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Shelving the job-creating Keystone XL Pipeline:

Canada’s Prime Minister throws spotlight on job-killing Obama

- Judi McLeod Monday, November 14, 2011
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Rush
Limbaugh was right on the money when he said on his show today that
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper was “anything but subtle” when he
took a hardline on President Barack Obama’s delay of the $7 billion
Keystone XL pipeline that would bring in more than 700,000 barrels of oil
per day from Alberta, Canada, to the Texas Gulf coast.

“Reuters is calling his (Harper’s) remarks subtle,” Limbaugh said. “He’s
not subtle. He knows the Pipeline will never happen with Obama in office.”

Though it’s bound to send radical environmentalists into another one of
their loud tizzies, Harper managed to throw the spotlight on Obama’s
job-killing style at the 2011 APEC Summit in Honolulu, Hawaii on Sunday.

The project will now be delayed for over a year, beyond the Nov. 2, 2012
election, and so
Canada
must look elsewhere on the market, Harper said.

“This highlights why Canada must increase its efforts to ensure it can
supply its energy outside the United States and into Asia in particular,”
he told reporters.

“According to the White House account of the meeting, Obama said he
supported the decision to delay TransCanada’s Keystone XL project “to
ensure that all questions are properly addressed and all the potential
impacts are properly understood.” (The Canadian Press, Nov. 13, 2011).

“While the two leaders took a chummy walk along a palm tree lined path at
the resort hosting the summit, Harper had strong language for the president
over the U.S. State Department’s decision to order the Keystone XL pipeline
rerouted and subject to further environmental assessment.”

While other Western leaders kowtow to Obama, who comes on as the uncrowned
‘King of the World’ at leader attended summits, Harper, a lone wolf, stands
up to him.

During high unemployment in the USA in a world-wide recession, the Keystone
XL pipeline would start with some 20,000 jobs with another 400,000 to come
on steam later down the road.

Canada, who supplies more oil to the US than any other country, also its
largest trading partner is proof positive that America does not have to
rely on the Middle East for its oil.

All many Americans ever got to know about the
now-delayed-until-after-election pipeline is the Occupy Wall Street
endorsing Hollywood stars screaming chants outside the White House in order
to bring it to a standstill. Ditto for Canadians.

The 2,700-kilometre pipeline would bring crude from the new oilsands
expansions in northern Alberta to be turned into gasoline and other fuels
in Texas, the hub of the American refining industry.

Not likely to give up, Harper will visit Obama again in December and the
pipeline will be prominent on the chat table.

Meanwhile in his straight-shooting Canadian style, Harper cut through the
election-year hype and showed Barack Obama for what he really is: a
job-killing president.

Judi McLeod

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Ukraine marks 73rd anniversary of forced Soviet-era famine that killed 10
million
bostonherald ^ | Saturday, November 25, 2006

Posted on 11/25/2006 12:18:24 PM PST by Grzegorz 246

KIEV, Ukraine - Ukraine held solemn commemorations Saturday to mark the
73rd anniversary of a man-made Soviet-era famine that killed one-third of
the country’s population, a tragedy that Ukraine’s president wants
recognized as an act of genocide.

At the height of the 1932-33 famine, 33,000 people died of hunger every
day, devastating entire villages. Cases of cannibalism were widespread as
desperation deepened.

Black ribbons were hung Saturday on the blue and yellow national flag, and
in cities across the country, officials laid flowers at monuments to the
estimated 10 million victims.

President Viktor Yushchenko and Parliament Speaker Oleksandr Moroz unveiled
the cornerstone of a planned memorial complex in the capital. Later
Saturday, officials planned a procession and the lighting of thousands of
candles on a centuries-old Kiev square.

“I would like for us never to tolerate the shame of having to hold
discussions about what to call this,” Yushchenko said at the ceremony.
“This is one of the most horrible pages of our history, and for a long time
now, it has had only one name.”

Soviet dictator Josef Stalin provoked the famine in a campaign to force
peasants to give up their private farms and join collectives. Authorities
collectivized agriculture throughout the Soviet Union, but farmers in
Ukraine - known as the breadbasket of the U.S.S.R. - fiercely resisted and
bore the brunt of the man-made disaster.

Yushchenko has asked parliament to recognize the famine as genocide, but
some lawmakers have resisted, and Moscow has warned Kiev against using that
term.

Russia argues that the orchestrated famine did not specifically target
Ukrainians but also other peoples in the Soviet agricultural belt,
including Russians and Kazakhs, and this month said the issue should not be
“politicized.” But historians say that the overwhelming majority of victims
were Ukrainians, and the famine coincided with Stalin’s effort to quash
growing Ukrainian nationalism.

“Practically every family who lived in Ukraine at that time suffered
deaths,” opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko said.

During the Soviet era, the mass starvation was a closely guarded state
secret, but information trickled out over the years and Ukraine has since
declassified thousands of files. Ten nations, including the United States,
have recognized the famine as an act of genocide, defined as the deliberate
and systematic destruction of a racial, political, or cultural group.
Genocide is a crime under international law.

Moroz said he supports recognizing the mass starvation as genocide, and
predicted that the president’s bill, which has run into some trouble among
lawmakers loyal to Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych, would come before
parliament next week. Some lawmakers from Yanukovych’s Russia-leaning Party
of Regions have suggested calling the famine a tragedy instead of genocide,
but party member Taras Chornovil predicted the president’s version would
ultimately pass.

Under Stalin, each village was ordered to provide the state with a quota of
grain, but the demands typically exceeded crop yields. As village after
village failed to meet the requirements, they were put on a blacklist. The
government seized all food and residents were prohibited from leaving -
effectively condemning them to starvation. Those who resisted were shot or
sent to Siberia.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: commies; democide; genocide; reds; ukraine

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I appreciate your ping list. I did not know about this success of
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In this week's issue:

1) Mario Vargas Llosa and the Search for Liberty
2) New Book Criticizes U.S. Defense Subsidies for Oil
3) Save Lives--Lift the Ban on the Organ Trade
4) Is the World Really Safer without Gadhafi?
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1) Mario Vargas Llosa and the Search for Liberty

In an op-ed that ran last week in the Wall Street Journal, Nobel laureate
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adequate support to civil liberties--or worse, have directly or indirectly
supported their curtailment. READ MORE

Literature and the Search for Liberty, by Mario Vargas Llosa (The Wall
Street Journal, 11/8/11)

Mario Vargas Llosa: An Intellectual Journey, by Julio H. Cole (The
Independent Review, Summer 2011)

Event: A Gala for Liberty, Honoring Mario Vargas Llosa, Lech Wałęsa, and
Robert Higgs (San Francisco, Calif., 11/15/11)

2) New Book Criticizes U.S. Defense Subsidies for Oil

The United States gets only about 10 percent of its oil from the Persian
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No War for Oil: U.S. Dependency and the Middle East, by Ivan Eland

Video: Ivan Eland on Obama Breaking War Powers Act (RT, 5/22/11)

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that kill thousands each year. The deadly shortage is caused by bad laws
and could be solved if the ban on the commercial trade of organs were
lifted, according to Anthony Gregory, research editor at the Independent
Institute. READ MORE

Why Legalizing Organ Sales Would Help to Save Lives, End Violence, by
Anthony Gregory (The Atlantic, 11/8/11)

The Meat Market, by Alex Tabarrok (The Wall Street Journal, 1/8/10)

A Free Market in Kidneys: Efficient and Equitable, by William Barnett II,
Michael Saliba, and Deborah Walker (The Independent Review, Winter 2001)

4) Is the World Really Safer without Gadhafi?

The demise of Libyan strongman Moammar Gadhafi brings a sense of relief to
many, but the rebellion and war that brought him down may have made the
world a more dangerous place. For starters, it remains to be seen whether
the regime that replaces Gadhafi's dictatorial rule will end up supporting
or opposing anti-Western militants. Another reason is that Libya's
stockpile of shoulder-launched missiles--an estimated 20,000 of them--has
reportedly gone missing. There is precedent to justify concern. Since 1973,
at least 920 civilian airline passenger

Bachmann: The Individual Mandate Was Newt Gingrichs Idea, And Mitt Romney Implemented It

Bachmann: The ‘Individual Mandate
Was Newt Gingrich’s Idea, And Mitt Romney Implemented It’
By
Alex
Seitz-Wald on Nov 14, 2011 at 4:45 pm
On the same day the Supreme Court announced it would take up
lawsuits against the Affordable Care Act, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN)
took aim at GOP frontrunner Mitt Romney and insurgent Newt Gingrich for
their role in crafting one of the law’s key components the individual
mandate:

BACHMANN: Our candidate can’t be compromised. We have candidates that
are compromised on the individual health care mandate, which is
Obamacare. It was Newt Gingrich’s idea, and Mitt Romney implemented
it.
Watch it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4au2ItNq50k&feature=player_embedded

