5-18-12 Links

Chinese Physicists Smash Distance Record For Teleportation 放光我 (Beam me up!!!)

Flipper cleared! Dolphins are not gay or bisexual rapists after all But they keep looking at me in a gay sort of way…………

How FBI Entrapment Is Inventing ‘Terrorists’ – and Letting Bad Guys Off the Hook The Cleveland anarchists were held without bond whereas American Front, a white-supremacist group, had bail of $500.

President Obama executive order gives Treasury authority to freeze Yemeni assets in U.S. And yours too if you say anything bad about the Yemeni government.

Erasing the Nakba

Whites Account for Under Half of Births in U.S. Goodbye white people, it’s been fun but not real fun.

Federal court enjoins NDAA Wow, the good guys win one for a change. For now.

On the Eve of the NATO Summit, Is Phone Jamming Coming to Chicago? Standard Operating Procedure 303 gives “state homeland security advisors” the power to call for the “the termination of private wireless network connections.” Thanks, King George!

12% of Moms Using Phones– During Sex! There partners aren’t doing their jobs right.

Microsoft Kinect’s NUads is what the TV industry needs to survive the future What if your ads watched you while you were watching them? 1984?

Are You Facing a $10,000+ Medical-Hospital Procedure? Fly to Bangkok Plane fares are cheaper than American medicine.

Commander: Undercover Israeli Soldiers Threw Stones During Demos Who are the real terrorists out here?

Why it’s time to shut up about your rights (in one minute)

If Cops Can’t Taze a Pregnant Woman, The Terrorists Will Win The terrorists will win too if they can’t permanently blind some drunken woman who resisted arrest.

Linnet feeding on Tajinaste — José Miguel Rodríguez

Ron Paul vs. The Real ‘Tinfoil Hat’ Crowd

While Ron Paul will no longer actively campaign in the remaining state primaries, he will nevertheless continue in the delegate-winning strategy, and go to the Republican convention. Contrary to State-shilling media hoaxers and propagandists, Dr. Paul has NOT dropped out of the race, and those who hope for a future of freedom should vote in remaining primaries.

But one must wonder why Ron Paul has not received as many votes as he should have during this election campaign.

Well, one of the unfortunate consequences of democracy and especially government’s seizure of education has been the decline in critical thinking and common sense in America.

In the mainstream of America, the people love the State, and they demonize those who challenge the State’s authority, legitimacy and policies. It seems that some of those most maligned are the libertarians, particularly the Austrian economists, historical revisionists, anarcho-capitalists or market anarchists, and voluntaryists.

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Brazil and the Spirit of Liberty

My most surprising findings in Brazil, aside from the amazing fruits that I didn’t know existed because the U.S. government doesn’t think I need them, were the young American kids who have moved here to find economic opportunity. This I had not expected, but now fully understand.

Brazil is a marvelous and massive country where private wealth thrives without embarrassment, where well-protected and healthy familial dynasties form the infrastructure of social and economic life, where technology is popular and beloved by everyone, where the police leave you alone and where Americans can feel right at home.

The world is changing fast. Freedom in America is slipping away so quickly that we are already seeing a wave of young people leaving in search of new opportunities, just as people from the around the world once came to America to live the dream. Brazil is one of many countries benefiting from the generational emigration from the U.S.

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It’s Friday!!!!

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5-17-12 Links

Avenge This: US kills 500, spends $1 billion every day since 2001 in illegal Wars of Aggression War law is crystal-clear: a nation can never use its military in armed attack unless another nation’s government attacks first.

Republican Party suckles at the breast of Big Business Business interests hold inordinate sway over the legislation that affects them (Heck, their lobbyists write most of the bills).

Protesting NATO: What to Know About the Secret Service and H.R. 347 This could be the first public test of H.R. 347, the recently passed law that expanded the ability of the Secret Service to suppress protests.

Why is there so little accountability in foreign policymaking? Part of the problem is institutionalized amnesia.

Sex, Money and Largesse – The Hidden Depression The problem for American families today, despite media commentary to the contrary, is simply the inability to maintain their current standard of living.

Brave Blogger Confronts Evil Newspaper Editor Who Plagiarized His Post You know, the media folks get all self-righteous about copyright, but I’ve noticed that they’re quite willing to lift copy, and even photos, from blogs without permission.

The Peril of “Hate Crimes” It did not take long for the corrupting notion of hate crimes to degenerate into thought crime.

Sunk Costs: $1 Million in Federal Highway Money to Exhibit Shipwreck Sites in Lake Michigan Wasted tax money.

Obama’s Wall Street hypocritical adjective 1. of the nature of hypocrisy, or pretense of having virtues, beliefs, principles, etc., that one does not actually possess: The parent who has a “do what I say and not what I do” attitude can appear hypocritical to a child.

You Paid for It! Stimulus Dollars Fund Studies into Sexual History and Erectile Dysfunction Even more tax dollars wasted.

Israel Shuts Down School To Replace It With Military Training Base Who are the real terrorists out here?

The Empire Strikes Back: Attack of the Drones

Fox News Analyst: First American To Shoot Down A Domestic Spy Drone ‘Will Become A Folk Hero’ I will buy him a beer if he doesn’t get DISAPPEARED.

The practice of beheading is alive and well in modern times Few things make a greater impression on the public than seeing a severed head. That shock value is used to strike fear in enemies and ensure obedience.

