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FREEDOM OF SPEECH:

Congress entertaining a piece of SOPA that would allow the government to monitor and block any communication it wanted. The NSA is going to do this anyway.

ECONOMY:

Peter Schiff skewers Obama and reminds us one of the fundamental truths of life:

"Something must be produced before it can be consumed."

Consumption does not drive production. Production drives consumption. You have to produce before you can consume.

TAX AND SPEND:

More tyranny to collect taxes.

"Specifically, we should expect to see some form of the following if the U.S. made a goal of collecting the estimated $500 billion in potential tax revenues:

1. Make cash transactions illegal
2. Merge all your information into one account and flag for any discrepancies between income and expenditures
3. Make it impossible to receive any form of government-provided or government-regulated assistance (Social Security, Medicare, health insurance, bank loans, credit, etc.) unless all taxes are current and accounted for

Obviously, if cash transactions were made illegal it would be very hard for anyone operating outside the system to freely exchange goods and services within the wider economy. However, it’s very easy to transfer cash balances onto a stored value card and then use that instead. Also, people could start using gold, silver, Bitcoins, or any other form of decentralized payment methods within various sub-networks."

The government has been slowly but systematically moving us toward a cashless society, but they might do it faster.

REGULATION:

Government is regulating old car off the roads to force people to by computerized cars that spy on their owners on behalf of the government. Ethanol mixed into gasoline is killing the engines of older cars, probably by design.

HEALTH CARE:

The government of Michigan plans to exterminate pigs raised by small farmers in order to protect big pork producers from competition. This is another step in government's drive to control all food in the US so it can use food to control us like in The Hunger Games.

GLOBAL WARMING AND ENERGY:

NASA's chief global warming fraud James Hansen says climate change is a moral issue on a par with slavery. This man is a menace, pushing this fraud with our tax dollars. If a Republican wins in November, he should fire Hansen first thing then investigate him for corruption.

The government of California carried out a plan of harassment and intimidation to force residents to flee their property so they could build renewable energy plants.

"Apparently it is not enough that our green crony capitalists are getting billions in taxpayer subsidies, or that that rate-payers are forced to buy their “renewable” energy at extra-high prices. They also need their pet politicians to steal the land for them."

That's what government does.

Chart of gas prices for the last thirty years.

A few years ago, when CFL's came out, I bought them for my building expecting to save on bulbs and power. These lights are always on. I'm not aware of any changes to our electric bill because of the change. Also, they burned out after a year or two instead of lasting six or seven years as advertised. In lamps in my condo, being turned on and off every day, they don't last a year. The CFL are fraudulent, so I switched back to incandescents. I'm not the only one who recognizes this.

WAR ON DRUGS:

Mexican drug cartel figure claims he works with US government agents to smuggle drugs into the US.

"The revelation that Zambada Niebla claims to have been a U.S. government asset, working with its sanction, is a shocking development in the so-called drug war and has gone largely un-reported by the U.S. media. The claim, if true, adds credence to theories long in play that the Mexican and U.S. governments are essentially showing favor toward the Sinaloa drug organization and its leadership, including El Mayo and Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman Lorea, as part of a broader strategy to weaken and ultimately eliminate rival narco organizations. U.S. and Mexican government officials, of course, have consistently denied that any such arrangement is in place."

I'm sure the CIA makes a lot of money smuggling drugs into the US. Drug smuggling has long been one of the ways the CIA raises money. We know US banks launder drug money. More on government's involvement.

"The global drug trade is a key underlying factor in understanding world events. It has become the blood vessel of the global economy without which the system would collapse. It is what provides liquidity to the banks. It makes all those involved, from Afghanistan and Kosovo to Columbia and Wall Street, wealthy beyond imagination. It feeds the Prison-Industrial Complex with its drug offenders. It feeds the Military-Industrial Complex with the resulting violence and arms sales. It feeds the Pharmaceutical-Industrial Complex with the outlaw of natural medicine."

Not to mention the beer and cotton industries.

"More importantly, it provides off-the-record cash for funding acts of terror, assassinations and other black operations by governments."

Off budget funding. This is another reason we should decriminalize drugs. Hillary Clinton on decriminalization:

"I don't think that will work. I mean, I hear the same debate. I hear it in my country. It is not likely to work. There is just too much money in it, and I don't think that—you can legalize small amounts for possession, but those who are making so much money selling, they have to be stopped."

