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What Libertarians Get Wrong About American History
Post Date: 2017-07-08 01:11:19 by Gatlin
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American history is not an essentially libertarian story. Understanding history as best we can is important for obvious reasons. It’s particularly important for libertarians who want to persuade people to the freedom philosophy. In making their case for individual freedom, mutual aid, social cooperation, foreign nonintervention, and peace, libertarians commonly place great weight on historical examples most often drawn from the early United States. So if they misstate history or draw obviously wrong conclusions, they will discredit their case. Much depends therefore on getting history right. Libertarians naturally sense that their philosophy will be easier to sell to the public if ...
DEA Allowed Criminal Cops to Build Their Own Drug Empires for Over a Decade
Post Date: 2017-07-08 00:17:30 by Deckard
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New Orleans, LA — For over a decade, agents with a New Orleans-based DEA task force sold drugs, intimidated informants and stole cash on the job with total impunity. According to the Advocate, Chad Scott, the former leader of the task force has been fired in the midst of the investigation. It was reported that Scott and some of the officers working under him had a massive operation selling painkillers and that they would sometimes sell other drugs that they managed to steal from dealers during raids. “There were a series of complaints that went back years. This is a guy who probably shouldn’t have been allowed to run his own task force,” an anonymous law enforcement ...
The Libertarian Delusion
Post Date: 2017-07-07 22:45:32 by Gatlin
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The stubborn appeal of the libertarian idea persists, despite mountains of evidence that the free market is neither efficient, nor fair, nor free from periodic catastrophe. In an Adam Smith world, the interplay of supply and demand yields a price that signals producers what to make and investors where to put their capital. The more that government interferes with this sublime discipline, the more bureaucrats deflect the market from its true path. But in the world where we actually live, markets do not produce the “right” price. There are many small examples of this failure, but also three immense ones that should have discredited the libertarian premise by now. Global climate ...
Transgender Men in Women’s Showers Must Get ‘Dignity and Respect,’ Says U.S. Army
Post Date: 2017-07-07 16:51:25 by cranky
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Female soldiers must give “dignity and respect” to transsexual men who join them in their shared shower rooms, according to training manuals leaked by soldiers in a mandatory class. But this “dignity and respect” is a one-way street, according to the training slides, which were developed by officials working for former President Barack Obama. “Transgender Soldiers are not required or expected to modify or adjust their behavior based on the fact that they do not ‘match’ other Soldiers,” according to the slides, which were first leaked by TheFederalist.com: The insistence that women remain mute when a man enters their shower room “shows a lack ...
They hate the US government, and they're multiplying: the terrifying rise of ...
Post Date: 2017-07-07 16:38:00 by Gatlin
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They hate the US government, and they're multiplying: the terrifying rise of 'sovereign citizens' On 20 May 2010, a police officer pulled over a white Ohio minivan on Interstate 40, near West Memphis, Arkansas. Unbeknown to officer Bill Evans, the occupants of the car, Jerry Kane Jr, and his teenage son, Joseph Kane, were self-described “sovereign citizens”: members of a growing domestic extremist movement whose adherents reject the authority of federal, state and local law. Kane, who traveled the country giving instructional seminars on debt evasion, had been posing as a pastor. Religious literature was laid out conspicuously for anyone who might peer into the van, ...
Things Get Hot for Michael Mann
Post Date: 2017-07-07 15:08:43 by Tooconservative
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Michael Mann has stepped into a methane-emitting cowpile. Mann is the Penn State climatologist famous for inventing the "hockey stick" graph promoting the notion that planetary temperatures spiked in the 20th century after a Golden Age of stasis. This graph was misleading at a minimum, the product of what Phil Jones, director of the Climate Research Unit of East Anglia termed "Mike's Nature trick" to "hide the decline." What Mann did was splice two separate data sets together to create the illusion of spiking temperatures; the graph spliced data sets together without differentiation, hiding the global temperature "decline" shown ...
