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Posted by M. C. on September 3, 2022

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Yet Another MCViewPoint Public Service

Posted by M. C. on September 3, 2022

This is a BAD USB and that allowed me to hack 11 people! And the hack is so simple ANYONE can do it – pretty scary how these bad USB drives are so effective….

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Out of Control Government and Isaiah’s Job

Posted by M. C. on September 3, 2022

by Richard M. Ebeling

The reader may have noticed that I have given greater emphasis to levels of government spending than to amounts taxed or borrowed, per se. The reason being that it is government spending that represents the amount of private production siphoned off and out of the direct hands of the private producers and income earners of the society. This is how much the government plunders from the people of the country, regardless of whether the production and income that is transferred into the hands of those in political power has been done by taxation or borrowing.

It is very difficult to be a classical liberal or libertarian and not experience bouts of disappointment, frustration, and outright pessimism. The world around us seems to be going to hell in a handbasket. Government continues to grow and, apparently, is out of control.The greater the political power by government in the society, the more social power is diminished; that is, individual freedom is reduced and “the state” grows with its legitimized use of force over people’s lives.
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For example, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its semiannual Budget and Economic Outlook, 2022-2032 in late May 2022. The CBO expects that when the federal government’s current fiscal year ends on September 30, 2022, Uncle Sam will have spent $5.874 trillion. Tax revenues from all sources will be $4.890 trillion, leaving a budget deficit for the fiscal year of $1.036 trillion. Total national debt held by the public will come in at $24.173 trillion, while the gross national debt (which includes Treasury securities held by other government agencies) will be more than $30.621 trillion.

Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is expected to equal $24.694 trillion in 2022. So, this means that federal spending will 23.8 percent of GDP, while taxes will absorb 19.6 percent of GDP. The more than $1 trillion deficit will amount to 4.2 percent of GDP.

Bigger government in the years ahead 

Things do not get better looking over the coming decade, the CBO anticipates. In 2032, federal expenditures are expected to total $8.469 trillion, for a 51.8 percent increase over 2022. Federal taxes are projected to amount to $6.662 trillion in 2032, or a 36.2 percent increase over a decade earlier. The budget deficit is predicted to be $2.252 trillion in 2032, representing a 217 percent increase over the deficit in 2022. Gross Domestic Product will be $36.680 in 2032, says the CBO, and will be 48.5 percent larger than in 2022.

The government’s share of the GDP pie, in other words, will be increasing noticeably faster than the national economy is projected to grow over the next 10 years. Also, the share of government borrowing to simply pay the interest on the existing accumulated national debt will be increasing as well. In fiscal 2022, the federal government will borrow $1.036 trillion, as we saw. Out of this, nearly $400 billion will be used to pay interest owed on the national debt, or about 39 percent of total borrowing. In 2032, when the deficit is expected to be $2.253 trillion, $1.193 trillion will be used just to pay interest on the, then, accumulated national debt, or 52 percent of all government borrowing in that year. So more than half of all the money the federal government will have to borrow 10 years from now will be used just to stay current on the interest payments due from all the earlier decades of annual deficit spending.

Of course, all of this has to be taken with a grain of salt. Ten years ago, the CBO did not anticipate the great economic contraction of 2020 caused by the federal and state government’s draconian response to the coronavirus crisis, that commanded the shutdown and lockdown of much of the U.S. economy for several months. And just two or three years ago, the CBO was still projecting that price inflation, as measured by the Consumer Price Index, would still be rising at a “modest” 2 percent a year in 2022.

Entitlement programs are heading for disaster

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Power Company Seizes Control Of Thermostats In Colorado During Heatwave

Posted by M. C. on September 3, 2022

Just one more advantage to the digital lifestyle. At least it wasn’t the banks seizing control of their digital, cashless accounts.

You will have to excuse me, my car, that gets it’s energy from the power grid, doesn’t seem to be charging.

