Another excellent article by Jeffrey Tucker. I read you on the Epoch Times and your thoughts give me hope every time. Not in the Pollyanna sort of way, like there’s a change coming right around the corner. Because it’s not. You don’t have to be Edgar Cayce to see the foreseeable future isn’t what the average person wants. That’s what censorship is for: so the ones who benefit from the current system can stop hearing how badly they suck. (Can we please stop using the E word to describe them? Financially privileged yes, but to actually refer to them as superior? Puhleeze!) The hope comes from Jeffrey Tucker’s writings on really awakening to the full magilla of what has happened. For most of my anarcho-libertarian life, I hoped everyone would stop voting. I wanted a general strike. A vote of no confidence. I gave up entirely on normies because like, who would want to be normal (aka fit in) THIS society? You might not have seen it then but trust me, plenty did. Why validate it? Seriously. Stone me, go ahead. Everybody must get stoned. Look where your voting got you. It got me here too. And if you think that’s because “them darn liberals”, I hope some of the rocks coming your way finally do wake you up. THIS is the awakening I mean. Validating any of it is to be in the Matrix. Sure. I will be voting, “just in case”, but nothing will change enough anyhow. I just do kt now because it really doesn’t matter anymore, paradox intended. It is me using my voice. I don’t expect it to matter but if I don’t I will feel like more of a chump than I would doing it. Make sense? Alrighty then. Mr. Tucker wrote a piece for the ET this month I highly recommend. He also understands the labels we use to describe ourselves are bankrupt and can only limit ourselves. The clarity of JT’s message gives me hope that more will be awakened to the bottom line. Not until we have clarity about the underlying problems can we develop the intellectual and practical capacity to respond effectively. clhttps://www.theepochtimes.com/opinion/now-they-are-targeting-the-amish-5598468
Face it. American business sucks. They make crappy products. Have abysmal customer service. And are run by rent seeking apparatchiks who excel only at feathering their own nests Even worse, there is a revolving door between corporate America and American bureaucracy and the Deep State actors are well compensated for helping corporate officers (Not shareholders). We no longer have free enterprise. We have managed competition with a few players and the Deep State both making the rules and calling balls and strikes. This is NOT America and anyone who thinks it is has been willfully deluded. The only way to cleanse this foul Augean Stable is to enact term limits, lobbying restrictions and an air tight rule on anyone in government going to work for the private sector for several years. For starters. And add to that new tax rules to rein in the plutocrats.
Excellent analysis Mr. Tucker, as always, and why I modestly support Brownstone. I say the short answer as to why is the typical human behavior that Ben Franklin alluded to in his cautionary statement in 1787, “...if you can keep it.” Humans are notoriously imperfect and tending towards corruption. Smith acknowledged that in pointing out that true free market capitalism can flourish only in a moral society.
" A majority of the people of the United States have lived all of their lives under emergency rule. For over 100 years, freedoms and governmental procedures guaranteed by the Constitution have, in varying degrees, been abridged by laws brought into force by states of national emergency. The problem of how a constitutional democracy reacts to great crises, however, far antedates the Great Depression. In the United States, actions taken by the Government in times of great crises have — from, at least, the Civil War — in important ways shaped the present phenomenon of a permanent state of national emergency"
Here is an example of the power of declaring a National Emergency and the Executive order. The Democrats can thank FDR.
"Under the powers delegated by these statutes, the President may: seize property; organize and control the means of production; seize commodities; assign military forces abroad; institute martial law; seize and control all transportation and communication; regulate the operation of private enterprise; restrict travel; and, in a plethora of particular ways, control the lives of all American citizens."
Are any of these found in the U.S. Constitution:
Since the Civil War our current federal government- has been operating under the rule of National Emergency - thus the executive order. President Lincoln as military commander issues Executive order number 1.
