The “Moderate” Myth| The Post & Email

IS ANYONE PAYING ATTENTION?

by One Pissed-off Vietnam Vet

“Allah” written in ArabicJan. 16, 2012 — The English wit, Oscar Wilde, said “Everything in moderation, including moderation.” Funny guy, but he wouldn’t last too long in London these days because Muslims have no problem hanging homosexuals from the nearest streetlight, yet the American gay community overwhelmingly gave its support to Obama, an avowed Muslim, in the 2008 presidential election, and are again on his bandwagon in 2012.Either the American gay community has a death wish, or they’re stupid, for what other reasons could there be for supporting an ideology that is adamant in executing gays?

New Santorum ad calls for “Rebellion” against the Republican establishment

New Santorum ad calls for “Rebellion” against the Republican establishment

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3bYBkGgRCE ^ | 1/18/12 | RickSantorum

Posted on Wednesday, January 18, 2012 9:33:50 PM by Antoninus

Here’s Rick Santorum‘s latest ad, and in my opinion, it’s his most powerful broadside against Mitt Romney and the Washington establishment.

REBELLION

Here we go

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Legal Insurrection ^ | 1/18/12 | William Jacobson

Posted on Wednesday, January 18, 2012 9:58:25 PM by Lakeshark

From Drudge:

“Marianne Gingrich has said she could end her ex-husband’s career with a single interview.

Earlier this week, she sat before ABCNEWS cameras, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned.

She spoke to ABCNEWS reporter Brian Ross for two hours, and her explosive revelations are set to rock the trail.

But now a “civil war” has erupted inside of the network, an insider claims, on exactly when the confession will air!

ABCNEWS suits determined it would be “unethical” to run the Marianne Gingrich interview so close to the South Carolina Primary, a curious decision, one insider argued, since the network has aggressively been reporting on other candidates.

A decision was tentatively made to air the interview next Monday, after all votes have been counted.

Well now that this is out there, and we have no idea what the revelations are, isn’t the damage done?

**snip**

Howard Kurtz, who is pretty keyed in on media stuff, tweets:

I’m told Gingrich’s ex-wife says nothing to ABC she hasn’t said before — but simply saying it on camera makes it a big television story

Jarrett Reportedly Receives Secret Service Protection

Jarrett Reportedly Receives Secret Service ProtectionNewsMax ^ | 1-17-12 | Dan WeilPosted on Wednesday, January 18, 2012 9:10:14 PM by STARWISESenior White House adviser Valerie Jarrett seems to have Secret Service protection, Keith Koffler writes on his blog “White House Dossier.” It’s the first time the veteran White House correspondent has heard of someone at that level receiving the expensive assistance of Secret Service agents.A local report said at least two agents were with Jarrett during her appearance at an Atlanta church Sunday ahead of Martin Luther King Day.

A Power Play in Congress – and How To Stop It by Karen Kwiatkowski

A wholly predictable big-government play for even more control over markets and technology, information and communication is moving through Congress.

That’s not news. It’s actually quite typical. After the nauseating passage of the National Defense Authorization Bill last month, with its Constitution-shattering military detention provisions for any American who falls out of the President’s favor, or who has crossed his minions, what might not be passed into law?

The Senate’s Protect IP Act, PIPA, and its House companion Stop Online Piracy Act, SOPA, is now seeping through the congressional sewage system. This legislative pollution is purported to reduce global data piracy and illegal copying of digital content by regulating American ISPs and the Internet. Entertainment industry moguls and “too-big-to fail” content producers are demanding it, and it’s designed by paid-off, power-hungry establishment lawyers in Congress who don’t understand internet architecture, information technology, or the nature of the free market.

SOPA in particular is written by the fascist-leaning central controllers in Washington, who believe a better America will be one with an RFID chip in every creature, four legs and two, federal tracking of every person from birth to death, and exquisite knowledge of their every transaction, in real time. Lavrenti Beria and the East German Stasi chief Markus Wolf must be dreaming of reincarnation into such a totalitarian jewel – the United States in the 21st Century.

While containing some differences, these proposed laws, at heart, constitute simple rent-seeking by Hollywood and big music industry content producers. As Gary Shapiro writes in Forbes.com, while “sold as only attacking overseas “rogue” websites, the legislation expands federal government power, [PIPA and SOPA] encourages private litigation and threatens legitimate web sites like Google, YouTube and Facebook.”

Confession of a Terrorist| The Post & Email

“A WELL-NEEDED CLEANSING”

by One Pissed-off Vietnam Vet, Presidential Candidate

The National Terrorism Advisory System is a division of the Department of Homeland Security with the purpose of “providing timely, detailed information to the public, government agencies, first responders, airports and other transportation hubs, and the private sector”

(Jan. 18, 2012) — Imagine that? Can you imagine that supporting the United States Constitution will label one a terrorist, a real “Enemy of the State?” You wonder what part of the “defend and protect” part of their Oath the politicians and members of the court didn’t understand? At what point in their lives did our oathtakers cross over to the dark side? Was it on January 20, 2009, or maybe they never had it, were never Patriots, were always followers, never led, have never displayed leadership skills, either on the battlefield of valor or in the intellectual wasteland of the universities’ dogma of “publish or perish?”

