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On the Liberty of the Ancients Compared with that of the Moderns  |
| "He loved liberty as other men love power," was the judgment passed on Benjamin Constant by a 19th-century admirer.His great public concern, all throughout his adult life, was the attainment of a free society, especially for his adopted country, France; and if a (by no means uncritical) French commentator exaggeraMonday, February 8, 2021 |
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| Benjamin Constant |
| On the Liberty of the Ancients Compared with that of the Moderns |
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He loved liberty as other men love power," was the judgment passed on Benjamin Constant by a 19th-century admirer.
His great public concern, all throughout his adult life, was the attainment of a free society, especially for his adopted country, France; and if a (by no means uncritical) French commentator exagSaturday, November 28, 2020 |
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 | Jesse - Le Cafe Américain |
| Pro America Rally Tonight - |
| “You demagogues are like the fishers for eels; in still waters they catch nothing, but if they thoroughly stir up the slime, their fishing is good; in the same way it's only in troubled times that you line your pockets.”
Aristophanes, The Knights
"They claim to be super-patriots, but they would destroy every liberty guaranteed by the Constitution. They demand free enterprise, but are the spokesmen for monopoly and vested interest. Their final objective, toward which all their deceit is directSunday, March 18, 2018 |
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| Jesse - Le Cafe Américain |
| DNC Spent $700+ Million on Five Consultants And Deprived Their State Organizations of Basic Funds |
| "For twelve years this nation was afflicted with hear-nothing, see-nothing, do-nothing government. The nation looked to government but the government looked away. Nine mocking years with the golden calf and three long years of the scourge! Nine crazy years at the ticker and three long years in the breadlines! Nine mad years of mirage and three long years of despair!
And, my friends, powerful influences strive today to restore that kind of government with its doctrine that that government is beThursday, December 14, 2017 |
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 | Mac Slavo - ShtfPlan |
| Crypto Currency Calm Before The Storm: “Governments Are Studying It To Find The Means To Take Control Of It… And You” |
| The United States (and the world) has been using the worthless fiat federal reserve note that is not backed by any true tangible asset. The only backing is not even the “full faith and credit of the United States government,” because the government is too far in debt to have any credit. Faith disappeared a long time ago: our faith in elected officials as public servants. Instead, they serve themselves upon the labors of the public, and the public services them, in every sense of the word.
CrySaturday, October 21, 2017 |
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| Jesse - Le Cafe Américain |
| Stocks and Precious Metals Charts - |
| "The conventional wisdom seems to be that the problems of the euro zone are, as economist Martin Feldstein once put it, 'the inevitable consequence of imposing a single currency on a very heterogeneous group of countries.'
What this commentary gets wrong, however, is that single currencies are never the product of debates about optimal economic solutions. Instead, currencies like the U.S. dollar itself are the result of political battles, where motivated actors try to centralize power.
This hTuesday, September 19, 2017 |
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| Jesse - Le Cafe Américain |
| Stocks and Precious Metals Charts - |
| "Most of us are still too sane to piss in our own cistern, but we allow others to do so and we reward them for it. We reward them so well, in fact, that those who piss in our cistern are wealthier than the rest of us. How do we submit? By not being radical enough. Or by not being thorough enough, which is the same thing."
Wendell Berry
"Our future could be one in which continued tumult feeds the looting of the financial system, and we talk more and more about exactly how our oligarchs becamFriday, May 19, 2017 |
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 | Tom DiLorenzo - lewRockwell |
The Deification of Lincoln  |
| “The violence of the criticism aimed at Lincoln by the great men of his time on both sides of the Mason-Dixon line is startling. The breadth and depth of the spectacular prejudice against him is often shocking for its cruelty, intensity, and unrelenting vigor. The plain truth is that Mr. Lincoln was deeply reviled by many who knew him personally, and by hundreds of thousands who only knew of him.”
–Larry Tagg, The Unpopular Mr. Lincoln: America’s Most Reviled President
In his book, The UnpopulMonday, May 1, 2017 |
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| Jesse - Le Cafe Américain |
| Wages, Productivity, and Inequality |
| "Inequality is a euphemism, a kind of shorthand, for all of the things that have gone to make the lives of the rich so much more delicious, year on year, for the last three decades. And also for the things that have made the lives of working people so wretched and so precarious in that same time.
This word inequality. It's visible in the ever rising costs of healthcare and college, in the coronation of Wall Street, and the slow blighting of wherever it is that you happen to live. And you catcTuesday, April 25, 2017 |
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| Jesse - Le Cafe Américain |
| Stocks and Precious Metals Charts - |
| Just another day in the oligarchy.
There was an intraday note about the returns of stocks and precious metals year to date posted here.
Have a pleasant evening.Tuesday, April 4, 2017 |
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| Jesse - Le Cafe Américain |
| Bread and Roses: The Lawrence Massachusetts Textile Strike of 1912 - No Updates Tonight |
| "What connects two thousand years of genocide (and the abuse of human rights)? Too much power in too few hands."
