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The Internet Just Became a Dangerous Place
The following is an excerpt from today's TDV dispatch to subscribers by TDV Editor-in-Chief, Jeff Berwick. Click here to access the entire article.

The Internet is more dangerous than ever before… and not because of “child porn” or Craigslist personal ads… it is because of governments. Within that sinister cabal of governments known as the United Nations, control-crazy members like China, Russia and the Arab countries, are trying to seize control of the free flow of information. As reported in the Wall Street Journal:

“Who runs the Internet? For now, the answer remains no one, or at least no government, which explains the Web's success as a new technology. But as of next week, unless the U.S. gets serious, the answer could be the United Nations.

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On November 6th, California declared war on prosperity. Any productive person who can leave California should, and they should do so immediately. It is already so difficult to escape state taxes that even working and living abroad is not an automatic exemption. Now, with a Democratic supermajority in the state legislature, tax hikes and policy can be rubber stamped. Imagine how difficult escape may be in a few years.

Meanwhile, other bankrupt states are watching the precedent set by California. The stretch of avaricious governments across the length of America should convince prudent people to jump across a national border and not just a state one.

CALIFORNIA'S DECLARATION OF WAR

Proposition 30 created a four-tiered tax rate to punish the productive. For incomes between $250,000 to $300,000, the rate is now 10.3% on anything over $250,000; between $300,000 to $500,00, the rate is 11.3%; between $500,000 to $1,000,000, it is 12.3%,; and, for anything over $1,000,000 the rate soars to 13.3%. As Forbes stated, “That eclipses New Yorkers’ combined state and local top rate of 12.7% and Hawaii’s top rate of 11%.” The rates are in effect for 7 years and apply retroactively to all income earned since January 1st.

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From OregonLive: UN General Assembly Recognizes Palestine

From the Guardian: Syria Turns Off the Internet. Meanwhile, rebels block off airport

From Reuters: Obama's opening "fiscal cliff" bid seeks debt limit hike, stimulus. Seeks power to unilaterally raise debt limit

From ZeroHedge: Ayn Rand Was NOT a Libertarian

From the Boston Globe: Man Gets Ticket After Running Himself Over

From the New American: Homeland Security Uses Local Police to Set Up Surveillance Buffer Zones

From Backdoor Survival: 5 Things You May Not Have Thought of When Planning for an Emergency

From RT: Supreme Court Rules Cops Can Be Filmed

From BBC News: Argentina default on debt likely, says Fitch

From Slate: If Every U.S. State Declared War Against the Others, Which Would Win?

From Reuters: UK PM says media need independent regulator. Outright censorship of UK press is coming.

From CBS Detroit: City of Detroit to be Dissolved?

From ZeroHedge: When Work Is Punished: The Tragedy Of America's Welfare State 110 million privately employed workers; 88 million welfare recipients and government workers and rising rapidly.

State-Regulation of the British Press: So What?
By Sean Gabb Contact details at the end of article.

At the moment in England, our masters and their clients are discussing censorship of the newspaper press. After months of submissions, a government inquiry into newspaper conduct has finished, and its report will almost certainly call for what is called “a rule-based framework of regulation.” The surface argument is between those who want controls backed by the law, and those who want “voluntary self-regulation.” No one who matters, though, disputes that something must be done.

This means that something will be done. And this something will be formal censorship. Even if we start out with one of the minimal options, the desired end is plain. This is for newspapers to be brought under the same formal control as the broadcast media. They will be licensed. They will be subject to various forms of prior restraint. There will be review and complaints procedures for articles already published. The whole process will be managed by the usual ruling class apparatchiks, all on vast salaries, and all enforcing conformity to the usual totalitarian PC.

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Radio amateurs have a quirky sense of humor:


Visit the Google cache instead, as it seems the flood of inquiries has caused their web site to exceed its bandwidth limit.

Interesting. From old friend Don D. who writes, Good example of a Brain Study: If you can read this OUT LOUD you have a strong mind. And better than that: Alzheimer's is a long, long, ways down the road before it ever gets anywhere near you.

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