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[Gypsy Nirvana]

One mans truth - is another mans fiction - but before I make my mind up on anything - its best to hear all sides of whatever story - and like it or not - infowars does produce their take on many leading news stories - and draws the attention to other news/stories often outside the realms of the main-stream-media -

Thanks Gypsy for the kind words and allowing us to use the International Canagraphic Magazine platform to spread truth! I know people are smart enough to determine truth for themselves.



Will do my best to remove advertisement from now on. Thanks for the reminder!

 

[redlaser]

Made up Sharia law stories, pizzagate, Sandy Hook, fake milkshake victims.

What won’t Alex Jones lie about is an open question if truth means anything to his readers.

pipeline,

Would you care to illustrate why you wrote that Sandy Hook, milkshake mess, pizzagate, and the fake Sharia law stories are “disinfo” ?

Sounds and looks like you are trying to bury Alex’s past frauds to make room for new ones.

 

[armedoldhippy]

pipeline,
Sounds and looks like you are trying to bury Alex’s past frauds to make room for new ones.

well, it WAS getting crowded in there...

 

[pipeline]

I'm done addressing the lies guys. Look it up, those false accusations have been addressed and corrected.



https://www.infowars.com/the-best-of-liberals-gone-wild/




The BEST of Liberals Gone Wild!

Coming to a shit hole near you

Darrin McBreen | Infowars.com - December 5, 2019 18 Comments





Darrin McBreen chronicles the liberal mental disorder epidemic that has rapidly spread throughout the progressive movement since the election of Donald Trump in 2016.

 

[pipeline]

Gypsy, watch the banned.video Infowars broadcasts and research what they are talking about for yourself.


https://banned.video/

 

[pipeline]

One mans truth - is another mans fiction - but before I make my mind up on anything - its best to hear all sides of whatever story - and like it or not - infowars does produce their take on many leading news stories - and draws the attention to other news/stories often outside the realms of the main-stream-media -

Mainstream media has been paid off by the corrupt establishment and is highly controlled to manipulate public opinion. Independent media is where truth resides.


Please feel free to share any articles you find interesting.

 

[Cannavore]

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[pipeline]

Doesnt show up, please post a link.

 

[Cannavore]

https://youtu.be/uDOwK8wn__U

 

[Capra ibex]

Mainstream media has been paid off by the corrupt establishment and is highly controlled to manipulate public opinion. Independent media is where truth resides.


Please feel free to share any articles you find interesting.

Things are never that black and white, Pipeline.

Trump is a bald faced perpetual liar but you have no problem supporting him.

Alex talks about things that 'MSM' won't or isn't interested in (whatever) but he's also a self righteous egotistical a-hole who operates under a guise of honour and truth.
He claims he's only playing a character when it suits him.

Good for you if you like him, but even Joe Rogan knows he's a paranoid windbag with no impulse control.

 

[pipeline]

moving on


https://www.infowars.com/house-minority-leader-mccarthy-exposes-democrat-witch-hunt/


House Minority Leader McCarthy Exposes Democrat Witch-Hunt

‘They always had this pre-written timeline from the day they got sworn in’

Kelen McBreen | Infowars.com - December 5, 2019 47 Comments





Following House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s call for House Democrats to draft articles of impeachment against President Trump, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy held a press conference where he explained how the Democrats have been hell-bent on impeachment since day one of Trump’s presidency.
Beginning his speech by quoting Founding Father Alexander Hamilton, McCarthy said, “There will always be the greatest danger that the decision to use the impeachment power would be driven by partisan animosity instead of real demonstrations of innocence or guilt.”
“Today is the day that Hamilton warned us,” he continued.

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The House Minority Leader explained that Pelosi’s decision “has weakened this nation,” before exposing the Democrats’ “pre-written timeline” of impeachment that has existed since the day they were sworn into office.
Both Jerry Nadler (D-NY) and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) were vocal supporters of impeachment immediately after being elected, and Rep. Al Green (D.-TX) admitted, “if we (Democrats) do not impeach the president he will get re-elected.”

