Dr. Robert Owens 2016 Book Signing Events: September 26, 2016
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September 30 – October 2: Whatcheer Iowa Flea Market 13061 170th St, What Cheer, IA 50268. This is one of the biggest outside sales events in the Midwest.
October 8: The 2016 Iowa City Book Fair, Saturday, October 8th, 10 AM-4PM Pedestrian mall, downtown Iowa City. The Iowa City Book Festival is presented by the Iowa City UNESCO City of Literature. Iowa City is the only “City of Literature” in the United States, and the Iowa City Book Festival will celebrate books and writing by leveraging the unique mix of local resources that helped to earn that designation.
October 15: The Twin Cities Book Festival—brought to you by Rain Taxi—is not only the largest and most important literary gathering in the Upper Midwest; it is the annual get-together for the Twin Cities’ devoted literary community. This FREE, day-long festival brings people together to celebrate our vibrant literary culture. The festival welcomes ‘rock star’ authors, local literary heroes, publishers, magazines, booksellers—all of whom connect over great books and conversations.
October 21-23: Marshalltown Fairgrounds Gun Show.
October 28-30: Iowa State Fairgrounds Gun Show.
November 4-6: Iowa State Fairgrounds The Simpson UM Flea Market, the largest indoor Market in Iowa.
November 11-13: Cedar Rapids Hawkeye Downs Gun Show.
November 18 19-20: Ottumwa Iowa Bridgeview Center Gun Show.
November 25-27: Iowa State Fairgrounds Gun Show.
December 2-4: Iowa State Fairgrounds The Simpson UM Flea Market, the largest indoor Market in Iowa.
December 9-11: Waverly Iowa Centre Hall Gun Show
September 23, 2016
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Breaking News:
State admits: Islamic State terrorists trying to pose as refugees
State Department spokesman John Kirby acknowledged Wednesday that Islamic State terrorists are trying to mingle with refugee populations overseas in the hopes of making it to the U.S. posing as a refugee.
New York bombing suspect Ahmad Khan Rahami said he received instructions from ‘terrorist leaders… to attack non-believers’
5000 ISIS terrorists sneak into Europe disguised as ‘refugees’
ISIS plotting terror attacks in America ‘THIS YEAR’ after jihadis ‘exploit refugee crisis’
ISLAMIC State (ISIS) jihadis are plotting to launch terror attacks in America this year after exploiting the refugee crisis, intelligence chiefs have warned.
Islamic State operating in Mexico just 8 miles from U.S. border
Citing sources that include a “Mexican Army field grade officer and a Mexican Federal Police Inspector,” the conservative watchdog group reported that the Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL, is organizing only a few miles from El Paso, Texas, in the Anapra neighborhood of Juárez and in Puerto Palomas.
America’s Trojan War combines gut wrenching realism and fast paced action to make this feel like it was ripped from the morning’s headlines.
Lisa Billingham and Sargent Bushings rushed into the building firing into the faces of the enemy. Hundreds and soon thousands of police, firemen, and civilians poured into the buildings of St Elizabeth Hospital. They shot anything that moved. By force of numbers they pushed the defenders back from the windows and doors. Room by room sometimes desk by desk the fire fights raged leaving dead, wounded and dying scattered in every conceivable pose, piled on the floor, slumped over desks and chairs, and half in and half out of doors and windows. It was no exaggeration to say the building was littered with bodies. Still the Americans in their righteous anger assaulted the enemy with a ferocity they had never imagined.
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Obama Boom Builds Obamatowns September 21, 2016
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According to the megaphones of the Progressive-controlled media the Obama economy is booming. For the investor class it has been a rising tide that lifts all yachts or as it is expressed in Bloomberg, “When President Barack Obama was elected in November 2008, the U.S. economy was shrinking at a rate unmatched since World War II. In the seven years between then and his final State of the Union address Tuesday night, global investors have enjoyed stellar results from the rapidly expanding Obama economy.”
According to Paul Krugman in The Obama Boom “The … Obama economy offers a powerful lesson… From a conservative point of view, Mr. Obama did everything wrong, afflicting the comfortable (slightly) and comforting the afflicted (a lot), and nothing bad happened. We can, it turns out, make our society better after all.”
