tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-46407344148450529532024-02-20T17:45:40.724-08:00The Pragmatic Anarchist<center><b>There is no government like no government</b></center>
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Brian Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13228290862561650691noreply@blogger.comBlogger105125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4640734414845052953.post-33163465286698838322021-10-29T04:46:00.001-07:002021-10-29T04:52:12.489-07:00A Short FB Exchange De Per<br />something Machiavelli points out repeatedly Discourses is that liberty actually works very well, both for the ruled and the rulers, men just don't believe that, and cowardly choose tyranny, with terrible results.<br /><br />Tyrants are regularly slain. Just rulers tend to live quite a long time and produce great results. You just have to show the courage to accept and acknowledge there are things you can and shouldn't control.<br /><br /> Reply<br /><br />Brian Wilson<br /><br /><<liberty actually works very well, both for the ruled and the rulers>> <div><br /></div><div>Kinda oxymoronic, isn't it? Those 'ruled' only receive the 'liberty' the 'rulers' pemit- and they 'permit' it thru Force which negates Liberty.<br /><br /><br /><<...show the courage to accept and acknowledge there are things you can't and shouldn't control. >> </div><div><br /></div><div>Those are my decisions to make - or not - as a Free Individual enjoying Liberty, not forced upon me by the subjective standards of an imposed tyrant, good or bad. It doesn't take 'courage' to be a slave.</div><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>Brian Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13228290862561650691noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4640734414845052953.post-88727710821759581712021-10-16T11:11:00.000-07:002021-10-16T11:11:30.080-07:00CP+MSM=T<br />CP+MSM=T <br /><br />Say there, Friend…have you been searching for an answer to ‘What the hell is going on?’ Do you find yourself saying repeatedly “This doesn’t make any sense!” Or using ‘WTF?’ in your business letters and Mother’s Day cards? Understanding the simple formula above can solve the problem. <br /><br />CP stands for the Cloward-Piven Strategy, a 1966 political concept conceived by two American sociologists, Richard Cloward and Frances Piven (who also led an active activist life moonlighting from their gig at Columbia U.). The idea was based on their belief lotsa folks eligible for Welfare bennies weren’t getting their spot at the public-provided trough. To resolve that tragedy, they needed to foment a sign-up campaign so large, the sheer numbers would blow the doors off the administrating agencies, creating a crisis so big, it would shake awake the DC bureaucrats and emotionally driven Democrats, always sensitive to trading Boo-Hoos and Temper Fits for votes, government expansion, involvement, and dependency. <br /><br />Being 1966, with the Ds in charge of everything, this was like mainlining catnip to Tabby! <br /><br />Cloward-Piven “proposed to create a crisis in the current welfare system – by exploiting the gap between welfare law and practice – that would ultimately bring about its collapse and replace it with a system of guaranteed annual income. They hoped to accomplish this end by informing the poor of their rights to welfare assistance, encouraging them to apply for benefits and, in effect, overloading an already overburdened bureaucracy.” – <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Road_Not_Taken/cCHLa6mBmj8C?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=the+road+not+taken&printsec=frontcover">Michael Reisch, “The Road Not Taken</a>” <br /><br /> ‘Cloward-Piven’ became so popular in its simplicity and effectiveness, it morphed into a cliché. Its successful application is evidenced by the volume of mind-numbing issues cascading over News consumers.’ Consider the permanent ‘COVID’ pandemic, vaccines, ‘variants’, mandates, the Afghanistan debacle, China, Russia, the southern border invasion of illegal immigrants, murders, riots, the economy, weak US labor data, inflation, recession, rising taxation, economic populism, collapsing supply chains, shortages and delays, soaring energy and food prices, CRT, public schools, social media censorship and the drumbeat of more appalling laws and regulations being schemed in the backrooms of Washington – everything happening concurrently. Who can comprehend it? <br /><br />You can’t. <br /><br />That’s the goal of the Cloward-Piven Strategy: Overwhelm to Overthrow. <br /><br />Comprehension is not required. <br /><br />The popular abbreviation, MSM (Main Stream Media), represents the necessary partner with those administrating the C-P Strategy. One could argue overwhelming government agencies commandeering the burgeoning Welfare State would have been accomplished eventually with typical political hubris, the unrelenting tenacity of Democrats, and vanishing principles of Republicans. However, that would have consumed more time than the Elite’s Timekeepers could allow. The surprise election of Donald Trump ignited such panic within the Deep State, Swamp Things had to turbocharge their implementation of CP+MSM=T, an understatement easily supported by a pantload of yellow journalism.<br /><br />When combined, C-P + MSM manifest the unholy matrimony between the political entities administering the C-P strategy and public conditioning by a weaponized MSM; to inundate an ignorant and apathetic populace with a perpetual torrent of incomprehensible disinformation and outright lies. Thanks to Alt Media, the Public gradually caught on to many of the lies, smears, and ‘fake news’ tactics but by then, the damage was done. Perpetrators, ‘empowered’ by the ease with which they pulled off their coup, were already on to bigger and badder things. ‘Disrupting’ and ‘overwhelming’ programs, policies and a Presidential election became mere playthings; the entire concept of America, a Constitutionally-Limited Government instituted to protect the inalienable Rights of Citizens was “oh-so-1776!”! It must be transformed. <br /><br />The events of just the last 12 months are sufficient to understand the “ T” in our formula. <br /><br />Tyranny. While the “T” word still gets derisive scoffs and snorts among the Raised Pinky set of the 99%, Liberal/Progressives policies championed by controlling Dems and marketed by their PR agencies embedded in the MSM, are eagerly marching the country down the one-way highway to Tyranny, the elimination of Freedom, to the point of not just ‘ruling’, but ‘owning’ us. <br /><br />Resistance thus far has been sadly underwhelming. <br /><br />Official Knee-Jerk Responses to public revelations of this campaign - “Unacceptable!”, “Outrageous!”, “Unconstitutional!”, “UnAmerican!” – are transparent expressions of defeat, not the full-throated retaliation required. Where is the battle plan with specific recommendations for a counter-attack to defend and preserve the Republic? While there may be some cynically accurate answers, defeating the Cloward-Piven Strategy requires an equal and opposite reaction with identical operating principles and goals: a passionate, overwhelming and consistent response that nullifies the anti-freedom programs and policies incrementally established for the last 100 years. <br /><br />All that’s needed is solving for X in L = X where L is Leadership and X is Who? <br /><br />Brian Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13228290862561650691noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4640734414845052953.post-31511817044665929762021-09-07T19:05:00.001-07:002021-09-07T19:05:32.530-07:00God, Nature, and Life - Reconciled<br /><br /> My Dear Doctor,<br /><br />Like you, I believe in a higher power, but, unlike yours, mine is not a kind fatherly one.