Let’s face it, friends. You can ignore politics, but politics won’t ignore you.

If somebody asks what you think of politicians, what’s your gut response…

Yum or Yuk?

For most people it’s a yuk that ranks even lower than cockroaches and colonoscopies.

People know the status quo is deeply wrong. Seventy-five percent of Americans believe the government is thoroughly corrupt. Half see the regime as an immediate threat to their freedom.

Even if you’re bored or disgusted by politics, a moment of focus is warranted. Why? Because Americans are at serious risk despite their material comfort relative to much of the rest of the world.

Dire Stakes



Americans are suffering from record levels of depression, suicide, obesity, and stress-related disease. The U.S. has become medication nation. People are drinking themselves to death in record numbers. I travel a lot, and every time I return to America the feeling of anxiety in the air is palpable.

Simply put, things are not OK. Americans know these are dangerous times. But despite what politicians and the media keep insisting, the primary threat to our well-being isn’t ISIS, or falling televisions.

It’s true that serial killers are incredibly scary, regardless of whether they’re motivated by religious zealotry. And mass shootings, perpetrated overwhelmingly by non-Muslim males, are horrific.

But “private violence” isn’t how hundreds of millions of people get slaughtered. These shocking democide statistics reveal the most pressing lesson of politics: The more powerful any political regime becomes, the more at risk we are.

A small, poor government has limited ability to inflict widespread harm. But a monumentally powerful government is capable of inflicting catastrophic harm at home and abroad. Indeed today’s U.S. regime is the most monumentally powerful government in history. It possesses an unprecedented capacity to stalk, propagandize, extort, kidnap, bankrupt, cage, or destroy anyone and anything that doesn’t serve its interests.

Permission to Live

Relative material comfort and the never-ending entertainment hurricane distract us from the danger of the situation. The simple truth is that the government calls the shots in virtually every aspect of our lives.



If you doubt that, please review the CFR and state legal codes. Leave me a comment naming anything that’s not “regulated” (in other words, controlled) by the regime under threat of fines or imprisonment.

But isn’t this just “law and order”? Nope. It’s a matrix of control which has turned us into unwitting criminals. Over 40 percent of all men are arrested by age 23.

The rest of us just haven’t been caught yet. Really. Everyone is at risk. Law professor John Baker warns, “There is no one in the United States over the age of 18 who cannot be indicted for some federal crime. That is not an exaggeration.”

Every adult choice we make today is subject to government permission. None of this happened overnight. It’s the generational result of politicians hatching literally thousands of new laws year after year, decade after decade.

The mainstream media calls politicians “lawmakers” for good reason. Making up laws is their primary expression of power. The effects often extend for decades after their political terms end. Even centuries.

I know it’s tempting to block this stuff out, but there’s a vast and growing wasteland of ruined lives who have already been victimized. Some might claim I’m exaggerating, but facts speak louder than any warning:

The U.S. government cages millions of nonviolent people and kills countless innocents abroad while stalking the rest of us. None of us is exempt from the fallout.

The Democracy Delusion

Here’s the reality of democracy in America: Less than 0.001 percent of the government is elected.

That’s right, less than one one-thousandth of one percent of the government is chosen by “the people.”

The U.S. regime is 22 million tax-funded employees who “govern” through thousands of federal, state, and local bureaucracies. (That doesn’t count millions of private contractors on the government’s payroll.)

Just how many of these strangers do voters get the pretense of choosing? Four stuffed shirts at the national level and a few local politicians…

It’s like voting for a handful of ice cubes to be tossed on an iceberg.

And yet the perpetual caging, killing, and stalking are done in the name of democracy, as if to suggest that voters chose these outcomes. “The will of the people” is a farce.

Now researchers at Princeton have proven what most of us already know: There’s ZERO relationship between what the government does and what voters want. Voter turnout is at record lows because people know the system is a scam.

Even celebrities are wising up. Welcome to the democracy delusion, Mr. Diddy.

Is the system corrupt? Depends on your perspective. To the regime it’s working as designed. It’s set up for anything but change. For those who believe voting for one one-thousandth of one percent of the government matters, know that the fix is in anyway. Despite record low approval ratings, incumbents have a 96 percent reelection rate — by design.

It all seems like madness, until you realize the system is set up to serve the regime, not you. Meanwhile, those 22 million unelected strangers will be “governing” you before and after every election. And you’ll continue to pay their salaries under threat of imprisonment regardless of how or if you vote for the 0.001 percent.

Politics divides, then conquers.

The premise of choosing a handful of power-seeking strangers to lie to represent you and boss you around govern you hasn’t worked out well. It’s left millions of Americans angry, cheated, bitter, and fed up.

This isn’t about voting harder or protesting louder. It’s about embracing truth and pulling back the curtain.

Politics is the biggest racket on earth.

No Bounds

America’s reputation has historically revolved around buzzwords like liberty, independence, and self-determination. So tell me, what if you’re a peaceful person who just wants to be left alone?

What if you don’t want to fund military invasions, coups, black sites, or three ways to kill everything?

Or the caging of millions of nonviolent people in the War on Drugs?

Or the rapacious bailouts of megabanks and regime cronies?

Or the surveillance panopticon stalking you at every turn?

What if paying for so much predation, graft, and creepiness to be carried out in your name by strangers who claim to “represent” you conflicts with every cell in your being?

The government’s response to these questions is unequivocal: “Too damn bad.”

In other words, complain all you want, but pay and obey or be caged.

Meanwhile, the regime manufactures ever bigger stockpiles of murderous WMDs while shutting down cupcake and lemonade stands to “keep us safe” as it puts explosives in school buses and loses samples of deadly pandemic diseases.

Let’s stop whistling past the graveyard. The U.S. government’s reach knows no bounds.

– part 1 –

THE TERRIFYING REALITY OF USA #1

“The land of the free” is a dystopian punchline for anybody willing to step back and take a sober look around.

The flag — and “the republic for which it stands” — is at peak power. Empire is an understatement. No government in history has straddled a taller mountain of laws, lucre, surveillance tech, enforcers, prisons, and weapons of mass destruction.

USA #1 is a terrifying reality to confront. Every regime “win” has been our loss.

What follows is a reckoning of those losses. It’s not good news, but I won’t leave you feeling angry or defeated. After the reckoning of #1’s we’ll look at some miraculously great and exciting developments, and a roadmap for living a free life in spite of the dangers we face.

Let’s turn our eyes on the racket together.

Among the world’s 197 regimes, the U.S. Government is the…

#1 TAX FARMER



Money can’t buy happiness, but it certainly buys power.

We begin here because cash is the lifeblood of every government. The more money a regime extracts from people, the more powerful it becomes.

The “Founding Fathers” of the U.S. government were fierce tax haters. They revolted against the British regime over being taxed from afar. There was no income tax under the “absolute Tyranny” of King George, but a 2-3% sales tax on certain goods made them want to throw down the gauntlet of rebellion.

This of course made the Founding Fathers terrorists in the eyes of the British government.

Today the Founders would be branded “extremists” and locked up under the Patriot Act. Or gunned down by IRS agents.

So with the spirit of the Founder’s tax rebellion in mind, consider the irony that the government they established enforces the most invasive and widespread taxation system on the planet.

Global Taxation

The U.S. government is the only regime in the world which imposes global taxation.

(Actually, tinpot dictatorship Eritrea does too. Apparently the U.S. is its role model.)

What’s global taxation? For Americans it means that even if you don’t live in the U.S. or work for a U.S. company, you are legally compelled to file taxes with the IRS.

By comparison, when citizens from other notoriously high tax jurisdictions like France live and work in other countries, the French regime doesn’t tax them.

But say you’ve been a winemaker in Italy or a doctor in New Zealand for the past 20 years…30 years…50 years. Surely there’s a statute of limitations? Nope. If you’re a U.S. citizen, the IRS demands that you bend the knee. Every year. Decade after decade.

There are certain deductions and treaties which can reduce the double taxation burden (in other words, paying taxes to two different governments). This makes the filing complexities an expensive make-work boon for accountants and tax lawyers.

It gets even worse.

If you were born and raised in another country and have never set foot in the United States, it’s criminal not to file taxes every year if your parents happen to be U.S. citizens.

F’ing FATCA

The practical among you may be wondering how the government can possibly enforce this global taxation system.

The answer is FATCA — the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act.

Through FATCA, banks around the world are forced to be de facto IRS agents, literally filing reports with the government on all “U.S. persons.” The process is so costly and complex that many international banks have shut down Americans’ accounts and stopped accepting new American customers.

FATCA effectively amounts to backdoor capital controls.

A Swiss banker explains, “We survived World War I, World War II, the instability of the 1960s, inflation of the 1970s, the fall of the Berlin Wall, the credit crisis of 2008, QE, and now negative interest rates. But FATCA is killing us. We have to turn away all clients with any U.S. contacts, even if they’re not U.S. citizens. Because if they have contact with the U.S., they may owe tax in the U.S. or be subject to the SEC. We could be attacked by the IRS or the SEC without doing anything wrong. And yet, the IRS has an office here in Zurich. Imagine that. A foreign country has a tax collection office in our city. It’s crazy.”

“If you don’t like it you can always leave!” This is the refrain of regime apologists who don’t understand global U.S. taxation. If only it were as easy as picking up and moving.

You are in the IRS crosshairs no matter where you go. Not only that, 2016 marks the advent of tax lockdowns. If the IRS decides you “owe” them $50,000 or more, it can revoke your passport. Your ability to travel is now subject to the IRS legal standard of guilty until proven innocent.

Trillions More

Continuing on, imagine what the reaction of the Founding Father tax rebels would be to this:

The U.S. regime extracts astronomically more taxes than any other government on the planet.

The IRS doesn’t just take more from people. It rakes in trillions more. Every single year.

A trillion is one thousand billion. That’s a far bigger number than most people fathom. One thousand seconds is 17 minutes ago, but one trillion seconds is 31,709 years ago. That’s hundreds of centuries before the pyramids were built.