*********************************************
By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation
Whereas, on March 6, 1933, I, Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by Proclamation declared the existence of a national emergency and proclaimed a bank holiday extending from Monday the 6th day of March to Thursday the 9th day of March, 1933, both dates inclusive, in order to prevent the export, hoarding or earmarking of gold or silver coin, or bullion or currency, or speculation in foreign exchange; and
Whereas, under the Act of March 9, 1933, all Proclamations heretofore or hereafter issued by the President pursuant to the authority conferred by section 5 (b) of the Act of October 6, 1917, as amended, are approved and confirmed; and
Whereas, said national emergency still continues, and it is necessary to take further measures extending beyond March 9, 1933, in order to accomplish such purposes:
Now, Therefore, I, Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, in view of such continuing national emergency and by virtue of the authority vested in me by Section 5 (b) of the Act of October 6, 1917 (40 Stat. L. 411), as amended by the Act of March 9, 1933, do hereby proclaim, order, direct and declare that all the terms and provisions of said Proclamation of March 6, 1933, and the regulations and orders issued thereunder are hereby continued in full force and effect until further proclamation by the President.
In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and have caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.
Done in the District of Columbia, this 9th day of March, in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Nine Hundred and Thirty three, and of the Independence of the United States the One Hundredth and Fifty-seventh.
*********************
It was here that every American citizen literally became an enemy to the United States government under declaration. He changed Wilson's original 1917 Act.
The nation got a taste of what FDR meant when, on Invoking the Trading with the Enemy Act, FDR imposed a national banking holiday and prohibited all gold transactions. Roosevelt's use of the Act was questionable, to say the least. Congress had passed the Act in 1917 to give the president broad economic powers during wartime or national emergency, but not to regulate the domestic economy in the absence of a foreign threat. Without the statute, FDR was left to act under an unspecified presidential emergency power.
12 USC 95(b) refers to the authority granted in the Act of October 6, 1917 (a/k/a The Trading with the Enemy Act or War Powers Act) which was "An Act to define, regulate, and punish trading with the enemy, and for other purposes".
This Act originally excluded citizens of the United States, but in the Act of March 9, 1933, Section 2 amended this to include "any person within the United States or any place subject to the jurisdiction thereof".
Always like JT's writings. He doesn't waste words getting his points out. When something is important to the USG, it makes sure it has access to it, always. Glenn Beck illustrated this over a decade ago. Here are examples: Once in office, O had his admin, especially the DOJ, take measures to coerce major business sectors to do his bidding (Choke-Point was one that applied to bankers to stop arms related businesses or others on O’s hit list) while agencies with regulation powers regarding monopolies and mergers were green-lighting to allow and even request certain tech business buy or take over their competitors. The USG’s controlling capabilities are at stake when there are too many cats to herd.
Here is one from history: AT&T is 148 years old. All long distance phone service belonged to AT&T under a Federally regulated monopoly and through its Bell operating companies, the majority of local service across the nation. In 1982 AT&T agree to divested the Bell operating companies. It was not until 1996 that long distance was opened to competition. Four years later cellular service became available. The lengthy timeline for this monopoly was due to the Feds need for intelligence gathering that only AT&T could provide. It was especially important during WWI. There was an understanding between the two entities. I’m sure most remember when it was leaked that AT&T made copies of all domestic and foreign calls for the Feds and the Bell companies were required to provide the same when the Feds asked. Qwest’s CEO, Joseph P. Nacchio (1997-2002), was the only company to demand legal authority for surreptitious mass surveillance demanded by the NSA which began prior to the 11 September 2001 attacks. He refused to give customer data in 2001. In 2007 Nacchio was convicted of insider trading during his time heading Qwest and he was sentenced to six years in federal prison. His appeals failed.
My guess is the final inputs to "Data is the new oil!" came from the freely given information on social media sites which developed into detailed individual advertising dossiers. Government had access to bank data and other state registers of data and had all the Internet, email and smart phone intercepts. Then it came to politicians and their handlers to morph all together to control voting propaganda and it was not a large jump to think of making money from mandated vaccines.
Too many, gave up too much information on social media for free. The tech cos took it and sold it to govt becoming captured in the process having done so.