“In March,” McCarthy stated, “the Speaker of the House said impeachment was so destructive to the nation that it had to be ‘overwhelming, compelling and bipartisan.’ That was the criteria she laid out for the nation and for her conference, it’s just not the criteria she held herself to.”
“This is the Day Alexander Hamilton feared and warned would come,” McCarthy warned.
When asked if he buys Pelosi’s claim that there is no personal animus motivating the impeachment drive, McCarthy said, “I think I have a hard time believing her.”
McCarthy also pointed out that Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib said to “impeach the mother f**ker” on her first day in Congress, and that Congressman Adam Schiff has repeatedly lied to the American public in an attempt to push toward impeachment.

Next, McCarthy pointed out the fact that Democrats selected liberal professors who are Democratic Party donors to testify against President Trump while Republicans selected liberal lawyer and Constitutional scholar Jonathan Turley, who did not vote for the president.
“History will look back on today and it will be a sad day,” he predicted, concluding the speech. “We hope that at any time, whoever has this power in this country, that they never repeat what Alexander warned us would come and that this day will never happen again in America.
Watch McCarthy’s full press conference below:

 

[pipeline]

People are missing out on living their lives in the real world. Put the phone down and pick up the pipe!



https://www.infowars.com/cellphone-distraction-linked-to-increase-in-head-injuries/


Cellphone Distraction Linked to Increase in Head Injuries

Surge correlates with iPhone launch & release of Pokémon Go

Rutgers University | EurekAlert! - December 5, 2019

Head and neck injuries incurred while driving or walking with a cellphone are on the rise – and correlates with the launch of the iPhone in 2007 and release of Pokémon Go in 2016, a Rutgers study found.
The study, published in JAMA Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery, reviewed 2,501 emergency department patients who sustained head and neck injuries resulting from cellphone use between 1998 and 2017. They found a steady increase in injuries over that time, along with the notable spikes. Pokémon Go is an augmented reality-based game that requires players to track animated characters on their phones in real locations.
The injuries included cuts, bruises, abrasions and internal injuries, especially around the eye and nose. More than 41 percent occurred at home and were minor, requiring little or no treatment. About 50 percent resulted from distracted driving and one-third from distracted walking.
The Mindless Masses Have The Attention Span Of A Goldfish Alex Jones examines the fallout of falling IQs and attention spans, and what people can do to fight it.
Children under 13 years were significantly more likely to suffer a mechanical injury, such as a cell phone battery exploding or parents accidentally dropping a cell phone on a child or a child hitting themselves in the face with the phone.
“Injuries from cell phone use have mainly been reported from incidences during driving, but other types of injuries have gone largely underreported,” said study author Boris Paskhover, a surgeon and assistant professor at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School.
“We hypothesize that distractions caused by cell phones were the biggest reason for injury and mainly affected people aged 13 to 29,” Paskhover said. “The findings suggest a need for education about the risks of cell phone use and distracted behavior during other activities as well as driving and walking.”

 

[pipeline]

https://nationalfile.com/muhammad-makes-top-10-baby-name-list-in-us/


Muhammad Makes Top 10 Baby Name List in US

Islamic name surging in popularity among new parents

by Lionel Du Cane
December 5, 2019
in Culture, News, Radical Islam

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The name Muhammad–including its many spelling variations–has broken the top 10 baby name list ranking for the first time in the US.

BabyCenter’s list of 100 most popular baby names for girls and boys in America found that Sophia is still at the top for girls while Liam is the No.1 boy’s name.

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According to BabyCenter:

Muhammad is one of the most popular names in the world and has been a steady climber in our top names lists over the years. While non-Muslim families have a seemingly limitless range of possible names to choose from, tradition is still very important for Muslim families, including the custom of naming a son after the Prophet. In fact, the name is so popular that many Muhammads shorten their name to Md., Mohd., or Muhd. and go by a less common name.
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BabyCenter also found that names of an Arabic origin are on the rise this year. Muhammad and Aaliyah entered the top 10 and leapfrogging Mason and Layla in the rankings.

