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Senator Scott Brown's Disturbing Story
Saturday, July 17, 2010 – by
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Scott Brown
The New McCain ... Freshman Sen. Scott Brown (left) has the rare ability to actually be bipartisan. And get away with it. Brown has campaigned for McCain during his tough primary battle. Massachusetts, the bluest of blue states, has never been a particularly comfortable place for Republicans. The Bay State hasn't thrown its electors behind a GOP presidential candidate since Ronald Reagan won the White House, and it hasn't had a Republican member of the House in more than a decade. But earlier this year, Scott Brown decided he could defy the odds. As he traveled the state campaigning for the late Sen. Ted Kennedy's vacant seat, he ran as a partisan, an antidote conservative who promised to stick it to Obama and the Senate Democrats, especially on health care ... The circle around Brown doesn't care much for the term "maverick," and its triteness. But after Sen. John McCain's surprising disavowal of the title, the heir may well be Brown, the middle-sitter who's never a sure thing for either party. "Sometimes he'll be the 41st vote, other times he'll be the 60th," says Eric Fehrnstrom, a Massachusetts political consultant who has done some work for Brown's reelection in 2012, when he'll have to run for a full term of his own. On Democrats' financial-reform package, Brown surprised even his own party when he decided to vote yes, giving his would-be opponents exactly 60 votes. – Newsweek
Dominant Social Theme: A new maverick like John McCain?
Free-Market Analysis: In this article we will briefly explore the collision between the Internet and the powers-that-be, and how it is changing the American political process – and thus the economic and investment climate. This is an ongoing process that has not yet reached a critical mass. But our argument is that it will reach such a critical mass sooner or later, and that Scott Brown's recent actions are symptomatic of the difficulty that the US system is having in responding to the nation's underlying discontent.
This is an important story with deep roots. It goes back at least to Bill Clinton, who was the first Internet president. In fact, over time, his administration's policies were excoriated on the Internet, and he paid the price when the 'Net's powerful Matt Drudge published a story on his sometime-lover Monica Lewinsky. Then there was George Bush whose many lapses, prevarications and increasing executive diffidence were amply documented on the 'Net over time, causing his approval rating to slump to 30 percent or so. Now there is Barack Obama, whose rapid descent to a popularity rating around the mid-40 percent mark has pundits scratching their collective heads.
Soon there will be new elections and new political faces. But the underlying tenor is one of frustration and it is an emotion that will continue to build. This is the important point. Freshman Senator Scott Brown is culprit number one in this regard. He was elected by a Tea Party movement in Massachusetts partially as a protest vote against business-as-usual. A Republican who took over Senator Edward Kennedy's open political seat, Brown was seen to be an anti-incumbent, someone who would stand against the constantly expanding power and ever-larger expenditures in Congress.
But it hasn't worked out that way. Brown actually produced the 60th vote for the just-passed financial reform bill that President Barack Obama will soon sign. While there is no doubt that Wall Street needs reform, a 2,300 page bill with 200 separate regulatory enactments is not reform so much as merely more enabling legislation for lawyers and banking entities. The problems with US financial markets have to do with Federal Reserve money printing, and the central banking mechanism itself was left entirely unscathed in this latest regulatory overhaul. The problem, not addressed, will contunually reoccur.
But the larger, troubling issue is Scott Brown's participation – as symbolic of a larger problem. American voters have yet to find a way to stop the deluge of monetary corruption and regulatory dysfunction emanating from Washington. American voters were put off by the Clinton administration's Internet revelations that showed a backdrop of corruption and double-dealing. The same eventually happened to President Bush's administration and the Obama administration has virtually collapsed from a public relations standpoint after little more than a year in office. All indications are that the power on Capitol Hill could shift back to Republicans when Congressional candidates are next voted on in November.
Yet despite the increasingly elevated level of frustration with the political process and its results, the socialization of America continues apace. The health care bill just passed by Congress and signed into law and now this financial reform legislation must certainly further reduce the functionality of free-markets while elevating government programs and control. What we are seeing is an electorate that wants less government spending, less war, and fewer broad programming mandates. What the nation's political class is presenting is more of the same. Business as usual. Scott Brown's apostasy is a case in point.
This is not an academic conversation. Here at the Bell, we have written many times that the changes wrought by the Internet, a powerful communication-tool, are cumulative and driven by a process. The damage-control utilized by US powers-that-be is geared toward defusing sociopolitical crises with the idea that once-defused the particular difficulty will not reoccur. But what has been built by the Internet is not a "crisis" but a point of view, a discontent with business as usual (fraud and deceit) that is shared by a larger and larger segment of the American population.
Something will have to give, in our humble opinion. Here at the Bell we have been predicting this for years. We figured it would take a few cycles of US party politics. Voters would turn to both Democrats and Republicans, perhaps several times, to address increasingly emphatic concerns. The question we have has to do with US voter reactions when the issues that have been raised with ever-increasing fervor seem to go unaddressed. In other words, the Internet has provided a platform for expressing grievances and even for providing a new political reality. But the system itself has not responded in kind.
What happens in such situations is that the body-politic itself becomes galvanized. Nature abhors a vacuum.
We were not surprised at all by the coalescence of the vague Tea Party movement. While the perspective of American punditry is that the Tea Party movement has been co-opted by the Republican party, we would humbly submit that this is not a true reading of the situation. The inchoate Tea Party movement may have been formalized and reconfigured to make it palatable, but the underlying frustrations remain the same and cannot be palliated by political formulations and rhetoric.
The election of Scott Brown was a dramatic shot across the bow to those who wish to sustain the American system as it is in the face of the Internet's increasingly insistent truth telling. But in fact Scott Brown has merely perpetuated business-as-usual by voting for various sorts of expensive omnibus legislation of the sort that increasingly has people up in arms. The disconnect between what people want from Washington – less government, less regulation, less war, less monetary debasement and few taxes is not forthcoming. We would submit this disconnect cannot last forever.
We know what the answer of the power-elite may be. It may attempt to foment a larger Middle East war to defuse a domestic political problem – one that is gradually occurring in Europe as well as in America. But here again we are not sure that even a war will make much a difference, given the larger picture. For our answers, we look back in history to what happened after the advent of the Gutenberg press. First came the Renaissance, then the Reformation and finally the populating of the New World with a new and freer society.
Conclusion: Whether or not history repeats is not for us to say, or not now. But the divergence between a people's discontent and the solutions they are being offered cannot last forever. There are bigger changes to come in our opinion, ones that will affect the larger, Western sociopolitical system, and the investment climate as well. And we are on record as welcoming that process.
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Posted by Stewart Wilcox on 7/17/2010 6:11:18 AM
Thank you for a well written and obviously well researched article.
Posted by Pat Fields on 7/17/2010 6:20:41 AM
DB Cite: "All indications are that the power on Capitol Hill could shift back to Republicans when Congressional candidates are next voted on in November."
Therein lay the rub, Laddies! The thrust of the Tea Party Movement isn't merely to shift the public's endearment back to 'the Republican Party', but to re-populate it with Constitutionally compliant membership in the originalist orientation. The Republican structural shell is merely a conduit for unifying our effort to restore America's Capitalist social structure founded in Private Property and Individual Determinism.
Mr. Brown campaigned on that general premise and because he's now morphing away from that ideal he WILL be driven out in the next election.
The 5th Column Newspeak Press is brainwashing the public toward the notion that The Movement is amorphously 'anti-incumbent' so as to dilute perception of its true goal; attempting to make it appear as nothing more than a grumbling pack of malcontents. That misrepresentation too will be dispatched in a few months!
Posted by Jeff on 7/17/2010 6:50:40 AM
Scott brown is pathetic just another con man out for the bucks, John Kerry must give a good shoulder rub, disturbing is a kind word for these blood suckers.
Posted by AmanfromMars on 7/17/2010 7:08:50 AM
It is as well to state that the UK will not be in any way supportive of another ill conceived and cynical war exercise against any other nation ...... for such is the Folly of Following Fools and a sure sign of a Critical Absence of National Intelligence and Strategic International Leadership, and only creates much smarter and more dangerous and unknown, stealthy enemies, who are Undisputed Masters in InterNetworking Fields ..... Virtual Space Communications Command for Control of Power and in Powers that Control Sublimely.
And shared here on the Daily Bell, so that none who would be educated and entertained here, are ignorant of the facts in Future stores.
Posted by Bionic Mosquito on 7/17/2010 7:10:05 AM
After a succesful run of several posts, I am failing again today. Hope this works, and thanks for your patience:
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Reply from the Daily Bell:
Here is your post. Sorry you have so much trouble.
Scott Brown and the Tea Party
This is in response to today's commentary at The Daily Bell
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"While the perspective of American punditry is that the Tea Party movement has been co-opted by the Republican party, we would humbly submit that this is not a true reading of the situation. The inchoate Tea Party movement may have been formalized and reconfigured to make it palatable, but the underlying frustrations remain the same and cannot be palliated by political formulations and rhetoric."
The Tea Party as a structure, an entity, is being co-opted -- to the extent that an entity that is yet to take any significant unifying form can be co-opted. I agree that the underlying frustrations have not (and cannot) be co-opted, but the political outlet for these is at risk.
Also, I do not yet accept the idea that the frustrations of the Tea Party are focused around smaller government and less intrusion. I think there is a segment of that -- those that came to the movement from the Ron Paul 2008 candidacy -- but many seem to be of the view that the new programs are putting at risk the old program...so stop the new programs and don't mess with my old program.
"Government, keep your hands off my medicare."
When students agree to give up subsidized schools, and seniors agree to give up medicare and social security, we may be on to something. When the Tea Party as a smaller / shrinking government movement lasts for at least ten years and effects local and national elections with better candidates than Scott Brown, we might have something.
The best we have going for us is that the promises will be broken. Then people will look to local solutions vs. national (or international) ones. That the promises will be broken is certain.
Posted by Ed on 7/17/2010 7:34:48 AM
I have just recently discovered your site. I am a senior who has lived through the civil rights movement of the 1960's and Vietnam War into the 70's. As long as the people are not demonstrating in the streets in mass; talk is cheap. Voting Democrat or Republican is a waste of time. The problem is "structural." As Will rogers said in the 1930's:"We have the best congress money can buy." That is even more true today. I had read an article this past Spring that pointed out that in the 1970's Washington D.C. had about 11,000 lobbyists working for special interests. Today, in 2010 it is estimated at 43,000 lobbyists vying for the attention of members of congress! Now, that is a lot of money sloshing around. I had argued this point with a college professor in Political Science in the 1960's that Lobbying is basically legalized bribery. The only way to make it workable for the common good of all is to have it completely transparent at all times. A lobbyist can only petition a member of congress in an open forum or a panel of congressional members so that it is recorded for the public to see. Much like a court of law. As long is it is done in private and in the halls and cocktail parties; the end result will be more concentration of power and wealth. Read another article on Dynasty Trust Funds. In 1986 37% of the capital gains, income, interest, dividends,and corporate profits went to the top 1% of the U.S.A. population. As of this year it is now estimated to be 73% of the wealth goes to the top 1%.