If everyone stopped using social media or demanded they be paid every time their data is sold, the situation would reverse fairly quickly.
With my limited knowledge and experience with technology, I find it difficult to see how we could have foreseen all of these problems that we're currently having with all of these quasi company & governmental partnerships.
It seems to me, as difficult as it may be, that we need to RETROFIT a FIX a PATCH.
WHY is it that most disclosure s have an terms of service exception for residents of California, New York and sometimes Wisconsin?
WHY can't we ALL have a CONSUMER BILL OF RIGHTS?
WHY can't we have ALL APPS subjected to rules that protect the CONSUMER?
WHY can't we have full disclosure on the OWNERS, the INVESTORS AND DEVELOPERS of the apps?
Stifling competition and manipulating politicians and having laws and rules designed to maintain a competitive advantage has progressed into a fine art form! RNA push that is moving forward at warp speed is just the latest iteration
Thank you for sharing this with us! I have now read three Jeffery Tucker and one Brownstone pieces today. I was very unhappy to find our Chief Judge of the Supreme Court used the Chevron approach to sandbag us into Obamacare - with his approach re the superior expertise of the government. It leaves me with serious concerns for both the Chevron case and our censorship issues.
I first encountered the birth of 'motivational research' for sales purposes at MSU. Later I shared the evolution of computers in a law firm (that refused to network their 24 ees) and a Court with a slow antique undocumented sludgy data base. Our Pet service has a custom dB that for unknown reasons doesn't work on my cell phone.
I had no appreciation of the monster mountain of corporatism that has developed. I'm hopeful we will be learning more details, particularly as relates to how extensive the welding together has become. I remain hopeful that independant operations like Truth and Rumble and their related extensions of their services will be able to offer us independent uncensored options.
In the meantime back to learning today's realities and their implications.
You are ever so appreciated for helping us progress ! Again Thank You!
Your company sounds like an exception, but what I've run into has not been great. Small business is a key, but what happens it becomes very success, then it's bought out.
What's really bad, when phone machines answer... and put customers on hold forever; or disconnect after a person has waited for ages.. The other thing...hiring people who have a bad attitude and take it out on the customer. Once upon a time, the customer was always right. Today, some company representatives make a potential buyer feel like they are doing customers a favor waiting on them.
JulieW in response to Bruce Miller hit the nail on the head when she wrote in her comment “Strict return to constitutional parameters, including eliminating bureaucratic law and public employee unions; then, starve the beast.” I written this too many times; the United States Constitution grants very limited powers to the federal government. All federal laws and agencies not in pursuance of the Constitution must be eliminated. Good intentions and time never makes wrongs right.
Another excellent article by Jeffrey Tucker. I read you on the Epoch Times and your thoughts give me hope every time. Not in the Pollyanna sort of way, like there’s a change coming right around the corner. Because it’s not. You don’t have to be Edgar Cayce to see the foreseeable future isn’t what the average person wants. That’s what censorship is for: so the ones who benefit from the current system can stop hearing how badly they suck. (Can we please stop using the E word to describe them? Financially privileged yes, but to actually refer to them as superior? Puhleeze!) The hope comes from Jeffrey Tucker’s writings on really awakening to the full magilla of what has happened. For most of my anarcho-libertarian life, I hoped everyone would stop voting. I wanted a general strike. A vote of no confidence. I gave up entirely on normies because like, who would want to be normal (aka fit in) THIS society? You might not have seen it then but trust me, plenty did. Why validate it? Seriously. Stone me, go ahead. Everybody must get stoned. Look where your voting got you. It got me here too. And if you think that’s because “them darn liberals”, I hope some of the rocks coming your way finally do wake you up. THIS is the awakening I mean. Validating any of it is to be in the Matrix. Sure. I will be voting, “just in case”, but nothing will change enough anyhow. I just do kt now because it really doesn’t matter anymore, paradox intended. It is me using my voice. I don’t expect it to matter but if I don’t I will feel like more of a chump than I would doing it. Make sense? Alrighty then. Mr. Tucker wrote a piece for the ET this month I highly recommend. He also understands the labels we use to describe ourselves are bankrupt and can only limit ourselves. The clarity of JT’s message gives me hope that more will be awakened to the bottom line. Not until we have clarity about the underlying problems can we develop the intellectual and practical capacity to respond effectively. clhttps://www.theepochtimes.com/opinion/now-they-are-targeting-the-amish-5598468
Face it. American business sucks. They make crappy products. Have abysmal customer service. And are run by rent seeking apparatchiks who excel only at feathering their own nests Even worse, there is a revolving door between corporate America and American bureaucracy and the Deep State actors are well compensated for helping corporate officers (Not shareholders). We no longer have free enterprise. We have managed competition with a few players and the Deep State both making the rules and calling balls and strikes. This is NOT America and anyone who thinks it is has been willfully deluded. The only way to cleanse this foul Augean Stable is to enact term limits, lobbying restrictions and an air tight rule on anyone in government going to work for the private sector for several years. For starters. And add to that new tax rules to rein in the plutocrats.
