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The Tea Party Rebellion: Reading, learning, and thinking are weapons of war against the thoughtless progressive

The modern rebellion of the Tea Party against large statist governments was never more illuminated than in the below collection of clips from those liberty groups who testified before congress of their harassment by the IRS.  Doc Thompson and his producer Skip LaCombe assembled the clip and played it during their show on Wednesday, June 5th culminating in a full week of aggressive coverage by the Blaze Radio Network regarding the tyranny of the government represented by the IRS in harassing genuinely good people.  Unlike other places in the world, this modern rebellion in America is not being conducted by despots for control over the world’s resources—as might normally be the case—but by indisputably good people who are reclaiming their independence as sovereign citizens of The United States.  It seems ironic that the rebels of our modern age are family people, church goers, and otherwise responsible citizens as opposed to the villainy of the modern progressive. The clip below captured the spirit of the week centering around IRS testimony in a way that was heard no place else but The Blaze.

The testimony was powerful stuff and gives the world a look into the way average Tea Party supporters think.  With all the radical assertions which have been tossed toward the Tea Party with derogatory dialogue—particularly in calling them by the sexual reference as “Tea Baggers” which Obama himself has used on multiple occasions, the voices who gave testimony represent well the multitudes of people I have associated with in Southern Ohio who have lent their time and talent to American liberty.  Those who support statist government have made themselves treacherously obvious to their cause because the contrast to the good people of the Tea Party movement is obvious.  The only way Tea Party opponents have been able to maintain their moral high ground is to keep the Tea Party out of the news, and now because of the IRS debacle, the world can see what the rebellion in America is really about.  The heart of the matter is good against evil, with the good represented by the Tea Party and evil represented by the ever-growing statist government.

The government is evil because “it” insists on imposing itself upon individual will.  “It” requires blind submission of all individuals to the adherence of the political elite, and this is just not what America is about, and never has been.  Many will point to the debacles which followed the Civil War and more specifically to the progressive events of 1913 where America turned basically into a large federal bank with the creation of the Federal Reserve, and implemented an income tax.  Most people have forgotten that it was the work of Karl Marx and associates who advanced their views of communism through the Progressive Party represented so well by Teddy Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson allowing the philosophy of Marx into the American system of self-government.  Since that time, the gradual erosion of liberty has steadily progressed through the entire 20th Century.  The way America is today, and has been for several decades is not the way it was intended.  The progressive political machine had cast its large sails to capture the global winds of communism and reshape politics in America in a way that is not sustainable or acceptable from even before Roosevelt was president.

When people have asked me what the goal of the Tea Party is, and more specifically, if I want to return America back to the period of the Old West, as I respect immensely traditional American arts, such as gun slinging, bull whip work, and knife throwing, I respond that it is not the period of the Old West that is the goal, it is the period well before that.  For myself, I appreciate the values of the traditional Anti-Federalists of which Thomas Jefferson was one of the founding members.  I more specifically appreciate the values of the American transcendentalists–people like Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau.  Even though many of their philosophical conclusions were still rooted in mysticism, the path they were on was the correct one for the “American Way.”  These ideas were being worked out twenty to thirty years before Karl Marx and his despots of ignorance did their work through American newspapers advocating the philosophy of communism as a superior mode of political thinking over capitalism.  Through newspaper journalists and editors, particularly Walter Lippmann who hung out constantly at the Long Island home of Roosevelt after the start of the Progressive Party, they changed the name of communism to progressivism, in order to make the concept more palatable to Americans who loved their freedom, and wanted nothing to do with statist governments.  The ploy for the progressives was hatched by the Fabian Socialists of England of which playwright George Bernard Shaw was a respected member along with H.G. Wells.  Their theory was that socialism; (soft communism) could be implemented not radically the way it was done in the Soviet Union during 1917, but slowly, over a long period of time.  This was the best way to by-pass the American Constitution and deliver The United States back into the fold of European control.  After all, as the Fabian Socialists reasoned, if global socialism/communism was the goal, America would have to go down and join in; otherwise it would always be an option for freedom lovers who refused the socialist collectivist aims of statism.  For the English, they had tried one hundred years prior during the War of 1812 to retake America as an English colony, but that effort was not successful, so a more indirect—much more patient ploy needed to be implemented—this is how America ended up with progressive politics.

Many in America today have just accepted these little bits of statism provided by gradual socialism inspired by Karl Marx and the failures of collectivist thinking.  Over a long period of time, as the Fabian Socialists schemed, Americans gave away bits of their freedom in exchange for “Social Security.”  For the progressive who views their century of social gains the Tea Party is a tremendous threat to them, because those kind, innocent Americans of that patriotic group have dedicated themselves to learning how America was supposed to function all along, and know they have been scammed, and they want to undo the progressive advancements and return to the original principles of the Constitution.  In that regard, my personal position is that I would argue with Alexander Hamilton who in 1780 was considered a major statist from the Federalist Party with the kind of Anti-Federalist arguments reflected by Thomas Jefferson.  The modern Tea Party wants to return to the Constitution that was shaped by Hamilton in the Federalist Papers, which I consider “TOO EXTREME.”  Compared to the modern Fabian Socialist, the progressives, the global communists, Alexander Hamilton’s views of government seem radical so the two sides are not reconcilable.  Socialists and capitalists cannot live together.  One wants to be left alone, the other needs collective participation to survive, so the two are not compatible.

The Tea Party rebellion as it is, are simply nice people who are waking up to the fact that the world they thought they were living is not what they were sold.  They are discovering that progressives for their entire lives have gradually ruined the American idea for not only them, but their children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren, and they are not happy about it.  They are the sleeping giant of world society that are waking up, and they aren’t going to complacently go along with the scam any longer.  This posses a major problem for progressives who have built an entire education system around statist principles, a government fueled by coercion for the benefit of the political class, and a hopeless tomorrow trying to return America back to the fold of European foolishness. The American of tradition—of ideology, have no intention of being serfs, even if they have served such a role unknowingly for many years.  Through the Tea Party, they are learning what their rights should always have been, and they are learning more about the laws which founded the country than many of the current politicians holding office know presently.

One of the ways that slave holders in the American South kept free men and women obligated to serfdom were by keeping those poor souls ignorant.  For slaves, an act of rebellion was to sneak away from their master’s gaze deep in the heart of night and to do the diabolical act of “reading” so to educate their minds so that they might come to know better than to live under the tyranny of a “master” of any kind.  And so it is in our modern age, but the activity is not so secret.  Tea Party patriots are getting together as education organizations to read, and intelligently petition a government the way all free people should be able to, and the statist regimes whether they come from big banking corporations, or Fabian Socialists require an ignorant population in order to sell their utopia of hopelessness to the world population.  Statist masters cannot stand for the “slaves” to become educated, so they have done all that they could do to stop the process, and harass those who attempt such a rebellious act, such as reading the truth for themselves.

The biggest difference between the rebellion of 2013 and that of 1773 is that the rights were already won once with blood and bullets.  Now there are freedom fighters like Doc and Skip on The Blaze Radio Network who are truly doing news reporting that is light years from anything ever done in America.  For the first time in American history there are free people who are learning what their rights are because they are “reading” for themselves, and they are listing to Doc Thompson who drives home the point free of FCC regulation spouting out a truth that is equivalent to the escapades of Fredrick Douglass during the most noted revolution against slavery to ever occur in the world.  Only in America would such a thing as the Civil War occur over the rights of man, even of another skin color and varied religions.  But now that fight has extended to all men and women of all colors and religions who share in common a distinct desire to be exempt from the faulty morality of the diabolical progressive and their statist plans of doom.  To arrive at that point, those freedom fighters are reading and learning what they have been missing with a revolution that is taking place not with bullets and bayonets, but books and bold speeches like the ones given against the IRS on Capital Hill captured so well in the summation by Doc Thompson and his crafty producer Skip.

I have always stood ready to defend my freedom from the statist controllers.  But joining me now are the moms, wives, and patriots who want a good life for their children and have the courage to go against the progressive plans to achieve it.  Instead of tuning in to the local music broadcasts on radio stations, or listening to sports oriented talk radio, they are discovering The Blaze Radio Network who is at the front of the freedom movement and the fuel behind the next steps toward freedom.  Glenn Beck has reinvested vast sums of his personal wealth into this endeavor and just this past week hired Laurie Dhue from Fox News to deliver news on their Blaze Television which is now seen on The Dish Network.  It is only a matter of time before Glenn Beck’s network, which is dedicated to education, is directly competing with ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN and FOX.  When that direct competition occurs, those other stations will discover that they cannot abate, or rationalize the rebellion of the mind which is happening beyond their control.

