Onebornfree's Special Scam Alerts [no.21] - Nov. 5th, 2017

Onebornfree's Special Scam Alerts [no.21] - Nov. 5th, 2017

"The kind of man who wants the government to adopt and enforce his ideas is always the kind of man whose ideas are idiotic"   
 H.L. Mencken

 "My first rule- I don't believe anything the government tells me- nothing!- ZERO!" George Carlin

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The Investment/Economic Predictions Scam:

obf sez: A good piece on the fallacies of what is usually called "technical analysis" in investment circles:

"Beware the Chartist: He Brings You False Science":

"....Let me be clear. I am not talking about Chart Makers, diligent folks who map the crust and waterways of the planet. Nor am I degrading the Chartists, those English political reformers, active between 1838—48...."

"....I'm talking about those arrogant snobs who promote the belief that the future performance of markets can be predicted from analyzing yesterday's lines and dots on a page.

This group is deadly dangerous: They leave empty bank accounts and broken spirits in their wake.

Look, if there are customers willing to pay the Gypsy lady to read tea leaves, that's OK with me. After all, she entertains her clients — but never presents herself as possessed with a body of scientific knowledge........":

obf sez: good news, dear reader, there is no need to rely on "chartists", nor any other type of  financial fortune-teller to safeguard your precious savings. See: 

"Got Money You Can Afford To Lose?[How to Safely Profit In Stocks,Gold,Crypto's etc.] "

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The "Meat Glue" Scam

Is Your Dinner Steak “Glued” Together?

"Transglutaminase is an animal-blood enzyme used as “meat glue” to create a prime filet steak, which many cooks and eaters can’t tell the difference."

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The Las Vegas Shooting Scam


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNqxUuyHFzc

Why Has The Las Vegas Massacre Disappeared From The News Cycle?

"It is without a doubt, our news cycle – in the age of 24/7 constant-connectedness – moves at a breakneck pace. With so much information and news reaching us, it’s easy to become overburdened and burned out on the world around us and the things taking place. It is true, too, that the mainstream media dictates what stays center in the mind of the public and what is allowed to fade away and be forgotten. It is of the utmost importance we remain aware – however exhaustive it may be – of stories that just don’t add up.
Enter the Las Vegas shooting; the worst mass-shooting in U.S. history..."

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The Big Pharma/ M.D./ Allopathic "Medicine" Scam


[obf sez: A very important examination of how big- government sanctified allopathic medicine systems and pharmaceuticals came to dominate in the US, China and Europe. { one word hint : "Rockefeller"},  and how that "top- down" system has inevitably led to the recent scam currently known as "Obamacare" . See also, "The "Robber Baron" Scam" below. P.S. , I'm 66, and have not been to an allopathic "doctor" or hospital for 25+ years- I make it a point to avoid them all like the plague!]:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6J_7PvWoMw

What Your MD Doesn’t Tell You Can Harm You

"The opioid problems notwithstanding, has it ever occurred to healthcare consumers and allopathic medicine’s patients as to why you aren’t told the warnings, contraindications or adverse effects regarding the Rx-prescription MDs give you, often as many as 3 “scripts” at a time, when no studies have been done to determine if there are adverse reactions or contraindications from taking various chemical pharmaceuticals and legal drugs simultaneously?

Doctors are swift to advise patients about not taking vitamins, supplements, herbal and natural remedies—that’s a known given.  However, are they as quick to tell patients about the chemicals they are prescribing?....."

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The Tesla/ Elon Musk Scam

A Sneak Peek at the Economy of Tomorrow
"....the losses are getting bigger; a record $619 million in capital disappeared in the last quarter alone......"

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The Central Bank/Federal Reserve:

"Can Gradual Interest-Rate Tightening Prevent a Bust?"

"...is it possible by means of a gradual monetary policy to undo the damage inflicted to the economy by previous loose monetary policies? According to mainstream economic thinking, it would appear that this is the case...."

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The "Robber Baron" Scam:

"The Truth About the "Robber Barons"

"...As common as it is to speak of "robber barons," most who use that term are confused about the role of capitalism in the American economy and fail to make an important distinction — the distinction between what might be called a market entrepreneur and a political entrepreneur. ..."

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The Missile Defense Scam:

"Don't Trust the US Government on Missile Defense":

"....The claim of 97% reliability for the U.S.’s anti-missile defenses is being challenged by Cirincione and others, who argue that the United States can only “shoot down some…missiles some of the time.” They make a number of arguments that are quite convincing, even to a layman who has no understanding of the physics involved......"

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The Immigration Scam:

""....Arguments about immigration will always be with us. But it’s important to understand that the real issue isn’t freedom for immigrants – it’s your freedom......... new laws to limit immigration will affect you considerably. You may think those laws will keep America pure, but they will succeed only in taking more of your liberty."

https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/libertyhq/the-immigration-scam-t3337.html

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The Public Education Scam:

"Indoctrination Has Always Been the Goal of Progressive Education"

"..A prime example of this is the Edina public schools, where teachers have been giving lessons driven through the lens of race, class, gender, and other social justice norms.

