Saturday, September 26, 2015

NESARA - What has been deliberately hidden from Americans






NESARA
The National Economic Security and Reformation Act




NESARA is commonly recognized and discussed in nations throughout Europe and the world.  The National Economic Security and Reformation Act (NESARA) was passed by the United States Congress on March 9, 2000 and then sent to President Bill Clinton for his signature. President Clinton signed NESARA into law on October 10, 2000. Plans for the NESARA Law to be formally announced to the nation were scheduled for September 11, 2001 - the day the Twin Towers in NYC 'just happened' to succumb to the internally planned and executed 'terrorist' act. Thus the announcements and celebrations of freedom for the American people, as well as the arrests and prosecutions of the rogue 'government' traitors, was swept under the carpet and hidden for many years -  THAT IS UNTIL NOW!!!!!

At that point NESARA, as with any legislation, became "law of the land” at the time of signing.  The law WAS passed but the criminals in Washington, DC are not revealing this to you because NESARA identifies them as the traitors that they are and would include their being arrested and tried for treason.  The traitorous 'Supreme Court' issued a gag order so that YOU, the people of this nation, would not find out about NESARA and all its provisions to free you from slavery to the banksters and from the rogue criminal make believe coupe USA corporate 'government' and all of their criminal corporate sub-agencies'!!!!

If Americans learned the Truth about NESARA, they would demand its enforcement. Print flyers, freely hand them out and begin to teach others about NESARA.  It's time we, the people of America, DEMAND this law be fully implemented thereby returning our government to its TRUE form, that of the REPUBLIC,  and the traitorous rogue 'government' be disbanded and all the unlawful corporations connected with it (IRS, CIA, FBI, DHS, DOD, et al) be tried for treason.

This law provides the following…………………..
  

Forgives credit card, mortgage, and other bank debt due to illegal banking and government activities

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Abolishes income tax

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Abolishes IRS; creates flat rate non-essential "new items only" sales tax revenue for government

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Increases benefits to senior citizens

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Returns Constitutional Law to all our courts and legal matters.
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Retrains all judges and attorneys in Constitutional Law 

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Establishes new Presidential and Congressional elections within 120 days after NESARA's announcement 
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Monitors elections and prevents illegal election activities or special interest groups

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Initiates new U.S. Treasury Bank System in alignment with Constitutional Law 
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Creates new US Treasury currency, "rainbow currency," backed by gold, silver and platinum precious metals

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Eliminates the Federal Reserve System
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Initiates first phase of worldwide prosperity distribution of vast wealth which has been accumulating for many decades
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Releases enormous sums of money for humanitarian purposes
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Restores financial privacy

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Ceases all aggressive, US government military actions worldwide

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Establishes peace throughout the world

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Enables the release of new technologies such as alternative energy

devices.
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Ceases all aggressive, US government military actions worldwide

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Establishes peace throughout the world



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HOW TO SAVE YOURSELF FROM CURRENT RADIATION IN AMERICA! FROM ERASMUS OF AMERICA - SEPTEMBER 26, 2015

HOW TO SAVE YOURSELF FROM CURRENT RADIATION IN AMERICA! FROM ERASMUS OF AMERICA - SEPTEMBER 26, 2015


Fukushima Accident - World Nuclear Association

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World Nuclear Association
Fukushima Accident. (Updated September 2015) Following a major earthquake, a 15-metre tsunami disabled the power supply and cooling of three Fukushima Daiichi reactors, causing a nuclear accident on 11 March 2011. All three cores largely melted in the first three days.

What Happened? | Fukushima On The Globe

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The Great East Earthquake occurred at 2:46pm on March 11th recorded magnitude 9.0, has given tremendous damage to the northern part of Japan, especially in the prefectures of Fukushima, Miyagi and Iwate. The earthquake and tsunami triggered the worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl.
Jun 10, 2015 - A professor from Japan's Fukushima University Institute of Environmental ... tuna tested in California waters were contaminated with Fukushima radiation. ... That the mass die-off of sealife off the West Coast of North America “ which ... May 2015 “ OCEAN HEALTH “ The waters of the Pacific off the coast of...

