–Why is the NSA teaching your kids to be spies?

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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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The National Security Agency (NSA) is so secret and so powerful, few people have any idea what it does. Congress doesn’t know. The President doesn’t know. Certainly the voting public doesn’t know, for the NSA is unelected and unresponsive to anyone.

It does as it pleases, without asking, “May I?” and if anyone has the temerity to question them, their response is the same: “We won’t tell you. It’s a national security matter.”

They are completely out of anyone’s control.

Consider the 4th Amendment to the Constitution, which reads:

“The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

The NSA has been revealed to monitor your every phone call. Is there probable cause — some reasonable suspicion — showing that you have committed a crime?

Has any warrant been issued by a court, allowing the NSA to monitor your phone calls? Under whose oath would such a warrant have been issued?

Never mind. The NSA answers to no one.

If the NSA “only” is spying on you and spying on your family and spying on your friends and neighbors, that’s bad enough. If the NSA “only” is spying on the media, that too, is bad enough.

But the NSA, being completely out of anyone’s control, has gone far beyond “bad enough.” It’s teaching your kids how to be spies, under the cover of “education.”

TPMDC
How The NSA Gets Inside K-12 Classrooms
HUNTER WALKER JULY 2, 2013

Along with running a massive surveillance apparatus, the secretive National Security Agency operates a program dedicated to getting its agents inside America’s elementary, middle, and high school classrooms. These K-12 NSA operatives guide children through math exercises, “cyber ethics,” and even mock spy games.

The NSA’s Mathematics Education Partnership Program, is an “outreach program to promote mathematics and science education at non-profit educational institutions,” due to concern among some at the NSA about the future of math and science education.

WHAT?? The NSA has decided that among its secret missions is the duty to educate your kids in science and math?? Are you kidding me? (Don’t ask. It’s secret.)

[Parent: I’d like to talk with you about what you’re teaching my child.
Teacher: Sorry I can’t discuss it. It’s secret and you’re not cleared.]

If you like that piece of NSA garbage, you’ll love this:

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Teach Your Kids About the NSA With the Help of CryptoCat and DecipherDog
By Justin Peters | Posted Friday, June 7, 2013

CryptoKids is the official children’s section of the National Security Agency’s website, which puts an upbeat, youthful spin on government-sponsored cryptology.

“We’re the CryptoKids® and we love cryptology,” the site reads. “What’s cryptology? Cryptology is making and breaking codes. It’s so cool.”

You know what else is cool, according to the CryptoKids website? The work being done by the heroes at the National Security Agency/Central Security Service: “Our Nation’s leaders and warfighters count on the technology and information they get from NSA/CSS to get their jobs done. Without NSA/CSS, they wouldn’t be able to talk to one another without the bad guys listening and they wouldn’t be able to figure out what the bad guys were planning.

Get it? Your children are being brainwashed to accept NSA as good and necessary to fighting bad guys.

“Don’t ask what we’re doing. Hey kids, just blindly accept that we’re all good guys, doing nothing but good. No bad guys here.”

And meanwhile, please tell us what mommy and daddy are doing. They might be bad guys. Did they yell at you, today?

Can it possibly get more outrageous than this: An unelected, unsupervised, super-powerful, secret organization that answers to no one, and has been allowed to do anything it damn well pleases, all under the phony umbrella “national security.”

Why do we need Congress? Why do we need the President? Why do we need the Supreme Court? NSA doesn’t have to obey them. Why not just make it official and allow our Big Brothers at NSA to run our lives?

After all, they promise they all are “good guys.” So it must be true. Who says “Power corrupts”?

(Oh, except for that traitor Edward Snowden. He’s a bad guy. But he’s the only bad guy at NSA.)

Rodger Malcolm Mitchell
Monetary Sovereignty

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Nine Steps to Prosperity:
1. Eliminate FICA (Click here)
2. Medicare — parts A, B & D — for everyone
3. Send every American citizen an annual check for $5,000 or give every state $5,000 per capita (Click here)
4. Long-term nursing care for everyone
5. Free education (including post-grad) for everyone. Click here
6. Salary for attending school (Click here)
7. Eliminate corporate taxes
8. Increase the standard income tax deduction annually
9. Increase federal spending on the myriad initiatives that benefit America’s 99%

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

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–How do we keep vicious guard dogs from eating our children?

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Readers of this blog know I love irony, and governments are an endless source. Consider excerpts from this article in the July 1, 2013 Chicago Tribune.

Furious EU confronts U.S. over reports it spies on allies
By Michael Birnbaum, The Washington Post

European leaders reacted with fury Sunday to allegations in a German magazine that the United States had conducted a wide-ranging effort to monitor European Union diplomatic offices and computer networks, with some saying that they expected such surveillance from enemies, not their closest economic partner.

The irony: Our allies are furious at being spied on by the American government. But, so far as I can see, the American people — most of them — aren’t upset about our government spying on us.

