In the 1950s, before television had numbed minds and turned them into jelly, there was a growing sense of: the Individual versus the Corporate State.
(Editor's Note: Longtime readers will appreciate the fact that my stance on Monsanto and other agri-multinationals of a similar ilk, that make up a group, owned, controlled and promoted by elite eugenicists, is wrought with disdain, because I believe that they are attempting to depopulate the world. This puts them in the company of "Public Enemies", a group that I address everyday. But then, don't get me started... - JSB)
When I first heard that the Internet had finally come to fruition in 1994, I could hardly contain my excitement as I'd been waiting for it since I got my first computer in 1981. When I heard about the Internet 13 years later I didn't even know what anarchism really was or had heard the word libertarian, but I instinctively knew that most problems in the world could be solved if people would just have more of an ability to communicate and to get access to real information. Having grown up in Canada, I was certain that the government's Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) was not giving me the full and truthful picture of the world!
There are
many signs of gangster state America. One is the collusion between
federal authorities and banksters in a criminal conspiracy to rig
the markets for gold and silver.
The worldwide movement to tax, confiscate, and regulate everything imaginable turned a new page earlier this week when the “Marketplace Fairness Act” passed in the US Senate.
"When in any country the small-farmer class is being squeezed off the land; when its labourers are slaves or serfs; when huge tracts are kept waste to minister to pleasure; when the shibboleth of art is on every man's lips, but ideas of true beauty in very few men's souls; when the business-sharper is the greatest man in the city, and lords it even in the law courts; when class-magistrates, bidding for high office, deal out justice according to the rank of the criminal; when exchanges are turned into great gambling-houses, and senators and men of title are the chief gamblers; when, in short, 'corruption is universal, when there is increasing audacity, increasing greed, increasing fraud, increasing impurity, and these are fed by increasing indulgence and ostentation -when such is the tone of society, and such the idols before which it bends, a nation must be fast going down hill. 
Yes, there was a crisis-free America within living memory, roughly the Eisenhower years of 1953 to 1961, when we were the last man standing after two decades of unexampled global mayhem. It was a weird era, serene and twitchy at the same time. For instance,we were warned the economy would capsize if first class postage went up a penny, that rock'n roll music would fatally compromise the youth, and so forth. Nobody actually worried overmuch about such things. What was happening was the adult generation, battered and weary from the Depression and the Second World War, wanted only to be left alone. Uninteresting times were hard to come by so leave the stamps alone, leave the music alone, leave everything alone, cantcha? 
Dear Readers: If you have not read "You Are The Hope" (the second item below) please do so now and make a 
It would have been so simple. Flood Afghanistan with Monsanto GMOs. Truckloads of seeds. Tanks full of Roundup herbicide. Result? Nutritionally deficient food crops, chronic disease, poisoning with Roundup. Perfect.
The world is truly an enormous place… and, despite the dearth of good news and positive trends out there, I still see a lot of amazing opportunities in my travels.
Washington's negotiations to address the fiscal cliff of automatic tax increases
and spending cuts legislatively triggered at the close of 2012 are the latest
in an ongoing effort to address increasing U.S. federal government deficits and
debt levels. Enormous monetary and fiscal stimulus has failed to produce an economic
recovery. In short, the U.S. government and central banks have failed to dig out.
Instead, they are now dug in deeper. What to do now?
The Fascist Business Model came into vogue in 2001. The merger of state with the largest of corporations, primarily the big banks, the big defense contractors, the big news media networks, and the big pharmaceuticals, has created a chokehold around the neck of the nation, without 5% recognizing the function of the model during the strangulation in progress. The merger with the deeply corrupted corporations in power became standard fixtures following the 911 attacks, an elaborate self-destruction of the fundamental structure of the nation and its priorities by the syndicate. Think a massive elaborate bank heist of gold bars, bearer bonds, and diamonds, but such discussion belongs in other venues. Let it be said that the events of September 2001 were the syndicate coming out party and the Patriot Act their Nazi Manifesto, with painfully little recognition of events by the sheeple masses or the subservient press talking heads. 
The march of idiots is an interesting subject for investigation.
We are daily surrounded by lies, theft,
and fraud, perpetrated by the D.C. Gang, who thinks nothing about it and as
far as I know, has not a smidgen of guilt or remorse about the continual flow
of exaggerations, and scams which originate in the environs of Washington D.C.
Examples are not difficult to identify. The following are but a few.
Editor's Note: I started "The Bear" to explore, on a daily basis, how current events will affect your pocketbook.
One of my favorite pundits, John Mauldin, released a recent missive, The Theology of Inflation. His newsletter, 
Though Australia’s national balance sheet is comparatively quite strong, the government has been running at a net deficit for years… and they’re under intense pressure to balance the budget.
Welcome to the new US. Socialism always has the same predictable process. Once the government collectivizes a sector then the politicos and bureaucrats get to work on "improving the system". In a private enterprise, that'd mean offering more to your customers for a cheaper price. In government, it is always the opposite, finding ways to reduce benefits for their "customers".
Secret
Even the
tepid post-2008 recovery has not been what it was cracked up to
be, especially with respect to the Wall Street presumption that
the American consumer would once again function as the engine
of GDP growth. It goes without saying, in fact, that the precarious
plight of the Main Street consumer has been obfuscated by the
manner in which the state’s unprecedented fiscal and monetary
medications have distorted the incoming data and economic narrative.
