Dead: Air America and Committing online suicide

Air America died yesterday. You know that answer to conservative talk radio that Senator Al Franken cobbled together back in 2004.

It went bankrupt and its corpse is now being dissected and parceled out to satisfy its creditors.

We've seen how badly Liberals can run a government. Private enterprise? What made them think they could run a radio network without government support? Hello PBS. No other example is really needed.

Hey Franken, I'm pissing on your baby's grave and laughing.

While I'm on the subject of death, have you joined any of the online social networks and regretted it? Personally, I did join Facebook and later just abandoned my account.

I abandoned it because I found it useless, and intrusive.

Not that it really mattered. There were some in the Prepper Community who knew my identity on Facebook and others who went to great lengths to figure out who I was with little success. You see, when I created my account, I lied.

Even though it is against their terms of service to create a fake persona, I did it anyways. No wrath of God fell upon me, no battery of lawyers accosted me, no goons threatened to break my knee caps. If for some reason you absolutely feel the need to belong to one of these communities, do yourself a favor and lie to them about who you are. Just do not make the mistake of impersonating an actual individual.

If you have accounts on the social networking sites, and they link directly back to you, and you no longer wish to have them, try this out.

Commit online suicide with a click of a button.

NEWS

I have some news for all of you out there.

I'm working with several *for real* Sovereign Citizens in putting together information on the Sovereign movement. These people are not in jail, not in danger of going to jail, not hounded by the IRS, and live productive lives. They drive vehicles free from the encumberance of license fees, and without state issued driver's licenses. They pay no income taxes.

There's quite a bit on the web about reclaiming your sovereignty, some of it is inaccurate and much of it people want big bucks to let you in on the "secret" that really isn't so secret.

These folks want to make the info, how to's, paperwork, and steps available to people at minimal cost.

So watch this space!

Get Your Money's Worth

Venezuela has devalued its currency in the face of shrinking government revenues, rising prices, shortages, and declining popularity of the nation's leader, Hugo Chavez.

You can read more here:

Wall Street Journal: Chavez Devalues Venezuela's Currency

New York Times: Chavez Devalues Currency Amid Oil Fall

Business Week: Chavez Devalues Bolivar 50%

You should really take the time to read these articles, and note the obvious parallels between the United States under Obama and Venezuela under Chavez.

I'm not an economist. I'm just a guy who trades a third to half his daily life for pieces of green paper that can be exchanged for goods and services needed to support his family. It is just my humble opinion, but I think that makes me more knowledgeable about how this will screw the middle class than some guy in a argyle sweater sitting in a wingback back chair sheltered by an Ivy League School.

This move will help the poor, as the government will magically have twice the money it had yesterday to throw at them. That means the hungry, angry mobs that put him into power will be mollified for a short period. Think of zombies with a fresh corpse to munch on.

This move will help the rich, as doubtlessly, they had insider information and were able to position themselves to take financial advantage of the devaluation. Hey! I've magically twice the money I had yesterday! Thanks Comrade Chavez!

This screws the middle class because their money, while still looking like it did yesterday, is now worth half of what it was yesterday.

If it happened here in this country, this is what would have happened. If you have say $100,000 in savings, and the currency is devalued by 50%, you still have $100,000 in savings, but it will only buy $50,000 worth of goods.

Have you ever been so close to a problem you could not see it? Looking for that lost pen or pencil that you just had a minute ago? Only to find it is still in your hand?

I think that is what is going on in this country.

Many have warned about how the dollar is going to crash, and become nearly worthless. Already in the past ninety some years, the US dollar has lost ninety percent of its value. We're on track to see its remaining roughly 8 cent on the dollar value decline to roughly a penny on the dollar should Obama choose to devalue the US dollar. At that point your dollar will buy you what would have cost you a single penny 90 years ago. in 1910, 1 lb of cane sugar would have cost you an average of 6 cents, today it averages around ninety six cents. That tracks with the estimated decline of the value of the dollar.