<br /><br />It is Nature, who with all its forces, beauties and necessary evils, rules our destinies according to its own irrevocable laws. I can love that power for the beauty it has brought into the world, and admire it for the strength that makes us understand how futile and useless it would be to appeal to it in prayer.<br /><br />But towards a kind and fatherly God, who, being almighty, prefers to leave us in misery, when by his mere wish he could obtain the same end without so much suffering, I feel a great revolt and bitterness.<br /><br />Nature makes us know that it cannot take into individual consideration the atoms we are, and for her I have no blame; no more than I could think of blaming you for having during your walks stepped on and killed many a worm (it was a pity the worm happened to be under your foot); but if during these walks your eyes were resting on the beauties of skies and trees, or your mind was solving some difficult problem, was that not a nobler occupation than had you walked eyes downwards, intent only on not killing.<br /><br />I think that Nature is striving towards perfection and that each human being has the duty to help towards it by making his life a fit example for others and by awaking ideals which will be more nearly approached by coming generations.<br /><br />In this way life itself offers enough explanation for living; and believing our existence to finish with death, we naturally make the most of our opportunities…<br /><br />Unable to appeal to a God for help, we find ourselves dependent only on our own strong will — not to overcome misfortune, but to try to bear it as bravely as possible. Religion having for an end the more perfect and moral condition of humanity, I truly think that these ideas are as religious as any dogmatic ones.<br /><br />…from <a href="https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/1911072358/ref=ox_sc_mini_detail?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=AHNEEZ9CVAP3Q">Words In Pain: Letters on Life and Death by Olga Jacoby</a>Brian Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13228290862561650691noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4640734414845052953.post-23627124383710698552021-08-16T03:51:00.002-07:002021-08-16T03:51:52.974-07:00On 'World Leaders' and Other 'Experts"<span style="font-family: arial;"><br /><br /> It is too easy to see them as incompetents. It is too forgiving to see them as incompetents. It is itself incompetent to think that they are incompetent.</span><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br />Because their competence was never lent to the aims that they pronounced. It never is. Should we have ever thought that the claimed aim was the real aim? What made us think that? Is it the lies they have told a million times, that made us think that their claimed aims were real? Is it the dishonesty we know is in their hearts and in every fiber of their being that made us say, ‘yes, this aim is true? <br /><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Nation-building. It’s not what they do.They are not builders. They are parasites. They are not idealists. They are liars. They are not experts. They are self enrichers. <br /><br />Think about it. For 20 years the foreign policy experts, the Pentagon experts, the talking heads, the academics, the tenured Professors of Islamic Studies, Foreign Policy and Middle Eastern Politics, the CIA Directors, the policy unit directors, the think tank founders, and the Ted Talk specialists, have got it wrong. Every foreign policy blunder of a US government, or of a British government, or of a world order trotting obediently in the directions given in pious speeches from one talking head to another, have got it wrong. <br /><br />All of the experts got it wrong on Israel and the Palestinians, for decade after decade. Only the first person to ignore the experts crafted the Abraham Accords. Only the President called a fool by every expert around scored a significant foreign policy triumph. Only Trump did that. Only Trump secured energy independence, limited the power of Islamic States, saw ISIS territory shrink to nothing, got Islamic nations signing peace accords with Israel, got North Korea to the negotiating table, slowed and controlled Iranian aggression, confronted the reality of Chinese imperialism and growing power, returned jobs back to the US.....by ignoring the experts. <br /><br /><br />Biden is the puppet of the experts, as his prior master Obama was the darling of the experts. The media won’t ever call either of them a fool. But Obama created ISIS. Obama and Biden and Hillary gave us Benghazi. Bush Senior and Bush Junior also listened to the experts. What did these respectable Presidents forge? A playground for extremists at home and abroad. Hundreds of thousands of corpses. Nations shattered. That’s what the ‘nation builders’ did. Bombing, bombing, and more bombing. Terrorists created, encouraged, and funded. From Osama to al-Baghdadi. How many terrorists were at one time or another on the payroll of the CIA? This isn’t a conspiracy theory. It is hard-nosed pragmatic assessment. <br /><br /><br />The trillions of dollars spent in Afghanistan were not lost in the sands and thrown from the mountainsides. They were spent on contracts that went to corporations and individuals. This was their actual purpose. They were not spent to build democracy, or save Afghanistan from the Taliban, or bring bikinis and beach volleyball, and McDonald's to Kabul. They didn’t build roads and factories and schools and hospitals and a better life to show the long-bearded child abusers the wonders of a western way. Where has that money gone? Into the pockets of the arms dealers, the arms manufacturers, the salesmen, the ever-hungry corporations, the security firms, the consultancies, the think tanks, the Pentagon Generals....<br /><br /><br />In other words, to the people who are the experts who advocated the policies that spent the money and praised the politicians who signed the cheques. The right hand signs the cheque and the left hand claps the signing of cheques. <br /><br /><br />That’s what every failed policy was actually for. That’s what they were experts in. Not winning wars. Being paid to conduct a war, regardless of whether they win. Diverting trillions of dollars from the US taxpayer to the right people. To the policy formers. Just as the Biden multi-trillion dollar policy platforms on other things are pure graft. The coronavirus measures, or the green measures (as these will be in the U.K., too). The crisis is the excuse, the necessary excuse, for the corruption. <br /><br /><br />Coronavirus just took this successful model by which the ruling class of the West asset strip their own nations in the name of protecting those nations, and applied it to the excuse of a virus instead of the excuse of war. It was a model designed by the US foreign policy experts and used pretty much continuously since the end of WWII. <br /><br /><br />Afghanistan isn’t incompetence. It’s graft. Very competent graft. Very successful graft. Realize that the aim was turning on the money tap, dancing beneath its fountain of money for 20 years, profiting enormously for no return, and getting away with it. Nation-building or the war against terror was the sales patter for the rubes and hicks the money was being stolen from.