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They Live, We Sleep: A Dictatorship Disguised as a Democracy

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“What most Americans perceive as life in America—privileged, progressive and free—is a far cry from reality, where economic inequality is growing, real agendas and real power are buried beneath layers of Orwellian doublespeak and corporate obfuscation, and ‘freedom,’ such that it is, is meted out in small, legalistic doses by militarized police armed to the teeth. Tune out the government’s attempts to distract, divert and befuddle us and tune into what’s really going on in this country, and you’ll run headlong into an unmistakable, unpalatable truth: the moneyed elite who rule us view us as expendable resources to be used, abused and discarded.”

http://rutherford.org/publications_resources/john_whiteheads_commentary/they_live_we_sleep_a_dictatorship_disguised_as_a_democracy

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U.S. General Spits on Constitution

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“General Clark doesn’t otherwise fit in the right wing, law-and-order camp. He made a brief presidential bid in 2004 on the Democratic side and was very critical of the Bush administration’s anti-terror tactics and Middle East interventions. Yet now he wants to round up and imprison radical Muslims. This demonstrates that politicians across the spectrum threaten civil liberties. They differ only on the details. Second, he floated his argument on the supposedly ‘progressive’ MSNBC network. The interviewer didn’t question the idea, either. Truly professional journalists are usually quick to notice threats to freedom of speech – or at least in the past. Not this time.”

http://www.thedailybell.com/news-analysis/36437/US-General-Spits-on-Constitution/

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Ron Paul’s Foreign Policy of Peace Is Central to the Message of Freedom

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“Ron calls upon the peoples of the world to resist their governments’ calls to war and to refuse to take part in violent conflict. ‘If the authoritarians continue to abuse power in spite of constitutional and moral limits,’ he writes, ‘the only recourse left is for the people to go on strike and refuse to sanction the wars and thefts. Deny the dictators your money and your bodies…. The more this is a worldwide movement, the better.’ When people read Swords into Plowshares generations from now – and they will – they will marvel that such a man actually served in the US Congress, and defied every campaign of war propaganda right on the House floor.”

https://mises.org/library/ron-pauls-foreign-policy-peace-central-message-freedom

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Clinton’s Startup Tax Will Crush New Businesses

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“Hillary Clinton has announced that she will, if elected, raise the capital-gains tax to a maximum that equals the highest income tax bracket. She hopes to promote long-term investments by penalizing short-term ones with a tax rate that gets lower the longer an investment is held, reaching the current 20% rate only after six years.  This, Ms. Clinton says, would allow a CEO to focus on the company’s true interests rather than just making the next quarter. It is, unfortunately, exactly the sort of plan you would expect from someone who has never started a company — and who doesn’t seem to know anyone who has.”

http://fee.org/anythingpeaceful/detail/clintons-startup-tax-will-crush-new-businesses

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Realism versus Nonintervention

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“In both British and U.S. experience we can see much institutional feedback from overseas empire: transfer of policing models and bureaucratic management techniques, and their cumulative effects on domestic civil liberties. Meanwhile, for domestic reasons, Americans long since encumbered themselves with standing armies of police, which are rapidly adopting military and imperial mentalities and practices directly from U.S. overseas adventures.  Realists and neo-Realists would have us believe that it is actually impossible for a great power to renounce empire. There are indeed few precedents. Most imperial powers learn the hard way.”

http://fff.org/explore-freedom/article/realism-versus-nonintervention/

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How Hillary Clinton plans to ‘save capitalism’

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“Clinton proposed raising capital gains taxes on investments held for only short periods of time. The tax on investment earnings would nearly double from their current rate of 20% for investments held less than two years. And the rate for those in the top tax bracket would be set on a sliding scale, with incentives for people who hold their investments longer.  Meanwhile, Clinton said she would change the tax code to eliminate incentives for CEOs to be paid based on short-term bumps in share prices, with the aim of encouraging leaders to plan more strategically for the future.  Clinton also took on what she called ‘hit and run’ shareholders – activist investors.”

http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/how-hillary-clinton-plans-save-capitalism

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Hackers Can Use Your Car to Kill You

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“The FBI denied investigating Hastings. Maybe the journalist who took down one top general and elevated another just happened to fall asleep at the wheel. We can’t know for sure what happened to Hastings. We do know for sure that it is now technically possible to take control of a vehicle and make it do undesirable things, like crash into palm trees at high speed. The hackers profiled in the Wired report are surely not the only ones with this ability. It’s no stretch to imagine that CIA and Pentagon experts have the same skill. Would they use it to silence a critic? Maybe they already did.”

http://www.thedailybell.com/news-analysis/36441/Hackers-Can-Use-Your-Car-to-Kill-You/

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Trump Tried to Bulldoze an Elderly Widow’s Home to Build a Limo Parking Lot

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“Donald Trump is leading the GOP primary polls with 24 percent.  In 1994, Trump got Atlantic City to condemn Vera Coking’s home so that he could build limo parking for his Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino. The Institute for Justice took on Trump in one of its first big eminent domain cases:  She was able to beat Trump and the city government and win the right to keep her property.  Coking moved to a retirement home in 2010, having lived almost 50 years in her Atlantic City home. Coking’s grandson finally sold the house in July 2014; less than two months later, the Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino closed for lack of business.”

http://fee.org/anythingpeaceful/detail/remember-when-donald-trump-tried-to-bulldoze-an-elderly-widows-home-to-build-a-limo-parking-lot

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U.S. presidential election already fueled by $377 million

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“The major parties’ top presidential candidates in the fundraising race – Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton and Republican Jeb Bush – are collecting cash in the huge amounts needed to fuel the extensive political organizations they are building for the 2016 campaign.  Clinton’s campaign is spending money at a rapid clip, according to initial fundraising reports filed Wednesday with federal regulators.  The former first lady and front-runner in the Democratic race has paid out 40 percent of the $47 million in donations that she amassed by the end of June, employing some 364 people and building infrastructure across the country in preparation for next year’s general election.“

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_2016_POLITICAL_MONEY?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

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Netanyahu lost his Iran bet, but his next gamble may be disastrous

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“[Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu’s spokespeople said he plans to ‘kill himself’ pursuing the last remaining option for scuttling the deal – preventing its ratification by the U.S. House of Representatives – by persuading Democratic congressmen to defect to the Republican camp and vote against their president. The destruction and devastation he avoided inflicting on the nuclear facilities scattered throughout Iran, he now wants to wreck on what’s left of U.S.-Israel relations. Here we again see his compulsive gambler syndrome: After losing his pants, he’s now putting his underwear on the roulette wheel in a move that experts on American politics say hasn’t much of a chance.”

http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/1.666048

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