In many ways, Bachmann is absolutely right. The concept of the
individual mandate actually

originated at the conservative Heritage Foundation, but Gingrich was

an early and strong supporter. “I am for people, individuals --
exactly like automobile insurance -- individuals having health insurance
and

being required to have health insurance,” Gingrich said on Meet the
Press in 1993. He supported it as recently as 2007, writing in a Des
Moines Register op-ed, “Personal responsibility extends to the purchase
of health insurance. Citizens should not be able to

cheat their neighbors by not buying insurance.”
Romney himself pointed this out in a debate, saying, “Actually Newt,

we got the idea of the individual mandate from you…and the Heritage
Foundation.” And of course, as has been repeatedly noted, the
groundbreaking universal health care program Romney implemented as
governor of Massachusetts

was very similar to President Obama’s Affordable Care Act and
employed the individual mandate. Romney

actively lobbied for the mandate
to be included in his reform. (HT:

Christian Heinze)

http://thinkprogress.org/health/2011/11/14/368120/bachmann-the-individual-mandate-was-newt-gingrichs-idea-and-mitt-romney-implemented-it/

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Confirmed Serial Adulterer Passes Alleged Serial Harasser in GOP Race




November 14, 2011 01:00 PM 
Confirmed Serial Adulterer Passes
Alleged Serial Harasser in GOP Race
By Jon Perr 
Here in a nutshell is the state of play in the 2012 Republican
presidential sweepstakes: alleged serial sexual harasser Herman Cain is
being surpassed by confirmed serial adulterer

Newt Gingrich. With Mitt Romney stalled and

Cain hemorrhaging support from women voters, polls last week from

CBS and

Marist showed the former House Speaker had surged into a virtual
three-way tie at the top. By Monday, new surveys from

CNN and

PPP showed Newt vaulting past the fading pizza maker. Nevertheless,
that development should be a discomforting prospect for a Republican
Party which
lost
the women's vote by 13 points in 2008. As his public statements and
personal life show, the thrice-married Gingrich is hardly a champion for
American women.
That starts with Newt Gingrich's belief that marriage is an institution
between one man and three women in rapid succession.
In 1980, Newt was separated from his

first wife and former high school geometry teacher, Jackie Battley.
As she lay incoherent in her hospital bed following surgery for a
reoccurrence of uterine cancer, Gingrich paid her a visit to announce he
wanted a divorce. As

Lee Howell, a Gingrich friend and associate at whose wedding Newt was
best man, described it:

"Newt came up there with his yellow legal pad, and he had a list
of things on how the divorce was going to be handled. He wanted her to
sign it. She was still recovering from surgery, still sort of out of it,
and he comes in with a yellow sheet of paper, handwritten, and wants her
to sign it.

Newt can handle political problems, but when it comes to personal
problems, he's a disaster. He handled the divorce like he did any other
political decision: You've got to be tough in this business, you've got
to be hard. Once you make the decision you've got to act on it. Cut your
losses and move on."
He moved on to

wife number two, Marianne Ginther. But Marianne fared little better,
getting dumped for Congressional staffer Callista Bisek after a six year
affair even as Newt was leading the inquisition of Bill Clinton. As

Vanity Fair summed it up last year:

According to Salon, Gingrich and the former Hill staffer (23 years
his junior, mind you) would frequently dine in the Supreme Court
cafeteria--an unsuspectingly sordid detail. (In 1995, Vanity Fair
referred to Bisek as Gingrich's "frequent breakfast
companion.") Gingrich stepped down from Congress in 1998 following
an ethics scandal, among other things. The two were married two years
later.
Gingrich, who
swapped
his Baptist faith for Catholicism just in time to attack President
Obama's 2009 address at Notre Dame University, later

explained that his rapid fire infidelities were the actually product
of his own patriotism:

"There's no question at times of my life, partially driven by
how passionately I felt about this country, that I worked far too hard
and things happened in my life that were not appropriate. And what I can
tell you is that when I did things that were wrong, I wasn't trapped in
situation ethics, I was doing things that were wrong, and yet, I was
doing them."
Of course, the things Newt Gingrich was saying to American women
weren't any better.
As the

New York Times recounted 16 years ago, Newt suggested menstruation
should keep women out of essential roles in the American
military:

"If combat means living in a ditch, females have biological
problems staying in a ditch for 30 days because they get infections, and
they don't have upper-body strength. I mean, some do, but they're
relatively rare. On the other hand, men are basically little piglets --
you drop them in the ditch, they roll around in it, doesn't matter, you
know." 
And for Gingrich, the biggest "infection" of them all -
liberalism - caused a young mother to murder her children.
Back in 1994, after dumping his cancer-stricken first wife but before
marrying his mistress following the adulterous affair that ended his
second marriage, Newt pointed the finger at Democrats for the Susan Smith
affair.
It was Smith who drew Americans' initial sympathy - and subsequent scorn
- for her invention of a black bogeyman to conceal her heinous
crime.
On October 24th, 1994, as the

New York Times recalled, Smith killed her young sons, killings for
which she was eventually sentenced to life in prison:

That night, investigators say, Mrs. Smith pulled her car to the edge
of a deep lake, stepped out, put the gearshift in drive and let it roll
down the boat ramp into the black water. Her two little boys, buckled
snugly in their safety seats, died under the lake...

..."I believed her, right up to the end," said Juliaette
Kerhulas, of Mrs. Smith's story that a young black man had ordered her
out of her burgundy 1990 Mazda on the night of Oct. 25, then driven away
with 3-year-old Michael and 14-month-old Alexander in the back
seat.
Ms. Kerhulas wasn't the only one who believed in her. No

The Phony of the Century




February 2000
Volume 18, Number 2
The Phony of the Century
Thomas J. DiLorenzo
At the end of the century, Bill Clinton declared Franklin D. Roosevelt
the "man of the century" for having "saved
capitalism," echoing the gushing praise that Newt Gingrich has
heaped on FDR, calling him "the greatest figure of the twentieth
century." The greatest phony of the twentieth century would be more
appropriate.
FDR did not "bring us out of the Depression," as Gingrich, who
claims to be a historian, argued. The fact is, he made the Depression
much worse. Roosevelt doubled federal expenditures between 1933 and 1940,
draining much of the economic lifeblood out of the economy. That is why
the government's own measure of the unemployment rate was at 19 percent
in 1938, compared to 15.9 percent in 1931, the year before Roosevelt was
elected president.
In The Roosevelt Myth, John T. Flynn describes the antics of FDR's
economic advisers as "The Dance of the Crackpots," and he was
right on the money. The thrust of the "First New Deal"
(1935-1938) was the crackpot idea that the cause of the Depression was
low prices. Therefore, if government would only force up wages and
prices, the Depression would end. This was done through a massive,
government-organized cartel scheme administered by the National Recovery
Administration (NRA) and the Agricultural Adjustment Administration
(AAA), both of which were subsequently ruled unconstitutional by the US
Supreme Court.
Thus, at precisely the time when more production was needed, the
Roosevelt administration orchestrated a massive reduction in production.
Wages were forced up by the NRA "code enforcers" and by a slew
of legislation that bestowed special privileges on unions. As Hayek wrote
in The Constitution of Liberty, by 1960 unions had become
"uniquely privileged institutions to which the general rules of law
do not apply."
The crackpot theory that was used to rationalize government-imposed wage
increases was the notion that higher wages would enhance "purchasing
power." In reality, laws and regulations that push wages above
marginal productivity levels always create unemployment. In the depths of
the Depression, 1937, wages rose a phenomenal 13.7 percent during the
first three quarters alone. Most of the abnormal unemployment of the
1930s could have been avoided, wrote Richard Vedder and Lowell Gallaway
in their masterpiece, Out of Work: Unemployment and Government in
Twentieth-Century America, had a free market in labor been
maintained. This was also a theme that ran throughout the work of the
great Austrian labor economist, William H. Hutt.
FDR's disastrous, economy-wrecking regulatory regimentation was modeled
after Mussolini's fascist economic policies. As John T. Flynn observed,
FDR and his advisers deeply admired Mussolini's "cooperative
system." Mussolini "organized each trade or industrial group
into a state-supervised trade association. He called it a cooperative.
These cooperatives operated under state supervision and could plan
production, quality, prices, distribution, labor standards, etc. The NRA
provided that in American industry each industry should be organized into
a federally supervised trade association. It was not called a
cooperative. It was called a Code Authority. But it was essentially the
same thing This was fascism."
FDR's chief economic adviser from 1933 to 1945 was Columbia University's
Rexford Tugwell, who was an unabashed admirer of Soviet communism. In his
1930 book, American Economic Life, Tugwell praised communism as
supposedly being "able to produce goods in greater quantities"
than capitalism, so as to "spread such prosperity as there is over
wider areas of the population." Yes, there may be a certain
"ruthlessness, a disregard for liberties and rights," wrote
Tugwell, but anyone interested in "peace, prosperity, and
progress" must nevertheless imitate "Russia and the
Russians."
Having only made the Great Depression worse in his first eight years in
office, by 1940 Roosevelt was desperate. Eleven million men were still
out of work and FDR was complaining to his advisers of having "no
way to spend" billions of dollars of "deficit money." It
was at this point, writes John T. Flynn, that Roosevelt received "a
gift from the gods...the gods of war." He abandoned the Neutrality
Act, manipulated Japan into attacking Pearl Harbor, and "set off on
an immense program of military and naval expenditures, all with borrowed
money and more government debt." 
Mises Review editor David Gordon has offered a much more plausible
assessment of the real FDR than either Clinton or Gingrich. To Gordon,
FDR was "a vain, intellectually shallow person whose principal
interest was to retain at all costs his personal power," and whose
priorities were "the total subordination of his country's welfare to
his personal ambition." Perhaps this is the real reason why
self-indulgent egomaniacs like Clinton and Gingrich think he was
"the greatest man of the century."
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Rolling Back the Myth of Good Government




