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Latest Articles: Opinions/Editorials
Freedom’s Essential Hierarchy
Post Date: 2018-06-24 18:12:38 by tpaine
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Townhall.com Freedom’s Essential Hierarchy Paul Jacob 6/24/2018 12:01:00 AM - Have Americans forgotten that freedom makes getting along easier? We do not all have to like each other. We do not even all have to be nice to each other. We just don’t have license to hit or hornswoggle our fellows. Hate speech may be bad, but it is hate assaults — not talk — that should be punished by law. This distinction, between talk and act, is important. One way to look at it is to accept it as a “hierarchy.” And when it comes to hierarchy, you cannot get more deep into it than in thinking theologically. Which is why freedom of conscience was so key to the development ...
Henry Kissinger’s Kind Words About President Trump: Tactical Strategy Or Hope?
Post Date: 2018-06-24 10:58:20 by Deckard
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Op-Ed by Catherine J. Frompovich Former U.S. Secretary of State, and apparent New World Order guru of the first order, since God only knows when, Henry Alfred Kissinger [1], has made several “on the record” statements about President Donald J. Trump some folks, if not most, would not expect—nor agree with. Why? Probably because of the unfair and one-sided mainstream media hype and coverage to take down Mr. Trump from actively being U.S. president, an agenda that started during the 2016 presidential campaign season, but perfected in intensively due to the Hillary Clinton criminal activity regarding personal email servers she maintained as U.S. Secretary of State ...
The Best Places To Live In All 50 U.S. States
Post Date: 2018-06-22 19:45:45 by Deckard
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We live at a time when Americans are packing up and moving with increasing frequency. Some are moving for new opportunities, some are moving in anticipation of what is coming, and others are moving just because they are bored. As the publisher of The Economic Collapse Blog and The Most Important News, I am frequently asked to give my opinion about a potential move. Of course I often don’t know what to say, because often factors that I don’t fully understand are involved in the decision. For example, someone may be moving somewhere truly horrible for a wonderful new job, or complex family relationships are precipitating a move. But there are some general principles ...
What Kind of Country Are We?
Post Date: 2018-06-22 19:23:08 by Deckard
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That’s what Time magazine tweeted this morning. It is trying to place the blame for Trump’s immigration policy—specifically, his separation policy—on all Americans. Time wants us to stand up for the children. TIME’s new cover: A reckoning after Trump's border separation policy: What kind of country are we? https://t.co/U4Uf8bffoR pic.twitter.com/sBCMdHuPGc — TIME (@TIME) June 21, 2018 But Time says nothing about the slaughter and starvation of children in Syria, Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan, and in particular Yemen. The US is assisting the Saudis in their genocidal war against the Houthi. It’s helping the fascists in Ukraine kill civilians in ...
Will Our Lack of Humanity Be the END of Humanity?
Post Date: 2018-06-22 19:18:52 by Deckard
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The Organic Prepper Sometimes I fear for humanity. Not because I think an asteroid is going to wipe us all out or that Skynet is actually coming to fruition (it is!) or that aliens are going to take over the planet or that a pandemic will kill 99% of us. But because of the utter lack of ethics, humanity, and compassion that I see every single day. Maybe the end of humanity is just that – we will regress to some animal mentality without that part of the brain that causes us to care for others and will exist only to satiate our need for food, water, and reproduction. And if that sounds extreme, you haven’t been spending much time on the internet lately. It seems that I ...
Hypocrisy
Post Date: 2018-06-22 19:13:36 by Deckard
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Barack Obama: Liar And Nation Wrecker
Post Date: 2018-06-20 10:20:13 by IbJensen
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Many believe that the past occupant of the oval office is either a Kenyan, a Marxist, a Muslim, a hater of America and its people and insitutions. All these descriptions are correct, in fact there are many more descriptive words that could be hung around the scrawny neck of this mistake. Our nation was in the same condition as a car, racing at 100 miles towards a cliff with an 800 foot drop and then falling and becoming a busted up wreck burning brightly. How did we get this thingy and, more importantly, who is was this Obama creature, where did he come from and how fortunate we were to get rid of him? How fortunate America waS to dodge the Hillary bullet! Barack did indeed have humble ...