And according to President Obama himself everything is coming up roses, “Companies are investing; consumers are spending and American manufacturing, energy, technology, autos all are booming. And thanks to the decisions that we’ve made and the resilience of the American people, we’ve recovered faster and come farther from the recession than almost any other advanced country on earth. So the good news is the economy clearly is getting stronger, things are getting better, engines are revving a little bit louder.”
A chicken in every pot, a car in every garage, a flat screen in every living room, a cell phone in every hand, and a check in every mail box. Ah yes, haven’t we heard all this for years while anyone who works knows that wages have been stagnant for years. Anyone who does their own shopping knows food prices have gone through the roof. And anyone who has lost their job through the destruction of America’s manufacturing knows that a part time job at the Kwiki Mart doesn’t replace a full time job with benefits.
The political class, their pet economists, and the fellow-travelers among the media may trumpet that the Obama economy is booming. They may tell us we must all troop like mind numb robots to the polls and make sure Hillary has the opportunity to give us a third term to complete the transformation. They also tell us if the Donald is elected all this magic and wonder will be lost.
However other voices tell us a different story.
According to Bank of America Merrill Lynch Head of Global Rates and Currencies Research David Woo, “The U.S. economy would take off in a big way if Trump were elected and Republicans control both legislative houses next year. Against this backdrop, the greenback would strengthen and U.S. Treasury yields would rise.” This is a view shared by Woo and other fixed income veterans as well.
Looking at the booming Obama economy is like viewing a fever dream through the looking glass. The Technocrat apparatchiks who populate the Obama regime tell us this is the best economy in American History, unprecedented job growth, low unemployment, and no inflation. Those who actually have created jobs, know how the economy works in the real world, and have to cut pay checks every week tell us something different.
Leonard Riggio the Barnes & Noble Inc. Chairman and founder said the bookstore chain is suffering from one of worst retail environments in decades after traffic in stores hit “close to a historic low point.” The retail climate is “terrible,” he said on the company’s first-quarter earnings call Thursday. “Better put, is it is one of the worst I have ever experienced in the 50 years I have been in this industry.”
The Fed continues to pump money into the system and keep interest rates at historic lows. This stimulus is necessary just to maintain the anemic recovery that has never regained what was lost in the Great Recession. The U.S. Federal Reserve must be careful not to remove its monetary stimulus too quickly because of potential weakness in the labor market and risks of foreign economic downturns, Fed Governor Lael Brainard said on Monday.
“Today’s New Normal counsels prudence in the removal of policy accommodation,” Brainard said in prepared remarks to the Chicago Council on Global Affairs. She said the labor market might be farther from full strength than some economists believe, which means “the case to tighten policy preemptively is less compelling.” In other words even the shabby New Normal of the Obama economy is only sustainable if money keeps appearing out of thin air and banks can get infusions of this funny money at 0%. That should be the textbook definition of a political charade.
The problem with our economy is not that the American people don’t want to work. It isn’t that we are lazy as our president recently told his friends in communist Laos. It is that the cards dealt by the Central Bank are stacked. The central planners throughout the Obama Regime are ideologues who cannot see reality if it conflicts with their plan to transform America into a democratic people’s republic by the elites of the elites and for the elites.
According to Stephen Stanley, chief economist at Amherst Pierpont Securities, “The Federal Reserve has been too glued to theories that haven’t worked to restore robust economic growth since the last recession.”
“The central bank’s adherence to the idea that unemployment and weak demand can be cured with policies that encourage consumers, businesses and governments to rack up more debt ignores other problems with the economy,” he says.
“For the bulk of this expansion, the Fed has operated as if everything that was wrong with the economy was a cyclical shortfall in demand. The trouble is that it has become increasingly evident that this narrative was wrong.” Stanley continued.
Following a collapse in a massive U.S. housing bubble in 2007 the Fed responded to the resulting 2008 financial crisis, by cutting interest rates to a record low of about zero percent in an attempt to blunt the worst recession in 80 years. The Fed also tried several rounds of quantitative easing, a policy of buying government debt and mortgage securities from banks to help drive down borrowing costs, in other words pumping money into the system.
While the U.S. bounced back from recession and the unemployment rate fell from a 30-year high of 10 percent, since that time growth in the American economy has never exceeded 3 percent a year for the first time since World War II. In addition, the unemployment rate doesn’t include the over 90 million able bodied Americans who have decided to quit working and ride the government hammock into the sunset.