My point is that talk is cheap as Will Rogers had commented. Most everything in nature seeks a line of least resistance. So true in politics.
Posted by Theodore J Maher on 7/17/2010 7:46:46 AM
Greetings Mssrs:
I could not agree with you more...Although I find the prospect of expanding or prosecuting a new conflict in the middle east scary,my feeling is this would perpertrate a complete financial collapse which could result in anarchy....We are not the kinder gentler people that lived through the depression and fought a world war...we are extremely selfish to point of hostility..
Posted by Pat Fields on 7/17/2010 8:15:02 AM
Ed Cite: "Voting Democrat or Republican is a waste of time."
If what you mean to say is 'it's a waste of time voting for establishment connected candidates offered up from the Party structure' then I agree fully.
However, when that premise becomes rote doctrine, preventing you from getting involved in an effort to capture a Party and re-populate it with members un-connected with the 'establishment' and whose goal is to re-trench Constitutional governance again, THEN I must oppose you as an obstacle.
Of course, you're perfectly free to commit political suicide on grounds of principal, but you will not propagandize such choice for others without staunch rebuke.
Posted by Fr. Mike Marquette on 7/17/2010 8:25:39 AM
Even when Republicans owned the Congress and Executive Office they never possessed a super majority of Conservatives. It will require a super majority of Conservatives,(Democrats & Republicans)for our nation to ever recover. RINO's like Scott Brown, Collins and Snow are completely unreliable. They jump in the swamp and simply go with the flow. There is a blackout of wisdom in our government and our people. There is not a single venue, moral, spiritual, legal, financial and political, etc., where we have not become bankrupt.
Posted by Ranger on 7/17/2010 8:27:38 AM
Gentlemen: War is coming with Iran-bombing, followed by overflights and Predator drones. This will also have the effect of ensuring that our trading partners continue to accept green pieces of paper in payment even though the inflation rate is 15 to 20% a year. States with Republican governors will file bankruptcy, Democratic governors will be bailed out. Congress even if it is controlled by Republicans will repeal nothing, and change nothing.
Posted by John Edwards on 7/17/2010 8:28:33 AM
Thanks DB for another excellent article. At last, fellow travellers!
Posted by Pat Fields on 7/17/2010 8:33:53 AM
DB Cite: "Freshman Senator Scott Brown i... was elected by a Tea Party movement ... as a protest vote against business-as-usual."
I beg to differ here. The Tea Party Movement is actively working to re-populate the Republican organizational shell with folks from 'the commonality' whose commitment to restoring Constitutional governance can gradually (or immediately if possible) roll back all the damage done to our Republic since the dawn of the 20th century.
This notion that The Movement is merely a directionless mob of malcontents is 5th Column Newspeak brainwash propaganda to blunt a greater curiosity among people toward serious examination of the Tea Party's true message of 'Liberty For All'.
(Question: Why are my posts not making it to the board? Is the server down periodically?)
Reply from the Daily Bell:
"He was elected by a Tea Party movement in Massachusetts partially as a protest vote against business-as-usual. A Republican who took over Senator Edward Kennedy's open political seat, Brown was seen to be an anti-incumbent, someone who would stand against the constantly expanding power and ever-larger expenditures in Congress."
Above is the full quote. We wrote "a tea party movement" NOT "the Tea Party movement." We were one of the first blogs to diagnose the schism between the constitutionalists and the republicans within the so-called Tea Party.
Just scroogle "Tear Party" and "Daily Bell."
Posted by Mpresley on 7/17/2010 8:34:33 AM
"American voters have yet to find a way to stop the deluge of monetary corruption and regulatory dysfunction emanating from Washington."
The Tea Parties have been organized, at least originally, at a "grass-roots" level, however in some areas they have become factionalized, with much in-fighting. Also, local and state politics can be just as brutal, exclusionary, and corrupt as national politics, just on a different scale. And although voter discontent remains, the big question, to my mind, is whether Mr. McCain will be re-elected. If so, I have not much hope for grass-roots galvanization as a means of effecting change apart from the mainstream of the Republican party, and that will be no real change at all.
Posted by R M'Geddon on 7/17/2010 8:55:33 AM
So many in government & near government these days seem their roles as management exercise, rather than a democratic one. Consequently, elected representatives act as part of the national management elite instead of representing what the majority of their supporters believe. Scott Brown is just a beginner at this. EU member government ministers & EU officials are the real champions. Lying on a daily basis, & deceiving their electors all in the name of the so-called greater goodwhen their idea of the greater good is more power, pay, & expense fiddles for themselves.
Reply from the Daily Bell:
This is a profound political point, thanks.
Posted by Jim Hollingsworth on 7/17/2010 9:04:44 AM
Anyone who took the time to check on Scott Brown knew of what character he was. I was very impressed and thought to send him money.
Then I saw the picture of him "nude" and I knew that he was a person with a very double standard. Sure, he voted against the health care bill, but by then Harry Reid had another program going so it did not matter. Liberals are determined to get their way and they are a very powerful force. You do not give candy to a baby and they try to take it away. Such is the reality of political power.
Posted by Knldgskr on 7/17/2010 9:09:35 AM
May I suggest all readers go to ...
Click to View Link/ for an excellent article about the "Ruling Class"?
Posted by Duane Bass on 7/17/2010 9:22:08 AM
While not fully pleased with Browns vote, the alternative would have been much worse . . .
Reply from the Daily Bell:
The alternative would have been the same?
Posted by J M Garvey on 7/17/2010 9:26:26 AM
Th' Bell's thesis that the Internet poses a potentially revolutionary challenge to the power elite and their fear-based meme propagation is indeed far from academic. For proof--two illustrations actually--one need only look to yesterday's infowars.com.
First, in his daily radio program (accessible via Internet), infowars founder Alex Jones called on listeners to "google" the title of his film "The Obama Deception." (Not having seen the film, I cannot comment on it.) Jones later reported on his website that "within 2 hours of putting out the call," the film (or at least the phrase) had become "the number one hot search topic on Google."
The second illustration involves the "official Alex Jones page" at Facebook, which that website has evidently deleted, reportedly over Jones's use of the Gadsden ("Don't Tread On Me") flag.
Though not necessarily directly related, these two events in the battlefield of cyberspace show, in the first instance, the threat to "the Empire" posed by "the Rebels" and, in the second instance, the Empire "striking back."
Now, if we can only get Jones to call on his listeners to google "The Daily Bell"!
Posted by Ed on 7/17/2010 10:19:56 AM
Pat Fields reply: Thank you for your comment. I understand your angst in regards to party politics. My point was that the difference in the two parties is incremental. I have voted in the past for the best qualified candidate regardless of party. I am more concerned with "cause and effect."
Neither party represents their original form and are more geared towards serving the multinational corporations. It takes a lot of money to win an election. Most Senators spend Friday all day "dialing for dollars"; they need to contact would be contributors to keep the future campaign chest full of money. Most average voters think their representative is contemplating how to help the average voter. Instead they are concerned about NOT offending the status quo and getting ready for the next campaign.
Again, the line of least resistance. I may sound callous. But, the facts are: "That money talks and bull s--t walks." I am speaking from experience. Have been in a few anti-war and civil rights marches in the 1960's and 1970's.
Posted by Dennis Murphy on 7/17/2010 10:31:57 AM
SCOTT BROWN...Appeared to be an Honest Light at the tunnel end, a blocker of the Crime/Waste/Pork Barrel theft by the political hacks in Washington DC. OH! how my opinion of him has been shattered!! He gives them the 60th vote needed to pass the financial reform bill...He hasn't got a clue as to the hidden con games, un-truths and blatant ignorance of the very things and entities that caused the crash in the first place. Even so he blindly joined the gang of Hacks/Con artists for his PERSONAL EGO!!
The TEA-PARTY should make all those that they support, sign a BINDING contract based on RECALL if those supported individuals become elected TURN-COATS. There must be honor and truth in elected representatives and it has to be NOW not LATER.
Posted by Sally Preston on 7/17/2010 10:52:22 AM
People! Do you recall the first grade ditty, "two white horses fell in the mud?"
It is lunacy to think you can send good people to a corrupt place and they will not be corrupted. One must have some type of "core." Ron Paul seems to have the kind of integrity that keeps him from corruption. But Scott Brown? Please. It was the "lesser of two evils" approach. When you vote for the lesser of two evils, you are still voting for evil.
Posted by Ingo Bischoff on 7/17/2010 10:56:29 AM
The drive for political change is that for smaller government. Consciously or not, the people, as well as the States, reject direct government from Washington. People want to be governed by their State, not by the Federal Government. The drive you are describing will lead to the repeal of the 17th Amendment. The repeal of this "unconstitutional", constitutional amendment will answer the frustrations presently felt by the electorate. Now, the electorate has to only find out how the 17th Amendment has brought us to the present state of affairs. A widespread understanding of the detrimental effects of the 17th Amendment will create utter fear among the elites.
Posted by Stas on 7/17/2010 11:10:57 AM
Who sponsored SCOTT BROWN?
Republicans? Democrats? Tea Party? George Soros?
We lost the HONESTY. We lost TRUST. WE lost UNITY. We are loosing FAITH.
The last fifty years took many changes. The people movement went from East to West, from West to East, from South to North. If you look at the World map of 1939 and world map of 2009 you can't find the same countries in the same locations. WHY?
The kingdoms are gone and the SOCIALISTIC movement is taken over.
The people lost their faith in God, in humans, in nature. We are becoming not HOMO SAPIENS but ANIMALS. We are CHANGING FOR E PLURIBUS UNUM to EGO. Just look at the Obama's picture – he shows his profile facing East(towards Mecca and Medina).
Who is our God? The mighty $$$$$?
Watch out the SHARIAAH law is comming.
Mr. Brown is good for two years – he will be replaced by DEMOCRAT and he will get his job in advetising the JACKEY underware.
