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Why are politicians, media and businesspeople hyping the credit and financial crisis as if it were something they didn’t see coming? It has been in the making for decades, made worse since Canada signed away its economic sovereignty to the unelected World Trade Organization and NAFTA. For these reasons, Canada should be holding its own “Boston Tea Party” that the citizens of the United States are currently planning on implementing to protest massive government intervention in every facet of their economy.

This pipe dream of stabilizing Canada’s economy is not solved by shipping our manufacturing base, already less than a quarter of our economic activity, to countries where they utilize slave labour and manipulate their currency. Taxation is not the solution when the money really comes from our childrens’ futures in the form of tremendous debt. Indeed, this has been the staple of government policy since the early start of the 20th century; that is, Keynesian economics and government intervention.

No one should be opposed to fair trade, but it’s time to recognize “free trade” is fiction because every trading relationship is managed in some way. This is true because Canada and the United States have become the world’s dumping ground for cheap, slave-labor goods produced in places where there are low or no labor standards or social safety nets like the Western world has.
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Our major trading partners manage their economies to benefit their citizens, so why can’t we? Get our jobs back, put money in our wallets, let us spend it as we see fit and watch the economy grow again. Taxing does nothing but impede spending and discourages people from making proper investments and encourages outrageous financial scandals. The World Trade Organization was never voted on or discussed with the general working man or woman on “main street,” so who’s benefitting from job losses and the so called “knowledge based economy” which is really just a euphemism for unstable industries based solely on services which is nothing more than redistributing wealth rather than creating it.

You can’t spend your way out of a recession. You have to save and produce your way out of it.

What about this “Tea Party?”

The Boston Tea Party was a direct action protest by colonists in Boston, a town in the British colony of Massachusetts, against the British government. On December 16, 1773, after officials in Boston refused to return three shiploads of taxed tea to Britain, a group of colonists boarded the ships and destroyed the tea by throwing it into Boston Harbor. The incident remains an iconic event of American history, and has often been referenced in other political protests.

They’re calling themselves the “Tea Party Tax Protesters” and already dozens of them have held events across the USA. The protesters say they’re fed up with excessive state and federal tax increases and they’re rallying to express their outrage and demand change (KKTV, 2009).

More than $2 trillion has been spent on bailouts and stimulus packages in the last year. In the $800 billion spending package, members of Congress had a few hours to read 1,000 pages of bill text. No one in Congress noticed that it authorized bonuses to AIG executives, which the House later voted to tax at 90 percent. Congress imposed a penalty on payments that it authorized! That should have been a sure sign that Congress was trying to spend too much money too quickly (Kansas City, 2009).

Written by EconoChristian.com with outside sources.

Since EconoChristian.com is a huge fan of gold and solid assets, we’ve decided to share an interesting article with you.

By Darryl Kelley
MidasLetter.com
Tuesday, April 7th, 2009

And there are other telltale signs that gold is about to take a Great Leap Forward.

Foremost amongst them is the fact that the AMEX HUI Goldbugs Index is foreshadowing a jump with its habit presaging enhanced interest in gold with a sharp drop followed by a sharp rise. (The rise part of the equation has yet to form).
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Secondly, the engineered ‘positive sentiment’ by U.S. media and financial elements has now served its purpose, which is to lend a mantle of credibility to the G20 process by allowing participants and leaders to point to robust markets as proof that their collective actions embodied in 15 pages of summary were in fact successful.

Third, there is the deluge of corporate earnings to be unleashed pre and post Easter weekend, which are almost uniformly awful. S&P 500 companies are expected on average to decline 37 percent, the eighth straight quarter of double digit losses in quarterly earnings.

And finally, analysts (to use the term loosely) have seemed to arrive at the unanimous conclusion that the IMF’s planned sales of gold to raise $50 billion will have no meaningful impact on the gold market. Maybe that’s because, as GATA will tell you, they don’t have it.

Brought to you by EconoChristian.com and Midas Letter.

SOURCE: Midas Letter

Computer viruses and anti-virus software are inextricably linked and are most likely a racketeering scam brought about by the software and information technology industries, according to overwhelming evidence. Indeed, one only has to question why there are so many viruses for the Windows operating system and so few for the Macintosh and Linux platforms.

