The surveillance state is much older than most people know

But times have changed drastically in that today its gimlet eyes are set on the right -- the real right, the lite right, even the quasi-right.

http://www.brasschecktv.com/videos/law-enforcement-corruption--abuse-1/is-the-us-a-police-state-.html
Is the US a Police State? When wasn't it? 

As you view this 45-minute 1971 documentary, remember that it's benign groups that call for a return to Constitutional government like your Patriot Network that the moles and entrapment artists focus on. Notice that the FBI is heavily implicated; normally the CIA is the big spy club that gets exposed for overkill and virtual treason against the citizens.

The "new world order" mob has now actually got itself convinced that the main threat to civilization (besides the "terr'ists") is the now-toothless, gutless Tea Party. That's how removed they are from the universe of reality in which the rest of humanity lives.

Above all, we must take full stock of the fact that the government agents purporting to stave off subversion are in fact the main subversives a shocking percentage of the time. In the beginning of the video is an assertion of my own thesis that government's biggest undertaking today is causing or even merely tricking up the appearance of crises to "save" us from. By about minute 23:00, witnesses and former perpetrators are saying that there were double, triple, even quadruple agents who switched sides so many times "nobody was really sure who they were working for" -- the grassroots groups under scrutiny, or the government scrutinizers/ framers/ entrappers.

It's always been a thin line between government using provocateurs to smoke out any actual trouble that's brewing and government using provocateurs to foment trouble to brag that they're protecting us from, complete with mass jailings as with the "Hutaree Militia" fiasco of a few years back -- mini-Guantanamos right here in the lower 48.

Today the line is just about submicroscopic as government mainly exists to frame mainstream America as its own worst enemy, to make normalcy look frightful, to transform the foreign terror threat it has rigged up into a situation where Americans are so phobic about each other they're willing to report any hint of deviation from the party line to the "authorities" -- "See Something, Say Something" and all that excrement.

Since we've sat still for the government scripting and then producing a Mideastern "terror" psychosis on us complete with tanks, surges and "depleted" uranium, they realize the sheeple will swallow anything, even penetrating fear of their own shadow and a Soviet Socialist imitation of life.

Lights! Camera! Action! Menacing shadows! Shocknig headlines! Whew, we're saved again!

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America in prophecy.... media criminality included

"America in prophecy" is a phrase often heard, usually referring to how this "great, God-fearing nation" was destined from ages back to appear in such and such future era according to Scripture, to "'lead the world" to greatness and purity of heart. Babdist preachers key it in with a prophesized "regathering of Israel"; President Reagan called us a "shining city on a hill", or said it's what we should aim to be.

For all their good intentions, the purveyors of these ideas are so drunk on cosmic bigness that they miss the value of smallness, modesty and reticence. These starry notions, shared by a big chunk of the populace, have been used to move us into a situation where Washington gets to do what it pleases with the full cheering, clapping approval of the sheeple as long as it's even vaguely in step with the dream.

The entity today known as Israel is in fact central to our whole national psychosis. The global continuum represented by Israel's psychotic leaders, its amen corner among American Jews and their amen corner in funnymentalist Christendom spell total radical-left Jewish dominance in American politics. Minor detail: the Jewish takeover of mass media which started over 80 years ago. It's not "anti-semitic" to say these things -- in other tone of voice, Jews brag on them even as they're persecuting Gentiles for merely mentioning them.

Everybody knows about it but it needs to be said and discussed. Most people don't have the paltry guts it takes to even think it. Any major trend or presence in our national life calls for debate, whether good, bad or even indifferent. (Well, nothing is actually that.) It amounts to ex-Christendom turning into one giant lobby for Zionism, i.e. the violent expulsion and holocausting of people Israel doesn't like. Primary but not alone in this category are the Palestinians, but through the power of the purse, Israel has America whacking almost any country it doesn't like. The city on a hill is now the junkyard dog of a systemically depraved entity 1/462nd its size, 1/39th its population.

The media, even "conservative" Fox News, move in lockstep in supporting, prettifying and flacking for the Zionist bandit state. When one of the media's talking heads finally says "enough" and resigns over the epic injustice of it all, it becomes a watershed in the meaning of the word "liberal".