Most people are bamboozled into thinking of this as "inflation". When most people are asked about what "inflation" means, they will say that prices are getting bigger, or going up. They cite greedy people and businesses, or just higher costs of doing business such as taxation as being responsible. What they frequently do not realize is that it is exactly the opposite. Their money is going down in value. It's not really "inflation". It is the devaluing of a currency.

People in our government are making your money worth less. Soon to be worthless.

Here is a timely interview with Bob Chapman of The International Forecaster. It is an hour long, and took place in hour four of the Dec 15, 2009 Coast To Coast AM Show. He speaks of a plan to devalue the US Dollar in the early fall. Be aware that Hugo Chavez has just devalued the Venezuelan currency in an election year. 2010 is also an election year for us.

Listen Here If it doesn't play, right click on the link and select "save link as". Save to your computer and play from there.

There is also an interview with Mr. Chapman on Alex Jones TV (click to watch) from Jan 4, 2010 that should be watched.

Be aware that Bob Chapman lives abroad and not in the United States. The story is that not only has his life been threatened, attempt(s) have been made on Mr. Chapman's life as a result of his continued exposure of the manipulation of our economic system.

So what does all of this mean to you?

We've said it time and time again. Stock your larder. Gold is probably out of many people's reach at this point, so go buy at least an ounce of silver at every pay period to hedge against a devaluation.

Already Venezuelan's are mobbing markets trying to buy what they can before prices skyrocket after the currency devaluation.

Your time is running out.

Scraping the bottom of the barrel.

Today will be a light post, it was a long day. Hanging suspended 45 feet in the air, in dense fog, repairing equipment gets your stress level up.

The boom lift I was operating in the dark this morning was next to a senior housing project. Yes, many of them still drive, and that is what had my stress level up.

2010 will go down as the year of "The Bottom Of The Barrel". Just look at these insane news stories and we're only a few days into this new year.

I guess Chicago, noted for its backroom deals, voters rising from the dead, mob bosses and crooked politicians, is looking for a few bad men (and women).

Police May Scrap Entrance Exam

If you're in Chi-town, it maybe time to blow out of there before the riots start.

Also in Illinois:

Police chaplain member of Muslim terrorist group.

Suicide is in their blood:

Arab high school students wear hoodies glorifying 9-11

Seeds of a revolution:

Six Million Cite Food Stamps as only Income.

No Income But Food Stamps

Nearly 1.2 Million Tennessee residents on food stamps.

10 Percent of Nevada residents on food stamps.

Piracy Made Easy or The Bunny Slipper Privateer

Pirate.
First off, I'm not an attorney. I do not have a degree in law. Much of what is written below in reference to legal issues is as I understand it from my own reading. This is not legal advice, and I encourage you to do your own research.


Today, when someone says "pirate", people think of the Skinnies floating around in a leaky boat off of Africa waiting for a fat cargo ship to lumber by. Maybe Johnny Depp as Captain Jack Sparrow. Some with more imagination will think back to the classic image of a peg legged, eye patched, hook wielding filthy criminal swilling rum and sailing the seas in a derelict ship searching for booty or a winsome lass.

Or they may think of that shadowy hacker locked up in his room figuring out the latest way to defeat Microsoft's genuine validation tool. I doubt they think of their kids flagrantly disregarding the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and easily defeating Digital Rights Management implementations, as well as copy protections as they rip and burn the latest DVD or music CD for their friends.

The corporations and law enforcement want to reinforce the image of a criminal in the mind of fair minded Americans whenever someone says "pirate". No one likes to be the victim of theft, and empathetic Americans often sympathize with the victims of theft, be they individuals or businesses. Americans want criminals caught and punished. Law enforcement and international corporations are playing on the sympathies of the good people of America.

People have realized, of late, that corporations make the laws of this, and other lands, by using their "personhood" and their access to vast wealth to basically install "yes men" into public office. That includes the judges in the legal system. The threat of having campaign contributions withheld is a sufficient motivator for public officers to heel at their master's command.

