Hostage Taker Besieges Discovery Channel, Posts Demands on Web
posted 09/01/2010, 4:46 PM (Wired News)
[Category: General]
 Authorities were negotiating Wednesday with an armed man who has taken an unknown number of hostages, who might have an explosive or “metallic device” at the Discovery Channel’s headquarters in Silver Spring, Maryland, just outside the District of Columbia.
Most of the hundreds of employees, including children at an on-site daycare center, have been evacuated, police said. The station was airing its normal broadcast, and no injuries were reported. CNN said at least one of the unknown number of hostages was a security guard.
According to television accounts, hundreds of armed police and bomb-squad officers were seen descending on the building in suburban Washington, D.C.
Police identified the suspect as James Lee.
According to a Wednesday update on the savetheplanetprotest.com website believed run by Lee, the suspect demanded that the Discovery Channel broadcast its “commitment to save the planet.”
Focus must be given on how people can live WITHOUT giving birth to more filthy human children since those new additions continue pollution and are pollution. A game show format contest would be in order. Perhaps also forums of leading scientists who understand and agree with the Malthus-Darwin science and the problem of human overpopulation. Do both. Do all until something WORKS and the natural world starts improving and human civilization building STOPS and is reversed! MAKE IT INTERESTING SO PEOPLE WATCH AND APPLY SOLUTIONS!!!! From his website, and his postings on MySpace, Lee appears to be obsessed with the work of American writer Daniel Quinn, author of a trilogy of enviro-philosophy novels. Quinn’s 1992 Ishmael “uses a style of Socratic dialogue to deconstruct the notion that humans are the end product, t... (more)The TV media is largely ignoring the fact this guy is a rabid environmentalist. As to his demands, it's hilarious the way socialists are so obsessed with what to do with other people's money. |
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Tuesday August 31st, 2010
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Venus Needs Some Austrians
posted 08/31/2010, 4:05 AM (Mises Institute)
[Category: Commentary]
 During my trip to Haiti, I got into a discussion with my fellow volunteers about the financial crisis. Things were going quite well as we all agreed that the rich investment bankers deserved no taxpayer bailout. However, my hopes were dashed when one of the more intellectual guys suddenly declared the problem was capitalism, and that a "resource-based economy" would relieve the world of scarcity.
Apparently this idea is catching on; a rea... (more) |
10 Statist Myths Debunked
posted 08/31/2010, 4:05 AM (Josh Fulton)
[Category: Commentary]
1. Taxes help grow the economy.
Bloomberg:
In a study of 44 large fiscal adjustments in 24 advanced economies since 1975, Broadbent and Daly discovered that reducing expenditures by 1 percentage point a year boosted average annual growth by 0.6 percentage point. Raising the ratio of taxes to GDP by the same margin cut growth by an average ... (more) |
A Culture of Fear
posted 08/31/2010, 4:05 AM (Mises Institute)
[Category: Commentary]
 Upon the collapse of the Soviet Union, Soviet foreign spokesman Gennadi Gerasimov warned the United States, "We have done the most terrible thing to you that we could possibly have done. We have deprived you of an enemy."
For nearly half a century, the elusive threat posed by the Soviet Union formed the basis of American foreign and domestic policy. Much of the United States' political and economic development was in fact a product of the government's exploitation of a supposed S... (more) |
Government Think Tank Calls For Infiltrating Conspiracy Websites
posted 08/31/2010, 4:04 AM (Prison Planet)
[Category: Big Brother/Orwellian]
Furious that state involvement in major terror attacks is being exposed to a wider audience than ever before via the Internet, a UK think tank closely affiliated with the Downing Street has called for authorities to infiltrate conspiracy websites in an effort to “increase trust in the government”.
“A Demos report published today, The Power of Unreason, argues that secrecy surrounding the investigation of events such as the 9/11 New York attacks and the 7/7 bombings in London... (more) |
Senate To Sneak Through Internet Kill Switch Bill
posted 08/31/2010, 4:04 AM (Prison Planet)
[Category: Big Brother/Orwellian]
The Senate is attempting to sneak through the infamous Internet kill switch cybersecurity bill by attaching it to another piece of legislation that is almost guaranteed to pass – the defense authorization bill – in an underhanded ploy to avoid the difficult task of passing cybersecurity on its own.