Commentators are always quick to link guns and emergency stores to dangerous and paranoid actions that they consider to be tell tale signs someone is going to commit a crime. They always focus on these areas because it is a trait mostly seen in conservatives that know enough to question the governments' ability to take care of every problem that emerges. In short, if you are not a Liberal that needs the government to make all of your decisions for you and care for you on a daily basis then there must be something wrong with you.
When SunTrust Bank bank foreclosed on the Laney Supermarket grocery store, managers were left with thousands of pounds of food and nowhere to put it. So, they decided to move non-perishable items to the parking lot for those who might need it. As news of the give-away spread throughout the neighborhood, a crowd numbering in the hundreds quickly swooped in. 
There's a meme in the world of debate that once you start to compare the politics of today to the politics of Germany during Hitler's reign the debate is over and you've lost. So, I'm going to start this article by comparing modern American politics to Hitler's Germany and other 20th century collectivist political schemes. The point of this beginning is to do so. If you don't want to read further, than don't. You see, I don't buy the meme. Such a meme is developed, in my humble opinion, simply because some people don't want to face the growing evil and choose instead to remain willfully ignorant as to what has been happening in the land that was supposed to be a beacon of individual freedom shining to the world. 
Preparation for disaster, whether natural or man-made, should be as vital as any ideal found in the various practices of religion and spiritualism. Preparedness should be treated with reverence, discipline and duty. The drive for preparation should be seated in the very heart of humanity. As individuals and as a society, we should hold preparedness dear, for it is an expression of the desire for survival and the key to maintaining our inherent freedoms. Without self-sufficiency, we set ourselves up for endless failure and enslavement.
One of
the main lessons of microeconomics is that price-fixing cartels
among businesses always collapse eventually because of cheating
by one or more members of the conspiracy. Once one conspirator is
revealed to have given secret discounts, the rest know that they'd
better follow suit or they will become bankrupt – the price cutter
will capture the entire market if they don't.
As a young man, I voraciously read George Orwell's "1984", Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World" and Alvin Toffler's trilogy which included "Future Shock"', "The Third Wave" and "Power Shift".
Over a decade during which the US economy was decimated by jobs offshoring, economists and other PR shills for offshoring corporations said that the US did not need the millions of lost manufacturing jobs and should be glad that the "dirty fingernail" jobs were gone. 
Often what is reported in the press is the synthetic-homogenized version of facts it is hard to say who they are really trying to fool, the people or government regulators who as Madoff said are stupid. I have no time for such nonsense.
The latest round of political theater in Washington DC over the automatic budget cuts enacted in the 2011 debt ceiling compromise —the so-called “sequester”—couldn’t have been better timed, at least as far as this blog is concerned. It’s hard to imagine better evidence, after all, that the American political process has finally lost its last fingernail grip on reality.
The relentless waged by governments worldwide has perhaps gone furthest in Scandinavia. The ostensible reason given by our rulers for suppressing cash is to keep society safe from terrorists, tax evaders, money launderers, drug cartels and sundry other villains, real or imagined.
Along with Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity, leading conservative radio host Mark Levin reaches tens of millions of listeners weekly, and what he talked about recently on his nationally syndicated show has sent shivers down the spines of many of them.
There's only way to look at this folks.
The Dow is still rising...gold is dawdling.
J
Officially, since June 2009 the US economy has been undergoing an economic recovery from the December 2007 recession. But where is this recovery? I cannot find it, and neither can millions of unemployed Americans.
The typical articles over the last many years have featured a particular theme. In the last few months, the central theme in Jackass articles has been the isolation and demise of the USDollar, how it is happening, why it must happen, and its importance in the restoration of the global financial structure. But this week, a sudden urge has come to address an overwhelming list of critical gritty questions. They crop up with clients, colleagues, and friends.
More than a crisis, it is more accurately described as a collapse of a corrupt inequitable monetary system, and a desperate defense by the major Western bankers to preserve their power over nations and their governments, alongside a vile vicious violent attempt by the United States to maintain its privilege as owner of the vast USDollar counterfeit machinery. Read More
Europe at the beginning of 1914 consisted of six major empires and an assortment of minor states that the major empires didn’t care much about. The six major empires, (the Austro-Hungarian, French, German, British, Ottoman, and Russian) were ensnared in military alliances (much like the US is today) which were formed to keep the peace. The diplomats, like those today, believed that forming alliances that balanced the powers of different groups would keep them from attacking each other.
WEBSTER, NY - An ex-con arsonist, William Spengler, set six of his neighbor's houses ablaze in his lakeside neighborhood and then set his own house on fire to lure firefighters. 
Tragic events, crises, threats are designed to capture our minds and hold us in a state of emergency, whether or not such a state is officially declared by our august leaders.
The Special Interests Won Again.
The election that was supposed to be too close to call turned out not to be so close after all. In my opinion, Obama won for two reasons: (1) Obama is non-threatening and inclusive, whereas Romney exuded a "us vs. them" impression that many found threatening, and (2) the election was not close enough for the electronic voting machines to steal. 