We seem to accept the notion that our own government can do to us whatever it pleases, so long as it tells us its “for security.”

Monitor our phone calls? No problem. Read our Emails and text messages? Help yourself. Track our location as we move around? Sure, why not? Kill an American citizen without trial? Stuff happens. And lie about everything? Hey, we expect it.

Apparently, foreigners value their privacy and the rule of law more than Americans do.

Top officials from several European countries said the reports of spying would figure into the future of trans-Atlantic trade talks that began in June.

European officials said Sunday that they suspected the target of U.S. intelligence interest was economic information, not military.

What?? The Europeans suspect U.S. spying has nothing to do with security? But, our leaders tell us the spying is necessary to prevent terrorist activities. They couldn’t be lying, could they?

European Parliament President Martin Schulz said, “It is shocking that the United States takes measures against their nearest allies, comparable to measures taken by the KGB of the Soviet Union.“

Wake up, fools. If we’re going to spy on every American citizen, why would we hesitate to spy on you foreigners?

Britain’s Guardian newspaper reported on 38 embassies and missions that U.S.,intelligence agencies were monitoring, including embassies of France, Italy, Japan, India and South Korea.

If you own a pack of big, vicious guard dogs, and you don’t keep them under control, one day you’ll come home to find they ate your children.

America has a large pack vicious guard dogs — the CIA, FBI, NSA, ICE, BATF, the Secret Service, IRS, as well as various local police — and heaven knows what else. We are up to our butts in vicious guard dogs.

So if their activities are kept secret, in the name of “security,” how do we keep them from eating our children?

Rodger Malcolm Mitchell
Monetary Sovereignty

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–Multi-level irony: The endless cycle of self mutilation by the religious right wing

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If you enjoy irony, this article is written for you. It contains not just irony, but multi-level irony.

Republicans, those of the party of Abraham Lincoln, have sunk into an endless cycle of self mutilation. The story begins with the “Southern strategy.”

Wikipedia
The “Southern strategy” refers to the Republican Party’s strategy of gaining political support in the Southern U.S.by appealing to racism against African Americans.

Many white Southern Democrats stopped supporting the party following the civil rights plank of the Democratic campaign in 1948 (triggering the Dixiecrats), the African-American Civil Rights Movement, the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965, and desegregation.

Richard Nixon’s political strategist Kevin Phillips, said:

“The Republicans are never going to get more than 10 to 20 percent of the Negro vote [Does this remind anyone of Mitt Romney?] …but Republicans would be shortsighted if they weakened enforcement of the Voting Rights Act.” [Nobody told the Supreme Court’s right wing.].

The more Negroes who register as Democrats in the South, the sooner the Negrophobe whites will quit the Democrats and become Republicans. That’s where the votes are. Without that prodding from the blacks, the whites will backslide into their old comfortable arrangement with the local Democrats.”

The South is home to “the Bible belt” — the God-fearing, God-loving, religious right-wing. Politically, these people are as easily manipulated as children. All you need do is tell them the blacks or the poor or the Latinos or the gays are “taking over,” and they will march zombie-like to the polls and pull that bigot lever.

It’s: “Rather than lift ourselves up, let’s just push them down.”.

One of my readers, Bruce Patrick, sent me an article from ABC News. Here are a few excerpts:

NC Becomes 1st State to Drop Federal Jobless Funds
By EMERY P. DALESIO AP Business Writer

With changes to its unemployment law taking effect this weekend, North Carolina not only is cutting benefits for those who file new claims, it will become the first state disqualified from a federal compensation program for the long-term jobless.

North Carolina has the country’s fifth-worst jobless rate. The benefit cuts will disqualify the state from receiving federally funded Emergency Unemployment Compensation. The EUC program is available to long-term jobless in all states. But keeping the money flowing includes a requirement that states can’t cut average weekly benefits.

Because North Carolina leaders cut average weekly benefits for new claims, about 170,000 workers whose state benefits expire this year will lose more than $700 million in EUC payments, the U.S. Labor Department said.

I’m not sure which bible North Carolina’s religious right read. It could not be the one in which Jesus says, “I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, I was naked and you gave me clothing, I was sick and you took care of me.”

Nor could it be the bible containing this passage: “He who oppresses the poor shows contempt for their Maker, but whoever is kind to the needy honors God.” -Proverbs 14:31.

Rep. Julia Howard, Republican -Davie said, “The cuts also will push people to find work faster, then move to a better job as the economy improves”.

To assuage guilt, right-wing leaders spread the myth that the poor are lazy and would rather accept handouts than work. It’s the all-purpose excuse for cruelty.

But this is not just a state right-wing problem. Economically, it goes far beyond that.