Stanley says Fed policymakers are too attached to the ideas of John Maynard Keynes, the hugely influential English economist who argued that deficit spending was necessary during recessions to maintain full employment. Keynesian theories make it difficult to distinguish short-term cyclical trends from long-term structural changes in the economy, Stanley says.
According to Stanley, pointing to a continuous fall in U.S. productivity, “Keynesians operate exclusively on the demand side of the economy, and much of what is holding the economy back in recent years has been operating on the supply side. There is also a strong leftward lean in ideology at the Federal Reserve, and it is thus very understandable that they have been very slow to recognize the damage done to growth over the past several years by hikes in marginal tax rates and a stifling regulatory environment.”
“The Fed’s fixation on core consumer price inflation also limits its ability to recognize major asset bubbles, such as in tech stocks and home prices,” Stanley says. The Core inflation rate is only a portion of the true inflation number yet that is all the Progressive media ever report on. The real inflation rate is much higher. For one thing the core rate does not include food or energy, two things everyone needs and two things whose prices have soared under Obama.
So how is this working out in the real world? Look at your bank balance, your life style, or your hopes for the future of your children. Or look at the rising tide of homelessness. This is a phenomenon that is hardly ever mentioned when a Democrat is in the White House. Today the march of poverty is too great for even the Progressive shills to ignore as Obamatowns begin to dot the landscape of a once prosperous nation.
According to Tyler Durden as posted on the website Zero Hedge, “Just like during the last economic crisis, homeless encampments are popping up all over the nation as poverty grows at a very alarming rate. According to the Department of Housing and Urban Development, more than half a million people are homeless in America right now, but that figure is increasing by the day. And it isn’t just adults that we are talking about. It has been reported that that the number of homeless children in this country has risen by 60 percent since the last recession, and Poverty USA says that a total of 1.6 million children slept either in a homeless shelter or in some other form of emergency housing at some point last year. Yes, the stock market may have been experiencing a temporary boom for the last couple of years, but for those on the low end of the economic scale things have just continued to deteriorate.”
Happy days are here again the progressive puppet masters and their media chorus sings as everyone else sinks into the third world. If the voters are so unenlightened that they don’t want to vote for a total transformation of their homeland import another population who will. If the economy is falling through the floor and prosperity is becoming poverty for the unwashed masses in fly-over country just redefine success and call it the New Normal. Then they live the high life in their gated communities as the rest of us struggle to survive. No wonder five of the ten richest counties in America surround the imperial capital as our servants grow fat and rich on the loot they expropriate from the rest of us.
Dr. Owens teaches History, Political Science, and Religion. He is the Historian of the Future @ http://drrobertowens.com © 2016 Contact Dr. Owens drrobertowens@hotmail.com Follow Dr. Robert Owens on Facebook or Twitter @ Drrobertowens / Edited by Dr. Rosalie Owens
Utopians and the War on Drugs September 19, 2016
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Man cannot perfect man. Man cannot perfect the Earth. Personally I am a Christian and I believe in the fall of mankind due to sin and the corruption of this reality as a direct consequence of that fall from grace.
That is my personal belief. It is what centers and supports me. However, if you have other beliefs I don’t think I would have to do much investigation to find that everyone else can see that perfection is not the natural state of either mankind or this world. Even the most militant atheist who knows there is no god and fights like hell against anyone who believes there is admits that this is not perfect. Even Lenin wanted to perfect it, Stalin had five year plan after five year plan to make it better, Mao took a Great Leap Forward into a Cultural Revolution that nearly destroyed his country, why? Because he sought to perfect it and what did he achieve? The same as all the rest they proved that they could at least create hell on earth.
Utopians of every stripe believe that mankind through their own efforts can create heaven on earth. As pointed out above that hasn’t worked out so well before. It will never work out because it is impossible. We cannot legislate people to perfection.
How did the Mafia get so powerful? Prohibition of alcohol created the market place that poured hundreds of millions of dollars into their pockets and allowed them to corrupt politician, judges and police. It raised them from street gangs to criminal empires controlling unions and elections. It gave them the power to intimidate, kill, and steal with impunity.