Posted by Romey on 7/17/2010 11:13:19 AM
re: Pat Fields' comments --- as one who is engaged in the trenches of what I prefer to call the "Liberty Activist" movement (loosely the various Tea Parties, 9.12, NPA, etc.) I believe Mr. Fields is very much "on target". I have prepared analyses and slide shows to demonstrate to "establishment" Republicans (and more than a few Liberty Activists as well) that we can, and will, consistently win elections by attracting, and keeping, a majority of Unaffiliated (aka Independent) voters. And we do THAT by supporting only demonstrably trustworthy candidates. Which ones are "demonstrably trustworthy"? --- those who remain steadfast in their commitment to the principles of explicitly Constitutionally limited governance, even in the heat and turmoil of campaigning.
One third of the electorate are Unaffiliateds . . . . i.e. Disaffected from both parties. Most reject the radical Leftist desire to use the coercive power of government to impose infantile notions of "fair outcomes". At the same time, Unaffiliated voters reject the Right-wing "social conservatives" desire to use the coercive power of government to impose pre-packaged prescriptions of "moral behavior". What Unaffiliated voters consistently choose (when given a legitimate option) is government by contract – i.e. governance in compliance with the orginal understanding (e.g. the Ratifier's understanding) of the Constitution.
BTW, the "living constitution" crowd (Progressives) have long sought to confuse people with intellectually weak and dishonest admonitions such as "Oh, we can never really know what the Ratifiers intended." Rubbish! Robert Natelson just published a superb, scholarly, well researched and annotated book "The Original Constitution" that gives the lie to such subterfuge (copies can be downloaded from The Tenth Amendment Center).
Posted by Michael Hodgkiss on 7/17/2010 11:13:38 AM
Posted by Duane Bass on 7/17/2010 9:22:08 AM
While not fully pleased with Browns vote, the alternative would have been much worse . . .
Reply from the Daily Bell:
The alternative would have been the same?
With all due respect. I disagree that the alternative would have been the same. The alternative would have been LaRouche's proposal for reinstating Glass-Steagall and then negotiating treaties for a fixed exchange rate with China Russia and India for starters designed to bring in other willing nations for economic development. Hardly the same.
Posted by Jack Swift on 7/17/2010 11:13:49 AM
Brown is simply running for re-election. Like McCain, he believes the way to win in his state is to appeal across the party line. The fallacy of the strategy is that it ultimately traps the Republican(?) who personally stands for nothing in a context where he must be more Democrat than his opposition.
Brown benefitted from the national need to break the senate hammer lock and received internet generated support he could never have earned on his own.
He has obviously chosen not to rely upon that support that won him his seat and to aggrandize himself, he is now pandering to the left.
It will be interesting to see if it works.
Posted by Victor Barney on 7/17/2010 11:28:22 AM
First, our government totally controls the Internet anyway and always have! Second, there has already been a Marxist(anti-messiah) takeover of our government and Marxist, by history, do not give back what they take away! Third, next comes the planned economic collapse by the second week of September this year and a following holocaust because that's just the way Marxists do things! The only good thing is that Marxists are lead by Lucifer, and he already has been beaten by our Hebrew(not Greek, Latin, or even English) Savior, Yahshua(meaning "Yahweh is Salvation" in Hebrew, the only spiritually inspired language(Zeph. 3:9))! Yes, there still is a "light" in this current "darkness!" "Halleluyah", meaning praise "Yah" in Hebrew!
Reply from the Daily Bell:
"First, our government totally controls the Internet anyway and always have!"
You have evidence of this?
Posted by G. Ward on 7/17/2010 11:41:34 AM
The United States as a nation must go back to the Declaration of Independence and Bill of Rights. Our much exalted constitution is nothing more than a huge corporate contract that guaranteed our enslavement to government. Another instrument must be written to guarantee minimamal government intrusion into private lives until this happens we will be stuck in this mess.
Posted by Shantu Dand on 7/17/2010 11:49:33 AM
The problem lies in the schizophrenia of the American public. It is smitten with the promise of collectivism, "something for free for all and it won't cost you nothing " in the classic vernacular". California is a classic example.
They continuously elect a Democratic legislature that spends and spends and spends. Then they elect a Republican as a Governor as though he or she can fix the mess. Talk about having your cake and eating it too! Same schizoid behaviour is seen in our representatives in Washington, D.C. Republicans are expected to bring home the bacon but they must be fiscally conservative! I would dare say that if A Republican senator or congressperson truly adhered to small government and small budget principles, he would be ousted in one term from the office if not first impeached.
Senator Brown is demonstrating that being Republican doesn't prevent one from being a demagogue, in fact it a requirement to hold office successfully. In that sense, at least the Democrats are more honest. They are collectivist and they do not deny that, indeed they are proud of it. It is easy today for one to get into office by promising give-aways rather than saying, "No to this and no to that".
Taxpayer's money is the grease for the wheels that take one to the higher office. It won't be long before Tea Party becomes infected with this collectivist virus. I believe in the end, collectivism must win because of its cupidity! It is so sexy to promise to give and give than to say no and no and no again! It is like one indulgent parent vs other being a disciplinarian. Who do you think will be loved?
Posted by Dr.Roger Voelker on 7/17/2010 11:52:07 AM
I read about the work that Ms. Dorothy Rabinowitz did and wrote about when Scott Brown was running for the Senator Seat in Massachusetts against an Attorney who was involved in one of the cases written about in this book - about child rape and implanted memories that was obviously false..
THIS IS WHY I VOTED FOR SCOTT BROWN AND SENT A CONTRIBUTION TO HIS ELECTION FUND. I FELT HE HAD TO BE BETTER THAN HIS OPPONENT FOR SENATOR. I MAY VERY WELL NOT CONTRIBUTE TO HIS CAMPAIGN AGAIN. SINCE I LIVE IN FLORIDA AND DO NOT VOTE IN HIS STATE, I SEND MONEY.
Posted by John Danforth on 7/17/2010 12:06:52 PM
Thanks to the Daily Bell for another excellent article.
I watch with amusement as the clueless media attempt to mold the public's perception of the Tea Party, while politicians try to attack a formless enemy or else try to find the parade and jump out in front so at to pretend to lead it.
Indeed, the roots of the movement grew from the 'brush fire' started by the Ron Paul campaign. Here's what they will never understand and why those of us who are trying to help the movement will never be 'co-opted':
EVERY one of the people in my area who made signs and papered the town with them had never participated in politics in any way before, ever. What motivated them to stand on street corners holding signs was hope; what gave them hope was a chance to educate the mindless populace despite all of the manipulations of the political and press machines.
What motivated these people is a philosophy of individualism and property rights along with a conviction that the constitution was instituted to protect those rights. These people were spending nights making copies of videos such as "Money As Debt" and "Zeitgeist" and handing them out on street corners to drivers passing by.
Obviously, a grass fire burns in directions that are difficult to direct or predict. So perhaps there might be a few 'mindless followers' or 'racists' showing up at rallies. But attempts to mold the Tea Party's identity or 'take it over' are likely to fail because all such attempts miss a fundamental point: We don't accept the meme that politicians should be "Leaders". We don't follow. We don't "Lead", either.
We expect our government to act as our servant. We don't willingly accept orders. We don't compromise on our basic principles, which we consider essential to our survival. We don't seek acceptance, we don't care what others think, we don't alter our judgment based on what others say. We don't alter our message to be more palatable to the 'other side', we reject any attempt to enslave us further.
We don't need the approval of the press or the political machine, and we expect only opposition and dirty tricks of every sort from them. We are, in effect, ungovernable. We comply with unjust laws out of compulsion, not consent, and we never forget it. Whatever our differences, we can agree that the original constitution would be a good starting point for a 'government reset'.
That is why the attempts to defame or define us are simply amusing. In the attempt, the machine confesses its sins, confirms our convictions, makes our point for us, and looks silly in the process.
Our real power comes from the fact that due to the tools provided by the internet, we are no longer isolated. It matters not if we are only 3% or any percentage of the population. What matters is that our convictions are based on truth and our message can no longer be silenced and so will continue to bring people over, never to return. And the internet not only facilitates the flow of information, but also money, as proven by money-bombs.
The effect of this power will be a growing risk to turn-coat politicians. Those who sell themselves as 'Tea Party' candidates and then betray their voters by becoming a cog in the Leviathan machine will not last past the next election. Those who have proven themselves part of the machine and who attempt to 'lead' will go down to ignominious defeat. The power of government and press to mold people's world-view is crumbling fast.
Those who think the Republican Party will co-opt us or take us over miss the point most of all. Though we may never be a majority, our ultimate trump card is that we can destroy the ability of the Republican Party machine to field squishy candidates. We are not afraid to throw an election to the Democrat Socialists if the party machine tries to put down a genuine candidate in favor of a Fabian Socialist from its own machine.
We can do this by having the Tea Party candidate run as an independent to split the vote and deny the machine candidate any chance at winning. No longer will the Republican Party be able to present voters with a 'Sophie's Choice' lesser-of-two-evils candidate. We refuse to support evil, no matter what kind of lipstick it wears.
The Republican Party will not co-opt the Tea Party. The Republican Party will be reformed to stop fielding collectivist, authoritarian candidates, or it will cease to be relevant. And if the populace at large swallows the machine's message and elects socialists, then it deserves to get what it wants, good and hard. As with the election of Obama, maybe a taste of it is what the public needs to re-examine whether this is really what they want.
This will take time, and success is not assured. But it is encouraging to see that support is much higher than anyone thought in the days when we were successfully isolated from one another.
Sarah Palin will not be a 'tea party' candidate for president and if the foolish attempt is made the campaign will wither in ridicule. Scott Brown has sealed his fate as a 'tea party' candidate forever; don't be surprised if he switches parties for the next election.
Even Fox News is pushing the meme that "anti-incumbency sentiment is sweeping the nation". That's just wishful thinking on their part. They would like to guide the movement over to that comfortable framing of peoples' world-view back into their standard left-right paradigm. Too bad for them, the cat is out of the bag and running rampant on the internet.
They dare not acknowledge that the sentiment is anger at the violation of our individual rights to our own life and property, and rebellion at the collectivist principles behind the destruction of our constitution. When people wake up to the reality of the Money Lie and see what powers our government, it is a life-altering experience. They never go back to being the way they were: apathetic and ignorant. The cure is permanent.
Perhaps we will ultimately fail. But I will go to my own grave with the satisfaction that I did not sit back and allow it to happen without fighting for my own values.
Posted by B.Benhamid on 7/17/2010 12:08:44 PM
Scott Brown thinks that it is okay for Israel to attack a US-flagged ship in international waters.
