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SOCIALISM:

The biggest reason union bosses are upset that's going unreported in the news is these bills are removing the government withholding of union dues. Union members will have to pay it themselves. Just like withholding for taxes, this withholding made the dues easier to swallow. Ending the withholding will give union members leverage against the bosses. Good or Boortz for bringing this up. Death threats against Wisconsin Republicans, but you can bet Obama won't treat his union buddies as terrorists. This is an example of how corrupting the power of coercion and government money are.

HEALTH CARE:

Another study supporting the primal lifestyle.

"Abstract: It is increasingly recognized that certain fundamental changes in diet and lifestyle that occurred after the Neolithic Revolution, and especially after the Industrial Revolution and the Modern Age, are too recent, on an evolutionary time scale, for the human genome to have completely adapted. This mismatch between our ancient physiology and the western diet and lifestyle underlies many so-called diseases of civilization, including coronary heart disease, obesity, hypertension, type 2 diabetes, epithelial cell cancers, autoimmune disease, and osteoporosis, which are rare or virtually absent in hunter–gatherers and other non-westernized populations. It is therefore proposed that the adoption of diet and lifestyle that mimic the beneficial characteristics of the preagricultural environment is an effective strategy to reduce the risk of chronic degenerative diseases."

The problem is the government-medical-corporate establishment doesn't want us to be healthy. The low fat, high carb, chronic cardio lifestyle is designed to make us chronically ill so we'll spend tons of money on health care and empower government to seize control of our health care system. That last thing the establishment wants is for us to be healthy and not need to spend a huge amount of money on health care.

Here's another example:

"Soy Takes Its Place at America’s Dinner TableFood companies hope to profit from new federal diet guidelinesCan the feds get Americans to trade in a sizzling rib-eye for a soggy block of tofu? It’s a question Kraft Foods (KFT), Kellogg (K), and Hain Celestial Group (HAIN) are keen to answer since the U.S. Agriculture Dept. in January began encouraging Americans to eat more soy.
….Big Food soon noticed soy’s double-digit sales growth, and Kraft and Kellogg both acquired companies that made soy-based veggie burgers. In January the USDA included soy in its revised dietary guidelines, and the Soyfoods Association of North America is hoping its time has finally come. “We’ve been preparing for an opportunity to bring soy foods to the mainstream,” says Executive Director Nancy Chapman."

We're the stupidest people in the world. No people have ever squandered as much as we have, and we're so stupid we don't even realize it yet. When young children grow up, they will spit on our graves for squandering their birthright of freedom and the prosperity and health that always comes with freedom.

FOREIGN POLICY:

Eight hundred injured in Bahrain protests.

POLITICS:

The guy Rand Paul defeated for Kentucky Senator just got a job as a Harvard professor. Don't cry for the ruling class losers.

Michael Moore is correct that the 400 wealthiest people in the US are more wealthy than the bottom 50 percent (actually they're wealthier than the bottom 60 percent) combined, but his prescription is wrong. They reason those people are so rich and others so poor is because the concentration of power in the government leads to a concentration of wealth in the hands of a few. Moore wants to give government more power, which would make this problem worse. The solution is to take away government's powers of aggression so the ruling class can no longer loot us.

Praise for Etienne de la Boetie.

"Medieval philosophers took it for granted that people were justified in using force to escape tyranny. La Boétie, though, said force was not necessary – and, hence, not morally justified. Most people, he said, are responsible for their own subjugation and thus responsible for ending it. All governments, he said, survive by the consent, implicit or explicit, of the governed.“Why do so many men, so many villages, so many cities, so many nations suffer under a single tyrant who has no other power than the power people gave him?” he asked. “Shall we call this cowardice? When a thousand, a million, men [in] a thousand cities fail to protect themselves against the domination of one man, this cannot be called cowardly, for cowardice does not sink to such a depth.
“Obviously, there is no need of fighting to overcome this single tyrant – for he is defeated when the country refuses to consent to its own enslavement. The people do not need to act. They do not need to shed blood. They conquer by willing to be free.”
La Boétie continued: “I do not ask that you place hands upon the tyrant to topple him over, but simply that you support him no longer; then you will behold him, like a great Colossus whose pedestal has been pulled away, fall of his own weight and break into pieces.”
Enslavement, La Boétie argued, can happen under benign governments as well as malignant governments. This can occur because all governments use the same techniques to control people. They exploit ideology. They create dependence. They “stupefy” the people with gifts and games.
And all governments require bureaucracies – which expand until masses of people are bound to them “with cords of self-interest.” In essence, all governments are pyramid schemes. “Give the people a bushel of wheat and a gallon of wine and the rabble cries: Long live the king!” La Boétie said. “The fools do not realize that they are recovering a portion of their own property.”"

Smack.

MEDIA:

This is a great way to highlight the hypocrisy of the mainstream media.

MISC:

Conan O'Brien exposes Apple. Apple is full of marketing geniuses. They manage to convince people that their average products are genius.

Estimated death toll in Japan tops 10 thousand.