The definition of that one term been raped as with all key political buzz. This site for instance pours all the leftwing sunshine it can on it

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/liberal?s=t

................but I've got news for them, its original, still proper but now lost meaning is something like "generous" or "reasonably open-minded". Generous, in turn, meant "free from meanness or smallness of mind or character" or thereabouts -- yes, I'll agree with the lexical adventurists on that one:

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/generous?s=t

Alas, "liberal" today is universally taken to mean "recklessly, cynically socialist", e.g. throwing money at problems and people in a jaded attempt to make problems go away, or one might define its new meaning as "embracing the morals, values and culture most diametrically opposed to tradition".

Jews are overwhelmingly liberal in this sense as a matter of statistics, so when they take over something it is indeed "transformed" as they themselves are fond of saying:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFE0qAiofMQ
Barbara Lerner Spectre calls for destruction of Christian European ethnic societies

Don't fight me on it, don't call me names -- it saturates politics in their own words and deeds!

As you may have heard, there was recently an extremely rare case of a national media personality getting fed up with flacking for this whole setup and actually quitting her job on-air -- Rula Jebreal. This article has the nub of our dialectic subject for today, emphasis mine:

http://tinyurl.com/lyjxbly
'Witch Hunt': Fired MSNBC Contributor Speaks Out on Suppression of Israel-Palestine Debate
........MSNBC Morning Joe co-host Joe Scarborough has publicly attacked fellow MSNBC hosts and slammed the network for its support for the Democratic Party. 
   “I did not think that I was stepping in a hornet’s nest,” Jebreal told me. “I saw Joe Scarborough criticizing the network. I thought we were liberal enough to stand self criticism.”

Voilà, the moment of truth for her and for all who put any faith in the mass media, especially modern leftist so-called liberals! This poor girl somehow reached age 41 with the real meaning of "liberal" in her head, and apparently thought that's what it meant to the Jewsmedia too. (Well, that's exactly what they ARE.)

Boy, did Rula get a wrong number! Today's so-called liberalism, including the "neocon" and other Republican varieties, is the farthest thing from self-criticism. Like all forms of tyranny, it means total, monolithic defiance against the very idea of self-examination, much criticism of oneself by anybody. Modern "liberalism" is the most bizarrely un-generous, close-minded outfit this side of the Supreme Soviet of the late USSR.

The amazing thing (in our multicultural society today) is that Ms. Jebreal's of Italian-Palestinian origin, and is even a dual citizen in Israel. I'm guessing the Italian half of her thought it saw true liberalism at work at MSNBC even as her Israeli side spent some time dishing the Zionist party line on the station. Sorry, sweetie -- MSNBC is "liberal" enough to dish the witches' brew of establishment propaganda, but not actual-liberal at all, not really. We hope you're now fully clear on all this, and invite you to come tell your story at a Patriot Network meeting.... that is, if you're serious and this is not, as cynically alleged, a trendy publicity stunt.

Jefferson and other Founding Fathers were true, beneficent liberals. Against the decaying tapestry of history with its royals, nobility, and privileged classes endlessly exploiting and brutalizing the lower ones, our heroes saw the need for true, healthy equality in these United States -- equality before the law, that is, not of opportunity or any guarantees thereto. Student loans, "affirmative action", "surgical strikes" on foreign countries, welfarism, or any other mode of charity whatsoever (most of it being totally fake)..... these were rightly considered abhorrent to the meritocracy they envisioned.

Liberalism back then meant the citizens themselves forming a new polity with their own bare hands, sending representatives of their own choosing to the gatherings formed to constitute it, everybody deciding their own fate and rising or falling on their own talents for the first time in known history. Well, that's an abstract rendering of it, but the reality was so opposite to today's ameriKa it might as well have been in another galaxy.  

