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Opting Out of Obamacare; Not Even Labor Unions Want It
http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2013/02/opting-out-of-obamacare-unaffordable.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed: MishsGlobalEconomicTrendAnalysis (Mish’s Global Economic Trend Analysis)
Continue reading...Film highlights the temptations and perils of blind obedience to authority | Glenn Greenwald
Sunday, January 20, 2013
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/aug/26/compliance-authority-failure
Continue reading...Google Earth helps put North Korea gulag system on map
Thursday, January 10, 2013
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http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/01/10/us-korea-north-google-idUSBRE9081CS20130110
Continue reading...China’s Great Shame
Thursday, December 6, 2012
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http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/14/opinion/chinas-great-shame.html?_r=1& THIRTY-SIX million people in China, including my uncle, who raised me like a father, starved to death between 1958 and 1962, during the man-made calamity known as the Great Famine. In thousands of cases, desperately hungry people resorted to cannibalism.
Continue reading...The State Is A Tragedy Of The Commons
Wednesday, July 18, 2012
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http://www.libertariannews.org/2012/07/15/the-state-is-a-tragedy-of-the-commons-3/ Alexander Tytler once wrote, “A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until a majority of voters discover that they can vote themselves largess out of the public treasury.” I would argue Tytler had the cause and effect inverted in his statement. Modern democracies are specifically created for [...]
Continue reading...Demographic Time Bomb in Pictures and Dollar Amounts; Ratio of Social Security Beneficiaries to Private Employment Now Exceeds 50%
Friday, July 13, 2012
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http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.de/2012/07/ratio-of-social-security-beneficiaries.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed: MishsGlobalEconomicTrendAnalysis (Mish’s Global Economic Trend Analysis)
Continue reading...This Innovation-Killing California Law Could Get A Host Of Startups In Money Trouble – Business Insider
Friday, July 13, 2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com/california-money-transmitter-act-startups-2012-7?utm_source=alerts
Continue reading...The Crippling Nature of Minimum-Wage Laws – Murray N. Rothbard
Friday, July 13, 2012
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http://mises.org/daily/6097/The-Crippling-Nature-of-MinimumWage-Laws
Continue reading...US Spy Sat Agency Pedos Logo Slogan “We Own the Night”
Thursday, July 12, 2012
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http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/07/polygraph/
Continue reading...The Military Draft is ‘Slavery Pure and Simple’
Thursday, July 12, 2012
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http://antiwar.com/blog/2012/07/11/the-military-draft-is-slavery-pure-and-simple/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed: AWCBlog (Antiwar.com Blog)
Continue reading...The Greatest Trick the Republicans’ Anti-Government Belief Ever Pulled Off Was Convincing Us It Actually Existed
Friday, July 6, 2012
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http://reason.com/blog/2012/07/05/the-greatest-trick-the-republicans-anti?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed: reason/HitandRun (Reason Online – Hit & Run Blog)
Continue reading...Government Medical “Insurance” – Murray N. Rothbard
Tuesday, July 3, 2012
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http://mises.org/daily/6099/Government-Medical-Insurance
Continue reading...Walmart Uses the State to Crush Amazon
Tuesday, July 3, 2012
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http://mises.org/daily/6096/How-Amazon-Survives-the-State
Continue reading...Rendition ordeal that raises new questions about secret trials
Friday, May 25, 2012
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http://thelonggoodread.com/2012/04/11/special-report-rendition-ordeal-that-raises-new-questions-about-secret-trials/
Continue reading...From 1959 to 1961, the Chinese people suffered history’s largest famine, which killed an estimated 40 million people.
Thursday, May 24, 2012
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http://www.laogai.org/blog/scholars-and-survivors-discuss-china-s-great-famine-laogai-research-foundation-conference
Continue reading...BBC Lost Kingdoms of Africa Series 2 1of4 The Kingdom of Asante download torrent – TPB
Thursday, May 24, 2012
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http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/7052378/BBC_Lost_Kingdoms_of_Africa_Series_2_1of4_The_Kingdom_of_Asante_ The Kingdom of Asante - In this episode, Dr Casely-Hayford travels to Ghana in West Africa, where a powerful kingdom once dominated the region. Asante was built on gold and slaves, which ensured its important place in an economy that linked three continents. He reveals how this sophisticated kingdom emerged from the unlikely environment [...]
Continue reading...Antihumanism – Humans are the Disease
Thursday, May 24, 2012
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http://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/the-population-control-holocaust
Continue reading...The East India Company: The Company that ruled the waves
Saturday, December 24, 2011
http://www.economist.com/node/21541753
Continue reading...Coming soon: Ubiquitous surveillance from Big Brother’s wayback machine
Wednesday, December 21, 2011
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/121511-government-surveillance-254137.html?hpg1=bn
Continue reading...Twisted government accounting behind Postal Service woes?
