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FASCISM:

Walter Williams how the quest for social justice through central government power enabled monsters like Hitler, Stalin, Mao and others to murder well over 100 million of their own citizens while being celebrated as great men by the American left. That same American left in that same quest for social justice is taking America down that same path. The right is taking us down the same path for the illusion of security. The motives for centralizing power don't matter. The consequences will be the same if we don't stop it: Death by Government.

GUN CONTROL:

Gun control and racial prejudice.

ECONOMY:

Signs the secondary recession, which would change this recession into a second Great Depression, is well on the way.

"There is a good chance the new consensus is wrong. Instead, there are solid grounds for believing the US economy will experience a second dip followed by extended stagnation that will qualify as the second Great Depression. Some indications to this effect are already rolling in with unexpectedly large US job losses in September and the crash in US automobile sales following the end of the “cash-for-clunkers” programme."

Who would have thought that repeating all the mistakes that turned the 1929 recession in the Great Depression would have the same consequences today they had then?

We're still facing the greatest depression ever because we were living in the biggest bubble economy ever.

"This is a correction that will take many years…one that will knock housing prices down for at least five years…and stock prices down to the point where people no longer want to buy them. It’s a correction that goes deep enough and continues long enough to do its work – wiping out the bad investments and mistakes of the Bubble Era, while allowing the survivors to pay down their debts and build up their savings."I agree with this:"Our advice to the feds: enjoy it while you can. When stocks fall again…and people figure out what a mess you’ve made of the economy…you’ll be lucky if you aren’t tarred, feathered and run out of town on a rail."

I don't think the crooks in Washington have any idea how far they've pushed the American people. Thomas Jefferson advocated having a rebellion every 20 years. By that standard, we're way overdue and the grievances have been piling up. Americans sent them the memo at the town halls in August and at the multi-million-man tea party in Washington, but you can tell by the aristocrats' continued push to seize more of our health care sector that they didn't receive the message. Either that, or like Obama they're trying to instigate a rebellion thinking they'll come out on top and lead America to a new social justice (read Marxist) based society. Either way, they're wrong. The next time a massive group of mainstream Americans heads to Washington, its members will be carrying torches and pitchforks and the aristocrats will be lucky to escape.

WAR:

The facts concerning al Qaeda, the Taliban, Afghanistan and 9/11 aren't often reported. This essay reminds us of them and explains why we should end the war in Afghanistan. One thing not mentioned in this article is that the US government did try to get the Taliban to oust al Qaeda after 9/11. I don't know what our terms were, but they refused.

I don't think Americans are content with perpetual war. Since 9/11, we have yet to have a leader offer us another option. I think if one did, the vast majority Americans would jump on it. In the US, the military is subordinate to the civilian leadership. Anybody who suggests that the civilian leadership should subordinate itself to the military by just doing exactly what the generals tell them is a fool.

"Why are we so heavily invested in Central Asia? We're told it's to prevent al-Qaeda from reinfesting Afghanistan and using it for training and staging attacks against us, but the real reason, the Great Game if you will, is the competition for the world's energy resources. The Asia Times' Pepe Escobar has written widely on what he calls "Pipelineistan," the immense network of oil and gas pipelines that "crisscross the potential imperial battlefields of the planet." Afghanistan sits at the center of Pipelineistan, and that's the real reason we won't willingly abandon it."

We heard all about how Iraq was supposedly for oil (if it was, boy did we screw up since the Iraqis are selling more oil contracts to the Chinese), but it seems to me the only reason we're in Afghanistan is for this oil pipeline.

POLITICS:

The foolishness of partisan politics. We have really have one party with two slightly different flavors - the big-government, rob Americans blind party. One uses one set of arguments to grow government and rob us blind while the other uses a different set of arguments to grow government and rob us blind. It doesn't matter if we're shooting ourselves in the head from the left or the right, we're still shooting ourselves in the head.

MISC:

Led by one of the agents responsible for the illegal raid on the Waco Branch Davidians in 1993, Interpol and the United Nations are teaming up to form a world police force. I have no words.

I don't think email is going away for the same reasons this guy thinks it is - because I can get my messages at my convenience and the people I communicate with can get them at their convenience. Email is a non-demanding communication tool, which makes it preferable for most communication most communication doesn't require an instant response.