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ECONOMY:

Here's a little story that was significantly underreported - job losses increased again in September. Who cares about this insignificant fact when the big story is the failure of the Messiah to bring the Olympics home to Bethlehem.

One thing we can always count on is the stupidity of aristocrats. Robert Reich says the government needs to take more money from us by force and spend it to turn the economy around. It's worked so well so far, we need to do more of it.

Peter Schiff lampoons the idea of a jobless recovery.

"For those market boosters who are prattling on about the possibility of a "jobless recovery," I offer an invitation to join me for a breakfast of "fat-free bacon," "eggless omelets," and "no-carb bread." As unappetizing as such a meal may sound, it would nevertheless offer more substance than the oxymoronic concept of an economic resurgence without job creation.
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If we refuse to allow the economy to experience a real recession, we will never have the benefit of a real recovery. Instead, we get the "jobless recovery," a veneer of apparently positive indicators that merely obscures the underlying rot."

There is no such thing as a jobless recovery, only the illusion of recovery that comes from inflating a bubble by printing worthless money. I wish Schiff was running for president instead of just running for the Senate.

GLOBAL WARMING:

Great quote summarizes my reports from yesterday on the humanity of scientists:

"When the search for truth is confused with political advocacy, the pursuit of knowledge is reduced to the quest for power."

Essay explains the collectivist motives of this phony environmental movement. This is a great call to action.

POLITICS:

More people are slowly seeing Obama for what he really is, but why is it taking so long? We knew this before the election.

"The President's messianic self-understanding is not that of the compassionate, non-confrontational peacemaker made popular by post-WWII, 20^th Century preachers who forged their theologies in the classrooms of liberal protestant seminaries. It's more compatible with the words in Matthew 10:34: "I come not to bring peace, but a sword." Not the sword of international warfare, but armed political assault on American capitalism. He comes to bring retribution upon those institutions that have, by his reading of history, oppressed the poor in America and exploited the Third World -- hence his sponsorship of the Global Poverty Act of 2007 while a Senator."

Better late than never, I guess.

The growing secessionist movement shows Americans' frustration with big Federal government.

WAR:

Iraqi forces stage successful large-scale terrorist hunt around Mosul.

And where does this idea that conservatives are more inclined to war than the left? Do these libertarians who keep repeating that not know what party Wilson, FDR, Truman, JFK and LBJ belonged to? Granted, since Vietnam the left has been allergic to war, but only since then. I guess that's when a bunch of liberals turned into neo-conservatives. This statement is 100 percent accurate:

"But the ideological apparatus constructed by the modern American state relies on a false dichotomy of left and right, and so have the fascist impulses of the American people been channeled into both parties, with different rationales underlying each statist program."

Here's another misunderstanding of Obama:

"This relates to the question of whether Obama represents a dramatic shift toward radical socialism or a further consolidation and solidification of America’s fascist tendencies. The latter is clearly closer to the truth. Obama does not seek to abolish private property entirely, nor is he a consistent egalitarian. He is a Goldman-Sachs socialist, not a Marxist one. While ACORN is part of the Obama repertoire, so too is the military-industrial complex, and a much more important one at that."

Obama is only a Goldman-Sachs socialist because reality forces it on him. Obama can't declare Marxism, or he would. He isn't really the Messiah. He doesn't have a magic wand. He has to work within the constraints of our system until he succeeds at collapsing it. Obama wants the military-industrial complex on his side when the country collapses to he can use that military-industrial complex to force Marxism on us. He's a Marxist thug in the tradition of Lenin.

"[Conservatives] seem to always want government to be as small as it was about three years ago..."

Oh my gosh, how funny and how true.

FOREIGN POLICY:

Pat Buchanan wonders at the futility and cost of our adventures in the Middle East.

Victor Davis Hansen explains why foreign policy is dependent on domestic policy and our domestic policy makes any attempt at foreign policy useless and empowers dictators.

