrayed against it, hunkering down in Redmond, Washington, to focus on its core businesses," William F. Shugart wrote in the Freeman. Of course, the Department of Justice snapped Mr. Gates to attention.
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Man Arrested After Facebook Picture Shows Him Siphoning Gas From Cop Car
One more slave to fill the private prisons at a cost of 40k+ to taxpayers per year. Which act of theft is worse, stealing a few drops of gas as a joke or stealing thousands from taxpayers to cage petty criminals? - Chris
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