America

Land of the Free?

American Society Would Collapse If It Weren’t for These 8 Myths

Myth No. 8—We have a democracy.  If you think we still have a democracy or a democratic republic, ask yourself this: When was the last time Congress did something that the people of America supported that did not align with corporate interests? … You probably can’t do it. It’s like trying to think of something that rhymes with “orange.” You feel like an answer exists but then slowly realize it doesn’t. Even the Carter Center and former President Jimmy Carter believe that America has been transformed into an oligarchy: A small, corrupt elite control the country with almost no input from the people. The rulers need the myth that we’re a democracy to give us the illusion of control.

DYI:  Below is a list of just a few of the known wealthy individuals and their families.  Many from royalty are extremely rich such as the Queen Elizabeth II of England [$500 million] or the Queen Maxima of the Netherlands [$200 million] much of their wealth is well hidden pushing these numbers astronomically high.  Queen Maxima entire family wealth has been rumored for years to be near the $1 Trillion level.  Below are the top 10 publicly reported richest individuals in the world.

Carlos Slim Helu and family — $67.6 billion. ...

Bernard Arnault — $68.7 billion. ...

Mark Zuckerberg — $72 billion. ...

Amancio Ortega — $75.8 billion. ...

Warren Buffett — $90.1 billion. ...

Bill Gates — $91.9 billion. ...

Jeff Bezos — $108.9 billion.      

Myth No. 7—We have an accountable and legitimate voting system.  Gerrymandering, voter purging, data mining, broken exit polling, push polling, superdelegates, electoral votes, black-box machines, voter ID suppression, provisional ballots, super PACs, dark money, third parties banished from the debates and two corporate parties that stand for the same goddamn pile of fetid crap! 

DYI:  Problem – Reaction – Solution…The age old method for gaining control along with watering down more of our rights and civil liberties.  This is what all the Russian U.S. hacking of elections is about.  Create a problem [whether real or not] generate a reaction from the populous to do something then ride in on the white horse with the solution.  That solution is for the Department of Homeland Security [DHS] to have oversight of our election despite the fact elections by Constitution is solely a State matter.  If DHS is not kick out within a decade the majority of our elections through electronic vote rigging will be managed by the elites.

DHS designates election systems as 'critical infrastructure'

Myth No. 6—We have an independent media that keeps the rulers accountable.  Our media outlets are funded by weapons contractors, big pharma, big banks, big oil and big, fat hard-on pills. (Sorry to go hard on hard-on pills, but we can’t get anything resembling hard news because it’s funded by dicks.) The corporate media’s jobs are to rally for war, cheer for Wall Street and froth at the mouth for consumerism. It’s their mission to actually fortify belief in the myths I’m telling you about right now. Anybody who steps outside that paradigm is treated like they’re standing on a playground wearing nothing but a trench coat. 

DYI:  The main stream media is a mouth piece for war mongering military/security industrial complex, elite bankers, big oil, and medical industrial complex along with rampant consumerism all wrap up in flag waving patriotism.

Fake news is now the mainstay of the media as a majority of the calamities are simply fabricated with the age old motto “If it bleeds it leads” to draw readers, listeners, or viewers all to generate ratings thus increasing ad revenues.  This is exampled by use of low rent 3^rd rate CRISES ACTORS – who work cheap – providing the audience of how they lost their loved ones in the “latest never happened event” made for TV accident or criminal episode.  With the use of green or blue screen technology entertainers [reporters] no longer require travel, food and lodging expense to deliver the latest made up scare story.  Once that has been run through the fabricated news cycle it moves to basic media and if the event has enough legs with books and TV docudramas galore.

That is just the tip of the iceberg now that the Smith-Mundt Act has been modernized [repealed] it is legal for the Federal government to generate news or what is commonly called PROPAGANDA.  The main stream media now has the tax payers as a cash cow to deliver whatever political or economic narrative the elites desire using OUR MONEY while at the same time scaring the pants off of the unsuspecting and gullible.

Sane Progressive 02/16/2018  YouTube video regarding Smith-Mundt Act plus more.

ENTIRE CRISIS INDUSTRY AROSE IN WAKE OF 2012 PSYCH-OP LEGALIZATION

SANE PROGRESSIVE LAS VEGAS SHOOTING COVERAGE PART 2, STAGED BEFORE OUR VERY EYES

Think that the fake news business is new?  Miles Mathis outed the staged, faked, hoaxed O.J Simpson episode. http://mileswmathis.com/oj.pdf  

Doctor Oz and the Majical Sandy Hook Bathroom Adult and 15 children were inside a bathroom of that size is impossible just another slip up by DHS propaganda machine at NOBODY DIED AT SANDY HOOK! 