<br /></span><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">- h/tBartholomew Chiaroscuro</div></div>Brian Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13228290862561650691noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4640734414845052953.post-64871821797049885862021-08-09T14:43:00.005-07:002021-08-16T03:54:12.586-07:00Valuable Intel<p> OK - it's only been 4 years +/- since my last (more on that later) but considering the status of the world, America and, no doubt, your state/town/neighborhood, let me strongly suggest you spend the next few minutes <a href="https://hancockcountypatriots.blogspot.com/2021/08/dr-dan-stocks-presentation-to-mt-vernon.html?fbclid=IwAR3kshCgXbwGk-b4Ju7yDoJSaetBF1zxU_BbVx-_6tZ_soscp0G72BF-NLs">watching this.</a></p><p>BW</p><p><br /></p>Brian Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13228290862561650691noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4640734414845052953.post-13073794535409137502017-06-27T13:52:00.000-07:002017-06-27T13:52:07.355-07:00Fish Are The Last To Notice The WaterBy now it should be obvious to the people of the West that they’re being held in a primitive bondage. And fortunately, more eyes are opening to this than ever before.<br /><br />But still, most people are so used to this particular “water” and have so long acclimated themselves to it, that they haven’t recognized it. There’s nothing inherently wrong with most of these people; they just haven’t stepped back far enough to see the obvious.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.freemansperspective.com/fish-last-notice-water/">More here</a> Brian Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13228290862561650691noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4640734414845052953.post-3182282416861366172017-05-08T06:57:00.003-07:002021-08-16T03:58:12.478-07:00Quote Without Comment<span face=""Trebuchet MS", sans-serif">"My take on the "political morass" - actually "political more ass"?</span><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;" /><span face=""Trebuchet MS", sans-serif">Redundant. Predictable. Anathema to Liberty and Freedom. There is no area of human existence that is not in irreversible decline - except for those who never progressed past the Crusades anyway. </span><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;" /><span face=""Trebuchet MS", sans-serif">The end of Western civilization as we know it is beyond salvage. Just as the laws of physics cannot be denied indefinitely, the laws of economics, human nature, and political corruption will continue until some final cataclysmic event resets the clock of human endeavor. Only this time, with the escalation of human ingenuity, we as a species have managed to progress to the point of guaranteeing our own eternal destruction. Even if such an event is avoided, the universal epidemics of aggressive ignorance, contagious apathy, and instant gratification will ensure a standard of living rivaling that of the Neanderthal - minus the unattractive skeletal manifestations.</span><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;" /><span face=""Trebuchet MS", sans-serif">Downer? You betcha. Yet everything to the contrary is a masturbatory fantasy to keep one distracted enough to become irretrievably lost to the reality of the times. I'm up for worthy fact-based contradictions as long as they don't rely on the Old Man In The Clouds "have faith and ye shall be saved" mythology wherein one must live in perpetual hope of some Paradise that cannot be realized until one dies. Only then do you get to see what's really behind Door </span>#3.<br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;" /><span face=""Trebuchet MS", sans-serif">Cynical? Could be - if I'm wrong; prescient if I'm correct. Frankly, I don't really give a damn either way. "On a long enough timeline, we're all dead" so the rest is just a bottomless debate. Choose not to participate and you wind up on the same side as the Winners. Or Losers.</span><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;" /><span face=""Trebuchet MS", sans-serif">Against this background, you might be able to appreciate my "take" on things "political" is agnostic. I can and do write, speak and argue points far more ethereal to get a paycheck for providing some small measure of intellectual entertainment - or aggravation - as the case may be. What the audience does when the show is over or the article is finished is irrelevant to me. Like it, hate it or something in-between. Ultimately we are individually responsible for what we know as well as what we decide and what we do. Or don't do. At bottom, everything else is a peeled balloon."</span><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;" /><span face=""Trebuchet MS", sans-serif">- A. Nonny Mouse</span>Brian Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13228290862561650691noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4640734414845052953.post-55267737661228038682017-05-02T01:05:00.000-07:002017-05-02T01:05:26.684-07:00About Anarchists<img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1CtOgTIN4enq71BvG8MxUO0dCcGTRzyK2hh6gnmzebTlCPaqQLxZiVXVa2UvGZQQEzNnLhXcKM6bm2T6EToTfXEdCe8NmXoOagstl_LK7O9jfGJnN9XNeOoftDLxzsiMcvccMOF267yUA/s640/msg.jpg" />Brian Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13228290862561650691noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4640734414845052953.post-56754203447220285362017-02-25T20:10:00.000-08:002017-02-25T20:35:21.446-08:00 Secession? Why not?<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /> Noticed a spike in the topic of “secession” lately? Why the sudden interest, especially from Big Government types on the Left? Chalk it up to the hissy fits ricocheting around the country, a result of Donald Trump’s surprise election. Since political options for the Losers are mostly limited to chanting old '60's slogans and "slow walking" the Trump agenda, secession has become the new hot buzzword. California, the state that gave us the Pet Rock, Hula-Hoop and Charles Manson, is leading the way with websites, petitions and big plans to get a referendum on the state ballot ASAP. Current polling has the support of one in three.<br /><br /><br />Maybe - just maybe - they have the right idea. Lew Rockwell, Founder/CEO of the Mises Institute, discusses <a href="https://www.lewrockwell.com/2017/02/lew-rockwell/break-usa/">Break Up the USA</a> with Brian Wilson on this episode of Judging Freedom.</span><br />