The number of unconstitutional pieces of legislation passed by the members of the 111th and 112th Congress is unprecedented, and with the last nail in our coffin, the NDAA, the Gestapo has been given unlimited powers to arrest and censor any citizen without habeas corpus. In other words, the cops can do whatever they want, whenever they want, and to whomever they want.

Of course, following illegal orders doesn’t let anyone off the hook. In the execution of illegal orders by law enforcement, the officers of the court automatically become criminals and are therefore subject to the same reprisals that any other law-breaker is subject to.

‘I Want You to See the Warning Signs’: Beck Outlines Italy’s Return to Fascism

‘I Want You to See the Warning Signs’: Beck Outlines Italy’s Return to FascismThe Blaze ^ | 1/18/12 | Becket AdamsPosted on Wednesday, January 18, 2012 6:32:04 PM by NachumEarlier this week on GBTV, Glenn Beck delivered what he referred to as “some of the most important information” on the economy he has ever given. Naturally, he discussed the eurozone crisis and the global economy.As noted earlier on The Blaze, the EU continues to creep closer to the edge of total financial meltdown; there are many warning signs and Beck addressed some of these.During the GBTV program, Beck dissected the situation in Italy, including the installation of unelected technocrats, and explained how policies that have been put in place in the EU could be coming to America.

Supreme Court: Copyright can be extended to foreign works once in public domain

Supreme Court: Copyright can be extended to foreign works once in public domain

Washington Post ^ | 1/18/12 | Robert Barnes

Posted on Wednesday, January 18, 2012 7:01:41 PM by Borges

The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld Congress’s right to extend copyright protection to millions of books, films and musical compositions by foreign artists that once were free for public use.

Prison Planet.com » Ron Paul Moves to Kill Indefinite Detention Provision of NDAA

Rep. Ron Paul left the campaign trail on Wednesday to speak on the House floor about the National Defense Authorization Act, which was signed into law on the first day of the new year by Obama.

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Paul introduced legislation to strike the NDAA’s Section 1021, the discretionary detention provision authorizing the President to detain persons accused by the government of supporting terrorism.

Ron Paul has serious reservations despite Obama’s issuing a signing statement declaring that he will not use the law to detain Americans. In December, Paul said the bill will accelerate the country’s “slip into tyranny” and virtually assures “our descent into totalitarianism.”

The Texas congressman and presidential candidate said on Wednesday the bill “provides for the possibility of the U.S. military acting as a kind of police force on U.S. soil, apprehending terror suspects, including Americans, and whisking them off to an undisclosed location indefinitely.”

He then criticized his fellow lawmakers. “Sadly, too many of my colleagues are too willing to undermine our constitution to support such outrageous legislation. One senator even said, about American citizens being picked up under this section of the NDAA, ‘When they say ‘I want my lawyer,’ you tell them, ‘Shut up. You don’t get a lawyer.’”

Let’s Stop the SOPA Internet Censorship Bill

Let’s Stop the SOPA Internet Censorship Bill

The John Birch Society ^ | November 23, 2011 | Ann Shibler

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Posted on Wednesday, January 18, 2012 6:13:57 PM by Steve_in_AZ

There certainly hasn’t been any lack of attempts by the U.S. government — elected Representatives and Senators, and White House — to try to regulate/control the Internet in this session of Congress. It seems a new cybersecurity bill pops up at least once a week. The latest one catching all the attention is the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), H.R. 3261. SOPA is a beefed-up version of the failed Protect IP Act….

David Ulevich, an expert in Internet security calls the legislation “dangerous” for three reasons: 1) “there is no way to censor only illegal content without harming legitimate uses on sites as well,” 2) it will create a firewall to “censor websites similar to those countries we criticize for the same behavior,” and 3) it will “burden companies with an onerous level of liability for all user-generated content.”

Speak out about Internet censorship by contacting your Representative and Senators immediately, as this bill is sure to see more action before the end of the year. It is a government-interference Internet bill of great magnitude that would in fact destroy the Internet as we now know it, creating a new bureaucracy with the U.S. Government as the Internet police.

Is America Worth Saving? | Veterans Today

I am not in a good mood and, perhaps, shouldn’t be writing until I get a good night’s sleep. Here goes anyway. How many remember Kate Smith singing “America the Beautiful”?

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O beautiful for patriot dream

That sees beyond the years

Thine alabaster cities gleam

Undimmed by human tears!

America! America! . . .

My God, that sounds like a bad joke!

