Obamacare Contains Forced Inspection Provision : Personal Liberty™.
More and more and more invasions of our freedoms, Obamacare can not possibly work to the betterment of anybody but government goons and bureaucrats! Socialism is NOT good for anybody, ever! Never has worked, never will work, it is against human nature and so far no one has been able to change that. Until they do, Socialism is GOING to fail, no other result possible.
The Death Of Common Sense Is The Death Of The Rule Of Law : Personal Liberty™.
Good article, it makes a lot of good points.
World’s Smallest Political Quiz.
Try the quiz and see where you wind up, you might be surprised!
Worlds Smallest Political Quiz
Eating Rich, Living Poor – Mind & Body – Utne Reader
I can really relate to this writer. I have had food issues almost my entire life. I can hardly imagine what it would be like if I had to go through the same thing. I do really appreciate the whole idea of becoming more attentive to GOOD food. Growing your own if possible, learning how to preserve and prepare it. I’d like to be able to grow a garden again, but it doesn’t work while I’m still sailing and gone for so long.
The Books We’ve Lost – Utne Altwire.
I’ve always loved reading and going to the old, independent bookstores. There was one in downtown St Pete that I’d go to on my bike or the bus. I wish I could remember the name, its probably gone now. I could spend a couple hours there easy!
I went to Powells in Portland OR, LOVED it! I went to one by Pikes Place in Seattle WA, LOVED it! All I have locally now is Hastings, its not the same experience at all. I try to go to 1/2 Price books on the way to/from Houston, its OK but still not as interesting as the others.
MLC 2006 | Seafarers’ Bill of Rights Enters into Force | gCaptain ⚓ Maritime & Offshore News.
I really hope this helps, but I have my doubts. Notice how the seafarers have been punished worse than anyone after 9-11. Because of stupid TWIC rules, they have stolen away the RIGHTS we have always had for hundreds of years! Most ports in the USA now refuse to allow seafarers access to shore leave using excuses such as that we are security threats! If they do ‘allow’ us to transit through their facilities, they charge outrageous fees. No foreign seafarer can afford to pay to get out the gate, it is really sickening how these people (I’m one) are treated every day.
Another pet peeve of mine is the ongoing exploitation by crewing agents both here in the USA and in most other countries. It has been illegal by both US and international law to charge a seaman for a job, yet there are still plenty of companies that do that here (I have dealt with a few myself over the years) and especially virulent overseas. Why can’t they charge the hiring companies the fees? They are the ones who HAVE the money! Seafarers are not known to be rolling in the dough. No, but we are known to be desperate to go back to work and so they continue to take advantage of us instead of doing the RIGHT thing and going to get paid by the company they provide the seafarers to.
Oh yeah, then there’s the issue of refusing to provide a decent atmosphere on board the vessel, undermanned, under provisioned, just plain unsanitary and unsafe ships, and we all just put up with all that and do our best to do our jobs. Yeah, I HOPE the MLC 2006 helps the situation but since the ones in the past didn’t do a whole lot, the companies always found ways around, I think they will manage to find ways around this one to and all us seafarers will still be stuck in the same old boat (literally).
Maritime Monday for August 19th, 2013: Movie Guide Part VI | gCaptain ⚓ Maritime & Offshore News.
www.gcaptain.com has been posting this series of maritime related old movies, lots of them look pretty good 😉
After Deadly Ferry Disaster, Philippines Asks What Went Wrong | gCaptain ⚓ Maritime & Offshore News.
More sad news from the Phillipines. They have some really good sailors there, why so many accidents?
I’ve seen these as Facebook status bars: I bolded my favorites!
I think, for once, I would like to be simply whelmed.
“We know what we are, but know not what we may be.”- Hamlet
If someone tells you that’s a hard sell, it’s usually code for your idea stinks.
Happy Birthday, Schrodinger, and long live your cat! (Ah, Google, the stuff you get me into…)
You never see it mentioned how an absolute LACK of power also has the tendency to corrupt absolutely…
I just did a week’s worth of cardio after walking into a spider’s web.