The Good Book is pithy and startlingly current on the L-word. Living in ruinous times like ours, Isaiah managed to foretell a wonderful future time that sure isn't happening right now. From his 38th chapter via biblegateway.com:

4 The heart also of the rash shall understand knowledge, and the tongue of the stammerers shall be ready to speak plainly.
5 The vile person shall be no more called liberal, nor the churl said to be bountiful.
6 For the vile person will speak villany, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise hypocrisy, and to utter error against the Lord, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and he will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.
7 The instruments also of the churl are evil: he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaketh right.
8 But the liberal deviseth liberal things; and by liberal things shall he stand.

See? When this great Prophet lived around the eighth century BC (with parallels in the 1600s when the King James Bible was worked out) politicians were VILE CHURLS (v. 5) who loved to bribe people to get what they wanted from them -- including lots of political support for sure.

These not only starve the soul but the body of the hungry, just as today's almighty US fedgov has been vampirizing working people via taxes for 101 years and systematically breeding a criminal welfare underclass. As tens of millions are falling off of payrolls and into poverty thanks to ten figures of dollars being wasted on wars and giveaway programs, more Americans are indeed finding it harder to keep eating and drinking at all. How long till we're bathing in sewer water like the poor in Bangladesh et al?

But true, i.e. good and constructive liberals are something different in any age, and their works enable them to "stand" better no matter what or who is falling around them -- Isaiah's verse 8. 2800 years after him, human nature hasn't changed much.

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A refreshingly frank commentary on a trite political ploy

This is from the magnificent "Nerve" site of the SC Policy Council -- and what with all its stark honesty, wouldn't you know it?

http://tinyurl.com/q9vvy53
Nine Reasons You Should Hate Tax Referendums

To see anybody use the word "hate" positively and correctly these days is just incredible. The Beatles convinced the world that "All You Need is Love" in the 1960s, paving the way for an over-arching notion that hate is evil, period, and never needed, period. (Mind you, the people that preach this are often enthusiastic haters themselves -- of people they label hatemongers, for instance.)

The Bible tells us to love what's good and hate what's evil. Why is this verse never expounded by today's pulpiteers? In a sense it's the key to the whole volume. Politicians' games, gambits and strategems can indeed be hateful, and it's high time decent people started hating the right ones, because they are predatory.

I was surprised to see this piece for another reason: initiative and referendum" is one of the things considered essential for freedom under and state government. It used to be so in my early political years circa 1990, anyway -- and hasn't been heard of much since? Just goes to show that very few things are absolutely black or white in import. That applies to I&R generally, but not, obviously, to the tax variety.

In a sense this reminds me of an irony regarding hot issues at large. "Abortion," for instance, is a subject that some in both government and activist circles seek to put off by saying "The fedgov has no business handling it -- it's a matter for the individual states." Suddenly the fedgov isn't the almighty god over everything in the sheeple's life, wholesale? It has LIMITS? Even if the naysayers are right, I suspect many of them of doing a bit of dodging.

As in our subject today, tax referenda, there are wrongful efforts by politicians to get others doing their heavy lifting. Another case that comes to mind is the domestic invasion. Washington's job is to defend us from all threats that the states can't handle better individually, and this scourge is definitely one of them. But what's DC's response to this never-ending crisis it's brought on us?

Get employers busy.checking people's status -- not the government bureaucracies that exist to address that situation (preferably at the borders, airports etc.). Force another layer of controversial volunteer work on business. Hey, they've stood still for how many past blasts of the stuff, featuring the star of the show -- the withholding tax?

There's that word again -- "tax". How did it come to dominate things in this insane, ubiquitous manner?

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"Liberal" tax hypocrisy and chicanery

Looking for consistency with gliberals is like trying to nail jelly to the wall.

http://www.carolinajournal.com/daily_journal/index.html
Credit Claims Are Poorly Scripted

You probably don't need to ask what I think of paying movie studios to come here and generate their decadence. "Are movie moguls and TV producers," John Hood asks, "the only business leaders who care about their tax burdens? Are media-production jobs the only ones that state policymakers should strive to attract and retain?" Indeed.

Here in Anderson County, S.C., they play a game called "fee in lieu of"

http://www.scstatehouse.gov/code/t04c012.php
http://www.sctax.org/Tax+Information/property/Prop+Tax+Manu.+and+Fee+in+Lieu.htm

....which reportedly benefits the strangers to the detriment of the locals, as one might expect with something that's one-time instead of ongoing.