Friday, December 2, 2011
http://redtape.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/10/07/8191425-twisted-government-accounting-behind-postal-service-woes
Continue reading...DOJ: Lying on Match.com needs to be a crime
Friday, November 18, 2011
http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-57324779-281/doj-lying-on-match.com-needs-to-be-a-crime/
Continue reading...The Educational Lottery
Thursday, November 17, 2011
http://lareviewofbooks.org/post/12835528594/the-educational-lottery
Continue reading...Wasteful And Extravagant Spending by US DOJ Staff: $32 Per Person for Popcorn and Candy Bars
Monday, October 3, 2011
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0911/64015.html
Continue reading...Bits, Bytes, And Balance Sheets By Walter Bigelow Wriston
Monday, October 3, 2011
http://www.policyarchive.org/handle/10207/bitstreams/12294.pdf
Continue reading...U.S. unable to account for 16,000 kilograms of exported enriched Uranium.
Thursday, September 15, 2011
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/09/13/u-s-unable-to-account-for-exported-enriched-uranium/
Continue reading...500 Reasons for the Bankruptcy of the Nation of California
Thursday, September 15, 2011
http://patriotpost.us/reference/california-agencies/ California Academic Performance Index (API), California Access for Infants and Mothers, California Acupuncture Board, California Administrative Office of the Courts, California Adoptions Branch, California African American Museum, California Agricultural Export Program, California Agricultural Labor Relations Board, California Agricultural Statistics Service, California Air Resources Board (CARB), California Allocation Board, California Alternative Energy and Advanced Transportation [...]
Continue reading...Taxes: How To Turn In Your Neighbor to the IRS
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111903352704576540840395329676.html
Continue reading...Is the Breakup of the United States imminent?
Saturday, September 3, 2011
http://www.ridingthetiger.org/2011/09/01/breakup-of-the-united-states-imminent/
Continue reading...Under a deal the SEC worked out with the National Archives and Records Administration… (shred…)
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
http://jmcmichael.com/post/9165810649/under-a-deal-the-sec-worked-out-with-the-national
Continue reading...Back Off Big Brother: Red Light Cameras Draw Ire And Violence
Monday, August 29, 2011
http://autos.aol.com/article/red-light-camera-backlash/ Citizens are striking back at Big Brother by vandalizing red light cameras and even shooting the lenses out with guns. One notorious vigilante has even beat the system by wearing Halloween masks.
Continue reading...No Doubt About It: ‘They Are Setting the Stage for Violence In This Country’ – Ron Paul
Monday, August 29, 2011
http://lewrockwell.com/slavo/slavo52.1.html
Continue reading...“Everything You Say Can And Will Be Used Against You, By Anybody, Now Or Decades Into The Future.”
Tuesday, August 16, 2011
http://falkvinge.net/2011/08/09/everything-you-say-can-and-will-be-used-against-you-by-anybody-now-or-decades-into-the-future/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed: Falkvinge-on-Infopolicy (Falkvinge on Infopolicy)
Continue reading...Pre-WW2 Full Blown Nazi Political Rallies in Madison Square Garden
Saturday, July 23, 2011
http://www.traces.org/americanbund.html
Continue reading...Law Professors vs the PROTECT IP Act
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/05/0023216/Law-Professors-vs-the-PROTECT-IP-Act Senator Leahy’s ‘PROTECT IP Act.’ Quoting: ‘The Act would allow the government to break the Internet addressing system. It requires Internet service providers, and operators of Internet name servers, to refuse to recognize Internet domains that a court considers “dedicated to infringing activities.” But rather than wait until a Web site is actually judged [...]
Continue reading...Independence Day Propaganda
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
http://lewrockwell.com/gregory/gregory219.html
Continue reading...The Warmonger’s Lexicon
Tuesday, July 5, 2011
http://lewrockwell.com/vance/vance249.html
Continue reading...Hunting LulzSec, FBI seizes webservers, taking unrelated sites offline – “Collateral Damage”
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
http://www.boingboing.net/2011/06/21/derp-hunting-lulzsec.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed: boingboing/iBag (Boing Boing)
Continue reading...Trading Of Over The Counter Gold And Silver To Be Illegal for US Slaves Beginning July 15?
