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THE ULTIMATUM you will have to see later... below!
YOU MAY BE WHOM YOU THINK YOU ARE, BUT PERHAPS NOT.
Ever watch The Twilight Zone? The stories are all written to a formula. You are presented with a set of circumstances which seem completely natural, comprehensible and familiar. Only something is wrong. There's an element that doesn't make sense, doesn't fit. This builds up to a climax until an epiphanic moment when you're mentally zoomed out to see a wider truth you never expected. Suddenly you realize all of your prior assumptions were wrong, what was really happening was entirely different only you had no way of knowing it. Only then does it all become perfectly clear and it's the opposite of what you'd thought before. The truth comes as a complete surprise.
When you step out of that moment and back into reality, your epiphany will cause you to retreat from your previously-held belief system and realize you've been had.
- Mark Fisher @ PS Tracks
It's true. You've been had. Everything you believed is simply not true.
All you've experienced are SNIPPETS of factoids, not a truth that can only be revealed in a context.
The context of just about everything you know is missing.
And factoids are not truths.
They are merely factoids that just appear to be truths.
You are...and have lived for your entire life...in
The Twilight Zone.A READER, A PHD, OBSERVED: "The readers of SNIPPETS' newsletters will gain a fundamental knowledge greater than what he learned in graduate school and possibly through his whole life."
FAR MORE CRUCIAL THAN WHAT WE KNOW OR DO NOT KNOW IS WHAT WE DO NOT WANT TO KNOW. – Eric Hoffer
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AVOIDING KNOWLEDGE IS ALIKE TRYING TO AVOID GRAVITY,
EXCEPT WITH THE FIRST ONE CAN DELIBERATELY MAKE ONESELF EXEMPT!
IT IS aka WILLFUL IGNORANCE. INTELLECTUAL LAZINESS. OR PELOSISM:
"You will find out what's in the law when we pass it."
JOHN MAULDIN writes:
For all of measurable human history up until the year 1750, nothing happened that mattered. This isn't to say history was stagnant, or that life was only grim and blank, but the well-being of average people did not perceptibly improve. All of the wars, literature, love affairs, and religious schisms, the schemes for empire-making and ocean-crossing and simple profit and freedom, the entire human theater of ambition and deceit and redemption took place on a scale too small to register, too minor to much improve the lot of ordinary human beings. In England before the middle of the eighteenth century, where industrialization first began, the pace of progress was so slow that it took 350 years for a family to double its standard of living. In Sweden, during a similar 200-year period, there was essentially no improvement at all. By the middle of the eighteenth century, the state of technology and the luxury and quality of life afforded the average individual were little better than they had been two millennia earlier, in ancient Rome.
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The first order of business (and creativity) is to try."
- says Elon Musk, CEO of SPACE-X and TESLA Motors, inventor of PayPal, interviewed on CNNs Fareed Zakaria Jan. 5, 2014, a full year after SNIPPETS covered Elon Musk in these newsletters. "
Think of things that have not been done before...and if you can't, you haven't tried hard enough."
The Primacy of Human Capital
It is not just that Gordon and others miss the importance of information and entrepreneurial effort in industrial revolutions, missing the forest for the trees. It is that they miss the most important factor of all: capital. But not capital in the sense of money. I am thinking of capital in the more important way that Nobel laureate Gary Becker describes it: as human capital.
It is the investments we have made in ourselves that have been the true source of economic growth. Education, training, information sharing, the transfer of knowledge have all been fundamental in the human experiment. The more open a society becomes, the more it shares its information and knowledge and the fruits of its labors, and the more empowered its people and the more productive its civilization become.
As Isaac Newton said, "If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." In Newton's time, there were a handful of giants; today there are thousands. And because of their ubiquity, most go unnoticed. The division of labor, the most significant of Adam Smith's insights, means that there are just so many more small but important realms of human endeavor where giants can roam and have an impact. When was the last time we celebrated the giants of material sciences? Who are the Newtons of the world of ceramics? We may not be able to name them, yet their work has a profound impact on our lives. I daresay that our Killer Robot would not be possible without their seminal work. Or the work of thousands of other innovators.