The Red Man lived on this continent for centuries. He revered the nature of the land that his Great Spirit provided. European settlers and their government systematically massacred those native inhabitants to control the land and its resources. That’s how things were done among men for a very long time. In fact, it is still being done. We protest when it is done to us.

Today’s America does have extremes — wealth and poverty, geniuses and morons, cultured and uneducated, humanitarians and barbarians, but is overwhelmingly populated by those who are increasingly poor, usually shaved and sometimes starched, and utterly barbaric in their appetite for toys and amusement. Are these the ones for whom patriots may be willing to die in order to preserve their liberty? Perhaps it is time to take another look at all of this.

Al Garza on the Minutemen, FEMA Camps and Who Should Be Our Next President| The Post & Email

IS “HOMELAND SECURITY” UP TO THE PEOPLE?

by Sher Zieve, ©2012

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(Jan. 18, 2012) — One of the more extraordinary people of our time is a gentleman by the name of Al Garza. I recently had the distinct pleasure of interviewing this interesting man about what he has done, what he is doing now and who he plans to support in the upcoming US presidential race.

A portion of Al’s Bio reads: “Al Garza stands out as a national expert on the issues surrounding Homeland security, border security, immigration law, and the illegal immigration crisis. While originally serving as Executive Director of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps, Garza became one of the most well respected national leaders within the border security movement for building coalitions and generating interest for the movement by building dozens of state and local chapters.

“Garza continues challenging our government’s ambiguity on open border policies & enforcement of immigration laws. He laments that politicians have ignored the “Oath of Affirmation” mandating allegiance to the United States Constitution. He advocates for diplomatic sanctions against foreign countries that encourage illegal entry into the United States. Our national security incurs serious jeopardy due to politician’s dereliction of duty. We must continue reminding them that this is a nation of laws. Laws govern what the Congress is empowered to do–either to justify their actions or to demonstrate when they are unlawfully operating beyond their bounds–no matter how well intentioned.

“He praises & supports immigrants of all nationalities and without prejudice or bias. He welcomes everyone to the land of opportunity, but, he also believes in the legal process of immigration, and that no one is exempt from our laws or should receive amnesty for violating them.”

The Interview

Will the Obama Syndicate Ever be Held Responsible for its Crimes?| The Post & Email

Will the Obama Syndicate Ever be Held Responsible for its Crimes?

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ALL OF THE TRAITORS MUST GO

by Sher Zieve, ©2011

David Ogden is faux Deputy Attorney General under Eric Holder

(Oct. 12, 2011) — With the exception of Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), no one from the GOP side of the aisle seems to really care about the crimes that have been and continue to be committed by Obama and his syndicate. Instead, Congress–itself–has established its own unconstitutional “Super Congress” of twelve which essentially does away with representation of WE-the-People. Does anyone still remember “taxation without representation” that sparked the first “Tea Party?” In this way, Congress is either joining the Obama dictatorship or has formed its own totalitarian challenge to it. Either way, both Obama and the US Congress have now established their own versions of anti-Republic government. Like all petulant and/or undisciplined children, they will continue unless we–the adults–stop them. The Obama syndicate crimes, however, are escalating at a frightening pace.

The Most Criminal Regime in US History

Obama’s college transcripts hit Rush

PALM BEACH, Fla. – As pressure continues to build on Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney to release his tax records, top-rated radio host Rush Limbaugh says the former Massachusetts governor should have a ready response whenever asked about the matter.

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“Some answers ought to just roll off your tongue. Some answers ought to now just be automatic coming out of the oral cavity,” Limbaugh said today. “But Mitt appeared to be stumbling and unsure of some things when this income-tax challenge came up [in Monday's debate in South Carolina]. What Romney should have said: ‘OK, I’ll release my income tax as soon as Obama releases his college transcripts.’”

GUNNY G: 1851: KARL MARX GETS HIS FOOT IN THE AMERICAN DOOR, HORACE GREELEY; NY TRIBUNE, Etc…..

1851: KARL MARX GETS HIS FOOT…

1864: KARL MARX’s LETTER TO LINCOLN…

1864: KARL MARX…

HIS LETTER TO LINCOLN…

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Teen girls’ mystery illness now has a diagnosis: mass hysteria

Teen girls’ mystery illness now has a diagnosis: mass hysteria

MSM.com ^ | 1.18.2012 | n/a

Posted on Wednesday, January 18, 2012 3:04:01 PM by wolfcreek

The day after TODAY reported on the baffling case of 12 teenage girls at one school who mysteriously fell ill with Tourette’s-like symptoms of tics and verbal outbursts, a doctor who is treating some of the girls has come forward to offer an explanation. Dr. Laszlo Mechtler, a neurologist in Amherst, N.Y., says the diagnosis is “conversion disorder,” or mass hysteria.

“It’s happened before, all around the world, in different parts of the world. It’s a rare phenomena. Physicians are intrigued by it,” Mechtler told TODAY on Wednesday. “The bottom line is these teenagers will get better.”

