The Censored Presidential Debate

As usual the outcast media censored the U.S. Presidential candidate debates in 1996.  Fortunately Brian Lamb at C-SPAN provided a platform for the candidates to share their views on cable television...

Why Is Legislation Passed?

This seems as good a reason as any as to why legislation is passed.  Although I've never heard those people down at city hall say it quite this way before....


Clip from C-SPAN's Washington Journal, Nov 1, 1996

Can Government Spying Lead to Peace?

Duncan Trussell asks for examples of the state spying on it's own taxpayers.....and everything turning up peachy.

*From the Joe Rogan Experience Podcast

*Hear more from Duncan here.

The DMV Is The Government

The Department of Motor Vehicles is The Government.  It's the same people that claim to be cleaning up the environment and trying to make the schools safer.  Is this what you desire?    

Sometimes the obvious needs to be said.  Harry Browne says it in this C-SPAN video.

Humpday Humor: Government Regulation

How did we get safe meat before USDA inspections?

Harry Browne explains the silliness of government regulation...

*clip from C-SPAN's Washington Journal

Humpday Humor: Ironic Party Politics

Will neoconservatives jump ship from the Republican party in 2016?  Max Blumenthal makes an interesting prediction...

Talk Co-sponsored by New Yorkers Against the Cornell-Technion Partnership (NYACT), Brooklyn for Peace, and the Peace and Social Action Committee of Brooklyn Monthly Meeting (Quakers)

Humpday Humor: Orwellian Speak

There is a long history of Orwellian speak during times of war.  Joe Rogan explains the manipulation of language goes all the way back to Genghis Khan...

Listen to the full podcast with Abby Martin here.  

The Unpopular 15% Social Security Tax

There are obvious reasons for young people to oppose the social security tax.  #1 in line is that the U.S. Treasury spends your tax payments on projects other than social security.

Not one dollar of your S.S. taxes are saved for you in any way, shape or form.

Harry Browne explains there is also reason for retirees to feel uncertain about collecting future social security taxes....

To find out more about where your social security taxes have gone check out "The Largest Lender to the U.S. May Surprise You".

War Zone Soldier Says: "This is All Stupid"

A soldier speaks his mind about stupid politicians.

*Clip from Mort Sahl Live

Humpday Humor: Government Buildings

The Department of Labor in Washington, D.C.

Photo credit: Benny Johnson 

Check out more awesome government buildings at BuzzFeed

Which Politicians Effect You?

Do politicians effect your life?  Yes, but not the one's who are on TV all the time.  Says Doug Stanhope...

13 Critical Issues You Are Forbidden From Voting On

The voting privileges granted by the political class during the civil rights movement have pacified nearly every American.  It’s a shame as to this day the very act of casting your ballot on meaningful issues is actively suppressed in the United States. 

 Here are 13 critical issues you are forbidden from voting on:

1. Which foreign lands the U.S. military should occupy
2. Taxpayer bailouts for the banks 
3. The definition of “torture”
4. Interest rates and monetary policy of the Federal Reserve
5. Military grade weapons supplied to your local police employees
6. TSA screening procedure at the airports
7. Nuclear weapons production, storage locations and usage
8. Number of field agents employed by the FBI
9. Medicare tax rates
10. The Supreme Court justices
11. Limits to NSA spying
12. Who is sentenced to death by drone strike
13. The enforcement of the “Bill of Rights”  

Clearly citizens of the United States of America were never given the vote. 

It’s been five decades since the last voting rights movement in America and no one has thought to ask “On What are we getting the right to vote”?

What is the Role of The CIty?

Do wealthy residents of a city receive the same services as it's poor residents?

Perhaps, in order to maintain their position of power, "city fathers" have to discriminate in the delivery of city services.  In this video Walter Williams explains further...


Find out more about Walter Williams here.

What Checks & Balances "The Deep State"?

Peter Dale Scott has coined the term "Deep Politics" to describe the hidden features of the government.  He describes his concept of The Deep State in this video:

The war on drugs benefits the public state and deep state.

The public state of Drug Enforcement Agency, local police & prison guard employees can grow their sphere of influence thanks to "legal" civil rights violations including home invasions and imprisonment of people who grow or trade plants.

Did You Vote?

Can You Prove These Machines Recorded Your Vote?

Photo: Chris Gardner/Associated Press

Did you vote in your state's election this year?

If yes, can you prove it?

Do you have physical evidence that you can present confirming your participation in this election?

Does Your Vote Count?

If you vote for someone who does not win the election does your vote count?

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If you vote for someone who wins the election by more than one vote does your vote count?

The U.S. Congress is the Minor Leagues

Bryan Callen talks about the U.S. Congress as a minor league.  The big leaguers play over on K Street.

Find out more about Bryan here and Joe Rogan here.

Take The Power Back

"Government attracts the worst elements of society to it.

Take away from them the power to tax our incomes... snoop into our bank accounts and monitor our emails."

-Harry Browne


Watch this 2 minute clip from the 2000 presidential debate for Mr. Browne's dire warning.

No Knock Raids Decrease Officer Safety

Charles Dinwiddie,
killed during no knock, SWAT raid 

A police officer's job is dangerous enough as it is.  Arbitrarily decreasing "officer safety" is foolish.

Safe situation: two people sleeping soundly in their home

Dangerous situation: two people being awakened from a deep sleep by multiple armed men who broke into their home under the cover of darkness

A safe environment was altered to a dangerous one because of an arbitrary edict issued by a politician.  In this scenario the slumbering residents are bound to react to the home intruder situation they face.  Unfortunately this means that some people are going to reach for their firearms and discharge them if they feel an imminent threat to their family's safety.


See this tragic example which unfolded in Killeen, Texas:

Police Detective Charles “Chuck” Dinwiddie, 47, and Officer Odis Denton, 37, were shot as they and other officers served the narcotics search warrant just after 5:30 a.m. Friday at 1104 Circle M Dr. Apt. 3 in Killeen.

The Mirage of Political Power

Is political power necessary in order to achieve economic prosperity?

Walter Williams explains why he is skeptical of the conventional wisdom...

In Walter's book, The State Against Blacks, he expands on the idea that well-intentioned policies often have consequences the legislators don't foresee.

Keep this in mind regarding political power.  Your efforts to control the machinery of the state may prove to be a mirage.


*video clip from Reason TV