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Just as an FYI I found a free Iphone scan app that you might find interesting.
http://www.ismashphone.com/2009/05/red-laser-the-first-accurate-iphone-barcode-scanner-hits-the-app-store.html
The app that allows practically anyone to scan a barcode and instantly find product and price details in additon to a list of retailers offering the same item at different price points thus creating more competition amongst mass marketers.
If Paul Craig Roberts is right, USA is doing to China what got us into WWII when we did it to Japan. These action are getting USA more hated, and China more allies. We have the stupidest government possible, starting with Geo Bush.
I am reading medieval history and delighted with the stories of Roman citizens fleeing to the barbarian lands to get away from Roman "order" in early medieval times. Escape to anarchy! They may start over with nothing when they get there, but at least they will be free to build something good, even if from scratch.
Here is a fellow who has a widely followed website on how to break free from the USA. He hides his true identity but he vaguely suggests his background is in intelligence work. As usual the comments are better than blog articles, and in this one a fellow objects to people escaping the USA.
Aside from the possibility this website is collecting info on people who desire to escape the USA for the USA (doubt it, did you know Gloria Steinem was a CIA asset?) if things go bad for USA and around the world, about the last place an American is going to want to be is outside the USA. If you are rich and American, expect the locals to disappropriate you. Who are you going to get to help you, Uncle Sam? If you are poor and outside the USA, you will learn what it is like to be black in USA. Uncle Sam is looking forward to shaking down Americans returning home after escaping.
Let me explain a very important point: those people overseas who were educated in USA in the 70s 80s 90s got advancement over any locals in business and government. Envy followed. Now that the USA has generated such disaster worldwide, those people who benefitted from their USA association are now on the defensive. They must be doubly anti-american as a matter of self-preservation.
Badmouthing USA yourself will do not good. It only makes things worse, because if you know our policies are bad, why are you not resisting? My strategy is to point out we small merchants are disdained wherever we go, I've got enough problems without having to answer for Uncle Sam? (I was very happy to be able to explain I refused to join in the US invasion of Vietnam as a conscientious objector. When I explained the difference between a draft dodger and a conscientious objector, that was a real head scratcher. "You mean, you do not have to go to war, even in a draft, but they came anyway?" Yep.)
Escape to Anarchy happens when the capitals are looted by invaders, very extreme stuff. The Ming army opened the gates of the Great Wall to let in the anarchic Qing to rule China. North African Christians welcomed Moslems to overthrow Roman oppression.
As Dr. Hans Sennholz advised, the powers that be have very many options to exercise before "the end" before escape to anarchy is preferable to staying put. Right now you can "escape to anarchy" right here. Just get self-employed.
This rash of stories about air traffic controllers and deleterious duty has me suspicious. it doesn't just happen coincidentally that air traffic controllers are misbehaving. If they are now, they always were, but before people let it slide. It sounds like a crack down to me.
I know three teachers with seniority, one making $80,000 per year teaching grade school, and the others nearly as much, but not as much seniority. After countless years of top ratings, they are being written up for infractions. Two of them have ended their careers. The third hopes to navigate the waters well and keep the job.
Cops are being portrayed in a negative light with increasing frequency.
Four kids can be hired at $20,000 each to replace one $80,000 teacher. The powers that be are going after their expensive factotems. Where will these people turn for help? The republicans?
Hi John,This is S, your student from last year.I have a list of companies that I would like to contact that was referred to me by theChamber of Commerce of Madagascar.Before I start contacting them, I would like to know how can I get an accurate research about their companies?Thank you
It's over for the dollar? The traded a billion dollars for physical gold.
Following up on tax talk is the article which states that half of us pay no Fed Taxes, usually the very rich and very poor. But this quote distressed me, for a Columbia professor:
"This voluntary idea clearly represents a mindset that basically pretends there's no such things as collective goods that we produce," Schoenberg said. "Are you going to let people volunteer to build the road system? Are you going to let them volunteer to pay for education?"
Well, the answer is yes. And no, we do not want people forced to do it. USA is not a collective, so we do not have such things a collective goods. 70% of firemen in USA are volunteers, it should be 100%. 100% of roads made in USA are done by private contractors, and the majority of roadway in USA is for private use (your driveway, parking lots, service roads, etc.) Although the government arrogates unto itself plenty of "public use" goodies, it is entirely unnecessary.
It ain't the taxes, folks, it is the regulations that are killing us. Taxes will neither solve anything nor break anything.