Month: December 2014

Dreams of a Giant: The Skeleton Key to Finnegan’s Wake

There are plenty of modern things to write about—however, most of them have been covered here and are predictions previously submitted simply manifesting before our eyes. Every day feels like an “I told you so moment” so I no longer feel inclined to provide warnings—because they are before us. Personally, I am about to embark on the most intense, and difficult year so far in my life, and for those who know me—there have been some really difficult years leading up to this one. Also for those who know me, they by now know that I deal with difficulties through intellectual expansion. In much the way that a fighter trains for a big match, so to must the intellectual who will have to move mountains of passive aggressive opposition hell-bent on mediocrity to punch through to the other side. So for that I seek lots of literature to help push my mind to the point where it can deal with anything. In the past, I have found that novels like Finnegan’s Wake does that for me. I have read it before, I have it even on a book to tape that I have listened to many times. It is likely the most difficult book of literature ever created. I love the book and I love the primordial giant at the start of the book named Finnegan who dies and is buried by his wife Annie (Anna Livia Plurabelle) who puts out his body for the mourners to eat. But before they can feast on his body, he vanishes only to rise again by the end of the first chapter bawling for whiskey. His mourners put him back to rest convincing him that death is better and so he dreams through death that he awakens into the modern family man and pub owner H.C.E. H.C.E. stands for “Here Comes Everyone” meaning all of mankind. So in essence the giant Finnegan in Finnegan’s Wake dies and is born again as all of mankind and the content of the book is primarily a dream that takes place in the wake of his life.

There aren’t many sentences in Finnegan’s Wake that sound even remotely like the normal dialogue of a novel. The book is written in reference to over 60 different languages and none of them seem to string together in a coherent way—yet they do. They are meant to transport the reader beyond the conscious mind into the primordial ooze of a dreamlike existence and to actually peer into the possibly of life beyond death as mankind is but a resurrection of thought—exclusively.

For years many have pondered over the meaning of the novel. It is one of the great puzzles of literature.   Personally I came to the work by the lectures of Joseph Campbell and read the novel knowing that Campbell was obsessed with it. My teacher was so obsessed with Finnegan’s Wake that he spent over four years attempting to translate line by line the entire 600 page novel with another novelist by the name of Henry Morton Robinson. The result of that collaboration became A Skeleton Key to Finnegan’s Wake. It was a book that promised to unlock the mysteries of James Joyce’s masterpiece Finnegan’s Wake.

However, since Finnegan’s Wake is such difficult literature to read, there isn’t much of a market for it even among the most serious intellectuals. Some people spend their entire lives contemplating Finnegan’s Wake—so it is intimidating to even start the book, let alone trying to figure out what it all means. As I’ve said before I am a big fan of the Joseph Campbell Foundation and all the great work they do there. I have virtually everything Joseph Campbell ever wrote—except one thing—his Skeleton Key. The infamous book first went to print in 1944 then again in 1961 but died on the vine for many, many years until the JCF picked up the copyright in 2005. The book was finally republished by the Foundation at the New World Library in March of 2013. Well, at the time I was enormously busy with politics and business—which I still am—and couldn’t find the time to jump back into Finnegan’s Wake through the Skeleton Key. But standing here at the end of 2014 looking into a very, very difficult 2015 the time is now to capture Campbell’s classic wonder about the very elusive Wake before it goes out of print once again. So for Christmas this year I gave myself the book and the time to read it so that I could use the expanded intellectual muscle to deal with an ominous set of obstacles lined up to defend complacency with raised swords and curses from another world.

It is one thing to struggle through Finnegan’s Wake it’s another to seek out its meanings line by line—which is what Campbell was the first to do not long after the first printing in 1939. James Joyce spent nearly twenty years writing the Wake—exclusively. It was a work of obsession to say the least and is a revolutionary masterpiece that more or less killed the author with exhaustion. But thank God he did the work, and even more so, thankfully Joseph Campbell was the first to attempt to unlock its secrets.

My personal obsession with the Wake is that it taps into the ancient mythology of the Hill of Tara in Meath Ireland—the ancient high seat of the Ardri, the High Kings of Erin. The Hill itself is an item of archaeological concern as it is said to have ties to the Lost Tribes of Israel and the ancient Ark of the Covenant. The thoughts of some are that the Tribe then took the Ark to America and settled into the Midwest to establish the mound building cultures found there. It is also thought that among these lost tribes were the Biblical Nephillim whose gigantic stature has been found in the mounds of Ohio, Indiana, and the entire Mississippi Valley. This certainly lends credence to the possibility of how the mound building cultures in Ohio had such advanced mathematics and science. The Hill of Tara is a massive mound structure along the lines of those in Newark, Ohio so there is a connection to the two styles—and intentions.

Joyce essentially wrote Finnegan’s Wake to recreate the illegal Dark Tongue for the Teamhur Feis which took place on the Hill of Tara which had been made illegal after the victory and Christian conquest there by Saint Patrick. So obviously, there is much, much more to the Finnegan’s Wake than just an unintelligible book meant to frustrate readers. It is a coded connection to the illegal language of Dark Tongue. Finnegan’s Wake holds a key literally to understanding the long, deep past of humanity which was deliberately erased by Christian crusaders during 433 AD directly leading into the Dark Ages of Europe.

As if all that wasn’t enough, the main character in my novel The Symposium of Justice and all the subsequent stories coming out starting in 2015 involving the trails and tribulations of Fletcher Finnegan is a direct tip of the hat—literally—to the giant leader from the Teamhur Feis rituals which took place at the Hill of Tara. Fletcher Finnegan for me is the resurrection of that giant who steps into the world of mankind and carries it beyond the limits of the tavern owner H.C.E.

Understandably, many books have been written after Joseph Campbell’s Skeleton Key. But for me, his work is the best because he was the first and many after him were able to take his work and extrapolate further—and deeper than he was able to do with just a few years of puzzling through Joyce’s bizarre work just prior to World War II. When the topic is the resurrection of an ancient language connected to the Druids—made illegal by Christian orthodoxy that wanted Ireland to unite behind English rule—under careful regulation by the church—Joyce wrote in code to preserve an aspect of human life that has long since descended into the recesses of morality. And to truly understand who we are, and where we really come from—the truth is locked up in works of art like those of Joyce. Campbell was the first to offer a key. So for Christmas this year—I finally put my hands on the book so that I can use what I find there to solve the many riddles coming quick and under ominous intent. Like an encroaching army it takes more than muscle to defeat the swarms’ amassing to keep history erased and protect their grip on revision. It takes great intellect and the best way to give intellect a boost is with the mysterious work of Finnegan’s Wake. For me, my Finnegan—Fletcher Finnegan is what begins again after the sentence “A way a lone a last a loved a long the riverrun, past Eve and Adam’s, from swerve of shore to bend of bay brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and the Environs.”