Excellent analysis Mr. Tucker, as always, and why I modestly support Brownstone. I say the short answer as to why is the typical human behavior that Ben Franklin alluded to in his cautionary statement in 1787, “...if you can keep it.” Humans are notoriously imperfect and tending towards corruption. Smith acknowledged that in pointing out that true free market capitalism can flourish only in a moral society.
The other word that was coined in the 1930s was fascism, which is exactly the same thing as corporatism, which is a subtle euphemism.
See and read Senator Frank Church's report: See 93d Congress 1 ,1st Session 7i j ,SENATE Report No. 93-54:
https://archive.org/stream/senate-report-93-549/senate-report-93-549_djvu.txt
" A majority of the people of the United States have lived all of their lives under emergency rule. For over 100 years, freedoms and governmental procedures guaranteed by the Constitution have, in varying degrees, been abridged by laws brought into force by states of national emergency. The problem of how a constitutional democracy reacts to great crises, however, far antedates the Great Depression. In the United States, actions taken by the Government in times of great crises have — from, at least, the Civil War — in important ways shaped the present phenomenon of a permanent state of national emergency"
Here is an example of the power of declaring a National Emergency and the Executive order. The Democrats can thank FDR.
"Under the powers delegated by these statutes, the President may: seize property; organize and control the means of production; seize commodities; assign military forces abroad; institute martial law; seize and control all transportation and communication; regulate the operation of private enterprise; restrict travel; and, in a plethora of particular ways, control the lives of all American citizens."
Are any of these found in the U.S. Constitution:
Since the Civil War our current federal government- has been operating under the rule of National Emergency - thus the executive order. President Lincoln as military commander issues Executive order number 1.
*********************************************
By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation
Whereas, on March 6, 1933, I, Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by Proclamation declared the existence of a national emergency and proclaimed a bank holiday extending from Monday the 6th day of March to Thursday the 9th day of March, 1933, both dates inclusive, in order to prevent the export, hoarding or earmarking of gold or silver coin, or bullion or currency, or speculation in foreign exchange; and
Whereas, under the Act of March 9, 1933, all Proclamations heretofore or hereafter issued by the President pursuant to the authority conferred by section 5 (b) of the Act of October 6, 1917, as amended, are approved and confirmed; and
Whereas, said national emergency still continues, and it is necessary to take further measures extending beyond March 9, 1933, in order to accomplish such purposes:
Now, Therefore, I, Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, in view of such continuing national emergency and by virtue of the authority vested in me by Section 5 (b) of the Act of October 6, 1917 (40 Stat. L. 411), as amended by the Act of March 9, 1933, do hereby proclaim, order, direct and declare that all the terms and provisions of said Proclamation of March 6, 1933, and the regulations and orders issued thereunder are hereby continued in full force and effect until further proclamation by the President.
In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and have caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.
