I have been trying to tell people about this collapse since 1982. When I started a group called F.A.I.R. (Families Against Imminent Robbery), which was founded on the concerns of the Socialist unsustainable programs of Medicare and Social Security.

What we are going through now IS ABSOLUTLY NOTHING and a Cake Walk!  Compared to the Social Security and Medicare Socialist debacle that isn’t even being talked about yet.  Skip what is going on now is meaningless compared to what is to come.  Social Security and Medicare is now $90 Trillion Dollars in UNFUNDED debt, over the infinite horizon.  We all either pay 80% of our earnings JUST FOR THESE TWO PROGRAMS or we get LITTERALLY shot at by the people who are going to demand their entitlements. 

Personally I have already committed to going into the ditch with my children and standing up to the Social Security and Medicare entitlement demanders and the (IRS) AGENTS of
“The Matrix” for I believe in freedom and I am going to fight for my children and the future of my country.

No Wascally Weform Allowed

Do any of the head honchos at AARP realize how ridiculous they appear in their irrational opposition to any Social Security reform and their steadfast support of the status quo? I have long been suspect of AARP’s support of big government programs. I have turned fifty two and the last thing I will want is to be a member of such a liberal anti-freedom group as this.

You know that I have been writing e-mails about this economic collapse, regarding the financial crisis, the failure of huge corporations, huge bank failures, in detail, for at least three years.  I told everybody that “The Matrix” (the ECONOMY that only exists in our minds) was going to collapse between 2007 and 2015 only dependent on oscillations with complex derivatives affecting economic structure or what I call “The Matrix”.  I have details and writings of this all over the Internet in forums and The Liberty Tree Lantern years ago.  My personal investment assets had a gain of 191% since 2000.

Some other people listened to me and had around the same profit rates.

Coming next is the combination Civil / Re-Revolutionary War within three years.  Hopefully people will “LEARN” that only freedom, true freedom, with NO “Matrix” from the owners of The Federal Reserve “System” will ever bring back the wealth they “thought” they had in their minds.  It is vital for posterity that a critical mass of Americans learn or understand the “true” meaning of freedom and how to work hard and pray to rebuild our nation after the war.  I find it incredible that people honestly thought that The Fed can print TRILLIONS AND TRILLIONS of wealth out of “thin air”, paper and ink and give / lend it to whomever they want.  Only God can create wealth out of thin air or the void of space.  I cannot believe the blasphemy of our fellow citizens to honestly believe that a private corporation can print wealth, spit in Gods face by completely taking him out of the equation of life by printing monopoly money, and get away with it in impunity.  We’ve got one heck of a spanking coming for our childish lack of responsibility and disrespect for God.

Once we learn our lessons, understand that it is OUR personal and INDIVIDUAL responsibility to make sure our children learn the true and only meaning of FREEDOM, how to keep it, why it is the best way to go by far and that we personally and INDIVIDUALLY, but united, have to ALWAYS force Government to OBEY the LAW that We did ordain and establish upon them, I believe our wealth will come back as good or better than ever, through hard work, high technology, the incalculable wealth generation of true freedom under the blessings and resources provided by our creator.  We that survive the war and the imminent collapse of “The Matrix”, will be amazed how fast God replenishes our individual wealth without the shackles of Government, “The Fed” and it’s “Matrix” pounding our heads, brainwashing our minds and stealing our earnings.

Thursday, January 15, 2009

Is there life on Mars? We don’t know — but there’s more good evidence there may be.

NASA and Science magazine will announce Thursday afternoon that large amounts of methane have been found on the Red Planet, which could be a sign of biological activity.

“The most obvious source of methane is organisms,” planetary scientist Colin Pillinger told London’s Sun tabloid. “So if you find methane in an atmosphere, you can suspect there is life. It’s not proof, but it makes it worth a much closer look.”

On Earth, methane comes mainly from belching animals such as cows and rotting organic matter such as dead leaves. But it’s also pumped out by volcanoes.