Myth No. 5—We have an independent judiciary.  The criminal justice system has become a weapon wielded by the corporate state. This is how bankers can foreclose on millions of homes illegally and see no jail time, but activists often serve jail time for nonviolent civil disobedience. Chris Hedges recently noted, “The most basic constitutional rights … have been erased for many. … Our judicial system, as Ralph Nader has pointed out, has legalized secret law, secret courts, secret evidence, secret budgets and secret prisons in the name of national security.”

DYI:  Everything said above is true here is an example regarding vaccines.  If you are injured by a vaccine you do NOT sue the pharmaceutical company but the Federal government in a special court just for vaccinations.  If you win [and some do] the U.S. Taxpayer pays the reward but in order to receive the money a non disclosure statement must be signed.  Plus the courts records are sealed denying independent news hounds the ability to read the transcripts.  Well if vaccines are so damn safe why all of the protection for this industry.  For this blogger the jury is still out regarding vaccines as a whole.  However such as the flu vaccine is damn near worthless as they state in their own documents [if you care to take the time to read it] it is only effective 10% to 30% of the time [failing 70% to 90%].

Vaccine Court has paid 3.7 billion in damages to families

Myth No. 4—The police are here to protect you. They’re your friends.  The police in our country are primarily designed to do two things: protect the property of the rich and perpetrate the completely immoral war on drugs—which by definition is a war on our own people. 

We lock up more people than any other country on earth. Meaning the land of the free is the largest prison state in the world. So all these droopy-faced politicians and rabid-talking heads telling you how awful China is on human rights or Iran or North Korea—none of them match the numbers of people locked up right here under Lady Liberty’s skirt.

One winner under Trump: The private prison industry

DYI:  This not a swipe at Trump the for profit prison system has been building for decades and continues to grow.  Also so many of the services at Fed and State run prisons are farmed out to private contractors creating a back door of partial privatization.

A typical example of how private prisons are run if the prison is full but they have the ability to pull in an inmate with a much longer sentence then lo and behold an inmate with a much shorter time period remaining is PAROLED.  In other words for profits desire their hotel [prison] to have a “full house” with long term inmates maintaining a reliable long term profit stream.  These companies have lobbied Congress to maintain and/or increase harsh long term sentences for as many crimes as possible especially maintaining the on going drug war which has been so profitable for the security state.   

Myth No. 3—Buying will make you happy.  The dark truth is that we have to believe the myth that consuming is the answer or else we won’t keep running around the wheel. And if we aren’t running around the wheel, then we start thinking, start asking questions. Those questions are not good for the ruling elite, who enjoy a society based on the daily exploitation of 99 percent of us.

DYI:  I’ve seen people from all walks of life driven to show off level of wealth through the ownership of a house(s), car(s), vacations etc.  I not advocating that we all take an oath of poverty but living below one’s means [many say they do but don’t] is an excellent way to stay off the circular mouse exercise wheel of off to work I go because I owe and owe and owe.

The 50/20/30 Rule for Minimalist Budgeting

  

Myth No. 2—If you work hard, things will get better.  But nowadays, if you work at a café—will someone die if they don’t get their super-caf-mocha-frap-almond-piss-latte? I kinda doubt they’ll keel over from a blueberry scone deficiency. 

Myth No. 1—You are free.  Point is, in order to enforce this illogical, immoral system, the corrupt rulers—most of the time—don’t need guns and tear gas to keep the exploitation mechanisms humming along. 

All they need are some good, solid bullshit myths for us all to buy into, hook, line and sinker. Some fairy tales for adults.

 DYI

Korean

Unification? 

US Resisting Pushes by North, South Korea to End War

State Dept insists peace can only come after full denuclearization

65 years after the 1953 armistice that stopped the open fighting of the Korean War, the nations involved still haven’t replaced it with a permanent peace treaty. This means that the Korean War is still technically ongoing, 68 years later. That’s apparently where the US intends for it to stay. 

While North and South Korea have discussed deals to end the war, and the US nominally has given its imprimatur to the idea, US officials say that there is little interest in the Trump Administration to actually do this, with some seeing it as undermining their leverage against North Korea on denuclearization.

