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Obama control

By on April 17, 2009
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Obama, it is now certain, intends to usher in a new era of tight government control of every aspect of our lives.

The left wants to shoehorn us all into the vision of their socialist utopia.

President Obama’s New Plan to Decide Where Americans Live and How They Travel

…Recognizing that their anti-growth strategies have failed to deter the millions of American families that still flock to the burbs, Smart Growth advocates have now enlisted the federal government in their war against the suburbs, and the HUD-DOT part­nership is the beginning of that effort. Although there is no shortage of detailed information from many sources (including HUD) on housing costs for every state, metropolitan area, and municipality in America, Smart Growth advocates contend that these readily available data are incorrect because they overlook the many “hidden costs” of suburban lifestyles, an assertion that relies on unsubstantiated allegations of greater infrastructure costs, environ­mental degradation, and the high cost of auto­mobile operation.

To save Americans from these alleged higher liv­ing costs, the Smart Growth and New Urbanist movements want Americans to move into higher-density developments–such as townhouses and high-rise apartment buildings–which, the anti-suburbanists contend, can be better served by pub­lic transportation (hence the commitment to “trans­portation choice,” a process whereby commuters are bribed or coerced into an inconvenient mode of transportation that most would not choose on their own)–thereby freeing the hapless American people from relying on their automobiles. Other key bene­fits illuminated in this fable are the preservation of land, reduced carbon footprints, greater social interaction through forced proximity, and a higher aesthetic standard in community and housing design as government planners and politicians assume greater responsibility for artistic choices.  ~heritage.org

Battle of the messiahs?

By on April 17, 2009
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This story gives me the idea that our messiah has jealousy issues with the real messiah.

Georgetown Says It Covered Over Name of Jesus to Comply With White House RequestWednesday, April 15, 2009
By Edwin Mora

(CNSNews.com) – Georgetown University says it covered over the monogram “IHS”–symbolizing the name of Jesus Christ—because it was inscribed on a pediment on the stage where President Obama spoke at the university on Tuesday and the White House had asked Georgetown to cover up all signs and symbols there.
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Georgetown, which is run by the Jesuit order, is one of the most prestigious Catholic institutions of higher education in the United States.

Roman Catholics traditionally use “IHS” as an abbreviation for Jesus’ name.  ~cnsnews.com

More of a guideline…

By on April 2, 2009
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Our leftist one party government thinks that the constitution is merely a set of guidelines. Not some absolute rule of law. Ex post facto taxes? No problem. Change the constitution without an amendment? No problem.

Justice Department lawyers concluded in an unpublished opinion earlier this year that the historic D.C. voting rights bill pending in Congress is unconstitutional, according to sources briefed on the issue. But Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr., who supports the measure, ordered up a second opinion from other lawyers in his department and determined that the legislation would pass muster. ~washingtonpost.com

Moral Government?

By on April 1, 2009
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We are told that businesses are inherently immoral, that they will cheat customers and employees at every opportunity. Government, on the other hand, is the chosen vehicle for correcting the wrongs of society and creating a better world. The idea that calling an organization ‘government’ somehow makes it inherently moral is dead wrong. In fact, if anything we must guard against corruption in government far more than in the private sector because government has far more power to destroy and ruin than private organizations do.

One recent example: EEOC Willfully Violated Pay Law, Arbitrator Rules

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, responsible for ensuring that the nation’s workers are treated fairly, has itself willfully violated the Fair Labor Standards Act on a nationwide basis with its own employees, an arbitrator has ruled.

The agency’s practice of offering compensatory time off to its employees rather than overtime pay amounted to “forced volunteering” and was a knowing violation of the law, according to the ruling.

“The case before me, in my view, demonstrates action that went beyond mere negligence,” arbitrator Steven M. Wolf wrote in a decision released last week.  ~washingtonpost.com

The idea that government is automatically moral has ramificiations. As we transition to the Government taking over more and more of the private sector, Universal Healthcare and General Motors being two examples, are we likely to see more abuses (ie what would be a private sector ‘abuse’) or less? I say more. And you will have no where to turn for redress except to government. Happy days.

Climastrology

By on March 30, 2009
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“The greatest lie ever told. Now that’s a statement.