Massive radiation plume from Fukushima continues drifting ...

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Jun 17, 2015 - By 2016, nearly as much radiation from the Fukushima disaster will have reached the North American West Coast as was initially scattered over Japan during the nuclear ... Saturday, September 26, 2015 / 10:38 UTC...

Fukushima radiation has reached North American shores

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Statesman Journal
Sea-borne radiation from Japan's Fukushima nuclear disaster has reached North America. ... Tracy Loew, Statesman Journal 11:35 a.m. PDT April 6, 2015 ... from the March 2011 triple meltdown has been identified on West Coast shores.

In the News : Fukushima Radiation in the Pacific

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Fukushima radiation: US West Coast will likely see peak by end of 2015. Monday ... Miles O'Brien returns to the site of Japan's nuclear disaster three years later

West Coast - ENENews.com

05:28 PM EST on September 22nd, 2015 | 542 comments · PHOTOS: Mutations found in sea life along US West Coast ” Deformed spines, ... 'blew up' nuclear reactor outside Los Angeles in massive human radiation experiment on .... fish caught off Japan causes concern about effects of Fukushima ” NY Daily News:...

Gov't Expert: West Coast will soon be hit by 800 Trillion Bq ...

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Jun 7, 2015 - Shanghai Daily, Apr 30, 2015 (emphasis added): About 800 tera becquerel of ... Even if all the 800 tera bq Cs-137 have arrived, the radiation levels will stay at ... The West Coast samples with Fukushima radioactive material have ... estimated to have been deposited on Japan (1.0 petabecquerels or 1,000...

West Coast of North America to be Slammed by 2016 with 80

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Zero Hedge
That the mass die-off of sealife off the West Coast of North America “ which ... Slammed by 2016 with 80% As Much Fukushima Radiation As Japan. George Washington's picture. Submitted by George Washington on 06/10/2015 12:23 -0400...

West Coast of North America to be Slammed with 80% As ...

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Global Research, June 10, 2015 ... A professor from Japan's Fukushima University Institute of Environmental ... In 2013, we warned that the West Coast of North America would be hit hard by Fukushima radiation. ... That the mass die-off of sealife off the West Coast of North America “ which may have started only a couple of...

Radiation Levels From Japan In California - 2015

May 2, 2015 - Current Radiation Levels in California from the Japan nuclear fallout cloud. Check out these live Radiation Maps of the entire West Coast for...

West Coast of North America to be Slammed by ... - Infowars

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Alex Jones
by Washington's Blog | June 10, 2015 ... A professor from Japan's Fukushima University Institute of Environmental ... The same year, we noted that 15 out of 15 bluefin tuna tested in California waters were contaminated with Fukushima radiation. In 2013, we warned that the West Coast of North America would be hit hard by...


Reports are coming out that maybe all of America is being affected by the Fukushima radiation from Japan which still spills into the ocean heading towards California and the rest of America through contaminated foods and jet streams of air covering basically all of America. Some reports say that ocean life is being massacred in the ocean water between Japan to California, Alaska, etc. and the radiation threatens to effectively reach all of America before this is all over. I had two scientific sources who said they had a plan how to neutralize the radiation in the ocean water between Japan and California, etc., but Wash., D.C. policy is keep quiet on the radiation threat from Japan America faces today and do nothing to try and stop it at this time. They apparently are not interested in any scientific plans how maybe this radiation poisoning coming from Japan can be stopped from further covering America with building up radiation poisoning.

If my proposed Omni Law was already passed in America, we would already have a national referendum on how to stop this Japanese radiation threat from furthering threatening the health and survival of the American people who reports indicate are at serious risk from all this radiation poisoning. But we have a do nothing Congress and a do nothing White House in charge, so they turn their heads away pretending that this threat does not put America at serious risk and so do nothing to protect the American people nor America from serious pending radiation poisoning at this time.