DYI:  Ending the war’s stalemate is a path to unification unless the Military Industrial Complex [MIC] is going to be well fed this will not occur.  However, if the MIC will rearm the North after unification you will seen a single Korea in a few years.  It is simply a matter of money when it comes to the elites especially war material that are well known for high profit margins.

Also of note when it comes to nuclear weapons I find it odd that after 74 years not one country with nuclear weapons has ever been deployed in anger [not even a tactical nuke].  Either this is the most disciplined group of nations on the planet or something else is afoot.  All of the photos and motion pictures that I’ve seen especially from the late 40’s till the late 1960’s released from our government highlighting nuclear detonation testing have been FAKE.  During this time period the fakes are extremely amateurish to the point of being laughable.  Once above ground had a world wide test ban all we get to see is a cracked earth on the surface of an underground test which could easily be done with conventional munitions.  I find it ironic that in Japan if an individual denies that the U.S. used two nuclear weapons he or she is subject to fines and possible imprisonment.  Why go to such extreme measures if it is so clear cut?  For over the past 30 years I’ve toyed with the question do nuclear weapons actually exist?  I know nuclear power exist though related is totally different.  I’m not about to make the leap of faith and say whether they do or don’t.  As time rolls on my questions just continue to build.

DYI 

Vanguard

NEWS!

VALLEY FORGE, Pa., July 27, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Vanguard today announced changes to two actively managed equity funds. The $2.3 billion 

Vanguard Precious Metals and Mining Fund (VGPMX) will be renamed to Vanguard Global Capital Cycles Fund 

as part of a restructuring intended to broaden the fund's mandate and diversify its portfolio. Wellington Management Company LLP will manage the fund effective today. Additionally, Baillie Gifford Overseas Ltd. has been added to the advisory team of the $641 million Vanguard Emerging Markets Select Stock Fund (VMMSX). M&G Investment Management Limited will no longer serve in an advisory capacity for either fund. 

The restructured Global Capital Cycles Fund is intended for investors with a long-term time horizon who 

seek a complement to their core global equity allocation that exhibits lower correlations to the broad equity markets. 

The new strategy and name are expected to become effective in late September 2018. 

In managing the fund, Wellington Management will adhere to a capital cycles strategy as its primary investment approach, seeking to capture opportunities in commodity-oriented industries, such as the materials and natural resource sectors, which follow cyclical patterns. The strategy will also focus on companies that own irreplaceable or scarce infrastructure assets primarily in telecommunications and utilities. While the fund will maintain meaningful exposure to precious metals and mining stocks, the capital cycles strategy encompasses a broader opportunity set from which to identify return potential.

DYI:  As time rolls on I’m going to look very closely at this redo of Vanguard’s precious metal and mining companies fund [into the Vanguard Global Capital Cycles Fund] to see if the changes are still within DYI’s parameter of an uncorrelated asset.  Obvious if it passes I’ll maintain pure Vanguard 4 asset model.  However, if it does not then I’ll switch to the Tocqueville Gold Fund.

One does have to wonder if Vanguard throwing in the towel on a 100% precious metals and mining fund is a signal that precious metals are about to take off to the upside?  I’m certain there was talk about just that at the boardroom level.  Vanguard does NOT have a reputation of opening and closing funds as so many other fund groups do so notoriously to hide poor performing funds.

 

Be as that may be I’ll wait until I have an annual or semi annual report of the Global Capital Cycles Fund to pass judgment.

DYI

Odds & Ends

Positive & Negative Crosses!

50 & 200 Day Moving Averages

DYI:  By going to Yahoo.com/financial you easily set up 50 and 200 hundred day moving averages as I’ve done for DYI’s 4 asset categories.  The reason I use ETF’s is to negate as much as possible any capital gains that would distort the moving averages.  Also as with any indicator there is never a perfect one.

 

Be as that may be, the idea behind this is sound; when the 50 day moving average breaks above the 200 day that is positive for stocks or long term bonds to advance [bull market] in price or conversely when the 50 day moving average breaks below the 200 day moving average stocks and long term bonds are set to decline [bear market].

Of course as stated earlier it is not a perfect indicator with what is called a “Head Fake” just like in basketball the player with the ball fakes with his head [throwing off his opponent] but continues on his same path to either shoot or pass the ball.  The analogy is this, the 50 day may break above or below for a few short weeks or months but only to return to its original path.  However it does not do this the point of paralyzing this investment method.