Let’s compare Uncle Sam’s tax haul to other regimes. Look at this OECD data, and in the “Variable” drop-down menu select “Total tax revenue in USD.” You’ll see how staggeringly large the margin is over other regimes. No other jurisdiction even comes close. The “land of the free” averages 10x more on average.

Some may note that the U.S. has a bigger population than most other countries. True, but much of the regime’s spending goes to things that have nothing to do with population size. For example, China has over a billion more people than the U.S., yet the U.S. spends three times more on its military. And seven times what Russia spends at half the U.S. population.

Besides, that OECD data is just federal.

Not counted are the additional trillions extracted by state and local taxes.

Say you’re a hard-working high earner in California – a doctor or engineer, for example. You’re paying over 13% in state income taxes on top of 40% federal. That’s a combined rate of over 50%. (By comparison, Russia imposes a 13% flat tax on income.) Then pile on property taxes, capital gains taxes, sales taxes, and literally dozens of other taxes.

Taxing the Death of Foreigners



Ready for more global tax imperialism? The U.S. government imposes estate tax on NON-Americans.

If you aren’t familiar with the term, estate tax is the political term for death tax. You get taxed not because you bought something (sales tax) or earned money (income tax), but because you died.

Yes, the government taxes you for dying, even if you’re not American and have never set foot the United States. Non-Americans who own over $60,000 in U.S. situs assets — like Apple or Whole Foods stock — are charged a 40% tax upon death.

Note that we’re not talking capital gains tax like Americans pay on stock market profits. No, this is 40% of the total market value of the assets at the time of your death, even if you’ve lost money owning them.

Can’t believe it? Here’s an overview with more information. If you want the gory details, wade into the federal tax code.

No other country does anything so blatantly imperialistic and rapacious. The media never talks about death tax on non-Americans, so people get trapped by it all the time. They pass away and their accounts get locked down until their heirs pay off the IRS. This shakedown of course comes as an unimaginable shock to those grieving the loss of a loved one.

If you have non-American friends, help them out. Let them know that if they’re determined to own U.S. based assets like real estate or stocks, they can legally avoid death tax by owning the assets via entities that don’t die — in other words, a trust or corporation. (Get guidance from an experienced tax lawyer.) Or just keep things simple and opt out of owning U.S. situs assets altogether. Who needs the aggravation?

Have friends with green cards who no longer live in the U.S.? Make sure they know that until they get rid of their green card, they’re legally subject to global U.S. taxation.

Costs of Compliance

Sadly, the tax nightmare isn’t over.

You’d think any regime raking in trillions every year from people around the world would at least make the extraction process quick and efficient.

Yeah…no.

The U.S. tax code is by far the most cumbersome and complex in the world.

74,000 pages.

This may seem inconceivable to Americans, but in many countries it’s unheard of to use accountants, lawyers, or tax preparation companies like H&R Block to file taxes. They’re simply not needed.

Meanwhile, Americans blow about $140 billion every year on tax preparation. That amount is, absurdly, counted towards GDP, as if something productive were happening.

Worse than the massive financial hit, the loss in quality of life and societal benefit is tragic. We’re talking 7.6 billion hours per year wasted on tax preparation and filing.

Let’s put 7.6 billion hours in terms we can understand. Assuming a standard 40-hour work week for 50 weeks per year:

It’s as if ALL of San Francisco, Seattle, Atlanta, Kansas City, Cincinnati, Miami, and Boston did nothing but tax preparation and filing year round.



And the regime has the gall to call it Tax Season. Hang the wreath and colored lights, extortionists are caroling at our door!

We’ll never know the amazing inventions and life-changing products the world has lost and will continue to lose to this perennial avalanche of waste. The compounded cost to humanity is tragic and incalculable.

“Fair” and “Share”

The government tells us that taxation is just “paying your fair share” of the regime’s operation. Let’s think that through…

Is taxation sharing? No. Sharing is voluntary. Charity is sharing. Sometimes people share a meal, sometimes their savings, sometimes their time, sometimes an organ, sometimes everything they own.

Humans are miraculous sharers. It’s no mystery why that is. Unless you’re a sociopath, helping people feels good.

But taxation is compulsory. Compulsion isn’t sharing. Paying money to neutralize the threat of being kidnapped and caged is extortion.

There’s no spirit of goodwill when you’re being extorted, no matter where your money goes. On the contrary, taxation fosters resentment because it’s rooted in compulsion. Just because something is institutionalized by politicians doesn’t make it any less wrong.

Taxes are compulsory because the regime correctly assumes people won’t approve of how it uses our money. Otherwise taxation would be voluntary, like our payments to every other institution in the world — charities, clubs, religious organizations, schools, professional groups, guilds, societies, and every service on offer by millions of companies and individuals.

Regime judge Oliver Wendell Holmes famously said, “Taxes are the price we pay for a civilized society.” (Surprised the IRS quotes him?)

But what is civilized about extortion? Is funding WMDs, invasions, a predatory police state, mass surveillance, and bankster bailouts civilized?

Without the regime’s taxes, would we be skulking around in loincloths and carrying wooden clubs?

Would roads not exist? Or would people — you know, the ones who invented airplanes, light bulbs, televisions, air conditioning, radios, phones, refrigerators, antibiotics, and a million other miracles — somehow manage to lay down pavement and bring roads to the masses? If trillions in taxes weren’t sucked down the regime’s memory hole, who knows what new forms of transportation we’d have. Roads and traffic jams could be obsolete by now.

And fair? “Fair” is defined as whatever the regime decides to take from us.

Taxation isn’t just a racket. It’s the racket which funds all other political rackets.

Saying NO

Americans who take a nonviolent stand against the regime’s global extortion racket don’t get fined or have their savings confiscated. They get kidnapped and thrown in a cage. While I was researching this insanity, Irwin Schiff died, blind and chained to a bed at the age of 87 for his peaceful resistance to the system.

There’s another way to resist which doesn’t involve sacrificing yourself. Record numbers of Americans are legally ending their servitude to the regime. This is known as relinquishing or renouncing your citizenship. Relinquishment and renunciation are two separate but equally effective ways to never deal with the IRS again.

People who relinquish or renounce have to pay whatever taxes they already “owe” the IRS upon the day they end U.S. citizenship. This is the so-called “exit tax.” But ironically, the IRS permits a large tax shelter called the exclusion amount. The exclusion amount shields $690,000 from taxes per person. For example, a married couple can shelter $1,380,000 in what would otherwise be taxable gains. Apparently this tax break is a parting gift after a lifetime of extortion.

If you’re looking for greener pastures, there’s no such thing as utopia, but there are dozens of countries with less than half the taxes. And the money doesn’t fund invasions, global mass surveillance, or caging millions of nonviolent people in the world’s largest police state.

For Americans who relinquish or renounce, it’s even possible to pay zero income taxes and zero capital gains taxes. All it takes is establishing residency in one of the so-called tax havens, such as the Bahamas, the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, Bermuda, St. Kitts and Nevis, Dominica, St. Barts, or Antigua and Barbuda.

None of these places require living there full-time. You can spend as much time as a welcomed tourist in other countries as you’d like without falling into another regime’s “tax net.” (That’s a tax lawyer term, not mine.) The length of permitted tourist stays per country varies. Usually it’s three to six months per country per year. The U.S. ranges from four to six.

Having visited most of these freedom-hating tax havens myself, I can say they’re absolutely irredeemable. Plagued by sunny tropical weather, littered with palm trees and fresh coconuts, overflowing with obnoxious umbrella cocktails, surrounded by sugary beaches and crystal turquoise waters… For your own safety, steer clear at all costs!

#1 HIVE OF BUREAUCRACY



Do you like being told what to do?

Being bossed around isn’t something most Americans would own up to. Yet Americans are so bossed and beleaguered by bureaucrats it defies comprehension.

A primary reason for revolt listed in the Declaration of Independence was the British bureaucracy. The regime had “erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance.”

How fitting that the American regime today consists of thousands of bureaucracies — so many it can’t even keep track of them all.

That’s just federal. There are literally thousands of state agencies and departments manned by millions of bureaucrats out to govern you. And they can’t be fired. Take a look at the “swarms” in California for example.

What does this all mean in practical terms? Everything in our daily lives is subject to government permission.

Here are a few examples among thousands. You’re a criminal if you don’t obey the regime’s orders against:

This is how authoritarianism masquerades as law. Every government dictate is spelled out in literally hundreds of thousands of pages of federal and state legalese.

This all-pervasive legal matrix is enforced by bureaucrats who are paid more than those who fund their paychecks. Where else can you collect a six-figure salary for watching porn at the office? Or, at home?

It all seems laughably absurd until you realize that thousands of people are arrested every day for these and countless other infractions. Yes, you can be arrested for any act of non-compliance, no matter how trivial.

Being a “law-abiding citizen” is a myth. An impossibility. Again, the warning of law professor John Baker: “There is no one in the United States over the age of 18 who cannot be indicted for some federal crime. That is not an exaggeration.”

It’s a nightmare Catch-22: Ignorance of the law is no defense, even though it’s impossible to know the law. To add to the insanity, the “ignorance is no defense” standard doesn’t apply to cops when they arrest you.

The Mechanics of Control

All governments aspire to ever greater control of those who fund their existence. After all, politics is about control. But no other government manages this shocking degree of control over such a large population.

How does the regime pull it off? Laws. Money. Technology. But most of all, raw manpower.

22 million Americans work for federal, state, and local government.

That’s more than the entire populations of Ireland, Switzerland, New Zealand, Cyprus, Estonia, Latvia, and Iceland…combined. This iceberg of unelected government is what some people refer to as the deep state.

22 million people is over 16x the size of Walmart’s entire workforce. Walmart — the global titan of industry — the highest grossing business on the planet.

16x more.

Walmart handles 260 million customers around the world every single week. That’s 20 million more people than the entire adult population of the United States. Walmart does more business than 90 percent of the world’s economies. Yet Walmart’s a peon compared to the government.

Incredibly, this 22 million number is severely under-reported.

It doesn’t include part-time employees. It doesn’t include the 2.5 million people on military payroll. And it doesn’t include the 617,000 who work for the Post Office.

But most importantly, it doesn’t include the untold millions who are indirectly employed by the government as contractors.