Warning – potential addiction. Once you get to know me I’m a very hard habit to break.
A posted sign saying “I don’t know how to act my age. I’ve never been this age before.” Written under it… Be any age you want, 26 is nice. Be 26. Most important is to be yourself. Be the best self you can be. Unless you can be a pirate. Then be a pirate.
Bloody good, aint it? Tell your partner you love her, and what does she reply? “What have you done?”
I copied and pasted this from an email newsletter I get called Comedy Week, these were from week #758
To write with a broken pencil is pointless.
When fish are in schools they sometimes take debate.
A thief who stole a calendar got twelve months.
When the smog lifts in Los Angeles , U.C.L.A.
The professor discovered that her theory of earthquakes was on shakyground.
The batteries were given out free of charge.
A dentist and a manicurist married. They fought tooth and nail.
A will is a dead giveaway.
If you don’t pay your exorcist you can get repossessed.
With her marriage, she got a new name and a dress.
Show me a piano falling down a mineshaft and I’ll show you A-flat miner.
You are stuck with your debt if you can’t budge it.
Local Area Network in Australia : The LAN down under.
A boiled egg is hard to beat.
When you’ve seen one shopping centre you’ve seen a mall.
Police were called to a day care where a three-year-old was resisting a rest.
Did you hear about the fellow whose whole left side was cut off? He’s all right now.
If you take a laptop computer for a run you could jog your memory.
A bicycle can’t stand alone; it is two tired.
In a democracy it’s your vote that counts; in feudalism, it’s your Count that votes.
When a clock is hungry it goes back four seconds.
The guy who fell onto an upholstery machine was fully recovered.
He had a photographic memory which was never developed.
Those who get too big for their britches will be exposed in the end.
When she saw her first strands of grey hair, she thought she’d dye.
Acupuncture is a jab well done.
WISTA Forum Highlights Personal Cost of Piracy.
It would be nice if more people cared about the risks mariners take to get them all their goodies daily. In the USA, over 90% of our trade is by sea. The threat of piracy is real and growing and NO, they are NOT like Johnny Depp!
Check out www.gcaptain.com for one of the best all around sites for mariners. I love the forums where people can ask and answer questions, discuss issues and events, post the latest info on who’s hiring and where.
August 5, 2013
By: Kelly Diamond, Publisher
Imagine going on vacation, coming home, and finding out that your house has been ransacked and the locks to all your doors have been changed…
Imagine reporting this to the police, they investigate, and you find out a bank did this to you. A bank foreclosed on your home, took all your worldly possessions and evicted you.
But you’re current on your mortgage! Nay! You don’t even HAVE a mortgage!
Oops! Lowly bank clerk probably just typed a “1″ instead of a “2″ or the GPS got it wrong. Oh well. So the bank should compensate you, right?
BAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!
Oh, dear sweet plebe. You’re so cute when you trust in our system for justice…
You can read an actual keyboard on my forehead from where my face landed on my laptop. I don’t trust government. I don’t trust the banks. I sure as hell don’t trust them together! And by golly, this story is why!
Abby Martin of RT covered one case extensively in an episode of “Breaking the Set”. For example, one victim, issued a list of about $18,000 worth of household goods for which to be compensated. The bank said that since she neither had receipts for those things nor did her list match that of the bank agent who took the items, they would not reimburse her that amount.
Another victim sought the help of TWENTY-FIVE different attorneys to help him sue the bank that did this to him. NONE of them would take the case. He went it alone, and in a very rare hiccough of justice, the court ordered some sort of compensation.
In a class action suit involving approximately 4,000,000 victims of mistaken foreclosures and robberies, the government sued these huge multi-national banks (among them Wells Fargo, JP Morgan Chase, Citi Group, and Bank of America).
