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Help Farmers Fight Monsanto

shelly — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 20:23:36 +0000

Via Food Democracy Now

Highlights of 11/22 GOP Presidential Debate, Featuring Dr. Ron Paul

shelly — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 06:30:59 +0000

Ron Paul highlight reel from tonight's GOP presidential debate on CNN:

All The President's Wars: How Foreign Policy Became One Man's Prerogative

shelly — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 00:08:35 +0000

Great overview on the President's unchecked and unconstitutional power to declare war:

via Reason TV: As Barack Obama announces the beginning of troop withdrawal from Afghanistan, a far bigger issue - one that goes to the heart of American history and government - remains unaddressed.

"That the President has the right to start a war at his pleasure is just completely divorced from the original meaning of the Constitution," says constitutional scholar Gene Healy.

FDA finally admits chicken meat contains cancer-causing arsenic (but keep eating it, yo!)

shelly — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 17:32:25 +0000

So... let me get this straight. Raw milk, BAD. Elderberry juice, BAD. Arsenic... GOOD? Thanks for keeping us safe and healthy, FDA!

Congress strikes down body scanners

shelly — Sat, 14 May 2011 16:49:42 +0000

Hmmm:

via RT: As outrage continues over body imagining scanners used by the TSA, a new legislation would cut off funding of the technology that has raised eyebrows across America since they began being installed throughout US airports in 2010.

After approving NBC buyout, FCC Commish becomes Comcast lobbyist

shelly — Thu, 12 May 2011 01:33:15 +0000

Outrageous. This kind of blatant corporatism is exactly what's going on with Monsanto, the FDA and Michael Taylor too:

A Message from Ron Paul

shelly — Wed, 04 May 2011 17:57:48 +0000

Show your support for Ron Paul's presidential run with a donation TOMORROW, the day of the first Presidential debate!

From Dr. Paul:

There are just over 24 hours before the first Republican Presidential debate in Greenville, South Carolina.

My, how far you and I have come since 2007.

Remembering the Real Ayn Rand

shelly — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 03:57:31 +0000

I love Ayn Rand.

via WSJ: Tomorrow's release of the movie version of "Atlas Shrugged" is focusing attention on Ayn Rand's 1957 opus and the free-market ideas it espouses. Book sales for "Atlas" have always been brisk—and all the more so in the past few years, as actual events have mirrored Rand's nightmare vision of economic collapse amid massive government expansion. Conservatives are now hailing Rand as a tea party Nostradamus, hence the timing of the movie's premiere on tax day.

When Rand created the character of Wesley Mouch, it's as though she was anticipating Barney Frank (D., Mass). Mouch is the economic czar in "Atlas Shrugged" whose every move weakens the economy, which in turn gives him the excuse to demand broader powers. Mr. Frank steered Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to disaster with mandates for more lending to low-income borrowers. After Fannie and Freddie collapsed under the weight of their subprime mortgage books, Mr. Frank proclaimed last year: "The way to cure that is to give us more authority." Mouch couldn't have said it better himself.

Maine town becomes first to declare food sovereignty

shelly — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 15:58:55 +0000

LOVE it:

Via GrownInTheCity: The town of Sedgwick, Maine, population 1,012 (according to the 2000 census), has become the first town in the United States to pass a Food Sovereignty ordinance. In doing so, the town declared their right to produce and sell local foods of their choosing, without the oversight of State or federal regulation.

Fed's profits surge to a record-breaking $81.7 billion

shelly — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 17:04:17 +0000

Must be nice to operate in total secrecy, accountable to no one!

via MarketWatch: The Federal Reserve released earnings for 2010, with the central bank's profit growing to $81.7 billion, a record high, from $53.4 billion, mostly due to growing interest earnings on federal agency and government-sponsored enterprise mortgage-backed securities. The Fed's balance sheet -- which also can be monitored monthly -- ballooned to $2.43 trillion, up $193 billion from 2009, as holdings of U.S. Treasury and mortgage-backed securities rose. The Fed returned $79 billion to the U.S. Treasury in 2010, up from $47 billion in 2009. (Updates to include that the Fed profits were at a record.)