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FREEDOM OF SPEECH:

With SOPA and PIPA still fresh in people's minds, Harry Reid is pushing a new internet regulation bill, this time under the guise of cyber-security. Our Congress-crooks will not stop until they control the internet. What ever happened to focusing on creating jobs?

List of normal internet behavior now considered to be suspicious by the FBI.

More statists want government to quash conspiracy theories on the internet.

Theory that our rulers are promoting Facebook because they feel they can control it and therefore control the information Facebook's users see. It also gives the CIA access to all the data on Facebook all the time.

"Why do we believe that Facebook is a kind of false flag? The biggest tip-off in our view is Facebook's astonishing popularity. It's simply another social networking site but it's one that's attracted nearly a billion users. Is it really so much better than other such facilities?
No ... the barriers-to-entry seem fairly modest to us. What probably differentiates Facebook from other such facilities is not its technology or brilliance but its backers.
When a company gets this big this fast it seems to us that there are always the powers-that-be lurking close by. In this case, Zuckerberg seems to us to have the requisite pedigree for someone that would be subject to elite cultivation."

I've never understood the draw of Facebook, so this make a tremendous amount of sense to me. It also explains why Murdoch bought Myspace, though he couldn't capitalize on it. He didn't have the CIA and the defense department smoothing things out for him.

"What's even less debatable than the evident hype surrounding Zuckerberg and Facebook is the reality of the facility's initial funding. There is almost no doubt – so far as we can tell, anyway – that the initial funding Facebook received was in part organized by US Intel."

Well that pretty much settles it.

"One is struck by the paucity involved in the actual business model. Facebook's content is furnished by its users – and user information is then resold to advertisers.
The model is simplicity itself and involves little creative content. This is probably one reason why Facebook is constantly getting into trouble over its privacy policy. The company really has nothing to offer but user-driven data.
The more of it that the company can extract, the more valuable the company becomes. It is perhaps, therefore, the first company in history where the business model is based almost entirely on spying.
Google does much the same thing, but at least Google provides a search algorithm. Facebook's business posture is almost irredeemably hostile to its users. It's a strategy based on a kind of deception."

That's perfect for the CIA.

FREEDOM OF RELIGION:

Pat Buchanan advises Catholic bishops to threaten Obama with sermons denouncing him in retaliation for Obama's new birth control, including the morning after pill, directive. But churches aren't supposed to be political. He's advocating civil disobedience.

How the bishops are wrong and how they helped create this problem.

"Let me be clear: the bishops are absolutely on-target when they insist that the new regulations are both constitutionally dubious and morally atrocious, and that because these executive rules are unjust laws (an oxymoron if there ever was one) civil disobedience is the only legitimately Christian response to them.
But where they fail most miserably is in realizing why these regulations are wrong. To this writer’s knowledge, not a single bishop has spoken out against the inherent immorality of the federal government forcing any employer to provide any particular benefit to prospective employees. Furthermore, in seeking exemptions solely for religious institutions the Church is neglecting to defend the conscience rights of for-profit employers whose Christian or other moral convictions would otherwise preclude them from complying with these regulations with a clean conscience."

This reminds me of the saying about the Nazis: first they came for the Jews, and I didn't stand up to them... All regulations are a threats of violence backed by violence and are therefore immoral and illegitimate, not just this regulation.

RIGHT TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS:

Map shows many locations where gun owners thwarted crimes.

ECONOMY:

Exposing government's fraudulent employment numbers.

Twenty signs that Europe is in a full blown depression, and it's getting worse.

The Chinese are buying record amounts of gold. That's why the Chinese government is shutting down gold exchanges.

TAX AND SPEND:

State governments are competing by lowering and abolishing income taxes. Federalism works. That's why the feds work so hard to kill it.

Is anybody surprised Congress-crooks use earmarks to fund projects near their property to increase its value? If you are, you don't understand the nature of government.

"A U.S. senator from Alabama directed more than $100 million in federal earmarks to renovate downtown Tuscaloosa near his own commercial office building. A congressman from Georgia secured $6.3 million in taxpayer funds to replenish the beach about 900 feet from his island vacation cottage. A representative from Michigan earmarked $486,000 to add a bike lane to a bridge within walking distance of her home."

Every individual in the world works to advance their personal interests, therefore government exists to enrich our rulers at our expense.

One way super rich people avoid taxes is by borrowing against their assets instead of selling them so they don't have to pay capital gains. That works as long as they have the income to pay back the loans.

REGULATION:

Interesting patent claim regarding invention of interactivity on the internet.

FEDERAL RESERVE:

Bernanke says the 8.3 percent unemployment rate understates the weakness in the labor market. For once, he got one right.

Americans are increasing their savings, but inflation is eating them up.