Simon Wiesenthal
As I am going to be parked at hospital for the better part of today there will be no updates tonight.
People forget, and too often the schools and the media fail to remind us, that even within our own history reforms such as the eight hour work day, basic workplace safety, and the end to abusive child labor were won in a long and determined struggle, not only with Thursday, February 2, 2017 |
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| Sprott Money |
Currecide: The Globalists’ Planned Annihilation of Your Savings and Freedom - Dave Kranzler  |
| I wanted to share some of Stewart Dougherty's thoughts, which are raw, unedited and quite insightful:
I totally agree with what you
wrote me previously about gold going ballistic this year. It’s probably
better set-up right now than at any other time in history, for a large
number of reasons. I hope it can finally overwhelm, once and for all the
schemers who work to keep it down.
I continue to think that cash
elimination is the biggest story out there. It is a fraud of epic
proportions,Friday, January 27, 2017 |
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| Jesse - Le Cafe Américain |
| How the Democratic Party Failed By Repudiating Their Legacy as 'The Party of the People' |
| As the Democrats and their acolytes in the media pivot towards hysteria against 'the others' to explain their failures, let us not forget what has happened over the past thirty years, culminating in the stunning election of 2016.
This is a relatively short video, and heart of it starts around minute twenty after a discussion of the history, motives, and rationales by which the Democrats took the final steps in repudiating the legacy of The New Deal to embrace neo-liberalism.
The Democratic leaSunday, January 1, 2017 |
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 | Captain Hook - Treasure Chest |
| Braveheart |
| Say what you want about the guy, like Scotsman William Wallace of Braveheart fame, Donald Trump has started ‘a movement’ of the common folk in America like no other since it’s founding. He has seized the moment with Hillary’s ‘deplorables’ – you know – America’s hard working and honest people – two things she knows nothing about. And while it’s true Trump was born wiMonday, November 14, 2016 |
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| Mac Slavo - ShtfPlan |
| “Violent Revolution If Trump Lets Them Down”: People Remain Poised for Angry Revolt – Roberts |
| “Revolution is probably the only solution.”
That seems to be the conclusion of Paul Craig Roberts, a respected member of Reagan’s Administration and former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury.
The crisis has simply been building.
Like others, Dr. Roberts highlights the promises of Donald Trump and the reasons behind his sweeping populist victory.
However, he warns that if Trump “pulls an Obama” and sells out the people to whom he has promised change, violent revolution will likely be the result Friday, November 11, 2016 |
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| Jesse - Le Cafe Américain |
| Gold Daily and Silver Weekly Charts - All For One, And None For You |
| "But there is a sort of 'Ok guys, you're mad, but how are you going to stop me' mentality at the top."
Robert Johnson, Audacious Oligarchy
The US dollar continued powering higher today, which is not good at all for the real economy but certainly serves the global purposes of the financial class.
Gold and silver held their own against this, and a continuing decline in stock market volatility as measured by the VIX.
The deliveries were notable only for gold, as Macquarie continued to offer upSaturday, October 22, 2016 |
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| Jesse - Le Cafe Américain |
| Gold Daily and Silver Weekly Charts - The Men Who Sold the World |
| "You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing's replaced them. And they fell through the Clinton administration, and the Bush administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not.
And it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy toward people who aren't like them or anti-immigranThursday, June 30, 2016 |
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| Jesse - Le Cafe Américain |
| Jobs Report Huge Miss at 38,000 Jobs Added, Shrinking Workweek, Stagnant Real Wages |
| "This election was lost four and five and six years ago and not this year. They didn't start thinking of the poor old common fellow until they started out on the election tour.
The money was all appropriated for the top in the hopes that it would trickle down to the needy. Mr. Hoover was an engineer. He knew that water trickled down. Put it uphill and let it go and it will reach the driest little spot.
But he didn't know that money trickled up. Give it to the people at the bottom and the peoFriday, June 3, 2016 |
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| Jesse - Le Cafe Américain |
 The Culture of Criminality: Wall Street and The Banks |
| “The new America, instead, is fast becoming a vast ghetto in which all of us, conservatives and progressives, are being bled dry by a relatively tiny oligarchy of extremely clever financial criminals and their castrato henchmen in government, whose job is to be good actors on TV and put on a good show...
Wall Street has turned the economy into a giant asset-stripping scheme, one whose purpose is to suck the last bits of meat from the carcass of the middle class."
Matt TaibbiMonday, May 30, 2016 |
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| Jesse - Le Cafe Américain |
| Gold Daily and Silver Weekly Charts - Option Expiry on the Comex - |
| "The problem of the last three decades is not the 'vicissitudes of the marketplace,' but rather deliberate actions by the government to redistribute income from the rest of us to the one percent. This pattern of government action shows up in all areas of government policy."
Dean Baker
"Most of them became wealthy by being well connected and crooked. And they are creating a society in which they can commit hugely damaging economic crimes with impunity, and in which only children of the wTuesday, May 24, 2016 |
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