We’re talking about millions of people working for private companies whose biggest “customer” is the government.

In other words, millions of private sector paychecks are funded by taxpayer cash.

Do you fly in Boeing airplanes? Use Dell or IBM computers? Pump gas at Chevron or Valero? Use Google? Guess who the biggest customer of these companies is?

The regime.

This vast shadow government workforce receives over half a trillion dollars per year. That’s more cash than Walmart’s total worldwide sales going to people who aren’t counted as government employees.

Now that we know the jaw-dropping 22 million number is a farce, what’s the real number? My guess is nobody outside the regime really knows. But if we take the 22 million base number, add the 2.5 million military employees, and think about how many people live off that $500 billion a year to government contractors…

The regime is likely the paycheck for 30-40 million of America’s 123 million full-time workers.

See why the status quo can’t meaningfully change without ground-shaking economic disruption? Corporate welfare and swarms of bureaucracies aren’t corruption. They’re the government’s blueprint for economic and social control.

That’s why meaningful change will never come from politics, no matter which party is in power. The system can’t tolerate fundamental change without severe economic dislocation. No politician gets power (or for that matter keeps breathing) by enacting policies which undermine this blueprint of control.

#1 FUNDER OF HEALTH EPIDEMICS

No regime subsidizes obesity more than the U.S. government. It hands out billions to giant farming corporations every year to grow the crops that are making Americans fat: corn, wheat, and sugar.

In 1980 the government started telling people how to eat by issuing official dietary guidelines. Here’s what’s happened since then.

The USA is now the fattest country in the world.

Aside from the absurdity of paying farms to not grow crops, the government’s massive corn subsidies make corn artificially cheap for food manufacturers. This is why corn syrup and high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) are so pervasive in American foods. Even baby formula.

HFCS is probably the single most unhealthy ingredient in our food supply. Corn syrup is found in almost everything…cereals, breads, soups, sodas, sauces, ketchup, dressings, juice drinks, crackers, cookies, snack foods. It’s practically inescapable unless you’re relentlessly vigilant.

(By the way, if you use agave nectar in an effort to make a healthier choice, know that this health food impostor has even more fructose than high fructose corn syrup.)

As for wheat, there’s debate about why industrialized American wheat is so unhealthy. Maybe it’s the Roundup soaking, or the “enrichment” additives, or the dramatic alteration of wheat’s biochemical structure. My guess is all of the above.

Now let’s follow the money to see how those billions in subsidies affect people’s purchasing decisions. Look at the blue bars, particularly “refined grains” and the corn syrup laden “beverages” and “sugar and candies.”

The government’s massive corn and wheat subsidies have driven American obesity to record levels. Obesity is a mass killer which dramatically increases the risk of diabetes, heart disease, and cancer – all full-blown epidemics wiping out thousands of Americans every day. It’s gotten so bad that even kids are suffering an epidemic of adult-onset diabetes.

As millions of Americans dig their graves with their mouths, the media dutifully keeps the public transfixed on the regime’s terrorism narrative, the mortal danger to civilization which kills fewer Americans than lighting strikes and cows.

The rest of the world is keenly aware of the American obesity epidemic. In my travels through Asia, I came across a wall of sticker graffiti. This one stood out:

The Hand That Feeds

The most direct way for a government to entrench and expand power is to make people’s survival literally depend upon the regime.

In other words, to be the hand that feeds millions.

There are more Americans relying on government food programs than the entire populations of Canada and Switzerland combined.

We’re talking over 45.5 million people being fed by the regime.

Poor people buy inexpensive food with their SNAP cards, meaning products made with government subsidized wheat and corn syrup. In a case of tragic irony, this has caused poor Americans to be the fattest — and most at risk for obesity related diseases.

Guess where the poor turn to for help when they get sick? How sinister that Medicaid’s slogan is “Keeping America Healthy.”

The 45.5 million people on food stamps account for only one food program of many. The government also feeds millions of children in its National School Breakfast and Lunch Programs.

This is not emergency disaster relief. This is not charity. These are programs to condition dependency.

If you grow up literally being fed and schooled by the government, and pledging your loyalty to it every day, how can it not breed dependency?

Will you grow up to have a truly charitable instinct? Or will you expect the regime to be the provider to everyone in need?

As an adult, what basis will you have to object to every aspect of your existence being “regulated” by politicians?

What will you be able to do when the government is “messing with your life,” as Michelle Obama put it? Will you bite the hand that has fed you since childhood?

Government dependency is not charity. It is control.

Care to join me for a few jumping jacks?

#1 DEBTOR



A reasonable person might think that since the U.S. government extorts trillions more in taxes than any other government in the world, it would therefore have the least debt.

Not quite. Debt and taxes go together like drunk and disorderly.

What to do when $6.6 trillion per year is too skimpy for the regime to get by on?

Pile on debt. Federal, state, local — the more the merrier scarier.

Monopoly Time

The feds have it the easiest. They claim a monopoly on the creation of money itself. That means the regime can act as its own creditor. We’re talking about the power to do seemingly impossible things like printing money in order to loan it to yourself.

That’s what actually happens. The IOUs are called Treasury bonds, and the U.S. government is the biggest buyer of them on the planet using money created by its bank, the Federal Reserve, aka the Fed. (Incidentally, federalreserve.gov is a wondrous site for curing insomnia, so at least there’s that.)

Yes, it’s really that absurd — printing billions in order to loan the money back to yourself.

In the race to insolvency, the U.S. regime trounces all other contenders, currently weighing in at over $19 trillion in federal debt.

Regime economists (the Fed employs hundreds of them) attempt to rationalize federal debt by talking about it as a percentage of GDP, but that’s a deceptive metric which relies on phony GDP calculations.

In any case $19 trillion is only part of a much bigger picture.

National Debt Is the Tip of the Iceberg

Since only the feds can print money, state and local debt has to rely on the government’s power to tax people. It uses that power to rack up trillions more in debt — $3 trillion in state and local debt to date.

The cherry on top? More like a bowling ball:

State public pension plans are underfunded by almost $5 trillion.

Notice the numbers I’m citing are more appropriate to the realm of astronomy than any manageable understanding of money. This keeps government finances at a completely abstract level, incomprehensible in any practical sense.

We have no basis in reality for understanding a billion any more than a trillion. You can’t see a billion of anything, much less 100 or 1,000 times that amount.

Were a bailout $6 trillion instead of $5 trillion, it might seem like an incremental difference, like paying $6 for a drink instead of $5. But if you tried to pay back that $1 trillion difference by handing over a $100 bill every second of every day — non-stop — it would take you over 317 years.

Not many people can last that long on no sleep.

Let’s attempt to get a sense of what $1 trillion would look like if we could actually see it, albeit from a helicopter.

Now try to image what the federal debt at 19 times that amount would look like.

Then add to that the additional trillions from state and local debt and unfunded pensions.

It’s hopeless.

We can’t do it. Our brains can’t picture it. And that’s the point. Our inability to grasp the scope of the situation is what allows government finances to remain incomprehensible.

Just the way the regime likes it.

Government Money Is an Article of Faith

Abstraction is key to preserving the collective faith that dollars are valuable. When that faith falters one day, there will be nothing to break the fall. Such is the fate, sooner or later, of every fiat money.

Once a debt tipping point is reached, what typically follows is a hyperinflationary meltdown. Problem is, nobody can know the timing. That’s because faith in fiat money is a psychological phenomenon. There’s no scientific formula that predicts when people stop believing in the value of pieces of paper featuring dead politicians.

Americans’ shift to a debt-driven life indicates an intuitive understanding of what’s coming. Why save if the value of money itself is being wiped away?

In a hyperinflation people’s savings are rendered worthless as their money’s purchasing power evaporates. At some point the government hits the reset button and announces a new fiat money. For example, the Turkish Lira becomes the New Turkish Lira.

Venezuelans are tragically suffering through a fiat money death spiral as I write this. Germany, Argentina, and Zimbabwe are also famous cases, but there have been many more.

It’s not the first time for Americans, either.

$200 Trillion in Bills Coming Due

Unfortunately our futile effort to visualize a few trillion dollars in debt doesn’t begin to capture the magnitude of the situation.

The United States government has $200 trillion in unfunded liabilities.

For those not familiar with the term “unfunded liability,” that incomprehensible sum represents money the U.S. government owes in the future but doesn’t have — I repeat, does not have — for making promised Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid payments.

$200 trillion…

That’s on top of the $19 trillion in national debt, $3 trillion in state and local debt, and $5 trillion in government pension plan obligations.

In the business world it’s an act of fraud to report a company’s debt without mentioning future bills you know are coming due.

But that’s exactly what the government does.

Not surprisingly, states employ the same phony accounting as the feds.

Make the Billionaires Fix It!

Sorry. There is no “fix” for this regime-created disaster. It’s what happens when politicians are in charge of money. To say the debts are too big to repay is like saying a humpback whale won’t quite fit in your goldfish bowl. To illustrate:

Suppose the regime put the 400 richest American billionaires in lock-down and took everything they had. That means gobbling up the fortunes behind Google, Walmart, Microsoft, Facebook, Amazon, eBay, Starbucks, Nike, Intel, CBS, FedEx, Home Depot, Star Wars, and hundreds of other famous brands.

Then toss in all the fat cat billionaires people love to hate like the Koch brothers, George Soros, Rupert Murdoch, Warren Buffet, and Michael Bloomberg…

Now, what if every penny of those 400 billionaires was put towards that $200 trillion in bills that are coming due?

Wouldn’t even make a dent. A piddly 1.1 percent of the unfunded liabilities would be covered.

Inflation Is a Stealth Tax

Of course since the regime can create any quantity of money at the drop of a hat, it can simply “print” all those missing trillions in the future. (About 99% of all dollars are just computer entries anyway. They never actually get printed.)

But whipping up trillions of new dollars to repay debts and cover Social Security and Medicare bills will crush the purchasing power of existing dollars. It’s why you and I are forbidden by the regime from counterfeiting money. Money printing drains the purchasing power of everyone else’s savings. That’s why inflation (government counterfeiting) is considered a “stealth tax.”

