I enjoyed this one. I never get tired of watching ignorants having reality shoved in their face. It’s also kind of interesting to see this Task character get somewhat chummy with the statist on the set and try to pretend Schiff was speaking crazy talk…when all throughout 2009 he had Schiff on this show on the heels of a lot of his predictions coming to pass, and treated him like royalty. (Not unlike Jon Stewart…who incidentally hasn’t had Schiff on since that one episode 3 years ago.)
This man is a Judge in Aransas County, Texas who handles child abuse cases.. He admits it is him and says it "looks worse than it is."
Warning: graphic content
Yeeaaaahhhh!!! Agent of the state! Thats what happens when you defy the state!
The only reason he thinks “it looks worse than it is” is because he is dressed like a regular ol’ serf so you cant tell whose authority the 16-year-old girl dared to defy. If he was wearing a uniform this would look normal to some people.
Watching that made me sick to my stomach. I think I’m gonna vomit.
I don’t know if anyone’s posted about In Time on here, but I caught a few scenes at work today. If you haven’t heard, it’s a dystopian film where time is money, the basic idea is this:
In the future, genetic alteration has allowed humanity to develop a system where individuals stop aging 25 years after birth. Due to over-population concerns, time has replaced money as the standard currency and people must acquire more time through labor and commercial means after turning 25 years of age, or die within a year. Each social class lives in a different area called a Time Zone: The poor live in the ghettos of Dayton and work each day to earn a few more hours of life, which they must also use to pay for everyday necessities. The rich live in the luxurious New Greenwich, and can live for centuries to millenia based on how much time they have accrued.
The plot focuses around Timberlake’s character who starts stealing time and giving it to others who have no more than a day of time left each day (I don’t feel like explaining more than that with all the details). There’s a scene where they see signs with the interest of time loans going up 30+ percent in seconds, and they realize that no matter how much time (money) they inject into the population the prices will only go up to even or balance out the newly injected time.
Well, if it could not be more obvious, I don’t know what is.
As I pointed out in the comments on this video (which were quickly buried as it appears that comments are being made at the rate of about 1 per second), these pigs will take your children away for a story of abuse fabricated by their own paid social workers but, behind closed doors, they know that they can get away with anything short of murder. I doubt that this incident is aberrant among judges, family law judges in particular.
The amount of power held by a typical county judge is astounding. A typical county judge in a moderately populated area disposes of dozens of years of human life in a month. They have absolute, gold-plated immunity for any decision they make as a judge. The President of the United States - who is practically emperor of the world - will be hauled off in chains to a war crimes tribunal before an American judge is held liable for a decision made as a judge. Now, think about this caustic mixture for a moment… you have people holding unimaginable power over the lives of hundreds of individuals every year and who are absolutely, unqualifiedly immune for each and every decision they make regarding those people’s lives. Something wrong with this picture?
American law is in really bad straits and badly needs to be reformed. We need to end the monopoly on arbitration held by the government’s court system. It’s literally killing us.
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I was reading about Blackwater on Wiki, and this was listed under the political views of Erik Prince, the founder of Blackwater (now called Xe Services LLC):
Prince describes himself as a “libertarian”, majoring in Austrian Economics at Hillsdale College. He describes his political views as follows:
“I’m a very free market guy. I’m not a huge believer that government provides a whole lot of solutions. Some think that government can solve society’s problems. I tend to think private charities and private organizations are better solutions.”
Prince credits his time as a White House intern with some of his free market views. There he confronted some of the great growth in the federal government.
“Having that White House internship responsibility and badges, I walked around some of these other cavernous federal agencies, and you want to talk about depressing? Walk through HHS (Health and Human Services) or HUD (Housing and Urban Development) or Commerce, you name it. Leviathan realized.”
Previous owner and founder of Blackwater libertarian and even Austrian?
Even a Libertarian with any sense knows the big bucks ooze out of the state’s teat!
Turn brown eyes blue… definitely tantalizing!
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I haven’t seen this on here yet. Just a cool Ron Paul video I grabbed from a friend who posted it on FB.
Fox News really wants Rick Perry. Too bad no one else does.
Real quick on the dollar/euro situation with Peter Schiff. Watch baldy get into his indignant drag queen head shake at the end. It’s so funny to watch all these people argue with someone like Peter and try to defend these ridiculous positions. I still haven’t been able to completely figure out why they’re so compelled to do this. It’s like they just don’t like what he has to say so they feel the need to try to attack him even though they have nothing to refute it.
Local news posted that the CIA is going over Twitter and Facebook updates. They are stationed in some industrial park (location unknown) in Virginia and are looking for statements regarding the war in the middle east (I guess in regards to people discussing the military’s actions in general, plans, etc. Stuff to “tip off” the enemy.) Out of boredom I had shared the story from the local news FB and added a ton of trigger words as the status.
Hate to point this out, Bert, but that article is just run-of-the-mill disinformation. They’ve been spying on us for decades. Articles like this try to give the reader the impression that this is some really new, innovative idea that the CIA has only just recently deployed to inculcate a feeling that the spy agencies are always behind the times and always playing catch-up and so on. The fact is that the NSA has had a tap on the backbone of the Internet since almost the day after 9/11 and they monitory ev er y thing. Whatever legal hurdles are placed in their way are simply routed around and the march goes on.
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Oh, I’m aware it’s been going on for a while, I just find it amusing they want to publish it. As if now it’s official and on the record. Now I’m curious as to what industrial complex in VA has some CIA computer geeks sitting around reading thousands upon thousands of status updates a day.
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Bert: Must be one mind-numbingly boring job. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg. Think about all those PhDs that get sucked up and have their brilliant minds turned to dreaming up faster algorithms for data-mining this ocean of raw data the NSA is collecting. For all its mystique, the NSA is really naught but a glorified mail-monitor that just applies massive technological and human resources to scan and collate an unimaginable amount of communications. I believe probably something very close to 100% of all unencrypted English-language communications are scanned at one level or another. But how much better off would we be if those minds were instead solving the very same kinds of problems for peaceful, productive commerce?
And it gets worse. There is an incestuous relationship going all the way back to WWII between US intelligence and Silicon Valley, for all its supposed free-market cachet. I work for one of the largest companies based in Silicon Valley. This may sound completely insane to you, but I believe that part of the purpose of Silicon Valley is to “sop up” the technological talent and keep them from competing with all those PhDs at NSA. What good is it to the NSA to get all these brilliant people cracking codes and dreaming up ever-bigger, ever-faster, ever-smarter data-mining algorithms when the private sector has 10 times as many brilliant people dreaming up ever=stronger codes and ever-better, ever-faster privacy algorithms and practices? Why not deal with the problem at the source by soaking up those brilliant private-sector people into dull, pointless jobs in oversized tech companies given regulatory and other favors “behind closed doors” to stay on top and maintain record profits year-after-year?
The amount of wealth being destroyed by the current status quo is staggering to the imagination. If we somehow managed to break free of it, people will not be able to comprehend the rate of economic growth that will emerge… it would be so sudden and so dramatic, it would be like a bomb going off.
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