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FREEDOM OF SPEECH:

Lindsay Graham, like everybody in government, believes freedom of speech is a privilege bestowed by government.

"I wish we could find some way to hold people accountable. Free speech is a great idea, but we're in a war. During World War II, you had limits on what you could do if it inspired the enemy."

Colluding with the enemy is something different, but burning a Koran, as stupid as it is, is just free speech.

FEDERAL RESERVE:

Robert Murphy exposes a Fed official's claim that inflation doesn't hurt us. It does. Inflation is theft. The Fed is a counterfeiter.

"Once you understand the details of modern central banking, you are able to step back and see that it truly is a way for the government to use the printing press to pay its bills. All of the complicated process of targeting interest rates through buying Treasuries simply hides this essential point — and perhaps deliberately so."

It's got to be deliberate. They pretend they're manipulating rates to benefit the economy, but all they're really doing is printing money and buying things with it, the same as any other counterfeiter. Murphy's monarch example sounds fundamentally identical to the system we have today to me. The differences are just distraction.

Even our local newspaper has noticed that food prices have risen the fastest since 1974.

In addition to all the bad things we already know about ethanol, it's also a new kind of fire hazard since it burns differently than gasoline.

"The foam flame suppressants currently in use are reportedly ineffective; the fires just burn through. According to news accounts, many fire departments are either not trained to fight alcohol fires, or inadequately equipped to do so.Think about race cars that run on alcohol fuels. The fires are extremely hot – and the flames invisible. Special equipment is necessary trackside to deal with it. Unfortunately, that equipment is not widely available outside of racing circles – mainly, because no one thought much about it during the frenzy to push “renewable” and “alternative” fuels into widespread circulation.Foams designed to combat alcohol fires are made using specific polymers that can smother the flames of an ethanol fire but carry a price tag about 30 percent higher than conventional flame suppressing foams. That means your local fire department has a new line item on the budget."

Not to mention training.

POLICE STATE:

Doctors avoid the TSA's nude scanners because they fear the radiation dose. You should too.

Criminal justice is too important to allow the most corrupt, destructive institution known to man to administer it. In a perfect example to back this claim up, prosecutor's witness in the Bonds steroid trial rediscovers tape of conversation with Bonds's doctor after years of being unable to find it. Isn't that convenient? This way the prosecutor never had to turn it over to the defense in discovery. He just gets to drop it on them like a bomb.

WAR:

Arguments against humanitarian war.

French military starts shooting in the middle of Ivory Coast civil war. All the sudden the French government wants to get itself in a bunch of wars.

How the US has built a feudal society in Afghanistan, empowering fuedal warlords to rule the peasants. I'm not kidding.

"On the way into the village, my guide pointed out two large mansions, surrounded by extensive high walls, in the otherwise war-shattered landscape. He informed me that these belonged to "Taliban warlords," who had come to power back in the time of the war with the Russians. In that war, the U.S.and Saudi Arabia funded the fundamentalist mujehadeen (who fought the Russians) to the tune of 40 billion dollars. In fact ‘Al Qaeda’ translates from Arabic as ‘the list;’ it was originally the CIA’s list of America’s paid mujehadeen commanders. With billions of U.S. dollars at their disposal and a steady supply of high-tech American weapons, some of these commanders became feudal warlords, and it is they hold the real power in the Afghan countryside today. Warlords destroyed Kabul in the 1990s during internecine fighting after the Russians withdrew, and they now reign supreme as local land barons. Some are Taliban and some are not. Many of them are members of the U.S.-funded Afghan government. Each warlord has his own militia, controls the local police force, and is greatly feared by the common people."

The ruling class in America builds societies overseas that reflect our feudal society. I know most people don't think the US is a feudal society because of all the modern technological advances we have and the remnants of the middle class still around, but it is. Every area of the US is ruled by hierarchical ruling class which is looting everybody else into poverty.

MISC:

Analysis of the tablet market uncovers what I've long claimed: people buy Apple because of marketing, not technology. I think this is true of most people with most products. Style trumps value. I also think this is a product of inflationary monetary policy. In a sound money society, most people would seek out the best value.

Exposing the myth that the Constitution was written to limit the power of the federal government. That's obviously true because it was written to replace the Articles of Confederation because it didn't give the ruling class enough power to loot the people. Granted, the anti-Federalists managed to limit the powers the Federalists wanted to give the federal government, especially with the tenth amendment, but the fact remains the Constitution was written to expand the power of the federal government.

"The newly created Federal government immediately did two things. It accepted responsibility to pay off state debts. This was Alexander Hamilton's proposal. He proposed it specifically to centralize the government by granting enormous profits to the investment class that had bought state debts for practically nothing."

That's how the ruling class works.

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