Back then people had enough respect for the Constitution to realize it took an amendment to ban a product. It also took an amendment to make it legal again. The prohibition on Marijuana has been and is merely a law that could be changed at any time. It is also a law, like so many of our laws, not founded on any constitutional basis at all. Nowhere in the Constitution is the Federal Government given the power to legislate what substances a citizen may or may not ingest. This is like so many other powers one that our over-the-top bureaucratic leviathan abrogated unto itself as a supine populace accepts that anything that is legal is moral, just and within the bounds of a paternalistic cradle-to-grave central government.
There are more people in jail because of the war on drugs than for anything else. There are people serving decades for having a joint in their pocket while the drug lords, flush with money like Al Capone buy cops and judges and in general corrupt our system while escaping any penalty for breaking the law.
It is time to stop this oppressive war on Americans, end prohibition, expand the tax base, eliminate the major source of funding for organized crime, and let our supposedly free citizens run their own lives.
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Without Life There Can Be No Liberty or Happiness September 15, 2016
Posted by Dr. Robert Owens in Politics, Politiocal Philosophy.Tags: Planned Parenthood, Dr. Robert Owens, abortion, pro-life, pro-choice, Margret Sanger, eugenics
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The document that gave birth to the United States also declared that life is the first of all rights, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.”
In America today a culture of death has overtaken us. A spirit that causes otherwise intelligent and rational people to believe in and support irrational things. With those who are aware of the origins and the current practices of the Abortion Industry it is easy to ascribe callousness and disregard for human life not seen since the Allies triumphed in 1945, the Soviet Gulag disintegrated, or the lash slipped from Mao’s hand.
Most of those who support this industry with their donations and votes are fellow-travelers who accept the propaganda about birth control and women’s rights. They know nothing of what is really going on at the abortion mills and they will curse anyone who tries to tell them.
I stand before you ready to be so cursed. The truth must be told for without life there can be no liberty or happiness. As the father of four aborted children I can speak intimately of the pain and tragedy this silent holocaust is sowing in the lives and souls of Americans.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who was martyred by the Nazis said, “The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.” In America today the most dangerous place for a child is in the womb.
Planned Parenthood is the largest operator of abortion mills in America with 665 unregulated clinics. This makes it the country’s largest abortion provider with affiliates performing more than 300,000 abortions per year, which amounts to approximately one out of every three in the country.
Its founder Margret Sanger was the leading American proponent of eugenics, the science of improving a human population by controlled breeding to increase the occurrence of desirable heritable characteristics. Margaret Sanger’s birth control movement and quest for the Pill intersected the rise of the eugenics movement in America. At a time when birth control was still not publicly accepted in American society, some eugenicists believed birth control was a useful tool for curbing procreation among the “weak.” In the 1920s and 30s, Sanger calculated that the success of the eugenics idea gave her own movement legitimacy, and tried to ally her cause with the movement. Eugenics was a dominant theme at her birth control conferences, and Sanger spoke publicly of the need to put an end to breeding by the unfit. In 1920 Sanger publicly stated that “birth control is nothing more or less than the facilitation of the process of weeding out the unfit [and] of preventing the birth of defectives.”
The Hyde Amendment prohibits using federal taxpayer money to fund abortions; however, Planned Parenthood received 41% of its 2014 budget (the most current year available) which amounted to a staggering $528.4 million. We are told none of this goes to fund abortions, however money is fungible. If a close look is taken it appears that about 1% of abortions are directly paid for with federal funds using the rape/incest loop hole. However driving through a veritable cloverleaf of other loop holes raises this number to approximately 24% when you combine federal and state funds.
Some may read these statistics and question their veracity. The Nazis kept exact records of their crimes against humanity which made it easy to prosecute the perpetrators when the war was won and sanity returned. Planned Parenthood has learned from their mistake and intentionally covers up the truth.
Eugenics the motivating philosophy of Margret Sanger and the foundation of Planned Parenthood fell into disfavor only after the obvious perversion of the Nazis application of its theories through industrial scale homicide.
After that the Sangerites quit using the word, but they are still applying its practices and pursuing its goals.
The majority of the abortion rights people probably have no idea who started their movement or the true nature of what they support. However, their representatives and leaders probably do know the true nature of what they advocate. And those who are aware of this evil nature do their best to cover the tracks that lead from their culpability in the deaths of millions.
