Tories f*** up ... again...

David Davis

…they want to “curb the Lobbying Industry”…

Cameron has just jumped into his own mouth with both feet, by proferring an answer to the wrong question.

Everyone knows that the place where ex-Ministers go to (not) die is QUANGOs. These items are set up _/by/_ governments, in order to be given money _/by/_ governments, and then with which they “hire” objects such as “ex-ministers” to _/lobby/_ the very same governments with the objective ov bringing in the very policies that those governments want to see enacted.

If MPs had to be (real) “local” people, standing locally, known by sight and acquaintance to most of their employers (us) and if they were truly disinterested, which is to say: they don’t need the money, then “lobbying” as it is today understood would wither away naturally. Lobbying-power would pass to constituents and voters where it belongs: governments would not need to nurture a galaxy of faux-lobbyists in order to pretend there is “wide public support” for this or that.

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Iran, Aryan it means the same thing.

Don’t be so shocked. Aryan is a term abused by Hitler. I found a blog that may help shed a little more light on this.

Once Iran was known as Persia. Persia was an ancient culture. The bible speaks of the Persians.

So why was the name changed?

In 1935, the shah of Iran, who was a Nazi sympathizer and he hated the Jews, decided to rename his country Iran. Read more here… This name Iran, pretty much means “Land of the Aryans.”  Were you aware of that?

Mohammad-Rezā Shāh Pahlavi Read more here

There is also an interesting video I found about the Shah and American Presidents.

It would seem their leaders still hold these philosophies to date. This would also explain whyMahmoud Ahmadinejad wants to start a war with Israel.

This is the same man that says the Holocaust was a myth. This is also the same man our American President wants to have a relationship with. This is the same man that the American people made feel welcome and comfortable in this country. I know good public relations…. My father used to say to me growing up in Australia  “Don’t go walking in the long grass for you never know, if you will step on a snake.” Snake bites are lethal in Australia if you do not treat them in time. How many times then, does America allow the venom to be re-injected? Iran is LESS THAN 12 MONTHS AWAY from developing a powerful Nuclear weapon. What do you think Iran’s plans will be then? Do you know what The Collective have said to me about Iran; “DO NOT TURN YOUR EYES AWAY FROM THE MIDDLE EAST.” Months ago I wrote a blog about what I saw in a vision. It was of a war in the Middle East. The countries involved in this were the same countries that were near or in Afghanistan.  China, Russia, Iran, Israel, America.
I assure you The Collective tell me that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad wants nothing more,  than to start a war with Israel.

Now the media has told the American Public that Russia is selling Uranium to Iran. I also said months ago in a blog, that Russia and China were secretly speaking.
Russia and China are also doing joint Military Exercises together. For what purpose? So, let me remind you how powerful China is becoming. The Australian Federal Reserve wanted to raise their interest rates recently but the Chinese Government said “NO” so it didn’t happen.
America too is so indebted to China with loans, what will be the price we too now pay? So what then America?
Too many times have we become complacent and comfortable believing that our world rulers knew what is best for us. Even the Shah of Iran said this to the “Blue Eyed People.” In 1976 Mike Wallace did an Interview with the Shah of Iran. When I listened to the interview some of what he said was truth. Especially the parts that people would now call the “Conspiracy Theory.”

All the warning signs were there in 1976.

So why is it that we are still not paying attention?  This hate has been going on a long time.
Iran brought weapons from all over the world for what reason? Iran is now doing business with Russia and this is the same nation who invaded Iran, in the second world war to grab oil. Iran was a Neutral state in WW11. If you see an d read the long ugly history here, you will come to understand many things as I have.

Read more here… Some of these wounds are old and the anger has built up over time.

Let sleeping dogs lie? I do not think the Iranian Government has forgotten, nor will it ever. Wake Up. Love and Blessings Victoria

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Investigation Chief: Swine Flu Pandemic Was A Hoax

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Thursday, February 4, 2010

Appearing on The Alex Jones Show, outgoing Chair of the Council of Europe’s Sub-committee on Health Wolfgang Wodarg said that his panel’s investigation into the 2009 swine flu outbreak has found that the pandemic was a fake hoax manufactured by pharmaceutical companies in league with the WHO to make vast profits while endangering public health.

The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, a 47 nation body encompassing democratically elected members of parliament, began hearings last month to investigate whether the H1N1 swine flu pandemic was falsified or exaggerated in an attempt to profit from vaccine sales.

Wodarg said that governments were “threatened” by special interest groups within the pharmaceutical industry as well as the WHO to buy the vaccines and inject their populations without any reasonable scientific reason for doing so, and yet in countries like Germany and France only around 6 per cent took the vaccine despite enough being available to cover 90 per cent of the population.