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Blacks are denouncing Obama across the land

And this filmmaker has really, really got the picture:

http://freedomoutpost.com/2014/07/peggy-joseph-woman-who-thought-obama-would-pay-for-her-gas-and-mortgage-he-lied-about-everything/#uTvBGecebjtehQAF.03
Woman Who Thought Obama Would Pay for Her Gas And Mortgage: “He Lied About Everything”

Yes, it's the very same lady who was shown burbling about how the messiah had come with the 2010 election -- Peggy Joseph! Her perspicuity climaxes with this comment:

I started getting a little more educated about politics and reading more. What I learned is, ‘never trust a wizard.’

What she has never to my knowledge explained is why the election of the Tan Everyman was supposed to mean no more bills for her. Did she think Obummer was going to personally come to her door and dump suitcases of money in her living room -- or that Washington was going to write checks to utility companies covering the "underserved" from coast to coast? It may be that she should have listened to a far less glamorous black spokesmen:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuGGFBJQMBY
Got ta do sumtin fo da po people! - Pastor James David Manning

The Wizard of Oz is a profound political metaphor in addition to being an unbearably vulgar, vacuous movie. (I really do consider anything involving Judy Garland serious cultural cancer.) Here's a book that had a colossal impact on me many years ago. I was so impressed initially that I ordered $200 worth of copies at least twice to give away to people. My admiration for it has diminished, despite his typically yankee race-proof Christianity.

Put some time aside to read it sometime! Among other things, it tells the story of the DOUKHOBORS, the radically (and blessedly) Christians sect that have been hounded from one country to another across centuries because of their radical (but correct) opposition to statism and refusal to be dictated to by WIZARDS. Writer and philosopher Leo Tolstoy is a pretty major player in their saga!

Whatever you do before we meet again, my friends, don't miss Pastor Manning's speech linked above.

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McDonald's a paradigm of American techno-decadence

.........or of this country's lifestyle, which it imports all over the world except to Antarctica.

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ECR-AYgpL0
What A McDonald's Commercial SHOULD Look Like

A clever satire using, per contempo custom, a white man to portray stupidity and baseness despite the great diversity of other archetypes to draw on in this our magnificent pluralistic wonderland today.

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"An ethical and moral imperative to starve the Beast"

Here's a great article direct from email putting things in rare focus -- tax morality. It's by Nick Giambruno of International Man (service@internationalman.com).

What is there like the U.S. Government for doing everything exactly backwards and counter-productive? What a nightmare -- with no end in sight as long as the sheeple are putting any faith at all in the "two" major Parties! (They're actually two wings of the same foul bird.)

Morality is what's missing from most people's politics and most political commentary. International Man speaks with as much authority on law and economics as the Wall Street Journal or any government figure, but with a conscience. I'm not exaggerating, it's exactly how they are!

Just think of it -- "Unlike most countries, which only tax domestic profits, the US taxes the earnings of foreign subsidiaries of US companies when the money is transferred back to the US"! What makes us the "greatest country in the world" if government is blatantly existing only to steal our rights, property and privacy? Why are welfare and other insane giveaway programs the sacred cows?

That's really the question here. Why is Washington giving any money to real or imagined charity cases, much less an endless sea of largesse as far as the eye can see, mostly or exclusively to people it's actually harming? If the government's our of money, why are citizens and business last in line any kind of mercy? I don't mean "mercy" in terms of more socialism but less less less of everything governmental, starting with taxes?

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Corporations Join Droves Renouncing US Citizenship

Don’t be surprised to lose if you don’t make an effort at being competitive.

And if you go out of your way to make yourself less competitive, expect to lose.

If that sounds like simple common sense, that’s because it is.

But it’s also exactly what the US has been doing for years—enacting tax policies that sabotage its global economic competitiveness.

It’s like trying to get in shape for a marathon by going on an all-McDonald’s diet. (Speaking of McDonalds, check out this funny video spoof of what their commercials should really look like.)