It is common knowledge that ”Bill Gates wrote the first code ”virus” to break a program, in high school (yes it was probably an accident, but he learned from it). Thus, ”Computer Viruses” were born. He was also known as the ”Mother Of All Hackers (MOAH)” from when he exploited (hacked, stole, same thing) the ”Basic” OS running on Harvard’s Mainframe computer and ported it to the ”Altair 8800” that started him on his way to his billions of dollars.
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It is also now widely known that he duped his friend out of a hacked copy of QDOS (aptly named ”Quick n Dirty Operating System”) then renamed it various other names according to who it was being sold to. IBM PC-DOS, COMPAC-DOS, MS-DOS, etc. etc. Gates was fond of hiring young high school and college kids as code slaves for further writing of the OS. Bored, underpaid, overworked, mischievous, they began putting ”bugs” in the code. Hence we still have Microsoft computer ”bugs” today. Were they put there on purpose with Bill’s knowledge? Probably, as was the case with COMPAQ-DOS. Bill loved it when his company got paid more money the next year to write a fix. Thus, building in code to break, was born, and why much of the IT industry is based on perpetual work that the companies create for themselves, more specifically anti-virus companies.

Much like many shipyard workers in the past(and their bosses), were known to set logs afloat in the river channels of the old days; they called them ”Silent Messengers”! But they only used this practice when business was slow and – or they were about to lose their jobs. Does this justify it? No! You ever heard of the disgruntled ”Postal Employee” going postal? The same thing happens in every business. Many of the ”bugs” are just another form of ”Silent Messengers” of today; anything to make a buck, right?
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Indeed, according to a report from the New York times newspaper, a Russian company was recently (October, 2008) caught creating perpetual work for itself by creating the viruses that it sells anti-virus programs to its clients to eradicate. A hacker revealed that a Russian software company is behind a security scam to take money from spam and botnets. The hacker revealed via files posted online that Bakasoftware makes millions per year through an elaborate scheme that relies on email spam and indirectly controlling thousands of unprotected PCs. This could be the reason why so many people are switching to Linux and Unix-based operating systems including Macintosh computers; most viruses are targeted at Windows operating systems.

Is this type of perpetual work rampant throughout the IT industry, as well as other totally unrelated industries? For starters, the IT industry was originally touted as the solution to make the working life of millions of Westerners easier by freeing them from tedious and repetitive work such as copy editing, waste of paper, and so on. Interestingly, e-mail and PDF files were touted as methods for saving paper, but the reality of the situation is that paper consumption has actually increased at least 40 per cent since the advent of e-mail and electronic documents because most people prefer using hard physical copies instead of staring at a computer screen (Telegraph, 2001). While it is not being suggested that the paper industry colluded with the IT industry to increase paper usage, what is being suggested is that businesses and people in general are too quick to accept new ideas without first thinking of the policy implications.

The policy implications of the information technology industry are astounding because it is an industry based around change and constant updates as new technology is released. The IT industry is reminiscent of and old-school, organized crime protection racket. Traditionally, the word racket to describe a business is based on the example of the “protection racket” and indicates that the speaker believes that the business is making money by selling a solution to a problem that it created (or that it intentionally allows to continue to exist), specifically so that continuous purchases of the solution are always needed.
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Software is the epitome of this paradigm because users are practically held hostage and forced to purchase updates or new software because the tools (often physical, not ethereal in nature) they originially used were entirely replaced by computer code. So, until the time comes when the workers throw their sabo (shoes) into the looms (business machines) as the Luddites did during the beginning of the industrial revolution, it looks like companies to the likes of Symantec and other software companies be selling a lot of anti-virus programs.

Massive Profits Fueling Rogue Antivirus Market

In the cyber underworld, more and more individuals are generating six-figure paychecks each month by tricking unknowing computer users into installing rogue anti-virus and security products, new data suggests.

The Anti-Virus Industry Scam

One has to wonder how the anti-virus industry sleeps well at night. On one hand, it purports to serve the world by defending our computers and networks from any number of electronic critters and malicious code. On the other hand, sometimes its “cure” is worse than the problem its companies and products allegedly treat. Add to that a decades-old concern over business, market share, and publicity, and you have all the ingredients for a confused industry, product, and service. This situation regularly benefits the antivirus software industry and victimizes its customers.

