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FREEDOM OF SPEECH:

The FCC is ramping up to control political speech.

TAX AND SPEND:

How Obama is redefining the word tax cut to mean tax credit, and getting away with it.

FEDERAL RESERVE:

Bernanke steps away from the printing press long enough to say, "We are not printing money." Then he turns back and prints more money.

GLOBAL WARMING AND ENERGY:

Con men and organized crime has scammed $7 billion off carbon trading in Denmark. Thanks Al and your government cronies.

The green energy and technology bubble created by government is collapsing.

Obama wiping out jobs environmentalists hate.

POLICE STATE:

Judge arrests man for recording his public court proceeding, saying the defendant violated his (the judge's) right to privacy. Even the judge must know that he has no right to privacy in a public trial.

"Allison responded that he had no idea it was illegal to record public officials during the course of their work, that there was no sign or notice barring tape recorders in the courtroom, and that he brought one only because his request for a court reporter had been denied."

Ignorance of the whims of the ruling class is no excuse for a mundane. This isn't stupid. It's evil.

Julian Assange arrested in Great Britain for a broken condom in Sweden. Seriously. The whole story is here.

"Here, in a first-floor flat in a dreary apartment block, the mastermind behind the leak of more than 250,000 classified U.S. diplomatic cables this month slept with a female admirer whom he had just met at a seminar. She subsequently made a complaint to police."

That sounds odd, unless...

"They argue that the whole squalid affair is a sexfalla, which translates loosely from the Swedish as a ‘honeytrap’."

That makes some sense. This quote from the first article adds to the evidence this arrest is the next step in an orchestrated smear campaign:

"Every nation in the world is soon going to realize what an enemy this guy is."

After reading the whole story, it sounds more like vengeful women trying to get revenge for Assange sleeping around than a setup.

"So what to make of a story in which it’s hard to argue that any of the ­parties emerges with much credit? How reliable are the two female witnesses?

Earlier this year, Sarah is reported to have posted a telling entry on her website, which she has since removed. But a copy has been retrieved and widely circulated on the internet.

Entitled ‘7 Steps to Legal Revenge’, it explains how women can use courts to get their own back on unfaithful lovers.

Step 7 says: ‘Go to it and keep your goal in sight. Make sure your victim suffers just as you did.’ (The highlighting of text is Sarah’s own.)"

And prosecutors love to help women get revenge even if no crime occurred. Either way, I hope WikiLeaks doesn't get intimidated. Assange is being held without bail.

The hard left and hard right agree on one thing: they all want Julian Assange punished and silenced to intimidate him and anybody else into never lifting the curtain of government secrecy again.

The Empire Strikes Back.

"Sens. John Ensign (R-Nev.), Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) and Scott Brown (R-Mass.) introduced a bill Thursday aimed at stopping WikiLeaks by making it illegal to publish the names of military or intelligence community informants."

"Let me be very clear, WikiLeaks is not a whistleblower website and Assange is not a journalist."

Really? Why not?


MEDIA:

Author exposes goofy take on WikiLeaks actions:

"In her latest op-ed piece, Trudy Rubin expresses concern that WikiLeaks may lead to a downgrade in the “hard-won trust between the United States and the leaders of Russia, China and Arab countries.”

Hard-won trust? Downgraded by publishing an exposé of backstabbing behavior? Isn’t that the same as the philanderer blaming the private eye for the inevitable downgrade in marital trust that follows exposure of the latest affair?"

The assumption is that scheming, bullying and backstabbing in the name of the American people is legitimate activity. It's not. It's just another way aristocrats enrich and empower themselves and their cronies at our expense.

Time to name Assange man of the year.

MISC:

Shipments of handheld, app-based devices to surpass shipments of PCs in 18 months.