Rise of sea levels is ‘the greatest lie ever told’

Although the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) only predicts a sea level rise of 59cm (17 inches) by 2100, Al Gore in his Oscar-winning film An Inconvenient Truth went much further, talking of 20 feet, and showing computer graphics of cities such as Shanghai and San Francisco half under water. We all know the graphic showing central London in similar plight. As for tiny island nations such as the Maldives and Tuvalu, as Prince Charles likes to tell us and the Archbishop of Canterbury was again parroting last week, they are due to vanish.

…The reason why Dr Mörner, formerly a Stockholm professor, is so certain that these claims about sea level rise are 100 per cent wrong is that they are all based on computer model predictions, whereas his findings are based on “going into the field to observe what is actually happening in the real world”.

When running the International Commission on Sea Level Change, he launched a special project on the Maldives, whose leaders have for 20 years been calling for vast sums of international aid to stave off disaster. Six times he and his expert team visited the islands, to confirm that the sea has not risen for half a century. Before announcing his findings, he offered to show the inhabitants a film explaining why they had nothing to worry about. The government refused to let it be shown.

Similarly in Tuvalu, where local leaders have been calling for the inhabitants to be evacuated for 20 years, the sea .has if anything dropped in recent decades. The only evidence the scaremongers can cite is based on the fact that extracting groundwater for pineapple growing has allowed seawater to seep in to replace it. Meanwhile, Venice has been sinking rather than the Adriatic rising, says Dr Mörner.

One of his most shocking discoveries was why the IPCC has been able to show sea levels rising by 2.3mm a year. Until 2003, even its own satellite-based evidence showed no upward trend. But suddenly the graph tilted upwards because the IPCC’s favoured experts had drawn on the finding of a single tide-gauge in Hong Kong harbour showing a 2.3mm rise. The entire global sea-level projection was then adjusted upwards by a “corrective factor” of 2.3mm, because, as the IPCC scientists admitted, they “needed to show a trend”.  ~telegraph.co.uk

The transformative path

By on March 30, 2009
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obama-messiah-1-250pxFree markets have failed and we must now embark on a new transformative path of change. All of our problems are due to the greed of big business, so instead we need wise experts, technocrats, and politicians to make economic decisions for the common good in order to create a fair and prosperous society.

Sounds familiar. Sadly, this experiment never ends well. How unwell it will end in our case depends on how far Obama and his congress take us down the road to serfdom.

There’s nothing worse we could do than put politicians in charge of the economy. The argument is an old one, discredited and debunked, but one held as tightly as belief in the trinity, baptism by water, or that buddha is enlightenment; in essence it is this: that business is greedy and the rich are rich because they take wealth from the poor. The history of this nation and of the system of capitalism that has developed over many years says otherwise. Wealth in free capitalist countries benefits rich and poor alike because it is the thing called capital in capitalism that works for society, to improve, invest, and return a higher standard of living to both rich and poor alike.

The truth is that however bad you think free markets are– political markets are far worse. America is a country that has never been perfect, being peopled by persons of imperfection, but in the combination of freedom, individualism, property rights, classical liberal morality, and dare I say Judeo-Christian morality, we have achieved a standard of living unparalleled by any other civilization in the history of the earth. The poor in the United States live like no other class of poor in history.

It is not by chance or fickle fortune that wealth has accrued to the capitalist system. Even as Marx fundamentally misunderstood what was happening before his eyes he nevertheless recognized that capitalism does indeed produce wealth and this wealth produced higher standards of living for all.

Dismantling the structures of American capitalism and replacing it with the structures of a politicized economy will destroy wealth creation in this country and likely the world economy will follow. The transformation that Obama and his congress are now pursuing is nothing less than a grand looting. Eventually, if we follow it to it’s logical conclusion, it will effectively end American democracy and destroy personal freedom.

Channeling Dems

By on March 28, 2009
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Kim Jong Il channels Democrats like nobody’s business. But I’m not sure if which direction the spiritual flow is going. When the left talks about Bush’s torture regime and Guantanamo it sounds an awful lot like this:

KCNA Demands Closure of U.S. Secret Prisons

Pyongyang, March 24 (KCNA) — The special rapporteur for torture issue of the UN Human Rights Council and the UN special envoy for human rights and anti-terrorism, addressing the recent 10th meeting of the council, declared that an international investigation would be conducted into the secret prisons operated by the United States.

