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1857 Prophecy?

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 03:38:12 GMT

clipped by: robm47
clipper's remarks: Lord Macaulay may have been a time traveler!

prophetic phrase from Lord Macaulay, written in 1857 to an American correspondent:

When society has entered on this downward progress, either civilization or liberty must perish. Either some Caesar or Napoleon will seize the reins of government with a strong hand, or your republic will be as fearfully plundered and laid to waste by the barbarians in the twentieth century as the Roman Empire was in the fifth, with the difference that the Huns and Vandals who ravaged the Roman empire came from without; and that your Huns and Vandals will have been engendered within your own country by your own institutions.

liberty

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 12:56:48 GMT

clipped by: venudailleur

Clip Source: origin.fallengalaxy.com

frugality quote

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 03:48:31 GMT

clipped by: vgoedmakers

Clip Source: the-sparrows-nest.blogspot.com

"By sowing frugality we reap liberty, a golden harvest."

Guidelines for Faith in Politics

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 17:37:26 GMT

clipped by: laceym
clipper's remarks: Don Byrd - Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty

Clip Source: www.bjconline.org

1. Being religious is not in itself a qualification for office

Outward displays of faith neither confirm nor deny sound policy judgment or strong leadership skills

2. A religious belief can be - and is - held by a wide diversity of political views, and a political view can be - and is - held by a wide diversity of religious beliefs

Politicians and activists do religion a great disservice when they presume to speak for all people of faith

4. I know it's a political campaign, but can we keep the religious pandering to a dull roar? Using religion divisively as either the carrot or the stick of an electoral strategy is demeaning to religion, it cheapens faith, and it distracts from important issues our political leaders should face head on.

Tags: faith, religion, politics

UK: Safe in our cages?

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 07:56:30 GMT

clipped by: hitchhiker08
clipper's remarks: "As surely as night follows day, the new surveillance society will do more harm than good." Says it all, I guess

Clip Source: www.guardian.co.uk

Safe in our cages

Proposals to monitor all our communications are an intolerable assault on liberty in the name of security

In the Queen's speech this autumn Gordon Brown's government will announce a scheme to institute a database of every telephone call, email, and act of online usage by every resident of the UK. It will propose that this information will be gathered, stored, and "made accessible" to the security and law enforcement agencies, local councils, and "other public bodies".

Two things have made this ghastly development possible: the technology, and politicians.

The technology is way ahead of the game: Siemens of Germany are already supplying 60 countries with a device that monitors and integrates data from phone, email and internet activity;

The second point concerns the quality of our politicians. They say they are putting us all under suspicion for our own good. They wish to protect us against terrorists and criminals, and to make bureaucracy more efficient.

Tags: security, suveillance, siemens, technology, politics, terrorism, safety, precautions

I found this travel agency online for my trip to Las Vegas

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 07:33:24 GMT

clipped by: travelAug
clipper's remarks: After visiting more than one travel agency in person, I found this travel agency online and have used them to book my last few vacations to Las Vegas.

Clip Source: www.libertytravel.com

Welcome to Las Vegas

Tags: liberty travel, travel, vacation, vacation package, florida, caribbean, carribean, gambling vacation

The Brilliance of Thomas Jefferson

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 05:53:25 GMT

clipped by: BartendingBear
clipper's remarks: He'd tear King George The Deciderer a new one, just as he did 200+ years ago.

Clip Source: quotes.liberty-tree.ca

"We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt.
We must make our election between economy and liberty
or profusion and servitude.
If we run into such debt, as that we must be taxed in our meat and
in our drink, in our necessaries and our comforts, in our labors and
our amusements, for our calling and our creeds...
[we will] have no time to think,
no means of calling our miss-managers to account
but be glad to obtain subsistence by hiring ourselves
to rivet their chains on the necks of our fellow-sufferers...
And this is the tendency of all human governments.
A departure from principle in one instance
becomes a precedent for [another ]...
till the bulk of society is reduced to be mere automatons of misery...
And the fore-horse of this frightful team is public debt.
Taxation follows that, and in its train wretchedness and oppression."