State officials adopted the package of benefit cuts and increased taxes for businesses in February, a plan designed to accelerate repayment of a $2.5 billion federal debt. Like many states, North Carolina had racked up the debt by borrowing from Washington after its unemployment fund was drained by jobless benefits during the Great Recession.

Like every state, NC is monetarily non-sovereign. It cannot create dollars at will. It can run out of dollars.

The U.S. government, being Monetarily Sovereign, can create dollars at will. The U.S. government is the creator of dollars. It is sovereign over dollars. It can create as many or as few dollars as it wishes, and can give them any value it wishes. It never can run short.

With the touch of a computer key, the U.S. government could end North Carolina’s indebtedness.

So why does the U.S. government lend (rather than give) dollars to the states? Why does the U.S. government lend, rather than give, dollars to anyone?

The problem is not just cynical cruelty by the religious right, though that is part of it. The larger problem is the cruelty by the upper .1% income group, which has bribed the politicians and the media to rationalize cutting the federal deficit.

The rich plan to widen the gap between them and the despised poor and middle-classes, and they have found the perfect group, happy to carry out their evil plan: The bible-reading, religious right, most of whom themselves are poor or middle-class.

As for the people of North Carolina, they will suffer, unnecessarily. They will lose $700 million in federal payments.

The rich sit back and direct the bible-belt people to do their dirty work, which will punish – yes, the bible belt people.

You just can’t beat this for irony.

Rodger Malcolm Mitchell
Monetary Sovereignty

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–France announces why it will abandon the euro (but doesn’t yet know it)

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France to seek 14 billion euros in cuts next year: paper
Reuters, 6/29/13

France will pursue 14 billion euros ($18.2 billion) in spending cuts next year as it attempts to reduce the public deficit to 3 percent of economic output by 2015.

Translation: Our economy is in the toilet, so our “solution” is to destroy another 14 billion euros. Flush!

France’s Socialist government aims to tame the deficit by trimming ministerial budgets, cutting state aid to companies and reducing local government funding.

Translation: We’ll cut government benefits to the middle classes and the poor. We’ll make our businesses weaker and we’ll stop helping local governments provide their benefits. That should work.

With the economy back in a shallow recession, jobless claims at an all-time high and his approval ratings around 30 percent, President Francois Hollande has been reluctant to accelerate the cuts.

Translation: We know cutting the deficit will hurt the economy, and increasing the deficit will grow the economy. But we became monetarily non-sovereign by adopting that failed currency, the euro, so we have no choice but to cut our own wrists.

Annual growth in overall wage costs for French public employees will be cut to 0.15 percent from 3 percent, chiefly through pay restraint.

Translation: These people make too much money.

Funding for services such as the CNRS research institute and Meteo France weather forecaster will be cut 4 percent.

Translation: This is CNRS:

Institute of Biological Sciences (INSB)
Institute of Chemistry (INC)
Institute of Ecology and Environment (INEE)
Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences (INSHS)
Institute for Information Sciences and Technologies (INS2I)
Institute for Engineering and Systems Sciences (INSIS)
Institute of Physics (INP)

Hey, who needs that stuff, anyway? And if you’re worried about the weather, carry an umbrella.

The Cour des Comptes, which overseas France’s public accounts, warned on June 27 that the deficit could overshoot its 3.7 percent (of economic output) target for 2013. It recommended spending cuts of 13 billion euros next year and 15 billion in 2015 to meet the 3 percent goal.

Translation: We know that cutting deficits reduces economic output, which increases the deficit percentage — it’s a dog-chasing-tail exercise. But who cares? The purpose is to punish the middle and lower classes and to widen the gap between the rich and the rest. Working pretty well, isn’t it?

There is no question that France will leave the euro. The only question is: How much punishment will the French people absorb before they riot in the streets and kick the rich deficit-cutters out.

I believe the timing depends on two factors:

1. When Greece leaves the euro. Being the sickest of the EU nations, one would think Greece would come to its senses first. When they re-adopt the drachma, and shortly thereafter, become one of the wealthier European nations, the French people (not their leaders) will have an epiphany.

2. When the EU forms a European republic. If the rich EU martinets see rioting all around them, they suddenly will “realize” monetary non-sovereignty doesn’t work for nations, so will form some sort of European republic, in which a central source will provide (without lending) euros to each nation.

My guess: #1 will happen first. Then there will be some “serious talk” about #2, while trying to convince Greece to return.

But the talks will go nowhere, so Italy will leave. Then France, and the whole, ridiculous euro idea will come crashing down.

Just before each nation leaves the euro, it will suffer a depression; the rich will point fingers at the “lazy” poor; millions of the middle- and poorer-classes will suffer and fall into poverty.

Finally, after re-instating Monetary Sovereignty, each nation will return to prosperity, at which time its rich again will push it back toward austerity.

Like a zombie that cannot be killed, austerity will rise again and again to destroy the lives of the ignorant.

Rodger Malcolm Mitchell
Monetary Sovereignty

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