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If the US economy was about to reach "escape velocity" as Larry Summers says, small business optimism would not be in the gutter and sinking.

Thus, proof that Larry Summers is in Fantasyland can be found in a NFIB report that shows Small Business Optimism Declines in March.

Huffington Post reports a small victory against SOPA (H.R. 3261 “Stop Online Piracy Act”) and it's counterpart in the Senate, PIPA (“Protect IP Act”), claiming that President Obama will not support the current legislation. A statement released on behalf of the Obama Administration states, “... we will not support legislation that reduces freedom of expression, increases cybersecurity risk, or undermines the dynamic, innovative global Internet.

The United Nations Small Arms Treaty passed in its second session. The Media was silent over its passage.

Read more: http://freedomoutpost.com/2012/09/un-small-arms-treaty-passes-while-medi...

And the war on immigrants and small business continues. Another successful business is about to fall casualty to for violating the Government Knows Best Act. Good restaurant too.

A health food store in PEI Canada is getting leaned on for selling non government approved eggs. This is part of a campaign to put small producers out of business. Last year a B&B was leaned on for serving non-graded eggs to customers. And shortly before that there was a move afoot to change the size of flocks that would fall under health regulations, from 300 to 50.

The health food store proprietors have chosen disobedience by selling the cartons and giving the eggs away for free. It takes guts to do something like this in a region where government spends 62% of gdp.

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that voters overwhelmingly prefer a free market economy to an economy managed by the government and think government economic control helps big businesses at the expense of small ones.

There are many businesses out there right now willing to trade all kinds of services and goods for bitcoin, but this is just the beginning! Many entrepreneurs are only now starting to learn about bitcoin. Almost everyday a new bitcoin businesses is lunched, some of them totally unique, and some of them a competitor to existing bitcoin businesses...

Lets talk about:
- Which ones can be trusted
- Which ones to avoid
- Local (Real World) businesses
- Seek peek, of the big time bitcoin businesses under development right now.

New data revealed on Thursday shows that Vermont state government spends more than $700,000 annually to pursue Vermonters for possession of small amounts of marijuana.

THE BIGGEST ‘BAIT N’ SWITCH’ IN HISTORY?

"...a near infinite variety of organizations; individuals from all walks of life; and businesses, both large and small, began to detect—for it was almost imperceptible at first—that the volume was getting turned down on their Facebook reach. Each post was now being seen only by a fraction of their total “fans” who would previously have seen them."