Americans Petition To Repeal the 4th Amendment (Protection Against Unrea...

Mark Dice asks random beach goers in San Diego to sign a petition to repeal the Fourth Amendment to help keep everybody safe, insisting "we can trust the police" if they feel they need to search your home or your person.
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"I Support an Orwellian Police State in America"

Political prankster Mark Dice asks San Diego beach-goers if they'll sign a petition supporting "the Police State" which includes "Orwellian" and "Nazi-Style" tactics to "keep Americans safe" in this "Brave New World."
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He enjoys enlightening zombies, as he calls them, (ignorant people) about the mass media's effect on our culture, pointing out Big Brother's prying eyes, and exposing elite secret societies along with scumbag politicians and their corrupt political agendas.

The term "fighting the New World Order" is used by Mark to describe some of his activities, and refers to his and others' resistance and opposition (The Resistance) to the overall system of political corruption, illegal wars, elite secret societies, mainstream media, Big Brother and privacy issues; as well as various economic and social issues.

Dice and his supporters sometimes refer to being "awake" or "enlightened" and see their knowledge of these topics as part of their own personal Resistance to the corrupt New World Order. This Resistance involves self-improvement, self-sufficiency, personal responsibility and spiritual growth.

Mark Dice is the author of several books on current events, secret societies and conspiracies, including his newest book, Big Brother: The Orwellian Nightmare Come True which is available on Amazon.com, Kindle, Nook, Google Play and iBooks. While much of Mark's work confirms the existence and continued operation of the Illuminati today, he is also dedicated to debunking conspiracy theories and hoaxes and separating the facts from the fiction; hence the "Facts & Fiction" subtitle for several of his books. He has a bachelor's degree in communication from California State University.

Unconventional Homes For Conventional People

These days many people are taking to permanent rv/travel trailer living partly because of the number of foreclosures America has seen since 2008, and partly because people are starting to want to live "off the grid."

After my building fund was embezzled, as I faced my 60th year, I became one of those people who stopped dreaming the American dream in traditional terms and started to look at alternative options. 

The more I looked, the more enchanted I became of these unconventional "homes."

Of course, I couldn't have horses, or work within my career field.  But at almost 60 years old those days were coming to an end anyway.. even if all of my home/horse facility fund had not been stolen.

As a child I would watch the Gypsies in Europe  gather on nearby commons. The wooden bow topped caravans painted bright colors, the assortment of horses and ponies tethered as far as the eye could see. The smell of open cooking and the large family activities of these nomads without roots. Always strangers in their own land, never quite belonging to the communities they stayed in. Each contented with the community they belonged within.

Over the years the original bow topped caravans became sought after  collectors items in America, and slowly they were sold, being replaced by conventional metal caravans (trailers) drawn not by horses, but by vehicles.

It was the end of an era. Memories never to be duplicated again. and those with no gypsy blood in them, became gypsies.

Today's modern American gypsies, those who live mobile,  have a strong bond. They may have been living mobile for a month or 10 years, but their doors are always open, a hot cup of coffee or soup always ready for a temporary neighbor. The most fellowship and caring I have ever felt was in a small rural campsite.
I had never met any of them before, yet there was no stranger present.

The advantages of mobile living were too numerous to count:

* If you don't like your neighbor... move your trailer!

*  If you don't like the weather... move your trailer to another state!

* If your family tick you off.. move your trailer across the nation! Go to Canada, Mexico.. just GO!

* If you become so senile that you forgot what you went into another room to get.... you don't have far to walk back and wait to remember.

* No exterior painting required.

* You cannot buy everything you want.. where would you put it?

 

* If you don't like the interior decorating take a week-end and change it!

* If the sun hurts your eyes, turn the trailer around.

* No stairs to climb

* No laws to mow

* No need for long ladders to wash the windows.

* No relatives visiting for a week. YOU can visit THEM!

* If you feel like spending a few months in the mountains, spend a few months in the mountains. If you decide to spend the summer on the beach.. drive to the beach.

* No hotels/motels/guest homes to book.