To the majority who are following these pied pipers of infanticide read the words of the one who founded the movement which is leading our nation to its demographic demise:
The most merciful thing that the large family does to one of its infant members is to kill it. Woman and the New Race, ch. 6: “The Wickedness of Creating Large Families.”
[We should] apply a stern and rigid policy of sterilization and segregation to that grade of population whose progeny is tainted, or whose inheritance is such that objectionable traits may be transmitted to offspring. “Plan for Peace” from Birth Control Review (April 1932, pp. 107-108)
Article 1. The purpose of the American Baby Code shall be to provide for a better distribution of babies… and to protect society against the propagation and increase of the unfit.
Article 4. No woman shall have the legal right to bear a child, and no man shall have the right to become a father, without a permit…
Article 6. No permit for parenthood shall be valid for more than one birth. “America Needs a Code for Babies,” 27 Mar 1934
Give dysgenic groups [people with “bad genes”] in our population their choice of segregation or [compulsory] sterilization. April 1932 Birth Control Review, pg. 108
Birth control must lead ultimately to a cleaner race. Woman, Morality, and Birth Control. New York: New York Publishing Company, 1922. Page 12.
We should hire three or four colored ministers, preferably with social-service backgrounds, and with engaging personalities. The most successful educational approach to the Negro is through a religious appeal. We don’t want the word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population, and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members. Margaret Sanger’s December 19, 1939 letter to Dr. Clarence Gamble, 255 Adams Street, Milton, Massachusetts. Also described in Linda Gordon’s Woman’s Body, Woman’s Right: A Social History of Birth Control in America. New York: Grossman Publishers, 1976.
Such parents swell the pathetic ranks of the unemployed. Feeble-mindedness perpetuates itself from the ranks of those who are blandly indifferent to their racial responsibilities. And it is largely this type of humanity we are now drawing upon to populate our world for the generations to come. In this orgy of multiplying and replenishing the earth, this type is pari passu multiplying and perpetuating those direst evils in which we must, if civilization is to survive, extirpate by the very roots. The Need for Birth Control in America (quoted by Angela Franks.)
Women of the working class, especially wage workers, should not have more than two children at most. The average working man can support no more and the average working woman can take care of no more in decent fashion. “Family Limitation,” eighth edition revised, 1918
If those who believe in the lie that an unborn child is nothing more than a seed, a mass of tissue or as the more extreme name it, a parasite were consistent why don’t they demonstrate when a drunk driver who kills a pregnant woman is charged with two murders? Why don’t they send their daughters or nieces a card that says, “Congratulations on your coming mass of tissue.” Or “Congratulations on being freed from the parasite” when a baby is born?
This article may seem harsh to some, it may seem overly partisan. Some may even say I am pushing my religious beliefs on others. However this isn’t religion it is science. “Development of the embryo begins at Stage 1 when a sperm fertilizes an oocyte and together they form a zygote” and “Human development begins after the union of male and female gametes or germ cells during a process known as fertilization (conception).”
For further eye opening evidence from the mouths of Planned Parenthood workers themselves about what the organization is really about and what it is that you are supporting if you choose to help perpetuate the Sangerites and their war against humanity see the following Investigative Footage: http://www.centerformedicalprogress.org/cmp/investigative-footage/
Personally I choose life.
Dr. Owens teaches History, Political Science, and Religion. He is the Historian of the Future @ http://drrobertowens.com © 2016 Contact Dr. Owens drrobertowens@hotmail.com Follow Dr. Robert Owens on Facebook or Twitter @ Drrobertowens / Edited by Dr. Rosalie Owens
Why Should Obama Declare Martial Law September 7, 2016
Posted by Dr. Robert Owens in Politics, Politiocal Philosophy.Tags: Martial law, Dr. Robert Owens, Obama agenda, Hillary’s agenda, 2016 election, progressive agenda
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If you turn on, tune in, browse or otherwise peruse the alternative media you will undoubtedly come across the question, “Will President Obama declare Martial Law?” or one of its many variants: “Can President Obama use martial law to stay in the White House?” “What is Obama’s plan to declare martial law?” “President Obama signs martial lar order.” “President Obama will suspend 2016 election and impose martial law.” And of course there has to be an exposé with international implications, “Obama instigating war to declare Martial Law and stay in power for a THIRD term?”