Source:

Letter to Samuel Kercheval, Monticello, July 12, 1816

Tags: damn, straight!

Liberty is...

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 01:51:47 GMT

clipped by: willhelm

Clip Source: maggiesfarm.anotherdotcom.com

Liberty is the sovereignty of the individual.

Josiah Warren

Great golf vacation deals and qualified online travel agents

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 12:08:40 GMT

clipped by: travelAug
clipper's remarks: Very pleased with this company's online travel agents. They make booking my golf vacation almost as enjoyable as the vacation itself.

Clip Source: www.libertytravel.com

Mexico

Los Cabos is home to 6 world-class golf courses, allowing for tee-time fun during your vacation in beautyful Mexico.

Canada

Don't be surprised if you see a wandering elk during your game in Banff National Park! Experience the secret of great golf at Whistler it's more than just a winter ski resort!

Bermuda

A year-round mild climate makes Bermuda an ideal golf vacation spot and, in fact, it has more golf courses per square mile than anywhere else in the world!

US East

Vacation fun in South Carolina's Hilton Head goes beyond the beach, with excellent golf.Myrtle Beach,is home to more golf courses than anywhere else in the world!

Tags: liberty travel, travel, vacation, vacation package, florida

Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 03:54:24 GMT

clipped by: zalisan
clipper's remarks: "One People, one movement, freedom for all

Clip Source: www.freedomtofascism.com

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Clip Source: www.freedomtofascism.com

AMERICA: FREEDOM TO FASCISM
"FOUR STARS (Highest Rating). The scariest damn film you'll see this year. It will leave you staggering out of the theatre, slack-jawed and trembling. Makes 'Fahrenheit 9/11' look like 'Bambi.' After watching this movie, your comfy, secure notions about America -- and about what it means to be an American -- will be forever shattered. Producer/director Aaron Russo and the folks at Cinema Libre Studio deserve to be heralded as heroes of a post-modern New American Revolution. This is shocking stuff. You'll be angry, you'll be disgusted, but you may actually break out in a cold sweat and feel a sickness deep in your gut; I would advise movie theatre managers to hand out vomit bags. You may end up needing one."

Keith Olbermann: There Is Fascism, Indeed

Aaron Russo's
Volunteer Website

Clip Source: www.freedomtofascism.com

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I Want My Country Back

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 06:37:50 GMT

clipped by: BartendingBear
clipper's remarks: "I love America, and I can't stand quietly by while the land of peace and liberty is being destroyed.

I love the America of the Constitution and limited government - not the America of the Patriot Act and the Orwellian Department of Homeland Security.

I love the America that Washington and Jefferson said should be far removed from all the age-old quarrels of Europe and Asia, while trading benevolently with people all over the world - not the America that has troops in a hundred countries while our own government prohibits us from peaceful trading with dozens of countries."

Clip Source: www.populistamerica.com

Thoughts on the American empire

Is it an empire?

Whenever I say that America has become an empire, someone is sure to say I'm being ridiculous.

But what do you call a government that has tried (usually successfully) to force "regime changes" in Panama, Grenada, South Vietnam, Cuba, Guatemala, Chile, Rhodesia, South Africa, Iraq (in 1963), the Philippines, Serbia, Afghanistan (twice), Iran and several other countries that don't immediately come to mind?

What do you call a government whose leader says everyone must play by his rules or risk being attacked?

World government

America rules the world - by force.

And that's ironic. Because for as long as I can remember, conservatives have been railing against the threat of world government.

But now we actually have a form of world government - a government run by George Bush and enforced by the American military - and most conservatives are all for it.

If you ask

foreigners, they make it clear that it's America's bullying foreign policy they detest.

Thomas Paine and American Values

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 23:13:45 GMT

clipped by: willhelm
clipper's remarks: "Aspirations of Thomas Paine and his fellow liberal-progressives toward economic equality as the necessary condition for earthly social perfection gave us the bloody French Revolution. More than 70,000 French citizens – from children to the elderly – were murdered on the guillotine, by hanging, and by firing squads, in the name of "Liberty, Equality, Brotherhood."