Here’s what that stealth tax has done over the past century.

The government’s perpetual flooding of new dollars into the economy is why prices have gone up year after year. This mass rip-off may feel like a controlled bleed so far, but this unprecedented debt load combined with baby boomers’ retirement will not make for a gradual descent going forward.

No matter how many trillions of new dollars the government snaps into existence, it has no control over what those dollars will buy. Dollars cost nothing for the regime to “make,” but everything they buy takes labor and scarce materials to produce.

The huge decline in money’s purchasing power in recent decades is especially outrageous. That’s because astonishing advancements in computers, robotics, energy, agriculture, and materials have dramatically reduced the true costs of producing pretty much everything we use in our day-to-day lives.

That dollar graph above should be inverted. Prices should have been drifting down with all the efficiency improvements from tech breakthroughs, not grinding upwards.

Regime economists say that rising prices are key to “growth” — that if the goods we buy get cheaper over time, it will be a disaster for the economy. But really it’s just a disaster for the regime. Its tax system depends on money printing so that it can guarantee more tax revenue. Income and profits are calculated using a measuring stick that the government controls (money), and it rigs the measuring stick every time it injects new dollars into the economy.

People don’t get richer that way, but the regime does. In this sense “growth” is like a cancer.

The Big Squeeze

By devaluing the dollar over time with money printing, more and more wealth has been transferred to the government. Every time the regime prints new money, it gets to spend it first. That first-to-spend privilege shafts us, as that newly minted money goes to regime cronies. Once the new money works its way into the economy, the dollar debasement effect kicks in, lifting prices like a rising tide.

Net result? People get squeezed over the long run and feel pressured to take on debt to compensate.

That hasn’t worked out well. The baby boomer generation is retiring into $12 trillion in household debt. And the younger generations expected to keep the system going have $1.3 trillion in student debt alone. It’s no secret why young people today are the most stressed-out generation. They know they are getting steamrolled.

Take heed, baby boomers. If you’ve carefully budgeted your retirement assuming 2% compounded price increases for the rest of your lives, you may want to rethink that. Nobody knows the timing, but at some point there will be a psychological tipping point that forces the government’s hand. It will mean either mass bond defaults, or ruinous money printing to pay off debts with what will be worthless dollars.

That might sound alarmist, but it’s really just stating the obvious. You can’t keep stacking trillion upon trillion in debt indefinitely. It is unsustainable behavior, and nobody claims otherwise.

Sooner or later all unsustainable things stop.

We just need to keep reminding ourselves that Fed bureaucrats can print trillions in cash, but not a single blueberry, brick, car, or computer chip. Government money is an article of faith. It’s only exists as long as people believe in it.

Without that faith, the dollar is utterly useless. Sort of like a defunct cult, but without the hilarity.

Wealth Gap Engineering

People are gradually realizing that the government’s monetary system is a racket which systematically transfers wealth to the regime and its corporate cronies. This racket is the root of the staggering wealth gap.

The wealth gap is only going to widen further now that the Fed has driven real interest rates so low that they’re negative. “Negative real rates” just means the prices of things are rising faster than the interest a bank pays you for loaning it your money (i.e. making a deposit). The Fed did this to keep retiring baby boomers in the stock market instead of shifting their savings into bonds. In the past retirees could get a real positive rate of return just keeping money in a savings account or in a AAA-rated bond. Those days are gone.

Wanting the government to “fix the system” is like asking a python for a hug.

It is the system, and it’s set up to squeeze you.

People who aren’t aware of how the system operates think that poor immigrants who lack the regime’s permission to work (and are therefore “illegal”) are the source of their economic woes. They’re missing the elephant in the room. The 2008 financial crisis wasn’t brought about by people who pick strawberries and wash dishes for subsistence wages.

It’s easy to fool oneself into believing the status quo will continue steadily into the future. Our tendency to do that is called the recency bias. It’s much harder to keep reminding yourself that anything unsustainable eventually stops. Even bureaucrats piling on trillion after trillion in debt.

Need a break? Care for a spin?

#1 MANIPULATOR OF CAPITAL MARKETS



America is supposedly the land of capitalism, the exemplar of free market enterprise.

Guess who the titan of the American capital markets is?

Hint: It’s the guy who can “invest” in stocks and bonds buy printing billions of dollars to buy them.

Yep. Uncle Sham.

Most people think the U.S. stock market is the biggest financial market in the world. They don’t realize the bond market towers over the stock market.

Uncle Sham is the king of bonds.

The chart below is a 10-year record of the government’s money printing to buy its own bonds (U.S. Treasury securities). Don’t be fooled by the “millions” labeling on the chart. That’s millions of millions. In English they’re also known as trillions…

Let’s give these numbers some perspective. Imagine that the top 400 American billionaires pooled ALL their wealth together in order to purchase nothing but Treasury bonds. Even that vast sea of money would fall $170 billion short of matching the regime’s Treasury holdings.

But wait, there’s more.

The government has another couple trillion in other investment assets. Grand total?

$4.5 trillion.

When the regime dwarfs everyone else in the capital markets, how can that be called capitalism?

How can there be honest price discovery when the biggest “investor” can buy anything just by printing more money?

Whatever capitalism might be, this ain’t it.

Not surprisingly, all the real investors in the stock and bond markets hang on every word the Federal Reserve utters. “What will the Fed do?” is the burning question asked unrelentingly by fund managers and investment bankers.

Behold the urgency around the phenomenon known as “Fed watching.” Fed watching is when investment professionals spend their days trying to predict the Fed’s next manipulation of the economy. Will they raise rates? Hold steady? I can barely look!

Never before have bureaucrats’ words incited more hand wringing and tea leaf reading. Or caused more knee-jerk buying and panic selling of investment securities.

It’s pathetic.

TIME magazine inadvertently said it all. The top Fed bureaucrat, Janet Yellen, has the entire U.S. economy “in her hands”…

There’s no point in mincing words:

The government is the 800-pound gorilla in America’s capitalist fascist economy.

Understanding the F-Word

Fascism? Really?

Yes.

Fascism isn’t about boots or brown shirts. Fascism opportunistically adapts in look and feel to the times and culture.

Much ink has been spilled calling Donald Trump a fascist. But Trump’s political ascendancy is not a harbinger of fascism.

It’s a symptom.

The dark horse of fascism left the barn long ago. Let me explain.

At its core fascism is about two things — authoritarianism and nationalism. They are the two sides of the fascist coin.

Authoritarianism 101

Authoritarianism is about exercising full-spectrum power at the discretion of the regime. It means everything we do in our day-to-day lives is in some way subject to permission.

Whether you call it a law, regulation, statute, or ordinance, compliance with the regime’s countless orders is demanded under threat of punishment. We might refuse or be ignorant of those orders, but it’s at our own risk.

Law professor John Baker again: “There is no one in the United States over the age of 18 who cannot be indicted for some federal crime. That is not an exaggeration.” The professor’s warning is echoed in attorney Harvey Silverglate’s book Three Felonies a Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent.

But authoritarianism goes far beyond using law and the threat of punishment to exercise control. The regime asserts its power to do anything it wants. Literally.

That can mean handing trillions in taxpayer dollars to banksters and other regime cronies.

Or murdering thousands of people for drinking a cocktail.

Or imprisoning people for any reason. Yes, any. Under U.S. law, giving food to a runaway slave was punishable by up to six months in prison. Today Americans can be disappeared to domestic black sites or summarily executed without trial.

Invasions? Coups? False flags? Assassinations? Torture? Internment camps?

Yes. Literally anything. It’s all been done.

And “the rule of law”? Irrelevant. It doesn’t matter if the regime’s actions are extrajudicial or within the confines of its legal system. When they aren’t legal, the regime just writes a memo or grants criminal exemptions. Or passes new laws to suit its ends. Or hides its actions altogether.

Most regime skeletons stay buried unless a rare whistleblower like Daniel Ellsberg or Edward Snowden risks his life. Or a secret document happens to be unearthed decades later. Otherwise who would believe the American government employed Nazi war criminals or tried to blackmail Martin Luther King into committing suicide?

Note that authoritarianism doesn’t mean the regime will necessarily act like a petulant tinpot tyrant. Uncle Sam wants happy, flag-waving citizens pledging allegiance at ball games and NASCAR races. The regime dislikes unrest, and it dreads wealthy taxpayers revolting. An uprising of poor black people in Ferguson is a PR hassle. An uprising by Wall Street is a nightmare.

That’s where nationalism comes in.

Nationalism Is Us



The purpose of nationalism is to condition self-identification with the regime.

The best way to keep people from revolting is to make them believe they are the government. Do that and people will tolerate more control than any king could ever get away with.

Nationalism camouflages authoritarianism by recasting government power as a collective endeavor. This is how the regime transfers the weight of moral culpability for its actions to the people. Notice how politicians constantly use the word “we” when talking about what the regime has done.

Nationalism is an emotional con. Politicians are masters at telling people what they want to hear. They are literally confidence artists who humbly call themselves “public servants,” while forcing us to serve them for “the greater good.”

Unfortunately, most of us spend our days doing jobs we don’t particularly like. We long for significance, a sense of greater meaning in our lives, a connection to something bigger. Politicians exploit these natural urges by telling us we’re part of a grand, larger-than-life project. People want to feel strong and significant. The regime is frighteningly strong and colossally large, so it’s a lot more comforting to self-identify with it rather than see it as predatory racket. Doesn’t take much to get people chanting.

The psychology in all this is simple but profoundly effective. Even intoxicating. You can fall in love with “your” government.

It’s called patriotism, and regimes exploit it relentlessly to divide and conquer.

I know some will say patriotism is the love of liberty, not the regime. But why not just say you love liberty? Conflating freedom with national identity paves the way for cataclysmic disasters. There’s a reason politicians wield the p-word constantly; the propaganda value is immense. People who describe themselves as patriots often emotionally well up when talking about “national greatness” and their so-called leaders. It makes the political jurisdiction they happened to be born in seem divinely chosen. It’s creepy-culty, and regimes love it because it secures people’s willingness to die for politics.

