Four decades ago, in the mid-1970s, young American adults--in the
18-to-34 age bracket--were far more likely to be married and living with
a spouse than living in their parents’ home.
“There are now more young people living with their parents than in any other arrangement,” says the Census Bureau study.
“What
is more,” says the study, “almost 9 in 10 young people who were living
in their parents’ home a year ago are still living there today, making
it the most stable living arrangement.”
Front National leader proposes moratorium on long-term visas and tax on hiring foreign workers
Marine Le Pen has claimed she will “protect France” with a vow to suspend immigration and defend the country against the threat of “savage globalisation”.
With just days to go until the first round of voting in the
presidential election, the far-right leader said she would mobilise
thousands of reservists to guard French borders if elected.
“We are not a free country if we cannot control our territory,” Ms Le Pen told RTL radio.
Make note of the name Etzanoa, a long-lost city. Donald Blakeslee says he’s found it.
The discovery could put south-central
Kansas on the map as the second-biggest settlement of Native Americans
found in the United States, Blakeslee said. And it’s now, finally, the
known location of a 1601 battle pitting outnumbered Spaniards firing
cannon into waves of attacking Indian warriors.
Quite simply, our motive is identical
to that claimed by the New York Times and The Post — to publish
newsworthy content. Consistent with the U.S. Constitution, we publish
material that we can confirm to be true irrespective of whether sources
came by that truth legally or have the right to release it to the media.
And we strive to mitigate legitimate concerns, for example by using
redaction to protect the identities of at-risk intelligence agents."
In what is sure to be the biggest legal assault on free speech this
year, news has emerged that the Southern Poverty Law Center is
orchestrating a lawsuitagainst
leading Alt-Right media figure Andrew Anglin. The text of the suit
alleges that Anglin orchestrated a harassment campaign against Tanya
Gersh, a Jewish realtor residing in Whitefish, Montana, that involved
“invasion of privacy, intentional infliction of emotional distress, and
violation of Montana’s Anti-Intimidation Act.”
That the SPLC, of all organizations, should be pressing forward on
such grounds is ironic to say the very least. Aside from scare-mongering
among old, wealthy Jews in order to solicit donations and bequests, the
SPLC’s entire modus operandi has for some time revolved around
‘exposés’ of Nationalist figures. Although these doxxings are dressed
up as “Intelligence Reports” forming part of an overall “Hatewatch”
strategy, in reality they are little more than grubby, sensationalized,
and often libellous attempts at political intimidation. Indeed, the
efforts of the SPLC in this regard are rooted in a desire to invade
privacy and inflict emotional distress — precisely the kind of actions
they are presently accusing Andrew Anglin of encouraging.
The Private Sector Survey on Cost Control (PSSCC), commonly referred to as The Grace Commission, was an investigation requested by United States President Ronald Reagan, authorized in Executive Order 12369 on June 30, 1982. The focus of it was waste and inefficiency in the US Federal government. Its head, businessman J. Peter Grace,[1] asked the members of that commission to "be bold" and "work like tireless bloodhounds. Don't leave any stone unturned in your search to root out inefficiency."[2]
The Grace Commission Report[3] was presented to Congress in January 1984. The report claimed that if its recommendations were followed, $424 billion could be saved in three years, rising to $1.9 trillion per year by the year 2000. It estimated that the national debt, without these reforms, would rise to $13 trillion by the year 2000, while with the reforms they projected it would rise to only $2.5 trillion.[4] Congress ignored the commission's report. The debt reached $5.8 trillion in the year 2000.[5][6] The national debt reached 13 trillion after the subprime mortgage-collateralized debt obligation crisis in 2008.
The report said that one-third of all income taxes are consumed by waste and inefficiency in the federal government, and another one-third escapes collection owing to the underground economy.
“With two thirds of everyone’s personal income taxes wasted or not collected, 100 percent of what is collected is absorbed solely by interest on the federal debt and by federal government contributions to transfer payments. In other words, all individual income tax revenues are gone before one nickel is spent on the services [that] taxpayers expect from their government."[4]
Denouncing a plan by U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions to increase the
flow of military equipment to police and have the Justice Department
cease its oversight of police misconduct, The Rutherford Institute
warned that if the federal government persists in its pursuit of
policies that ignore systemic problems within local law enforcement
agencies at the expense of the safety and constitutional rights of the
American people, “we the people” will all suffer. In a letter to the
Attorney General, constitutional attorney John W. Whitehead urged
Sessions to align the Justice Department’s priorities with that of the
Constitution and, in doing so, not only protect the civil rights of
citizens against abuse of power by state and local law enforcement but
also “help police departments get better” by holding them fully
accountable to the rule of law.
What
if our belief in self-government is a belief in a myth? What if the
election of one political party over the other to control Congress
changes only appearances? What if taxes stay high and regulations stay
pervasive and the government stays oppressive and presidents fight wars
no matter what the politicians promise and no matter who wins elections?
What if the true goal of those whom we elect to Congress is not to be
our agents of self-government or even to preserve our personal liberties
but to remain in power by getting re-elected?
