Are we in the United States' version of the Weimar Republic? Brüning's policy of deflation, a surge in unemployment and here we are, again

Who are these alleged economists, who seem to live in a state of perpetual unexpected surprise? Every week, we see conflicting data, spun both good and bad. Is there anyone who does not agree we need more jobs? Unemployment claims rise, productivity drops and the stock market keeps climbing. Amazing, indeed. Without significant economic contributions from people, with limited education limited job skills, limited language skills and a welfare state mentality, the United States will never advance, but continue to decline. The global economy makes it even worse.

We all know the official unemployment rate is a political construct to make things appear better than they really are. We are a country that is a shadow of it's former self. Believing things that aren't so, doesn't make them real. 

During a speech in 2008, the usurper president declared that within his first two years, he will cut unemployment in half and by 2012, would have it under 6%. Another promise forsaken by this interloping errand boy. And, while he and the family take expensive vacation, after expensive vacation, Americans across the country can barely keep a roof over their heads or put food on the table. Barack Hussein Obama has engineered the strongest recovery of any black POTUS ever. This isn't news. We knew the fourth quarter was going to be revised down, when Obama gave his SOTU speech. 

Weekly Jobless Claims Continue to Soar

The U.S. Labor Department has released, yet again, another somewhat disappointing reading for weekly jobless claims. Initial claims rose by a sharp 7,000 to a seasonally adjusted reading of 320,000. Bloomberg was calling for a consensus reading of 300,000 claims for the week ending February 27. The previous reading was 313,000. 247

This country is dying because the people are already dead. Just before the last election, everything was just dandy. Remember, jobs were coming back, the economy was rebounding and the terrorist were on the run. And then the truth had to surface and ruin everything. Remember when the numbers came out much higher, and the mindless zombies were bragging about how Obama's policies are working?

Both, the Democrats and the Republican establishment continue to belly-up to the trough, full of our tax money to gorge themselves. The time has come for a third powerful political party to be created, by those of us who no longer want to be taxed to death and be dictated to by a corrupt, out of control government. Of course, politicians don't care, unless they fall into the unemployed category.

What is now 20 to 30 million illegals will soon be 100 million, and once they break the system, it will be the end of our Republic. Meanwhile, another 100,00 American jobs have been stolen and given away to criminal invaders. This is all part of a grand scheme... The “new Americans” are considered “seedlings” by the White House and the “receiving communities” are the “fertile ground” to nurture them, according to comments made during the meetings. “The president certainly has not indicated any reticence in using his executive authority to try and advance an agenda that benefits middle class Americans,” Earnest said in response to a question about Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) calling on Obama to raise more than $100 billion in taxes through I.R.S. executive action. DC Clothesline

According to the B.L.S., last month 92,898,000 Americans ages 16 and over were neither employed nor had made “specific efforts to find employment sometime during the 4-week period ending with the reference week.” The White House played up the jobs creation aspect, while overlooking the dismal participation numbers. Breitbart BLS RT

Obama Amnesty: 100,000 Expanded Work Permits Issued Before Court Halted Program

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) approved 100,000 applications under President Obama’s executive amnesty expansion before the official kick off date of February 18, the Obama administration reveals. The Obama administration stresses in its filing that this was done prior to the court’s (February 16, 2015) injunction. Full Article

Judge Hanen's Injunction doesn't seem to have slowed the government's desire to monkey wrench our Constitution. The government’s demand comes a day after it admitted in another court filing that it jumped the gun by issuing 100,000 three-year deferrals and work permits under expanded D.A.C.A. The program was not supposed to begin until February 18, 2015, however it began approving such applications on November 24, and only stopped when Hanen temporarily blocked the executive actions on February 16. Breitbart 

Yet, over a million new low-wage workers pouring into the U.S.A. every year was not enough for our banksters and corporatists. Thus, “free-trade” Republicans and their collaborators in the Business Roundtable and U.S. Chamber of Commerce decided to drop the U.S. labor force into a worldwide labor pool where the average wage was but a tiny fraction of an American living wage. Pat Buchanan

The U.A.W. sells out auto workers: By accepting lower pay for new hires, the U.A.W. indirectly gave manufacturers across the U.S. permission to cut wages for nonunion workers. A quarter of auto parts employees make less than $13.00 an hour for jobs that once paid $18.00, according to the National Employment Law Project, an advocate for low-wage and jobless workers. Bloomberg