Breeding nationalism isn’t hard. Every day at school I swore allegiance to the government. Do anything thousands of times and it becomes second nature. Besides, when you’re constantly told you’re free, who doesn’t want to believe it?

Nationalism capitalizes on the fact that humans are instinctively tribal. Like a secular religion, cohesion is achieved through repetition of we-are-the-government rituals. Flags, songs, ceremonies, uplifting speeches, memorials, parades, fireworks, pledges, salutes, banners, slogans, uniforms, statues, museums, holidays…

And most importantly, elections.

The pretense of electing a handful of strangers to make up 0.001 percent of this institution we call the government is freedom theater. Elections are a flimsy curtain masking the world’s biggest racket.

As we’ll see in the #1 Propagandist section, the regime devotes unfathomable resources every year to condition our identification with it. Other regimes do this too, of course, but none remotely matches the production value and marketing spend of Uncle Sham.

Free Speech Is Fascism’s Best Friend

Unlike other ham-fisted democratic republics, the fact that the U.S. government openly tolerates verbal criticism is its greatest competitive advantage.

Freedom of speech! Yes, you get to moan and groan — as long as you comply. You’re free to complain, but you must obey regime orders no matter what.

Hey, don’t like it? Vote harder! The 0.001% can’t wait to see you at the polls. They’re absolutely desperate to get your “mandate” to govern you.

By allowing people to vent their frustrations, the government inoculates itself from being pinned as a tyranny. See, we’re a free and open society! No matter what the regime does — invasions, secret kill lists, torture, mass stalking, jailing people without trial, the world’s largest prison-slavery complex, taxes by the trillions, crony bailouts — as long as people can complain about it, we’re free.

Free to complain. Forced to pay and obey.

It’s absolute genius. This is fascism 2.0.

If this all sounds surreal, it really shouldn’t. Fascist symbolism — literally, the fasces as a symbol of regime authority — has long been used by the U.S government.

Fascist Economics

Economically, American fascism is rooted in the regime’s monopoly power to create money, price fix interest rates, cartelize banking, grant trillion-dollar bailouts, enact oceans of regulations, and impose a global taxation system.

Unlike socialist and communist regimes, a fascist regime doesn’t try to subsume the market economy. Fascism takes more of a “minimum effective dose” approach to systemic control.

Fascism seeks to direct all traffic, but not own every car.

There’s a good reason for this. When people believe they’re free — that they are the government — they’ll work much harder and be far more resourceful. And the regime can tax them far more than any monarch ever dared.

It’s worth noting that some aspects of the U.S. regime are socialist. There’s no such thing as a regime that’s purely fascist, purely socialist, etc. Hybridization happens. But the socialist modality of control through direct ownership is more of a fallback position for the U.S. regime rather than its default mode of operation. The regime would rather, for example, set up a “non-profit venture capital firm” and then “invest” in a private cosmetics company in order to get its hands on our DNA.

So how does the U.S. government engender nationalism in practical terms? How does it reinforce the government-is-us mythology while in practice wielding system-wide control over the economy?

Simple: Cultivate dependency.



Be the economy’s biggest employer.

Be the biggest customer of the biggest corporations.

Be the biggest lender to home buyers.

Be the biggest “investor” in the capital markets.

Be the hand that feeds millions.

Be their health care provider.

Be their teacher.

And of course permit private options to incentivize innovation and competition. (Don’t want the rich getting uppity). It’s a free country after all.

Regime dependency cultivates self-identification with the government and gets the rich, middle class, and poor under control.

American fascism is an iron fist in a velvet glove.



Inside the glove of dependency is a brutal arm of enforcement. The military-industrial complex, police state, prison-industrial complex, and mass surveillance all work together as a monumental matrix of control. It’s also a massive jobs program designed to camouflage the racket and insure against revolt. After all, it’s tough to get people to recognize wrongdoing when their paycheck depends on them not recognizing it.

Tragically, what is a career for so many is also a meat grinder destroying innocent people’s lives every day.

#1 LOGROLLER

Governments co-opt the poor by making them dependent on the regime to survive. It undermines the cohesion of families, and in turn perpetuates more regime dependency.

The rich cost far more to bring to heel. Logrolling — that is, politics-driven favor trading — is how business in a fascist regime gets done.

Nobody does logrolling like the U.S. government. It’s a multi-trillion dollar racket.

The regime secures the loyalty of the rich by doling out billion dollar contracts, passing special interest laws, granting criminal exemptions, padding pockets with absurd pork spending, and bailing out politically important megacorporations.

Co-opting the rich is smart governing. It keeps everybody in check…and sending checks.

It’s great for the pols too. They quietly make millions: “Politicians never have to disclose job negotiations while in office, and never have to disclose how much they’re paid after leaving office.”

How big were the bailouts from the 2008 financial crisis? I doubt anybody in the general public really knows. Numbers range from hundreds of billions to $16 trillion to almost double that.

The entire bailout machinery was constructed to perplex and bamboozle the public. Who could keep track of the barrage of acronymed “programs”? TARP, TALF, HARP, TLGP, AMLF, CPFF, TAF, TSLF, HAMP, PPIP…

It was relentless.

Here’s a 266 page report if you’d like to attempt to decrypt what actually happened, despite subsequent reports of additional bailouts years later. Journalists who have tried to get to the bottom of what really happened have of course been brick-walled by the regime.

The permanent bailout state is a core fascist construct. Profits are privatized and catastrophic losses are socialized any time the status quo is at risk. Whenever the next crisis happens, the regime will run the racket all over again.

Of course the larger companies who received billions of dollars apiece were huge campaign donors to Bush and Obama, like Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, Citigroup, Bank of America, and Morgan Stanley…all the spokes of the Fed’s banking cartel.

Ben Bernanke, who oversaw the bailouts and ran the central bank leading into the crisis, is now getting paid $250,000 a speech. Must be wise words of wisdom from the man who kept telling everyone there was no housing bubble.

Bernanke awarded the biggest bailouts to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac — almost $200 billion. They are GSE’s — government-sponsored enterprises.

A GSE is a curiously fascist construct. It’s a company that pretends to be private, even trading on the stock market. But GSE’s are specifically created and backed by the government to manipulate markets. In the case of the 2008 crisis, it was the American mortgage market.

Logrolling Beyond Wall Street

People get that Wall Street and the regime depend on each other. But the fascist symbiosis between government and the tech industry is less apparent to the public.

Google is a company whose business is, literally, mass surveillance. Most people have no clue that its biggest customer is the U.S. government, including the NSA.

Obama’s technical adviser is a former Google executive, and a bunch of the White House staff are former Google employees.

Google Chairman Eric Schmidt is funding a secretive tech startup called The Groundwork with the mission of getting Hillary Clinton elected. And one of Schmidt’s former Google executives is the Clinton campaign’s Chief Technology Officer.

Schmidt has funded at least three startup companies run by former Obama staffers. Having insider knowledge of Google’s top-secret analytics and search ranking algorithms will give Clinton’s campaign an enormous, possibly decisive, advantage.

(There are many ways to control elections with technology. Watch this computer programmer testify under oath that he was hired to write code to rig elections. Election hacking is an international service.)

The public of course will never have a full picture of the history of logrolling and favor-trading amongst Google, the government, and Schmidt. Suffice to say, Google lobbyists have been to the White House a whopping 230 times as of March 2015.

And Schmidt is now advising the Pentagon on “forging closer links between the U.S. military and Silicon Valley.”

Quintessential fascism.

While we’re on the topic of companies who spy on us, former NSA head Keith Alexander just raised $32.5 million for his new startup. Edward Snowden busted Alexander for lying under oath when he stated the NSA didn’t have the technical ability to access Americans’ emails.

Alexander of course faced no perjury charges and is now pulling in millions…while another person just got arrested for owning plant leaves.

FaceBook Sells You Out



Even when private corporations publicly claim to represent their customers’ interests, they often secretly collude with the government. Facebook has tried to rehabilitate its image over past spying violations, while secretly lobbying for legal immunity in order to stalk its users.

The Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA) is what Facebook is lobbying the government to enact. “CISA would give companies like Facebook legal immunity for violating privacy laws as long as they share information with the government.”

A key government lawyer who worked on drafting CISA is, big logrolling surprise, now Facebook’s chief lobbyist pushing to get CISA passed.

Fascism’s Revolving Door

The revolving door of employment between industry and government facilitates logrolling. A poster boy for the revolving door is Michael R. Taylor, former Monsanto executive and current Deputy Commissioner for the Food and Drug Administration.

Taylor was instrumental in introducing Monsanto’s genetically engineered bovine growth hormone (rbGH/rbST) into America’s milk supply while approving of armed raids on Amish farmers and other raw, hormone-free milk suppliers.

Taylor was also a key advocate against labeling GMO ingredients. Obama appointed Taylor to oversee the safety of America’s food supply after making the following 2007 presidential campaign promise: “We’ll let folks know whether their food has been genetically modified because Americans should know what they’re buying.”

There’s no way to know which foods have been treated with Monsanto’s blockbuster weed killer, Roundup, flagged by MIT researchers as causing increased incidents of Parkinson’s, infertility, and cancer. Roundup is sold in conjunction with Monstano’s “Roundup Ready” seeds, which are genetically altered to withstand Roundup’s toxicity.

For several more examples across multiple industries of how the fascist logrolling process is facilitated by the revolving door between government and industry, check out these telling graphics.

Logrolling Is a Bipartisan Blast

The Bush regime was infamous for its billions in no-bid contracts to big oil and “defense” cronies. Cheney was CEO and Chairman of one of the primary beneficiaries of war, Halliburton. Military contractor executives across the board have had a payday bonanza, “earning” several thousand dollars per hour.

The no-bid contracts prompted a partisan outcry by Democrats. But as one would expect, under Obama the regime has carried on the no-bid torch.

Partisan blaming of course misses the point. None of this is a fault or error in the system. It is the system.

This is the nature of every racket. A very few benefit at the expense of everyone else. Big industry pays billions in taxes, donations, and payoffs — all things the political class depends upon — in exchange for the laws and billion dollar contracts that entrench big industry.