Vanguard ETF Long Term Bond Negative

Symbol BLV

DYI:  Vanguard’s ETF Long Term Bond fund has thrown 3 head fakes since 2014 however going back to 2009 till January of 2014 the 50 day moving average remained solidity above the 200 day for a bullish trend.  The long term bond market since January of 2014 has remained trendless simply treading along the same price range.

Vanguard ETF Total Stock Market Positive

Symbol VTI

DYI:  Since January of 2011 the 50 day crossed into positive territory and has remained solidity in the bullish camp despite on a historical valuation stand point stock are massively overvalued.  Simply put rank speculation has driven stocks higher along with a very complicit and accommodative Federal Reserve.

SPDR Gold Shares Positive

Symbol GLD

DYI:  Gold shares were in a rip snorting bull market from 2009 till October of 2013 when the 50 day average dropped below the 200 day average signifying the end of that bullish trend and then entered into a brutal bear market clipping share prices from peak to trough of around 70%+.  However since January of 2017 the 50 day average has remained, admittedly by its finger nails, above the 200 day average.  Whether this will hold is anyone’s guess as historical valuations with gold at its mean signifying precious metals mining companies share prices could easily go either direction.

Vanguard ETF Short Term Bond Negative

Symbol BSV

DYI:  When dealing with short term bonds when the 50 day average breaks below the 200 day this is signifying the Fed’s have begun raising interest rates.  Since the bonds are of such short duration around 2.5 years as interest rates increase many of the bonds will mature continuously over the 2.5 years as this happens the money manager will simply replace the matured bond [at the new higher interest rate] with a similar duration thus increasing the yield that the fund pays.

 

Bluntly when the 50 day drops below it is negative but positive for the fund overall as you are now able to compound at a higher rate.  Since the fund has price movements that are very small.  DYI uses a short term bond fund as over the long term will out perform a money market fund while only increasing the risk to a small degree.  And of course when it positive the Fed’s are lowing rates so over the longer term the fund will compound at a lessor amount.

Since August of 2013 the 50 day broke below the 200 day as the Fed’s began increasing rates with only one minor head fake from September of 2016 and then resumed its negative path on April of 2017 and has continued that direction solidly till today.  So far the Fed’s have been stating they want to continue increasing rates so as time rolls on our short term bond fund will compound at higher rates.  The history of the Fed’s is they will increase rates till the economy goes soft or outright recession then they will reverse sending rates downward aggressively!

 DYI

Bubble

NEWS!

Spending our Way to a Fiscal Crises!

Ron Paul

According to financial writer Simon Black, the federal government is spending approximately 52,000 dollars per second. This, not last year’s tax cuts, is the reason why the national debt has reached a record 21 trillion dollars, which is more than America’s gross domestic product (GDP). 

Another ominous sign is that this year both Social Security and Medicare will have to draw down on their reserve funds to be able to pay benefits. The Social Security and Medicare trust funds will both soon be bankrupt, putting additional strains on the federal budget and American taxpayers. 

The excessive debt caused by excessive spending will inevitably cause a major economic crisis. Yet, with a few notable exceptions, there is little to no desire in Washington to cut spending. Instead, both parties are committed to increasing spending on warfare and welfare while ignoring the looming entitlements crisis. 

When the economic crisis hits, there will be no choice but to cut spending and raise taxes. Of course, Congress is unlikely to raise taxes or cut benefits. Instead, it will rely on the Federal Reserve to do the dirty work via the inflation tax. The inflation tax is the worst type of tax because it is both hidden and regressive. 

One of the worst features, if not the worst, of the tax reform plan is increasing the inflation tax by authorizing the use of “chained CPI.” Chained CPI hides inflation’s effects by claiming that rising prices do not harm Americans as long as they can still afford low-cost substitute goods to replace products they can no longer afford due to the Federal Reserve’s devaluation of the currency — as if people forced to buy hamburger instead of steak are not negatively impacted by inflation.

Increasing federal debt will also put pressure on the Federal Reserve to keep interest rates low to prevent federal interest payments on the debt from skyrocketing.  Eventually, the Fed’s monetization of the debt will lead to hyperinflation and a rejection of the dollar’s world reserve currency status. 

The question is when, not whether, the welfare-warfare state and the fiat currency system will end. Hopefully, those who know the truth will succeed in growing the liberty movement so we can convince Congress to gradually unwind the welfare-warfare state, restore a true free market in money, and stop trying to run the world, run the economy, and run our lives. 

