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FREEDOM OF SPEECH:

The piracy of music and videos across the internet was the excuse for SOPA and PIPA, but a leaked report from the RIAA shows that the bill wouldn't have stopped piracy and that most piracy still occurs in physical media, not across the internet. These bills were really just government grabbing power over the internet.

TAX AND SPEND:

An example of how NASA corrupts comet science for the benefit of funding.

REGULATION:

Regulations have left many Olympic venues without spectators despite heavy local demand. This is an impressively conspicuous failure of central planning.

Remember how government used the Community Reinvestment Act to create the subprime loan crisis? Obama is doing it again.

"Yes, believe it or not, the federal government is now starting another initiative to force banks to lend to low-credit-rated blacks and Hispanics -- not just anybody but specifically blacks and Hispanics -- and is threatening -- and already imposing -- huge punitive fines if they don't. Moreover, this time they're going even further. They're going to take over the credit rating agencies and force them to change their standards to accommodate blacks and Hispanics so that nobody will have any idea who is a bad credit risk and who is not."

That's a new diabolical twist to the plan. I can just see Obama wringing his hands and laughing evilly.

EDUCATION:

Louisiana teachers unions announce they will sue any school which accepts vouchers in an attempt to keep students trapped in failing government schools. This isn't about the law. It's about making private schools pay a cost for accepting the vouchers, making the vouchers less valuable to the schools. Judges should dismiss these cases and make the unions pay all costs, but you know Democrat judges, and maybe some Republicans too, won't do that.

HEALTH CARE:

Whooping cough vaccine makes it more likely you will get whooping cough.

The CBO reports that Obamacare raises taxes by $1 trillion, and the penalty tax, as Justice Roberts called it, will be regressive on the poor.

GLOBAL WARMING AND ENERGY:

BEST study failed to pass peer review.

WAR ON DRUGS:

Mexican official declares the CIA manages the drug trade.

"In a recent interview, Chihuahua state spokesman Guillermo Terrazas Villanueva told Al Jazeera that the CIA and other international “security” outfits "don't fight drug traffickers." Instead, Villanueva argued, they try to control and manage the illegal drug market for their own benefit. "

Of course they do. It's an opportunity to advance their own interests. The CIA has a long, corrupt history of running drugs.

POLICE STATE:

NSA whistle-blower reports NSA does collect data on Americans, contrary to claims my by NSA chief.

This is too perfect.

Great description of TSA.

ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION:

Pharaoh Obama is at it again.

"A top union official for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers said Thursday that President Barack Obama’s administration has ordered ICE agents to blindly — and without any evidence — believe illegal immigrants if they claim they qualify for Obama’s administrative DREAM Act."

The DREAM act is not law. I'm terribly impressed with the level of lawlessness of Obama. He doesn't even pretend.

WAR:

Report that ex-Blackwater mercenaries are fighting for the rebels in Syria. Propaganda reports of mass rape in Syria.

Building projects in Afghanistan remind us that the government is good at blowing stuff up, but not at building.

"A U.S. initiative to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on construction projects in Afghanistan, originally pitched as a vital tool in the military campaign against the Taliban, is running so far behind schedule that it will not yield benefits until most U.S. combat forces have departed the country, according to a government inspection report to be released Monday."

But some contractor is going to even richer off the project.

Do you think a politician could be elected president with this message?

"The United States is the most secure nation in the history of the world. We have a military with no peer, a nuclear arsenal capable of incinerating any enemy, vast oceans that separate us from rivals and many countries that want to be our allies."

Truth is treason in the empire of lies.

POLITICS:

Obama White House busted for lying about Churchill bust.

MISC:

Praise for discrimination.

"I admit it. I discriminate. I am kind and respectful to the elderly; I am helpful to the handicapped and I open doors for women."

I'm kind and respectful to everybody until they teach me not to be, but I do open doors for women.

Company finds that 80 percent of the clicks on its Facebook ads are from bots putting money into Facebook's coffers. This hints that Facebook is fraudulently clicking ads to boost revenue. If that 80 percent number is across the board, just wow.  But the company isn't accusing Facebook of anything because it can't prove anything.

"We built a page logger. Any time a page was loaded, we'd keep track of it. You know what we found? The 80% of clicks we were paying for were from bots. That's correct. Bots were loading pages and driving up our advertising costs. So we tried contacting Facebook about this. Unfortunately, they wouldn't reply. Do we know who the bots belong too? No. Are we accusing Facebook of using bots to drive up advertising revenue. No. Is it strange? Yes."

But since Facebook is profiting, it's a pretty good bet that Facebook is doing it. If true, that would be a phenomenal fraud, and the consequences would be fantastic.