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LIBERTY: What crowd?
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
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FUN: Michael Moore can’t sing, but he can bring back memories
Wednesday, September 16, 2009http://www.thrfeed.com/2009/09/leno-tuesday-ratings-.html
September 16, 2009
Jay Leno’s ratings drop notably for second episode
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The Leno episode featured an interview with Michael Moore in the studio
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I think Michael Moore is a muddled thinker. That being said, I thoroughly enjoyed “The Times They Are A Changing”. While he’s no Dylan or PP&M, I can remember singing that in Greenwich Village along with all the other audience of the many folk singers.
For the times they are a changing?
How’s that “hope and change” working out for you?
For the loser now, Will be later to win, For the times they are a-changin’.
“We, The People” have been losing for a long time at the hands of the Political and Elite. Time for us to start winning.
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LIBERTY: How do we get there?
Thursday, September 10, 2009http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/35350.html
September 8, 2009
On Larken Rose, Libertarian Organizations, and the Means to Achieving Liberty
Posted by Karen De Coster on September 8, 2009 09:17 AM
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I think, at this point, that nothing can be fixed via the political process. No ballots, no politicians, and no libertarian-lite legislation is going to restore liberty, because the political process has become so corrupt and its agents are immensely wealthy and empowered. We don’t have the political power to defeat them outright, but we do have the individual power – working in concert with one another – to resist them, impede them, protest them, deny them, and ally with others who wish to do the same.
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She thinks it’s too late for a peaceful solution. Hope he’s wrong.
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LIBERTY: The end of the American Empire?
Tuesday, September 8, 2009guardian.co.uk
28 days that shook the world
How the collapse of Lehman Brothers pushed capitalism to the brink
The Wall Street titan’s bankruptcy triggered a system-wide crisis of confidence in banks across the globe
Andrew Clark in New York
Friday 4 September 2009 12.14 BST
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Barclays picked up parts of Lehman from the bankruptcy courts, salvaging about 10,000 of the bank’s 25,000 jobs. But many still question the wisdom of the US government’s decision to stand by and allow a vast investment bank to go bust, given the intertwined nature of Lehman’s trading relationships around the globe. Larry McDonald, a former Lehman vice-president, says the Bush administration could easily have offered the guarantee needed to help Barclays buy Lehman outright: “They put Lehman Brothers to sleep. They executed her. They put a pillow over her face.”
Researching a recently published book on Lehman’s failure, “a colossal failure of common sense”, McDonald interviewed more than 45 Lehman executives. They insisted that they warned both Bush’s treasury secretary, Henry Paulson, and the then chairman of the New York Fed, Timothy Geithner, of the consequences of inaction: “They were begging Geithner and begging Paulson. They were saying to Geithner ‘you’re going to unleash the forces of evil on the global markets – you don’t understand what you’re doing!'”
That is not to say that Lehman can shirk blame for its predicament. With $18bn of core equity on its balance sheet, the bank had taken positions of an astonishing $780bn in mortgages, stocks, bonds, oil, gold, derivatives and other investments. It had leveraged its books by an astonishing factor of 44 and it had opted to take a particularly huge punt on America’s teetering home loans market.
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This writer hits the 64k$ question, but doesn’t or can’t answer it.
Why does Lehman go under but everyone else gets rescued?
Perhaps the reason is Geithner and Paulson close relationship with Goldman?
Goldman makes out like a bandit in the chaos.
Not hard to leap to a conclusion there.
Bottom line: the taxpayer got screwed.
And, it began a series of actions to compromise “capitalism” and our liberty.
Misquoting Churchill: “the the American Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, ‘This was their worst hour.'”
Will this single event, the 2008 financial crisis, and the Bush administration’s response to it, be the single event that marks the beginning of the end of the American Republic?
Like the The Reichstag Fire, that allowed Hitler to accelerate the banning of the Communist Party, is Bush’s TARP1 the “October surprise” event that allows Obama to come to power and dismantle the American experiment.