In the previous two years, Muhammad came in at 14th on BabyCenter’s list–with a 29% jump in popularity this year.
The name “Muhammad” is the most popular boy’s name in the world–including any spelling variations.
In the UK–which boasts a large Islamic community in many major towns and cities across the country–Muhammad is the most popular boys name for newborns across many areas.

According to BabyCenter’s global editor-in-chief, Linda Murray: “Muslim families often choose Muhammad for firstborn sons to honor the prophet and bring blessings to the child.
“The name also has multiple spellings, and that helps a name get into the top 10.”
The Sun writes:

Muhammad means “praised, commendable” in Arabic, while Aaliyah translates as “exalted,” or “rising” in Hebrew.
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Although politically incorrect to point out, many non-mainstream commentators link the crescent popularity of the name “Muhammad” with mass immigration, disparate birth rates, and demographic changes on a Western and Global scale.

 

[TychoMonolyth]

Pipeline! That's outrageous. They should all be burned on a cross for that.

But having Mary, Ruth, Joseph, Mathew or Jesus (Hispanic pronunciation) as a first name is cool though right?

You call yourself a man of god? I always knew you were a bigot. Unless your god is Satan. In which case, carry on.

 

[Capra ibex]

All part of his master plan?

 

[pipeline]

https://michaelsavage.com/savage-will-impeachment-cause-a-rise-of-anti-semitism-in-the-country/


Savage: Will Impeachment Cause a Rise of Anti-Semitism in the Country?


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BY MICHAEL SAVAGE

There is vile anti-Semitism surrounding the impeachment proceeding and it is being riled up by anti-Semites in this country because of the Jewish names affiliated with it. Schiff, Nadler, Zelensky, Goldman… the list goes on. But this is not about the Jewish people. It is not about religion, but politics, and the like-minded groups working in unison.
We know about the deep state and those in the FBI and CIA who plotted against this president. Why? Because Trump dared to speak up and expose the new world order and those in our government trying to impose their will on our nation. For his honesty, the deep state actors will stop at nothing to undermine and overthrow President Trump.
Many have noted how the attacks on Trump are similar to the Salem Witch Trials, and McCarthyism, but it bears a resemblance to another historical event. The crucifixion of Jesus. No, I am not comparing Trump to Jesus, the differences in the two are evident. However, they were both falsely accused by those in power and turned over to a deep state to do their will. Today, the far reach of the Romans has been replaced by the new world order.
The Sanhedrin were the law of the land when Jesus lived. In our modern times, they resemble the Supreme Court in power, controlled by a body of 71, and then smaller Sanhedrin made up of 23 who reached decisions in outlying areas. In the case of Jesus the Jewish leaders were told to accuse and condemn him of violating the Sabbath law (by healing on the Sabbath), threatening to destroy the Jewish Temple, sorcery, exorcising people by the power of demons and claiming to be both the Messiah and the Son of God. In essence, Rome could not have someone say they were a king, as Jesus was said to have claimed in being the King of the Jews, because this would upset the ruling class.
According to the gospel of Luke, Jesus is tried and condemned by the Sanhedrin, although not all members of the Sanhedrin were there and only Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus dissented from this decision.
Could we reason that their actions were similar to Adam Schiff’s star chamber where only a few were allowed to attend? But we must not forget who first pushed for impeachment. Nancy Pelosi, a non-Jew who was using Jews to do her dirty work.
Ultimately, Jesus was turned over to the Romans for crucifixion. The Romans were the deep state of the time. Pontius Pilate found no basis for this crucifixion, much like Bob Mueller found no collusion, but the deep state wanted their blood. Pilate offered the crowd to spare Jesus or the thief Barabbas, as was the tradition of the day. But the blood thirsty crowd yelled, “Give us Barabbas!” Thus, the Romans took Jesus, spit on him, beat him, cut him, put a crown of thorns on his head, and he endured it. The Romans hung him to a cross where he died, and only then did people recognize they had killed an innocent man.
The Democrats and the deep state want to crucify Trump without a shred of evidence. This is history repeating itself. They continue to malign him even calling Trump an anti-Semite. How could he be an anti-Semite? His son-in-law is an Orthodox Jew whose grandfather and grandmother defied the Nazis in Poland. Trump’s own daughter converted to Judaism and his grandchildren are Jewish. Still, the media casts him as an anti-Semite. Trump is the greatest ally the Jewish people have had in America. We must stand up against the media and not allow these lies to persist.
Again, I am not comparing Donald Trump to Jesus. Trump fights back, because there is no father for him to turn to. He knows the truth and fights against those trying to hide it. While Jesus fought for the souls of man, Trump is fighting for the basic rights of man under our Constitution, and for this he is vilified in much the same way as Jesus.
And like the Romans of this time, a deep state is using Jews to conduct their deeds, knowing that they will be the ones to suffer the consequences. They will cause a rise in anti-Semitism, which is of no concern to the deep state actors. For the deep state, their only concern is preserving their way of life and trying to impose it on you. Whoever gets hurt in the process makes no difference as long as they are in control.

