Tuesday, February 28, 2017
Virtue-Signaling the Decline of the Empire
"an average Roman noble of senatorial class had property valued in the neighborhood of 20,000 Roman pounds of gold. There was no “middle class” comparable to the small landholders of the third century B.C.; the huge majority of the population was made up of landless peasants working land that belonged to nobles. These peasants had hardly any property at all, but if we estimate it (very generously) at one tenth of a pound of gold, the wealth differential would be 200,000! Inequality grew both as a result of the rich getting richer (late imperial senators were 100 times wealthier than their Republican predecessors) and those of the middling wealth becoming poor."
http://www.oftwominds.com/blogfeb17/virtue-signaling2-17.html
http://www.oftwominds.com/blogfeb17/virtue-signaling2-17.html
The Day the New York Times Lost All Credibility By Jack Cashill
the TWA 800 plane was filled with hundreds of Hawaii-bound passengers and crew when the officer was performing his exercise on an empty plane. In other words, the dog training did not explain the explosive residue. It did not even take place on the TWA 800 plane.
Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2017/02/the_day_the_new_york_emtimesem_lost_all_credibility.html#ixzz4Zzpet47F
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Monday, February 27, 2017
Those Systems That Aren't Busy Being Born Are Busy Dying
Those slices of the economy that are exposed to competition and innovation have a choice: adapt or die. Everything that is protected by monopoly--private-sector cartels, government, government-managed sectors such as Big Ag, Big Pharma, Military-Industrial Complex, Higher Education and the entire intelligence agency alphabet soup--are focused on maintaining their grip on power.
http://www.oftwominds.com/blogfeb17/systems-born-die2-17.html
http://www.oftwominds.com/blogfeb17/systems-born-die2-17.html
Sunday, February 26, 2017
Saturday, February 25, 2017
Friday, February 24, 2017
From Thomas Jefferson to Abigail Smith Adams, 11 September 1804
the opinion which gives to the judges the right to decide what laws are constitutional, and what not, not only for themselves in their own sphere of action, but for the legislature & executive also in their spheres, would make the judiciary a despotic branch
https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/99-01-02-0348
https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/99-01-02-0348
Thursday, February 23, 2017
Wednesday, February 22, 2017
Tuesday, February 21, 2017
There's a Difference: Fake News and Junk News
An unemployment rate of 4.7% once meant full employment and rising wages for the laboring class--but alas, now it is just another ginned-up junk-econ/junk-news "statistic" designed to push a bogus narrative: everything is awesome (as the financial security of the bottom 80% swirls the drain).
http://www.oftwominds.com/blogfeb17/junk-news2-17.html
http://www.oftwominds.com/blogfeb17/junk-news2-17.html
Monday, February 20, 2017
Sunday, February 19, 2017
Saturday, February 18, 2017
Friday, February 17, 2017
This Is How the Status Quo Unravels: As the Pie Shrinks, Everybody Demands Their Piece Should Get Bigger
We haven't "grown" at all. What we've done is borrow from future generations to create the illusion of growth.
http://charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/2017/02/this-is-how-status-quo-unravels-as-pie.html
http://charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/2017/02/this-is-how-status-quo-unravels-as-pie.html
How We Will Win Trump’s revolution and the road to freedom
Trump saw this – and launched a crusade to “make America great again.” Not by vanquishing some foreign bogeyman, but by challenging and defeating a decadent elite that is draining the country dry with its foreign wars, its war on American workers, and a subversive allegiance to transnational entities that owe no loyalty to this country.
http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2016/11/15/how-we-will-win/
http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2016/11/15/how-we-will-win/
12 Must-Read Quotes From Scalia’s Blistering Same-Sex Marriage Dissent
This practice of constitutional revision by an unelected committee of nine, always accompanied (as it is today) by extravagant praise of liberty, robs the People of the most important liberty they asserted in the Declaration of Independence and won in the Revolution of 1776: the freedom to govern themselves.”
