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Mitchell’s laws:
●The more federal budgets are cut and taxes increased, the weaker an economy becomes.
●Austerity is the government’s method for widening the gap between rich and poor, which ultimately leads to civil disorder.
●Until the 99% understand the need for federal deficits, the upper 1% will rule.
●To survive long term, a monetarily non-sovereign government must have a positive balance of payments.
●Those, who do not understand the differences between Monetary Sovereignty and monetary non-sovereignty, do not understand economics.
●The penalty for ignorance is slavery.
●Everything in economics devolves to motive.
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We believe we have progressed. Our sciences have given us knowledge. We know more about the universe, more about the world, more about medicine, electronics, causes and effects.
Productivity has increased exponentially. In many areas today, one person can accomplish more in one day than a thousand people in bygone days, could accomplish in a generation.
But though we know more and can accomplish more, our intelligence and our beliefs have not progressed. We still believe in magic. We still believe in non-facts. Our beliefs still are ruled by our desires.
In short, we are no less stupid than we ever were and ever will be.
Consider health and medicine. We intentionally ingest what we absolutely know for sure, not only will shorten our lives, but will make our later years far less pleasant. We knowingly choose to live more miserably and die sooner.
Fatty foods, cigarettes, recreational drugs — what logical, intelligent being intentionally would absorb life shortening, life worsening chemicals?
Simultaneously, we spend billions on vitamins and beauty enhancements. The illogic is stunning.
Here are four examples of human stupidity, that give lie to the belief we are making any sort of progress — examples that demonstrate why “progress” is a hazy concept in the eye of the beholder — examples that demonstrate why, as a species, we may be doomed to remain on a treadmill, like each of the animals of the forest.
I suggest our species suffers from self-destructive, psychological defects that put a ceiling on what we ever can know and accomplish.
And somewhere, there may be another species, with the same brain structure we have, but lacking those psychological defects, that species eventually will rule the universe.
What, for instance, could be more important to human progress than the health of our children?
Bloomberg view
Unvaccinated Kids Make Everyone SickOne of America’s essential national defense shields is under attack from within, and the aggressors are people you wouldn’t normally consider dangerous: parents of young children.
As more and more resist having their school-age kids vaccinated, they are destroying the herd immunity that everyone relies on for protection against whooping cough, measles and other dangerous, sometimes fatal, infectious diseases.
The dangers of vaccines have been thoroughly debunked. A report published this week in the journal Pediatrics, however, shows how hard it is to convince anti-vaccination parents of this. In fact, the harder researchers pushed the benefits of vaccines, the more the parents resisted.
Although science often is wrong, what logical person would risk the lives of their children betting that rumors are correct and the vast majority of medical evidence is wrong?
Which brings us to religion. The bible is not science. It is a series of parables, written by men, to explain and make memorable, ethics and morality.
We long have known that the certainty of punishment, not the severity of punishment, is the strongest prevention for misdeeds. If you absolutely, positively are sure you will be caught and punished for committing a crime, you would be quite unlikely to be a criminal.
Yet, many people claim to believe in God, and they also commit crimes. How is it possible to believe an all-knowing, all-powerful entity watches your every move and knows your every thought, and will punish you for the evil you do — how is it possible to believe that, while still lying, cheating and breaking the law?
Answer: It isn’t possible, and the only conceivable reality is that the people who claim to believe in God really don’t, but the mere fact of claiming belief is socially acceptable.
And advocating for that belief is even more socially acceptable. It makes one a “better” person:
Religion in the Science Class?
Creationism, creation science, intelligent design and other theories that set out to challenge widely held scientific explanations about the origin of the universe have no place in the public school curriculum.
The U.S. Constitution guarantees the rights of Americans to believe the religious theories of creation (as well as other theories) but it does not permit them to be taught in public school science classes.
Nevertheless, there is ongoing debate in several school districts as to whether creationism should be taught as a “competing scientific theory” in high school science classes.
A staunch defender of religious freedom in America, the Anti-Defamation League explains why the teaching of these religious theories of evolution doesn’t belong in the classroom.
Not only are we psychologically limited from understanding the truth about the universe, but we are emotionally resistant to learning we have been wrong.
Why Do We Even Have A Debt Ceiling Law?
Doug Mataconis, July 12, 2011It’s been remarked here at OTB several times by myself and other contributors that the existence of a law placing a limit on the national debt, which then must be amended every time government borrowing approaches the limit, a vote which nobody likes and everybody demagogues, is fundamentally silly.
It’s worth noting, though, that we have not always had a debt ceiling, in fact we didn’t have one until 1917, and the reasons for it coming to existence are fairly interesting:
The debt ceiling was first enacted in 1917. Why? The date tells all: we were about to enter the Great War. To fund that effort, the Wilson government needed to issue Liberty Bonds. This was controversial, and the debt ceiling was cover, passed to reassure the rubes that Congress would be “responsible” even while the country went to war. It was, from the beginning, an exercise in bad faith and has remained so every single second to the present day.
