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TAX AND SPEND:

Obama's Lord Geithner lied about the government making a profit on TARP. Tell me something I didn't know. If somebody tells me rocks on earth flew up into space in violation of the laws of gravity, I'd be as skeptical.

The market is trying to put obsolete government services like the postal service out of business so all Americans can be richer and our economy can grow. Government won't allow it.

"Passed by a 62-37 vote, the bill would result in the postal service receiving an $11 billion refund for overpayments made to a federal fund to pay down debt and finance buyouts to 100,000 postal employees."

This is a great example of how government prevents the advance of civilization by stealing money from people to subsidize archaic business models.

REGULATION:

Obama to ban children from working on their family's farms. Just another attack on the family.

FEDERAL RESERVE:

Obama's agents seize bank account of small farmers ostensibly for structuring: depositing less than $10,000 even though they made more than $10,000.

"While being questioned, the Sowers were finally presented with a seizure order and advised that the feds had already emptied their bank account of $70,000. The Dept. of Justice has since sued to keep $63,000 of the Sowers’ money, though they committed no crime other than maintaining their privacy.

Without funds, they will be unable to make purchases for the spring planting.

When a similar action was taken against Taylor’s Produce Stand last year, the feds seized $90,000, dropped the charges and kept $45,000 of the stand’s money.

Knowing that most farms operate on a very thin margin, such abuse of power wipes out a family’s income, and for a bonus, the feds enhance the monopoly power of Monsanto, Big Dairy and their supply chain."

Another secret way of putting people who resist government's corporate state out of business.

Bankster puppet Romney says he will boot Bernanke. But as we learned today, Bernanke doesn't want the job. That's like trying to take credit for an earthquake after the earthquake has happened. Greenspan was smart enough to duck and run and leave Bernanke to deal with his mess. I have no doubt Bernanke is equally as smart to duck and run and leave the far bigger mess he created to his successor.

Friedman repudiates the fed because it has been unsuccessful, but not central banking in general. He failed to understand that central banks can only do harm.

EDUCATION:

Six year old charged with sexual assault for touching another child during a game of tag. More war on the family.

NJ teachers dismissed because they were caught bullying autistic student. They were not dismissed because they bullied him. They were dismissed because they were caught. This is another example of the normal, everyday abuses government employees heap on the people they rule over that are routinely covered up by the press, but once they become public by other means, then the powers that be pretend they were isolated incidents, and that gets covered by the press to reinforce the charade.

"In a YouTube video that summarized the recording, Chaifetz said the classroom aide was fired after he provided the tape to district administrators, but that the teacher and another aide were transferred. Reussert's statement was the first indication that multiple people had left the district over the incident."

So the teacher wasn't even fired. He was just re-assigned, and the bigwigs no the press won't follow up.

"Reussert did not identify the workers or how they left the district. "This is a personnel matter and there are specifics that I cannot legally address publicly," her statement said.

Chaifetz said he wanted more information. "They need to say who it is," he said, asserting the teacher is still a district employee."

They'll threaten this father and his child to shut him up.

GLOBAL WARMING AND ENERGY:

Trees grow faster in urban heat islands.

Greenies trash park on Earth Day, leaving it other to pay to clean up their mess.

I'm just going to quote this headline:

"Postal Service + Wind Farm + Electric Vehicles – What could possibly go wrong?"

Shall I count the ways?

WAR ON DRUGS:

The feds invade and shut down a school to seize educational marijuana plants. Remember when Obama said he would stop raids on medical marijuana? He's become more aggressive. I wonder if the president has any power over this or if the government is all rogue.

POLICE STATE:

A mom says TSA agents treated her daughter like a terrorist. They treat every American like a terrorist. Why did this mom subject her daughter to the TSA's brutal molestations?

You know those paragons of virtue who molest children and take pornos of every American who gets on a plane? They're letting drug dealers through. How many gross abuses do we have to see before we acknowledge that government, because it is based on theft and coercion and because power corrupts, is the problem? I read a dozen stories like this every day. How long until we reject not only both parties but the entire institution of coercive government?

FBI compromises a remailer in Austria. I guess Austria is now part of the US.

Ninety year old woman locks criminal cop in her basement, eventually wins $95,000 judgment and other stories of police abuse. The problem is these cops are not arrested and prosecuted. They don't even lose their jobs.

