Gene Kerrigan: Empty guarantees bring empty ATMs
http://www.independent.ie/opinion/columnists/gene-kerrigan/empty-guarantees-bring-empty-atms-29150361.html
Tuesday, 26 March 2013
Monday, 25 March 2013
JoePlummer.com News 03-25-2013
StopTheLie.com News update 03-25-2013
Central Bankers Want Personal Savings Accounts To Pay For Bailouts? (Video)
Source: LibertyCrier.com
A stunning situation is unfolding on the island of Cyprus.
Like other countries in Europe, Cyprus is in a debt crisis and is seeking a bailout from European central bankers.
But it is the way the EU and Cyprus government has tried to help pay for the bailout that has the entire world paying attention. Ben Swann breaks this story down in Reality Check.
Watch video at:http://libertycrier.com/world-news/reality-check-european-central-bankers-want-personal-savings-accounts-to-pay-for-bailouts/?ut
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The Fallibility of "Peer Review"
Source: The-Scientist.com
--According to a recent analysis published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, about 67 percent of 2047 studies retracted from biomedical and life-science journals (as of May 3, 2012) resulted from scientific misconduct. However, the same PNAS study indicated that about 21 percent of the retractions were attributed to a scientific error. This indicates that failures in peer-review led to the publication of studies that shouldn't have passed muster. This relatively low number of studies published in error (ca. 436) might be the tip of a larger iceberg, caused by the unwillingness of the editors to take an action.
Peer review is clearly an imperfect process, to say the least. Shoddy reviewing or reviewers have allowed subpar science into the literature. We hear about some of these oversights when studies are retracted due to "scientific error." Really, the error in these cases lies with reviewers, who should have caught such mistakes or deceptions in their initial review of the research. But journal editors are also to blame for not sufficiently using their powers to retract scientifically erroneous studies.
Read full article at:http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/34518/title/Opinion--Scientific-Peer-Review-in-Crisis/
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Family's Home Raided over Facebook Photo of Child's Rifle
Source: Foxnews.com
--"To make someone go through this because he posted a picture of his son with a .22 rifle on his Facebook page is pretty outrageous," he said. "Does that mean that anyone who posts a picture like that has to consent to a home inspection and a gun inspection? I don't think so."
Nappen said they are considering taking legal action against the state for the late night raid.
Read full article at:http://radio.foxnews.com/toddstarnes/top-stories/familys-home-raided-over-facebook-photo-of-childs-rifle.html
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Organic Awareness is Growing - The Fight for GMO Labeling Continues
Source: Mercola.com
--This is indeed a huge problem, as numerous polls and surveys have shown that otherwise health-conscious Americans do not understand the qualitative difference between organic and so-called "natural" products. Contrary to reality, the majority of consumers believe the "natural" label equates to "almost organic," and many believe the "all-natural" label means a product is better than organic! That's the power of word-association, and these industries are well aware of how the word natural "feels" to consumers who are in the dark about the regulatory differences between the labels... As stated by Cummins:
"This is outrageous, given that organic food and products, by law and by third-party certification, are produced without the use of synthetic pesticides and chemical fertilizers, animal drugs, genetically modified organisms (GMOs), irradiation, nanoparticles, or sewage sludge, whereas so-called 'natural' products are unregulated."
Read full article at:http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2013/03/19/whole-foods-gmo-labeling.aspx?e_cid=20130319_DNL_art_1&utm_source=
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Previous Week's News 03-18-2013
You Are An Anarchist. The Question Is: How Often?
Source: Fee.org
--Consider Cambodia in the late 1970s. The Khmer Rouge government intentionally killed more than two million of its own citizens. That's an average of eight percent of the population killed each year while government simultaneously inflicted countless other horrors. Do you think the Cambodian people, faced with that government, would have been better off with no government at all? Congratulations. You are, sometimes, an anarchist.
Read full article at:http://www.fee.org/the_freeman/detail/you-are-an-anarchist-the-question-is-how-often#axzz2NYjuctbR
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Food & Drug Attorney Exposes Pharmaceutical Monopoly (Video)
Source: InfoWars.com
Alex welcomes American attorney, columnist, lecturer, and author Jonathan W. Emord to discuss Big Pharma's government-enforced monopoly on "therapeutic claims," as well as his legal victories against the FDA.
Watch video at:http://youtu.be/kRwb9fb6FRA
======================================================
Could Blue Light Replace Antibiotics?
Source: Mercola.com
In the study, lab animals were infected with P. aeruginosa. Incredibly, ALL of the animals treated with blue light survived while 82 percent of the controls died. Could this possibly be the beginning of a whole new treatment paradigm for infections? Clearly, we're nearing the end of the road of the antibiotic era, as antibiotic-resistance spreads.
Blue light therapy has also been shown effective against MRSA and other resistant bugs, offering new hope for effective treatments.
In a previous study published in 2009,3 over 90 percent of community acquired and hospital acquired strains of MRSA were successfully eradicated within mere minutes of exposure to blue light.
Read full article at:http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2013/03/14/blue-light-therapy.aspx?e_cid=20130314_DNL_art_1&utm_source=dnl&ut
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1970s Global Cooling Alarmism
Source: PopularTechnology.net
During the 1970s the media promoted global cooling alarmism with dire threats of a new ice age. Extreme weather events were hyped as signs of the coming apocalypse and man-made pollution was blamed as the cause. Environmental extremists called for everything from outlawing the internal combustion engine to communist style population controls. This media hype was found in newspapers, magazines, books and on television;
Read full article at:http://www.populartechnology.net/2013/02/the-1970s-global-cooling-alarmism.html
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Fiat Bitcoins VS Fiat Federal Reserve Notes (w/ Video)
Source: JoePlummer.com
There are three really big problems with the FED's monetary system:
1. All of the "money" that the FED creates is inextricably tied to debt. In other words, the money that the FED creates only exists because a person, business, or government has borrowed it into existence. If the loan (which created the money) is repaid, those loaned dollars cease to exist. They disappear from the economy and will not return until another loan is made. This is a debt trap that our society cannot escape and it only grows deeper and more dangerous with the passage of time.
Read full article at:http://stopthelie.com/bitcoin-vs-federal-reserve-notes.html
PLEASE forward this newsletter to anyone you think might be interested. Those who'd like to be added to our news list can sign up at:http://stopthelie.com/stl_newsletter.html
Central Bankers Want Personal Savings Accounts To Pay For Bailouts? (Video)
Source: LibertyCrier.com
A stunning situation is unfolding on the island of Cyprus.