Joaquin Tornel

Believing You’re Free Doesn’t Make It So

The George W. Bush Presidential Center in Washington, D.C., is holding a special event today to celebrate “the brave efforts of dissidents and activists around the world in their fight to be free.”

Wow! How exciting is that!

At least one thing’s for sure: these people aren’t going to be celebrating the brave efforts of libertarians here in the United States in our fight to be free. They wish that we libertarians would just go home and keep our mouths shut about what the federal government is doing to people not only abroad but also here at home.

The big problem is the statist mindset, the mindset held by George W. Bush and by so many Americans — a mindset that holds that that the United States is still a free country.

I’m willing to bet that at that celebration today, after the Pledge of Allegiance is recited, everyone will be singing, “Thank God I’m an American because at least I know I’m free.” And I have no doubt that most every one of them will honestly believe what he is singing. And then they’ll thank the troops in Afghanistan and other foreign nations for “defending our freedoms here at home.”

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So then Who in the Hell Are We?

“This is not a reflection of who we are or what we stand for.”
— Jeff Gearhart, Wall-Mart general counsel, on the firm’s Mexico bribery

[Torture] “is not the norm.”
— Mike Pannek, Abu Ghraib prison warden.

“This is not who we are.”
— Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on the US massacre of 16 Afghan villagers.

“This is not who we are.”
— General John Allen, commander of forces in Afghanistan, on Koran burning

“This is not who we are.”

— Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta on troops posing with enemy body parts

“This is not who we are.”
— Secretary of State Clinton, also on troops posing with enemy body parts

Spying by the New York Police on Muslims in Newark, NJ, which the Newark Police Chief was alerted to, is “not who we are”
— Newark Mayor Cory Booker

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5-16-12 Links

Another Highway Robbery “Common people do not carry this much U.S. currency.”

The Truth About JP Morgan’s $2 Billion Loss Is the creator of credit default swaps – which caused the 2008 financial crisis, and is the asset class which blew up and caused the loss.

Horrific Injuries Linked to BP Dispersant Corexit Exposure to chemical dispersants BP used in the Gulf of Mexico oil spill left a commercial diver with seizures, unable to walk and going blind – and two members of his dive team committed suicide.

Visualizing Occupation: Freedom of movement Whereas West Bank settlers can travel freely between Israel and the West Bank, Palestinian movement is governed by the Israeli security establishment. (infographic)

If Same-Sex Marriage Is so Popular, Why Does It Always Lose at the Ballot Box?

Brick & Mortar vs. Internet: Bricks Fight Back So we never know who’s going to win. As the cliché goes, that’s why we play the game.

$700 Million Bridge to the Suburbs of Nowhere Haven’t we done this before?

People just want governments to keep spending money Inter-generational child abuse.

Federal Workers’ 2011 Salary Data Exposed Online When was the last time you got a bonus in excess of $40,000?

Settlers Abduct Palestinians, Summon Them to Israeli Soldiers Who are the real terrorists out here?

Ten tax tricks (non-rich need not apply) The very very wealthy at the top of the income distribution have made out extraordinarily well in the last decade as to amount of taxes paid. And they don’t even necessarily have to cheat to do it.

A pro-fossil industrial policy? Already, the cost of algae-based biofuel purchased by the U.S. Navy has fallen by a factor of 16 in two years!

The PC Gods Must Be Crazy In 2011, this ESPN announcer said goodbye to 25 years of announcing football games for the crime of calling an asshole an asshole.

UN Openly Giving Al-Qaeda Cover In Syria To Identify Targets Al-Qaeda is the American Foreign Legion.

At 106, she doesn’t need to say cheese “I’ll box your ears,” she said to TV chef Jon Ashton.

Green Tree Python — Thor E Hakonsen

Mitt Romney: The Foreign Policy of Know-Nothingism

Dave Lawrence (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney has become the inevitable Republican Party presidential nominee. Despite the weak economy, he faces an uphill race. It’s never easy to defeat an incumbent president. Moreover, Romney can’t rely on the GOP’s traditional foreign-policy advantage.

Throughout the Cold War Republicans posed as the party of national defense. That stance served the GOP well until the wreck of George W. Bush’s presidency. The public rallied around President Bush when he ordered the invasion of Iraq but soured when it became clear that the war was an unnecessary disaster begun on a lie.

Republican politicians continue to beat the war drums. All of this cycle’s GOP presidential contenders, save Rep. Ron Paul, charged President Barack Obama with weakness, indeed, almost treason. But the public isn’t convinced. The president who increased military spending, twice upped troop levels in Afghanistan, started his own war with Libya, talked tough to North Korea, loudly threatened Iran and Syria, and oversaw the hit on Osama bin Laden just doesn’t look like a wimp.

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Creating Jobs versus Creating Value

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Picking on New York Times columnist Paul Krugman is one of the largest participation sports on the Internet. And rightfully so, since he often says ridiculous things that demand a response from those who understand basic economics better than he does, despite his having won a Nobel Prize. His January 26 column, “Jobs, Jobs and Cars,” has him once again making such an argument. This time it’s on the subject of job creation.

Krugman claims that the Republican argument for the importance of job creation relies too heavily on the “heroic entrepreneur” rather than recognizing that “successful companies—or, at any rate, companies that make a large contribution to a nation’s economy—don’t exist in isolation.” For Krugman this means there’s plenty of help from government. Although I can’t speak for all Republican politicians, I can say that Krugman’s view of the argument for free markets is utterly mistaken.

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