Povestea înrobirii tale (RO) | The Story of Your Enslavement
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This is the story of your enslavement; how it came to be, and you can finally be free.
Like all animals, human beings want to dominate and exploit the resources around them.
At first, we mostly hunted and fished and ate off the land - but then
Like all animals, human beings want to dominate and exploit the resources around them.
At first, we mostly hunted and fished and ate off the land - but then
something magical and terrible happened to our minds.
We became, alone among the animals, afraid of death, and of future loss.
And this was the start of a great tragedy, and an even greater possibility...
You see, when we became afraid of death, of injury, and imprisonment,
we became controllable --
and so valuable -- in a way that no other resource could ever be.
The greatest resource for any human being to control is not natural resources,
The greatest resource for any human being to control is not natural resources,
or tools, or animals or land -- but other human beings.
You can frighten an animal, because animals are afraid of pain in the moment, but you
cannot frighten an animal with a loss of liberty, or with torture or imprisonment in the future,
because animals have very little sense of tomorrow.
You cannot threaten a cow with torture, or a sheep with death.
You cannot swing a sword at a tree and scream at it to produce more fruit,
or hold a burning torch to a field and demand more wheat.
You cannot get more eggs by threatening a hen - but you can get a man
to give you his eggs by threatening him.
Human farming has been the most profitable -- and destructive --
occupation throughout history, and it is now reaching its destructive climax.
Human society cannot be rationally understood until it is seen for what it is:
a series of farms where human farmers own human livestock.
Some people get confused because governments
provide healthcare and water and education and roads,
and thus imagine that there is some benevolence at work.
Nothing could be further from reality.
Farmers provide healthcare and irrigation and training to their livestock.
Some people get confused because we are allowed certain liberties, and thus imagine
Nothing could be further from reality.
Farmers provide healthcare and irrigation and training to their livestock.
Some people get confused because we are allowed certain liberties, and thus imagine
that our government protects our freedoms.
But farmers plant their crops a certain distance apart to increase their yields -- and will allow
certain animals larger stalls or fields if it means they will produce more meat and milk.
In your country, your tax farm, your farmer grants you certain freedoms not because he cares
about your liberties, but because he wants to increase his profits.
Are you beginning to see the nature of the cage you were born into?
There have been four major phases of human farming.
The first phase, in ancient Egypt, was direct and brutal human compulsion.
Are you beginning to see the nature of the cage you were born into?
There have been four major phases of human farming.
The first phase, in ancient Egypt, was direct and brutal human compulsion.
Human bodies were controlled, but the creative productivity of the human mind
remained outside the reach of the whip and the brand and the shackles.
Slaves remained woefully under-productive and required enormous resources
to control.
The second phase was the Roman model, wherein slaves were granted
some capacity for freedom, ingenuity and creativity, which raised their productivity.
This increased the wealth of Rome, and thus
the tax income of the Roman government - and with this additional wealth,
Rome became an empire,
destroying the economic freedoms that fed its power, and collapsed.
I'm sure that this does not seem entirely unfamiliar.
After the collapse of Rome, the feudal model introduced the concept of livestock
ownership and taxation. Instead of being directly owned, peasants farmed land
that they could retain
as long as they paid off the local warlords. This model broke down due to the
continual subdivision of productive land, and was destroyed during the
Enclosure movement, when land was consolidated, and
hundreds of thousands of peasants were kicked off their ancestral lands,
because new farming techniques made
larger farms more productive with fewer people.
The increased productivity of the late Middle Ages created the excess food required
for the expansion of towns and cities, which in turn gave rise
to the modern Democratic model of human ownership.
As displaced peasants flooded into the cities, a huge stock of cheap human capital
became available to the rising industrialists - and the ruling class of human farmers
quickly realized that they could make more money by letting their livestock
choose their own occupations.
Under the Democratic model, direct slave ownership has been replaced
by the Mafia model. The Mafia rarely owns businesses directly, but rather sends
thugs around once a month to steal from the business "owners."
