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Hillary is continuing the great tradition of presidential candidates…

09 Jul

Presidential candidates and presidents always lie. For the past 100+ years, from Wilson to FDR to Truman and up to Obama, they have lied repeatedly about taxes, spending, regulations, and war.  (More to come in future posts)

“Does Hillary Clinton possess the integrity and honesty to be president of the United States? Or are those quaint and irrelevant considerations in electing a head of state in 21st-century America?”

Source: Is Hillary Morally Fit to Be President?

 

How to profit from war, British edition

09 Jul

Why people lust to be president, prime minister or king…there’s big bucks in those hills.  

 

Source: Whitewash Won’t Cover Tony Blair’s Guilt

 
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Posted in Crony capitalism, Federal Government, Foreign policy, Politicians, Warfare state

 

Free markets, not central planning, create wealth and higher living standards

08 Jul

“For months before the Brexit referendum on June 23rd, entire industries were hard at work attempting to predict how the UK electorate would vote.”

Source: Brexit Shows Why Central Planning Won’t Work | Mises Wire

 
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Posted in Crony capitalism, Economy, European Union, Free markets, Immigration, Politics, Pundits, Welfare state

 

DC housing boom…

08 Jul

…when the bust comes it will mean the end of the welfare-warfare state.  Don’t hold your breath.

Source: Chart Of The Day: Washington DC Home Prices Hit $500K, Up 45% Since 2010

 

The latest crony capitalist hire

08 Jul

“José Manuel Barroso, who was also the former prime minister of Portugal, will serve as an adviser and the chairman of Goldman Sachs International.”

Source: Goldman Sachs Hires Former European Commission President

 
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Posted in Crony capitalism, Economy

 

Hillary is no “moderate”

08 Jul

Hillary is Bernie Sanders in a pants suit, according to Tom DiLorenzo.

Source: The Real Problem With Hillary – LewRockwell

 

The real global battle for power

07 Jul

Global poltlical and financial elites are up to no good.  

“When elitist criminals start openly admitting to their schemes it means that they are ready to pull the plug on the current system. They simply don’t care anymore who knows their plans because they think that victory is inevitable.”

Source: Globalists Are Now Openly Demanding New World Order Centralization

 

Global bubblemania

06 Jul

David Stockman makes the case it’s 2007, all over again.

 

“Nearly everywhere on the planet the giant financial bubbles created by the central banks during the last two decades are fracturing. The latest examples are the crashing bank stocks in Italy and el…”

Source: Here We Go Again——August 2007 Redux

 

Who should libertarians support root for: Trump or Hillary?

05 Jul

Robert Wenzel sizes up the candidates.

Source: Target Liberty: Is Hillary Clinton a Warmonger?

 

Ron Paul tells it like it is over the years

05 Jul

Source: Proclaim Liberty Throughout The Land…

 

President Eisenhower’s warning about the miliatry complex has been ignored

05 Jul

Where is Ike when we need him?

Source: Lost in the Military-Industrial Complex – Consortiumnews

 
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Posted in Crony capitalism, Economy, Federal Government, Foreign policy, Military-industrial complex, Warfare state

 

The global elitists are in a tizzy

04 Jul

The people are thwarting their plans for a global superstate.

 

“There was William Galston at the European Council on Foreign Relations, listening to his fellow elitists and foreign policy honchos caviling about the rise of Donald Trump and bemoaning the fate of the European Union (EU) at the hand’s of Britain’s Euro-skeptics. As the assembled luminaries had a collective sad in their five-star hotel, wondering […]”

Source: The Revolt Against Globalism – Antiwar.com Original by — Antiwar.com

 
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Posted in Central banks, Corruption, Crony capitalism, Economy, European Union, Federal Government, National borders, Welfare state

 

Decentralization is the wave of the future

04 Jul

Secession is in the air.  That means no more political hacks running our lives.

Source: What Would Thomas Jefferson Be Celebrating Today?

 
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Posted in Constitution, Crony capitalism, Economy, Free markets, Individual rights, Politicians

 

Murray Rothbard nailed the EU…in 1989!

04 Jul

The late economist, historian and libertarian philosopher foresaw the dangers of the EU nearly three decades ago.

 

Source: EconomicPolicyJournal.com: Murray Rothbard vs. EU 1989!

 
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Posted in Central banks, Crony capitalism, European Union, Trade, Welfare state

 

American independence: a crony capitalist event?

04 Jul

Historian Gary North digs deeper into the Boston Tea Party.

“It was part of the most famous marketing campaign in American history”

Source: The Declaration of Independence: America’s Most Famous Direct-Response Ad

 
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Posted in Crony capitalism, Federal Government, Individual rights, Property taxes, Trade