Islamic Takeover Of America!
Post Date: 2018-06-20 10:16:17 by IbJensen
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How would you feel if you drove into a town here in the United States and found that many of the street signs were in Arabic only with no English wording? Then you look around and discover that many of the signs on businesses were also in Arabic. Not possible you say? Think again! Welcome to Dearborn, Michigan. Steve Tarani, author and speaker recounts what he saw when he rode with a member of the Detroit Metro SWAT Police as they drove around Detroit and into Dearborn: "The street signs suddenly went from English to Arabic. There wasn't a single English word on any shop or any street sign. And in fact, these little yellow signs were posted all along the edges. Jeremy said to me, ...
America the beautiful
Post Date: 2018-06-20 10:14:27 by IbJensen
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America the beautiful, or so you used to be. Land of the Pilgrim's pride; I'm glad they'll never see. Babies piled in dumpsters, Abortion on demand, Oh, sweet land of liberty; your house is on the sand. Our children wander aimlessly poisoned by cocaine choosing to indulge their lusts, when God has said abstain From sea to shining sea, our Nation turns away From the teaching of God's love and a need to always pray We've kept God in our temples, how callous we have grown. When earth is but His footstool, and Heaven is His throne. We've voted in a government that's rotting at the core, Appointing Godless Judges; who throw reason out the door, Too soft to place ...
"I'm 81 and I'm Tired"
Post Date: 2018-06-20 10:11:22 by IbJensen
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"I'm 81 and I'm Tired" I'm 81. I've worked hard supporting myself since I was 15 and later put myself through college and graduate school with my earnings. My wife and I raised a family without any help excepting that of a monthly paycheck provided by my employer. Despite some health challenges, I put in 50-60 hour weeks, and rarely called in sick in all those years. I made a good salary, but I didn't inherit my job or my income, and I worked to get where I am. Given today's government-created economy the money we saved for retirement is being quickly eroded due to the decisions made by that gaggle that comprises the central socialist government. ...
Taxation=Theft
Post Date: 2018-06-19 06:56:09 by Deckard
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Theft is defined as “the taking of another person’s property or services without that person’s permission or consent.” Almost invariably, governments pass tax laws and set tax rates without any consultation with the citizenry. Further, no final approval is sought by the citizenry that they consent to the tax or the rates. It is simply imposed. Most of us tend not to regard taxation as theft, yet, by definition, that’s exactly what it is. But some countries, notably the US, go further in disguising the theft, by stating that the payment of tax is “voluntary.” I personally am not aware of a single instance in which an individual or corporation decided not to ...
More Revolutionaries Are Coming
Post Date: 2018-06-18 09:48:37 by Deckard
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"The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more star systems will slip through your fingers." – Princess Leia, Star Wars Assange, Ulbricht, Manning, Snowden… we’ve seen a slow stream of revolutionaries over the past decade or so, a few of whom became well-known. More will be coming. The reason I’m sure of this is that the two forces driving it are increasing: On one hand, humanity is becoming better. You’ll never believe that if you watch “the news,” but out here in the real world humans are slowly improving. I’m tempted to say that I’d like the progress to be a bit more rapid, but the truth is that recent progress has sometimes been ...
We Are All Bigots
Post Date: 2018-06-17 10:51:49 by Deckard
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When I was a kid racism/sexism meant one of two things; visceral hatred of a certain group, or a belief in the inferiority/superiority of certain group(s). I’m only 34, I grew up in a well populated region of California, and my parents were politically mixed … so I don’t feel like my childhood sentiments were far outside of norm. If someone were to say they have racial/sexual bias in various forms, we wouldn’t label that sexism or racism. By this standard, most people felt very comfortable denouncing racism/sexism. In the late 90s I started seeing people intentionally blur the lines of bias and bigotry. Victim peddlers largely won their somewhat noble victory, but had ...