“All great movements are popular movements. They are the volcanic eruptions of human passions and emotions, stirred into activity by the ruthless Goddess of Distress or by the torch of the spoken word cast into the midst of the people.” --Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf 

Assisted by political traitors, the American Dream was killed by foreign outsiders, plus more ASU English 401 shenanigans

Remember, the parents of these "dreamers" made an unlawful and poor business decision. It is these squatters that want to penalize the U.S. taxpayer for their illegal deeds. Now, they want to "pass" (the buck) and an extremely expensive one that burdens all lawful, native born and naturalized citizens. Just wait until threats of "austerity" become a daily story in our news. You won't have to look very far to find the culprits.

"The Senate Democrats who are filibustering Department of Homeland Security funding should look hard at this ruling. At a time when we face grave national security threats, at home and abroad, it is the height of irresponsibility for the Democrats to block this funding in an extreme attempt to save Obama's amnesty, which a federal judge has just declared illegal." Senator Cruz

Hanen’s opinion opens with: “This is a case in which twenty-six states or their representatives are seeking injunctive relief against the United States and several officials of the Department of Homeland Security to prevent them from implementing a program entitled ‘Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents.”

The ruling comes as Congress debates how to extend funding authority for the Department of Homeland Security. "The law is on our side and history is on our side," Obama said in the Oval Office. He said his actions to defer deportations for potentially millions of migrants will improve a broken immigration system. Exactly, what law, written and passed by the U.S. Congress, is Barack Obama referring to?

Fundamental Transformation Hits A Snag, Marxist Operative Luis “La Cucharacha” Gutierrez Is Beside Himself

Gutierrez asks if anyone thinks the children are going to forget who has treated them so cruelly. Cruelty is in the eye of the beholder. Giving away American’s birthrights to foreign squatters seems like a pretty cruel thing to do as well. And it is an assault not only on law abiding Americans but on our nation, a precursor to revolution and a fundamental transformation from a free people to one that lives under the tyranny of Communism. Communism is notoriously cruel Luis... Full Article

The agenda driven anti-justice puppet Jeh Johnson is not too pleased. I sure hope nothing happens to the brave Judge Andrew Hanen, who stood up for, rather than "exploit" justice and law. The Department of Justice, legal scholars, immigration experts and even other courts have said that our actions are well within our legal authority. Our actions will also benefit the economy and promote law enforcement. We fully expect to ultimately prevail in the courts, and we will be prepared to implement DAPA and expanded DACA once we do. More

“[The president] says the law is on his side – there’s at least one person who calls himself a legal scholar who disagrees, and his name is Barack Obama. Twenty-two times President Obama has admitted he doesn’t have the authority to issue unilateral amnesty.” Senator Ted Cruz Audio22 What group or leader in history has ever voluntarily allowed itself to be overwhelmed and dominated by an influx of aliens?

During introductory remarks at a three-day summit to address violent extremism on Tuesday, Vice President Joe Biden welcomed future waves of immigration which he predicted are “not going to stop.” Meanwhile, millions of Americans have stopped looking for jobs because of a failed economy, when people are living in cars, when children are going hungry, when Americans are going through these tough times. More

We can be sure other issues such as border enforcement will be manipulated in order to flood the nation with a replacement workforce and population, one that is more receptive to authoritarian government. That’s another battle that we will surely be forced to wage. Link

Meanwhile on the battle front in Arizona, the anti-white racism promoting faculty at Arizona State University and their English 401 "Problem of Whiteness" course continues to draw attention and the kind of attention they're probably wishing they didn't receive. May I remind you, faculty member Robert Poe, a PhD candidate at ASU's School of Social Transformation, advocated violence against constitutionally guaranteed political gatherings and actions.

White Supremacists Target ASU Professor and His Family Over "Whiteness" Course

"RacePolitics" also posted a shorter version of the conversation, accusing Poe of advocating "violence on campus." Actually, Poe's comments were more nuanced. His interlocutor asked Poe if he would advocate violence against racists. Poe replied: "I advocate violence against racists who choose to politically mobilize." Full Article

This administration has treated the citizenry and the courts with complete disdain for six years. They believe that there's nothing that can be done to halt their Communist agenda. Unfortunately, our elected representatives have proven them right. Our only hope is that enough real Americans wake up and rise to occasion.