“It’s hard to get a measure like cybersecurity legislation passed on its own,” Democratic Senator Thomas Carper, who is co-chair of a Senate subcommittee with cybersecurity oversi... (more) |
Flying Blind
posted 08/31/2010, 4:04 AM (Peter Schiff)
[Category: Economy]
Watching economists and media analysts react to breaking economic news is a bit like looking at a flock of pigeons flying over the New York skyline. A true wonder of the urban landscape, the flocks can include hundreds of individuals who show an uncanny ability to stay in tight formation as the group quickly zig-zags between buildings. What may be even more remarkable than their ability to randomly fly while maintaining cohesion is the flock’s refusal to stick to any particular direction... (more) |
The Fed's Biggest Bubble
posted 08/31/2010, 4:04 AM (Euro Pacific Capital)
[Category: Economy]
I’ve made a living out of exposing economic fallacies, but there’s one whale that I can’t seem to harpoon. Even top-flight Wall Street analysts seem to believe that the Fed’s doubling of the monetary base after the credit crunch has not had an inflationary impact on our economy. Their logic can be summed up like so: “The money the Fed created and dropped from helicopters has all been caught in the trees.” In other words, the Fed is creating money, but it is just being held as excess reserves by ... (more) |
How Regulations Grow
posted 08/31/2010, 4:03 AM (Jeffrey Tucker)
[Category: Economy]
The WSJ today runs a story on cigarette rolling machines that illustrates how the regulatory state can count on private enterprise to lobby for ratcheting up regulations.
It seems that there is a tax loophole that permits role-your-own smoke... (more) |
Police Sergeant Had Secret Life as Serial Rapist
posted 08/31/2010, 4:02 AM (ABC News)
[Category: Tyranny/Police State]
...Mounting evidence revealed how Pelo may have used his police training and access to commit the crimes and cover his tracks.
Detectives found that Pelo's police computer had been used to run license plate searches on three of the victims. Pelo claimed that someone else must have been using his computer terminal.
"Victims described how [the rapist] would pull some of the items around from his belt. You know, the gloves that they described were consistent with what ... (more) |
The State's Bad Math
posted 08/30/2010, 12:28 AM (David D'Amato)
[Category: Commentary]
On Friday, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke delivered a message that -- for those of us who inveigh against widespread, institutionalized violence -- sounded a lot like a threat, that "much of the work of implementing financial reform lies ahead of us." Fortunately for libertarians, the ciphers of the state, broadcast by its many mouthpieces, are not difficult to decode, transparently glorifying the policies of coercion that begot the "Panic of 2008."
Still, appraisal of the ... (more) |
Meet The Fastest Growing Company Ever
posted 08/30/2010, 12:28 AM (Forbes)
[Category: Economy]
At least Mark Zuckerberg wrote a few lines of computer code at Harvard before he left to launch Facebook. Now Andrew Mason, a relaxed and lanky 29-year-old music major from Northwestern, has managed to build the fastest-growing company in Web history. Groupon represents what the dot-com boom was supposed to be all about: huge sales, easy profits and solid connection between bricks-and-mortar retailers and online consumers.Ahh the evils of capitalism! |
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Saturday August 28th, 2010
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The Friends of the "Free Market" Are Its Worst Enemies
posted 08/28/2010, 2:35 AM (Kevin Carson)
[Category: Commentary]
In the introduction to Capitalism and Freedom, Milton Friedman complained of the perversion of the word “liberalism,” which early in the 20th century underwent a shift in meaning from a philosophy favoring free markets and individual liberty to a philsophy favoring government intervention to guarantee individual security. He quoted Joseph Schumpeter’s statement that the enemies of the system of free enterprise had appropriated its label.
This is true in a sense which Friedman per... (more) |
The Market as a Redistributor of Wealth
posted 08/28/2010, 2:35 AM (Jacob G. Hornberger)
[Category: Commentary]
One of the primary arguments employed by statists to justify the welfare state is the necessity to equalize incomes. The rich just get richer and richer, and the poor just get poorer and poorer, in a free-market economy, say the statists. To balance things out, they say, the state must take from the rich and give to the poor.