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/06/04/theblaze-announces-exciting-new-hire-who-you-might-recognize/

Americans are reclaiming their lives, and the potent moment which is the modern-day shot heard around the world are the clips from the IRS testimony given by the Tea Party patriots.  In that testimony the previously obscured normal people who have been buried under progressive altruism have been given a voice, and they made full use of it.  Their words are more powerful than bullets as the intended slave masters who wish to rule the world through various statist schemes require ignorance, in the same manner that southern plantation owners kept slaves unable to read, and always lacking of substance.  Ignorance is required to advance statism no matter what the political method of attack, be it socialism, modern-day progressivism, or forceful communism.  Before such methods can be employed, one must turn off their mind, and empty everything that it once held.  This is why progressives want control of the education process and want children in their institutions of tyranny from the time of their first conscious thoughts.  But the momentum has already shifted, and the Tea Party is doing things that nobody previously expected.  The Tea Party is “reading” and learning the way the world is supposed to be, and they are acting on their own behalf to free themselves and others from suffering the same fate.  It is too late to stop such a thing.  Ignorance has been discarded in favor of intelligence, starting with a few Tea Party types who are now small in number, but growing through an evolving rebellion that is not centered on violence, but knowledge.

Thus, now all know why I write so much here upon these pages.  I know that most readers browse these articles and quit reading after the first two sentences, and that I would be even more popular if I catered to traditional notions of journalism, by keeping the articles under 400 words and within the average person’s attention span.  But a few read the entire 1500 to 2000 word works in their entirety and out of the 500 to 1000 who read every day, about 30 to 40 read every word, sometimes twice, and they come back day after day.  Of those, I know several who read every day looking to these words as a lighthouse guiding their way through a thick ocean fog of modern life.  Some of those people are very important and influential in modern politics, so the words are not wasted.  My goal is to get people thinking so that their minds are prepared to ask questions, and to “seek” ending their chains to statism with thought leading to action.  The act of rebellion is not a ruckus act of villainy, or violent attempt at suppression, but the diabolical notion of filling the mind with intelligence, which is the greatest weapon against the tyrant ever devised.

Rich Hoffman

“If they attack first………..blast em’!”

www.tailofthedragonbook.com

Aaron The Moor: Barack Obama’s many evil deeds done for the fun of it

Over a long period of time, the American presidency has degraded itself to the frequent diatribes of “spinning” the truth.  The most widely accepted blatant history of this behavior can be seen in the actions of the Bush administration justifying the war with Iraq by declaring there were weapons of mass destruction present to justify the attack, when there really wasn’t at the time.  Another would be the sexual liaisons of Bill Clinton when he unquestionably lied about his affairs even when he was pinned down and caught red-handed by the entire American public.  Over the last thirty years, American presidents have become extremely proficient at misleading the public away from the crimes they are caught in.  During this time, Presidents have learned that they can actually commit crime trusting that if their spin machine was good enough, they could get by with anything as the American public tends to look upon them as royalty who are above the law.  This way of thinking is wrong of course, and a disgrace to the American system of republic government.  The climax of this failure is occurring presently during the Obama presidency who has taken lies and manipulation to an entirely new level never attempted by previous presidents.  Watch the following clips to review how many lies President Obama has been caught in, and to what treacherous degree they have been executed.

The evidence after 5 years of Barack Obama indicate that all the fears many have about the current president are true, that he is hostile to The United States, is a socialist, is likely a closet Islamic radical, and was not raised in America.  He attended college under a foreign student status and has worked very hard to conceal his school records.  Obama has a lot of red flags in his life that should have been seen right at the beginning, and was by many.  He is not a Trojan Horse who is attempting to sneak in enemy ideas behind the lines, because he is doing everything right out in the open.  There has been no attempt to hide who he is—he has been extremely open about it all.  Rather, the strategy of the Obama administration has been to attack those who disagree with who he is with thug like pressure.  The lies of the Obama administration therefore has not been in hiding who or what they are, but in lying about their desire to use pressure to force Americans into their way of thinking.  Under that strategy, the Obama administration will go down in history as the most corrupt of all presidential administrations as they have lied about their desire to use force to impose progressive beliefs on the masses undermining The United States Constitution.

Reflecting back on the things I’ve said over the last three years at this site, and out of all the radio work I did with  Doc Thompson in the early days of the Obama debacle, I am proud to report that my comments even if they seemed extreme at the time, were right on the mark.  The lies have mounted up to a level now where Obama’s spin machine cannot contain the stories any longer.  It’s not just his fault; this is an avalanche that has built over three decades, and the mounting pressure created by presidential manipulation for years.  Obama’s administration with all its arrogance assumed that the lies could forever be mounted one upon another perpetually, and they were wrong.  They are crashing down now, and I am extremely proud to have called the collapse from the very beginning.

The social trend created by government schools to lean society in a progressive direction has been to remove recognition between right and wrong from society which has left voters unable to determine success and failure from truth and lies.  Obama’s administration has sought to exploit this progressive creation to their own advantage to fulfill their radical social agenda.  The fault is on those who sought to strip away logic and reason in society replacing them with irrationality, and emotional justification.  This is how the great lies of Obama’s administration have been perpetrated upon so many people in full light of the day.  I am proud to be one of the few who did not fall victim to the grand seduction of progressive terrorism which is the Obama administration.

The evidence is massive, and by watching the clips on this article, the mode of operation is quite clear. It is ironic in review that the president said the exact same things when he was confronted over the Fast and Furious gun running scandal that he said about the IRS scandal where his White House has been caught using that branch of government to harass his political enemies.  Obama declared with Fast and Furious that he first learned about the scandal like everyone else—on news reports.  He then said exactly the same thing about the IRS scandal which is a bold-faced lie as The White House worked with the IRS to put a cap on the story for over a month before Lois Lerner planted the question in a public speech designed to slowly ease the story into the public to minimize the damage to public perception for all involved.  Now the lies have mounted up and even the most devious spin doctors available cannot remember who said what and when they said it, and contrary statements are being revealed quicker than they can be contained.  This is what happens when an avalanche of lies comes crashing down.  It doesn’t matter at this point how clever the spin doctors are, or how much they are willing to lie about, because the structure of the manipulation has fallen apart.

There was some criticism when Rep. Darrell Issa’s congressional investigations of the IRS lead him to call Jay Carney who is The White House spokesperson a “paid liar.”  For Issa to make such a statement there was outrage in his statement that has its origin with learning like the rest of America that we have all been scammed.  Issa has heard the evidence so far and sees where it is going, and he knows that to release premature information to such bandits and thieves at The White House could damage his case.  But he knows what I have been saying all along, and Glenn Beck has done show after show after show on—Barack Obama’s administration is one of the most corrupt in all of American history and is a disgrace to our republic.  For Issa to say such a thing, the evidence is clear, and he is naturally upset about it, as every American should be.

My favorite Shakespeare play is Titus Andronicus and Obama reminds me verbatim of the character from that story of Aaron the Moor.   At the end of the play before Aaron the Moor is executed for gross manipulation and treachery at virtually every level of the empire, Aaron proudly proclaims his evil with the following words:

Lucius says to Aaron.

“Art thou not sorry for these heinous deeds?”

Aaron responds.

“Ay, that I had not done a thousand more.

Even now I curse the day—and yet, I think,

Few come within the compass of my curse,—

Wherein I did not some notorious ill,

As kill a man, or else devise his death,

Ravish a maid, or plot the way to do it,

Accuse some innocent and forswear myself,

Set deadly enmity between two friends,

Make poor men’s cattle break their necks;

Set fire on barns and hay-stacks in the night,

And bid the owners quench them with their tears.

Oft have I digg’d up dead men from their graves,

And set them upright at their dear friends’ doors,

Even when their sorrows almost were forgot;

And on their skins, as on the bark of trees,

Have with my knife carved in Roman letters,

‘Let not your sorrow die, though I am dead.’

Tut, I have done a thousand dreadful things

As willingly as one would kill a fly,

And nothing grieves me heartily indeed

But that I cannot do ten thousand more.”

Being an academic, Barack Obama as a young foreign college student who hated America and wanted to spread Muslim influence into the back door of a Christian nation, but lacked a strong father figure made his plans to enter political life in some capacity.  The strong men in his life were socialists and communists who looked to the type of characters that Aaron the Moor was to inflict evil upon The United States.  Being a fatherless despot little Barry Obama identified not with the heroes of Shakespeare’s plays, but the villains.  As all intellectuals of modern academia can relate, it is the soothsaying evil of characters like Aaron the Moor which communicates most strongly to their otherwise impotent lives.  Just as the public stood at the end of the Titus Andronicus play not able to comprehend the evil Aaron the Moor demonstrated throughout the tragic circumstances of the story which destroyed many lives maliciously, spectators represented by Lucius failed to comprehend the vast treachery of Aaron the Moor even as the vile manipulator uttered the words boldly, and without remorse.  The modern academic knows that few people in America read, so they are unable to see the evil that people like Obama perpetrate for the same reasons as Aaron the Moor committed, for the sheer pleasure of it.  Little Barry Obama was no different from the millions of modern children who love movie villains like Darth Vader because they are strong characters.  They do not care that they are evil because the villains are strong.  Academics understand Aaron the Moor more than they understand Titus and build their lives around the former as opposed to the later.

