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Pretty damn awesome.  The only thing that would make that better is if it were a bigger market.  Thanks for sharing.

 

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It's here!   It's finally here!!

(if you haven't seen the others, see here.)

 

Everything Is a Remix 4

 

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The Young Turks Caught Lying To Viewers!

 

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Government efficiency at work:

 

Man's vanity plates attract $20,000 in tickets

...Tickets for Fords, Hondas, Dodges. Even a Vespa.

Every few months he has to take time off from work to go to the courthouse to get the tickets dismissed. 

But since Danny drives a Chevy Avalanche, anything marked a “Chevy” is still his problem.

"How do I prove it’s not mine?” Danny asks.  “They say, 'I don't know.'  You don't know?  It’s your system, figure it out. ‘I don't know’ isn't an answer. I got to get this done." 

Danny’s record at the DMV is now so long, he says he can’t renew his license or his registration.

 

I guarantee every statist will say something to the effect of: "Well.  It's his fault for getting those tags."

 

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http://lawfulbank.com

The Lawful Bank provides a gateway to ‘The Alternative Monetary System’ (TAMS) - a new and independent monetary and banking system owned and controlled by its users/members. The objective of TAMS is to create its own liquidity (money) for the benefit of the people of the nations that choose to use it... and by so doing, reassert the sovereign right of the people to self-governance - for a nation cannot truly govern itself unless it is in full control of the means by which its money is created.

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Jargon replied on Fri, Feb 17 2012 11:54 AM

Jack Roberts:

http://lawfulbank.com

The Lawful Bank provides a gateway to ‘The Alternative Monetary System’ (TAMS) - a new and independent monetary and banking system owned and controlled by its users/members. The objective of TAMS is to create its own liquidity (money) for the benefit of the people of the nations that choose to use it... and by so doing, reassert the sovereign right of the people to self-governance - for a nation cannot truly govern itself unless it is in full control of the means by which its money is created.

What exactly do they do?

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It is a spin off the freeman movement which has roots in England and Canada.

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Clayton replied on Fri, Feb 17 2012 1:46 PM

Fiat money cannot solve the problems created by fiat money. Not that either Bitcoin or this "Lawful Money" even rise to the level of being fiat money. In the process of attempting to achieve the impossible, these "alternative" monies perpetuate the myth that money is "whatever we collectively decide that it is"; the myth that is the foundation stone of the fiat monetary system.

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Yes, I agree, i was just trying to share a topic that might be of interest. I do not think it is anything more than an idea. I don't think there is much happening with the bank. Most likely just a presentation and someone made a website with it.

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Bert replied on Fri, Feb 17 2012 1:57 PM

I don't know if this has been posted yet, but this itself is good enough to counter the attacks of racism.

22 Reasons Why Ron Paul Is Not Racist.

Besides what he has said against racism, the various ways of honoring black contributions in history he's voted on (someone brought up the fact he didn't vote to spend a couple thousand of tax payer money for a pendant for Rosa Parks was some sort of racist gesture or action (the person who was arguing with me on this was mixed and "disgusted" by it), she didn't understand that he suggested they should do it with their own money, and the government giving a pendant to Rosa Parks is that of the NSDAP giving a pendant to Jewish freedom fighters).

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Autolykos replied on Fri, Feb 17 2012 2:50 PM

John James:

Government efficiency at work:

 

Man's vanity plates attract $20,000 in tickets

...Tickets for Fords, Hondas, Dodges. Even a Vespa.

Every few months he has to take time off from work to go to the courthouse to get the tickets dismissed. 

But since Danny drives a Chevy Avalanche, anything marked a “Chevy” is still his problem.

"How do I prove it’s not mine?” Danny asks.  “They say, 'I don't know.'  You don't know?  It’s your system, figure it out. ‘I don't know’ isn't an answer. I got to get this done." 

Danny’s record at the DMV is now so long, he says he can’t renew his license or his registration.

 

I guarantee every statist will say something to the effect of: "Well.  It's his fault for getting those tags."

