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"As I told the crowd in Philadelphia, quit waiting for leaders to lead. . .you might not like where they are taking you." Kevin Miller produced the excellent video We Become Silent (featuring Ron Paul) on the CODEX ALIMENTARIUS and Health Freedom. His Blog starts with this entry and should be a very good source of health freedom information.
http://kevinpmiller.blogspot.com/2005/11/wisdom-of-common-people.html
"Davis 'wasn't doing anything wrong,' notes Johnson. 'She wasn't suspected of doing anything wrong. She was a completely innocent person on the way to work.' Johnson plans to argue that the ID requirement violates Davis' First Amendment right to freedom of association, her Fourth Amendment right to be secure against unreasonable searches and seizures, and her Fifth Amendment right not to be deprived of liberty (in this case, freedom of travel) without due process."
http://www.reason.com/sullum/113005.shtml
"Begun in Northampton, Mass., in November 2001, the Bill of Rights Defense Committee, led by Nancy Talanian, has been instrumental in the national organizing of these resolutions to Congress - through a subsequent alliance with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and a range of conservative libertarian organizations. ."
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?BRD=1300&dept_id=374730&newsid=15674889&PAG=461&rfi=9
"What we are looking at is an economy that is coming unglued from the loss of jobs that provide ladders of upward mobility and from massive trade and budget deficits that are resulting in unsustainable growth in indebtedness to foreigners. The consumer price index measures inflation at 4.3 percent over the past year. Many people, experiencing household budgets severely impacted by fuel prices and grocery bills, find this figure unrealistically low."
http://www.counterpunch.org/roberts12032005.html
"The unasked question is why was finding this strain front-page news? My suspicion is that it was because it was an Amish child; a large number of the Amish choose to not vaccinate their children. A confirmation would serve a dual purpose: to make an 'example' of the Amish and scare parents into believing polio still being 'in circulation,' when in fact, it is not."
http://www.newswithviews.com/Tenpenny/sherri3.htm
"We are all less secure in our homes than we were before the case was decided. However, it must be pointed out that this case did not come out of the blue. The majority relied on Court precedents. In 1954 the Court unanimously upheld Washington, D.C.'s, taking of a department store as part of a plan to replace a blighted neighborhood, although some of the land would be turned over to private parties (Berman v. Parker)."
http://www.fff.org/freedom/fd0509b.asp
"Just as capitalism can have multiple definitions, so can socialism. To many, including myself when I was young and somewhat more foolish than I am now, socialism has been synonymous with State Socialism, of either the Marxist or Fabian 'social democratic' variety. That's not the whole story, though… The American individualist anarchists of the 19th century considered themselves 'socialists' and also accepted that what they wanted was best summarized as 'a free market'." A long blog entry, but one well worth reading.
http://www.bradspangler.com/blog/archives/187
"As Socrates himself found, the decision to deploy the argument from morality should not be taken lightly. Asking fundamental moral questions makes many people become frightened, scornful or outright hostile. It is though, in my view, the only way that we can win the fight for freedom. Since society makes all of its fundamental decisions based on moral premises, our only chance for success is to undermine and change those moral premises -- which requires the skillful, persistent and consistent application of the argument from morality."
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig6/molyneux7.html
"Where Marx held that the class struggle was between the proletariat (workers) and capitalists (owners), the earlier French liberals got to the root of the real class war, one they saw as being between the productive class (those who gain wealth through the marketplace) and the political class (those who parasitically draw their wealth through machinations of the State)."
http://wconger.blogspot.com/2005/11/french-liberals-contra-marx.html
"[D]ecentralized networks of affinity groups are not only good for bringing down existing centralized hierarchies; they're also good for replacing them as tools for self-governance. Over thirty years ago, Ivan Illich wrote about the potential of decentralized learning networks for replacing the state's top-down schooling machinery. ... Karl Hess, in roughly the same period, coauthored the outstanding Neighborhood Power with David Morris. So imagine how the cyber-revolution of the subsequent three decades boosts the potential for such self-managed networks."
http://mutualist.blogspot.com/2005/11/making-ourselves-ungovernable-part-ii.html
"Saving Iraq will require the Bush administration to alter its fundamental goal in Iraq: a unified country. Iraq is an artificial country that has been held together over the years by the brute force of dictators. It is now being held together only by a foreign military. As that military exits, Iraq will break apart one way or another. In fact, with all of the armed factions policing parts of Iraq, the country already has a de facto partition."
http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1624
"Since last year, support for both the PQ [Parti Québécois] and sovereignty seem to have regained some strength. A poll by Ekos Research Associates this month shows that 56 per cent of respondents would vote Yes in a referendum favouring Quebec's independence. An October survey by The Strategic Counsel revealed that 49 per cent of respondents in Quebec would approve holding another referendum on secession."
http://www.angus-reid.com/analysis/index.cfm/fuseaction/viewItem/itemID/10027
"From the image of the president as benevolent father-figure, we have come, in the historical blink of an eye that marks the time since the days of Dwight Eisenhower, to the chief executive as a reckless and wanton destroyer -- not Zeus, but Loki. … We are, all of us, George W. Bush's hostages, and, what's especially scary is that we don't know what he's going to do next."