Go to my website www.fastboomamericaneconomy.com Press the link for Products. Go to Fast Speed Omni Law Program. Put in $10 or more and request Radiation Report. Give us your email to send this report to. If you can't put $10 or more into this pay button there on the website, then mail in $10.00 and make out check, etc. to NIFI and tell us what payment is for. Mail this to our mailing address of NIFI, P.O. Box 1465, Seneca, SC 29679 . Give us an email to send to you our Radiation Report. If you do not have an email, give us a mailing address and we will mail this report to you after we receive your $10 or more for the Fast Speed Omni Law Program. If Wash., D.C. had not stolen serious money from us several times, we would not bother with a charge for the report. Our report will tell you at least three good answers what natural ingredients to get which can stop the radiation building in your body and reports indicate that it neutralizes and removes the radiation from your body over time. If the interest is there, we can stockpile these three natural ingredients as we know where to get the right versions of them and try to supply them to you at a reasonable cost, not high in price for what you get which should last you a while in use.
Washington, D.C. blocked us from a $400 million commercial loan in 2014 which would have turned into a grant once we established a major food industry in America for America and the rest of the world. This is the Vatican endorsed industrial food process which had been so heavily endorsed by Pope Pius XII years ago and also strangely enough also endorsed by the Soviet Union then as the greatest food discovery in human history and could solve the twin problems of starvation and malnutrition in the world. The Catholic Digest in the 1950's wrote up the story on this great food discovery and interest by both the Vatican and Soviet Union then. The Congressional Record of the U.S. Congress also wrote up the U.S. Army tests on this and Vatican support, etc. But corrupt Wash., D.C. did not want this great food discovery made available to the American people as corruption ran Wash., D.C. rather than dedication to the American people.

I had $525,000 federally stolen from me by an apparent C.I.A. operation to try and block me from supplying you the American people with this great food discovery of my father and passed on to me. They threatened me with murder if I tried to stop them from stealing this money and wanted to show that they were federal operatives of Wash., D.C. by telling me a key secret item or two about me that could only come from reading secret federal intelligence files on me and not available to the American people. I have witnesses on this from when it happened. One of their latest grand larceny stunts before it is over is that they have been trying to block me from receiving certain foreign currency that if things go right will likely be worth a decent amount soon. I got the legal evidence on them trying to steal shipments that were coming to me but they were trying to block. I forced a previous shipment to be released to me and a current one we will see if they release now that this is getting national publicized. This is under Obama policy as only he has authority to order federal operatives to try illegal criminal acts like this attempted on lawful American citizens. He is trying to block me from setting up the Vatican endorsed and Soviet Union endorsed industrial food process of my father as a giant new national industry for America. He does not want this potential giant new industry for America and huge number of new jobs for the American people. America must remain poor if he has his way through White House policy. By the way, I hear that he is going to pay the Middle East refugees being massed brought to America $77,000 each for moving to America. He will take care of them, but not the ordinary American citizens kept poor by White House policy.
So maybe you catch the idea why I am forced to charge something to get this radiation report to you. The $10 payments will make it easier to get the natural ingredient answers for radiation and available for you if you want them of proper quality and reasonable cost for you and family. Pass this report around. Let America read the truth!
Yours for God and Country, Erasmus Of America (pen name for that American technical brain that Wash., D.C. did not like as he wanted to bring to the American people important answers from several professional fields that they need for a good life and survival in America but no deals with the corrupt, treasonable, etc. allowed in the process! They do not like honest, smart people for Wash., D.C. to supply key answers that do not play ball with corruption in national government!)

P.S. My proposed Omni Law on my website (full name "The Omnibus Civil Rights Act For America") proposes to give the American people final authority over the federal government by national referendum on laws and policies to be passed or else rejected by the American people as to what the federal government will govern them with! When the people want it, the referendum power of the American people is higher authority than Congress, White House, etc.!

