When Ronald Reagan Was President…

We Had Bob Hope And Johnny Cash Still With Us…

Now, We Have Obama With No Hope And No Cash!

We Figured Him Out! By Ben Stein

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The Life-Long Challenge of Differentiating Between Truth, Paradigms, Truisms and Plain Lies by Frank Suess

Your paradigm is so intrinsic to your mental process that you are hardly aware of its existence, until you try to communicate with someone with a different paradigm. - Donella Meadows

Things are not always what they seem; the first appearance can be deceiving; and, matters accepted as factual realities all our life may in fact not stand the test of simple logic when questioned properly by someone with another point of view. This is a reality we all have to live with and do our best to deal with honestly and openly. It´s one of the great challenges in life. It requires a flexible mind and mindset. And at times, it requires your admitting to be wrong.

We are all molded by the information kit we are fed as we grow up and as we grow old. And, unless we actively take the effort and find the energy to question all the commonly shared “truisms”, the spoon-fed “facts” of others, the things that “everyone knows” and that all take for granted, we are easy prey for those in possession of the means for mass propaganda.

As George Bernard Shaw once stated, “The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.” We are all guilty of this sort of skewed perception and complacency. It is hard work to keep asking and Second-Guessing. But, it is important to keep at it all the same!

I like the term ‘second-guessing´, because, ultimately, an educated guess is all we will generally be able to achieve. This certainly applies to financial markets and investing, as it applies to life in general.

This past year, we have certainly been fed with A Lot Of Propaganda worth second-guessing:

• Everyone seems to take for granted that money equals wealth…

• Most believe that central banks and governments are working feverishly to protect us all…

• A considerable part of humanity has pretty much accepted the necessity of mass vaccinations against the Swine Flu and other diseases. They appear to think that the pharmaceutical companies and their side-kicks act fully in the interest of our health…

• The media is currently full of demands for more government “protection”: “We need more and stricter regulation. And regulators need to be given more power to ensure that another financial crisis is avoided.” They really think that is what we need. And, they are convinced it will work…

• Another frequently heard piece of ‘wisdom´: Capitalism has failed…

• Oh yes, it is clear to most that natural, unprocessed milk is unhealthy, if not even life-threatening…

• etc. etc. etc.

As we move toward the surely very interesting year of 2010, I would like to invite all readers to second-guess the common “wisdom” above. If you are fully committed to any of these viewpoints, I challenge you to step back and reconsider. Chances are that you are falling prey to the steady beat of that global propaganda machine.

Of course, it could be me that is on the wrong side of the story. Possibly, your Mountain Guides and Sherpas have it all wrong. Maybe, but at least we can credit ourselves with continuously probing and questioning.

This editorial originally appeared in the Mountain Vision newsletter and is provided courtesy of BFI Capital Group.

Bumper-Stickers Seen On Cherry Point & Camp Lejeune Marine Bases

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Happiest U.S. States Pinned Down

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We Can Defeat Harry Reid in 2010

Reid’s TV spots give us two indications of how deep the trouble is for the Senate Majority Leader back home in Nevada.

First, it is very unusual for a four-term incumbent to have to re-introduce himself to voters with a bio spot.

Second, it is even more unusual for said incumbent to be up on the air more than a year before the election.

A recent Mason-Dixon poll shows Reid trailing two possible Republican challengers as he seeks a fifth six-year term.

Real estate developer Danny Tarkanian would beat Reid 48 percent to 43 percent, while former GOP party official Sue Lowden leads Reid 49 percent to 39 percent.

Democrats are hoping to avoid a repeat of the 2004 elections, when then-Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D-S.D.) was unseated by Republican John Thune.

The National Republican Senatorial Committee says it is starting a TV ad this week in Nevada against Reid.

The committee also has a new website called ReidistributeWealth.com.

The ad, “Trillion,” calls Reid a “Super-Spending Partisan.” It accuses him of helping pay for “vicious attack ads” against past bailouts, then supporting the $700 billion financial bailout last year.

“Now he wants $1 trillion more in new spending?” the narrator asks. “Tell Harry Reid to stop wasting our hard-earned money.“

Here’s the ad:

Officials and Experts Warn of Crash-Induced Unrest

Numerous high-level officials and experts warn that the economic crisis could lead to unrest world-wide – even in developed countries:

• Today, Moody’s warned that future tax rises and spending cuts could trigger social unrest in a range of countries from the developing to the developed world, that in the coming years, evidence of social unrest and public tension may become just as important signs of whether a country will be able to adapt as traditional economic metrics, that a fiscal crisis remains a possibility for a leading economy, and that 2010 would be a “tumultuous year for sovereign debt issuers”.

• The U.S. Army War College warned in 2008 November warned in a monograph [click on Policypointers’ pdf link to see the report] titled “Known Unknowns: Unconventional ‘Strategic Shocks’ in Defense Strategy Development” of crash-induced unrest:

The military must be prepared, the document warned, for a “violent, strategic dislocation inside the United States,” which could be provoked by “unforeseen economic collapse,” “purposeful domestic resistance,” “pervasive public health emergencies” or “loss of functioning political and legal order.” The “widespread civil violence,” the document said, “would force the defense establishment to reorient priorities in extremis to defend basic domestic order and human security.” “An American government and defense establishment lulled into complacency by a long-secure domestic order would be forced to rapidly divest some or most external security commitments in order to address rapidly expanding human insecurity at home,” it went on. “Under the most extreme circumstances, this might include use of military force against hostile groups inside the United States.

Wow! The US Military Used Against Americans inside the united States! That is a Police State. Do you think Obama is trying to bring this about through his mismanagement of the economy? If the military ever took control under Obama, do you think we would ever have another election?

Further, DoD [the Department of Defense] would be, by necessity, an essential enabling hub for the continuity of political authority in a multi-state or nationwide civil conflict or disturbance,” the document read.

• Director of National Intelligence Dennis C. Blair said:

“The global economic crisis … already looms as the most serious one in decades, if not in centuries … Economic crises increase the risk of regime-threatening instability if they are prolonged for a one- or two-year period,” said Blair. “And instability can loosen the fragile hold that many developing countries have on law and order, which can spill out in dangerous ways into the international community.”***

“Statistical modeling shows that economic crises increase the risk of regime-threatening instability if they persist over a one-to-two-year period.”***

“The crisis has been ongoing for over a year, and economists are divided over whether and when we could hit bottom. Some even fear that the recession could further deepen and reach the level of the Great Depression. Of course, all of us recall the dramatic political consequences wrought by the economic turmoil of the 1920s and 1930s in Europe, the instability, and high levels of violent extremism.”

Blair made it clear that – while unrest was currently only happening in Europe – he was worried this could happen within the United States.

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• Former national security director Zbigniew Brzezinski warned “there’s going to be growing conflict between the classes and if people are unemployed and really hurting, hell, there could be even riots.”

• The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff warned the the financial crisis is the highest national security concern for the U.S., and warned that the fallout from the crisis could lead to of “greater instability”.

http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2009/12/officials-and-experts-warn-of-crash.html

Home-Schooling: Socialization Not A Problem

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Robber of Cruel Streets: The Prayerful Life of George Muller

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