http://www.theblaze.com/news/2015/06/26/12-must-read-quotes-from-scalias-blistering-same-sex-marriage-dissent/
http://www.theblaze.com/news/2015/06/26/12-must-read-quotes-from-scalias-blistering-same-sex-marriage-dissent/
Wednesday, February 15, 2017
1791: Madison, Speech on the Bank Bill
Tuesday, February 14, 2017
Monday, February 13, 2017
Sunday, February 12, 2017
Saturday, February 11, 2017
Amazon Identifies A New Business Risk: Trump's Trade Policies
I wonder why the Washington Post hates Donald Trump,
http://www.forbes.com/sites/ryanmac/2017/02/10/amazon-identifies-a-new-business-risk-trumps-trade-policies/#6e1b87578f90
http://www.forbes.com/sites/ryanmac/2017/02/10/amazon-identifies-a-new-business-risk-trumps-trade-policies/#6e1b87578f90
Friday, February 10, 2017
The Unintended & Deadly Societal Consequences Of Quantitative Easing
“As I look back, it now seems that, with all the thought and work and good intentions, which we provided, we achieved absolutely nothing… nothing that I did, and very little that old Ben [Strong of the Federal Reserve] did, internationally produced any good effect – or indeed any effect at all except that we collected money from a lot of poor devils and gave it over to the four winds.”
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-02-10/unintended-deadly-societal-consequences-quantitative-easing
Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World
Thursday, February 9, 2017
The Colonization of Local-Business Main Street by Corporate America
Colonization introduces an amazing array of bargain-priced goods and services. The "natives" are happy to have access to all the goodies, but a short time later, the colonizers own the land, the markets, the politicians, the media and the labor force, and everyone who once had an independent livelihood and independent political voice is impoverished or is now an employee of the plantation, taking orders from the Big Boss.
http://www.oftwominds.com/blogfeb17/whats-optimized2-17.html
http://www.oftwominds.com/blogfeb17/whats-optimized2-17.html
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Wednesday, February 8, 2017
Tuesday, February 7, 2017
The "Have-More" Plan: "A Little Land -- A Lot of Living": How to Make a Small Cash Income into the Best and Happiest Living Any Family Could Want
the marriage of a man and woman really means some- thing when you start homesteading. Somehow, working close to the earth and with nature seems to make the combination of man and wife more im- portant and, I believe, makes marriage a happier success than is* possible in sterile city life..
https://archive.org/details/TheHaveMorePlan
https://archive.org/stream/TheHaveMorePlan/The%20Have-More%20Plan_djvu.txt
Monday, February 6, 2017
Sunday, February 5, 2017
Exposed: How world leaders were duped into investing billions over manipulated global warming data
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4192182/World-leaders-duped-manipulated-global-warming-data.html#ixzz4XohnFonO Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook
Saturday, February 4, 2017
Trump Attacks "So-Called Judge" Over "Ridiculous" Travel Ban Ruling
When a country is no longer able to say who can, and who cannot , come in & out, especially for reasons of safety &.security - big trouble!
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-02-04/trump-attacks-so-called-judge-over-ridiculous-travel-ban-ruling
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-02-04/trump-attacks-so-called-judge-over-ridiculous-travel-ban-ruling
Friday, February 3, 2017
Thursday, February 2, 2017
Wednesday, February 1, 2017
How Democrats Killed Their Populist Soul
Over the years, Patman had upset these members by blocking bank mergers and going after financial power. As famed muckraking columnist Drew Pearson put it: Patman “committed one cardinal sin as chairman. ... He wants to investigate the big bankers.” And so, it was the older bank allies who truly ensured that Patman would go down. In 1975, these bank-friendly Democrats spread the rumor that Patman was an autocratic chairman biased against junior congressmen. To new members eager to participate in policymaking, this was a searing indictment....
The destruction of the anti-monopoly and anti-bank tradition in the Democratic Party has also cleared the way for the greatest concentration of economic power in a century....
In 1947, Patman even commissioned experts to publish a book titled Fascism in Action, noting that fascism as a political system was the combination of extreme nationalism and monopoly power, a “dictatorship of big business.”
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/10/how-democrats-killed-their-populist-soul/504710/
The destruction of the anti-monopoly and anti-bank tradition in the Democratic Party has also cleared the way for the greatest concentration of economic power in a century....
In 1947, Patman even commissioned experts to publish a book titled Fascism in Action, noting that fascism as a political system was the combination of extreme nationalism and monopoly power, a “dictatorship of big business.”
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/10/how-democrats-killed-their-populist-soul/504710/
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