The catch is that it breaks down quickly in the atmosphere due to reactions with sunlight, and there haven’t been any active volcanoes on Mars for millions of years.

So it could be that the large amounts of methane spotted floating over Mars’ northern polar regions during the summer months are being created by microbes buried under the soil. Or it could just be the result of some little-understood geological process.

It’s “the most important discovery of all time,” former British civil servant and fervent UFO hunter Nick Pope told the Sun. “We’ve really only scratched the surface — it’s an absolute certainty that there is life out there and we are not alone.”

(American media outlets are not yet reporting the story because they’re honoring an “embargo,” a promise to not run a story until a designated time, in this case 2 p.m. EST, when NASA is expected to hold a press conference. The Sun “broke” the embargo, prompting other British papers to follow suit.)

London’s Daily Mail added that “three giant telescopes on Hawaii” — presumably among the 12 or so observatories clustered atop the two-mile-high summit of Mauna Kea on the Big Island — had detected the seasonal methane emissions.

The European Mars Express Orbiter first detected small amounts of methane in the Martian atmosphere in 2004. Other spacecraft have found significant amounts of water on the Red Planet, as well as geologic formations that appear to have carved by flowing liquids.

Mars is much smaller, colder and drier than Earth, with a thin atmosphere and high surface levels of radiation, but there may be large buried glaciers at the poles. It’s thought primitive bacteria may exist underground, subsisting on chemicals and water — and possibly emitting methane.

Why we are going to lose in the end

The real danger facing Americans is not radical Islam per se; its danger is only indirect. What Americans today suffer from is a deep dowse of relativism where there is no objective truth and if there is, we have no way of finding it. Each person is therefore left to find his or her truth and one truth is as good as another.

Consequently, there is nothing valuable in America to struggle or fight for, since you do not fight and die for something that could be wrong. You fight for values that are true and solid.

This is where the danger of Islam enters the picture. Islam believes in itself as true – in fact, as the only truth. Muslims are willing to die for this truth. Americans no longer are. Infected by relativism, Americans are unsure of the objective truth of America and its values and therefore are really unwilling to sacrifice and die for it. It is multiculturalism gone wild where everything is challenged. Having lost confidence in the truth of what America stands for, it is already defeated. The stronger culture of Islam will sooner or later replace the weaker American one.

I personally do not know any way back from this dilemma.

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The Liberty Tree Lantern certainly agrees and supports the entire perspicuous insightful premise outlined in Mr. Riga’s writing.  We would also add, however, what about our fellow countrymen’s 2^nd enemy of which we find ourselves pray to economically today and in the gun sights of raiding our homes and businesses tomorrow?  Are we Americans so mired in relativism that we have lost the truth as to the meaning, purpose and the individual prosperity producing results of true freedom and The Constitution that protects it? 

Are we are unwilling to fight for freedom, individual property rights, the protection of individual prosperity, and The Constitution against its dire enemy that is the direct and, ultimately, the sole cause of our financial and economic catastrophe through mass behavior modification of the American mind, the beguilement of “The Matrix” like world, we find collapsing all around ourselves in today?  That second enemy and battlefront, that has and is causing the collapse of our freedom and prosperity is the U.S. Government.  Are we so mired in such relativism that we are not willing to fight for whether we believe in our capacity for self-government or whether we abandon the American revolution and confess that a little intellectual elite in a far-distant capital can plan our lives for us better than we can plan them ourselves?

Did our patriots of the Revolutionary War, who fired the first shot against our government’s “peace” officers at the Concord Bridge at Lexington, heard around the world and all the wars since die in vain?  Are we next going to hear “Give up your dreams of freedom because to save our own skin, we are willing to make a deal with your slave masters, the Big Bankers who own The Federal Reserve company who control the U.S. Government.” Alexander Hamilton said, “A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.” Let’s set the record straight. There is no argument over the choice between peace and war, but there is only one guaranteed way you can have peace–and you can have it in the next second–surrender.