Yeah. I skimmed over the comments. Lots of people saying some variation of "there comes a time when one must give up fighting the system". Way to go, folks. You're displaying learned helplessness/Stockholm Syndrome all too well.

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Nobody actually thinks that Ron Paul is a racist. It's just about getting the accusation out there so people associate liberalism and racism, because they heard it in the same sentence so often. It conditions them like a dog. Twenty years of hearing every liberal politicial figure associated with "racism" and they are going to think that liberalism is racist. It's utter nonsense, racism is a collectivist notion and historically state-racism was supported by Progressives. But it's not about reality, it's about repeating a lie often enough. It's a nice trick and it works, people are stupid.

The problem is that liberals respond to such baseless accusations as if they were a serious argument. They dignify it with an answer. I guess they're just not hip to that kind of dishonesty.

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Rick Santorum Swarmed By Supporters At Campaign Stop

 

 

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John James replied on Fri, Feb 17 2012 10:13 PM

Even when the neocons get something right they still tend to get it wrong.  *sadface*

 

Afterburner with Bill Whittle: Han Shot First!

 

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Gero replied on Fri, Feb 17 2012 10:25 PM

But Syriasly, Folks…..

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gotlucky replied on Fri, Feb 17 2012 11:11 PM

 

Man shot to death while holding baby

WCSH:

 

SCOTTSDALE, AZ (KPNX) -- An Arizona man was shot to death by police Tuesday while holding his grandson. 


Police say 50-year-old John Loxas was holding his grandchild in his arms as he walked around his Scottsdale neighborhood Tuesday night threatening neighbors and police. 

 

"There were at least three officers in position to engage the suspect. At least one of the officers thought he saw something in the suspect's hands," said Sgt. Mark Clark. 

Loxas was standing outside of his home with his grandchild still in his arms when Officer James Peters fired one shot to the head, killing the suspect. 

Police say the 9-month-old boy was not injured during the shooting. 

Officers also escaped unharmed. 

Some neighbors are now questioning the officers actions. 

Investigators say the officers on the scene thought Loxas was holding a gun. 

Detectives did not find a weapon on Loxas following the shooting, but did locate several firearms inside the home. 

Officer Peters, who fired the fatal shot, has been involved in seven shootings over the past decade. 

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Clayton replied on Fri, Feb 17 2012 11:47 PM

A little good news. Turns out that money production is, in fact, subject to market forces and consumers have the final word in what is or is not money.

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Bert replied on Sat, Feb 18 2012 12:39 AM

Nobody actually thinks that Ron Paul is a racist.

I know what you're getting at, but in the end they think or believe he's a racist.  They can read articles about various associations and a bunch of other "evidence" and so on, but they'll think he's racist at the end of the day.  I'm sure I can find plenty of people that think he's racist, but probably can't find exact statements from him making these positions.

Only problem I have now is convicing my girlfriend (or anyone) he's not politically going to enforce anti-abortion laws (sadly in the state of VA the GOP is going nuts with it here).

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gotlucky:

On the same webpage:

Off-duty deputy pulls gun on pregnant woman at Walmart check-out

(the man waving the gun does not immediately identify himself, woman's husband ends up arrested)

 

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You may have seen this one before...

 

Police Brutality Backfires

 

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Preschooler prevented from eating sack lunch, forced to eat government lunch, mom billed

 

 

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gotlucky replied on Sat, Feb 18 2012 7:13 PM

Oh no I hadn't, thanks for sharing that video.  I don't think we would see that happen in America though.

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gotlucky:
I don't think we would see that happen in America though.

Just depends on when and where.  (As in, how oppressed the people have been and for how long.)  You see this in other countries with more oppressive regimes and less freedom in the broader sense.

Lew Rockwell commented on this here.

 

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gotlucky replied on Sat, Feb 18 2012 7:57 PM

Yeah.  I mean, it's certainly possible that it could happen here under the right circumstances.  I believe it would.  I just expect that if this were to happen now, that the sheep that are in America would just watch on, passively.