Liars like Obama’s administration where they have shown a tendency to lie about lying just for the sake of lying are no different from Aaron the Moor.  They wish to commit evil for the sake of evil because they enjoy it.  For the evil doer, goodness is the villain, and they seek to destroy all goodness so that villainy can propagate.  This is contrary to how most people see the world so they are unable to identify evil in the same way that Aaron the Moor was able to commit vast acts of evil against mankind—because good people have a hard time seeing evil.

But I don’t.  I have read and loved Shakespeare for the beauty of his written language.  I love the passion for which he writes.  And out of all of Shakespeare’s villains Aaron the Moor is my favorite.  I love to hate that particular character, so it didn’t take much for me to realize that in the current White House from a very early time was a character very similar to Aaron the Moor and he was President of The United States, and he loved evil with every fiber of his soul.  That love of evil is revealed in the multiple lies that the President’s administration has committed and is now caught.  Obama and his minions of deceit will continue to lie until they are eventually painted into a corner with nowhere else to turn—because that’s what they do.  Which is why severe justice is due to them in a way that is so aggressive, that all future presidents will think twice about lying again to the voters who put them in office.  At that point, I would expect from Barack Obama a speech every bit as colorful as Aaron the Moor and for all the same reasons.

Rich Hoffman

“If they attack first………..blast em’!”

www.tailofthedragonbook.com

Why Gun Clips Should Be Unlimited: The true intentions behind gun control

Below is the first of several public service announcements MB Studio Productions is producing to demonstrate who gun laws really affect and why they don’t work.  The video is well made, and accurate.  It creates a scenario where two scum bags decide to raid a random home because it looked like a viable target.  The home owner detects the threat, and opens fire once the first assailant enters the home.  I have been on both sides of that type of scenario and can confirm that it is very close to the re-creation.  Every pin-headed politician who does not understand why a home owner needs a gun with multiple round clips, or firearms that are military designations in their performance, they are naively foolish in not understanding the kind of evil that pushes the behavior of criminal activity.  I know evil very well and the scene produced by MB Studio reminds me of several friends I’ve had in the past who fear nothing, have no care for the lives they wreck and a completely absent sense of right and wrong.  It is from those kinds of people who the Second Amendment is designed to protect our property from the forced confiscation of wealth and dignity.

Learn more at http://www.MBStudioProductions.tv and support the cause at http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/sho…

Progressives in their war against goodness have decided that a fully government managed society is the only one they desire.  They do not care if individual lives are wrecked by criminal behavior because they regard the individual as a necessary sacrifice for the greater good of society.  They see such home invasion robberies shown in the dramatization as “collateral damage” to their progressive cause.  Progressives do not like private property, so they certainly don’t support a Second Amendment to protect it.  Rather, they support the type of managed society that calls the police and the meat wagons to clean up the dead bodies.  Progressives only care when they find themselves the victims of crime, but calculate the odds of such a thing happening are as frequent as being struck by lightning.  So they are happy to “sacrifice” the Second Amendment for their version of the “greater good”.

It is because of the vile, statist progressive that home invasion laws favor the criminal to begin with.  In the case of the video shown, the home owner fired first, which would have caused him trouble in court later as aggressive county prosecutors looking to make names for themselves justifying eight years of college attempt to prosecute home owners to advance their government sector jobs with progressive ass-kissing—which makes great headlines in progressively owned newspapers—who love government schools, large police departments, massive fire departments, and more government bureaucracy on every city block.  Anything that advances big government ideas are supported by the progressive even if the man defending his family with a firearm by blasting criminals who enter his home goes to jail for murder.  Progressives do not care if the father is thrown in jail as the children can be raised by their government schools and the wife can be placed on government assistance.  If she cannot afford to keep the home provided by her marriage to her husband, then she can move to government housing, as all statists know that under Agenda 21, that is the eventual goal anyway.  For the woman who loses her husband to years in jail for defending their home, she will simply see those days sooner than later—as all members of society will join her under progressive plans.  In this way, the tax payer supported prosecutor sides with the criminals and is the enemy of the homeowner.

Progressives see all property as everyone elses, so the laws which have been shaped in our modern society reflect this trend.  A home invader cannot be simply shot on site as they may not be armed.  They may only want food and water and these things are entitled to all human beings under the version of reality that the progressive functions under.  The progressive thinks in essentially the same fashion that the communists of the Soviet Union once believed, or the people of current China.  The greater good is more important than individual life—this is how progressives can support abortion causes and the occasional death of home invasion victims, because they know that reckless sex makes more women desire government assistance and crime expands a community’s desire for more police—all of which are activities that grow government workers.  If individual lives are ruined in the process, the progressive does not care.

The way the world should work is that such bandits as shown in the video above should be eliminated before they ever enter the property parameters.  The laws the way they are currently written protect criminals from the homeowner so they care nothing to knock on a door at any hour of the day and demand to use a phone, or seek shelter for some emergency.  Once a bad guy is on the front porch, conflict favors him and the homeowner is at a disadvantage.  The home owner should have the right to eliminate a threat just for being on their property—which would discourage bad guys from even making the attempt.  For those who have never known pure evil, they can claim ignorance—which is the way the progressive functions with everything in their life.  They intentionally strive to be stupid so they can have plausible deniability.  This method doesn’t just work with President Obama and his IRS—who are massive progressive government advocates, but with just little details in everyday life, like who is going to pick up the child from soccer practice, and what day is trash night—as one spouse may not enjoy the tasks and seek evasion to keep them out of the activity.  If one does not wish to take out the trash, they can simply say they forgot which day it was, because they had plausible deniability beforehand.  If a progressive wants to end private property, individual rights, and expand government support of Homeland Security, the FBI, or the local police, then they will attack the Second Amendment so that citizens need government for safety.  Their supposed intentions toward justice are simple plausible deniability schemes to expand government.

The greatest fault of the progressive is in their commitment to intelligentsia for solving all social problems with a version of civilization that is built upon evasive ignorance.  As society is “bigger” than any one individual the society gets the attention and any number of individuals are to be sacrificed for the “greater good.”  In this way the progressive feels they are nearly a religious cult against the individual whims of gun owners who desire to selfishly protect their properties which have no value to the progressive.  The progressive believes that they can manage all aspects of human life from food supply, sex, and intellectual stimulation—and that once they are in every part of a human life, then all human beings can be “managed.”  Progressives believe the criminal in the video above is equal to the homeowner, so they do not pick sides, and do not care who kills who in the grand scheme of things.  But they will side with the criminal by restricting the home owner with laws so that the crime can advance their progressive causes for more police, more government dependence, and the ever-present fear of the unknown.  In the grand reality of our modern-day, the criminal is more valuable to the progressive than the responsible home owner because the criminal advances progressive politics, where the homeowner does not.  The gun takes away the fear that progressives need to advance their statist government philosophies.

Progressives are just as dangerous as the criminals in the video.  They both wish to impose themselves upon individual lives.  The criminal is simply the foot soldier of the progressive politician—allowing the politician to have deniability while the dirty deeds are done by the criminal.  The progressive hopes to have a certain percentage of the population that is hooked on drugs, or working for the criminal element, because it gives government something to do, and a reason to expand.  If there is peace, and if the home owner can simply end all threats to their home and families with a gun, then the progressive is at a loss, which is what they fear most.

Rich Hoffman

“If they attack first………..blast em’!”

www.tailofthedragonbook.com

Map of the New World Order: What does tomorrow look like as it stands today?

What does the New World Order look like once all the forces at play today have their way tomorrow? Have a look at the map Glenn Beck assembled with a couple of his guests as they put together the pieces of a world few are willing to acknowledge is a possibility.

Video Two:

Video Three:

Rich Hoffman

“If they attack first………..blast em’!”

www.tailofthedragonbook.com

The Character of the IRS: Grown adults who desire to be 15-year-olds

I thought it was a joke when I saw the video of IRS workers practicing their dance moves for an upcoming training conference in Anaheim, which lasts just under three minutes, and comes out weeks after it was revealed that agency workers produced two other videos parodying the “Star Trek” and “Gilligan’s Island” TV shows.

The newest recording shown below costs about $1,600 and was produced to be shown at the end of a 2010 training and leadership conference held in California.  Yet, the video is not a joke, it was done with serious intentions behind it with a mentality that is shockingly similar to the type of adolescent shenanigans that are common in most high schools.  CLICK HERE TO REVIEW.  Not only is the video an insult, but the behavior of the people is even more disturbing.  The money spent is obviously ridiculous—the Star Trek and Gilligan Island videos cost roughly $60,000 to make.  This latest one is just icing on the cake of utmost failure.  But the culture shown in the video is much more disturbing to me.  Have a look.