"Democrats have been in Washington, D.C. only because of the Negro vote. They’ve been down there 4 years and all the legislation they wanted to bring up they brought up and got it out of the way, and now they bring up you. You put them first and they put you last, cause you are a chump (huge applause). A political chump." --Malcolm X, April 3, 1964, Cory Methodist Church, Cleveland, OH 

Amnesty temporarily halted: The redistribution of YOUR hard earned money to illegal alien leaches and parasites

Adolph Hitler was alleged to have said that he would “rather have three or four teeth pulled” than go through another meeting with Francisco Franco. I wonder what Hitler would have said after a meeting with Barack Hussein Obama? Meet

Sen. Ron Johnson (Rep.-WI) told the story of illegal immigrant woman sitting at campfires waiting to be picked up by U.S. Border Patrol agents in buses, and complaining that it took to long to get “caught” and driven to the process center. The woman also demanded the agents bring the buses closer so they didn't have to walk too far to be apprehended. It sounds like they have perfected their entitlement, instant gratification attitude, already. More

They complain, but cash in: IRS Commissioner John Koskinen told Congress on Wednesday that even illegal immigrants who didn't pay taxes will be able to claim back-refunds once they get Social Security numbers under President Obama’s temporary deportation amnesty. More

BREAKING: Here’s The Judge Who Just Said ‘No’ To Obama’s Amnesty, ‘Yes’ To The Constitution

In that ruling, Judge Hanen had spotted the surge of illegal immigrant children crossing the border earlier on, and had been critical of how Homeland Security officials had handled it, accusing them of being complicit in human trafficking because they would deliver the children to their illegal immigrant parents in the U.S. without trying to deport either party. Full Article

Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore simply and compellingly explains that the rulings of the Obama Administration (and even the Supreme Court) may not necessarily constitute a legal decision. In fact, the jurist states that they are 'opinions.' “We have a fundamental misunderstanding in our country that federal courts, by their mere utterance, make law,” said Chief Justice Moore. Link

Are you so thick you don't understand? “This is just another example of the administration operating outside the rule of law,” fumed Rep. Mulvaney, who, according to the Washington Times article, promised to keep digging into the IRS policy that could cost American taxpayers an untold amount of money. More

We simply cannot afford to be the World's welfare provider: “Over the next ten years the total cost of low-skill households to the taxpayer (immediate benefits minus taxes paid) is likely to be at least $3.9 trillion,” Rector writes. “This number would go up significantly if changes in immigration policy lead to substantial increases in the number of low-skill immigrants entering the country and receiving services.” More

Wall Street Set to Cash-In on Obama Amnesty

This should not come as a big surprise. After all, big business interests have invested millions of lobbying dollars in the effort to gain amnesty for illegal aliens and flood the already saturated U.S. labor market. The McClathchy report also should put to rest any notion that the Obama amnesty will be anything other than a massive rubber-stamping operation. Full Article

Non-citizens should be ineligible for means tested welfare benefits, the EITC, and CTC. Walling off welfare benefits is the best option after scaling the benefits back or removing them for everybody. Reforming Section 32(c)(1)(E) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 delineates the eligibility for EITC benefits. The language in subsection (1) determines eligibility. Changing the statute there could eliminate the ability for newly legalized immigrant workers to retroactively file for EITC benefits. More Building a Wall around the Welfare State

Filmmaker and presidential candidate Dennis Michael Lynch: He describes how the key to the communist takeover is for the dependent class, which is the being expanded through the illegal and legal immigrant importation project, must at some point become greater than the producers. When that happens, as it now is trending, his proletariat of peasant supporters will hand deliver Obama and his comrades their goal of absolute power as the new masters of America. More

Ever notice how leftists love to go on and on about how great "democracy" is, but never seem to mind, when unelected or appointed judges strike down laws that were democratically passed? We could go on all day, pointing out blatant hypocrisy, double standards, lies, unfairness, injustice, etc., our political enemies engage in, but it does nothing. The fact is, we hold ourselves to a higher standard. These Cultural Marxists care about winning, period. They think completely different than we (healthy people) do. There is nothing too low for them. The end justifies the means and by any means necessary.