"Last week, three dictators -- from Iran, Libya and Venezuela -- delivered lunatic hate speeches at the General Assembly of the United Nations.
Why do these anti-Semitic dictators feel so free to damn America from downtown New York? Why do their abettors spurn our requests for help? And why do creepy regimes plot to get nukes, and fund terrorists.
Easy. They do not fear, much less listen, to an indebted and energy-hungry America that either needs their cash or oil -- or both."

They don't respect us. We're not the leader of the world or even the free world. Our two big-government, anti-American parties have made us the butt of the world's jokes. If we dramatically reduced the burden of government, developed our own energy resources and transformed to a free economy, oil prices would drop significantly. We'd be the envy of the world once again and petty oil tyrants would be the nobodies they ought to be.

It's accurate to claim that the US is the aggressor in the Middle East and that our aggression and Israel's development of nuclear weapons has led Iran to covet a nuclear deterrent. But claiming that Iran would never nuke the US doesn't follow and it shouldn't be our only concern. Iran is likely to strike Israel first. The mad mullahs are fanatics, and we have to believe they would happily nuke Israel and enjoy the paradise they think would come with retaliation. We have to believe that at the very least, the mullahs would use nuclear blackmail to retain power. Despite our role in driving Iran to get nukes, we still have the responsibility to stop them from developing them for the sake of our own survival and the survival of others. Since Israel is the most likely first target of nuclear armed mullahs, we should support Israel's destruction of Iran's nuclear facilities.

Israeli president confronts Kremlin with list of names of Russians who are helping Iran develop a nuclear bomb.

IAEA reports that Iran has enough information to build an atomic bomb.

I don't understand the pacifism from so many libertarians regarding Iran and nukes. In a libertarian society, one with no government and no police, where individuals were responsible for their own security, if a fanatic told you over and over again he wanted to kill you, you family and your friends Britain and Israel, and you found out he was sneaking around checking out guns but he didn't have the money to buy one yet, you would stop him before he bought the gun. Nobody would risk their own life or the lives of their family on the belief that he doesn't really mean it. If he keeps saying he's not going to buy a gun, but he keeps telling you he's going to kill you and he keeps checking out guns, you wouldn't say he's really just going to buy a gun to defend himself. You wouldn't take that chance. I understand the natural libertarian inclination not to trust the government, but when suicide bomber-type fanatics say they want to see us and our allies wiped off the face of the earth, we should make sure they never get the opportunity to make that happen.

MISC:

There's no way to predict whether an Olympics will be good or bad for a city. If the haul brought in exceeds the amount looted and lost to central planning, then it's a plus. Otherwise it's a minus.

"More often, the win-win of the Games for any city is the chance to direct significant funds toward urban infrastructure, including subways, bridges, housing, parks and, of course, all sorts of stadiums."

Don't you like how the supposedly unbiased press just assumes that government spending on infrastructure is a win-win? They must not have driven through Dayton lately. That money would be better spent by individuals to fulfill their own needs than by government to fulfill the needs of the aristocrats. Bringing the Olympics to town sparks an orgy of central planning that is guaranteed to be wasteful.

Apparently most Chicagoans recognized that bringing the Olympics to Chicago would empower the corrupt politicians to be even more corrupt and bigger looters, so in hindsight, I'm happy the people of Chicago got their way and the Olympics went to Rio.

Apparently Make-A-Wish Foundation is not just for terminally ill children anymore. It sounds like this kid had a blast.

Ireland backs EU Lisbon Treaty. Only Poland and the Czech Republic have not done so. This article says it "streamlines decision-making". I bet it's a big power grab. The EU is turning into the United States of Europe.

Film questions whether AIDS is really caused by HIV and whether the drugs administered to HIV positive patients are killing them and concludes that the claim that HIV causes AIDS is a concoction of government bureaucrats trying to save their taxpayer funded jobs.

Holy crap. What is up with this tiny city economic development department to build this giant, high security jail? This sounds like something from Monty Python. The city doesn't even have a police department. And how frightening is the name American Police Force? This story just shows how incredibly dangerous government can be.