As reports indicate, such news has not gone over very well with parents, many of whom express shock and disappointment that their children are being indoctrinated rather than educated.

But these parents really shouldn’t be surprised, for such an approach to education has been touted by progressives since at least the 1930s, if not sooner......"

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The Donald Trump Scam:

Trick or Treat: One Year Later, Is Trump a Blessing or a Curse to the Deep State?

"...the American police state is still alive and well and flourishing.
Nothing has changed.

Rather than draining the corrupt swamps of Washington, as he repeatedly promised, Trump and his brand of reality TV politics have merely redirected our attention.

Trust me, the swamps are still stagnant with corruption......."

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The Technocracy Scam:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tn4P7IBqoQ


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jzRfnijRBU

"Brave New World and individual power"

"Huxley’s 1932 novel about a World State and its version of Utopia is still one of the most important and relevant novels of our time.

It is the companion piece to Orwell’s 1984. The overt brutal force has been removed from the equation in Brave New World. Instead: all births are synthetic, hatched in artificial womb factories, with accompanying genetic manipulation; no more nuclear families; no more monogamy; education is achieved through hypnotic sleep-learning; a caste system is engineered so the lower, less intelligent classes are happy with their lot, and the upper-level “alphas” occupy the top positions; the castes have little interest in associating with each other. Technocracy has triumphed......."

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The "Nazis Were Capitalists" Scam

"The Myth of Nazi Capitalism"

 [ obf sez;  the Nazi's were socialists, through and through]:

"It is now the conventional wisdom that the Nazis were capitalists, not socialists, despite their misleading name “The National Socialist German Workers Party.” Anybody with a college degree knows they were capitalistic, if not in name, then at least in principle.

Of course, this is all nonsense. But the question does arise, where did this myth come from?..."

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The Communism/Socialism/ Marxism Scam:

"The Bolshevik Great Experiment: One Hundred Years Later"

"Stealth socialism: follow the money":

".........The federal government hands out money like an endless Niagara, to private companies and to itself—and in this way, it controls the operations of a major part of the economy. THAT IS SOCIALISM. BY STEALTH.

If you don’t think so, imagine what would happen if the government withdrew its funding.

Karl Marx might have quibbled about this form of socialism, but in the end he would see its intent and practical results:

“Well, the government puts onerous taxes on the people, and bankrolls a major portion of the economy…hmm, not bad, all in all. It’s a start.”

Of course, the super-rich secreted their wealth, long ago, in non-profit foundations. And they—the Rockefellers and Carnegies, and so on—they’re the people who want to expand socialism........"

"The Insatiable Utopia"

"In February 1917, a 30-year-old Bolshevik named Valerian Osinsky wrote to his 22-year-old mistress about a coming revolution that would wipe away czarism and deliver what Christianity couldn't: the kingdom of heaven on earth. "Only in the world of insatiable utopia," he wrote, "will the simplest ethical rules become real and free from exceptions and contradictions."

Twenty-one years later, he would be executed as an "enemy of the people" for his blasphemies against the Soviet Union.

Stories like that abound in the Berkeley historian Yuri Slezkine's 1,100-page epic, The House of Government, which chronicles the lives of elite Bolsheviks and their families from their early days of revolutionary awakening through the overthrow of the czar, the building of "the dictatorship of the proletariat," Joseph Stalin's Great Terror, and their children's loss of faith. ....":



"This year marks the hundredth anniversary of one of the worst mistakes ever made: the Communist revolution in Russia."

Communist regimes went on to kill about 100 million people. Most died in famines after socialist tyrants forced people to practice inefficient collective farming. Millions of others were executed in political purges...........That won't stop some Americans from celebrating Communism's anniversary. A day of anti-Trump protests is scheduled for Nov. 4, and I'm sure some protestors will wave hammer-and-sickle flags. Some will wear Che Guevara shirts.
A few commentators will call the protesters "idealistic" but impractical. They shouldn't. We should call them supporters of mass murder......"

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The JFK Assassination Scam:

"The Kennedy Assassination":

"...If you really want to know who killed President Kennedy and why, read JFK and the Unspeakable. Yes, there are other carefully researched books that you can read.

Douglass concludes that Kennedy was murdered because he turned to peace. He was going to work with Khrushchev to end the Cold War. He refused the CIA US air cover for the Bay of Pigs invasion. He rejected the Joint Chiefs’ Operation Northwoods, a plan to conduct false flag attacks on Americans that would be blamed on Castro to justify regime change..."