What if they use government to aid their own re-elections by bribing
us with our own money — the rich with bailouts, the middle class with
tax breaks and the poor with transfer payments?
What if Congress has written laws that are too complex for its own
members to read and understand?
What if the language of most federal
laws is intentionally arcane so that ordinary voters cannot understand
it? What if that language is actually written by faceless bureaucrats
and not by accountable members of Congress? What if members of Congress
in fact rarely read any legislation before voting on it? What if some
legislation refers to secrets and secret procedures that only a few
members of Congress are permitted to see and utilize?
What if when the select few members of Congress who are permitted to
see those secrets do see them, those members are themselves sworn to
secrecy? What if that means that our elected representatives — our
supposed agents of self-government in the government — do not fully know
what the government is doing and that even if they do, they can't
legally tell us?
What if our representatives in Congress don't really represent us?
What if they really represent a political party? What if each political
party is controlled by a small leadership group that punishes members
who defy it? What if Congress has written laws and rules that permit its
leaders to punish members' defiance? What if another way to
characterize defiance of political party leadership is political
courage?
What if the laws that Congress has written about the CIA have
delegated congressional power to a small secret committee of members
from both houses of Congress and both political parties? What if that
committee can authorize secret wars in foreign lands conducted not by
the military but by the CIA? What if the reason these folks authorize
the CIA and not the military to conduct secret wars is the existence of
federal laws that require reporting to and a vote of the entire Congress
for the military to be used but require only the small secret committee
to approve for the CIA to be used?
Because wars cost money and often cost lives, what if the effect of
the decisions of the small secret committee is that the committee is
basically a Congress within Congress? What if the Constitution says that
only Congress can spend tax dollars and declare wars but Congress has
let the Congress within Congress do this? What
if the voters will never know what the Congress within Congress has
authorized? What if the very existence of the Congress within Congress
mocks, defies and betrays the concept of American self-government?
What if the data seen and discussed and the decisions made in secret
by the Congress within Congress are generated by the CIA and other
intelligence agencies? What if these intelligence agencies selectively
reveal and selectively conceal data to manipulate the decisions of the
Congress within Congress? What if those manipulations often result in
bloodshed about which the American people often never learn? What if the
bases for the decisions of the Congress within Congress are kept from
the other members of Congress, from the media and from the voters?
What if the folks from both political parties who set up the Congress
within Congress care more about wielding power than they do about
preserving self-government? What if those who pull the levers of power
in the intelligence community are so far removed from the voters that
they don't know and don't care what the voters think? What if they know
that the voters would react forcefully and decisively if the voters knew
what the members of the Congress within Congress know but they still
won't tell us?
What if all this diversion of power from the elected Congress to the
Congress within Congress and all this reliance on secret data has
resulted in the most pervasive surveillance by any government of any
people at any time in world history? What if the federal government's
domestic surveillance today captures and retains digital copies of every
telephone call and every computer keystroke of every person in America
and has done so since 2005? What if members of Congress who are not in
the Congress within Congress do not know this?
What if the Congress within Congress has authorized American spies to
spy without personal suspicion or judicial warrant on the military, the
courts, the police and every person in America, including the remaining
members of Congress, much of the remaining intelligence community
itself and even the White House?
What if the selective use of the data acquired from mass surveillance
can be used to manipulate anyone by those who have access to the data?
What if those who have access to the data have used it to manipulate the
president of the United States? What if all this constitutes a grave
but largely unseen threat to our liberties, not the least of which is
the right to self-government?
What if we don't really govern ourselves? What do we do about it?
Retired French General Vincent Desportes author of the book, “The
Last Battle of France,” has written extensively of Islamic terrorism.
"Men of Harlech" or "The March of the Men of Harlech" (Welsh:
Rhyfelgyrch Gwŷr Harlech) is a song and military march which is
traditionally said to describe events during the seven year long siege
of Harlech Castle, Wales, between 1461 and 1468.
“The Last Battle of France” is the English
translation of a new book by retired French General Vincent Desportes,
La Dermiere Bataille de France. Desportes is not writing about the fall
of France to the German Army in 1940 or of the battle of Dien Bien Phu
that ended on May 7, 1954, and resulted in French withdrawal from its
colonies in Indochina: Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. General Desportes is
warning France and the Western world, very seriously, that
accommodations to Muslim culture and purely defensive actions against
Islamic Jihad and terrorism will not bring peace or arrest the
Islamization of France.
General Vincent is the author of many books and
seems to be one of the rare and courageous truth tellers that France,
Europe, and the United States need to heed. According to a Tanisie
Secret article by Nebil Ben Yahmed, dated January 19, 2015, General
Vincent announced that Daech (ISIS) is a “Dr. Frankenstein” monster
created by the United States. This was apparently a finding of a French
Commission on Foreign Affairs related to issues important to the French
armed forces. He specifically mentioned Hillary Clinton’s role as U.S.
Secretary of State.
This finding has also been confirmed by a de-classified intelligence report obtained by Judicial Watch in June 2016.