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BITE THE BULLET!
DO YOU THINK YOU CAN CUT BACK ON YOUR EXPENSES AT THE SAME % RATIO TO FOLLOW OBAMA'S LEAD?
I'm going to bite the bullet too. Will you join me? President Obama ordered the cabinet to cut $100,000,000.00 ($100 million) from the $3,500,000,000,000.00 ($3.5 trillion) federal budget. I'm so impressed by this sacrifice that I have decided to do the same thing with my personal budget. I spend about $2,000 a month on groceries, household expenses, medicine, utilities, etc., but it's time to get out the budget cutting axe, go through my expenses, and cut back. I'm going to cut my spending at exactly the same ratio (1/35,000) of my total budget. After doing the math, it looks like instead of spending $2,000 a month, I'm going to have to cut that number by six cents. Yes, I'm going to have to get by with $1,999.94, but that's what sacrifice is all about. I'll just have to do without some things, that are, frankly, luxuries – six cents worth.
Did this President actually think no one would do the math? Please send this to everyone on your list so people understand how idiotic a $100 million cut is in a $3.5 trillion budget ! "There are two ways to conquer and enslave a nation... One is by sword... The other is by debt." John Adams 1826 |
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You may be too young to remember this. But some of us do and it appears to be coming true.
Remember: If you can't learn from history, you will not learn from anything.
Nikita Khrushev's Quote September 29, 1959
DO YOU REMEMBER WHEN Nikita Khrushev APPEARED AT THE U.N.
AND BANGED HIS SHOE ON THE PODIUM? I DO!!
THIS WAS HIS ENTIRE QUOTE:
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MONTHS AGO SNIPPETS UNCOVERED THE REAL PURPOSE OF OBAMACARE.
IT WAS NOT CARE. IT WAS NOT HEALTH. IT WAS NOT A PLAN TO BENEFIT PEOPLE.
IT WAS A PLAN TO MAKE EVERY INSURANCE COMPANY IN THE PLAN PERPETUALLY PROFITABLE.
AND IMMUNE TO FAILURE. PREFERRED TREATMENT. PERPETUALLY.
IT IS ABOUT AN INSURANCE COMPANY BAILOUT.
IT'S ABOUT CRONY CAPITALISM.
SNIPPETS HAD CONNECTED ONE OF THE LARGEST INSURANCE COMPANY INVESTORS TO THE PLAN AND THE WHYFORS FOR HIS ADVOCACY OF IT.
WARREN BUFFETT MADE MOST OF HIS MONEY BY INVESTING IN INSURANCE COMPANIES.
LAST OBSERVATION ABOUT WARREN BUFFETT.
HE'S SMARTER THAN YOU!
AND FAR MORE CORRUPT.
WaPo, January 2
Stop the bailout — now
By Charles Krauthammer
First order of business for the returning Congress: The No Bailout for Insurance Companies Act of 2014.
Make it one line long: "Sections 1341 and 1342 of the Affordable Care Act are hereby repealed."
End of bill. End of bailout. End of story.
Why do we need it? On Dec. 18, the chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers was asked what was the administration's Plan B if, because of adverse selection (enrolling too few young and healthies), the insurance companies face financial difficulty.
Jason Furman wouldn't bite. "There's a Plan A," he replied. Enroll the young.
But of course there's a Plan B. It's a government bailout.
Administration officials can't say it for political reasons. And they don't have to say it because it's already in the Affordable Care Act, buried deep.
First, Section 1341, the "reinsurance" fund collected from insurers and self-insuring employers at a nifty $63 a head. (Who do you think the cost is passed on to?) This yields about $20 billion over three years to cover losses.
Then there is Section 1342, the "risk corridor" provision that mandates a major taxpayer payout covering up to 80 percent of insurance-company losses.
Never heard of these? That's the beauty of passing a bill of such monstrous length. You can insert a chicken soup recipe and no one will notice.