In Finnegan’s Wake it begins with the end of the last sentence of the book, the one described in the previous paragraph. All the events that occur between the beginning and end of that sentence which folds over on itself by the end is reflective of all humanity which is always beginning again after perpetual death. It is in this immortality that the eye must focus—and the keys to most everything reside. And it is in that realm that Fletcher Finnegan lives. And to all those who I’m about to piss off in a grand and epic way—you have it coming for being content to sit in the pub of H.C.E. and sip at the contents of mortality when in all reality you are but the dreams of a giant.

Rich Hoffman

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Erasing History: Glenn Beck’s vision of sheer terror

I had a nice talk with Doc Thompson the other day about some really cool things that are on the horizon—which ironically corresponded to some of the really good work that Glenn Beck has been doing. Beck on December 18th 2014 did a very dystopian video playing himself as a man 40 years older thinking back on this time and the events of our day. His message corresponded perfectly with the contents of the discussion Doc and I had just hours earlier. In a lot of ways the reason I write this blog every day, and produce the other creative content that I do is that I know we are entering a new age where collectivism will be the new open mantra and it is my responsibility as an individual to speak out against it. The revisionists are already hard at work steering the world in the direction Beck alluded to in his video just as they did with the Christopher Columbus voyage—declaring that Europe had discovered America—even though that was very far from the truth.

I have watched and learned over the years how diabolical the church aligned with politics can be in destroying history. In order to maintain the theory that the North American Indian was “native” to the New World and that Columbus discovered them the government has virtually destroyed those nomadic people so to remove the evidence of their very lives, and destroyed numerous archaeological sites that proved human beings had advanced cultures in America thousands of years before Christopher Columbus ever thought of sailing across the Atlantic. In America there were of course Vikings who moved as deep into the country as Oklahoma and Minnesota. There were also Chinese who apparently mated with a giant species of man possibly from the lost tribes of Israel. There were Aztecs and Mayans who traveled up the Mississippi to exchange goods with Cahokia and other large population centers with advanced knowledge of astronomy and mythology. And likely there were advanced cultures in America before any of those groups came to be—well before Europe was even a land of kingdoms. But to maintain the illusion that Europe had discovered America—much evidence had been destroyed on purpose.

So Beck’s video drama is not far off the mark. Revisionist history is hard at work in the present trying to erase events only decades old—let alone centuries so that an order centered around collectivism can rise to power. And if that assault is not met with aggression, Beck’s apocalypse will come true. So I write my postings, my books, and do whatever I can to preserve the history that I have witnessed personally through a colorful life full of experience. I have first hand witnessed the world before the revisionists put their hands on fate—so I’m dedicated to that preservation.

 

The history erasing is mostly happening by the public school system followed closely by the media. The most current evidence of historic revision is the Cuban issue of Obama reopening ties with the southern communist country. In my lifetime I watched the Cold War struggles between America and Cuba and have watched how during the Obama presidency that slowly the anger toward communism has abated with full support of the media culture to watch the revision of a former enemy to a friendly southern neighbor occur virtually overnight. Within a few years the dark days of the Cold War will be wiped away.

 

Ironically the best way to study revisionist techniques comes from the attempted passage of local school levy issues where public relations professionals spin reality often and hide crimes to gain tax increases by public vote. They will cheat any way possible to acquire their funds. The same basic Alinsky methods have been used by the Obama White House to cover their many scandals. Once that game is understood it is easy to see how history is being erased right before our eyes as fast as it is created.

Beck’s apocalyptic vision is quite realistic if taken at the value of true observation. Those who might call it conspiratorial or paranoid are the type of people erasing history presently. And this cannot be allowed to occur. So in a lot of ways I have dedicated my life to the preservation, and resurrection of the proper history before it is gone forever—wiped clean by the revisionists trying to hide their tracks. And that was the content of the talk Doc and I had. 2015 should be a very interesting year.

Rich Hoffman

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Communist Cuba Open for Business: Obama’s master plan

Book your trip to communist Cuba now; America’s unofficial communist president has just declared an end to the half century stalemate between capitalism and communism by surrendering to the later. Barack Obama showed what kind of secret deals he’s capable of as he arranged between the United Nations, the Pope, and Cuba a lifting of the sanctions against the oppressed island to the south of Florida to provide that communist country an infusion into their economy that will at least allow American tourism to flow money into the pockets of the Cuban people. What Obama gets out of the deal is that Americans will get a taste of communism polished up specifically for the influx of tourism to help expand the ideals stateside. Ultimately it’s about economically propping up Cuba in much the way that tourism helps Mexico so to disguise the terrible failures that socialism and communism have been to that country with American capitalism slowly weakened by inclusion into the international community watered down by Socialism International.

 

The Cuban deal is the opposite of OPEC’s maneuver where the oil-producing countries in agreement with the United Nations are lowering their prices to squeeze Russia out of the Ukraine—to take away the teeth of the aggressive president and former KGB member. The declining oil prices are meant to strangle Russia’s emerging oil markets and choke off their economy until Putin says uncle and plays nicely one again on the playground of the international community. At that time, oil prices will return to the previous levels so to force car companies and airline manufactures into more environmentally friendly innovations.

 

The Cuban model as Obama sees it will follow a similar path as communist China by allowing private investment to bring money into the country so that the communist nation can appear to be successful only by marriage with the capitalist America. Communist countries in such a marriage are like the parasitic spouse who simply lives off the money the other spouse makes—and does little to contribute to the relationship—like a trophy wife without the trophy. China likes western money because it makes them look like they have an expanding economy—but without capitalism in the world, there would be nobody to give them money leaving China to be an armpit in the global economy.

Cuba has not been forced to amend its oppressive ways—Obama has simply folded and given the communists everything they wanted. In the chess game of global politics which desires socialism to accompany a central power at the United Nations governing world affairs, Obama can further weaken America while propping up Cuban communism so that the ideals of collective endeavor can gain a further foothold among countries like China that are emerging markets of expanding economy.

Obama has simply shown the cards we always knew he held—but denied. Now in his last two years of office he is clearly the communist from the South Side of Chicago that he has been accused of. The only difference is that now it is unmistakable what his intentions have always been. It’s not the freedom of the Cuban people from oppression—it is the lowering of America into the grip of communism by allowing tourists to visit the country—buy its cigars and come back to the voting booths declaring—“its not so bad in Cuba.” But what they won’t see on the tours are the prisons of those prosecuted under the Castro brothers—and the oppression that has long stained that country with the taint of communism and all its ugly tenets.

Even though Obama brought the Pope into the deal to take the edge off the conservative right and their Catholic followers—the intent is clear. And again I can only say that I and several others told you so dear reader. But you didn’t listen.

