1. Traitor. He took an oath to defend the Constitution – NOT the country:
“Obama signs one-year extension of Patriot Act”
http://wire.antiwar.com/2010/02/27/obama-signs-one-year-extension-of-patriot-act-2/
2. No kidding:
“CNN Poll: Majority think government poses threat to citizens’ rights “
http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/02/26/citizens.rights.poll/
3. Over some stupid little islands:
“Thatcher ‘threatened to nuke Argentina’
Margaret Thatcher forced François Mitterrand to give her the codes to disable Argentina’s deadly French-made missiles during the Falklands war by threatening to launch a nuclear warhead against Buenos Aires”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2005/nov/22/books.france
4. “Grading Free Market Capitalism and “The Invisible Hand”
Free market capitalism is based on the idea that “the invisible hand” of the market will create the best possible outcome for the most people.
But as I noted a couple of weeks ago, the man who came up with idea of the invisible hand did not believe in unrestrained free market capitalism:
Americans have traditionally believed that the “invisible hand of the market” means that capitalism will benefit us all without requiring any oversight. However, as the New York Times notes, the real Adam Smith did not believe in a magically benevolent market which operates for the benefit of all without any checks and balances:
Smith railed against monopolies and the political influence that accompanies economic power …
Smith worried about the encroachment of government on economic activity, but his concerns were directed at least as much toward parish councils, church wardens, big corporations, guilds and religious institutions as to the national government; these institutions were part and parcel of 18th-century government…
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Does this mean that free market capitalism is dead?
No.
But capitalism has to grow up and become less naive, relying less on a blind faith in “the invisible hand” and more on an understanding of human nature, including insights from the field of behavioral economics.
It must include sophisticated checks and balances to make sure that thesystem is not gamed, instead of childish ideas about the “inherent stability” of the market.”
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2010/02/grading-free-market-capitalism-and.html
5. “Stalin’s Secret War Plans: Why Hitler Invaded the Soviet Union “
http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=17834
6. “Media Fabrications: The “Srebrenica Massacre” is a Western Myth “
http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=17836
