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FREEDOM OF SPEECH:

The British government is intimidating Twitter, Facebook and others because rioters used social media to organize. The British government looked like the incompetent fools they are, and they're going to make somebody pay.

ECONOMY:

How government disincentives - taxes, regulation and inflation - have prompted American businesses to move manufacturing overseas to the point where we no longer have the ability to quickly reestablish if even if became profitable.

Robert Murphy suggests policy changes that would benefit minorities.

TAX AND SPEND:

Social Security disability fund to run out of money by 2017 or sooner. Politicians sucked people onto these programs, stealing their money so they could advance their own economic interests, and now they're going stiff the old people dependent on them. This article grossly understates the magnitude of the problem because the retirement trust fund doesn't have any money in it either. The politicians stole that money a second time and left nothing but IOUs in its place. But the American people will not allow government to steal more money to pay off those IOUs. All government actions divide the country, and this one divided the country between young and old, and young will win.

S&P president ousted after downgrading US government debt. Apparently he did not get permission, so he had to pay.

Government's own economists explain that dramatically smaller government would lead to dramatically greater prosperity and virtually eliminate poverty.

REGULATION:

Strong link between the minimum wage and job losses.

Big companies lobby for European court to allow software patents so they prevent the competition from improving on their ideas. This is another example of how government and big corporations partner to loot the people.

This is a good point rarely so clearly made every day: government intervention in the economy kills every day. In this example, government banned multiple yard sales specifically to stop a woman with terminal bone cancer who was selling her property to pay her medical bills.

HEALTH CARE:

Obamacare drives up the cost of Verizon health care, Verizon says unions must pay to offset the rising costs, and unions strike in response. Socialism begets more and worse socialism.

More Obamacare waivers.

"The Obama administration granted another 106 waivers last month from part of the healthcare reform law — the first round of three-year waivers the Health and Human Services Department has approved.The new approvals bring the total number of waivers to 1,472, according to HHS. Those figures cover waivers granted through the end of July. HHS will stop granting new waivers after September."

Even Obama knows this legislation is an obamanation.

GLOBAL WARMING AND ENERGY:

Corruption, looting the people, is behind Britain's wind farm scam.

Every time some ridiculous aspect of the great global warming fraud is exposed, sane people hope that it will be the end of this scam. Gore's meltdown won't end it any more than Climategate ended it. But hopefully it will hurt it. We're just one unusually warm year from the whole scam taking over again.

La nina is back. That seems odd.

It's always fun to look back at the failed predictions of climatologists like this guy who predicted global cooling from 1974 to 2010.

POLICE STATE:

DSK accuser's lawyer requests the prosecutor be removed from the case upon hearing that the case might be dropped.

"In the motion, which was filed in State Supreme Court in Manhattan, the accuser’s lawyer, Kenneth P. Thompson, provided new details that he said showed the district attorney mishandled the case. They include accusations that the district attorney’s office has been insensitive toward his client, and accusations that it improperly sabotaged her credibility. The motion was filed only hours before prosecutors were to meet with the woman to explain why they intend to drop the case."

They absolutely sabotaged her. That was arguably the most bizarre thing I've ever seen a prosecutor do in public. She should have filed this motion long ago.

"Legal experts said that Mr. Thompson’s motion was unlikely to succeed because the alleged victim in a case did not have the authority to ask that the prosecutor be removed. Prosecutors are also given broad discretion as to whether to go forward with a case, the experts said."

But it was a great, if belated, PR move that could impact any subsequent civil case.

FBI busted for spying on Antiwar.com and its staff specifically Justin Raimondo.

"“It is recommended that a PI be opened to determine if [redacted] are engaging in, or have engaged in, activities which constitute a threat to National Security on behalf of a foreign power.”Reading that, I could hardly believe my eyes. Yielding to a sudden need for fresh air, I went out into my garden and just sat there for a few moments, warming myself in the last rays of the setting sun. It all seemed so unreal. Was this really happening, or had I imagined the whole thing? I returned to my computer and read it again, just to be certain, and – sure enough – there it was, plain as the pixels on my screen: I was accused of being “a threat to National Security” and working “on behalf of a foreign power.”
What “foreign power” would that be – Libertopia? Galt’s Gulch?
On what evidence was this “preliminary investigation” opened – and is it continuing? We don’t know the answers to these questions because the FBI redacted a good deal of the information it released to the FOIA petitioner, an obscure blogger I’ve never heard of. If the feds have such evidence, then let them release it – instead of releasing heavily censored documents that simply make unsupported assertions. That this kind of systematic defamation is now part and parcel of our system of “law enforcement” makes a mockery of the idea that we live in a free society. We don’t, as this incident has brought home to be in a very personal way."

That's how police states operate.

WAR:

Sometimes the New York Times writes a good article like this one:

"The Scramble for Access to Libya’s Oil Wealth Begins"

"“We don’t have a problem with Western countries like Italians, French and U.K. companies,” Abdeljalil Mayouf, a spokesman for the Libyan rebel oil company Agoco, was quoted as saying by Reuters. “But we may have some political issues with Russia, China and Brazil.”"

"Colonel Qaddafi proved to be a problematic partner for the international oil companies, frequently raising fees and taxes and making other demands. A new government with close ties to NATO may be an easier partner for Western nations to deal with. Some experts say that given a free hand, oil companies could find considerably more oil in Libya than they were able to locate under the restrictions placed by the Qaddafi government."

This is the real reason NATO governments fomented this war with intelligence operatives and special forces and fought on the side of the rebels. The first problem created is already clear: Libyan rebel factions, of which al Qaeda is a member, now have access to Qaddafi's chemical weapons. We have nobody to blame but ourselves for our government that loots us, makes us sick and dead, and makes us vulnerable to foreign murderers.

"The official also confirmed that intelligence personnel from the U.S. and other countries have been in Libya in recent weeks to help maintain security at various sites, although he could not confirm Western personnel are currently at those locations. "Individual nations have folks on the ground," he said."

So much for the US not having boots on the ground. It's funny how US officials promoted the case that Saddam had WMD but didn't say a word about Qaddafi's WMD possibly falling into the hands of terrorists until after NATO had toppled him.  USA Today claims the ends justifies the means. Go tell it to the families of people NATO killed, and the consequences of attacking Libya will never end.

POLITICS:

Obama currently in pretty much a dead heat against Romney, Perry, Paul and Bachmann, but as the economy continues to slide, so will his numbers.

MEDIA:

Is the Wall Street Journal waking up? This article explaining that Obama is fundamentally changing America just like he promised makes me wonder. All those people who think Obama is failing never bothered to figure out who he was and what his agenda was. It's a shame the article doesn't mention Cloward and Piven, ACORN or Rev. Wright.

LOCAL:

Three out of four 2011 Ohio graduates who took the ACT, which means they intend to go to college, failed to meet college prep standards. Only government could fail that badly and remain in business. And it fails that badly at everything year after year after year.

It might be nice to have a super-shopping area like the Greene in Huber Heights, but it seems like a bad business idea. This area is depressed. I guess if you're counting on a rebound, a depressed area is a good place to build. But like the developer said on the TV news, this is a public-private partnership. In other words, the government is stealing money from citizens to partially fund it so the developer isn't assuming the entire risk for the project. He said no developer would do such a project if he had to assume all the risk. Then don't do it. If it's too risky for investors, then it's stupid to steal money from people to fund it. This shows again how government loots the people to enrich the politicians and their big business partners.

MISC:

Researchers discover fossil cells 3.4 billion years old, supposedly the oldest known fossils in the world. And they used sulfur for energy.