GOVEROTRAGEOUS: Geoffrey Toliver failed to show

Tuesday, August 11, 2015

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3190363/NYC-fired-dead-worker-Geoffrey-Toliver-missed-18-months-work.html

New York City bureaucrats fire government worker who died of cancer a year ago – for missing work
Medicaid eligibility specialist Geoffrey Toliver, 65, died in December 2014, 11 months after he had to stop work due to his illness
But the city’s Human Resources Administration moved to fire him this year
A judge approved the sacking when he did not turn up to the hearing
The father-of-three was earning $38,000 per year at the time of his death 
By EVAN BLEIER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 09:34 EST, 8 August 2015 | UPDATED: 11:26 EST, 8 August 2015

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The Gooferment is immoral, ineffective, and inefficient.

Here’s a classic example.

I assume that he had direct deposit!

Argh!

Requiescat In Pacem, Geoffrey Toliver.

You’ve pointed out what is wrong with the system.

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INTERESTING: Real-Life Lord of the Flies — Pitcairn Island

Monday, August 10, 2015

http://www.ancient-origins.net/history/real-life-lord-flies-strange-and-violent-history-pitcairn-island-003557

AUGUST, 2015 – 01:59
APRILHOLLOWAY

Real-Life Lord of the Flies: The Strange and Violent History of Pitcairn Island

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Pitcairn Island is a place so remote, and with a history so bizarre, that until recently it was viewed almost as myth rather than reality. But the events that took place on this tiny island in the Pacific Ocean were very real. Settled by a pack of mutineers of the HMS Bounty in 1790, along with a small group of Polynesians, the island soon became like the famous 1954 novel Lord of the Flies, in which a group of boys stuck on an uninhabited island descended into savagery and immorality. Faced with physical, social, and psychological isolation, along with struggles for power, the Pitcairn population rapidly diminished due to murder, suicide, and madness, and the remaining inhabitants descended into incest, sex abuse, and delinquency. Today, 47 inhabitants from just four families remain on this ill-fated island that carries with it a dark and evil history that has been retold in countless films and books.

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The various versions on “Mutiny on the Bounty” leave out this conclusion.

Fascinating stuff!

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JOBSEARCH: Captain Obvious — “Gone is the era of the lifetime career”

Sunday, August 9, 2015

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/ab492ffc-3522-11e5-b05b-b01debd57852.html#axzz3hwqBdg4t

August 4, 2015 11:06 am
New ‘gig’ economy spells end to lifetime careers
John Gapper in London

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The gig economy is only part of a shift in employment over the past three decades, unleashed by technology and global trade. It has created many winners and losers, both by outsourcing jobs from the west to Asia and Africa, and by changing the terms on which most people work. Financial and contractual risk that used to be borne by companies has been transferred to employees.

“Gone is the era of the lifetime career, let alone the life-long job and the economic security that came with it, having been replaced by a new economy intent on recasting full-time employees into contractors, vendors and temporary workers,” Nick Hanauer and David Rolf wrote recently in Democracy Journal, although the US jobs statistics do not yet reflect such a transformation.

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Knew that several decades ago. I guess some folks never learn.

I continue to assert the following formula / paradigm / meme or call it what you will.

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Success for your generation is:

(1) ruthless financial discipline — no bad debt;

(2) a life long interest in learning — education — a degree — they can’t take it away from you;

(3) a NON-OFFSHORABLE white collar job in order to save big bux;

(4) a blue collar skill for hard times — never saw a poor plumber;

(5) one or more internet based businesses — your store is always open;

(6) a free time hobby that generates income;

and

(7) a large will-maintained network of people who can “help” you.

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How many do you have!

I’m working on #4, #5, and #6 now.

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TINFOILHAT: What did NSA know and when did it know it?

Saturday, August 8, 2015

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2015/08/no_author/was-the-nsa-tracking-the-911-hijackers/

New 9/11 Conspiracy? NSA Whistleblowers say Agency Kept Tabs on Attackers
Sputnik News
August 4, 2015

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New revelations about the National Security Agency’s ability to track phone calls in pre-9/11 America are raising the specter of a massive government cover-up. One that could have been used to hide intelligence failures, and fuel arguments for mass domestic spying.