Free Rock solid antivirus programs

You can easily and freely download complementary anti-virus software by a number of companies who do not charge much or anything for their software, and are rated much more highly than the more popular anti-virus programs out there. Offering a rock-solid protection AVG is THE BEST FREE ANTIVIRUS from this test. It has a very good definition update system,uses little system resources and a full time protection utility with “on-access” file scanner and e-mail scanner. The program doesn’t tax your system when scanning or when running in the background and always proved effective in our tests. This app’s interface can’t be described as beautiful, yet it is mostly simple to navigate. During the full system scan it has detected both of our major threats on the test computer.

You can download AVG Free Antivirus from here.

One local college is saving students money by offering text book rentals. Metropolitan communinty college is one of t he few schools in the US offering text book rentals and the savings are astronomical. With the costs of text books triplling in the past 20 years, students have come up with a brillian way to reduce their tuition and book-buying costs. Indeed, Textbook prices in university bookstores increase annually by about 6 percent per year, according to a study by the U.S. Government Accountability Office.

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San Mateo California Community District, which includes Skyline College, the College of San Mateo, is one of the few institutions nationwide to have adopted a textbook rental service in 2006. The program is funded by large state grants, but also solicits private donations to build a large bookstore inventory, according to the bookstore’s Web site.

The difference between renting and buying is astronomical. The school saw a high-toll on the high cost of typical books, so they saw this new book rental idea as a novel way to reduce educational costs and making education more accessible. At the end of the semester if the student wants to keep the book, all he/she has to do is pay the difference and balance of the book.

The method most students used to deal ith high book costs in the past was that they would either photocopy the books, buy them and return them before the end-date, and/or photocopy them and then resell them or share the costs with their friends.

Perhaps this would be an ideal business opportunity for those of the entrepreneurial spirit among you? Starting-up a business in many countries is a cinch and obtaining permission to re-sell books should not be a problem in most jurisfictions. Setting up a shop near a school campus would probably be your best bet in maintaining a steady client base of students who seek low-cost textbooks.

The typical method to reduce costs for students these days is to resell their books after they have read them to their student-union-managed bookstore where they often find books up to 80 per cent off their original cover price. The other alternative is to loan the books from the library, but having only a few copies of the books on-hand lends to long line-ups at the library for the exact same copy, and this leaves a majority of students without necessary course material.
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Technology has come a long way in making educational material accessible to students especially with the introduction of electronic books or “E-books” where they are never printed to paper but only made available on the computer in digital format.

I’ve always been somewhat of an anti-war type of person ever since I realized how wars destroy economies. Yes, there are some people who wrongly believe that war is somehow good for an economy based on what they heard or what their teachers told them. While it is true that war did bring-about the revival of manufacturing during World War 2, it was mostly the Great Depression that we had to blame for the state we found ourselves in before the second war.

Anyway, we know that war is sometimes necessary to defend a country from an external threat, yes. However, the wars we have seen in the past 30-40 years have had some very suspicious events take place to trigger them. Let’s take the “Gulf of Tonkin” incident where

“two separate incidents involving naval forces of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam) and the United States in the waters of the Gulf of Tonkin. On 2 August 1964, the destroyer USS Maddox (DD-731) engaged three North Vietnamese P-4 torpedo boats, resulting in damage to the three boats. Two days later the Maddox (having been joined by the destroyer USS Turner Joy (DD-951) reported a second engagement with North Vietnamese vessels. This second report was later concluded to be in error.[1] Together, these two incidents prompted the first large-scale involvement of U.S. armed forces in Southeast Asia” (Wikipedia, 2009).

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Also, from Global Research:

The Gulf of Tonkin Incident that drew the U.S. into the quagmire of Viet Nam simply didn’t happen. Johnson, as presidents so often do, lied to the American people. The result was the rapid passage of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, which was the sole legal basis for the Viet Nam War. As a result of Johnson’s lie, three million Vietnamese people and fifty eight thousand U.S. soldiers died.” (Charles Sullivan, Global Research, January 2006)

What’s all of this to do with money-making, you ask? “A lot” I say. First one is that knowing who causes wars allows us to stay away from bad companies and/or government industries that promote war (ie. the military and defence contractors). Secondly, war tends to destroy the lifeblood of capitalistic societies, and basically destroys money!

With that, I have decided to peruse the internet for one of the best books I could find to offer you that explains the real purpose of wars and how government and industry work together to create them to make money for a very wealthy few. I would much rather see there be no wars and everyone living happy, prosperous, and free! So, with that, I have decided to attach a copy of Smedley Butler’s “War is a Racket” published in 1940. A very good read! Enjoy.
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