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BY TYLER DURDEN

FRIDAY, SEP 02, 2022 – 08:05 AM

Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Summit News,

https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/power-company-seizes-control-thermostats-colorado-during-heatwave

Around 22,000 households in Colorado lost the ability to control their thermostats after the power company seized control of them during a heatwave.

After temperatures soared past 90 degrees, residents were left confused when they tried to adjust their air conditioning and found locked controls displaying a message that said “energy emergency.”

Xcel confirmed to local news station Denver7 that “22,000 customers who had signed up for the Colorado AC Rewards program were locked out of their smart thermostats for hours on Tuesday.”

“I mean, it was 90 out, and it was right during the peak period,” Tony Talarico told the news station. “It was hot.”

Talarico said he is normally able to override the “energy emergency” message, but not on this occasion.

“So, our thermostat was locked in at 78 or 79,” he said.

Completely losing control over the temperature of your own home is presumably one of the many benefits of the green energy ‘Great Reset’ Americans will be forced to endure.

This story is yet another example of how smart meters will pave the way for energy rationing.

No doubt Americans who have them installed will increasingly find their thermostats remote controlled at the behest of energy companies whenever a dubious ‘crisis’ can be declared.

And if that sounds bad, just imagine what will happen if net zero green energy ‘climate lockdowns’ become normalized.

People in major European countries are already having their thermostats regulated in response to the energy crisis.

In Spain, at the height of summer, authorities have controversially banned air conditioning from dropping below 27°C (80.6°F) in all non-residential buildings, including shops, cinemas and cafes.

Onerous fines for those who flout the rules run all the way up to €600,000 euros for “serious violations.”

Similar rules have also been announced in Germany, Italy and France.

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BIDEN DECLARES “MAGA REPUBLICANS” ENEMIES OF THE STATE

Posted by M. C. on September 3, 2022

Along the way, they secured funding to increase, arm, and expand the scope of federal agencies—an Imperial Guard for Washington elites to remind red states who is truly in charge.

It was the display of a weak regime projecting strength at a time of mass unpopularity and rising polling numbers of political opponents in pivotal midterm elections.

https://mises.org/power-market/biden-declares-maga-republicans-enemies-state

Tho Bishop

Last night Joe Biden was propped up behind the presidential seal in front of historic Independence Hall and gave the most provocative and divisive speech in modern American history. With the site of the signing of the Declaration of Independence cloaked in an ominous blood red, Biden sputtered his way through an attack on “insurrectionists” he labeled as threatening American democracy, political norms, and the rule of law.

The optics of the event were likely the idea of a proud Biden staffer, fresh off receiving a $10,000 subsidy to their student loan debt, leaning into the “Dark Brandon” aesthetic that has become popular among regime loyalists on Twitter. To Americans outside of this Very Online echo chamber, the imagery drew connotations of sinister authoritarian regimes ranging as Nazi Germany, the Empire of Star Wars, or the fascist regime of V for Vendetta.

The substance of the speech supported these comparisons. It was the display of a weak regime projecting strength at a time of mass unpopularity and rising polling numbers of political opponents in pivotal midterm elections.

None of this is a surprise.

As I noted after the chaotic 2020 election, the federal government faced a threat it has not seen in over a hundred years. Concerns over the integrity of the 2020 election struck at the core of the institution’s democratic legitimacy. The result was a Biden inauguration fortified with thousands of national guard members that the Democrat Party didn’t trust with ammunition.

The path the Biden administration took could have gone one of two ways. The regime could have fallen back on the power of moderation, restoring the isolated Washington uniparty by staffing the executive branch with prominent Republicans who always preferred the Clintons and Bidens over Trump—even if the smart ones refused to say so explicitly—while pursuing a standard policy agenda of foreign intervention, reckless spending, and fortifying the supremacy of the federal government over state control. These policies would have continued American decline but could have served to lull Americans to pre-Trump apathy by reminding them that federal elections have no real consequences for Washington.