Now we learn that police recommended Zimmerman carry a gun. He was a fool to listen to police. They sucked him in. He should have learned how to deal with dogs and people before ever carrying a gun. Now he might lose his freedom for trusting the police.

Lessons for self-defense learned from the Zimmerman case: #1, never talk to the police.

"Every 911 call Zimmerman ever made will now be used against him."

Those calls are probably the strongest evidence against him. Without them, he might never have been charged.

Here's a good description of the US police state:

"[It's] a totalitarian police state which relies on repressive methods to maintain control. These methods include intense physical and electronic surveillance of both [] citizens and foreign visitors."

This statement was released with no sense of irony by the US state department regarding Cuba.

WAR:

All my life, people have told me that war spurs innovation. What a bunch of crap. War blows wealth up. Do you think more innovation is stirred by wealthier people or poorer people? Rhetorical question. It's unlikely that anybody would have developed a bionic ankle if not for a decade or US aggression against poor Muslims who never heard of the USA. I'm happy these veterans are getting quality electro-mechanical limbs. But I'd be a lot happier if they had their God-given, biological limbs and those research resources were focused on heart disease or cancer or something more productive. I'm livid about this.

FOREIGN POLICY:

Rubio's neo-con resume speech to win Romney's support as VP. What a transparent loser. No thanks.

POLITICS:

Establishment Republican in King County kick the caucus out of a building because Ron Paul supporters out-voted her preferred chairman. The petty and childish thirst for power and the feeling of entitlement exhibited here is just hilarious and disgusting at the same time.

Gingrich is dropping out. Paul gets to go one-on-one with Romney in Texas on May 29. California is on June 5.

I believe Ron Paul is making his last stand to win the nomination in Clute, Texas. I wish I still lived in Texas.

"The Ron Paul 2012 Texas headquarters is located at 845 West Plantation Drive, Clute, TX 77531. Initial office hours are from 10:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. Monday through Saturday, and 2:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. on Sundays. Those interested in volunteering for the campaign should contact the Clute office directly by calling 979-473-9995 or emailing texas@ronpaul2012.com."

It's either Paul or Obama's twin Romney.

Romney's plans. I like the explanation of school vouchers as a way for government to take over private schools. Government means government control.

So in some sort of upside-down world, prosecutors in the bogus Michigan militia case ask for charges to be dismissed against the last defendant, a man who was declared incompetent to stand trial. They must be trying to save face. I can't imagine some other motive.

Obama to begin campaign trips as if he hadn't long been engaging in campaign trips. I bet he doesn't pay a dime for the lying, positive press he gets.

MEDIA:

CNN reports on Romney, Santorum and Gingrich delegates but omits Ron Paul.

In another example of how the mainstream media carries water for Democrat, the USA Today now claims that abortion restrictions are gaining ground in the states with the unspoken declaration that voters must vote for Obama and his Democrat allies to block these restrictions. The media has entered full pro-Obama campaign mode. Look at this picture too. If that doesn't dovetail into Obama's fictional support of women versus Romney, I don't know what does.

LOCAL:

The government doesn't make people family. This is an attempt to open the door to government defining family.

MISC:

Albert J. Nock on the real reasons for the American Revolution. You might guess them: using government to loot the people.

Friedman agreed with Marx on the progressive income tax and the central bank. Both were wrong.

I think I've made a powerful case that the US, which I've long said is one step below the Soviet Union, is more authoritarian than China.Worse, China is moving towards freedom while the US moves toward totalitarianism.

I'm not surprised to learn that number representations including graphs and charts are not instinctive. These are things that raise humans above animals. They are what enabled us to understand the world through science and analysis. These are the breakthroughs that enabled civilization, so I'm not surprised they are not natural to primitive people.

China's governing elite is outrageously wealthy and corrupt. Shocker.

""The lesson from Bo's case is that only institutionalized oversight can prevent the abuse of power, and that only a democratic mechanism can prevent officials from becoming corrupt," Caixin reported."

What a crock of crap. The only way to prevent the abuse of power is to prevent the power. Democracy does just the opposite. This signals that China's rulers are promoting democracy as a way of stealing more money and wealth from the Chinese people.