Nancy Pelosi was right: We'd have to pass the damn thing to know what's in it. Well, now we have and now we know.
The whole scheme was risky enough to begin with — getting enough enrollees and making sure 40 percent were young and healthy. Obamacare is already far behind its own enrollment estimates. But things have gotten worse. The administration has been changing the rules repeatedly — with every scrimmage-line audible raising costs and diminishing revenue.
First, it postponed the employer mandate. Then it exempted from the individual mandate people whose policies were canceled (by Obamacare). And for those who did join the exchanges, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius is "strongly encouraging" insurers — during the "transition" — to cover doctors and drugs not included in their clients' plans.
The insurers were stunned. Told to give free coverage. Deprived of their best customers. Forced to offer stripped-down "catastrophic" plans to people age 30 and over (contrary to the law). These dictates, complained an insurance industry spokesman, could "destabilize" the insurance market.
Translation: How are we going to survive this? Shrinking revenues and rising costs could bring on the "death spiral" — an unbalanced patient pool forcing huge premium increases (to restore revenue) that would further unbalance the patient pool as the young and healthy drop out.
End result? Insolvency — before which the insurance companies will pull out of Obamacare.
Solution? A huge government bailout. It's Obamacare's escape hatch. And — surprise, surprise — it's already baked into the law.
Which is why the GOP needs to act. Obamacare is a Rube Goldberg machine with hundreds of moving parts. Without viable insurance companies doing the work, it falls apart. No bailout, no Obamacare.
Such a bill would be overwhelmingly popular because Americans hate fat-cat bailouts of any kind. Why should their tax dollars be spent not only saving giant insurers but also rescuing this unworkable, unbalanced, unstable, unpopular money-pit of a health-care scheme?
The GOP House should pass it and send it to Harry Reid's Democratic Senate. Democrats know it could be fatal for Obamacare. The only alternative would be single-payer. And try selling that to the country after the spectacularly incompetent launch of — and subsequent widespread disaffection with — mere semi-nationalization.
Do you really think vulnerable Democrats up for reelection will vote for a bailout? And who better to slay Obamacare than a Democratic Senate — liberalism repudiating its most important creation of the last 50 years.
Want to be even bolder? Attach the anti-bailout bill to the debt ceiling. That and nothing else. Dare the president to stand up and say: "I'm willing to let the country default in order to preserve a massive bailout for insurance companies."
In the past, Republicans made unrealistic and unpopular debt-ceiling demands — and lost badly. They learned their lesson. Last year, Republicans presented one simple unassailable debt-ceiling demand — that the Senate pass its first budget in four years.
Who could argue with that? The Senate capitulated within two days.
Who can argue with no bailout? Let the Senate Democrats decide: Support the bailout and lose the Senate. Or oppose the bailout and bury Obamacare.
Happy New Year.
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THE ULTIMATUM
Commentary By:
TPATH Contributor
Fredy Lowe
Also Posted at CANADA FREE PRESS
January 3, 2014 ~TPATH~ The New Year is normally a time for renewals and looking enthusiastically towards the newness of our life's calendar as we turn the page on THAT old year ending (you can pause here for an—EW*) but, with a fresh start and rejuvenation we look toward the upcoming events and goals we have set for our future in this new year. And, with our typically American optimistic can-do-outlook, we take this time to analyze our lives, to stop and consider where we are today and what changes we would like to make for 2014.
(* EW - Internet slang for Exclamation of Disgust!)
So, in order to set aside a little time-to-analyze this past, absolutely horrible year (thanks to you-know-usurper-who) and look with a more positive attitude towards 2014, I had promised myself that I would try to shut-it-down and give it my very best effort to clear my head and enjoy the holidays, all the way from Tuesday, Christmas Eve right through, the day we used to call—'the morning after the night before' - or that back to reality day, of Thursday, January 2, 2014. And, I was proud of myself for getting as far as Friday, morning December 27th.