Rich Hoffman

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The Liberalized Hollywood Bubble Has Burst: Sony Studio leaks prove it so

 I don’t think the worse thing that came out of the recent Sony movie studio controversy is leaks of oncoming projects and what they personally think of the talent working under their financial backing. The worst thing is that it has confirmed everything I have been saying for five years about the situation in Hollywood and where it’s going—which is downhill fast. There are some wonderful projects on the horizon like Star Wars, new Godzilla films, and comic book adaptations but Hollywood is facing a massive black hole for which it will not survive. Ten to fifteen years out from now, Hollywood will be a memory—evaporating into dust collapsing under its own weight. To begin to understand why listen to George Lucas explain it to Charlie Rose below. Then check the links after the video to see what types of things Sony had leaked and what it says in support of my next assertions.

http://defamer.gawker.com/sony-leak-studio-exec-calls-kevin-hart-a-greedy-whore-1669403407

 

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tech/tech-news/Sony-vows-to-survive-hackers-Christmas-gift/articleshow/45536120.cms

 

http://www.blastr.com/2014-12-14/sony-leaks-reveal-other-studios-plans-x-men-fantastic-four-aquaman

 

Whether it is the opinions of studio executives that Angelina Jolie is a spoiled brat, or that the new James Bond picture needs to have more twists and turns at the end one thing is clear—the studio execs at Sony are dreadfully out of touch with what audiences want and they mask that ignorance with haughty Hollywood statesmanship—which might sound wonderful around a dinner conversation but won’t deliver a billion dollar multi national box office film to theaters. And with the prevailing union wages attached to the entertainment industry coupled with the ability of independents to compete directly with technology–the business model of Hollywood just does not hold up much longer—so enjoy it while you still can.

Hollywood executives as George Lucas said are not creative people and have no business trying to manage creative endeavors. If they want to be the money men, then they should place their bets and shut up resuming their latté sipping at Santa Monica Pier.  But when they resort to calling their talent names and trying to inject their opinions into a franchise like James Bond which has been around forever—they are setting themselves up for extinction—which is exactly where it’s going.

 

Star Wars is not new. Jurassic Park is not new. The Avengers is not new, neither is Batman, Superman, Spiderman, or the Hulk. None of it is new—Hollywood is simply tapping into material already loved and created—just like James Bond to live for another business quarter until the expenditures finally exceed the investment. There were a lot of movies in 2014 that lost money, the total box office is down 4.7% from 2013 numbers and that trend will continue. It is likely that the Ridley Scott film Exodus will lose money over the Holiday 2014 season as the final Hobbit film will soak up what is remaining in ticket sales for the fiscal year. Exodus would have to have strong sales for the next three weeks to make back its domestic take and that just isn’t going to happen—especially since the early word in religious circles is that the movie is too secular for them as opposed to the numbers seen by The History Channel’s Bible. Again, neither the Bible movies nor the Hobbit films are new—they have been around for a long time—they are not original productions coming from Hollywood and that is a really dangerous thing to an industry that is so dependent on fiscal increases at the box office every single year forever. In this case, forever never comes and by the time Star Wars has run its course in 2020, as well as the Marvel movies—there is nothing left in the tank that can drive the kind of numbers needed to make movies these days.

It doesn’t help that the executives at companies like Sony are as clueless as a rock under a car tire about how to make a good movie—then are arrogant enough to actually put their opinions in an email. They should kiss the feet of Angelina Jolie, she is beautiful, smart, and knows how to speak to the media—which is a lot more than the executives bring to the table. She drives me crazy with her endorsement of the U.N. and Brad Pitt her husband the actor flirting with socialism as a government means to solving problems—but they are generally good people who make generally good movies routinely. They can at least tell a story.

 

So it really doesn’t matter what came out in the leaks from Sony because they are already a dying company. With people like that in their leadership—they are finished. Their new James Bond film sounds terrible as they have moved away from the confident swagger of Sean Connery into a sensitive and troubled “modern man.” I mean who wants to watch James Bond get tortured again and again—if he was such a superspy, he’d avoid those kinds of problems—but the writers are out of ideas and it shows.

So Hollywood is doomed—they just don’t know it yet. Only very rarely does a film like Interstellar come along and people like Christopher Nolan will have individual success at the box office for a number of years into the future, but as an industry, the movie business is set for its own reboot—and they will only have themselves to blame. They were warned—but they did not listen.

Rich Hoffman

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The Benefits of Hard Work: What’s desperately missing from the world

Typically, union members who participate in collective bargaining agreements cheat themselves out of the good practice of benefits rendered from hard work—the type of work that leaves every bone in your body tired, where you fight hard with others to achieve a task under ominous circumstances to arrive at a goal many thought impossible. When work is throttled down to where breaks must be taken every two hours on the hour and deep concern is paid to how much one has sold their time for per hour—the union laborer becomes simply a whore who sells their time for a price instead of a producer who willed with sheer resolve to a conclusion invisible to others functioning from emotional limitations.

To those who have pulled all nighters, or several of them in succession especially when a team of other people is involved they understand the feeling of tackling the impossible and just how good a breakfast can taste after 32 straight hours of good work concluded. Those hours for the truly productive are not about making money—but about making something from nothing and pushing the project uphill against all odds to a successful conclusion. To achieve such things, it often requires exceptional willpower to pull off.

I have been involved in many of these events over the years and they always feel good to participate in, and finish. I never tire of the euphoria of a job well done. There is a bonding quality which comes naturally with a team when they all struggle as individuals toward an objective and there is always much back slapping that goes on afterwards when tired bodies struggle against sleep after being awake for more than 24 straight hours working so hard that they forget to take breaks.

Union workers always look at the time clock not willing to miss a smoke break, or a chance to stand around and talk about little ideas with shrinking minds. They are always in a hurry to discuss nothing, do nothing, and prepare their lives for one useless event after another for example—“hey Bill, lets grab a cold one when we get done with this shit.” That type of banter means nothing and goes nowhere and usually only contributes to their inner self-imposed misery.

I have seen the kind of magic hard work creates during difficult camping trips where there is often a lot of struggle. I have seen it after busy nights of work where the hours are long and people struggle together to finish the job. I have seen it on movie sets where everyone works hard for 12 straight hours to get everything just right and overcome thousands of technical problems to arrive at the objective. I have even seen such magic on long drives to distant lands where all night travel wears away your senses until daylight rescues tired eyes from the clock-like movement of highway lines steadily going by under your car. It is through struggle that good things happen.

What gets lost in the attempts at an assured “living wage” is the struggle to get something of value. Money is cheapened to an expectation when it is given away easily through a collective bargaining agreement. Sure it can purchase the same iPhones, the same Xbox, the same flat screen televisions—but those items have less value to the union worker who doesn’t have to struggle to receive them. There is a spoiled nature to such people who comes from having things given to them as opposed to earning them with sweat and tired eyes.

Whenever there is struggle and people do it together there is joy in knowing those other people who travel with you—no matter what their political affiliation is, their religious beliefs, their financial status—people all come together when they do hard work together. It is good for their souls and cleanses their spirits. Hard work is the great unifier.