They denounced the atrocities committed by the U.S. as the “most horrible acts,” asserting that they would not allow the U.S. to evade its responsibility for them with ease on account of the replacement of the U.S. administration and that the investigation should be continued till everything has been clarified.

This is a proper step taken by the international community against the U.S. which has committed ceaseless human rights abuses in different parts of the world under the signboard of “war on terrorism.”

The U.S. set up a secret prison in Guantanamo of Cuba in the wake of the “September 11 incident” and established such prisons in different countries of the world and even on warships.

It arrested many people and has kept them in custody for a long period, ruthlessly violating their freedom and human rights.

26,000 people are now detained, without having even a chance to stand a fair trial, the most elementary human rights.

They are put to beating, sleep depravation, water boarding, sexual torture and other forms of mediaeval torture. Guiltless people are disappearing without being known to the outside, while undergoing unbearable pain.

These are the hideous human rights abuses quite contrary to the humanitarian principles of modern international law including the “Geneva Convention” and international law on human rights.

Precisely for this reason the International Committee of the Red Cross in a report in 2007 defined the U.S. atrocities as “cruel and inhuman contempt of personality” and “torture.”

What merits a serious attention is that the U.S. is trying to keep the secret prisons censured by the world.

This is evidenced by the fact that the U.S. attorney general, while announcing the “new standard for the operation of the facilities for ‘suspected terrorists’” in Guantanamo on March 13, blustered that it is inevitable to operate these facilities in a way to tighten national security.

These outbursts cannot but sound very surprising as they are let loose without let-up under the pretext of “examining” the closure of the secret prison in Guantanamo.

During the office of the Bush administration the U.S. left no means untried to cover up the operation of secret prisons with such crafty words as “national security”.

The new U.S. administration is echoing such words only to reveal its intention not to close them.

The U.S. had better close as early as possible the secret prisons ill-famed for lots of human rights abuses. ~kcna.co.jp

Commie propaganda?

By on March 27, 2009
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Commie propaganda or Obama administration and supporter rhetoric? Capitalism and the ‘unlimited free market principle’ is responsible for this new great depression.

The financial crisis hit the United States because its business is governed by the “unlimited free market principle” and the U.S. administration squandered money for overseas aggression and war moves, the article notes, and goes on:

In the capitalist market economy antagonism and contradictions and unbalanced development among countries bring about instability in equilibrium between foreign incomings and outgoings and foreign exchange rate and these create conditions for sparking off a financial crisis.

The economy in the capitalist countries is structurally dependent on the U.S. Many capitalist countries are in such economic relationship that they are entangled with one another with the U.S. consumer market as the axis. Precisely for this reason the financial crisis in the U.S. put major capitalist countries in the grip of economic crisis.

Capitalism is an unpopular society which diametrically runs counter to the intrinsic wishes of the popular masses in all aspects of material, spiritual and cultural and political lives, and it is an old corrupt and weak society bound to go to ruin due to the struggle of the popular masses for independence.

By its intrinsic class nature the capitalist system cannot overcome the imbalance between deformed material life and impoverished spiritual and cultural life and that between the growing demand of the popular masses for independence and the worsening political life. Herein lie the uncontrollable contradictions in the capitalist society and consequently capitalism is bound to go to ruin inevitably.

The capitalist countries are also going to decay and ruin, depending on the exploitation and plunder of developing countries.

The developing countries are standing in confrontation with the capitalist countries by strengthening the south-south cooperation as evidenced by their energetic endeavors to put an end to the outdated international economic order and, instead, build a new and fair one.

The advance of the popular masses’ cause of independence, the cause of socialism is precipitating the doomsday of capitalism.

Socialist Korea demonstrating its might by winning victories by dint of Songun serves as the beacon of hope and the banner of victory for the world people desirous of independence.

The 21st century will prove to be a century marked with historic changes in which capitalism is bound to meet its end and socialism is sure to triumph thanks to the struggle of the popular masses for independence. ~kcna.co.jp

Brought to you by the Korean Central News Agency of the People’s Republic of North Korea.

FILES-NKOREA-KIM

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