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Brian Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13228290862561650691noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4640734414845052953.post-43187376625992838852017-01-27T20:27:00.000-08:002017-01-27T20:27:38.122-08:00Open Letter<br />Dear Statist,<br /><br />If you have an opinion about music that differs from mine, I don't really care. I can ignore the difference and get along with you just fine.<br /><br />If you have an opinion about evolution that differs from mine, I don't really care. I can ignore the difference and get along with you just fine.<br /><br /><br />If you have an opinion about style that differs from mine, I don't really care. I can ignore the difference and get along with you just fine.<br /><br />If you have an opinion about religion that differs from mine, I don't really care. I can ignore the difference and get along with you just fine.<br /><br />If you have an opinion about history that differs from mine, I don't really care. I can ignore the difference and get along with you just fine.<br /><br />If you have an opinion about medicine that differs from mine, I don't really care. I can ignore the difference and get along with you just fine.<br /><br />And so on. And so on. And so on.<br /><br />HOWEVER....<br /><br />If you have an opinion about POLITICS that differs from mine, I can't just ignore the difference and get along with you. Why not? Because ANY "political" opinion that differs from mine necessarily includes you wanting men with guns FORCING me to live my life, make my choices, and spend my money according to YOUR preferences and whims. There is no such thing, and can be no such thing, as a tolerant statist. If you want peaceful coexistence, YOU have to stop advocating violent aggression against your fellow man.<br /><br />Sincerely,<br /><br />A VoluntaryistBrian Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13228290862561650691noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4640734414845052953.post-9658222077179623332017-01-19T05:26:00.000-08:002017-01-19T05:26:33.714-08:00Secrets and LiesIt was announced today that the thirty-five year prison sentence of Chelsea Manning has been Presidentially commuted. Barack Obama deserves no credit for this, he's only planting land-mines for Donald Trump.When she is released in May (no, I don't know why the delay), she will have served seven years, during which she was confined in such an inhumane manner that she went mad and tried to kill herself more than once. Knowing the mentality of jailers as we do, we can only imagine the other ways that she was intimidated and tortured by corrupt "corrections" personnel, acting under the scoundrel's excuse of patriotism. <div>
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Naturally, all of the conservatives in the New Media are going fully as ape-shit as they accuse their unhappy anti-Trump opponents of going. They are absolutely beside themselves (and kind of funny to watch), with self-righteous indignation because a very humble and vulnerable Army private did their job for them. </div>
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She paid the price. Manning was tried and imprisoned for releasing 750,000 secret government documents, many of them detailing dubious or illegal government activity, not to some enemy, but to Wikileaks, and thus to the entire world, including the very individuals who are forced, every year, at implicit IRS gunpoint, to pay for them. In a democracy, supposedly comprised of self-ruling people, the government _has_ absolutely no right to secrecy, or else how will these self-ruling people know what decisions to make? </div>
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And before anybody's knee jerks, and he brings up the favorite alibi of hip-pocket tyrants and armchair dictators everywhere, this is _especially_ true of the so-called "representative republic" that America is loudly advertised to be. where, again supposedly, We The People hire politicians, and they hire bureaucrats to make these decisions for us. I don't recall ever consenting -- in a Jeffersonian sense -- to such a corrupt system. How can any of us vote informedly, if politics itself is cloaked in guilty secrets? Isn't that exactly how we got stuck with an evil administration that, in 1941, enticed a fairly stupid enemy into providing us with an excuse to destroy them? Isn't that how an equally evil regime faked an incident that led to 60,000 American deaths in Southeast Asia? And how about those "Weapons of Mass Destruction" in Iraq? Representative republicanism is a complete and total hoax. </div>
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In a colossal example of the Catch-22 phenomenon, rivaling the Spanish Inquisition or the Salem witch trials in its evil absurdity, at Manning's "trial", the government was unable or unwilling for all-too-convenient "security reasons" to name any identifiable individual whose life was endangered by the information she released. Had they been committing war crimes, as at Abu Graib, was she supposed to keep her mouth shut about that? And in any case, in this enlightened era of an all-volunteer military, there is presently nobody out there in the field who was forced to be there at gunpoint. The risk of having one's ethical shortcuts embarrassingly exposed is simply a new one to add to the list of consequences of going in Harm's Way. </div>
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It is the very depth of churlishness to condemn Chelsea Manning as a criminal or traitor. She was, in fact, fulfilling her military oath far better and more faithfully than those she worked for. If Obama hadn't dirtied it by giving it, like a Crackerjack prize, to Joseph Biden, she deserves the Presidential Medal of Freedom (as do Julian Assange and Edward Snowden). As it is, we welcome Manning back into civilization and only hope that others will be as civilized as she is.</div>
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Brian Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13228290862561650691noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4640734414845052953.post-85230156625349770102016-12-23T01:22:00.001-08:002016-12-23T01:22:29.336-08:00The Stateless ConundrumWe'll never have a stateless society because the majority of people simply cannot keep their noses out of other people's business, and covet power and control over others, and want to live at the expense of others, and fear anyone who's different from them, or anything they're unfamiliar with, so want to force others into their own likeness, their own lifestyles, their own belief systems.<br /><br />Thus, the tool of the state, a convenient means to those ends.<br /><br /><br />"People won't become free once the state ends; the state will end once people become free."<br /><br />Butler Shaffer Brian Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13228290862561650691noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4640734414845052953.post-87810611848348347282016-12-03T05:27:00.001-08:002016-12-03T05:27:22.156-08:00Which Way Do You Run?Among the ironies in this video, people around the world view the <a href="http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2014/03/2014-gallup-international-poll-us-1-threat-world-peace.html">US as the greatest threat to peace</a>; voted three times more dangerous than any other country. The data confirm this conclusion:<br /><br /><div>