You are now allowed to choose your own occupation, which raises your productivity -
and thus the taxes you can pay to your masters.
Your few freedoms are preserved because they are profitable to your owners.
The great challenge of the Democratic model is that increases in wealth and freedom
threaten the farmers. The ruling classes initially profit from a relatively free market
in capital and labor, but as their livestock become more used to their freedoms and
growing wealth, they begin to question why they need rulers at all.
Ah well. Nobody ever said that human farming was easy.
Keeping the tax livestock securely in the compounds of the ruling classes
is a three phase process.
The first is to indoctrinate the young through government "education."
The first is to indoctrinate the young through government "education."
As the wealth of democratic countries grew, government schools were universally
inflicted in order to control the thoughts and souls of the livestock.
The second is to turn citizens against each other through
the creation of dependent livestock.
It is very difficult to rule human beings directly through force --
It is very difficult to rule human beings directly through force --
and where it can be achieved, it remains cripplingly under-productive,
as can be seen in North Korea. Humans do not breed well
or produce efficiently in direct captivity.
If human beings believe that they are free, then they will produce much more
for their farmers. The best way to maintain this illusion of freedom is to put some
of the livestock on the payroll of the farmer. Those cows that become dependent
on the existing hierarchy will then attack any other cows who point out the violence,
hypocrisy and immorality of human ownership.
Freedom is slavery, and slavery is freedom.
If you can get the cows to attack each other whenever anybody brings up the reality
of their situation, then you don't have to spend nearly as much controlling them directly.
Those cows who become dependent upon the stolen largess of the farmer
will violently oppose any questioning of the virtue of human ownership -- and the
intellectual and artistic classes, always and forever dependent
upon the farmers -- will say, to anyone who demands freedom from ownership:
"You will harm your fellow cows."
The livestock are kept enclosed by shifting the moral responsibility
for the destructiveness of a violent system to those who demand real freedom.
The third phase is to invent continual external threats, so that the frightened
livestock cling to the "protection" of the farmers.
This system of human farming is now nearing its end.
The terrible tragedy of the modern American system has occurred
not in spite of, but because of past economic freedoms.
The massive increases in American wealth throughout the 19th century
resulted from economic freedom -- and it was this very increase in wealth
that fed the size and power of the state.
Whenever the livestock become exponentially more productive, you get
a corresponding increase in the number of farmers and their dependents.
The growth of the state is always proportional to the preceding
economic freedoms.
Economic freedoms create wealth, and the wealth attracts more thieves
Economic freedoms create wealth, and the wealth attracts more thieves
and political parasites, whose greed then destroys the economic freedoms.
In other words, freedom metastasizes the cancer of the state.
The government that starts off the smallest will always end up the largest.
This is why there can be no viable and sustainable alternative
to a truly free and peaceful society.
A society without political rulers, without human ownership,
A society without political rulers, without human ownership,
without the violence of taxation and statism...
To be truly free is both very easy, and very hard.
We avoid the horror of our enslavement because it is painful to see it directly.
We dance around the violence of our dying system
because we fear the attacks of our fellow livestock.
But we can only be kept in the cages we refuse to see.
Wake up...
To see the farm is to leave it.
Mellow gets 16 months - opinion piece by Nobody
Mellow gets 16 months
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by: Nobody@ http://ScrantonPoliticalTimes.com
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SCRANTON'S BRAIN DRAIN
POVERTY CRISIS CONTRIBUTORS
"IT'S AS IF HIGH ACHIEVEMENT CONCEPT IS WHITE NOISE."
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United Way of Lackawanna County: update on a five-part series.
United Way of Lackawanna County: A five-part Series.
PART III: Inefficient use of funds
Part V: Conclusions and further action
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ORIGINAL POSTER: WOLFRAM
@ HTTP://SCRANTONPOLITICALTIMES.COM
I. Organizational Structure
Recently the biased Scranton Times ran a page one article on how the state of Pennsylvania is reviewing the salaries of non-profit organization executives who administer PA taxpayer funds. The article featured Mr. Gary Drapek, President of the United Way of Lackawanna County, lamenting that he would lose a portion of his pay with the cuts in state programs.