Is Barack Hussein Obama II another Chester A. Arthur?

Is Barack Hussein Obama II another Chester A. Arthur?

Ref:

http://gunnyg.wordpress.com/2008/12/11/historical-breakthrough-proof-chester-arthur-concealed-he-was-a-british-subject-at-birth/

*****

(SEE READER RESPONSES, Etc.) Col SELLIN: Want to Stop Obama? Then Boycott Republican Candidates| The Post & Email

THE REPUBLICAN PARTY IS THE CENTER OF GRAVITY TO REMOVE AN ILLEGAL PRESIDENT AND FELON

by Lawrence Sellin, ©2012

Is Barack Hussein Obama II another Chester A. Arthur?

(Jan. 15, 2012) — In 2008 the Republican Party leadership joined the Democrats to violate the Constitution and allow an ineligible candidate to run for President.

Barack Hussein Obama is not a natural born citizen, that is, a US born citizen of parents who were citizens at the time of his birth. His father was never a US citizen and Obama has never been eligible for the Presidency according to Article II, Section I, Clause 5 of the Constitution and the binding Supreme Court precedent of Minor vs. Happersett (1874).

Although Obama supporters, the mainstream media and the complicit Republicans would like Americans to think so, there is no ambiguity.

If you are confused by the deliberate campaign of disinformation about Obama’s eligibility being perpetrated by Obamites, the media and members of Congress, then take the common sense test.

Is it an accident that every President since the Revolutionary era has been a natural born citizen (US born of citizen parents at the time of birth) with the exception of Obama and Chester A. Arthur, who also lied about his birth history?

As part of the disinformation campaign, Obama supporters published a fraudulent Certification of Live Birth in June, 2008 and Obama himself released a forged Certificate of Live Birth on April 27, 2011. These are felonies, as are his forged Selective Service registration and his use of a Social Security Number not issued to him.

We know that the Democrats and the mainstream media will continue to protect Obama no matter how much damage is done to the United States.

Perry under pressure to bow out, endorse another conservative

READER RESPONSE: Gunny G…

In my kindness, I had him pegged as the lessor of evils of the herd at best….but even so…I prefer he not grab over and bend his ankles for the likes of these phony Rs !!!!!

he’s better than that!

Semper Watching!

GUNNY G: NOW, WHY IN THE WORLD WOULD THE Rs WANT TO LOSE 2012 !!!!!

THE GOP WANTS TO LOSE…

Judge Andrew Napolitano Natural Rights and The Patriot Act part 1 of 3 – YouTube

Judge Andrew Napolitano Natural Rights and The Patriot Act part 1 of 3

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Prison Planet.com » SOPA Battle Rages: Tell Congress We Will Not Accept Censorship

The underhanded effort to fundamentally alter the internet under the guise of protecting the copyrights of Hollywood and its transnational “entertainment” corporations was delivered a distinct set-back a few days ago when Congress retreated on its full-steam ahead effort to ram SOPA down our throats.

Faced with massive outrage and a political backlash, the Obama administration threatened a veto of the SOPA legislation and in response Congress shelved it.

Even though this appears to be a victory, we cannot trust the government to not reintroduce the bill after sprucing it up as a kinder and gentler effort to rob of us our ability to freely disseminate information and speak our minds on the internet without fear of the censor’s truncheon crashing down. After all, in 2010 the government shut down 73,000 web sites under the cover of fighting copyright infringement.

We must continue to let our “representatives” in Congress know that in no uncertain terms will we accept any modification of the internet at the behest of large corporations and the globalists who intend by hook or by crook to neuter the only free communication medium left to the people.

Guilty jihadists target the families of Marines

Guilty jihadists target the families of Marinesthisainthell.us ^ | 1-18-12 | Not ListedPosted on Wednesday, January 18, 2012 12:58:02 PM by bayourangerThese bright and shining faces belong to three jihadists who were convicted of charges related to their terrorist activities in Federal Court in North Carolina yesterday.And they wonder why the Marines piss on their dead bodies;In Federal Court in New Bern, NC today, three would-be Islamist terrorists were found guilty of a slew of terrorism-related charges in a planned attack on unsuspecting wives and children of Marine Corps personnel residing on the sprawling Marine base in Quantico, Virginia.Ziyad Yaghi, 23; Hysen Sherifi, 27; and Mohammad Omar Aly Hassan, 24 all stood before Her Honor U.S. District Judge Louise Flanagan as they had their convictions and sentences publically read to them.Yeah, they didn’t even have the guts to target unarmed Marines on the post;[Daniel Patrick Boyd, who now goes by the name of Safallah, Arabic for "Sword of God,"]‘s bravado shone through when he was taped stating;“My father was an officer.