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Brian Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13228290862561650691noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4640734414845052953.post-8700273903030294682016-11-10T03:06:00.001-08:002016-11-16T20:22:57.087-08:00This wasn’t an election. It was a revolution.It’s midnight in America. The day before fifty million Americans got up and stood in front of the great iron wheel that had been grinding them down. They stood there even though the media told them it was useless. They took their stand even while all the chattering classes laughed and taunted them.<br />
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They were fathers who couldn’t feed their families anymore. They were mothers who couldn’t afford health care. They were workers whose jobs had been sold off to foreign countries. They were sons who didn’t see a future for themselves. They were daughters afraid of being murdered by the “unaccompanied minors” flooding into their towns. They took a deep breath and they stood.<br />
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They held up their hands and the great iron wheel stopped.<br />
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The Great Blue Wall crumbled. The impossible states fell one by one. Ohio. Wisconsin. Pennsylvania. Iowa. The white working class that had been overlooked and trampled on for so long got to its feet. It rose up against its oppressors and the rest of the nation, from coast to coast, rose up with it.<br />
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They fought back against their jobs being shipped overseas while their towns filled with migrants that got everything while they got nothing. They fought back against a system in which they could go to jail for a trifle while the elites could violate the law and still stroll through a presidential election. They fought back against being told that they had to watch what they say. They fought back against being held in contempt because they wanted to work for a living and take care of their families.<br />
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They fought and they won.<br />
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This wasn’t a vote. It was an uprising. Like the ordinary men chipping away at the Berlin Wall, they tore down an unnatural thing that had towered over them. And as they watched it fall, they marveled at how weak and fragile it had always been. And how much stronger they were than they had ever known.<br />
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Who were these people? They were leftovers and flyover country. They didn’t have bachelor degrees and had never set foot in a Starbucks. They were the white working class. They didn’t talk right or think right. They had the wrong ideas, the wrong clothes and the ridiculous idea that they still mattered.<br />
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They were wrong about everything. Illegal immigration? Everyone knew it was here to stay. Black Lives Matter? The new civil rights movement. Manufacturing? As dead as the dodo. Banning Muslims? What kind of bigot even thinks that way? Love wins. Marriage loses. The future belongs to the urban metrosexual and his dot com, not the guy who used to have a good job before it went to China or Mexico.<br />
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They couldn’t change anything. A thousand politicians and pundits had talked of getting them to adapt to the inevitable future. Instead they got in their pickup trucks and drove out to vote.<br />
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And they changed everything.<br />
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Barack Hussein Obama boasted that he had changed America. A billion regulations, a million immigrants, a hundred thousand lies and it was no longer your America. It was his.<br />
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He was JFK and FDR rolled into one. He told us that his version of history was right and inevitable.<br />
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And they voted and left him in the dust. They walked past him and they didn’t listen. He had come to campaign to where they still cling to their guns and their bibles. He came to plead for his legacy.<br />
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And America said, “No.”<br />
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Fifty millions Americans repudiated him. They repudiated the Obamas and the Clintons. They ignored the celebrities. They paid no attention to the media. They voted because they believed in the impossible. And their dedication made the impossible happen.<br />
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Americans were told that walls couldn’t be built and factories couldn’t be opened. That treaties couldn’t be unsigned and wars couldn’t be won. It was impossible to ban Muslim terrorists from coming to America or to deport the illegal aliens turning towns and cities into gangland territories.<br />
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It was all impossible. And fifty million Americans did the impossible. They turned the world upside down.<br />
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It’s midnight in America. CNN is weeping. MSNBC is wailing. ABC calls it a tantrum. NBC damns it. It wasn’t supposed to happen. The same machine that crushed the American people for two straight terms, the mass of government, corporations and non-profits that ran the country, was set to win.<br />
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Instead the people stood in front of the machine. They blocked it with their bodies. They went to vote even though the polls told them it was useless. They mailed in their absentee ballots even while Hillary Clinton was planning her fireworks victory celebration. They looked at the empty factories and barren farms. They drove through the early cold. They waited in line. They came home to their children to tell them that they had done their best for their future. They bet on America. And they won.<br />
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They won improbably. And they won amazingly.<br />
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They were tired of ObamaCare. They were tired of unemployment. They were tired of being lied to. They were tired of watching their sons come back in coffins to protect some Muslim country. They were tired of being called racists and homophobes. They were tired of seeing their America disappear.<br />
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And they stood up and fought back. This was their last hope. Their last chance to be heard.<br />
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Watch this video. See ten ways John Oliver destroyed Donald Trump. Here’s three ways Samantha Bee broke the internet by taunting Trump supporters. These three minutes of Stephen Colbert talking about how stupid Trump is owns the internet. Watch Madonna curse out Trump supporters. Watch Katy Perry. Watch Miley Cyrus. Watch Robert Downey Jr. Watch Beyonce campaign with Hillary. Watch. Click.<br />