This is why labor unions are that much more of a detriment—they provide a disincentive attribute to hard work by their very nature. They do this by assuring that no matter what the performance level, no matter the schedule, no matter if they get along with others for a united task—that they will get paid. They do not feel they need to work to earn money, because the money is typically given to them just for showing up. So there is no reason to push themselves toward a struggle which holds the secret ingredient toward productive—unifying enterprise.

Capitalism brings out the struggle of an enterprise. Socialism destroys the struggle by bringing everyone down to the unproductive levels of any endeavor. It doesn’t take long for hard workers to become discouraged when some union knuckle dragger stops work in the middle of a difficult endeavor to take a mandated break. It is even worse when you get knee-deep into a project to discover that you still have 10 to 12 hours left and you’ve already put in 12 and you need it by tomorrow—and the union worker walks off the job to have one of those meaningless drinks before Monday Night Football starts leaving the struggle for the next day and a guaranteed schedule slip that is costly beyond measure. When it is wondered why American enterprise is struggling it is because of this very basic element of modern society—the loss of contact between monetary value and productive enterprise—the lack of urgency that avoids struggle because it all pays the same whether it gets done today or tomorrow. Without the struggle, any endeavor is a cheapened experience.

This is the case for any experience in life, from sex to food. Nobody would argue that a McDonald’s meal is of equal value to a five star restaurant which costs half of a thousand dollars for a dinner for two. Even though they are both categories of food, one is undoubtedly more valuable than the other. It is the struggle to make the food that makes the five star restaurant so much more valuable than the quick processing that takes place at McDonald’s. The same holds true for workers of all types, there are those who avoid struggle, and those who thrive in it. The good workers are those who enjoy pushing themselves to the limit. Bad workers are those who just show up in exchange for money like a simple prostitute—lawyers come to mind who charge for small talk about sports when they have a rate of $200 to $500 an hour. At the conclusion of an hour of legal advisement the lawyer strikes up a 6 minute conversation about college football which invokes animated discussion among two men who love sports. But when the bill comes that 6 minutes is included, just like the whore who goes over her time by the same and expects compensation. So to is the union worker who will do nothing above and beyond the collective bargaining agreement even if it is for the good of productivity. Those are bad workers who do things purely for money and seek to avoid struggle of any kind—especially pushing themselves toward excellence.

It is so rare these days to have those struggles when dealing with other people and I cherish each instance. When I see them first hand they restore my faith in the human race. I relish it and when I have breakfast after 32 straight hours of work where every bone in the body is sore and shaking from exhaustion; the food tastes better than anything on the face of the planet—because there is value in it being earned and worked for. That is why it tastes so wonderful with the added purity that only comes from a difficult task accomplished above and beyond all odds and opposition.

Rich Hoffman

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The DOJ Cover-up with the IRS: Caught by Doc Thompson and Judicial Watch

There is likely more to the sudden appearance of the CIA report regarding the liberal senate’s disapproval of waterboarding occurrences during the Bush Administration. At the same time the $40 million dollar report was produced, Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber was testifying about his role of deceit in fooling Americans into accepting the takeover of the health care industry by hidden tax methods in front of congress—which somehow mysteriously took a back seat to the waterboarding information—even on Fox News. The Gruber story was the second story on Fox as the waterboard story was the primary. But even deeper was the revelation that the Department of Justice who is supposed to investigating the IRS targeting of conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status was forced against their will to reveal a few pages of internal DOJ documents that prove Lois Lerner was talking to officials about prosecuting tax-exempt entities criminally. Only under a lawsuit by Judicial Watch v. the Department of Justice, N. 14-cv-01239 did the DOJ hand over two of their withheld pages showing many redacted emails. There was only one news source that covered the story that I know of as the information hit—and that was my friend Doc Thompson, at The Blaze Radio Network. Below are the contents of that powerful radio show which should be listened to from beginning to end.

Documents from a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the IRS show that Ms. Lerner asked the DOJ whether tax-exempt entities could be criminally prosecuted. This May 8, 2013 email by Ms. Lerner went to Nikole C. Flax, Chief of Staff to Acting IRS Commissioner Steven T. Miller, who would later be fired by President Obama:

“I got a call today from Richard Pilger Director Elections Crimes Branch at DOJ … He wanted to know who at IRS the DOJ folk s [sic] could talk to about Sen. Whitehouse idea at the hearing that DOJ could piece together false statement cases about applicants who “lied” on their 1024s–saying they weren’t planning on doing political activity, and then turning around and making large visible political expenditures. DOJ is feeling like it needs to respond, but want to talk to the right folks at IRS to see whether there are impediments from our side and what, if any damage this might do to IRS programs. I told him that sounded like we might need several folks from IRS…”

DOJ’s Mr. Pilger admitted that DOJ officials met Ms. Lerner in October 2010. Moreover, according to congressional investigators, a Lerner email from October 5, 2010 shows the IRS sent the FBI and DOJ a “1.1 million page database of information from 501(c)(4) tax exempt organizations” that contained confidential taxpayer information. (read more)

http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2014/12/11/smidgen-mail-justice-department-was-involved-in-irs-targeting-lerner-emails-reveal/comment-page-1/

So there you have it, the DOJ who is supposed to be investigating this criminal activity was involved—intimately. Lois Lerner stepped way out of her position at the IRS to act as an activist to prosecute those in political opposition to the big government views of the Obama administration. Using the IRS and DOJ as a personal weapon against political opponents and a labor union president who worked directly with Barack Obama, the IRS launched an attack against the American people using coercion in any means they could get by with under the law—or the DOJ’s interpretation of the law—to destroy their political rivals.

Doc Thompson broke down the entire story with his partner Skip LaCombe. The story is out, the proof is there, and prosecutions should happen immediately. Yet, the media caught in their complacency, and just about every level of the federal government has been caught red-handed and nobody wants to deal with the embarrassment of the public ridicule which should follow if there was any justice in the world. Instead the cover-up continues leaving only a few radio outlets and typical conservative journalists to report the matter to a public consumed over waterboarding ten years ago and what Christmas presents they have yet to purchase a week away from the end of the 2014 year.

This story is far larger than Watergate and involves many, many more people. Likely, if the same standards of Watergate were held today, a large part of Washington D.C. would have to throw themselves on the sword and resign. It is the biggest story of the year, but not even Fox covered it—which should tell everything.

The proof is there, the emails exist and the paper trail is conclusive even with mountains of evidence still ready to be uncovered. Even with the danger of bringing up a story over ten years old regarding waterboarding during the Bush presidency we are now told that we should not look further at the Benghazi tragedy because it was too far removed in the past—a whole three years ago during a presidential run that could have knocked Obama out of the election if the story had not been contained with sheer lies. But worse even than that story is that the DOJ directly worked with the IRS and the White House to bring down political rivals using their tax-exempt status to hold them back and encumber them with paperwork and a silent shrill of bureaucratic terrorism to stall their efforts. I know of that work first hand through the Liberty Township Tea Party. I had to help with the paperwork because some of my videos came under scrutiny by the IRS in their investigation of the Liberty Township Tea Part and more specifically, Justine Binik-Thomas. CLICK HERE FOR REVIEW. Yes, I was at the center of that storm and I’m proud of it. But it was my friends there who suffered the most—they had to waste hours of their time filling out paperwork to hold off the IRS attempts to halt their progress as an education oriented organization designed to produce a more alert voting population. In the world of the criminals running things at the White House, DOJ, and the IRS, being an educated voter is a very dangerous thing and that is what they targeted to cover the tracks of their crimes.