Sad to think. Sadder still to think an old injineer see something that the political elite choose to ignore.
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POLITICS: Van Jones is the tip of a very big iceberg
Sunday, September 6, 2009http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9AHL8O80&show_article=1
Obama ‘green jobs’ adviser quits amid controversy
Sep 6 02:19 AM US/Eastern
By WILL LESTER
Associated Press Writer
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WASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Obama’s adviser Van Jones has resigned amid controversy over past inflammatory statements, the White House said early Sunday.
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Fox News Channel host Glenn Beck repeatedly denounced Jones after a group the adviser co-founded, ColorofChange.org, led an advertising boycott against Beck’s show to protest his claim that Obama is a racist.
James Rucker, the organization’s executive director, has said Jones had nothing to do with ColorofChange.org now and didn’t even know about the campaign before it started.
Jones, well-known in the environmental movement, was a civil-rights activist in California before shifting his attention to environmental and energy issues. He is known for laying out a broad vision of a green economy.
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THe AP is playing politics with this report. Beck called him out as a “communist” BEFORE the boycott.
Having followed Glen Beck’s indictment of the “Czars”, this fellow was imho a racist communist.
One down and a slew of Czars to go.
Obama was known to 100% “liberal” before he was elected, why is anyone surprised at the people in his administration?
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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: What is our gooferment doing?
Sunday, September 6, 2009http://www.reason.com/news/show/135830.html
George Will is Right
It’s time for the U.S. to leave Afghanistan
David Harsanyi | September 2, 2009
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Or is victory achieved when we finally usher this primitive tribal culture, with its violent warlords and religious extremism, from the eighth century all the way to modernity? If so, we’re on course for a centuries-long enterprise of nation building and baby-sitting, not a war. The war was won in 2002.
If the goal is to establish a stable government to fill the vacuum created by our ousting of the Taliban and al-Qaida, we’ve done quite a job. Most Americans can accept a Marine’s risking life and limb to safeguard our freedoms. But when that Marine is protector of a corrupt and depraved foreign parliament—one that recently legalized marital rape and demands women ask permission from male relatives to leave their homes—it is not a victory worth celebrating.
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Put the girls and boys on the next thing coming home.
Why do we have troops in 170 countries?
We can’t afford that any more than we can afford Obamacare.
Let’s finally end the welfare warfare state.
Switzerland is an excellent model!
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LIBERTY: Let’s try peace and liberty
Wednesday, September 2, 2009http://channel-surfing.blogspot.com/2009/08/whole-foods-hit-by-protests.html
MY RESPONSE TO: “Whole Foods hit by protests”
>People like Mackey, soulless wealthy sociopaths
Now I’m not going to assert that capitalists are the Mother Teresa’s of the world. BUT, (there is always a big butt), they are not the Devil Incarnate either.
Mackey feeds the hungry. OK, you’re not going to see it that way. And, he’s well compensated for his modest efforts.
I read his WSJ op ed and I thought the fellow has courage. He could have just as easily said nothing. Like the “Silent Majority”, who don’t have the stones to speak up and give us the benefit of their wisdom or whizdumb!
I think you misread his text and his intention. Creating more gooferment isn’t the solution to ANY problem. Fixing the gooferment’s perverse incentives is almost always the best answer.
>just don’t give a damn that there are tens of millions of Americans without health care in this
For the moment, let’s ASSUME that there are 45 million uninsured. They do GET health care via emergency rooms and hospitals, but there is some modest agreement that: (1) it’s not cost effective to do that; (2) it delays small problems into big ones; and (3) it’s not efficient.
Wouldn’t it be better to give everyone a tax credit to buy insurance? (Certainly better than ‘cash for klunkers!) I’m sure the “greedy” insurance companies would happily “suborn” the premium (i.e., like the tax prep firms, your social security number gets you a ‘refund anticipation loan’. So to your social gets you an ‘insurance anticipation loan for health insurance’.)