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
http://www.libertariannews.org/2011/06/18/trading-of-over-the-counter-gold-and-silver-to-be-illegal-beginning-july-15/ Zero Hedge reports: One small step toward Executive Order 6102 part 2, and one giant leap for corruptcongressmankind. From: FOREX.com Date: Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 6:11 PM Subject: Important Account Notice Re: Metals Trading To: xxx Important Account Notice Re: Metals Trading We wanted to make you aware of some upcoming changes to [...]
Continue reading...TSA Now Groping Your Sons and Daughters at Prom
Monday, June 20, 2011
http://www.darkgovernment.com/news/tsa-extends-beyond-airports/
Continue reading...Military Spending in Hawaii Tops $12 Billion, Surpasses Tourism
Friday, June 17, 2011
http://www.civilbeat.com/posts/2011/06/01/11381-military-spending-in-hawaii-tops-12-billion-surpasses-tourism/
Continue reading...The Door To Citizens’ Freedom Swings Both Ways – Falkvinge
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
http://falkvinge.net/2011/06/13/the-door-to-freedom-swings-both-ways/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed: Falkvinge-on-Infopolicy (Falkvinge on Infopolicy)
Continue reading...Missouri State Supremacists Want To Shut Down Drug Dealing Website
Sunday, June 12, 2011
http://www.fox2now.com/news/ktvi-missouri-lawmakers-want-to-shut-down-drug-dealing-website-20110607,0,2162224.story
Continue reading...32 Signs That The Entire World Is Being Transformed Into A Futuristic Big Brother Prison Grid
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/32-signs-that-the-entire-world-is-being-transformed-into-a-futuristic-big-brother-prison-grid
Continue reading...Policing for Profit
Monday, May 30, 2011
http://mises.org/daily/5321/Policing-for-Profit
Continue reading...The Perils of ‘Accidental’ U.S. Citizenship
Friday, May 27, 2011
http://lewrockwell.com/nestmann/nestmann27.1.html
Continue reading...Long Live the Military Dictatorship of Egypt
Friday, May 27, 2011
http://globalvoicesonline.org/2011/05/24/egypt-a-day-for-criticizing-the-military/
Continue reading...Abolish the Police
Thursday, May 26, 2011
http://lewrockwell.com/gregory/gregory213.html
Continue reading...How To Stop Domain Names Being Seized By The US Government
Thursday, May 26, 2011
http://torrentfreak.com/how-to-stop-domain-names-being-seized-by-the-us-government-110205/
Continue reading...Texas: We’ll arrest TSA agents who grope passengers. U.S.: We’ll shut down Texas airports.
Thursday, May 26, 2011
http://www.texastribune.org/texas-legislature/82nd-legislative-session/fed-threat-shuts-down-tsa-groping-bill-in-texas/?r
Continue reading...Patriotism is a Mental Disorder
Thursday, May 26, 2011
http://lewrockwell.com/reed/reed206.html
Continue reading...Browsers without address bars?
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
http://scripting.com/stories/2011/05/21/browsersWithoutAddressBars.html I was taking a taxi from Montego Bay to Negril in Jamaica in 1988 or so. My driver, a friend of my uncle’s named Indian (all Jamaicans have second names like that), pointed out a community with dozens of identical bungalows. He said Cubans built them. They have all the modern conveniences but no [...]
Continue reading...US Feds: Black Box Please…
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
http://www.wired.com/autopia/2011/05/automotive-black-boxes/
Continue reading...US Family Facing $4 Million in Fines for Selling Bunnies
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
http://biggovernment.com/bmccarty/2011/05/20/family-facing-4-million-in-fines-for-selling-bunnies/
Continue reading...Again US Congress Spits on Liberty: Plans To Extend Patriot Act For Four Years With No Concessions
Saturday, May 21, 2011
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110519/13502414343/congress-just-sold-you-out-leadership-plans-to-extend-patriot-act-four-years-with-no-concessions.shtml
Continue reading...Myanmar: Ban on use of CDs, USB sticks, floppy drives
Saturday, May 21, 2011
http://globalvoicesonline.org/2011/05/21/myanmar-ban-on-use-of-cds-usb-sticks-floppy-drives/
Continue reading...Nixon Translator in China & Diplomat Says U.S. Becoming USSR
Friday, May 20, 2011
http://www.darkgovernment.com/news/diplomat-says-u-s-becoming-ussr/
Continue reading...Thugocracy: America’s New Gangster Government
Friday, May 20, 2011
http://www.thenewamerican.com/opinion/sam-blumenfeld/7541-thugocracy-americas-new-gangster-government
Continue reading...RIAA Calls 4th Amendment Passe: Pushes For Warrantless Searches
Friday, May 20, 2011
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110517/22252614309/riaa-calls-4th-amendment-passe-pushes-warrantless-searches.shtml
Continue reading...FCC Issues or Upholds Nearly $70k in Pirate Fines
Friday, May 20, 2011