To want pols to pass laws stopping the system from serving them or their biggest supporters is a naive delusion. It’s like thinking laws prohibiting people from consuming alcohol and drugs will turn people into tea teetotalers.

It Takes Two to Tango, But the Regime Leads

Once the fascistic logrolling between government and industry is understood, we can see that so-called corruption is just the expected outcome of power-seekers having an institutional monopoly on law creation, enforcement, taxation, and money printing.

Unfortunately people confuse causality and think that corporations literally run the government. Corporations of course have no special moral halo, particularly the ones who service the regime. They will lobby and bootlick to gain any advantage, and it works. But to think that companies are the carriage rather than the horses is to confuse cause and effect. Sure MacDonald’s, Walmart, Microsoft, and the rest want to make tons of money, but they have no power to jail people for not buying their products.

Logrolling is fascism’s secret sauce. Government and big business grow together symbiotically. Businesses work whatever angle they can to their benefit, and the regime gets the economic wonders of entrepreneurial innovation and market competition which socialism and communism suppress.

Powermongers of the world, take note. Fascism is where the money’s at.

The whole arrangement is an unmitigated boon for the regime and established industry. It’s why Mordor is so rich, and it’s how the wealth gap grew so astoundingly wide.

The more intertwined a company is with the regime, the more cash and protection it receives. For the rest of the big corporate players, it’s mostly a game of who can win the regime’s favor. It’s a perverse sort of competition. Queue lobbyists, fundraisers, campaign donations, junkets, six-figure paid speeches, rich consulting gigs, fat post-term of office job offers, directorships, and foundation donations.

Cronies will kneel and kiss the ring of power any way they can in order to secure regime favor.

Logrolling Hearts Regulations

Massive regulatory complexity is a gift to the biggest corporations who have full-time legal, accounting, and HR staffs. They can afford to bear the legal, accounting, and HR costs of compliance while upstarts and would-be competition get quietly choked out.

For example, most people who hate Walmart aren’t aware that Walmart actively lobbies the regime to keep raising the minimum wage. Doing so staves off competition, especially local mom ‘n’ pop stores, while letting the regime claim a phony moral victory. Win-win.

Virtually every giant corporation lobbies the government to widen the regulatory moat in order to keep competition at bay and strangle market diversity. It’s all part of the logrolling. Big business takes marching orders from the government in exchange for further legislation to hurt smaller competitors and discourage would-be upstarts.

It’s wealth gap engineering 101.

Fascism, not free markets, enables the CEO of a company which would be bankrupt without the government to instead become a billionaire.

Up next we’ll see how law itself is at the core of the whole rotten system.

Annoyed that power-craving assholes rule the world? Me too.

#1 LEGAL MORASS



Laws are the rules politicians make up. Criminals are the people who break their rules.

Most of those rules have nothing to do with what everybody agrees is wrong: murder, assault, and theft. That’s why victimless crime accounts for most of the federal prison population.

The moral code we learn in kindergarten — don’t hurt people or take their stuff — bears little resemblance to U.S. law or its enforcement. The regime’s legal morass is hundreds of thousands of pages of rules written in legalese. You and I can’t understand it, and we’re not supposed to. It is a mechanism for political control, the engine that drives what we’ll cover next, the police state and the prison-industrial complex.

Whether you’re in a lab coat, combat fatigues, or a police uniform, the law is used to rationalize grotesque acts of all sorts. “It’s the law.” “Hey, I don’t make the rules.” “Just following orders.” “Just doing my job.”

Often laws are just a liability shield for committing theft, assault, and murder — the very acts the public thinks laws are in place to prevent.

Over the past few decades, American politicians have constructed the largest, most complex legal system in history. It’s literally hundreds of thousands of pages of incomprehensible rules. Thousands more are added every year.

To glimpse the insanity, check out the CFR, USC, and state legal codes. Reading through those just once would take years, and unless you have a law degree, much of it would be incomprehensible.

If you had even more years to spare, there are thousands more pages of legalese waiting to fill your days. Slog your way through all the executive orders, ratified treaties, county and city ordinances, and rulings from district courts to the Supreme Court.

Only then can you say you’ve read the law of the land.

It’s no wonder millions of nonviolent Americans get thrown in cages and almost 80 million have criminal records.

It’s worth saying again and again: Being a law-abiding citizen is a myth. I’ve committed law professor Baker’s warning to memory: “There is no one in the United States over the age of 18 who cannot be indicted for some federal crime. That is not an exaggeration.”

How to Ruin Your Life



Politicians have turned us all into unwitting criminals, and cops are trained to snare us. It’s for this reason that lawyers tell their clients, over and over, in no uncertain terms:

Don’t talk to cops. Don’t answer their questions or try to explain yourself, even if you think you’ve done nothing wrong.

Calmly say, “Officer, I do not answer questions. Am I being detained?” If they say no, walk or drive away.

If you are detained, refuse politely but firmly to be questioned without a lawyer present.

Why do I emphasize polite? Because cops are in a special position to ruin your life. Even though you’re forced to pay their salaries, they’re not your employee to reprimand or fire. Speaking in a provocative or confrontational manner increases the odds that you will be victimized.

A cop who doesn’t like you can say you attacked him, and then beat and electrocute you. That will be followed by arresting you for assaulting an officer and resisting arrest. If you aren’t lucky enough to have video to prove your innocence, you can spend years in prison and have a criminal record barring you from employment by most businesses. Even if you do have video proving your innocence, you still end up bloody and broken and spending thousands on legal fees.

Not conversing with police is easier said than done. Cops are specifically trained to pressure you into talking to them. They are professional interrogators. They will insinuate guilt to tempt you to defend or justify yourself. It’s a trap. You’re not a professional at fielding their questions, so don’t get suckered into trying.

Nonviolent people never expect to end up behind bars, yet millions have been caged. They’re always so shocked: “But I didn’t do anything wrong!” Please, don’t take my word for it. This advice can save your life.

The Insanity of Law

Once you get mired in the regime’s legal system, it’s an unpredictable nightmare. Victimless crimes often carry far harsher sentences than raping and killing people. It’s as evil as it is insane.

Typical example: 25 years behind bars for selling a few bottles of painkillers to a friend versus 5 years for stabbing a man to death.

Or 6 months for raping the victim of a car crash versus 2.5 years for consensual sex on a public beach.

It’s awful and infuriating, and books could be filled with examples like these.

Thousands of people have been condemned to life sentences for minor offenses such as shoplifting clothes or stealing a car radio.

People spend months in jail for being too poor to pay parking tickets, in at least one case suffering a horrible death.

Yet Pentagon employees aren’t even prosecuted for child porn.



Although the law is utterly incomprehensible, ignorance of it is not a defense when you’re targeted by the regime. The regime’s legal system is rigged against you. Your chance of conviction is around 90 percent.

A “fair and impartial trial”? Um, no. The government’s prosecutors are trained to select jurors who “are as unfair and more likely to convict than anybody else.”

On top of that, prosecutors can threaten you with life imprisonment for a minor crime if you don’t forfeit your right to a jury trial.

In the land of the caged, justice means almost everyone pleads guilty, innocent or not.

#1 POLICE STATE



Laws are the rules politicians make up. But laws don’t mean anything without the threat of guns and cages to back them up.

Detecting non-compliance with politicians’ rules is what the government calls enforcement.

Police have the legal authority to arrest you for any crime, no matter how trivial. Even driving without a seat belt or having unpaid parking tickets.

Arrest can result in imprisonment for months or years without ever being convicted of a crime.

Protected to Death



American police kill citizens at a rate which towers over other nations.

Cops killed 113 Americans in January 2016 alone. That’s more people than British cops have killed in decades.

The feds track and record us, but they don’t track or record how many people cops kill. Individuals are heroically trying to cobble the information together into public databases such as Fatal Encounters and Killed By Police.

The killings are often of unarmed people who pose no threat to officers.

The punishment asymmetry between cops and civilians is mind-blowing.

Kelly Thomas didn’t attack or injure any of the cops who tortured him. But imagine what would happen if someone assaulted a cop in a drunken rage and then bit the officer’s testicles. What would be the more likely destination — prison or the morgue?

When a cop did exactly that to a civilian, the consequence wasn’t prison or a permanent coma. It was job dismissal.

Regime Protection for Rape and Child Porn



Cops who are child rapists receive little or no punishment.

That’s if they get prosecuted at all. An AP investigation found that about two-thirds of officers caught committing sexual offenses against juveniles keep their job.

Police officers can sodomize a 15-year-old but don’t have to register as sex offenders. Yet a 16-year-old takes a criminal plea for taking naked photos — of himself.

Speaking of naked photos…

The regime’s own lawyers aren’t even prosecuted for child porn.

What about those brave souls at the Pentagon keeping you safe? Free pass for child porn.

How many incidents of rape-by-cop and child porn are never caught in the first place?

The extraordinary power cops wield over others attracts people who use the badge to be a sexual predator or a violent bully. Awful as the truth is, the least risky way to be a serial rapist is to be a cop. In no other job do you have the power to tell innocent people in desperate need of help, “Fuck me or go to jail.”

Any time people object to abuse by a cop, they are charged with resisting arrest. You can be sexually assaulted and sodomized on an officer’s whim, but to resist would be grounds for beating and arrest, or worse. Resisting is the go-to charge police rely on to assault people who aren’t resisting at all. If the victims aren’t lucky enough to have video to prove their innocence, they can rot behind bars for years on resisting and obstruction charges, as well as fabricated assault charges.

Does anybody speak up? The handful of whistleblower cops who have courageously exposed horrific abuses typically get persecuted or fired.

Meanwhile, several more people as you’ve been reading this have been arrested for owning a plant — and in some cases had their children kidnapped by the regime even though they’ve committed no crime.

Framed into a Cage

People get tortured into false confessions. They get framed in extortion rackets. Framed by faked forensic science… Framed by planted evidence… Framed by thousands of falsified forensics tests… Framed by fabricated lab results… And framed to cover up officers’ crimes — even planting drugs on innocent people they’ve gunned down.

How many thousands of incidents will we never find out about?