Rolling Back the Myth of Good
Government
by Laurence M. Vance, Posted November 14,
2011


Rollback: Repealing Big Government before the Coming Financial
Collapse by Thomas E. Woods Jr. (Washington D.C.: Regnery, 2011);
232 pages. 
The government of the United States has secured the confidence and
consent of the American people through myths of its benevolence,
provision, innovation, achievements, scientific advances, educational
system, and protection. It takes credit for everything good that happens
in the economy and society, accepts no responsibility for its failures,
and proposes more government as the cure for every bad thing that takes
place. 
Libertarians recognize that the federal government is the opposite of
everything it claims to be. And even worse, it is a parasitic,
wealth-destroying, wealth-redistributing monstrosity. Although many
Americans see the federal government as corrupt, too many of them give
the government the benefit of the doubt and have a naive confidence in
government to at least keep them safe from polluted air and water,
defective products, contaminated food, dangerous drugs, exploitation by
their employers, discrimination in hiring and housing, and, of course,
terrorism. 
The myth of good government must be exposed for the dangerous myth that
it is. And that is where Thomas E. Woods comes in. Woods is mythbuster.
But unlike the entertaining television show Mythbusters, there is
nothing humorous about the impending financial collapse of the U.S.
government that Woods describes in his newest book. 
In Rollback: Repealing Big Government before the Coming Financial
Collapse, Woods demolishes the myths of the extent of the financial
crisis we face, inflation and deflation, regulation and deregulation,
prices and wages, money and banking, and bailouts and stimulus programs.
He busts the myths that America has a genuine free market, that the
Federal Reserve stabilizes the economy, and that large military budgets
are necessary to keep Americans safe. But most of all, Woods destroys the
myth of good government and its phony protection racket known as the
OSHA, EPA, FDA, DEA, NHTSA, ADA, TSA, HUD, FHA, and SSA. 
Woods is the New York Times bestselling author of The
Politically Incorrect Guide to American History and Meltdown: A
Free-Market Look at Why the Stock Market Collapsed, the Economy Tanked,
and Government Bailouts Will Make Things Worse. He holds a Ph.D. in
history from Columbia University and is a senior fellow at the Ludwig von
Mises Institute. 
Rollback packs a powerful punch in its 223 pages. The first
chapter serves as an introduction to the looming financial collapse of
the federal government. It is followed by five progressively more radical
chapters on Barack Obama’s stimulus and health-care plans, on how the
government perpetrated the economic crisis, on how the Federal Reserve
destroyed the value of the dollar, on defense spending and the warfare
state, and on government as the enemy of the free market. The final
chapter is prescriptive in nature. The book is heavily documented with
end-notes from an eclectic mix of books, newspapers, magazines, journals,
and websites, including U.S. government publications. There is also a
helpful index. 

The jumping-off point 
Just how bad is the federal government’s
financial condition? It’s worse than you’ve ever imagined. It’s not
enough just to look at the debt and the deficit, says Woods. “To get the
full picture of the obligations the U.S. government is facing,” you have
to consider the government’s unfunded liabilities of Social Security and
Medicare  $111 trillion. So even if the economy fully recovers and the
federal budget has no more deficits, the government would “still fall
further into the hole by $2 trillion to $4 trillion a year.” Woods
emphasizes that that is a problem that existed well before Obama’s
administration. He rightly faults Bush’s expansion of Medicare, the
prescription-drug benefit (or Medicare Part D), as adding significantly
to Medicare’s unfunded liabilities. He also notes that the 2010
Republican “Pledge to America” kept the “major budget busters” off the
table entirely. 
The problem is simply that the aging of the population guarantees that
those entitlement programs will go bust. Americans are in for severe
entitlement cuts that will be painful and wrenching and that will cause
suffering. Woods shows that even drastically raising taxes wouldn’t solve
the crisis. 
He demolishes the myth of the Social Security “trust fund” and points out
something that no politician pandering to seniors for their votes would
dare to mention: “The elderly are in fact by far the wealthiest segment
of the population.” 
And if the truth that the federal government is bankrupt wasn’t bad
enough, Woods points out that “many of the states are going bust as
well.” 
This is not a book about cutting the budget or rolling back government
spending to some previous level. The unsuspecting conservative (the
picture of Obama

The State versus the Highwayman




The State versus the
Highwayman
It is true that the _theory_ of our Constitution
is, that all taxes are paid voluntarily; that our government is a mutual
insurance company, voluntarily entered into by the people with each
other; that each man makes a free and purely voluntary contract with all
others who are parties to the Constitution, to pay so much money for so
much protection, the same as he does with any other insurance company;
and that he is just as free not to be protected, and not to pay tax, as
he is to pay a tax, and be protected.
But this theory of our government is wholly different from the practical
fact. The fact is that the government, like a highwayman, says to a man:
"Your money, or your life." And many, if not most, taxes are
paid under the compulsion of that threat.
The government does not, indeed, waylay a man in a lonely place, spring
upon him from the roadside, and, holding a pistol to his head, proceed to
rifle his pockets. But the robbery is none the less a robbery on that
account; and it is far more dastardly and shameful.
The highwayman takes solely upon himself the responsibility, danger, and
crime of his own act. He does not pretend that he has any rightful claim
to your money, or that he intends to use it for your own benefit. He does
not pretend to be anything but a robber. He has not acquired impudence
enough to profess to be merely a "protector," and that he takes
men's money against their will, merely to enable him to
"protect" those infatuated travellers, who feel perfectly able
to protect themselves, or do not appreciate his peculiar system of
protection. He is too sensible a man to make such professions as these.
Furthermore, having taken your money, he leaves you, as you wish him to
do. He does not persist in following you on the road, against your will;
assuming to be your rightful "sovereign," on account of the
"protection" he affords you. He does not keep
"protecting" you, by commanding you to bow down and serve him;
by requiring you to do this, and forbidding you to do that; by robbing
you of more money as often as he finds it for his interest or pleasure to
do so; and by branding you as a rebel, a traitor, and an enemy to your
country, and shooting you down without mercy, if you dispute his
authority, or resist his demands. He is too much of a gentleman to be
guilty of such impostures, and insults, and villainies as these. In
short, he does not, in addition to robbing you, attempt to make you
either his dupe or his slave. -- Lysander Spooner

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewtA3qcm3fo&feature=player_embedded


No Treason, Vol. VI. by Lysander Spooner
The highwayman takes solely upon himself the responsibility
by Lysander Spooner

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TLC’s ‘ALL-AMERICAN MUSLIM’ Series Sponsor Boycott List

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Graham crackers are raciiiiist

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  Graham crackers
are 
racistby
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PC police will not allow this!
University Deems “Graham Cracker” Offensive

Fox 
News:
When Graham McMillan decided to run for a student government office at
Texas Christian University, he had no idea that he would land in trouble –
all because of his campaign slogan – “Graham Cracker.”

A university official at the home of the Horned Frogs told the 20-year-old
sophomore that his *campaign signs were offensive* and unless the offending
word was blocked – the signs would have to come down.

“My advisor contacted me and informed me that it might be considered
derogatory,” the political science major told Fox News. “I certainly didn’t
mean it to be derogatory, but I didn’t want to offend anybody who may
perceive it as such.”

University officials released a statement to Fox *confirming that the
offensive word is ‘cracker*.’  “She recommended that he either remove the
signs or cover the word ‘cracker’ with tape and he opted to cover the
word,” a university spokesperson told Fox.  “A student affairs staff member
used this as a teaching moment to help Graham understand that *use of the
word ‘cracker’ with his name could be perceived as derogatory by some*,”
the university spokesperson said.

So who
might be offended by the “Graham Cracker” campaign signs?  The university
didn’t say and McMillan had no idea.  “I’ve never been around that word
being used offensively,” said McMillan, who happens to be white.

For as long as he can remember McMillan would introduce himself using the
term.  “I’d say, ‘Hi. My name’s Graham – like the cracker,’” he told Fox
News. “So that’s why I decided to use it as my campaign slogan.”

McMillan is running for the Student Government Association’s vice president
of external affairs.  “I’m running unopposed which is probably the funniest
thing about this ordeal,” he said. “It’s pretty crazy but any publicity is
good publicity.”

“As for the issue of political correctness  – McMillan said it just comes
with the territory.  “Being politically correct is just part of the deal,”
he said.

Or maybe not.

*As Texas Christian University students head to the polls, McMillan offered
one word of advice:  “Vote Graham like the cracker.”*

Cracker is a racist
insult used by blacks against white people.  So how can graham cracker be
considered offensive when a white person calls himself a cracker?  PC
madness.

DCG

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Japan's Little Boy Peeing Statue

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“The States” Have De Facto Control Over The General Government: States May Nullify U.S. Supreme Court Ruling On Obamacare!

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"The States" Have De Facto Control Over The Federal Government. Supreme
Court will hear Obamacare case. The Supreme Court said Monday it will take
up challenges to President Obama’s health care law next year, setting the
stage for a ruling on the president’s trademark achievement amidst his bid
for re-election. Out of multiple lawsuits filed against the Affordable [...]