Like other countries in Europe, Cyprus is in a debt crisis and is seeking a bailout from European central bankers.
But it is the way the EU and Cyprus government has tried to help pay for the bailout that has the entire world paying attention. Ben Swann breaks this story down in Reality Check.
Watch video at:http://libertycrier.com/world-news/reality-check-european-central-bankers-want-personal-savings-accounts-to-pay-for-bailouts/?ut
======================================================
The Fallibility of "Peer Review"
Source: The-Scientist.com
--According to a recent analysis published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, about 67 percent of 2047 studies retracted from biomedical and life-science journals (as of May 3, 2012) resulted from scientific misconduct. However, the same PNAS study indicated that about 21 percent of the retractions were attributed to a scientific error. This indicates that failures in peer-review led to the publication of studies that shouldn't have passed muster. This relatively low number of studies published in error (ca. 436) might be the tip of a larger iceberg, caused by the unwillingness of the editors to take an action.
Peer review is clearly an imperfect process, to say the least. Shoddy reviewing or reviewers have allowed subpar science into the literature. We hear about some of these oversights when studies are retracted due to "scientific error." Really, the error in these cases lies with reviewers, who should have caught such mistakes or deceptions in their initial review of the research. But journal editors are also to blame for not sufficiently using their powers to retract scientifically erroneous studies.
Read full article at:http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/34518/title/Opinion--Scientific-Peer-Review-in-Crisis/
======================================================
Family's Home Raided over Facebook Photo of Child's Rifle
Source: Foxnews.com
--"To make someone go through this because he posted a picture of his son with a .22 rifle on his Facebook page is pretty outrageous," he said. "Does that mean that anyone who posts a picture like that has to consent to a home inspection and a gun inspection? I don't think so."
Nappen said they are considering taking legal action against the state for the late night raid.
Read full article at:http://radio.foxnews.com/toddstarnes/top-stories/familys-home-raided-over-facebook-photo-of-childs-rifle.html
======================================================
Organic Awareness is Growing - The Fight for GMO Labeling Continues
Source: Mercola.com
--This is indeed a huge problem, as numerous polls and surveys have shown that otherwise health-conscious Americans do not understand the qualitative difference between organic and so-called "natural" products. Contrary to reality, the majority of consumers believe the "natural" label equates to "almost organic," and many believe the "all-natural" label means a product is better than organic! That's the power of word-association, and these industries are well aware of how the word natural "feels" to consumers who are in the dark about the regulatory differences between the labels... As stated by Cummins:
"This is outrageous, given that organic food and products, by law and by third-party certification, are produced without the use of synthetic pesticides and chemical fertilizers, animal drugs, genetically modified organisms (GMOs), irradiation, nanoparticles, or sewage sludge, whereas so-called 'natural' products are unregulated."
Read full article at:http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2013/03/19/whole-foods-gmo-labeling.aspx?e_cid=20130319_DNL_art_1&utm_source=
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http://ByeByeMissPie.info
Previous Week's News 03-18-2013
You Are An Anarchist. The Question Is: How Often?
Source: Fee.org
--Consider Cambodia in the late 1970s. The Khmer Rouge government intentionally killed more than two million of its own citizens. That's an average of eight percent of the population killed each year while government simultaneously inflicted countless other horrors. Do you think the Cambodian people, faced with that government, would have been better off with no government at all? Congratulations. You are, sometimes, an anarchist.
Read full article at:http://www.fee.org/the_freeman/detail/you-are-an-anarchist-the-question-is-how-often#axzz2NYjuctbR
======================================================
Food & Drug Attorney Exposes Pharmaceutical Monopoly (Video)
Source: InfoWars.com
Alex welcomes American attorney, columnist, lecturer, and author Jonathan W. Emord to discuss Big Pharma's government-enforced monopoly on "therapeutic claims," as well as his legal victories against the FDA.
Watch video at:http://youtu.be/kRwb9fb6FRA
======================================================
Could Blue Light Replace Antibiotics?
Source: Mercola.com
In the study, lab animals were infected with P. aeruginosa. Incredibly, ALL of the animals treated with blue light survived while 82 percent of the controls died. Could this possibly be the beginning of a whole new treatment paradigm for infections? Clearly, we're nearing the end of the road of the antibiotic era, as antibiotic-resistance spreads.
Blue light therapy has also been shown effective against MRSA and other resistant bugs, offering new hope for effective treatments.
In a previous study published in 2009,3 over 90 percent of community acquired and hospital acquired strains of MRSA were successfully eradicated within mere minutes of exposure to blue light.
Read full article at:http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2013/03/14/blue-light-therapy.aspx?e_cid=20130314_DNL_art_1&utm_source=dnl&ut
======================================================
1970s Global Cooling Alarmism
Source: PopularTechnology.net
During the 1970s the media promoted global cooling alarmism with dire threats of a new ice age. Extreme weather events were hyped as signs of the coming apocalypse and man-made pollution was blamed as the cause. Environmental extremists called for everything from outlawing the internal combustion engine to communist style population controls. This media hype was found in newspapers, magazines, books and on television;
Read full article at:http://www.populartechnology.net/2013/02/the-1970s-global-cooling-alarmism.html
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Fiat Bitcoins VS Fiat Federal Reserve Notes (w/ Video)
Source: JoePlummer.com
There are three really big problems with the FED's monetary system:
1. All of the "money" that the FED creates is inextricably tied to debt. In other words, the money that the FED creates only exists because a person, business, or government has borrowed it into existence. If the loan (which created the money) is repaid, those loaned dollars cease to exist. They disappear from the economy and will not return until another loan is made. This is a debt trap that our society cannot escape and it only grows deeper and more dangerous with the passage of time.
Read full article at:http://stopthelie.com/bitcoin-vs-federal-reserve-notes.html
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Monday, 18 March 2013
JoePlummer.com News 03-18-2013
StopTheLie.com News update 03-18-2013
You Are An Anarchist. The Question Is: How Often?
Source: Fee.org
--Consider Cambodia in the late 1970s. The Khmer Rouge government intentionally killed more than two million of its own citizens. That's an average of eight percent of the population killed each year while government simultaneously inflicted countless other horrors. Do you think the Cambodian people, faced with that government, would have been better off with no government at all? Congratulations. You are, sometimes, an anarchist.
