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SOCIALISM:

The government is even forcing taxpayer-owned GM to move overseas.

TAX AND SPEND:

Ten facts that illustrate how government employees live the high life at our expense. This is my favorite:

"Insider trading is perfectly legal for members of the U.S. Congress – and they refuse to pass a law that would change that."

And idiots think Wall Street is our problem. Wall Street can't legally steal our money and criminalize peaceful behavior. Only government can.

European banks agree to take a 50 percent loss on Greek government debt. That's a pretty big default.

REGULATION:

Here's another example of how government corrupts businesses and our economy in order to enrich the politicians and their cronies at our expense.

"While spending on lobbying has slowed for some sectors, it has surged for fast-growing high-tech firms that have faced increased scrutiny from lawmakers and regulators over their privacy policies and other business practices, lobbying reports filed recently with Congress show."

Politicians have forced these companies to give them money by threatening to regulate them. These are gods of corporations demanding tribute with threats. The inevitable result is the biggest companies will help write the regulations that protect them from competition from smaller companies, leading to lower quality, more expensive products.

Monsanto patents broccoli. Not genetically modified broccoli. Just regular old broccoli.

"The rights to the patents are being held by US company Monsanto. The company Syngenta which had appealed against the patent, has now surprisingly proposed the cancellation of the planned hearing. The EPO is following this request from industry. This means that the patent for the broccoli, which is derived by traditional breeding methods, will now be upheld with only minor modifications."

So Monsanto paid off its competitor to cancel the meeting.

The government calls people who take advantage of information parasites, not itself. This title is ironic.

EDUCATION:

Government colleges raise tuition and fees by eight percent. Of course they did. Government is funding them.

Comparison of government schools and prisons.

HEALTH CARE:

I've been talking with people about how, when I was a kid and we'd drive through the county, cows in pastures lined every road. We'd see tens of thousands on an hour long drive. At that time, all beef was high quality, pasture fed beef. Now you see hardly any. That's because most beef production has been moved to factory feed lots like this.

That's just horrible. It's unhealthy for the cows and for the people who eat them.

Government's hospitals feed people unhealthy food from government's food corporations.

Supposedly a new drug will increase longevity, but it seems to me the results they're seeing come from the high fat diet, and the researchers don't realize it.

"Mice given the new drug, called SRT1720, gorged on high-fat food for four months without gaining weight or developing diabetes, and ran twice as far on a treadmill as their control-group counterparts. Similar drugs are expected to follow down the pipeline."

I assume they mean low carb with their high fat diet. That diet is more healthy, it provides more energy and it keeps animals from being fat.

"He noted that the blood sugar-lowering effects from SRT1720 observed in the study were present in mice on a high-fat diet, but not in mice on standard fare. This suggests that SRT1720 won’t produce hypoglycemia, a dangerous dip in blood sugar that is a common side effect of diabetes treatments."

Again, a high fat, low carb diet will reduce blood sugar, so the drug isn't making this happen, the diet is. This is sad.

POLICE STATE:

New street light poles have eyes. And mouths.

WAR:

Commentary on Hillary's abominable comment.

"We came, we saw, he died."

Her maniacal laughter is freaky.

Insight into the Qaddafi and the war on Libya.

"Gadaffi told me that night in Tripoli that if he were overthrown, the western powers would quickly grab Libya’s oil. His words were prophetic. The uprising that began earlier this year was organized, armed and supported by French and British intelligence. NATO warplanes and helicopters, and special forces, did the serious fighting and broke Gadaffi’s forces. All the gun waving rebels were window dressing to cover a western military intervention that was supposedly for "humanitarian" purposes."

Lots of people claimed the Iraq war was for oil. I think it was for more than that, most notably that Saddam Hussein had decided to sell oil in currency other than dollars. Libya was a war for oil.

POLITICS:

Obama is putting is lawlessness on parade, proclaiming he will use executive power to do what he wants since Congress won't do what he wants. This is why I call him Pharaoh Obama.

Obama has so much faith in the mainstream media to cover up and misinform on his behalf, he's hired a Wall Street lobbyist as his campaign advisor. I guess that's how he keeps hauling in big bucks from Wall Street despite his rhetoric.

How George Soros is manipulating the Occupy movement to gain support for his global financial transaction tax.

MISC:

Study claims Fukishima power plant released more radiation than originally estimated, but still less than Chernobyl. I still bet there will be at worst a minuscule increase in cancers from this accident, and more likely, no statistically significant increase will be detected.