An election has been described as two wolves and one lamb voting on what to have for dinner.<\/p>\n
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We\u2019re going to make a difference on election day! Or maybe not\u2026<\/p>\n
Actually, there was never any doubt about what was on the menu. An election is really when the wolves scrap over who gets the choicest pieces.<\/strong> To bring new readers fully into the picture\u2026 It doesn\u2019t matter who won in Iowa. Major policies are not determined by the voters but by the more or less permanent elite who run the government, aka the \u201cDeep State.\u201d<\/p>\n The Fed is an instrument of the Deep State, not of the people. <\/strong>This sounds conspiratorial. But it doesn\u2019t require any hidden agenda or secret handshakes. Most people want power, money, and status. If you can get control over the government \u2013 the only institution that can steal and kill, legally \u2013 you\u2019ve got it made. That\u2019s why so much money is spent trying to get elected or to influence public policy.<\/p>\n The U.S. presidential campaign has seen surprisingly strong showings from two \u201coutsiders\u201d: Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders. Why? As former Congressional staffer turned Deep State whistleblower Mike Lofgren recently told\u00a0Bonner & Partners Investor Network\u00a0editor Chris Lowe, it\u2019s because each in his own way warns voters about the wolves. The insiders, according to Trump and Sanders, are predatory and incompetent.<\/strong><\/p>\n Bernie and the Donald \u2013 voters like them because they are seen as the anti-establishment choices. The press decries them as \u201cpopulists\u201d and \u201cnutcases\u201d, which means they must be doing something right. As an aside, the European press is completely apoplectic over Trump, to our unending amusement.<\/p>\n But the Deep State is more predatory and less incompetent than it appears.<\/strong> It fights wars, for example, not to win them\u2026 but to lose them. The War on Poverty has been going on for more than 50 years. Still no sign of victory. But it has financed countless careers and retirements of government operatives.<\/p>\n The resounding \u201csuccess\u201d of the so-called \u201cwar on poverty\u201d \u2013 click to enlarge.<\/p>\n The War on Drugs has raised profit margins for the drug dealers\u2026 and for the drug fighters too. <\/strong>But the public has suffered higher levels of violence and billions of dollars in prisons and crime-fighting costs.<\/p>\n Likewise, there are more terrorists now than when the War on Terror was announced \u2013 after trillions of dollars were spent and millions of people were killed.<\/strong> The more the U.S. bombs, drones, and bullies\u2026 the more people join the fight against it.<\/p>\n George Orwell recognized the principle in 1949 already \u2013 these wars were never meant to be won. This is also why we already know that the \u201cwar on terror\u201d will never end \u2013 and it is one of the greatest threats to individual liberty yet.<\/p>\n Why fight wars you intend to lose?<\/strong> Because it suits the Deep State. The wars are just a way of marshaling support for a transfer of wealth and power from fly-over states to the suburbs of Washington, D.C. and New York. That is to say from the public\u2026 to the elite. Which brings us back to our beat: money.<\/p>\n When the 2008 financial meltdown came along, the Fed announced what was effectively another war: the War on the Credit Cycle. In a fiat money world, consenting adults are no longer able to set the price of credit. So, the Fed does it for them.<\/strong><\/p>\n![\"2016-Presidential-Election11\"](\"http:\/\/www.acting-man.com\/blog\/media\/2016\/02\/2016-Presidential-Election11.jpg\")
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<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\nThe Long Emergency<\/strong><\/u><\/h3>\n