More: http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/…

Video via the House Ways and Means Committee: http://waysandmeans.house.gov/

Basically, what’s seen in that video are grown adults who are at  the mental level of a 15 year-old, as described in one of my previous articles.  The social cluster that is evident in the culture of the IRS nearly duplicates any local high school in America, which makes sense as they are both institutions of government creation.  But what is disturbing is that the participants think they are being cool in the process of these film creations.  Being cool—young and hip is much more important to them than being right and wise, which is a major failure of our current society.

In the video at the link above where my local public school of Lakota was doing a large music video to raise money for Spina Bifda it doesn’t take much looking to see that the effort was driven by the adults of the school, in some bizarre attempt to be young again with their students.  When it comes to acting silly, and being “crazy,” young people are allowed some behavior fluctuations as they are still growing.  They’ve only been on earth for 15 to 18 years and have a lot to learn.  But when adults crave with every essence of their bodies to be “young” again, there is a real problem when such people are put into positions of authority.  There is a section of that Lakota video, shown below for review, where the school superintendent and the school board are seen dancing like a bunch of lunatics.  The superintendent actually held up a sign saying something to the effect as “superintendents’ rock.”

If an adult has a desire to “re-live” their youth so they can enjoy the so-called best days of their life—there is something wrong with their minds.  It wouldn’t take much effort to prove that those minds are suffering a varied degree of mental illness.  These types of psychologically deficient people are often found running for school boards, chaperoning school dances, and hauling their children to every social event so they can be on the “inside” as much as possible with the lives of young people.  The behavior really becomes a problem when it is considered that such neurosis is the root of millions of dollars of wasted money as such minds are incapable of proper management of their own lives, let alone guarding tax payer resources.

The IRS workers in the Anaheim training video is but a window into the world of the typical government worker—the undeveloped mind of the typical bureaucrat who craves desperately to return to the pubescent body of a 15-year-old child to be forever young.  The workers thought their video was cool, and socially hip.  Like a bunch of teenagers who have no value for money, or the worth of real life things, they saw no reason to avoid spending vast sums of money on a stupid video showing other IRS workers how cool they are, and how they can self-parody – which is the new cool.

The trend of a statist, collectivist oriented society is to declare to the world that one is imperfect and is in essence no better than the next person.  The best way to do so is to perform public actions that display humility.  This lets others know in a group that one does not take themselves too seriously, and are prone to self-sacrifice for the good of the many.  This is the culture of government and why teenagers behave so badly in public after being taught by government schools for 10 years of their already short lives.  They are taught by idiots to be idiots—so we shouldn’t expect anything less of them.  But for years, the behavior was hidden from the outside world as only those who worked for such institutions saw what really went on.  That was how life was before YouTube took away censorship, and put up honesty for all to see good and bad.   That is what we can see in the IRS video, and the Lakota music video, government institutions who think they are doing good, that are actually displaying a gross desire to be simple teenagers.

The cost of the federal government as it is operated by these insufficient bureaucrats is incalculable.  Leaving such people in charge of anything is similar to leaving teenagers alone at home while vacationing.  As soon as any responsible party leaves the house, the teenagers want to have some kind of destructive party and the house gets trashed.  These are the type of people who are running the government.  They are grown adults who think like children, and they simply duplicate in their government offices replicas of their glory days in high school—the government institution that shaped their thoughts.  The IRS officials saw no problem with their video production.  They didn’t care what the cost was, because like teenagers, they have no value for such things.  Their emphasis was completely on what’s “cool” and shows the greatest humility in a public setting.

I find the IRS video appalling.  It’s not cool.  It’s not cute.  And the people dancing in the video look like idiots, I feel sorry for their kids who have been robbed of a proper role model—and given a tremendous disadvantage in life.  The behavior points to how easily the culture of the IRS was able to turn the power and fury of the federal government toward conservative Tea Party groups as the odd balls in society just as children in a school are taught to identify children who are not “cool” as targets of social bullying, and peer pressure.  The culture of complacency is in place by the very nature of the typical IRS worker, who is simply a grown teenager, and just as irresponsibly dangerous.  Only those teenagers are given authority over our society in every context, and that is an abomination that needs to be revisited with a dedication to a flat tax that would allow us to dismantle the IRS as it is now so that taxpayers aren’t forced to pay for such silly employees with their hard-earned money. If there was ever a rally cry for such a need, the dancing training video done by the IRS is it!

Rich Hoffman

“If they attack first………..blast em’!”

www.tailofthedragonbook.com

Flash Gordon: Growing up and growing weak

“Flash, I love you, but we only have 14 hours to save the earth!”  With that line of dialogue from the 1980 film Flash Gordon I knew what I wanted to be when I grew up.  When Dale Arden said those words to Flash Gordon, Flash was battling a rival on a floating circular platform in a bullwhip fight to the death as metal spikes came up out of the floor to puncture the fighters.  If the fighters fell off the platform they would fall from the sky for miles to their death.  The movie was cheesy, and unrealistic as viewed by my adult eyes, but there is a swagger to it that I love to this day which is exhibited so clearly in the theme song done by the rock band Queen, which can be seen in the music video from that long ago time in a film forgotten to modern ingenuity.

It was Flash Gordon and the old Zorro films from the 40s and 50s Republic serials that captured my interest in learning to use bullwhips.  After watching the 1980 version of Flash Gordon at least 10 times at the theater I set up a mock platform in my back yard to learn how to fight with bullwhips on a similar platform so I’d have the skills to save the earth the way Flash Gordon did in that famous movie.  I was in the sixth grade at the time and my career choice was made for me after watching that movie.  I didn’t want to grow up to be a doctor, a dentist, or a mechanic.  I wanted to be a superhero who would save the world with my own two hands and a bull whip.

For three decades now I have played that Queen song from my car stereo and blasted it from my home theater system incessantly.  At times I have played the song over and over for hours never growing tired of it—because I always identified with the message.  As the rest of our modern world looks to the conspiracies of our day with anxiety, I am excited.  I look for the black helicopters to circle the sky, and for the hummers to storm my neighborhood releasing me from the social shackles of order for which we all live day by day.  I am eager for the day I can defeat the Ming’s of Merciless tyrants I hated as a youth, and still hate as an adult with more than fiction and metaphors, but with action brought from imagination to grim reality.

I have more than a few political enemies who contact me regularly perplexed as to why I seem so eager to fight all the time.  What they don’t understand is that peace is boring.  There is no glory in fragility or lacking valor.  There is no honor in yielding to death.  The goal of every breath we human beings breath is to “defy death,” not cower to it.  In addition to Flash Gordon saving the universe with his heroics I also admired Evil Knievel when I was young.  In fact, the biography of Evil Knievel was the very first book I read once I learned to between the first and second grade.  I jumped my bicycle over virtually everything I could build a ramp over and I did some spectacularly crazy things on my bicycle which would translate over to my first car.  Some of those experiences would end up in my novel The Tail of the Dragon.  But the bottom line was that at no point in my life was a normal life an option.  I never wanted to do anything less than save the world against impossible odds.

In that regard, I can report that I am in a blissful existence.  The world is corrupt with evils beyond imagining, and they are obvious.  The villains are as obvious as the sun in a cloudless sky at noon in the desert.  And those villains require valor to defeat, and souls willing to meet them on the battlefield of life.  It is in that spirit that I wait patiently with yearning at the first moves of the real life Ming’s of Merciless to advance their plots in a way that defies the law and provides license for action to extend beyond the realm of thought, to actual existence.  I still practice on a type of “disk of death” in my back yard so that the skills are present when they are needed.

Most people supposedly grow up and away from these kinds of thoughts, the hero fantasies young people have of saving the world.  Sadly, almost every living, breathing human being in the entire world stops growing physically and mentally by the age of 15.  The typical 50-year-old wants the same things that the typical 15-year-old wants food, sex, and social status.  Our current society considers this—maturity.  But the higher needs and desires come from the youth of a mind uncorrupted by age and cynicism, which has not yet hit puberty and developed a desire for the opposite sex.  In this phase, a young mind sees the big picture without interruption.  It is during this phase that young people think that saving the world is realistic, and they endeavor to do so all by themselves.

However, once young people start submitting themselves to hazing rituals to belong to a sports team, or surrender themselves to a classroom bully, they start making concessions for which there is no return.  Once they’ve kissed the feat of the Ming’s of Merciless’ in their life they turn their attention to their social status, sex and food once they’ve learned their place in the social peaking order.  I have always felt sorry for these terribly lost fools.  They have lost the magic of youth, the knowledge in their own minds that they are ruled by nobody but their own imaginations.  Once they are broken—socially—they stay that way for the rest of their years nearly 100% of the time.

What I always loved about Flash Gordon—especially the cheesy 1980 version of the classic character was that he wasn’t afraid of anything.  He also survived everything the bad guys threw at him and had to peel the girls off him with a pry bar.  Flash Gordon was fearless, and he never felt he needed to apologize otherwise.