Read full article at:http://www.fee.org/the_freeman/detail/you-are-an-anarchist-the-question-is-how-often#axzz2NYjuctbR
======================================================
Food & Drug Attorney Exposes Pharmaceutical Monopoly (Video)
Source: InfoWars.com
Alex welcomes American attorney, columnist, lecturer, and author Jonathan W. Emord to discuss Big Pharma's government-enforced monopoly on "therapeutic claims," as well as his legal victories against the FDA.
Watch video at:http://youtu.be/kRwb9fb6FRA
======================================================
Could Blue Light Replace Antibiotics?
Source: Mercola.com
In the study, lab animals were infected with P. aeruginosa. Incredibly, ALL of the animals treated with blue light survived while 82 percent of the controls died. Could this possibly be the beginning of a whole new treatment paradigm for infections? Clearly, we're nearing the end of the road of the antibiotic era, as antibiotic-resistance spreads.
Blue light therapy has also been shown effective against MRSA and other resistant bugs, offering new hope for effective treatments.
In a previous study published in 2009,3 over 90 percent of community acquired and hospital acquired strains of MRSA were successfully eradicated within mere minutes of exposure to blue light.
Read full article at:http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2013/03/14/blue-light-therapy.aspx?e_cid=20130314_DNL_art_1&utm_source=dnl&ut
======================================================
1970s Global Cooling Alarmism
Source: PopularTechnology.net
During the 1970s the media promoted global cooling alarmism with dire threats of a new ice age. Extreme weather events were hyped as signs of the coming apocalypse and man-made pollution was blamed as the cause. Environmental extremists called for everything from outlawing the internal combustion engine to communist style population controls. This media hype was found in newspapers, magazines, books and on television;
Read full article at:http://www.populartechnology.net/2013/02/the-1970s-global-cooling-alarmism.html
======================================================
Fiat Bitcoins VS Fiat Federal Reserve Notes (w/ Video)
Source: JoePlummer.com
The three main problems with the FED, as I see them, are:
1. All of the "money" that the FED creates is inextricably tied to debt. In other words, the money that the FED creates only exists because somebody has borrowed it into existence. If the loan that created the money is repaid, those dollars leave the economy until another loan is made. This is a debt trap that literally cannot be escaped and it only grows deeper and more dangerous with the passage of time.
Read full article at:http://stopthelie.com/bitcoin-vs-federal-reserve-notes.html
======================================================
PLEASE forward this newsletter to anyone you think might be interested. Those who'd like to be added to our news list can sign up at:http://stopthelie.com/stl_newsletter.html
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http://www.PrisonPlanet.com/
http://www.RealityZone.com/currentperiod.html
http://www.FreedomsPhoenix.com/Front-Page.htm
http://ByeByeMissPie.info
Previous Week's News 03-04-2013
The "IMF Riot" - Coming to America?
Source: InfoWars.com
--As respected investigative reporter Greg Palast exposed in 2001, the global banking elite, namely the World Bank and the IMF, have honed a technique that has allowed them to asset-strip numerous other countries in the past – that technique has come to be known at the "IMF riot."
In April 2001, Palast obtained leaked World Bank documents that outlined a four step process on how to loot nations of their wealth and infrastructure, placing control of resources into the hands of the banking elite.
One of the final steps of the process, the "IMF riot," detailed how the elite would plan for mass civil unrest ahead of time that would have the effect of scaring off investors and causing government bankruptcies.
"This economic arson has its bright side – for foreigners, who can then pick off remaining assets at fire sale prices," writes Palast, adding, "A pattern emerges. There are lots of losers but the clear winners seem to be the western banks and US Treasury."
In other words, the banking elite creates the very economic environment – soaring interest rates, spiraling food prices, poverty, lower standards of living – that precipitates civil unrest – and then like a vulture swoops down to devour what remains of the country's assets on the cheap.
We have already seen this process unfold in places like Bolivia, Ecuador, Indonesia, Greece and Argentina. Next on the chopping block are Spain, Italy, Britain and France – all of which have seen widespread riots over the last two years.
Read full article at:http://www.infowars.com/why-the-banking-elite-wants-riots-in-america/
COMMENT: Palast's article is available here:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2001/apr/29/business.mbas
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Pentagon: Cuts Could Hamper Ability To Invade Countries For No Reason
Source: NewYorker.com
WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—The spending cuts mandated by the sequester may hamper the United States's ability to invade countries for absolutely no reason, a Pentagon spokesman warned today.
The Pentagon made this gloomy assessment amid widespread fears that the nation's ability to wage totally optional wars based on bogus pretexts may be in peril.
"Historically, the United States has stood ready and able to throw billions of dollars at a military campaign with no clear rationale or well-defined objective," said spokesman Harland Dorrinson. "Our capacity to wage war willy-nilly is now in jeopardy."
Read full article at:http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/borowitzreport/2013/03/pentagon-cuts-could-hamper-ability-to-invade-countries-for-no-reaso
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The Hidden History of Water Torture
Source: AntiWar.com
--In 1901, an American officer was sentenced to 10 years at hard labor for waterboarding a Filipino prisoner. By the late 1940s, the centuries-old practice was so reviled that significant prison time or even death lay in store for those using it. In the late 1960s, it was still viewed as a cruel and unusual punishment, even if U.S. troops who tortured Vietnamese and American captives weren't subject to prosecution for it. In the twenty-first century, as water torture moved from Southeast Asian prison showers to the White House, it also morphed into an "enhanced interrogation technique." Today, the president's pick to head the CIA refuses even to label waterboarding as "torture."
What does it say about a society when its morals and ethics on the treatment of captives go into reverse? What are we to make of leaders who authorize, promote, or shield such brutal practices or about citizens who stand by and allow them to happen? What does it mean when torture, already the definition of "cruel," becomes usual?
Read full article at:http://original.antiwar.com/engelhardt/2013/02/24/the-hidden-history-of-water-torture/
======================================================
It's Not Gun Control... It's People Control (Video)
Source: YouTube.com
Obama's Former Secret Service Agent Slams Gun Control on Fox & Friends.
Watch video at:http://youtu.be/TUB6zdgSzio
PLEASE forward this newsletter to anyone you think might be interested. Those who'd like to be added to our news list can sign up at:http://stopthelie.com/stl_newsletter.html
You Are An Anarchist. The Question Is: How Often?