Nothing could be further from the truth. Actually, a free market is a tremendous engine for the redistribution of wealth, one in which the poor become rich ... (more) And yet what is the bailout? It's the government stealing money from the companies and the individuals who produce actual value in their work and handing it over to their politically connected cronies! - Chris |
Anarchy as Order
posted 08/28/2010, 2:35 AM (David D'Amato)
[Category: Commentary]
Given what are widespread and prevailing misconceptions, one could perhaps be forgiven for identifying anarchy with unmitigated chaos and libertarianism with today's corporate avarice. At the same time, Statists -- whose systems have rendered nothing but destitution for those they purport to aid -- enjoy an opposite but related misbelief, namely, that theirs is the philosophy concerned with economic or social justice. Not only, then, do the state and its influential manipulators use brutality to... (more) |
Social Individualism and Solidarity
posted 08/28/2010, 2:35 AM (Darian Worden)
[Category: Commentary]
A functional libertarian political order will rise the strongest from fertile ground. To maximize individual liberty it is necessary to promote the best kind of individualism at all levels.
Controversy over the building of various mosques and the Park 51 Islamic cultural center shows the influence of anti-Muslim sentiment on United States politics. Opponents hold all Muslims responsible for crimes that a few Muslims have committed, and want to exclude them at least symbolically fr... (more) |
Carts and Horses
posted 08/28/2010, 2:31 AM (Peter Schiff)
[Category: Economy]
In a CNBC debate last week, former Labor Secretary Robert Reich presented a set of contradictory beliefs that unfortunately reflect the conventional wisdom of modern economists. In a discussion with Wall Street Journal columnist Stephen Moore, Reich correctly and comprehensively listed the reasons why American consumers could spend so lavishly before the crash of 2008 and why they can no longer keep up the pace. But instead of making the logical conclusion that former levels of s... (more) |
Fidel Castro meets with Daniel Estulin
posted 08/28/2010, 2:31 AM (The Guardian)
[Category: Geopolitics]
 Former Cuban president Fidel Castro meets Lithuanian author and conspiracy theorist Daniel Estulin in Havana today Photograph: Alex Castro/EPA
Fidel Castro has more reason than most to believe conspiracy theories involving dark forces in Washington. After all, the CIA tried to blow his head off with an exploding cigar.
But the ageing Cuban revolutionary may have gone too far for all but the most ardent believer in the reach and competence of America's intelli... (more) |
Authoritarianism is Self-Defeating
posted 08/28/2010, 2:31 AM (Kevin Carson)
[Category: Commentary]
I got a (simultaneously horrifying and amusing) news item in the latest U.S. Pirate Party newsletter, about a new program in Cleveland to monitor recyclable bins with RFID chips (“Privacy Trashed,” August 24).
“This whole ‘chipping’ of garbage cans began in England and now it is spreading to our shores. Basically, they’re using RFID (radio frequency indentification) chips to ensure that people are recycling. The chips monitor how many times... (more) |
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Wednesday August 25th, 2010
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Breaking the Information Monopoly
posted 08/25/2010, 10:08 PM (Darian Worden)
[Category: Commentary]
With modern information and publishing technologies, it is easier than ever for average folks to actively participate in the spread of information. We can look beneath the official story and create our own narratives that are not based in helplessness, isolation, or politicians' posturing.
To be sure, misinformation is not a solved problem, but the tools are there and the way is easier to find than before.
Everyone knows about Wikileaks now, and the site has even fe... (more) |
The Fatal Cure
posted 08/25/2010, 10:08 PM (Becky Akers)
[Category: Commentary]
Among the premises with which the Feds justify their War on Terror are the hordes of bad guys overrunning the planet. The government wants us to believe that millions of terrorists lurk worldwide, scheming to blow us sky-high. They penetrate our airports and spy on our infrastructure. In their spare time, they form sleeper cells that fiendishly and seamlessly blend into our communities. Indeed, one has probably infiltrated your neighborhood.