Years ago I worked for a conveyor manufacturer who had a big contract with Amazon.com.  I was clearly one of the best assemblers out of the 400 person work force.  It was a union shop, but due to a recent strike, they had allowed Right-to-Work provisions.  I was one of the first after the agreement to take the job without accepting union representation.  Because of my work ethic, I was put on the big sorter job, which was the most complicated conveyor segment this particular company built.  They were big and had a lot of moving parts which had to be precisely measured.  The very aggressive building hours on those units was 16 hours, which required two 8 hour shifts of a union employee building them at 100% efficiency to complete.  However, most of the time, the union employees performed at a 40% to 60% efficiency, so even with two assemblers, the job still took two days.  When the shop foramen put me on the job he warned me that if I worked too fast, that it would cause trouble.  But he admitted to me that he was putting me on those units to expose the poor performance of the much more experienced assemblers.  I gladly went to the cell and set up.  Within one week of working on the very technical job, I was building those units every 7.5 hours.  Within a month, I had the time down to 6 hours.  When I worked double shifts, which was unheard of at this manufacturing facility I could build two per day by myself and have the next unit for set up for first shift construction.  This earned me the nick-name, “SUPERMAN.”  It’s a name that has traveled with me everywhere I’ve ever worked and people do not mean it in a complementary way.  Quite the opposite, they mean it as an insult.  The union employees believed that by signaling me out with such a name, I would feel self-conscious and stop trying to “be so good.”  So in response to their “insult” I would start my shift every day with the theme song to Superman on my personal boom box sitting on top of my tool box.  I put together a mix tape back then, and right after Superman, the Queen song “Flash” would come on to drive my point home.  My co-workers would scratch their heads and try to turn up their radios onto classic rock to attempt to drown out my movie classics.

After a while of these music wars, they decided to step up their harassment by threatening to fight me in the break room, bathroom, and parking lot.  Different groups of individuals attempted the deed until the whole plant had stacked up massive collective failure.  When that didn’t work they tried to rally the whole plant against me with a giant fight in the parking lot imagining that the threat of a mob would put me in my place.  But it never did, instead they learned the same lessons that many have had to learn about themselves under such circumstances—that they were cowards in their adult lives discovering that valor had left their lives.  Those same adults tell their sons to “grow up,” not out of a desire for their children to have better lives than they had, but to prevent their children from stepping beyond them in social stature.  Those adults tell their daughters “don’t hold out for a hero, because there are none.”  The truth is not that society lacks heroes anymore, but that the hope is that those heroes will be suppressed so that guilt doesn’t riddle the minds of all the 15-year-olds who have stopped dreaming of honor, and traded in their ambition for social security as 40-year-old slobs whose new idea of success is to save the world by schmooze politically on the golf courses of life.

The plot of Flash Gordon would have been boring if Flash just did what he was told, and kissed the ring of Ming the Merciless.  But he didn’t, and that’s why Flash Gordon is such a great and honorable character.    The same holds true in real life—it is easy to kiss the rings of those who wish to rule us.  But there is also opportunity for honor and adventure when such rings are offered and the ring is spit on instead of kissed.  That is why I look at our current world and have a hard time containing my excitement.  There are a lot of modern spiked platforms that contain a million perils upon them.  The danger is what I yearn for—with the same ambition that a 7 to 8 year-old kid looks upon a fantasy film with wide-eyes declaring that when he grows up, he will also be fearless and heroic.  For me the biggest difference between the adult and the child is that the child at such a young age has no choice but to dream and ascertain images which they find attractive, so they can set personal goals to live up to.  The adult has to take the responsibility to live those dreams, and to have the bravery to stand on their own ideals even if the world or universe stands against them.  It is in such moments that I hear the theme song to Flash Gordon, from Queen, and relish that I have fought on many dangerous platforms and heard in my mind the words of many metaphorical Dale Ardens without turning away from the danger.  But I never get tired of hearing it, and yearn for more of it every day of my life.

When I was a child, I simply bought another movie ticket and watched the same movie over and over again.  But as a man, I simply get out of bed and face the day with a smile on my face for the danger which awaits me.  It’s a wonderful time to be alive!

Rich Hoffman

“If they attack first………..blast em’!”

www.tailofthedragonbook.com

The 2013 Bilderberg Meeting List: Who went and what did they talk about

It’s that time of year again, time for the Bilderberg meeting where the self-professed movers and shakers of the entire world get together, pat each other on the back and dream they can micromanage the entire world and solve all its problems with their intelligentsia.  For some people, these names incite terror as they represent the 1% of the mythical 1% of the world population that runs the entire economic globe through bank finance, political influence, and media relations.  To me they are a mixed bag of geniuses, hardy capitalists with a long train of social moochers, looters and die-hard progressives riding their coat tails.  Regardless of what one might think about this list of names, or the power that the Bilderberg meeting has on world affairs—the hopes and dreams of these people are presumptuous.  They assume they have value which the rest of society does not.  This mistake places them in the failed company of thousands upon thousands of global leaders all over the world through all history who reached their death with the grim realization that all the money and power in the world could not make them “good” people.  So their attempts to use their power and influence to do some “good” in the world is misguided, and will 100% of the time lead to the failure of their objectives.  So fret not over the names on this list.  They are only human, and being such is an act to out-grow, not relish.

 

Hertfordshire , England 6-9 June 2013

Current list of Participants

Status 3 June 2013

FRA
Castries, Henri de
Chairman and CEO, AXA Group







DEU
Achleitner, Paul M.
Chairman of the Supervisory Board, Deutsche Bank AG


DEU
Ackermann, Josef
Chairman of the Board, Zurich Insurance Group Ltd


GBR
Agius, Marcus
Former Chairman, Barclays plc


GBR
Alexander, Helen
Chairman, UBM plc


USA
Altman, Roger C.
Executive Chairman, Evercore Partners


FIN
Apunen, Matti
Director, Finnish Business and Policy Forum EVA


USA
Athey, Susan
Professor of Economics, Stanford Graduate School of Business


TUR
Aydıntaşbaş, Aslı
Columnist, Milliyet Newspaper


TUR
Babacan, Ali
Deputy Prime Minister for Economic and Financial Affairs


GBR
Balls, Edward M.
Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer


PRT
Balsemão, Francisco Pinto
Chairman and CEO, IMPRESA


FRA
Barré, Nicolas
Managing Editor, Les Echos


INT
Barroso, José M. Durão
President, European Commission


FRA
Baverez, Nicolas
Partner, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP


FRA
Bavinchove, Olivier de
Commander, Eurocorps


GBR
Bell, John
Regius Professor of Medicine, University of Oxford


ITA
Bernabè, Franco
Chairman and CEO, Telecom Italia S.p.A.


USA
Bezos, Jeff
Founder and CEO, Amazon.com


SWE
Bildt, Carl
Minister for Foreign Affairs


SWE
Borg, Anders
Minister for Finance


NLD
Boxmeer, Jean François van
Chairman of the Executive Board and CEO, Heineken N.V.


NOR
Brandtzæg, Svein Richard
President and CEO, Norsk Hydro ASA


AUT
Bronner, Oscar
Publisher, Der Standard Medienwelt


GBR
Carrington, Peter
Former Honorary Chairman, Bilderberg Meetings


ESP
Cebrián, Juan Luis
Executive Chairman, Grupo PRISA


CAN
Clark, W. Edmund
President and CEO, TD Bank Group


GBR
Clarke, Kenneth
Member of Parliament


DNK
Corydon, Bjarne
Minister of Finance


GBR
Cowper-Coles, Sherard
Business Development Director, International, BAE Systems plc


ITA
Cucchiani, Enrico Tommaso
CEO, Intesa Sanpaolo SpA


BEL
Davignon, Etienne
Minister of State; Former Chairman, Bilderberg Meetings


GBR
Davis, Ian
Senior Partner Emeritus, McKinsey & Company


NLD
Dijkgraaf, Robbert H.
Director and Leon Levy Professor, Institute for Advanced Study


TUR
Dinçer, Haluk
President, Retail and Insurance Group, Sabancı Holding A.S.


GBR
Dudley, Robert
Group Chief Executive, BP plc


USA
Eberstadt, Nicholas N.
Henry Wendt Chair in Political Economy, American Enterprise Institute


NOR
Eide, Espen Barth
Minister of Foreign Affairs


SWE
Ekholm, Börje
President and CEO, Investor AB


DEU
Enders, Thomas
CEO, EADS


USA
Evans, J. Michael
Vice Chairman, Goldman Sachs & Co.


