I linked this article in a previous post
LINK HERE
My blog friend Leigh offers his thoughts:
Irish,
Sometimes, I shouldn't drink and ponder the woes of our
country....at a keyboard. :-\
Leigh
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Well; life was a lot simpler when I thought I knew, what I knew.
Commies were the bad guys, and my government was only interested
in
my happiness and well being. As I got older, I began to analyze
things more – cast a more critical eye upon the world around me.
Things started to make less sense. Social workers instructing
people
how to game the system. Laws aimed at the “criminal element”,
then realizing that in the vague wordings of the law made me the
criminal. A justice system that protected the powerful, and the
famous; yet hunted the ordinary man for the least infraction.
Onerous
taxes levied against those who worked the hardest for their
living,
by an agency that ultimately has no actual legal standing to
impose
such tariffs. Police went from being Andy Griffith, to Judge Dredd
in
the span of two decades; serve and protect got replaced by revenue
bounty-hunters. Politicians now just outright lie to your face,
then
dare you to try to do something about it – sorry, it wasn't a
lie...it just depends on what your definition of “IS”, is.
Ignorance truly is bliss, because I wouldn't be so pissed off and
dejected at the sorry state of affairs that is consuming the
world.
I never was a trend follower, so the trappings of popular culture
never really got their claws into me. More or less, being a loner
all
my life ( my definition of loner, is someone who doesn't require
approval of the masses to validate their self worth), I never felt
the urge to tell the whole world my every action. Therefore the
influences of “social” media were never really a factor in my
life. Besides, I've always had a built in bullshit detector. After
learning how to pay attention to it, I began to realize when I was
being steered.
When I am being spoon fed a narrative, the alarms start going off.
You want something to point at? Especially in the education
system?
How about some of the classic pieces of literature that aren't
covered anymore – or out-right banned?
1984...
Fahrenheit 451...
Animal Farm....
Huck Finn....
Atlas Shrugged.....
They don't cover these works anymore, because they cast the events
of
today in the light they were intended. TPTB can't have the Prole's
figuring out that what is happening is not only wrong, it is in
many
instances evil at its very core. So they jam a standardized
curriculum down everyones throat, and that standard is mediocrity.
No
one is allowed to be better than anyone else. Lest some tender
flower
get their feelings hurt. Social justice for all. Excellence be
damned.
Carlin was right, they only want people smart enough to run the
machines but not so smart that they realize what is happening
around
them.
I was heart broken on 9/11.....but I really wonder what exactly
happened that day. I don't consider myself a truther, but I also
can't swallow everything that I have been told either. The first
red
flag for me, was the sudden appearance of the PATRIOT Act. A four
inch thick document just miraculously appears overnight? Yeah, I
doubt it. Then the reports start coming out about domestic
surveillance, and how anyone who doesn't subscribe to the party
line
is a terrorist. The exponential ratcheting up of the militarized
police state, illegal searches, Constitutional violations, no
accountability..... The recent laws passed to supposedly reign in
the
warrantless collection of data, got amended to make it just the
opposite. Instead, it made all communications essentially the
property of the government – so it isn't illegal for them to
collect and sift through them now. One lawyer that analyzed the
law
commented that it was so vague that ANYTHING that MIGHT be
construed
as Communication falls under the jurisdiction of the alphabet soup
agencies – no warrant required, whether it be in your phone,
computer, et al.....
When you look around and the barbed-wire and guards are all facing
in, you realize it isn't there for your protection
When I look around ZeroHedge, and see how badly the markets are
manipulated EVERY DAY, it
really
makes you wonder if they think we are that stupid. Each bubble
in the market gets propped up by the next one, and so on, and so
on.
(LOOK, a squirrel! Pay no attention to the T-Rex!)
Then the news tells you how great the employment numbers are. In
the
next breath says labor participation rates are the lowest they
have
been since the Depression. If the rate is only 63%, then it stands
to
reason that the Unemployment rate is closer to 40% than 6%.
At this point there are 1.4 moochers and looters for every
producer.
How much further does it have to slide before it collapses,
because
there aren't enough people for the State to bleed dry?
But that is another benefit for the State,
no one
questions the numbers, 'cause maaf is hard! So hard in fact, that
we
have to spend more money than we take in, to keep the economy
solvent...... WHAT?!?!?! You have got to be f'kin shitting me! No
sense being fiscally responsible, just whip out the ole Gov't
credit
card and roll up another Trillion of debt from our enemies. What
the
hell, right? What could possibly go wrong? We'll just print
another
couple ton of Monopoly Money, out of thin air, and pay it all off.
Which makes you wonder – at what point do Zimbabwe Bucks out-value
our own?
I know you asked for my take, and I'm afraid what you got was a
rant
, parallel to an article I almost wholly agree with.
I do disagree with his assessment of the Ebola outbreak, I believe
it
is dangerously under-reported and far worse than they want us to
believe.
The use of constant fear mongering is straight out of 1984; but
the
15 minute hate, is in fact, constant. People are afraid. They are
angry. We are purposely being divided to keep us weak.
Money is hedging its bets with tangible goods – gold, silver,
land,
etc. So far 36 (more?) prominent bankers have met with violent
ends,
in just this year alone – for what reason, and to what end?
The fed asking for bids for “Survival kits for bankers” ......
The unrelenting appetite of the fed for all manner of ammunition
and
weapons......
The fed buying up “survival food”.......
The pre-positioning of vehicles and equipment to every corner of
the
country.......
The signing of un-Constitutional treaties with the UN.......
The fed doing trial runs shutting down cell transmissions and
internet sites......
What is being prepared for?
Somebody, somewhere, thinks they've got it all figured out. That
all
they have to do is push that first domino, and all the others they
so
carefully placed will perfectly fall in line.
The problem with a perfect plan is: no plan is perfect.
What's the old saying?
“The best laid plans of mice and men.....”
Well; of mice, anyway.....
I liken it to a fat, spoiled, arrogant little kid sitting in a
puddle
of gas, playing with a lighter. Nothing could ever go wrong.
Then it does.
Something bad is going to happen. I'm afraid it could be soon. The
cusp of the next Dark Age, if you will. When it starts, it is
going
to spin out of control and consume everything in its path. I don't
care how well people think they are prepared, they're not.
It'd be nice to think it would end up as a total reset of the
Republic, but I sincerely doubt it.