Florida Shortened Yellow Lights to Gain Revenue

Red light camera system (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Florida reduces the time on yellow lights by only a fraction of a second and gains $50 million in traffic light revenue.

Traffic light revenues are important because they’re ultimately based on the presumption that we can be charged for an offense that no one actually witnessed.  Yes, some cop may later “witness” the video tape, but that strikes me a kind of hearsay since the cop didn’t witness the actual event.  If the government is allowed to impose fines based on the “testimony” of machines and without eye-witnesses, it won’t be long before you’re issued a ticket for using too much toilet paper based on a computer that monitors your bathroom.

On the one hand, the use of machines (like computers and video recorders) to penalize offenses may be a good thing since such mechanical monitors may help reduce the incidence of offenses and crimes.  On the other hand, the use of machines like computers and video recorders to penalize offenses may be a bad thing since they allow government to grow more efficient and ever-larger without the cost of adding additional personnel.  Mechanical and electronic enforcement devices are conducive to a police state.

 

Zoning Creates Debts, Debtors & Government Dependents

Diagram of zoning change in Nell Fisher reserve and adjacent plots of land. Each “Zone” is based on a purported PURPOSE.  But what is the real PURPOSE?  (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Forty years ago, my father bought a little retirement farm in Wisconsin.  The farm included a wonderful old barn and a house that was started back about A.D. 1900.

The house was a standard, two-story farm house.  But it was particularly interesting because it was built one room at a time.  You could tell because not one of the six ground-floor rooms had a floor that matched the level of any adjacent room’s floor. Each room’s floor was a half or three-quarter’s inch higher or lower than the adjacent room’s floor.

It was apparent that the original farmer had saved his money, bought the land, and then saved more money to build his first room (now, the kitchen).  I’m sure that he, his wife and kids all lived in that first 250 ft² room.  Later, as the farmer worked and saved more of his profits, he bought more lumber to build a second room (probably a bedroom).  Then he even dug a basement under the third addition (no small feat in that rocky soil).  After what may have been five or ten years, the farmer had built a pretty nice, two-story home.

I can imagine how hard that farmer had to work.  I can imagine the strain of saving enough of his earnings each year to buy more lumber to add another room.  I can also imagine the pride that the farmer, and his wife, and even their kids felt each time the farmer was able to add another room onto their house.  There had to be a real sense of accomplishment.

But, most importantly, they had to be delighted that there was no debt.

 

Gold Leasing & the April Plunge in Gold Prices

A picture from the gold vault of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Between Friday, April 12th and Monday, April 15th, the price of gold suddenly fell over $200 in the “April Plunge”.  That price decline was precipitated by some person or persons selling 300 tons of gold into the market in just one minute and was therefore the result of intentional manipulation.  The price decline was intended to cause those who own gold to panic, sell their gold at a reduced price, and abandon gold as an investment and as a hedge against the collapse of fiat currencies.

That price manipulation was made possible by “gold leasing”–an officially-approved accounting fraud.  ”Gold leasing” allows a major holder of gold (say, the Federal Reserve) to “lease,” say, 100 tons of its gold to third parties who then sell or lease that gold to others.  By means of “gold leasing,” the Federal Reserve can claim to still own that 100 tons of gold that has been leased–but not sold–to third parties  The pretext of ownership is maintained under the fiction  that those third parties will one day restore the physical gold they’ve leased from the Federal Reserve back to the Federal Reserve.

By means of the fraud that the Fed still owns the 100 tons of gold it has leased–when, in fact, that hold has been sold into the market–the same 100 tons of gold can be multiplied to show up on the nation’s and market’s books as 200 or more tons of gold.  By means of this leasing fraud, the apparent supply of gold is so increased that the price of gold is suppressed or even made to decline.

 

DHS “Whistleblower” Labeled “Domestic Terrorist”

Julia Davis was employed by the Department of Homeland Security and tasked with protecting our borders from incursion by terrorists.  One day, she  identified 23 people who may have been terrorists crossing the border into the U.S..  She tried to alert her superiors to the intrusions by the possible terrorists.  Unfortunately, the DHS Intelligence office that should’ve received her information was closed so the Intel officers could have a picnic.  Therefore, Ms. Davis reported her concerns to the FBI.  The DHS regarded being exposed for being off the job while having a picnic as evidence that Ms. Davis was a “whistleblower”.  DHS  later responded by declaring her to be a “domestic terrorist” and even caused her to be arrested twice and then imprisoned.

Here’s her extraordinary story:

video   00:19:13   The interview runs a little slow at times, but this video is absolutely worth watching.

 

“Government is Inherently Good”?!!