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Watch fifty million Americans take back their country.<br />
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The media had the election wrong all along. This wasn’t about personalities. It was about the impersonal. It was about fifty million people whose names no one except a server will ever know fighting back. It was about the homeless woman guarding Trump’s star. It was about the lost Democrats searching for someone to represent them in Ohio and Pennsylvania. It was about the union men who nodded along when the organizers told them how to vote, but who refused to sell out their futures.<br />
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No one will ever interview all those men and women. We will never see all their faces. But they are us and we are them. They came to the aid of a nation in peril. They did what real Americans have always done. They did the impossible.<br />
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America is a nation of impossibilities. We exist because our forefathers did not take no for an answer. Not from kings or tyrants. Not from the elites who told them that it couldn’t be done.<br />
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The day when we stop being able to pull off the impossible is the day that America will cease to exist.<br />
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Today is not that day. Today fifty million Americans did the impossible.<br />
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Midnight has passed. A new day has come. And everything is about to change.<br />
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Brian Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13228290862561650691noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4640734414845052953.post-86700046743385738942016-11-01T04:22:00.002-07:002016-11-01T04:22:40.201-07:00Viva la Revolución?In every country where a revolution has taken place (whether it be a “soft” revolution or a violent overthrow), those who are part of the winning team make a point of glorifying the revolution and all the “good” that it has brought. For this reason, the inhabitants of most countries where a revolution has taken place at some point in their history will believe that the revolution was positive. In countries where that revolution was opposed, the people will most likely regard the revolution as negative.<br /><br />As an example, Frenchmen tend to praise their Revolution of 1789, in which the aristocracy were overthrown. Since then, the emphasis has been on the “little man.” The little man would not only be treated equally to the aristocrat, he would receive preferential treatment. Not surprisingly, this devolved into the socialism that dominates France today. In spite of the dysfunctionality of the French system, most Frenchmen fondly praise the Revolution and the “freedom” that it ostensibly created for them.<br /><br />And then we have the Cuban Revolution of 1959. Its stated purpose was to overthrow the aristocratic Batista Regime and replace it with one that favoured the campesinos. The aristocracy was removed and ownership of most everything moved to the state. There is most certainly greater equality in Cuba today (albeit at a very low level), and yet we’re taught to regard the Cuban Revolution as having been destructive, as it devolved into socialism. Although the current system is largely dysfunctional, the Cuban people, even today, speak of the freedom that the Revolution created for them.<br /><br />These two examples are similar, and yet Westerners are taught to regard the French government as an enlightened body of men and women who spend their waking hours legislating for ever-increased goodness for the French people, yet we’re equally taught to regard the Cuban government as tyrannical rulers lording over an oppressed people.<br /><br />The perception of the results of the respective revolutions would seem to have little to do with the reason for the revolution, its immediate outcome, or its eventual outcome, and have more to do with whether the leadership of the country is “on our side” or not. Those countries where the leaders align themselves with our own country are good and enlightened, whilst the leaders who do not align themselves with our country are tyrannical dictators. The true level of freedom for the people is not really at issue.<br /><br />“We’re Not Going to Take it Anymore”<br /><br />So let’s take a thumbnail view of revolutions. The premise behind the desire for revolution is always the same – a segment of the population feels that the government (and very possibly their cohorts) have become oppressive and should be overthrown. When the history is written by the victors, they will endeavour to create the impression that the entire population rose up; however, this is never the case. A dissatisfied minority succeeded in taking over.<br /><br />So what, then, of the majority? Well, prior to the revolution, they sat along the sidelines and tolerated whatever perceived injustices the former government imposed upon them. During the revolution, they often sat on the sidelines, hoping to have as little involvement as possible, and, after the revolution, they generally sat on the sidelines, hoping to benefit from the new regime, or at least avoid being victimised.<br /><br />In Russia in 1917, a relatively small number of people overthrew the aristocracy and were then faced with the problem of taking over. They had no experience in this and didn’t know where to begin. Enter Leon Trotsky and Vladimir Lenin, who had little to do with the revolution itself but, through funding from London and New York banks, were able to pay the Russian military and police to establish order, to a cursory degree. Once this was achieved, they used the military and police to establish order to a ruthless degree. (Not exactly saving the little man from the oppression of the aristocracy.) As Mister Lenin himself said,<br /><br />“One man with a gun can control one hundred without one.”<br /><br />In the aforementioned France in 1789, the aristocracy was overthrown by a relatively small number of revolutionaries, and, again, the victors had no real experience in running a country. Enter Maximilien Robespierre, a lawyer with a flair for control and a contempt for the hoi polloi. However, he was good at rhetoric, and the people cheered as he lopped off heads. This in spite of the fact that he most certainly did not deliver “freedom” to the French people, only the illusion of it. As he himself stated,<br /><br />“The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.”<br /><br />Meet the New Boss – Same as the Old Boss<br /><br />And so it has gone, in one revolution after another. Whether it be a soft revolution, or a violent one, it’s generally followed by a disorganised and often violent period, where commerce, social stability, and freedom suffer, at the very least, for as long as it takes the new management to pull it all together, and, in most cases, long thereafter. From Juan Perón in Argentina, the Shah in Iran, Hugo Chávez in Venezuela, and countless others, revolution has meant diminished liberty and hard economic times.