Watch biggest explosion EVER on Moon as NASA warns we could be next
Post Date: 2017-07-07 14:57:15 by redleghunter
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A METEOR with the explosive power of TEN cruise missiles has struck the Moon – sparking a massive explosion visible with the naked eye. And terrifyingly the 56,000 mph collision – captured by NASA scientists highlighting the catastrophic danger planet earth faces from similar meteors – was caused by a space rock weighing no more than 88 lbs (40 kilos). Despite the meteor’s tiny proportions – about the size of a small boulder and the weight of an average 10-year-old boy – the impact damage was colossal and the explosion shone with the brightness of a magnitude 4 star. A similar strike against a city on earth would create a crater 65feet (20m) deep and create a ...
END OF WORLD WARNING: Watch biggest explosion EVER on Moon as NASA warns we could be next
Post Date: 2017-07-07 14:52:25 by cranky
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A METEOR with the explosive power of TEN cruise missiles has struck the Moon – sparking a massive explosion visible with the naked eye. And terrifyingly the 56,000 mph collision – captured by NASA scientists highlighting the catastrophic danger planet earth faces from similar meteors – was caused by a space rock weighing no more than 88 lbs (40 kilos). Despite the meteor’s tiny proportions – about the size of a small boulder and the weight of an average 10-year-old boy – the impact damage was colossal and the explosion shone with the brightness of a magnitude 4 star. The moon was struck by a meteor creating the an explosion visible with the naked eye A ...
Tax Collectors In Florida Openly Carry Guns, While Public Is Banned From Doing So
Post Date: 2017-07-07 13:22:28 by Deckard
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Tax collectors in Florida are now publicly announcing the values of being armed when demanding money from citizens. The only problem is that the state bans open carry for civilians that the tax collectors are stealing money from. If you’re leery about government intervention in your life, and you know that taxation is theft, this article will probably strike a nerve. However, on the other hand, if you revile and worship the government which steals from you and creates edicts you must follow under threats of violence using your stolen money, you’ll love what they are doing down in the Sunshine state. “A Central Florida tax collector says a new policy will allow his employees ...
Obama’s Legacy in Africa: How Libya, a Prosperous Nation in Africa was Destroyed by America’s First African-American President
Post Date: 2017-07-07 13:12:08 by Anthem
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Barack Obama’s last day of pillaging the earth is on January 20th, 2017. The Obama administration’s era of “hope and change” has come to a close. The last 8 years with Obama has led to more wars of aggression that has caused countless deaths and destruction of numerous sovereign nations. Obama will be gone into the pages of history as warmongering Commander-in Chief just like his predecessor before him, George W. Bush. Obama kept his promises to his corporate masters not to the people who had high hopes for change in domestic and foreign policies. Obama will be remembered as the president who authorized the destruction of Libya, Syria, Yemen, Somalia, the Ukraine and ...
What’s bigger than the Trump-Putin meet? This is [LNG sales to Europe]
Post Date: 2017-07-07 12:43:09 by Tooconservative
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Media will focus overwhelming attention today on the G-20 economic summit in Germany for the initial encounter between President Trump and Russia’s Vladimir Putin. We previously explored here what’s at stake in that encounter. But from a lasting economic standpoint, folks, what happened Thursday in Poland and tomorrow in Britain could be much more important. In Warsaw, as Ed Morrissey points out, Trump offered leaders from Poland and numerous other European countries long-term LNG deals to diversify their supplies and avoid creating undesirable political leverage with a certain large country to the East that has not hesitated to cut off natural gas supplies for political reasons. ...
Rachel Maddow: Someone is shopping fake documents showing collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia
Post Date: 2017-07-07 12:31:00 by Tooconservative
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Worth your time if you can spare it to watch the whole thing, but if not, pick up the clip below at around 9:40 when she’s explaining how nearly invisible dots left on a printed document can identify which printer produced it. Remember a few weeks ago when the feds busted Reality Winner for allegedly sending a top-secret NSA report on Russian hacking to The Intercept? The Intercept made the mistake of publishing the actual document she sent them, making it easy for the feds to scrutinize the dots on it and figure out in short order who had accessed the printer it came from. Lo and behold, shortly after Winner was arrested, Maddow received a different top-secret document showing a ...