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The "Brain = Consciousness" Scam:

"The brain vs. consciousness: the phony debate and the real debate"

"...Nearly all brain researchers insist that consciousness arises from the functions of the brain.

These researchers concede they don’t know HOW consciousness arises—but “they’re getting there.” They’re making progress. This is their story and they’re sticking to it.....""......But suppose all their fundamental assertions are completely wrong? Suppose they’re never going to prove consciousness arises from the brain? Suppose all their efforts in this direction are dependent on nothing more than circular reasoning—assuming what they’re trying to prove?......"

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My music: "Cut Loose Blues"[perhaps my only, or most, "commercial" composition]:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tD-PvHjWENc

[obf disclaimer: links to any other authors articles or videos are not necessarily  full endorsements of all of the views/positions of the individuals or organizations concerned .]

[obf sez: if you do not understand exactly why I call any of the listed scams here "scams", then perhaps we need to talk.    I can also often be reached at a forum here ].

Onebornfree's Special Scam Alerts [no.20] - Oct. 29th. 2017

Onebornfree's Special Scam Alerts [no.20] - Oct. 29th 2017

"The kind of man who wants the government to adopt and enforce his ideas is always the kind of man whose ideas are idiotic" H.L. Mencken

 "My first rule- I don't believe anything the government tells me- nothing!- ZERO!" George Carlin

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The Opioid "Crisis" Scam:

"America's History of Self Medicating: Opioids versus Alcohol"

"...16,651 people died of opioid overdoses in 2010. The Washington Post and 60 Minutes report, according to Rannazzisi, “the opioid crisis was allowed to spread -- aided by Congress, lobbyists, and a drug distribution industry that shipped, almost unchecked, hundreds of millions of pills to rogue pharmacies and pain clinics providing the rocket fuel for a crisis that, over the last two decades, has claimed 200,000 lives.”

That’s 10,000 people a year. Significant, but small potatoes, compared to alcohol. According to the Center for Disease Control, from 2006 to 2010, an average of 88,121 people died each year from alcohol consumption. ........."

"Big Pharma Makes Drugs that Please Regulators, Not Customers":

"...The government has created and overseen the creation of every step in the development of this crisis. The fact that crony capitalists have taken advantage of the situation should not be a surprise, especially when it is the only way to legally participate in the pharmaceuticals "market."

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The Cashless Society Scam:

"Threats to Digital Wealth Point to Need for Tangible Backup "

"Recent high-profile cyber security breaches at Equifax and other financial institutions highlight the perils of an all-digital economy. When wealth can be evaporated or expropriated at the stroke of a key, how secure can your finances really be?"

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The Federal Reserve Scam [ or, the "Mild Inflation is Good/Necessary" Scam]

"The Latest Innovation in Inflation Targeting "

".......And now, with inflation closing in on 2%, the easy money crowd has done exactly what I expected and trotted out phase II: the new target is to average 2%. In other words since we were below 2% for so long, a rise to 3% or 4% for a while is somehow desirable...."

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The  Fake Money Scam:

"Japan: The Land That Forgot Time Forgot"

"....The whole idea is preposterous. What dopey jackass first came up with the idea that you could improve a market economy by feeding it fake money?

Can you make a horse run faster by giving it fake oats?

Can you get more mileage out of your car by diluting the gas with water?......"

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The Socialism/Communism/ Collectivism Scam

"The plot to overthrow America—oh, that’s just a fantasy":

"...“Of course, we know that these radical students are not going to take over the government. What they are going to do is provide the excuse for the government to take over the people, by passing more and more repressive laws to ‘keep things under control’.”

“The radicals make a commotion in the streets while the Limousine Liberals at the top in New York and Washington are Socializing us. WE ARE GOING TO HAVE A DICTATORSHIP OF THE ELITE DISGUISED AS A DICTATORSHIP OF THE PROLETARIAT.”

“The poor are merely pawns in the game…only those who understand that the Establishment’s game plan is SOCIALISM understand what is going on before their very eyes.”

Does that excerpt from “None Dare Call It Conspiracy,” written in 1971, sound familiar today? Of course it does. It reflects the same old strategy of pressure applied from both the top and bottom. ..........."

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 The Collective Conciousness Scam:

"Collective consciousness: con job for the ages":

"Individual power. Your power............Therefore, it stands to reason that colleges and universities would be teaching courses in INDIVIDUAL POWER. As soon as I write that, though, we all fall down laughing, because we understand the absurdity of such a proposition. Can you imagine Harvard endowing a chair in Individual Power? Students would tear down the building in which such courses were taught. They’ve been carefully instructed that the individual is the greatest living threat to the planet. If you can’t see that as mind control, visit your local optometrist and get a prescription for glasses. So we have this astonishing situation: the very basis of freedom has no reflection in the educational system....."