Trump partly right on Canada's dairy tariffs
Post Date: 2018-06-17 10:45:12 by Deckard
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has a point when he lambastes Canada for protecting its dairy farmers with hefty tariffs. But the United States is hardly innocent when it comes to farm protectionism. And the very real difficulties that U.S. dairy farmers face can't all be blamed on America's neighbor to the north. And in fact, despite Canada's tariff, the U.S. runs a surplus in dairy trade with its northern neighbor. A look at Trump's complaints and the complicated reality behind them: TRUMP: "Canada charges the U.S. a 270% tariff on Dairy Products! They didn't tell you that, did they? Not fair to our farmers!" — Trump tweet on June ...
Understanding Jewish Power
Post Date: 2018-06-13 12:50:54 by Deckard
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Who has helped create a war-addicted America?I recently was asked to speak at an online conference entitled Deep Truth: Encountering Deep State Lies. My panel addressed Understanding Zionism: Deconstructing the Power Paradigm and my own topic was How Jewish Power Sustains the Israel Narrative. Working on my presentation, I was forced to confront the evolution of my own views on both the corruption of government in the United States and the ability of powerful domestic lobbies to deliberately distort the perception of national interests to benefit foreign countries even when that activity does terrible damage to the U.S. My personal journey began half a century ago. I became part of the U.S. ...
How Dare a Politician Talk about Respect and Credibility
Post Date: 2018-06-08 13:30:53 by Deckard
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So, Rudy Giuliani doesn’t “respect” Stormy Daniels because the business she was in entitles her “to no degree of giving” her “credibility any weight.” Rudy doesn’t “respect a porn star the way” he respects “a career woman or a woman of substance or a woman who … isn’t going to sell her body for sexual exploitation.” Instead of making an honest living like Stormy Daniels, Rudy has been a politician for most of his life. In other words, he was the lowest of the low. He was someone whom no one should ever respect. He was someone who had no credibility. He, like all politicians, sold himself for cash, gifts, favors, or ...
There Is No ‘Get Out of Jail Free’ Card for the President
Post Date: 2018-06-07 09:50:37 by Deckard
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“When the President does it, that means that it is not illegal.“—Richard Nixon Someone needs to alert Donald Trump: there is no “Get Out of Jail Free” card just for being president. According to Trump’s Twitter feed, he believes that he has an absolute right to pardon himself of any crimes for which he might be charged while serving in office. He’s not alone in this imperial belief. Two of Trump’s lawyers have attempted to float the idea that “the president’s powers are so broad as to make it impossible for him to have obstructed justice.” Rudy Giuliani, another of Trump’s enablers, insists that Trump ...
The State Will Gladly Protect You From Freedom of Conscience
Post Date: 2018-06-04 07:31:23 by Deckard
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For hundreds of years, western cultures have been refining what is known as Freedom of Conscience. One of the outcomes of this refinement is Freedom of Speech, a Liberty that is relatively new to the human political experience. Not long ago, being critical of a government, for instance, could get you killed by that government. Merely speaking out of turn or having critical thought towards the State religion meant torture or death. But, we have advanced through time to understand that free thought and critical speech is something that a free people must protect and encourage. Thomas Jefferson went as far as to say that repressing Freedom of Conscience was a “Sin against God”. ...
The Conservative Drug War Creed
Post Date: 2018-06-02 11:49:11 by Deckard
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If there is one thing that most conservatives have in common it is their support for the federal government’s war on drugs. Although conservatives claim to believe in certain principles that libertarians would likewise hold to, their support of the drug war shows that they don’t really believe in them at all. Here is the conservative drug war creed. I believe in the Constitution, but I also believe in the unconstitutional federal war on drugs.I believe in a smaller federal government, but still support a federal Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).I believe in federalism, but not when it comes to the federal war on drugs.I believe in free markets, but not when it comes to a free ...