* No need to look for anyone to "house sit" when you leave. Just put the trailer in storage.

* At Christmas you can park right next to the first available pine tree and decorate it without the need for cutting down a perfectly healthy tree.

* You can call ANY state "home" - at least until you want to call another state home.

* Housecleaning takes 30 minutes from top to bottom. No need for maid service or carpet cleaners, or dry cleaning bills for expensive drapes.

* Have trouble deciding what to wear? No trouble here.. you have room for 4 outfits.  Take your pick.

By watching people older than myself I came to a valid realization. I watched people work countless hours to accumulate "things."  A larger home, a more expensive dining room set, a garage full of toys for a garden that slowly became too much work as the owners aged. I watched the transformation  when downsizing was part of the process.  and it dawned on me that we spend most of our lives trying to attain what we cannot keep hold of.

Babies grow into children, children grow into adults and they leave home to start families of their own. And most of the "things" we thought we needed, we didn't need at all.

 I am confident that leaving the horse industry is going to sting for a long, long time.  I am just as confident that the nostalgic loss of not having a piece of ground to call my own is going to raise it's head from time to time, and it may overwhelm me. Long enough for me to think about the last time I paid property tax.

One of the things I have noticed ever since becoming "homeless" is that insurance companies rarely want to cover you when you do not have a "fixed" address and I advice all embarking on a mobile lifestyle to not be too liberal with information. They want to know that a vehicle is parked at a stationary address.

There are some minuses of course. Mail is difficult to get unless you have an established post box set up at a certain location, but these days that is less troublesome than it was before the internet days. Some locations may not offer internet access. The cost of gas is rising, rising and rising. And no one can ignore the fact that no matter how large your trailer or RV may be, you are in a limited space and organizational skills is a must.

But even in this world of frugal living there is always the one, or two, or three that makes you drool..

The $9999999 Sunset Trail Reserve. I hope, for that price, the Royal Dalton china shown comes with it. Now where did I put my lottery ticket?

The Elephant In The Room

Why is it, when the average citizen thinks about the US deficit, they immediately turn their focus on domestic policies.. like healthcare and education, pork spending.

I'm wondering why so few see the elephant in the room.

Following the Vietnam War, which has been estimated to have cost $111 billion ($738 billion in today's money), the US economy was, to put it mildly, in a mess.

Yet that figure is a mere 12% of what the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan might actually have cost. In March 2013 the Guardian reported "the war in Iraq has cost $823.2bn between 2003 and 2011" and "that it may eventually cost as much as $3.7tn." (http://bit.ly/1as1ll8). Also that month The Telegraph reported, "Cost to US of Iraq and Afghan wars could hit $6 trillion". (http://bit.ly/YPsf1p).

The Whitehouse's infographic of the U.S National Debt at http://www.whitehouse.gov/infographics/us-national-debt



No one is making nearly enough hay of this, not least the US populace themselves, who stand to lose the most. (For the estimated costs of major U.S. wars since 1775 see http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/natsec/RS22926.pdf).

Mike Baker did a wonderful article pertaining to the cost of looking after the veterans of wars, many of which should never have been started: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/ap-costs-us-wars-linger-over-100-years

The problem with most US wars is that they are not conducive to law and order in the world. They do not make us safer. They make us less safe. They are not just wars, but unjust wars. They do not foster good will. But ill feelings and often justified retribution.

General Eisenhower once said:

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population.

We pay for a single fighter with a half-million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people. This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.

Can we assume that General Eisenhower spoke from wisdom gained through experience, and if so, why do we keep ignoring this elephant in the room?

I once quoted General Smedley Butler  to a die hard conservative (remember.. I am a conservative) and he called General Butler a "traitor." I would call him a "patriot" because he loved his country yet stood firm with honesty and honor-ability while describing his job.. his career.. and our place in the world.

War Is A Racket

WAR is a racket. It always has been.

It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.

A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small "inside" group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. Out of war a few people make huge fortunes.

