John Stossel: Stupid CON Laws Drive up Health Care Costs
Feb 9, 2010 Corporatism, Current, Libertarianism, video
Update: You can find John Stossel’s Article: The “Con” of American Hospitals Here.
The Obama Deception
Jan 22, 2010 Corporatism, Libertarianism, video
I don’t know what to think about the Bilderberg Group. I am an extreme skeptic. I have a hard time believing conspiracies. This movie has been out for a while and I have gone back and forth on posting anything about it. I am doing so mostly to see what people think of it and the ideas in it. I do not buy the New World Order conspiracies, but this movie has had me baffled. This is the stuff that gave many with similar views as mine a bad reputation. This is the tin foil hat stuff. Now there are some good elements of truth in here, but I have a hard time believing all this conspiracy stuff. I believe politicians are corrupt for personal gain. I believe greed has more to do with it than a secret group or Illuminati. That being said I want to put this up to get some feedback. I would love to hear your answers to some questions I have on this.
- Is there anything we can get from this?
- Is it all crazy tin foil hat stuff or is there more?
- Is there some power over the U.S. president?
- What is legit here if anything?
- How do you see this and what do you think of all this?
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John Stossel’s Cronie Capitalism / Corporatism
Jan 21, 2010 Corporatism, Libertarianism, video
This was originally found on Liberty Pulse here. It is a must see. If you don’t have time now, then bookmark it, or save it for when you have time, and show it around.
Update: I updated this with the official Hulu version. It has a better picture quality and you don’t have to go from video to video.
Also the full article accompanying this from John Stossel can be found here.
You can read the article Freedom Foundation of MN Investigation: The Obama Administration’s Serious Conflict of Interest here from the Freedom Foundation of Minnesota here.
And you can see where we covered the Big Tobacco Story back in September as it was happening in our article Government & Phillip Morris Corporatism at it’s finest here. John Stossel has expanded on that showing how Phillip Morris gained something nuts like 30% increase in their stock by this move.
The Reality of Climate Change
Dec 7, 2009 Corporatism, Politics
Climate Change seems to be under attack. I find the reactions to this interesting. There are two extremes in the political climate war. The issue is so polarizing that both sides have, through the process of reacting to one another, become extreme in an attempt to maintain a defense. We have the Rush Limbaugh supporters who want to tear the limbs off of small animals and burn down forests, and we have the Al Gore supporters who preach of the coming apocalypse with fear mongering doom and gloom. Now I realize there are many level headed individuals who lean one side or the other, but it seems the most vocal voices are the most extreme. The right is yelling Climategate, and the left is yelling crazy conservatives!
I always find the apocalyptic mindset to be kind of hard to swallow. Remember Y2K? For thousands of years the end of the world has been preached by many religions. The dead sea scrolls came from an apocalyptic sect of Judaism. On the other hand the conservative mindset tends to be limited, dismissing the turmoils and problems that others face. They tend to see their immediate world as the only reality that matters.
Media Bias More Left vs. Right
Nov 6, 2009 Anti-State, Corporatism, Philosophy, Politics
Media bias is everywhere and after the White House brought it to light I feel it should stay in the main stream media. We should not let this go. Thankfully there are reporters like John Stossel who have been facing this and keeping it alive. Like usual John Stosel is on the front line preaching to the republicrats a libertarian view point. He is a lone voice in a forest of statism.
The Double Standard About Bias in Journalism
Every reporter has a point of view. But some refuse to admit it.It is reassuring to see John Stossel out there, and it looks like his writings are over at Reason Magazine now. This somewhat disappoints me. I like him out there speaking to the left and right more so than to the already established libertarian minded individuals.
In September John Stossel also addressed this issue.
The Truth About Media Bias
Every reporter has political beliefsIt seems that this is a topic he will be confronting, and I hope he will not stand down from this.
Pay No Attention to the Man Behind the Curtain
Nov 4, 2009 Anti-State, Corporatism, Politics
Provided by Wilton D. Alston
Instead of ‘Pay No attention to That Man Behind the Curtain!’ A Better Question Seems to Be, ‘What Happened to the Curtain?’
“I used to be disgusted; now I try to be amused.”
~ Elvis Costello
Almost everyone is familiar with the genesis of the phrase, “Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!” The Wizard of Oz, who uttered this famous phrase, had a scheme. That scheme was based directly upon an impression of omnipotence without any legitimate power. Surely that impression would be lost should anyone see him pulling levers and talking into a microphone. I can’t help but imagine that if an agent of today’s state were to switch places with the Wizard, he’d utter no such words. In fact, I suspect he’d just sit there, a nearly-naked pseudo-emperor, with no concern that we could see him. Instead of trying to be coy, he’d leave us with no choice but to exclaim, “Hey, what happened to the curtain?”
Urgent Action needed to save H.R. 1207
Nov 3, 2009 Anti-State, Corporatism, Federal Reserve, Libertarianism, Police State, PunkJohnnyCash Blog, Senate
I received this in my in box from Audit The Fed .com and I thought it would be good to put this out there and pass it around so here it goes:
Urgent Action Needed
Dear Supporter of Transparency,
You and I face our biggest challenge yet.
Mel Watt (D-NC), Chairman of the Monetary Policy Subcommittee, has sided with Fed and is working to gut substantial audit provisions from HR 1207. The bill Congressman Watt has sent to the full Financial Services Committee contains no audit of the Fed’s monetary policy-making authority or transparency of the Fed’s secret agreements with foreign central banks.
Without these provisions, a so-called “audit” of the Fed would be worthless.
Something Scarry For Halloween
Oct 31, 2009 Corporatism, Current, Libertarianism, video
One of the most frightening things this Halloween is that Peter Schiff & Ron Paul are called the crazies and are not listened to and Ben Bernanke is in charge of the country’s currency. When we look at these videos I ask you why on earth would Bernanke be in charge on anything and why would Schiff or Paul be marginalized.
Peter Schiff Was Right
News Roundup
Oct 29, 2009 Corporatism, Current, Libertarianism, News Roundup, Police State
Well it’s time for our second weekly news roundup. I hope you guys enjoy.
Health Care:
From Liberty Maven: Ron Paul, a hypocrite on the health care public option? (Click Here)
According to the “Left Wing” Democrat party if you do not vote for health care you must be a hypocrite. Well, not really. I do think the hypocrite list may have some weight, but to lump the one guy who has repeatedly refused Medicaid and Medicare in there seems off.
Gallop polls are showing that current Health Care legislation is loosing support (Click Here)
And Finally NancyPelosi has introduced her own health care bill. (Click here)
PelosiCare: 1,990 and $894 billion of bad news (Click Here)
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Does the Existence of the State Cause Conflicts of Interest?
Oct 28, 2009 Anti-State, Corporatism, Philosophy, Police State, Politics
provided by Wilton D. Alston
My phone is tapped. My mail is read.
They know the thoughts inside my head.
The money I deposited
is now reported to the Fed.
They chip my hand, dispense my bread.
I think they watch me go to bed.
I don’t object. I’m glad instead
to be controlled until I’m dead.
- G. Edward Griffin, from “It’s All for My Security“
As I listened to a classic speech from Murray Rothbard, entitled, “The History of Taxation” something he said struck me. (Often,when listening to Rothbard, this happens.) He mentioned the obvious connections between people who worked inside the banking elite and those who worked, or seemed to work, outside of it, in the regulatory realm. There seemed to be, at that time and now, a cross-pollination between the two bodies, even though one is supposed to oversee the other.