Scott Brown thinks it is okay for Israel to attack American peace workers in international waters.
Scott Brown thinks that it is okay for Israel to shoot and kill a 19-year old American from New York, carrying a US Passport by shooting him in the head while he lay on the deck, in international waters.
Next time Scott Brown is up for re-election, please educate him that America needs leaders that put America first, second, and third.
Posted by John Danforth on 7/17/2010 12:13:01 PM
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Thanks to the Daily Bell for another excellent article.
I watch with amusement as the clueless media attempt to mold the public's perception of the Tea Party, while politicians try to attack a formless enemy or else try to find the parade and jump out in front so at to pretend to lead it.
Indeed, the roots of the movement grew from the 'brush fire' started by the Ron Paul campaign.
Here's what they will never understand and why those of us who are trying to help the movement will never be 'co-opted':
EVERY one of the people in my area who made signs and papered the town with them had never participated in politics in any way before, ever. What motivated them to stand on street corners holding signs was hope; what gave them hope was a chance to educate the mindless populace despite all of the manipulations of the political and press machines. What motivated these people is a philosophy of individualism and property rights along with a conviction that the constitution was instituted to protect those rights. These people were spending nights making copies of videos such as "Money As Debt" and "Zeitgeist" and handing them out on street corners to drivers passing by.
Obviously, a grass fire burns in directions that are difficult to direct or predict. So perhaps there might be a few 'mindless followers' or 'racists' showing up at rallies. But attempts to mold the Tea Party's identity or 'take it over' are likely to fail because all such attempts miss a fundamental point: We don't accept the meme that politicians should be "Leaders". We don't follow. We don't "Lead", either. We expect our government to act as our servant. We don't willingly accept orders. We don't compromise on our basic principles, which we consider essential to our survival. We don't seek acceptance, we don't care what others think, we don't alter our judgment based on what others say. We don't alter our message to be more palatable to the 'other side', we reject any attempt to enslave us further. We don't need the approval of the press or the political machine, and we expect only opposition and dirty tricks of every sort from them. We are, in effect, ungovernable. We comply with unjust laws out of compulsion, not consent, and we never forget it. Whatever our differences, we can agree that the original constitution would be a good starting point for a 'government reset'.
That is why the attempts to defame or define us are simply amusing. In the attempt, the machine confesses its sins, confirms our convictions, makes our point for us, and looks silly in the process.
Our real power comes from the fact that due to the tools provided by the internet, we are no longer isolated. It matters not if we are only 3% or any percentage of the population. What matters is that our convictions are based on truth and our message can no longer be silenced and so will continue to bring people over, never to return. And the internet not only facilitates the flow of information, but also money, as proven by money-bombs.
The effect of this power will be a growing risk to turn-coat politicians. Those who sell themselves as 'Tea Party' candidates and then betray their voters by becoming a cog in the Leviathan machine will not last past the next election. Those who have proven themselves part of the machine and who attempt to 'lead' will go down to ignominious defeat. The power of government and press to mold people's world-view is crumbling fast.
Those who think the Republican Party will co-opt us or take us over miss the point most of all. Though we may never be a majority, our ultimate trump card is that we can destroy the ability of the Republican Party machine to field squishy candidates. We are not afraid to throw an election to the Democrat Socialists if the party machine tries to put down a genuine candidate in favor of a Fabian Socialist from its own machine. We can do this by having the Tea Party candidate run as an independent to split the vote and deny the machine candidate any chance at winning. No longer will the Republican Party be able to present voters with a 'Sophie's Choice' lesser-of-two-evils candidate. We refuse to support evil, no matter what kind of lipstick it wears.
The Republican Party will not co-opt the Tea Party. The Republican Party will be reformed to stop fielding collectivist, authoritarian candidates, or it will cease to be relevant. And if the populace at large swallows the machine's message and elects socialists, then it deserves to get what it wants, good and hard. As with the election of Obama, maybe a taste of it is what the public needs to re-examine whether this is really what they want.
This will take time, and success is not assured. But it is encouraging to see that support is much higher than anyone thought in the days when we were successfully isolated from one another.
Sarah Palin will not be a 'tea party' candidate for president and if the foolish attempt is made the campaign will wither in ridicule. Scott Brown has sealed his fate as a 'tea party' candidate forever; don't be surprised if he switches parties for the next election.
Even Fox News is pushing the meme that "anti-incumbency sentiment is sweeping the nation". That's just wishful thinking on their part. They would like to guide the movement over to that comfortable framing of peoples' world-view back into their standard left-right paradigm. Too bad for them, the cat is out of the bag and running rampant on the internet. They dare not acknowledge that the sentiment is anger at the violation of our individual rights to our own life and property, and rebellion at the collectivist principles behind the destruction of our constitution. When people wake up to the reality of the Money Lie and see what powers our government, it is a life-altering experience. They never go back to being the way they were: apathetic and ignorant. The cure is permanent.
Perhaps we will ultimately fail. But I will go to my own grave with the satisfaction that I did not sit back and allow it to happen without fighting for my own values.
Posted by AmanfromMars on 7/17/2010 12:31:57 PM
What you have to be prepared for, and this would be real smart of those in Power Elites who would recognise that the future and their futures are fully dependent on and inextricably linked to novel powers of control which are virtually supplied by the Internet, Clouds and Advanced Operating Systems, is those Power Elites paying those virtual controllers whatever it takes to modify the Global System to ensure that conflict does not destroy them and theirs, with the powers that these new controllers would have, being hired out and/or divulged to significant others with pots of cash to spend.
And that requires a fundamental change of mindset which accepts that others are in control with them and/or of them, and they would need to be courted with their every desire catered for, and that would be their Turing Test which would decide whether they stay as head honchos and new virtual business angels, or are rooted out and extraordinarily rendered as no longer fit for purpose and thus would lose everything ..... in the Great Change.
Was ever a complex choice, so simple a decision to make?
Posted by Patrick on 7/17/2010 12:41:34 PM
Everybody is writing on How to find canidates who act as they talk?Now i will insert a measure no one even speaks of anymore,"a man or woman's faith in God "! Read all these posts,read the canidates , But I say Show me a lawmaker who truly practices a true belief in a Creator Greater than Himself, for example , Tell me the last time you saw a President walking with his Family into Church ? They don't listen to the people because they don't listen to the word of God so tell me I'm wrong, which I suspect , it's like nobody beleves God will Intervene ?Guess what? He will !
Posted by WAYNE on 7/17/2010 12:56:20 PM
Very good article making an important point ...
But take solace in this fact ... All of these tyrannical systems collapse of their own dead weight. And this one is now shaking at the foundations. History almost guarantees the end result
It's a waiting game now! This current battle is on the save level as the USA Civil War, or the Protestant Revolution. The Protestant Revolution increased individual freedom, and the USA Civil War reduced individual freedom. This battle will end with an increase in out personal freedom.
Posted by Victor Barney on 7/17/2010 2:08:46 PM
My original response: "First, our government totally controls the Internet anyway and always have!" Your original response: You have evidence of this?
I was watching Glenn Beck on TV and heard him talking about the things President Wilson did through his "Marxist" approach to our government, like establishing "lies-as-fact"(propaganda) about what is fact and what is fiction! The government causes a planned financial collapse using the Marxist approach and takes more freedom away in the process! In fact, now I learned that Hitler's Gerbel(sp?) copied Wilson's propaganda man(forgot name)in making Nazi propaganda for Hitler's Germany. Also, tell me about the "rights" that "we the people" had during the FDR administration after his "New Deal"(sounds better than Marxism) led to a planned financial collapse in 1937-38 to gain more power for Marxism? Social Security was another great idea, right? I've even seen the effect & affect of FDR's manufactured collapse on TV, if that really matters in Hollywood anymore? It's like old mob movies, it even gave the mob more power over the general public, as was the plan of the mob controlling the industry at the time and again, I'm sure for the government. I also saw how the "mob" made life much easier for our Army in Sicily during WW II! Please, name me another Marxist government takeover that was not followed by an economic collapse(Watch: September '10?) and an increase in government power, which was then ever given back to the people? Not even during mini-collapses, such as Wilson and FDR! FDR's really didn't hit until his planned new deal did in 1937! Oh, the manufacturing went on, but not without the hand of government becoming more and more in the drivers seat! Who now runs GM? Chrysler? More soon coming. Watch!
Posted by Clayton on 7/17/2010 2:56:20 PM
I stayed up late that night that Scott Brown won the election for Senate. His praise for the late Senator Teddy was the tell of his true character. It was paralleled back in 1994, when Newt Gingrich praised FDR after the so-called Republican Revolution of 1994 succeeded to give the Republican Party its first majority in the House of Representatives in 40 years.
Rather than reinforce the views and efforts of those who passions allowed them victory in the first place, these folks immediately turn right around and kiss the butts of the worst demagogues, panderers and fakes possible. It is a pattern of abuse that will keep on as long as there is no negative consequence to the behavior.
In a word the correct solution for Scott Brown is "Recall." Recall, like impeachment, should be an active part of our political process. It should be the expectation that as a rule (not an exception) those, who violate the implicit or explicit compact they have made with their supporters, are tossed out of office at their very first flirtation with treachery. Let Scott Brown be a Democrat. The same is true of Mc Cain.
The MSM term "maverick" to described these people is propagandistic tool of deception. They are hardly unpredictable nor "out of the box" in their thinking on any subject. One would no more expect some innovative pronouncement from either of these two fakes then one would expect to fly around the room by flapping their arms up and down. They are two political grifters.
If the people of the Bay State allow Scott Brown to remain in office, what they will see over time is his self enrichment accompanied by his descent into pompous hack dom. Like Mc Cain, he is not the brightest light, unlike Mc Cain, he does not have a reputation (whether deserved, or not) as a war hero to fall back on, so that as he succumbs to the limitations of his character he will increasingly become the object of ridicule.
Scott Brown is just the kind of man that no principle based political movement can tolerate and Tea Party activists and all other limited government types must completely disassociate themselves from his immediately. It is essential for those of us who are working towards the new paradigm not to be tarred by his questionable judgement and his opportunistic nature.
Posted by Janey on 7/17/2010 3:02:32 PM
He is a traitor to all of us who trusted him and sent him donations for his campaign. We won't make that mistake again!
Posted by Elizabeth Byles on 7/17/2010 3:42:58 PM
Scott Brown looks the part; young, beautiful, educated--all that is needed for a future in anything, but we need an experienced older leader to settle this country down. The discontent is in all age groups, young and old--where is that person that can fit the bill--a change from the young aggressive inexperienced politician is what is needed.