It is not an issue for dispute any longer. The proof is there, the time-line is complete. Doc Thompson laid out the entire case, and there are documents to prove the accusations. The DOJ is the only real investigative body capable of prosecution on this issue, and they are directly involved—so who goes to jail, who resigns from office, and who carries out justice in this case? Nobody. It gets swept under the rug and forgotten about until finally ten years from now, just as Democrats have thrown the Bush administration under the bus yet again trying to deflect attention away from their vile actions with public sympathy toward waterboarding that they will finally run out of hiding places over this IRS debacle. Because it’s not going to go away. People like Doc, and I will never let it die. So they can run—but they can’t hide. Eventually, they will peek around the corner of their hiding places and see that justice is before them—and they will have no other option but to accept it. Eric Holder, Barack Obama, Lois Lerner and all those like her involved in this scandal will have to deal with that justice for the rest of their lives. Because even with all the proof that there currently is, it is just the tip of the iceberg, and the American people will be uncovering that evidence for decades. And with each new introduction the anger will only increase and the only institution truly at blame will be the DOJ for its actions in participating in the scandal—and its active role in the cover-up.

Rich Hoffman

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ISIS Price List for Trading Modern Slaves: UN workers at Club La Sirene hanging with prostitutes

Here is the essence of how the terrorists of ISIS have used religion as justification to satisfy their sexual fantasies with underage girls by an endorsement of evil from Allah himself. For every hypocrite who points to former slavery in America and still expects guilt, every domestic terrorist who demands more national debt to operate a monstrosity of a government which deserves to be defunded, and every loser who thinks that the human race should be depopulated so to save “Mother Earth” and her terrestrial gods and villains designed purely from the vantage point of its ridiculously confining elliptical orbit around the sun in a mediocre solar system in just one silly little Milky Way galaxy among millions in the known universe—the new ISIS pamphlet is an excuse to ruin the lives of women and girls on the grounds of a religion that satisfies the urges of men to disguise the advancement of pure evil into the human race. To learn more about this “pamphlet” check the links below—especially this one. 

http://www.memrijttm.org/islamic-state-isis-releases-pamphlet-on-female-slaves.html

It is clear what’s going on and it is truly a tragedy that the United States no longer has the moral authority to do anything about it. With an $18 trillion-dollar national debt which for the first time exceeds our nation’s GDP Americans have much more severe things to worry about than whether innocent young girls are being raped and maimed by Middle Eastern terrorists under the protection of a religion. And that was always the design—to keep America busy with racial fires, a collapsing education system serving the institution itself instead of the children it was created to help, and an undercut economy hand strung by political red tape to prevent new businesses from being created under capitalism. The goal was to ruin America from within—destroy its sense of family and morality so that it would not be prepared to look at the rest of the world which is an armpit of sweaty and unkempt hair and pass judgment on the vile behavior witnessed there. ISIS doesn’t care about Sykes-Picot, they only care about using Allah as an excuse to have sex with underage girls. Here is the proof as indicated from the recently released pamphlet instructing those terrorist insurgents how to conduct their lives in the presence of women. It says, for those who are not virgins, their uterus must be “purified” first and it even says that it is legal to have sex with a child, providing she is “fit for intercourse”.

The pamphlet even provides the full ISIS price list for female slaves captured during their terrorist rants across the communist infected desert west of the Mediterranean. A woman aged 40 to 50 can yield – 50,000 dinars (£27) A woman aged 30 to 40 – 75,000 dinars (£40) A woman aged 20 to 30 – 100,000 dinars (£53) A girl, aged 10 to 20 – 150,000 dinars (£80) A child under nine – 200,000 dinars (£106) For every human being who wishes to decry slavery in the world from the past—well, it’s happening in the present and there is the price list. Where is the outrage over this issue? There isn’t any—none what so ever. All the people who might point at the morality of the issue are busy protesting a shooting in Ferguson and still looking to make amends with the slavery issues resolved in America during a Civil War that took place over 150 years ago. Yet right now a poor, innocent young girl is being sold into slavery and is a sex toy to some towel headed, sweaty, smelly ISIS extremist—and nobody cares. Here is more from the ISIS pamphlet, a few questions that the terrorists hope to resolve so that there isn’t any confusion as to what they can do to their captured female slaves that might piss off Allah. For instance, say a nice family wanted to visit Syria to see some of the sites around the Bible Lands. Say they were staying in a hotel in Damascus and the young daughter of the family who is 9 years old goes down to the lobby to get some ice for the cooler in their hotel room. Playing games of chance in the Damascus hotel lobby are some ISIS members just killing time since their aren’t any people to kill for the time being, so they see the young girl and decide they want to take her and have sex with her. Here are the questions they would consult from their ISIS pamphlet.

Question 13: Is it permissible to have intercourse with a female slave who has not reached puberty?

It is permissible to have intercourse with the female slave who hasn’t reached puberty if she is fit for intercourse; however if she is not fit for intercourse, then it is enough to enjoy her without intercourse.

Question 18: May a man use the al-‘azl [technique] with his female slave?

A: A man is allowed [to use] al-‘azl during intercourse with his female slave with or without her consent.

Question 19: Is it permissible to beat a female slave?

It is permissible to beat the female slave as a [form of] darb ta’deeb [disciplinary beating], [but] it is forbidden to [use] darb al-takseer [literally, breaking beating], [darb] al-tashaffi [beating for the purpose of achieving gratification], or [darb] al-ta’dheeb [torture beating]. Further, it is forbidden to hit the face.

The pamphlet, written in Q&A form, was published about a month ago and states, the MEMRI report says, that having sex with non-Muslim slave women is permissible, even when these are young girls, and that one may beat them and trade in them.

According to the pamphlet – which was translated by MEMRI – while the buying and selling of captive women is permissible, there are certain limitations on the allowed “uses” of these women: for example, while the beating of a female slave is permissible, one may not torture them or hit their faces.

Any sexual contact with a female slave owned by another man is forbidden, the pamphlet states – unless one first marries the female slave, at which point she continues to belong to her master, who is henceforth forbidden of conducting intercourse with her, a “right” reserved for her husband only. While permitting intercourse with prepubescent slaves, the pamphlet forbids the separation of such girls from their mothers.

According to Islamic State, female slaves – just like all women – must be fully covered with only their necks, feet and hands visible, the pamphlet states.

