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Libertarian Commentary on The News 11 - 17 October
By Nathan A. Barton © 2009

New Religions: Manmade Global Warming
"What Happened to Global Warming?"
BBC News
This headline may come as a bit of a surprise, so too might that fact that the warmest year recorded globally was not in 2008 or 2007, but in 1998. But it is true. For the last 11 years we have not observed any increase in global temperatures. And our climate models did not forecast it, even though man-made carbon dioxide, the gas thought to be responsible for warming our planet, has continued to rise.
Well! Even the BBC must admit this in writing? But never mind - the "warmers" will continue to spout their nonsense and more and more of us are caving in and accepting that emission of carbon is evil and deserving of mass punishment... Actually, the article is still written from a "warmer" point of view against the "climate change skeptics" - whom the BBC tries to trash. I don't know of anyone who believes that the evidence fails to prove that global warming is manmade who thinks that there is no climate change - the evidence is clear that weather is cyclical. (Read the rest here)

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No Treason (1867-1870)
by Lysander Spooner

Inasmuch as the Constitution was never signed, nor agreed to, by anybody, as a contract, and therefore never bound anybody, and is now binding upon nobody; and is, moreover, such an one as no people can ever hereafter be expected to consent to, except as they may be forced to do so at the point of the bayonet, it is perhaps of no importance what its true legal meaning, as a contract, is. Nevertheless, the writer thinks it proper to say that, in his opinion, the Constitution is no such instrument as it has generally been assumed to be; but that by false interpretations, and naked usurpations, the government has been made in practice a very widely, and almost wholly, different thing from what the Constitution itself purports to authorize. He has heretofore written much, and could write much more, to prove that such is the truth. But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain – that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case, it is unfit to exist.

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Did 1918 Spanish Flu Deaths Result From Aspirin-Induced Scurvy (Vitamin C Deficiency)?
by Bill Sardi

There seems to be something missing in explanations why otherwise healthy and younger adults die from the flu. Does a dark angel just come visit these kids that die and take them? Fearing a repeat of the 1918 Spanish flu, which resulted in millions of deaths worldwide, what could be done to avert a similar deadly pandemic now?

Dr. Karen M. Starko MD provides us with some important clues. She hypothesizes the high mortality rates due to the 1918 Spanish flu resulted from the over-use of aspirin. The evidence Dr. Starko provides is compelling.

Physicians of the day were unaware that the recommended medication regimens (8.0–31.2 grams per day, or 8000 to 31,200 milligrams) during that time period produce aspirin levels associated with hyperventilation (33%) and fluid accumulation in the lungs (pulmonary edema 3%) of subjects.
Accumulation of fluid in the lungs was recently found in 46% of 26 aspirin-intoxicated adults. In lab experiments, aspirin increases lung fluid and impairs clearance of mucus.
In 1918 aspirin was recommend by the US Surgeon General, the US Navy, and the Journal of the American Medical Association just prior to the October death spike.
Bayer first introduced water-soluble aspirin tablets in 1900. Farbenfabriken Bayer’s worldwide distribution of aspirin had been accomplished in the same year as the flu pandemic. Aspirin sales more than doubled from 1918 to 1920.
The US Army camp with the highest mortality rate had ordered 100,000 aspirin tablets.
Young children were not given aspirin as widely as young adults, which may explain why the young had a lower mortality rate in the 1918 flu. [Clinical Infectious Diseases 2009; 49: online Sept. 29]

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National Gun Rights Examiner
Hollywood anti-gun hypocrisy not new
by David Codrea

When it comes to guns, Hollywood suffers from a self-imposed dissociative identity disorder. On the one hand, we have stars like Arnold Schwarzenegger making fabulous careers for themselves portraying heroes who solve problems using guns as tools to fight evil, and on the other hand, we have politicians like Arnold Schwarzenegger signing edicts that infringe on the ability of his audience and constituents to do just that. (Read the rest here) (Read the entire article at the source website. Use the back button to return.)

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Judge KOs Shelter Kickback Scheme
By Carey Roberts

Every time we turn around, it seems, we hear of an abuse shelter being accused of discrimination, fraud, or other head-shaking irregularities. And now a judge has ruled the entire abuse shelter industry in the state of West Virginia is wracked by conflict of interest, gender bias, and financial kickbacks.

The ménage a trois involves a government agency, a well-heeled trade organization, and 14 domestic violence shelters located around the state. Here’s how the scratch-your-back scheme works…(Read the rest here)

Albuquerque Libertarian Examiner
'Public schooling' equals abuse in today's authoritarian environment
By Kent McManigal

This gets to the main issue: I don't know how anyone could consent to allow their children to be kidnapped and sent off to government indoctrination camps for the majority of their childhood and adolescence. This practice is crushing creativity and individuality while building willing supporters of the state and its corrupt ways.

This should cause outrage at the "villagers with torches and pitchforks" level. That it doesn't means that good people don't really understand what is going on. The fact that good people don't understand what is going on shows how effective the indoctrination really is. Separate school and state- in your own life at least. Your kids' education is MUCH too important to leave to the government.
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Anchorage Libertarian Examiner

Vanderboegh to Holder: prevent the preventable, before it's too late
By Kevin Wilmeth

Mike Vanderboegh addressed Eric Holder again today.

The article was a little more troubling than usual for me. Not because what he said doesn't need saying, heavens no:

I write to you today with the same desire to avoid conflict, and precisely because the threat of accidental causation is there, I will speak as bluntly to you now as Bob did then to the FBI. We do not have time for faux politeness and insincere pretence. For we are potentially, thanks to your employees and their reputation over the past twenty or more years, on the brink of a spasm of violence unlike anything this country has ever seen.

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Dallas Libertarian Examiner
Government-created chaos
By Garry Reed

When you hear that some libertarians who typically call themselves Anarcho-Capitalists, or AnCaps, want to abolish government entirely do you respond with gnashing of teeth and pulling of hair?

“Without government we’ll have nothing but chaos,” you might gasp in dismay.

But think about how much chaos government creates. (Read the rest here) (Read the entire article at the source website. Use the back button to return

Features From The Last Issue

Libertarian Commentary on The News (October 12/09)
By Nathan A. Barton © 2009

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Have a Nice Apocalypse!
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Why won't press question Bloomberg gun show motives?
by David Codrea

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How do you react?
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For love of human beings
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