Source: Fee.org
--Consider Cambodia in the late 1970s. The Khmer Rouge government intentionally killed more than two million of its own citizens. That's an average of eight percent of the population killed each year while government simultaneously inflicted countless other horrors. Do you think the Cambodian people, faced with that government, would have been better off with no government at all? Congratulations. You are, sometimes, an anarchist.
Read full article at:http://www.fee.org/the_freeman/detail/you-are-an-anarchist-the-question-is-how-often#axzz2NYjuctbR
======================================================
Food & Drug Attorney Exposes Pharmaceutical Monopoly (Video)
Source: InfoWars.com
Alex welcomes American attorney, columnist, lecturer, and author Jonathan W. Emord to discuss Big Pharma's government-enforced monopoly on "therapeutic claims," as well as his legal victories against the FDA.
Watch video at:http://youtu.be/kRwb9fb6FRA
======================================================
Could Blue Light Replace Antibiotics?
Source: Mercola.com
In the study, lab animals were infected with P. aeruginosa. Incredibly, ALL of the animals treated with blue light survived while 82 percent of the controls died. Could this possibly be the beginning of a whole new treatment paradigm for infections? Clearly, we're nearing the end of the road of the antibiotic era, as antibiotic-resistance spreads.
Blue light therapy has also been shown effective against MRSA and other resistant bugs, offering new hope for effective treatments.
In a previous study published in 2009,3 over 90 percent of community acquired and hospital acquired strains of MRSA were successfully eradicated within mere minutes of exposure to blue light.
Read full article at:http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2013/03/14/blue-light-therapy.aspx?e_cid=20130314_DNL_art_1&utm_source=dnl&ut
======================================================
1970s Global Cooling Alarmism
Source: PopularTechnology.net
During the 1970s the media promoted global cooling alarmism with dire threats of a new ice age. Extreme weather events were hyped as signs of the coming apocalypse and man-made pollution was blamed as the cause. Environmental extremists called for everything from outlawing the internal combustion engine to communist style population controls. This media hype was found in newspapers, magazines, books and on television;
Read full article at:http://www.populartechnology.net/2013/02/the-1970s-global-cooling-alarmism.html
======================================================
Fiat Bitcoins VS Fiat Federal Reserve Notes (w/ Video)
Source: JoePlummer.com
The three main problems with the FED, as I see them, are:
1. All of the "money" that the FED creates is inextricably tied to debt. In other words, the money that the FED creates only exists because somebody has borrowed it into existence. If the loan that created the money is repaid, those dollars leave the economy until another loan is made. This is a debt trap that literally cannot be escaped and it only grows deeper and more dangerous with the passage of time.
Read full article at:http://stopthelie.com/bitcoin-vs-federal-reserve-notes.html
======================================================
PLEASE forward this newsletter to anyone you think might be interested. Those who'd like to be added to our news list can sign up at:http://stopthelie.com/stl_newsletter.html
Other sources for alternative news:
http://www.PrisonPlanet.com/
http://www.RealityZone.com/currentperiod.html
http://www.FreedomsPhoenix.com/Front-Page.htm
http://ByeByeMissPie.info
Previous Week's News 03-04-2013
The "IMF Riot" - Coming to America?
Source: InfoWars.com
--As respected investigative reporter Greg Palast exposed in 2001, the global banking elite, namely the World Bank and the IMF, have honed a technique that has allowed them to asset-strip numerous other countries in the past – that technique has come to be known at the "IMF riot."
In April 2001, Palast obtained leaked World Bank documents that outlined a four step process on how to loot nations of their wealth and infrastructure, placing control of resources into the hands of the banking elite.
One of the final steps of the process, the "IMF riot," detailed how the elite would plan for mass civil unrest ahead of time that would have the effect of scaring off investors and causing government bankruptcies.
"This economic arson has its bright side – for foreigners, who can then pick off remaining assets at fire sale prices," writes Palast, adding, "A pattern emerges. There are lots of losers but the clear winners seem to be the western banks and US Treasury."
In other words, the banking elite creates the very economic environment – soaring interest rates, spiraling food prices, poverty, lower standards of living – that precipitates civil unrest – and then like a vulture swoops down to devour what remains of the country's assets on the cheap.
We have already seen this process unfold in places like Bolivia, Ecuador, Indonesia, Greece and Argentina. Next on the chopping block are Spain, Italy, Britain and France – all of which have seen widespread riots over the last two years.
Read full article at:http://www.infowars.com/why-the-banking-elite-wants-riots-in-america/
COMMENT: Palast's article is available here:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2001/apr/29/business.mbas
======================================================
Pentagon: Cuts Could Hamper Ability To Invade Countries For No Reason
Source: NewYorker.com
WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—The spending cuts mandated by the sequester may hamper the United States's ability to invade countries for absolutely no reason, a Pentagon spokesman warned today.
The Pentagon made this gloomy assessment amid widespread fears that the nation's ability to wage totally optional wars based on bogus pretexts may be in peril.
"Historically, the United States has stood ready and able to throw billions of dollars at a military campaign with no clear rationale or well-defined objective," said spokesman Harland Dorrinson. "Our capacity to wage war willy-nilly is now in jeopardy."
Read full article at:http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/borowitzreport/2013/03/pentagon-cuts-could-hamper-ability-to-invade-countries-for-no-reaso
======================================================
The Hidden History of Water Torture
Source: AntiWar.com
--In 1901, an American officer was sentenced to 10 years at hard labor for waterboarding a Filipino prisoner. By the late 1940s, the centuries-old practice was so reviled that significant prison time or even death lay in store for those using it. In the late 1960s, it was still viewed as a cruel and unusual punishment, even if U.S. troops who tortured Vietnamese and American captives weren't subject to prosecution for it. In the twenty-first century, as water torture moved from Southeast Asian prison showers to the White House, it also morphed into an "enhanced interrogation technique." Today, the president's pick to head the CIA refuses even to label waterboarding as "torture."
What does it say about a society when its morals and ethics on the treatment of captives go into reverse? What are we to make of leaders who authorize, promote, or shield such brutal practices or about citizens who stand by and allow them to happen? What does it mean when torture, already the definition of "cruel," becomes usual?
Read full article at:http://original.antiwar.com/engelhardt/2013/02/24/the-hidden-history-of-water-torture/
======================================================
It's Not Gun Control... It's People Control (Video)
Source: YouTube.com
Obama's Former Secret Service Agent Slams Gun Control on Fox & Friends.