<br /><br />Meet the New Boss – Worse Than the Old Boss<br /><br />In some cases, such as Mao Tse-tung in China, Idi Amin Dada in Uganda, and Pol Pot in Cambodia, conditions worsened considerably after the revolution had “freed the people” – sometimes for decades.<br /><br />It should be said that there have been a few cases of both soft and violent revolutions in which the new leaders were truly visionary and ushered in an era of greater freedom, such as the American Revolution of 1776, Corazon Aquino in the Philippines, and Nelson Mandela in South Africa. Yet, even in these cases, the rot set in almost immediately through individuals within the new governments who sought to recreate authoritarian power within an otherwise positive takeover. <br /><br />Be Careful What You Wish For<br /><br />The American Revolution notwithstanding, violent revolution almost never ends well. The odds are poor that you’ll get a more just leader or the greater freedoms that the revolutionaries have promised.<br /><br />Today we’re observing the deterioration of the world’s most prominent capitalistic countries, all at the same time. Each has devolved into a fascist state. Again, to quote Mister Lenin,<br /><br />“Fascism is capitalism in decline.”<br /><br />Quite so. And, like many Russians in the early days of the twentieth century, we see an increasing number of citizens of the former “free world” realising that the decline of their countries is baked in the cake… that things are not likely to improve in their lifetimes.<br /><br />And so, many fantasise that a revolution of some sort will occur. They hope for a soft revolution (virtually no chance of that happening) or a violent one – possibly generated by the millions of gun owners across the country. Unfortunately, no amount of handguns and assault weapons will equal their government’s arsenal of tanks, drones, chemical weapons, etc. A revolt could occur, and spontaneous nationwide guerrilla tactics could make it difficult to put down, but the likely outcome would be years of strife and bloodshed, followed by dramatically increased authoritarian rule.<br /><br />A third option might be to accept that, yes, the decline into fascism is a dead end, but then so, in all likelihood, is revolution. That being the case, those who see two possible negative outcomes and no positive one might take the simpler step of internationalising – moving to one of the many countries that are not presently on the ropes.<br /><br />Editor’s Note: Unfortunately, most people have no idea what really happens when a government goes out of control, let alone how to prepare…<br /><br />The coming economic and political collapse is going to be much worse, much longer, and very different than what we’ve seen in the past.<div>
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Brian Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13228290862561650691noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4640734414845052953.post-18107820997585908912016-10-18T04:03:00.001-07:002016-10-18T04:03:36.912-07:00A Vote for TreasonIt has taken several months and a number of email dumps from Wikileaks to finally figure out what this presidential election is all about. There are only two ways to vote, for Donald Trump or for Hillary Clinton. But neither of those are what one would be voting for.<br /><br />A vote for Donald Trump is a vote to resist the massive corruption of government, a vote against globalism, against "global warming" or "climate change" theology; it is a vote against media collusion and interference in politics. A vote for Donald Trump is not a vote for the person at all, that is why despite the media onslaught of negative stories about him as a person carries no weight with those who support him, because they don't support him at all, they support what he represents, which is a chance to hold Hillary Clinton responsible for her crimes and therefore all of the crooked politicians of 2012 who coerced votes out of their Republican base only to turn on them the next day.<br /><br />Likewise, a vote for Hillary Clinton is a vote for a transformed America, a quasi-police state where the government intervenes in business and forces some out of business while subsidizing other businesses that could not possibly sustain themselves without massive graft and media brainwashing. All of those businesses would be held hostage to a criminal organization originating from the White House. It would be a vote to end forever the concept of individual rights. Hillary Clinton would do no less than continue the work of the Obama Administration to destroy individual rights and nearly half of the nation is in favor of just that. It would be a continued replacement of the voters who value the principles of the founding of this nation with those who have no like expectation. It is a vote for the sudden disappearance of websites like this one.<br /><br />The outcome is bigger than that. The next president will likely be a true war-time president. As Vladimir Zhirinovsky claimed a vote for Hillary Clinton would be a vote for war. War with Russia may be inevitable and irrespective of the election as it seems likely that war will begin before the next president can take office. But, there is the question of who would be more likely to effectively fight that war. More than that, would our military leaders be willing to follow the orders of a criminal like Hillary Clinton running a crime organization out of Washington? Would they put their lives in jeopardy knowing the cold-blooded actions she demonstrated in Benghazi? Or, would they likely recognize that their lives meant nothing to the Commander in Chief?<br /><br />So many things are now known about the media establishment and the collusion it shares with the Clinton campaign. More things are being found out every day as Wikileaks provides proof of the public perception. The people were right, there is a conspiracy to keep them uninformed and misinformed to protect Democrat politicians from facing scandals. It is clear now that there will never be a Democrat held accountable for their actions and therefore the only time Americans can expect to get anything other than abusive and criminal officeholders is if they elect a Republican.<br /><br /><div>
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Brian Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13228290862561650691noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4640734414845052953.post-40288360509984889692016-09-21T13:12:00.002-07:002016-09-21T13:13:34.022-07:00The Problem with Leaders<br />
"Nevertheless, one of our limitations is that nearly all of us look to (and for) leaders. Fine, if we want to build a tree-house or a government. But when it comes to freedom, that means we’re looking not only in the wrong direction, but in the diametrically opposite direction we should be."<br />