CGI's GreyOtter: Stop Islam Agenda

CGI's GreyOtter: Stop Islam Agenda
Posted By: Susoni [Send E-Mail]
Date: Saturday, 26-Sep-2015 13:07:50

From CGI's GreyOtter. CGI is Rumor Mill News readers forum where Grey Otter is a member.
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Like the “handwriting on the wall” that Prophet Daniel had interpreted, there are four Arabic words, which could lead to submission of the entire world to Islam, if non-Muslims do not fully understand their meaning and implications. Those words are takiyya, tawriya, kitman, and muruna.
Each of these words describes a different style of deception used by Muslims when discussing Islam or their activities as Muslims.Muhammad famously said, “War is deceit.” (Bukhari, Vol. 4, Book 52, Number 268) The Quran boasts that Allah is the “master of all scheming” (Surah 13:42) and that he is “profound in his machinations” (Surah 8:30). Western civilizations are not accustomed to dealing with people, who have developed deception into an art form. Knowledge is power, and the best way to combat the Islamist agenda is to say, “We are wise to your shenanigans. Knock it off!”
Takiyya
Takiyya is defined as dissimulation about ones Muslim identity. It comes from the verse in the Quran that says, “Let believers not make friends with infidels in preference to the faithful – he that does has nothing to hope for from Allah – except in self-defense (illaa an-tattaqu minhum tuqah) (Surah 3:28). This “self-defense” justifies dissimulation. Islamic Sharia Law provides, “When it is possible to achieve an aim by lying but not by telling the truth, it is permissible to lie if attaining the goal is permissible, and lying is obligatory if the goal is obligatory.” (Reliance of the Traveler, Para r8.2) Examples include lying to protect Islam or a Muslim.
Tawriya
Tawriya is defined as concealing, and it could be called “creative lying”. It is OK to break the intent of the oath, as long as you don’t break the letter of the oath. (Reliance of the Traveler, sections o19.1 and o19.5) How does this work? Suppose someone protests that Surah 1 of the Quran demeans Christians and Jews, because it is a supplication Muslims make to Allah seventeen times a day to keep them from the path of “those with whom God is angry” and “those who have lost their way”. A Muslim might respond, “Surah 1 never mentions Jews or Christians.” He is practicing tawriya, because while Surah 1 does not mention Jews and Christians by name, but he knows full-well that the words “those” refer to Jews and Christians.
Another example would be when a Muslim responds to your greeting of “Merry Christmas!” He might say, “I wish you the best.” In your mind, you think he has returned a Christmas greeting. In actuality, he has expressed his wish for you to convert to Islam; he wishes the best for you which, in his view, is becoming a Muslim.
Kitman
Kitman is characterized by someone telling only part of the truth. The most common example of this is when a Muslim says that jihad really refers to an internal, spiritual struggle. He is not telling “the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth”, as witnesses are sworn to do in U.S. courts. Often, kitman results in a gross distortion of the truth. In the example given, the Quran uses jihadand its derivatives 59 times. Of those, only 16 (27%) could be considered “internal” with no object as the target of the struggle based on the context of the surah.
Another common form of kitman is to quote only the few peaceful passages from the Quran, knowing full-well that that passage was later abrogated by a more militant, contradictory verse. Here is an example:
“There is no compulsion in religion” (Surah 2:256) Early Medina
“Are they seeking a religion other than Allah’s, when every soul in the heavens and earth has submitted to Him, willingly or by compulsion?” (Surah 3:83 Later Medina)
Another example:
“Permission to take up arms is hereby given to those who are attacked, because they have been wronged.” (Surah 22:39) Late Mecca
“When the sacred months are over, slay the idolaters wherever you find them. Arrest them, besiege them and lie in ambush everywhere for them.” (Surah 9:5) Late Medina
Muruna
Muruna means using “flexibility” to blend in with the enemy or the surroundings. The justification for this kind of deception is a somewhat bizarre interpretation of Surah 2:106, which says, “If we abrogate a verse or cause it to be forgotten, We will replace it by a better one or similar.” Thus, Muslims may forget some of the commands in the Quran, as long as they are pursuing a better command. Muslims striving to advance Islam, therefore, can deviate from their Islamic laws in order to cause non-Muslims to lower their guard and place their trust in their Muslim counterpart.
At times, Muslims practice muruna in the same way a chameleon changes colors to avoid detection. Muslims will sometimes shave off their beards, wear western clothing, or even drink alcohol to blend in with non-Muslims. Nothing is more valuable these days to the Islamists than a blue-eyed Caucasian Muslim willing to engage in terrorism.
Another common way of using muruna is for a Muslim to marry a non-Muslim or to behave like a non-Muslim so their true agenda will not be suspected. The 9/11 hijackers visited strip clubs and bars during their off-times while taking classes in the U.S. to fly airplanes into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and the White House. Many Americans believe Hillary Clinton’s aide, Huma Abedin, married Jewish Congressman Anthony Weiner at least in part to burnish her security credentials so she could infiltrate the highest levels of the Administration.
The implications of these highly-honed tactics of deception for unassuming Western societies. Twenty years ago, psychologist Paul Ekman wrote an insightful book, “Telling Lies”, which demonstrated that people give off recognizable clues when they are practicing deceit. Their consciences cause them, involuntarily, to sweat or raise their voices or make other recognizable gestures. However, Dr. Ekman’s research was exclusively with people from Western cultures. Muslims, on the other hand, show no discernible signs when they are being deceitful because there is no feeling of guilt. In their minds they are doing exactly what Allah wants them to do to advance Islam. Because any Western person who has raised children knows almost intuitively when someone is lying, so they assume they can do that in all cases. Unfortunately, those same Western people can be easily duped by Islamic deceit because there are no tell-tale signs in the deceiver.
Hopefully, this article will be a wake-up call to the unsuspecting infidels. Trust but verify – as was an old American strategy in dealing with potentially hostile parties – is the way to go in dealing with Islamists. 