Now I love a good conspiracy theory as well as the next person however, after reading these and a gazillion other variations on the theme I have come to the conclusion, why should President Obama declare martial law when he is already ruling by decree, refusing to enforce any laws he disagrees with, nationalizing local police forces, signing treaties by-any-other-name without ratification by the Senate, legislating by fiat, and in general acting like any other tin-pot dictator in a banana republic. In other words his actions are already imposing martial law and no one is connecting the dots. This isn’t conspiracy. This is observation.
We are witnessing the culmination of the Progressive’s long march from Trust Busting Teddy, through Whites Only Woodrow, Hoover’s unrecognized New Deal seed bed, FDR’s New Deal corporatist take-over which Joseph Goebbels, Hitler’s propaganda chief, in 1933, spoke of as the way for National Socialism to follow, LBJ’s Great Society safety net hammock vote buying scheme, Nixon’s “We are all Keynesians now” George I’s compassionate conservative read-my-lips betrayal, Clinton’s dot Com bubble panty raid, George II’s “we must abandon free market principles to save the free market,” to Obama’s war upon all that is good.
This has taken more than 100 years. The Progressives have kept their eye on the ball. To them it was always a game of two steps forward then one step back. First they set out to capture education. Then they captured the mainstream media and entertainment. Along the way they picked up the courts and infiltrated the leadership of both big box parties. Today we face a monolith that has brainwashed generations, distorted our culture, and makes even the most ardent supporters of freedom accept the seeming inevitability of their final triumph with the coming victory of Hillary “The Nail in Our Coffin” Clinton.
Given the electoral map, the unified media support, the guaranteed votes of the Kool-Aide drinking generational Democrats who may disagree with everything their leaders say but still vote that way, illegals driving to the polls on motor-voter, felons who can vote for those who let them out and restore their voting privileges, the massive government payroll that now outnumbers manufacturing employees by 9,932,000 who will vote for someone who wants to increase the size of government, those riding the government hammock, and of course all the dead who cast their zombie votes in the Democrat controlled wastelands we used to call alabaster cities gleaming undimmed by human tears.
Look at the vast number of disillusioned Democrats who fell for Bernie’s the burn out is real ersatz eruption which Rush said all along was just a front to make Hillary look like she had some competition in what we now know for sure was a rigged illusion. Look at the record breaking crowds that the Donald continues to gather in stadiums and arenas while hiding Hillary has a hard time filling a phone booth and it becomes apparent there is a groundswell for something besides the corrupt corporatist system we have today.
If this is thwarted by the rigging in the system, this ship of state may sail off a cliff. The present rule-by-decree tin pot may ride off into the sunset but another would take and ignore the same oath and the regime will go on. They have elections in China too. They have a new president every 5 – 10 years however the regime goes on.
So why should President Obama declare martial law? He shouldn’t. Why bother. The sheeple may bah-bah about wanting change. They may rally and demand change. However the regime believes if they pat us on our heads and have a mock election that changes nothing we will settle back down and play nice while they import a new population that is used to their authoritarian dreams.
Maybe they’re right and maybe they’re wrong. November is coming fast. What are you going to do? The only way the Donald, our only hope for change, wins is by a landslide. Anything close and the perpetually elected will find enough bags of votes in the basement to win. It must be a landslide. It must be such an overwhelming crushing defeat that the Progressives will not dare to thwart the will of the people or … the regime goes on.
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The Great Disconnect August 26, 2016
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Chaos is the mother of tyranny. Chaos reigns when people operate in confusion and disorder. It is a state in which behavior and events are not controlled by reason. Today we are faced with a government and an elite controlled media that lie to the people and then lie about lying. They operate as if the country is theirs to run and ruin for their own personal enrichment. Chaos is a time like today when life makes little sense and we are force-fed such gobbledygook as the economy is booming, President Obama has outperformed Reagan when it comes to job creation and investment, inflation is under control, unemployment is at 4.9%. Over here in reality we are fighting endless wars for peace, working people are being squeezed between stagnant wages and rising prices, and almost as many able-bodied people have dropped out of the workforce as there are people working. This is chaos. This is the seedbed of tyranny.
Our tyrants-in-training have captured the government and the economy, created a dependent class of motor-voters, convinced people that a continually growing debt is sustainable and turned the government into the one who picks winners and losers instead of a free economy. The slow slide down a slippery slope has accelerated into a precipitous procession over a predictable precipice. To those who have seen this coming it is like watching a slow motion train wreck. The coming destruction is not mitigated in the least by decades of warning by the watchmen on the walls.
