'An inquisitive alien visits the planet to check on our progress as a species, and gets into a conversation with the first person he meets. The alien discovers that we live under the rule of a thing called "government", and wants to understand more about what "government" is, what it does, and why it exists.' -- Two there shall be, a master and a slave: one to embody power and the other to crave it.

"If you get rid of the government, then the costs of violence are imposed directly upon the person who wants to use the violence." - "Intellectualism is a defence against inflicted falsehoods as a child." - "People get that morality has been used to control them as children, and as soon as they try to treat morality as morality and make it universal to their society as a whole, they're attacked as immoral, as uncaring, as brutish and wrong... It's crazy. People's brains are fried... they have been crippled, mentally." -- How many fingers, Winston?

'...there have been no substantial retrenchments of the US government, and the situation is getting worse, on a hyperbolic curve. Trends in motion tend to stay in motion until a genuine crisis changes them, and this trend has been gaining momentum for over a century. The fact is that when a government collapses, especially when the government is providing all the things the US government does today, people want somebody to fix it; they want their goodies back. It's well known that over 50% of the US population are net recipients of state largess. And the degree of state support and involvement in the US is far, far greater than it was in France, Russia or Germany. After a period of chaos, it's always the people who are most political, who have the most rabid statist ideas who get the public's attention and rise to the top. It seems highly likely that the US will get a savior, someone full of bravado, who assures the booboisie that he can straighten things out – if he is given sufficient power. Perhaps it will be an arrogant windbag like Gingrich, perhaps some general. The government won't wither away; it will reassert itself. I don't see any way around it, actually. We are already moving into a police state...' -- There's no stopping what can't be stopped, no killing what can't be killed.

'The idea is that a technocracy of the elite can present candidates who are the most "competent" at administration. The corollary to this, of course, is that one must accept EVERY FACET of the CURRENT system to accept that one is voting purely for competence. In other words, if people do not like the current corporatist/authoritarian/totalitarian/militarized state that is being constructed around them, they're simply plumb out of luck. That's because the candidates on this "best of all worlds" won't be running on how to CHANGE what's going on – only on how to administer it BETTER. The idea, of course, is to ensure that any discussion of the FAILURES of government ends up providing an anodyne – that is a solution that INCLUDES MORE government. In other words, government is a terrible problem and the only solution is to increase it and make it better and more responsive – and larger and larger. The absurd end result of such a point of view is an all-encompassing government stretching around the world with ever-vaster resources. The additional resources will be needed to police government itself. In other words, as the corruption grows, so the resources of government must grow.' -- Pied pipers are piping.

No such thing as a free government. <-- Pointing Finger is Pointing

'It is fundamentally a problem of the politicians. They have their 'political philosophies, their 'causes', and their 'departmental interests', an eye on specific sectors of the electorate, and on top of this is simple inertia. That government must do x has become a state of mind, along with the belief that x is an absolute necessity for the government. ...they never do enough to address the problems of their reliance on borrowed money. As I have many times argued in this blog, it is a vicious cycle in which the more a country borrows, the more more the economy is structured to consume the resources of the borrowing, and the more dependent the economy is on ongoing borrowing. Increasing the borrowing sees further restructuring of the economy to service the debt, and reduction in borrowing sees the elements of the economy that are unable to survive without the borrowing exposed to the light of day. Then there is the positive feedback. The more borrowing in the economy, the more activity in the economy, the higher the GDP growth, and the greater the GDP growth, the greater the borrowing as the growth is taken to indicative of an ability to repay the borrowing. The greater the borrowing, the more the economy restructures to service the consumption that originates in the borrowing. And so it goes on.....and this is how we come to the current crisis.'

'Revolutions are dangerous and unpredictable beasts, and for a population to enter into one without fully understanding what is at stake is much like handing a loaded 45 automatic to a toddler.' -- What have you bought into; what will it cost to buy you out?

"The free-market is predicated upon win-win negotiations." -- "Is government inherently evil? 'Government' is just one category of the initiation of force. The initiation of force is evil." -- "It's a logical fallacy [Post hoc ergo propter hoc] to say that because the government does it, if the government doesn't do it, it won't get done." -- "Saying you give money to the IRS is like saying you make love to your rapist. It's a contradiction in terms. It's like saying you're being charitable to the man who is robbing you." -- "Representatives are not accountable to voters. Do you have a contract with your political representative?" -- "You don't need a government for people to get together and make decisions." -- "If you live in a world of words you can manipulate your fantasies in any way you want. The Matrix is language. 'Government should be held accountable for its actions.' An imaginary entity should be held accountable in some imaginary, undescribed way for the actions which itself as an imaginary entity it can't even take since the 'government' doesn't exist and cannot act."