Jimmy Carter: The U.S. Is an “Oligarchy With Unlimited Political Bribery”
Post Date: 2017-07-07 10:31:13 by Anthem
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Former president Jimmy Carter said Tuesday on the nationally syndicated radio show the Thom Hartmann Program that the United States is now an “oligarchy” in which “unlimited political bribery” has created “a complete subversion of our political system as a payoff to major contributors.” Both Democrats and Republicans, Carter said, “look upon this unlimited money as a great benefit to themselves.” Carter was responding to a question from Hartmann about recent Supreme Court decisions on campaign financing like Citizens United. Transcript: HARTMANN: Our Supreme Court has now said, “unlimited money in politics.” It seems like a violation of ...
New Report Considers The Problems That Could Arise From Sex Robots
Post Date: 2017-07-07 08:35:18 by cranky
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A new report from the Foundation for Responsible Robotics considers the problems that could arise from sex robots, including social isolation, love, prostitution, and pedophilia. “Would people have sex with a robot?,” “What kind of relationship could we have with a sex robot?,” “Will robot sex workers and bordellos be acceptable?,” “Will sex robots change societal perceptions of gender?,” “Could intimacy with robots lead to greater social isolation?,” “Could robots help with sexual healing and therapy?,” and “Would sex robots help to reduce sex crimes?” are all questions included in the 44-page report.“In 2017 most ...
Recordings Reveal FBI Gave Man a Rifle, Urged Him to Carry Out Mass Shooting to ‘Defend Islam’
Post Date: 2017-07-07 08:33:26 by Deckard
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It’s become a near-weekly occurrence. Somewhere in some state, the FBI will announce that they’ve foiled yet another terrorist plot and saved lives. However, as the data shows, the majority of these cases involve psychologically diminished patsies who’ve been entirely groomed, armed, and entrapped by FBI agents. Simply put, the FBI manufactures terror threats and then takes credit for stopping them. But what happens when they take it too far? What happens if the FBI actually tells someone to conduct a mass shooting? Well, in Milwaukee, WI, we are seeing this unfold first hand. A little over two years ago, Samy Mohamed Hamzeh, 25, found himself in the midst of ...
FOIA Docs Show CIA/Pentagon Made 1,800 Movies, TV Shows To Make America Love War
Post Date: 2017-07-07 08:26:40 by Deckard
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Hollywood magic doesn’t percolate only in the minds of legendary producers and acclaimed directors to be brought to life on the big and television screens where actors’ adept performances capture our imaginations; rather, if the plot pertains to the military, it’s more than likely the Department of Defense had a hand in the script. From Meet the Parents and America’s Got Talent, to Cupcake Wars and Zero Dark Thirty — even Iron Man, Oprah, Patriot Games, and the James Bond thriller, Tomorrow Never Dies — if the production pertains to the War Machine or Surveillance State, it’s a veritable guarantee ...
If You’re Still Flying, Well, Hang Onto Your Britches
Post Date: 2017-07-07 08:14:02 by Deckard
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You may remember that last March, the TSA threatened passengers with “a more ‘comprehensive’ physical screening” which “will be more thorough and may involve an officer making more intimate contact than before.” So “thorough,” in fact, that “the agency is warning local police departments that they may see an uptick in reports related to these up close and personal examinations.” As usual in the TSA’s warped world, it was punishing passengers for the failures of its thugs and perverts: “The change [was] partly a result of the agency’s study of a 2015 report that criticized aspects of TSA screening procedures. That audit, ...
“There’s Something Happening Here – What It Is Ain’t Exactly Clear”
Post Date: 2017-07-07 08:09:43 by Deckard
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Listen to this intriguing interview with John L. Potash, author of Drugs As Weapons Against Us: The CIA’s Murderous Targeting of SDS, Panthers, Hendrix, Lennon, Cobain, Tupac and Other Leftists. Taken together with the crucial backstory provided by the late David McGowan’s highly-acclaimed underground revisionist classic on the 1960s-1970s counter-culture’s effect on American rock’ n’ roll music, Weird Scenes Inside the Canyon: Laurel Canyon, Covert Ops and the Dark Heart of the Hippie Dream, all one can say is that in the immortal words of the Buffalo Springfield’s For What Its Worth — “There’s Something Happening Here – ...