How is this evolving progression from individual freedom, personal liberty, and economic opportunity into a centrally-planned collectivist corporatist regime possible? It is built upon the alliance of perpetually re-elected political hacks, crony capitalists, and corrupt unions aided and abetted by a sycophant media?
Why have the descendants of the Founders, the Framers, and the Revolution fallen for the same swan song that has led so many others before us down the primrose path to authoritarianism, totalitarianism, despotism, and collapse? I believe it is because the average American has no frame of reference. If we don’t know what has gone before how can we understand what is? Or plan for what might be?
If we don’t know where we came from it is impossible to predict where we are going. Therefore it is helpful to learn how the world became the way it is so that we can work to make it the way we think it should be, for without the past the present will never come into focus and the future will be nothing more than a mist that someone else will bring into focus. History consists of perspectives from the present projected onto facts from the past. While the facts are often disputed the perspectives tend to become quasi-religious dogma expressed as political opinions wherein the present uses the past to shape the future. Examples would be increasing the minimum wage is good for the working poor, infrastructure stimulus is good for the economy, or preemptive war is good for peace.
An important thing to realize across the board in Historical studies is a truism often maligned and sometimes even used as an insult but true nonetheless, everyone is the center of their own world and everyone experiences life from where they stand, and all attempts to speak of “the” experiences of THE people are fabrications that may be agreed upon by scholars but has little relationship to what any one person may experience.
As we mature it is easier to gain an appreciation of History since we have an ever increasing personal experience with the past with which to analyze our present and to project our future.
America’s lack of historical perspective and lack of understanding the basics of civics and economics has led to what I call the Great Disconnect. Here is the condition which we all encounter on a daily basis that exemplifies this educationally instilled mental pathology: How many people do you meet who vote for politicians diametrically opposed to everything they believe in? From everything they say you would imagine they must vote for party X then you find out they are rabid supporters of party Y which is against everything they are for, and they can’t stand the politicians of party X which supports everything they believe in. This is what I call the Great Disconnect.
A historical perspective is the antidote for this pathology.
In essence what I am talking about is using history to build a platform of the past to be a launching pad for the future. We are currently mortgaging the future to pay for the excesses of today. We are spending money that has not been earned by people who have not been born to subsidize the current creature comfort of those who don’t care who pays as long as they get what they want. It is unfortunate for the generations of the future for they will be forced to live in a world that we have created. Our parents conquered the world and left the nation inherited by the Boomers as the sole colossus who bestrides the tides of time. We have wasted the accumulated wealth of two hundred years, created a far flung empire we cannot afford to garrison, and turned a noble experiment in human freedom from a city on a hill into dysfunctional republic functioning as an entrenched oligarchy masquerading as a democracy.
If we had only learned from the mistakes of others, if we had only seen in the sudden collapse of the USSR that we too could follow hubris and collectivism from victory to defeat. Unfortunately it appears the only lesson we have learned from History is that we don’t learn the lessons of History and this is the Great Disconnect.
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American Pravda and New York’s Sixth Crime Family August 18, 2016
Posted by Dr. Robert Owens in Politics, Politiocal Philosophy.Tags: 2016 election, Dr. Robert Owens, Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders, the system is rigged, mainstream media, propaganda, low information voters
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In America today most people choose only the Corporations Once Known as the Mainstream Media based on the charisma of the news reader, and do not tune into other news options. Do they think they look or sound like authoritative? Are they better looking? Do they have a more pleasing voice? Are they a Male? Are they a female? Are they Gay? Are we not sure? Whatever the reason, it isn’t because they say anything different. It often sounds like they all have the same writers and story selectors. The content is no different. It is perhaps the line-up of the stories and that is about it.
Do you want to hear the story about how the Republican Elite is trying to figure out some way to dump Trump before you hear the story about how the Donald is not fit for the highest office in the land or after? Do you want to learn about the latest polls that show the race is already over before or after you hear how much better Hillary’s economic plan is than the insane proposals of the racist homophobe misogynist Trump?
When I have a chance encounter and what passes for conversation with so many Kool-Aid drinking low information voters i.e progressive induhviduals the conversation usually goes like this:
Me: What do you think about _______ (fill in the blank)?