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<a href="http://www.clairewolfe.com/blog/2016/09/20/the-problem-with-leaders/">Excellent post from friend Claire Wolfe</a>Brian Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13228290862561650691noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4640734414845052953.post-61515325245115981292016-09-02T05:20:00.001-07:002016-09-02T05:20:12.804-07:00Quote Without Comment On saying the Pledge of Allegiance:<br /><br />Sorry - I already pledged my allegiance to my Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness. I have no allegiance left for a piece of brightly colored cloth and repetitive incantations lauding a Freedom destroying oligarchy trying to disguise itself as a "republic". If one sincerely believes in an omniscient, loving Supreme Being, the postulation that it somehow favors an entity so monumentally destructive should be nauseating....<br />Brian Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13228290862561650691noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4640734414845052953.post-82665001182205574432016-08-08T04:47:00.005-07:002016-08-08T04:47:41.816-07:00Mencken again<br />Thought for the Daze<br /><br />Morality is doing what’s right regardless of what you’re told.<br />Obedience is doing what you’re told regardless of what is right.<br /><br />- H.L. MenckenBrian Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13228290862561650691noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4640734414845052953.post-48683988447420832016-08-06T07:41:00.000-07:002016-08-06T07:42:45.763-07:00Another Facebook Exchange<div>
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/brianwilsonspeaks">Brian Wilson</a> "In my eyes he's the only logical choice." Actually - if you dare argue "logic" - the answer is unequivocally "don't vote at all". If you maintain you are for Libertarian "self government", then voting for a " ruler" with the power to inflict the immoral Force of Government upon you is either terminally stupid or remarkably hypocritical - but it is no way "logical". Irrespective of that, I most certainly support your right to your opinion - as untenable as it may be.<br />
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XXXX I'm not an anarchist. I simply believe that the governments only job is to protect our rights outlined in the constitution. Any step in that direction would be amazing. It would be much better than them taking our rights!!!<br />
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/brianwilsonspeaks?fref=ufi">Brian Wilson</a> As recorded history has proven, It is virtually impossible for Govt to do the job you want. Acton nailed it: "Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely." Govt is nothing but the organized exercise of power. Power requires Force. While the use of Force in defense of inalienable rights may be admirable, it has never even been achieved with any permanence due to the toxic corrosion from the monopoly on Force thru Power given to Government. The quaint notion that any individual can do this thru the imagined magic of elected office is beyond "hypocrisy"; it is simply not possible. You might want to give Anarchism an thorough and objective examination. You may be surprised to find precisely what you want - in an entirely different form.<br />
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- Brian WilsonBrian Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13228290862561650691noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4640734414845052953.post-71654851734628279362016-07-26T09:17:00.003-07:002016-07-26T09:17:40.052-07:00Free Movie!Clinton Cash, a feature documentary based on the Peter Schweizer book, has been posted to YouTube for all to view free just in time for the DNC. Clinton Cash investigates how Bill and Hillary Clinton went from being “dead broke” after leaving the White House to amassing a net worth of over $150 million, with over $2 billion in donations to their foundation. This wealth was accumulated during Mrs. Clinton’s tenure as Secretary of State through lucrative speaking fees and contracts paid for by foreign companies and Clinton Foundation donors.<br /><br />The New York Times hailed the book as “The most anticipated and feared book of a presidential cycle" while <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/clinton-cash-doc-set-stir-controversy-it-debuts-cannes">MSNBC</a> described the documentary as devastating for the Hillary campaign. <br /><br />The Clinton camp has, of course, dismissed the documentary as a right-wing smear campaign filled with unsubstantiated conspiracy theories. That said, perhaps the most shocking aspect of the release is that many of the biggest bombshells revealed in the documentary have been vetted and confirmed by various mainstream media outlets. More recently, some information uncovered in the Panama Papers has echoed some of Schweitzer’s allegations in the movie and book.<br /><br />Click here - and Share<br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LYRUOd_QoM">Clinton Cash</a>Brian Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13228290862561650691noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4640734414845052953.post-90781050361865968042016-07-21T14:28:00.000-07:002016-07-21T14:28:24.576-07:00Authority and ObedienceThere is a harsh contrast between what we are taught is the purpose of authority (to create a peaceful civilized society) and the real world results of “authority” in action. Flip through any history book and you will see that most of the injustice and destruction that has occurred throughout the world was not the result of people “breaking the law”, but rather the result of people obeying and enforcing the laws of various governments. The evils that have been committed in spite of “authority” are trivial compared to the evils that have been committed in the name of “authority”.<br /><br /><div>
Nevertheless, children are still taught that peace and justice come from authoritarian control and that, despite the flagrant evils committed by authoritarian regimes around the world throughout history, they are still morally obligated to respect and obey the current government of their own country. They are taught that “doing as you’re told” is synonymous with being a good person, and that “playing by the rules” is synonymous with doing the right thing. On the contrary being a moral person requires taking on the personal responsibility of judging right from wrong and following one’s own conscience, the opposite of respecting and obeying “authority”.<br /><br />"The Most Dangerous Superstition"</div>
Brian Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13228290862561650691noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4640734414845052953.post-73880538755012446542016-07-15T05:11:00.005-07:002016-07-15T05:11:55.005-07:00The End is Near-er<br />Pull quote:<br /><br />"Being wealthy used to be a virtue worthy of widespread aspiration.<br /><br />Now it’s met with skepticism and derision.<br /><br />Similarly, intellectual dissent used to be embraced.<br /><br />Now it’s increasingly considered “hate speech” that must be banished from university campuses and their infantile ‘safe spaces’.<br /><br />And the entire west, it seems, is moving towards an ever-expanding, fiscally unsustainable welfare state that creates swelling masses of dependents.<br /><br />This is a complete breakdown of western values, and that has serious consequences."<br /><br /><br /><a href="https://www.sovereignman.com/trends/were-witnessing-a-complete-breakdown-in-western-values-20005/">Click here...</a>Brian Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13228290862561650691noreply@blogger.com0