It was the still of the morning, before anyone else awoke, I grabbed a cup a' joe and saw the new book I'd gotten for Christmas. But, sitting on top of my new book was that ever-handy-iPad, and as if in auto-mode, I picked it up, opened and clicked on the icon for the DRUDGE REPORT. And, there in the top left corner was the 'must-read-link', "Wall Street adviser recommends guns, ammo for protection in collapse…" My initial thought was to tap that little top-off-button and rescue myself with my new book, while thinking how much I truly enjoyed my world of Christmas, surrounded in the love and joy of family and friends, as opposed to the repulsive and insufferable reality of Obama's malevolent world of "recommended guns, ammo for protection in collapse." Sadly, I gave into my curiosity and clicked on that blankity-blank link.
Please realize that the headline writer did not mention the words "in case of", as in "Break Glass 'in case of' Fire" or if by chance there might be a possibility of, no the writer went right for the 'in' word, and I'm guessing most of us no longer need old Slick Willie to define this 2-lettered word, which obviously means: 'inside a…' 'within a…' or 'during a…' Ammo for protection, in-deed!
As I scanned through the article all I could think of was—Really? - this Wall Street financial advisor is just now telling his client to make a list that included guns and ammo, as my cynical self began to think that his brother-in-law must just have purchased a Bug-Out-Bag franchise and he's just gaming the system as any good inside trader would. I'm not going back to check the article, but do think there was an Amazon link to the aforementioned bag of things-you'll-need-in-case-of-collapse.
By the way, here is a link with a complete list of real-stuff recommended
by WE PLAN TO ENDURE,
just in case you do.
And, although connecting with those who have plans in place for enduring in collapse are all highly recommended, at that moment in time, I was the guy reaching for the new book while shutting-it-down, remember. But, as any good Canada Free Press loyalist would do, I then clicked on that icon and came uponDoug Hagmann's must-read final report from Rosebud, which made me, not fearful, but sad, that we as a country had potentially come to this moment in the proud history of this once great nation. And, although I will offer my additional thoughts below, it is with a Hat Tip to Mr. Hagmann that I repost: "...ask yourself why there was such an all out effort to marginalize anyone talking about Obama's eligibility in 2008.
Even so-called conservative pundits fell for the lie that such questions were nothing more than a diversion. They were following a specific drumbeat."
And then Doug closes with what I have long believed to be the truth, "He is the product of decades of planning, made for this very time in history. He was selected to oversee the events I just disclosed. Who has that ability? He is a product of our own intelligence agencies working with globalists. He should be exhibit 'A' to illustrate the need to enforce the Logan Act. Need I say more?"
Many writers, as you know, have quietly attempted to discuss the similarity of these two men over the past four or five years, and I would be remiss not to give an Honorable Mention here, to another exceptionally well written CFP thesis presented by JD Longstreet - with his own vivid comparison, "...if you look at the faces in one of Hitler's crowds and compare them to the faces in Obama's crowd, you will see the same worship of their speaker…but look closely, do you see it? Do you see the vacant…look reflected in those eyes? Trust it. It is telling you, Something is dreadfully wrong." And, although I don't fully concur, he goes on to say, "Be afraid. Be very afraid. No mere mortal should have that kind of power over his fellow human beings. It is too easily misused. It is raw power—and it is corruptible."
And, here is where I do not fully agree with Mr. Longstreet: No matter how far we have transformed over the past five plus years, we are still not some 3rd world banana republic - yet. In my heart, I truly believe that the United States of America is an exceptional nation and was, and will always be a gift from Almighty God, as expressed in our Declaration of Independence, "...and that they are endowed by their Creator with certain 'unalienable' rights…" (meaning incapable of being altered of transferred) and it is our duty as her-temporary-caretakers to take care of this extraordinary gift, to defend, protect and cherish it, to Be Not Afraid…for I go before you always…, against all enemies foreign or domestic, and that no man or army of men will ever take that away from us, not on our watch, they won't! NO ONE! So help me God.
