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The Road From Capitalism to Socialism and Why The US is F**ked

August 31, 2011
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It is perhaps the saddest story ever told and it has been told over and over again for millennia.  It is the never-ending urge to dismantle capitalism after it has created great amounts of wealth.

This has been going on since Roman times as can be seen in this quote from Cicero circa 50 B.C.:

"The budget should be balanced,the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance."

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Nightmare On Pennsylvania Avenue

August 30, 2011
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I stopped reading fiction books or watching fiction movies a long time ago.  I even stopped reading mock-news comedy sites like theonion.com.  Why?  Because none of them can compare to the insanity of real life.

Take this one, as example.  The prince of peace, Barack Obama, nominated a new man to head the "White House Council of Economic Advisors" on Monday.

I have to admit, for a split second I almost leapt off my balcony to the beach 29 floors below!  I thought it said that Krugman - Paul Krugman - had been nominated to be Barack Obama's top financial advisor!

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A Perfect Storm of Political and Media Hype

August 29, 2011
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This weekend's supposed emergency in New York was just another in a long line of political and media scare tactics undertaken to make the public feel like the government protects them.

With Hurricane Irene heading toward New York City, Michael Bloomberg, your typical Bureau Rat, stepped up to the microphone to tell millions of people what to do.

The thought that there is one man - or person - who just knows best for everybody, is such an expired idea that it is just comedy now.  The U.S.S.R. was the last vestige of this style of thinking.  It died in August 1991... more than 20 years ago - although the government in the U.S.S.A. is doing its best to bring it back.

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Your Personal Declaration of Independence

August 26, 2011
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Have you heard of Jeff Knaebel?  Probably not.  News of him has been purposefully ignored across mainstream media - the same as with Tom Ball who self-immoliated in New Hampshire earlier this year.

Jeff Knaebel saw beyond the pomp, pageantry and lies of the flag and patriotism to see that government is nothing but a criminal, violent gang and in 1995 he attempted to extract himself from the system - something that is proving nearly impossible to detach completely from.  Your government doesn't want to let its tax slaves escape so easily.

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Ignore Reality At Your Own Risk

August 25, 2011
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Ayn Rand said, "One can ignore reality, but one cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality."

What is happening in the world today is a complete revolution.  A massive paradigm shift.  What used to be, is or will not be any longer and those who choose to ignore this will not be able to ignore the consequences of ignoring it for much longer.  It is coming to a doorstep near you.

It is actually quite sad to see people clinging to the past or those who refuse to see the change that is about to be thrust upon them.

That world that existed between 1970-2008 is no more.  It never will be again and trying to cling to it will only hurt more than facing that reality.

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Gold Pullback Is Time to Sell? Or Buy?

August 24, 2011
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[Editors Note: The Dollar Vigilante's Senior Analyst, Ed Bugos is manning the blog today]

I had one of those days.  You know how sometimes you’re just humming along in your car in the zone… green lights at every intersection… slow-pokes in front of you moving to the slow lane before you lose patience and honk… just generally it’s as if the sea has parted for your journey. 

Today was the opposite.  It was like an obstacle course.  I was expending twice the energy to get the usual amount of work done.

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We Love Freedom! Wait, What's Freedom?

August 23, 2011
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The US Government's agenda to lobotomize the majority of Americans has been an unequivocal success.

Americans now live in one of the world's least free prison camps yet when asked they will tell you they live in the land of the free and, on top of that, they are attacking and occupying countries who did nothing to them because "they hate us for our freedom"!

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Ron Paul & The Righteous End of Pre-Internet Media

August 22, 2011
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Before the internet there was something.  Not many people know that.  It was called "Bulletin Boards".  You could host something like a website at your house but the only way for people to access it would be to actually call your house phone number at speeds of 300 baud or 1200 baud.  The slowest analog dial-up modem that exists now is about 56,000 baud, just by way of comparison.  And, nowadays, you can download at speeds of 1 MB/s.  Back then it was 1 MB/day.  Those are the ravages of bandwidth deflation!

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If You See Something, Say Something

August 18, 2011
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The Department of Homeland Security has just released another important video warning the American populace about the scourge of white, yuppy-looking people who leave briefcases unattended!

This, of course, is because of the large amount of briefcases that have been exploding across America killing... zero people.

Once again, Janet Napolitano, is asking that "if you see something, say something".

We'd like to thank her for once again providing us with the opportunity to point out a few of the suspicious activities we've noticed of late.

It's hard to know where to begin - there are so many things.

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On the Verge of a Gold Stock Explosion

August 17, 2011
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It's probably the #1 question on gold stock investors' minds.  Are we on the verge of a repeat of the 2008 wipe-out.

Just by the very fact that we have had so many subscribers ask us this question, we can almost on this evidence alone say no.  Massive crashes never happen when everyone is looking for them and afraid of it.

However, there is much more evidence than this.

The most important is the money supply.  True Money Supply (TMS), the Austrian economics method for calculating the money supply, is in a much different position than it was in 2008 pre-crash.

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