"In a sick and dying nation, culture, race or civilization, political dissent and traditional values will be labeled and persecuted as heinous crimes by inquisitors clothing themselves in jingoistic patriotism." Precept #38, David Lane 

Population replacement, demographic warfare and "ethnic cleansing" are all the same thing, and it's happening in the U.S.

A major part of our border activities involves public awareness and working with various media outlets. On short notice, we can gear up and perform this rewarding task. A bit apart from our normal patrol activities, we become ambassadors of the desert. On Tuesday, February 10, 2015, we brought in a film crew for the “Nickel Tour” of one of our local drug smuggling trails.

We've done our part and the video is in the hands of the producers, as well as, whether or not there will be future filming. There does exist the possibility of a television series, although, due to political unpopularity of what we do, we won't be holding our breath. Is it truly "diversity" when a whole segment of the population is wiped out? More

I hope people will simply call this ridiculous taxpayer funded hotline for the purposed of keeping the lines tied up. The Homeland Security Department has set up hotlines for illegal aliens who believe their rights under President Obama’s amnesty policy have been violated. Border Patrol agents said the complaint lines amount to a slap in the face to those who put their lives on the line to enforce the law. More

Obama administration issues 5.5M work permits to non-citizens; critics call it 'shadow' immigration system

Vaughn also broke down the numbers to show the three biggest groups ineligible for work permits but receiving them are illegal immigrants (928,000), people of "unknown" immigration status (1.7 million), and those on a temporary visa (1.8 million). "There's no reason to issue (work permits) to people here illegally or whose status is unknown," Vaughn also said. Link

Unfortunately, this country has devolved into a place where people can capitalize on bad things that happen, even if that means they make the bad things happen in order to achieve their goal. This was probably something our founders never envisioned. Barack Obama has clearly made this transparent.

Two Immigrants For Every New Job Since 2000

The data shows that 18 million legal and illegal immigrants settled in the United States from 2000 to 2015, while only 9.3 million additional jobs were created, according to the Center for Immigration Studies, which favors a reduced level of immigration. Full Article

Unfortunately, policy-makers have given little though to the adsorption capacity of the U.S. labor market when formulating immigration policy. United States Customs and Immigration Services (USCIS) has announced a new program that will allow for the extended families of illegal aliens from certain countries to enter the United States legally. Numbers USA

 6 immigrants supplied military equipment, money to terrorists, US says

Speaking about the Islamic State earlier this week, FBI Director James Comey said, “We have open cases all over the place focused on this threat.” He said that the bureau had cases in every state but Alaska, and was focusing “keenly” on those traveling “to join this band of murderers” in Iraq and Syria, those returning from the fight and others who were not traveling but were inspired to acts of violence. Link

So, with hundreds of millions of dollars at their disposal, they only caught six suspects? One can only conclude that FBI, DHS and the Hussein Obama want to see Americans die, so that they can engage some diabolical and evil political agenda that needs dead Americans and public fear in order to accomplish. If you are not familiar with the term “asymmetrical warfare,” you need to study the concept.

Those who are ineligible for DAPA due to criminal records or who have legal status, such as long time lawful permanent residents with criminal records, will face a new kind of immigration enforcement – one that is harsher and for which there will be little to no recourse, including exercises of prosecutorial discretion. Link

Giving OUR money away: Illegals benefiting from Barack Obama’s so-called prosecutorial discretion will apparently be eligible to receive taxpayer-funded bonuses of up to $24,000 apiece. If you are shocked by this, come closer so I can smack you on the back of the head. More

We are being overrun by people from other nations, who have it in mind to displace us and replace our culture, flag and children with theirs. I cannot think of anything more racist than this type of ethnic cleansing. It helps to remember that they are invading us, not the other way around. We are not the racists, they are.

People who allow others not of their race to live among them will perish, because the inevitable result of a racial integration is racial inter-breeding which destroys the characteristics and existence of a race. Forced integration is deliberate and malicious genocide, particularly for a People like the White race, who are now a small minority in the world. Precept #21, David Lane

The government's “Population Replacement Program” is worse than anything the Nazis ever dreamed of

Gallup CEO Jim Clifton says we’re all being duped. There’s no other way to say this. The official unemployment rate, which cruelly overlooks the suffering of the long-term and often permanently unemployed as well as the depressingly underemployed, amounts to a Big Lie. Therefore, government thinks we can fix this by opening our borders to illiterate unskilled people destined to be welfare parasites for the rest of their natural lives.