In the World War [I] a mere handful garnered the profits of the conflict. At least 21,000 new millionaires and billionaires were made in the United States during the World War. That many admitted their huge blood gains in their income tax returns. How many other war millionaires falsified their tax returns no one knows.

How many of these war millionaires shouldered a rifle? How many of them dug a trench? How many of them knew what it meant to go hungry in a rat-infested dug-out? How many of them spent sleepless, frightened nights, ducking shells and shrapnel and machine gun bullets? How many of them parried a bayonet thrust of an enemy? How many of them were wounded or killed in battle?

Out of war nations acquire additional territory, if they are victorious. They just take it. This newly acquired territory promptly is exploited by the few -- the selfsame few who wrung dollars out of blood in the war. The general public shoulders the bill.

And what is this bill?

This bill renders a horrible accounting. Newly placed gravestones. Mangled bodies. Shattered minds. Broken hearts and homes. Economic instability. Depression and all its attendant miseries. Back-breaking taxation for generations and generations.

For a great many years, as a soldier, I had a suspicion that war was a racket; not until I retired to civil life did I fully realize it. Now that I see the international war clouds gathering, as they are today, I must face it and speak out.
Again they are choosing sides. France and Russia met and agreed to stand side by side. Italy and Austria hurried to make a similar agreement. Poland and Germany cast sheep's eyes at each other, forgetting for the nonce [one unique occasion], their dispute over the Polish Corridor.

The assassination of King Alexander of Jugoslavia [Yugoslavia] complicated matters. Jugoslavia and Hungary, long bitter enemies, were almost at each other's throats. Italy was ready to jump in. But France was waiting. So was Czechoslovakia. All of them are looking ahead to war. Not the people -- not those who fight and pay and die -- only those who foment wars and remain safely at home to profit.

There are 40,000,000 men under arms in the world today, and our statesmen and diplomats have the temerity to say that war is not in the making.
Hell's bells! Are these 40,000,000 men being trained to be dancers?
Not in Italy, to be sure. Premier Mussolini knows what they are being trained for. He, at least, is frank enough to speak out. Only the other day, Il Duce in "International Conciliation," the publication of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, said:

"And above all, Fascism, the more it considers and observes the future and the development of humanity quite apart from political considerations of the moment, believes neither in the possibility nor the utility of perpetual peace. . . . War alone brings up to its highest tension all human energy and puts the stamp of nobility upon the people who have the courage to meet it."

Undoubtedly Mussolini means exactly what he says. His well-trained army, his great fleet of planes, and even his navy are ready for war -- anxious for it, apparently. His recent stand at the side of Hungary in the latter's dispute with Jugoslavia showed that. And the hurried mobilization of his troops on the Austrian border after the assassination of Dollfuss showed it too. There are others in Europe too whose sabre rattling presages war, sooner or later.
Herr Hitler, with his rearming Germany and his constant demands for more and more arms, is an equal if not greater menace to peace. France only recently increased the term of military service for its youth from a year to eighteen months.

Yes, all over, nations are camping in their arms. The mad dogs of Europe are on the loose. In the Orient the maneuvering is more adroit. Back in 1904, when Russia and Japan fought, we kicked out our old friends the Russians and backed Japan. Then our very generous international bankers were financing Japan. Now the trend is to poison us against the Japanese. What does the "open door" policy to China mean to us? Our trade with China is about $90,000,000 a year. Or the Philippine Islands? We have spent about $600,000,000 in the Philippines in thirty-five years and we (our bankers and industrialists and speculators) have private investments there of less than $200,000,000.
Then, to save that China trade of about $90,000,000, or to protect these private investments of less than $200,000,000 in the Philippines, we would be all stirred up to hate Japan and go to war -- a war that might well cost us tens of billions of dollars, hundreds of thousands of lives of Americans, and many more hundreds of thousands of physically maimed and mentally unbalanced men.

Of course, for this loss, there would be a compensating profit -- fortunes would be made. Millions and billions of dollars would be piled up. By a few. Munitions makers. Bankers. Ship builders. Manufacturers. Meat packers. Speculators. They would fare well.
Yes, they are getting ready for another war. Why shouldn't they? It pays high dividends.