So why isn’t this idea debated?
Because the special interests don’t get control! Politicians don’t get to tell people what’s good for them.
And, obtw, those rich youngsters who don’t want to buy insurance don’t have anyone else to blame.
And, the supposedly “illegal” aliens wouldn’t be a problem if we didn’t have welfare programs. (That is, if there was no “free” education, welfare, and healthcare, then the only folks who came wanting to work would be coming here. Like the old days. Get on the boat and come, we always have room for more workers. Most of us have ancestors who hit the dock with just a smile! Heck, I’d be issuing green cards with tins at the dock and thanking them for coming. That’s the America personified by the Status of Liberty. Come one and come all. We have enough freedom for everyone. That’s Libertarian.)
And, criminals — “illegal” or not — lock them up!
And, obtw, in a Libertarian America, the drug dealers would have to find other work. We’d eliminate all the drug laws. (What would the Columbian Drug Lords do? Go back to farming or cheating widows?) So, we turn Big Pharma loose making the best cleanest drugs possible. (It’s estimated that currently “illegal” street drugs would cost little more than aspirin. And, do you think that WalMart or Walgreens would sell heroin to children? WalMart won’t sell X rated videos because their customers would punish them.) We could empty the prisons of non-violent drug offenders.
America would be supercharged!!!
>He’s filthy rich, he’s covered, his loved ones are covered and beyond that he does not care.
And, how about all those ‘caring’ politicians who say ‘good for thee, but not for me’.
>FDR called them economic royalists.
FDR was the biggest souless empoverisher, next to old “Honest Abe”, in American history. His economic ignorance created Social Security to empower the Democratic Party and set us on the Road to Hell. By eliminating gold currency, he permitted the welfare warfare state to explode.
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I really hope that some day we can try peace!
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LIBERTY: When the President speaks … …
Tuesday, September 1, 2009FROM DRUDGE
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Obama to make unprecedented address to all public school students; September 8…
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What the …
This is unprecedented all right!
When will folks learn the true purpose of “public education”?
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POLITICAL: The Worst President in History?
Friday, August 28, 2009http://www.lewrockwell.com/casey/casey16.1.html
Baby Bush: The Worst President in History?
by Doug Casey
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Catalog of disasters the Bush regime created.
* No Child Left Behind.
* Project Safe Neighborhoods
* Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit
* Sarbanes-Oxley Act
* Katrina.
* Ownership Society
* Nationalizations and Bailouts
* Free-Speech Zones
* The Patriot Act
* The War on Terror
* The scope of the War on Drugs
* Invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq
* Dept. of Homeland Security
* Guantanamo
* Abu Ghraib and Torture
* The No-Fly List
* The TSA
* Farm Subsidies
* Legislative Free Ride
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An impressive list. But Lincoln still holds the title for “worst” with the “Civil” War. No comparison! Hard to top that!
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MONEY: In Gold We Trust
Thursday, August 27, 2009http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig10/fink1.1.1.html
IN gOD WE TRUST
by Gabriel Fink
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The merits of placing references to deity on currency is another debate. What should not be debatable to any of the three Abrahamic religions, is placing the name of God on something that is worthless, has no value, represents debt, usury, and facilitates war. The only type of currency that the phrase “In God We Trust” could be placed upon without taking the Holy name of the Lord in vain, is gold or silver coinage. After all, God indeed himself created these materials of intrinsic value, a feat the anointed Fed chairman can only feign doing in spite of his lofty seat in the marble temple in DC.
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Without a question, the American motto should be:
In GOLD, we trust!
Clearly anything less is fraud.
And, let’s just go with ounces. No need for the word “dollars” anywhere.
It’s even OK with me if we want to be international friendly!
KILOGRAMS of gold!
See ounces have flavors; even grams do to.
We need a crystal clear measure.
A stone. (The old New England measure for potatoes!)
Heck we can call it a nano-STONE.
Let’s just be honest in our vocabulary. And our money!
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