 DYI

Anglo American

Propaganda

The Arrest of Maria Butina Is Another Hoax

The Guardian Newspaper, which once was an honest newspaper that spoke for the British working class has now been suborned, in my opinion, by the CIA and British Intelligence (sic). 

Whatever The Guardian is, just like The New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN, MSNBC, NPR, and the rest of the Western presstitutes, journalism is not present on its pages. 

What the West has is a Ministry of Propaganda. The public is lied to and brainwashed, not informed.  

I have read the indictment of Maria Butina. She is not accused of any crime recognizable by Anglo-American law. She is indicted under Jeremy Bentham’s 18th century totalitarian argument that she is guilty of the “crime” of possibly intending to commit one in the future. (See The Tyranny of Good intentions by PCR and Lawrence Stratton.) 

Her arrest is just another hoax perpetrated on the American people in order to fan the distrust and hatred of Russia, distrust that protects the totally unnecessary $1,000 billion annual budget of the US military/security complex. 

Many uninformed people think that President Trump is in charge of the US government. He is not. And he would be assassinated if he were. 

DYI:  This includes all of the Presidents before him going back to Franklin Roosevelt [possibly earlier] along with a bevy Speakers of the House are either controlled or are part of the game.  Many are members of Congress are Council of Foreign Relations agents which is the control arm and intelligence gathering for the elites.  

 As President Dwight Eisenhower warned us to no avail in 1961, the military/security complex is a threat to democracy and accountable government. 

The military/security complex is most definitely not going to permit any diminution in its income and power by permitting normalization of relations with Russia.

DYI:  The hardest concept for both American [plus Canadian] and Brits to come to terms with is the breath and depth of the constant stream of propaganda blasted 24/7 through all mediums of media.  Your favorite radio talk show hosts whether on the right of left or some where between will be required to “pump out” his or hers recommended daily dose of propaganda.  The same goes for any main stream media whether print or digital and of course TV propaganda outlets.

 

Think that your child’s textbooks are safe from propaganda?  Think again.  Your little tike will learn in school [around middle (Jr. High) school] that as a nation we put a man on the moon.  Well for those of you who are not there yet. No we did not and yes NASA faked the whole damn thing.  Fast forward to today's STAGED FAKED mass shootings; no one shot; no one died nor wounded PROPAGANDA all for the usual suspects.  The Encyclopedia Britannica has placed these FAKED events as real to be read as real by our young children who are unsuspecting of the vast fabrications our elites desire to have produced by our government and big business media.  Brain wash when you are young and hopefully as adults they will believe anything the elites have engineered to continue their outsize profits.

This is not some harmless affair these out sized gargantuan governmental spending decade after decade that continuously erodes and reduces our standard of living.  This blogger is 63 (October I’ll be 64) when I was growing up Mom’s stayed at home with the children with the average family being 6 [4 kids, Mom & Dad].  Today if you have a family the size of six and the wife stays at home you better be knocking down some serious money.  This wasn’t a women’s movement into the workforce it was a movement out of necessity if a couple wanted to maintain a middle class lifestyle.  Today I run across many couples where both work AND the husband has a part time job or small business on the side.  What’s next?  The wife and husband both have full and part time jobs and attempt to raise one or two children!

Below is a list of STAGED FAKED no one shot; no killed nor wounded; mass shooting DRILLS promoted as real all for PROPAGANDA.  There are truck attacks and yes they are STAGED FAKED events as well.  This list is not up to date as the Parkland Florida was FAKED and there are many others as they have been coming so fast it was impossible to keep up with all of them so I apologize in advance.  However you may find the list interesting and yes I assure they are as fake as a 3 dollar bill!

 PROPAGANDA - Fake attack list

Fort Lauderdale Airport Shooting - 1/6/17 F

Jerusalem truck attack - 1/8/17 Su

Melbourne car attack - 1/20/17 F

Westminster Bridge car attack - 3/22/17 W

Saint Petersburg Metro Bombing - 4/3/17 M

Stockholm truck attack - 4/7/17 F

NYC Times Square car crash - 5/18/17 Th

Manchester Arena bombing - 5/22/17 M

London Bridge van and stabbing attack - 6/3/17 Sa

Grenfell Tower fire - 6/14/17 W

2017 Congressional baseball shooting - 6/14/17 W

SF UPS shooting - 6/14/17 W

Shooting of Justine Damond - 7/15/17 Sa

Ohio State Fair 'Fireball' "accident" - 7/26/17 W

Charlottesville car and helicopter crashes - 8/12/17 Sa

Barcelona Van Attack - 8/17/17 Th

Rockford, Washington/Freeman High School shooting - 9/13/17 W

Las Vegas Route 91 Harvest concert shooting - 10/1/17 Su

NYC Truck Attack on bike path - 10/31/17 Tue

Dreamworld incident in gold coast Queensland Australia

Tucson, AZ Gabby Giffords shooting/Federal Judge Assassination - 1/8/11---> (9/11) Sa