'It took 150 years to blow up the banking sector – a brief history of a slow detonation.' -- Pointing finger is pointing at "government"

'Where is the transparency meme coming from? Like so many things, it is apparently being promoted by the elite itself. In fact, there is a group called Transparency International, founded by a former senior executive of the World Bank, which promotes the idea that a transparent government is a perfected one. "Transparency" has seemingly been identified as a way to resuscitate the idea of government as a moral and economic necessity. In fact, both of these themes, transparency and direct democracy, are seemingly an attempt by the Anglosphere power elite to offer a solution to the drawbacks of modern governance via the use of the Internet. ...the elite's think-tank mavens at Tavistock believe they have hit on a promotion that appeals to youngsters while fulfilling its larger agenda of rehabilitating generally the concept of government. Government is a necessary part of world control. No government, no elite control.'

'...the US is bankrupt and on the verge of complete collapse. If the US government defaults by going bankrupt and refusing to pay its debts we would see turmoil and a deflationary depression that would make the 1930s look like Disneyland. Granted, if the government stayed out of the way it would be a brief, harsh depression... but it would be so dramatic and terrifying to most people that they'd likely call for the most dictatorial of all politicians to "fix it" which would only make it go from weeks or months to lasting years and decades. Alternatively, if they continue to print dollars to paper over the ongoing default then we will soon go into hyperinflation, which is even worse, and we could be headed for a few years, or more, of a Mad Max style environment in the US. In either case, I'd rather see someone like Obama sit there and be president when they have to announce there is no more Social Security and Medicaid or when the US dollar becomes worthless. My nightmare is that Ron Paul becomes president and a few months later the US collapses and the powers-that-be convince people that the reason it all collapsed was because of his free-market policies and we enter into a deeply dictatorial form of communism in the US.'

'The 1% do not generate any wealth of their own. Everything they have they get by taking from others under the cover of law. They live at our expense. Without us, the State as an institution would die. The State is the only institution in society that is permitted by law to use aggressive force against person and property. The State is the institution that essentially redefines criminal wrongdoing to make itself exempt from the law that governs everyone else. It is the same with every tax, every regulation, every mandate, and every single word of the federal code. It all represents coercion. The State is everybody's enemy. Why don't the protesters get this? Because they are victims of propaganda by the State, doled out in public school, that attempts to blame all human suffering on private parties and free enterprise. They do not comprehend that the real enemy is the institution that brainwashes them to think the way they do. They are right that society is rife with conflicts, and that the contest is wildly lopsided. It is indeed the 99% vs. the 1%. They're just wrong about the identity of the enemy.'

'On your territory, only you are permitted to produce money. But that is not sufficient. Because as long as money is a regular good that must be expensively produced, there is nothing in it for you except expenses. More importantly, then, you must use your monopoly position in order to lower the production cost and the quality of money as close as possible to zero. Instead of costly quality money such as gold or silver, you must see to it that worthless pieces of paper that can be produced at practically zero cost will become money. Because you can create paper money out of thin air, you can also create credit out of thin air. In fact, because you can create credit out of nothing (without any savings on your part), you can offer loans at cheaper rates than anyone else, even at an interest rate as low as zero (or even at a negative rate). With this ability, not only is your former dependency on banks and the banking industry eliminated; you can, moreover, make banks dependent on you, and you can forge a permanent alliance and complicity between banks and state. You don't even have to become involved in the business of investing the credit yourself. That task, and the risk involved in it, you can safely leave to commercial banks. What you, your central bank, need to do is only this: You create credit out of thin air and then loan this money, at below-market interest rates, to commercial banks. Instead of you paying interest to banks, banks now pay interest to you. And the banks in turn loan out your newly created easy credit to their business friends at somewhat higher but still submarket interest rates (to earn from the interest differential). In addition, to make the banks especially keen on working with you, you may permit the banks to create a certain amount of their own new credit (of checkbook money) in addition and on top of the credit that you have created (fractional-reserve banking).'

"We demand global democracy. Global governance for the people and by the people. Today we demand replacing the G8 with the whole of humanity: the G7,000,000,000." -- What have you bought into; what will it cost to buy you out?

'The polls show a vast lack of even a modicum of confidence in political leadership, the failures of which are all around us. The longer the depression persists, the more the rebellious spirit grows, and it is not limited to the Wall Street protests. Poverty is growing, incomes are falling, business is being squeezed at every turn, and unemployment is stuck at intolerably high levels. People are angry as never before, and neither political party comes close to offering answers. The State as we’ve known it – and that includes its political parties and its redistributionary, military, regulatory, and money-creating bureaucracies – just can’t get it together. It’s as true now as it has been for some twenty years: the Nation State is in precipitous decline. Once imbued with grandeur and majesty, personified by its Superman powers to accomplish amazing global feats, it is now a wreck and out of ideas. It doesn’t seem that way because the State is more in-your-face than it has been in all of American history. The mask of the State is off. And it has been off for such a long time that we can hardly remember what it looked like when it was on. Fascism, like socialism, cannot achieve its aims. So there is a way in which it makes sense to speak of a stage of history: We are in the stage of late fascism. The grandeur is gone, and all we are left with is a gun pointed at our heads.'