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Philadelphia: The City of Big Brotherly Love
posted 08/25/2010, 10:08 PM (Stacy Litz)
[Category: Commentary]
According to a recent article in Philadelphia’s City Paper, Philly bloggers report receiving government duns for a $300 “business privilege” tax. The city’s government, operating on the unsafe assumption that these blogs have made raked in some form of income, wants a cut.
The city’s lawyer asserts that if a blog has the potential to make a profit — if, for example, it features any... (more) |
The Rise and Fall of the U.S.S.A.?
posted 08/25/2010, 10:08 PM (The New American)
[Category: Geopolitics]
In the latest issue of Trends Journal Gerald Celente, the founder and director of Trends Research Institute and also bestselling author of Trends 2000 and Trends Tracking, writes that the United States is walking down the same road of demise as the former Soviet Union.
Celente further elaborated on this point in a recent video "tech-ticker" interview, available online at Yahoo! Finance, saying, "In a lot of ways it's empire... (more) |
Nine Principles of Economics
posted 08/25/2010, 10:08 PM (Mises Economics Blog)
[Category: Economy]
A small set of ideas does most of the heavy lifting in economics. "Ten Principles of Economics" or "Ten Big Ideas" or "Ten Key Elements of Economics" are pretty standard in most introductory economics books. Here's my version, based on Chapter 1 of The Economic Way of Thinking.
1. People Act. People choose goals (ends), and they choose ways to achieve those goals (means). O... (more) This article is absolutely superb. |
Finland Suspends Swine Flu Shots After Vaccine Linked With Neurological Disorder
posted 08/25/2010, 10:06 PM (Prison Planet)
[Category: Brave New World]
Finland’s National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL) has suspended the use of the H1N1 vaccine over fears that the shot is linked with a 300 per cent increase in cases of the neurological disorder narcolepsy among children and young people over the last six months.
The news is sure to discourage more parents from vaccinating their children in the coming months, with the swine flu shot now being combined with the regular seasonal flu jab. A recent Rasmussen poll found that 52 ... (more) |
4th Amendment Violating Mobile X-Ray Scanners Hit The Streets
posted 08/25/2010, 10:06 PM (Prison Planet)
[Category: Big Brother/Orwellian]
 As we warned at the beginning of the year, X-ray body scanners currently being used and abused in airports across the world are set to hit the streets as American Science & Engineering reveals that “more than 500 backscatter x-ray scanners mounted in vans that can be driven past neighboring vehicles to see their contents” have been sold to government agencies.
In January, we divulged how the ultimate end use of the body scanners would not be limited to airports, and tha... (more) |
Rotten Eggs and the Regulated Economy
posted 08/25/2010, 10:05 PM (Jacob G. Hornberger)
[Category: Commentary]
How come there’s an egg recall due to salmonella poisoning? Don’t we have government regulations and regulators for this sort of thing? Don’t we have government inspectors? Don’t we have a regulated economy so that the government will keep us safe from rotten eggs entering the marketplace?
Well, what’s the point of a regulated economy if it’s not going to work? Doesn’t it just lull people into a false sense of security, even while vesting ever-growing power in the hands of govern... (more) |
The War on Food: Eggsactly What Is Going On Here?
posted 08/25/2010, 10:05 PM (Mac Slavo)
[Category: Commentary]
Reading this week's headlines about the egg salmonella crisis may leave one with the impression that we need more government control and we need it now. The feeling one is left with after listening to mainstream pundits and FDA commissioner Margaret Hamburg is eerily familiar – almost as if the same crisis template that was applied to the financial crisis is now being used to further progress centralized control of the country's food production capacity... |
Lew Rockwell interviews John Taylor Gatto
posted 08/25/2010, 10:05 PM (Lew Rockwell Show)
[Category: Resistance]
Download mp3
Mr. Gatto quit as a public school teacher in order to stop harming kids. He had discovered that institutional schooling is designed to prevent the natural genius of children from emerging. Public schools impose a state of permanent incompletion to our kids, by teaching habit-training, not intellectual development. The power elite deliberately suppre... (more) |
Goods, Scarce and Nonscarce
posted 08/25/2010, 10:05 PM (Mises Institute)
[Category: Commentary]
Everyone who is serious about ideas now has to deal with the issue of "intellectual property," especially given the advent of digital media and the state's war on the supposed violators of the intellectual rights of others. The situation has at once become very hopeful, with more sharing of ideas than ever before in history, and extremely grim, with the federal government pressuring every Internet-service provider to act as proxy enforcers of an unjust law — and twisting the arms of developing c |
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Tuesday August 24th, 2010
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The Bush-Obama Lies on Iraq
posted 08/24/2010, 11:59 PM (Jacob G. Hornberger)
[Category: Commentary]
 President Obama’s announcement that all combat troops have exited Iraq, while 50,000 combat troops remain in Iraq, is fitting. Since the war began with a lie, the “end” of the war might as well be based on a lie as well.
