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Nov. 14, 2012 9:35pm Tiffany Gabbay

For roughly half of the country, or at least those who strongly following both politics and history, the 2012 election serves as a harbinger of the fundamental transformation expedited by Barack Obama that will, ultimately, cause the sun to set on America and its exceptionalism. Those who recall the not-so-distant past recognize a number of similarities in present-day America and European countries that ultimately succumbed to the devices of Socialism or Fascism. During his Wednesday evening broadcast, Glenn Beck examined these similarities, particularly as it relates to the Weimar Republic.

For those unfamiliar, the term “Weimar Republic” refers to Germany between the years 1919 and 1933 when the country was a parliamentary democracy, governed by a true constitution which had been drafted in the city of Weimar. While the Weimar Constitution technically survived until 1945, its last vestiges were truly snuffed out with the installation of Adolf Hitler and his Third Reich.

Under the Weimar Republic, German citizens enjoyed rights not so dissimilar to those found in modern-day America, including the freedom to vote. Thus, Weimar was Germany’s first foray into the concept of democracy. Before World War I, Germany was relatively prosperous, with a gold-backed currency and a burgeoning manufacturing industry.

Even from the start, however, the Weimar’s days were likely numbered, as by 1923 the country was in the throes of severe hyperinflation. While difficult to imagine, by this time, the currency exchange rate between the dollar and the German Mark was one trillion to one.

TheBlaze’s Becket Adams authored an informative primer Wednesday discussing hyperinflation — what it is, how it is triggered and what its long-term effects are. The article can be read in its entirety here.

Of course with such mind-boggling numbers, needless to say, the Republic embarked on a rapid downward trajectory.

During his program, Beck examined some of the crucial elements that led to the collapse of the Weimar and solidified the Third Reich’s place in history. Among them were the country’s abandonment of a gold standard, tremendous debt and entitlements coupled with inadequate revenue streams that ultimately led to printing money and devaluing the nation’s currency. Soon, riots and overall societal decay. Given the meme that had been perpetuated in Nazi propaganda painting the Jews only as money-hoarding bankers who were robbing Germany of all its wealthy, of course the most notable form of this societal decay was manifest through anti-Semitism.

The rest, as they say, is history.

Watch below as Beck relives this dark chapter in history and draws some sobering comparisons to present-day U.S.:

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revelation2012
Posted on November 15, 2012 at 6:45am
unity ,,, united ,,, unions have given us such ‘enlightenment’

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- Mikeyyy
  Posted on November 15, 2012 at 2:23pm
  Here’s the deal, short and sweet: it’s obvious to me that the powers in charge at the higher government levels, both repubs and liberals, want to maintain their power…one way to do that is to create poverty and disasters, that they then have to fix…during the fixing process, they can then sink their teeth deeper into entrenchment of the lives of Americans.
  
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louise
Posted on November 15, 2012 at 6:35am
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- GhostOfJefferson
  Posted on November 15, 2012 at 9:03am
  Whether we resemble the Weimar Republic or not is immaterial. When the guy pointing it out to you, if he’s correct I mean, says “So, we’re all essentially going to starve and there will be shooting in the streets by bands of roaming socialists like Germany in the 1920′s, and I advise…doing nothing except buy a bit o’ gold and nothing else. And if you think seperating yourself from this is a good idea, the shooting, death, starvation et al, well then, how dumb do you have to be?!?”
  
  It’s hard to take serious somebody whose solutions to potentially quite serious problems is to hold hands and sing and fast for a bit. Sorry, it just doesn’t cut it.
  
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- mastice
  Posted on November 15, 2012 at 11:31am
  @ghost
  “doing nothing except buy a bit o’ gold and nothing else”
  
  You are not listening and only catching highlights.
  
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- drphil69
  Posted on November 15, 2012 at 11:41am
  @Ghost… so why don’t you add some solutions?
  
  BECAUSE THERE AREN’T ANY AS LONG AS LIBERALS RUN THINGS.
  
  BTW, Glenn also recommends buying GUNS and AMMO for self defense, as well as having emergency FOOD and WATER on hand.
  
  Personally, I AM GOING TO ENJOY WATCHING THE EVENING NEWS WHEN THE LIBS ARE KILLING EACH OTHER IN THE BIG CITIES… IT WILL IMPROVE THE GENE POOL GREATLY!!
  
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- GhostOfJefferson
  Posted on November 15, 2012 at 12:37pm
  You guys do realize I was just picking an obvious item, and not listing all of the “do nothing, but hey here’s a product” pitches, right?
  
  Every action I hear proposed or which gains momentum, that doesn’t fit in with “sing Kumbaya, hold hands and fast” seems to suffer a fast, scathing death. It bothers me, because I think Beck has done good service in educating folks, or at least getting them on the path to self education.
  
