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ECONOMY:

We lost last decade, and we're likely to lose the next one too.

TAX AND SPEND:

California as America's Greece. This comparison may turn out to be more apt than the author knows. Caught between a rock and a hard place, Greece may have to pull out of the EU, set up its own central bank and print its own money to satisfy the demand for government spending that won't go away. With the US economy collapsing and the federal government broke, it can't bail out California, and the politicians will not cut spending enough to balance the budget. Like Greece, California is caught between a rock and hard place. I wouldn't be surprised to see oil-rich Mexico try and bribe California to return to Mexico with a promise to pay off its debt. If we don't rein in our government, the US as we know it will cease to exist.

FEDERAL RESERVE:

Here's an interesting theory about QEII.

"In summary, instead of doing everything in its power to stimulate reserve, and thus cash, accumulation at domestic (US) banks which would in turn encourage lending to US borrowers, the Fed has been conducting yet another stealthy foreign bank rescue operation, which rerouted $600 billion in capital from potential borrowers to insolvent foreign financial institutions in the past 7 months. QE2 was nothing more (or less) than another European bank rescue operation!"

"He offered three graphs that show how the increase in QE2 was matched almost dollar for dollar by an increase in excess reserves at the FED held by foreign banks."

Very interesting.

On rising food prices.

"The reality is that tens of millions of American families have now essentially been priced out of a healthy diet."

Thanks to government. Some specifics.

"Some recent statistics compiled by the Bureau of Labor Statistics are absolutely staggering. According to a recent CNBC article, over the past year many of the most popular foods in America have absolutely soared in price....Coffee, for instance, is up 40 percent. Celery is 28 percent higher while butter prices rose 26.4 percent. Rounding out the top five are bacon, at 23.5 percent, and cabbage, at 23.3 percent.Unfortunately, it looks like the trend of rising food prices is accelerating. Just look at what the CNBC article says happened in the month of April alone....Just in April—the most recent month for which data is available—grapes went up nearly 30 percent, cabbage jumped about 17 percent and orange juice surged more than 5 percent.Meat is becoming more expensive as well. Since March 2009, livestock prices have risen by 138%.So when Ben Bernanke tells us that inflation is very low, that really is a lie. On the stuff that people spend money on every day (like food and gas), prices have gone up dramatically."

Inflation is here.

EDUCATION:

Government schools have outrageously failed at teaching history.

GLOBAL WARMING AND ENERGY:

Al Gore, UN Agenda 21 and population control.

"Imagine going to sleep one night and waking up many years later in a totally different world.  In this futuristic world, literally everything you do is tightly monitored and controlled by control freak bureaucrats in the name of "sustainable development" and with the goal of promoting "the green agenda".  An international ruling body has centralized global control over all human activity.  What you eat, what you drink, where you live, how warm or cold your home can be and how much fuel you can use is determined by them.  Anyone that dissents or that tries to rebel against the system is sent off for "re-education".  The human population is 90 percent lower than it is today in this futuristic society, and all remaining humans have been herded into tightly constricted cities which are run much like prisons.  Does all of that sound good to you?  Well, this is what Agenda 21 is all about."

Al's not your typical looter. He's hates his fellow men so much he want to wipe many of them out. Socialized medicine dovetails nicely into this murderous scheme.

"Do you notice how whenever global leaders talk about "empowering" women these days it always ends up with them having less children?"

It's a new code word. These people act like they love nature, but in nature, women have babies. They're agenda is grotesquely unnatural and authoritarian.

"The number one commandment of the infamous Georgia Guidestones is this: "Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature."Unfortunately, a very high percentage of our global leaders actually believe in this stuff.Sadly, this philosophy is now regularly being reflected in official UN documents.  For example, the March 2009 U.N. Population Division policy brief begins with the following shocking statement....What would it take to accelerate fertility decline in the least developed countries?Apparently the poorest nations are the primary target for the population control freaks over at the UN."

Kinder, gentler Nazis. I've warned for years that the ultimate goal of the global warming frauds was to control our very breath, and here's new evidence:

"1) "Each birth results not only in the emissions attributable to that person in his or her lifetime, but also the emissions of all his or her descendants. Hence, the emissions savings from intended or planned births multiply with time."2) "No human is genuinely "carbon neutral," especially when all greenhouse gases are figured into the equation. Therefore, everyone is part of the problem, so everyone must be part of the solution in some way."3) "Strong family planning programmes are in the interests of all countries for greenhouse-gas concerns as well as for broader welfare concerns.""