"...it's very easy for people to look at society as a whole as a mirror of the family, with the government as mum and dad, and with corporations or bosses as elder siblings, who have significant influence but no direct kind of power in the way that parents do. If we don't know how our own family experience has shaped our beliefs then we really are susceptible to these kinds of ideologies." http://youtu.be/KoGvVxh0iP8

"You who ask for welfare and handouts, and free education, free healthcare – are just as wrong as the 1percenters you protest. You're just not as good at using the guns of government as they are. The great divide is not between the 1percent and 99percent ... the great divide is between those who are willing to use the force of government to meet their ends, and the rest of us who want to find peaceful, cooperative, free-market solutions to society's problems – or at least, just want to be left alone by the moochers – the grandiose and the petty – and the social engineers, the deluded, the scammers, and even the 'well-meaning'."

"Statism is going to become like racism: it will still be there but it will be underground because it's so socially disapproved of."

'A tribute to the glorious accomplishments of many decades of communist governments around the world.' -- This is what democide looks like.

'When government is entrusted with the "redistribution" of wealth, no one should be surprised that the wealth straightaway is used to buy votes, to reward interest groups, to bribe constituencies, and to pay off friends -- not to mention to honor "public servants" with the style of life of which they think they are worthy. In terms of the growth of wealth and improvement of human life, these are all wasted uses. The situation is even worse when the money is borrowed or printed rather than taxed: The borrowed money must be taxed or printed eventually, while the printed money is simply stolen, by creating an artificial price inflation, from those who hold monetary assets (less likely to be the rich, whose assets are varied, than the poor and middle classes). Some people accept this corruption because they are deceived by the moralistic rhetoric that accompanies it (that the "self-interest" of the rich is replaced by the "public spirit" of the politicians); but it is more likely that the rhetoric is waved through more because people are satisfied with their share of the loot. As long as I get my "benefits" (Social Security, Medicare, etc.), then government must be doing a good job. Or, if "programs" exist to end or alleviate poverty, then we can congratulate ourselves on our own benevolence and compassion, as expressed through the "collective" action of government.'

'Amateur surgery always ends in a bloodbath...' -- "Begging the mafia to solve the problem of crime is a futile, ridiculous and embarrassing thing to do."

tags: 2+2=5 repetitioncompulsion statism government democracy delusion StefanMolyneux

Unoriginal sin is unoriginal.

'2b. “The cost of the drug test is the responsibility of the individual tested.” But if you are clean you get reimbursed. Would you pay to fail?' -- 'The largely irrelevant debate about whether poor people take drugs (yes) or whether this is state intrusion (yes) deliberately avoids exposing the true systemic corruption of the process: commitment not to identifying, and then solving, actual problems; but a society insisting that appearances/narratives/ideology are paramount.'

'Mike Maloney is asked if we are moving toward a one world currency, but is this possible? What is the relationship between the wealth of a country and war? Would all countries lose their economy in order for this to happen? At what cost?' -- I see plans within plans. http://www.thedailybell.com/2683/Edward-Mandell-House

'Dominant Social Theme: Government will give the kids what their parent didn't—a good A$$ whoopin! The blame game has started and naturally the government will not accept any responsibility. In this case, Cameron actually lays the blame at the parents of the tens of thousands of people rioting throughout the UK. We tend to think that this situation was destined to occur, as it will likely happen in other regions of Western society as well, because the system is financially and morally bankrupt. Inevitably the oppressors will face these sorts of "us and them" backlashes as people witness their living standards dissipate along with their future hopes and dreams. No one condones the riots and certainly this kind of misguided violence will do nothing to solve the declining public confidence in Britain's overly authoritarian government. One thing you can bet on is that the country that boasts the world's greatest concentration of cameras spying on its citizens is likely to get a few more.'

'"The al-Qaeda network is fully prepared to continue the jihad against the American infidels by launching deadly attacks, but your outdated and rusting transportation infrastructure needs to be completely overhauled for those strikes even to be noticed," al-Zawahiri said. "We want to turn your bridges into rubble, but if we claimed credit for making them collapse, nobody would ever believe us." "We'd really just be doing you a favor because then you'd actually have to rebuild them," al-Zawahiri added. Throughout the threatening video, the terrorist leader questioned the priorities of American politicians, asking why they would refuse to fund engineering projects that would create jobs, bombing opportunities, and new ways for the U.S. compete globally.'