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- Chrono_Sleuth
  Posted on November 15, 2012 at 12:59pm
  @DrPhil69, would you then consider yourself a eugenicist?
  
  Even you have proven yourself to be a diehard and very closed minded individual, buying into the hatred bred by the false paradigm of two ideologies that are different more so in looks than in actual ideology. Little different from the people you so despise. Most of them ordinary people who simply want a better life, but have never been put to task, taught, or shown the value and merit of working hard and the experience gained from moving up the chain, or even changing multiple jobs to find something that fits.
  
  Are they really deserving of death? In the end, if you were born in that kind of family, and had very clever and openminded progressive teachers, can you not see how you too could become one of those mindless masses?
  
  Can you not see how you are just as blind and mindless, playing right into the hands of the power elite, because afterall, what would benefit the government and powerful more than fewer people to control? How is there any justification for taking a life to better humanity when that life is simply ignorant, whether willfully or unknowningly, of the economic reality their ideology leads to suffering and death with a constant longing for a better life, and so a need to look up to a leader always promising, never delivering?
  
  Blind faith and hatred is only part of the illusion…
  
  @Ghost, great point. Gold is fine, but it’s like one item on a list of hundreds in preparatory.
  
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- smv803
  Posted on November 15, 2012 at 2:11pm
  @Ghost…..so when all this comes down, What would be the solution? Please share your words of wisdom.
  
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Moozmom
Posted on November 15, 2012 at 6:08am
No longer matters. The world is setting itself up for Jesus return and with that the hope of the world. Man can not govern himself and evil stalks us. Those susceptible partake in the fleeting high. Give the world time and it will right itself to heaven. Never use to believe it, but now I do see it; Bible prophecy is being fulfilled before our eyes.

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- GMONEY66
  Posted on November 15, 2012 at 10:33am
  Well said. AMEN !!!!
  
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- bdsconserv
  Posted on November 15, 2012 at 2:06pm
  God has already made His 2nd coming. read the books of emanuel swedenborg.
  
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asybot12
Posted on November 15, 2012 at 3:13am
All I see right now on this site is a effort from the left to override the results of the elections as seen from outside of the US the fraud is irrefutable. districts with 140% of voters eligible? Area’s with voter ID were 100% Republican, gee you know maybe we needed the UN to check “voter suppression” as soon as the democrats won, that sure as goose sh.i slid under the table did it not?
And as far as financial bonds etc can some tell me what happened to all the money the West borrowed to China in the 60 and 70″s they do not even acknowledge that it ever happened!

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- sillyfreshness
  Posted on November 15, 2012 at 3:37am
  Until we understand that the Democrats are just a nice name for communists, we’ll keep scratching our heads wondering how this kind of stuff could happen in America.
  
  The “chosen people” have spoken. They wanted Obama reelected and the sheeple were dumb enough to listen. BTW, this whole ‘rise of anti-Semitism’ we keep hearing about. I have a theory about it. I think it’s not a ‘rise in evil’ but rather the people realize the power that Judens have. People know they are the powers that be. They control the media and Hollywood, banking, Wall Street and the government. The support leftist, degenerate causes and vote 90% Democratic. Every so often people wake up and realize that “chosen people” are up to their old tricks manipulating the masses in the media they control (propaganda).
  
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- RobKraft
  Posted on November 15, 2012 at 5:40am
  I saw Glen Beck the other day, he was wearing a long white robe and beard and had a sign that read, “The End Is Near”. Read fresh political commentary at: http://smallcraftadvisorychronicles.blogspot.com/
  
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- I.Heart.America
  Posted on November 15, 2012 at 8:15am
  96,000 emails have been sent to congress already. Recount The Vote
  
  http://www.petition2congress.com/8222/petition-recount-on-2012-presidential-election/
  
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- I.Heart.America
  Posted on November 15, 2012 at 8:17am
  ALL of the election fraud can be found at THIS site…please send link to family and friends.
  
  http://obamavoterfraud.blogspot.com/
  
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RaydocX
Posted on November 15, 2012 at 1:41am
Our current politicans failed to learn from history.
While I do not see genocide and an invasion of Russia as risks, we spend so much more then we make that soon there will be no way to cover our debt… That triggers hyperinflation… Workers demanding pay at lunch so food won’t be too expensive to afford after work…

At that point it won’t matter if you are getting free money from Obama, it won’t be worth the paper on which it is printed.

But today we are not as self sufficient as our great grandparents were…
We are fat and lazy and weak… We expect others to amend thir behavior to suit our comfort. We don’t grow food or maintain livestock.

Possibly Obama will continue his ‘blame the rch’ line, but it won’t be bill gates, it will be median income workers who pay greater taxes and pay outrageous amounts for necessary gods.

