“Anti-Semitism based on the notion of a Jewish world conspiracy is not rooted in Islamic tradition but, rather, in European ideological models. Its main early promoters in the Arab world were supported financially and ideologically by agencies of the German National Socialist government.1″
Communalism:A Social Ecology Journal has posted an important background article on current trends in the Arab World promoting anti-semitism @ http://tinyurl.com/32vhm9z
“Democrat control of the White House, House of Representatives and the Senate has produced an unprecedented level of political brazenness and contempt for the limitations placed on the federal government by the U.S. Constitution. As such, it has raised a level of constitutional interest and anger against Washington’s interference in our lives that has been dormant for far too long.”
“Part of this heightened interest and anger is seen in the strength of the tea party movement around the nation. Another is the angry reception that many congressmen receive when they return to their districts and at town hall meetings. According to the most recent Gallup poll, only 20 percent of Americans approve of the job Congress is doing, but that’s up from a March 2010 low of 16 percent.”
“The smart money suggests that there will be a Republican takeover of the House of Representatives and possibly the Senate. The question is what can liberty-minded Americans expect from a Republican majority? Maybe a good starting point for an answer might be to examine how Republicans have handled their majority in the past.”
Read the awful truth about Republican statism by Walter Williams @
http://www.thenewamerican.com/index.php/opinion/walter-williams/4341-will-republicans-save-us
“Does the U.S. Constitution limit the federal government to a few, specifically enumerated powers, with all other powers retained by the states or the people? Or is it a blank check for tyranny?”…
“At a July 24 town hall meeting Rep. Fortney “Pete” Stark (D-Calif.) offered up the quintessential political elitist’s answer to the question of whether or not the Constitution limits the federal government in any meaningful way. Said Stark: “The federal government … can do most anything in this country.”
Complete column by Michael Tennant and video of Rep. Stark @ http://www.thenewamerican.com/index.php/usnews/constitution/4211-a-stark-contrast-between-liberty-and-tyranny
“Pioneers of American Freedom: Origin of Liberal and Radical Thought in America is a book by the German anarcho-syndicalist Rudolf Rocker about the history of liberal, libertarian, and anarchist thought in the United States.”
“Rudolf Rocker, who had been strongly influenced by Benjamin Tucker, started work on Pioneers of American Freedom during World War II. Professor Arthur E. Briggs started translating the book into English from Rocker’s native German in 1941. He took over for Rocker’s previous English translator Ray E. Chase as he had died. The book was published with the help of the Rocker Publishing Committee in 1949.”
“The first part of the book consists of a series of essays on the American liberal thinkers Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, William Lloyd Garrison, Wendell Phillips, and Abraham Lincoln. Rocker emphasizes the importance these men assign to individualism, freedom, and the subordination of the state to the welfare of the individual. This, Rocker claims, is a great similarity between anarchist and liberal thought.”
Complete introduction plus link to an online text of this classic book @http://www.againstallauthority.org/?p=19
“…when should a patriot oppose his government? One answer, which we may hope is obvious, is when his government is waging war on liberty. The trick, of course, is to recognize it as such, since the government will always claim to be defending liberty when waging war against it.”
“Thus it is that in the “war on terrorism” our government is building, brick by brick, a new police state, called “Security.” Consider, for example, this item from The Washington Post:
The Obama administration is seeking to make it easier for the FBI to compel companies to turn over records of an individual’s Internet activity without a court order if agents deem the information relevant to a terrorism or intelligence investigation.
The administration wants to add just four words — ‘electronic communication transactional records’ — to a list of items that the law says the FBI may demand without a judge’s approval. Government lawyers say this category of information includes the addresses to which an Internet user sends e-mail; the times and dates e-mail was sent and received; and possibly a user’s browser history. It does not include, the lawyers hasten to point out, the ‘content’ of e-mail or other Internet communication.
But what officials portray as a technical clarification designed to remedy a legal ambiguity strikes industry lawyers and privacy advocates as an expansion of the power the government wields through so-called national security letters. These missives, which can be issued by an FBI field office on its own authority, require the recipient to provide the requested information and to keep the request secret. They are the mechanism the government would use to obtain the electronic records.