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=8185
"By unleashing the CIA, the Bush administration--having steadily cut down our constitutional rights and liberties at home--keeps striving to export its lawlessness abroad in this crucial war on terrorism. As facts on the ground documenting our use of torture keep mounting, Bush's repeated incantation of the democratic values we want to support around the world become increasingly hypocritical in what is obviously and ultimately a war of ideas."
http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0549,hentoff,70638,6.html
"Our concerns need to be directed at what happens here in the US. Bush's war against Iraq might be over, but the police state Bush built at home is still in place. On November 27 Walter Pincus reported in the Washington Post that the Pentagon is expanding its domestic surveillance activity and that all sorts of proposals are afoot to allow military agencies to spy on law-abiding Americans and to build secret dossiers on citizens. The demand for police state powers is said to be necessary in order to fight the 'war on terror'."
http://www.counterpunch.org/roberts11282005.html
"The War Party, backed into a corner, is snarling its defiance at the American people: far from pulling back, they are barreling full speed ahead with their messianic mission. Led by a president who believes God has chosen him to carry out His divine will, we are headed to Syria, to Iran, and perhaps a lot further afield than that. Confronted with an increasingly assertive Congress, the strategy is to reframe the debate in terms of supporting the troops or failing to do so. This president is daring Congress to cut off the funds that make this war possible -- and counting on their cowardly refusal to do so."
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=8198
"Now, after so much clear evidence has emerged to discredit the entire U.S. war effort, Colin Powell still can't bring himself to stand up and account for his crucial role."
http://www.counterpunch.org/solomon11302005.html
"[T]he hard rain on our fundamental liberties has been persistently increasing since the White House rammed through the Patriot Act soon after 9-11. This nation has survived grave constitutional crises before, but recent events in the U.S. Senate that further strengthen and deepen presidential powers are reason to be alarmed at what can follow under the present administration." [TE: I'm surprised that Hentoff had any belief in McCain.]
http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0548,hentoff,70431,6.html
"To help solve design problems, we should look to nature. For example, ants could help with traffic patterns, bees could provide insights on aerodynamics, and skunk cabbage may reveal new ways to regulate temperature."
http://search.csmonitor.com/search_content/1201/p16s01-sten.html
"Even air pollution presents profit opportunities. That's potential wealth going up the smokestack. Whoever can find a way to capture that lost energy or unused material stands to reap large profits. Of course, if someone can pollute and not bear the expense, he might do it."
http://www.fff.org/comment/com0512a.asp
"Your medicine really could work better if your doctor talks it up before handing over the prescription. Research is showing the power of expectations, that they have physical -- not just psychological -- effects on your health. Scientists can measure the resulting changes in the brain, from the release of natural painkilling chemicals to alterations in how neurons fire."
http://www.livescience.com/humanbiology/ap_051128_placebo.html
"Such demeaning views of parenthood only heighten fears of compulsory attendance even in proposals that are currently voluntary. Such fear is stoked by a raging debate in the U.K. over a bill based on research by its Department of Education. The bill would require children to enter a government program of supervision and education from birth."
http://www.ifeminists.net/introduction/editorials/2005/1130.html
"The benefits, in Smith's estimate, were the monopoly profits that British merchants had on sales to consumers in the colonies. The costs that Britons bore were the costs of using the military to defend that monopoly."
http://www.antiwar.com/henderson/?articleid=8159
"From the perspective of the modern Chinese state, currency speculators are no different from the northern barbarians who took on Emperor Han Wudi -- these predatory opportunists have no interests in the long-term ownership of factors of production and they produce little by way of goods of utility. The only way to deal with such scoundrels: Keep Them Out!"
http://www.mises.org/story/1969
"The state is a protection racket, not much different in kind from any organized crime syndicate. Just as the state fails in its ancillary functions, such as schooling and caring for the poor, so does it fail in its advertised primary function as an institution of protection. That's why it's a racket. That's why it's a fraud."