Barack Obama's Dream Act is just part of his plan to suck every bit of wealth out of the pockets of U.S. Citizen taxpayers and redistribute it to Third World nations. He deliberately disenfranchises U.S. Citizens by promoting the uncontrolled illegal invasion by foreigners, while using tax payer dollars to subsidize them.

Steven Camarota, the Director of Research for the Center For Immigration Studies, details how there are roughly 2 million more immigrants working now than there was in the year 2000 and there are 1.5 million fewer American-born citizens working. He says those statistics indicate that what job growth there has been has seen all of the net jobs go to immigrants, both legal and illegal. UFP

Americans Are Losing Jobs While Illegals Are Getting Jobs Thanks to Obama

The Obama regime can tinker with the employment numbers all they want to hide the fact they have clearly given preferential treatment to illegals turning American citizens into second class citizens. There is no incentive to come to the US legally since the regime is handing out work permits. From 2009-14 957,000 illegals received work permits and another 5.5 million permits were issued to aliens. Full Article

Discarding the Constitution for his own pen and phone, this President has attempted to convert the subtle shift in executive power we have seen over decades and across parties into an imperial presidency. When ''they'' cant export enough jobs ''they'' will flood America with cheap slaves called illegal aliens and then make them legal. We as a nation and a race are to be displaced and then replaced with foreign invaders.

Lynch Disqualifies Herself by Acquiescing to Obama’s Executive Amnesty

Ms. Lynch was asked a simple legal question. It was one for which she had ample time to prepare. She failed to get that Constitutional question correct. She either does not know the right answer, or she is unwilling to stand up for the Constitution and the limits it puts on Presidential power. In either scenario, she cannot be confirmed. Full Article

Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) points out that while forty percent of the illegal aliens in the United States are visa overstays, a secure border is critical to an effective immigration system as is interior enforcement. Many safeguards, including employer sanctions are already part of our immigration law and if they were simply enforced, our situation would be much different and much less dire. Link

 In the United States last year, more than $120 billion was sent by workers to families abroad - making it the largest sender of remittances in the world. More than $23 billion went to Mexico, $13.45 billion to China, $10.84 billion to India and $10 billion to the Philippines, among other recipients. More

"This is truly the illegal immigrants better life in America. Pay no tax, send money to Mexico, have babies in the US that are automatic citizens which qualify for every freebie the Government has to offer on the tax payer dime yet the illegal parents never paid a penny into the system and services they abuse, free healthcare by using the emergency room as their regular doctors office, and a Government that is allowing all this to win the Hispanic vote. And people wonder why Americans despise illegals. Let the red arrows fly."

Executive amnesty comes with a tax bonus loophole

Yesterday, IRS Commissioner John Koskinen told Congress that under the President’s plan, immigrants granted deportation amnesty will be eligible to collect an additional tax refund. They’ll do this by backtracking through paperwork and claiming an Earned Income Tax Credit on earnings (read: money made while in the country illegally) from as far back as 2011. Full Article

 Congressman Lamar Smith (R-TX): Illegal workers cost Americans jobs or depress their wages, according to nearly all studies on the subject. For example, a Center for Immigration Studies report found that illegal immigration reduces the wages of American workers by approximately $650 per worker. We need to do all we can to protect the jobs and wages of American workers. The Legal Workforce Act turns off the jobs magnet that attracts so many illegal immigrants to the United States. The bill expands the E-Verify system and applies it to all U.S. employers. More 

The mainspring of the New World Order is the private central bankers' need to translate their unlimited financial power, derived from their control of your government's credit, into permanent world institutions of political and social control. The EU and the US are currently negotiating the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). The negotiations are taking place behind closed doors and the negotiation positions on both sides are largely unknown to the public. More Big Brother Corporation

The simplest way to describe a usury-based central banking system is this: The bankers demand the property of the Nation as collateral for their loans. At interest, more money is owed them that they created with the loans. So, eventually, the bankers foreclose on the Nation. Precept #78, David Lane

My good friend Mike Harris visits Syria... putting the finger on organized crime and global terrorism

Parasites, after sucking the life blood out of their hosts, must either move on to another or die. It is a pity that we don't seem to be able to learn from history and is the reason that all institutions of higher learning and means of communication are targeted early on by these human parasites.