Watch video at:http://youtu.be/TUB6zdgSzio
PLEASE forward this newsletter to anyone you think might be interested. Those who'd like to be added to our news list can sign up at:http://stopthelie.com/stl_newsletter.html
Sunday, 17 March 2013
The Gold Bulletin from 17th March 2013
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Monday, 11 March 2013
JoePlummer.com News 03-11-2013
StopTheLie.com News update 03-11-2013
"Legalized Plunder of the American People" - G. Edward Griffin (Video)
Source: Casey Research
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Watch video at:http://youtu.be/_WrMWK-FJzU
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Chains of A Global Debt System (Video)
Source: InfoWars.com
Katherine talks with Adrian Salbuchi, an internationally-renowned Argentine author, political analyst, speaker and radio television commentator.
Watch video at:http://youtu.be/HzdZ1Qon_B8
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http://ByeByeMissPie.info
Previous Week's News 03-04-2013
The "IMF Riot" - Coming to America?
Source: InfoWars.com
--As respected investigative reporter Greg Palast exposed in 2001, the global banking elite, namely the World Bank and the IMF, have honed a technique that has allowed them to asset-strip numerous other countries in the past – that technique has come to be known at the "IMF riot."
In April 2001, Palast obtained leaked World Bank documents that outlined a four step process on how to loot nations of their wealth and infrastructure, placing control of resources into the hands of the banking elite.
One of the final steps of the process, the "IMF riot," detailed how the elite would plan for mass civil unrest ahead of time that would have the effect of scaring off investors and causing government bankruptcies.
"This economic arson has its bright side – for foreigners, who can then pick off remaining assets at fire sale prices," writes Palast, adding, "A pattern emerges. There are lots of losers but the clear winners seem to be the western banks and US Treasury."
In other words, the banking elite creates the very economic environment – soaring interest rates, spiraling food prices, poverty, lower standards of living – that precipitates civil unrest – and then like a vulture swoops down to devour what remains of the country's assets on the cheap.
We have already seen this process unfold in places like Bolivia, Ecuador, Indonesia, Greece and Argentina. Next on the chopping block are Spain, Italy, Britain and France – all of which have seen widespread riots over the last two years.
Read full article at:http://www.infowars.com/why-the-banking-elite-wants-riots-in-america/
COMMENT: Palast's article is available here:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2001/apr/29/business.mbas
======================================================
Pentagon: Cuts Could Hamper Ability To Invade Countries For No Reason
Source: NewYorker.com
WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—The spending cuts mandated by the sequester may hamper the United States's ability to invade countries for absolutely no reason, a Pentagon spokesman warned today.
The Pentagon made this gloomy assessment amid widespread fears that the nation's ability to wage totally optional wars based on bogus pretexts may be in peril.
"Historically, the United States has stood ready and able to throw billions of dollars at a military campaign with no clear rationale or well-defined objective," said spokesman Harland Dorrinson. "Our capacity to wage war willy-nilly is now in jeopardy."
Read full article at:http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/borowitzreport/2013/03/pentagon-cuts-could-hamper-ability-to-invade-countries-for-no-reaso
======================================================
The Hidden History of Water Torture
Source: AntiWar.com
--In 1901, an American officer was sentenced to 10 years at hard labor for waterboarding a Filipino prisoner. By the late 1940s, the centuries-old practice was so reviled that significant prison time or even death lay in store for those using it. In the late 1960s, it was still viewed as a cruel and unusual punishment, even if U.S. troops who tortured Vietnamese and American captives weren't subject to prosecution for it. In the twenty-first century, as water torture moved from Southeast Asian prison showers to the White House, it also morphed into an "enhanced interrogation technique." Today, the president's pick to head the CIA refuses even to label waterboarding as "torture."
What does it say about a society when its morals and ethics on the treatment of captives go into reverse? What are we to make of leaders who authorize, promote, or shield such brutal practices or about citizens who stand by and allow them to happen? What does it mean when torture, already the definition of "cruel," becomes usual?
Read full article at:http://original.antiwar.com/engelhardt/2013/02/24/the-hidden-history-of-water-torture/
======================================================
It's Not Gun Control... It's People Control (Video)
Source: YouTube.com
Obama's Former Secret Service Agent Slams Gun Control on Fox & Friends.
Watch video at:http://youtu.be/TUB6zdgSzio
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"Legalized Plunder of the American People" - G. Edward Griffin (Video)
Source: Casey Research
.
Watch video at:http://youtu.be/_WrMWK-FJzU
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Chains of A Global Debt System (Video)
Source: InfoWars.com
Katherine talks with Adrian Salbuchi, an internationally-renowned Argentine author, political analyst, speaker and radio television commentator.
Watch video at:http://youtu.be/HzdZ1Qon_B8
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Previous Week's News 03-04-2013
The "IMF Riot" - Coming to America?
Source: InfoWars.com
--As respected investigative reporter Greg Palast exposed in 2001, the global banking elite, namely the World Bank and the IMF, have honed a technique that has allowed them to asset-strip numerous other countries in the past – that technique has come to be known at the "IMF riot."
In April 2001, Palast obtained leaked World Bank documents that outlined a four step process on how to loot nations of their wealth and infrastructure, placing control of resources into the hands of the banking elite.
One of the final steps of the process, the "IMF riot," detailed how the elite would plan for mass civil unrest ahead of time that would have the effect of scaring off investors and causing government bankruptcies.
"This economic arson has its bright side – for foreigners, who can then pick off remaining assets at fire sale prices," writes Palast, adding, "A pattern emerges. There are lots of losers but the clear winners seem to be the western banks and US Treasury."
In other words, the banking elite creates the very economic environment – soaring interest rates, spiraling food prices, poverty, lower standards of living – that precipitates civil unrest – and then like a vulture swoops down to devour what remains of the country's assets on the cheap.
We have already seen this process unfold in places like Bolivia, Ecuador, Indonesia, Greece and Argentina. Next on the chopping block are Spain, Italy, Britain and France – all of which have seen widespread riots over the last two years.
Read full article at:http://www.infowars.com/why-the-banking-elite-wants-riots-in-america/
COMMENT: Palast's article is available here:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2001/apr/29/business.mbas
======================================================
Pentagon: Cuts Could Hamper Ability To Invade Countries For No Reason
Source: NewYorker.com
WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—The spending cuts mandated by the sequester may hamper the United States's ability to invade countries for absolutely no reason, a Pentagon spokesman warned today.