While stating that the female slaves who attempt to escape – a “grave sin” – are to be punished, it does not state in what way such punishment should be meted out.

A report published by the United Nations in October charged that ISIS was committing war crimes and charged that the group committed particularly heinous crimes against women.

In August, the report said for example, ISIS took 450-500 women and girls to the Tal Afar citadel in Iraq’s Nineveh region where “150 unmarried girls and women, predominantly from the Yazidi and Christian communities, were reportedly transported to Syria, either to be given to ISIL fighters as a reward or to be sold as sex slaves.”

http://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2014-12-13/world-news/ISIS-publishes-guidelines-for-sexual-relations-with-slaves-6736127256

 

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2014/10/04/381009/isil-selling-women-as-sex-slaves-un/

 

http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-London/2014/12/10/Slavery-for-Dummies-ISIS-Publishes-Horrific-Guide-for-Sex-Slave-Owners

 

So there you have it. The young girl who went down to the lobby to get ice for her family never returns and will likely be raped and abused for 5 or 6 years by several different owners traded from man to man like a baseball card until she dies and is thrown in a ditch after she reaches the old age of 15 and is no longer any use to the terrorists of sand-land Iraq and Syria. That hypothetical situation might be considered radical if it wasn’t true and happening virtually every day somewhere in the Middle East to some unsuspecting and gullible tourist.

Don’t bother calling the U.S. Embassy—their hands are tied. Don’t bother calling the international media—while on assignment, they are dipping their wicks in those poor young girls as Muslim sympathizers initiated into siding with ISIS through sex—until they are captured and used for ransom themselves. And for a news organization who sends female reporters to the region—they are lucky if they ever come back. They too will end up gang raped and tossed to the side of the road like a used up condom. That is life in the ISIS dominated Middle East. There is nobody there to offer protection and help to females in the region both foreign and domestic. And certainly don’t call the United Nations—that is a useless group more interested in preserving the earth with carbon credits disguised as taxes, and building sidewalks in America to stop urban sprawl. And do you know why dear reader—because the comb over bureaucrats who want to regulate everything for every country in the world are spending their nights at the Club La Sirene having sex with all kinds of sex trade workers—so who are they to judge ISIS except with some strongly written letters. They cheat on their spouses every week that they are away from home and experiment with all types of sexual perversions routinely—because it’s legal there—legal just as the ISIS pamphlet makes it legal to have sex with underage girls—because somebody wrote it down and put a stamp of approval on it. Read the link below to learn more from the perspective of the sex industry workers in Geneva who are having a tough time making ends meet due to the declining economy in Europe. The Geneva Convention certainly has a lot to say when it comes to American torture techniques, like waterboarding. But have little to say when it comes to sexual slavery other than to defend the legalization of prostitution as a way to regulate the sex trade.

http://womennewsnetwork.net/2012/09/10/anti-immigrant-sentiments-plague-sex-workers/

Sex crimes against innocent girls are happening in great abundance in Europe and the Middle East—not to mention in the areas around the South China Sea. Too many people want to exploit the weakness of a defenseless child purely for sexual means which forever tarnishes their judgment on all other matters leaving them paralyzed to pass ridicule toward the ISIS pamphlet properly. Once they are paralyzed to make judgment calls on something so obviously evil, they are unable to make any management decisions on any topic throughout the world and this is why virtually everything everywhere is so screwed up. And this time—there is no America coming to the rescue. Obama has defanged the only nation in the world capable of doing anything about these problems and has threatened to topple the free nation all together with a national debt that is nearly beyond hope without collapse. And you know whose guilty dear reader of spreading modern slavery to every corner of the globe? Every person who sat back and did nothing to lift a finger in judgment—likely people like you.  Oh, and you stuffy wives of New York who have husbands who work at the United Nations headquarters there summoned to Geneva to discuss ISIS and the trouble in the Middle East. Guess where he is at during dinner time EST—deep into the innards of a Geneva whore at the Club La Sirene with his buddies—working hard on the ISIS problem and the crimes against young girls who have nothing better to do with themselves after they’ve been ruined for life if they survive in the Middle East—but to immigrate into Geneva to subject themselves to future employers at the United Nations. That is why nobody helps the young girls in the Middle East—because they want a crack at them at some future time and that is the vile truth of the matter.

Rich Hoffman

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What is Waterboarding: The cost of John McCain’s pacifism

 

An MMA fighter who is kind of typical young kid who leans in the direction of progressive education gave a demonstration shown below of what waterboarding looks like and described the feeling it invoked in him. With all the protests of torture from the CIA that has been released lately from the political left, the example by this young guy was interesting as his point was to prove how terrible the torture technique was. What it actually did was show how silly it was and made me wonder how hardened criminal terrorists broke so easily—even after two or three days of such torture. It looked pretty soft to me—compared to the kind of torture that actual terrorists conduct against Americans and others in the free world. Just as the CIA report came out which cost $40 million dollars produced by senate Democrats the terrorists of ISIS put out an offer for the body of James Foley in exchange for a million dollars. Of course, without the head they cut off as an act of terrorism broadcast to the world. Compared to the terrorists of ISIS, the waterboarding torture techniques looked pretty soft. Just hold your breath during the soakings and force them to bring harm to you which would allow a law suit for violation of the Geneva Convention later—and a hardened terrorist could last days if they really had the resolution. Foley didn’t have the option—and many like him. Yet liberals continue to empower evil with their cries for inaction in the face of maniacal villains.

http://nypost.com/2014/12/11/isis-wants-1m-for-james-foleys-headless-body/

That is assuming that a terrorist actually has rights to be considered. American torture for aims protecting the interests of capitalism and freedom throughout the world are nowhere near as severe as those of global terrorists—yet the political left, mainly those of mainstream Democrats believe that pacifism is the means to dealing with aggression. They are wrong.

To many cultures throughout the world good and bad, right and wrong are relative to perspective. To the terrorists of the Middle East, they have a legitimate beef regarding the Sykes–Picot agreement; however they do not have a right to impose that frustration on individual liberty. When they use confiscated individual suffering to invoke collective sympathy, they cross the line and become evil—just as Europe was evil in screwing the Arabs out of their land after World War I. But the continued anxiety about such things become no different from the Ferguson riots who use race tensions as an excuse to bust windows and create havoc. The Middle East terrorists today just use Sykes-Picot as an excuse to cut off heads, rape women, and steal property—under the disguise of a freedom fighter. The political left, unable to determine values, simply look at the wrongs of Sykes-Picot and declares that America should be punished for supporting Europe after World War I and that any suffering inflicted against the imperialist nation should be taken without question. It is the same logic when dealing with race relations, or the behavior of the government against the American Indian—the United States is always assumed to be wrong regardless because the left sees the country as an imperialist power that should be brought down by any means possible. So America can never do anything right in their eyes because it was built on capitalist enterprise.

