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A Chance to Raise the Alarm via My New TV Show

Posted on Aug 2nd, 2008 by Charles : YogiLibertarian Charles
Times are tough, with our inevitable Golden Age being delayed by the Warfare Welfare State, and all the pathologies that result therefrom.  And I'm personally not unaffected by this dynamic.  Nevertheless, with my almost daily yoga practice, and a new internet TV program, I'm busy, content, motivated, even happy.  I've got a wonderful wife and a peaceful home.  That said, I want to discuss a few things, in respect to my new internet TV show.

Break the Matrix was started by Trevor Lyman, a music entrepreneur who organized the Money Bomb, in which former GOP presidential candidate Ron Paul raised more online money in one day than any politician in history.  Trevor also arranged for the Ron Paul Blimp, for which I broadcast LIVE on Ron Paul Radio last Fall.  Not to rest on laurels, Trevor now is taking on the Mainstream Media with BTM, and his partner Rick Williams has hired me to expose in detail how the politicians are making life worse for humanity. 

And exposing them I am.  It's not hard to do.  Just surf the net daily and we'll find assaults on the Property Rights we enjoy in ourselves, our things, and the fruits of our labor. 

On Friday's show, for example, I reported on the new atrocity at the Department of Homeland Security's Customs and Border Protection bureaucracy, in which all visitors - including US citizens - will have their laptops subject to detention, spying, and sharing of found info with other agencies and private partners, including companies like Blackwater, which now is getting into Intelligence contracting.

The Intelligence Community (comprising the CIA's 16 agencies and the Director of Natl Intelligence), Mike German from the American Civil Liberties Union says, was built to deal with foreign threats, but now is being turned inward on all of us.  Pres Bush is updating former Pres Reagan's Executive Order 12333, which builds off the horrifying FISA Reform allowing unlimited spying and databasing of innocent humans.  Spies still can't assassinate or experiment on humans (like they did in the 1950s with LSD), and they have to follow appropriate statutes.  But this statute compliance requirement is little solace when we consider that Bush's warrantless spying completely violated the FISA limitations passed in the 1970s to require spies to justify their targeting with a secret court.  And a DoJ legal opinion exposed by a Senator Whitehouse says the President isn't even bound by this Executive Order.  Instead, the President uses a broad interpretation of "Executive Power" and what's authorized in the Iraq War Resolution, as trumping this EO.  This centralizing of intelligence, under secrecy, will immolate the Constitution.

On yesterday's show I also warned that the addiction to immigrant hatred would lead to passage of E-Verify, which will result in databasing not only of citizenship and employment.  Later, E-Verify's system could violate privacy of and aggravate regulatory control over housing, finance, health, guns, and God knows what else.  It's no wonder Cato's Jim Harper titled his last paper on this as a "Kafka" solution to illegal immigration.

Exploiting concern about online porn, gambling and video games, the Center for Internet Addiction Recovery is saying a tenth of Americans need therapy, but that drugs aren't yet available for this sickness.  Think about this:  Big Brother fears the Internet's empowering of humanity with info to stave off their Control, so what better way to undermind the Internet's value than by calling us sick, forcing us into therapy, and inviting Big Pharma to hurt us some more with their poisonous unnatural drugs.

I then agreed with Matt Welch at Reason who doubts seriously that the late Bruce Ivens was the terrorist who threatened politicians with death by Anthrax.  That's because Bruce "suicided" himself, a convenient situation allowing the Warmongers to blame him and call an end to this event, made disgusting when we recall that a previous suspect had his life ruined before being declared innocent, and pocketing $5 million as compensation.  David Weigel at Reason also reminds us that the Anthrax was used by Bush to condemn Iraq has having Weapons of Mass Destruction.  The Media, with no proof it turns out, linked a certain anthrax ingrediant to Iraq, which tended to use that ingrediant.  So just what was that Anthrax Terrorism really about?

And now we get to some Orwellian speak from the Pentagon, courtesy of my fellow William and Mary alum Sec Robert Gates, who claims in DoD's latest Strategy document that the Warmongers' priority won't be Russia or China.  Rather, the War will continue to focus on terrorists who threaten the "international state system", denying them "sanctuary" in any "ungoverned" area.  In other words, anyone who prefers a free market over the State is a terrorist, and has a bullseye on their back.  And don't think you can hide in a sancturary, not even the SeaSteading ocean island of Milton Friedman's grandson.  Thanks Bob.  Go Tribe.

And don't be prying into the Pentagon's computers.  Or we'll bury you in a crime-infested jail for the rest of your life.  That's what's coming to Gary McKinnon, a British geek trolling DoD's online resources for evidence of a coverup of both UFOs and Free Energy (see Tesla).  This UFO thing is weird - why did the NYTimes publish a column from former high ranking UK Defense official Nick Pope, calling for the US to reopen Project Bluebook, last closed in the 1960s?  Maybe to help the XFiles movie get better reviews?

McKinnon loses Hacking appeal:

Hacker loses appeal



Oh this Warfare State is really scary.  Now we have Sy Hersh of the New Yorker magazine exposing that Cheney is considering a False Flag event to get Iran to fire first, to build the necessary American anger to go to War.  Our elites want to build speedboats that look like the ones Iran used to fire previously on a US warship in the Strait of Hormuz, but this time filled with our own Navy Seals, which Jess Ventura was at one time.  Their deaths would be a necessary sacrifice in this cause of Freedom. 