History doesn’t lie… Republics tear themselves apart when the people come to expect everything is owed them by the government

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- marybethelizabeth
  Posted on November 15, 2012 at 8:23am
  While Mr. Beck is heading a 5th column movement trying to repeat history.
  
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- drphil69
  Posted on November 15, 2012 at 11:47am
  @Ray – great post!
  
  One point I would disagree with – Obama knows EXACTLY what he is doing, and he learned very well from history. He learned how to manipulate the media and the masses. He learned how to play the class warfare card, the race card, and the gender card. He promised “FUNDAMENTAL TRANSFORMATION” – well, what is more fundamental than transforming us from the wealthiest nation to the poorest, from the strongest military to the weakest?
  
  Obama and his inner circle know exactly what they are doing and the results that will come…
  
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Guitar Master
Posted on November 15, 2012 at 1:19am
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America would now be looking forward to a new era if MITT ROMNEY was the PRESIDENT ELECT.

Here are some STATISTICS about the PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION that were retrieved from another web-site:

“There were black voting districts in OHIO that had Mr. Obama winning by more than 500 to 0.”

“The PROBABILITY of Mr. Obama receiving all of the votes from a random selection of 500 blacks who voted, based upon his 93% appeal to blacks, is .93 ^ 500 = 1.74 * 10 ^ ( -16 ) or less than ONE PART IN 5 QUADRILLION. To do this even once is beyond belief, but when it occurs SIMULTANEOUSLY in several locations, is unmistakably an indication of VOTER FRAUD. !”

What can this tell us? Can Congress sit back and allow this to go unnoticed? Apparently so but WHY?

The ELECTORAL COLLEGE has yet to cast their votes, Perhaps there is still time.

What Do You Think?

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- DIgnified
  Posted on November 15, 2012 at 1:44am
  I think youre desperate for a vicarious win and are willing to keep the lie going to call it hope. What makes you think the ‘plan’ would change? Lol. Has the plan changed at all since the early 1900s, whether gop or dem? Stop being a weenie. Look, you were lied to by the republicans. The democrat officials lied to the democrats. Everyones been lying to me, ive had no party affiliation ever. You need to come on in for the win, stop siding with the enemy. Get together with the democrat citizens. Its the only way. While i think every election is farce, i know this, republicans are way outnumbered. You need them in your corner. Realism dictates so.n
  
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- DonAmeche
  Posted on November 15, 2012 at 2:46am
  I don’t entirely agree with “Dignified”……I don’t know if anything can be done…..But I sure as heck think the FRAUD that effectively STOLE this Election should be shouted from the rooftops…..I have been discussing it on Everyblog I visit……tell co-workers and Friends Too.
  
  And for what it’s worth…..Dignified is correct that we need to Include Democrats in our discussions….but NOT become Democrats and adopt their principles……or what REALLY is the Difference.
  
  And Finally The Repubs were outnumbered …BUT they emphatically WERE NOT “WAY” outnumbered…62,900,000 for Obama and 59,600,000 Romney….a difference of about 3,300,000 !! Plus the Libertarian vote was 1,191,000…added the Conservative/Libertarian vote this time was 60, 791,000…..the real difference is only about 2,109,000….and THAT is hardly WAY outnumbered.
  
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- Chet Hempstead
  Posted on November 15, 2012 at 6:50am
  First of all, the Fox exit polls put Obama support among blacks at 93%, but others had it higher – 95% according to CNN, 96% according to Gallup. More importantly, the few blacks who would vote against him are probably not randomly distributed, just as people in general are not randomly distributed. You would find few or none of them in predominantly black neighborhoods, and almost all of them among the upwardly mobile black population living in integrated neighborhoods. That there are neighborhoods in which Mitt Romney would not win a single vote against Mr. Obama is not only not impossible, it isn’t even improbable. This is not the first time it has happened. There have been unanimous voting districts in previous elections.
  
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- loriann12
  Posted on November 15, 2012 at 6:55am
  America has become a guided democracy, where we just have the illusion of a vote. No one I know here in Texas even wanted Romney as the nominee, but he got selected. And then even though he won the debates, he lost the election? They were hoping no one would vote for a Mormon, but he’s better than a moran. There is software that you can buy that causes bids you have on Ebay to outbid all your competiton by one notch 3 seconds before the auction ends….what makes anyone think they can’t do that with a voting machine? It was, what, 50% to 49.8%?
  
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- fair2light
  Posted on November 15, 2012 at 7:55am
  With some precincts voting over 100% for obama is obscene. You would think these cheats would be smarter. But then when you see overt scenes of voter intimidation like nbp at polling places with no repercussions these people know they can get away with anything. I wish i could know how to prepare for whats coming. Yesterday, i was driving to the store and 3 young black kids were walking along the sidewalk. 2 were about 10 years old, the youngest one was jumping in front of my car screaming fuc#+ng whitey gonna kill you, the older 2 were laughing egging him on. I was stunned. This little guy had to be about 6 years old. Now where do they get this from.
  