But what does it profit the men who are killed? What does it profit their mothers and sisters, their wives and their sweethearts? What does it profit their children?
What does it profit anyone except the very few to whom war means huge profits?
Yes, and what does it profit the nation?

Take our own case. Until 1898 we didn't own a bit of territory outside the mainland of North America. At that time our national debt was a little more than $1,000,000,000. Then we became "internationally minded." We forgot, or shunted aside, the advice of the Father of our country. We forgot George Washington's warning about "entangling alliances." We went to war. We acquired outside territory. At the end of the World War period, as a direct result of our fiddling in international affairs, our national debt had jumped to over $25,000,000,000. Our total favorable trade balance during the twenty-five-year period was about $24,000,000,000. Therefore, on a purely bookkeeping basis, we ran a little behind year for year, and that foreign trade might well have been ours without the wars.

It would have been far cheaper (not to say safer) for the average American who pays the bills to stay out of foreign entanglements. For a very few this racket, like bootlegging and other underworld rackets, brings fancy profits, but the cost of operations is always transferred to the people -- who do not profit.

http://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html

Today the benefactors are hidden in plain sight. Let us focus on the top five of the 2008 list:

* The first name that comes to everyone’s mind here is Halliburton. Halliburton’s KBR, Inc. division bilked government agencies to the tune of $17.2 billion in Iraq war-related revenue from 2003-2006 alone. This is estimated to comprise a whopping one-fifth of KBR’s total revenue for the 2006 fiscal year. The massive payoff is said to have financed the construction and maintenance of military bases, oil field repairs, and various infrastructure rebuilding projects across the war-torn nation. This is just the latest in a long string of military/KBR wartime partnerships, thanks in no small part to Dick Cheney’s former role with the parent company.

* At first blush, a private equity fund (and not, say, Exxon-Mobil) being the number 2 profiteer in the Iraq war might sound strange. However, the cleverly run fund has raked in $1.44 billion through its DynCorp subsidiary. The primary service DynCorp has provided to the war efforts is the training of new Iraqi police forces. Often described as a ‘state within a state‘, the sizable company is headed by Dwight M. Williams, former Chief Security Officer of the upstart U.S. Department of Homeland Security. With this and other close ties to defense agencies, Veritas Capital Fund and DynCorp are well-positioned to capitalize on Iraq even more.

* The Washington Group International has parlayed its expertise the repair, restore, and maintenance of high-output oil fields into $931 million in Iraq-related revenue from 2003-2006. The publicly traded 25,000 employee company’s other specialties include the building and maintenance of schools, military bases, and municipal utilities, such as watering systems. Some have complained that Washington Group’s hefty government payoffs have served primarily to raise its trading price on the New York Stock Exchange. One thing is for sure – with oil prices continuing to rise, there will be no shortage of demand for the oil protection services Washington Group International brings to bear.

* All war zones eventually becomes cluttered with spent ammunition and broken/abandoned weapons, creating a lucrative niche for any company willing to clean it all up. In Iraq, this duty has fallen into the hands of Environmental Chemical. The privately held Burlingame, California company has stockpiled $878 million by the end of fiscal 2006 for munitions disposal, calling upon its “decade of experience planning and conducting UXO removal, investigation, and certification activities.” The company has close ties to several defense agencies and is staffed by graduates of the U.S. Navy’s Explosive Ordinance Schools, as well as the U.S. Army’s Chemical Schools at Anniston.

* Aegis has done the United Kingdom proud after reeling in a contract to coordinate all of Iraq’s private security operations. The Pentagon contract is good for $430 million (incredibly lucrative by any standard) but it has landed Aegis in some hot public relations water. The company’s decision to contribute to Iraq war efforts has lead to a rejected membership application from the International Peace Operations Association. According to The Independent, the influential trade organization does not consider Aegis worthy of inclusion in the “peace and stability industry.” It remains to be seen whether Aegis will continue to be ostracized for participating in the training of Iraqi security forces.

So when we discuss education and healthcare affordability why do we still ignore this elephant in the room?