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Daniel Hannan: If you can’t solve the debt crisis, regulate the credit rating agencies
February 11, 2013 — xanthippaReason TV: Judge Napolitano: How Teddy Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson Destroyed Constitutional Freedom
December 12, 2012 — xanthippa
Reddit user captures video of 2012 voting machines altering votes
November 6, 2012 — xanthippa‘We are unable to confirm whether or not something fraudulent has occurred, but the story seems to lean towards a malfunction. Joseph Lorenzo Hall, Senior Staff Technologist at the Center for Democracy & Technology, has claimed that it is a miscalibration of the touch screen, though Centralpavote’s personal account directly contradicts that statement, pointing towards a malfunctioning piece of hardware, incorrectly implemented software or, in the worst case scenario, intentional voter fraud.’
Read it and weep: incompetence or malice, it does not really alter the fact that with electronic voting, without backup paper ballots, there is no way to verify whether the results the machines are reporting accurately reflect the will of the people. Where such an accountability vacuum exists, fraud is sure to follow soon – it’s human nature!
Sad, just sad…
Russian attack submarine sneaks inside the 200 mile territorial limit on the East coast of the USA
November 6, 2012 — xanthippaThis time, it’s no Marko Alexandrovich Ramius trying to defect, either!
From Washington Free Beacon:
‘A Russian nuclear-powered attack submarine cruised within 200 miles of the East Coast recently in the latest sign Russia is continuing to flex its naval and aerial power against the United States, defense officials said.
The submarine was identified by its NATO designation as a Russian Seirra-2 class submarine believed to be based with Russia’s Northern Fleet. It was the first time that class of Russian submarine had been detected near a U.S. coast, said officials who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitive nature of anti-submarine warfare efforts.’
The same article cites something that is potentially even more disturbing:
‘Meanwhile, the officials also said that a Russian electronic intelligence-gathering vessel was granted safe harbor in the commercial port of Jacksonville, Fla., within listening range of Kings Bay.
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“A Russian AGI [Auxiliary-General Intelligence] and an SSN in the same geographic area as one of the largest U.S. ballistic missile submarine bases—Kings Bay—is reminiscent of Cold War activities of the Soviet navy tracking the movements of our SSBN’s,” said a third U.S. official, referring to the designation for ballistic missile submarines, SSBN.’
It only gets worse:
‘The submarine deployment followed stepped-up Russian nuclear bomber activity near U.S. borders last summer, including the transit of two Bear-H strategic bombers near the Alaska air defense zone during Russian strategic bomber war games in arctic in late June.Then on July 4, in an apparent Fourth of July political message, a Russian Bear-H flew the closest to the U.S. West Coast that a Russian strategic bomber had flown since the Cold War when such flights were routine.
In both incidents, U.S. military spokesmen sought to downplay the threat posed by the air incursions, apparently in response to the Obama administration’s conciliatory “reset” policy of seeking closer ties with Moscow.
U.S. and Canadian interceptor jets were scrambled to meet the Russian bombers during the flights last summer.’
In other words, specifically in response to Obama anemic projection of woosiness power, Putin’s Russia has placed air, surface and underwater military assets within US territorial jurisdiction…all without any response from Obama’s eviscerated military!
No wonder Putin has thrown his support behind Obama in the 2012 election!
Sure, the Bolsheviks are not in power in Russia any longer, but Obama and his Mensheviks are winning the long-term war in America – and dictators like Putin know how to exploit this very weakness!
Last minute thoughts on tomorrow’s US (2012) election
November 5, 2012 — xanthippaPutin, Chavez and Castro all endorse Obama for President in the US 2012 election….
Is there a better reason not to vote for him?
I don’t like Romney – he seems like a psychopath to me…and his belief in ‘magic underwear’ is just icing on the cake.
Obama’s religious beliefs are even more batshit-crazy than Romney’s. Remember, he himself says that it was the racist screechings preachings of Jeremiah Wright that converted him to Christianity – and, from his college days, he has worn a ring that affirms his faith in one God. He’s even used it as his wedding ring – even though he wore it for at least a decade before he got married…
I guess in a country where, in many places, it is still illegal for reasonable people (who don’t believe in a magical sky-daddy) to run for public office, you’re bound to end up with candidates who all hold batshit-crazy magical views.
Not a great third choice, but it does exist!
And while I don’t know Gary Johnson’s religious ideas (I would probably not like them – as per above), and I think his foreign policy is downright insane, I do like what he has accomplished to reduce the size of government while he was the governor of New Mexico.
It’s not much, but it’s something…
Yes, he has no chance to win – which makes casting a vote for him count to send a message of dissatisfaction with the two main parties. It’s a fundamentally different way of being heard. But, it is a valid way of being heard – and a way to make your vote count.
He wants to repeal the Patriot Act.
He wants to get rid of the insane Drug Wars.
He wants to get rid of Income Tax in favour of one single consumption tax.
He wants to create jobs by reducing corporate tax rates – to zero.
He wants balanced budgets – now!
Not much, perhaps, but better than voting for one of the two ‘status quo’ candidates and then being surprised things do not change.
Because, if a statistically significant percentage of ‘undeclared’ voters support these policies, the two main parties will have to consider them in the future in order to get sufficient votes to win.
Hard to believe, perhaps, but sometimes, voting for ‘the other’ candidate will have a greaer political impact than voting for a candidate from one of the two legacy parties.
This is why they call it ‘Dearbornistan’
October 15, 2012 — xanthippa
The real danger in ‘asymmetric policing’ is that the people who are not in the ‘favoured’ group will notice – and will, eventually, loose faith in the police and the law as an avenue for them to not just get justice, but to protect their very existence.
When that happens, vigilante justice takes over – and that is a very, very bad situation which, I am sure, nobody wants.
Yet, that is the inevitable result of justice not being done – and justice not being seen to be done…sooner or later, no amount of political correctness will be able to contain the portion of the population that is not currently enjoying the ‘favoured’ status.
It is already beginning to happen…
Government Explained 2: The Special Piece of Paper
October 15, 2012 — xanthippaSometimes, it is good to think about our governance structures as if we were explaining them to an alien: it goes a long way towards exposing our blind spots.
I am still convinced that coercive taxation ought not play part in any modern government….
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