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- drphil69
  Posted on November 15, 2012 at 11:49am
  @Guitar –
  
  I think you should BE PREPARED. Food, water, guns, ammo.
  
  AND DON’T FEED THE LIBS, THEY MULTIPLY LIKE RABBITS!!
  
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DZ-015
Posted on November 15, 2012 at 1:02am
Gold and silver coins are the traditional hedges against inflation. Of the two, silver is perhaps the better choice. The smallest gold bullion coin now minted in the U.S. is 1/10 oz. with a value of approximately $172. That’s a little high to be easily exchanged for small purchases. A pre-1965 silver dime carries a current value of $2.20. Up until 1933, when all non collector gold coins were confiscated by the FDR government, gold was valued at approximately 16 times the price of silver. That ratio today is approximately 56 to 1. Silver is also easier to purchase without getting on the database being maintained the IRS. Coin dealers have mandatory reporting requirements.

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- Cloot
  Posted on November 15, 2012 at 7:36am
  Bravo DZ – your post is germain and productive, thank you.
  
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DIgnified
Posted on November 15, 2012 at 12:39am
This is the only helpful statement ill levy here. So take it at face value. Stop being dumb. Do you people really think that this is effing Star Wars with a light and dark side and that youre in ‘the know’ about things? Grow up. I mean my god, selectively viewing history to keep a jaded lie you tell to yourself pristine, about a small cabal you dont personally know, is insane. Get the ‘reps and dems are different’ thought out of your head. Get the 2-party con into your head. FFS, get over abortions/birthcontrol. You dont like paying, fune. Its understandable. Someone who chooses an apartment, hates paying for a home tax break, but they pay. Thats being all growed up. If you people dont start pushing the ‘theres us (citizens) and them (govt.)’ to the democrats, and viceversa, were all screwed. But stop being richard-faces when you speak. #1 you saw on tuesday what that gets you. #2 your hands are no cleaner than anyone elses, so its doubly inappropriate. Thats my advice/plan.

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- DIgnified
  Posted on November 15, 2012 at 1:00am
  And this; our currency is accepted based on peoples confidence in the government and its ability to pay debt. Both. Not just payment. Youre undermining confidence in our cash, in a roundabout way. Stop.
  
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- strats
  Posted on November 15, 2012 at 7:11am
  Dignified indeed.
  Some people have marked their spot.
  
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- GhostOfJefferson
  Posted on November 15, 2012 at 9:00am
  Being all grown up means funding what you believe is the murder of innocent people, against your will?
  
  What kind of “grown up” world do you live in, and does it contain “showers” or you simply have firing lines and blindfolds for the dissenters?
  
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- skimmer57
  Posted on November 15, 2012 at 9:03am
  When the dollar is worthless I suggest a new currency. Glenn Beck’s new $129.99 pairs of blue jeans. Envision a world where gold dust could get you a pair of those swell Glenn jeans. Glenn could use the gold to reach all kinds of new followers and we could band together in our new $129.99 Glenn jeans and have prepper parties. It would be so cool to sit around with other prepper-doomsday people and listen to Glenn tell us a new monthly conspiracy theory about the end of the world. Until those days arrive please buy Glenn’s jeans ($129.99) and we will be able to recognize each other. We need a secret hand shake. Any suggestions?
  
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eyesofmowrer
Posted on November 15, 2012 at 12:06am
Read Hitlerland: American Eyewitnesses to the Nazi Rise to Power by Nagorski. The similarities of events should make you take pause.

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- DIgnified
  Posted on November 15, 2012 at 12:52am
  Interesting book. I find find issue with TSmith bring listed as the first american official to meet hitler. Having an american ceo/cfr director as your biggest donor, i doubt they never met.
  
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OperationNorthwoods
Posted on November 15, 2012 at 12:05am
Buy gold and silver if you can or other items to barter with.

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Nehemiah6.3
Posted on November 15, 2012 at 12:03am
This is all part of the plan, to lower the United States financially enough that it will not be able to respond to the formation of a world government. then they can take on Israel without any one in the way. Watch when the coalition of Arab states get organized, that will be about the same time the USA has a financial melt down.

Then there will be a battle cry against Israel. From there all you need to do to understand the future is to read the Bible. Its all in there. Reading Matthew 24 and the Book of Revelations is like reading the news paper.
Just remember, God is in control, those who are on his side and do his works will not need to fear. If we keep his commandments and try to become like his son, then we shall not fear.

I am trying to keep my family around me and my wife. To teach them between right and wrong. To teach them how to be self reliant, then when the stuff hits the fan, we are ready to help.

