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Our Phantom Economy, by Charles Hugh Smith

Posted: June 16, 2015 by gamegetterII in Uncategorized

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From Charles Hugh Smith, at oftwominds.com:

Those who believe that phantom recoveries and phantom metrics can be substituted for reality are in for a shock in the next downturn.

Stripped of artifice, there are only two kinds of media stories: those that support the status quo narrative, and those that are skeptical of that narrative.

What is the status quo narrative? Simply this: not only is this the best possible arrangement of labor, assets and money, it is the only possible arrangement of labor, assets and money.

It is impossible to challenge a system that is the only possible arrangement; the only option is to accept it.

In effect, the mainstream media is a vast Psychological Operation (PSYOPS) aimed at persuading the American public that the status quo Imperial system of predatory, debt-based crony-capitalism that benefits the few at the expense of the many is not just beneficial to all…

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The Money Quote…

“The solution to the divide being created in this country between police and the citizens is an easy one. Police need to stop agreeing to enforce cruel and unjust laws and become actual good cops.”

Excerpt…

“Police brutality has become so rampant in this country that many people now commend the officers who stand by and watch these violent attacks, simply for not participating in the crimes committed by their brothers in blue.

The lengths to which some people will go to praise police when they deserve no praise, even when they deserve total condemnation, is simply astonishing. No matter how egregious the misconduct, there are hoards who will desperately grasp for excuses to proclaim such actions to be “understandable,” if not outright heroic. And let’s not forget the fundraisers that have been set up for multiple cold-blooded killer cops.

Then there are the incidents in which one or more cops are caught on video brutally victimizing some unarmed person who isn’t fighting back, while other officers just watch, push witnesses away or simply block their view. Police apologists will often resort to the bizarre argument of, “It’s just a few bad apples, I mean just look at those wonderful officers remaining calm!” It’s absurd when these individuals spout the line about “just a few bad apples,” as if the other officers passively observing misconduct without doing anything to stop it somehow earns them respect.

Refraining from brutalizing innocents, in and of itself, is not a sign of being brave and noble. In how many other professions do individuals receive praise simply for not doing damage? To some,all you need to do to be a “good cop” is to watch injustice happen without perpetrating it yourself.”

The whole Good Cop / Bad Cop question can be disposed of much more decisively. We need not enumerate what proportion of cops appears to be good or listen to someone’s anecdote about his uncle Charlie, an allegedly good cop.”

We need only consider the following:

(1) A cop’s job is to enforce the laws, all of them;
(2) Many of the laws are manifestly unjust, and some are even cruel and wicked;
(3) Therefore every cop has to agree to act as an enforcer for laws that are manifestly unjust or even cruel and wicked.

There are no good cops.

The solution to the divide being created in this country between police and the citizens is an easy one. Police need to stop agreeing to enforce cruel and unjust laws and become actual good cops.

Immigration Threat to RKBA

Posted: June 15, 2015 by gamegetterII in Uncategorized

From David Codrea at The War on Guns

Author, columnist and commentator Ann Coulter joined nationally-syndicated “Armed American Radio’s Daily Defense” host Mark Walters yesterday to talk about her most recent best seller, “Adios, America!: The Left’s Plan to Turn Our Country Into a Third World Hellhole.”

In that interview, Coulter confirmed what very few of us who primarily emphasize gun rights have been consistently warning about — that government “immigration” policies and practices present an existential threat to RKBA, or at least to “legal” recognition of it.  She also had some very enthusiastic things to say about Larry Pratt and Gun Owners of America, the only national “gun group” that has raised the alarm and mobilized its members on this.

More @ http://waronguns.blogspot.com/2015/06/coulter-warns-against-immigration.html

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John W. Whitehead's avatarJohn W. Whitehead, Constitutional Attorney

“It is perfectly possible for a man to be out of prison and yet not free—to be under no physical constraint and yet be a psychological captive, compelled to think, feel and act as the representatives of the national state, or of some private interest within the nation wants him to think, feel and act. . . . To him the walls of his prison are invisible and he believes himself to be free.”—Aldous Huxley, A Brave New World Revisited

“Free worlders” is prison slang for those who are not incarcerated behind prison walls.  Supposedly, those fortunate souls live in the “free world.” However, appearances can be deceiving.

“As I got closer to retiring from the Federal Bureau of Prisons,” writes former prison employee Marlon Brock, “it began to dawn on me that the security practices we used in the prison system were being implemented outside those…

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Scientists in Sweden are launching their own mead – an alcoholic beverage made from a fermented mix of honey and water – based on old recipes which they say could help in the fight against antibiotic resistance.

Together with a brewery, the scientists who have long studied bees and their honey, have launched their own mead drink – Honey Hunter’s Elixir.

More @ http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/06/10/us-sweden-mead-idUSKBN0OQ17Y20150610?feedType=RSS&feedName=scienceNews

Not If I Shoot First…..

Posted: June 15, 2015 by gamegetterII in Uncategorized

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An incisive critique, which has little to do with the actual music, about a Katy Perry music video, from David Montgomery, at liberty.me:

There is no agony like heartbreak.