Done in the District of Columbia, this 9th day of March, in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Nine Hundred and Thirty three, and of the Independence of the United States the One Hundredth and Fifty-seventh.
*********************
It was here that every American citizen literally became an enemy to the United States government under declaration. He changed Wilson's original 1917 Act.
The nation got a taste of what FDR meant when, on Invoking the Trading with the Enemy Act, FDR imposed a national banking holiday and prohibited all gold transactions. Roosevelt's use of the Act was questionable, to say the least. Congress had passed the Act in 1917 to give the president broad economic powers during wartime or national emergency, but not to regulate the domestic economy in the absence of a foreign threat. Without the statute, FDR was left to act under an unspecified presidential emergency power.
12 USC 95(b) refers to the authority granted in the Act of October 6, 1917 (a/k/a The Trading with the Enemy Act or War Powers Act) which was "An Act to define, regulate, and punish trading with the enemy, and for other purposes".
This Act originally excluded citizens of the United States, but in the Act of March 9, 1933, Section 2 amended this to include "any person within the United States or any place subject to the jurisdiction thereof".
1917
https://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/sanctions/Documents/twea.pdf
1933
https://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/sanctions/Documents/twea.pdf
******************************
Here is what FDR did during the last Economic emergency. The gift that keeps on giving.
Here is an example of the power of declaring a National Emergency: All created by FDR and not Congress, outside of the original U.S Constitution.
AAA 1933 Agricultural Adjustment Administration
CCC 1933 Civilian Conservation Corps
CWA 1933 Civil Works Administration
DRS 1935 Drought Relief Service
DSH 1933 Subsistence Homesteads Division
EBA 1933 Emergency Banking Act
FAA 1933 Federal Aviation Administration
FAP 1935 Federal Art Project
FCA 1933 Farm Credit Administration
FCC 1934 Federal Communications Commission
FDIC 1933 Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
FERA 1933 Federal Emergency Relief Administration
FHA 1934 Federal Housing Administration
FLSA 1938 Fair Labor Standards Act
FMP 1935 Federal Music Project (part of WPA)
FSA 1935 Farm Security Administration
FSRC 1933 Federal Surplus Relief Corporation
FTP 1935 Federal Theatre Project (part of WPA)
FWA 1939 Federal Works Agency
FWP 1935 Federal Writers' Project (part of WPA)
HOLC 1933 Home Owners' Loan Corporation
NIRA 1933 National Industrial Recovery Act
NLRA 1935 National Labor Relations Act
NLRB 1934 National Labor Relations Board/The Wagner Act
NRA 1933 National Recovery Administration
NYA 1935 National Youth Administration
PRRA 1933 Puerto Rico Reconstruction Administration
PWA 1933 Public Works Administration
RA 1935 Resettlement Administration
REA 1935 Rural Electrification Administration (now Rural Utilities Service)
SEC 1934 Securities and Exchange Commission
SSA 1935 Social Security Administration
SSB 1935 Social Security Board (now Social Security Administration)
TVA 1933 Tennessee Valley Authority
USHA 1937 United States Housing Authority
USMC 1936 United States Maritime Commission
WPA 1935 Works Progress Administration
Always like JT's writings. He doesn't waste words getting his points out. When something is important to the USG, it makes sure it has access to it, always. Glenn Beck illustrated this over a decade ago. Here are examples: Once in office, O had his admin, especially the DOJ, take measures to coerce major business sectors to do his bidding (Choke-Point was one that applied to bankers to stop arms related businesses or others on O’s hit list) while agencies with regulation powers regarding monopolies and mergers were green-lighting to allow and even request certain tech business buy or take over their competitors. The USG’s controlling capabilities are at stake when there are too many cats to herd.