Young people like that MMA fighter have been raised in public schools to believe in left leaning political theory and it takes a while for them to mature away from it into their late 30s and 40s until life finally tells them that waterboarding is too good for most terrorists—especially ones who helped cause the creation of the TSA. Air travel in America has been a pain in the ass since—so waterboarding doesn’t create enough pain to justify the enormous inconvenience that terrorists have brought to American lives. Waterboarding is a form of torture, but so is dealing with the TSA. Terrorists wanted to take away American freedoms with their acts of aggression, and they were successful. Yet the political left believes that nobody should pay for those crimes because they were done against America—and to their minds—America has to pay for the crimes of its creation.

The political left uses the same logic that the Palestinians have against Israel when they argue that the Gaza strip was always their land and they will never stop trying to destroy Israel until they regain it. Yet the value that Israel brings to the region through its capitalist endeavors is quite a benefit to the region. Their irrigation systems are technical and quite enterprising compared to the communist driven hatred behind the politics of the Palestinians. Just across the border from Israel is an armpit of poverty because the region has failed to embrace capitalism and is force feeding their people collectivism and are angry at the result. So they take that anger out toward nations that show them how backward their cultures really are—and use that frustration and hatred to justify their foolishness. They brew that hatred until there is no longer any rational discussion and terrorists seek to impose collective will against individuals.

To defend individual liberty the CIA took to a soft means of torture in waterboarding to keep the terrorist cells of radicals on their heels and out of the lives of Americans. And for that the political left is offended—so much so that they’d waste $40 million dollars on a one-sided report on the same day that Jonathan Gruber was grilled before congress for his role in the Obamacare debacle. The pattern is obvious—and the terrorists are always crazed lunatics from the Middle East.

The worst terrorists of all are those pacifists who declare that America should be punished just for existing, and that any attempt to fight back against terrorism is futile—and unjust. To keep people from inflicting pain against the United States in the mind of the liberal left is to prevent the punishment that America deserves to receive as a capitalist country who dares to spread freedom across the world as a beacon of light to individual achievement. The torture method used by America could be making terrorists play video games—and the left would still call it unjust. There is no way to appease their temperament because they are in league with the enemies of the United States.

Waterboarding has been made out to be so severely unjust and those who live in a bubble of intellectual curiosity might believe it vacant of perspective. But the reality of the matter is that those who are declaring such injustice are rooting for the other team—and do not like America. In the case of Senator John McCain, he has come out against waterboarding and the CIA report as a Republican who was a former POW who was tortured himself—so he has a soft spot for the behavior. I feel sorry for his experience, and his opinion. As a pacifist, he lost his presidential election attempt in 2008 to Barack Obama because he was a pacifist and refused to attack his opponent in the manner that might have prevented the epic dept of over $18 trillion dollars that we currently have. His pacifism cost America dearly—just as those who cry out against the CIA for their waterboarding methods do the same in empowering terrorists throughout the world to shoot bullets while we are supposed to throw wadded up paper in return. It’s a preposterous proposal, yet it remains an escalating mantra that becomes louder with each Republican who flees to their offices and shuts their door to controversy. The left has sided with America’s enemies, and they require a system of no value judgment to continue their insurrection—and for that to happen fully, they have to disarm the CIA so that their radical loons can further penetrate American governance so that finally without struggle the imperial power of capitalism will topple forever leaving the world with socialism as the new guiding light.

Rich Hoffman

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MSNBC Blaming Capitalism: More communism for black communities

What was that dear reader, you just heard that MSNBC was blaming capitalism for economic poverty? That rock you have been living under must have really been heavy, because it blotted out all sound and sight. Anyone who has read here knows I have warned of this issue for a long time. Even most recently Matt Clark and I on WAAM radio broadcast the truth all over southern Michigan and the world over during his well-received show informing the unknowing masses that communism was behind much of the trouble in Ferguson and poor back communities in general. Click here to review our radio broadcast. So you thought it was a conspiracy theory from some tin foiled, right-winged, “haters” who populated radio broadcasts lately properly identifying the attempt of communist factions to use the emotional turmoil of black communities to incite revolution against “white—capitalist—America?”   No, sorry, as usual, history has proven Matt and I right more than enough times now—you should have known better. The proof was cited recently on MSNBC, as follows:

“The problem extends beyond police departments. What is the next institution that needs to be isolated and challenged?” guest host Eric Dyson asked Clemente.

“The economy. Capitalism,” Clemente responded. ”I think that’s the institution all over this country, it is really what is the oppressive force.”

Clemente went on to say that law enforcement officers keep working-class people from achieving “economic justice.”

“Economic justice is not devoid from racial justice, just like it’s not devoid of gender justice,” Clemente added.

The guest MSNBC host seemed to agree: “Absolutely,” Dyson said.

 

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/12/11/msnbc-guest-capitalism-is-the-oppressive-force-thats-holding-back-black-americans/

Of course they didn’t use the “communist” word by direct name, but instead used all the key words around its meaning—such as “economic justice,” “working-class,” and most specifically—the oppressive nature of capitalism as an evil institution. To understand how those meanings apply directly to Karl Marx—read the work of the old German philosopher and it will quickly become clear. Matt and I as recently as last week discussed this very issue on the radio for all to hear yet many thought we were making too much of the issue—as communism supposedly died with the walls of the Cold War. Well, it didn’t and once again, you heard it here before the mainstream accepted that grim reality.

 

I’m not very sympathetic to the come-lately types who think that their faulty viewpoints warrant respect just because of their existence. I have a track record that is robust—even if controversial—time has validated the things I have said too many times that I no longer feel it necessary to sugar feed the facts to people any longer. When it comes to communist influence directly and indirectly influencing black neighborhoods with the sole purpose of keeping them poor and ready for revolution at any minute just to take advantage of their collective based cultures to exploit for political upheaval—I don’t have any tolerance for practitioners of deceit who still point at McCarthyism and racism as reasons to disguise the military objective against capitalism.

 

The left was so successful in labeling anybody who called them communists with the derogatory title—McCarthyism that the term actually is in the dictionary. According to official definitions, McCarthyism is the practice of publicly accusing somebody, especially somebody in government or the media, of subversive or Communist activities or sympathies, especially without real evidence to substantiate the claim. Only the evidence is abundant—it’s not without proof, and even for all the hoopla against the McCarthy hearings—he turned out to be right after all—as history proved also. In the 1960s when the hippies emerged to overturn college campuses with a counter-culture movement the culture that they attacked was the one built by capitalism. Through music and liberal institutions communist insurgents straight from the KGB fanned the flames of rebellion on behalf of the Soviet Union. If anyone named the evil thus—and pointed to the communists behind the movement, they were called MacCarthy conspiracy advocates and categorized as kooks—even though what they said was true.

