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Budget cuts blamed after Calif. first responders look on as suicidal man stands in water for an hour. He eventually drowns.

"The government says the public should stay away from free New York fuel stations until emergency responders get their gas."

"Long lines of vehicles and pedestrians formed after Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced that the U.S. Department of Defense was opening the mobile fuel stations in New York City and on suburban Long Island.

The state Division of Military and Naval Affairs then asked the public to stay away until more fuel is released."

What happens when a state is lucky enough to have one of their Senators ascend to one of the three most powerful committee chairmanships? According to a new study by three Harvard Business School the average state then experiences a 40 to 50 percent increase in earmark spending (the figure is a smaller 20% for powerful House committees). So this new government spending is then a boon to the state right? The public spending stimulates economic growth right? Wrong. Turns out, increased federal spending is connected with a decrease in corporate capital expenditures and employment.

I have come to believe that a limited government, of the kind argued for by many libertarians, is a dead end. I’m talking about the people who argue that a government’s sole functions should be to provide national defence, policing, and the courts.

When the subject of smaller government comes up, it is often met with the love it or leave attitude. If you think the government is spending too much or invading individual liberty, then you’re told to move to Somalia where they have basically no government and live in a fantasy paradise of no government.

In Moscow businessmen cover their cars in gold while the government is spending ~$300 Million per mile to pave roads:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXoLD2A-Ugo&feature=player_detailpage

(NaturalNews) In the aftermath of the shooting of Gabrielle Giffords in Tucson yesterday, the mainstream media is now desperately trying to blame the attack on anti-government" sentiment.

The implication from these kinds of stories is that if you criticize the government, you therefore promote violence.

That is, of course, a silly idea, especially considering the fact that the government nearly always uses the threat of violence against its own citizens to get what it wants.

Daily News @ http://RevolutionNews.US - The new 9/11 health bill requires "tens of thousands of cops, firefighters, construction workers and others who survived the worst terrorist assault in U.S. history and risked their lives in its wake" to prove to the government that they're not terrorists before they can receive medical care, the Huffington Post reports.

This is a video (out now) and book (coming soon) on the production cycle, from extraction to disposal. The video is simple and cartoonish and obviously made to reach kids. Would love for the FTL guys to watch it and spend a segment or two commenting on it as it comtains some truth, and some not-so-truths.

Some particularly appalling quotes from the video are, "it's the government's job to watch out for us and to take care of us..that's their job."

"Extraction is a fancy word for natural resource exploitation, which is a fancy word for trashing the planet", according to the video.