Here is one from history: AT&T is 148 years old. All long distance phone service belonged to AT&T under a Federally regulated monopoly and through its Bell operating companies, the majority of local service across the nation. In 1982 AT&T agree to divested the Bell operating companies. It was not until 1996 that long distance was opened to competition. Four years later cellular service became available. The lengthy timeline for this monopoly was due to the Feds need for intelligence gathering that only AT&T could provide. It was especially important during WWI. There was an understanding between the two entities. I’m sure most remember when it was leaked that AT&T made copies of all domestic and foreign calls for the Feds and the Bell companies were required to provide the same when the Feds asked. Qwest’s CEO, Joseph P. Nacchio (1997-2002), was the only company to demand legal authority for surreptitious mass surveillance demanded by the NSA which began prior to the 11 September 2001 attacks. He refused to give customer data in 2001. In 2007 Nacchio was convicted of insider trading during his time heading Qwest and he was sentenced to six years in federal prison. His appeals failed.
My guess is the final inputs to "Data is the new oil!" came from the freely given information on social media sites which developed into detailed individual advertising dossiers. Government had access to bank data and other state registers of data and had all the Internet, email and smart phone intercepts. Then it came to politicians and their handlers to morph all together to control voting propaganda and it was not a large jump to think of making money from mandated vaccines.
Too many, gave up too much information on social media for free. The tech cos took it and sold it to govt becoming captured in the process having done so.
If everyone stopped using social media or demanded they be paid every time their data is sold, the situation would reverse fairly quickly.
Well done.
Greed was/is always available.
With my limited knowledge and experience with technology, I find it difficult to see how we could have foreseen all of these problems that we're currently having with all of these quasi company & governmental partnerships.
It seems to me, as difficult as it may be, that we need to RETROFIT a FIX a PATCH.
WHY is it that most disclosure s have an terms of service exception for residents of California, New York and sometimes Wisconsin?
WHY can't we ALL have a CONSUMER BILL OF RIGHTS?
WHY can't we have ALL APPS subjected to rules that protect the CONSUMER?
WHY can't we have full disclosure on the OWNERS, the INVESTORS AND DEVELOPERS of the apps?
Stifling competition and manipulating politicians and having laws and rules designed to maintain a competitive advantage has progressed into a fine art form! RNA push that is moving forward at warp speed is just the latest iteration
Thank you for sharing this with us! I have now read three Jeffery Tucker and one Brownstone pieces today. I was very unhappy to find our Chief Judge of the Supreme Court used the Chevron approach to sandbag us into Obamacare - with his approach re the superior expertise of the government. It leaves me with serious concerns for both the Chevron case and our censorship issues.
I first encountered the birth of 'motivational research' for sales purposes at MSU. Later I shared the evolution of computers in a law firm (that refused to network their 24 ees) and a Court with a slow antique undocumented sludgy data base. Our Pet service has a custom dB that for unknown reasons doesn't work on my cell phone.
I had no appreciation of the monster mountain of corporatism that has developed. I'm hopeful we will be learning more details, particularly as relates to how extensive the welding together has become. I remain hopeful that independant operations like Truth and Rumble and their related extensions of their services will be able to offer us independent uncensored options.
In the meantime back to learning today's realities and their implications.
You are ever so appreciated for helping us progress ! Again Thank You!
Very Bestest♡♡♡
Could someone (Robert?) identify the header photo above Tucker's piece? Quite the work of art!
Your company sounds like an exception, but what I've run into has not been great. Small business is a key, but what happens it becomes very success, then it's bought out.
What's really bad, when phone machines answer... and put customers on hold forever; or disconnect after a person has waited for ages.. The other thing...hiring people who have a bad attitude and take it out on the customer. Once upon a time, the customer was always right. Today, some company representatives make a potential buyer feel like they are doing customers a favor waiting on them.
Such an important piece of writing!
JulieW in response to Bruce Miller hit the nail on the head when she wrote in her comment “Strict return to constitutional parameters, including eliminating bureaucratic law and public employee unions; then, starve the beast.” I written this too many times; the United States Constitution grants very limited powers to the federal government. All federal laws and agencies not in pursuance of the Constitution must be eliminated. Good intentions and time never makes wrongs right.