One thing is certain. Knowing how the law works and what prison is really like, if cops were at high risk of being caught and punished, it’s unlikely their predatory behavior would be so rampant.

Special Laws Protect Cops But Nobody Else

Regime employees in many areas get special privileges and protections. But you might be wondering how cops can get away with so much wrongdoing.

Simply put, they’re a legally protected class. The regime has established multitudes of special laws which shield police from liability for their actions and exempt them from the tactics they use on everyone else.

In most states officers are exempt from being questioned until they’ve been given a few days to get their stories straight.

Many states have passed laws, such as Section 50-a of New York’s Civil Rights Law, that are specifically designed to make it almost impossible to obtain, much less use at trial, records of a police officer’s prior incidents of brutality.

What do these special rules and protections for police mean in practice?

It means they can raid innocent people’s homes, kill them, and suffer no consequences.

It means an officer can haul off and kick a seated woman in the face, be convicted of felony battery, get handed a 10-year sentence, and…

Surprise! No prison time and the cop keeps his job.

It means that even when cops are caught and prosecuted, they’re not the ones who pay for their brutality. Everyone else does. In Chicago it costs taxpayers $168,000 per day.

It’s no surprise that American cops are filmed in more cases of police brutality than any other country. People, including journalists, are often arrested for rolling their camera, which is sometimes smashed on the spot.

Recently a federal judge ruled that it’s illegal to film cops unless the filming is accompanied by “challenge or criticism.” I doubt it was lost on the judge that challenging a cop is a great way to invite a beating. Even when cops are recorded on security cameras abusing disabled people and stealing property, they claim the recording violates their rights.

911 Won’t Keep You Safe

What about all the bad guys out there? Without cops who would be there “to protect and serve” us? The truth is cops rarely stop violent crimes in progress like murders, rapes, and home invasions.

Dialing 911 is not a survival plan. Sometimes 911 takes several minutes to answer, or there’s no pick-up at all. Or you’re informed by the operator, “I really just don’t give a shit what happens to you.”

Here’s the bottom line: Less than 5 percent of all police dispatch calls are made quickly enough for officers to stop a crime or make an arrest.

If life-threatening violence is ever visited upon you, your survival will depend on your ability to defend yourself. If you’re in immediate danger, you will likely end up a victim if you dial 911, have a conversation about what’s happening, and then wait 7-30 minutes for cops to show. That’s an eternity when somebody is bent on hurting you. And when cops do finally show, they may end up killing you or innocent bystanders instead.

If you care about your own safety and the safety of loved ones who may be physically unable to counter an attack, learn how to defend yourself. And try out Cell411 and Guardian Circle. They are security crowdsourcing apps which have the potential to revolutionize emergency assistance.

The Law Enforcement Racket

You can’t count on cops to protect you from violent crime, but what about theft? Will they at least protect your stuff?

Quite the opposite. Law enforcement takes more of people’s property than burglars.

Rather than protecting you and your property, most of the day-to-day focus of cops amounts to harvesting revenue for the government by issuing billions of dollars in tickets every year.

Quota-based ticketing doesn’t protect or serve anyone except the regime’s budgets. When officer Justin Hanners publicly exposed the ticketing racket ordered by his department, he was fired.

The professionals who build our homes, feed us, and clean up after us truly deserve a heartfelt thanks for their service. They actually deliver the value they claim to provide, and their jobs are far more dangerous than being a cop.

Of course cops in other countries are capable of victimizing people too. But the U.S. police state is fundamentally different.

The default criminalization of Americans via the black hole of U.S. law, combined with the militarization of police, their special legal protections, their extraordinarily lenient treatment by prosecutors and judges, their power to cage people without trial, and their take-no-prisoners approach (many are former soldiers) have proven to be a deadly and disastrous combination.

#1 PRISON-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX

Once you become a target of the police state, your next stop is likely what the government calls corrections.

The police state “enforces.” The prison system “corrects.”

Think prison is essentially a holding tank for thieves, rapists, and murderers?

Not even close.

Victimless “crime” accounts for an estimated 86 percent of the federal prison population.

In practical terms, this means that over the past few decades, millions of Americans who have hurt no one have had their lives ruined being locked away in cages.

We’re All Criminals — Some of Us Just Haven’t Been Caught

Liberty.me‘s Jeffrey Tucker recounted his arbitrary arrest, showing how anybody can suddenly end up in a government cage. The numbers bear witness to his account.

Almost 80 million Americans have criminal records. And astoundingly, over 40% of ALL men get arrested before they reach their 24th birthday.

The “land of the free” is the most imprisoned nation in the world on both a total and per capita basis. By a long shot…

Uncle Sham cages people at 5 times the rate of other nations.

The U.S. correctional system is a world unto itself that’s larger that the population of most countries. 7.3 million Americans are currently in the system.

These “correctional facilities” are often dungeons of rape and torture perpetrated both by inmates and guards. If you want to turn the majority of inmates who are locked up for victimless, nonviolent crime into actual bad guys, the regime’s correctional system is the place to do it.

In fascist fashion, the prison-industrial complex is a boon for government and industry.

Every prisoner is a source of employment and tax revenue for the complex. And though most prisons are government owned and operated, in fascist fashion, private prisons are coming online all the time, led by Corrections Corporation of America and GEO Group. In fascist logrolling fashion, they lobby the regime to make sure it keeps their facilities stocked up with profitable inmates.

Every inmate needs to be guarded, housed, fed, clothed, transported, and provided medical care. New prisons are continually being built to keep up with the influx of inmates (but not fast enough, as solitary confinement cells are being turned into murder-boxes.) And then a vast bureaucracy is required to track and administer the millions of people on parole and probation (an awful ordeal in itself).

Slavery Is Still Legal…If You’re the Regime

People go to college expecting to secure employment opportunities post graduation. But few students are aware that they are competing for employment with prisoners who are, as the Virginia Supreme Court ruled in Ruffin v. Commonwealth, “slaves of the State.”

Yes, thanks to the Constitution, America is still home of the slave. The 13th Amendment spells out the legalities of regime slavery:

Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States…

While Texas and Georgia slaves receive zero pay, in Nevada inmates get 13 cents per hour.

A fascist poster-boy in the prison-industrial complex is Federal Prison Industries, which has since changed its name to UNICOR. It’s a government corporation which administers a large portion of the prison slave labor system, where in some states there’s quasi slave-pay starting at 23 cents an hour.

Billions are made on products produced by prison slave labor. Work is being done for subcontractors to Dell, Whole Foods, Boeing, Starbucks, Victoria Secret, Walmart, Costco, Microsoft, and others.

The prison-industrial complex is a brutal racket, and business is booming. The economic output of the racket exceeds that of most nations.

#1 STALKER



Most people don’t fully grasp what mass surveillance is. Let’s start by cutting through the jargon.

Mass surveillance is stalking. It’s the non-consensual tracking and recording of millions of innocent people’s private lives.

Mass surveillance can be done by private individuals, companies, or governments.

Thanks to Edward Snowden, we know the U.S. regime operates the world’s most pervasive and invasive mass surveillance apparatus.

Uncle Sham is the world’s biggest stalker.

Yes, the regime is stalking you. Bureaucrats can peer at the smallest details of your life while oogling your genitals. Of course we’re forbidden from knowing how this gargantuan stalking complex operates. It’s insane — Americans are forced to pay for being stalked.

Snowden warned us that the regime’s mass surveillance complex is “the greatest weapon of oppression in the history of man.”



Yet tragically, most Americans are clueless.

Sure, plenty of people would object to being stalked by the government. But how many care enough to actually change their habits and use encryption?

Do you?

If not, here’s why you might reconsider:

Now that you understand that it’s impossible to know the law

Now that you realize you’ve likely committed multiple federal offenses

Now that you see why if you’re ever accused of a crime, you’ll likely plead guilty even if you’re innocent

Now that you know millions of Americans work as caged slaves despite having hurt no one

With this grim reality in focus, let’s stop thinking of mass surveillance simply as a matter of “privacy.” A Peeping Tom is creepy but doesn’t arrest, cage, and enslave people.

Instead, recognize that mass surveillance is a direct threat to your personal freedom. The stalking isn’t just about bureaucrats spying on their love interests or passing around your nude pics. It’s about detecting your non-compliance with the regime’s laws.

Since the law is unknowable for us and everybody unwittingly breaks laws on a regular basis, mass surveillance gives government exponentially more power to detect our non-compliance.

And it isn’t just about stalking you right now, in the moment. It’s also the permanent recording of your data to be used against you any time in the future for any reason the regime decides.

See how incredibly sinister it is? If (when) the political climate changes, you can be datamined and targeted.

It could be something about your religion, your race, your ethnicity, your sexual preferences, your consumption preferences, your financial means, your political beliefs, your friends, your organizational affiliations, your DNA…really, anything. The point is it’s impossible to know.

To passively accept mass surveillance is to put your head on the chopping block and wait for the ax to fall.

Please, don’t do it.

Recognize mass surveillance for what it is: an invisible war being waged against you. The regime will never stop lying about it.

Hopefully it’s obvious that mass surveillance isn’t about terrorism. That’s the only excuse the regime can muster in hopes of fearing people into submission. It’s called security theater. You’re in danger! We need to stalk protect you or you’ll die!

If you appreciate the risks Snowden took to expose mass surveillance, please follow his advice. Replace Skype, Dropbox, Facebook, and Google with surveillance-free alternatives. My step-by-step guide for non-tekkies explains how.

Does this all seem surreal? Hard to believe? It is for me.

This optical illusion is hard to believe too, but it’s fascinating instead of a freaking nightmare.

#1 WARMONGER

A warmonger is defined as one who “wants a war or tries to make other people want to start or fight a war.”

Every regime says it wants peace. And every time a regime wages war, it proclaims it a “just war.” The only viable option. No other choice. A matter of “our” survival.

Just war theory is a scam used by regimes throughout the ages to justify ordering people to murder each other.

No government ever proclaims, “We’re waging an unjust war of aggression.”

There’s always, always, always a political narrative for why war is, regrettably, absolutely necessary. When a regime wants war, it’s going to happen.