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CBS drama ‘BLUE BLOODS’ whitewashes NYPD officer’s cold-blooded murder by Muslims at a NYC mosque

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New York City cops are seething at CBS' 'Blue Bloods' for including a scene
that reworked one of the NYPD’s darkest chapters, without acknowledging the
violent death of an officer and the fact that his Muslim murderers were
allowed to flee. PI Bill Warner  Officer Philip Cardillo was fatally
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Sandusky’s Summer Camp – Cross Dressing & No Shower Curtains

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Lehr is the former director of a camp in the deep woods of Berks County,
where children from the Second Mile would come each summer for several
years.

"I never saw anything illegal. I would have reported it in a heart beat.
Did I see things that I thought were immoral? Yes," Lehr said.

But last week when the child sex abuse charges surfaced against Sandusky,
Lehr started remembering Sandusky's 4-week Second Mile camp.

"It always seemed a little secretive," he says.

He says he never witnessed any inappropriate sexual contact, but witnessed
some questionable activity.

"Camp counselors cross dressing for one of the evening events with
children. The following year now they [had] some of the boys cross
dressing," he says.

Lehr also said shower curtains would be taken down when Second Mile was at
the camp.

Lehr has not been interviewed by state investigators on the Sandusky case,
but he says if asked he would cooperate. Full Story
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Re: Which Candidate Was Right About Iraq?

The whole world now knows, as even the CIA has admitted, that the war
was based on a lie; there never were any "weapons of mass destruction"
that threatened the U.S.
-
lying about wmd's didn't and doesn't matter  the fact is, the US
is full of imperialist warmongers who will justify an interventionist
policy until the US can longer defend itself.

who really benefits from the US intervention in the middle east?

know the enemy

On Nov 14, 9:44 am, MJ  wrote:
> Which Candidate Was Right About Iraq?by Thomas J. DiLorenzoOf all the 
> candidates running for the Republican nomination, only one was right – if not 
> prescient – about the big foreign policy issue of the day, namely, the war in 
> Iraq. I speak of course of Congressman Ron Paul. The whole world now knows, 
> as even the CIA has admitted, that the war was based on a lie; there never 
> were any "weapons of mass destruction" that threatened the U.S.; Saddam 
> Hussein, as evil as he was, posed no threat to America; and he had nothing 
> whatsoever to do with 9/11. Bin Laden in fact hated Hussein because Iraq was 
> a secular society.
> Nor does the neocon chant that the terrorists attacked on 9/11 because "they 
> hate our freedoms" make any sense at all. America was much freer decades ago 
> before it became the fascist police state that it is today, and there were no 
> terrorist attacks back then. The truth is that it is the neocons, with their 
> PATRIOT Act, threats to suspend Habeas Corpus (and even the internet), 
> warrantless wiretaps, internet censorship and spying, and their chant that 
> "9/11 changed everything!" (translation: the hell with the Constitution) who 
> are the real enemies of American freedom.
> All of the bought-and-paid-for neocon chickenhawks who are running for the 
> Republican nomination, from Newt Gingrich to Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum, 
> were and are cheerleaders for endless unconstitutional war in the Middle 
> East. They never, ever, seem to get enough of it. Only Ron Paul has expressed 
> learned intelligence grounded in history and constitutionalism on the issue. 
> Anyone who is interested should read his 2007 book,A Foreign Policy of 
> Freedom: Peace, Commerce, and Honest Friendship.
> The book is a collection of Congressman Paul’s speeches in the U.S. House of 
> Representatives on the topic of foreign policy. On September 14, 2001, 
> Congressman Paul made perhaps his most important point about the 
> then-threatened wars in Iraq and Afghanistan when he said, "it is crucial to 
> understand why we were attacked, which then will tell us by whom we were 
> attacked." The neocon establishment ignored him, the result of which was the 
> senseless war in Iraq that led to needless death of thousands of American 
> soldiers and hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians.
> While Congressman Paul warned against "inadvertent or casual acceptance of 
> civilian deaths as part of this war," the neocon establishment ignored him 
> and proceeded to demonize all Muslims everywhere to "justify" the 
> indiscriminate murder of civilians. By contrast, the bloodthirsty and quite 
> insane-sounding New Gingrich, who is now said to be "rising in the polls," 
> once wrote aWall Street Journalarticle arguing for the military invasion and 
> occupation of Iran, Syria, Lebanon, and North Korea all at once. Such an 
> endeavor could never occur without the resurrection of military conscription.
> In 2001 Congressman Paul warned against "finding ourselves needlessly 
> entrenched in conflicts unrelated to our national security," which of course 
> is exactly what has occurred over the past decade, repeating the American 
> foreign policy record of the past several decades. The latest gambit is 
> military invention in Central Africa of all places, where the Obama 
> administration has sent "military advisors," Vietnam style.
> On September 25, 2001 Congressman Paul warned his congressional colleagues 
> that it is "no easy task to destroy an almost invisible, ubiquitous enemy 
> spread throughout the world, without expanding the war or infringing on our 
> liberties here at home . . . above all else . . . our mandate and our key 
> constitutional responsibility [is] protecting liberty and providing for 
> national security." The neocon wars of aggression in the Middle East have 
> made Americanslesssecure by creatingmoreenemies in the Muslim world while 
> turning America into a fascist police state, the symbols of which are the 
> jack-booted thugs (and quite a few perverts) known as TSA bureaucrats, with 
> their naked x-ray porno-tron machines and their rubber-gloved groping of 
> thousands of travelers every day, including small children and the elderly 
> wearing adult diapers.
> In the same speech Congressman Paul pointed out the absurdity of "rewarding" 
> government failures with bigger budgets and more bureaucrats. (I call this 
> DiLorenzo’s first law of politics: In government, failure is success). 
> "Bureaucr

Which Candidate Was Right About Iraq?




Which Candidate Was Right About
Iraq?
by Thomas J. DiLorenzo
Of all the candidates running for the Republican nomination,
only one was right – if not prescient – about the big foreign policy
issue of the day, namely, the war in Iraq. I speak of course of
Congressman Ron Paul. The whole world now knows, as even the CIA has
admitted, that the war was based on a lie; there never were any
"weapons of mass destruction" that threatened the U.S.; Saddam
Hussein, as evil as he was, posed no threat to America; and he had
nothing whatsoever to do with 9/11. Bin Laden in fact hated Hussein
because Iraq was a secular society. 
Nor does the neocon chant that the terrorists attacked on 9/11 because
"they hate our freedoms" make any sense at all. America was
much freer decades ago before it became the fascist police state that it
is today, and there were no terrorist attacks back then. The truth is
that it is the neocons, with their PATRIOT Act, threats to suspend Habeas
Corpus (and even the internet), warrantless wiretaps, internet censorship
and spying, and their chant that "9/11 changed everything!"
(translation: the hell with the Constitution) who are the real enemies of
American freedom.
All of the bought-and-paid-for neocon chickenhawks who are running for
the Republican nomination, from Newt Gingrich to Mitt Romney and Rick
Santorum, were and are cheerleaders for endless unconstitutional war in
the Middle East. They never, ever, seem to get enough of it. Only Ron
Paul has expressed learned intelligence grounded in history and
constitutionalism on the issue. Anyone who is interested should read his
2007 book,

A Foreign Policy of Freedom: Peace, Commerce, and Honest
Friendship. 
The book is a collection of Congressman Paul’s speeches in the U.S.
House of Representatives on the topic of foreign policy. On September 14,
2001, Congressman Paul made perhaps his most important point about the
then-threatened wars in Iraq and Afghanistan when he said, "it is
crucial to understand why we were attacked, which then will tell us by
whom we were attacked." The neocon establishment ignored him, the
result of which was the senseless war in Iraq that led to needless death
of thousands of American soldiers and hundreds of thousands of Iraqi
civilians. 
While Congressman Paul warned against "inadvertent or casual
acceptance of civilian deaths as part of this war," the neocon
establishment ignored him and proceeded to demonize all Muslims
everywhere to "justify" the indiscriminate murder of civilians.
By contrast, the bloodthirsty and quite insane-sounding New Gingrich, who
is now said to be "rising in the polls," once wrote a Wall
Street Journal article arguing for the military invasion and
occupation of Iran, Syria, Lebanon, and North Korea all at once. Such an
endeavor could never occur without the resurrection of military
conscription. 
In 2001 Congressman Paul warned against "finding ourselves
needlessly entrenched in conflicts unrelated to our national
security," which of course is exactly what has occurred over the
past decade, repeating the American foreign policy record of the past
several decades. The latest gambit is military invention in Central
Africa of all places, where the Obama administration has sent
"military advisors," Vietnam style. 
On September 25, 2001 Congressman Paul warned his congressional
colleagues that it is "no easy task to destroy an almost invisible,
ubiquitous enemy spread throughout the world, without expanding the war
or infringing on our liberties here at home . . . above all else . . .
our mandate and our key constitutional responsibility [is] protecting
liberty and providing for national security." The neocon wars of
aggression in the Middle East have made Americans less secure by
creating more enemies in the Muslim world while turning America
into a fascist police state, the symbols of which are the jack-booted
thugs (and quite a few perverts) known as TSA bureaucrats, with their
naked x-ray porno-tron machines and their rubber-gloved groping of
thousands of travelers every day, including small children and the
elderly wearing adult diapers. 
In the same speech Congressman Paul pointed out the absurdity of
"rewarding" government failures with bigger budgets and more
bureaucrats. (I call this DiLorenzo’s first law of politics: In
government, failure is success). "Bureaucracies by nature are
ineffiecient," he wrote. "The FBI and CIA records [about
terrorists] come up short. The FBI loses computers and guns and is
careless with records. The CIA rarely provides timely intelligence. The
FAA’s idea of security against hijackers is asking all passengers who
packed their bag." 
Despite these obvious truths "the clamor now," the congressman
wrote in 2011, was "to give more authority and money to these
agencies," which of course was done. In government, failure is
success. The alternative proposed by Congressman Paul at the time was to
privatize the FAA and allow the airlines to handle their own se

Re: Fwd: [DailyKos] *? 2 ALL: GUITARIST PLAYS OCCUPY WALL STREET SONG AT OBAMA-ATTENDED HAWAII GALA - WHAT ARE YOUR COMMENTS?

guitar players are a dime a dozen

next ...