In 2000, Khalid al-Mihdhar was living in San Diego. One year later, he would go on to be one of the five hijackers aboard American Airlines Flight 77, steered into the Pentagon on September 11. But in the months leading up to that horrifying day, al-Mihdhar made a number of phone calls to Yemen from his California apartment.

Those calls went directly to one of Osama bin Laden’s operation centers in Sanaa, already a major target for US intelligence monitoring.

“One of the 9/11 hijackers, Khalid al-Mihdhar, made a phone call from San Diego to a known al Qaeda safehouse in Yemen,” President Obama said during a speech in 2014. “NSA saw that call, but it could not see that the call was coming from an individual already in the United States.”

But according to the testimony of agency whistleblowers like Thomas Drake and Kirk Wiebe, it would have been impossible for the agency not to have known the origin of those phone calls.

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Argh!

It’s an article of faith that the Gooferment is immoral, ineffective, and inefficient.

BUT, (and there is always a BIG butt), if this is true, then why do we have the NSA at all.

The ONLY moral function for Government is to protect its citizens from force or fraud.

If it can perform this basic, essential, and sole function, then why fund it at all?

Time to rethink the whole meme.

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: DoD ignores VA system

Friday, August 7, 2015

http://news.slashdot.org/story/15/08/02/1831240/dod-ditches-open-source-medical-records-system-in-43b-contract

DoD Ditches Open Source Medical Records System In $4.3B Contract

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The US Department of Defense opted not to use the Department of Veterans Affairs’ open source VistA electronic health record system in its project to overhaul its legacy systems, instead opting for a consortium of Cerner, Leidos and Accenture. The initial $4.3 billion implementation is expected to be the first part of a $9 billion dollar project. The Under Secretary for Acquisition stated they wanted a system with minimum modifications and interoperability with private sector systems, though much of what passes for inter-vendor operability in the marketplace is more aspirational than operable. The DoD aims to start implementation at 8 sites in the Pacific Northwest by the end of 2016, noting that “legacy systems are eating us alive in terms of support and maintenance,” consuming 95% of the Military Health Systems IT budget.

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The Gooferment is immoral, ineffective, and inefficient.

And, ignoring that VA has an open source solution is even more so!

Argh!

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GOVERNACIDE: Hiroshima and Nagasaki are a national disgrace

Thursday, August 6, 2015

2015-Aug-06

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2015/08/gary-g-kohls/lies-my-history-teacher-told-me/

Why Americans Believe That Bombing Hiroshima Was Necessary
By Gary G. Kohls, MD
August 1, 2015

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August 6, 2015, is the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, a civilian city that had minimal military value, despite the claims of President Truman when he announced the event to the American people.

The whole truth of what the Nuremburg tribunal would later help define as an international war crime and a crime against humanity has been heavily censored and mythologized ever since war-weary Americans in 1945 accepted the propaganda that the bombings were necessary to shorten the war and prevent the loss of a million US soldiers during the allegedly planned November 1945 invasion.

Of course, the reason that the United States wasn’t sanctioned like Germany was for the Jewish holocaust was that America was the victor and the occupier and thus it was in charge of making and enforcing the rules in the New World Order.

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Doing what is right for the whole of humanity for a change, rather than just doing what is profitable or advantageous for our over-privileged, over-consumptive, toxic and unsustainable American way of life, would be real honor, real patriotism and an essential start toward real peace.

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Where was the mercy and humanity?

Lost in the war propaganda!

It really represents the end of a process that started in WW1.

Sadly, it’s not going to end well for a lot more people.

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LIBERTY: When juries start to nullify, then things will change

Wednesday, August 5, 2015

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2015/08/gary-north/want-to-go-to-jail/

Want to Go to Jail? Stop Filing Your Income Tax Forms.
By Gary North
The Tea Party Economist
August 3, 2015

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A lot of leaders in the tax protest movement have done jail time for their consistency. They did what they told others to do. They are now convicted felons with no money.

Some are still in jail. Irwin Schiff is one of them. He may get out in two years. He has been in jail since 2006. Are you ready to imitate him? Read this first.

Trusting laymen in the tax revolt movement are often unaware of just how consistently the IRS has gained convictions.

There are always exceptions, but the pattern is clear: juries normally convict. These protesters use arcane language and references to tax law cases that do not apply. It does them no good. These people jabber in jailhouse lawyer babble, and then they wind up in jail. They really do become jailhouse lawyers.