Nobody explains it better than Nazi politician and military commander Hermann Goering:

Why of course the people don’t want war…neither in Russia nor in England nor in America, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along…. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked… It works the same way in any country.

We all know politicians are professional liars. The best ones can project sincerity and good intentions as well as any Hollywood actor.

So how do we deal with liars? Ignore their words and look at their actions. When we do, we see that despite all the proclamations about being a model of peace and goodwill for the world, the American regime has long been the #1 warmonger on the planet.

The U.S. government started 201 out of the 248 armed conflicts since World War 2.

Please let that sink in.

The Golden Rule of Bombs

If you knew a regime was planning to drop a bomb that would destroy your home and kill you and your family, you’d probably turn antiwar real fast. Turns out very few people want to be bombed.

In the past 70 years, how many regimes have dropped bombs on the United States?

Zero.

How’s Uncle Sham done at following the Golden Rule of not bombing others? Over the past 70 years, these are the countries the American government has bombed:

Afghanistan

Bosnia

China

Cambodia

Congo

Cuba

Dominican Republic

El Salvador

Grenada

Guatemala

Indonesia

Iran

Iraq

Korea

Kuwait

Laos

Lebanon

Libya

Nicaragua

Pakistan

Panama

Peru

Somalia

Sudan

Syria

Vietnam

Yemen

Yugoslavia

Every time the government has ordered the bombs to drop, rest assured it was always done in defense. By that logic Americans can expect to be barraged by bombs in the future so that other regimes can defend themselves too. It’s the Golden Rule of Bombing.

It’s More Than Dropping Bombs

Warmongering isn’t just about full-scale invasions of countries like Iraq, Afghanistan, or Vietnam. It’s any time a politician sends men with guns, bombs, or other killing devices abroad in order to impose the regime’s agenda there.

Just imagine the response if Germany or China or Saudi Arabia sent a bunch of soldiers and weaponry to America and announced, “We’ve decided, for reasons of defense, that we’re planting a military base in Houston.” Americans would go insane. But the U.S. regime does this with 800 bases around the globe.

What if 50,000 Japanese troops were occupying the United States? What would the response be when Japanese soldiers raped American women and children?

The hundreds of bases are just the beginning. In 2015 alone the regime deployed Special Operations military forces to 147 countries.

The government feeds the war-blowback cycle by inciting violence in order to create a “terrorist producing factory.”



Blowback is a desired outcome, not an unintended consequence.

Former Marine Vincent Emanuele explains in his account, “I Helped Create ISIS”:

I routinely saw and participated in obscenities… Innocent people were not only routinely rounded-up, tortured and imprisoned, they were also incinerated by the hundreds of thousands…

It’s critical to remember: There was no ISIS before the U.S. invaded the Middle East. The invasion drove millions from their homes and terrorized and slaughtered countless innocents. To not count the victims makes it possible for a million casualties to be swept under the rug of public awareness.

While ISIS goes out of its way to publicize its violence, the U.S. regime goes out of its way to hide its violence. That doesn’t make government terrorism any less real or deadly to its victims.

How many Americans have ever stopped, turned the tables, and considered how you’d respond to fleeing your destroyed home and burying your loved ones while an invading regime proclaimed to the world that it was doing you a favor?

Others around the planet have considered that question. They point to the United States as the #1 threat to world peace.

Regime Terror Hides Behind Language

201 out of the 248 armed conflicts were started by the U.S. government… That’s 81 percent for a country representing 4 percent of the world’s population. Most of the countless dead are civilians – what the regime calls “collateral damage.”

Dear sociopaths: No innocent mother, father, son, or daughter is collateral damage.

They are murder victims.

There’s a hugely important lesson here. Any time we hear the regime use convoluted jargon, it’s a sure sign we’re being force-fed bullshit to cover up evil.

Collateral damage… Extraordinary rendition… Quantitative easing… Civil asset forfeiture… Disposition matrix… Advanced interrogation techniques…

Political language is designed to confuse, bore, and bamboozle us into not recognizing when the regime commits predatory acts of violence. Because politicians can’t claim with a straight face that they have a special exemption from morality, they hide behind political language and hope people don’t notice.

Let’s notice.

One of the more powerful linguistic deceptions used by the regime is definition inversion — reversing the meaning of words to suit the regime’s ends. Once the meaning of a few key words has been reversed, people can no longer think straight. They’re easily mislead and confounded.

For example, every shot fired, every missile launched, every bomb dropped, every invasion, every coup, every occupation, is always and everywhere…defense. By labeling every attack as defense, any degree of barbarism can be justified by the regime as “worth it.”

Another powerful linguistic deception is definition dilution — in other words, watering down the gravity, impact, and specificity of monumentally important words.

For instance, virtually no American hears the word war and thinks, “The nightmare scenario where politicians order huge numbers of complete strangers to murder each other.” Today war just means a challenge or a political program marketed for the “greater good” (while having the opposite effect). The War on Drugs… The War on Poverty… The War on Illiteracy… The War on Terror…

The subversion of language in order to camouflage wrongdoing and undermine clear-headed thought has been an unmitigated success for warmongers.

Terror in Perspective

Let’s put the regime’s warmongering in perspective. We’re told the invasions, occupations, and trillions spent are to keep us safe, rather than all but guaranteeing retaliatory attacks.

Meanwhile, Americans are succumbing to imminent, deadly threats on a daily basis. Over a quarter million Americans are killed every year by medical errors.

There’s a 9/11 every month in car accident deaths.



Even worse are suicides — fourteen 9/11s per year.

A 9/11 every 2 weeks from diabetes…

And every 48 hours from cancer…



And even more from heart disease, the leading killer of Americans (over 600,000 victims annually)

These threats account for a tidal wave of death — over a million Americans per year.

Yet non-government terrorism utterly dominates the regime mouthpiece media day after day.

The maddening tragedy is that hundreds of thousands of these untimely deaths are preventable — all without blowing trillions of dollars or firing a single gunshot or dropping a single bomb.

So why the media horror show? You can’t scare the pants off people and sell perpetual war by telling them that smoking, eating junk food, living a sedentary lifestyle, driving while distracted, or having a negligent doctor are an exponentially greater danger than terrorism.

The mainstream media reports what the regime talks about, and the regime talks about terrorism every day. There will be no daily White House press conferences telling us that wielding a smart phone behind the wheel of a car poses a far more deadly threat to fellow Americans than terrorists.

The Regime Is Winning

The military-industrial complex needs perpetual fear to get people to tolerate, and ultimately depend upon, perpetual war.

Informing people that the risks of terrorism pale in comparison to risks we can personally control is bad statecraft. Terrorism feeds a feeling of anxiety and helplessness, stoking the rescue reflex to beg the regime to “do something.” It’s a tactic which advances the agenda of terrorists, but also creates a deeply perverse incentive for the regime to permit attacks to happen, and even encourage them.

Contrary to popular belief, the U.S. regime is winning the war on terror. It’s getting everything it wants out of it. The losers are the American people who pay for it and the countless victims who are maimed and killed in the bloody war-blowback cycle.

Literally countless.

The greatest irony is the United States is essentially invasion-proof compared to other nations. The U.S. has, by an overwhelming margin, the highest per capita rate of private gun ownership in the world.

Even if the entire military were all but disbanded, no other regime could even begin to occupy America. There would be non-stop insurgency, and hundreds of millions of privately owned weapons to back it up. Look at how the U.S. regime has struggled year after year to control Iraq and Afghanistan, both of which have a fraction of the population and far less gun ownership.

Soldiers, Who Benefits When You Serve the Regime?

I realize many people enlist in the military out of a desire to protect others. Or for the “free” education.

Soldiers, the politicians who order you to go kill strangers across the globe are doing it for the benefit of the regime and its corporate vassals.

You’re defending fascism, not freedom. It’s a giant racket.

You might say, “No, I’m in the military to defend the Constitution!” Here’s the problem. The Constitution is a political document. It won’t get in your face and demand to know if you’re disobeying a direct order. It won’t haze, persecute, or fire you. It won’t launch an investigation of you for challenging the constitutionality of the regime’s policies. It won’t court-martial you for insubordination. It won’t apply overwhelming physical and psychological pressure to drive your compliance.

No matter what your personal beliefs are about the Constitution, virtually everyone obeys the chain of command. Virtually everyone complies.

If you don’t believe your service to the regime is perpetuating a war-blowback cycle, ask yourself this:

Would you be comfortable sending a loved one to walk the streets of Iraq or Afghanistan wearing an American flag t-shirt? After 13+ years of liberation invasion and occupation, turn the tables. What would your response be if your home was rubble and you had buried your family members?

If you’re not a pacifist, should you expect others to be?

As long as you kill at the command of politicians, the blowback and bloodshed will never cease. That arrangement works great for the regime. And it works great for private terror groups like ISIS which have emerged in response to the invasions and occupations. But is your service to the regime in the best interests of your family or anyone else you care about?

To every soldier in the world: If you want to keep your loved ones and your community safe, quit being a government pawn. Stay home and keep your gun skills current. Defend yourself and those you love in accordance with your conscience, not politicians’ orders. They’ve never had your best interests at heart, and they never will.

Walk away. Stop following politician’s orders to kill people. Do it for the good of everyone you care about and for your own health and sanity.

Get out before it’s too late.

Dying From the Inside

American soldiers kill themselves twice as often as civilians. More soldiers have killed themselves than have died in combat in the regime’s invasions and occupation of the Middle East.

Thirteen years later they’re still killing themselves, and the soldiers most likely to take their lives are young married men.

Soldiers suffer horrific PTSD as a result of pols sending them thousands of miles away to kill people they’ve never laid eyes on.

This gut-wrenching letter from Army veteran Daniel Somers sheds light on the dehumanization soldiers suffer serving the regime.

Even when soldiers physically survive their “service,” many never mentally recover. “My dad went from this stud — athlete, funny — just awesome, awesome dad…to barely human cause he’s so whacked out of his mind.”

Many others live the rest of their days in physical agony.

Soldiers, I have family and friends who have served the military. I understand that your commander may care about your well-being, and I don’t deny the powerful bonds people forge when they trust their lives to each other. But the regime you