The Pentagon made this gloomy assessment amid widespread fears that the nation's ability to wage totally optional wars based on bogus pretexts may be in peril.
"Historically, the United States has stood ready and able to throw billions of dollars at a military campaign with no clear rationale or well-defined objective," said spokesman Harland Dorrinson. "Our capacity to wage war willy-nilly is now in jeopardy."
Read full article at:http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/borowitzreport/2013/03/pentagon-cuts-could-hamper-ability-to-invade-countries-for-no-reaso
======================================================
The Hidden History of Water Torture
Source: AntiWar.com
--In 1901, an American officer was sentenced to 10 years at hard labor for waterboarding a Filipino prisoner. By the late 1940s, the centuries-old practice was so reviled that significant prison time or even death lay in store for those using it. In the late 1960s, it was still viewed as a cruel and unusual punishment, even if U.S. troops who tortured Vietnamese and American captives weren't subject to prosecution for it. In the twenty-first century, as water torture moved from Southeast Asian prison showers to the White House, it also morphed into an "enhanced interrogation technique." Today, the president's pick to head the CIA refuses even to label waterboarding as "torture."
What does it say about a society when its morals and ethics on the treatment of captives go into reverse? What are we to make of leaders who authorize, promote, or shield such brutal practices or about citizens who stand by and allow them to happen? What does it mean when torture, already the definition of "cruel," becomes usual?
Read full article at:http://original.antiwar.com/engelhardt/2013/02/24/the-hidden-history-of-water-torture/
======================================================
It's Not Gun Control... It's People Control (Video)
Source: YouTube.com
Obama's Former Secret Service Agent Slams Gun Control on Fox & Friends.
Watch video at:http://youtu.be/TUB6zdgSzio
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Wednesday, 6 March 2013
Infowars magazine - VII Edition
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Monday, 4 March 2013
JoePlummer.com News 03-04-2013
StopTheLie.com News update 03-04-2013
The "IMF Riot" - Coming to America?
Source: InfoWars.com
--As respected investigative reporter Greg Palast exposed in 2001, the global banking elite, namely the World Bank and the IMF, have honed a technique that has allowed them to asset-strip numerous other countries in the past – that technique has come to be known at the "IMF riot."
In April 2001, Palast obtained leaked World Bank documents that outlined a four step process on how to loot nations of their wealth and infrastructure, placing control of resources into the hands of the banking elite.
One of the final steps of the process, the "IMF riot," detailed how the elite would plan for mass civil unrest ahead of time that would have the effect of scaring off investors and causing government bankruptcies.
"This economic arson has its bright side – for foreigners, who can then pick off remaining assets at fire sale prices," writes Palast, adding, "A pattern emerges. There are lots of losers but the clear winners seem to be the western banks and US Treasury."
In other words, the banking elite creates the very economic environment – soaring interest rates, spiraling food prices, poverty, lower standards of living – that precipitates civil unrest – and then like a vulture swoops down to devour what remains of the country's assets on the cheap.
We have already seen this process unfold in places like Bolivia, Ecuador, Indonesia, Greece and Argentina. Next on the chopping block are Spain, Italy, Britain and France – all of which have seen widespread riots over the last two years.
Read full article at:http://www.infowars.com/why-the-banking-elite-wants-riots-in-america/
COMMENT: Palast's article is available here:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2001/apr/29/business.mbas
======================================================
Pentagon: Cuts Could Hamper Ability To Invade Countries For No Reason
Source: NewYorker.com
WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—The spending cuts mandated by the sequester may hamper the United States's ability to invade countries for absolutely no reason, a Pentagon spokesman warned today.
The Pentagon made this gloomy assessment amid widespread fears that the nation's ability to wage totally optional wars based on bogus pretexts may be in peril.
"Historically, the United States has stood ready and able to throw billions of dollars at a military campaign with no clear rationale or well-defined objective," said spokesman Harland Dorrinson. "Our capacity to wage war willy-nilly is now in jeopardy."
Read full article at:http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/borowitzreport/2013/03/pentagon-cuts-could-hamper-ability-to-invade-countries-for-no-reaso
======================================================
The Hidden History of Water Torture
Source: AntiWar.com
--In 1901, an American officer was sentenced to 10 years at hard labor for waterboarding a Filipino prisoner. By the late 1940s, the centuries-old practice was so reviled that significant prison time or even death lay in store for those using it. In the late 1960s, it was still viewed as a cruel and unusual punishment, even if U.S. troops who tortured Vietnamese and American captives weren't subject to prosecution for it. In the twenty-first century, as water torture moved from Southeast Asian prison showers to the White House, it also morphed into an "enhanced interrogation technique." Today, the president's pick to head the CIA refuses even to label waterboarding as "torture."
What does it say about a society when its morals and ethics on the treatment of captives go into reverse? What are we to make of leaders who authorize, promote, or shield such brutal practices or about citizens who stand by and allow them to happen? What does it mean when torture, already the definition of "cruel," becomes usual?
Read full article at:http://original.antiwar.com/engelhardt/2013/02/24/the-hidden-history-of-water-torture/
======================================================
It's Not Gun Control... It's People Control (Video)
Source: YouTube.com
Obama's Former Secret Service Agent Slams Gun Control on Fox & Friends.
Watch video at:http://youtu.be/TUB6zdgSzio
======================================================
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Previous Week's News 02-25-2013
Top 10 Lies and Misconceptions Spread By Mainstream Nutrition (Highly Recommended)
Source: Mercola.com
Lie # 1: 'Saturated Fat Causes Heart Disease'
--The truth is, saturated fats from animal and vegetable sources provide the building blocks for cell membranes and a variety of hormones and hormone-like substances, without which your body cannot function optimally. They also act as carriers for important fat-soluble vitamins A, D, E and K. Dietary fats are also needed for the conversion of carotene to vitamin A, for mineral absorption, and for a host of other biological processes.
In fact, saturated is the preferred fuel for your heart! For more information about saturated fats and the essential role they play in maintaining your health, please read my previous article The Truth About Saturated Fat.
Lie # 2: 'Eating Fat Makes You Gain Weight'
The low-fat myth may have done more harm to the health of millions than any other dietary recommendation as the resulting low-fat craze led to increased consumption of trans-fats, which we now know increases your risk of obesity, diabetes and heart disease—the very health problems wrongfully attributed to saturated fats...