DNK
Federspiel, Ulrik
Executive Vice President, Haldor Topsøe A/S


USA
Feldstein, Martin S.
Professor of Economics, Harvard University; President Emeritus, NBER


FRA
Fillon, François
Former Prime Minister


USA
Fishman, Mark C.
President, Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research


GBR
Flint, Douglas J.
Group Chairman, HSBC Holdings plc


IRL
Gallagher, Paul
Senior Counsel


USA
Geithner, Timothy F.
Former Secretary of the Treasury


USA
Gfoeller, Michael
Political Consultant


USA
Graham, Donald E.
Chairman and CEO, The Washington Post Company


DEU
Grillo, Ulrich
CEO, Grillo-Werke AG


ITA
Gruber, Lilli
Journalist – Anchorwoman, La 7 TV


ESP
Guindos, Luis de
Minister of Economy and Competitiveness


GBR
Gulliver, Stuart
Group Chief Executive, HSBC Holdings plc


CHE
Gutzwiller, Felix
Member of the Swiss Council of States


NLD
Halberstadt, Victor
Professor of Economics, Leiden University; Former Honorary Secretary  General of Bilderberg Meetings


FIN
Heinonen, Olli
Senior Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School of Government


GBR
Henry, Simon
CFO, Royal Dutch Shell plc


FRA
Hermelin, Paul
Chairman and CEO, Capgemini Group


ESP
Isla, Pablo
Chairman and CEO, Inditex Group


USA
Jacobs, Kenneth M.
Chairman and CEO, Lazard


USA
Johnson, James A.
Chairman, Johnson Capital Partners


CHE
Jordan, Thomas J.
Chairman of the Governing Board, Swiss National Bank


USA
Jordan, Jr., Vernon E.
Managing Director, Lazard Freres & Co. LLC


USA
Kaplan, Robert D.
Chief Geopolitical Analyst, Stratfor


USA
Karp, Alex
Founder and CEO, Palantir Technologies


GBR
Kerr, John
Independent Member, House of Lords


USA
Kissinger, Henry A.
Chairman, Kissinger Associates, Inc.


USA
Kleinfeld, Klaus
Chairman and CEO, Alcoa


NLD
Knot, Klaas H.W.
President, De Nederlandsche Bank


TUR
Koç, Mustafa V.
Chairman, Koç Holding A.S.


DEU
Koch, Roland
CEO, Bilfinger SE


USA
Kravis, Henry R.
Co-Chairman and Co-CEO, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.


USA
Kravis, Marie-Josée
Senior Fellow and Vice Chair, Hudson Institute


CHE
Kudelski, André
Chairman and CEO, Kudelski Group


GRC
Kyriacopoulos, Ulysses
Chairman, S&B Industrial Minerals S.A.


INT
Lagarde, Christine
Managing Director, International Monetary Fund


DEU
Lauk, Kurt J.
Chairman of the Economic Council to the CDU, Berlin


USA
Lessig, Lawrence
Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership, Harvard Law School; Director, Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, Harvard University


BEL
Leysen, Thomas
Chairman of the Board of Directors, KBC Group


DEU
Lindner, Christian
Party Leader, Free Democratic Party (FDP NRW)


SWE
Löfven, Stefan
Party Leader, Social Democratic Party (SAP)


DEU
Löscher, Peter
President and CEO, Siemens AG


GBR
Mandelson, Peter
Chairman, Global Counsel; Chairman, Lazard International


USA
Mathews, Jessica T.
President, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace


CAN
McKenna, Frank
Chair, Brookfield Asset Management


GBR
Micklethwait, John
Editor-in-Chief, The Economist


FRA
Montbrial, Thierry de
President, French Institute for International Relations


ITA
Monti, Mario
Former Prime Minister


USA
Mundie, Craig J.
Senior Advisor to the CEO, Microsoft Corporation


ITA
Nagel, Alberto
CEO, Mediobanca


NLD
Netherlands, H.R.H. Princess Beatrix of The


USA
Ng, Andrew Y.
Co-Founder, Coursera


FIN
Ollila, Jorma
Chairman, Royal Dutch Shell, plc


GBR
Omand, David
Visiting Professor, King’s College London


GBR
Osborne, George
Chancellor of the Exchequer


USA
Ottolenghi, Emanuele
Senior Fellow, Foundation for Defense of Democracies


TUR
Özel, Soli
Senior Lecturer, Kadir Has University; Columnist, Habertürk Newspaper


GRC
Papahelas, Alexis
Executive Editor, Kathimerini Newspaper


TUR
Pavey, Şafak
Member of Parliament (CHP)


FRA
Pécresse, Valérie
Member of Parliament (UMP)


USA
Perle, Richard N.
Resident Fellow, American Enterprise Institute


USA
Petraeus, David H.
General, U.S. Army (Retired)


PRT
Portas, Paulo
Minister of State and Foreign Affairs


CAN
Prichard, J. Robert S.
Chair, Torys LLP


INT
Reding, Viviane
Vice President and Commissioner for Justice, Fundamental Rights and Citizenship, European Commission


CAN
Reisman, Heather M.
CEO, Indigo Books & Music Inc.


FRA
Rey, Hélène
Professor of Economics, London Business School


GBR
Robertson, Simon
Partner, Robertson Robey Associates LLP; Deputy Chairman, HSBC Holdings


ITA
Rocca, Gianfelice
Chairman,Techint Group


POL
Rostowski, Jacek
Minister of Finance and Deputy Prime Minister


USA
Rubin, Robert E.
Co-Chairman, Council on Foreign Relations; Former Secretary of the Treasury


NLD
Rutte, Mark
Prime Minister


AUT
Schieder, Andreas
State Secretary of Finance


USA
Schmidt, Eric E.
Executive Chairman, Google Inc.


AUT
Scholten, Rudolf
Member of the Board of Executive Directors, Oesterreichische Kontrollbank AG


PRT
Seguro, António José
Secretary General, Socialist Party


FRA
Senard, Jean-Dominique
CEO, Michelin Group


NOR
Skogen Lund, Kristin
Director General, Confederation of Norwegian Enterprise


USA
Slaughter, Anne-Marie
Bert G. Kerstetter ’66 University Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Princeton University


IRL
Sutherland, Peter D.
Chairman, Goldman Sachs International


GBR
Taylor, Martin
Former Chairman, Syngenta AG


INT
Thiam, Tidjane
Group CEO, Prudential plc


USA
Thiel, Peter A.
President, Thiel Capital


USA
Thompson, Craig B.
President and CEO, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center


DNK
Topsøe, Jakob Haldor
Partner, AMBROX Capital A/S


FIN
Urpilainen, Jutta
Minister of Finance


CHE
Vasella, Daniel L.
Honorary Chairman, Novartis AG


GBR
Voser, Peter R.
CEO, Royal Dutch Shell plc


CAN
Wall, Brad
Premier of Saskatchewan


SWE
Wallenberg, Jacob
Chairman, Investor AB


USA
Warsh, Kevin
Distinguished Visiting Fellow, The Hoover Institution, Stanford University


CAN
Weston, Galen G.
Executive Chairman, Loblaw Companies Limited


GBR
Williams of Crosby, Shirley
Member, House of Lords


GBR
Wolf, Martin H.
Chief Economics Commentator, The Financial Times


USA
Wolfensohn, James D.
Chairman and CEO, Wolfensohn and Company


GBR
Wright, David
Vice Chairman, Barclays plc


INT
Zoellick, Robert B.
Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics

Bilderberg Agenda

The 61st Bilderberg meeting is set to take place from 6 until 9 June 2013 in Hertfordshire, UK. A total of around 140 participants from 21 European and North American countries have confirmed their attendance. As ever, a diverse group of political leaders and experts from industry, finance, academia and the media have been invited. The list of participants is available on http://www.bilderbergmeetings.org

The key topics for discussion this year include:

• Can the US and Europe grow faster and create jobs?

• Jobs, entitlement and debt

• How big data is changing almost everything

• Nationalism and populism

• US foreign policy

• Africa’s challenges

• Cyber warfare and the proliferation of asymmetric threats

• Major trends in medical research

• Online education: promise and impacts

• Politics of the European Union

• Developments in the Middle East

• Current affairs

More information at:

http://www.infowars.com/breaking-official-bilderberg-attendee-list-released/

My novel Tail of the Dragon is currently offered on Amazon.com for $17.47.  As of this writing it is SOLD OUT again and my publisher is working to get more books supplied.  Amazon will back order it for the lower price.  CLICK HERE TO VISIT.

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Rich Hoffman

“If they attack first………..blast em’!”

www.tailofthedragonbook.com

The David Nicholas ‘General Lee’: A day of excitment at the Cliffhanger Ranch and Adventure Outpost

As my old friend hosted festivities at his Cliffhanger Ranch and Adventure Outpost for the Spearhead Trail Blazers yearly event in Wise County, Virginia I had the privilege of speaking with David Nicholas who brought his General Lee 1969 Dodge Charger.  David and I had more in common than just being the entertainment venues to the spectacle—he brought one of the most famous cars in the world known as the hero from The Dukes of Hazzard television show, and I performed bullwhip tricks for the participates.  David is exactly the type of man I wished to highlight in my most recent novel, Tail of the Dragon, a grown man who still works in their garage to bring life to the dreams of their youth.  In the video below you can meet David and his General Lee as he explained his love of that car and memorabilia from the classic television series.  In a lot of ways David was a lot like the hero from my novel, Rick Stevens.  The video covers many of the events which occurred at the ranch on June 1st including a special trip to the undeveloped portion of the property which my friend Nathan Ormes has big plans for in the years to come.