 

[pipeline]

Pipeline! That's outrageous. They should all be burned on a cross for that.

But having Mary, Ruth, Joseph, Mathew or Jesus (Hispanic pronunciation) as a first name is cool though right?

You call yourself a man of god? I always knew you were a bigot. Unless your god is Satan. In which case, carry on.

Ever heard of Sunni islam? I think we all know whats going on here. Jihad anyone? I have had islami friends who are cool, but its a dark religion, a false god.



Not on our watch! Are you that naive?


https://www.nydailynews.com/new-yor...0191203-i7co4yrtozcsti4btt47rqmeyu-story.html


Spy in Hezbollah sleeper cell who lived in the Bronx sentenced to 40 years




By Stephen Rex Brown
New York Daily News |
Dec 03, 2019 | 5:14 PM

Ali Kourani. (Obtained by New York Daily News)




A Hezbollah spy who laid low in the Bronx was sentenced to 40 years in prison Tuesday after telling a judge he still sympathized with the terrorist-designated organization.


Ali Kourani claimed the FBI wrongly rejected his efforts to betray Hezbollah and become an informant. The government countered he was merely trying to avoid facing justice as his cover in the terrorist sleeper cell fell apart.


The case represented the first time a member of Hezbollah’s Islamic Jihad Organization had been sentenced in a U.S. courthouse, Assistant U.S. Attorney Emil Bove said. The prosecutor told Judge Alvin Hellerstein that Kourani’s case had huge implications for Hezbollah’s patron, Iran, as well as public safety around the world.


“Your voice will be heard today in Lebanon. Your voice will heard in Iran, which is directing IJO operations," Bove said.





Prior to being sentenced for terrorism offenses and other charges, Kourani said the feds had violated his due process by “overreaching.”


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“I wonder what will be next? Dismembering dissidents?” Kourani, 35, asked.


“I don’t see Hezbollah as a terrorist organization. If it wasn’t for Hezbollah, ISIS would have raided my village,” added Kourani, who grew up in southern Lebanon.


Hellerstein wasn’t having it.


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“Let me remind you this case came before a U.S. jury,” Hellerstein said. “It was not the government, the CIA, the prosecutors or the FBI who found you guilty.”


The government had claimed Kourani tried to selectively share intel on Hezbollah with the feds in exchange for help getting his children back from his estranged wife, who had moved to Canada. After numerous meetings the feds chose to arrest him.


“You can’t blame the government because you’re estranged from your wife and she divorced you and took the kids to Canada,” Hellerstein said.


Kourani first received training from Hezbollah at age of 16. He learned how to collect intelligence, fire machine guns and foil interrogators. He settled in Kingsbridge Heights on orders of Hezbollah higher-ups. His attorney Alexei Schacht sought to diminish the importance of photos Kourani took of high-profile locations, including an FBI building in Lower Manhattan, saying the photos were mere “loyalty tests” for Hezbollah.