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Cattelle
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 11:39pm
Don’t secede, LEAVE.

I post this over and over as one very familiar with the market. Leave the marketplace. You can always buy back your positions should we weather the coming onslaught, but regardless, take your profits and LEAVE. Traders know it’s better to miss out on making money than get killed and lose all your money.

Don’t Secede, LEAVE.

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- GhostOfJefferson
  Posted on November 15, 2012 at 9:24am
  Ok, I’ll bite. Say I leave as you suggest…where do I ‘leave” to? If the U.S. does go down, it’s taking the world with it, no question. So then if you “leave” you become the foreigner from that evil nation, in your new village that is now starving and very resentful of your presence.
  
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- RoguePO
  Posted on November 16, 2012 at 2:37am
  @GHOST, If I could only shake your hand and nod, I would.
  
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- MikeCPA
  Posted on November 16, 2012 at 10:26am
  A lot of smart money has already left…it’s a viable option and may be the least evil choice, in a world where good choices seem to have evaporated.
  
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Keatonc333
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 11:33pm
Hot dog hot dog hot diggity dog! my son loves that show! : ) as for your post. I don’t think we can compare our situation with Nazi germany… but to each his own!

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- DIgnified
  Posted on November 15, 2012 at 1:01am
  To a man with a hammer, everything is a nail.
  
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NewLife24
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 11:10pm
What happened to Sin?

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- Reclaiming Our Nation
  Posted on November 14, 2012 at 11:14pm
  Weimer Republic…interesting outlook….but how about The Stamp Act parallel….
  
  Remember what led up to Our American Revolution?
  
  http://reclaimingournation.blogspot.com/2012/07/stamp-act-of-1765-and-sons-of-liberty.html
  
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- Reclaiming Our Nation
  Posted on November 14, 2012 at 11:32pm
  Skip to 1:01:00 if you don’t have tme to watch this, however, it is worth the watch.
  
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KidCharlemagne
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 10:46pm
Beck obviously doesn’t understand supply and demand…….

The Weimar Republic was actually, literally printing money…….they had factories running 24/7 creating new paper marks that would then be dumped out into the world….

This is like pouring water into a bucket…..when the bucket gets full then it won’t hold anymore water…

When the world got its fill of actual paper German marks, then everybody tried to get rid of them by exchanging them for something more valuable instead..

These days, then most of our ‘dollars’ exist only in electronic format (an abstraction of an abstraction)….

When the U.S. Treasury runs deficits, then they have to borrow the money from somewhere to finance them and when they can’t get anyone else to buy their new issues of U.S. Treasury bonds, then they just get the Federal Reserve to create some new electronic money and then they ultimately wind up buying those bonds.

You can create all the new money that you want to, however it won’t create inflation (hyperinflation as it was in the Weimar Republic) as long as you have somebody to purchase all the new money that you’ve created…..when that stops happening, then you go Weimar or Zimbabwe…

Unfortunately though this is a slap in the face to someone who has previously purchased a bond, because they realize that the collection of dollars that they are holding has been devalued and then they will subsequently try to dump their bonds too.

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- drs1969
  Posted on November 14, 2012 at 11:19pm
  Gasoline is now 3x what it was when Greenspan cut rates too low 10 years ago. How about food prices? We’re already in FED inflation. It’s not ‘hyper’ because foreign investors have no where else to go. They’ve got no where else to go!
  
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- GlenBeckisGarbage
  Posted on November 14, 2012 at 11:21pm
  Great post but I doubt many read that much on this website.
  
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- Keatonc333
  Posted on November 14, 2012 at 11:29pm
  Really good post!
  
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- drs1969
  Posted on November 14, 2012 at 11:34pm
  I forgot gold and silver. Look at their charts since real interest rates went negative.
  
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- drs1969
  Posted on November 14, 2012 at 11:45pm
  As soon as the FED stops buying Treasuries, interest rates would revert to their mean. Deflation then sets in. All the banks’ assets would become even more worthless. This is why we’re getting hosed on energy and food. It’s to bail out the friggin’ bankers. If you calculate all the price increases since rates fell below the inflation rate four years ago, then add that cost to the actual money Congress gave, you get the actual bailout amount.
  I’m paying an extra $100 a month, just on gasoline, to bailout Wall Street, NYC, criminals.
  
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- Ixion
  Posted on November 15, 2012 at 1:43am
  Have you ever been to the Bureau of Printing and Engraving? There are the ones that print fresh US paper currency, and those printing presses rarely ever stop printing bills. Tours are free and I encourage anyone in the DC area to go there to see how the printing presses work. when the Us stop generating new currency we might have a chance (OK, they will always replace what is known in retail as “Mute-money…..mutilated paper and coin currency that is no longer usable as a transferable currency.)
  
