Recent From The Neothink Society
Imagination
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Politics
Can you imagine a world without taxes? Why not? Have we bought into “a bill of goods” for so long that we don’t see how we give our politicians and bureaucrats “double the pleasure” while we curtsey to their futures? For a moment “steal” your mind from the media, politics and religion. “Still your mind” to youthfulness, a time when you believed you could “hang the moon” and you accepted the possibility that a “cow jumped over the moon” while you were still “full of vinegar” with ideas and energy beaming from you. Where did those ideas and “all that energy” go? It hasn’t left; you simply stuffed your ideas for those of others—so “still your mind” once again. Imagine a world without taxes which allows you to choose the services you want to pay for—why not? Steal your mind back by simply asking “Why?” like an innocent, yearning, learning child does all of the time! Is it just my imagination or do you see a brighter nation?
The Millionaire Phenomenon
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How to Become Wealthy, Politics
The Twelve Visions Party is the only party that directly addresses and corrects the reasons why the existing structures of leadership are falling apart. The Twelve Visions Party (TVP) is the only party not interested in political power. The TVP will reverse current trends such as changing the governmental structure from one based in power to one based in service, forced taxation to un-forced, forcibly taking money for Social Security to returning all monies paid into this failing system with fair market interest. The TVP is the only party with the tools to accomplish these goals…the Prime Law Amendment and the Protection Only Budget. These two tools will produce de-regulating actions that will free the genuises of society and allow them to create a technological revolution. The government will only need a third of the present budget to operate and this will decrease taxes significantly. Furthermore, all industries will soar to technological heights like the computer industry meaning people will be able to afford things only millionaires could afford a short time ago. Buying power will skyrocket and prices will plummet and decreased, unforced taxes will put more money in people’s pockets each dollar of which will go much, much farther than it did before. Additionally, the TVP government will sell all assets that have nothing to do with protection
Perhaps Money Really Does Grow On Trees After All
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History, Politics
The old saying goes that history repeats itself and this is unerringly often the case, even if you might prefer for it not to be so. For instance, there are certainly parallels between a historical (as it died) currency such as the German mark in the 1920s and the current gradual destruction of both the British pound and US dollar. Speaking of Germany, just a few years after the infamous inflation, then hyperinflation of Weimar Germany, the Nazis succeeded in doing pretty much the same thing with its replacement, the reichsmark. Starting in 1933, they embarked on massive public spending programmes including the huge autobahn construction project. In addition to the propaganda value, this provided employment to over 100,000 labourers. You might well wonder just exactly how the Nazis funded such an undertaking. It is telling that in the four years since taking office, they depleted the total value of Germany’s gold reserves from 937 to 72 million reichsmarks. Which brings us neatly to the subject of the gold standard, whereby a country’s currency is effectively “backed” by a physical quantity of the precious metal, held in reserve. This has the effect of restricting the ability of central banks to increase the amount of money in circulation. When currency is not backed, known as fiat money, there is no such
The (Phoney) War on Drugs
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History, Politics
How quaint times past often seem when viewed from a modern perspective. Up until 1914 it was actually possible to purchase from a grocery or drugstore not only morphine, but also opium, heroin and cocaine. You could even place an order with Sears to receive a home delivery of your chosen substance(s), which was at least a rather more civilized way of conducting your business than is currently the case. And yet despite the absence of any governmental regulations regarding narcotics, the number of people who fell into addiction was approximately what it is now. Although it has to be said, in the olden days the public was spared the not inconsiderable problem of drug related crime. By allowing people to exercise their fundamental right to consume any substance of their choosing and regardless of the physically damaging consequences, was still to the ultimate benefit of society at large. “War on Drugs” the term was in fact first used by Richard Nixon, way back in 1971. Though perhaps adding the prefix unwinnable might be more accurate, not to say honest. Why unwinnable though? Perhaps a more revealing way of phrasing that would be no intention to win. Consider that the cost to the public in the US alone in order to fund drug related law enforcement, has been estimated to be