Aurora, CO Theater 'Batman' shooting- 7/20/12 F

Sandy Hook, CT shooting - 12/14/12 F

Boston Bombing - 4/15/13 M

Washington Navy Yard in Washington, D.C. shooting - 9/16/13

Los Angeles International Airport shooting - 11/1/13 F

Fort Hood shooting - 4/2/14 W

Isla Vista shooting - 5/23/14 F

Charlie Hebdo shooting - 1/7/15  W

Charleston Church shooting - 6/17/15  W

WDBJ7 "Live" shooting - Roanoke, Virginia - 8/26/15 W

Umpqua Community College shooting, Oregon - 10/1/15  Th

The November 2015 Paris attacks - Bataclan - 11/13/15 F

Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood Shooting - 11/27/15 F

Inland Regional Center, San Bernardino shooting - 12/2/15 W

Brussels Bombing - 3/22/16 Tue

Orlando Pulse Nightclub shooting - 6/12/16 Su

Nice, France truck attack - 7/14/16 Th

Munich Mall Shooting - 7/22/16 F

Gold Coast, Australia Thunder River Rapids Ride accident - 10/25/16

Berlin, Germany Christmas Market truck attack - 12/19/16 M

Fort Lauderdale Airport Shooting - 1/6/17 F

Jerusalem truck attack - 1/8/17 Su

Melbourne car attack - 1/20/17 F

Westminster Bridge car attack - 3/22/17 W

Saint Petersburg Metro Bombing - 4/3/17 M

Stockholm truck attack - 4/7/17 F

NYC Times Square car crash - 5/18/17 Th

Manchester Arena bombing - 5/22/17 M

London Bridge van and stabbing attack - 6/3/17 Sa

Grenfell Tower fire - 6/14/17 W

2017 Congressional baseball shooting - 6/14/17 W

SF UPS shooting - 6/14/17 W

Shooting of Justine Damond - 7/15/17 Sa

Ohio State Fair 'Fireball' "accident" - 7/26/17 W

Charlottesville car and helicopter crashes - 8/12/17 Sa

Barcelona Van Attack - 8/17/17 Th

Rockford, Washington/Freeman High School shooting - 9/13/17 W

Las Vegas Route 91 Harvest concert shooting - 10/1/17 Su

NYC Truck Attack on bike path - 10/31/17 Tue

For those seeking additional information there is Miles Mathis updates as he has outed decades past and present faked and hoaxed events.  He is quite illuminating I have a reasonable level of confidence in his work as many that he reported on as faked or hoaxed I already knew thus increasing my confidence level.  So far nothing I’ve read of his seems out of step or off balance plus I’ve checked further after reading and came to the same conclusion(s).

DYI

Bubble

NEWS!

Taps Coogan: 55% of the US National Debt Is the Result of Repaying Debt with More Debt

The last time the US completely paid off the national debt was in 1840. It was the result of decades of balanced budgets under Presidents James Monroe, John Quincy Adams, and Andrew Jackson. 

In the 179 years since 1840 (counting the 2018 budget), the US has run a deficit 109 times and a surplus or balanced budget just 70 times, amounting to a cumulative net deficit of $14.2 trillion. All of the surpluses combined in the last 179 years amount to $580 billion, less than the deficit in 2017 alone ($665 billion). 

Since the national debt was last eliminated in 1840, the US has paid a cumulative $7.8 trillion of interest on the national debt. This interest includes repaying principal. Simple arithmetic reveals that 55% the $14.2 trillion in deficit spending since 1840 has, in effect, gone towards servicing the national debt. 

Put differently, instead of paying down its debt with tax revenue, the federal government has essentially rolled over 55% of its debt since 1840 with new debt. 

The result is that despite running ‘only’ $14.2 trillion in deficits over that last 179 years, and despite having already repaid all debt issued more than 30 years ago, the national debt today is $21.4 trillion. The difference, $7.2 trillion, represents the cumulative interest the US has paid to fund its deficits minus its modest surpluses. 