Statists’ Greatest Fear
Post Date: 2018-06-01 20:33:18 by Deckard
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I can no more imagine being afraid of liberty than I can imagine a Canada goose being afraid of heights. But that’s just me. I know many people are scared out of their minds at the thought of liberty. They fight against it every way they can think of, and work hard to try to make others as fearful as they are. They misrepresent liberty. They define it incorrectly. They dream up all sorts of “what if” scenarios to justify being afraid. They have a right to feel as they do, but… They are wrong. If they stopped at having feelings, no one would be hurt but themselves. Yet they never do. They are so cowardly that they use the aggression of the ...
They Will Not Leave You Alone
Post Date: 2018-06-01 20:20:31 by Deckard
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If you were to find some place in the middle of nowhere in the woods, where no one was living, on land no one was using, which types of people would leave you in peace, and which would feel justified intruding into your life and initiating violence against you? If you happened to be anywhere inside the ~3,800,000 square miles claimed by the U.S. ruling class as its territory, a grand total of zero Democrats and Republicans would advocate leaving you in peace. They might differ in what they want you forced to fund, and which of your behaviors they want regulated and coercively controlled, but NONE of them would actually condone leaving you in peace. None. But guess what. Neither would ...
How do civil wars happen?
Post Date: 2018-05-31 08:40:58 by IbJensen
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Two or more sides disagree on who runs the country. And they can't settle the question through elections because they don't even agree that elections are how you decide who's in charge. That's the basic issue here. Who decides who runs the country? When you hate each other but accept the election results, you have a country. When you stop accepting election results, you have a countdown to a civil war. The Mueller investigation is about removing President Trump from office and overturning the results of an election. We all know that. But it's not the first time they've done this. The first time a Republican president was elected this century, they said he ...
Whose Country Is This? Is the Constitution Even Welcome Here Anymore?
Post Date: 2018-05-30 07:33:43 by Deckard
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“The first time it was reported that our friends were being butchered there was a cry of horror. Then a hundred were butchered. But when a thousand were butchered and there was no end to the butchery, a blanket of silence spread. When evil-doing comes like falling rain, nobody calls out ‘stop!’ When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.” ― Bertolt Brecht, Selected Poems There are days I wake up, and I’m not sure what country I live in anymore. There are days I wake up and want to go right back to sleep in the hopes that this surreal landscape ...
In Defense of Degeneracy
Post Date: 2018-05-28 12:39:58 by Deckard
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How long have I been asleep that I woke up and suddenly the Alt-Right wants to go full Amish? When did they lose their sense of humor and get so frickin’ uptight? When did their comical irreverence get swapped out for an unintentionally comical reverence toward all things our forefathers deemed holy? I realize that a lot of these whippersnappers are young and have short attention spans—call them “meme-impaired”—but whence cometh this seemingly sudden, undeniably hive-minded, and morally hysterical fixation on “degeneracy”? If you’re going to be a degenerate, isn’t your youth the best time to do it? Shouldn’t you at least wait until you ...
Haspel Is Not the Problem. The CIA Is the Problem.
Post Date: 2018-05-24 10:21:55 by Deckard
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As a general rule, when Dick Cheney favors a foreign policy position it’s best to be on the opposite side if you value liberty over war and authoritarianism. The former vice president’s enthusiastic endorsement of not only Gina Haspel as CIA director but of the torture program she oversaw should tell us all we need to know about Haspel. Saying that Haspel would make a great CIA director, Cheney dismissed concerns over the CIA’s torture program. Asked in a television interview last week about the program, Cheney said, “if it were my call, I’d do it again.” Sadly, the majority of the US Senate agreed with Cheney that putting a torturer in charge of the CIA was a ...
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