Those who would trade our freedom for the soup kitchen of the welfare state have told us that they have a utopian solution of peace without victory. They call their policy “accommodation.” And they say if we only avoid any direct confrontation with the enemy, he will forget his evil ways and learn to love us. All who oppose them are indicted as warmongers. They say we offer simple answers to complex problems. Well, perhaps there is a simple answer–not an easy answer–but simple.

If you and I have the courage to tell our elected officials that we want our national policy based upon what we know in our hearts is morally right. We cannot buy our security, our freedom, or our individual prosperity from the threat of economic collapse or Government oppression and tyranny by committing an immorality so great as saying to 300 million Americans now in slavery, prison of the mind and taxation in “The Matrix”, “Give up your dreams of freedom because to save our own skin, we are willing to make a deal with your slave masters.” Alexander Hamilton said, “A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.” Let’s set the record straight. There is no argument over the choice between peace and war, but there is only one guaranteed way you can have peace–and you can have it in the next second–surrender.

Admittedly there is a risk in any course we follow other than this, but every lesson in history tells us that the greater risk lies in appeasement, and this is the specter our well-meaning liberal friends refuse to face–that their policy of accommodation is appeasement, and it gives no choice between peace and war, only between fight and surrender. If we continue to accommodate, continue to back and retreat, eventually we have to face the final demand–the ultimatum. And what then?

When Barack Obama has told his people he knows what our answer will be? He has told them that we are retreating under the pressure of the financial crisis, and someday when the time comes to deliver the ultimatum, our surrender will be voluntary because by that time we will have weakened from within spiritually, morally, and economically. He believes this because from our side he has heard voices pleading for “peace at any price” or “better Red than dead,” or as one commentator put it, he would rather “live on his knees than die on his feet.” And therein lies the road to war, because those voices don’t speak for the rest of us. You and I know and do not believe that life is so dear and peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery in a Socialist world where all that is left is the equal distribution of misery and no hope of The American Dream. If nothing in life is worth dying for, when did this begin–just in the face of this enemy? Or should Moses have told the children of Israel to live in slavery under the pharaohs? Should Christ have refused the cross? Should the patriots at Concord Bridge have thrown down their guns and refused to fire the shot heard ’round the world? The martyrs of history were not fools, and our honored dead who gave their lives to stop the advance of the Nazis didn’t die in vain. Where, then, is the road to peace? Well, it’s a simple answer after all.

You and I have the courage to say to our enemies, “There is a price we will not pay.” There is a point beyond which they must not advance. This is the meaning in the phrase “peace through strength.” Winston Churchill said that “the destiny of man is not measured by material computation. When great forces are on the move in the world, we learn we are spirits–not animals.” And he said, “There is something going on in time and space, and beyond time and space, which, whether we like it or not, spells duty.”

You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on Earth, or we will sentence them to take the last step into a thousand years of darkness.

You and I have the ability and the dignity and the right to make our own decisions and determine our own destiny.

Have we been so programmed by “The Matrix” and its relativism that we are unwilling to fight and die for Freedom? 

What will you do without freedom?  To live without freedom is to live without any measure of individual prosperity, dismal health and no life worth the aggravation. Accommodate and appease and you’ll live, at least for awhile. But lying in your beds, many years from now, when you see your children slaving away while the vast majority of their paychecks go to “the masses” with barely enough for food and shelter left, for them and their little children, after “withholding” from their earnings to survive on, would you be will’n to give all the days from this day to that, to come back here and tell are enemies, they may take our lives, but they’ll never take our freedom!

If you think that Big Government isn’t going to tax you and your children and your children’s children, in the near future for all the Trillions of “taxpayer” dollars they are giving to their Big Banker friends of The Federal Reserve company, or Big Business like AIG and The Automakers, you are nothing more than a complete imbecile.  Whose side do you think the Federal Government is on, the Banks and Big Corporations or yours?  All you have to do is ask who the tax money is coming from and to whom it is going.