On Nov 13, 10:03 pm, Bruce Majors  wrote:
> -- Forwarded message --
> From: Greg Dempsey
> Date: Sunday, November 13, 2011
> Subject: [DailyKos] *? 2 ALL: GUITARIST PLAYS OCCUPY WALL STREET SONG AT
> OBAMA-ATTENDED HAWAII GALA - WHAT ARE YOUR COMMENTS?
> To: Greg dempsey 
>
> 
>
> "'We'll occupy the streets, we'll occupy the courts, we'll occupy the
> offices of you,
> till you do the bidding of the many, not the few,' (Makana) sang at the
> Wakiki event.
> 'The time has come for us to voice our rage.'
>
> Video athttp://tinyurl.com/75w7p9b
>
> Hi Team!
>
> *? 2 ALL:
>
> GUITARIST PLAYS OCCUPY WALL STREET SONG AT OBAMA-ATTENDED HAWAII GALA -
>
> 
>
> (AFP/File, Richard A. Brooks)
>
> Alan Horowitz reports on the Huffington Post:
>
> "A musician took a stand at last night's Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation
> gala, which was attended President Obama and a slew of world leaders.
>
> "Hawaiian guitarist Makana, who has performed at the White House, wore a
> shirt that read 'Occupy With Aloha' and played a song inspired by the
> Occupy Wall Street protests.
>
> "The tune, 'We Are the Many', ran for 45 minutes long.
>
> 
>
> (above):  Anti-APEC protesters march down Kalakaua Ave.
>
> towards Waikiki, Saturday, Nov. 12, 2011 in Honolulu.
>
> The APEC Summit is being held in Oahu this weekend.
>
> A few hundred protesters marched in the demonstration.
>
> - Boston.com (AP Photo/ Marco Garcia)
>
> "Hawaii locals joined the national movement last month, gathering in
> Honolulu's financial district. When the protesters tried to make camp,
> several were arrested.
>
> "The event occurred just days after a federal agent shot a local man. The
> agent has since been charged with second-degree murder."
>
> 
>
> Guitarist plays Occupy Wall Street song at Obama-attended Hawaii  gala -
> what are your comments?
>
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Re: Cars Burned in Anti-Jewish Rampage in Brooklyn .....

A xian church in israel was vandalized. Messages such as “We killed
Jesus” and “Christians out” were written on it, as well as "Fuck off"
which was adorned with a Star of David  Churchmen at the site also
stated that the church doors are urinated on almost every day.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Christian_sentiment

On Nov 13, 10:39 pm, Bruce Majors  wrote:
> --- Cars Burned in Anti-Jewish Rampage in Brooklyn .
> To:
>
> 6. Cars Burned in Anti-Jewish Rampage in Brooklyn
> by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu
> Anti-Semitic vandals went on a rampage in Brooklyn before dawn Friday,
> burning Jewish-owned cars and scrawling swastikas in a Jewish area.
>
> The latest hate attacks followed by only several hours an announcement by
> police that they caught one man who was responsible for hate attacks
> earlier this week on two libraries and a synagogue.
>
> A Jaguar, BMW and Lexus were set n fire on Friday, and “KKK”  -- Ku Klux
> Klan – was written on a red van in addition to hate slogans and swastikas
> scrawled on benches.
>
> “The violence – I’m calling it violence when you blow up three cars – adds
> a sickening dimension to this type of anti-Semitism,” said New York state
> delegate and area resident Dov Hikind.
>
> “We walk down Ocean Parkway every single week” on the way to synagogue,” he
> told New York media. “All I could think about was my mother sitting on a
> bench with a swastika scrawled on it. She survived Auschwitz.”
>
> The Midwood area, where the arson took place, and Borough Park, are
> populated by one of the largest number of Holocaust survivors outside of
> Israel.
>
> “The fact that this most recent attack came on the heels of the 73rd
> anniversary of Kristallnacht may or may not be a coincidence,” Mayor
> Michael R. Bloomberg said. “The NYPD’s Hate Crimes Task Force is actively
> investigating the twisted person or people who attacked cars, benches, and
> a sidewalk on a block of Ocean Parkway early this morning.”
>
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Re: So Long, America

every empire falls because of an over-extended military. With more
than 900 bases on all seven continents, billions in annual military
aid to countries around the world, and active military operations in
more countries than we can know, the United States is digging in on
its imperial ambitions
---
it's way past time to remove interventionists;/imperialists from our
government

On Nov 14, 7:14 am, MJ  wrote:
> So Long, Americaby Andrew P. NapolitanoHere is Judge Napolitano's closing 
> argument Thursday on hisFreedomWatch.Does the government work for us or do we 
> work for the government? Tonight, wars and rumors of war.
> The United States was forged in a war: The American revolution. After the 
> rebels defeated the King, we were blessed with something unique in history; a 
> founding document, the Constitution, which was not imposed upon the people 
> but rather was ratified by them, and which set out to establish strict limits 
> on the federal government. The whole purpose of the Constitution was to keep 
> the government off the people's backs; to assure that the new government here 
> would never be as destructive of freedom and property as the King had been; 
> to guarantee that the government is the servant and the people were the 
> master; still a revolutionary idea even today, more than 230 years later.
> So what happened to the war machine that freed the American colonies of their 
> British masters? It was subsumed by the new government. The same generation 
> that fought an American revolution whose unifying principles were life, 
> liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, ran a government that violated those 
> very principles. In the Whiskey Rebellion, President George Washington shot 
> and arrested farmers who refused to pay a federal tax on booze they made at 
> home; and under the Alien and Sedition Acts, President John Adams prosecuted 
> people for criticizing him.
> The Revolutionary War was the beginning of the Republic and the Civil War was 
> the beginning of the end of the Republic. Prior to the Civil War, the United 
> States were plural; the country was called "these" United States. Even the 
> Constitution refers tothe United States as "them." Afterwards, the United 
> States became a singular noun. The Civil War was the official and violent 
> rejection by the federal government of the basic principle laid out in the 
> Declaration of Independence which was cited as the impetus for the American 
> Revolution. What was that principle for which the rebels fought and which, 
> among our presidents, only Jefferson defended? It was the right of free 
> people to secede from a government that destroys their freedom. It was, by 
> extension, the natural right to be left alone.
> Not only are wars inimical to our freedom, they are also cancers for 
> democracy. In the last 50 years, the United States has seen a parade of wars 
> that don t serve our interests. We fought the Korean war at the behest of the 
> United Nations. We fought in Vietnam because the French wouldn t. We entered 
> the First Gulf War because of the United Nations and of course that led to 
> the Iraq War. Even in Afghanistan, while we entered under the pretext of 
> hunting down the masterminds of 9/11, that war soon became an imperial 
> exercise akin to the Soviet or British occupations of Afghanistan. The 
> Constitution gives the power of declaring war to the Congress. But today in 
> America, that power is effectively the President s. President Obama has waged 
> war in Iraq, in Afghanistan, in Libya, in Pakistan, in Somalia, and in 
> Uganda; all without a declaration of war. The last time Congress declared war 
> was December 8th 1941.
> War is the death of freedom because war is the health of big government. The 
> federal government views the Constitution as its enemy. That s why the 
> President, a former professor of constitutional law nonetheless, can take an 
> oath to uphold the Constitution and then spend every waking moment trying to 
> dig its grave. And George W. Bush was the same. And Bill Clinton was the 
> same. And so on, and so on. If Barack Obama or George W. Bush told you 
> directly that their agenda was the destruction of your freedoms, you wouldn t 
> buy it. But war and rumors of war allow the government to steal your freedoms 
> without you rising up to defend them.
> In nearly three years in office, President Obama has conducted a campaign to 
> transform America through a process of government expansion and crony 
> capitalism. Yet, he may very well win re-election not because Americans 
> support more central planning and federal control of our lives, but because 
> he enjoys high approval ratings for fighting wars. Yet these wars are the 
> same policies that allow for the centralization of power in the federal 
> government on the domestic front. There wouldn t have been an Obamacare if 
> there had never been a Patriot Act; because, when you allow your freedoms to 
> be trample