Broadcast Channel 4 1/1/1998 -- 'Docu-drama of what the media might be like by the year 2012. EQUINOX's first drama, set in the future, focuses on the facts behind the suspicious death of media mogul, Liam Keller, whose software applications have had a huge impact upon broadcast TV, earning him enemies around the world. In the late 1990s, Keller had devised 'Gambit', a virus which enabled all technologies (the internet, television broadcasting, e-mail) to converge – to communicate with one another. Found floating in the Thames, a television current affairs programme sets out to explore how Keller might have met his death. Through Keller's life story this drama explores the consequences of future technology, reflecting on what might happen to our present day media over the next few years.' -- Keller: "The government is committing large scale larceny... [forcing] you to pay taxes for services that they aren't providing. From a consumer point-of-view, government is a failing brand."

'...many justifications are inevitably advanced for regulation including the idea of "market failure." This is the fundamental defense of modern levelers. But those who defend this concept cannot, when pressed, name a single "failure" caused by the market. Inevitably, when one begins to examine this argument, one finds that it was a previous rule or law that set in motion the distortion that the "market" supposedly caused. Regulation also forces bigness. The US – and the West – long ago passed into a kind of market-fascism where large corporations (themselves a product of regulation) are essentially paired with their regulatory overseers. It doesn't matter whether the regulations seem to make sense or not. The system is evidently and obviously driven by Anglo-American power elite interests and the end result is intended to be one where markets and corporations are big enough to function within the context of a "one world order."'

"Democracy is a system of bribery. And the only way a system of bribery of the general population can work – here's something for nothing, here's 'free' schools, here's 'free' health-care, here's 'free' pensions, here's 'free' roads – the only way that this can ever work is through debt. The only way that democracy can remotely appear to function is through debt. Democracy is debt. Democracy is predation on the unborn and the non-voting. It is the lending of the bankers on the future collateral of the unborn that allows for the existing population to be bribed in a democracy. Of course the government is going to do what the bankers want because without the bankers lending them money they can't bribe the population in order to get into power. Democracy is bribery; bribery is borrowing; borrowing is debt. When you have a system that is based on borrowing and debt, the bankers are going to end up in control of the system. The problem is democracy. The problem is the state."

'Elections were due in Syria in 1947, and the Americans decided to give "a discreet nudge here and there". This involved warning landowners, employers, ward bosses and police chiefs not to intimidate the voters. The American oil companies were paid to put up big posters telling the Syrians to "vote for the candidate of your choice" (apparently this baffled all the Syrians because the posters didn't mention any candidates by name). Hundreds of taxis were hired to take voters to the polls free of charge. And the Americans brought in automatic, tamper-proof voting machines. It didn't go as expected. The landowners and other elites ignored all the warnings and intimidated everyone. There were massive gun fights and scores of people were killed. The taxi-drivers bonded together and sold themselves to different candidates - promising to make their passengers vote the "right" way.' And worst of all, most of the pro-American candidates defected to other foreign powers.'

'Stefan Molyneux of Freedomain Radio interviewed by Jake Kettle on the prospects and possibilities of one world government, the Arab spring in the Middle East, the death of Europe and the end of the US dollar as a global reserve currency.' -- "Wrenching changes are coming."

'In order to seal you in slavery, your government must pretend that you were never free. It must shatter your true history into facile propaganda, into fairy tales that endlessly repeat the fantasy that your political leaders rescued you from the scary chaos of liberty. The murder of memory is the first crime of the State – and the source and sustenance of all its other crimes. Why do we believe this propaganda, these fairy tales? I submit that it is to avoid the knowledge of our own enslavement. Most people's beliefs are ex post facto justifications for the after-effects of brute power... We must abandon our illusions of Statist benevolence – not to save ourselves from the State, but from each other – from the festering resentments and predations that inevitably grow among citizens clawing and biting for crumbs from the political table.'

'One of the most difficult – and essential – challenges faced by libertarians is the constant need to point out “the gun in the room.” We hear nonstop nonsense about the “social good,” the “redistribution of income,” the “education of children” and so on – endless attempts to bury the naked barrel of the state in a mountain of syrupy metaphors. In more than 20 years of debating these issues, though, I’ve never met a single soul who wants to either shoot me himself or have someone else shoot me. I take enormous solace in this fact, because it explains exactly why these euphemisms are so essential to the maintenance and increase of state power. The reason that euphemisms are constantly used to obscure “the gun in the room” is the simple fact that people don’t like violence very much. Most people will do almost anything to avoid a violent situation. Just keep pointing out the gun in the room, over and over, until the world finally starts awake and drops it in horror and loathing.'