Americans are starting to wake up to the fact that many law enforcement agencies are only there to clean up a mess after it happens. There have been incidents where people have had reason to fear for their lives and sought police protection only to be turned away because a crime had not yet occurred. After these people were murdered, the police were right there.

Nothing more than a janitor with a gun. How comforting.

People have begun to understand that police are not in fact there for the people's protection, but for protection of the State's assets, and by extension, the Corporations. Nearly all states and municipalities are corporate entities. Oh yes, people are assets of the state, but you see, you are considered a resource to be used up. Ever wonder why "Personnel" was changed to "Human Resources"? Hmmmmm?

Yes, the United States is also a corporation. What? You didn't know the United States is a corporation?

If you didn't know, below is a short film that gives a brief history of what happened, and when.



Every law that you live under is governed by contract law. If you ever want to see people get squirrely, write "Without Prejudice UCC 1-308" above your signature when you sign any document. If you want to, you can dig through the Uniform Commercial Code, you can do so here.

So, we find ourselves at the mercy of corporations and without a legitimate form of government. It is my personal opinion, and that is just it, a personal opinion....that we as free Americans, who did not give our consent to have our lawful government removed, have a duty to create a legitimate government in absentia where ever we are. Even if it is only one person. Yourself.

If you ever find yourself in the position to do so, you may want to reclaim your Sovereignty. Learn more here.

I'm not a pirate. I prefer to think of myself as a "privateer". A gentleman with a letter of marque.

These corporations have received billions in bailouts, sweetheart deals, regulations that favored them over American small businesses, and stolen intellectual property from American inventors. I think a legitimate American government would never have tolerated this, and would have allowed for the right of offset and issued letters of marque.

As I have stated before, we are engaged in a "low intensity revolution". We're fighting a war against those who would enslave us. Some of the members of that evil cabal are international corporations and even "artists" as some laughingly call themselves. Hello Kanye West! These entities use the wealth that they siphon off of the American public to forge additional links in the chains they seek to bind us with.

We must deny the enemy the resources that they use to further their agenda. Their primary resource is money. By denying these entities their life's blood, while keeping their production and distribution costs high, we can hamper their agenda. Every movie that is copied, every CD that is ripped, every Kindle e-book that is hacked, every piece of software that finds its way to a public download site, is one less penny that they can use to further enslave us.

You have no reason to be loyal to these corporations or their laws. They may have their headquarters here in the United States, but they are incorporated elsewhere, offshore, where they can escape the tax laws they have saddled you with. They have shipped your jobs over seas, and impoverished you. They have destroyed America's once mighty manufacturing capacity, and reduced us to dealing in barely fit for consumption hamburgers. Rather than hiring qualified Americans, they have laws enacted that allow them to flood the land with H1-B visa wielding compliant slaves.

Just as the privateers of America's first navy worked to secure America's freedom by bringing enemy shipping to its knees; we, the modern digital privateers, can do the same to malevolent corporations on the high seas of the internet. Unlike those who have gone before us, who braved violent storms and cannon fire, we can loot the enemy from the comfort of our own homes. We don't even have to wear boots. A nice cozy pair of bunny slippers might even be your footwear of choice for your next raiding party.

I realize that many of you are probably very experienced privateers, but I want to give those who are not, a very easy and relatively safe tool, to begin their life as a freebooter.

There are now search engines that allow you to quickly, and easily locate "liberated" content online. Remember to never refer to it as "hacked, or stolen", the term is "liberated".

One that is very easy to use is RapidLibrary. Just type in the name of a movie, album, book, or whatever and up pops the results of where the files are located. Just click on the link provided to download the file off of RapidShare, one of the largest online file sharing services. Be aware that what you download may not always be what you are looking for, as many works have similar names. Always check your downloads for virus or malware infections before using them. Most virus scanners will scan inside of a compressed file.

Perhaps, as time permits, we'll get into advanced privateering in future postings.

Now you too can experience the thrill of running down your quarry, liberating it, and denying the enemy his resupply! Happy hunting!