Government

Governments are the political issue of the day, indeed the millennium. A century ago the only government officials one saw would be the post man and a police man. Now they are meddling in our lives incessantly. Do you really want someone to tell you how high your loo seat must be? It is worse. Sometimes the meddling is well meant. Sometimes it is a lust for power and money. At other times it is outright malice and hatred. It may well be that governments have killed more of their own than other countries'. Lenin concentrated on murdering Russians and others inside the Soviet empire rather than foreigners. Stalin carried on this approach although he was forced to fight by Adolf's invasion.

Genuine democracy would be a step in the right direction. Smaller government would too. Neither is happening. Switzerland remains essentially the only democracy in the world. Here are some offerings on aspects of our world today.

Big Business
Has a very cozy relationship with big government and with small government for that matter. Billions are involved, lots of them. It is a great way to get rich. Government policy says:- Easy come, easy go. They do not care about value the way that honest men have to.

 

Big Business Big Government Big Fraud
Government gets the money, business spends it. Tax payers are screwed. Politicians get fat. Business men get fatter.

 

Big Government
You do not have to be very pessimistic about human nature and systematic evil to believe that our very own government is robbing us and paying off billions to Big Business and, naturally enough being paid back millions in directors' fees, consultancies etc.

 

Constitution
How is a government formed? What are its branches? These are practical questions with fairly standard answers.

 

Declaration of Independence
Do we need government? Yes, more or less. Do we have an obligation to suffer kleptocracy, government greed, government treachery, government lies or government oppression? No is my answer. So it was with a fairly small minority in America in 1776.

 

Elizabeth II - Our Head Of State
HM the Queen seems to believe that she has no powers. I do. I also believe that she has betrayed England due to extremely bad advice, moral cowardice & stupidity in some combination.

 

Finance
High finance involves millions. In fact now it involves billions or even trillions which tells you something about inflation. The American dollar has been inflated and lost 98% of its value since the Federal Reserve Bank was founded. That is what central bankers have done to us using printing presses and fraud. Ed Steele explains it all in plain English. Do we really need governments meddling in the business?

 

Good Government - China Has It. Russia Ditto
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"Eighty-six percent of Chinese people surveyed said they were content with the country's direction, up from 48 percent in 2002. ... And 82 percent of Chinese were satisfied with their national economy, up from 52 percent," said the Times. [ Economy Helps Make Chinese The Leaders In Optimism, Survey Finds, By Brian Knowlton, July 23, 2008 ]
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Good government is possible. England hasn't got it. Nor has America.

 

Government Incompetence
The self righteous rogues who tell us how to run our lives are the same men who foul up big time on major contracts time after time and get away with it time after time. This piece deals with financial incompetence. The malice, corruption and lust for power are other issues.

 

Governance Explained
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Stephen Holmes describes Strauss’s solution to the Jewish dilemma as follows:  “The good society … consists of the sedated masses, the gentlemen rulers, the promising puppies, and the philosophers who pursue knowledge, manipulate the gentlemen, anesthetize the people, and housebreak the most talented young” — a comment that sounds to me like an alarmingly accurate description of the present situation in the United States and elsewhere in the Western world. Given Strauss’s central concern that an acceptable political order be compatible with Jewish survival in the Diaspora and with the tendency for Jews to become an elite, it is reasonable to assume that Strauss believed that Jews would be a prominent part of the aristocracy and that the arrangement would serve Jewish interests–as indeed the current regime does.
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That sounds right. The Romans understood at least part of it. Bread and circuses sums it up well; keep the peasants quiet while the rich rob, rape and steal.

Government Lies
Would your government lie to you? Is the Pope a Catholic? Actually the answer to that question is not as obvious as it should be. Ask about Pope John Paul's origins, allegiances and agenda then wonder. Then look at some examples of corrupt lies and KNOW.

 

Government Murders
This is mainly government operations against their own people. Adolf did make war against foreigners but communist operations were largely in house. Either way the total is tens of millions. The Chappaquiddick Massacre, Waco Massacre, Ruby Ridge Massacre and the Fort Marcy Massacre fall into a somewhat different areas; retail murder rather than wholesale.

 

Governments and Narcotics
Some government outfits are deeply involved in the narcotics industry. The CIA is only one such. The Burmese government is another.

 

Government Thieving
Anyone who thinks he pays less than 50% tax on his income hasn't thought it through. Employers pay VAT and national insurance [ 17.5% and circa 9% ] before it gets any where near the man. Then of course there is income tax at up to 40% as well as national insurance [ 9% ] . Spend what they have left to you and get to pay VAT again as well as company taxes on the product. Petrol tax is around 400% - buy a gallon and pay for another four.

This is only a beginning. Governments rob us by printing money. There is privatization which is another gross fraud on the public. We are victims. They have the gall to complain about money laundering and make it a criminal offence.

 

Government Types
Forms of government vary. The results by and large do not. They are depressingly bad or worse.

 

Her Majesty's Government
Names the guilty. HMG has some of the dirt.

 

Parliament
Is about Parliament in general, its powers, its functions, its privileges.

 

Parliament Special
Rogues were caught with their fingers in the till. The Telegraph told us in detail about their guilt. Then it shut up and nobody commented. They were leaned on with a court order. Perverting the truth is the name of the game.

 

Political Science
Politics is a science? Maybe. There are things that fit under that heading. You are never going to find them in the Tory manifesto but then Tory is the Irish word for thief.

 

The CIA
Is the Central Intelligence Agency and responsible for American espionage operations. Their record includes major criminal operations. Taking prisoners, torturing them, big time drug running - these things sound like the stuff of an unbridled imagination. They are also reality.

 

Espionage
Is a standard part of government operations. Sometimes it is effective and worthwhile but if the politicians will not listen it is a waste of time. Then it develops its own agenda. Pension schemes are very much part of the thinking. Aldrich Ames proved that. Then he went to prison so he will never have to work again.

 

The Espionage-Industrial Complex
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In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defence with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower, Farewell Address, 1961
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Ike knew a thing or two about politics. They have not gotten any better. Far from it.

 

FBI
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is a crime fighting outfit in America. Right or wrong? Wrong rather too often. Their track record of torture, murder and corrupt investigation is not inspiring. The RUBY RIDGE MASSACRE is only one of theirs.