'...But after finally waking from the 10 year nightmare of the Osama Bin Laden fable, are the public willing to go straight back to sleep? Or are they going to start questioning the official narratives that are cemented into place in the wake of every large-scale event, narratives that always support more government intrusion in our lives, expanded wars of aggression around the globe and an ever-expanding police state?...' -- In some ways she was far more acute than Winston, and far less susceptible to Party propaganda. Once when he happened in some connexion to mention the war against Eurasia, she startled him by saying casually that in her opinion the war was not happening. The rocket bombs which fell daily on London were probably fired by the Government of Oceania itself, ’just to keep people frightened’. This was an idea that had literally never occurred to him. (Nineteen Eighty-Four)

'Hayes has embarked on an effort to legally prove that the enforced collection of council tax by government is unlawful because no contract has been agreed between the individual and the state. His argument is based on the sound legal principle that just like the council, Hayes can represent himself as a third party in court and that "Roger Hayes" is a corporation and must be treated as one in the eyes of the law. The British government doesn't want this kind of information going viral in the public domain because it is scared stiff of a repeat of the infamous poll tax riots of 1990, a massive tax revolt in the UK that forced the Thatcher government to scrap the poll tax altogether because of mass civil disobedience and refusal to pay. When viewers in the UK attempt to watch videos of the protest, they are met with the message, "This content is not available in your country due to a government removal request."' -- It is a fraud to conceal a fraud. (Maxims of Law)

'Why it is so hard to get people to think rationally about the state?' -- "Your parents own the house, so you have to obey them, or leave. The government owns the country, and so you have to obey it, or leave. Don't you see the pattern? If you want to change the government, change the family. If you want a more peaceful society, have more peaceful families."

"A laughable waste of time, effort, and energy."

"The only knowledge we avoid is self-knowledge. Everybody already knows. When you say the state is violence, everybody already knows it. The reason we know that everybody knows it is the speed at which they get upset. If they didn't already know the implications, they wouldn't get upset. Statism is violence; there is no 'God'. You have to work hard to avoid that knowledge because it's so obvious. So what are they avoiding? They are avoiding self-knowledge: knowledge they already possess about themselves, about society, about their friends and family, about truth, about virtue, about integrity, about courage. All of these things. So when you speak an idea and people get upset, the knowledge that they are avoiding is not what you're saying but what they already know. They are reacting not to you but to themselves. If you have to conform to other people's bigotries or face attack and rejection – that's not a relationship – it's a cult. And everybody knows that."

'Initially a Facebook platform game, Shadow Government will use economic and sustainability data, and government-modeling software from the Millennium Institute to give players a chance to build and run, or destroy their own virtual countries. "[Shadow Government] will also raise awareness about the services that Millennium Institute offers to governments, the private sector and civil society as well as individuals to better inform their green and fair growth policies and responsible behavior." Millennium Institute wants the Shadow Government games to be incorporated into curriculum from primary schools through universities. "We will be able to incorporate real world news and data, sometimes in real-time. We could take a different world-focus [with the game content] depending on what is going on in the world... Seeing how people play, in aggregate, will be one way of crowd sourcing ideas to help or predict systemic issues."' -- I understand HOW: I do not understand WHY

'One needs a problem in order to provide a solution. And the move is on, most obviously, to create ever-closer global governance and perhaps an alternative currency. Modern central banking has done its work, throwing Western economies into confusion and disarray. Europe is already suffering from IMF-style austerity tactics and Britain is implementing them now. The US is next on the list. The IMF austerity message is being "prepped" by the S&P warning... The result is a controlled social implosion that the powers-that-be can capitalize upon to introduce a new system, presumably a more globalized one, complete, perhaps, with a global central bank administering a new currency. IMF provisions featuring privatization, tax hikes and public sector "austerity" are designed in my view to provoke the very public anger that Western elites are counting on to fuel a conversation about yet MORE centralization and MORE governmental control...'

"Why do you pay for the wars? Well, for the same reason you'd pay off Tony Soprano. -- Every goal the government pursues is a political policy which is entirely dependent upon the initiation of violence. This is why terrorism is so impossible to define. Statism is terrorism. We are educated by terrorists. We are controlled, kidnapped, imprisoned and bribed by terrorists. And when we see it, and feel it, and speak it clearly, it will end."

'Free Range Empires and the End of Human Farming - Why freedom always leads to tyranny under statism.' -- "Citizens fund their own slaughterhouses. Just like cattle. Freedom = Wealth = War (Internal [Welfare State]/External [Warfare State]) = Collapse"

'The power of the Internet to uncover the true nature of elite plans, to expose the fraudulent central banking system, the complicit role of mainstream Western media to spread and reinforce elite dominant social themes, the ever-ready and vociferous support of the Vatican, etc. etc. This is what the elite are afraid of and, similar to how the Roman Catholic Church and European nobility attempted by force to restrict the power of the Gutenberg Press when the truth spreading impact of it began to shatter their control over European citizenry, the elite's of today are now resorting to "legalized force" in an attempt to protect their pillars of control from crumbling once again. Will the power elite be victorious in squelching Internet Reformation (IR)?' -- What we need right now is a clear message to the people of this country. This message must be read in every newspaper, heard on every radio, seen on every television... I want *everyone* to *remember*, why they *need* us! (Sutler)

'...control, control and more control is the statist's answer to everything, as if statists had a clue how to manage things without running them to the ground like virtually all statists systems (that do not benefit from cheap oil or other vital resources) do eventually. Truth is we are in for a rough ride and few people will weather it well. And our leaders – would be rulers, in fact – don't want to admit it since they always want to reserve the right to restart the welfare state so they can continue to pretend to serve the public. But as I recently discovered Charles de Gaulle to have said, "In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant." We all will be asked for sacrifices and to accept that those in charge of the public treasury are blameless; they were merely responding to their constituents and hadn't a chance to inform them of the facts of economic life, the plainest of them being that one just cannot get blood out of a turnip.'