Instead, the Biden regime doubled down on the excesses of the Obama era, attacking hot-button issues such as gun rights, tying state funding to public school promotion of child mutilation and sterilization, and leveraging their control over large corporations to censor political opponents and mandate covid vaccinations of employees. Along the way, they secured funding to increase, arm, and expand the scope of federal agencies—an Imperial Guard for Washington elites to remind red states who is truly in charge.

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Where “Liberal” and “Conservative” Really Come From

Posted by M. C. on September 3, 2022

By L. Reichard White

Liberals” keep folks alive, “Conservatives” keep lazy moochers — including more dangerous Wiindigo, Kunlangeta, psychopaths and permanent leaders — from weakening the group by depleting its resources.

If liberals are all heart and no brain and conservatives are all brain and no heart, how would you describe libertarians?

How about, “Clearly libertarians are the perfect balance between the two.”

Here’s why that’s a pretty accurate assessment – – –

Long before history was enabled by writing, like us, our pre-historic small-group ancestors lived primarily by their brains, not their brawn.

Unlike other animals, they — like us — were born pretty much, as Rousseau and others put it, tabula rasa. That is, as “blank slates” with relatively few built-in instincts, drives, and other in-born behaviors.

For example, while hoofed animals can walk within a few minutes of birth and run soon after, it takes us approximately three months to learn to merely crawl.

The advantage to this lack of hard-wired behavior is that it gives us humans an unprecedented flexibility, allowing us to live everywhere from the icy Arctic to the steaming jungles of Ecuador to the burning sands of the Kalihari. And, in the space station, even in “outer” space. Even, perhaps, on Mars, etc.

However, because of our innate “blank slates,” like us, nearly all our ancestors’ key knowledge, skills and behaviors had to be acquired by experience, or, preferably, by learning from someone else, thus avoiding the many dangers of learning by experience.

The fact that we don’t genetically inherit most of our key knowledge, skills, information, and behaviors means that each one of us becomes a depository of different, often unique, information, skills, knowledge — and particularly, experience. And these exist only in our individual brains. This dispersion of unique knowledge and experience means the essential human data-base — and operating system — is spread out among all the individuals around us.

But our ancestors had a problem we don’t have: They were indeed pre-historic — that is, they existed before writing was available to write his-story down in black and white. So, like the book-people in Fahrenheit 451, our ancestors were each-others’ only reference-library and internet.

Madrigal knows which herbs help heal wounds — and how to find and use them. Gaud can always find that hidden water-hole during the semi-annual desert crossing. The loss of either could be catastrophic to everyone. Ditto the loss of other group members and their special knowledge and information.

Mother Nature wasn’t oblivious to this problem and so gave us an appropriate and nearly unique set of behaviors which prod us to keep each other alive. By convention, folks call these behaviors “altruism.”

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Watch “Mike Rowe explains why more workers are ‘quietly quitting’ | Brian Kilmeade Show” on YouTube

Posted by M. C. on September 3, 2022

‘How America Works’ host Mike Rowe discusses the change in work ethic as more workers are “quietly quitting” their jobs. #FoxNews

The choices: Work hard and the government lets you keep half. Live on free stuff and government controls your life (even more).

https://youtu.be/e62M3_pwuBI

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Watch “Falling Military Recruitment: Why We Shouldn’t Be Surprised” on YouTube

Posted by M. C. on September 3, 2022

The U.S. military is having a hard time finding new recruits. With a string of failed wars that should’ve never happened, along with illogical vaccine mandates and “wokeness,” is it really a surprise?

https://youtu.be/vkBOoSE-JPI

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Elitists Are Turning America Into The Tower Of Babel

Posted by M. C. on September 3, 2022

The power-mad elitists who are orchestrating America’s upheaval (we all know their names) will NOT prevail over Almighty God. Whatever evil they have planned for America and whatever evil they will be allowed to inflict upon America, God will use it for GOOD—and will eventually grind these antichrists and their Tower of Babel to dust.

