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FREEDOM OF SPEECH:

Scary summary of government's efforts to seize control of the internet. Here's a taste of what's already happened:

"One other step has been the conversion of Google from a clever new company to a major cog in the state’s apparatus. I won’t spend a lot of time on this, but you really should be aware of some recent quotes from Google’s boss, Eric Schmidt:

We can predict where you are going to go Tuesday morning.

Show us 14 photos of yourself and we can identify who you are. You think you don't have 14 photos of yourself on the internet? You've got Facebook photos!

The only way to manage this is true transparency and no anonymity. In a world of asynchronous threats, it is too dangerous for there not to be some way to identify you. We need a name service for people. Governments will demand it.

Yeah, it’s that bad. Google is aggressively positioning itself to end up owning the Internet, or at least a major share of it. But, that is a long story I will pass up for the moment."

Yikes.

REGULATION:

Regulators arbitrarily order small farm to destroy 50,000 lbs of cheese.

"In the thirty years of Morningland Dairy operations NO ONE has become ill from consuming their products. Yet they have been ordered by the Missouri Milk Board to destroy ALL of their cheese without actual tests being performed on the cheese stock. This is nearly 50,000 pounds of cheese, or approximately $250,000."

"They were served with a restraining order and preliminary injunction by the Attorney General’s office of Missouri. They were to be in court the very next day. In sum, they were ordered to destroy their wealth on Friday, asked for logic and justice on Wednesday, notified they were being sued on Thursday and ordered to be in court on Friday."

I'm telling you, our children and grandchildren will spit on our graves, and we'll deserve it. Sponsor a cheese to help save the farm.

Here's some more of the standard enviromarxist baloney.

"A recent report warns that, Humans are overusing the resources of the planet and will need two Earths by the year 2030. The Living Planet Report tells that the demands on natural resources have doubled in the past 50 years and now outstripping what the Earth can provide by more than half."

Remember when they said the same stuff in the seventies about the turn of the century? Mark your calendar and have a toast when this is proved wrong too.

GLOBAL WARMING AND ENERGY:

Obama scolds China for green subsidies. You can't make this stuff up. That's like the Godzilla scolding the big bad wolf for killing Little Red Ridinghood's grandmother. But once again China's government proves its a million times smarter than ours:

"“I have been thinking: what do the Americans want?” said Mr. Zhang, the vice chairman of the government’s National Development and Reform Commission. “Do they want fair trade? Or an earnest dialogue? Or transparent information? I don’t think they want any of this. I think more likely, the Americans just want votes.”"

If only Americans would figure that out.

Population growth estimates for the twenty first century are huge.

WAR:

Remember when the Pentagon and the mainstream media hyperventilated over the WikiLeaks release, saying the WikiLeaks people had blood on their hands for releasing info that would get people killed? Remember when Julian Assange was public enemy number one for this? That was then. Now a new Pentagon report says WikiLeaks did not disclose any sensitive names or methods. It was all a load of crap to distract people from realizing the war in Afghanistan is unwinnable.

"CNN is reporting that after a thorough Pentagon review, 'WikiLeaks did not disclose any sensitive intelligence sources or methods, the Department of Defense concluded.' And, according to an unnamed NATO official, 'there has been no indication' that any Afghans who have collaborated with the NATO occupation have been harmed as a result of the leaks. Will the Pentagon's contradiction of the charges against WikiLeaks get as much play in the media as those original accusations did?"

Of course they won't. It might get mentioned on Special Report's grapevine, but that's about it.

MISC:

The usual socialists who expect the Nobel to committee to only reward socialists because they almost always do, complain that this year they gave the literature prize to and ex-socialist who became a liberal. I assume they mean classic liberal.