If you thought you could appease these people by buying a few carbon offsets, you were dangerously mistaken. They hate us because we breath. We exhale CO2, and they won't be satisfied until we stop.

"John P. Holdren, Barack Obama's top science advisor, co-authored a textbook entitled "Ecoscience" back in 1977 in which he actually advocated mass sterilization, compulsory abortion, a one world government and a global police force to enforce population control."

Maybe they aren't kinder or gentler after all.

Claim that Fukushima is worse than Chernobyl.

The government is conducting another experiment on us.

"The group that oversees the U.S. power grid is proposing a change that has the potential to disrupt electric clocks in schools, hospitals and other institutions, according to a company presentation obtained by The Associated Press. It may also mess with the timing of traffic lights, security systems, sprinklers and some personal computer software and hardware."

We're little more than lab rats to them.

""A lot of people are going to have things break and they're not going to know why," said Demetrios Matsakis, head of the time service department at the U.S. Naval Observatory, one of two official timekeeping agencies in the federal government.
The changes, however, are out of the hands of timekeepers and in control of officials who supply the electrical power."

"This will be an interesting experiment to see how dependent our timekeeping is on the power grid, Matsakis said."

This is another example of how power corrupts.

WAR ON DRUGS:

The racist nature of the war on drugs.

"As the A.C.L.U. pointed out last week, "The racial disparities [in drug arrests and prosecution] are staggering: despite the fact that whites engage in drug offenses at a higher rate than African-Americans, African-Americans are incarcerated for drug offenses at a rate that is 10 times greater than that of whites."

Wow.

On the failure of the war on drugs:

"The War on People Who Use Drugs, colloquially known as the “drug war”, turns 40 next week.  Although the U. S. government has criminalized various substances used for medicinal or recreational purposes for nearly a century, the modern drug war began during the Nixon administration, with his announcement that the U. S. government would actively prosecute a “war on drugs”.   This followed the passage of the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970; Nixon then established the Drug Enforcement Administration in 1973 to oversee all of the government’s interdiction efforts.  Since then, the drug war has consumed more money, and more lives, than any of the drugs which the state has aimed to eradicate, and has completely failed to achieve any of its intended goals.  Drugs are more available than ever before, and although usage has gone down for some drugs (and increased for others), it can be attributed as much to changing tastes in recreational drug usage as to the state’s interdiction efforts."

The war on drugs has only been a failure if you believe the stated goals. The real goal of the war on drugs, like all government programs, is too loot the American people, and it's been a fantastic success. Map of botched paramilitary police raids.

POLICE STATE:

Texas cops can extract your blood by force and use it against you.

The FBI gets new surveillance powers. This is a good reminder that no matter how bad things are, they can always get worse.

Nice breakdown on the US prison population.

WAR:

The war in Afghanistan is lost.

"Strategically, removal of 30,000 troops in 15 months means that Obama has given up all hope of victory over the Taliban."

There was never any hope of defeating the Taliban. Taking them out of power, yes. Wiping them out, no.

The CIA's role in the Libyan war. Rumor that US troops will invade Libya in the fall. I doubt this will happen. The American people would revolt.

POLITICS:

Praise for Turkey's democratic government. It might be doing a good job compared to the west because it's less than a decade old, but it won't last.

I'm excited about the coverage Ron Paul is getting, the money he's raising, how he's doing in straw polls and how other Republicans are paying lip service to the libertarian principles he champions. But he's polling in single digits. None of it matters if unless it translates to votes, and as hopeful as I am that he'll get double digits in votes, I'm skeptical.

MISC:

It looks like 99 cent novellas are the way to go.

Walter Williams says blacks are America's new racists.

I always thought Britons were of Germanic descent. They're called Anglo-Saxons for a reason.

""People from rural England are more closely related to the northern Germans than to their countrymen from Wales or Scotland," Härke explains."

Then those Germans decided to conquer the Welsh, the Scots and the Irish and colonized half the world.

New York government allows gays to marry. How ridiculous is it that anybody has to ask government's permission to marry? The whole gay marriage issue is another one of those divisive issues created by government.