"While getting into debt may be easier, the yield on savings accounts (~1%) is less than the stated rate of inflation (~3%), and far less than the real rate of inflation (7-10% says ShadowStats.com) when employing 1980 and 1990 methods to determine the cost of goods and services. "

Ouch.

EDUCATION:

Government school flier promotes communism over capitalism.

The global warming fraud is infecting government schools and producing floods of urine.

"Students at a high school in Boca Raton, Florida, must step over rivers of urine and endure the stench of rancid waste after a plan to bring 'green' waterless urinals into bathrooms backfired."

Only government. Notice this article is in the British press, not the US.

Video of ignorant American students.

HEALTH CARE:

Democrats in danger of losing their seats no claim they regret supporting Obamacare. They'd sell their own mother to cannibals if they thought it would keep them in power.

Walmart's new healthy food label supports the bad government food pyramid.

GLOBAL WARMING AND ENERGY:

An electric car maker that received half a billion from Obama is laying off workers. Government is a human caused disaster.

Democrats realizing fighting bills on environmental grounds is a losing strategy, so they're trying to kill development with a US only policy.

"But first, Democrats are offering message amendments requiring oil pumped through the pipeline to stay in the U.S. and steel and other materials to be U.S.-based as well.

The strategy — an extension of a "Make It In America" agenda long championed by Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) and the Obama administration — allows Democrats to try to blame Republicans for sending jobs overseas on bills Democrats would oppose otherwise on environmental and other grounds."

The self-serving evil of politicians knows no bounds.

Prominent German scientist who formerly supports the global warming fraud finally experienced the fraud and comments, "I feel duped." Glad you figured it out.

The government is making your car rat you out.

POLICE STATE:

Another TSA agent caught stealing.

The metastasizing police state.

"The "family friendly" NFL ordered all 32 of its clubs last fall to grope every customer entering a stadium, whatever his age, regardless of her condition."

It'll keep getting worse until fans stop attending.

The CDC is preparing to start snatching children from parents. I guess they don't think state governments do that often enough.

WAR:

Forty-five US military bases surrounding Iran.

Pat Buchanan talks sense on Iran. He also explains why Ron Paul is winning the debate on closing our foreign bases and bringing US troops home.

A quick summary of the Afghan war:

"Every sort of modern weapon save nuclear devices was used against the Afghan resistance: carpet bombing, laser-guided bombs, fuel-air explosives, cluster munitions dispending blizzards of steel shards, mines, helicopter gunships, tanks and giant armored trucks, swarms of drones, satellites, aircraft that disable roadside bombs. Deadly AC-130 gunships bristling with guns and 20mm cannon. Death squads attacking at night to kill Taliban sympathizers. Heavy artillery and rocket batteries.
Tethered blimps laden with sensors that looked like the gigantic killer robots from H.G. Well’s "War of the Worlds." In fact, the Afghan War has been a one-sided conflict between a backwards people living in the 12^th century and the high-tech military might of 21^st century America.
Soon after 9/11, I wrote in a US newspaper article that US intervention in Afghanistan would be a disaster for all concerned. I’d been with Pashtun mujahidin, fighting first against the Soviets, then with Taliban battling the Afghan Communists. These Pashtun mountain warriors were the bravest men I had seen in covering 14 wars. They enjoyed war, even reveled in it. There was no way western forces were going to defeat them.
All the western claims about fighting "terrorism" or abused women in hijabs could not fully conceal that Afghanistan was also a war being waged for strategic geography, minerals, pipeline routes, and the desire to bar China from the region."

Let's hope it really ends soon.

POLITICS:

Santorum wins in Colorado, Minnesota and Missouri. Voter turnout was down in all three states.

Scientists discover that people behave well in social groups without any rules. They spontaneously organize for the benefit off all.

"The participants organise themselves as a social group with good intents. Almost all the actions are positive."

Government creates conflict, chaos, crime and enemies. It institutionalizes theft and violence. It enriches the rich and powerful at the expense of everybody else. Free people engage in peaceful interactions that create order and benefit everybody.

MEDIA:

Examples of how the media criticized George Bush for his 5.6 percent unemployment rate compared to how they praise Obama for his 8.3 percent rate.

It is interesting that nobody in the mainstream media is talking about how pretty much every Republican primary has suffered voter fraud.

MISC:

Claim that Russians have drilled into Lake Vostok in Antarctica. That would contaminate it. Why would they do that?

"The scientists rebuffed claims that their drilling could have contaminated the lake, a body of water which has been in isolation for 20 million years.
The Russian researchers have insisted the bore would only slightly touch the lake's surface and that a surge in pressure will send the water rushing up the shaft where it will freeze, immediately sealing out the toxic chemicals."

That doesn't sound very promising.