 

[Brother Nature]

Pipeline! That's outrageous. They should all be burned on a cross for that.

But having Mary, Ruth, Joseph, Mathew or Jesus (Hispanic pronunciation) as a first name is cool though right?

You call yourself a man of god? I always knew you were a bigot. Unless your god is Satan. In which case, carry on.

Actually, if you've ever looked into the Church of Satan, it's significantly more open-minded than the Christian faith.

 

[pipeline]

https://www.infowars.com/the-abc-of-a-market-economy/


The ABC of a Market Economy

This immense cooperative system is known as a free-market economy. It was not consciously planned by anybody. It evolved

Mises.org - December 5, 2019 Comments
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There are basically only two ways in which economic life can be organized.
The first is by the voluntary choice of families and individuals and by voluntary cooperation. This arrangement has come to be known as the free market. The other is by the orders of a dictator. This is a command economy. In its more extreme form, when an organized state expropriates the means of production, it is called socialism or communism. Economic life must be primarily organized by one system or the other.
It can, of course, be a mixture, as it unfortunately is in most nations today. But the mixture tends to be unstable. If it is a mixture of a free and a coerced economy the coerced section tends constantly to increase.

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One qualification needs to be emphasized. A “free” market does not mean and has never meant that everybody is free to do as he likes. Since time immemorial mankind has operated under a rule of law, written or unwritten. Under a market system as any other, people are forbidden to kill, molest, rob, libel or otherwise intentionally injure each other. Otherwise free choice and all other individual freedoms would be impossible. But an economic system must be dominantly either a free or a command system.
Ever since the introduction and spread of Marxism the great majority of people who publicly discuss economic issues have been confused. Recently a very eminent person was quoted as denouncing economic systems that respond “only to the forces of the market place,” and are governed “by the profit motive of the few rather than the needs of the many.” He warned that such a system could put “the world’s food supply into even greater jeopardy.”
The sincerity of these remarks is beyond question. But they show how phrases can betray us. We have come to think of “the profit motive” as a narrowly selfish drive confined to a small group of the already-rich whose profit comes at the expense of everybody else. But in its widest sense the profit-motive is one that all of us share and must share. It is our universal motive to make conditions more satisfactory for ourselves and our families. It is the motive of self-preservation. It is the motive of the father who is not only trying to feed and house himself but his wife and his children, and to make the economic conditions of his whole family, if possible, constantly better. It is the dominant motive of all productive activity.
Voluntary Cooperation

This motive is often called “selfish.” No doubt in part it is. But it is hard to see how mankind (or any animal species) could have survived without a minimum of selfishness. The individual must make sure he himself survives before the species can survive. And the so-called profit motive itself is seldom solely selfish.
In a primitive society the “unit” is seldom the individual but the family, or even the clan. Division of labor begins within the family. The father hunts or plants and harvests crops; the mother cooks and bears and nurses children; the children collect firewood, and so forth. In the clan or the wider group there is even more minute subdivision and specialization of labor. There are farmers, carpenters, plumbers, architects, tailors, barbers, doctors, lawyers, clergymen, and so ad infinitum. They supply each other by exchanging their services. Because of his specialization, production increases more than proportionately to numbers; it becomes incredibly efficient and expert. There develops an immense system of voluntary productive cooperation and voluntary exchange.
Each of us is free (within certain limits) to choose the occupation in which he himself specializes. And in selecting this he is guided by the relative rewards in this occupation, by its relative ease or difficulty, pleasantness or unpleasantness, and the special gifts, skills, and training it requires. His rewards are decided by how highly other people value his services.
Free-Market Economy

