The American Dream is Only for the Super Rich: Wake Up!

Staff Writer, R. Patrick Chapman

Finance / Economy / Politics

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The American Dream is Only for the Super Rich: Wake Up!, Episode 594

In this episode of the Keiser Report, Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert discuss living behind the ‘CNN Curtain’ where the dollar is still mighty and America has just landed on the moon. Meanwhile, on the other side of the CNN Curtain, the American worker is earning less than his or her counterparts around the world. In the second half, Max interviews Chris Cook about a gas coin, tally sticks, compound interest, national debt versus national credit, ‘T to T’ = Treasury to Taxapayer, trade wars and obsolescent central banks.

How Americans are living in the world:

Good-bye, Lenin

Source: Keiser Report

Mad Canadians Call for Intercontinental Action Against Corporate Trade Agreements

Staff Writer, DL Mullan

Trade Agreements / Treaties / Government

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We can tease and make fun of Canadian sensibilities and stereotypes all day long but the fact is residents of Canada are piping mad.

NAFTA, WTO, TPP, and now CETA... Who could blame them?

According to the Trade Justice Network, CETA is: 

The Canada-EU Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement is being negotiated as a “next-generation” free trade deal that goes beyond NAFTA and the WTO in shielding corporate activity from government controls. The draft agreement includes extensive chapters on services and investment, government procurement, intellectual property, and standards and regulations. It will also contain a controversial NAFTA-like investor-state dispute process that allows corporations from Europe to directly challenge and sometimes overturn Canadian laws that interfere with profits – even for public health or environmental reasons.

So on January 31, 2014, there is a call for an Intercontinental Day of Action! Here's how you can participate in your local area to bring awareness and help stop these horrible trade agreements and treaties from becoming laws in your country. 

No more NAFTA — 20 Years is Enough!
This is a call to action for communities throughout Mexico, Canada and the United States to join together on January 31, 2014, and say “ENOUGH!” to the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), the pending Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and other corporate “trade” deals. Solidarity actions elsewhere throughout the globe are also welcome.

January 2014 marks the twenty-year anniversary of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), a pact that has had devastating consequences for working families, small farmers, indigenous peoples, small business and the environment in all three countries and beyond. The pending Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) has been described as “NAFTA on Steroids.” Four years into the TPP negotiations, this new corporate power grab threatens to:

• Destroy livelihoods and accelerate the global race to the bottom in wages and working conditions
• Further commodify agriculture, trample food sovereignty, hurt small farmers and contribute to forced migration
• Enable new corporate attacks on democratically-enacted environmental and consumer protections
• Undermine global economic stability by prohibiting effective regulation of financial markets
• Reduce access to life-saving generic medications, increase the costs of prescriptions, and restrict freedom on the Internet

The harm that NAFTA has already cost our communities, and the new threats that the TPP poses, must be both acknowledged and resisted. We also need to spread the word that since NAFTA, when people have come together across issue areas and across geographic borders, we have defeated similar corporate power grabs like the Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI), the Millennial Round of the World Trade Organization, and the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA). We will do so again with the TPP.

We are calling on you to attend, and ideally help organize, a demonstration against NAFTA and the TPP in your community. An international march is already planned for Mexico City, and people are already beginning to organize actions in other cities.

Get involved now and save humanity from more globalist catastrophes.

Source: Trade Justice Network

The New Soviet Stasi: Sustainability So We Don't Have to Look at the Disabled

Staff Writer, DL Mullan

International News / Sustainability Hoax

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Ich speche ein bissen Deutsch. (translation: I speak a little German.) I better, I studied the language for three years in high school. I have always wanted to visit Germany and put some of my skills to the test.

That dream has died when it comes to Hamburg.

As the article, Hamburg’s Plan to Eliminate Cars in 20 Years* (translated from the original German), states: 

With this network, Hamburg will be following a trend, perhaps best exemplified by Copenhagen, of cities constructing cycle paths in order to linking outlying areas to city centers. And, importantly, the plan will make the car – currently the only transportation option to get from one part of the city to another – essentially unnecessary.

I guess Germany has not realized the Tom Foolery of Sustainability. For one, global warming and climate change are hoaxes perpetrated on the public to steal money for unsustainable projects out of the pockets of the middle and lower classes in order to bankrupt the economic system.