We, who have seen what a civilization comprised, principally, of Caucasians has given the world, will not allow itself to be hijacked, and taken back to the stone ages, simply because the, most non-creative, segment of our society, insists we should. And the time for pandering to this segment is rapidly nearing it's end.

Mike Harris is the Financial Editor of Veterans Today, a radio host, a former GOP Campaign Finance Chairman, gubernatorial candidate for Arizona, and a Senior Vice President of Adamus Defense Group, Switzerland. Mike Harris YouTube

In consultation with our editorial board and like minded individuals within the military and intelligence community, select VT board members traveled to Damascus last week. Included were me, always looking for a free meal and chance to get shot or beheaded, Colonel Jim Hanke, Jim Dean and Mike Harris. In Beirut, we met with Franklin Lamb and drove in through Bekaa. Gordon Duff

Historic Speech in Damascus Sends “Shockwaves” Around the World

This speech is the first time in history an American Intelligence Team of “non-activists” gave a military briefing to an audience of this type, including key Military Leaders of diverse Tribal Forces throughout Lebanon, Syria and Iraq, along with a Russian delegation and many others from around the world. Before this historic speech by Duff, no one has ever dared to speak the simple truth about the true problem, that it is not Terrorism in the Mideast, but it is the effects of large scale international Organized Crime. Full Article

The participants stressed that the unilateral economic sanctions which were imposed on Syria are illegal... They also underlined that the Zionist Entity is involved in all what is taking place in the region, as the current international terrorism is a duplicate of the colonial countries’ terrorism which aims at dominating the wealth of the region and dissuading its peoples from their national central issues. SANA

Findings: International Conference on Terrorism and Religious Extremism

The International Conference for Combating Terrorism and Religious Extremism was held between 30 November, 2014, and 1 December, 2014, in Damascus, under the  patronage of the Ministry of Justice. Intellectual, political and media figures from 25 different countries participated in the event, along with scholars and clergymen, as well as researchers in political and economic affairs and international law. VT

In his December 1 comments, made at an international conference on combating terrorism and religious extremism in Damascus, Ahmad accused the United States of "interfering in other states' affairs and breaching their sovereignty under the pretexts of humanitarianism and counter-terrorism," according to state news outlet SANA. Radio Free Europe Link

More organized crime... The International Monetary Fund, a United Nations money movement organization designed for the purpose of wealth redistribution has made an important announcement. It’s easy to qualify for the program. They recently came up with a plan they called a “one-off capital levy.” If you don’t know what that is, that’s okay, you’re not supposed to. By being an American taxpayer, are automatically presumed to be wealthy and in need of sharing through your government. There’s no need to apply, no extra forms to fill out, and you can be as generous as 71%. Link

California and the Fight Against Transnational Organized Crime

The term “transnational organized crime” refers to a range of criminal activity perpetrated by groups whose origins often lie outside of the United States but whose operations cross international borders. Whether it is a drug cartel originating from Mexico or a cybercrime group out of Eastern Europe, the operations of transnational criminal organizations threaten the safety, health and economic well being of all Americans, and particularly Californians. Link

The bond between organized criminals and terrorists appear to be growing in the status quo. This connection should be worrisome as these networks have found common interests. Considering the different objectives of each group, some may question whether they truly have anything in common. Terrorists are generally motivated by politics, whereas organized enterprises are motivated by money. A CONTRARIO

Obama Will Not Stand Against Islam; Will Organized Crime?

Organized crime is a multi billion dollar business. The Latin American Tribune reported that drug cartels make over 60 billion dollars a year in the United States. Organized crime families in the U.S bring in roughly 40 billion. There are two things that every crime family has in common. They love their family, and they love their money. You mess with either, and your days are numbered. Full Article

"And I believe that the reason so many of our people simply will not accept that real world today is that they are too comfortable with the present situation. They are living well. They feel safe. They are perceptive enough to see the destructive trends carrying our race to extinction, but their comfort and safety are more important to them, and so they adjust their perceptions accordingly." -- Dr. William L. Pierce

Vegas Vacation 2009. . . .The never-ending construction:

For almost 20 years, Las Vegas, Nevada has been my home away from home. Without exception, Las Vegas changes dramatically between every visit. During the early 1990’s, I would work one week in Phoenix and the next week in Nevada. I have stayed in almost every notable hotel and casino on and off the strip. I did this routine for over a year. And yes! It did get old after a while.