Re: The GOP's Dream World of Empire

except for this part:
---
just the meat of the matter

The Anglo-American Petroleum Agreement of 1944 was based on
negotiations between the United States and Britain over the control of
Middle Eastern oil. Below is shown what the American President
Franklin D. Roosevelt had in mind for to a British Ambassador in 1944:
   Persian oil …is yours. We share the oil of Iraq and Kuwait. As for
Saudi Arabian oil, it’s ours.

two imperialist dreams, as the article implies, crumbled


On Nov 14, 8:18 am, THE ANNOINTED ONE  wrote:
> Keith, Agreed, except for this part:
>
> " what’s recalled is kited intelligence, Saddam Hussein’s nonexistent
> nuclear arsenal, dumb and even dumber decisions, a bloody civil war,
> dead Americans, crony corporations, a trillion or more taxpayer
> dollars flushed down the toilet… "
>
> On Nov 13, 9:53 pm, Keith In Tampa  wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> > Geesh, what a total misrepresentation of contemporary history and partisan
> > hogwash.
>
> > On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 7:38 PM, MJ  wrote:
>
> > > *The GOP's Dream World of Empire
> > > *Posted by Christopher Manion  on November 13, 2011
> > > 02:11 PM
>
> > > Revisited and embraced by the debating dwarfs, rejected by Ron Paul, and
> > > recounted(for
> > >  those who need a refresher course) by Tom Engelhardt.
>
> > > xxx
>
> > > *An All-American Nightmare
> > > **From TomDispatch: This is what defeat looks like
> > > *By Tom Engelhardt | November 8, 2011
>
> > > How about a moment of silence for the passing of the American Dream?
> > > M.R.I.C. (May it rest in carnage.)
>
> > > No, I’m not talking about the old dream of opportunity that involved
> > > homeownership, a better job than your parents had, a decent pension, and
> > > all the rest of the package that’s so yesterday, so underwater, so OWS. 
> > > I’m
> > > talking about a far more recent dream, a truly audacious one that’s
> > > similarly gone with the wind.
>
> > > I’m talking about George W. Bush’s American Dream. If people here remember
> > > the invasion of Iraq -- and most Americans would undoubtedly prefer to
> > > forget it -- what’s recalled is kited intelligence, Saddam Hussein’s
> > > nonexistent nuclear arsenal, dumb and even dumber decisions, a bloody 
> > > civil
> > > war, dead Americans, crony corporations, a trillion or more taxpayer
> > > dollars flushed down the toilet… well, you know the story. What few care 
> > > to
> > > remember was that original dream  call it The Dream -- and boy, was it a
> > > beaut!
>
> > > *An American Dream
>
> > > *It went something like this: Back in early 2003, the top officials of
> > > the Bush administration had no doubt that Saddam Hussein’s Iraq, drained 
> > > by
> > > years of war, no-fly zones, and sanctions, would be a pushover; that the
> > > U.S. military, which they idolized and romanticized, would waltz to
> > > Baghdad. (The word one of their supporters used in the *Washington 
> > > Post*for the onrushing invasion was a “cakewalk.”) Nor did they doubt 
> > > that those
> > > troops would be greeted as liberators, even saviors, by throngs of 
> > > adoring,
> > > previously suppressed Shiites strewing flowers* *in their path. (No
> > > kidding, no exaggeration.)
>
> > > How easy it would be then to install a “democratic” government in Baghdad
> > > -- which meant their autocratic candidate Ahmad Chalabi -- set up four or
> > > five strategically situated military mega-bases, exceedingly well-armed
> > > American small towns already on the drawing boards before the invasion
> > > began, and so dominate the oil heartlands of the planet in ways even the
> > > Brits, at the height of their empire, wouldn’t have dreamed possible. 
> > > (Yes,
> > > the neocons were then bragging that we would outdo the Roman and British
> > > empires rolled into one!)
>
> > > As there would be no real resistance, the American invasion force could
> > > begin withdrawing as early as the fall of 2003, leaving perhaps 30,000 to
> > > 40,000 troops, the U.S. Air Force, and various spooks and private
> > > contractors behind to garrison a grateful country ad infinitum (on what 
> > > was
> > > then called “the South Korean model”). Iraq’s state-run economy would be
> > > privatized and its oil resources thrown open to giant global energy
> > > companies, especially American ones, which would rebuild the industry and
> > > begin pumping millions of barrels of that country’s vast reserves, thus
> > > undermining the OPEC cartel’s control over the oil market.
>
> > > And mind you, it would hardly cost a cent. Well, at its unlikely worst,
> > > maybe $100 billion to $200 billion, but as Iraq, in the phrase* *of
> > > then-Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz, “floats on a sea of oil,”
> > > most of it could undoubtedly be covered, in the end, by the Iraqis
> > > themselves.
>
> > > Now, doesn’t going down memory lane just take your breath away? And yet,
> > > Iraq was a bare

Supercommittee to Call for Unspecified Higher Taxes




Supercommittee to Call for
Unspecified Higher Taxes 
“With a little over a week left to reach a deal,
members of the Congressional deficit reduction panel are looking for an
escape hatch that would let them strike an accord on revenue levels but
delay until next year tough decisions about exactly how to raise taxes.”
(
New York Times)
Cave in.
The Hidden Cost of
Taxation
The Costs of Funding Government Spending Are
Largely Unseen
Dwight R. Lee
March 2000 • Volume: 50 • Issue: 3 •
In my last column I pointed to the harm government typically does when it
attempts to promote prosperity by creating jobs. Such attempts always
distort the market cooperation that directs people into those jobs in
which they create the greatest value. But government does have
legitimate, though limited, functions, and performing them requires
hiring people. If government confines itself to its legitimate role and
performs efficiently, government employees will produce more value than
they can in alternative jobs. Unfortunately, government neither limits
itself to its legitimate functions, nor performs efficiently. I shall
consider one reason for this government failure, a reason based on a
distortion in the political process. Because the costs of taxation are
never fully considered in political decisions, those decisions are biased
in favor of excessive taxing and spending.
The costs of taxation are dispersed widely. Everyone pays taxes, so when
a general tax is increased it is spread over so many people that no one
individual will find the increase very burdensome. Conversely, if the tax
is decreased, no one may perceive a significant benefit. And even if some
people do notice the costs of a tax increase, or the benefits of a
decrease, an effort to organize other taxpayers (given their large
numbers, geographic dispersion, and diverse interests) to take effective
political action would be difficult. This helps explain why the costs of
taxation are largely ignored politically. Politicians can nudge certain
taxes up without hearing from taxpayers, except for some brief
grumbling.
Of course, not everyone is politically passive about tax burdens.
Relatively small groups with an intense interest in the burden of
particular taxes are well positioned to influence policy on those taxes.
The federal tax code is full of highly specific loopholes for particular
industries, and often for particular companies. Also, some general tax
breaks, like interest deductions on mortgages, are seen as promoting a
desirable objective (home ownership), are easily noticed as significant
by taxpayers, and also benefit an organized interest (homebuilders). Thus
they are politically popular.
But the tax loopholes permeating almost all tax systems add to insidious
“dead weight” costs of taxation, which result from distorted economic
decisions caused by all taxes, but aggravated by tax loopholes. These
costs are insidious because besides being widely dispersed, they go
undetected even by those who suffer from them. The result is an even
greater bias toward excessive taxing and spending.

The Tax Wedge
All taxes drive a wedge between what buyers pay
and sellers receive. Consumers pay more than producers receive because of
sales taxes, and employers pay more than employees receive because of
income taxes. Thus some production and effort worth more than it costs is
not provided, and the value sacrificed is the dead-weight cost of
taxation. This deadweight cost is greater when the tax system contains
loopholes. When some products or activities are taxed more heavily than
others, people will favor those taxed less even when they are less
valuable than those more heavily taxed. For example, when much of the
cost of a house is deducted from taxable income but not the cost of
clothing, people will sacrifice clothing to buy a larger house, even
though they value the clothing more than the additional housing space.
When the profits in one industry are taxed less than the profits in other
industries, people will continue adding to investments in the low-tax
industry even though the additional investment would create more value in
other industries.
Dead-weight costs of taxation go unnoticed, even by those who pay them,
because instead of taking from people what they already have, they take
from people what they would have had, but never get. No one sees the
extra value that would have been created by economic decisions that would
have been made without taxes. The problem here is similar to the one that
governments create, and take advantage of, with tax withholding. When
taxes are deducted directly from our paychecks, few of us pay much
attention to just how much we are paying. Indeed, people often get
excited when they overpay their taxes through withholding and get a
refund at the end of the year. The tax withdrawals were hardly noticed
(and neither is the interest lost because the government had the money),
but the refund is obvious and seems to be a gift from the
go

Re: The GOP's Dream World of Empire

2011-11-14 Thread THE ANNOINTED ONE

Keith, Agreed, except for this part:

" what’s recalled is kited intelligence, Saddam Hussein’s nonexistent
nuclear arsenal, dumb and even dumber decisions, a bloody civil war,
dead Americans, crony corporations, a trillion or more taxpayer
dollars flushed down the toilet… "