One World Religion for the One World Government

One World Religion for the One World Government

You will not get tolerance with a one world religion

by Infowars.com | September 26, 2015 


Infowars reporter David Knight breaks down how the Pope is pushing a one world religion to help bring in the one world government.


Obama Did This....


While Your Attention was Focused on the Pope, Obama Did This

While Your Attention was Focused on the Pope, Obama Did This Read




While the US Congress welcomed the socialist Pope Francis to speak before them, the Obama administration was quietly betraying the American people (again) and acting treasonously against the US Constitution.

Mad World News reports:
The Pope has been rubbing elbows with American leaders, schmoozing with Washington’s elite, and espousing traditionally liberal talking points during highly politicized speeches which has kept the media plenty busy covering his every move.
As this has been happening, the Obama administration quietly released a man named Abdul Shalabi without anybody taking notice, until now.
Shalabi was being held at the infamous Guantanamo Bay detention facility in Cuba, so you know that he’s probably not the best person on the planet. That much is confirmed after you find out why he was put there to begin with. 
Shalabi has a long resume in the world of terror, reports Derrick Wilburn for Allen West. Just how deep are his ties to terror? Well, you don’t get much more terroristic than Osama bin Laden, who Shalabi served as a bodyguard for, but it goes even deeper than that.
Shalabi was also a bodyguard for Kalid Sheik Mohammed, one of the masterminds behind the 9-11 attacks.
The Bush administration said that Shalabi was “too dangerous to release.” Well, if so, then the Bush administration should have proved their assertions, assertions I believe would have been clear and then removed Shalabi from the face of the earth.
Derrick Wilburn points out, “The very idea that this man who worked side-by-side with Osama bin Laden can somehow be ‘rehabilitated’ to no longer want to kill infidels and be rehabbed by the Muslim government of an Islamic nation – is beyond laughable.
What does Obama think he’s going to do there now? Train to become a valet? Take up needlepoint?  Oh, I know, maybe open a bakery and make cakes for gay weddings."
Exactly right. However, instead of dealing with Salabi justly, finding him guilty of his crimes and administering proper justice, the criminal Obama administration has set him free, and you can be sure he will re-engage the jihad, just as the five jihadis did that Obama illegally released in a swap for deserter Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl.
So, once again Barack Hussein Obama puts America in jeopardy so he can side with the Muslims and, at the same time, House Speaker John Boehner who has engaged the fight at all since he’s been in office, retreats to a life of retirement at taxpayer’s expense.
I say good riddance to Boehner, but when is Congress going to impeach the traitor-in-chief for giving aid and comfort to the enemy, including setting free a known jihadist, who will sure as the devil engage in the fight against the united States of America.  

http://www.dcclothesline.com/2015/09/26/while-your-attention-was-focused-on-the-pope-obama-did-this/

 

Are You Really Middle Class?

