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FREEDOM OF SPEECH:

Verison sues FCC over net neutrality. This is like a child asking daddy to overrule mommy. It might happen once. It might even happen twice. But in the end all the looters get on the same page so government can seize more power and loot and protect itself from the truth, and government desperately wants to control the internet.

STATES RIGHTS:

The nullification movement gains more steam. Better a couple hundred years late than never. States moving to nullify the federal take-over of food production.

FASCISM:

Ohio Governor Kasich to transform the Ohio Department of Development from a socialist organization to a fascist organization. That's what passes for reform in government.

ECONOMY:

Why we need high interest rates for the housing market and our economy to recover.

TAX AND SPEND:

Obama hires ex-GE CEO - a company that is in bed as deeply with the government as any - to loot us under the pretense of creating jobs. The way to create jobs is to stop the looting, not increase it.

Expatriation as a way to avoid estate taxes. They'll take this away soon.

How cash for clunkers drove up the cost of used cars.

GLOBAL WARMING AND ENERGY:

Energy boom in natural gas from shale.

Minnesota suffers record lows below -46F. Ouch. It's 4F here right now. It was 1F earlier. We could use a little global warming about now, but there's none to be had.

Study shows cosmic rays have significant impact on global warming.

"The continuing increase in solar activity has caused a 9 per cent decrease in cosmic ray intensity over the last 150 years, which results in less cloud cover, which in turn results in less albedo radiation being reflected back to the space, causing an increase in the Earth’s surface temperature."

Calling solar cycle 24. We need a little warming down here.

Organization claims 2010, 2005 and 1998 all equally hot even though the raw satellite data shows 2010 cooler.

POLICE STATE:

Steroid use is rampant in police departments. Of course it is. They're above the law.

Obama following the US government playbook on smearing WikiLeaks in preparation of attacking it.

"Whenever the U.S. Government wants to demonize a person or group in order to justify attacks on them, it follows the same playbook:  it manufactures falsehoods about them, baselessly warns that they pose Grave Dangers and are severely harming our National Security, peppers all that with personality smears to render the targeted individuals repellent on a personal level, and feeds it all to the establishment American media, which then dutifully amplifies and mindlessly disseminates it all.  That, of course, was the precise scheme that so easily led the U.S. into attacking Iraq; it's what continues to ensure support for the whole litany of War on Terror abuses and the bonanza of power and profit which accompanies them; and it's long been obvious that this is the primary means for generating contempt for WikiLeaks to enable its prosecution and ultimate destruction (an outcome the Pentagon has been plotting since at least 2008)."

It's obviously a successful strategy for aristocrats.

WAR:

A huge percentage of soldiers are on prescription drugs. I'm sure there's a correlation to the increasing number of suicides.

FOREIGN POLICY:

South Korean naval special forces raid ship hijacked off Somalia, free the crew and kill a number of pirates. While this is a heroic action, it should be done by private sector actors, not government agents funded by theft. It's criminal for government to force 300 million Americans at the point of its gun to subsidize shipping companies. Congress should issue letters of Marque to businesses so they can fight pirates off Somalia and allow shipping companies and their insurance agencies to contract with them for rescue operations if they desire.

While interesting, this graph of Palestinian versus Israeli casualties over the last few decades misses the point. The question is who is the aggressor. The defender has no responsibility to limit its response to be equivalent casualties to those inflicted by the aggressor. The defender has the responsibility to end the aggression. Unfortunate, determining who is the aggressor depends on what point in time you start looking for both sides have been aggressors through thousands of years of history.

This is believable opinion about China.

"China wants to be the most powerful financial power on the planet. Note that I said China wants to be a "financial power," not a military power. Militarily, China simply wants to neutralize the US, and be on a military level with the US. China knows that nobody can win the next major war between super-powers (both sides would be utterly destroyed)."

This would explain why China bought Portuguese debt. They're starting by trying to have the yuan (renminbi) replace the dollar.

"Ask yourself this -- if you are dealing with a currency, would you rather deal with the currency of a nation with a huge hard-working population, a nation with the largest reserves on the planet -- or would you rather deal with the currency of a nation drowning in debt, a nation whose currency is in a multi-decade decline, and a nation which is steadily losing its productive and manufacturing capabilities?"

Our government is aiding them. There's more:

"China quietly has become the world's largest producer of gold. Furthermore, China's leaders have been urging their people to accumulate gold."

"So it's interesting and rather frightening, while the US creates billions (trillions) of dollars out of computer transactions, all in an effort to save its banking system, China is spending part of it giant dollar hoard to buy up the resources of the earth. China already has a near-monopoly in rare earths. China is buying mining companies where ever it's feasible. China is buying arable land in South America and Africa. If it's a valuable resource, if it's for sale, China wants to buy it."

That's a good reminder that we have the most selfish and evil aristocrats in the world. Some might ask why they aren't as tyrannical as North Korea. Because we wouldn't let them implement a government like that today, but that's the path we're on. The only thing that will stop us from reaching that point is taking their power away.

Here's another example of how our aggressive foreign policy creates problems around the world and for us.

"To get some idea of what is going on in Lebanon, imagine if a major US politician had been assassinated, and his killer identified by the authorities – and then imagine further that the United Nations stepped in to nullify the verdict, and conduct its own investigation at the instigation of, say, Russia and China.

This is precisely what has occurred in Lebanon, and the results are likely to detonate the always volatile Lebanese political landscape, perhaps unleashing another civil war along the lines of the decade-long struggle that reduced the country to ruins."

Rotten.

"The Tribunal investigation is a ticking time bomb, designed to explode just as the USand Israel are ramping up their campaign against Iran and its regional allies (Syria and Hezbollah). And make no mistake: Iran is the real target of this whole operation, which is being assaulted not only with economic sanctions but also a joint US-Israeli covert campaign of terrorism: Jundallah’s attacks in southeastern Iran and the Stuxnet worm are two prongs of the same offensive."

That makes it sound like these talks with Iran in Turkey are a set-up. We'll be able to observe if this is true or not.

POLITICS:

I doubt that increasing the number of members of the House to original constitutional limits (around 8,200) would change much. The worst, most selfish and power-hungry would still rise to the top. Two parties would still dominate.

MEDIA:

Example government propagandists celebrate law-breaking by government officials in the Lance Armstrong smear.

LOCAL:

Check out the pro-government bias in this headline:

"Move to Regional Dispatch costs 23 workers their jobs"

While this is painful for those families, it's a boon for every other family in the region because those jobs were parasitic jobs, funded by looting the people of between $1.7 and $2 million annually.

MISC:

Obama warns that if the Bears go to the SuperBowl, he's going too. He doesn't care that his attendance will make the event terribly more difficult for the other 100,000 people who go. It's all about him. In the interest of the well-being of Americans, now I have to root for the Packers.

Communist version of Monopoly game. I wonder if it has lots of state murders.

I kind of like this theory that great events happen every fourth generation, sparked by a crisis, because of the natural progression of society in the modern world. According to this theory, we're headed into the fourth American Turning: the Revolution, the Civil War, the Great Depression and now the Greater Depression.