  The US Government issues bonds at a weekly bond auction and bidders offer to buy the bonds (there are non-competitive bids and conpetitive bids, but either way, all the bonds are sold….see last paragraph.) For example, a $1,000 bond is offered at 2%, meaning a bidder is willing to get back 2% of the bonds value at maturity (1 year, in this example) so they pay $980 for a $1,000 bond, redeemable in 1 year. Many other countries and numerous institutional investors used to buy our bonds, China being one of the largest buyers (and holders), but many countries still hold bonds, as do many private and institutional investors.
  
  Not long ago china stopped buying our bonds. “So who is buying them now?” you ask. Sadly, the Federal Reserve is buying most of our own debt. If you or I did that, it would be called check kiting and is illegal. If there are not enough other bidders to buy all the debt, the Fed cleans up the leftovers. This is a really scary scenario. We own much of our ow
  
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- marybethelizabeth
  Posted on November 15, 2012 at 8:26am
  not really.
  
  In a closed economy it does not matter how much money is printed
  
  It an open economy too much money is inflationary.
  
  Debt service is irrelevant.
  
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ShyLow
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 10:26pm
Poseidein. A whale of a ship.
Here’s your sign

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soybomb315_II
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 10:24pm
Good. So now that the primary is over we can get back to talking about real issues that certain candidates have been talking about for a very long time

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TROLLMONGER
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 10:23pm
So the fear monger Beck is promoting the idea that Obama will turn the USA into the fourth Reich? And the old Beckbots just lap up Becks snake oil without questioning what it is as if it were just the medication to soothe their paranoid weak minds.

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- 1TrueOne55
  Posted on November 14, 2012 at 10:43pm
  You know the TROLL moniker is a German one. They are said to live in the shadows of bridges and if kids are outside at night they eat them.
  
  And if you choose to do any research like an adult would do you would know that George Soros is the man behind Obama and his policies. He funds most of the “Liberal” groups that surround the president and the MSM is part of his funding also. Huffington Post, Move on.org FreePress and others.
  
  And he declared in 1998 that after his destruction of the British pound in 1992 his next project was the destruction of the American economy. But he had to find a soft way to do that, because the people would not just follow a liberal destruction of the US. That was on CNN with Fareed Zahkaria.
  
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- DivisionByZero
  Posted on November 14, 2012 at 10:57pm
  For someone that hates “beckbot” supporters so much, you spend a lot of time thinking up hipster insults for them. Just imagine if you put this much time energy into something worth while… Like getting out of your moms basement and finding a real girl to date (assuming you like women)
  
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- GlenBeckisGarbage
  Posted on November 14, 2012 at 11:19pm
  I couldn’t believe this junk either. Fear mongering at its best. This again is why we teach history so its not repeated. Also the information age changes a lot of things from past society. Its harder to corrupt politicians these days for example.
  
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- J@ck_KvK
  Posted on November 14, 2012 at 11:29pm
  You miss the point. It is not about concentration camps and genocide, it is about money printing and inflation. No one is disputing that quantitative easing by the Fed is essentially money printing, and we’re currently in the THIRD and UNLIMITED round of it. Go ahead and bury your head in the sand all you want. When you’re done, buy something of value with your money like Beck suggests so that your money isn’t worthless.
  
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- DivisionByZero
  Posted on November 14, 2012 at 11:47pm
  Garbageman; which part is garbage? Please enlighten us oh wise one.
  
  After you respond to this with more insults, may I recommend you read a few history books? Assuming you have an attention span beyond 5 minutes, the book “In the garden with beasts” is a great start as it tells a story using thousands of letters from pre WWII. There are plenty of others unless you are a holocaust denier. Do your own research.
  
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- drs1969
  Posted on November 15, 2012 at 12:03am
  BHO may very well create the conditions for a Hitler. Hitler came to power because of instability caused by inflation.
  So did Reagan. I don’t think we’ll be that lucky again. I’m guessing the best we’ll get is mass starvation in the inner cities. People (I use that term loosely) who would have never been born, in the first place, had it not been for government welfare being paid with funny money (bonds that borrowed from the future). The future is now here. Thelma and Louise.
  
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- DIgnified
  Posted on November 15, 2012 at 12:26am
  @1trueone55 its not germanic. Its scandanavian/norse. And soros? C’mon… cant you guys come up with anyone good? Hes their trump. Theres others. And the fact that the worse people, you guys never mention’, shows you dont look into things for more than a superficial appearance.
  