Just hours before meeting up with David at the Cliffhanger Ranch, which is named after the main character from my novel The Symposium of Justice, I received a very nice review of Tail of the Dragon from an unexpected source.  I never tire hearing from people who have picked up Tail of the Dragon as anybody might from the store and read it feeling enough passion at the conclusion to leave a nice review.  For me, it is the ultimate compliment and fills me with hope that I can ignite with that novel future David Nicholas back-yard mechanics who will feel enough passion for the material to pay homage in a similar way as David did with his General Lee.

Tail of the Dragon: Rich Hoffman Book review

Philosophy, Action, 228 pgs. ISBN 978-1-58982-694-6

A non-stop thrill-ride from beginning to end, this story lets you ride alongside an unrestrained road racer and his lover in a story that screams danger around every corner … A real page turner, the story is Smokey and the Bandit meets Road Warrior. One immovable unbending man takes on the tyrannical authorities in his quest to make a point, right a wrong, and help himself and a political ally. Risking all in a multi-state cannonball run style chase in a supercar, this fantastic smash-up derby takes Rick Stevens, his wife and Firebird into war with the police and military authorities while making history and changing the future.

A nice easy read filled with escapism, it was fantastic and fun.

Respectfully,

O.A.

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As David showed me around his General Lee I kept thinking about that review from “O.A.”  Some of the guests at the ranch attempted to articulate their feelings for the General Lee.  I explained aloud that the old Dodge Charger was a symbol of rebellion and defiance.  The bold Confederate Flag on the roof and front end, on the windows, even the name of a great Civil War general, were symbols of battle and of standing against tyranny.  The car was never intended to be a casual project that the Duke Boys built to take girls out on dates – the car was to be a war machine – an agent of justice.  My wife asked aloud what the bars were across the front of the General Lee, and I explained to her that those bars were for ramming bad guys off the road so that the front of the car wasn’t damaged.  By bad guys in this case it was often the cops who were always wrapped up in the crooked dealings of crime in that imaginary town from the fictional television show.  When visitors all day long approached the car, it wasn’t for the fantasy of a peaceful drive to church which stirred the imaginations of those who gazed upon it, but the war from which The General conducted its life.  It was the battles fought and won that caused spectators to look on in awe and want to touch the car.

David and I had many philosophical discussions all day long as he demonstrated the air horn system which impressed me greatly, playing Dixie over and over to the point that we ran down the battery.  We spoke about the old television show and surmised that the Duke Boys were good guys even when they broke the law because they always tried to do the right thing – even when the law stood in the way.  That was the key to the success of The Dukes of Hazzard.  When I was a kid and heard a souped up tractor at the Butler County Fair blow their air horn playing Dixie, it was the defiance of the General Lee which came to my mind – of the bright orange car fleeing from the law in order to save Hazzard County from the latest schemes of Boss Hog and his corrupt police force.  The same spike of excitement I felt as a kid at the Fair came right back at the Cliffhanger Ranch when Dave hit the horn and revved up the big V-8 Hemi engine in his General Lee.

David Nicholas and his son who came with him were a delight to meet and speak with.  I saw in them undefeated souls from Bristol, Tennessee who had an intense passion for everything related to The Dukes of Hazzard.  As we talked about my novel, which is an obvious throw-back to The Dukes of Hazzard, Smokey and the Bandit and all those great classics, we joked about the big scene in the novel which took place in Pigeon Forge, and at the I-40 tunnels in the mountains.  David lives in the area so he routinely travels all the roads where the biggest car chase in fictional human history took place and knew all the locations described in my novel.

The review I received reminded me that perhaps in 30 years time some back-yard mechanic might do for the Firebird from Tail of the Dragon what David had done for the General Lee, from The Dukes of Hazzard. The sheer joy that was easy to see from all who approached the car to touch it at the ranch could not be contained.  Old men and their young sons, and grandsons enjoy the General Lee for the same reasons – because the General is a “war machine” dedicated to justice over tyranny.  It is not about compliance, submission, or rigid rules of social structure.  The General Lee is about good over evil in the most fundamental sense of the word and that is why the car had a special resonance which was unmistakably present.

On the way home from the ranch, my wife and I had to travel through the real life Hazard, Kentucky in the rugged mountains of Appalachia.  We stopped in Jackson to buy my grandson and nephew a few mementos for upcoming events.  As I looked at the people in the hardy small town there was a lack of fear on their faces which was similar to the kind of aura David Nicholas projected.  There is a comfort in the people of Appalachia given to them from their strong faith in God, and ever-present readiness to slap down the federal government in less than a heart-beat.  This was a quality that the show The Dukes of Hazzard successfully captured when they set the fictional show several hundred miles to the south in Georgia, instead of Kentucky.   There is a reason that President Obama DID NOT campaign in Jackson or Hazard, Kentucky and it doesn’t have a thing to do with skin color.  The people in these mountain towns do not like government bothering them about much of anything—and that element was as strong today as it was when America started as frontier towns in such remote wildernesses.  It was the reason we stopped to buy birthday presents in Jackson as opposed to things we could buy at our home in Cincinnati.  There is a swagger in the South that is represented by The General Lee from The Dukes of Hazzard.  And by the tone of my most recent review, I had told a story that revisited that swagger with a whole new story that takes the action well-known by the Duke Boys and turns up the heat to levels modern society demands.  And it delivers!

My novel Tail of the Dragon is currently offered on Amazon.com for $17.47.  As of this writing it is SOLD OUT again and my publisher is working to get more books supplied.  Amazon will back order it for the lower price.  CLICK HERE TO VISIT.

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Rich Hoffman

“If they attack first………..blast em’!”

www.tailofthedragonbook.com

The White House Crooks: Obama’s crimes are far worse then Nixon’s

Comparing the video of Obama’s current scandals and those of Nixon’s, it is bewildering how such crocked men could have misled the American people right up to the last days of their offices.  With Nixon we have the benefit of hindsight, and know that when the President was declaring to the public that he hadn’t done anything wrong—that he in fact did.  He was impeached and forced from the American presidency in disgrace—as he should have.  With Obama we are seeing the denials of wrongdoing in real time—before he has been forced from office as the multitude of thuggish political maneuverings executed by his administration are coming unraveled—leaving the befuddled current president to use the same silly excuses that Nixon used, because there simply aren’t any other excuses.  Obama has been caught and he knows it.  Watch the video for yourself.

Nixon continued to perform White House functions and speak to the press knowing that the end was coming, and Obama is currently going through the same thing.  But watching them perform in the past and now in the present, it only proves how diabolically soulless these people truly are, and how little what they say really means.  They are such good liars that they can get up in the morning and conduct their life as usual without being crushed under the sheer guilt of their arrogant stupidity.

As we are learning about the Benghazi murders, the first thing Obama did about the deaths 5 hours into the catastrophe was not to call in forces from the next town, or across the Mediterranean to provide assistance, it was for his own self-preservation.  He called Hillary Clinton and the two worked out a cover-story for their sheer incompetence as they had been caught in an apparent gun running scandal far worse than Fast and Furious.  Obama and his minions found a fall guy and attempted to blame the deaths on the maker of an anti-Muslim video—who was totally innocent of any wrong doing other than making a crappy movie.  Obama was happy to lie about the terrorist event to cover up the lie of another lie his administration was embarking upon, and he didn’t think anything of looking the American people in the eye to propose the ruse.

Obama and his people are in a lot of trouble.  The IRS scandal is directly tied to a union leader who met with the White House the day before the targeting of conservative groups, and the IRS is accountable to Obama.  Eric Holder who has been found in “contempt of court” by Congress is guilty of spying on a Fox News reporter just a few weeks after stating before Congress that he would never think of doing such a thing, and he too works directly for President Obama.  Hillary Clinton completely screwed up Benghazi causing the deaths of 4 Americans, and she worked directly for President Obama.  Yet Obama claims he knew nothing about any of the incidents proclaiming just like former President Nixon did when he was caught in the Watergate Scandal that he learned about all these events on the news just like everyone else.  Nobody with half a mind believes Obama.

If I were in Obama’s shoes, which I never would be as it would require a level of incompetence that seems impossible to me—but if I where, I would be so worried about all these events that I wouldn’t be able to sleep at night.  I wouldn’t be able to eat, enjoy television, or even reading a book.  That is why it’s astonishing to watch Obama give fundraising speeches and addressing the public as if nothing were going on.  But it just proves how much Obama participates in “evasion” in his personal life—how much Obama does not pay attention to  the facts in the world around him—and to what extent he is simply a talking head who believes nothing, stands for even less, and will utter any word provided to him by his financial contributors.  Such people are not real people—they are such good liars that they can continue to function because they have no sense of right and wrong to measure themselves against.