Prison Planet.com » Secret National Security Council Panel ‘Nominates’ U.S. Citizens For Murder

Last October, Reuters published news about a secret U.S. government panel which “nominated” militants for murder or capture, including U.S. citizens like Anwar al-Awlaki. The story peered into the opaque process by which a government bureaucracy decides to take a human life. And it was disturbing:

What Are the Strange Sounds Being Heard Worldwide? (Video)

What Are the Strange Sounds Being Heard Worldwide? (Video)

Gather ^ | January 18, 2012 | Tom Rose

Posted on Wednesday, January 18, 2012 12:43:45 PM by 2ndDivisionVet

People all over the world are reporting they are hearing strange sounds and recording them on video. A compilation of these separate incidents has been uploaded to YouTube, and one fact is chillingly clear.

Whatever these unearthly noises are, they all sound similar, and are, so far, unexplained.

It’s easy to say that these strange sounds, sometimes extremely loud, and other times seemingly far off, are the product of a hoax.

But their similarity to each other, and the fact they have been recorded in so many diverse areas of the world, leads one to believe that such a hoax is impossible to coordinate.

In the past, supernatural events, such as UFO sightings, have been largely visual in nature and reported as such. It’s only in the last few weeks that this phenomenon of strange sounds has begun to be reported and discussed.

Commenters on the video, numbering in the thousands, are in three basic camps; those who scoff and explain it away as a hoax; those who attribute the weird noises to Hollywood movie soundtracks; and those who claim to have heard the noises themselves.

It is this latter group which is claiming that the strange sounds are similar to each other and therefore not a natural occurrence.

Here’s the video:

Rick Perry: Americans should be ‘unhinged’ by decision to reject Keystone pipe path

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Rick Perry: Americans should be ‘unhinged’ by decision to reject Keystone pipe pathFox News ^ | January 18, 2012 | Nick KalmanPosted on Wednesday, January 18, 2012 12:46:14 PM by Cincinatus’ Wife…”It doesn’t surprise me but it’s again — the president’s focused more on the next election than on the next generation.”Getting this country independent of foreign sources of crude from countries that are not our friends is really problematic.

So this Canadian oil, there’s a possibility we could lose it to China with that decision so I hope Americans will really become unhinged with that decision because it is a really bad decision for our country, for energy independence and sends a horrible message at a time that were headed to $4 and $5 oil or excuse me $4 or $5 gasoline, to have a neighbor who’s willing to sell us crude that is available.

Prison Planet.com » Can Ron Paul Win as a Third Party Candidate?

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In a new poll, out yesterday, 7 out of 10 Republicans and right leaning independent voters believe Mitt Romney will be the GOP nominee for President. Click here for that poll. Does that mean it’s over for Congressman Ron Paul? I think it is safe to say it is probably a long shot he will be the Republican nominee, but what about a third party run?

Can Ron Paul win as a third party candidate? I say that is much less of a long shot, and here’s why.Let me first say, Dr. Paul has repeatedly said that he has no interest in running as a third party candidate. I do not know or have talked to anyone in his campaign. This is my objective analysis and nothing more. Ron Paul as a third party candidate would be much different than the third party candidates of the past. Conservative presidential candidate Ross Perot of the 1992 and 1996 elections predominantly took votes away from the Republican candidates. In 1992, national exit polls had Perot splitting the Republican and Democrat vote equally, but it was not split equally in every state. Click here for more on this. A president is voted in by winning each state’s Electoral College votes.

It’s a winner take all game, so every state gives a certain number to the winner of each state. Also, Perot spent millions hammering Bush in the 1992 primaries; so, Perot mostly had a negative effect on the Republicans. The ultra-liberal Ralph Nader’s third party campaign in 2000 took votes away from Al Gore, the Democrat. More than 97,000 voted for Nader in Florida alone. Gore would have easily won the election and Florida if Nader would have not run.Then there is Ron Paul.

He would, no doubt, run on a Libertarian type ticket. Paul would take votes from Republicans that think Romney is not conservative enough. After all, he has, so far, come in second in the caucuses and primaries, but that is just with the GOP. He would take a large percentage of the 40% of people who call themselves “Independent” voters. Paul also does well with young voters. In Iowa and New Hampshire, nearly half of all GOP voters under 30 voted for Dr. Paul.

You’re NOT Alone!

Do you shake your head in amazement every time you hear news reports that indicate that President Obama’s approval ratings are somewhere near fifty percent? Do you find yourself asking, “Exactly WHO are these fifty percent?” If so, you’re not alone.

If you curse each time you fill the tank on your car as you pay somewhere around $3.50 per gallon remembering that, when Obama was inaugurated, you were paying less than two dollars, you’re not alone.

If you find yourself disgusted nearly every single visit to the grocery store as you see a steady increase in price or decrease in package size (or both) of most of the products that you buy every day, you’re not alone.

If you’ve seen the value of your home continue to fall – even though the housing crisis supposedly took place several years ago, you’re not alone.