The debt ceiling is a comparatively recent fiction, foisted on the American public, to obscure the reality of federal financing. Try to explain that to Mr. & Mrs. America, and you not only be met with disbelief, but invective (“How dare you try to change by beliefs by telling me facts?”)
And then there are guns, which much of America believes “don’t kill people,” although the prime purpose of guns is to kill. America also believes “good people” with guns can “stop bad people” with guns, but angrily resists any sort of test to show whether a potential or current gun owner is “good” or “bad.”
Why more guns won’t make us safer People may think firearms will protect them, but statistics show otherwise
By Sean FairclothFirearm assaults on female family members and intimate acquaintances are approximately 12 times more likely to result in death than are assaults using other weapons.
The vast majority of gun owners are not planning on shooting their girlfriends, wives, or partners. But in a fit of anger or jealousy or some other overwhelming emotion, a gun can become a convenient way of lashing out. The decision to shoot can take a second, and then can’t be undone. It happens every day in this country.
As the Harvard School of Public Health found, “guns in the home are used more often to frighten intimates than to thwart crime.”
In a sane world, getting a gun would be treated more rigorously than buying a car, and government-mandated safety training and psychological screening would be required before purchase. Yet most gun advocates would object to even these steps.
I propose there is a fatal flaw in human thinking — a suicidal flaw that may have had evolutionary purpose, but will constrain our ability to understand, populate and rule the universe. We fast may be approaching the ceiling to our earthly abilities, and eventually, like the Neanderthals, may be replaced by beings not limited as we are.
Rodger Malcolm Mitchell
Monetary Sovereignty
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Nine Steps to Prosperity:
1. Eliminate FICA (Click here)
2. Federally funded Medicare — parts A, B & D plus long term nursing care — for everyone (Click here)
3. Provide an Economic Bonus to every man, woman and child in America, and/or every state a per capita Economic Bonus. (Click here) Or institute a reverse income tax.
4. Free education (including post-grad) for everyone. Click here
5. Salary for attending school (Click here)
6. Eliminate corporate taxes (Click here)
7. Increase the standard income tax deduction annually
8. Increase federal spending on the myriad initiatives that benefit America’s 99% (Click here)
9. Federal ownership of all banks (Click here)
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10 Steps to Economic Misery: (Click here:)
1. Maintain or increase the FICA tax..
2. Spread the myth Social Security, Medicare and the U.S. government are insolvent.
3. Cut federal employment in the military, post office, other federal agencies.
4. Broaden the income tax base so more lower income people will pay.
5. Cut financial assistance to the states.
6. Spread the myth federal taxes pay for federal spending.
7. Allow banks to trade for their own accounts; save them when their investments go sour.
8. Never prosecute any banker for criminal activity.
9. Nominate arch conservatives to the Supreme Court.
10. Reduce the federal deficit and debt
No nation can tax itself into prosperity, nor grow without money growth. Monetary Sovereignty: Cutting federal deficits to grow the economy is like applying leeches to cure anemia.
Two key equations in economics:
1. Federal Deficits – Net Imports = Net Private Savings
2. Gross Domestic Product = Federal Spending + Private Investment and Consumption – Net Imports
THE RECESSION CLOCK
As the federal deficit growth lines drop, we approach recession, which will be cured only when the lines rise. Federal deficit growth is absolutely, positively necessary for economic growth. Period.
#MONETARY SOVEREIGNTY
#Monetary Sovereignty - Mitchell 
@RMM: This blogpost is wrong about fatty foods. Saturated fat is actually healthy and good to eat. Learn about the ketogenic diet:
See:
http://www.ketogenic-diet-resource.com
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Right. The blog also says the “fat diet” treats cancer, epilepsy, Alzheimers disease, Parkinsons Disease, ALS and diabetes. Why would anyone doubt such claims?
By the way, I have a guaranteed 20% per month investment I’d like to sell you.
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Several doctors including a heart surgeon (Miller?) have claimed and shown evidence that official scientific evidence that a diet including animal fats is unhealthy was “gamed” by a few leading scientists with an agenda. They created the “Food Pyramid” in the 50s. Supporting data points from global studies were kept. Conflicting data points were thrown out.