I suggest you never ever stay at the Imperial Palace. The “Palace” is a “dive”. Some of my former business associates nicknamed it the “Imperial Death Star”. Imagine staying in a room while workers tear up the floor just outside your door. That might have been a long time ago, but I’ll always hold that against them. I have not been there since they sold Hitler’s car. That was the last straw!

I have moved up in the world since those days. I call the Hilton Grand Vacations Resort behind the Flamingo Hilton my vacation home. It’s one of the few residential towers on the strip. The rooms are nice and the TV is big. The only complaint I have is that a room with a retail price of $1000/night (according to the sign on the door) should have more hot water. I really didn’t want to wake up as fast as I did on Wednesday morning. They should have also stocked two-ply toilet paper, but I was willing to give up that luxury for a few nights. The free newspaper delivered to the door was a nice touch.
　
Vegas Today and Tomorrow
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Hilton Grand Vacations
Vacation ownership at Hilton Grand Vacations Club resorts (on the Las Vegas strip) allows you to choose the weeks and seasons you prefer to travel to your home resort. The ever-growing popularity of Las Vegas as a travel destination prompted HGVC to develop it's third Vegas Hilton Grand Vacations Club resort.This project is due-north of Sky Las Vegas on the north end of the Strip. The other two locations are behind the Flamingo (sharing the pools area) and adjacent to the Las Vegas Hilton on Paradise Road.

Tower one and two are now open. The taller, towers three and four have not yet broken ground. Tower three will break ground in February of 2008. http://www.vegastodayandtomorrow.com/hilton.htm

Fontainebleau
The 3,812-room, 68-floor, 730-foot, Fontainebleau Las Vegas hotel/condo-hotel/casino is a $2.9-billion development being built on the Strip (just north of the Riviera) on the 24.5 acres where the El Rancho and Algiers casinos once stood.

The Vegas project will have a condo-hotel element, based on an alliance between Fontainebleau and Turnberry. Construction is under way with a planned opening in fall of 2009 http://www.vegastodayandtomorrow.com/fontainebleau.htm
　　
Despite a recession and falling gaming revenues, the building continues. As you can see in my photos, cranes are everywhere. Many of them are currently idle, but none the less, building continues. Change is the only constant in Las Vegas. While walking along Las Vegas Blvd. On Wednesday, I saw a “beehive” of activity. Just remember all of the people that are losing their asses on the market and their 401k’s. Many of those same people are in Las Vegas or at their local Indian reservation spending money they don’t have.

I walked through many of the up scale shopping centers and noticed stores such as Armani and Gucci. I saw very few people carrying merchandise in those fancy designer boxes and bags. Most of the shops were nearly empty. People are out shopping, but they are not necessarily buying.

One of the things I was looking for was a black pull over hoodie. These tend to run around $40 wherever I look. Finally, I found one for just $10.00. Upon paying the cashier, I discovered that the sales tax rate was 8.1%.

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I thought it was bad in Arizona before I saw this. Recently, we were jumping all over our governor for wanting to raise our sales tax by ½%. We are all being taxed into the ground.

With cashless gaming, people never actually touch the money they lose. I had to go all the way down to Freemont Street to find a slot machine that still took coins. I won’t name it here, but it was a run down place. The blonde with the fishnets and firm butt cheeks did look good as she was dancing on the bar. I miss seeing all the people running around with cups full of nickels. Penny slots were the most common machines I saw on this visit. The catch is, you have to play 180 coins or better to cover all the lines.

I stopped in at the Hooters Casino (formerly San Remo) just east of the strip on Tropicana. I found a cool looking pirate penny slot and after nearly 30 minutes managed to walk away with $5.00 more than I started with. There were not nearly enough Hooters girls. The funniest slot machine I saw was the “Alien” machine. It featured an “egg bonus” If you remember, there was nothing good about those eggs in the movie. Ripley can testify to that. I didn’t bother to try it at all.

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"Actually, I usually told the truth, and as I grew up I admired and respected people who had the courage to be truthful when it was disadvantageous to them... But as I grew up I also learned that life is a complicated business, and that sometimes it isn't easy to decide what is right and what is wrong...." --Dr. William L. Pierce