(“Internet blackout against SOPA fails to enlist big sites”) Internet Blackout Begins in Protest of SOPA and PIPA (Wikipedia, Craigslist Shut down websites)

Internet blackout against SOPA fails to enlist big sites

Read more: http://www.montrealgazette.com/business/Internet+blackout+against+SOPA+fails+enlist+sites/6013854/story.html#ixzz1jpH2kJEY

A blackout scheduled for Wednesday to protest against proposed legislation on online piracy has failed to get the support of the biggest Internet players.

“A COUP D’´ETAT?” ~ Who Is Behind Quashing the Birth Certificate Issue? « ~ BLOGGER.GUNNY.G.1984+. ~ BLOG & EMAIL (ReBlog)

A COUP D’´ETAT?Scholars and historians have documented exhaustively the Left’s obsession with 1 the acquisition of power, and 2 transforming America from a free-market, Constitution-respecting, freedom-loving, God-embracing society into a Socialist-cum-Communist “share the wealth” collective that echoes the beliefs and “values” of their heroes Marx and Engels.

Global Warming, Air Pollution and Libertarianism by Walter Block

I have been asked a series of very interesting, important and challenging questions by a loyal reader of LewRockwell.com who will remain anonymous. My thought is that these queries of his, and my responses to them, might prove to be of interest to the general readership of this web site. My answers follow these marks << and are in italics.

He begins here:The problem I have is Global Warming.Let’s ignore any scientific debate and just accept, for the sake of the argument, that emissions of carbon dioxide cause changes to the climate and those changes cause things like rising sea levels that damage property and could potentially lead to the extinction of mankind on the Earth.<< Ok. I’ll try to deal with this contrary to fact conditional, at least arguendo.I have read your essay “Environmentalism and Economic Freedom: The Case For Private Property Rights”<< Bless you, bless you. Those are the sweetest words an author can read. Here is the full cite on that publication, Block, Walter E. 1998. “Environmentalism and Economic Freedom: The Case for Private Property Rights,” Journal of Business Ethics, Vol. 17, No. 6, December, pp. 1887-1899, which can be found here or here.I can see that if I were emitting a pollutant that caused damage to the property of another the case is quite clearly an invasion of property rights and easily dealt with.<< Yes, yes, that is basic libertarian theory regarding trespass.I am not so sure about carbon dioxide. Clearly this is not a pollutant per se and does not cause any direct damage to property. If emitting carbon dioxide onto another’s land was an invasion of property rights then surely we would all have to stop breathing…..

Global Warming, Air Pollution and Libertarianism by Walter Block

I have been asked a series of very interesting, important and challenging questions by a loyal reader of LewRockwell.com who will remain anonymous. My thought is that these queries of his, and my responses to them, might prove to be of interest to the general readership of this web site. My answers follow these marks (<

The problem I have is Global Warming.

Let’s ignore any scientific debate and just accept, for the sake of the argument, that emissions of carbon dioxide cause changes to the climate and those changes cause things like rising sea levels that damage property and could potentially lead to the extinction of mankind on the Earth.

<< Ok. I’ll try to deal with this contrary to fact conditional, at least arguendo.

I have read your essay “Environmentalism and Economic Freedom: The Case For Private Property Rights”

<< Bless you, bless you. Those are the sweetest words an author can read. Here is the full cite on that publication, Block, Walter E. 1998. “Environmentalism and Economic Freedom: The Case for Private Property Rights,” Journal of Business Ethics, Vol. 17, No. 6, December, pp. 1887-1899, which can be found here or here.

I can see that if I were emitting a pollutant that caused damage to the property of another the case is quite clearly an invasion of property rights and easily dealt with.

<< Yes, yes, that is basic libertarian theory regarding trespass.

I am not so sure about carbon dioxide. Clearly this is not a pollutant per se and does not cause any direct damage to property. If emitting carbon dioxide onto another’s land was an invasion of property rights then surely we would all have to stop breathing.

<< Let me say at the outset that my mentor and guru on the entire issue of applying libertarian property rights theory to environmental challenges, as he is on so many other things as well, is Murray N. Rothbard. This article of his is, as far as I am concerned, THE best thing that has ever been written on this subject:

via Global Warming, Air Pollution and Libertarianism by Walter Block.

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“the state will be able to create a far friendlier environment for controlling the flow of information, Bill Clinton’s proposed ‘Internet Ministry of Truth’” ~The Secret Behind SOPA

Whether the justification is cybersecurity or anti-piracy, the end game remains the ability to seize control over the Internet and shut down websites on a whim.

Indeed, the is merely the act of legally codifying what is already taking place. Lieberman himself was instrumental in having the whistleblower website Wikileaks shut down when Amazon axed Wikileaks from its servers after being pressured to do so by Lieberman’s Senate Homeland Security Committee.

In addition, the Department of Homeland Security has already seized dozens of websites merely for linking to copyrighted material, despite the fact that such material isn’t even hosted on the website itself, a process the Electronic Frontier Foundation has criticized as, “Blunt instruments that cause unacceptable collateral damage to free speech rights.”

