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RIGHT TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS:

In the absence of police protection, Russians are arming and defending themselves. Why do you need the police then?

FASCISM:

All the Occupy protesters need when they march at private homes are brown shirts. It may look fascist, but it's really Marxist. They should wear red. It's so hard to tell the difference between communism and fascism. They've got the same leftist protesters, the same gulags, the same totalitarianism, the same violence, the same racism, etc.

ECONOMY:

Homicide rates are inversely correlated with economic freedom.

TAX AND SPEND:

Two Senate Democrats join Republicans in killing Obama's latest job killing stimulus boondoggle. The ideologue can't even make a proposal his own party unanimously supports.

FEDERAL RESERVE:

Feds write new regulation that prohibits banks from trading for profit.

"“Only in today’s regulatory climate could such a simple idea become so complex, generating a rule whose preamble alone is 215 pages, with 381 footnotes to boot,” American Bankers Association Chief Executive Frank Keating said in a statement, according to Reuters."

Obama knows these rules are crippling our economy. He's doing it on purpose.

The Fed joins the police state.

"The Federal Reserve wants to know what you are saying about it. In fact, the Federal Reserve has announced plans to identify "key bloggers" and to monitor "billions of conversations" about the Fed on Facebook, Twitter, forums and blogs. This is yet another sign that the alternative media is having a dramatic impact. As first reported on Zero Hedge, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York has issued a "Request for Proposal" to suppliers who may be interested in participating in the development of a "Sentiment Analysis And Social Media Monitoring Solution". In other words, the Federal Reserve wants to develop a highly sophisticated system that will gather everything that you and I say about the Federal Reserve on the Internet and that will analyze what our feelings about the Fed are."

And keep track of us.

Governments are cranking up the war on gold and silver with France banning the cash sale of both. This is about tracking those sales so the government can confiscate the gold and silver later. Claim that governments will not confiscate gold. Then why ban cash sales? Government exists to confiscate wealth. Confiscating gold is a good way to do that. If we return to a gold standard, government would like to have all the gold it could. In the previous essay, North's argument depends on the differences between today and the 1930s. In this essay, he wonders if the government will take us back to the 1930s. I'd say it is.

HEALTH CARE:

People in Sweden are fed up with Sweden's socialized medicine system and are opting out for private insurance and health care. The same is happening in Britain and Canada.

POLICE STATE:

Police arrest super-hero wannabe for breaking up a fight. How dare he make the police look bad by trying to stop violence?

Our abusive justice system and possible reforms. I think the title of this article would make a powerful campaign slogan.

The government is mining your internet traffic again.

Greenwald on the Awlaki assassination. American "collateral damage". Raimondo on the Awlaki assassination. Raimondo on Obama's death panel. In January of 2010, Obama's hit list reportedly included three Americans.

WAR:

On the US government's disastrous war in Afghanistan:

"Washington’s imperial goal was a favorable political settlement that would produce a pacified Afghan state run by a regime totally responsive to US political, economic and strategic interests; a native sepoy army led by American officers in the manner of the British Indian Raj; and US bases that threaten Iran, watch China, and dominate the energy-rich Caspian Basin."

Fail.

"Washington’s real objective in South Asia was clearly defined in 2007 by US Assistant Secretary of State Richard Boucher: to "stabilize Afghanistan so it can become a conduit and hub between South and Central Asia – so energy can flow south."The Turkmenistan-Afghan-Pakistan TAPI gas pipeline that the US has sought since 1998 is finally nearing completion. But whether it can operate in the face of sabotage remains to be seen. CIA is reportedly creating an 8,000-man mercenary force to protect the pipeline which runs smack across Pashtun tribal territory."

I doubt 150,000 troops can protect it.

A little bit of history of the Afghan invasion I'd never heard before:

"The US then allied itself to the Northern Alliance and invaded Afghanistan. Contrary to fables about CIA agents of horseback, Russian generals and troops conducted most of the ground operations, aided by US B-52 bombers. The northern Tajiks became the power behind the US-installed figurehead, Hamid Karzai."

Russian generals?

FOREIGN POLICY:

I wonder what the politicians think they'll gain by imposing more sanctions on Iran. These guys aren't dumb. They act to advance to advance their own interests. So who benefits from these sanctions? Maybe it fools voters into thinking they're acting in our interest, but that seems awful vague and questionable. Maybe the goal of sanctions is always to weaken a regime in preparation for war. The country being sanctioned never gives in. This article says the US is going to unite the world against Iran. That sounds like preparation for war to me. It sounds like western rulers think they finally have the trigger they've been hoping for that will ignite a war against Iran..

"Biden also said that U.S. action against Iran could go beyond sanctions, but added that "we're not going there yet.""

Yikes.

Claim that the supposed Iranian plot to kill the Saudi ambassador was another FBI setup.