Reply from the Daily Bell:
How about looking to oneself rather than a "leader?"
Posted by TMoore on 7/17/2010 3:50:57 PM
Hail the the Bell for another hum dinger!
I supported Brown, but regret doing so. His "record" suggests that neither party is committed to the idea of self-government. The 'Net has taken off the mask, but the PE care not a farthing because thus far nothing has impeded their programmes, global warming not withstanding.
The McCain and Reid races are bellwethers IMHO. If both win it is unlikely that real change will result from any peaceful political process e.g. "repopulating" one party with constitutionalists. Otherwise, it will be the inexorable road to abject serfdom portended by F.A. Hayek. Look at the history. Whether GOP or Dem, gov't ceaselessly expands like a cancer that will eventually kill the host.
Posted by Clay Hurst on 7/17/2010 4:00:04 PM
We need the ability to rescind or FIRE people in congress who don't do what constituents who put them there tell them to do. With out that we don't have democracy, without democracy we don't have true liberty.
Posted by Mike on 7/17/2010 4:28:05 PM
All these morons in goverment need a lie detector hooked to them every time they talk that shocks them when they lie.Their silence will be golden.
Posted by Mike on 7/17/2010 5:01:57 PM
When I reflect on that cesspool known as Washington DC I am reminded of the song by JJ Cale -Money talks. In it he sings " money talks " very loudly, says the strangest things. You'd be surprised the friends you can buy with the smallest change".
Anyone who looks to "leaders" in Washington DC -to solve our nations problems is tilting after windmills. Small government begins with each one of us. Working hard, living within our means and never ever relying on a handout from the government is a good place to start.
Once each American starts practicing this " the gong show on the Potomac would rapidly come to an end and the parasite class would be forced to find gainful employment once again.
Posted by Casualreader on 7/17/2010 7:21:31 PM
This is a really sad story: Brown was successfully "adopted" by Congress and didn't bring any value to the Tea Party movement. Oh, well, it was predictable. But this is a real-life experience that the movement got. I do believe that this and other "errors" will eventually mature Tea Party. It will get more and more power and this power should come from you, people. From people who want to change this anti-human anti-common sense system, and take responsibility for their future. What could be the next Tea Party move? I think it should be inception of a new party opposing both GOP and Dems on 2012 presidential campaign. Don't expect from me to say you what will happen next though. We're still in a teenager's wear now.
Posted by Pat Fields on 7/17/2010 7:23:57 PM
Clay Hurst Cite: "We need the ability to rescind or FIRE people in congress ..."
We used to have Common Law Process in our courts, where juries sat in judgement of both the facts of the case AND the propriety of the law! It was THE principal bulwark of our protection against dictatorial governance at ALL levels.
Posted by Mick on 7/17/2010 9:38:14 PM
Yup, ole Scotty is nothing but a Democrat in disguise: was hoping he would live up to his campaign promises...even was stupid enough to contribute to his campaign but NEVER again. In fact, I will donate to defeating him ASAP. He needs to have his backside stomped.
Posted by Noah on 7/17/2010 9:54:24 PM
Scott Brown is the equivalent of an upstanding young man, just married, who strolls into a club of ill repute with good intentions of remaining faithful. His good character will save him from any temptation, we and he naively think. Everything changes once he's in the door.
We don't really know: did he slide his figurative wedding band into his pocket before he got drunk, and before the cutie asked for a dance? Maybe he decided, after mocking all the Senators for not reading the 2500-page bills they were voting on, that schmoozing is actually easier than reading. Or maybe he decided corporate handouts to big business weren't so bad if they were well-packaged and disguised as consumer protection.
How one can vote as he did without being some combination of ignorant or lazy or corrupt or self-serving? Conservative talk radio in Boston helped elect Scott Brown, and if the nature of the phone calls I heard last week is any indication, they will try to help un-elect him. But I think they will fail, because this vote was simply part of his next campaign, and it will play very well overall in liberal MA.
There's a perverse honesty at work, as always. If one says he'll stand up for beliefs of the citizens, does he do what merely appears right to them, or what he knows is right but may be less popular because it isn't well understood? That is the whole argument and success of the statists, after all: policy is too complex for dummies, so we experts who know better will take care of everything; as long as we call it reform, take our word, it must be reform. And if statists can deceive themselves they can believe themselves! George Costanza: "Jerry, just remember, it's not a lie if you believe it".
No big deal. Another cheater just got laid. That doesn't mean we give up. Plenty of fish in the ocean, and they all come with expiration dates.
Posted by Obfuscus Nugatus on 7/17/2010 10:25:07 PM
Re: reply from the Daily Bell to Victor Barney
VB: "First, our government totally controls the Internet anyway and always have!"
Moderator: "You have evidence of this?"
Talk to Lila, she knows does some details. AmanFromMars also knows, but it seems to be locked up inside his head and he cannot communicate about it without sounding nugatory. Ask him to speak slowly, maybe a couple of sentences in 1 post.
There are discrete data clearing houses all over the world. every piece of data, be it voice, data, VPN packets, whatever, goes through these data houses, as a "data mirror" of sorts. They monitor, and by inference they control the people that know about it. They also control the people that don't know about it, as they surf the shallow waters, so to speak (fashion, sports, etc,) until they get out of their depth and there is a knock at the door (see China porn controls). For example, did you know "the big agenda" has gone down 4ever?
This transmission was encrypted at both ends as well as the source IP has flipped every few seconds, to make me somewhat invisible, then sent through to your site unencrypted. All it does is obfuscate them. I'm not doing anything bad, that's just the way I roll. We all have many friends.
Oh, and please don't be so hard on those that comment. They have good hearts, otherwise they would not be here. They are on the same page as you, but with different backgrounds. I assume yours is history and economics (public system courses but self taught).
Have a good day, and you guys at "The Dictionary" too!
Reply from the Daily Bell:
OK. So the uploading of global warming emails was a dark ops CIA plot? The WikiLeaks download featuring the US military randomly machine-gunning civilians was a counter-intel coup? Lew Rockwell's various sites which have sparked an Austrian, free-market revolution around the world (further discrediting Keynesiansm) were actually a disinformation campaign sponsored by the Anglo-American elite?
We could go on and on, through hundreds of significant examples that have occurred over the past decade and more. Just because the Internet was in part developed through applications of the military industrial complex does not mean that its entirety and the information on it is "controlled."
To maintain this is to misread how the power elite works in our opinion. It is, in fact, to self-promote one of the most successful of the power elite's dominant social themes, which is that the elite is an all-powerful, magic illuminati, full of mind-controlled demons from which there is no escape, surcease or defense.
But it is not so. The elite, currently, is a small handful of tremendously wealthy families involved in an intergenerational mercantilist conspiracy to consolidate wealth and power via the use of a center "toolkit" created over generations. But the toolkit is limited because it has very obviously been developed in fits and starts, and its applications are often blunt and unimaginative - the elite itself being of variable brilliance and industry.
The elite cannot in fact control technology or its ramifications. What it does, however, constantly, is to "cherry-pick" the best technology (from its viewpoint) and the most brilliant and aggressive symbol manipulators (Gates comes to mind) and seek to either train them from a young age (Rhodes Scholarships etc.) or intimidate and co-opt them.
The constant emphasis on an all-knowing, all-seeing, all powerful elite is simply incorrect. If in fact the Internet was under "control" why are we seeing so many efforts to tame it, reduce its "objectionable" content, etc? In fact, it is because of the paucity of the elite itself and the mercantilist methodologies it has had to adopt. The elite is significantly limited and, historically, has often lost control, but are tactically competent and until now have had for the most part the advantage of invisibility and obfuscation.
Only once in a great while does a technology come along that is so deep and resonant that it ends up attacking the fundaments of its control mechanisms - fear-based promotions. We are living in such an epoch. To downplay it, misidentify it or pretend it is not occurring is to do a disservice to history and to those (not of the power elite) who have helped make it.
Posted by E Schalon on 7/18/2010 12:03:31 AM
Mr Bell, you used something I did not say as a premise to refute what I "supposedly" said! That is not fair. I will not say "uncle" on that one.
Obfuscation is not just in the realm of the proles.
Inferred control is not the same as direct control. Obfuscation, confusion, and ingenuity are the tools of those who want to remain or become free, as well at those that want to maintain control.
You are correct in saying they can't really control anything. But they think they can, and the people believe it, so bingo, they are now controlled. Speed limits anyone?
But, I did not mention CIA plots or WikiLeaks as examples of their successful efforts at control. As an example of lack of control, COP15 failed when the Africans realized the IMF was going to be their loan shark, and there was a G7, 8, 20 (or whatever) inner ring of "have mosts" above the "haves". They realized, with the help of Monckton (The Wonderlord, I might add) they would still be the "have-nots". This was supposed to be the nail in the global carbon coffin on a world currency, so they re-grouped and are now using austerity measures, credit "septic shock" and and mass fiat printing to do it. Now they're playing dirty rather than clean " how ironic.
They cannot control everything, or anything, but they try.
The "medium is the message" in what I said a few minutes ago. I am not scared to speak, and your site is the best one to do that. It is a good site with no bells and whistles.
I shall go on about this data clearing house once more, as it is the sum total of what I previously said (with no claims to anything that actually happens in this world beyond what I previously said and what follows in this text).
The people that run "The Dictionary", for example, use Boolean logic (if, and, not, or) to link key words together. If you generate some peaks, then you are examined closely. Then they go to IPs and specific information on the perp', Much like a bank account where the withdrawals suddenly increase this month and you get a call saying "is everything OK", then they pull your line if you sound desperate or highly strung.
This Boolean logic is too rigid to have any effect except to pick up on the most shallow meanderings into free thought. But it is enough to cause people to tow the line and not speak freely.
But, as you say, all is not lost. We have everything to gain. They cannot put us all in jail. We have human ingenuity at our fingertips. Everywhere I look I see positive progress into getting out of this vicious cycle.
The "Dictionary" has maybe 50,000 English words and possibly another 50,000 acronyms, colloquialisms, or code words, so what is that squared? 1.25 x 10 to the power of 24. 3 words? 1.25 x 10 to the power of 29. Let's search for 4 word combo number 4 quadrillion please? It is like them trying to control the internet with a switch. That's a joke! But people buy it. Get real Mr Overlord. you are getting overloaded! Time to say "uncle".
Reply from the Daily Bell:
Thanks for eloquent clarification.
