"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." ~ H.L. Mencken
Civil Disobedience
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Why peruse just one photographer's amazing photos when you can peruse a whole slew of them?
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"A prison administrator acknowledged that she tried to find workarounds, and the prison's ob-gyn defended the expenditure, saying: 'Over a 10-year period, that isn't a huge amount of money compared to what you save in welfare paying for these unwanted children – as they procreated more.'"
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"Overall, the number of working age Americans that do not have a job has increased by about 27 million since the year 2000. But aren't things getting better? After all, the mainstream media is full of headlines about how "good" the jobs numbers for October were."
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"Fortunately – while little-known in the medical community – other harmless minerals can help “saturate” our bodies so as to minimize the uptake of other harmful types of radiation."
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"The government ministers moved to evict residents from the Bedouin village Umm al-Hiran in accordance with the terms of the so-called “Prawer plan," which calls for the resettlement of large numbers of Bedouin villages. The Bedouins have been offered alternative sites to which to relocate, but they plan to hold protests against what they claim is “discriminatory treatment by the state,” as quoted by Haaretz, the Israeli daily."
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"Twelve victims claim they were filmed by security cameras as they stripped and, in some cases, used the toilet a at Payallup police station after being arrested for DUI. A Seattle defense attorney, who highlighted their plight, has likened the filming of the young women to 'a peep show'."
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"Brooksby said he was wiped out in the real estate collapse, and has not been able to pay anything toward the judgment.
“But it wasn’t enough for them to sue us,” he said. “They had to go after the money my kids earned working during the summer.”
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"Much of the gold in the United States is owned by big institutions: the Treasury, the Federal Reserve, and bullion banks. So, if a currency crisis hits, their 8,900-ton hoard won't do us a bit of good. But there is one country whose "democratic" approach to gold ownership will allow its people to survive a currency crisis, literally, in fine style. Not only that, but this country's people are giving their government a whopping black eye for its heavy-handed ways in the...
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"As if Spaniards had not already been dissuaded by the potential €60 million fines they face for illegally generating their own solar power, they now have to look forward to a knock on the door from the 'solar police'."
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"Since 9/11, about 5,000 Americans have been killed by U.S. police officers, which is almost equivalent to the number of U.S. soldiers who have been killed in the line of duty in Iraq." Protecting and Serving the Bankers as usual...
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"Epidemics are a "marketing tool" to create demand for a profitable product that people can be convinced to purchase over and over again, year after year, whether it works or not. And how do you create that demand? You engineer an epidemic by making sure your own vaccine products don't work. Fear drives people to get vaccinated, so fear is used as the primary marketing tool."
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"But nowadays, some of the most backward-thinking people on the planet are finally embracing the wonderful world of science, only to twist it beyond recognition in order to prove their prejudice. Because no one can argue if you yell "SCIENCE!" loud enough, right?"
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Because if the troops actually protected our freedoms, we would actually HAVE some freedoms...truth hurts, don't it Statists?
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Because NOTHING helps market a fascist scam to rob working Americans like a little promiscuous sex and alcoholism...
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Not to worry good readers - If the new King George needs to read my name without his spectacles then he can magnify the resolution on his monitor and get the good stuff right away! Like Iron Maiden says, "If you're gonna die, die with your boots on!"
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