This truth is the basis for the most effective and most subversive piece of government propaganda I have ever seen.

I am referring, as inconceivable as it may seem, to a Katy Perry music video. It’s titled Part of Me. The video has been watched over 313 million times on Youtube alone. The TV broadcast stats are likely just as staggering.

The song itself is a power pop track with a driving chorus. It’s a breakup anthem about turning the pain of relationship betrayal into perseverance and inner strength.

But the song’s incarnation as a music video is a cold-blooded masterwork of emotional manipulation. The video transmogrifies the song into military propaganda par excellence. We witness a sweet and vulnerable young…

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The City Council just took its first step toward outlawing all non-union businesses.

Well, OK — it still has a long way to go. But a bill council members passed Wednesday is so patently aimed at killing off car washes that aren’t unionized, you wonder why they didn’t just ban them outright.

And how much longer before they ban all non-union businesses altogether.

Under the bill, which Mayor de Blasio backs, non-union car washes must post bonds of $150,000.

Unionized shops get a break: They’d have to post bonds of only $30,000, a far more manageable sum.

Bottom line: Any car wash that lacks a collective-bargaining agreement (i.e., a union arrangement) will have to get one quick, jump through hoops to get the pricier bond — or close.

Read the rest @ http://nypost.com/2015/06/13/city-council-to-car-washes-unionize-or-else/

There’s a lesson to be learned here,just as in the search for Eric Frein,the stormtroopers aren’t as smart,or as capable as they think they are.

These guys just vanished,9 days so far,at a million per day,Cuomo put up a $100,000.00 reward-and nothing,zero,zip zilch,nada.

All the technology that .gov inc. has can be defeated-if you’re smart,and stay away from areas where you can be found by FLIR,thermal imaging,CC cameras,dogs,and clueless cops stumbling through the woods.

Most of the .gov inc. stormtroopers don’t train for searches in woods-they train on SWAT raid tactics,because that’s the MO of the stormtroopers,kicking doors at 4 am,shooting your dogs,and tossing flashbangs carelessly into your home. They just swarm into your home,and use overwhelming force.

So-not being home at 4am is always a good plan,as is staying under the stormtroopers radar so they don’t kick in your door and shoot your dogs.

This is the second time that they are having no luck finding people in wooded terrain-know your woods,know where the trails are,and alternate routes you can take to avoid detection.

*The million a day figure is being reported by multiple cable news channels.

Prosecutor says escaped killers used contractors’ tools

DANNEMORA, N.Y. (AP) — The two killers who cut their way out of a maximum-security prison apparently used tools routinely stored there by contractors, taking care to return them to their toolboxes after each night’s work so that no one would notice, a prosecutor said Sunday

District Attorney Andrew Wylie also said that Joyce Mitchell, the prison tailoring shop instructor charged with helping the men escape, had agreed to pick them up in her car and drive off with them but backed out at the last minute because she still loved her husband and felt guilty for participating.

“Basically, when it was go-time and it was the actual day of the event, I do think she got cold feet and realized, ‘What am I doing?'” Wylie said. “Reality struck. She realized that, really, the grass wasn’t greener on the other side.”

Wylie said there was no evidence the men had a “Plan B” once the getaway driver backed out, and no vehicles have been reported stolen in the area.

That has led searchers to believe the men are still near the Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, where the manhunt was in its ninth day Sunday, with hundreds of law enforcement officers slogging through mosquito-infested woods, fields and swamps close to the Canadian border for Richard Matt and David Sweat.

At the same time, Gov. Andrew Cuomo cautioned that for all anyone knows, the convicts could be in Mexico by now.

Wylie said it apparently took a long time for the killers to complete their plan, working methodically between midnight and 5 a.m. over many nights.

“They had access, from what we understand, to other tools left in the facility by contractors under policy and were able to open the toolboxes and use those tools and then put them back so nobody would notice,” the prosecutor said.

He also said the men had been scouting out the tunnel system under the prison at night for the best way get out.

The convicts used power tools to cut through the back of their adjacent cells, broke through a brick wall, then cut into a steam pipe and slithered through it, finally emerging outside the prison walls through a manhole, authorities said.

Mitchell, 51, was charged Friday with supplying hacksaw blades, chisels, a punch and a screwdriver. Her lawyer entered a not guilty plea on her behalf, and her son Tobey told NBC she would not have helped the inmates break out.

Wylie told CNN that the two inmates planned to have Mitchell drive them about seven hours away to an unknown destination.

Residents were very much on edge, with some saying they were keeping guns handy. But there was also an outpouring of support for the search effort. A restaurant urged people to tie blue ribbons around trees and mailboxes.

“The locals have been awesome,” said Sgt. Barry Cartier of the Franklin County Sheriff’s Department, part of a crew from a neighboring county working 12-hour shifts. “They come around with food all the time. We’ve got too much to eat.”

Sweat, 35, was serving a life sentence without parole for killing a sheriff’s deputy. Matt, 48, was doing 25 years to life for the 1997 kidnap, torture and hacksaw dismemberment of his former boss.

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Associated Press video journalist Joseph B. Frederick in Cadyville, New York, contributed to this report.

      

            h/t The Grey Enigma