Posted by AmanfromMars on 7/18/2010 12:16:58 AM
"How about looking to oneself rather than a "leader?"" .... Reply from the Daily Bell.
DB,
As admirable as that sentiment is, it is a fact that without a greater intelligence leading the masses, is there chaos and anarchy. Quite whether one considers that Humanity is led without a greater intelligence, and chaos and anarchy reign but do not rule, is probably that which is constantly discussed and exposed here.
I would posit that a greater intelligence would be Artificial and Advanced and be an Intangible and Omniscient InterNetworking Meme which Alters ones Perception and product places new Ideas into a Stream of Novel Consciousness and Creates a whole New Virtual Reality and Live Operational Virtual Environments ...... which are Browswer Drivered by Virile Viral Worms/Trojans/ZerodDay Exploits.
And Quite Perfect Software Packaged for AIMad Hatters Tea Party?
And DB, on a completely different tangent, have you an Inkling as to why Weeble is not sharing thoughts here? Although one does have to consider that that voice may have assumed another Phorm and Disguise and IDEntity and is still posting here, rather than suffering any malign nobbling, for in the Worlds of Post Modern TeleCommunication are switches from White Hat to Black Hat and All Colours in between, just a conscious choice to match with Ability for Facility away.
As much as it is realised the significant and irreversible change to everything that the Internet and World Wide Webs have wrought and delivered to Humanity, I cannot help but think that that which IT can do and is doing, has still not been realised and prepares to amaze one and all with such a Big Bang as will leave one reeling in incredulous wonderment and astonishing disbelief ........ which one will believe unreservedly with the Holy Trinity of Hearts, Minds and Souls.
Reply from the Daily Bell:
"And DB, on a completely different tangent, have you an Inkling as to why Weeble is not sharing thoughts here?"
We think Weeble is either busy or dispirited.
Posted by AmanfromMars on 7/18/2010 1:39:19 AM
"Only once in a great while does a technology come along that is so deep and resonant that it ends up attacking the fundaments of its control mechanisms – fear-based promotions. We are living in such an epoch. To downplay it, misidentify it or pretend it is not occurring is to do a disservice to history and to those (not of the power elite) who have helped make it." .... Reply from the Daily Bell
Hear, hear. Quite so. And this is one of the subtle, semantic but fundamental changes which old elites have to deal with, and co-opt into their ranks, if they have any desire to remain and play any earthly significance in the future.
Whereas in the Past the following may have been true ...."the elite is an all-powerful, magic illuminati, full of mind-controlled demons from which there is no escape, surcease or defense." .... the Future is Offered, full of mind-controlling angels delivering elite pleasures to All?
And there is an interesting and elevating, eclectic and eccentric gathering of free thinking souls posting on Daily Bell threads, and all with an Apparent Singularity of Greater Good and Better Beta Purpose, which is a NeuReal Power Elitism and SurReal Pragmatism?
Hmmm ... that provides the Establishment with a novel dilemma to embrace and co-opt/purchase and utilise, for any alternative attempt at crass and/or mass intimidation would immediately be shared and result in a disastrous rout and flight of engaged and engaging forces and resources.
"We think Weeble is either busy or dispirited." .... Reply from the Daily Bell.
Let us choose then to think, busy, DB, for I have never been dispirited because of anything which Weeble has shared. And of course, Broadband and Internet Connection can always, at some times, disappear or be interrupted, for any number of good and bad reasons. :-) The magic secret though is to ensure that there are no bad reasons for interruption of Internet Service Provision, and that invariably always means that one always ensures that ones thoughts for action are of Greater Benefit to All. Then can one expect Practical Help and Virtual Assistance from All, and will All be Pleased to Provide IT Practically for Free, with every Cost Covered and Paid for.
Posted by Weeble5432345 on 7/18/2010 1:49:26 AM
No, I am in tip top mental and physical shape, but I am busy at work what with the Greater Depression and all.
Life is too short to let a simple snub from an assumed alter ego named JM Garvey stop me from enjoying myself. At least I left with an analogical bang and not a whimper (Homeopathy 7/7 " Reply to Sally Preston).
I still have a magnetic attraction to this site. I come here for glimpses that there are people actually living out loud on this planet, and for that I am grateful for your continuing efforts, after the article has been digested, to maintain a modicum of control over the style and content of posting, and oft time tremendous successes in precipitating proper drift into beautiful human mental action.
I have learned a lot about writing and blogging in the necessary DB style in the 3 months I spent here; almost to the point of realizing my dream of writing a book someday (maybe Zen and the Art Of Invisible Blogging).
You never know who the person is that comes in, leaves a mark, and goes away. I guess I am trying to say is not to judge a book by its cover, and to probe instead. Did you watch the 6 minute Chinese Amanda video? It was so heartbreaking to hear Amanda speak of the never-born sibling that was not there for her to fight with and wake up with the next day and compromise with (wow, bad grammar or what)?
AmanFromMars seems to think that the bird you shot down, but came back, landed on your shoulder and cooed, was me; but no, I was running on a 17 mile track while eating Toblerones at the time. Definitely not me, uh, uh, no way. I can't write that well!
Analogies are not sophistry, they are a way to understand by using parallels. I am not a witch; I am a friend, that is here to help whenever needed. I just hope you come around to my way of thinking for just 1 minute, and hopefully you stay awhile.
Talk to you soon. Yours Truly
Posted by George Sign on 7/18/2010 3:15:05 AM
Just as a sideline to The Daily Bell's trust in the Internet as an outlet for the "truth" which in some ways it is. Unfortunately I do not think the "elite" are stupid and will have spent considerable sums on Internet blogs subtly slanting the "message" their way. Also, it seems to me, that main stream news outlets "comments" sections are now written by the internal staff and vested interests. In the future the mass of "true" information will be distorted by the elite's army of bloggers. There will be so many versions of a "story" that it will be hard to really know the truth.
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"Unfortunately I do not think the "elite" are stupid and will have spent considerable sums on Internet blogs subtly slanting the "message" their way."
We have spent considerable time making this point, which you have made with admirable clarity. We do not "trust" the Internet, merely make the point (emphatically to be sure) that it has proven an unexpectedly useful tool in presenting a larger conversation that, for the past 100 years, has languished. This is "true."
Posted by AmanfromMars on 7/18/2010 4:57:25 AM
Re: Posted by George Sign on 7/18/2010 3:15:05 AM
One hopes that they, the "elite", are not stupid, and one could would even fully expect them to be much smarter than may be considered "normal". But that is always just a relative subjective appraisal against a base figure which may not be nowadays, for the future, high enough.
And with particular regard to their having fingers in many strange pies and can easily be slanting news and views in blogs, would not the Daily Bell be such a stealthy trojan vehicle, which would be quite smart of them in these interesting times ..... and confirmation that they are anything but stupid.
However, that is not to say that they are outstandingly brilliant and fit for future purpose, although one hopes that they can be, for presently is that little something singularly lacking evidently.
Posted by George Sign on 7/18/2010 5:25:29 AM
As a further note from my previous post I am constantly amazed about the touching faith that certain very intelligent people like Jesse of Cafe Americain and Gene Arensberg of Gotgold have in charts. They say that nice indicators are forming for a surge in Silver and Gold and then find that the price is smashed by JPM. Don't the realise that in a completely rigged market the "elite" watch the same charts and like a spider in it's web wait for the moment to pounce.
Posted by Bull Weeb on 7/18/2010 9:24:45 AM
George Sign is right on the money with respect to the army of self bloggers, but they also trawl the net using "Alexa" type programs, on search and diffuse missions. They have been here, but they went back to checkpoint charlie for a more well-rounded shapeshifter. They have not been back since.
But their army is relatively small and each has only has a mental part picture. The number of blogs is massive, promoting everything from Soupcons of brilliance to nutbars of idiocy (always liked that one!)
Yesterday I surfed. I racked my brain trying to remember Russ Roberts and found him. I had to search the Gorge Mason teacher list! I thank Dr Machan for the "George Mason" mental trigger he cocked. I will return to driving and listening to economics interviews for a while again. I also found Russ' buddy Mike Munger. Mike Munger's blog is a piece of garbage, totally unexpected from such a sharp witted person.
Wordpress and Blogger "easy-up" sites are Cookie Monsters and should be avoided, whether you are generating, consuming or spicing up the particular recipe they are narrowcasting.
So surfing can be dangerous, and the trust you build-up has to be tempered with an equal amount of distrust for Caveat Emptor to be the self healing mechanism used as a catalyst for another foot dip into the waters of Temet Nosche.
If you rewind your mind to the "Apocalypse Now" surfer's lines, you will find how to "live out loud" when the hell fires are flying past your head. Some bombs are friendly fire.
I love the smell of napalm in the morning......smells like......victory! Will this war ever end?
Methinks not without some heavy defoliation.
Posted by Adrian W. on 7/18/2010 10:53:56 AM
Will Mr. Brown be the first to wear his cap-n-t-shirt with all the logos from company sponsors?
Posted by W A Calahan on 7/18/2010 12:01:19 PM
Our political royalty (Federal Government) is living in an unreal world of Washington, DC and has lost contact with the real world of its citizens (voters).
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Posted by Leave Me Be on 7/18/2010 12:23:13 PM
Nicely done DB. Mr. Brown is simply reflecting his character and the cess pool he now frequents. I don't look to him or anyone else in DC (or politician anyplace) to do anything more then make my life more expensive and difficult.
More men and women will need to wake up before things change. The internet is facilitating this process. I suspect much to the dismay of the so-called ruling class
One thing everyone in America can do NOW is learn the basics of law (natural/common law) that informs the organic documents (e.g. Declaration of Independence, Articles of Confederation, US Constitution and the Bill of Rights) and make sure you get on juries.
The internet makes this process much less onerous then it us to be and the knowledge will give you courage. Starve the state by voting to free anyone accused of so-called crimes against the "state" (e.g. taxes, zoning, firearms, etc.). If there is no victim in the jury box or no evidence of a living, breathing victim, you have your answer. Become a trier of fact and of law as is the American way. Deconstruct the "state" on "crime" at at time.
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Thanks. Good suggestions.
Posted by Pat Fields on 7/18/2010 3:26:20 PM
Bull Weeb Cite: "I love the smell of napalm in the morning ... smells like ...victory! Will this war ever end? Methinks not without some heavy defoliation."
Holy Cow! Is that a literary Picaso cubist tapestry, or what?
Actually, I kind'a liked it! It was fun!
