Wasting Time In Hamburg, Germany

It isn’t like the Anti-Capitalist Anarchists are ever going to win. But if they ever do, they’ll be the first to starve.

This giant mob of people who have all the time in the world and no jobs have descended upon Hamburg, Germany to bust up the city and to “protest” all their bosses at the G20 Summit. Do they really believe the dumb shit they're spouting? It's hard to believe that they would. Who knows? 

Who cares? 

It’s just a Dog & Pony Show. It isn’t like it really means anything. If people don’t show up to protest, are these people important? Perhaps these G20 "power brokers" bus in this mob to add legitimacy to what they are “doing” since what they are ultimately doing is nothing. 

Nothing will happen, nothing will change. They all stood up there applauding the Paris Accord with absolute no intention of lifting a finger to comply with it’s impossible demands. Like our last President…what’s his name, they all just stand up in front of the cameras and claim that they “did” this. Time to celebrate!

It isn't like what they are sitting around eating cracked crab over is actually important. 

So how important is the G20 anyway? 

Since its inception in 2008, has the world changed much? Really?

There’s still a hand in your pocket and the economy still sucks. People are trying to hold onto their last buck and there are still wars raging, people killing themselves and others and people succeeding and failing on their own merits and imperfections without the help or hindrance of government. 

And we all end up dead. 

Events like the G20 happen when entrenched Politicians get so comfortable and convinced of their sovereignty that they really do think they can control the weather.

The G20 is all just a show not to be taken seriously. It’s a fabulously fraudulent black tie and red carpet affair with a backdrop of central casting fill-ins throwing bricks so that newspaper people can write about how the world is going to hell, working people can look at, point, shake their heads and declare how the world is going to hell and for thinking people just ignore it. 

There are things that are never going to change no matter how much Politicians talk about them, attempt to regulate and pass laws over, or otherwise seek to govern. In this case what the G20 is always talking about is changing human nature and it’s just not going to happen. The Market is the Market and nothing about it is stoppable given the right product and the right buyer. Drugs? Can't stop them. Greed? Can't regulate it. Desire and Want?  Never going away. The Weather? You get the point. 

You can’t make a free market fair. There are going to be poor people and rich people. You regulate a financial market and it becomes less financial. That is not a good thing and that’s why nobody really wants to do such a thing and it doesn’t matter how many people are out throwing bricks through a Starbucks window, it won't change the motivation.

And really, what does the G20 ever really gotten done? This year the topics will be “Global Climate Warming Change”...ok, next. "To rectify inequalities and instabilities throughout the World"…ok, next. "Major countries taking more responsibility in making the world safer"…ok, next.

That's it, we're out of ideas.

The relevance of the G20 is pretty much the same as the United Nations. Lots of money spent, zero results. The world just doesn't work the way these people pretend it does. The Leftist Media, the Leftist Politicians and the Leftists who vote for them think that if they force enough of these "reforms" on people, the world will change when in fact only the people forced to comply will change their behavior and circumvent the unnatural laws. That's why the Declaration of Independence states that these rights outlined therein are "inalienable". Look it up.

I've been thinking that perhaps the real purpose of the G20 serves is as one of those rolling economic engines that travel about from place to place bringing attention, money and economic activity to where ever it is they land. Like the Tour de France or like what The Grateful Dead were in their musical heyday.

The Dead would roll into a town followed by 20,000 Dead Heads who would camp, stay in hotels, eat in the restaurants, buy the concert tickets, sell t-shirts, sell drugs etc and generally bring in heaping wads o’ cash into any town the band played in. The police would have a field day towing cars, arresting people under the influence, writing tickets for erratic driving and, of course, working traffic details. The Grateful Dead meant big money everywhere they went.

That’s the G20. All these mobs of people who either don’t have jobs or that perhaps protesting IS their job come into town and need food, places to sleep, ride the train, fight the police who are on overtime and if you’re an insurance adjuster, water cannon manufacturer, a pepper spray or gas mask manufacturer, well Hamburg is a Boom-Town! And money for black clothing, face-hiding bandannas, incendiary devices and "Vengeance" masks has to come from somewhere. Those "protesters" have money!

But ultimately, nothing gets done for all involved. The mob doesn't get their Chaos and the Pols don't get their Order. Once the concert is over everybody gets on the next train or piles into the van for the next stop on the tour and once the season is over, everybody goes home to recuperate, laugh about the narrow escapes and make travel plans for the next get together. 

It's all just part of the game.  