Here are two major reasons why the US is lagging in the global economic marathon:

1. The US has the highest effective corporate income tax rate in the developed world (see chart below).

2. Unlike most other countries, which only tax domestic profits, the US taxes the earnings of foreign subsidiaries of US companies when the money is transferred back to the US. This has had the effect of US corporations keeping over $1.9 trillion in retained earnings offshore to avoid the crippling US corporate income tax.

These “worst in the developed world” tax policies are clearly hurting the global competitiveness of American companies.

Being deemed a “US Person” for tax purposes is like trying to swim with a lifejacket made of lead.

It should come as no surprise that an increasing number of productive people and companies are seeking to shed this burden so they can keep their heads above water.

At this point, it’s more than just a trickle—it’s an established trend in motion.

And I don’t see anything that would reverse it. On the contrary, given the political dynamics—ramped-up spending on welfare and warfare policies, as well as an “eat the rich” mood—taxes have nowhere to go but north. And that means the exodus will continue.

Three Cheers for Walgreens

Over the past couple of years, dozens of high-profile US companies have moved abroad (or seriously considered it) to lower their corporate income tax rate and to access their offshore retained earnings without triggering US taxes.

Among them are Medtronic, Liberty Global, Sara Lee, and Omnicom Group—the largest US advertising firm—to just name a few.

Earlier this year Pfizer, one of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies, sought (but was ultimately rebuffed) to move abroad, which would have cut its tax bills by as much as $1 billion a year.

The strategy these companies are using is known as an inversion. It’s where a US company merges with a foreign company in a jurisdiction with lower taxes and then reincorporates there. Current US law allows for this if the foreign shareholders own at least 20% of the combined company (though some are trying to raise the minimum to 50%).

Now, despite the howls and shrieks from upset politicians and the mainstream media about these companies being “unpatriotic” and “un-American,” they’re doing absolutely nothing illegal. Inversions are totally acceptable within the current rules of the US Tax Code.

Chuck Grassley, a Republican senator from Iowa has said, “These expatriations aren’t illegal. But they’re sure immoral.”

I beg to differ.

Why would anyone want to give the destructive bureaucrats in DC a penny more than is legally required? As far as I’m concerned, not only is there nothing wrong with going where you’re treated best, there's also an ethical and moral imperative to starve the Beast.

And now the latest high-profile company to consider putting the Beast on a diet is Walgreens.

Walgreens is considering reincorporating in Switzerland as part of a merger with Alliance Boots, a European rival. The net effect for would be to reduce Walgreens’ tax rate to 20%, down from around 31% now. The move is estimated to save around $4 billion over the next five years.

What really has the politicians scared is that inversions have started to snowball.

The New York Times quoted an international tax lawyer stating that “it takes one company with enough public recognition to start [a] domino effect.”

Walgreens could be the company that triggers a domino effect. If Walgreens were to move, it would gain a significant competitive advantage against its rivals. CVS, Walgreens’ main competitor, paid a 34% tax rate in recent years. Can CVS really compete with Walgreens if the latter is paying 20%?

Probably not. And that will only lead to more inversions.

Another Way to Starve the Beast

Remember, US companies are not globally competitive because of these two unique burdens:

1. The US has the highest effective corporate tax rate in the developed world.

2. Unlike most countries, which only tax domestic profits, the US taxes the earnings of foreign subsidiaries of US companies when the money is transferred back to the US.

We have already seen how inversions can reduce #1, but they also offer huge benefits in terms of #2.

Reincorporating abroad allows companies to permanently avoid paying US taxes on foreign earnings. It also allows companies to access their retained earnings offshore in ways they couldn’t before without triggering punishing US taxes.

Medtronic, for example, has accumulated $20.5 billion of untaxed earnings in foreign subsidiaries. By reincorporating abroad, Medtronic can access that money without getting slapped with US corporate income taxes, which would save it billions.

For companies like Medtronic and Walgreens, reincorporating abroad seems like a no-brainer.

Contrary to the government propaganda, the villains in this story aren’t the companies seeking to diversify abroad to remain globally competitive. The villains are clearly the spendthrift politicians who enact these “worst in the developed world” tax policies, which create very compelling incentives for these companies to leave the US.