“There now. Don’t you feel safer and more secure already? Or do you have that creepy feeling that somebody is looking over your shoulder?”
Full warning against the new police state by Jack Kenny @ http://www.thenewamerican.com/index.php/opinion/959-jack-kenny/4167-a-police-state-youd-better-believe-in
Public education is in real trouble in California. Everyone agrees – parents, teachers, public officials – that there are massive problems with the public schools. Students are graduating from high school without the necessary skills to get well-paying jobs. A significant number of high school graduates have trouble with reading and writing.
Recent nation-wide tests of academic skills found California students tied with Louisiana students for last place! More than half the students int he California State University system are taking remedial classes in reading or math!
The public schools have become a political football. Religious activists seek to have “creationism” taught in the science classes, while too many of our social science teachers promote obsolete socialist doctrines. Neutral scholarship is the unlamented victim.
Among the ideas currently being proposed to improve American education, school choice stands out as particularly innovative and thoroughgoing. Implementation of school choice proposals would change the relationship of students and their parents to the education system.
Read this classic essay from 1996 by Gene Berkman @ http://www.antiwar.com/berkman/edchoice.html
Riverside Area Libertarians will meet Thursday August 12, 2010 to discuss School Choice & Competition in Education – details @ http://www.rclp.org/
“Following in the distinguished footsteps of Microsoft and Google, Apple is the latest innovative company to be targeted by politicians and regulators for being too successful. Will it be sucked into Washington’s “parasite economy”?”
“For more than a decade, Microsoft went about its business, developing software, selling it to customers, and — happily, legally — making money. Then in 1995, after repeated assaults by the Justice Department’s antitrust division, Microsoft broke down and started playing the Beltway game — defensively at first.”
“Washington politicians and journalists sneered at Microsoft’s initial political innocence. A congressional aide said, “They don’t want to play the D.C. game, that’s clear, and they’ve gotten away with it so far. The problem is, in the long run they won’t be able to.” ”
Full commentary on how government preys on businss by David Boaz @ http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=11972
“Afghan insurgent attacks killed six U.S. soldiers Saturday, bringing the total to 1,171 — and counting. Eight years after achieving our initial war aims, disrupting al Qaeda and punishing its Taliban protectors, we have 94,000 troops in-theater, chasing “50 to 100″ Al Qaeda operatives, “maybe less,” says President Obama’s CIA director.”
“Good news, though: Construction of Kabul’s 900,000-square-foot Police Training Center is “progressing according to plan.” After $27 billion spent, Afghan police are still “illiterate, corrupt, and trigger-happy,” their instructors lament, but a spiffy new training complex can’t hurt.”
“Enough. With American casualties mounting, it’s clearer than ever that “Operation Enduring Freedom” has become a sickening waste of blood and treasure.”
Complete commentary on another war without end by Gene Healy @ http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=11975
“The Duma (the lower house of Russia’s legislature) on July 9 passed a bill that will allow the Federal Security Service (FSB) to issue warnings to people “whose acts create the conditions for the committing of a crime,” the Moscow News reported three days later.”
“The bill was opposed by all of Russia’s political parties except the pro-Kremlin United Russia, which has 315 seats in the 450-seat Duma. United Russia’s chairman is Vladimir Putin. The report said the measures were proposed by the government in the wake of the March 29 Metro bombings by Chechen separatists.”
“A Reuters report cited Kremlin critics who say the FSB, “formerly headed by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, could use its additional powers to target and intimidate opposition groups.” The report also noted: “The FSB was formed from the remains of the KGB, which was broken up in 1991 as the Soviet Union collapsed. Its influence grew greatly after Putin became president in 2000 and ordered it to lead the fight against Islamist rebels.”
Full report on Russia’s emerging police state by Warren Mass @ http://www.thenewamerican.com/index.php/world-mainmenu-26/europe-mainmenu-35/4020-russia-gives-new-powers-to-kgb-successor