Are You Really Middle Class? The American Conservative | By CHARLES HUGH SMITH | 

The standard of living taken for granted in the 1960s is now affordable to very few.

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Can we define the middle class in practical terms? To be sure, there are probably as many sociological definitions of the middle class as there are commentators seeking definitions. So let’s set aside the socio-swamp of beliefs, values, and taxonomies of class in favor of a definition with measurable thresholds.
Many commentators attempt to define the middle class by income, and people tend to self-report that they belong to the middle class based on income. The self-evident way to define the middle class by income is to set aside the top 10 percent (households earning $145,000 or more) and those defined as poor by the U.S. Census Bureau (households making less than $25,000), roughly 25 percent of all households.
Somewhere between the two is the middle class, though trying to narrow it down forces us into an impassable statistical thicket. For example, government agencies report income in different ways. The IRS reports individual tax returns (147 million) while other agencies report household income (117 million households).
The median household income is around $53,000—a number that’s declined since 2007 when adjusted for inflation. This is obviously in the middle range of income, but regional cost differences render national numbers meaningless: $53,000 is near-poverty level in left and right coast cities.
Income totals don’t include government transfers, and that seriously distorts the data. If services provided to low-income households are added in—for example, SNAP (food stamps), Medicaid (free healthcare coverage) and Section 8 housing vouchers (subsidized rent)—the income for households that are defined as “poor” by earned income alone may be between $60,000 and $75,000—not wealthy but certainly not poor.
Then there’s the problem of sorting out what households do with their income. Is a family that owns no assets and lives paycheck to paycheck “middle class” because their income is high?
I propose that we define the middle class as a set of financial attributes and assets that were widely considered an attainable norm in the 1960s. If prosperity has indeed been rising for the past 50 years, households should be able to not just meet these twelve minimum thresholds, but greatly exceed them.
  1. Meaningful hospitalization/healthcare insurance
  2. Significant equity (25+ percent) in a home
  3. Income/expenses that enable the household to save at least 6 percent of its income
  4. Significant retirement savings: pensions, 401Ks, IRAs, etc.
  5. The ability to pay all expenses over the medium-term if one of the primary wage-earners lose their job
  6. Reliable vehicles for each wage-earner
  7. The household does not require government transfers or subsidies to maintain their lifestyle
  8. Ownership of non-real estate assets such as family heirlooms, tools, etc.
  9. Time and money to invest in children (enrichment, extracurricular clubs/training, etc.).
  10. Leisure time devoted to the maintenance of physical/spiritual/mental health
  11. Continual accumulation of human and social capital (new skills, new markets for one’s services, etc.)
  12. Family ownership of income-producing assets such as rental properties, bonds, businesses, etc.
The key point here is that propping up a precarious façade of debt-funded consumption does not qualify as middle class. To qualify as middle class, the household must actually own wealth that won’t vanish when the investment bubble du jour pops, and won’t be wiped out by a medical emergency.
Many of these thresholds have changed over the decades. In the 1960s, it was common to pay for doctor’s visits in cash; now insurance is required for even the most routine visit. Vehicles last longer now, but cost more, and so on.
Setting aside such quibbles, these thresholds define the key characteristic of the traditional middle class: the middle class accumulates capital that can be passed on to the next generation.
The wealthy are presumed to have inherited income-producing capital, and their job is to preserve that capital for the next generation to inherit. The working class (which includes the working poor who receive government subsidies) live paycheck to paycheck because they lack the income and skills needed to accumulate capital.
Perhaps this is why so many of those claiming membership in the middle class feel poor: by the conventions of an earlier definition of middle class, they are poor because they’re accumulating very little capital.
So what does it cost to meet these 12 minimum standards today?
Let’s start by stipulating that regional differences make it impossible to determine a national minimum; let’s aim for a mid-point between high coastal/urban costs and lower rural costs, and ask readers to make the necessary adjustments.
We also need to account for the costs typically paid by corporate and government employers—healthcare insurance, pension/401K contributions, and the employer’s share of Social Security and Medicare payroll taxes. We have to look at total compensation costs—not just wages/salaries, but the combined costs of compensation and benefits paid by employers
Self-employed people (I raise my hand here) pay healthcare insurance, IRA/401K contributions, and the employer’s share of Social Security and Medicare payroll taxes out of pocket, so we’re keenly aware of these costs that are often invisible to employees.
With the acknowledgement that debates about each item could fill volumes, here is my rough estimate of what it takes to meet the 12 thresholds of membership in the middle class.
Healthcare: $15,000
Mortgage: $25,000
Savings: $6,000
Retirement: $12,000
Vehicles: $13,000
Property taxes: $7,000
Income and other taxes: $20,000
Basic living expenses: $15,000
Donations, tithes, summer camps, lessons, hobbies, sports, etc.: $7,000