'Today’s world has troubles unique to its time in history, from the global financial crisis to technological meltdowns to full scale, computerized global war. Observing the convergence of such events, contemporary prophets have begun to emerge from obscurity to suggest that these conditions might be signs of the demise of the modern world. These men are historians as well, using all manner of information and patterns from the past to provide context for where we are going. The men proposing these ideas are not crackpots living on the streets of New York; they are intelligent, learned men who come armed with the evidence to back up their claims.' -- POINTING FINGER IS POINTING AT GOVERNMENT: Collectivization/Infantilization: "We"; Subsidized/Wealthfarized Overpopulation; Debt Dollarization: Rigged/Over -priced Food, Rigged/Over -priced Oil, Rigged/Over -priced Energy technology investments; Polluted Water: Tragedy of the *at government gunpoint* Commons. PEAK GOVERNMENT is a meme.

'Own much?' -- None dare call it COMMUNISM.

'Japan's recent disasters only serve to remind us of the economic realities of nuclear technology – one of the most dangerous government programs in the world.' -- "Who's going to enter into a contract for 20,000 years?? The idea that [free market entrepreneurs] would take on this risk is inconceivable."

'I or any other citizen or subject must accept the rulings of government in our relations with others. We are required to abide by the law of this "third party." However, such a "third party" arrangement for society is non-existent among those who exercise the power of government themselves. In other words, there is no "third party" to make and enforce judgments among the individual members who make up the third party itself. The rulers still remain in a state of anarchy vis-a-vis each other. They settle disputes among themselves, without regard for a Government (an entity outside themselves). Anarchy still exists. Only whereas without government it was market or natural anarchy, it is now a political anarchy, an anarchy inside power. -- ...anarchy, like matter, never disappears—it only changes form. Anarchy is either market anarchy or political anarchy. -- ...anarchy is not completely abolished by government but reserved, so to speak, for the rulers only...'

'...the current strategy that the World Bank is proposing for Africa is in keeping with the larger economic illiteracy that informs Western world-spanning institutions generally. The World Bank is an agent of the Anglo-American power elite. Its real job is one of neo-colonialism. It propagates Anglo-American power by supporting "governance" – the various appurtenances of developing nation-states that are supposed to ensure that "investments" are implemented in the intended manner. Western powers-that-be operate via mercantilism; by pulling the levers of government behind the scenes. Without government there are no levers and thus no availability of control mechanisms. Africa is to become the world's next China. This has two advantages for the power elite. First, it creates an entity that can purchase yet more sovereign debt from the West – yet another buyer of last resort, a function that Japan once served and China as well.'

Comment: Anon: 'lol left and right... every one want the same food, shelter and joy.... look at those overlords instead of looking to the left or the right. wtf is wrong with people.. they are above you look up spit them in te face.. so your on the right side and poor well lets take it from the left side his is poor but hey we suppose to hate them and visa versa.... and i'm just a 15 year old lol so manny dumb people in this world'

'The U.S. is losing an information war to alternative media outlets, including RT. That's the message from Hillary Clinton to Congress members, who are questioning the State Department's US $47 billion budget request for next year. And as RT's Gayane Chichakyan reports, the U.S. Secretary of State says Washington needs to step up its propaganda efforts.' -- Competition is a sin!

'While al-Qaeda has long reached out to disenfranchised young men with guarantees of a heaven filled with sensual delights, sources said new enticements such as a 40-hour work week and a $37,000 starting salary with annual cost of living adjustments, make blowing one's self up in a crowded marketplace significantly more appealing to the many chronically unemployed individuals in the Muslim world. "By 2014, we believe al-Qaeda's new approach will be drawing hundreds of thousands of young men willing to annihilate themselves for the glory of God if it helps them get health coverage," Lowell added.'

'A Pentagon commissioned report looking into the financial collapse concluded a three-phased attack was planned by "outside forces", terrorists, or hostile nations, who covertly waged economic warfare against the US by using vulnerabilities in our financial system and is still in the process. Is this theory bogus or just something no one wants to talk about? Peter Schiff, President of Euro Pacific Capital weighs in.' -- "They could have bought one of my books on Amazon for $20 and that would have told them why they had a financial crisis."