Oh, you haven't heard of that before? Read: Rosa Koire's book: Behind the Green Mask for starters. You'll understand how sustainability is a fraud.

And two, sustainability seems to be discriminating against the disabled. As a disabled person visiting Hamburg in 20 years, I could not move around the city. I cannot walk distances and I certainly cannot ride a bicycle. Because of my condition, I cannot ride public transportation. Someone needs to drive me places in a vehicle.

The years I spent dreaming of going to Germany and learning the language and culture appears to have been wasted.

If Germany continues down the path of discrimination against the disabled for a more sustainable Soviet Stasi State, then I guess I will have to ditch my English to German translation and learning books for a new dream that isn't filled with contempt for people like me.

Thanks, Hamburg!

*Brought to you in part by: the United Nations, IPCC, Global Warming Hoax, Climate Change Fraud, Sustainability Initiatives, and Discrimination Against the Disabled... Thanks!

Pope Francis and the Little Evangelii Gadium that could

Staff Writer, DL Mullan

Government / Religion

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The Separation of Church and State is a sentiment the Catholic Church has not cared much about since its inception. If you do not know, today the Pope released his "Evangelii Gadium." Or, as it should be known: "Almost Got it Right, but No Cigar." Maybe he will do better next time. 

Pope Francis, what you attacked today was not Capitalism, more like Capitolism. It is the switch from an economy based on items bought, sold, and transported by individuals and not by the government to my version with an "O." 

CapitOlism is a private market where corporations write their own laws to exclude competition through regulation and taxation while maintaining that regulations and taxation are hurting their profits. When in actuality the problem is not having the entire monopoly over their chosen market because some small businesses survive economic terrorism executed by these corporate tyrants. 

The way this agenda is accomplished is by bribing politicians and governments to surrender total control to the corporate empire. Individual rights are ignored while the rich corporate entities and the poor work force's economic separation grows deeper and deeper for the complete economic, political, social, psychological, religious, mobile, militaristic, and communicative domination by this elite oligarchy.

What the Pope fails to articulate is that conservatism is NOT a religion. It is a political agenda that declares: the few should rule the many by telling the many it is their fault for the world's woes. Why should the few have to pay for the many being lazy whiners? When in reality, the opposite is true. The few are lazy whining about what they don't own. Pay themselves obscene amounts of money and bonuses to run companies into the ground. Steal workers' pension funds. Gamble with stocks, bonds, and derivatives. This economic terrorism is to destroy the economy with booms and busts, which weed out any competition until the many have nothing: no jobs, no homes, and no way not to be dependent on government money and control.

And I still have not figured out how that can be "compassionate."

Trickle down economics was debunked quite some time ago. It does not work. Well, it does, just in the opposite direction. The riches do not funnel down. Wealth is funneled upward. Again the economic disparity grows.

That is the point, Pope Francis.

The problems of the world were created by humans for greed, lust, and power. All of these materialistic possessions of the mind are ones that can never be attained. It is an illusion. Our lives are an illusion. Humans are spiritual creatures. Immaterial in the span of eternity as are possessions.

Yet, a few maintain that they are the ruling class when that is an illusion too. All humans were created equal. Equal Rights. Equal lives. Equal liberties. Equal pursuits of happiness.

Pope Francis, the only way the poor are assisted is not by socialism, communism, or fascism. It is CapitAlism. Until cronyism, nepotism, idolatry, greed, and delusions of grandeur are eliminated from the economic system by actual reform, regulation, and de-monopolization of the current corporate stratagem, then this attack on the poor will continue by impoverishing 99% of the world.

We need sanity. No more "too big to fail." Instead people need to render those marketing terms as negative impacts on people and create true CapitAlism, then and only then can the poor be lifted into an upward economic motility that creates real prosperity. Not the illusion of prosperity for the top one percent of society.

When people strive, invent, and dream, that is how the human race benefits, touches the Moon, and explores beyond the immature banality of war, terrorism, and tyranny.

But it takes leadership.

If you want to discuss the realities of the world, I'm sure one of your people can find my number. Until then, each individual who calls themselves an American needs to read, research, and discover the extrinsic duality of our laws, government, and global elitists. It's not glamorous, but the rewards for returning to our Forefather's vision of equality, rights, and success will be well worth the sacrifice.