Government Bureaucrats Steal Basketball Hoops

Government Bureaucrats Steal Basketball Hoops

As the founders knew, without property rights we are slaves. If the right to property is denied, all other rights fall by the wayside.

“The right to property is rooted in the right we have to the free use of our own mind and talents, which it is government’s job to protect,” James Madison wrote.

In Delaware, the state has demonstrated its utter contempt for property rights and the individual, as the following video reveals.

DelDOT forcibly removes a man’s basketball hoop and a state bureaucrat tells the man – as armed agents of the state stand nearby – to go back in his house. He no longer has the right to his property or his liberty.

He is a slave at the mercy of the state.

Read a news article on the incident here.

CLK11.NYM: Summary for Crude Oil May 11- Yahoo! Finance

CLK11.NYM: Summary for Crude Oil May 11- Yahoo! Finance

Crude Oil May 11

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‘GOP conducts Islamophobia campaign’ | Revolt of the Plebs

‘GOP conducts Islamophobia campaign’ | Revolt of the Plebs

Posted by keith on Apr 01, 2011 | Leave a Comment

Press TV talks with author Max Blumenthal who illuminates a hate campaign against Barak Obama by the Republic Party that targets Obama’s religious identity as a Muslim and how this campaign is having real life consequences on the entire Muslim community inside America.

Press TV: How far back does the Islamophobia campaign in the US go?

Max Blumenthal: It goes back to the 1930s and 40s when the American public was bombarded with anti-Arab/oriental images in the pop culture through cartoons and Hollywood movie productions for example. The movie Exodus (1960) with Paul Newman was about the foundation of Israel and the reason the film was made was because the American Jewish public was insufficiently sympathetic to or interested in Zionism and the establishment of the state of Israel so it portrayed Jewish terrorists as heroic and the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem collaborating with Nazis portraying the Palestinians as Nazis.

There was already a pre-existing context where Americans were cultivated to hate and demonize Arabs. And after 9/11 it turned into a full-on political campaign. Through my research this campaign really started in the 1990s in earnest with a documentary called Jihad in America, which was broadcast on public television with a self-styled terror expert – Steven Emerson who claimed in this documentary that there were terror cells inside the US.

This led to round ups and prosecutions of Muslim leaders of which all of these prosecutions have been completely discredited, with no links to terrorism yet some were thrown in Jail anyway. People in congress at this time were not taking Emerson seriously, not until 9/11.

Twelve dead in Afghan attack on UN

Twelve dead in Afghan attack on UN

MAZAR-I-SHARIF, Afghanistan - Twelve people including seven foreign UN workers died Friday in an attack on a UN headquarters in northern Afghanistan by protesters angered by a US pastor's burning of the Koran, the provincial governor said.

"Seven UNAMA employees have been killed, out of which five are Nepalese and two others are Europeans, one woman and one man," said governor of Balkh province Atta Mohammad Noor, referring to the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan.

"There are five protesters killed and 20 others injured," the governor told reporters on Friday.

More than 20 insurgents involved with the attack have been arrested, he added, saying the decision by protesters to go to the UN office had not been pre-planned.

- AFP /ls

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Libyan opposition offers ceasefire

Libyan opposition offers ceasefire

(UKPA) – 15 minutes ago

A Libyan opposition leader has said the rebels will accept a UN-demanded ceasefire if Muammar Gaddafi pulls his forces from all cities and allows peaceful protests.

Mustafa Abdul-Jalil spoke during a joint press conference with UN envoy Abdelilah Al-Khatib, who is visiting the rebels' de-facto stronghold of Benghazi in hopes of reaching a ceasefire and political solution to the crisis embroiling the North African nation.

Mr Abdul-Jalil says the rebels' condition for a ceasefire is "that the Gaddafi brigades and forces withdraw from inside and outside Libyan cities to give freedom to the Libyan people to choose and the world will see that they will choose freedom."

The offer came as the rebels showed signs of increased organisation as they battled Gaddafi's forces in eastern Libya, and appeared to have more weapons and communications equipment.

Forces loyal to Libya's leader of nearly 42 years spent much of this week pushing the rebels back about 100 miles along the coast, and the opposition was trying to regroup. The rebels now have mortars, weapons they previously appeared to have lacked, and on Thursday night they drove in a convoy with at least eight rocket launchers - more artillery than usual.

Exclusive: WANTED: U.S. workers for crippled Japan nuke plant - Yahoo! News

Exclusive: WANTED: U.S. workers for crippled Japan nuke plant

NEW YORK (Reuters) - As foreign assignments go this must be just about the most dangerous going.

A U.S. recruiter is hiring nuclear power workers in the United States to help Japan gain control of the stricken Fukushima Daiichi plant, which has been spewing radiation.

The qualifications: Skills gained in the nuclear industry, a passport, a family willing to let you go, willingness to work in a radioactive zone.