On Nov 13, 9:53 pm, Keith In Tampa  wrote:
> Geesh, what a total misrepresentation of contemporary history and partisan
> hogwash.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 7:38 PM, MJ  wrote:
>
> > *The GOP's Dream World of Empire
> > *Posted by Christopher Manion  on November 13, 2011
> > 02:11 PM
>
> > Revisited and embraced by the debating dwarfs, rejected by Ron Paul, and
> > recounted(for
> >  those who need a refresher course) by Tom Engelhardt.
>
> > xxx
>
> > *An All-American Nightmare
> > **From TomDispatch: This is what defeat looks like
> > *By Tom Engelhardt | November 8, 2011
>
> > How about a moment of silence for the passing of the American Dream?
> > M.R.I.C. (May it rest in carnage.)
>
> > No, I’m not talking about the old dream of opportunity that involved
> > homeownership, a better job than your parents had, a decent pension, and
> > all the rest of the package that’s so yesterday, so underwater, so OWS. I’m
> > talking about a far more recent dream, a truly audacious one that’s
> > similarly gone with the wind.
>
> > I’m talking about George W. Bush’s American Dream. If people here remember
> > the invasion of Iraq -- and most Americans would undoubtedly prefer to
> > forget it -- what’s recalled is kited intelligence, Saddam Hussein’s
> > nonexistent nuclear arsenal, dumb and even dumber decisions, a bloody civil
> > war, dead Americans, crony corporations, a trillion or more taxpayer
> > dollars flushed down the toilet… well, you know the story. What few care to
> > remember was that original dream  call it The Dream -- and boy, was it a
> > beaut!
>
> > *An American Dream
>
> > *It went something like this: Back in early 2003, the top officials of
> > the Bush administration had no doubt that Saddam Hussein’s Iraq, drained by
> > years of war, no-fly zones, and sanctions, would be a pushover; that the
> > U.S. military, which they idolized and romanticized, would waltz to
> > Baghdad. (The word one of their supporters used in the *Washington Post*for 
> > the onrushing invasion was a “cakewalk.”) Nor did they doubt that those
> > troops would be greeted as liberators, even saviors, by throngs of adoring,
> > previously suppressed Shiites strewing flowers* *in their path. (No
> > kidding, no exaggeration.)
>
> > How easy it would be then to install a “democratic” government in Baghdad
> > -- which meant their autocratic candidate Ahmad Chalabi -- set up four or
> > five strategically situated military mega-bases, exceedingly well-armed
> > American small towns already on the drawing boards before the invasion
> > began, and so dominate the oil heartlands of the planet in ways even the
> > Brits, at the height of their empire, wouldn’t have dreamed possible. (Yes,
> > the neocons were then bragging that we would outdo the Roman and British
> > empires rolled into one!)
>
> > As there would be no real resistance, the American invasion force could
> > begin withdrawing as early as the fall of 2003, leaving perhaps 30,000 to
> > 40,000 troops, the U.S. Air Force, and various spooks and private
> > contractors behind to garrison a grateful country ad infinitum (on what was
> > then called “the South Korean model”). Iraq’s state-run economy would be
> > privatized and its oil resources thrown open to giant global energy
> > companies, especially American ones, which would rebuild the industry and
> > begin pumping millions of barrels of that country’s vast reserves, thus
> > undermining the OPEC cartel’s control over the oil market.
>
> > And mind you, it would hardly cost a cent. Well, at its unlikely worst,
> > maybe $100 billion to $200 billion, but as Iraq, in the phrase* *of
> > then-Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz, “floats on a sea of oil,”
> > most of it could undoubtedly be covered, in the end, by the Iraqis
> > themselves.
>
> > Now, doesn’t going down memory lane just take your breath away? And yet,
> > Iraq was a bare beginning for Bush’s dreamers, who clearly felt like so
> > many proverbial kids in a candy shop (even if they acted like bulls in a
> > china shop).  Syria, caught in a strategic pincer between Israel and
> > American Iraq, would naturally bow down; the Iranians, caught similarly
> > between American Iraq and American Afghanistan, would go down big time, too
> >  or simply be taken down Iraqi-style, and who would complain? (As the
> > neocon quip of the moment went: “Everyone wants to go to Baghdad.  Real men
> > want to go to Tehran.”)
>
> > And that wasn’t all. Bush’s top officials had been fervent Cold Warriors
> > in the days before the U.S. became “the sole superpower,” and they saw the
> > new Russia ste

Instructions for Proper Arrangement of Deck Chairs on the U.S.S. ('Too Big To Sink') Titanic




Instructions for Proper
Arrangement of Deck Chairs on the U.S.S. ('Too Big To Sink') Titanic
by David Franke
[David Franke was
one of the founders of the conservative movement in the 1950s and 1960s.
He is the author of a dozen books, including


Safe Places,


The Torture Doctor, and


America's Right Turn.]
As the U.S.S. Titanic [American Empire] steams full speed
ahead for New York harbor [the November 6, 2012 elections], we find no
need to provide a deck chair for Captain Barack Hussein Obama. He has no
desire to socialize with deck-chair scum. 
Captain Obama is having too much fun socializing with his most prominent
first class passengers [Wall Street], while criticizing his opponents for
ignoring the second-class passengers and scuttling the third-class
passengers he himself is about to imprison below deck. The captain
realizes his first-class cigar partners are really in charge, so why not
just enjoy the perks. Missus Michelle is having too much fun lording it
over the ladies, so he can enjoy his cigars safe from her scrutiny.

On board deck, therefore, are chairs for eight would-be replacements for
Captain Obama. Note: The U.S.S. Titanic is a "democratic"
(lower-case "d") ship, where the passengers vote for their
choice of captain. This organization plan has never been proven to work
well, although, as Winston Churchill noted, none of the other plans seem
to work any better.
The question remains, then, how to arrange the deck chairs of the
"opposition" to Captain Obama. While the top first class
passengers will still remain in control, this is a matter of endless
fascination to the media passengers who convinced their bosses that this
is a story worth covering (and paying for, with their expensive
cabins).
We suggest a three-part organization of those deck chairs. 

The establishment candidates 
The "anti-establishment" candidates (aka conservative
clowns) 
The prophet (we are required by law to provide him with a chair, but
our solution will be to just ignore him and pretend he doesn’t exist) 

The establishment candidates
Front chair occupied by Mitt Romney. Back chair
(perilously near the ocean edge of the deck) occupied by Jon Huntsman.


The "anti-establishment" conservative
clowns
These seats are occupied by Michele Bachmann,
Rick Perry, Herman Cain, Newt Gingrich, and – oh, yes – Rick Santorum.
These seats rotate according to the media’s boredom factor. When they get
tired of one clown, switch the chairs and the next "flavor of the
month" gets the front chair. Except that Santorum, with his Google
problem, who never seems to get that front seat.

The "prophet"
There’s no doubt who sits in this chair, all
alone: Ron Paul. But is he Captain Barr of the Cunardia Caronia, warning
of icebergs ahead? Or the captain of the Greek steamer Athinai warning of
the same iceberg danger, only closer? Or, finally, the California,
warning “We are stopped and surrounded by ice”? No matter. We will just
ignore him.
To listen to the prophet, you see, would require the Titanic to change
course. And nobody really wants to do that because the Titanic is on the
fastest path across the Atlantic, and this is a cruise for addicted
gamblers.
If the “Titanic” wins the race across the Atlantic, the first-class
passengers stand to win a bundle of derivatives upon disembarkation in
Lower Manhattan.
The second-class passengers are told they will be taken care of until
death with pension derivatives and medical-care derivatives.
And the third-class passengers – well, they have been convinced they
cannot make it across the Atlantic on their own and must depend on
smarter people to get them there. Plus, one of them stands to win the
lottery and get a bundle of derivatives like those in first class.
Lotteries are very popular in third class.
The media passengers? Well, none of them has studied navigation, so they
think the Titanic’s course is the only way to get across the Atlantic.

The only way to deal with Prophet Paul, therefore, is to ignore him. And
so he is ignored by the establishment media. He gets just 90 seconds in
the GOP presidential debate on foreign policy on Saturday, November 12,
for example. Old Testament prophets have never been faves on TV, anyway,
unless they are safely ensconced in the historical past. 
Of course the next step is Titanic lookout Frederick Fleet’s chilling and
to-the-point message: "Iceberg ahead!" But by then it is too
late.

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Fwd: [LA-F] Britain could become enormous Los Angeles-style ghetto under planning reforms, warns leading architect

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Britain could become enormous Los Angeles-style ghetto under planning
reforms, warns leading architect

By Rick Dewsbury

Last updated at 12:52 PM on 14th November 2011

A leading architect has launched a scathing attack on Government planning
reforms and warned that large parts of the country could resemble Los
Angeles.

Lord Rogers of Riverside claims that under the plans Britain's biggest
cities could merge into one enormous urban sprawl.

The respected designer said that the reforms were 'fundamentally flawed'
and called on ministers to make more of an effort to improve current towns
and cities.



Metropolis: Parts of Britain could join up and come to resemble Los
Angeles, pictured, according to leading architect Lord Rogers



Capital: London could become an enormous mess with more new housing estates
built in the suburbs instead of redeveloping inner-city areas

London could come to resemble the rolling ghettos of Los Angeles, where a
string of urban areas of connected. Bristol could link to Bath while
tranquil Devon may descend into scenes more like the south of France.