And those Trillions of your money that Big Government is taking away from you and your family for the bailouts is nothing but chump change compared to NINTY TRILLION DOLLARS of UNFUNDED liabilities, over the infinite horizon as reported by The Washington Times and The Comptroller General of The United States, David Walker, who quit the position so that he could warn the American public of the plans of the U.S. Government to take your paycheck away from you to pay for these “entitlement” obligations.  Where the heck do you think that money is going to come from people?  The only question is, what are you going to do about it?

Relativism isn’t going to put anything but gruel on the table from the Socialist soup lines and your family either sitting out on the curb or in some massive “public” apartment complex that would give you the same feel to it as the huge edifice that holds millions of human beings in vats of slime in “The Matrix”, where they suck out taxes, through the IRS (Agents) umbilical cords and feed our minds with programming and propaganda.  Resistance will be futile then, when it’s too late, because they will send IRS “Agents” with dark sunglasses and guns to get you.  And nobody beats an Agent.  If you see one, do what we do, RUN!

As we have been telling you readers for a very long time, buckle your seatbelt Dorothy, because Kansas is going bye, bye.  If you can’t see that now, after this economic and financial collapse that this blog has been warning you about since its inception, you might as well start walking to your nearest “Matrix” vat and jump in.  You’re a Government / Federal Reserve company taxation slave, your brain is hopelessly lost in its own prison, and you are history and destined for perpetual poverty and misery; unless enough of us brave and “free” pick up your sorry victimhood, give-me – give-me “free stuff” from Government, “what can we do about it anyway” whining butts and pull them out of the vats so that you can enjoy the individual prosperity and freedom that we, the free and the brave, fight for.

Mark my words, people; everything is going to change, in the near future, in ways that you are going to say you never would have believed.  We here at The Liberty Tree Lantern have been writing about this for years now, if not on this blog in forums and sites all around the Internet.  The Matrix is collapsing and the Agents are coming.  Socialism and/or Communism is coming to greet us at our doors at the end of a gun.  And some are foolish enough to think that is what they want.

If you want to stop the U.S. Government, the owners of The Federal Reserve and “The Matrix” itself from keeping you in the equal distribution of poverty and misery through Socialism, Communism, taxation, oppression, tyranny and despotism, you have to read and understand The Constitution.  And you must FIGHT for it, to the very word, word for word, to its very meaning, spirit and intent as it was meant on the day it was drafted, Amendments included. NO Changes.  Everything in The Constitution is in there to protect us from the Federal Government and the Bankers that control them, causing the economic and financial crisis we have today, for only freedom can generate the prosperity that we “thought” we had and would have had if The Federal Government, particularly both houses of Congress, would have obeyed the law, the entire law.

I don’t want to live like that; I am sure none of us do.  But what are we going to do about a U.S. Congress who wants us to live in Socialism or Communism?  Through out history this is what has happened to countries that employ Socialist legislation.  Our Founding Fathers knew this and that is why they, well representing us, wrote the Constitutional Laws on Government, so that they would be subservant to us and not our masters.

Now the only question is are we willing to fight for our FREEDOM.  What does FREEDOM mean?  According to the Founding Fathers, FREEDOM means freedom FROM Govenment.  Freedom (from Government “helping” us) is the greatest wealth generator ever created amongst man.  With FREEDOM comes prosperity, wealth, and happiness for the far greatest number of people. 

Thomas Jefferson wrote the following quotes:

• A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor and bread it has earned – this is the sum of good government.
• Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.
• Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.
• I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
• Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add ‘within the limits of the law’ because law is often but the tyrant’s will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.