This immense cooperative system is known as a free-market economy. It was not consciously planned by anybody. It evolved. It is not perfect, in the sense that it leads to the maximum possible balanced production and/or distributes its rewards and penalties in exact proportion to the economic deserts of each of us. But this could not be expected of any economic “system.” The fate of each of us is always affected by the accidents and catastrophes as well as the blessings of nature—by rainfall, earthquakes, tornadoes, hurricanes, or what not. A flood or a drought may wipe out half a crop, bringing disaster to those growers directly hit by it, and perhaps record-high prices and profits to the growers who were spared. And no system can overcome the shortcomings of the human beings that operate it—the relative ignorance, ineptitude, or sheer bad luck of some of us, the lack of perfect foresight or omniscience on the part of all of us.
But the ups and downs of the market economy tend to be self correcting. Over-production of automobiles or apartments will lead to fewer of them being produced the following year. A short crop of corn or wheat will cause more of that crop to be planted the following season. Even before there were government statistics, producers were guided by relative prices and profits. Production will tend to be constantly more efficient because the less efficient producers will tend to be weeded out and the more efficient will be encouraged to expand output. The people who recognize the merits of this system call it the market economy or free enterprise. The people who want to abolish it have called it—since the publication of The Communist Manifesto in 1848—capitalism. The name was intended to discredit it—to imply that it was a system developed for and by the “capitalists”—by definition the disgustingly rich who used their capital to enslave and “exploit” the “workers.”
The whole process was grossly distorted. The enterpriser was putting his accumulated savings at risk at what he hoped was an opportunity. He had no prior assurance of success. He had to offer the going wage or better to attract workers from their existing employments. Where the more successful enterprisers were, the higher wages also tended to be. Marx talked as if the success of every new business undertaking was a certainty, and not a sheer gamble. This resulted in his condemning the enterpriser for his very risk-taking and venturesomeness. Marx took profits for granted. He seemed to assume that wealth could never be honestly earned by successful risk-taking but had to be inherited. He ignored the record of constant business failures.
But the label “capitalism” did pay unintended tribute to one of the system’s supreme merits. By providing rewards to some of the people who risked investing their capital, it kept putting into the hands of the workers more and constantly better tools to increase per capita production more and more. The system of private property and capitalism is the most productive system that has ever existed.
The Communist Manifesto was an appeal to “the masses” to envy and hate the rich. It told them that their only salvation was to “expropriate the expropriators,” to destroy capitalism root and branch by violent revolution. Marx attempted a rationalization of this course, built upon what he saw as inevitable deductions from a doctrine of Ricardo. That doctrine was in error; in Marx’s hands the error became fateful. Ricardo concluded that all value was created by “labor” (which might almost be true if one counted labor from the begin ning of time—all the labor of everybody that went into the production of houses, land clearing, grading, plowing, and the creation of factories, tools and machines. But Marx chose to use the term as applying only to current labor, and the labor only of hired employees. This completely ignored the contribution of capital tools, the foresight or luck of investors, the skill of management, and many other factors.
The Errors of Marx