Big Business Loses on Climate Gamble

Just imagine the heaping wads of money these big multi-national companies must have stood to gain from the implementation of the Paris Accord. Just a run down of the giant corporations with their hands in every pie that were really, really for this Paris Accord: Tim Cook of Apple, Darren Woods of Exxon/Mobile, Facebook Authoritarian Mark Zuckerberg, and perhaps the biggest beneficiary of public funds in the world, Elon Musk. Also those bastions of free speech the New York Times an The Wall Street Journal have come out for this phony-baloney "Pact". 

If that doesn't convince you President Trump did the right thing, then nothing will. 


Why are these high and mighty shysters out there embarrassing themselves? Nobody really believes that we have anything to do with the Earth's climate, least of all them. They don't believe it either! They're only in it for the money. Also none of the reported One Million other countries that signed this empty agreement believe it either since not one of them have even come close to the marks set down for them in it. So what could the real motivation be, hmmmm? 

My favorite quote must be that idiot Musk's when he says "Climate Change is real!" Ha ha, what a moron. That's right up there with crazy-like-a-fox Al Gore's "The planet has a fever!". 

And go ahead Mr. Musk, quit the White House Business Council. If the government wasn't subsidizing your "business" you wouldn't be on a committee anyway. You'd have no business and nobody would have ever heard of you. 

But one thing should be very clear from all this emotional bleating and gnashing of teeth: All these moneyed egomaniacs think that YOU are plenty stupid. 

And why wouldn't they? You've bought into their shtick for so long they think the Sun shines out of their behinds. 

So how much of a benefit to the long suffering small businesses across these United States would all the Carbon Swaps,Tax Breaks and outright Subsidies these global big businesses had built into this climate deal for either developing, producing or consuming "clean" energy? You know that these "incentives" must surely have been written into this massive International Ponzi Scheme. Otherwise why would they get involved in the first place?

Just an accounting of the people and corporations that were staunchly for this agreement should be enough to make a bell go off in most reasonable people's heads. Ask yourself; "What can Exxon/Mobile possibly gain from such as deal?" 

Oh, I'll bet there are plenty of incentives in there to soften the blow for them! 

And who gets to pay for all this? Why it's us, the U.S. taxpayer, of course and what remains of small business in this country that already can't handle the regulations and taxation it's already groaning under. We get to pay for it and revel in the .00001 degree drop in global temperature that they surely will find happening.

"The sacrifice will be well worth it." says Elon Musk as he hops into his private jet and heads off to the Caribbean to join Al and Tipper Gore for a little rest & relaxation as a reward for saving the planet. 

And now that Mr. Trump and the United States has left Europe to themselves, let Angela Merkel, she of the open borders and state support of indigent invaders and Emmanuel Macron, he of the steely handshake and strong warnings to other world leaders, start to worry about their own issues in their own countries since it's easy to see that they've got more important problems to contemplate right now bigger than figuring out how to change the weather. Unless they're just looking for a distraction. 

And Mr. Obama, how can we miss you if you won't go away?  

The Paris Accord was obviously a big swindle by the Globalists and President Trump did just what we put him into office to do. 

Good job!

Sanders More Important than Clinton in 2016 Election

Despite the charade by the national media and the “looking ahead to Trump” posturing by his Washington Insider opponent, Bernie Sanders may yet be able to wrest the Democratic Presidential Nomination from a faltering and lackluster Hillary Clinton.

With landslide wins in New Hampshire and Vermont, wins in Minnesota, Oklahoma and Colorado and a very close near win in Massachusetts, Senator Bernie Sanders has already demonstrated that his message carries across the nation.

With more primary victories on the horizon, the Vermont senator is underscoring the profound weakness of Hillary Clinton as a presidential candidate.

The South notwithstanding, Sanders popularity and that of Donald Trump, sends the message that people are tired of establishment candidates trotting out the same old populist bullshit with the result that nothing ever changes for them. The poor stay poor and the rich stay rich.

This is a cycle voters appear to want to break and whether it means a break to the Left or a break to the Right, they still are voting in large numbers to break away from the same old establishment candidate.

Trouble for Hillary

Despite all the big talk about her dominance on Super Tuesday, Clinton still did not win nearly what she and her media enablers thought she would. All the messages Hillary has tried to float have not served her well. All her votes are based on her past, not her future. Nostalgia is a poor running mate!

The Importance of Bernie

Nothing of what Hillary is saying breaks any new ground. Hers is the message of the something for everyone variety. A Hillary speech is more like things you say when you are running for President with an expectation that you just do it and get it over with and nobody really believes it or believes in it and it shows. 

Now compare that to the message that Senator Sanders is engendering. Sanders campaign is energetic, enthusiastic, certainly idealistic and is attracting new ears young and old who do believe in what he is saying whole heartedly. Talk with the people of Vermont and they all say that Mr. Sanders hasn't changed his message from the very beginning and that he has seldom failed to deliver on his promises. Love the message, hate the message, there is an energy there that brings weight to his convictions. 