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MISSGB
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 10:16pm
Harbinger..This word keeps coming up as indications of what may come in the future. The Websters Dictionary says that the word “Harbinger” means: a person or thing that announces or indicates the approach of something. I have watched a video called Isaiah 9:10 The Judgment, where various Harbinger’s are found after the 911 attack on the WTC Towers, these are warnings not of things to come but if things don’t change or people don’t recognize the warnings as such, the warnings will contine to come each one becoming more intolerable than the last (warning). Others make reference to the “Great Storm Sandy” as also being an indication of warnings of things to come. In a biblical sense, the warning signs are from God telling the US that our society has pulled away from the teachings of the bible..I am not a particularly religious person, but I do believe that America has lost most all moral constraints and our society has begun its fall into a spiral that we may never recover from. Israel of old didn’t survive being invaded by the Sirians and Rome also fell because their people pulled away from their roots and core beliefs..I hope our country does not have to fall so far down before we regain the strength to right ourselves. I too have 2 great granchildren that I pray have a secure and free America to grow up in as I did many years ago.

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- drs1969
  Posted on November 14, 2012 at 11:32pm
  Inflation is a sign of an immoral government. It steals through the ‘inflation’ tax.
  Rome didn’t fall in a day. We’ve been on a fiat currency since Nixon caused the first mini- hyperinflation in 1971. Obama’s going to be the ‘final nail’ because the brainwashed white folks that exist now, 40 years later, are afraid of him and won’t threaten to oust him like they did w/ Nixon. Wish I were wrong.
  
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- themachinist239
  Posted on November 15, 2012 at 10:45am
  Core beliefs? I don’t know what history book you’re reading, but around that time in Israel, things like tribal war, slavery, prostitution, polygamy, barbaric violence, etc. were all rampant part of their culture. Your illusion of a puritan society is a farce.
  
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- bobbiejean
  Posted on November 15, 2012 at 9:56pm
  @MissGB, There’s no doubt about it. The US has been slipping into being a secular society
  for some time now. Various church records show that church attendance is down quite a bit.
  Remember when God was no longer allowed in the classrooms in many schools? Some are
  said to no longer allow the Pledge of Allegiance because the word God is used. Whether it’s
  true or not, I don’t know. In any case, I looked at Hurricane Sandy as being a ”God-warning.”
  Too bad that so many dismissed it as such. There are a lot of young people who are no longer
  ”God-connected.” Sad.
  
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DIgnified
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 10:02pm
How did TheBlaze miss PaulWarburg. Republican, author of the federal reserve act, ceo of IG FARBEN, America. IG Farben, America was part of IG FARBEN, a German chemical conglomerate. IG FARBEN was Hitlers biggest bankroller. IG FARBEN also owned a chemical subsidiary named DEGESCH. DEGESCH was one of two manufacturers of Zyclon B.

Sooo, a prominent US Republican not only bankrolled Hitler, he profited on both ends by selling to all sides involved in WWII, and helped with the gassing.

Zyklon B DEGESCH
http://www.wollheim-memorial.de/en/zyklon_b_en_2
Shadow Government
http://www.sweetliberty.org/issues/shadow/cfrintro.htm
The Prince and the Nazis
http://www.bilderberg.org/bernhard.htm#Nazis
Auschwitz– the Role of IG Farben-Bayer
http://www.ahrp.org/infomail/05/01/27a.php

Then theres Prescott Bush. Grandpappy of Lil’ Bush and pappy of old Bush. He laundered money for the Nazis when we was at UBC.

How Bush’s grandfather helped Hitler’s rise to power
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2004/sep/25/usa.secondworldwar
Bush Family Funded Adolf Hitler
http://rense.com/general40/bushfamilyfundedhitler.htm
How The Bush Family Made Its Fortune From The Nazis
http://rense.com/general26/dutch.htm
Former Federal prosecutor John Loftus confirms Bush-Nazi scandal
http://www.physicsforums.com/archive/index.php/t-9629.html

Wonder if this will make it to post.
Lets see if this site is really interested in truth, or just the ‘truth’ according to partisan thinki

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- DeathRattle
  Posted on November 14, 2012 at 10:41pm
  Is Bush leading America right now?
  
  Thought not.
  
  Typical left wing crap, cant see straight for the crap in their view.
  
  Bush has done his damage to this country, take your pick which one I don’t care. The left has had full loss of control of this economy for nearly 4 years and will for the next 4 as America burns…. live it… love it or hate it you can’t lie about it.
  
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- phillycornerboy
  Posted on November 14, 2012 at 10:45pm
  hello, its 2012. got anything relevent to today? who cares what bush did? the question is what’s obama doing?
  