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More proof we're living in fascism.

 

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The new Ron Paul?

 

 

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Amash is a well-known Paulite.  He rode the Tea Party wave into Congress in 2010 as a Paulite.  He buddied up to Ron Paul as soon as he got to Washington.  He was one of (if not the) first in Congress to endorse Paul for the 2012 election.

 

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^^^^ This.

 

To paraphrase Marc Faber: We're all doomed, but that doesn't mean that we can't make money in the process.
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Stephan Kinsella: "Say you and I both want to make a German chocolate cake."

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"The final results of the GOP Primaries and Caucuses are pre-determined and are created through vote
tabulation manipulation. Having worked with various programmers through the years in creating algorithms, I
find the particular one laid out in this document to be quite primitive and laughably obvious. Having analyzed
the New Hampshire and South Carolina Primary Counties like this one, I am shocked that the perpetrators
haven’t spent more resources to make the end result more believable."

Unmasking the Vote Manipulation in South Carolina

 

 

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[playlist of all official ads]

 

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Barty replied on Tue, Feb 21 2012 2:24 PM

That paper Graham is really remarkable. Something fisy is going on.

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skylien replied on Tue, Feb 21 2012 2:37 PM

Watch Bryan Caplan pawning 2 very dumb economists on Al Jazeera. It is really painful to hear them talk such nonsense, not even making any good point:

Here Bryan on his Blog about it.

If you read this Loretta Napoleoni. It is really a shame that people like you can come up on TV and can lie so bluntly. No the welfare spending in the UK is not a fraction now of what it was in the seventies before Thatcher.

"Quis custodiet ipsos custodes, qui custodes custodient? Was that right for 'Who watches the watcher who watches the watchmen?' ? Probably not. Still...your move, my lord." Mr Vimes in THUD!
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DanielMuff replied on Wed, Feb 22 2012 12:33 PM

The Firefox one is the funniest.

 

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Gero replied on Wed, Feb 22 2012 5:20 PM

Old criticism of Associated Press: Use 11 reporters to fact check Sarah Palin while probably not using that many to fact check other subjects.

Best wordplay: Newt Romtorum

Concerned Scientists Reply on Global Warming

Khader Adnan and now-normalized Western justice

FACT CHECK: Errant claims on auto bailout, taxes

Santorum Forgets History

We're Already Europe

Canadian government is 'muzzling its scientists'

GOP scrambles under allegations of rampant election fraud in Maine caucus

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Can Congress Steal Your Constitutional Freedoms?

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A philosopher once had the following dream.

First Aristotle appeared, and the philosopher said to him, "Could you give me a fifteen-minute capsule sketch of your entire philosophy?" To the philosopher's surprise, Aristotle gave him an excellent exposition in which he compressed an enormous amount of material into a mere fifteen minutes. But then the philosopher raised a certain objection which Aristotle couldn't answer. Confounded, Aristotle disappeared.

Then Plato appeared. The same thing happened again, and the philosophers' objection to Plato was the same as his objection to Aristotle. Plato also couldn't answer it and disappeared.

Then all the famous philosophers of history appeared one by one and our philosopher refuted every one with the same objection.

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6. The scientific community has had a very rough time trying to replicate his results.

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5. No one has ever been burned at the stake, hanged, or tortured over their brand of beer.

4. You don't have to wait 2,000+ years for a second beer.

3. There are laws saying that beer labels can't lie to you.

2. You can prove beer exists.

1. If you've devoted your life to beer, there are groups to help you stop.

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Sheriff attempts to break the constitution

[view:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpUjl4LvQM8&feature=g-logo&context=G23fd0feFOAAAAAAABAA]

'' The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.'' Stephen Hawking

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Clayton replied on Thu, Feb 23 2012 7:41 PM

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Jargon replied on Fri, Feb 24 2012 12:02 AM

http://vigilantcitizen.com/vigilantreport/top-10-most-sinister-psyops-mission-patches/

 

Some creepy US Military patches.

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