'King's statement to the Treasury Select Committee as reported in the UK Telegraph is a pitch-perfect defense of central banking using the meme of private-sector blame. ...central banking blows up economies, leading to more regulation which further concentrates power in the hands of a few, allowing government and society to be even more efficiently run by the elite via mercantilism. It's kind of a closed feedback loop. The more chaos, the more regulation, the more leverage the elite has to reignite the process. Power is continually being centralized and the middle classes themselves (the elite's ultimate target) will actually clamor for the regulation that facilitates the process. In order to initiate the process, blame must be cast. There has not been enough anger at the private banking sector, especially in Britain where wrath has been focused – most alarmingly from the elite's point of view – at central banking itself. This is a direct result of the Internet...'

'A graphical presentation of some of the most common questions I get about freedom, peace and poverty.' -- But who will build the roads?!?!?!11

"The State is a parasite that almost always ends up eating its host."

'NASA was founded in 1958 by President Dwight D. Eisenhower for the express purpose of locating and assassinating God. By 1969, it had completed a successful lunar landing, bringing mankind that much closer to neutralizing the Almighty. It was in that year that U.S. astronaut Neil Armstrong became the first to step on the moon, and uttered the legendary phrase, "Where are you, God, you fucking faggot? Come and get me!" Over the years, officials told reporters, God had proved to be an elusive and formidable foe. In 1986, He destroyed the Challenger shuttle, killing all seven crew members, including Christa McAuliffe, a special operative who had been given orders to seduce and then strangle God with garrote wire. The Lord subsequently blew up the Columbia Destroyer Shuttle on reentry in 2003, and several times sabotaged the Hubble Space Telescope, a large piece of surveillance equipment launched into orbit in 1990 to monitor His activities.'

'Is Obi-Wan Kenobi a Wacko Conspiracy Theorist?' <-- Terrorist

'Maybe Zuckerbro has some ideas for a new age democracy where every1 just votes on issues utilizing facebook, and we don't need Congress any more, and Zuckerbro can just ride dictator waves/rig some votes. Is 'technology'/'the internet' really a big deal that deserves national attention, or just another 'fad' that will be outdated 1 day? Are tech CEOs just 'legalized dictators'? Is Mark Zuckerbro trying 2 hard 2 be famous and control the world? It seems like this was some sort of modern illuminati meeting, with every1 who controls the world (because the world = 'the internet') Seems like this was probably some sort of huge meeting to 'control the future of the world.' Here they are toasting to 'enslaving' ppl with less than 100 friends on Facebook and making them do 'data entry enslavement' 4 the rest of time.'

'...people who complain about propaganda the most tend to be the most susceptible to propaganda.' -- "I'm going to start calling it the 'peaceful market' rather than the 'free market'..."

"Once you've got enough cattle dependent on the farmer, you can't get rid of the farm. It is not the farmer who attacks me for talking about freedom, it's all my fellow livestock who attack me. Once you get enough people dependent on the government, anyone who starts talking about freedom gets set upon..."

'No one, but no one is pro- or anti-Mubarak. Here's what his 'supporters' should be called!' -- Great Man is Great

'"They suffered under Mubarak for 30 years and this is the consolation prize they get? Democracy? At least give them all new jobs, or $5,000 in cash. Something."'

'Bashir isn’t the only dictator to embrace social media so it doesn’t strangle him. Today, Syria’s Bashir al-Assad reversed a four-year ban on Facebook and YouTube. These might be hollow efforts to show online activists that they’re not fearful of losing power, but they’ll still have the effect of expanding access to technologies that regional reformers are using to stir unrest.' -- There is Like and there is not Unlike.

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'Dominant Social Theme: Assange is a blond stranger come to save the world. -- The power elite, having finally absorbed the message that the Internet is palpably powerful phenomenon has apparently decided to create an entity that can redirect the truth-telling of the Internet into supporting its messaging. By building up Assange, the elite profits from his credibility and co-ops that of the Internet itself. Assange is thus, potentially, a very important person in the scheme of things. Assange is situated at the center of important elite memes: the Internet itself; transparency as a way of making global government more tolerable and even appealing; and the "outsider" as a force for good, remaking centralized authority into an intimate and responsive endeavor. Assange, despite his libertarian musings, seems not to want to reduce the size of government so much as to make it more efficient and viable. The more this narrative unfolds, the more confident we are of this analysis.'

'The madness of Obama's State of the Union speech, Zetigeist: Moving Forward, the sociopathy of political power, the riots in Egypt and the death of statism.' -- "Nobody 'runs' dating."

'Dominant Social Theme: The Jasmine revolution spread unexpectedly. -- Could it be that the power elite itself is inciting these disturbances? Is the idea, eventually, to crash the dollar and set up a global currency in its place? We have already hypothesized that these manipulated revolutions (if they are fully realized) will give rise to Islamic states. Now we will further explore the idea that the West is hoping to install a variety of "democratic" regimes – many of them perhaps "national unity governments," with Islamic overtones. These overthrows might accomplish numerous purposes, including the furtherance of elite globalism. The power elite has always had an affection for national unity governments ... The idea is that by reasoning together, opponents can build better and more efficient governments – that do more things for more people. All these revolutions coming at once are almost too good to be true. And perhaps they are.'

