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FREEDOM OF SPEECH:

The merging of government and corporations accelerates with government "recruiting" ISPs to combat cyber-threats.

"But don't worry — Deputy Secretary of Defense William J. Lynn promises that the new program will not involve "monitoring, intercepting, or storing any private sector communications" by the DOD and DHS."

Trust them. They're from the government.

The comments on this article about data caps killing the cloud shows impressive economic ignorance. Bandwidth is a scarce resource. The best way to allocate scarce resources is to trade for them in a free market. Unlimited bandwidth, which means setting the price to zero, creates shortages.

ECONOMY:

Here's another example of why politicians work so hard to bring corporations to their states:

"“Boeing made a huge splash in a way we haven’t seen in decades,” she said, adding that the company has created thousands of new jobs for South Carolinians."

This is another case of what's seen versus unseen. Politicians crank up the taxes on small businesses, killing jobs there, but that's unseen. Then they give tax breaks to big corporations for bringing in fewer jobs than they killed, but those jobs are seen. They should cut, or better yet abolish, taxes for everybody, then small businesses would thrive and big business would move in.

TAX AND SPEND:

Proclamations of cutting spending are always phony.

REGULATION:

Stupid EU regulation bars all EU producers of cornish pasties from calling them that except those made in Cornwall County. Government hates business, and business hates competition.

"Chairman Alan Adler said: ‘We lag far behind other European countries like France and Italy that have hundreds of food products protected and it’s important that we value our foods just as much.’"

This is nuts.

Weakness exposed as two US nuclear plants are flooded. This is the kind of thing that can only happen in a highly regulated industry.

HEALTH CARE:

Study claims that 78 million people could be dumped from their current health insurance program onto the government plan because of Obamacare. That's what it was designed to do, and if we allow it to be enacted, it will be a wopping success at destroying health care in America.

POLICE STATE:

Texas woman pleads guilty to spanking her own child.

"As part of the plea deal, Gonzales will serve five years probation, during which time she'll have to take parenting classes, follow CPS guidelines, and make a $50 payment to the Children's Advocacy Center."

We've created an insane, government dominated society.

WAR:

John McCain thinks that having US troops bomb people all over the world improves the world. I bet the people getting killed and having their cities and countries destroyed disagree.

NATO officials regret and civilians they killed, but not enough to stop bombing them.

Pat Buchanan calls to abolish NATO, but NATO seems to be dying from lack of funds like every other government program. NATO was always a welfare program, and the US government can longer afford it.

MISC:

Microsoft is going to ruin Skype. Go VoipBuster.

About the Bilderberg Group.

"The Bilderberg Group, formed in 1954, was founded in the Netherlands as a secretive meeting held once a year, drawing roughly 130 of the political-financial-military-academic-media elites from North America and Western Europe as “an informal network of influential people who could consult each other privately and confidentially.” Regular participants include the CEOs or Chairman of some of the largest corporations in the world, oil companies such as Royal Dutch Shell, British Petroleum, and Total SA, as well as various European monarchs, international bankers such as David Rockefeller, major politicians, presidents, prime ministers, and central bankers of the world. The Bilderberg Group acts as a “secretive global think-tank,” with an original intent to “to link governments and economies in Europe and North America amid the Cold War.”"

I don't like it already.

I love to see a golfer humiliate the others. Golfers are overrated. Those guys are not nearly as good as other professional athletes.