http://9w2pju.hamradio.my/2011/05/fcc-issues-or-upholds-nearly-70000-in.html
Continue reading...Senate’s ‘Privacy Bill of Rights’ Exempts the Government, Short Sells Consumers
Friday, May 20, 2011
http://antifascist-calling.blogspot.com/2011/04/senates-privacy-bill-of-rights-exempts.html
Continue reading...Elite Object to IMF chief in handcuffed ‘Perp Walk’
Friday, May 20, 2011
http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/als-morning-meeting/132692/is-it-ethical-to-use-perp-walk-images-of-dominique-strauss-kahn-imf-chief-accused-of-attempted-rape/
Continue reading...Bumping the ceiling
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/bumping-the-ceiling/2011/05/15/AFKT7Q4G_graphic.html
Continue reading...Indiana Supreme Court dispenses with Magna Carta, Constitution
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
http://www.sovereignman.com/expat/indiana-supreme-court-dispenses-with-magna-carta-constitution
Continue reading...Treasury to tap pensions to help fund government
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/treasury-to-tap-pensions-to-help-fund-government/2011/05/15/AF2fqK4G_story.html
Continue reading...Antifascist Calling: Secret State’s Domestic Spying on the Rise
Friday, May 13, 2011
http://antifascist-calling.blogspot.com/2011/05/secret-states-domestic-spying-on-rise.html
Continue reading...US FCC commissioner resigning to become VP at Comcast-NBC just four months after approving Merger
Thursday, May 12, 2011
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-tech/post/fcc-commissioner-meredith-baker-to-join-comcast-nbc/2011/05/11/AFYfl1rG_blog.html
Continue reading...How the US government will seize your retirement account
Thursday, May 12, 2011
http://www.sovereignman.com/expat/how-the-us-government-will-seize-your-retirement-account
Continue reading...Sociapitalism: How the Government Became the Next Bubble
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
http://www.goldshark.com/kaspars-comments/item/123-sociapitalism-how-the-government-became-the-next-bubble.html
Continue reading...The Vampire Economy: Guenter Reiman
Friday, April 22, 2011
http://blog.mises.org/6248/the-vampire-economy-guenter-reiman/ The Vampire Economy, by Guenter Reimann (1939) is a rare and wonderful thing: a detailed account of how the Nazis crushed the private sector and hamstrung the economy with vast regulations, violations of property rights, inflation, price controls, and taxes. THE business organization of private enterprise has had to be reorganized in accordance with [...]
Continue reading...The Unabomber in Washington by Butler Shaffer
Monday, April 11, 2011
http://www.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer233.html
Continue reading...Compete with the Feds? – Local Liberty Dollar ‘architect’ Bernard von NotHaus Convicted
Saturday, March 19, 2011
http://www.courierpress.com/news/2011/mar/19/local-liberty-dollar-architect-found-guilty/ The former head of an Evansville-based company that tried to introduce a currency that competed with the U.S. dollar has been found guilty of federal charges in North Carolina. Bernard von NotHaus, 67, was convicted Friday by a federal jury of making, possessing and selling his own coins, said Anne M. Tompkins, U.S. attorney [...]
Continue reading...How to Stop Protesters and Revolution: Socialism
Saturday, March 19, 2011
http://english.aljazeera.net//news/middleeast/2011/03/2011318174117916648.html Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah attempts to prevent protests, gives $66.7 billion to build 500,000 housing units and $4.3 billion for more hospitals; also gives another two months’ wages for all govt workers and two extra payments for university students, raises minimum wage, gives more to unemployed.
Continue reading...Obama Delclares Authority to Imprison Individuals for Life, Even After Aquittal
Friday, March 18, 2011
Obama Delclares Authority to Imprison Individuals for Life, Even After Aquittal Watch this video on YouTube.
Continue reading...Obama on presidential war-making powers
Friday, March 18, 2011
http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2011/03/18/libya/index.html The President does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the nation. – Presidential Candidate Barack Obama
Continue reading...Wikileaks U.S. Cables Detail Saudi Royal Welfare Program
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/special-report-u-cables-detail-saudi-royal-welfare-20110228-024349-974.html The most common mechanism for distributing Saudi Arabia’s wealth to the royal family is the formal, budgeted system of monthly stipends that members of the Al Saud family receive, according to the cable. Managed by the Ministry of Finance’s "Office of Decisions and Rules," which acts like a kind of welfare office for Saudi [...]
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