Two items of interest today.

Item 1

Mark Zuckerberg wants more immigrants to work cheap in his air conditioned sweat shops. He has founded FWD.us, a front org for his pro-immigration plans and is partnering with false 'conservative' group Americans for a Conservative Direction.

Recently, CBS executive Jonathan Karl went on the Bill O’Reilly show and did something unprecedented. He sided with the conservative viewpoint that there was indeed lying and obfuscation in the highest echelons of the Obama administration in the Benghazi aftermath. He discussed frankly how the State Department talking points had been revised beyond recognition, from the initial admission (by the CIA) that the Benghazi attack was a well planned terror attack to a fictitious narrative of a spontaneous demonstration over an anti-Muslim video.

Sen. Rand Paul, who serves on a committee called Homeland Security and Government Affairs, just now woke up and realized that an immigration reform bill of the kind he was touting a few weeks ago, needs to take national security concerns into account. He now backtracks with the following statement:

I recently had a stimulating discussion with a UK pastor regarding the imminent legalization of a radical new definition of marriage, which for 5000 years, in over 600 languages and dialects, has always referred to a union between a man and a woman. True, some cultures have included polygamous marriages in this definition, but still, marriage was never between members of the same sex. The suggestion of such a union had always been regarded as unnatural.

Tyler Durden, a crack analyst at zerohedge.com, has noted some activity in at least one fiscally irresponsible state, Illinois, that suggests states may someday be demanding, and getting, bailouts from the Federal government. I think he is right. I have long been waiting for California or any of its bankrupt cities to do just that and am surprised it has not yet happened.

Those who aren't aware of the skullduggery going on in the EU may be less prepared to accept the fact of a worldwide conspiracy to steal from the poor (middle class) and give to the rich (bankers). They may think this is purely a U.S. phenomenon and that U.S. economic/financial conditions have forced the hand of government to take tax payer money to bail out banks--to save us all.

On September 8, an article by Davos Sherman Okst at Financial Sense, titled “Why We Are Totally Finished” laid out why we are finished as a nation. To put it succinctly, we no longer have that now-obsolete self-purging system called capitalism, which weeds out failed businesses. It has been supplanted by what that author calls corporatocracy (my European friends call it corporatism).

The online journal German Foreign Policy recently ran an article based in turn on an article in an influential professional journal. While German Foreign Policy’s web site does include an English language section, this article did not seem to have been translated. The excerpts below are my translations:

Ben Bernanke said yesterday he is in the mood to print more money now. He claims 25 million unemployed is a "tragedy" and he can't sit idly by any more and watch the economic carnage. 24.5 million was acceptable, but this is just too much and Super Ben is suiting up in the phone booth again, this time for QE3. For an injection of inflated dollars into your money supply, like adding water to the soup to feed some unexpected guests. What else can we do?

Economists are starting to wake up to the fact that lawlessness has been endemic in US government financial policy for a long time.

Yes, I know. Why even mention it? In France, it’s like talking about the weather. The talking heads in the videos linked below are reporting that the riots in Amiens Nord were caused by “young people.” But those who recall the Paris riots a while back know that, when speaking of rioters, the media, not only in France, but everywhere, use the words “young people” when referring to Muslim immigrants, whose name they dare not utter.

The below-linked report shows that of all factors studied, the one most strongly correlated with GDP, or national wealth, is strength of the rule of law.

Obama said "leave now" to Mubarak, one of the few secular, Christian-tolerant leaders in the Middle East, and what is happening in Egypt today, now that Mubarak obeyed the "president of the world" should be no surprise to anyone.

The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so…

Ever since about the time of the Trayvon Martin incident, I have been receiving regular, roughly daily, forwarded reports of unprovoked attacks by mobs of  “young people” all around the US. A visitor from another planet would certainly infer from these reports that young people are a dangerous mutant subspecies of human and need to be monitored and strictly disciplined.