 

Years later those same influences went to work again measuring the ground they had made in the 60s. The “make love not war” mantra didn’t hold as Charlie Manson scared America away from the hippie cult. So communists turned toward civil rights to hide their insurrection attempts this time attacking youth with the “wigger culture” largely led by rap artists intent to tear down American culture to be rebuilt into a socialist utopia. The anger behind rap music is to destroy the institutions of capitalism and give rise to something else. When youth began pulling down their pants and walking around like penguins it was in rebellion toward the traditional young male built under capitalism. The deliberate defacing of that youth was to declare to the world that they didn’t care if they worked for white America and its “corporate” structure of pin-heads. They’d rebel against them to bring down the evil institutions which fuel capitalism, and greed. So they pulled down their pants in protest to proper—American conduct—to be rebuilt into the same old communist radicals of old—to tear down capitalism to create room for socialism and communism in the future of America.

But this story has been told before—especially by me. History will confirm each and every word of my statements—it is not my burden to prove myself to anybody. MSNBC has already provided the evidence—along with a long list of other revolutionary communist driven radicals who have only hid their intentions loosely behind the mask of McCarthyism anxiety. If the intent of a movement is to destroy capitalism, it is communism at the root of that attempt—because the beginnings started with Karl Marx.

 

Only fools and willing idiots would take anything that is happening now with a spoonful of sugar and a lot of good will—because it is insurrection that MSNBC and other progressive organizations are after. They want the destruction of capitalism to make way for more socialism and they are using poor black communities—which they created—to provide troops for their aggression. When you see a kid with his pants pulled down walking around in public—you are seeing a created insurgent desired to use sympathy toward black poverty to attack institutional capitalism with defaced young people ill prepared toward productive lives—only left to be rotting husks of future welfare—the ultimate socialism controlled by the state. The fantasy of the music industry is that capitalism will fall if there are no youth to fill its corporate boardrooms and its factories of unfairness. Of course they’d be wrong—because in capitalism it is not the masses who make wealth—it is individuals—and individuals don’t find themselves pawns in a global game of communist insurrection. They make money through productivity.

Rich Hoffman

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Trey Gowdy’s Symposium: Establishing proper managment systems

 We always hear from radical left-winged protestors that “this is what democracy looks like” as they chant in mass over a particular issue—whether it is police shootings in Ferguson, union pensions, or that Breaking Bad is moving to a new night. But seldom do we get to see what proper government management looks like. So it was quite enjoyable to watch congressman Trey Gowdy of South Carolina apply proper management methods to the Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber. Gruber had been caught talking about how Obamacare was passed by a Democrat controlled congress and senate through deceitful means, so Gowdy had an obligation to apply some force to the matter in articulating the crime and mismanagement of taxpayer resources.

http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2014/12/09/watch-trey-gowdy-verbally-pummel-obamacare-architect-jonathan-gruber-n1929573

Every city council meeting should look like the way Trey Gowdy conducted his interrogation of Gruber. Every school board meeting, every trustee meeting, every gathering of government managing of tax payer resources should look like Growdy in congress. It is not the job of politicians to be liked, it is not their job to pander and get along with a consensus—it is their job to manage—and that’s it.

Of course unpopular politicians tend not to get re-elected, so that is part of the problem for the typical attention seekers who desire public office. But they should at a bare minimum attempt to behave as Gowdy did in the hearings over Obamacare. Of course the current congress has no stomach for actual management—just tough talk—but it’s a start. The congress has an obligation to not fund Obamacare especially after the Gruber testimony. But such a position in modern Washington is considered radical and Republicans won’t walk into the touchy-feely trap that Democrats have set to snare them in the court of public opinion—so they won’t do anything “tough” with Obamacare except talk.

Without management of resources you get run away budgets—just like what is found at virtually every public school dominated by radical labor unions were overwhelmed school board members lay down to be run over by left-leaning radicals who advocated collective bargaining agreements without any management opposition to keep them in check. But on each one of those school boards should be people like Trey Gowdy to provide an equal opposition to the radical nut cases who declare large sums of money with no oversight but only tax increases every five years.

The goal of every government body should be to create surpluses with the same voracity that corporations seek profits. Money saved is money made so no government should look at a budget surplus and think of new ways to pass out money to potential voters. And any government that hires consultants, like public schools often do to find ways to deceive voters into higher taxes deserve to be grilled the way Jonathan Gruber was by Trey Gowdy. Gruber was paid millions of tax payer dollars for discovering a means to deceive them with Obamacare—and the people who made those decisions mismanaged the money under Gruber’s charge. The only way to prevent such abuse is with management of resources in the manner the Gowdy provided.

The sad condition of our modern times is that Gowdy is looked at as an exceptional case—and not the norm. By those who wish to perpetrate a con against the taxpayer, of course Gowdy is hated. He is paid as a congressman to be hated—not loved. If a manager of any kind is loved by everyone, they are not doing their jobs. So it is a compliment for a manager to be called names and to have quibbles said about them behind their backs or by organized masses seeking collective efforts. If such a thing occurs, the politician is doing their jobs.

Many felt pride at Trey Gowdy’s grilling of Gruber because they instinctively understand the value of the exchange. Gruber a once arrogant government despot was reduced to admitting that he had been an ostentatious fool seeking to take advantage of the system for his own ideological and financial gain. Gruber’s strategy was to throw himself on the sword, take his millions of looted tax payer dollars and go into hiding with his loot. He was willing to sacrifice the self-respect he had gained within progressive academic circles for the stolen wealth he had acquired during the Obamacare fraud. So he declared foolishness and took the beating.

But imagine that there wasn’t a beating for Gruber—where would there have been any justice? Gruber without Gowdy would have disappeared into the sunset a progressive hero wealthy and wise. At least now, because of Gowdy, Gruber is only wealthy off stolen money—at least he had to endure some punishment—even if it’s just verbal.

Not everyone is capable of management—but for those who are—management provides a hedge against the despots of looting inclination. Without management there is no protection from the forces seeking to attack value—that is why communism and socialism seeks to make management the villain in their philosophy. That is also why labor unions make management into villains—because they want open access to the wealth of a corporation so that they can exploit it for all the worth—just as Gruber did. So we cheer on Trey Gowdy for his management chastisement of Gruber because we wish it was more commonplace. Not to mention that the mass conspiracy conducted right out in the open as Democrats released the controversial CIA report against the Bush administration on the same day that Gruber was dissected by Gowdy—hoping to take the edge off the government deceit that is Obamacare—there is much more management that needs to be done on behalf of tax payer resources.

Government is filled with many more people like Jonathan Gruber. In fact, most of the Washington D.C. wealthy suburbs are filled with government looters just like him. Without people like Trey Gowdy there is no resistance to their bottomless needs of tax payer funded lifestyles. There is no management of revenue taken in by the federal government under force and the distribution of that vast wealth—but to surrender it to the diabolical menaces who make careers out of politics for the purpose of creating personal wealth in ways they could never do under any other means. Without management, there is nothing that stands in the way of crime and justice. At least when it comes to the words spoken by Gowdy—at least we know Gruber will lose something due to his corruption and arrogance. Not enough—but at least it’s something.

Rich Hoffman

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