The theoretical errors of Marx have since been exposed by a score of brilliant writers. In fact, his preposterous conclusions could also have been proved wrong even at the time Das Kapital appeared by a patient examination of the available contemporary knowledge of incomes, payrolls and profits.
But the day of organized, abundant, and even “official” statistics had not yet come. To cite only one of the figures we now know: In the ten years from 1969 to 1978, inclusive, American “nonfinancial” corporations were paying their employees an average of 90.2 percent of the combined total available for division between the two groups, and only 9.8 percent to their stockholders. The latter figure refers to profits after taxes. But only about half of this amount—4.1 percent—was on the average of those ten years paid out in dividends. (These figures compared with public-opinion polls taken at the time which showed a consensus of most Americans that corporate employees got only 25 percent of the total available for division and the stockholders 75 percent.)
Yet the fierce diatribes of Marx and Engels led to the Russian Revolution of 1917, the slaughter of tens of thousands, the conquest and communization by Russia of some half dozen neighboring countries, and the development and production of nuclear weapons that threaten the very survival of mankind.
Economically, communism has proved a complete disaster. Not only has it failed to improve the welfare of the masses; it has appallingly depressed it. Before its revolution, the great annual problem of Russia was to find sufficient foreign markets for its crop surpluses. Today its problem is to import and pay for less than adequate foodstuffs.
Yet The Communist Manifesto and the quantity of socialist propaganda which it inspired continue to exert immense influence. Even many of those who profess themselves, quite sincerely, to be violently “anticommunist,” feel that the most effective way to combat communism is to make concessions to it. Some of them accept socialism itself—but “peaceful” socialism—as the only cure for the “evils” of capitalism. Others agree that socialism in a pure form is undesirable, but that the alleged “evils” of capitalism are real—that it lacks “compassion,” that it does not provide a “safety net” for the poor and unfortunate; that it does not redistribute the wealth “justly”—in a word, that it fails to provide “social justice.”
And all these criticisms take for granted that there is a class of people, our officeholders, or at least other politicians whom we could elect in their place, who could set this all right if they had the will to do so.
And most of our politicians have been promising to do exactly that for the last half century.
The trouble is that their attempted legislative remedies turn out to be systematically wrong.
It is complained that prices are too high. A law is passed forbidding them to go higher. The result is that fewer and fewer items are produced, or that black markets develop. The law is ignored, or finally repealed.
It is said that rents are too high. Rent ceilings are imposed. New apartments cease to be built, or at least fewer of them. Old apartment buildings stand vacant, and fall into decay. Higher rents are eventually legally allowed, but they are practically always set below what market rates would be. The result is that tenants, in whose supposed interest the rent controls were imposed, eventually suffer as a body even more than landlords, because there is a chronic shortage of housing. Wages are supposed to be too low. Minimum wages are fixed. The result is that teenagers, and especially black teenagers, are thrown out of work and on the relief rolls. The law encourages strong unions and compels employers to “bargain collectively” with them. The result is often excessive wage-rates, and a chronic amount of unemployed.
Unemployment relief and Social Security schemes are put into effect to provide “safety nets.” This reduces the urgency for the unemployed to find new or better-paid work and reduces their incentive to look. Unemployment payments, Social Security and other such safety nets continue to grow. To pay for these, taxes are increased. But they do not raise the expected revenue because the taxation itself, reducing profit incentives and increasing losses, reduces enterprise and production. The spending and safety nets are increased. Deficit spending appears and increases. Inflation appears, demoralizing production further. Sad to relate, these consequences have appeared in country after country. It is hard to find a single country today that has not become a bankrupt Welfare State, its currency constantly depreciating. Nobody has the courage to suggest dismantling it or to propose reducing its handouts or safety nets to affordable levels. Instead the remedy proposed everywhere is to “tax-the-rich” (which turns out everywhere to include the middle-classes) still more, and to redistribute the wealth.
Guided by Profit

Let us return to our point of beginning. The eminent person that I quoted then is mistaken when he tells us that we are governed by the profit-motive of the few rather than the needs of the many. The profit motive is simply the name for the practically universal motive of all men and all families—the motive to survive and to improve one’s condition. Some of us are more successful at this effort than others. But it is precisely the profit-motive of the many that must be our main reliance for supplying the needs of the many.
It is strange that so little recognition is given to the fact that a man cannot grow richer without making others richer, whether that is his intent or not. If he invests and starts a new and successful business, he must hire an increasing number of workers, and raise wages by his own increased demand. He is supplying his customers either with a better product than they had before, or as good a product at a cheaper price, in which case they have more money left to buy other things. Even if he uses his own receipts only to increase his own consumer demand, he helps provide more employment or higher pay; but if he reinvests his profits to increase the output of his business, he directly provides more employment, more production, more goods.
So let us be thankful for the successful profit-motive in others. Of course, none of us should respond “only to the forces of the market place.” Fortunately few of us do. Americans are not only among the richest people in the world today but among the most generous. It is only when each of us has provided for more than his own needs that he can acquire a surplus to help meet the needs of others. Voluntary cooperation is the key.