As a result, a full 36% of today’s national debt is, in effect, the interest paid on past debt. 

Only 45% of the national debt went to spending on actual programs. The rest went to servicing the national debt itself and to rolling the debt over with new debt. 

It also means that the government has been carrying forward the majority of the national debt going all the way back to 1840 by paying it off with new debt. A portion of the money the government borrowed in 1841 is still being paid for today via rolling the debt forward.

DYI

If you want to take the theory out of conspiracy theories Miles Mathis is an excellent starting point.

From the Desk of

Miles Mathis!

Also interesting to see that Randi Zuckerberg is criticizing her brother Mark this week for defending free speech. She is suggesting the US join some European countries in banning Holocaust denial. This is obviously a manufactured event, to allow her to do just that. No real people are outraged that Mark Zuckerberg defended Holocaust deniers, since there is nothing offensive about what he said. Free speech is nothing more than Constitutional law in the US, and always has been. The Zuckerbergs manufactured this whole controversy, just so that Randi could promote a ban on free speech. Which should be far more offensive to average Americans, and probably is. All the people in the media pretending to be outraged at Zuckerberg's comments are simply planted mouthpieces, and this entire event was manufactured and staged like everything else in the news. 

It indicates the fascists are feeling the heat, and their answer of course is to turn up the fascism. 

If people aren't buying the old lies, force them to buy the lies at gunpoint. It won't work, since the US can't pass a ban on any free speech or any idea without overturning the entire Constitution. Not even I believe they are about to do that. Since they can't do that, they are trying to do the next best thing: if you can't change the laws, change the customs. 

They are trying to change the way you think by hitting you with this 24-7 barrage of propaganda. 

They want to convince you that those who question the mainstream on any topic are bad people, so they hammer away at these stories day in day out. 

But it isn't working. Why isn't it working? Because in order for it to work, the masses have to trust/respect those doing the hammering. 

No one trusts the Zuckerbergs and no one ever will, so Randi Zuckerberg isn't a good spokeswoman. Her propaganda is worthless and it will never stick.

That can be said about all these people in the news now. Everyone can tell they are transparent fronts for the powers-that-be, so their words don't have any weight. 

They and their families have been caught lying over and over about everything, so why should anyone believe them about the Holocaust or anything else? The answer: no one does. It isn't just the Holocaust that people are denying these days, it is everything. 

Sensible people are seeing that nothing about recent history makes any sense, so why believe it? If it is full of contradictions and isn't believable, why believe it? 

Even if the government overturned the Constitution and banned questioning government stories, it wouldn't make any difference. It might prevent the publication of some ideas online, but it wouldn't prevent people from believing what they believe or talking to their neighbors. You can't legislate that.

That is the real problem of people like Randi Zuckerberg. Not only can you not police what people think, once you have lost their trust you can't even influence their thoughts anymore. The propaganda doesn't work anymore, and that is what really concerns them. But as I have said many times before, it is their own fault. 

They had a pretty good propaganda machine working up until 2001, but they broke it by their own actions. CIA allowed DHS to come in and use their tools, and DHS broke those tools. 

There have simply been too many flubbed projects since 2001, and that isn't the fault of any Holocaust deniers. That is the fault of Intel itself. 

The problem goes far beyond Holocaust denial, since they would also have to address 911 denial, Sandy Hook denial, Manson denial, Hitler denial, Lenin denial, Cold War denial, Bay of Pigs denial, Castro denial, Kennedy denial, Hawking denial, MLK denial, serial killer denial, and news denial.

DYI:  This is Kenneth E. Royer chief cook and bottle washer of this blog.  What event was your moment of denial of official government answers to certain events?  Was it 911?  The official answers to that report was based upon omissions [zero mention of building 7] fabrications – all of Newton’s laws of motion and all other engineering principals did NOT apply to the Twin Towers – video of the second plane being absorb into the building and then having the nose cone made of PLASTIC coming out the other side (the Twin Towers each were the size of a city block) of the building!  This is only a small portion of nothing making any sense regarding 911; the inconsistencies which is a polite way of saying lies are damn near endless.

Or was it when the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) came into being – and it is completely unconstitutional – got into the act of pumping out propaganda with all of their staged, faked, no one shot; no one killed or wounded psyops.  For most it is now the ridicules Sandy Hook affair.  And yes folks no one was shot; no one was killed or wounded propaganda in an effort to push gun sales.