The rewards: Higher than normal pay and the challenge of solving a major crisis.

"About two weeks ago we told our managers to put together a wish list of anyone interested in going to Japan," said Joe Melanson, a recruiter at specialist nuclear industry staffing firm Bartlett Nuclear in Plymouth, Massachusetts, on Thursday.

Up to 1,000 bodies left untouched near troubled nuke plant | Kyodo News

Up to 1,000 bodies left untouched near troubled nuke plant

OKYO, March 31, Kyodo

Radiation fears have prevented authorities from collecting as many as 1,000 bodies of victims of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami from within the 20-kilometer-radius evacuation zone around the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant, police sources said Thursday.

One of the sources said bodies had been ''exposed to high levels of radiation after death.'' The view was supported by the detection Sunday of elevated levels of radiation on a body found in Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, about 5 km from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station.

The authorities are now considering how to collect the bodies, given fears that police officers, doctors and bereaved families may be exposed to radiation in retrieving the radiation-exposed bodies or at morgues, according to the sources.

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Wal-Mart Says “Serious” Inflation Is Coming

Wal-Mart Says “Serious” Inflation Is Coming

Thank you Ben Bernanke for all the money printing. Thanks to a massive injection of cash into the financial system by the Federal Reserve and other central banks, the price of almost every major commodity has skyrocketed over the past six months. Now those price increases are starting to filter down to the retail level. During a recent meeting with USA TODAY's editorial board, Wal-Mart CEO Bill Simon said that rising inflation in the United States is "going to be serious" and that Wal-Mart is "seeing cost increases starting to come through at a pretty rapid rate." For many years Wal-Mart has been famous for their "low prices", so for the head of Wal-Mart to publicly warn that much higher prices are coming is more than a little alarming. There are millions of American families that are already drowning in debt, that can barely pay their mortgages and that are struggling to put food on the table for their families. So what is going to happen to the U.S. economy when prices start rising substantially at places such as Wal-Mart?

But Wal-Mart is not the only major corporation that says that inflation is coming. Hershey has just announced price increases of about 10 percenton their entire line of products.

So if you like chocolate you better start stocking up now.

Ed Schultz Gets Pounded Into The Ground On Libya By Jeremy Scahill

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Saudi Nuclear Weapons in the Persian Gulf

Saudi Nuclear Weapons in the Persian Gulf

Overlooked in the welter of fast-moving events throughout the Arab world was a Saudi Arabian call for transforming the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) into "an entity identical to the (27-nation) European Union" — plus nuclear weapons.

Saudi Arabia has grown impatient. "Waiting for Godot," Samuel Beckett's famous play, depicts the "meaninglessness of life," with its repetitive plot, where nothing much happens. In Saudi eyes, that's Iran and its secret nuclear weapons program. And eye-drop Western sanctions have done zip to deter Iran's aging theocrats.

Iran began nuclear research with French assistance in the 1960s. In 1972, Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi told this reporter that Iran would one day be a nuclear power. Britain had relinquished all its geopolitical responsibilities east of Suez in 1968.

Under the Nixon Doctrine that followed the British withdrawal from the Persian Gulf, the Shahanshah ("King of Kings") became the "Guardian" (and gendarme) from the Strait of Hormuz to Kuwait.

Ron Paul Discusses Fed Reserve Document Release On Bloomberg

Congressman Paul discusses the documents the Fed released by court order today.

Israel may build artificial island off Gaza Strip coast

Israel may build artificial island off Gaza Strip coast

Israel to build island to steal oil

Israel is considering plans to build an artificial island off the coast of theGaza Strip to house a sea and airport, and encourage tourism in the area.

Yisrael Katz, the Israeli minister for transport, said the plan had been under consideration for many months and had been encouraged byBinyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister. He said it would also relieve Israel of the obligation to be the transit point for goods into the enclave.

The Gaza Strip has no sea port and its airport was destroyed. The area is the sixth most crowded place in the world. Since 2007, Israel, which controls the majority of Gaza's borders has only allowed limited kinds of goods into Gaza and allowed very few exports out. Gazans have got round restrictions by smuggling goods from Egypt through tunnels

Libya: Britain backs Clinton view that UN has sanctioned arming rebels

Libya: Britain backs Clinton view that UN has sanctioned arming rebels

David Cameron told the Commons at PMQs there was a legal basis for supplying arms to Libyan rebels. Photograph: PA

Britain threw its weight behind the US declaration that the UN had provided a legal basis to supply arms to rebel forces in Libya in limited circumstances, though ministers would act with "extreme care" before making any decision, David Cameron said.

In a sign that Britain was in no rush to ship arms to the rebels, William Hague, the foreign secretary, warned that sending weapons could have "unforeseeable and unknown consequences".

The government set out its thinking on arming the rebels ahead of news last night that President Barack Obama has signed a secret government order that authorises covert help to the Libyan rebels by such organisations as the CIA.