 

[pipeline]

Acts 4:18-31 NKJV


18 So they called them and commanded them not to speak at all nor teach in the name of Jesus. 19 But Peter and John answered and said to them, “Whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you more than to God, you judge. 20 For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard.” 21 So when they had further threatened them, they let them go, finding no way of punishing them, because of the people, since they all glorified God for what had been done. 22 For the man was over forty years old on whom this miracle of healing had been performed.
Prayer for Boldness

23 And being let go, they went to their own companions and reported all that the chief priests and elders had said to them. 24 So when they heard that, they raised their voice to God with one accord and said: “Lord, You are God, who made heaven and earth and the sea, and all that is in them, 25 who [c]by the mouth of Your servant David have said:
‘Why did the nations rage,
And the people plot vain things?
26 The kings of the earth took their stand,
And the rulers were gathered together
Against the Lord and against His Christ.’

27 “For truly against Your holy Servant Jesus, whom You anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, were gathered together 28 to do whatever Your hand and Your purpose determined before to be done. 29 Now, Lord, look on their threats, and grant to Your servants that with all boldness they may speak Your word, 30 by stretching out Your hand to heal, and that signs and wonders may be done through the name of Your holy Servant Jesus.”
31 And when they had prayed, the place where they were assembled together was shaken; and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and they spoke the word of God with boldness.


Acts 5 17-42 NKJV

Imprisoned Apostles Freed

17 Then the high priest rose up, and all those who were with him (which is the sect of the Sadducees), and they were filled with [a]indignation, 18 and laid their hands on the apostles and put them in the common prison. 19 But at night an angel of the Lord opened the prison doors and brought them out, and said, 20 “Go, stand in the temple and speak to the people all the words of this life.”
21 And when they heard that, they entered the temple early in the morning and taught. But the high priest and those with him came and called the [b]council together, with all the [c]elders of the children of Israel, and sent to the prison to have them brought.
Apostles on Trial Again

22 But when the officers came and did not find them in the prison, they returned and reported, 23 saying, “Indeed we found the prison shut securely, and the guards standing [d]outside before the doors; but when we opened them, we found no one inside!” 24 Now when [e]the high priest, the captain of the temple, and the chief priests heard these things, they wondered what the outcome would be. 25 So one came and told them, [f]saying, “Look, the men whom you put in prison are standing in the temple and teaching the people!”
26 Then the captain went with the officers and brought them without violence, for they feared the people, lest they should be stoned. 27 And when they had brought them, they set them before the council. And the high priest asked them, 28 saying, “Did we not strictly command you not to teach in this name? And look, you have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine, and intend to bring this Man’s blood on us!”
29 But Peter and the other apostles answered and said: “We ought to obey God rather than men. 30 The God of our fathers raised up Jesus whom you murdered by hanging on a tree. 31 Him God has exalted to His right hand to be Prince and Savior, to give repentance to Israel and forgiveness of sins. 32 And we are His witnesses to these things, and so also is the Holy Spirit whom God has given to those who obey Him.”
Gamaliel’s Advice

33 When they heard this, they were furious[g] and plotted to kill them. 34 Then one in the council stood up, a Pharisee named Gamaliel, a teacher of the law held in respect by all the people, and commanded them to put the apostles outside for a little while. 35 And he said to them: “Men of Israel, [h]take heed to yourselves what you intend to do regarding these men. 36 For some time ago Theudas rose up, claiming to be somebody. A number of men, about four hundred, [i]joined him. He was slain, and all who obeyed him were scattered and came to nothing. 37 After this man, Judas of Galilee rose up in the days of the census, and drew away many people after him. He also perished, and all who obeyed him were dispersed. 38 And now I say to you, keep away from these men and let them alone; for if this plan or this work is of men, it will come to nothing; 39 but if it is of God, you cannot overthrow it—lest you even be found to fight against God.”
40 And they agreed with him, and when they had called for the apostles and beaten them, they commanded that they should not speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go. 41 So they departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for [j]His name. 42 And daily in the temple, and in every house, they did not cease teaching and preaching Jesus as the Christ.