Shooting at Robert Lavoy Finicum and Lying About It is Business as Usual for the Feds
Post Date: 2017-07-07 08:04:20 by Deckard
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Last week saw the indictment of FBI Special Agent W. Joseph Astarita for lying about shots he'd fired during the January 26, 2016 killing of Robert Lavoy Finicum. The Oregonian noted that the prosecution of FBI agents for their official conduct is almost unheard of. The unusual charges were "devastating" to the FBI, commented Danny Coulson, a former head of the bureau's Oregon office. Well, maybe the indictment is so devastating because federal agents are rarely punished for brutal and dishonest behavior. Interestingly, Coulson created and led the FBI's Hostage Rescue Team—the elite force to which Astarita belongs—during the bloody 1992 Ruby Ridge fiasco. He ...
News chopper spots the body of small plane crash victim being EATEN by an alligator in the Florida Everglades
Post Date: 2017-07-07 07:42:48 by cranky
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Single-engine Cessna 152 was found in a swampy area near HomesteadThe FAA said the pilot was only person on plane; his name has not been releasedWPLG news crew spotted an alligator devouring the crash victim's body Plane was registered to Air Christian Inc. and flight school owner, Robert Dean, said the pilot took off on an unauthorized flight alone on Saturday at 8.40pmDean reported what happened to the FBI on Wednesday before wreck was found An alligator was spotted by a news crew in a helicopter next to the wreckage of a small airplane crash in the Florida Everglades devouring the victim's body.The single-engine Cessna 152 was found in a swampy area roughly seven miles west of ...
How FDR's Racism Gave Democrats the Black Vote
Post Date: 2017-07-07 07:38:06 by A K A Stone
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The Democratic Party is the party of racism. However, leftists argue that during the 20th century, racist Democrats either magically renounced their ways or became Republicans. This shift is attributed partially to Franklin Delano Roosevelt, but as Dinesh D’Souza reveals in Hillary’s America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party, FDR enabled racism. The most glaringly obvious example of this is FDR’s appointment of James Byrnes and Hugo Black to the Supreme Court. James Byrnes, a South Carolinian and the only man to serve in all three branches of government, likely would’ve been a Klansmen were it not his ties to Catholicism. Hugo Black was a Klansmen who admitted ...
The Big Idea - The End of the Libertarian Dream?
Post Date: 2017-07-06 22:02:19 by Gatlin
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Long on the fringes of American politics, small-government conservatives were closer than ever to mainstream acceptance. Then two things happened: Donald Trump and Jihadi John. Justin Amash can’t seem to concentrate. His eyes keep drifting toward the TV behind me, mounted on the wall inside his congressional office. The 36-year-old representative from Michigan, who arrived in Washington six years ago as a self- described libertarian Republican, is rattling off a list of concerns about the newly inaugurated president, but he is distracted by C-SPAN’s programming: Mick Mulvaney, his close friend and colleague from South Carolina—and a similarly libertarian-minded ...
The CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite - 3/17/77 - pt. 1!
Post Date: 2017-07-06 20:31:31 by A K A Stone
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What Happened To Ron Paul Supporters In The Age Of Trump
Post Date: 2017-07-06 19:45:18 by Gatlin
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To understand what is currently going on in the minds of Ron Paul enthusiasts in the age of President Donald Trump, we must first understand what Paul represented as both a congressman and a presidential candidate. We must also understand that, at the height of Paul’s popularity during the 2012 presidential campaign, Paul’s appeal was such that both tea party patriots and young, pot-smoking college students were able to come together to stand for the same candidate. By 2016, dissatisfaction with American politics had become the norm. As the tension built up, the explosive Trump campaign seemed to strike a vein with a great number of Americans by simply remaining on attack mode ...
ANTIFA And The Oath Keepers: Cowardly Allies In The War Against Free Speech
Post Date: 2017-07-06 19:31:29 by Gatlin
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Near the beginning of the Ron Paul revolution, few activist organizations seemed as promising as the Oath Keepers. Founded by former Ron Paul staffer Stewart Rhodes, this organization aimed to wake up military and law enforcement to the Paulian message of peace, prosperity and liberty. The group’s work would theoretically increase the odds that the police and military would be on the side of We the People in the unfortunate case of civil unrest. The organization got off on the right foot, but eventually went off the rails. A startling recent example of the Oath Keepers losing focus of their mission comes from a patriotic rally in Houston, TX. On Jun. 10, the Oath Keepers used ...
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