Wodarg said he was alarmed when the WHO cited early cases in Mexico as a threat and quickly moved to pandemic status, despite the fact that the cases were relatively mild and the virus was not new.

“This was the mildest flu ever and the people were much more clever than the government so we have to find out what was going on with WHO – why did they do this pandemic alarm,” asked Wodarg, noting that pharmaceutical interests within the World Health Organization were instrumental in creating the panic and reaping the financial dividends.

“We don’t know what really happened, we only know that they changed the definition of a pandemic, which was a very dangerous thing before and now is just a normal flu, and this is why business for pharmaceutical companies was open,” said Wodarg, adding that select pharmaceutical companies were handed a monopoly on creating the vaccine.

“It is their trick that they always try to monopolize this and we pay much more like this,” said Wodarg, noting that if patents were left open, vaccines would be produced much quicker and far cheaper.

Wodarg said there was “no other explanation” for what happened than the fact that the WHO worked in cahoots with the pharmaceutical industry to manufacture the panic in order to generate vast profits, agreeing with host Alex Jones that the entire farce was a hoax.

He also explained how health authorities were “already waiting for something to happen” before the pandemic started and then exploited the virus for their own purposes.

Wodarg said that the investigation was likely to recommend an end to the undue influence of pharmaceutical companies on public health institutions in Europe.

However, Wodarg pointed out, “There is no law for WHO, there is no one who punishes those people in WHO, we only have national law, so this is very important that we collect the information and on the national level we try to find those people responsible and we try to punish them.”

“Have investigations, have a deep look, we cannot tolerate such a development, we cannot have this next winter again, we don’t want such fake pandemics,” concluded Wodarg.

Wodarg said that vast quantities of unused vaccines were now being dumped on the third world and that other countries were simply trying to push ahead with vaccination programs even though the virus has proven not to be a major threat.

“The Japanese bought vaccines for 110 million people and they cannot return from this vaccine contract so they are in a very big political dilemma now and they already have problems because the Japanese people already know it wouldn’t be necessary to get vaccinated,” Wodarg told The Alex Jones Show.

Watch the interview with Wodarg below.

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Post-partisanship

Barack Obama has claimed, many times, to be “post-partisan.” The corollary is that this is how he would prefer to govern, not having to deal with the often rancorous partisanship that at times has gridlocked Washington.

I take Obama at his word on this, but would offer that in Obamaland, post-partisanship is just another way of saying “groupthink.” As in, don’t argue with me, I know what’s best for you.

In our republic, partisanship, or factionalism, has been the engine that both drives and halts the American enterprise. Call it creative tension, call it competition, call it survival of the fittest ideas. Partisanship is a necessary ingredient for progress when progress is needed.

Partisanship is also necessary when what is needed is, in the inimitable words of Bill Buckley, to

stand athwart history, yelling Stop, at a time when no one is inclined to do so, or to have much patience with those who do.

Our job as loyal Americans, and as conservative partisans, is to yell “Stop” when the post-partisans go for unsustainable spending and debt, when the post-partisans would control every aspect of our lives and our economy.

Of course Obama would prefer to be a “post-partisan” president. It would save him the time of having to defend and justify his wretched leap to the left.

Oh, and for the record: our liberty is never more secure than when Washington is in gridlock. That way, the miscreants in Congress and the White House are given fewer chances to reduce our liberty and harm the economy.

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US Income Tax rate History

In 1913 when the Income Tax was sold to the US population, it was a 1% rate and a 7% top rate, now it is 10% and 35% with 6 brackets. When implemented in 1913, it affected less than 10% of the US population.

Partial History of
U.S. Federal Marginal Income Tax Rates
Since 1913
Applicable
Year Income
brackets First
bracket Top
bracket Source
1913-1915 1% 7% IRS
1916 - 2% 15% IRS
1917 - 2% 67% IRS
1918 - 6% 77% IRS
1919-1920 4% 73% IRS
1921 - 4% 73% IRS
1922 - 4% 56% IRS
1923 - 3% 56% IRS
1924 - 1.5% 46% IRS
1925-1928 1.5% 25% IRS
1929 - 0.375% 24% IRS
1930-1931 1.125% 25% IRS
1932-1933 4% 63% IRS
1934-1935 4% 63% IRS
1936-1939 4% 79% IRS
1940 - 4.4% 81.1% IRS
1941 - 10% 81% IRS
1942-1943 19% 88% IRS
1944-1945 23% 94% IRS
1946-1947 19% 86.45% IRS
1948-1949 16.6% 82.13% IRS
1950 - 17.4% 84.36% IRS
1951 - 20.4% 91% IRS
1952-1953 22.2% 92% IRS
1954-1963 20% 91% IRS
1964 - 16% 77% IRS
1965-1967 14% 70% IRS
1968 - 14% 75.25% IRS
1969 - 14% 77% IRS
1970 - 14% 71.75% IRS
1971-1981 15 brackets 14% 70% IRS
1982-1986 12 brackets 12% 50% IRS
1987 5 brackets 11% 38.5% IRS
1988-1990 3 brackets 15% 28% IRS
1991-1992 3 brackets 15% 31% IRS
1993-2000 5 brackets 15% 39.6% IRS
2001 5 brackets 15% 39.1% IRS
2002 6 brackets 10% 38.6% IRS
2003-2009 6 brackets 10% 35% Tax Foundation