To end the confusion, it's very important to realize that eating fat will not make you fat!
Read full article at:http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2013/02/25/mainstream-nutrition-biggest-lies.aspx?e_cid=20130225_DNL_art_1&ut
======================================================
Rand Paul Discusses Drone Strikes Within the United States (Video)
Source: YouTube.com
.
Watch video at:http://youtu.be/1s4pDJLgLBw
======================================================
Reality Check: Growing national divide over guns and gun control (Video)
Source: Fox19.com
Law-abiding gun owners push back against new restrictive legislation.
Watch video at:http://www.fox19.com/story/21303121/reality-check-growing-national-divide-over-guns-and-gun-control
======================================================
YOU SHOULD BE ABLE TO "DEAR JOHN" THE STATE
Source: DownsizeDC.org
Thomas Jefferson said that it was immoral to compel a man to furnish the funds for that which he abhors. The State does exactly this on countless issues. Can we ever grow beyond this?
The history of religious liberty teaches crucial lessons.
For example, a man named Tyndale was burned at the stake for distributing an English language Bible. His goal to let the plough-boy read the scriptures threatened the establishment's monopoly control of information.
Another lesson is that most colonies had established church denominations, paid for with tax dollars. Even "dissenters," were required to fund The State Church. This colonial practice continued even AFTER we defeated the British.
Without those taxes the other side imagined anarchy and chaos."Why, if there's no established church," they asked,"how shall we ensure the development of moral character?" They claimed the decision to end state support for churches was anti-religion and would lead to their demise. The superabundance of houses of worship in virtually every city and village in our country today illustrates that the opposite happened. The absence of the tax made these churches more entrepreneurial and responsive to change. But the absence of a tax for the state denomination was a very real fear at the time, even to guys like Patrick Henry.
Does conscience only matter when it comes to religion, or should freedom of conscience extend to all peaceful life choices? Is there some part of Jefferson's vision that we've yet to fulfill?
Read full article at:http://www.downsizedc.org/blog/you-should-be-able-to-dear-john-the-state
======================================================
A Brief and Bloody History of Gun Control
Source: StoryLeak.com
Taking a look back to a 1993 survey establishes a basic foundation to build upon. This was a survey involving 4,977 different households and gives us a general understanding of how frequently firearms are used in a defense situation severe enough to which individuals stated that if they had not used the firearm, they reported that they or someone else in the home would have certainly be killed. So in other words, the firearm saved the lives of one or more individuals from a hostile criminal. This excluded military, police, and security guards.
Applying the results of the 1993 survey to the United States population, we find that around 162,000 people are saved per year using a firearm. To put that into perspective, that's 152,854 more people saved per year than killed — and that's not discriminating against the 9,146 death toll that includes many self defense cases and so on.
But what about a potentially life threatening scenario diffused by a firearm? Based on a study published in the Journal of Quantitative Criminology, United States citizens defend against these situations an astounding 989,883 times per year. As these situations are diffused before they become lethal, there's no telling how many would have resulted in homicides on behalf of the criminal. Even if it were a fraction, it would still be hundreds of thousands more lives saved than lost each year.
Read full article at:http://www.storyleak.com/a-brief-and-bloody-history-of-gun-control/
COMMENT: Piers Morgan ignores the violent crime rate in the UK and, instead, focuses only on the "low number of gun homicides."
Well, there are a few other "low numbers" that he probably doesn't want to discuss:
The "low number" of law-abiding women in the UK (zero) who were able to prevent being raped because they had a gun.
The "low number" of law-abiding home owners in the UK (zero) who were able to protect their family from home invasion because they had a gun.
The low number of law-abiding citizens in the UK (zero) who thwarted a robbery, stabbing or even a murder because they had the RIGHT to carry and use a gun in self defense.
...Conveniently, gun grabbers abandon their "if-it-saves-one-life" argument when the life-saving benefits of an armed citizenry are presented.
PLEASE forward this newsletter to anyone you think might be interested. Those who'd like to be added to our news list can sign up at:http://stopthelie.com/stl_newsletter.html
The "IMF Riot" - Coming to America?
Source: InfoWars.com
--As respected investigative reporter Greg Palast exposed in 2001, the global banking elite, namely the World Bank and the IMF, have honed a technique that has allowed them to asset-strip numerous other countries in the past – that technique has come to be known at the "IMF riot."
In April 2001, Palast obtained leaked World Bank documents that outlined a four step process on how to loot nations of their wealth and infrastructure, placing control of resources into the hands of the banking elite.
One of the final steps of the process, the "IMF riot," detailed how the elite would plan for mass civil unrest ahead of time that would have the effect of scaring off investors and causing government bankruptcies.
"This economic arson has its bright side – for foreigners, who can then pick off remaining assets at fire sale prices," writes Palast, adding, "A pattern emerges. There are lots of losers but the clear winners seem to be the western banks and US Treasury."
In other words, the banking elite creates the very economic environment – soaring interest rates, spiraling food prices, poverty, lower standards of living – that precipitates civil unrest – and then like a vulture swoops down to devour what remains of the country's assets on the cheap.
We have already seen this process unfold in places like Bolivia, Ecuador, Indonesia, Greece and Argentina. Next on the chopping block are Spain, Italy, Britain and France – all of which have seen widespread riots over the last two years.
Read full article at:http://www.infowars.com/why-the-banking-elite-wants-riots-in-america/
COMMENT: Palast's article is available here:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2001/apr/29/business.mbas
======================================================
Pentagon: Cuts Could Hamper Ability To Invade Countries For No Reason
Source: NewYorker.com
WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—The spending cuts mandated by the sequester may hamper the United States's ability to invade countries for absolutely no reason, a Pentagon spokesman warned today.
The Pentagon made this gloomy assessment amid widespread fears that the nation's ability to wage totally optional wars based on bogus pretexts may be in peril.
"Historically, the United States has stood ready and able to throw billions of dollars at a military campaign with no clear rationale or well-defined objective," said spokesman Harland Dorrinson. "Our capacity to wage war willy-nilly is now in jeopardy."