Posted by Capt. A. on 7/18/2010 3:27:59 PM
To: The Daily Bell: Your article is another shining example"explicating the continuing degradation not only in America but other worldly venues, as well. Hat tip...
***********
A fox finds it difficult to smell its OWN stench. So too, it is with the summation of the American body politic and its entire government. The nose knows the stink, it is witnessed by the failed American constitutional republic (better know as a "puking-dog democracy"), as it rushes pell-mell to its inevitable conclusion and well-viewed as a ghastly, lamentable experiment represented by more than 230 years"it's growing ever more evident day-by-day, what the real truth is. Other nation-states are not far behind. These nation-state transgressors and their supporters deserve to die a hard death. Ultimately they will. Brother, it's a fascinating watch from afar!
There are those individuals that understand"and those individuals that NEVER will. They, the booboisie just keep voting"in and for their beloved democracies! To paraphrase Bill Bonner, "Sometimes we don't always get what we want ... but we usually get exactly what we deserve!" It's ingratiating, that thing called truth"especially for those individuals that want the truth! The Age of Denial seemingly supplants the truth nowadays. Woe is in the wind. C'est la guerre.
Regards,
Capt. A.
Principaute de Monaco
GMT 2:00 CET
Posted by Wee Bull on 7/18/2010 4:57:23 PM
Thanks Pat Fields, I stop scrolling at your stuff too. Only the last sentence of that clip was mine.
I try to tie in recognizable art themes as parallels to life and my warped perception of it. That way I surprise myself as I write too.
My buddy (who knows who I am, I think), said that my stuff from 40 years ago is a little dated. Like "The Prisoner" thing I did a while ago.
The horror!
Posted by Pat Fields on 7/18/2010 5:25:01 PM
Capt. A. Cite: "The nose knows the stink, it is witnessed by the failed American constitutional republic (better know as a "puking-dog democracy") ..."
Slithering propagandist slugs attempt to conflate the clearly pitiful condition to which our federation has been driven with its rather incomparably magnificent original ideal, so as to despoil earnest efforts of those who seek toward its repair and restoration.
The pox infected shawl placed on Hamilton's shoulders by the quaen's Bank has had its insidious effect, yet our precious organic documents inoculate us enough to struggle on nevertheless! Our Blessed Founders offer out their guiding hands, calling us one by one to span the chasm of insidious deceits! As we gather on that beach-head in growing force, Captain ... In God We Trust, Our Enemies We'll Crush!
A stench, you say, portends woe in the wind? I say this flatulence is carried aloft upon an easterly flow from ... Monaco! Aye Captain, Monaco, indeed!
Posted by Robert on 7/18/2010 6:19:52 PM
We clear thinking people thought that in Scott Brown we we finally putting to the socialists. But apparently not--Scott Brown is a major disappointment by letting the Massachusetts Democrats and their ilk buy him. For him to vote for a massive, largely redundant bill that has a lot of hidden facets for additional control of the electorate is unconscionable. Didn't he read the legislation? For example, it requires every financial institution of every kind to hire more minorities and for every business that provides any kind of service whatsoever to any financial institution to also succumb to this "diversity" crap.
Posted by Pat Fields on 7/18/2010 6:26:03 PM
Capt. A. Cite: "The nose knows the stink, it is witnessed by the failed American constitutional republic (better know as a "puking-dog democracy") ..."
Slithering propagandist slugs attempt to conflate the clearly pitiful condition to which our federation has been driven with its rather incomparably magnificent original ideal, so as to despoil earnest efforts of those who seek toward its repair and restoration.
The pox infected shawl placed on Hamilton's shoulders by the quaen's Bank has had its insidious effect, yet our precious organic documents inoculate us enough to struggle on nevertheless! Our Blessed Founders offer out their guiding hands, calling us one by one to span the chasm of insidious deceits! As we gather on that beach-head in growing force, Captain ... In God We Trust, Our Enemies We'll Crush!
A stench, you say, portends woe in the wind? I say this flatulence is carried aloft upon an easterly flow ... from Monaco! Aye Captain, Monaco, indeed!
Posted by W-e-e-b-l-e on 7/18/2010 8:44:02 PM
I was wondering who was going to take the Dodgey Monaco to task.
Last week's post was running on all 8, but I suspected nitrous. Today's dwell angle and mixture was slightly off causing ping. I knew it was suffering a stuck vacuum advance when smoke blew out the rear end during the words "Bill Bonner". As with all North American vehicles from that bygone era, it does a great 1/4 mile, but has trouble on the corners.
Nice try though, what year is your North American Land Yacht, Mr A Team?
Posted by Wee-b-l-e on 7/18/2010 9:18:38 PM
As usual, I am pulling a Columbo move.
Here's a visual on what I think Capt A looks like:
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But now to get to the article of the day, to acknowledge DB's keen sense of smell.
I have said it before and I will say it again, anyone (except Ron Paul) that goes into public office is only thinking of him or herself. Sure, they always tell you what you want to hear before entry, but once elected, they follow the same scent trail.
Getting back to Columbo (played by Peter Falk). Since I am really old, I figured I would throw up a link so you would have a few chunks of information on him.
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Columbo was a great detective show from the 70s. One of his trademarks was to return after he left. (I do that too). When you follow the link, you will notice his favorite person was Patrick MacGoohan! And there is also a great link after you get there to Mad Magazine parodies of his show.
Really funny. Way funnier than Scott Brown's parody of a leader.
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Weeble, this post is well written, though allusive. The other post was simply ELUSIVE.
Posted by Weeble on 7/18/2010 11:33:01 PM
You make me look up words in the dictionary every day. This is great! I dust off my vocabulary storage neuron receptors and guess if I'm right using my Word "Research" to its fullest.
I assumed that dodgey (UK slang) was close to Dodge, and that Captain A was from the USA (since he revealed it in his wording). Monaco was a model of theirs way back. Hence Dodge Monaco.
The tekkie terms are a blast from the past. Now, if something is wrong with your vehicle, you stare at your credit card to see what is wrong.
Since you are from Switzerland, the only North American cars that were were driven there were Mustangs, and maybe the occasional Corvette or Cadillac, from what I remember from the old days.
Marc Bolan (T-Rex singer) slammed his Mustang into a ?tree? in the UK in 1977, and died. Too bad, because he was right up there with David Bowie in my books.
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Old 50s, 60s, early to mid 70s North American cars handled terribly, but they took off like a rocket from a standing start. We call these old monsters "North American Land Yachts". Captain A probably pilots one on his many seafaring exploits.
PS: The best thing about the internet is that pretty well anything is just a click away. You just need to know what to look for. I now throw up a few links to take people where I went. (e.g. [ixquick] marc bolan mustang dead). That is, if they don't scroll past me. This is a free world, as you know (if you believe it).
Posted by Weeble on 7/18/2010 11:48:23 PM
Completely unrelated, but interesting nonetheless.
Yesterday, while surfing, I happened across a cuneiform inscription in the "Liberty Fund" logo. It is the earliest-known written appearance of the word "freedom" (amagi), or "liberty." It is taken from a clay document written about 2300 B.C. in the Sumerian city-state of Lagash.
It was a thriving city state, and seemed to be a little like Athens. I clicked away and found that around the time that the word "freedom" was invented, Lagash had been conquered by the Akkadians. (They got it back later).
I thought that the only time people talk about freedom, is when they have lost it. When they have it, they do not seem to value it.
My next quest is to prove myself wrong.
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Posted by AmanfromMars on 7/19/2010 1:59:03 AM
"My next quest is to prove myself wrong." .... Posted by Weeble on 7/18/2010 11:48:23 PM
Ah yes, the journey which all have taken to reveal the power of dreams with their controls in the reality of a parallel world inhabiting and cohabiting with madness for sanity.
And with proof positive of no wrong, extraordinarily rendering to one a blank canvas on which to paint the Future with Viable Shared Imagination, which nowadays, in InterNetworking Meme Mode, is just a Viral Injection of XSSive CodeXXXX, aka Spilled Cocoa and Java Beans .... for Networks InterNetworking Joint Applications. .... Spooky NINJAs
And Proper Preparation and Planning Prevents Piss Poor Performance Permitting Profound Progress in Principled Principal Protocols, Programs and Projects with a Sane Disregard of Undue Haste, for in Time has there always been Infinite Space in which to Work, Rest and Play at One's Pleasures in Leisure .... and Vice Versa.
Who thinks all of this is Leading to a Blockbuster Movie Franchise starring the King of Ponzi Systems, in a Tale of its Own Collapse and Virtual Rise in a Completely Different Form in Foreign and Alien Hands and Lands .... which would be a Very Sophisticated AIMakeOver and TakeOver of the Global Banking System with ZerodDay Vulnerability Exploitation Leading and Following IT with Danegeld Warrior Heroes?
A novel quest is to prove it right with no one wronged. You can do IT if ICANN.
Posted by Capt. A. on 7/19/2010 1:16:17 PM
To: Pat Fields, 7/18/2010 6:26:03 PM
My good chap if you are an American living in the States or not, you've projected a swarthier comment, considerably less honest or righteous than even than that of the infamous sallow jowled, "We do not torture" George W. Bush, or "No tax increase on the middle class" Obama, et al. Keep voting till you get it right!
If you are an American living in the United States, it's understandable that you might take offence at truthful criticism or comment possibly meant to allay the forthcoming increase of the political truncheon of "fascialism" (DiLorenzo) that is laying waste to a somewhat once prideful, productive nation—built on Teddy R.'s ideal of the once rugged American "individualist." (Only) The collective reigns now big boy! But you already know this ... don't you? Tell the IRS you "ain't" gonna pay your stinkin taxes—and see what happens to you... [Irwin Schiff] The Big Bamboo! As for Monaco, you know not of what you speak, winds aloft or otherwise.
There is a very good reason why "price" segregates. Even the condescending attitude greatly attributed to the scrofulous Ugly American continues to thrive today, as ill-wind fates the once great nation. Having stayed for more than forty-five years in the States and thirty-plus years in Monaco and other equal venues, I say without doubt, your comment proves you lack understanding, possessing a thought resting on mere whim of the "east wind" you indicated, a meteorological non-fact of thermal Atlantic air currents at given latitudes, and then so desperately assigning in this case the fallacious term, "flatulence"! Did this flow through the emunctory channel of your housed brain? Is it that you might think you truly know a scintilla about Monaco or Monacans (not the native American tribe from Virginia), or its history, etc.? Poppycock!