The problem, they say, is SUGAR, including corn syrups, and other refined carbs. Cholesterol pockets in arteries they claim is a kind of “scab” formed by the body to heal lesions caused by excessive sugar. This probably amounts to “intermittent diabetic” effects caused by sudden high blood sugar numbers that don’t show up on average blood sugar testing. Cholesterol problems causing heart disease weren’t caused by high cholesterol intake by meat, but by the body producing or utilizing cholesterol to treat sugar-damage. *(The author referred to high quality grass-fed farm-raised animals, not factory farming and such. This could include buffalo.) The surgeon/author also recommends coconut oil with lots of saturated fats as health-giving, but rejects “light” industrial processed oils such as canola. Even the famed “Mediterranean diet” was skewed by the fact that it measured that population following devastating war, when people had to WORK for subsistence agriculture to produce enough to eat. Now that the same population has a more sedentary lifestyle and “healthy” low-fat western diet, with more carbs, heart disease is rising.
Coke and Pepsi were cited as major causes, sugary cereals too. Refined wheat (white) flour of course.
Rabbits had bad cholesterol problems when eating too much meat. Rabbits are physiologically vegetarian, not equipped to digest meat.
The main reason for skepticism about this doctor and his claims is that his lecture was featured on and tied to the Lew Rockwell website, but that alone does not seem sufficient to completely reject his findings and explanation. He actually CRIED a bit over the number of patients he says he “killed” by advocating an official “heart-healthy” diet of unsaturated processed oils with too much carbs, with very little animal fats.
Other than that, Rodger, I repost almost everything you write. I think you are spot on about the paranoia about vaccines.
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Also, butter over margarine.
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[1] RMM writes: “We fast may be approaching the ceiling to our earthly abilities, and eventually, like the Neanderthals, may be replaced by beings not limited as we are.”
Yes, we humans may be an experiment, soon to be replaced. If so, then we do not have the mental capacity to know what will replace us.
The human experiment has been brief. If the age of the universe was reduced to one year, then the earth did not appear until mid-September. Dinosaurs did not appear until 23 December, and human civilization (e.g. ancient Egypt and Sumer) did not appear until the last 12 seconds. The longest human life is a blink of an eye (about 1/4th of a second).
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_Calendar
I myself believe that God created everything in six days (literally), and took a nap on the seventh day, with everything happening 500 years ago, or maybe 5,000, or…whatever. 😉
[2] Regarding the debt ceiling charade, the US government eliminated it in 1979, and mercifully spared us for sixteen years until 1995, when Republicans took control of Congress and brought back the debt ceiling (with consent of the Democrats).
I like this from Wikipedia….
“The United States debt ceiling or debt limit is a legislative mechanism to limit the amount of national debt that can be ISSUED by the Treasury by limiting how much money the government may BORROW.”
Got that? The Treasury issues debt, and then borrows that same debt from…ah…wherever. 😉
That Wikipedia article is loaded top to bottom with self-contradictions and the Big Lie.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_debt_ceiling
[3] Regarding vaccines, I don’t believe in them. At least, not the recent mass-marketed variety pushed by Big Pharma in conjunction with hoaxes like the “bird flu” nonsense. In the past, some vaccines (e.g. the one against polio) may have had some value, but today’s varieties are mostly useless, and in many cases toxic. Big Pharma will tell any lie to increase its profits.
So will Big Ag and the food industry. After WW II, the food industry found that trans fats and hydrogenated oils were cheaper to produce, and hence more profitable. Thus the food industry bribed politicians and the media to push those toxic chemicals as “healthy alternatives.”
The tobacco industry long claimed that cigarettes were healthy, and were recommended by doctors.
It’s all about profits.
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Actually, vaccination has greatly reduced the incidence of smallpox (0). and polio (almost 0), and many other diseases: See: http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/parents/downloads/parent-ver-sch-0-6yrs.pdf
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I agree with Rodger and the mainstream on the big ones, polio, smallpox, tetanus, and similar serious diseases. I personally have never taken a flu vaccine shot. I believe “bird flu” shots — except for use on factory-farmed chickens — was hyped by a firm tied to Donald Rumsfeld.
I believe that the winter flu vaccine requires that scientists literally “guess” (yes, scientifically, not voodoo) which strain or variation is probably going to strike in a coming season, then advise that vaccines be mass-produced to meet that probability. Then I have read at least once that flu shot were ineffective because a different viral mutation emerged.
This is not scientific, but I almost never get influenza, or a brief mild case, while not taking the flu shot, while friends who religiously take flu shots almost always end up with a bad bout of the flu later on. I’m not suggesting that this is intentional or a conspiracy. Perhaps it makes sense for very elderly people, especially in a sealed nursing home environment, but I’m not sure on that either.
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But Batshyt Bachmann said that the HPV vaccine would “make you retarded” – she can’t be wrong! Right, right…?
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OFF TOPIC
(For amusement)
Last Tuesday (4 March 2014) the White House released its proposed budget for FY 2015, which begins on 1 October 2014.