http://lewrockwell.com/gregory/gregory100.html
"The seeds of this catastrophe were planted in 1898 when the USA declared war on Spain to 'liberate' Cuba. When it tried to 'Christianize' Catholic Philippines in the early 1900's, when it tried to 'make the world safe for Democracy' in World War I, when it founded the United Nations in 1945. When it dropped nuclear bombs on Japan and elevated the Presidency to an office of absolute power. When it built the Pentagon and gave it mega-budgets, and when it established the CIA, NSA, and other alphabet bureaucracies."
http://www.partialobserver.com/article.cfm?id=1688
"It is the war that must be preserved and, with it, the idea that there is a huge threat from 'Islamofascism' that cries out for a military solution and requires bigger and more intrusive government. A lot of phoney-baloney government jobs and defense contracts depend on keeping the war machine revved up. A lot of power is at stake."
http://emergencybackupdog.blogspot.com/2005/12/bush-is-expendable.html
"The 1924 election indicates the extent to which the Klan was entangled with the progressives. For that was the year of the Democrats' infamous 'klanbake' convention, when Klansmen participated heavily as delegates and blocked a platform plank that would have condemned their order. They also entered the presidential race, mostly to oppose the candidacy of Al Smith, who as an anti-prohibitionist and a Catholic was anathema to the group, but also to back a candidate of their own. ... [T]hey endorsed the Californian William McAdoo, son-in-law to the late President Wilson."
http://www.reason.com/links/links120205.shtml
"Public-school proponents would have us believe that the average person was delighted by the appearance of compulsory schooling, but the historical record tells a different story (it was actually teachers and bureaucrats who lobbied hardest). Most people, particularly average, working-class people, were highly suspicious of a government-school regime."
http://www.fff.org/freedom/fd0509e.asp
"I'm very curious about Joe's guess ('so that vending machines or parking meters can judge when you've put $1 in'). I doubt very much it's the main reason, but I'd like to look into how vending machines work and whether they were already prevalent in the age of silver coins. My own sense of the main reason for consistent coin weight is implicit in my answer to the question 'Why do dimes and quarters still have milled edges?'"
http://www.bkmarcus.com/blog/2005/12/buck-is-buck-is-buck.html
"This is counterfactual history at its best and he sets out what he believes the rest of the 20th century would have been like if the soldiers had been able to cause the Christmas Truce of 1914 to stop the war at that point. Like many other historians, he believes that with an early end of the war in December of 1914, there probably would have been no Russian Revolution, no Communism, no Lenin, and no Stalin. Furthermore, there would have been no vicious peace imposed on Germany by the Versailles Treaty, and therefore, no Hitler, no Nazism and no World War II. With the early truce there would have been no entry of America into the European War and America might have had a chance to remain, or return, to being a Republic rather than moving toward World War II, the "Cold" War (Korea and Vietnam), and our present status as the world bully."
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig2/denson4.html
"More than most professions, the military lives in a world defined by idealism. ... Journalists are not idealists. Cynical, weary of being lied to, having seen the fraud and self-interest that underlie, as they come to see it, almost everything, they regard the soldiery as a riverboat gambler might regard the Boy Scouts. The soldiery regard the press as a Boy Scout might regard a riverboat gambler."
http://www.fredoneverything.net/SoldiersAndPress.shtml
"In a fluid situation, it can be unwise to be tied to strict timetables or preset tactics. But strategic thinking that seeks success on the ground rather than reassuring sound bites would consider the possibility (or the likelihood, even the near-certainty) that U.S. troops are an aggravating factor rather than a stabilizing factor, and at least discuss how to take that possibility into account."
http://www.antiwar.com/bock/?articleid=8195
"Blake had great hopes for the American and French revolution and wore a red liberty cap in solidarity with the French revolutionaries, but despaired with the rise of Robespierre and the Reign of Terror in the French revolution."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Blake
"After Bathers at Asnières Seurat started working on another large canvas A Sunday on La Grande Jatte, in which he was to create a new style and also to found an artistic movement, called variously Neo-Impressionism, Pointillism or Divisionism, the last term preferred by Seurat."
http://www.abcgallery.com/S/seurat/seuratbio.html
"It was in a New York club that Hendrix was spotted by Animals bassist Chas Chandler. The first lineup of the Animals was about to split, and Chandler, looking to move into management, convinced Hendrix to move to London and record as a solo act in England. There a group was built around Jimi, also featuring Mitch Mitchell on drums and Noel Redding on bass, that was dubbed the Jimi Hendrix Experience."