Progressive Induhvidual: Repeat what ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, MSNBC, New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today, Chicago Tribune, etc. has said recently.
Or if they are a Conservative Induhvidual: Repeat what Fox, the Wall Street Journal, the Weekly Standard, National Review, etc. has recently said.
It is almost impossible to find anyone who has actually read any books on topics of importance such as economics, politics, sociology, or the History that ties them all together.
Several times a year I attend meetings that are filled with nothing but PhDs, professors, and university administrators. All content experts in these very subjects as well as many others. The results are basically the same. The death of critical thinking has led us to a deafening silence in the area of actual personal opinion, a dearth of dialogue, and a collapse of conversation. The American people, who at the time of the Founding saw blacksmiths discussing with candle makers the pros and cons of constitutions and the meaning of liberty or carpenters debating with plumbers the need for a free economy versus the need for public works. Just read the Federalist and the Anti-Federalist Papers, look at the level of thought and speech and ask yourself, “How does the public debate, and the newspaper articles of contemporary America match up?” Today the public debate takes place at about a 3rd grade level compared to the graduate school of those earlier days.
What happened? Back then there weren’t public schools. Churches and families educated their own. Today after generations of highly funded and severely structured public education we have successfully dumbed ourselves down to the lowest common denominator.
Looking at the Bernie Sanders revolt which was contained by the elite in the Democrat Party and the Trump Revolution which over whelmed the elite in the Republican Party it is obvious that we tax paying entities that inhabit flyover country have had enough of the bi-coastal elite that is driving us over the cliff into the third world. Obviously the elite controlled media has dropped their camouflage of objectivity and is all in to make sure their empty pantsuit carries the day so she can carry the water for the donor class all the way to the bank.
At least there has been one pseudo surprise in the Hollywood scripted replay of Primary Colors the Distaff Edition, all of the frothing at the mouth Bernie supporters who were so brave to boo or turn their backs at the recent Democrat Party Spectacle in Philadelphia are falling into line and surprise surprise they are planning to vote for Hillary. Just as evidence surfaces that yes, the entire primary exercise was rigged from the beginning they are going to stand in line to cast their rationally considered and highly principled vote for the very person who engineered the fix, takes her money and marching orders from the crony capitalists, and is arguably the most corrupt person to ever run for the presidency. Who could have seen this coming except a blind man in a dark room with no media access?
The pre-programmed electorate combined with the usual fraud, imported voters and all the dead people who never leave the voting rolls of the corrupt Democrat City fiefdoms, will march in lockstep to the polls to hand America lock-stock-and-barrel to the Clinton Crime Family. Our only hope is that enough people have swallowed the red pill and are willing to at least take a shot at shaking things up before we are swept away by the unregulated immigration invasion and state sponsored outsourcing.
An old saying goes, “There are only two things that are certain in this life, death and taxes.” We have all been programmed to accept this as an inevitable truism. Death to be sure is natural and inevitable. If you were born you will die. Taxes however are not a natural thing. They are in actuality the forced expropriation of funds from the productive taken through the use of the state’s monopoly on the use of coercive force. And so though they are not natural and they are not inevitable like death or gravity they may in realistic terms given the overwhelming preponderance of government power be unavoidable.
If our country follows the dictates of the elite controlled media America becomes the turf of the Sleazy Donna from Chappaqua whose word parsing motto should be the Bart Simpson anthem, “I didn’t do it! Nobody saw me do it! There’s no way. You can’t prove anything.” If the White House once again becomes Bill’s love nest and the George Soros puppet in heels moves into the Oval Office with her rolodex of contributors both foreign and domestic let’s hope we don’t find something else becoming inevitable. Such as critics of the regime joining the ever growing list of questionable deaths that follows New York’s Sixth Crime Family around like a bad odor.
Don’t just opt out because the system is obviously going to hell in a handbasket, vote for a change or shall we say, “See you in the camps”?
Dr. Owens teaches History, Political Science, and Religion. He is the Historian of the Future @ http://drrobertowens.com © 2016 Contact Dr. Owens drrobertowens@hotmail.com Follow Dr. Robert Owens on Facebook or Twitter @ Drrobertowens / Edited by Dr. Rosalie Owens
