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SOCIALISM:

Local unions in Wisconsin bar Republicans from Labor Day parade as if only union workers labor.

FREEDOM OF SPEECH:

Pakistani government bans internet encryption so they can read all internet communications.

Ohio Congressman Chabot who masquerades as a small government guy had police seize cell phones and video cameras at a town hall meeting so nobody could record it and post it on YouTube. He allowed the press to video the event because he trusts the press to suck up to power as it always does. But if he thought that he could keep this a secret, he was sadly mistaken. This is arrogation of rights under color of law and theft even if they were eventually returned. Chabot and the cops should be prosecuted, but don't hold your breath. Expect pretty much every politician to do this from now on.

EDUCATION:

Private, classical education.

HEALTH CARE:

US government medical experiments on Guatemalans.

"A presidential panel on Monday disclosed shocking new details of U.S. medical experiments done in Guatemala in the 1940s, including a decision to re-infect a dying woman in a syphilis study."

Different era excuse? People who lived in the 1940s are still alive.

This is a great quote:

"The Dearborn public schools in Michigan are gearing up for the big makeover - switching from low-sodium, low-fat, and fat-free junk foods to low-sodium, low-fat, and fat-free heart healthy, whole wheat junk foods."

Whole wheat has more toxins than bleached wheat, so it will make children sicker faster, just like the establishment wants.

GLOBAL WARMING AND ENERGY:

Now the government is waging war on guitars ostensibly to save the environment. You can't make this stuff up.

Reaction to CERN's test showing cosmic rays boost cloud formation.

WAR ON DRUGS:

How government regulation leads to the poisoning of drugs so companies can avoid those regulations. This is the same mechanism that motivated government officials to poison alcohol during prohibition so it would kill people to stop them from drinking.

POLICE STATE:

ATF director during Fast and Furious and other scandals will continue being paid by taxpayers, but in a different position. The US attorney for Phoenix resigned. Wow. Somebody lost their job. That's almost unheard of in the federal government.

Woman who resisted government agents' attempts to kidnap her child under color of law by firing a warning shot at the lead agent vindicated in court. It doesn't happen often, but thank goodness for her and her daughter it happened this time. I'll bet none of the crooks who tried to kidnap the daughter are fired, let alone prosecuted.

The number of FBI informants is skyrocketing. Can you think of any other governments that turned their people on one another and what happened to them?

WAR:

NATO has so blatantly abandoned its phony mandate to help protect people in Libya that...

"Lavoie said NATO would continue its mission as long as civilians in the country are under threat, although the area around the capital, Tripoli, is now “essentially free.”Lavoie appeared to struggle to explain how NATO strikes were protecting civilians at this stage in the conflict. Asked about NATO’s assertion that it hit 22 armed vehicles near Sirte on Monday, he was unable to say how the vehicles were threatening civilians, or whether they were in motion or parked."

This failure to lie successfully might be a firing offence, unlike every other seeming failure by a government official. NATO's mission was always regime change, and we're going to get blamed for abuses of this new government.

And it gets worse:

"His name is Abdelhakim Belhaj. Some in the Middle East might have, but few in the West and across the world would have heard of him. 
Time to catch up. Because the story of how an al-Qaeda asset turned out to be the top Libyan military commander in still war-torn Tripoli is bound to shatter - once again - that wilderness of mirrors that is the "war on terror", as well as deeply compromising the carefully constructed propaganda of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's (NATO's) "humanitarian" intervention in Libya."

Now that it's over, tell us all about it. A lot of people were talking about the al Qaeda connection while NATO was working as its air force, but few listened. Maybe they'll listen now.

"Muammar Gaddafi's fortress of Bab-al-Aziziyah was essentially invaded and conquered last week by Belhaj's men - who were at the forefront of a militia of Berbers from the mountains southwest of Tripoli. The militia is the so-called Tripoli Brigade, trained in secret for two months by US Special Forces. This turned out to be the rebels' most effective militia in six months of tribal/civil war.Already last Tuesday, Belhaj was gloating on how the battle was won, with Gaddafi forces escaping "like rats" (note that's the same metaphor used by Gaddafi himself to designate the rebels)."

This sounds familiar. How many times is our government going to train al Qaeda operatives only to have them turn around and attack us?

"Hardly by accident, all the top military rebel commanders are LIFG, from Belhaj in Tripoli to one Ismael as-Salabi in Benghazi and one Abdelhakim al-Assadi in Derna, not to mention a key asset, Ali Salabi, sitting at the core of the TNC. It was Salabi who negotiated with Saif al-Islam Gaddafi the "end" of LIFG's jihad, thus assuring the bright future of these born-again "freedom fighters". 
It doesn't require a crystal ball to picture the consequences of LIFG/AQIM - having conquered military power and being among the war "winners" - not remotely interested in relinquishing control just to please NATO's whims."

So while the government goons talk about staying in Afghanistan and Iraq to deny al Qaeda a safe haven, they just handed Libya over to al Qaeda. That tells you what they really think of al Qaeda as an enemy. Historic Christian church looted.

British special forces don Arab clothing in violation of the Geneva Convention in order to assassinate Qaddafi.

National Guard sign shows the mentality of people the government tries to hire:

"Get paid to blow things up."

And you wonder why so many government agents are thugs.

MEDIA:

Many examples of the absurd coverage of Irene.

LOCAL:

Local officials trying to bring 1,000 new parasitic political economy jobs to Fairborn-Springfield area.

MISC:

Do you think PETA ever protests Jack Links?

How FEMA wastes resources, making us more vulnerable to natural disasters and making it harder to recover from them. More on FEMA. More. Reminder of how FEMA was created and how it metastasized.