Also on Tuesday the Republican National Committee uploaded a video to YouTube titled, “Baby Got Debt.” Lasting 25 seconds, it shows a newborn baby crying because Obama has supposedly burdened her with $17.4 trillion in debt (the “national debt”).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efFKpqpz-ug
Fox News says Obama’s budget will cause the “national debt” to rise to $25 trillion by 2024. Fox says that by 2020, “U.S. taxpayers will be paying more in interest on the debt than they would on the entire Defense budget. By 2017, those interest payments would be bigger than the budget for Medicaid.”
Translation: “We must have more austerity for the 99 percent!”
Although austerity is causing the deficit to plummet, and thereby keeping the US economy (the real economy) in a depression, we need more austerity because of the “national debt crisis.”
If we eliminate the “national debt,” then we must have still more austerity, because the US government must “live within its means.”
If the US government has a budget surplus that causes a severe depression, then we must have still more austerity, so that average Americans will get off their lazy asses and look for (non-existent) work.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/03/04/budget-proposal-wont-tame-debt-interest-would-soon-exceed-military-spending/
Does anyone actually swallow this excrement? Evidently yes. The Nielsen Company says that Fox News has been the most-watched cable news network for 12 years in a row. Plus, Fox News is carried in more than 40 countries abroad.
(Like I said, the masses WANT to be enslaved.)
http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/2013-ratings-fox-news-1-for-12-straight-years-sheds-viewers-too_b208937
In the USA, the legislatures of 21 states have passed resolutions calling for a Constitutional Convention on getting a balanced budget amendment added to the US Constitution. Eight other state legislatures are considering it. Today, Tennessee’s legislature passed such a resolution. If 34 legislatures approve calls, then the convention would have to be held.
If we get a balanced budget amendment to the US Constitution, then we will not have an actual balanced budget. (If we did, then the USA would not have an economy). Instead, politicians will use the amendment as an excuse to triple austerity on the masses. Social Security and Medicare will be privatized, so that billions in FICA tax revenue go to Wall Street. The gap between the rich and the rest will quadruple.
Meanwhile in Europe, austerity riots continue. In Portugal it’s the police against the police again. On Tuesday 10,000 off-duty cops tried to break through a security cordon around Parliament, but were prevented by on-duty cops.
Police and other security officials are angry about austerity cuts to their pay, pensions and welfare benefits.
Despite this non-stop unrest, Mario Draghi (head of the ECB in Frankfurt) says the euro-zone is a peaceful “island of stability.”
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/2ce6620e-a51f-11e3-8988-00144feab7de.html#axzz2vEDipjqb
In Greece (one of Germany’s “bile bears”) the desperate masses are once again asking Germany for compensation for Nazi-era crimes.
German president Joachim Gauck responded by visiting Greece today. He said he won’t give squat to Greece, but he did offer to set up a new “Future Fund” to remind Germans of their war crimes in Greece.
http://www.irishtimes.com/business/economy/austerity-weary-greeks-seek-reparations-for-nazi-era-crimes-1.1715026
In Spain (another of Germany’s “bile bears”) the government has pushed down wages and made it much easier for companies to lay off employees. Last week the Bank of Spain insisted that wages have fallen twice as fast as the government claims they have.
Nonetheless, IMF spokes-thing Christine Lagarde went to Spain today and said that Spain needs more austerity and more “reform” (i.e. enslavement) of labor.
Lagarde also called on the Spanish government to increase the income tax VAT taxes.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/03/christine-lagarde-spain-austerity-imf-madrid
Among the 18 euro-zone nations, Germany’s “bile bears” are nations with very high trade deficits.
Four nations (in addition to Germany) actually have trade surpluses: Belgium, Italy, Ireland, and Holland. (Slovakia had a trade surplus until last month, and now has a deficit).
However these surpluses do not necessarily mean that the people in those nations have better living standards. The European 1% want to widen the gap between themselves and the 99% in all nations, including Germany. Hence they demand endless austerity. Ireland, for example, is one of the biggest exporters of pharmaceuticals in the world, but the profits go to the executives, not to the workers.
China, by the way, also has austerity mania. Politicians are imposing severe cuts in welfare and medical care, plus mass privatization, deregulation, and financialization (i.e. eclipsing of the real economy by the financial economy).
Reason: China now has the second highest number of billionaires after the USA, and those Chinese billionaires want more. Much more. They have seen how austerity expands their wealth, and they have full-blown austerity mania. (I can give details and proof if anyone asks.)
China’s government is about as “communist” as is Wall Street.
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The biggest problem the human race has is lies, the intentional distortion of facts for selfish purposes. My father told me before he died that he had nothing to worry about because he is not a liar. My Uncle told me that whatever I do DON’T become a liar.
Science may get it wrong from time to time but science is always trying to tell us the truth; it’s the only way out and our best hope. Acting naturally is the same as telling the truth.
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