So, my first New Years 'Revolution' is: I will officially stop asking God to grant me the serenity to accept the things I can not change, and as of the first day in this new year - I will start changing the things I can no longer accept. I haven't for some time, but as with all revolutions I meant to say - resolutions, especially those we plan to keep, I am putting mine here in writing for you: I no longer accept Barack Hussein Obama as the President of the United States and will offer my dogged determination to do everything 'legally and humanly possible' to be a party to that change. PERIOD!
If you don't feel it yet, you will soon, because time is now of the essence. But, I do not want to waste valuable time by providing another list detailing all his treasonous activities to make sure you understand—why! Although, listing them could easily start and end with one word - BENGHAZI, but my goal here is to suggest what I believe might well be in our future for 2014. Use any clich√© you like for time's-up, but our political leaders have filled their Obamaballoon with as much hot-air as the laws of physics will allow, and ready or not, the damn thing is going to burst-wide-open—fairly soon.
I believe that with Obama I have lost all perspective on what is possible and what is not and feel that many of you may have been considering similar thoughts and/or feelings over the past year or so, the only difference is that CFP gives me this opportunity to put my thoughts down on paper, so that you firstly—will know you are not alone, and secondly - so that you will find comfort in the fact that you are not going crazy—this is REALLY happening to our country, and it is happening now.
Many of us have recently read the once-again relevant words of Cicero, saying, "A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within…the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers…heard in the very halls of government itself…He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown…to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is [far] less to fear."
"Barack Obama has rotted the soul of our nation,
and our reality is now right here in front of us.
I no longer accept him."
It is by no coincidence that we see the headlines: The DNC Will Defend Obama from Impeachment Possibility, or how on December 21st a number of Democratic lawmakers proposed a bill (HR 3741) that would eliminate the death penalty for treason. So, do you think they also know their Obamaballoon is now at its 'bursting point? With regard to the DNC defending his impeachment, it would unlikely pass the House and not a chance in the Senate. But, HR 3741 gets us closer to our goal; personally, death is too final a conclusion for him, but better to give him a long-lifetime-of-good-obamacare-health in an 8x8 in solitary confinement.
My belief is many of us are reaching for proposals of what should or might well happen in 2014. Here are my unsolicited predictions and/or what I believe to be the short list of possible scenarios that may occur in the first six months of 2014, if not sooner; which are again being presented solely as the opinions, or educated guesses, of this author and are hereby open for your review and comments.
There have been too many valid indicators that a false flag or a series of staged events will occur fairly soon, proving that Doug Hagmann's Rosebud was right; but, for one major issue that they overlooked or would be impossible to have planned for. And, that is the American spirit of survival along with the literally millions of trained military and/or police officers, active and retired, ready to defend the US Constitution, and oh yes, our 2nd Amendment with over 300 million privately owned guns.
As Glen Doherty and Tyrone Woods showed us in Benghazi, it doesn't take too many of us to refuse a Stand-Down order to turn their best laid plans up-side-down.
Number One: Be Not Afraid.
Jim Guirard at American Thinker laid out a well designed plan for a Conviction Without Eviction through a House-led Vote of NO CONFIDENCE. My main concern with this plan is that Speaker Boehner would never agree to bring it to a vote, evidenced by the fact that he would not even assign an Independent Counsel to investigate the treasonous acts related to Benghazi.
There is a secret agreement, already in place, between the usurper and Congress whereby he vacates the office as POTUS in turn for not being prosecuted. More on this later.
This one might be a little far fetched, but consider the group of international bankers and globalists who have supported Obama up until now, they too might be considering 'other plans' before he takes them down with him.
There are now more than two-hundred senior military officers who knew of the possibility that they would soon be released, FIRED,
but refused to believe it until—it happened! And, now that it has happened, are we to believe that all of these veteran military leaders have been coerced into holding back in fear or for the sake of their pensions, and have no plan?
My prayer for 2014 is that Barack Hussein Obama is arrested and removed from office and I believe that the survival of our Constitutional Republic depends upon it.
And, so I repeat for clarity: "If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, so my children (and grandchildren) may have peace."—Thomas Pain. Laus Deo.
January 3, 2014 ~TPATH~
