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Bill Would Allow Military To Detain US Citizens Indefinitely
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Bill Would Allow Military To Detain US Citizens Indefinitely
Nov 28, 2011 – Col. Douglas Macgregor, (Ret.), explains why provisions of the NDAA fly in the face of Constitutional principles and what’s really …
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The Artificial Imposition of Poverty
James Peron
President, Moorfield Storey Institute
Posted: 11/16/11 09:40 AM ET
Most of the world’s poverty is not self-inflicted, yet apparently many seem to think it is.
My experience, living in Africa, tells me otherwise. Much of global poverty is imposed and I don’t mean by evil “multi-national corporations” or “globalization.” Those myths are easily debunked. The real causes of poverty in these nations are not hard to find.
First, however, I’d like to start with what is not the cause of poverty. People in poor nations are not poor because they lack ambition or are lazy.
When I first moved to Africa, I lived in small apartment. Almost immediately upon moving in there was a knock on the door. A woman asked if she could have a job cleaning for me. The idea was foreign to me. I even had negative emotions about people “exploiting” the poor and hiring them at low wages. I declined, but she begged. She insisted she was a hard worker. My dilemma was that I didn’t have a lot of money. I told her that. She named a wage that seemed ridiculously low.
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Examining the curse of living in these interesting times
By Marc Guttman
A supposed Chinese curse says may you live in interesting times. Well, the 21st century so far has not disappointed with depressed economies, wars overseas, and authoritarianism and cronyism at home.
But, we can make these curses into blessings. Already there has been stiff shifts in public opinion and conventional wisdom and massive grassroots movements to activism. Governments surely govern by the consent of the governed, and the governed lately are expressing their disapproval en masse.
Tax resistance increased early in the century by individuals unwilling to support U.S. government wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, believing them to be immoral actions. These military interventions, the government argues, are in response to the massacre innocents suffered on 9-11 (itself a response to U.S. government military activities over several decades) and the war on terrorists that the government claims encompasses a global battlefield
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Voting Against Social Harmony, Individuals, and Prosperity
By Marc Guttman
It’s often said that if someone doesn’t like something the government is doing, he or she should convince enough people to change it. Is this our idea for community, granting government the power to push through special interest will and expect that if innocent individuals want not be obstructed or burdened, they need toil and spend their resources to try to persuade others and gain power within the government to stop the intrusions on their human rights? This isn’t the blueprint for a harmonious society. It usually has a way of turning would be cooperative participants into adversaries and is a terrible waste of human creativity and capital.
Do we want our rights and property always at the whim of the voting majority and those best able to curry government’s favor or rather a government that protects every individual equally? Some wrongly believe that perceived positive ends justify and are achievable by aggressive means. They accept infringements on innocent individuals as an acceptable trade-off, proceeding with the temerity to impose their preferences on and at a cost to others.
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