***Side Bar: Didn’t we bail these guys out not that long ago?***
Look around your home. How much do you have it insured for? When I lived in a $300,000 home a few years back, we had it insured for $500,000. That included every possible thing inside it as well as all the work done to the outside. But take a quick inventory of your basic household appliances. Perhaps a few expensive suits and shoes? Heirlooms or jewelry? Couple grand in tools and lawn equipment? DVD collection? Would a modest estimation of an average of about $50,000 make sense? We aren’t including the house itself or your credit score which, by the way, are both about 3 leagues under oblivion after this little fiasco.
IF you think such an estimate is fair, then that would set our expectations at $200 Billion in a total settlement. And considering neither the value of the house lost nor the destroyed credit standing are factored in, we can safely say the banks would collectively be getting off cheap at $200 Billion, right?
But they are banks… so let’s tabulate that into our calculated expectations… $100 Billion? No. $50 Billion? No. $25 Billion? Seriously, at this point we’re looking at an average of $6,250 per victim! $10 Billion????? $5 BILLION?????
Try $3.6 Billion dollars with the average pay out ranging between $300 and $800 to approximately 80% of the victims. Unless of course you happen to be a member of the military. In which case, you saw an average of $125,000 (Apparently, they are special… or “more specialer” than the others.)
You might be thinking about now, “THAT SUCKS!” along with a series of expletives and epithets. I did. I can’t believe my fingers are even steady enough to type this. But it gets better! (Because the only thing the government DOESN’T do half-assed is collude with banks. They do that like a boss!)
“Part of the settlement is the agreement that banks admit no wrongdoing, no bank employees will be charged individually, and they don’t even have to fix the victims’ credit reports, which were wrongly devastated by each of the accidental foreclosures.”
No wrong doing? Do banks just regularly pay out $3.2 billion dollars in a court sentencing for doing nothing wrong? Despite some of the typographical errors committed by certain bank employees which lead to the wrongful foreclosures, none of them will be held to account either? And banks can literally just take a big toxic dump on people’s credit who are actually responsible individuals and have done NOTHING to deserve a blemish, much less a side swiping of their credit? Oh but look! A taxable check in the amount of $300 should make it all better…
“Curiously, the FED and OCC ordered federal regulators to stop compiling the cost of damages to victims, so nobody really knows how much each homeowner lost financially or how many more victims there are who are being denied justice. Government officials confirmed earlier this year just before the settlement was announced that after two years of compiling lists of banking victims and the amounts stolen or lost, they were stopping because there were so many victims, the process would have gone on indefinitely.”
Wow. Let’s just stop keeping track of this sort of thing. It must be so uncomfortable to record all the losses, damages and victims. I totally understand. Put the pen down… Just round to the nearest and lowest possible number and just go with that. Better still, just make something up and call it justice.
The Wall Street Journal likewise looked into this matter from the “how do you plan to make things right and prevent this from happening in the future” angle. They came up rather short when they sought answers to such a question. All they found were more victims, more stories, and more tragedy.
“In a separate report, the Wall Street Journal reported only weeks before the government halted its collection of victims that independent bank audits showed there were many more wrongful foreclosure victims than the FED and OCC’s lawsuit was arguing. And even though the perpetrators admitted there were more victims and larger financial losses, in effect offering to pay more money to more victims, the FED and OCC refused to accept the information and instead did the opposite by halting the inclusion of any more victims or damages to the suit.”
There’s the cherry on top of the shit sundae right there. LA LA LA LA LA!!!! I CAN’T HEAR YOU OVER MY OWN DENIAL!!!!! STOP WITH THIS INCESSANT DISCLOSURE OF TRUTH!
I’ve more or less become desensitized to the reports of police raids gone wrong. Policemen breaking down doors, killing innocent children and elderly people, shooting dogs on sight, setting off tear gas bombs… And while for the most part, these cops see little or no real disciplinary action, the city or county typically reimburses the property damage done to the private home that was wrongfully invaded.