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_tax_in_the_United_States

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Blogger Profile: Liberty Belle

I was listening to NPR while driving to campus early this morning and, while many of the hosts featured on their station come with more of a left-liberal lean, their story highlighted a young, conservative girl who has become a booming voice for the tea party movement. Keli Carender, known as the famous blogger, Liberty Belle, was a tea party patriot even before this recent revival of the tea party movement. Her claim to fame came after she held up a $20 bill and challenged her Democratic Congressman at a health care town hall protest to come and take it from her. With these words, she’s inspired thousands of others:

The other side [of the constituency] is demanding that your vote culminate in legislation that actively seeks to plunder from some in order to satisfy arbitrary needs as determined by you and other bureuacrtas. So here is my question: if you are so keen to forcibly take from one person to give to another who you deem as needier than me, if you believe that it is absolutely moral to take my money and give it to someone else based on their supposed needs, then you come and take this twenty dollars from me and use it as a downpayment on this health care plan. (video provided below)

Reading her blog and having watched her videos on YouTube, I am blown away by the immense sincerity and thoughtfulness of this girl. Not only can she speak clearly and effectively, but she can relate the philosophical foundations of our republic to the current policy debates making headlines and directly affecting the lives of millions of Americans. Like the tea party movement, there are no politics of party preferences involved here, rather just debating the heart of the matter. Therefore, while politics makes an art out of evading the principle in question, little miss Liberty Belle eloquently throws it in their face and demands it be addressed.

I wrote an earlier post about how difficult it was trying to find ways to convince my younger sister that conservative can be cool; communicating monumental ideas of liberty, property, and economics in a way that she can understand and appreciate is no easy feat! It’s people like Keli Carender who make movements like this so much more than just a trend. What’s been holding our country together has been doing so since our independence: freedom isn’t a fad. To a rebellious 11-year-old like my sister, freedom has a profound meaning all on its own. The dissent Keli Carender is voicing and encouraging others to participate in is just the type of inspiration I want my sister to have.

Here is a quote from the NPR story I really liked. Carender speaking about the decentralized structure of the tea party movement:

If you have a machine, you know exactly how to attack it, exactly how to shut it down,” she says. “If you have 3 million machines coming at you, you don’t know where to turn.

I’m always blown away by the beauty of the coordination of the masses of anonymous millions.

- Elizabeth

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Avatar (2009)

 

 

 

Went and saw James Cameron’s Avatar (2009) today.  Got the bills paid, put the overpriced petrol in the tank then ambled like a good blogger down to the local cineplex.

Once the smell of pop-corn permeated my nostrils, the 3D glasses came out and I settled in for the ride of a lifetime!

If anyone who is a fan of sci-fi / fantasy hasn’t seen this film GO, GO NOW, GO AND SEE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A friend of mine Brenton Cooney, has already seen it four times! This is how good it is. The story, the cgi, the sound. I was gratified to note at the end credits that James Horner composed the score for Avatar.

For any star trek tragics out there, Horner composed the greatest Star Trek score/theme in the history of the franchise seen below:

Seriously if Avatar were a religion I would convert! Totally awesome!

A new world of 3D entertainment has exploded onto our screens and put paid to Howard Hughes who said of (“talkies” i.e. sound in movies) that “this was the way of the future”. The same can be said of Avatar.

I believe it is breaking technical and thematic ground with its whole new approach to cinematic experience.

The political element

There have been some that I know in the twitter and blogosphere who have intimated that this somehow is a left-leaning film, considering the undertones of environmentalism that it entails.

Re: Defense of a planets environment by aliens against a foreign occupier.

I would beg to differ in relation to this analysis.

I would refer those ultra-conservatives to Free Talk Live’s  analysis of this. Ian and Mark essentially covered the left wing environmentalist angle by saying it is more about Libertarianism and the voluntaryist element of individuals within the Avatar world being of like mind and helping to defend themselves voluntarily against the foriegn invader.

Without spoiler alerting this film, I have to say it is an excellent study in Liberty and one that will be dissected for a long time. I look forward to the sequels!

 

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