'Cities and the countryside are two sides of the same coin - we need to
conserve both. The reason we want beautiful hills and scenery is because we
often live in cities and see them as our safety valve and escape,' Lord
Rogers told the Times.

He added: 'Cities are the engines of the economy, the heart of our culture
and places of innovation. If the framework is not greatly improved it will
lead to the breakdown and fragmentation of cities and neighbourhoods as
well as the erosion of the countryside.'

Lord Rogers' criticisms come amid a growing backlash against David Cameron
by rural voters who feel betrayed by the relaxation of planning.



Rundown: The St Paul's area of Bristol. Lord Rogers fears that, instead of
rejuvenating the city centre, suburbs could expand into neighboring Bath



Historic and untouched: Pulteney Bridge in Bath. Encroachment from larger
and more modern communities would ruin Bath's charm

The Government’s bid to reduce planning laws from more than 1,000 pages to
just over 50 has also sparked concern among environmental groups.

The National Trust, the National Federation of Women’s Institutes and
Friends Of The Earth are among those protesting against the reforms.

Until now the fears over the plans had been limited to the countryside.
Lord Rogers is the first person to voice concern about the effect upon
major cities.

The architect, who designed the Millennium Dome, the Lloyds Building and
the Pompidou Centre in Paris, said that regions needed regeneration not
more building.



Planning warning: The respected architect, Lord Rogers of Riverside

He said Britain could 'very easily' become like the Californian city of Los
Angeles with 'rust belts and towns joining each other'.

Cities such as Birmingham and Milton Keynes, Bristol and Bath would also
begin to merge into the unsightly metropolises.

Lord Rogers said that, although the south of France was 'once heavenly', it
had become a 'nightmare' - following decades of uncontrolled planning that
has 'trashed' the area. The same could happen in British beauty spots such
as the Lake District, Cornwall and Devon.

He said planning was not about 'short-term finances', as the negative
impact could be felt for hundreds of years. Sacrificing the country would
not even begin to kick-start the economy but would leave lasting scars.

The architect called for derelict buildings in rundown areas to redeveloped
in order to bring life back to cities.

He added: 'We need well-run cities that are well-built, well connected,
compact, with great transport, without sprawl, with a good poor-rich mix,
good public spaces, good design, varied shopping, mixed living and working.
It hasn't changed much since 6,000 years ago.'

'We need well-run cities that are well-built, well connected, compact, with
great transport, without sprawl, with a good poor-rich mix, good public
spaces, good design, varied shopping, mixed living and working. It hasn't
changed much since 6,000 years ago'

David Cameron was told last week that coalition moves to roll back planning
restrictions are 'contradictory and confusing'.

In a letter to the Prime Minister, an influential Commons committee warned
reforms that will introduce a 'presumption in favour of sustainable
development' are 'unsatisfactory' and vulnerable to legal challenges.

Ministers claim the new rules are a vital part of plans to kick-start
economic growth but campaigners, including the National Trust, fear they
will allow the countryside to be carved up.

The Environmental Audit Committee has called for a clearer definition of
the wording in the new national planning policy framework (NPPF).

Joan Walley, who chairs the committee, said: 'As it currently stands, the
new planning policy framework appears contradictory and confusing. It pays
lip service to sustainable development without providing a clear
definition, potentiall

Fwd: Lemons





Sally Mullihan of Coral Springs, Florida decided to take one of the jobs
that most Americans are not willing to do.


The woman applying for a job in a Florida lemon grove seemed to be far too
qualified for the job.
She had a liberal arts degree from the University of Michigan and had
worked as a social worker and school teacher.

The foreman frowned and said, "I have to ask you, have you had any actual
experience in picking lemons?"
"Well, as a matter of fact, I have! I've been divorced three times, owned 2
Chryslers and voted for Obama."




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So Long, America




So Long, America
by Andrew P. Napolitano
Here is Judge Napolitano's closing argument Thursday on
his

FreedomWatch.
Does the government work for us or do we work for the government?
Tonight, wars and rumors of war. 
The United States was forged in a war: The American revolution. After the
rebels defeated the King, we were blessed with something unique in
history; a founding document, the Constitution, which was not imposed
upon the people but rather was ratified by them, and which set out to
establish strict limits on the federal government. The whole purpose of
the Constitution was to keep the government off the people's backs; to
assure that the new government here would never be as destructive of
freedom and property as the King had been; to guarantee that the
government is the servant and the people were the master; still a
revolutionary idea even today, more than 230 years later. 
So what happened to the war machine that freed the American colonies of
their British masters? It was subsumed by the new government. The same
generation that fought an American revolution whose unifying principles
were life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, ran a government that
violated those very principles. In the Whiskey Rebellion, President
George Washington shot and arrested farmers who refused to pay a federal
tax on booze they made at home; and under the Alien and Sedition Acts,
President John Adams prosecuted people for criticizing him. 
The Revolutionary War was the beginning of the Republic and the Civil War
was the beginning of the end of the Republic. Prior to the Civil War, the
United States were plural; the country was called "these"
United States. Even the Constitution refers to the United States
as "them." Afterwards, the United States became a singular
noun. The Civil War was the official and violent rejection by the federal
government of the basic principle laid out in the Declaration of
Independence which was cited as the impetus for the American Revolution.
What was that principle for which the rebels fought and which, among our
presidents, only Jefferson defended? It was the right of free people to
secede from a government that destroys their freedom. It was, by
extension, the natural right to be left alone. 
Not only are wars inimical to our freedom, they are also cancers for
democracy. In the last 50 years, the United States has seen a parade of
wars that don’t serve our interests. We fought the Korean war at the
behest of the United Nations. We fought in Vietnam because the French
wouldn’t. We entered the First Gulf War because of the United Nations and
of course that led to the Iraq War. Even in Afghanistan, while we entered
under the pretext of hunting down the masterminds of 9/11, that war soon
became an imperial exercise akin to the Soviet or British occupations of
Afghanistan. The Constitution gives the power of declaring war to the
Congress. But today in America, that power is effectively the
President’s. President Obama has waged war in Iraq, in Afghanistan, in
Libya, in Pakistan, in Somalia, and in Uganda; all without a declaration
of war. The last time Congress declared war was December 8th 1941.

War is the death of freedom because war is the health of big government.
The federal government views the Constitution as its enemy. That’s why
the President, a former professor of constitutional law nonetheless, can
take an oath to uphold the Constitution and then spend every waking
moment trying to dig its grave. And George W. Bush was the same. And Bill
Clinton was the same. And so on, and so on. If Barack Obama or George W.
Bush told you directly that their agenda was the destruction of your
freedoms, you wouldn’t buy it. But war and rumors of war allow the
government to steal your freedoms without you rising up to defend them.

In nearly three years in office, President Obama has conducted a campaign
to transform America through a process of government expansion and crony
capitalism. Yet, he may very well win re-election not because Americans
support more central planning and federal control of our lives, but
because he enjoys high approval ratings for fighting wars. Yet these wars
are the same policies that allow for the centralization of power in the
federal government on the domestic front. There wouldn’t have been an
Obamacare if there had never been a Patriot Act; because, when you allow
your freedoms to be trampled conditionally under the pretext of safety,
then even those freedoms you’d never dream of giving away become
endangered. 
In my new book,

It is Dangerous to be Right When the Government is Wrong, I
argue that every empire falls because of an over-extended military. With
more than 900 bases on all seven continents, billions in annual military
aid to countries around the world, and active military operations in more
countries than we can know, the United States is digging in on its
imperial ambitions, even as those same ambitions are driving us bankrupt,
exhausting our

: Chinese Banks Close to Collapse. Fears of zero growth, according to this religious site at least

CHINA
Chinese Banks Close to Collapse. Fears of zero growth
The Chinese Financial Index fell by 24%, more than that of European and
American bank stocks. Chinese banks are plagued by insolvent debts due to
loans to local governments and the stagnant property market. The country's
growth, currently estimated at 9.5%, is at risk

Hong Kong (AsiaNews / Agencies) - The listings of Chinese banks have
dropped to very low levels, raising fears that a collapse could wipe out
the country's growth. This is what emerges from news announced today by
Bloomberg, according to whom the MSCI index for the Chinese financial
sector fell 4% this month, much more than all the European, American and
Japanese banks.

The problem is very serious, even though in the last 12 months the index
has recorded 104 billion in earnings. Chinese banks' troubles are being
caused by insolvent bonds offered to local governments, as well as by loans
made to support the building boom that has left 50 percent of newly-built
houses unsold, and by slowing global economic growth, which penalizes
Chinese exports to Europe and the United States.

In 2008, at the beginning of the U.S. credit crisis, China sustained its
economy with a package of aid to banks, local governments and Chinese
industry of about 4 trillion dollars. This has led to a major overexposure
on the part of Chinese banks and high inflation in the country. Local
governments have received funding, but in most cases it was only used to
create jobs, without a real business plan, without hope of repaying the
debt contracted.

According to Jim Chanos, of Kynikos Associates, the insolvent debts could
cut China's growth to almost to zero (it is now estimated at 9.5%).The
Chinese economy is also affected by the weight of sovereign debt in Europe
and the stagnation in the United States. Both areas have diminished their
purchase of Chinese products, undermining the volume of exports from
Beijing.

http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Chinese-Banks-Close-to-Collapse.-Fears-of-zero-growth-22763.html

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