Total: $120,000
If this seems high, it’s not; rather, these are at the lower end of realistic estimates.
For example, according to health care consulting firm Milliman Inc., healthcare for a family of four is more than $19,000 annually. (My wife and I pay $13,000 for basic coverage, and pay cash for eyewear, dental care and medications, so this looks low-ball to me.)
The AAA estimates the cost of each compact car at $6,700 annually, and the average cost of auto ownership at $8,946 per year, so $13,000 per year assumes two compacts each driven 15,000 miles. Two well-maintained clunkers will cost less, of course, but it’s easy to argue that other estimates in this list are way under typical expenses. Property taxes are much higher in many states, and basic expenses cost more in many locales. The enrichment line item doesn’t include a family vacation, which can easily add thousands more, or savings for college.
There’s no line item for servicing student loans or subsidizing post-college offspring or care for elderly parents. Nudge up a few items and you’re soon pushing the line separating “middle class” from the top 10 percent.
What can we conclude from this experiment? One inescapable conclusion is that costs have soared for things that were once affordable while incomes have by and large not kept pace.
Another is that by this definition, there are far fewer members of the middle class than the nation owns up to.
Charles Hugh Smith is the author of An Unconventional Guide to Investing in Troubled Times and writes at OfTwoMinds.com.

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DC Has Lost Another Gun Rights Case

DC Has Lost Another Gun Rights Case

Three-judge panel has thrown out several gun registration requirements

DC Has Lost Another Gun Rights Case
by Hans von Spakovsky | Daily Signal | September 26, 2015

Seven years after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the District of Columbia’s ban on handguns, D.C. has lost another gun case before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia—one that involves the very same plaintiff, Dick Heller.
In the latest case, Heller v. District of Columbia, a three-judge panel has thrown out several gun registration requirements that were clearly intended to discourage gun ownership and make it more difficult to own a gun in the nation’s capital.
The original Heller case, which was decided in 2008, was without doubt the most important case on the Second Amendment since the amendment was first ratified on Dec. 15, 1791 as part of the original Bill of Rights. It was the first case in which the Supreme Court held that the Second Amendment protects the right of individual Americans to own a gun. The Court rejected the District’s “prohibition of handguns held and used for self-defense in the home.”
Immediately after the 2008 decision, the city council of the District enacted the Firearms Registration Amendment Act of 2008. Dick Heller filed another lawsuit challenging that Act, claiming it violated the Second Amendment, too. In response to the lawsuit and a decision by the appellate court, the city council in 2012 revised the Act to get rid of some of the conditions for registration, such as a requirement that all pistols be submitted for ballistic identification.
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