L.A. Sees More People Living Out of Their Cars
Monday, June 23, 2008

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June 4, 2008: Darlene Knoll, 53, in the sleeping area of the 1978 motor home where she lives in L.A. after losing her job and home.
LOS ANGELES — Having lost her job and her three-bedroom house, Darlene Knoll has joined the legions of downwardly mobile who are four wheels away from homelessness.

She is living out of her shabby 1978 RV, and every night she has to look for a place to park where she won’t get hassled by the cops or insulted by residents.

“I’m not a piece of trash,” the former home health-care aide said as she stroked one of five dogs in her cramped quarters parked in the waterfront community of Marina del Rey.

Amid the foreclosure crisis and the shaky economy, some California cities are seeing an increase in the number of people living out of their cars, vans or RVs.

Acting on complaints from homeowners, the Los Angeles City Council got tough earlier this year by forbidding nearly all overnight parking in residential neighborhoods such as South Brentwood.

But some people are just crowding into other parts of the city, including the seaside community of Venice, where dozens of rusty, dilapidated campers can be seen lined up outside neat single-family homes. The stench of urine emanates from a few of the vehicles, and some residents say they have seen human waste left behind.

“They’re nasty and gnarly,” said Venice resident Jeff Scharlin. “We’ve heard about drug dealing and prostitution in them. I’ve never seen it, but visually they’re a blight and they take up parking space.”

In Los Angeles, as in many other cities, it is illegal to live in vehicles on public streets. But the law is not easy to enforce. Police have to enter a vehicle to find signs that people are living there, such as cooking or sleeping, and occupants often refuse to answer when cops knock.

An easier way is to restrict overnight parking. In L.A., a first offense carries a $50 fine, and subsequent violations can cost as much as $100.

Parking-enforcement officers often give vehicle owners a warning and tell them to move on before issuing a ticket, and that usually solves the problem, said Alan Willis, a city transportation engineer. But other cities in the area are not as lenient.

“I had my motor home towed in Culver City. It cost me $500 to get it out,” said Desiri Hawkins, who lives in a small RV in Venice. “I got ticketed in Santa Monica and had to go to court.”

Tourist states with temperate climates, such as California and Florida, have long been magnets for the homeless. Los Angeles is the nation’s homelessness capital, with an estimated 73,000 people on the streets. A survey of 3,230 homeless people last year in Los Angeles County found nearly 7 percent living in vehicles, according to the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority.

“It’s trending toward an increase,” said Michael Stoop, acting executive director of the National Coalition for the Homeless. “People would rather live in a vehicle than wind up in a shelter, and you can’t stay on a friend’s couch forever.”

People living out of their cars or campers tend to be more well-off than the homeless on the street. They usually have jobs or disability checks that enable them to maintain an old camper but do not allow them to afford rent.

“For more working-class and lower-middle-class people, the car is the first stop of being homeless, and sometimes it turns out to be a long stop,” said Gary Blasi, a University of California, Los Angeles, law professor and activist on homeless issues.

Some Venice residents are clamoring for overnight parking restrictions. But parking limits in oceanfront neighborhoods are problematic because the California Coastal Commission requires communities to accommodate surfers, fishermen and other early-morning beachgoers.

“The complaints are getting louder and louder,” said Los Angeles City Councilman Bill Rosendahl.

For years, some cities such as Santa Barbara, Calif., and Eugene, Ore., have accommodated people who live out of their vehicles. Activists in Venice are looking at some of those ideas. Santa Barbara, for example, allows vehicles to stay from 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. in church and city parking lots.

Knoll said she can barely afford to drive around with the rising price of gasoline eating away at the $950 monthly disability check she receives because of mental illness.

She said she is also sick of police waking her up in the wee hours by pounding on her vehicle with their nightsticks, and she is tired of fighting with residents who call her “lowlife scum” and hurl other insults.

“We need somewhere we can have a safe haven, where we won’t be harassed,” Knoll said as the wind from a passing car rocked her RV. “I never thought I’d be living like this, but I’m stuck. This is it for me.”