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- Reclaiming Our Nation
  Posted on November 14, 2012 at 11:18pm
  Here is some more truth for you? You decide….
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4X1owF0vgnw&feature=youtu.be&bpctr=1352954824
  
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- Reclaiming Our Nation
  Posted on November 14, 2012 at 11:33pm
  skip to 01:01:00 if you dont have time to watch the whole video, otherwise it is worth the watch.
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4X1owF0vgnw&feature=youtu.be&bpctr=1352954824
  
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- DIgnified
  Posted on November 15, 2012 at 12:14am
  @deathrattle youre a big idiot. Look at what stated and posted. Hes making philosophical connections to Hitler, when actual connections are overlooked. Its like saying ‘look at that possibly suspicious guy over there. He might do something bad.” Meanwhile he doesnt bring attention to his cousin who he knows has human heads in the fridge.
  @philly…whatever yes it is 2012. Did i say he was incorrect or correct? No. I asked how, in a weimar decline comparison, he missed people that were directly involved. Hes trying to project past republican behavior on current democrats. Why? Well look at you idiots. The legitimate Nazi successors are misdirecting and you idiots buy it. Beck is a talk show host, not a news source. Expand beyond blogs and here. The whole agenda 21 thing moves Beck from a guy whos to weird for fox, to tinfoilhat guy.
  @revelation i will watch it. I look at all reply links. As soon as i get home. Tab doesnt have flash installed. Battery drainer.
  
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- revelation2012
  Posted on November 15, 2012 at 6:26am
  concerned that ‘they’ are looking in the direction of a Jeb the next go around,,,
  
  don’t think that the ‘Dynasty’ thing is going to go over to well
  
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revelation2012
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 9:57pm
we’ll be lucky if we have ‘bread & water’ Lord have mercy

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- Leslie Anne
  Posted on November 15, 2012 at 9:19am
  Stockpile wheat and 55-gallon water-filled barrels. Problem solved :)
  
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- GhostOfJefferson
  Posted on November 15, 2012 at 10:30am
  Well, a bit more than that. It’s better to keep it in 5 gallon buckets, vacuum sealed in Mylar bags (or at least with a desiccant in the bag). And a hand grinder. Really need a good hand grinder, and by good I mean “usable without killing you”, which most hand grinders offer (most suck, is what I’m saying). Also, store more than wheat (other grains). Get a great water filter as well (not a short term camping filter, rather one like missionaries use for years at a time) and extra filter replacements for it. A dehydrator is great for getting meat into a storage ready form (though even jerky is semi-medium term storage at best). Canning of course, is dandy.
  
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frogg
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 9:51pm
Politicly we are just before Hitler took over. Monetarily we are the what the Germans face in 1919. Look out! Here comes a billion dollar loaf of bread!!!

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- mash4077
  Posted on November 14, 2012 at 11:16pm
  for an extra billion, you can get a little butter to go with it.
  
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- Leslie Anne
  Posted on November 15, 2012 at 9:53am
  You can buy long-term shelf-stable butter, ghee, or butter powder from Emergency Essentials for less than a billion if you prepare ahead of time and purchase it now. Problem solved :)
  
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- skimmer57
  Posted on November 15, 2012 at 4:24pm
  Please don’t forget to load up on Glenn Becks new line of $129.99 pairs of blue jeans! At least you’ll look really cool eating your butter sandwich. Beck seems to think the economy is doing gang busters otherwise why start a line of blue jeans for the low low price of $129.99?
  
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revelation2012
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 9:50pm
what was – what is – what will be (sighs) will we ever ‘learn’

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- Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
  Posted on November 14, 2012 at 11:11pm
  Some yes – most no.
  
  May, 2014 and everything changes.
  
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Individualism
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 9:48pm
Not only by monetary policy of our dollar being worthless, but also by the legislation getting through that is taking away our constitutional rights like NDAA, Patriot Act, Gun controls laws and Fema Camps. Also a good chance of a revolution to and we don’t want a worse tyrannic force like that taking over America hence to the point of the RP revolution. their goals is to be the substitute goverment people turn to if this one falls or fails the people.

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- drs1969
  Posted on November 15, 2012 at 12:13am
  The Federal Reserve feeds the Federal Gov-mint beast. Honest money would stop it dead in it’s tracks. The more people convert their dollars to real assets, the less power the Feds have. The bankers can’t leverage an asset 10to1 or 40to1 when they don’t have it in their vault. This defeats their inflationary tactics. Eventually the dollar becomes useless..
  
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- DIgnified
  Posted on November 15, 2012 at 12:16am
  Drs. Youre in the right area but you need further research.
  
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starman70
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 9:47pm
AS MICKEY MOUSE SAYS ON THE MICKY MOUSE CLUBHOUSE PROGRAM – - YOUUU BETCHA!!

With two great grandchildren in the house, that phrase comes easy!!

HISTORY IS REPEATING ITSELF! We are now at the point where we can stop the slide but if we don’t very soon, it will be too late. I fear what those 2 greatgrandchildren will have to face in the future.

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- Keatonc333
  Posted on November 14, 2012 at 11:56pm
  Hot dog hot dog hot diggity dog! my son loves that show! : ) as for your post. I don’t think we can compare our situation with Nazi germany… but to each his own!
  
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