I want the reader to understand that the United Way of Lackawanna and Wayne Counties is structured as a non-profit entity and represented as a humanitarian organization. In reality, they are both a quasi-governmental agency and a non-profit marketing entity that gives a portion of their revenue to human services agency to help the disadvantaged. They are a quasi-governmental agency in that they are given tax payer funds to directly administer in social services programs. Further, they are mainly a marketing firm with highly paid marketing executives to create advertising and marketing initiatives to pull on the heart strings of the public so they can elicit money from your paycheck to help the poor, only a fraction of which makes it to help the needy. More about that in this five-part series.
Since the Scranton Times is in league with the non-profit organizations and the left-wing of the political spectrum, they failed to mention the specifics of Mr. Drapek's compensation. According to IRS 990 documents, Mr. Drapek received $95,000 in compensation in the 2010 reporting year as well as $7,600 in benefits for a total of $102,600. This is up from $101,034 in compensation and benefits reported in 2009. Mr. Jack Evans, Sr. Vice-President of Finance received a total of $70,578 in total compensation and benefits in 2010 up from $69,174 in 2009.
It would take 3,330 hourly employees in Northeastern PA to take $1 per week out of their checks for an entire year just to pay the salary and benefits of the top two people at United Way!!
Save your money and become an Active American. Donate food, toys, or clothing to the poor during the holiday season. Try to avoid using your hard-earned cash. Take direct control of your giving to ensure all of your funds make a difference for a needy person. 15% solution: It only takes a 15% cut in funds to topple or create major reform in an organization. In order for Northeastern Pennsylvania, especially Scranton, we need societal institutions and government that have the people's interests first and objective truthful media outlets. Until that time, our area will not improve socially or economically.
Part II: Deception Through Omission of Information
For a corporate entity or a non-profit entity, the two main financial documents are the balance sheet and the income statement. If you wanted to invest in Coca-Cola, Pepsi, UPS, General Motors, or other American corporations, you can go to their website and view their balance sheet and income statement for each quarter of the year very easily.
Non-profit entities are required to file Form 990, the income statement, each year with the Internal Revenue Service. By law the non-profit entity does not have to post it on their website, but must furnish you a copy upon your request as an individual. But that is a labor intensive process for an individual donor to do their due diligence on the efficiency and prudent fiscal management of an organization.
If you go to the website of the United Way of Lackawanna County you will find their balance sheet included in their 2011-2012 annual report. They very cleverly omit their income statement, Form 990, from their annual report or any part of their website so that you cannot see the high salaries of the executives and the large portion of donations they spend on salaries, benefits, and marketing, thus leaving an alarmingly small fraction for the poor. This is the clever deception of donors through omission of information.
If you look at the website of the United Way of Lehigh Valley, the Allentown area, the IRS FORM 990, the income statement, is clearly posted on their website for your review. They make it transparent to the donor where all funds are going and they make it easy for you to review this information.
Transparency of information leads to prudent decisions by donors to non-profits. Transparency in governmental institutions leads to sound spending, to an informed electorate, and to prevention of corruption. Look for transparency in all societal organizations you deal with including city governments, social groups, churches, and non-profit entities. When you do not find this, it should be a warning bell for you. In our next segment, we will examine the lack of efficiency of donated dollars to the poor. We will attempt to follow the money.
PART III: Inefficient use of funds
Only 49 cents of every donated dollar to the United Way of Lackawanna and Wayne Counties makes it to the needy. As per IRS Form 990 for the 2010 tax year, they had revenue of $3,447,432 while only $2,290,386 was paid out to human services agencies. This means they have 33.6% of overhead and expenses, and 66.4% of funds were passed on to providers. Assuming 25% overhead at the actual service provider, you only get 49 cents of every donated dollar gets spent on the needy. Now I would really like to know if this bothers anybody else in this forum, because I think it is a damn shame.