The DHS has also seized websites for no ostensible reason, including a popular music blog that was shut down for over a year on charges the DHS now admits were completely false.

While the likes of Wikipedia and Google have commendably protested against SOPA and PIPA, the big ISPs and domain name companies are firmly behind it. Indeed, the global authority over all .com domain names, VeriSign, recently demanded the power to terminate websites deemed “abusive” when ordered to by government without a court order or any kind of oversight whatsoever.

(Reader Responses) ~ Want to Stop Obama? Then Boycott Republican Candidates| The Post & Email

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The Free Republic web site has banned articles written by Colonel Sellin and revokes posting privileges to anyone who tries to do so.

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U.S. became world’s top ethanol exporter in 2011

U.S. became world’s top ethanol exporter in 2011

Fuel Fix ^ | January 18, 2012 | Simone Sebastian

Posted on Wednesday, January 18, 2012 9:38:15 AM by thackney

The United States became the world’s leading exporter of ethanol in 2011, selling a record level of the biofuel into overseas markets, according to the Renewable Fuels Association.

The nation has made a stunning about-face in its role in the global ethanol market. Just two years ago, the United States was a net importer of the fuel, which is blended into gasoline by federal mandate.

Through November, the United States exported 1.02 billion gallons of ethanol in 2011, in denatured and undenatured forms. That’s more than double the volume exported in all of 2010, about 400 million gallons, according to the Renewable Fuels Association, the ethanol industry’s trade group.

Congress Mandates the Impossible (Scroll down To Gunny G Reader Responses)

Congress Mandates the Impossible

Capitol Confidential ^ | 1/14/2012 | Russ Harding

Posted on Wednesday, January 18, 2012 8:50:51 AM by MichCapCon

Drivers are paying more at the pump than they have in any other January. While there are several reasons for the high prices, including increasing demand from developing countries and Iranian saber rattling, the federal government is doing its part to keep gasoline prices high by mandating the impossible.

According to The New York Times, companies that supply motor fuel paid $6.8 million in fines in 2011 for not using enough cellulosic derived biofuel in gasoline. The companies will face even steeper fines in 2012 when the congressional mandate to use cellulosic biofuels goes up from 6.6 million gallons to 8.65 million gallons. Companies could avoid paying the fines except for one thing — cellulosic biofuels only exist in small quantities in laboratories and are not commercially available.

There may be little sympathy for fuel companies from the motoring public, but the fines levied by the Environmental Protection Agency will invariably be passed on to motorists through higher gasoline prices. When federal lawmakers mandate the technically impossible and fine fuel companies for not complying, they are in effect levying a tax on gasoline.

The first, of hopefully many, State Representatives has drafted a resolution to reject the President’s unconstitutional authority to indefinitely detain the citizens of his state…

Good news!

The first, of hopefully many, State Representatives has drafted a
resolution to reject the President’s unconstitutional authority to
indefinitely detain the citizens of his state.

It’s not much, but it’s a start. Let’s hope this catches on in
other states.

Better yet, let’s make sure this catches on in other states…

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Prison Planet.com » It’s Over – Only Two Republican Candidates On Virginia Ballot

In the Commonwealth, real change candidate and Champion of the Constitution Ron Paul will face down establishment flip-flopper Mitt Romney

LAKE JACKSON, Texas – 2012 Republican Presidential candidate Ron Paul, the constitutionally-observant candidate of real change, will face down establishment candidate and notorious flip-flopper Mitt Romney in a head-to-head matchup in the Virginia primary.

The Fourth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals denied four candidates’ appeals to appear on the ballot after their glaring failure to comply with the Commonwealth’s stringent, but widely-known, ballot access requirements.

Former candidate Jon Huntsman and Rick Santorum did not file signatures with the Virginia State Board of Elections at all. Rick Perry and Newt Gingrich did file signatures, but fell short of qualifying. Rick Perry then brought a suit against the state challenging the ballot-access requirements to which all candidates were held, and others failing to qualify joined the suit. When the suit was struck down, an injunction was filed in part to reconcile whether and when paper ballots would be printed, and today the final decision was handed down.

Virginia is the nation’s 12th-largest state and its primary election takes place on March 6th – Super Tuesday. The absence of any other candidates on the ballot aside from Paul and Romney, including serial hypocrite Gingrich and counterfeit conservative Santorum, is sending ripple effects throughout key early voting states including South Carolina where Palmetto State voters now are concerned about how their vote will affect the nominating process going forward.

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The Whole World/India Needs a Ron Paul by Bill Sardi

I’m writing from Kolkata (the old Calcutta) India where I have spent the past few days on a business trip. Upon landing here in this endless dirt city of 40 million people I was quick to check on the economic condition of this country and was unsurprised to find it too needs a Ron Paul to warn against the consequences of rising government debt spending and centralized banking with all of its trappings of fractional lending and fiat (unlimited) paper money printing which will doom India just like it has America. While most Indians see progress, the very seeds of civil unrest, re-povertization and war are being planted.