And a better day will come.

https://chuckbaldwinlive.com/Articles/tabid/109/ID/4305/Elitists-Are-Turning-America-Into-The-Tower-Of-Babel.aspx

Chuck Baldwin

It is no hyperbole to say that the elitists behind the Covid and War tyrannies are attempting to turn America into a modern-day Tower of Babel. 

When I talk about America, I’m not talking about the great independent, Liberty-loving, God-fearing American people that cover this land; I’m talking about the vast majority of America’s governmental leaders—especially in Washington, D.C. 

These beasts, resembling the ravenous beasts of Revelation, are drunk with wealth and power. In their hearts, their great ambition is to turn the United States into a giant feudal system where they are the owners and rulers and we are nothing but their serfs and slaves. 

Over the past few months, I have seen a significant increase in the number of constitutionalist/freedomist writers (Christian and non-Christian) beginning to warn us of an impending collapse into a period tantamount to the Dark Ages of history. I do not know if these individuals read my columns and listen to my messages or not, but I have been issuing that same warning for several years—even before the Covid tyranny. 

When national collapses occur, the fall is always lightning fast, i.e., Ancient Egypt, Medo-Persia, Greco-Macedonian, Assyria, Babylon, Israel and Judah, Rome (West and East), the Ottomans, the Soviet Union, etc. Doubtless, the seeds of the fall of those empires were long in the making, but when the end came, it came almost overnight. 

The seeds of America’s collapse have been long in the making. I would put the starting gun of our demise at the presidential administration of Abraham Lincoln (1861 – 1865) and then point to President Woodrow Wilson’s (1913 – 1921) acceleration of Lincoln’s war against American constitutionalism. But the fall began in earnest following World War II with the presidential administration of Harry Truman (1945 – 1953). 

Truman was America’s first Zionist president, and every president since—Republican and Democrat—has carried the torch for Zionist treachery. But it was G.W. Bush who introduced America to the Surveillance/Police State. And every president since Bush has only expanded this Orwellian nightmare. The latest expansion of federal police powers is Biden’s introduction of a de facto “standing army” of armed IRS agents. 

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Thousands Dead After Ben Shapiro Casually Strolls Through Whole Foods

Posted by M. C. on September 2, 2022

https://babylonbee.com/news/thousands-dead-after-ben-shapiro-casually-strolls-through-whole-foods

BOCA RATON, FL — Authorities responded to a level 5 event in Boca Raton Friday after Ben Shapiro casually strolled through a Whole Foods Market, resulting in the death of thousands.

The popular political commentator and founder of The Daily Wire had a “hankering for some peaches” when he stopped by earlier in the day, say survivors who witnessed the horrific event.

“He walked in like it was no big deal — like he wasn’t the Jewish face of white supremacy!” wailed Julia Lacrosse, a 23-year-old twin-spirit dragonkin who had been shopping for her cat. “I could feel it in my bones as I was being triggered. Like he was raping me by just being on the other side of the store!”

According to sources, hundreds in the store that day dropped dead as Shapiro walked by them. Others fled the store in a panic but their escape would be only temporary. Whole Foods was only the epicenter of what turned out to be a massacre along a three-mile radius. Chaos spread down the streets of the once peaceful city. Distracted drivers pancaked into each other, driven by a maddened panic that invaded their hearts. Metal tore through flesh and bone, glass shattered, and there arose a great cry throughout all Boca Raton, such as was not like it before, nor shall be like it again.

Whole Foods has since apologized for the incident with a heartfelt tweet in which they stated, “We are very sorry. Ben Shapiro briefly visited our store to buy some food. Though we do not control his actions, we take full responsibility for the thousands of lives lost.”

The manager of the Whole Foods Market on 15th Avenue has since hung appropriate signage on the building to warn that a triggering event had recently taken place there. Their sanitation rating also dropped to a B.

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