It is my profound wish that Bernie Sanders succeeds in his efforts to become the Democratic Nominee and gain the grand stage to put forth in the worlds ultimate arena of ideas his argument for why he and his plan is the best for the American people. Because if that should happen, can you imagine for a moment what these debates will be like? 

They will only be the ultimate education for everyone in the entire world lucky enough to be able to tune in.

The absolute most Socialist candidate the nation has produced since the 1920s. Bernie Sanders, who is the second coming of Eugene V. Debs will take the stage to debate one of the country’s most successful Capitalist entrepreneurs to have ever run for the office of the presidency, Donald Trump!

One man, with the message that only through Government can the nation become a safer, more secure and prosperous place for the individual versu the other man who exposes less government intrusion, more self-reliance and self-determination as the way to prosperity for the nation and its people.

This would be just brilliant!

It’s the message of a free lunch versus you just can’t get it for free!

In Bernie Sanders’ world it is Government that creates jobs, housing and funds for the “downtrodden” who have failed through no fault of their own but for a system that is stacked against them. Bernie’s government will rectify the inequality of their situations and punish those who are guilty.

In Donald Trump’s world, it is not government that creates jobs but the individual with the better idea. Success isn’t a crime nor is it derived through anything but hard work and risk. You take the risk and you either fail or reap the rewards of your efforts. You have a right to your success, government does not.

These debates would be something ALL of America and really the whole world should hear, especially our youth.

This is why Bernie Sanders is an important figure at this time in history where we find the United States deeply divided and groping in the lack of clarifying light to find a path to take that will bring back the prosperity that it has lacked for the last decade and to bring renewed opportunity to the nation's underutilized youth.

These are the two messages that resonate across the country right now. They are compelling, they are vibrant and they are well presented by people who are absolutely resolute in their belief in them.

This could be the greatest political confrontation we could ever hope to see in our life-times.

And the last person we need there is Hillary Clinton. 

Citizens Discover USA & GDR are Dictatorships

Even though it’s been like this for a long time, the people of these two nations are coming to the realization that our Democracies are no more.

Our nations are run by Dictators.

What else can it be when one person, with the aid of a compliant few, can push one edict after punishing edict upon the peoples of their nation who do not want these things?

Nobody thought National Healthcare was a good idea but here it is, for now, until it collapses in total failure causing pain and hardship for the citizens of the United States. We all knew it was a power grab to secure control for the Federal Government of more and more of the nation’s economy. The American people railed against it because they knew it was a fucked up plan but here it is just the same. 

The same goes for the German Democratic Republic, which just sounds like an Orwellian name these days much like Obama’s “Affordable Care Act” which provides neither affordability or care since no taxpayer can afford their premiums or even their co-pays. And so just what is this "democracy" getting the German "republic" these days? I don't recall them holding a national referendum about inviting these migrants into the country and foisting them upon the German people. Seems like something so important should have gone to a vote. 

Germany, now the scene of “Merkel’s Folly”, can join the United States in its naivete in thinking that they had a voice in what their government did.

   

How can one person in the form of Angela Merkel, just decide to arbitrarily import one million illiterate, indigent and religiously unmutable people into Germany?

Yes, she had help but help but from a few betrayers that were either bought off or just plain in on the plan. The rest of the government has just blindly fallen in lockstep. And the only thing the German government seems worried about is that the citizens will vote conservative! How's that for a disconnect from the reality of the situation? 

Just like in the United States where people see their tax money, part of the wealth they’ve created through many hours spent working and producing, going to the unproven, the undeserving and the newly minted foreign mouth to feed while they count pennies and put off retirement. The American people have also seen the reports, from our own department of defense, about the 30 to 50 Billion Dollars in arms left on the field in Iraq so that ISIL can use them to dominate the region. Money well spent I say. And what do we get after that? The government wants to spend even more to finally eradicate the ISIL scourge in Syria. Are you kidding me? Who writes this stuff?

At the end of his last term. George W. Bush decided that he was going to bail out the big banks even though it was a bad idea and even though it has been touted as “buying time” for the U.S. economy, it was a failure since in that time that the Fed “bought”, our national debt has doubled and we've been staggering through the Obama Years ever since.

GW also decided the U.S. was going to invade Iraq…again. And we did. Nobody believed the lie he posed about Iraq but that didn’t matter becae as AESOP said, “Any excuse serves a Tyrant.” And it did.

These blunders, or are they blunders, can only be committed by people who face no consequences for their actions. They are the unchallenged rulers of their countries and they can do whatever they want and there is nothing, nothing you can do about it. You just have to lump it and try to deal with the cards your government has dealt you since they are above the law and answer to no one. Oh yeah, but you are still expected to pay for it all out of your wages. So put THAT in your pipe and SMOKE IT!