'No centralized leadership: this is not the Muslim Brotherhood, or El Baradei ... This is true grassroots when you see it in action. People coordinating via Twitter and Facebook. No one giving marching orders. Regular people: people from all walks of life are there. Rich actors, poor youth, lawyers, journalists, movie director, women, girls, etc. This is not exclusively for religious or poor people. It is everyone. Different people: see above. Fear barrier has been broken: Egyptians finally got over the fear they have been living with for 60 years, and starting to confront the regime. My father was afraid. I was afraid. The new generation New media: in the 1960s to 1980s, the government could control the media, because it was all state owned, or they can ban it (newspapers). Starting in the 90s, things changed. There was satellite TV that broke borders, and the internet of course. Today, there are ways for people to communicate that the government can't control (completely at least).'

'...in an action unprecedented in Internet history, the Egyptian government appears to have ordered service providers to shut down all international connections to the Internet. Critical European-Asian fiber-optic routes through Egypt appear to be unaffected for now. But every Egyptian provider, every business, bank, Internet cafe, website, school, embassy, and government office that relied on the big four Egyptian ISPs for their Internet connectivity is now cut off from the rest of the world. Link Egypt, Vodafone/Raya, Telecom Egypt, Etisalat Misr, and all their customers and partners are, for the moment, off the air. What happens when you disconnect a modern economy and 80,000,000 people from the Internet? What will happen tomorrow, on the streets and in the credit markets? This has never happened before, and the unknowns are piling up.'

'Partisan news missing the point: Youth, poor have greater reason for dissatisfaction than tea parties. Partisanship obfuscates truth. Global revolution?' -- Ya dun goofed and the youth have backtraced it.

'Like the punks of the past, British youths have taken to the streets. But they don't want Anarchy in the UK. They just want a job.' -- What have you bought into; what will it cost to buy you out?

'The mindset of the middle class is off-putting—to the heterodox, to the sovereign, and to the individualist. The mindset is a dull recital on the virtues of moderation and proscription: don't stay up too late; don't drink too much; don't exercise too hard; don't risk too much; don't challenge authority; don't question orthodoxy. Democracy is particularly appealing to the middle class because it appeals to a faux sense of empowerment. The middle class is the human equivalent of an animal herd, because it never learns the concepts of unintended consequences, moral hazards, and opportunity costs. Such concepts are never taught, for obvious reasons, in its government-run education system. That the middle class pretends to understand the concepts of freedom and liberty makes it even more contemptible. Threaten the middle class's government-sponsored rice bowl with the specifics of liberty and it reflexively reacts with the brand of opprobrium: radical.'

'A new feudalism is being born. It is a quite deliberate effort of the power elite in our view, but people don't notice it – or haven't verbalized it – because it is difficult to analyze something when one is in the middle of it. But the feudal evolution is surely occurring. There is a sense of entitlement, even arrogance, among TSA employees, or so it seems; and this is evidently and obviously shared by other government workers in the US, including law enforcement officials. There are endless reports in mainstream media of inappropriate use of tazers, and of outright shootings; the drug-war has been especially corrosive to American civil rights, encouraging government "takings" of private property without due process. Government service is increasingly glorified, if not rhetorically than through compensation. The average government worker apparently makes up to 50 percent more than the average individual in the private sector. Gradually a two-tier society is created.'

'This is the issue: "How can the US cease its warring when so many people in that beleaguered country depend on conflict for their employment?" The US unemployment or under-employment rate (the real one) is somewhere between 25 and 30 percent. To reduce or eliminate garrisons in both Iraq and Afghanistan would inject hundreds of thousands of additional individuals into an economy that is struggling to provide employment to available workers. (Not to mention the private-sector "defense" jobs that would be made redundant.) And assuming that the additional workers find jobs; wouldn't they be at substantially lower salaries than their existing military compensations?" Were the US to suffer such an influx of unemployed as a result of adopting a sensible foreign policy rather than acting as the policemen for global morality, it is likely that trade unions and other leftist organizations would demand the existing wages of the military workers be maintained at current levels.'

'Why no politician can ever talk about how government spending is going to be cut.'

'It's hard to get upset with people who are so deluded...' -- "Politics is violence. Government is force. 'Laws' are violence. Prison is coercion. The police kidnap and imprison. National debts are theft from the unborn. Taxes are theft. Tariffs, regulations are all the initiation of force. The State is a monopoly agency for the initiation of force in a geographical area. The State is the very definition of violence. Government is exactly what people don't want to do because they have to be forced. Whatever someone is doing when they have a gun to their head, is exactly what they don't want to do."

CHANGE!!!