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FREEDOM OF SPEECH:

Now the government is going after the people who comment on blogs.

"The Federal Trade Commission is now actively policing comments left on commercial websites and punishing individual commenters who do not disclose their business interests to the government’s satisfaction. In a proposed order announced today, the FTC accused Reverb Communications, Inc., a public relations firm and its owner, Tracie Snitker, of violating § 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act — which bans “unfair methods of competition” — because the company’s employees left positive reviews on Apple’s iTunes store for a video game marketed by one of Reverb’s clients."

I've often explained that we are on the verge of turning into the Soviet Union. This is another good example. We're 230+ years from the Republic founded by the Founding Fathers, but we're only a couple of years from turning into the Soviet Union. The only difference between the oppression of our federal government and the Soviet Union is a matter of degree, and it's fast disintegrating.

Remember how the government wants complete control over the internet for security reasons? Two years late, the Pentagon confirms that the 2008 attack against it was the worst ever. Do you want your internet to be as primitive as the government's? Of course not. The vibrant marketplace has the best internet security, not the dinosaur government.

ECONOMY:

Peter Schiff uses the butcher, the baker and the candlestick maker to show that people must produce before they can consume. The idea that government can spur consumption and consumption spurs production is bass-ackwards.

New home sales drop to record low in July, and the housing market is going to get worse.

"On Tuesday the National Association of Realtors announced that existing home sales in the United States dropped a whopping 27.2% in the month of July. The consensus among analysts was that we would see a drop of around 13 percent, so when the 27 percent figure was announced it sent a shock through world financial markets."

The government economic so-called experts are always wrong.

"What we are seeing unfold is essentially "Armageddon" for those involved in the housing and real estate industries. The real estate market is grinding to a standstill and a shockingly low number of people are actually in the market to buy a home right now. In the months ahead home sales may pick up a little bit, but only if housing prices start to fall. Why? Because right now there are tons of houses on the market and there are very few qualified buyers available to purchase them and potential buyers are starting to realize this. Buyers are beginning to understand that they have all the leverage now and they are waiting for prices to fall.

Anyone who has taken Economics 101 in college knows that when supply is high and demand is low prices will fall, and that is exactly the situation we have in the U.S. housing market right now."

But the government non-experts can't seem to grasp it.

Dow closes below 10,000 again. Frankly, I'm impressed with the success of the aristocrats' plan to reinflate our economic bubbles. I didn't think they could fool the people this long, yet the Dow continues to hover near 10,000. It's a tribute to how much money Bush, Obama, government aristocrats of both parties and the Fed have stolen from us during the last two years. The longer it lasts, the worse the collapse will be. We're all way more poor than we think we are. Stop the madness.

TAX AND SPEND:

This is an unusually libertarian position from a Cato member: the deficit is on the symptom - the disease is spending. In five years of reading Cato, I have never seen them take such an unequivocal libertarian position. Just like many conservatives who are seeing the light. Welcome to the fight, Cato.

HEALTH CARE:

The supposed author of Obamacare, Max Baucus, admits he never reads bills and never read Obamacare, the bill he supposedly wrote.

"Baucus replied that he “essentially” wrote the socialized medicine bill, but admitted that he had subcontracted the details to unnamed – and unaccountable — “experts,” which is how things are routinely done in Washington: “I don’t think you want me to waste my time to read every page of the health care bill. You know why? It’s statutory language. We hire experts.”"

Waste his time? The accomplice press knows this, both sides, but neither reports it because each is in bed with one of the ruling class parties.

The stem-cell scam. A few reasons why private funding is superior to government funding. Contrary to this headline, federal funding is bad for stem-cell research and all research, not good for it.

GLOBAL WARMING AND ENERGY:

Early snow in Russia. Winter is coming early again.

In a fit of honesty that will probably get somebody fired, Canadian government admits its climate data is unreliable. Note the problems with the data won't get anybody fired, but the honesty will. If only our government was this honest.

Obama urges Supreme Court to reject lawsuits naming CO2 as a nuisance. You read that right. Obama has argued against a powerful tool of enviromarxists. Apparently the economic interests in the Obama administration won the debate over the enviromarxist interests. And of course they would. Where are the enviromarxists going to go? They aren't going to vote Republican, that's for sure. But the people unhappy about the economy will most definitely vote Republican. Too some degree, the people still have power.

Global warming frauds plan to target seniors. As if they haven't already.

Yet another study confirms the link between tiny changes in solar radiation and the earth's atmosphere. Duh. As obvious as it seems that tiny changes in the gazzilowatt output of the sun would have significant impact on the puny earth's atmosphere, the global warming frauds claim otherwise. That's like saying jumping in a blast furnace has no effect on your skin. They're wrong.

POLICE STATE:

This quote will do:

"Government agents can sneak onto your property in the middle of the night, put a GPS device on the bottom of your car and keep track of everywhere you go. This doesn't violate your Fourth Amendment rights, because you do not have any reasonable expectation of privacy in your own driveway - and no reasonable expectation that the government isn't tracking your movements."

No. Not even if your car is parked on the street. No.

WAR:

The Taliban threaten to attack foreign aid workers helping Pakistanis devastated by floods. This illustrates what I keep saying: the Islamic extremists are the natural enemies of mainstream Muslims. If we stopped invading their countries and killing them, mainstream Muslims would take out the extremists. Instead, our aggression is pushing mainstream Muslims into the hands of the extremists.

FOREIGN POLICY:

Mossad in America.

"Israel is believed to have the ability to monitor nearly all phone records originating in the United States, while numerous Israeli air-travel security companies are known to act as the local Mossad stations."

Is believed by who? This would be amazing if true, but I have no confidence in naked assertions like this.

Lebanon allows synagogue near Beirut. It's a little premature to call Lebanon more tolerant than the US. The Islamic center four blocks from Ground Zero hasn't been oppressed yet.

In shades of the Cold War, a British spy is found murdered in his bathroom.

MISC:

Hitler had Jewish and African ancestors.

Discovery of skeleton of 10,000 year old boy in underwater Mexican cave supports hypothesis that southeastern Asians colonized America before northeastern Asians.

This article answers the burning question: Why natural health?

"Why not, would you rather be unnatural?"

Duh. But it goes on...

"Think about it, huge amounts of money go into our medical system – mostly from pharmaceutical companies that are pushing drugs that are most definitely not natural.

If you are wondering what is wrong with drugs, just listen to some of the many commercials for drugs on television – or read a magazine. I was astonished by the number of drug advertisements in Prevention magazine – based on the majority of their advertisers, they should consider changing their name. But the point here is the total # of pages dedicated to the warnings and side effects of each drug. Each drug had 2–3 pages and the print required some pretty strong reading glasses.

Now what I really object to is that none of the drugs do more than control symptoms. I will be the first to say that there is a time that controlling symptoms is absolutely necessary, but should our entire medical system be dedicated to this??

Under these rules, the sick just get sicker. Follow the average person over a few years. First they take a blood pressure medication, then add one for cholesterol and then they need to add another one because they now need 2 for blood pressure, and then they have to control acid reflux, then they need some to sleep and so on.

Something just is not right about this kind of system. Who gets rich? And whose health is better?"

It's all another scam. Doctors don't want to heal us. They want to keep us sick so we come into their offices every six months year after year and get ever stronger prescriptions and ever more prescriptions to offset the damage caused by the first prescriptions and failing to actually heal us. It's a scam. Eat like caveman a lot. Exercise a little. Don't fall into the government dominated health-care scam.

If you want to use a recreation center in Montgomery County, Maryland, you'll have to scan your finger.