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12 Reasons Why SOPA is Worse Than You Think

In yet another attempt to ‘ensure our liberties’, congress is currently debating Stop Online Piracy Act – aka SOPA. The very fact that their current laws are unenforceable due to a lack of personnel and funding, congress apparently feels that more laws are the answer…again. In their twisted heads, they seem to believe that by [...]

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Madness: The Construct of the American Empire

  It took long enough but it is finally out – Madness: The Construct of the American Empire. It is in essence an explanation on why the American Empire failed, and why most people are so far oblivious to its collapse. When the colonists first won the war against England, a good many of them [...]

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#Occupy Tampa Oct 22 2011

Last night approximately 40 slept on the sidewalk at Cutis Hixon Park, Ashley St. Tampa, Florida in solidarity with all the other occupations, such as #occupywallst, #occupychicago, #occupyboston. The people at #occupytampa are starting to peacefully assemble to assert their right to free speech. More and more people are waking up to the fact that [...]

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Oathbreaker

“I, David P Shirk, do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the [...]

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The Never-Ending War

One may walk outside at nighttime, and say that the sky is black and dim. Another may walk out in the morning and say the sky is a beautiful red and slightly hazy. Still another may walk out midday and say it is blue and clear. If neither has ever experienced any other time of [...]

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Occupy Wall Street: Help From Your Home (ChipIn and More)

Recently, Wall Street was descended upon by a wide variety of Communist Party, socialist anarchists, tea partiers, market anarchists, and more to occupy Zuccotti Park, renamed Liberty Square, in an anti-corporate action inspired by Egypt’s Tahrir Square. This is a firsthand account from Mimi Bobekunin, a friend in the midst of it all. At the [...]

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The “Wall Street vs. Main Street” Runaround

If there is one thing that most people recognize, it is that a more comfortable retirement may be set by wise investing. The idea also carries some amount of beauty to it. You invest in an idea, grant money to allow a productive force to flourish, and at the same time, gain a small percentage [...]

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The Failed Policy Called Government

Methodology – a set or system of methods, principles, and rules for regulating a given discipline; the underlying principles and rules of organization of a philosophical system or inquiry procedure; a branch of pedagogics dealing with analysis and evaluation of subjects to be taught and of the methods of teaching them. Policy – a definite [...]

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V for Justice – Mark Schmidter & Julian Heiklen

Judge Belvin Perry, Orange County Courthouse, Orlando, Florida. facebook event: Mark Schmidter & Julian Heiklen -https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=242056995839387 Julian Heicklen was arrested and sentenced to 145 days behind bars. His offense? Handing out pamphlets on a public sidewalk. Please read more info here: http://cdevolution.org/julian-heicklen/ Mark Schmidter was also jailed by the same judge (Judge Perry) for the same [...]

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Of Puppets, Players, and Controllers

Just because a problem can be identified and quantified does not mean it can be solved. People have the tendency to band together to form social groups; the group grows for some time, and then later falls apart. What one generation will work so hard to build, a generation or so later may wipe out [...]

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