It's all about the money.

"Clinton evidently does not understand that there is so much money to be made by selling illegal drugs precisely because they are illegal. Prohibition not only enables traffickers to earn a "risk premium" that makes drug prices much higher than they would otherwise be; it delivers this highly lucrative business into the hands of criminals who, having no legal recourse, resolve disputes by spilling blood. The 35,000 or so prohibition-related deaths that Mexico has seen since President Felipe Calderon began a crackdown on drugs in 2006 are one consequence of the volatile situation created by the government's arbitrary dictates regarding psychoactive substances. Pace Clinton, the way to "stop" the violent thugs who profit from prohibition is not to mindlessly maintain the policy that enriches them."

Congress can't do it because if the lobbyists, but a libertarian president can nullify drug laws.

POLICE STATE:

More on Obama's executive order claiming the power to seize all resources in the US including all food. The order itself is linked.

The government is keeping intelligence information on Americans for five years.

Because government agents are frustrated a judge threw out the sedition charges against the Michigan yahoos, don't be surprised if they just execute the next group they target.

"Thanks to the legal environment created by the NDAA, the Feds won’t have to run the risks involved in submitting the next "domestic terrorism" case to the scrutiny of a court. Now that Attorney General Eric Holder has helpfully clarified that "due process" and "judicial process" aren’t the same thing, it’s entirely possible that the next group of American dissidents identified by the SPLC or some other self-appointed political watchdog group as "terrorists" could be targeted by a drone-fired missile or a presidential strike team. In fact, the SPLC, which provides an updated list of domestic enemies to law enforcement agencies, already has some experience as target-spotters for domestic drone operations."

We don't need no stinking trials.

Pat Buchanan exposes sad facts about race and crime.

POLITICS:

Reasons why the US is worse than a third world country. One is corruption in the US is institutionalized and often legalized instead of personalized as in third world countries.

"In the United States, corruption occurs at the level of policy and contracts, between corporations, special interests, and Congress. It is done gracefully and usually legally. For example, Big Pharma pays Congress to insert, in some voluminous bill that almost no one will read, a clause saying that the government will pay list price for drugs instead of negotiating for a better price. Over time, this is worth hundreds of millions, paid by you. Yet the clause is legal. Or military industry pays Congress to buy an enormously expensive and unneeded airplane. It’s legal. Read the bill. Or agribusiness pays Congress to cough up large subsidies. Also legal."

Second, police.

"Second, unaccountable and often intrusive police not subject to control by the public. In America formal police departments rapidly grow more militarized, jackbooted, swatted-out, and their powers grow. A law-abiding citizen should never be afraid of the police, and a misbehaving cop should worry intensely when said law-abiding citizen records his badge number with intent to call the chief. Those days are over. Today the cops can bully, threaten, and harass, and there is precious little you can do about it. The proliferating laws against filming the police can have only one purpose, to prevent exposure of misbehavior. Third World.

Any organization involved in controlling a population is a de factor police outfit, as are TSA, “Homeland Security,” the FBI, NSA, ICE, and so on. Against none of these does the citizen have any recourse. In principle, yes, but in practice, no. Third World, but far more efficient."

Third, lawless government.

"Third, lack of constitutional government. This is not the same as the lack of a constitution. The Soviet Union had an admirable constitution, and paid no attention to it."

Fourth, the rich and powerful are above the law.
Fifth, wealth disparity.
Six, government controls the press.

"In America control does not work as it did in the USSR, by savagely punishing the least expression of undesired ideas; this would be obvious and arouse opposition. American control works on the principle of fooling enough of the people, enough of the time.

Strictly speaking, the US does have a free press. You can easily buy the books of David Duke, Karl Marx, Hitler, or Malcolm X. The trick is that few read. Television and newspapers rule, and they are owned by large corporations concerned with furthering the interests of large corporations."

And the government has tied the interests of the corporations to the itself, making them effectively agents of the government.

"Mexicans know what kind of government they have. Americans do not."

Americans are learning, but too slowly to save themselves.

MISC:

Colony collapse in bees linked to pesticide in HFCS, the same HFCS people eat.

Praise for Vietnam.

Excellent Hunger Games review identifies how our government is already much like the one in the movie.

The nuclear disaster at Fukushima continues and could potentially force an evacuation of Tokyo. It's interesting the problem is with spent fuel rods in cooling pools, not the reactors themselves.