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FREEDOM OF SPEECH:

The Dutch House of Representatives unanimously rejects ACTA and any attempts to restrict freedom on the internet. This is another good reminder that the US is one of the least free countries in the world.

EU commission intends to end the net neutrality waiting game. The use of that phrase is telling. Our rulers see all their rules as inevitable. Sometimes they have to spend more effort on the propaganda before they can enact them, but they do that work, and the inevitable becomes reality.

ECONOMY:

The Facebook IPO illustrates how the ruling class rig the stock market to loot average investors.

New study shows big government hinders economic growth. The more studies like this we see, the better.

TAX AND SPEND:

Nearly half of Americans receive government entitlement checks.

"The official figure is 49.1%, who are living in a house receiving at least one government benefit. That 49.1% figure is up from 30% in the early 1980s and up from 44.4% in just 2008!"

Obviously this is a shot at Obama, but it's equally obvious those numbers increased under Republican administrations too.

FEDERAL RESERVE:

The reason the slow-motion Greek bank run hasn't turned into a full speed bank run is people the ECB will bail out Greek banks. They keep saying a Greek exit would be a worse problem than a bailout, but they're wrong. The bailouts just keep making the problem worse. The sooner countries start pullling out of the euro, the better for everybody.

Here's another sign the demise of the euro is imminent:

"The euro is in trouble. That is not news. What is news is that people with deep pockets are willing to pay for economists to provide a solution. Lord Wolfson has offered a £250,000 prize for the best way a country can exit the European Monetary Union (EMU). Five finalists for the prize were announced in March. The winner will be announced in June."

Smart money is trying to figure out how to get out of the euro.

GLOBAL WARMING AND ENERGY:

Eco-terrorists attacking nuclear and nano-tech engineers and equipment.

POLICE STATE:

Obama has final say on who the government assassinates. Are you on the list? Is your daughter on the list?

"This was the enemy, served up in the latest chart from the intelligence agencies: 15 Qaeda suspects in Yemen with Western ties. The mug shots and brief biographies resembled a high school yearbook layout. Several were Americans. Two were teenagers, including a girl who looked even younger than her 17 years."

Obama an equal opportunity killer. Obama undoubtedly leaked all this info to make himself look like a strong president, but it might backfire with his base.

WAR:

Goering told the truth.

"Naturally the common people don't want war: Neither in Russia, nor in England, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country."

It's too easy.

Some government has unleashed the most complex piece of spyware ever created that specifically targets Iran, Palestine, Hungary  and Lebanon. I wonder who could have done that.

FOREIGN POLICY:

It looks like Putin has decided to appease Obama instead of standing up for Assad, which makes perfect sense. Obama can do far more to advance Putin's interests than Assad.

This report of Israeli riots against African immigrants sounds frighteningly similar to how German brownshirts treated Jews.

Bill Krystol brags about purging Arab realists from the Republican party, turning the party into a tool for the Israel lobby.

"Kristol's point: Refuse to toe the neo-con line on Israel, and you have no future in the Republican Party.

Ben Ami seemed equally exultant: "We've won the war; we won the war," he told the audience. Ninety-nine percent of Congress now votes almost 100 percent pro-Israel."

The most powerful nation on earth has become a tool for a tiny country half way around the world. How's this foreign policy worked out for us?

"U.S. influence in the Middle East is at a nadir. Al-Qaida has spread into Pakistan, Iraq, Yemen, Somalia, Syria and North Africa."

How is that good for us.

POLITICS:

Republican establishment pulling shenanigans on Ron Paul delegates.

Obama is getting pressure to change his campaign slogan from the socialist "Forward".

Romney tops delegate requirements with win in Texas.

Bilderberg is meeting in Virginia.

"The last time they met in the US was an election year, 2008 – and the world got Obama. This year they’re back in the US: will they decide who the next president will be?

When in 2008 they gathered from June 5 to 8 in Chantilly, Virginia – just a stone’s throw from the Washington DC – Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton were neck-in-neck in the battle for the Democratic Party’s presidential candidacy.

On June 5 of that year, Barack and Hillary mysteriously “disappeared” for some hours “somewhere in the DC area.” Their agendas blocked out, they clearly sneaked off to “Meet the Bilderbergers.”

The media kept mum about that, save for an Associated Press report on the campaign trail saying that, "reporters traveling with Obama sensed something might be happening between the pair (i.e. Obama and Hillary) when they arrived at Dulles International Airport after an event in Northern Virginia and Obama was not aboard the airplane. Asked at the time about the Illinois Senator's whereabouts, Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs smiled and declined to comment." (The AP dispatch “Obama and Clinton meet, discuss uniting Democrats” is, strangely, “no longer available” on their website).

Be that as it may, two days later, Hillary withdrew from the race and Obama became the presidential candidate."

I'm sure Romney will suck up to them too.

MEDIA:

Adding to my skepticism about reports from Syrian, the BBC was busted using a photo from Iraq to slander the Syrian government. Contrary to the initial reports, it turns out most victims were summarily executed, not killed by artillery. The media can't get the story straight. It sounds like they started with the story of death by heavy weaponry because only governments have heavy weaponry. Then we discovered the US and its allies recently supplied the rebels with heavy weaponry, so now they're changing the story.

The Planet Green channel has been transformed into the Destination America channel. Obviously Planet Green would have been aligned with Democrats. I just saw two of Obama's cabinet secretaries doing a commercial on Destination America. It looks like this channel is propaganda arm for Democrats too.

LOCAL:

For goodness sakes, get the golf carts and other mini-vehicles off the streets. Don't encourage them. Who in the world would think it's a good idea to mix these vehicles with cars and trucks?

MISC:

Updating the casualty count for the Civil War.

"Since the turn of the 20th century historians have used the 620,000 number as the "official" death toll of the War to Prevent Southern Independence; 300,000 Southerners and 320,000 Northerners. In addition, at least 50,000 Southern civilians were murdered. The 620,000 figure is greater than the number of all Americans who died in all other wars combined, up to the present day. In addition, it is relevant that the population of the U.S. was about one tenth of what it is today. Thus, standardizing for today's population, it would be the equivalent of 6.2 million American war deaths in four years. The number of combatants who were maimed for life was more than double the number of deaths. In a couple of years after the war the state of Mississippi spent almost its entire state government budget on artificial limbs. The history profession is rapidly accepting an updated number of 750,000 war deaths, however."

Crazy.