[Not gun control only the fear of future gun control ramping up gun sales at a feverish pace.  The elite hold very large ownership in these companies thus adding to their wealth (at the expense of our fears)]. 

DHS are just the pits when it comes to psyops (propaganda) making huge errors one after another.

 

Be as that may be, what was your moment?  Mine goes all the way back (I’m 63) to the Oklahoma bombing when they said Timothy McVeigh blew up the building.  I’m ex military and have used explosive extensively and I know that the bomb blast underneath the truck was NOT commensurate [the pavement had zero damage] with the destruction to the building.  And the building was empty and a bevy of CRISES ACTORS; no one was killed as this was another psyop to distract the masses from God knows what during the Clinton administration and to promote a generalized state of fear for our citizens to demand more spending in order to protect us from psychopaths.         

People don't believe the news anymore, period. So what are the governors going to do about that? Are they going to pass a law to force you to believe the news? How will that work?

I will be told they are preparing for the onset of a 1984-style control grid, but I don't think they are. If they are, they are going about it the wrong way. The time to slip into that scheme was back in the 1950's, when everyone believed what they were told. In that case, ramping up the propaganda and having it believed was at least a possibility. But as it now stands, there is no possibility the masses are going to fall for such a naïve scheme. They aren't going to sit in front of some large screen and buy even bigger lies than they are already being sold. You don't implement 1984 when everyone is already suspicious. You have to ease into that scenario from a position of trust. You can't blast into it from a position of distrust, because if your audience balks the whole plan fails from the first moment.

DYI:  This is where I disagree with Miles but moving along a different track.  In the news they are pushing heavily the mental health issues stating – and damn near bluntly – that if you do not believe the official narrative you are mentally imbalanced and will be needed to be detained and TREATED at a mental hospital.  They can’t shut down the internet as that would destroy a vast level of business and of course the elite profits!  This will be reserved for anyone who has a following of substance on the net in order to shut down his or hers delusional behavior [TRUTH TELLING].  I believe this is where we are headed just as it was done in the Soviet Union [KGB] or the terrorizing East Germans with their monstrous STASSI intelligence and secret police.  And if I’m correct Miles Mathis is in grave danger to say the least!  

The governors already have a vast control grid in place, but the problem is it is failing. It relies on incredible levels of propaganda, but the lies aren't being swallowed. Successful propaganda requires trust, and all trust is gone. So the governors are now just relying on your inertia, which they make sure to supplement with as much drugging and confusion as possible. This is why they mothballed the just say-no campaigns and switched to just-say-yes campaigns. This is why many States are legalizing marijuana and why they are watering down laws against other drugs. This is why they have made street mj much stronger. They are quite happy for you to be stoned out of your gourd. But of course you can counter that plan as well, by not buying the stuff. Stay lucid, friends, it is your only hope.

DYI:  On the one hand I’m glad to see the decimalization / legalization of drugs as it begins the process of removing an additional criminal element from our society.  And yet Miles is also correct that the elites are hoping that vast portions of our society during their off time from work will be docile through drug usage (added on to alcohol).  This will dampen any political movements upsetting the political and economic elite’s plans.  

So, what will they do next? If the past is any indication, and it always is, they will continue to work undercover, scurrying about in the dark as much as possible. I don't expect to see them make any direct attack on your freedoms, since that would be counterproductive. 

Instead, they will try to continue to undermine your power and your sanity as much as possible. But once you know what they are up to, this is very difficult for them.

DYI:  We can only hope for the best and plan for the worst.  Planning for the worst by having 50,000 TRUTH TELLING blogs, web sites AND 50,000 making videos would knock back the elites severely.  They can’t lock up everyone in a mental hospital as that would impact their profits from the people they have locked up!  These 100,000 don’t have to have a huge audience, just big enough yet under their radar for treatment at a mental hospital.  It is the old saying a death by a 1,000 small cuts. 

There is some hope for optimism when I go into YouTube comment section of any of the propaganda from the main stream press regarding Sandy Hook 70% to 80% knows the whole damn affair was FAKE.  Many of the other DHS psyops is any where from 30% to 50%.  It seems as time moves on more and more of our citizens are catching on. Just incidental conversation I have with folks at grocery stores, post office etc. I’d say 20% to 30% know this is all BS when it comes to DHS.  Let’s hope for the best these numbers build faster than the elites find ways to reduce them.

DYI