"The long narrative spun by the indictment tells us everything but what we really need to know, which is: how is it that these two Iranian “terrorists” just happened to meet up with a Mexican drug cartel assassin who just happened to be a longtime DEA informant?"

A New York Times article answers the question:

"For the entire operation, the government’s confidential sources were monitored and guided by federal law enforcement agents, Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District, said in the news conference. ‘So no explosives were actually ever placed anywhere,’ he said, ‘and no one was actually in ever in any danger.’"

In all these plots it seems nobody was actually ever in danger. That tells us these plots are being set up by the FBI.

"The credibility rating of this story, taken on its face, is close to zero. Let’s say the Iranians really were plotting to kill the Saudi ambassador on American soil: would they contract it out to the Mexican Mafia, send all kinds of traceable money wires from Iran to the US, and not care if they killed a hundred Americans in the process of achieving their goal? Or would they send some fanatic, who would not only do it for free but also eliminate himself (or herself)? This flimsy cock-eyed tale is sotransparently fake that it’s an embarrassment to the United States of America. Can’t our spooks do better than this?"

All that matters is they scare people, and I expect it will do just that.

"This story is very scary – not because it’s credible, or believable, because it is neither. However, it’s the most frightening story I’ve heard in quite a while because it shows that the US government is bound and determined to go to war with Iran, no matter what the consequences. Throwing caution to the winds, our rulers have decided to go all out against Tehran – all the better to mask our current economic malaise under the damage done by the tripling and quadrupling of oil prices. This way, Obama can blame our crashing economy on Tehran, rather than his own discredited policies – and sideline the Republicans, who have been criticizing him for being “soft” on Iran."

Yikes again.

"Here is where the administration has probably miscalculated: people are just angry enough to wonder “why now?” They’re just broke enough to resent being asked to pay for yet another holy crusade overseas. And they’re just tired enough of the bullsh*t that gets reported as “news” day after day to start asking all kinds of uncomfortable questions about this latest offering by the Washington fable factory."

So Obama is hoping that starting a war with Iran will win him the 2012 election. Obama has miscalculated about a lot of things, and I think this will be another. Let's hope the people put a stop to this before he starts another war because once it's started, it won't matter that he gets defeated. The Republican will continue the war. More skepticism.

Neither Israeli government nor the Palestinian government wants peace. The bankrupt US government can't support Israel for long. It's scary how much the Israeli idea of expansionism sounds like Manifest Destiny which justified the genocide of American Indians.

POLITICS:

Ron Paul looks really good in this debate. He really takes it to Herman Cain. Cain's pollsters obviously told him to focus on his 9,9,9 plan, but Paul brought him back to the Fed, and Cain looked terrible trying to defend himself. Hopefully, just like Cain supplanted Perry, Paul will supplant Cain. But I'm not holding my breath. Unfortunately this debate wasn't televised.

As if the economy wasn't bad enough for Obama, now he has two significant scandals to deal with: AG Holder's role in fast and furious and the Solyndra scandal. This kind of stuff is inevitable in a fascist system.

The Onion capitalizes on all the political issues with a story of Obama punching a Wall Street banker to improve his ratings. Too funny.

Jeffrey Tucker explains that because of the economic illiteracy of the left, the Occupier's slogan might as well be "Up with the Man!" because of their unerring support for strengthening the status quo. He also notes the striking similarities of the fascists and Marxists I mentioned above.

"These people are radicals only in the sense that the youth of the Red Guard in Mao's China and the Nazi youth movement in Vienna in the early 1930s were radical: they are only urging the regime to be truer to itself and stop compromising with its enemies. In this sense, these street protests are not benign; they might be a foreshadowing of dark times ahead."

There are dark times ahead because of all the damage done to our economy by government but not because of these protesters. These protesters are going to remind the vast majority of Americans of the violence, racism, intolerance and moral bankruptcy of leftists which will make them more amenable to libertarian ideas.

Despite being third in the national polls, Ron Paul consistently gets the least amount of talking time at debates.

Here's a good reminder that if John McCain had been elected, he would have been pretty much just as bad as Obama. On the plus side, Obamacare wouldn't have passed. On the minus, he's probably already be waging war on Iran.

How the establishment lifted Obama to president practically from birth.

LOCAL:

Government is blaming humid air and a breeze for making local school kids sick, not the spraying of chemicals. God knows we never have humid air and breezes around here. Sometimes I can't help but laugh. We've allowed morons to seize control of our children and their education.

MISC:

The monopoly controlling domains for .com and .net wants the power to arbitrarily shut down domains. This is an example of the corrupting power of monopolies.

Showing the resiliency and adaptability of the private sector, Sony thwarts new hack attempt. Compare that to the government which has been hacked over and over and has yet to figure out how to stop it.