Harry Reid (D-NV), Majority Leader of the United States Senate–THE FACE OF BIG GOVERNMENT  (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

The Washington Times recently reported (“Harry Reid:  ‘Government is Inherently Good’”) that,

 

“Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said he can’t understand why the tea party remains popular, given its similarity to the anarchist movement and its steadfast opposition to the ‘inherently good’ government.”

“Inherently good government”?

“Inherently good government”?! 

Are you kidding me?!!

Has Senator Reid lost his mind?  Is he becoming overwhelmed by his sense of guilt?  Or is he merely so ignorant that he doesn’t understand that this country started with the presumption that government was a “necessary evil” wherein the “necessary” was often debatable, but the “evil” was virtually certain?

George Washington implied the inherently wicked nature of government when he said, “Government, like fire, is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.”  Washington surely didn’t see government as “inherently good”.  He saw it as, at best, a dangerous servant.  At best.  Necessary, perhaps.  But always dangerous.

 

Poll: 29% of Registered Voters Believe Armed Revolution Might Be Necessary in Next Few Years

The Statue of Liberty is also known as Lady Liberty but her official name is Liberty Enlightening the World. This statue might soon come to regain its former meaning.  (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

For those of you who think you’re virtually alone in your anti-government sentiments . . . for those of you who think that those of us who want a restoration of liberty are only a tiny minority . . . there’s a recent poll indicating that 29% of the American people believe that a shooting revolution may be required to protect our liberties from our own government.

29% translates into about 90 million Americans who already believe that government has gone too far–and plans to go further–down the road into a police state and overt tyranny.

Thus, 29% of Americans are aware of, or at least sympathetic to, the idea expressed in the Declaration of Independence that “. . . when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.”

29%.

We are not alone.  The ideas, attitudes and concerns shared on this blog and hundreds more like it are not only proliferating but are far more common than most people imagine.  We are not the “lunatic fringe”.  We are mainstream and growing stronger.

We are winning.

 

Desperate Times

Description: Newspaper clipping USA, Woodrow Wilson signs creation of the Federal Reserve. Source: Date: 24 December 1913 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy and associate editor of the Wall Street Journal.  In one of his articles after the recent “April Plunge” in the price of gold, he wrote:

 

“I was the first to point out that the Federal Reserve was rigging all markets, not merely bond prices and interest rates, and that the Fed is rigging the bullion market in order to protect the US dollar’s exchange value, which is threatened by the Fed’s quantitative easing.”

It’s one thing for people like the Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee (GATA) to claim that the gold and silver markets are rigged. It’s another thing entirely to have a former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury to make similar claims.  Mr. Roberts’ credentials add much credence to the market rigging claims.

 

“With the Fed adding to the supply of dollars faster than the demand for dollars is increasing, the price or exchange value of the dollar is set up to fall.”

 

Video Supports “False Flag” Boston Bombing Conspiracy Theory

It takes about 2 minutes for the speaker to get to the meat of this video, but after that, he makes a strong argument.

video   00:05:49

 

FBI Created 17 False Flag Terrorist Attacks

FBI agent being trained to shoot at paper terrorists. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

According to Judge Andrew Napolitano, in the past 10 years, there’ve been 20 Terrorist plots against the US.  Three of those plots were real but were discovered and stopped by private Americans.  The other 17 were created–and then stopped–by the FBI.

The apparent purpose of these false flag operations was to deceive Americans into believing we’re under attack by foreign or domestic terrorists who are fictional.  Based on the false belief that we’re being persistently attacked, Americans tend to accept and even our government’s invasions of foreign countries and our own growing police state.

If you want to fly on an airplane, you must first be x-rayed or groped based, in part, on 17 plots created by the FBI to prove the existence of terrorists who don’t actually exist.

Every government agent–right up to the President–who authorized or participated in such fraudulent terrorist attacks should be tried for treason and, if found guilty, hanged by the neck until dead.

 

Crime Causes Economic Collapse

FINANCIAL CRIMES NOW POSE “THE BIGGEST THREAT” (Photo credit: Renegade98)

At a recent economic conference at the Philadelphia Federal Reserve, academics gathered to discuss fixing the banking system, including ending fractional reserve lending. The video below is an excerpt from that conference featuring the comments of Professor Jeffrey Sachs of Columbia University. A few minutes into the recording, Professor Sachs condemns the banking system saying things like:

“The final problem is separating the politicians from the crooks–but maybe that’s the same community. . . . I believe we have a crisis of values that’s extremely deep. . . . I regard the moral environment on Wall Street as pathological. . . . They are tough, greedy and out of control. . . . We have a corrupt politics to the core. . . . The corruption is everywhere–it’s lead to a sense of impunity. . . . I’ve waited for a judge, a president, somebody to do something–but it’s not going to happen anytime soon.”