Further for 2010, 21% of all United Way of Lackawanna County Revenue was spent on salaries and benefits. What I would like the reader to take away from this is that these people are not the selfless nuns, priests, pastors, and rabbis of your youth, who help the poor and the needy out of their commitment to God or humanity. They are large corporate entities who only help the poor after they extract their pound of flesh. As with other local institutions, like Scranton City Government, Scranton Teachers, Lackawanna County Goverment, the needs of the people who run the local societal institutions come first. Once the member of the local government and non-profit agencies take care of themselves and their families lavishly, then they throw the scraps to the remainder of society. I am interested in your comments.
Part IV: Lack of Anti Coercion Policy.
The United Way of Lackawanna and Wayne Counties does not have an anti coercion policy on their website, even though the national headquarters has issued an anti-coercion policy. I will paste it below for reader information. This should be common practice but they fail to observe it. For example, the United Way of Chester County posts the National Headquarters Anit Coercion Policy right on their website. The United Way of Lehigh Valley addresses the anti-coercion policy under their frequently asked questions area.
I would like to hear from readers on this topic. Now it is well known in this area, that managers and department heads at local large office companies where the United Way shirts during work like a Gary Drapek gestapo. This changes the dynamic to coercion, from "Do you wish to give to United Way? to "Are you loyal to your boss and company?" So you will donate if you know what is good for you. The policy from national headquarters clearly states that solicitation by managers in corporations is to be avoided. While in college many years ago, I worked for a large retail grocery store, they forced me to give so they would have 100% participation. I hear that this still goes on today. The policy is printed below as stated:
UNITED WAY POLICY AGAINST COERCION
United Ways understand that fund-raising success depends on how much potential donors
know and understand the organizations seeking support. Fund-raising should always be
conducted in a voluntary manner; coercion creates animosity, hinders communication and
understanding and eventually leads to decreased support.
For years United Ways have been concerned about the use of undue pressure in
fund-raising and are opposed to any type of coercion. Any semblance of pressure - whether
real, implied or perceived - is contradictory to the operating standards of United Way.
United Ways continually try to prevent the use of coercion in their campaigns by
encouraging peer solicitation, rather than solicitation of employees by managers. In
addition, United Ways conduct training programs for fund-raisers that stress information
and education, and discourage the practice of seeking 100 percent participation in a
campaign, as that may inadvertently encourage coercion.
To underscore their conviction about this policy, United Way of Americas Board of
Governors adopted the following policy statement:
The Board of Governors of United Way of America believes that the most
responsive contributors are those who have the opportunity to become
informed and involved. A well-planned campaign with an effective
communications program, conducted by committed volunteers, will ensure
responsive contributors. While we have always been unalterably opposed to
coercion, we do recognize a responsibility to state our beliefs formally, as
freedom of choice is a basic tenet of our democratic society.
Giving is a personal matter and decision; no form of coercion is acceptable.
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Part V: Conclusions and further action
Based upon all of my findings, I am going to approach members of the Board of Directors of the United Way of Lackawanna County and ask them to publish the national anti-coercion policy of the United Way organization and press them to publish all of present and past IRS 990 forms so that people who are inclined to give have transparent information on the quality of this organization. Each donor can then make their own judgments.
My own opinion is that charitable giving should be a private family decision and not a workplace decision, so I personally do not like their whole model of doing things. I would ask others to consider becoming an "Active American." Make conscious decisions about helping and charity in your home, and then take all precaution and action to ensure that your funds, toys, and food make it into the proper hands. Local charities where you can physically walk up with your donations and you can visually see people being helped offers the best peace of mind like food banks, local libraries, soup kitchens, Toys for Tots, and so forth.
If you do not have resources, help a neighbor in need by giving a ride, cutting the lawn, or taking a person to the store. Being neighborly, kind, and a good steward of resources will ensure that people will get help without enriching all of the bureaucrats.
ORIGINAL POSTER: WOLFRAM
@ HTTP://SCRANTONPOLITICALTIMES.COM
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