Though the globe has been cooling since 1998, the EU is set to impose a carbon tax on carriers traveling to EU nations -- that includes US carriers. It will steal billions of Dollars from the airlines hit with the tax.

The US Congress just passed a bill to "protect" US carriers from this tax. How this will not lead to some kind of trade dispute remains uncertain, but one thing is sure, the EU is desparate for money, and this is one of the ways they will steal it.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_CONGRESS_AIRLINE_EMISSIONS?SIT...

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A great cause. Good luck to him!

http://articles.boston.com/2011-10-23/news/30313691_1_bigfoot-free-speec...

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The feds know no shame. They must "follow the law".

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_MOON_ROCK_STING?SITE=AP&SECTIO...

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Ahh, yes. With a correction in housing prices badly needed, and prices sky high in colleges, where, due to things like Pell Grants, the gubment has prompted far too many kids to go to school, the Obama Administration now plans on skirting Congress and acting through already-existing federal agencies to re-finance home loans at lower interest rates (thus stealing from the banks or taxpayers who gave the original loans) and increasing the number of people who get handouts for college.

Despite the source often being pro-state, they've put together a very good reference link.

This does not include all the money the federal reserve handed out.

http://www.propublica.org/special/government-bailouts

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Did you read "1984"? Try to remember how you felt during certain passages.

At times, that feeling returns when you read this.

http://www.tpalexanders.com/2011/10/19/the-constitution-breaks-bad-in-al...

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Guess what? It's started. In TN, the V.I.P.E.R program, which stands for Very Invasive Personal Exploration Reconnassance (a euphemism for invading your body and property) has begun doing random inspections of vehicles that pull into weigh stations and other commercial transport areas. This is another example of the wisdom that libertarians show when saying (for years) that it's a bad idea to let the gubment own and run the roads.... Nothin' like that 4th Amendment, huh?

http://www.newschannel5.com/story/15725035/officials-claim-tennessee-bec...

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Just in case you had friends living under rocks, or friends working for the gubment, which is causing the prices to surge. Inflation is not caused by gasoline availability. Inflation is an increase in the money supply, which, in turn, causes a general increase in the prices of EVERYTHING. Depending on how quickly the banking institutions and other pals of the gubment that first get the money (from the Fed or the Treasury) then loan or hand it out, one could see steeply rising prices due to inflation, or a longer curve of rising prices. The speed at which the excess monetary units pass into the wider economic system is called "velocity" in economic parlance. IN this period of massive inflation, the "velocity" has been slow, due to banks not handing out as many loans.

Great piece from Investors Business Daily. Please note, when IBD mentions the claims by politicians that these fictitious "cuts" are leading to another period of economic downturn, we need to remind readers that GDP has YET to get above 2008 levels, which means, in technical parlance, that the US economy has been in a Depression state, not a "double-dip recession". We've noted it in our audios, for example, our audio about Paul Krugman and aliens that was done about a month ago...

http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article/588254/201110170805/The...

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From antiwar.com news:

"President Obama’s deployment of 100 US combat forces to Uganda and surrounding areas has shocked many as highly unusual and even downright bizarre. But while ground troops in Africa are a comparatively rare occurrence, the decision follows a very familiar path of dominant US foreign policy."

A few more invasions and Obama can redeem his Risk cards for new units!

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Remember when we explained that if the public allows the gubment to insert itself in airports and demand that they either get groped or naked-scanned, the gubment could also stand on roads and demand that you submit to similar searches? The rationale would be the same (and based on faulty premises in both cases). The politicians would tell you that 'we run/manage/provide protection for the airways and the roads."

Well, a patent has just been filed by the company that handles the vast majority of EZ Pass transponders, and it aims to allow the gubment to see you anywhere and everywhere you drive.

http://redtape.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/10/13/8308841-govt-cameras-in-yo...

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The police state atmosphere expands. But hey, it's all to fight the so-called "War on Drugs" and the so-called "War on Terror" and the so-called "War on All The Other Things We Can Think of to Scare People", so why not?

The fact that the US Constitution requires a WARRANT, DELIVERED BY A JUDGE, to allow for searches has been overlooked by Gov. Brown. "Sorry! That just takes too long!"

So, does anyone really want to put faith in gubment (ie the state in its generic sense) to protect his liberty? Haven't we seen enough to know that the claims of said "protection" are false?

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/10/warrantless-phone-searches/

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Okay, so we know that it is literally immpossible for the state to make 'economically efficiant' or 'productive' decisions with other peoples' money -- because, again by definition, productivity and efficiency and value are subjective terms, determined by INDIVIDUALS. When someone else makes those decisions for you, that immediately eliminates the possibility of measuring the valuation of the decision. Sooo, we turn to Solyndra, which not only received halg a billion Dollars in loan guarantees from politicians using your money and the savings of your offsping (through deficit spending and inflation of the currency), it also saw a restructuring of that loan so that repayment would favor political friends of the current administration.

Let's see. No Constitutional Declaration of War... No proper jurisprudential process for terror suspects. No Habeas Corpus Hearings. Continued CIA-sponsored torture. Fourth Amendment Broken in airports. Second Amendment regulated away for anyone flying (including those who work on planes). And now this.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/05/us-cia-killlist-idUSTRE79475C2...

Yet many Americans are perfectly comfortable with their growing police state.

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If you haven't heard about this yet, take a look at how an unconstitutional bit of political favoritism by Dick Durbin (to help one of his major contributors, "Walgreen's"), has led to a response by Bank of America (we're not huge fans of BoA either, especially since the bank got BILLIONS in tax money), which has harmed millions of people.

Here is the story, from FORBES:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/kellyphillipserb/2011/10/04/bank-of-america-...

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One can never put a lot of faith in a bunch of government employees to rul on whether the GOVERNMENT is going too far, has overstepped its written bounds (which haven't been much like bounds, have they?)... But this challenge to the constitutionality of the individual mandate is at least entertaining.

The justices are only interested in whether is is Constitutional for Congress to force individual citizens to have to buy health insurance. Sadly, they never challenge the spurious notion that the Congress can FORCE insurance companies to cover certain people at rates that are untenable. They accept that nonsense and no pop media pundit will bother expanding the analysis to include it.

Just remember, don't ever question why US military forces might be fighting unconstitutionnally, and don't mention anything like blow-back, 'cause that might prevent you from doing all sorts of things in the "Land of the Free". ;)

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/28/us/even-those-cleared-of-crimes-can-st...

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Yeah, some joke.

Then again, most of Congress is a sad joke anyway.

http://projects.newsobserver.com/under_the_dome/perdue_suggests_suspendi...

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This shell game keeps getting bigger and bigger, more convoluted and more dangerous, by the week!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financialcrisis/8788223/Christine-Lag...

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We hope you get a chance to read this. It's excellent.

http://www.examiner.com/libertarian-in-national/why-they-hate-us

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