But when a bank can seize everything from ANYONE with NO recourse for the private citizen to whom this was done?! Strictly speaking, a bank cannot physically repossess a home that is not empty and vacant. Which is why they wait for people to go on vacation, and then proceed to relieve their homes of moveable property first.
I’d like to think there is some way to protect your assets from such egregious miscarriages of justice such as these, but I honestly don’t know if there is! The thing is, the basis for which these homes were seized was not because of who owned them or any public record. They were simply the WRONG house. A house across the way or down the street was the intended target of these seizures. These were mistakes made by typographical errors and GPS navigation devices. I would HIGHLY recommend a consultation with Bobby or Paul to see if any of these scenarios could’ve been mitigated by some sort of restructuring plan.
Evidently, not only is our system litigious but it apparently has no further interest in justice. I’m gonna go bang my head against a wall to ease some of the pain from researching this piece……
I hope he doesn’t mind but I really love the articles Jeff posts in the Dollar Vigilante. I completely agree with him that it is a good idea to find some way to get out of the US before its too late. I am trying my best to follow that advice but for the moment, I’m still stuck here. I cut this out and pasted it here, it is referring to other parts of the article but this is the best part…
LULLED INTO COMPLACENCY
The first two people I mentioned above have their eyes wide open and know that it is time to get out of the US and the west in general. The third is like many people I have met. 2008 scared them but the money printing since then has lulled them into a sense of complacency. But, this is absolutely not the time to be complacent.
There are so many indications of a rapid increase in tyranny, especially in the US, that I believe we are near another major event. There are already capital controls in the US… although they have been deftly hidden. FATCA (Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act) is now making it nearly impossible for an American to get their capital outside of the US. Most banks and brokerages on Earth already won’t accept Americans because of it. And every week we see more, including numerous gold storage facilities also turning away Americans.
One of the only ways to get your assets securely outside of the US as an American now is to buy foreign real estate. And, I expect, even that will soon be shuttered.
And, the time to get a foreign passport is also running out as the “Ex-Patriot Act” continues to worm its way through congress. Ex-Patriot is an acronym. It stands for “Expatriation Prevention by Abolishing Tax-Related Incentives for Offshore Tenancy Act”. You can’t be more clear than that. There will soon be a law in the US that prevents expatriation! If you aren’t running to get a second passport now, and have the means to do so, I don’t know how much clearer I can be about the urgency. TDV Passports, of course, is here to help.
And now, look at what else is happening. Some libertarians have moved to New Hampshire for the “Free State Project” to try to start a libertarian community and the local government has applied for military style armored vehicles for the explicit reason to quell this… even naming the Free State Project explicitly as being a threat.
Also, in the last week, every major bitcoin provider, person or company in the US has been subpoeanaed in New York. You can read more about that here, “Every Important Person In Bitcoin Just Got Subpoenaed By New York’s Financial Regulator” at Forbes. Bitcoin is an amazing revolution in money but I saw that writing on the wall in the US a few months ago when I helped found a Bitcoin ATM and then quickly withdrew… good thing or I did or my name would’ve been on that list.
I would have been in a much better position than most on that list from persecution, however, as I do not hold a US passport and hold a passport, through TDV Passports, in a much less aggressive jurisdiction as well as having all my assets outside of the US. But I realized quickly that this was too dangerous of a thing to be involved in at this time.
Already too many people have stood up to the American empire, like Bradley Manning, Edward Snowden and Adam Kokesh. Manning looks set to life in prison, Snowden is still in limbo and seeking political refuge in Russia and Adam Kokesh remains in a cage to this day after his house was raided by numerous men in black outfits, helicopters and tanks and a mushroom was planted.
Now, even the secure email provider that Edward Snowden used, Lavabit, shuttered their 10 year old business after being attacked by the US government for the crime of allowing people to communicate without them being able to read everything they send. Even that was not enough though as today the founders of Lavabit are being threatened with arrest just for shutting down their business!
Countless times per day, police are killing and raping people and shutting down businesses in the US.