Read full article at:http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/borowitzreport/2013/03/pentagon-cuts-could-hamper-ability-to-invade-countries-for-no-reaso
======================================================
The Hidden History of Water Torture
Source: AntiWar.com
--In 1901, an American officer was sentenced to 10 years at hard labor for waterboarding a Filipino prisoner. By the late 1940s, the centuries-old practice was so reviled that significant prison time or even death lay in store for those using it. In the late 1960s, it was still viewed as a cruel and unusual punishment, even if U.S. troops who tortured Vietnamese and American captives weren't subject to prosecution for it. In the twenty-first century, as water torture moved from Southeast Asian prison showers to the White House, it also morphed into an "enhanced interrogation technique." Today, the president's pick to head the CIA refuses even to label waterboarding as "torture."
What does it say about a society when its morals and ethics on the treatment of captives go into reverse? What are we to make of leaders who authorize, promote, or shield such brutal practices or about citizens who stand by and allow them to happen? What does it mean when torture, already the definition of "cruel," becomes usual?
Read full article at:http://original.antiwar.com/engelhardt/2013/02/24/the-hidden-history-of-water-torture/
======================================================
It's Not Gun Control... It's People Control (Video)
Source: YouTube.com
Obama's Former Secret Service Agent Slams Gun Control on Fox & Friends.
Watch video at:http://youtu.be/TUB6zdgSzio
======================================================
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http://www.PrisonPlanet.com/
http://www.RealityZone.com/currentperiod.html
http://www.FreedomsPhoenix.com/Front-Page.htm
http://ByeByeMissPie.info
Previous Week's News 02-25-2013
Top 10 Lies and Misconceptions Spread By Mainstream Nutrition (Highly Recommended)
Source: Mercola.com
Lie # 1: 'Saturated Fat Causes Heart Disease'
--The truth is, saturated fats from animal and vegetable sources provide the building blocks for cell membranes and a variety of hormones and hormone-like substances, without which your body cannot function optimally. They also act as carriers for important fat-soluble vitamins A, D, E and K. Dietary fats are also needed for the conversion of carotene to vitamin A, for mineral absorption, and for a host of other biological processes.
In fact, saturated is the preferred fuel for your heart! For more information about saturated fats and the essential role they play in maintaining your health, please read my previous article The Truth About Saturated Fat.
Lie # 2: 'Eating Fat Makes You Gain Weight'
The low-fat myth may have done more harm to the health of millions than any other dietary recommendation as the resulting low-fat craze led to increased consumption of trans-fats, which we now know increases your risk of obesity, diabetes and heart disease—the very health problems wrongfully attributed to saturated fats...
To end the confusion, it's very important to realize that eating fat will not make you fat!
Read full article at:http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2013/02/25/mainstream-nutrition-biggest-lies.aspx?e_cid=20130225_DNL_art_1&ut
======================================================
Rand Paul Discusses Drone Strikes Within the United States (Video)
Source: YouTube.com
.
Watch video at:http://youtu.be/1s4pDJLgLBw
======================================================
Reality Check: Growing national divide over guns and gun control (Video)
Source: Fox19.com
Law-abiding gun owners push back against new restrictive legislation.
Watch video at:http://www.fox19.com/story/21303121/reality-check-growing-national-divide-over-guns-and-gun-control
======================================================
YOU SHOULD BE ABLE TO "DEAR JOHN" THE STATE
Source: DownsizeDC.org
Thomas Jefferson said that it was immoral to compel a man to furnish the funds for that which he abhors. The State does exactly this on countless issues. Can we ever grow beyond this?
The history of religious liberty teaches crucial lessons.
For example, a man named Tyndale was burned at the stake for distributing an English language Bible. His goal to let the plough-boy read the scriptures threatened the establishment's monopoly control of information.
Another lesson is that most colonies had established church denominations, paid for with tax dollars. Even "dissenters," were required to fund The State Church. This colonial practice continued even AFTER we defeated the British.
Without those taxes the other side imagined anarchy and chaos."Why, if there's no established church," they asked,"how shall we ensure the development of moral character?" They claimed the decision to end state support for churches was anti-religion and would lead to their demise. The superabundance of houses of worship in virtually every city and village in our country today illustrates that the opposite happened. The absence of the tax made these churches more entrepreneurial and responsive to change. But the absence of a tax for the state denomination was a very real fear at the time, even to guys like Patrick Henry.
Does conscience only matter when it comes to religion, or should freedom of conscience extend to all peaceful life choices? Is there some part of Jefferson's vision that we've yet to fulfill?
Read full article at:http://www.downsizedc.org/blog/you-should-be-able-to-dear-john-the-state
======================================================
A Brief and Bloody History of Gun Control
Source: StoryLeak.com
Taking a look back to a 1993 survey establishes a basic foundation to build upon. This was a survey involving 4,977 different households and gives us a general understanding of how frequently firearms are used in a defense situation severe enough to which individuals stated that if they had not used the firearm, they reported that they or someone else in the home would have certainly be killed. So in other words, the firearm saved the lives of one or more individuals from a hostile criminal. This excluded military, police, and security guards.
Applying the results of the 1993 survey to the United States population, we find that around 162,000 people are saved per year using a firearm. To put that into perspective, that's 152,854 more people saved per year than killed — and that's not discriminating against the 9,146 death toll that includes many self defense cases and so on.
But what about a potentially life threatening scenario diffused by a firearm? Based on a study published in the Journal of Quantitative Criminology, United States citizens defend against these situations an astounding 989,883 times per year. As these situations are diffused before they become lethal, there's no telling how many would have resulted in homicides on behalf of the criminal. Even if it were a fraction, it would still be hundreds of thousands more lives saved than lost each year.
Read full article at:http://www.storyleak.com/a-brief-and-bloody-history-of-gun-control/
COMMENT: Piers Morgan ignores the violent crime rate in the UK and, instead, focuses only on the "low number of gun homicides."
Well, there are a few other "low numbers" that he probably doesn't want to discuss:
The "low number" of law-abiding women in the UK (zero) who were able to prevent being raped because they had a gun.
The "low number" of law-abiding home owners in the UK (zero) who were able to protect their family from home invasion because they had a gun.
The low number of law-abiding citizens in the UK (zero) who thwarted a robbery, stabbing or even a murder because they had the RIGHT to carry and use a gun in self defense.
...Conveniently, gun grabbers abandon their "if-it-saves-one-life" argument when the life-saving benefits of an armed citizenry are presented.
PLEASE forward this newsletter to anyone you think might be interested. Those who'd like to be added to our news list can sign up at:http://stopthelie.com/stl_newsletter.html
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