Interventionists continue to maintain the sweet delusion that Iraq is better off as a result of the U.S. invasion. However, when they make that claim, they’re always referring to the Iraqis who are alive. They never refer to the Iraqis who are dead as a result of... (more) |
Buy First, Think Second, Sue Third
posted 08/24/2010, 11:58 PM (S.M. Oliva)
[Category: Commentary]
“Too many ‘free’ offers come with strings attached,” warned David Vladeck recently. Who is David Vladeck? Why, he’s the person in charge of protecting you from unscrupulous businesses. Vladeck is director of the Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Consumer Protection, and his warning came in a press release last week about acai berry supplements -- aka “colon cleansers” -- which Vladeck and his minions have declared a scam.
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I-Dosing: Another Excuse for Government Control Over Our Lives
posted 08/24/2010, 11:58 PM (Infowars)
[Category: Commentary]
I don't know about you, but I am not about to run out and experiment with the latest fad, known as "i-dosing," a gimmick that supposedly uses binaural tones to create euphoria. "Simply put, i-dosing is the attempt to achieve a perceived drug 'high' from listening specially-engineered sounds and music," reports Psychology Today. "Is it a real drug? Probably not."
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Glenn Beck Is a Statist, Not a Libertarian
posted 08/24/2010, 11:58 PM (J.H. Huebert)
[Category: Commentary]
At the beginning of his show this morning, Glenn Beck started ripping into the imam that all the talk-radio hosts love to hate, because the imam has (correctly) pointed out that the U.S. has killed many more innocent non-Muslims than al-Qaeda has.
Beck went on to defend the U.S. embargo against Iraq that killed hundreds of thousands of innocent people during the 1990s, argued that we should have fought the Iraq war “full on” from the beginning (meaning we shouldn’t have been so sq... (more) |
What Is Libertarianism?
posted 08/24/2010, 11:58 PM (David Gordon)
[Category: Commentary]
Libertarianism Today • By Jacob H. Huebert • Praeger, 2010 • Vii + 254 pages
Jacob Huebert's outstanding survey of libertarianism ranks as the best work of its kind since Murray Rothbard's For a New Liberty. Huebert navigates successfully difficult waters. Many people, when they first hear of libertarianism, dismiss ... (more) |
And Real Criminals Go Unpunished
posted 08/24/2010, 11:58 PM (Darian Worden)
[Category: Commentary]
Michigan State University student Ahlam Mohsen is in jail with bail set at $250,000. She faces up to five years in prison. She was arrested for throwing an apple pie at US Senator Carl Levin's face.
The "Support Ahlam Mohsen" Facebook group says that Levin was chosen for the insult because he chairs the Senate Armed Services Committee, and thereby holds significant influe... (more) |
Government is not a Friend to Protect the Internet
posted 08/24/2010, 11:57 PM (Ross Kenyon)
[Category: Commentary]
Al Franken has just released another video regarding his take on net neutrality, which he has dramatically called "the First Amendment issue of our time." This may or may not be true, but the trust proponents of net neutrality are placing in government to ensure that corporations do not dominate the internet is completely unmerited.
There are two models for government action at work here. The first one is endorsed by supporters of net neutrality legislation and those who employ ... (more) |
Existing-home sales plunge 27.2%
posted 08/24/2010, 11:59 PM (MarketWatch)
[Category: Economy]
WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- The sale of existing U.S. homes sank 27.2% in July -- the biggest one-month drop ever -- largely because of the phase-out of a federal tax credit, according to an industry trade group. |
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