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The Classical Liberal/ Limited Government Scam

[obf sez: I used to be a "classical liberal", or "libertarian, myself.  Now look at me :-) ]

'The Fatal Error of Classical Liberalism"

"The fatal error of classical liberals lies in their failure to realize that their ideal is theoretically impossible, as it contains the seed of its own destruction, precisely to the extent that it includes the necessary existence of a state (even a minimal one), understood as the sole agent of institutional coercion.

Therefore, classical liberals commit their great error in their approach: they view liberalism as a plan of political action and a set of economic principles, the goal of which is to limit the power of the state while accepting its existence and even deeming it necessary. However, today (in the first decade of the 21st century) economic science has already shown:

    that the state is unnecessary;
    that statism (even if minimal) is theoretically impossible; and
    that, given human nature, once the state exists, it is impossible to limit its power.........."

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The Missile Defense Scam:

"Mutual Assured Destruction"

".....An Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) travels at 5,000 meters per second. By way of comparison a bullet fired from a rifle travels at about one fifth that speed. Imagine two men with rifles standing a mile apart and firing their weapons in an attempt to have the bullets meet head on. Multiply the speed by five if one is referring to missiles, not bullets. Even using the finest radars and sensors as well as the most advanced guidance technologies, the variables involved make it much more likely that there will be a miss than a hit. Cirincione observes that “…the only way to hit a bullet is if the bullet cooperates.”

Second, the tests carried out by the Pentagon to determine reliability are essentially fraudulent. ..........."

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The F.B.I. Scam:

"FBI Releases Docs On Sandy Hook Showing Feds Visited Shooter BEFORE Massacre "

"Lanza was carrying weapons which nearly weighed more than he did. "

".......One such question that arises from our brief combing of the documents is how Lanza, who only weighed 85 lbs, according to the report, was able to carry such heavy weaponry and ammo and shoot with such deadly accuracy...."

"The FBI’s Forgotten Criminal Record"

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The War On Terror Scam:

"...Former Texas Congressman Ron Paul weighed in on the situation, and noted that this appears to be one more war the U.S. is fighting without approval from Congress—and it is a war that includes the presence of U.S. troops in 53 out of the 54 nations in Africa.

“Now, when the Pentagon and the administration have had some pressure on them, you know, instead of having 100 people there, they’re admitting we have 6,000 people in Africa, and they even put a number on it. They say ‘we have some military in 53 of the 54 countries in Africa.’ ..." :

"Pentagon Expands ‘Terror War’ To Africa: Where Is Congress?"

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The Economic and Investment Predictions Scam:

"The Order of The Financial System Is About To Be Turned Upside Down"

"I'm not a big fan of bonds right now," may seem like an odd way for the so-called Bond King to begin, but in an audience at Vanity Fair's Establishment Summit, DoubleLine's Jeff Gundlach told Bethany McLean, "I haven’t been really [a fan of bonds] for the past four years, even though I manage them, and institutions have to own them for various reasons."

Gundlach urged investors to be “light” on bonds. As Vanity Fair's William Cohan reports, Gundlach admitted “I’m stuck in it,” of his massive bond portfolio, adding that interest rates have bottomed out and been rising gradually for the past six years......"


"A Cynic’s Guide to Crypto Investing":  "........don’t put money into cryptocurrencies unless you either: (a) know what you’re getting into or (b) are willing to say goodbye to it. Preferably both… "

Obf sez " Do Not"Invest"In Bitcoin! [Or:How to Safely Profit With Bitcoin Etc.] "

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The Ronald Reagan Scam

"The Legacy of Reagan’s Civilian ‘Psyops’"

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The Marriage License Scam:

"Getting the State Out of Marriage"

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The DEA/War On Some Drugs Scam:

"Landmark Study Shows Psychedelics Far More Effective at Reducing Crime Than Police"


"......pioneering clinical trials found that magic mushrooms heal mental illness like a “surgical intervention.” Advanced cancer patients have “experienced immediate and dramatic reductions in anxiety and depression, improvements that were sustained for at least six months.” Psychedelics can treat addiction, ADHD and PTSD, and can replace years of depression therapy. Alongside medical cannabis, psychedelics can arguably solve the opioid epidemic. Now, research is showing the positive effects of psychedelic use on social dynamics—by reducing criminal behavior. Researchers surveyed 480,000 people to produce some eye-opening results........"

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The Technocracy Scam:

"The Dream of Technocracy - Why Big Oil Conquered The World":


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oP1oX1W8P2w

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The Elon Musk/ Electric Car Scam

"Why Won’t They Send me a Tesla to Test Drive?"

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My Music/Songs:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIOaYWROAC4

[obf disclaimer: links to any other authors articles or videos are not necessarily  full endorsements of all of the views/positions of the individuals or organizations concerned .]

[obf sez: if you do not understand exactly why I call any of the listed scams here "scams", then perhaps we need to talk.

Regards, onebornfree

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