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ECONOMY:

Texas versus California.

"So what example should America follow, that of deficit-slaughtering, budget-cutting, seriously limited government in Texas, which has added 730,000 jobs in the past decade, or that of regulation-happy, spend-mercilessly, owe-everything, flee-this-place-quickly California, which has lost 600,000 jobs during the same period?"

What else needs to be said?

REGULATION:

Obama using Interior Department to kill business. As I've said since before he got elected, his goal is collapse the US economy under the burden of government, and his regulations manage to do so fairly invisibly.

FEDERAL RESERVE:

Inflation in China.

In a good reminder than the head of the Fed is a politician, Bernanke warns Republicans not to use the debt ceiling for leverage to cut spending.

On the populist movement to return to the gold standard. The gold standard and the Great Depression.

HEALTH CARE:

In a nice example of life imitates art, Obamacare waivers imitate passage from Atlas Shrugged.

GLOBAL WARMING:

The American Astronomical Society makes a major announcement concerning the sun's unusual lack of activity.

"Currently, the sun is in the midst of the period designated as Cycle 24 and is ramping up toward the cycle’s period of maximum activity. However, the recent findings indicate that the activity in the next 11-year solar cycle, Cycle 25, could be greatly reduced. In fact, some scientists are questioning whether this drop in activity could lead to a second Maunder Minimum, which was a 70-year period from 1645 to 1715 when the sun showed virtually no sunspots."

This is what several scientists have been warning. The Maunder Minimum was worse than the Dalton Minimum. The Maunder Minimum was during the coldest part of the Little Ice Age. If this pans out, it'll be very bad news for civilization. Free markets would be the system that enabled people to adapt. Government will make things worse.

Electric cars produce more emissions than gas powered cars. This has been known for a while, but it's nice to see this info going mainstream.

WAR ON DRUGS:

Links to articles about "the massive covert intersection of governments, financial institutions, and organized crime in the international narcotics trade and its decisive impact on the global economic crisis we face."

I'm neither shocked nor surprised by this.

"A fraud investigator helped expose the shocking world of multi-billion dollar drug laundering by American banks and the surprising lack of oversight by the Feds."

What do you think the war on drugs is about? It's about enabling the ruling class to make money by looting the rest of us.

WAR:

Links to a number of interviews and essays by military personnel who figures out war is a racket.

On the infantile but growing Chinese navy.

POLITICS:

This is a decent breakdown of last night's debate. If you measure the winner by applause, Ron Paul won.

MISC:

"The number of Americans renouncing their citizenship has increased nearly ninefold since 2008." This is Atlas Shrugging. They recognize this ship is going down.