What’s even worse is that people like Obama and former President Nixon believe that their stall tactics with reality actually work.  They believe that if they just drag out the facts of a situation long enough people will forget the crime.  They believe such a thing because it has worked in the past—Obama and Eric Holder did just that over Fast and Furious when Holder told Obama to invoke “executive privilege” to avoid turning over documents over that gun running deal which The White House obviously feared letting out to the public CLICK FOR REVIEW.  They drug their feet, dodged the law and hoped that the public would lose interest before Congress did—which worked.  Now, Holder is in the same trouble again, but this time delaying won’t work, because one scandal has exposed him in another.

It’s a shame that it takes all this to obtain justice—but when it comes to crooks, there is no low too submerged.  They do not feel guilty about anything, and will lie about the smallest details in order to advance their radical agenda.  This is the same Justice Department that under Obama turned their web-site colors from Red, White and Blue, to Black and White taking on a noticeably communist flair in 2011.  CLICK TO REVIEW.  These characters have been guilty for a long time even of voter fraud when Holder supported through inaction the harassment of the Black Panthers at an urban voting district where support for Democrats needed to prevail.

The only difference between former President Nixon and the current President Obama is that the former has not been forced from office yet for his crimes.  In many cases, Obama’s crimes are far worse than Nixon’s because people died due to Obama’s mishaps.  It also appears that Obama has many more shady people working for him than Nixon did, so the problem is exacerbated with even more incompetence.  But other than that, Obama and Nixon are two peas in a pod.  They are both crooks.  One is a former president of the past, the other is a former president of the future.

Rich Hoffman

“If they attack first………..blast em’!”

www.tailofthedragonbook.com

American’s For Prosperity: Help in fighting school levies and other tax increases in Ohio–how and why to contact them

I continue to get a lot of email from people all over Ohio wanting to know how they can fight their local school levies and take controversial positions against fire/police levies.  Without question the levy attempts will continue to be a problem in Ohio as collective bargaining agreements are wrecking the budgets of virtually every community.  The idea of collective bargaining is a preposterous notion that only ignorant fools would support.  They are a direct result of communist influence during the “red decade” reacting to extensive pressure from the Soviet Union, and should have never been brought to The United States in any form.  The mistake of collective bargaining is that it pays employees value based on years of service, seniority and collective membership, not on individual merit which is essential to a capitalist system.  Collective bargaining is the brain-child of Karl Marx and is anti-capitalism in its fiscal approach.  The practice needs to be abolished before management of community resources can be performed properly.  Collective bargaining is the single greatest cause of tax increases in any government endeavor.  Employees are paid too much because of it, and too many people are paid with such over abundance—which recklessly drives up labor costs on a community forcing tax increases.

Although collective bargaining for private sector workers was adopted into federal Law in 1935, it was nearly 50 years later when public employees in Ohio obtained the right to negotiate workplace contracts. On July 6, 1983 Governor Richard Celeste signed the collective bargaining bill (SB133) into law, which went into effect on April 1, 1984 and is contained in Ohio Revised Code, Chapter 4117.

As a result of the collective bargaining law, six hundred thousand public employees including teachers, firefighters, police officers, state and local service workers, could not only form and join a union, but also enjoy legal rights in negotiating workplace contracts with the public employer (the taxpayer). The collective bargaining law also ushered in the State Employees Relations Board, principally charged with administering Chapter 4117 and resolving labor and management disputes through a three-member board appointed by the Governor, which almost every time favors the lobby power of the labor unions.

Until the mistake of Celeste in Ohio during 1983 and the 1935 federal law are abolished tax levies will continue.  Many of the people writing me lack the network to fight the large well-oiled machines of community labor unions but I have been able to help some of them construct successful strategies to defeat their levies as they come up on the ballot.  To date, the government institutions, particularly the schools simply ignore the election results when they fail and try again for another tax increase in the next business quarter.  This scam is driven by collective bargaining agreements and unions flock to protect those agreements because it is the life-blood of their high wages.  So, it is helpful to have a larger organization behind tax fighting efforts to match and surpass the scams proposed by labor unions in bed with statist government lovers.

I recently spoke with Hanna Faulkner from the Americans for Prosperity organization who is the Southwest Ohio filed coordinator.  She offered the services of AFP to communities struggling to defeat their tax levies with the might of their dynamic group powered by incredible activists.  They have organized and influential citizen leaders in every state who work at local, state, and national levels to embrace the principles of economic freedom.  AFP understands that individual and entrepreneurial freedom creates a higher quality of life than government controls and excessive regulation.  They also understand that efficient, effective and limited government protects hardworking taxpayer and allows the real economy to grow and thrive.  AFP believes that genuine merit should determine success, not government cronyism or favoritism which is exactly what collective bargaining breeds everywhere it is applied.  AFP knows that communities are healthier and more prosperous when personal responsibility is reward and dependency is discourage, so they are the perfect type of organization to help lend support when it comes to fighting tax increases.

According to Hanna, AFP is all about action.  Throughout the year they crisscross the nation holding rallies, town halls, and grassroots events to inform, empower, and activate Americans to become influential voices in the battle for economic freedom.  In addition to their aggressive stance on national issues, AFP frequently focuses on critical issues at the state and local levels.  That’s why they mobilized massive resources to combat New Jersey’s Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), where they conducted nearly 50 special events and training seminars, resulting in Governor Christie removing New Jersey from the Cap-and-Trade scheme.  AFP also played a major role in Wisconsin’s budget reform battle, where they defended those in the state who were fighting to balance Wisconsin’s budget.  To that end, they took over the airwaves, rallied grassroots activists, and organized a statewide bus tour.

AFP’s North Carolina activists ensured passage of the first veto-proof budget without a tax increase in over a decade.  The legislative success was the result of grassroots pressure involving AFP-North Carolina activists knocking on more than 56,000 doors and holding rallies as well as AFP’s large-scale paid media effort.  AFP-Nevada activists logged a whopping 35,441 live, non-partisan, Get-Out-The-Vote calls leading up to the special election in Nevada’s 2nd Congressional District.  In Wisconsin, AFP deployed their vertically integrated grassroots strategy, 110,000 activists who ensured that Governor Scott Walker’s crucial collective bargaining reforms and spending cuts carried the day by running a statewide paid media effort, hosting dozens of large-scale rallies, and logging tens of thousands of live issue advocacy calls to households across Wisconsin.  In Michigan AFP helped thwart an unnecessary international bridge project between Michigan and Canada after mobilizing tens of thousands of calls to elected officials in Lansing.  In Texas, AFP along with a coalition of state-based partners, helped wipe out a $27 billion budget deficit in Texas without raising taxes or draining the state’s rainy day fund.   American’s for Prosperity is a group that offers fresh troops to the budget battles of the day—and they are quite effective.

This is why I was speaking to Hanna.  When my school district of Lakota attempts to place another levy on the ballot, I intend to beat that levy so badly that it will change state dialogue in Ohio with a mandate setting defeat that is so high-profile that every district in Ohio, and the board of education at the state level will shudder.  To do this I intended to defeat the next measure by 65% or more at the ballot box, and to do that it will require different tactics than I have used in the past.  The activism record of AFP is just the kind of thing I’m looking for, so such an alliance looks to be forthcoming.  However, in the meantime, AFP is there for other districts all across the state, and they should be contacted to assist with those battles.

Recently there was a levy attempt in the district of Greenon north of Dayton which was quite ugly.  The levy fighters there had lost their house, pushed out because of the higher taxes, and they were all alone in their levy fight.  They managed to defeat the May levy attempt with a wonderful campaign that I am proud of them for implementing.  For them, I would recommend that they contact Hanna for further support on the next attempt as working with AFP will give them more troops on the ground than they currently have.   In Greenon, obviously most people agreed with my friends, but they wouldn’t dare say so publicly because they fear the kind of retaliation that was suffered.  There are many school district preparing levy attempts for the fall ballot so now is the time to contact Hanna at the AFP to organize against those efforts with the successful track record achieved by that liberty defending group.

Levies must be defeated if the collective bargaining debacle of Dick Celeste is to be reversed.  Tax increases are slow intrusions on the value of private property that were typically imposed out of graciousness so long as the value of homes continued to artificially increase.  Now that the housing bubble has burst, the taxes paid to schools are not paid out of falsified property increase values, but out of the real value of property that is not going to increase by means of miracle for the owner.  For the entire duration of Celeste’s diabolical scheme of collective bargaining, property values have artificially inflated with the perception that it would go on forever.  But now reality has set in, and the villain of collective bargaining must be dealt with first by defeating the proposed tax increases, then removing collective bargaining from all government jobs in Ohio so that proper management of tax payer resources can be conducted.  Yet these reforms do not have to be terrifying enterprises where only a few must stand against the many.  Americans for Prosperity is there to help provide support for just this sort of thing, and I’d recommend contacting them over ballot initiatives in Ohio whenever possible.

Hanna Faulkner at American’s for Prosperity can be contacted at:

hfaulkner@afphq.org

http://americansforprosperity.org/ohio/

Rich Hoffman

“If they attack first………..blast em’!”

www.tailofthedragonbook.com