Those same liberal-progressive ideals espoused by Thomas Paine gave us the 20th century, the most savagely sanguinary and oppressive period in human history, all in the name of perfecting humanity."

These realities combined with the motivations from Rousseau laid the foundations for nationalism and socialism that came to fruition in the early 20th century Europe.

Clip Source: www.intellectualconservative.com

Paine's social and political ideas were essentially the revolutionary and bloody socialism that afflicted the world in the 1789 French Revolution.

His The Age of Reason is an attack upon Christianity and all spiritual religion, a panegyric to the minds of intellectuals as the source of human perfection via the collectivized political state.

Paine was a great admirer and supporter of the French Revolution and an advocate of cutting everyone down to the lowest denominator of poverty in order to achieve economic equality. This, of course, remains a guiding principle of today's Democrat/Socialist Party and of liberal-progressives on both sides of the political aisle.

Peru votes favor indigenous peoples

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 06:36:21 GMT

clipped by: masbury
clipper's remarks: Doesn't it seem like indigenous peoples are being taken seriously more and more in South America?

Clip Source: english.aljazeera.net

Peru repeals tribal land laws

The repeal is a blow to Garcia, who passed the laws under powers granted to him by congress [AFP]

Thousands of Peruvian Indians have staged celebrations after Peru's congress voted to repeal two controversial laws that would have allowed the selling of Amazonian tribal lands to developers.

Legislators voted 66-29 in favour of repealing the laws, which had been issued by Alan Garcia, the president, on Friday.

Thousands of Indians celebrated in the main plaza of Bagua, a Peruvian jungle city where protesters had clashed with police on Wednesday.

"This is a new dawn for our people and for all Peruvians who wish to develop in liberty, not in oppression," Alberto Pizango, president of the Peruvian Jungle Inter-Ethnic Development Association, said.

Indigenous leaders said they were never consulted about the laws and that they were intended only to benefit a free trade agreement Peru has signed with the United States.

Tags: peru

Sailing to Gaza

Sat, 23 Aug 2008 23:34:14 GMT

clipped by: Yafi07
clipper's remarks: These boats are sailing through international waters along the coast of Gaza to help the Palestinians. What they are doing is completely legal but their safety is being jeopardized by Israeli sabotage. Read the full story at the website.

Clip Source: sabbah.biz

A Statement from the International Human Rights Workers Aboard the SS Free Gaza and SS Liberty, Sailing to Gaza

“The electronic systems which guarantee our safety aboard the SS Free Gaza and SS Liberty have been jammed and scrambled. Both ships are flying Greek flags, and are in international waters. We are the victims of electronic piracy. We are currently in GMS P area A2 and we are relying on our satellite communications equipment to make a distress call, if needed.

We are civilians from 17 nations and are on this project to break the siege of Gaza. We are not experienced sailors. As a result, there is concern about the health and safety of the people on board such an emergency develop.

We are currently experiencing rough sea conditions, and we call on the Greek government and the international community to meet their responsibilities and protect the civilians on board our two ships in international waters.”

Tags: gaza, human rights, ss free gaza

nyc public wifi

Sat, 23 Aug 2008 00:54:11 GMT

clipped by: laurasmeaton

Clip Source: travel.nytimes.com

But the most absolutely free locations are city parks and other outdoor public spaces, which makes summer in the city with a laptop particularly appealing. Besides City Hall and Bowling Green, there is dependable wireless at Wagner Park (with views of the Statue of Liberty), South Street Seaport, Madison Square Park (near the Flatiron Building), Bryant Park (adjacent to the landmark library building that’s guarded by the lions) and Chelsea Market, among many others. The Apple Stores make good places to plan, or reconfigure your plans, in key spots in SoHo, the Meatpacking District and Midtown.

The only big disappointment is the CBS Mobile Zone, which is supposed to cover attraction-packed Midtown between Central Park South and Times Square from the Avenue of the Americas to Eighth Avenue. In random tests in a half-dozen locations, it failed to provide a connection. CBS Mobile said it is working on strengthening its signal over the summer.