From the top to the bottom of the economic ladder, India has troubles. India’s billionaires have shrunk by a third, from 60 to 40, in the past year while it is reported that 42 per cent of children under five were malnourished, and more than 60 per cent stunted in growth because of a shortage of food.

With a slowing rate of economic growth (down from 8.5% a year ago to an estimated 7.0% this year), India is now tempted to go the way of the USA and borrow or print more money to meet its government budget.

India’s central bank prudently implemented 13 consecutive interest rate hikes to put the brakes to India’s out of control growth and inflation. But economic and political winds are changing in India.

Rajesh Kumar Singh and John Chalmers, writing at Yahoo Finance India, claim this nation of 1-billion-plus humans “risks undermining the credibility of its economic outlook if it fails to reform its public finances.” They say “… as the cash-strapped government gears for a dramatic widening of its fiscal deficit. With a slowing economy, a sharp decline in investment and high oil prices upsetting its budget calculations, the government is under growing pressure to curb spending as it heads into the 2012/13 fiscal year.”

India is widely expected to miss its deficit target of 4.6 percent of GDP for the fiscal year that ends this March…..

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Who Rules America: Power Elite Analysis and American History by Charles A. Burris

Power Elite Analysis (also called Libertarian Class Analysis or Establishment Studies) is a theme I have repeatedly stressed at LRC to understand both present-day and past historical events. Knowledge is power. Empower yourself by learning about Power Elite Analysis and how it impacts specifically upon the welfare-warfare state and the parasitical elites which benefit from this leviathan within our midst.

In July of 2010, Angelo Codevilla’s magnificent manifesto, “The Ruling Class: How They Corrupted America and What We Can Do About It” was published initially online in The American Spectator (and later in book form). It immediately went viral on the Internet and started a widespread national conversation about America’s hubristic power elite and the arrogant way they reign over the rest of us.

When Codevilla’s article appeared I stated that it was the most important essay I had ever read. I still believe this because it is a superb synthesis of class analysis with keen insights on contemporary power elite relationships regarding today’s rulers and the ruled.

This class division of present-day America into two factions, Court and Country, has absolutely nothing to do with any Marxian view or analysis. It is a reaffirmation of the seminal insights of Bernard Bailyn’s Pulitzer Prize winning volume, The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution, and Murray N. Rothbard’s Conceived in Liberty.

These books demonstrate that the Founders’ world-view saw the crucial struggle of the Revolution as a battle of liberty versus power. Codevilla posits today’s battle in the same dramatic terms.

This is the central theme this article will develop below…..

via Who Rules America: Power Elite Analysis and American History by Charles A. Burris.

 

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Ron Paul: The Strongest Man in the World? by John DeFeo

Ron Paul is an enemy of the people. That is, in a literary sense. In 1882, Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen penned a tragicomedy that, in many ways, mirrors Dr. Ron Paul‘s political career.

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“‘An Enemy of the People‘ addresses the irrational tendencies of the masses, and the hypocritical and corrupt nature of the political system that they support. It is the story of one brave man’s struggle to do the right thing and speak the truth in the face of extreme social intolerance,” according to Wikipedia.

The protagonist of the play, Dr. Stockmann, “is taunted and denounced as a lunatic, an ‘Enemy of the People.’” In the end, the well-intentioned doctor loses his friends and reputation, but emboldens himself with these words: the strongest man in the world is the man who stands most alone.

Years ago, I’m ashamed to admit, I dismissed Ron Paul as a crazy old man. Of course, I did so without listening to anything that Dr. Paul had said or reading anything that he wrote. I was parroting what I heard from others (they were probably doing the same).

Prison Planet.com » The Secret Behind SOPA

It’s the end of the Internet as we know itPaul Joseph WatsonPrison Planet.comWednesday, January 18, 2012The secret behind SOPA, the so-called anti-piracy bill which is today the target of an unprecedented backlash with Wikileaks and other major websites ‘going dark’ to protest the legislation, has nothing to do with piracy or copyright theft – it’s about the formal effort to mimic Communist China’s system of Internet censorship.

But don’t take our word for it, listen to what Joe Lieberman, co-sponsor of PIPA, SOPA’s sister version in the Senate, said about the purpose of behind the US government’s efforts to control the Internet under the guise of cybersecurity.Lieberman characterized fears that the US government would use such powers to censor political content as “total misinformation,” yet goes on to admit that the purpose behind the agenda is to mimic China’s ability to “disconnect parts of its Internet in case of war,” adding, “we need that here too”.

Of course, Communist China’s “war” is not against foreign terrorists or hackers, it’s targeted against people who dare to use the Internet to express dissent against government atrocities or corruption. China’s system of Internet policing is about crushing freedom of speech and has nothing to do with legitimate security concerns as Lieberman well knows.Having largely failed in his bid to…..

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