Day: July 19, 2011

RANT: Shared ripoff

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http://www.britannica.com/blogs/2011/07/shared-sacrifice-fiscal-crisis/

Shared Sacrifice in the Fiscal Crisis
David Boaz – July 18, 2011

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Currently the top one-tenth of 1 percent of American taxpayers pay 18 percent of the income taxes. The top 1 percent pay 38 percent of the income taxes, and the top 5 percent of taxpayers pay 59 percent of all income taxes. Just what percentage do President Obama and his allies think would be appropriate?

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But here’s a way to satisfy both those who see spending as the problem and those who want the highest-taxed Americans to pay yet more: Start cutting subsidies to businesses and the rich. Let’s cut out the big-business subsidy machine, the Export-Import Bank. Let’s get rid of farm subsidies. Let’s tell affluent people who build houses in coastal flood areas to pay for their own flood insurance at market prices.

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I like to point out that “corporate taxes” are a sham. Only “real people” pay taxes. Corporations either pass along their costs or fold. When Exxon pays taxes, they pass it along in every gallon of gas. Also, every corporation, that uses that gas with taxes built in, adds that cost to their cost. So when you pick up a can on bean in the supermarket, you are paying all those taxes. We can’t even figure out what we are paying in taxes. imho

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TINFOILHAT: Eleven 9/11 Questions

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http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/07/11/eleven-911-questions-which-still-demand-answers

Eleven 9/11 Questions Which Still Demand Answers
by Allen L Roland

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Warburton than makes his point ~ Crystallizing this down to a few basic principles of criminal and investigative journalism you at the BBC have failed as a fact to ask these basic questions about 9/11;

  1. Where is the film footage of the Boeing striking the Pentagon?
  2. Why haven’t your journalists asked the US authorities to see it? Why is it secret?
  3. Why haven’t you interviewed people like April Gallop who stepped through that Pentagon hole after the attack and said there was no plane there?
  4. Why haven’t you interviewed firefighters who heard explosions in the Twin Towers?
  5. Why haven’t you been able to show substantial wreckage (or photos of) from the Shanksville site?
  6. Why do you only interview explosives experts that back the official version ?
  7. Why don’t you speak to any pilots from pilots for 9/11truth ?
  8. Why don’t you speak to victim’s family members who still demand an independent investigation?
  9. Why are 5 of the alleged hijackers alive and well according to your own news reporting ? Who then did hijack the planes?
  10. Why aren’t you seeking written scientific evidence to rebut the compelling Thermite explosion claims of the teams of Richard Gage and Niels Harrit?
  11. Why are your programs “conspiracy files” on 9/11 so overtly biased as to not withstand scrutiny as fair and objective ~ and why don’t they address any of the above issues ?

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“There was a dearth of visible debris on the relatively unmarked [Pentagon] lawn, where I stood only minutes after the impact. Beyond this strange absence of airliner debris, there was no sign of the kind of damage to the Pentagon structure one would expect from the impact of a large airliner. This visible evidence or lack thereof may also have been apparent to the secretary of defense [Donald Rumsfeld], who in an unfortunate slip of the tongue referred to the aircraft that slammed into the Pentagon as a “missile” … Lt. Col. Karen U. Kwiatkowski, PhD, U.S. Air Force (ret) – Former Political-Military Affairs Officer in the Office of the Secretary of Defense. Also served on the staff of the Director of the National Security Agency.

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I have no answer for the unthinkable.

Anyone remember Operation Northwoods?

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TECHNOLOGY: “because he looks like another driver”?

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http://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/07/18/0335204/Facial-Recognition-Gone-Wrong?

“John H. Gass hadn’t had a traffic ticket in years, so the Natick resident was surprised this spring when he received a letter from the Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles informing him to cease driving because his license had been revoked. It turned out Gass was flagged because he looks like another driver, not because his image was being used to create a fake identity. His driving privileges were returned but, he alleges in a lawsuit, only after 10 days of bureaucratic wrangling to prove he is who he says he is. And apparently, he has company. Last year, the facial recognition system picked out more than 1,000 cases that resulted in State Police investigations, officials say. And some of those people are guilty of nothing more than looking like someone else. Not all go through the long process that Gass says he endured, but each must visit the Registry with proof of their identity. Massachusetts began using the software after receiving a $1.5 million grant from the US Department of Homeland Security as part of an effort to prevent terrorism, reduce fraud, and improve the reliability and accuracy of personal identification documents that states issue.”

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Gooferment’s overreaching and using technology wrong.

What happened to “innocent until proven guilty”?

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