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I prefer to not engage in Phyrric Victories, Don Quixote quests, or fights that I can’t win.

Income taxes are like that category.

As a little L libertarian, I think that the Gooferment is immoral, ineffective, and inefficient. Taxes are theft.

BUT, (and there is always a BIG butt), until juries refuse to enforce the Income Tax diktats, I’ll kowtow.

Like the “(pseudo) War on (some) Drugs”, tyranny will end when the Sheeple and Clovers no longer convict.

That why I never get on juries. I want to see a victim. The Gooferment, its politicians and bureaucrats, are NOT victims. They are the aggressors.

Argh!

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HARDWARE: Use Google Voice instead of your cell phone number

Tuesday, August 4, 2015

Found another useful reason to use Google Voice instead of your cell phone number.

(Remember, the last tip was for young ladies to give men their GV# so that they can automagically delete them if they turn out to be a loser.)

This tip is as a result of my Gal Pal’s blackberry going crazy. It’s essentially useless and she has no way to let folks know it. So she’s using my phone to alert folks.

IF she had used a Google Voice number and tied that to her cell phone, she could respond on the GV website and even send out an alert that she had a harder problem.

Interesting.

I think it’s very useful.

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: The MYOB prinicple

Monday, August 3, 2015

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2015/08/doug-casey/destruction-of-world-moral-values/

Doug Casey on the Real FIFA Scandal
By Doug Casey
Doug Casey’s International Man
August 1, 2015

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Recently, high-ranking officials at FIFA, the world’s governing soccer (aka “football”) body, were charged with corruption and fraud. The US’s Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is deeply involved in the case. Doug Casey weighs in on the real scandal… the one you’re not reading in mass media.

The truth be known, I really don’t give a damn about soccer. Nor do most Americans.

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Second, and much more important, it’s really none of our business. Despite the fact that the FBI has taken it upon itself to prosecute at least 14 FIFA officials for corruption.

Why is it none of our business? Because FIFA is a Swiss association that’s been around over 100 years. All of its officers and directors are non-US persons. And about 99% of its players, officials, and spectators are non-American.

But that doesn’t matter. The FBI has decided to prosecute FIFA’s officials for corruption, and is successfully moving to have them all extradited to the US for trial.

Were FIFA officials treating themselves to huge salaries and expense accounts, and paying and receiving millions to decide where the World Cup should be played? Of course. Is that corrupt? We have to first define “corruption.” I devote a lot of thought to the subject here, and suspect you’ll find it of interest. But, essentially, corruption is about a betrayal of a fiduciary trust. In simple terms, it’s sticking your hand in a till that you’re supposed to guard for the interest of someone else.

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A very fundamental observation about “jurisdiction”.

The Gooferment has to rush ahead of the “headlines” to get in front so it pretends to be leading.

What has the FBI done about Planned Parenthood and the baby parts scandal?

Nothing because that is “politically inconvenient”.

MYOB (Mind Your Own Business)! 

It’s a great principle.

Maybe not up there with the Non-Aggression principle, the Law of Gravity, or even the Law of Supply and Demand, but up there on my list.

I think the world would be a much better place if more folks adopted it.

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POLITICAL: IMHO it will be the debt that drowns the USA

Sunday, August 2, 2015

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2015/08/charles-hugh-smith/creative-destructionism/

Does “Creative Destruction” Include the State?
By Charles Hugh Smith
OfTwoMinds.com
August 1, 2015

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Under the tender care of the state, we now have uncompetitive, inefficient parastic cartels dominating higher education, national defense, healthcare insurance, pharmaceuticals and hospitals– to name but a few of the major industries that are now state-enforced cartels thanks to the heavy hand of the state (i.e. regulatory capture ).

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Why can’t “empires” fail?

It has happened all through history.

IMHO it will be the debt — and unfunded liabilities —that drowns the USA. It was the failure of the USSR centralized economy that brought it down.

Only truly free markets maximizes everyone’s outcomes with a minimum of inefficiency. 

Only “capitalism” lifts the poor to a higher standard of living without conflict. (Even Bono recognized “enterprise” was better than “foreign aid”.)

It seems like Gooferment is the instrument of poverty. Look at Africa!

Look in the USA. Between the welfare “prison” and the “(pseudo) War on (some) Drugs”, the minority communities have been devastated!

Argh!

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