However, the current revelation that the greatest prison system in the world resides in America with the ever-growing cloaked-in-black police forces readying their tasers, truncheons and other armament necessary to teach an unforgettable lesson, you can only WISH that you lived in a place of this stature, Monaco. Being less than 200-hectares in size Monaco is occupied by individuals of considerable earned wealth who have created real value, not the warfare and welfare system "value" of big A today. (And yes, the majority of Europe I must say, stench and all, and the world at large is a seething redistributive bed of collectivism ‒ sans Monaco and other mentioned venues.) I'm sure you and/or other gun-totting realists will "make your day(s)" relevant in the upcoming future. As for the rest of Europe at this time, hopefully minus Switzerland, Campione (An Italian sovereign enclave wholly within Switzerland [Ticino]) and a few other selected venues, that hell might be the meeting place for politicians and bureaucrats that nevertheless will continue running the "prison systems" called governments, unfailing, as the lash is flailed and the yoke is shouldered, and the elite continue spewing their statist propaganda to the plundered, subjugated tax slaves! My, my, my... And last, but not least on the light-side ... to be an American citizen or other, denied the pleasures of life, freedom to choose and Freedom of smoking a fine Cuban Cohiba cigar or whatever and diminishing, continuously curtailed liberties ... now that's a place to be FROM! Tell U.S. Customs or the TSA pogues otherwise ... and see what happens to you—in America. Puke!
C'est la guerre and tut-tut!
Good day, from a graceful place on the Mediterranean Sea, where price segregates, as it should.
Capt. A.
Principaute de Monaco
GMT 2:00 CET
Posted by AmanfromMars on 7/19/2010 3:01:39 PM
Capt. A.,
Considerable wealth is very rarely ever earned and usually just purloined. And the shame and the waste is the lack of intelligence in the holders being unable to spend it wisely for the greater benefit of all, preferring so usually as they do, to pretend they are worth it, when so obviously would it be otherwise.
That is not to say that there are not laudable exceptions but normally does great wealth rob a being of humanity and render a toy and a puppet for systemic abuse.
And pray tell what Monaco provides, that makes one so proud. Anything unique which cannot be purchased elsewhere for thirty pieces of silver?
Posted by Capt. A. on 7/19/2010 5:40:07 PM
To: AmanfromMars, comment on 7/19/2010 3:01:39 PM
Thanks for your comment.
You state, "Considerable wealth is very rarely ever earned and usually just purloined." You are absolutely correct! The very BEST examples of purloined wealth is rendered under the noted term: exaction or taxes; THEFT by force, fraud and coercion via the barrel of the States' guns! So your statement is a prime example of what defines the State and government! I can't argue with you AmanfromMars. Incontrovertible. However, neighbors have learned to vote... To use the government gun to extract unearned wealth and fortune"and brother, once they get the knack, it's non-stop voting! Not in Monaco. The "stench" is immutable!
That's one good reason why places such as Monaco exist. There are many other reasons that you might discover if you care to Google or Wiki, "Monaco." Lack of taxes, welfare, and warfare ... ad nauseam, an enemy hidden under every rock, all creates an indelible reason for places like Monaco, et al. Even Richard Nixon understood this"even the "crook" that he was! And yet honest individuals who refuse to submit"will find places to place investment capital. Should governments press too hard, capital will simply disappear. History provides all the truth necessary to back my position on this issue. In other words, only two real good things that a sane individual need to remember: Keep you hands to yourself (except self-defense) and the biggie: Mind your OWN business! Simple as that... Welcome to Monaco! It "provides" much!
Take, for instance, Roger Moore,(007!) Shirley Bassey, Ringo Starr, Karen Mulder, Eva Herzigova, the race drivers Jacques Villeneuve, David Coulthard, Jenson Button... Monacans. Lawfully earned wealth. There are many more individuals with a vast range of wealth ranging from a million to many billions of euros, dollars etc., that live, reside or stay in Monaco. Monaco could be thought of as a sanctuary. A sanctuary or "safe house" that exists to provide, "freedom, liberty, privacy (both financial and personal) as well as private property, and sanctity of contract.
The State, any State with minor exception DOES NOT provide these attributes either in part or whole. Since the State is nothing more than force and coercion, violation of the attributes mentioned above give cause for minor bastions to protect one's wealth from the vicious, greedy political thugs and bureaucratic culprits that history shows, occur at the point of a gun barrel. Do you think I'm kidding? Capisce? The "greater benefit of all" as you allude to takes place in a free (rare) market place where a buyer and seller are "free" to engage and contract. Sound simple huh? This of course does NOT happen in a State controlled atmosphere, as I have witnessed in business for more than 60-years, throughout the world in which I have traveled and contracted. This has been dealt with at length over the ages: always a third hand in your pocket! Always.
Wealth, real or otherwise"is relative and subjective. Protecting it is objective and real. The cited individuals above did not gain their wealth by plundering others. As with many, many others that favor Monaco, redistribution of wealth or providing government pelf through force and coercion via the "vote" of the majority does not sit well with creative, innovative individuals, especially individuals that failed to drink the "Kool Aid," enveloped in government propaganda and tribal inculcation. Understanding that last sentence reveals a great deal about the "collective" and the "individual." I could go on but it's time to get off the computer and enjoy the significant view from my balcony, a spectacular evening I might add. Again, thank you for taking time to comment.
Regards,
Capt. A.
Principaute de Monaco
GMT 2:00 CET
Posted by Bruce on 7/20/2010 12:14:48 AM
@ Capt. A.
Your comment is one of the many reasons I love reading the Daily Bell. I get information from many diverse parties with first hand experience, broadening my perspective of the world and what makes it work.
Posted by AmanfromMars on 7/20/2010 6:52:06 AM
You can be assured, Capt. A., that I am a big Monaco fan and thanks for sharing the fantastic view.
It is a valuable model which could be exported to anywhere nowadays, for there is certainly the technology to do it effortlessly and securely.
Indeed, many would ponder and proffer that the Swiss are also as well blessed, albeit in a slightly different style.
Posted by Capt. A. on 7/20/2010 9:01:18 AM
@ Bruce on 7/20/2010 12:14:48 AM
@ AmanfromMars on 7/20/2010 6:52:06 AM
To both of you, thanks for your comments. It is always a pleasure to find individuals who exhibit "situational awareness" to the environment they live in. I trust that my messages fall before eyes that will perceive the importance and ACT on that importance if they truly seek true freedom, liberty and privacy etc.
You only have one life to live. Why not favor individualism/responsibility for that life and enjoy it to the fullest? To disassociate from the bunny-sucking collective in these times takes a significant degree of courage-fortitude. It can be done. It's not so much "hard work," as it is "smart work." The Internet is a valuable tool that can gather the info to ... set you free. Use it!
The best to you both...
Regards,
Capt. A.
Principaute de Monaco
GMT 2:00 CET
Posted by Inspr44 on 7/20/2010 11:05:39 AM
I enjoyed the analysis contained in this article. Perhaps, as well, a broader dynamic is in play. Histories of civilization suggests that "vacuum" will be filled " but with what. We have an ever more chaotic interplay and higher levels of frustration by competing interests at all levels, including the fundamental, the philosophical level. In MHO, this does not bode well, unless resolved in a non-violent, civil manner, else we have those disruptive histories of man-kind to turn to as examples of less than civil outcomes " Nazism, Marxism, etc. that did not bode well for free peoples.
The pursuit of ultimate government power by a minority requires coalitions, and those coalitions typically do not have interests of the people, unless selectively, in mind. We see this divisiveness agenda as a central component of major political parties, which ultimately, diminishes understanding by the masses of what we are striving for as common interests. The Internet provides the representation of those views, but so far, has not brought us together in a sufficient way to "vote" for our common interests, or interests that all can agree upon are central to our survival as the US of A.
Posted by Tom Clayton on 7/20/2010 11:35:24 AM
I agree with the entire premise of this article. Less government, regulation, war, financial manipulation, and taxes should be the battle of all Americans. Washington, both parties, is out of control and does not represent the people anymore. They seek only to line their own pockets and get reelected. Term limits is a totally unrealistic dream but would, in my opinion, solve our problems in Congress.
There is no military answer to a political problem in Afganistan or any other country. The US lacks the political will to win that war and is sacrificing the blood of our servicemen and women for a political agenda. I say bring them home, it's Vietnam all over again and the only way out is the same as Vietnam, turn and run.
Posted by Philip Johnson on 7/22/2010 8:02:25 PM
Hear, hear. While I fully agree with your conclusions relative to the impact of the Gutenberg press,I am unsure of placing the internet in that vaulted company. I have been personally heavily involved from the very early days of the internet and saw early on what it's potential could be over time. It has changed our lives in many,many ways, much of them positive, and frankly the changes are still in their infancy.
The internet has allowed any and all Americans a voice (and others, there are some 10 to 15,ooo radical Islamic sites as well " based on American servers), fact-checking can be done fairly simply if you look to trusted sites, and political speech and news has innumerable venues available.
That said, we have only to look to the last elections and the mainstream media's reporting " or to today's headlines regarding the Journolist to see what most American's are seeing and basing their decisions on. There is precious little journalism going on these days, except on the internet.
And I'm sorry, but my view is that while the majority of the country has access to the internet, they are not, by and large, getting their political news there. They are more often than not finding out the latest about Lindsay Lohan or visiting Facebook.
You are correct that this administration (and others before, though to lesser degrees)is totally ignoring the people's will. There is an ideology and a plan to remake this country and this administration is hard at work to implement that plan before everyone else wakes up and sees that our country is already gone. The lies, deceptions, and diversions keep coming on a daily basis, as do the new government regulations, controls and unconstitutional legislation.
Perhaps we should be happy that Mr. Obama was elected as the whittling away of our freedoms, bit by bit, went almost unnoticed by the people, but the onslaught over the past few years has been like the bull through a crystal shop, awakening many good citizens.
I still fear that many will think these moves are only misguided policies rather than realizing that this is a well coordinated and capitalized effort to turn this country (and others) into their socialist/communist utopia. We have much to fear from these people and their tactics. If only the public schools would replace their "Story of Stuff" or "An Inconvenient Truth" with reading the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Road to Serfdom, Alinsky's Rules for Radicals (oops, I forgot, that is at least on the teacher's recommended list by the NEA), or the Weather Underground's Manifesto, perhaps our eyes would be permanently opened and we would choose to do what it takes to defend our Constitution, this great country, and our way of life " namely Liberty!
We are in a world of hurt right now. And if each of us don't spread our wings " and our thoughts " to all of those we touch, the freedom to do even that will soon be a memory.
If it is to be, it is up to me.
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