Here is one of the latest from Huffington Post:
A small organic farm in Arlington, Texas, was the target of a massive police action last week that included aerial surveillance, a SWAT raid and a 10-hour search.
Members of the local police raiding party had a search warrant for marijuana plants, which they failed to find at the Garden of Eden farm. But farm owners and residents who live on the property told a Dallas-Ft. Worth NBC station that the real reason for the law enforcement exercise appears to have been code enforcement. The police seized “17 blackberry bushes, 15 okra plants, 14 tomatillo plants … native grasses and sunflowers,” after holding residents inside at gunpoint for at least a half-hour, property owner Shellie Smith said in a statement. The raid lasted about 10 hours, she said.
Local authorities had cited the Garden of Eden in recent weeks for code violations, including “grass that was too tall, bushes growing too close to the street, a couch and piano in the yard, chopped wood that was not properly stacked, a piece of siding that was missing from the side of the house, and generally unclean premises,” Smith’s statement said. She said the police didn’t produce a warrant until two hours after the raid began, and officers shielded their name tags so they couldn’t be identified.
DO NOT GET COMPLACENT
It is our job here at The Dollar Vigilante to keep abreast of what is going on and I can tell you personally, the US is one of the most dangerous places on Earth at this moment in time to live and keep your capital. And forget about making money. The land of opportunity is no more.
Even trying to operate a lemonade stand without a permit results in numerous government goons arriving, people ending up in handcuffs and arrest threats being made.
Lemonadefreedom.com just started up to make this starkly clear. John Stossel, one of the only reasonable voices on Fox News also went through the process to open a child’s lemonade stand.
Here is what it takes in the land of the free for a child to open a lemonade stand:
1) Register as sole proprietor with the County Clerk’s Office (must be done in person)
2) Apply to the IRS for an Employer Identification Number
3) Complete 15-hr Food Protection Course!
4) After the course, register for an exam that takes 1 hr. You must score 70 percent to pass. (Sample question: “What toxins are associated with the puffer fish?”) If you pass, allow 3-5 weeks for delivery of Food Protection Certificate.
5) Register for sales tax Certificate of Authority
6) Apply for a Temporary Food Service Establishment Permit. Must bring copies of the previous documents and completed forms to the Consumer Affairs Licensing Center.
Do you know what the process is to open a lemonade stand in Mexico, Chile or most other non-western countries on Earth? You need some lemons and some cups.
IT’S ALL OVER BUT THE FEMA CAMPS
I’ve been way ahead of the curve here. For more than three years now I’ve been advising to get your ass and assets outside of the US. I even did an interview with Adam Kokesh where I advised him to get out of the US and come to Acapulco (Preview) for his own safety. He’s now been kidnapped and is sitting in a cage.
There will be no political solutions to the collapse of the US empire. My upcoming book, “Escape from Amerika” further states this. It’s all over except for the FEMA camps and likely another false flag event to shut the whole place down like a prison.
The End Of The Monetary System As We Know It (TEOTMSAWKI) cometh. I don’t know what else to tell you except that I have already gotten out of the West and taken all the same advice that I offer here (and in our paid newsletter with even more detailed information). I’ve put my money where my mouth is.
And, if you are logical and rational and have done your research, you know I will be right. Sadly.
If you have an IRA either cash it out (preferably) or if you are unwilling, put it into a Self-Directed IRA (TDV Self Directed IRAs again can help here) and get most of your assets outside of the US. You can even buy investment property in foreign countries… GGC being my own #1 pick – although I am obviously biased. But if you go down to Chile, see the free-er market in action, the economic growth and the location (it is Napa Valley in the 1940s) you will see clearly what I see. It’s that blatantly obvious.
As for me, I just arrived in Acapulco and another TDVer is in town and we’re going for a drink to discuss life, love, liberty and freedom. All my favorite topics.
Now is not the time to get complacent. Things are about to get real messy again and this will make 2008 look like a cakewalk. Mark my words.
I’ve been playing with my new camera
Where I’ve been working lately…
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