Hersh exposes Cheney Iran false flag idea:

Sy Hersh at Campus Progress journalism conference



You gotta love those False Flags - Lincoln's sacrifice of Fort Sumpter soldiers to build Northern support for an invasion of the Seceeded south to protect his tariffs; Wilson's sacrifice of innocent passengers (including my Great Uncle, Broadway Producer Charles Frohman) on the Lusitania to build hatred of Germans to get a seat at the table for the Treaty of Versailles; FDR's sacrifice of our Pearl Harbor sailors to get the Japanese to attack and bring us into World War; LBJ's sacrifice of truth in lying that a North Vietnamese speedboat had machine gunned one of our destroyers, to takeover Southeast Asia oil; and Bush the Younger (the Ignorant) associating Iraq with the 9/11 Terrorism to justify regime change in oil rich Mesopotamia.  And here comes Iran, and next is Pakistan, maybe even Venezuela?

Speaking of Mesopotamia, the oldest joke in the world was just found there:

"Something which has never occurred since time immemorial; a young woman did not fart in her husband's lap."

And on Venezuela, I mentioned on Friday's TV show that Bolivia, a country just to the south, had joined Ecuador in kicking out the US Drug Warriors and soldiers.  This is great news, since for peace to return to our own inner cities, we need an end to modern Prohibition.  Black market warfare is caused by the Drug War, and the only foreign policy our Founders authorized in the Constitution was commerce - free trade in goods, people and ideas.  Let's stick with that sage advice, shall we?

I also praised a California court ruling protecting state medical decision making from the Drug War's statute, the Controlled Substances Act.  California gives licenses to medicinal pot users, but a couple counties said doing so violates the CSA.  The court said otherwise, thus building off the Oregon Case allowing medicinal death.  While the states fight the Feds on jurisdiction, a mayor outside DC was the latest to suffer an aggregious home invasion by a SWAT team.  SWAT teams are supposed to be limited to high stakes situations, like a bank robbery with hostages. 

These thugs killed the mayor's dogs, the universally beloved labrodor retriever:

Mayor In MD Victim Of Pot Raid, Dogs Killed 07/30/2008






When a Minnesota family suffered a wrongful raid, their SWAT team was awarded for bravery under fire.  Aren't cops supposed to serve us?

My show yesterday then turned to the States across our country, and why they weren't fixing the bridges.  Only 2 of 3 problems bridges have had more than routine maintenance.  Granted most highway money comes from the gas tax and its national trust fund.  But States are complaining gas tax revenue is falling short, and so they want more Fed help.  Cato's Chris Edwards found, though, that states HAVE been spending a lot, 7% more this year than last, and that their revenues HAVE increased as well, up 2%.  (The balance came from heavy borrowing).  States should cut spending to pay for infrastructure repairs.  Since education is the biggest chunk of State spending, voucherize it and give parents better choices in the process.  For health care waste, do what Massachusetts now wants and repeal mandates that insurance policies contain certain benefits, and enlist the shopping talents of citizens by replacing first dollar coverage with medical savings accounts to encourge them to save.  And do what Ahnold is doing in California - slash bureaucrat paychecks to minimum wage.  But Minnesota, for example, cut no spending; instead, it raised its gas tax and sales tax.  Typical.

If the mention of minimum wage above bothers you, replace the Federal Reserve and fiat currency with free banking and market-based money.  Doing so would reverse the dollar's plunge, making life easier for low wage earners.  Your paycheck would purchase much more, bringing life's luxuries that much closer.

And if we want a wider variety of job opportunities, repeal regulations which are nothing more than barriers to entry, protecting Big Business from competition.  Regulation is a word that used to mean "make regular," implying a need to repeal barriers to regularizing whatever needed support - that's what the Commerce Clause is supposed to mean.

Meanwhile, the Recession gets worse, with banks borrowing more from the Federal Reserve last week than ever, and the commercial paper market falling to its lowest level in two years.  The Fed has announced an extension on to January of its Treasury Bills program and extensions of credit to securities dealers.

Former Bush economic advisor Larry Lindsay still is fuming about the bailout of government sponsored housing agencies, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.  While Bear Stearns' stockholders lost everything in that company's bailout, Fannie's shareholders were held harmless.  Dividend receivers will still get theirs in the bailout, and future mortgages will be taxed to fund more of the risky affordable housing boondoggles that partly caused the housing collapse in the first place.  But the bill prohibits risk based pricing and allows downpayments of as little as 3%.  And regarding Congress ceding its Power of the Purse to Treasury, which can extend unlimited credit to Fannie and buy its bonds, Lindsay remarked:

“If any other country announced that its finance minister could print unlimited debt to do something similar, financial markets around the world would dump both the country's debt and the country's currency.”
  Linsday wrote in the WSJ.

Joshua Holland at Alternet says inflation has been undercounted, and that including food and gas, and other removed items, figure rises from 2% to 9%.  Charles Featherstone at Rockwell interprets that to mean growth has been exagerrated - for over 30 years.

Does McCain blaim govt for the collapse?  Dunno, but he sure doesn't favor the free market as an antidote.  Instead, he recently quoted Teddy Roosevelt for his opinion: "Unfettered capitalism leads to corruption." McBrainiac concludes, "We are seeing that with the subprimse lending crisis".

I prefer Adam Smith:  “the benefits of the free market should accrue not just to individuals but to society as a whole.”

And so daily going forth, I'll do what I can on my 4pm Break the Matrix internet TV show, exposing collusion between Big Brother and Big Business, and countering that with how freedom brings benefits to "society as a whole".









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