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FREEDOM OF SPEECH:

Romney battles NBC over free use versus copyright. I love it when plutocrats battle each other using the weapons they typically use against us.

Internet content managers fight back against major labels by blocking their IPs. It would be awesome if big companies did this.

FREEDOM OF RELIGION:

Remember when conservatives supported George Bush's faith-based welfare system? Remember how every time you give government power, it turns around and uses that power against you? Now Obama has ordered all faith-based employers to offer birth control in their health care programs.

"The mandate exempts churches but applies to Catholic universities, Catholic-based charities and Baptists, Methodists and other denominations."

Government's assault on freedom never ends.

TAX AND SPEND:

The German and French governments are trying to seize power over the rest of eurozone countries to save the euro. Even if this succeeded, it would only delay the inevitable. Let's hope the euro countries resist this centralization of authority.

EDUCATION:

Guess what happens when government takes over funding of universities.

"Beyonce course offered by Rutgers University in New Jersey"

You can't make this stuff up.

I've long known the expert position on learning was wrong. Now an expert agrees. Too bad the article doesn't mention the importance of sleep.

HEALTH CARE:

The establishment is trying to force dietitians out of business with licensing requirements in order to keep Americans sick and dependent on establishment medicine.

It takes online gamers only three weeks to solve HIV puzzle government scientists were unable or unwilling to solve for a decade. This illustrates the awesome advantages of the ingenuity produced in a competitive-cooperative market compared the stagnation created by central planning.

Year after year the government scares millions into thinking the new strain of flu is going to kill us all. They keep shoving vaccines on people that do more harm than good. But more and more people are aware of this fraud, so what can the government do to keep people scared and pressure them into taking vaccines? They can develop a super-deadly version of the bird flu.

"The lead author of today's announcement is Dr. Ron Fouchier, a respected molecular virologist. He heads at Erasmus Medical Centre in Rotterdam, in the Netherlands, that engineered a form of "aerosolized" bird flu that can easily be passed from humans to humans through the air. The genetically-altered flu is thought to be so virulent that if the vials containing it were to get out, the virus would have the potential to spread around the globe and kill hundreds of millions."

You can't make this stuff up. Since the flu wasn't deadly enough to scare people, government made it super-deadly. With normal versions of the flu, washing your hands keeps you safe. But government won't allow that. They must have a super-deadly version to scare us with. The unbridled coercive power of government has created an insane world, and it might kill us all. A speaker from the Council on Foreign Relations explains the real reason for developing the super-bug:

""My first reaction was 'Oh, my God, why did they do this?'" says Laurie Garrett, Senior Fellow for Global Health at the Council on Foreign Relations. "Second reaction was 'Oh dear, it works!' Meaning that nature could do the same thing – that they had proven how dangerous the virus could be. And then my final reaction was 'we have no capacity to control this kind of work. Our treaty systems our policy systems, will not do the job.'""

Bigger government. The US government created a super-deadly bug in order to scare people into giving the government more power to create a one world government. When normal people learn about the bird flu, they take precautions not to catch it. Like washing their hands. When government officials learn about the bird flu, they turn it into a super-deadly super-bug and use it to promote their power-mad plans for ruling the world. I'm telling you, you can't make this stuff up. This level of depravity can only be found in government officials.

GLOBAL WARMING AND ENERGY:

Burt Rutan exposes the global warming fraud. As I've been pointing for years, it really is this simple.

The mainstream media reports that global warming is not the problem, cooling from reduced solar activity is. Eventually the truth always wins out.

Co-chair of IPCC working group accidentally tells the truth.

"…we redistribute de facto the world’s wealth by climate policy…One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy. This has almost nothing to do with environmental policy anymore…"

As we've long known, but it's nice to get the confirmation.

POLICE STATE:

Here's a terrible story about the consequences of perpetual war and the police state required to support it.

"The Justice Department is funding an unusual national training program to help police deal with an increasing number of volatile confrontations involving highly trained and often heavily armed combat veterans."

If there's a silver lining in this cloud, it might be the recognition that police should de-escalate situations instead of escalating the violence which is now the norm.

Protests against ACTA.

MIT scientists develop technology that can see through eight inch concrete walls from 60 feet away. Cops are going to be spying on everybody constantly.

POLITICS:

Ron Paul sues to uncover identity of author of a defamatory video of Jon Huntsman who posed as a Paul supporter. If the author is not a Paul supporter, this is fraud. Fraud is a crime. If it is a Paul supporter, then it isn't fraud, and he should be allowed to remain anonymous. Paul would have to present a strong case that the author isn't a supporter.

Police arrest hundreds of Occupiers in Oakland. You might notice that corporations did not arrest them because they have no power to do so. Maybe these people will figure out who has all the power and start protesting the government.

"Mayor Jean Quan condemned the local movement's tactics as "a constant provocation of the police with a lot of violence toward them" and said the demonstrations were draining scarce resources from an already strapped city. Damage to the City Hall plaza alone has cost $2 million since October, she said, about as much as police overtime and mutual aid.
Oakland has logged five homicides since Friday, and Police Chief Howard Jordan said the law enforcement "personnel and resources dedicated to Occupy reduce our ability to focus on public safety priorities.""

This is exactly the point. These protests, like Obama's policies, are designed to destroy so many resources that the US economy and government collapse. This is what socialism breeds.

MEDIA:

I don't think the portrayal of pit bulls as dangerous dogs is a solely media driven creation. It's reflection of who owns them and they use them. Poor people tend to buy them for protection. Some fight them. Some train them as attack dogs. The establishment can't stand poor people being able to defend themselves and respond to attacks. That threatens the establishment. And because the owners and therefore the dogs are poorly trained, accidents happen. It's the same with Saturday night specials. It's the same with AK47s.

LOCAL:

Antioch College is a leftist institution, and administrators proved they have no concept of economics when they offered "free" tuition. Free is obviously below the market price, and that always produces shortages.

"It has recently been plagued with financial problems, but Antioch College is back open for business. The Yellow Springs college is offering free tuition to all the students accepted in its first four years. A move so popular, it has temporarily crashed its website."

This isn't rocket science, but leftists never figure it out.

MISC:

Scientists discover oldest art kit. From a related article:

"The find pushes back the date by which humans were practicing complex art approximately 40,000 years, all the way back to 100,000 years ago."

Once again a discovery explodes the hubris of modern men who thought of our ancestors as primitive.

The Android marketplace is offering a competitor to Siri named Evi for free. That's obviously below the market price. The result is shortages.

"And people are so keen to that Evi's servers are overloaded — so be prepared for a wait for answers."

I understand that you can post unpopular apps for free and get away with it. There's enough bandwidth to cover a few users. But not popular ones.