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For those who truly cherish liberty, it is reality check time. If nothing else, our history should have taught us that, regardless of how much we yearn for the adherence to the Constitution, the true blueprint for freedom is not to be found there. If the Constitution truly had the built in protections to prevent opportunistic politicians from abusing it, we would not be in the mess we are today. There is a very good reason the Patriot who said, “give me liberty or give me death” refused to sign that document. (Read the rest here)
Easy
Pickin’s -- For The Political Class It is always amusing to watch the phonies, frauds and street criminals who comprise our elite political class front-runners, supported by multi-millionaire and billionaire behind-the scenes-socialists, scamper and writhe for acceptance by the very unwashed masses and street rabble they purportedly wish to serve. The only people politicians really seek to serve is themselves, and anyone that hasn’t figured out by now is just unbelievably disconnected from reality. There once was a time in this great nation when holding public office as an elected representative was indeed a “public service.” The pay wasn’t all that great, the hours horrendous, and the rewards few. Representatives would bear more criticisms and complaints than accolades for performing “a job well done.” (Read the rest here)
War
of The Words While shopping for a present some time ago, I came across War Talk, Arundhati Roy's recent collection of essays. Most of them I'd read online before, but the opportunity to own them in book form proved irresistible; it's a quick, easy and enjoyable read. What struck
me was that I agreed with her 98% of the time; then I'd stumble headlong
over her use of a word or phrase… usually "democracy,"
or "free market." Words, important words, and concepts that
like to throw their considerable weight around in my mind. When she says
democracy, and I substitute anarchy, it works. Where she refers to the
"free market," the image that comes to my mind is the hybrid
beast born of collusion between political power and profit motive relieved
of the restraints of conscience and ethics (which only political muscle
can wrestle long-term profit from, and does it ever).
A
Nighmare in Iraq Americans soldiers are killing innocent Iraqi civilians almost on a regular basis. In recent days and in separate incidents they killed eight Iraqi policemen, an Iraqi interpreter working for the U.S. occupiers, a woman and her child at a wedding, and a young teenager at another wedding. Many more have been seriously injured. As British journalist Robert Fisk reports from Baghdad, "Every day, Iraqi civilians are wounded or shot dead by US troops." No wonder that U.S. government analysts believe that the troops have more to fear from average citizens than from the remnant of Saddam Hussein sympathizers. Citing Defense Department officials, the New York Times reported, "New intelligence assessments are warning that the United States' most formidable foe in Iraq in the months ahead may be the resentment of ordinary Iraqis increasingly hostile to the American military occupation." This has got to be an eye-opener to all those who insisted that the Americans would be greeted as liberators. (Read the rest here)
(Coming Soon! Exclusive Article from Congressman Ron Paul)
Special
Features: All of the cypher systems we have looked at so far have been single-key character cyphers. By this, we mean that the same key which is used to encrypt the plaintext into the ciphertext is used to recover the plaintext from the ciphertext, and the cypher operates on only one character at a time. In these discussions the plaintext character space is taken to be the ASCII character set, as is the ciphertext character space. The key space is not necessarily the ASCII character set, but is a function, such that p=D(C(p)), where p is the plaintext, C is the encryption algorithm and key, and D is the decryption algorithm and key. Clearly, D is the inverse operation of C. (Read the rest here)
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