http://www.mtv.com/bands/az/hendrix_jimi/bio.jhtml
"War Classic" stars Sean Penn, Jim Caviezel, Nick Nolte, Elias Koteas, Ben Chaplin and Miranda Otto, directed by Terrence Malik. "Antiwar films seem always relevant, but particularly so lately. In this film several characters comment on the cruelty of nature. Indeed, nature can show cruelty. However, The Thin Red Line depicts war, not an earthquake or hurricane. Men create war."
http://endervidualism.com/agora/thin_red_line_1998.htm
"IGN FilmForce has heard that, although it was very disappointed in the poor boxoffice showing for Serenity, Universal may not have retired Captain Malcolm Reynolds and his renegade crew just yet." There's also a small piece at Rotten Tomatoes hinting that the next piece of the Firefly saga will be on SciFi.
http://filmforce.ign.com/articles/673/673102p1.html
"James Cawley, who plays Kirk, and director Jack Marshall are the cocreators of Star Trek: New Voyages. They are repairing a rift in the space-time continuum, fixing the most glaring flaw in the history of science fiction. As every geek in the galaxy knows, Captain Kirk and the crew of the USS Enterprise set out on a five-year mission to explore strange new worlds."
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.12/startrek.html?pg=1&topic=startrek&topic_set=
"Goss lamented the fact that the public will probably never know the particulars of such historic events as the Cold War, the civil-rights movement, or the growth of the international drug trade. 'I'm sure the CIA played major roles in all these things,' Goss said. 'But now we'll never know for sure.' In addition to clouding the historical record, the use of the black highlighters, also known as 'permanent markers,' may have encumbered or even prevented critical operations."
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/43014
President Bush offered a stirring wartime oratory similar to FDR's Fireside PDF Downloads.
http://www.comedycentral.com/sitewide/media_player/play.jhtml?itemId=35677
"Additionally, all livestock must be branded and ear-clipped and RFID-embedded and AKC-style registered so they can be tracked for mad cow or mad pig or mad sheep or bonkers goat diseases, and tested for chicken flu and duck flu and goose flu and cuckoo flew and chimney flue. Trade under contemporary Interstate Commerce Clause laws is designed to keep lawyers' cowhide billfolds from running empty."
http://www.freecannon.com/FreeTrade.htm
This essay gives a great view of a fine film director. Elia Kazan is one of my favorite directors and Wild River one of my most loved films. This quote from the movie included in the essay catches some of the flavor of both, "Later on, in a declaration of stubborn independence at his insistence that the river needs to be tamed for the common good, she [Ella] says to him [Glover], 'I like things running wild. I’m agin' dams of any kind…and I ain't a-crawlin’ for no damn government' "
http://www.lewrockwell.com/wall/wall30.html
"Death penalty supporters will argue, as death penalty supporters often argue, that a man like Stan Williams deserves to be treated the way he's being treated. He deserves to die. He deserves the fate that a jury has sealed for him, for sealing the fates of four innocent souls some 20-plus years ago. He hasn't shown remorse, they've noticed. He hasn't admitted his guilt. And besides: He's a murderer. All true. But this line of thinking asks the wrong questions."
http://www.freeliberal.com/archives/001695.html
"Any thoughtful observer of modern life is well aware that life can sometimes feel like an endurance contest. Daily existence is laced with problems. Each of us must, at one time or another, wrestle with these difficulties. ... At these dark crystalline moments in our lives, we can not only benefit from an uplifting of our spirits, we need such a rejuvenation if we are to continue existing as fully functioning human beings."
http://home.earthlink.net/~rdmadden/webdocs/Fuel_For_Soul_Long.html
"The spirit of Christmas caught the spirit of Hardyville. Suddenly, instead of the traditional sugarplums, TiVos, lumps of coal, fruitcakes, bloody-slaughter video games, over-priced status gifts, and various other items you wouldn't wear, eat, play with, decorate with, or otherwise use if your life depended on it, Santa was stressing practicality, back-to-basics, and (of course) firepower."
http://www.backwoodshome.com/columns/wolfe051201.html
"The primary beneficiaries of so-called McJobs are people who enter the workforce with modest or absent work skills in areas such as: being able to show up for work on time, operating a machine, counting change, greeting customers with decorum and courtesy, cooperating with fellow workers and accepting orders from supervisors. Very often the people who need these job skills, which some of us might trivialize, are youngsters who grew up in dysfunctional homes and attended rotten schools. It's a bottom rung on the economic ladder that provides them an opportunity to move up."
http://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/walterwilliams/2005/11/30/177146.html
"Many assume that, because the Internet grew out of the Pentagon's Advanced Research Projects Agency, it could only have been created by government. Yet FidoNet--which still exists--proved that dedicated amateurs, mostly working on shoestring budgets, could cobble together a globe-spanning network in their spare time."
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