Screw you, taxpaying citizen. All you have a right to is to pay for whatever WE, your GOVERNMENT, decides to do. If we want to pass restrictions in the name of Global Warming and decide to add another tier of bureaucracy to the monetary structure in the form of Carbon Credits, well, what the fuck can you do about it, write your CONGRESSMAN?

Even though this has been going on for quite some time, since Roosevelt's New Deal in the United States at least, it seems to have shocked the hell out of the people of Germany to discover they have no say in ANYTHING their government does. They are seeing these Great Unwashed marched into their townships and given apartments right next door or across the street. They are getting the creeping feeling that it is the end of the world. And for them, it IS.

At least Russia makes no bones about being a Dictatorship. The Russian people wouldn’t have it any other way. But Dictatorships are bad for business. Jobs disappear, people go without, shortages abound. 

This is because Dictators are bad at picking winning ideas. They are bound by ideology and follow that instead of sound economic principles. They try to defy gravity and nobody wins that contest for long.

And here we are.

Germany is overrun by almost a million dependents and the people are just expected to embrace them, educate them, feed them and then what, put them to work and ask them to pay into the system?

Good luck with that.

In the United States we are in the same boat. We have millions of people coming into the country who cannot read in their own language never mind English. But the most hurtful part of this to the citizen taxpayer is that instead of the resources they work for going to their own kids, they have to support other people’s kids and people who have yet to put Dime One into the system. They have to pay the high premiums so that others will get their healthcare for free. They are being robbed of opportunity so that others will BE GIVEN, by their benevolent government of course, an opportunity. 

This attempt at an even outcome NEVER works. Makes you wonder why they keep going back to that well. It’s because Dictatorships don’t foster creative thinking. They only encourage conformity and conformity leads to stagnation and failure.

So hitch your wagon to the totalitarian government folks, they’re going places.

So what can you do about it?

Same deal. Quit supporting your own demise.The last resort of the oppressed is to go on strike. Reduce your taxable consumption. Don’t buy new. Quit paying taxes on new goods. Screw Amazon, they're screwing YOU. Return to cash transactions instead of using your card on everything from coffee to beer to gasoline. Also put some cash away for in case of emergency and to keep it off of bank ledgers.

And do you need an iPhone? Really? Stay away from products that are put out by people you don't agree with. And are you paying for your iPhone through a two year contract with a big phone company and paying close to $100.00 a month for service? That phone, even on sale, is taxed at the suggested retail price and the amount you pay for service is taxed. Check out one of the smaller no-contract services and cut your phone bill in half and keep all the services you had before.

Why put more money in the government's pocket? They're only going to waste it. Take care of you and by taking care of you, you will do more than marching in protest is ever going to do for you or pulling the lever on the one vote you get. It'll be better for your blood pressure too since every time you avoid paying a tax, you'll feel better. Works for me. Help yourself not the enemy, and yes, right now the government, both Republocrats and Demlicans, is your enemy.

Voting with your pocketbook is a more powerful tool for the otherwise powerless. Check out the Montgomery Alabama Bus Boycott orchestrated by E.D. Nixon and Jo Ann Robinson from 1955 to 1956.

But if you’re fine with the way things are then why the hell are you reading this far? Go stare at your iPhone.

If dedicated liberal socialists shop at WholeFoods and Earthy Crunchy Co-ops and pays their exorbitant prices to support their causes, then you can at least pitch in by saving yourself money. Or does that sound dumb?

But also, drop the sense of civility about what is going on. Don’t pretend you are living in a Democracy. Don’t pretend you live in a Free Republic. The reality is that you do not.

That doesn't mean you should go marching in the streets. Other than a few things to keep in mind, just live your life. You may actually find more time for that. 

The name of the blog is “Freedom in an Unfree World”. For those who haven’t caught on by now, it is the title of a book by Harold Brown outlining ideas to deal with exactly what we are facing as a nation right now. The premise is to realize that we have little to no control over our ruling class and what they do so recognizing this will lead to focusing on what we do have control overt. That's the freedom part. 

Between Harold Brown, Robert Ringer and the fact that I got my first paycheck with the taxes taken out that same summer made me realize I was a Libertarian.  I wondered why so much money was taken out of my meager earnings and didn’t buy the explanation my mother offered. I worked for that money so why did the government feel they had the right to take so much and what idiot would think this was ok?

We are only here for a short time. Spending years banging our heads against a wall or to rail at the government for what has befallen us won't help you be free. That in itself is a prison. Whoever gets elected is going to be out for themselves. But there is also something else to keep in mind...

Dictatorships always fall.