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"Washington has cut off credit to small business and are channeling the money into big government, big banks, and big corporations," he claims. "It's almost a contemplated attack on small businesses] by Washington and it's having its effect."

The the interview with Aaron Task here.

This series of shows were recorded on or before 1983.  They include many interviews with survivors on both sides of the Spanish civil war.

This is a fascinating study in how humanity lurches forward, resists change, grasps on to desperate ideas and is willing to kill each other in the process.   Spain was has a functional monarchy until the early 1930's.  When it tried moving forward to a republican form of government it wobbled and failed after a span of about 5 years.   Many people were more comfortable with the old order while some wanted to try radically new ideas.  Some of those ideas were stupid like communism and eliminating money in favor of a revolutionary council handing out chits.   Those thinking crazy thoughts can somewhat be forgiven because the monarchy had held on so long that the change hit Spain like an earthquake that had built up stresses over centuries.  On the other hand they invited war by trying to change too much at one time.  That is bound to upset someone and one has to consider this because lives are held in the balance.  Unstable stupid people do unstable stupid things like kill 500 people at a go with just the word of one person.

 So what resulted?  The forty years of the Franco dictatorship.  Hardly the progress the so called progressives wanted to accomplish.  It is adequate proof to me that true revolutions happen peacefully through people changing themselves and others.  That unfortunately that things change slowly.   And for libertarians like me I see the poor anarchists reject joining government only to learn the lesson that game theory teaches so clearly.  It only pays to be cooperative when your counter party is cooperative.  Otherwise it pays to be uncooperative.  The communists entered the government and solicited help from Soviet Russia.  They ended up pushing out the anarchists.  Quite an object lesson is what is to be overcome to institute true freedom with libertarian ideals.  This history may have bearing on the future for the next step forward in government is its near total elimination.  There will be resistance to this and I expect there will be some wars too.   People, including the peasants, are resistant to change even if it is for the good.

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You decide if  she is going to run.

• What is mama grizzly up to?
  
• Sarah Palin is at the top of her party   and more importantly at the top of her game and getting better

This snip is from:  http://dailyreckoning.com/the-wants-and-fears-of-george-soros/

To understand the speech, one must know what the wants and fears of George Soros are. In my book, Endless Money (John Wiley & Sons 2010), I develop a unique perspective on the topic of liberal billionaires such as Soros and Buffett. Specifically, I argue that their vested interest in maintaining the trend towards socialism and feeding its insatiable appetite with voluminous money creation through bank lending preserves a tax structure that imperils the middle class and results in unprecedented accumulation of wealth among the super-rich. Billionaires love a system in which banks double the money supply every seven years through issuing credit-backed currency, because it sets asset prices on an upward trajectory. More than half of wealth accumulation of the super-rich comes from this rather than accumulated net income or the earning of ordinary income, and this rise in net worth is generally untaxed since it is unrealized. And not to worry – it can be monetized free of taxation through manageable amounts of borrowing at government-suppressed interest rates and even hedged out with derivatives.

The interesting part that I had not foreseen was how billionaires can put their hands on unrealized gains of physical assets by borrowing against them.  Things make alot more sense now!

Pat Buchanan has an very good analysis that shows Palin will run in 2012. 

For anyone interested in prognostication this one is a must read!   By analyzing the endorsements Palin has made Buchanan makes a case that in my estimation puts Palins intentions currently as 100% sure she will run.

Do you trust government?   

Do you think Rand Paul was wrong when he said the civil rights act of 1964 theoretically goes too far when it bans discrimination in a private business?  If you do then you are substantively against private property rights.   Keep that in mind as you watch Broken Rainbow.  Had the Navaho and Hopi been treated according to the morality and legal philosophy of a libertarian they would have been compensated for their land.   Instead we played by the rules of the Neofeudalist class.   Since Navaho and Hopi did not have many votes to offer they were run over.   By not believing in private property and libertarianism you open the door to all manner of "sharp operators".  Many of whom end up in the United States Government.

Note when watching this video that the left romanticize primitive cultures and would have you believe several obviously false things.  They would have you believe had the native americans not been hoodwinked by actors in the U.S. Government and Peabody coal that they would have refused to allow mining on their land.  This is a tall assumption.   A more plausible reality is that the price paid by Peabody and company would have risen to market value and the Navaho and Hopi would have sold out sooner or later. 

The left sees opportunity in people treated shabbily.  However their eyes are always on making names for themselves or opening new territories in legal standing and representation.  This is not unlike opening wide open frontier land with little competition.  What would you expect? So many of them are lawyers.  If they do not see a chance for recovering on your claim you will get very little love from them.

DJou See dat ? 

Dear Leader Obama is not happy.  He asks that all you liberals go to your Dear Leader Obama Mantle-Shrines and give the tiny bama-diorama^* prayer wheels a twist!  

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Tarentino is working on a sequel to Soylent Green.   It will be titled Dorito Orange.  The project is contingent upon being able to get Charlie Crist to play the lead.

Dorito Orange is people!

When the curtain falls down on Charlies political career Mitch Daniels will be standing by to say:   "Mitch thinks  – Time to get over Charlie Crist".  But at least Charlie will have his acting career to look forward to.  Not much a transition from paid liar to paid playactor.  So do not look for Charlie to fade away.  His tan does not allow fading.  It is some sort of weird Doritos orange that never fades. 

Here is my read:

-1- Jan Brewer wanted to distract from the sales tax increase and so she signed the Arizona immigration law.  Everyone was talking about this and not the sales tax increase.

-2- the special ballot was held at a off time so turn out was tiny for regular people….but the teachers unions / public employee unions turned out in droves. I am betting near 100% of union thugs turned out.

We should ban these oddly timed ballots.  They are just a tool used by the politicians when they want a low turn out to enable going against the electorate.   I have not checked but it seems to me these oddly timed ballots are much easier for insider politicians to set up than some poor schmuck of a voter like me or you.   Ballots should be held on election day an none other.