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Quiz: Test Your "Income" Tax IQ!
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The Income Tax Is An Excise, And Excise Taxes Are Privilege Taxes
The Federalist Papers, No. 15:
Except as to the rule of appointment, the United States have an indefinite discretion to make requisitions for men and money; but they have no authority to raise either by regulations extending to the individual citizens of America.
Folding laundry and watching
Good story and great food porn!
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Based on the idea of natural rights, government secures those rights to the individual by strictly negative intervention, making justice costless and easy of access; and beyond that it does not go. The State, on the other hand, both in its genesis and by its primary intention, is purely anti-social. It is not based on the idea of natural rights, but on the idea that the individual has no rights except those that the State may provisionally grant him. It has always made justice costly and difficult of access, and has invariably held itself above justice and common morality whenever it could advantage itself by so doing.
--Albert J. Nock
BBC film by Adam Curtis, so be prepared to see random clips of people dancing. I'm partway through it, and it's not as good as Pingu, but it's OK so far.
A documentary that explores the U.S. and UK relationship with Saudi Arabia and the role this has had on the war in Afghanistan.
http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-ra...is-afghanistan‘Increasingly, we live in a world where nothing makes any sense,” says Adam Curtis. “Events come and go like waves of a fever, leaving us confused and uncertain. Those in power tell stories to help us make sense of the complexity of reality, but those stories are increasingly unconvincing and hollow.”
So Curtis – who made The Century of Self, The Power of Nightmares, and The Trap: What Happened To Our Dream of Freedom – has made a new film, called Bitter Lake (BBC iPlayer, now), about why those stories stopped making sense, and to try to make sense of them. It’s available only on BBC’s iPlayer, because that means it doesn’t have to fit in with tedious constraints like schedules (it’s two hours 18 minutes long) or conventional ideas about what television should look like.
The Bitter Lake of the title refers to an actual saltwater lake through which the Suez canal flows, and presumably also to what you would find inside Adam Curtis’s head if you were to cut it open. In 1945 President Roosevelt met King Abdulaziz of Saudi Arabia (whose son Abdullah died last week, to be replaced by yet another son, Salman) on board a warship on the Great Bitter Lake. It was a meeting that would have extraordinary, far-reaching and unintended consequences, for the west, for the world.
Curtis’s story unfurls from there, taking in America, Saudi Arabia, Britain, the Soviet Union. And Afghanistan, which found itself not just at the centre of the world, but the centre of a snowballing – and ongoing – international scandal. It’s a story that includes the spread of Wahhabism (no wasabi jokes, thank you); the oversimplification of the world, by Reagan and Bush (Sr) and Bush (Jr) and Blair, into a kind of fairytale of good v evil; the banks, inevitably; Bin Laden and 9/11 too, also inevitably; and now Islamic State, who want pretty much exactly what the Wahhabists wanted over half a century ago.
It’s a story full of violence, bloodshed, and bitter ironies, mainly about how the west, through misunderstanding and oversimplification, repeatedly achieved pretty much the opposite of what it was trying to achieve. America protected Wahhabism through its thirst for Saudi oil, and in doing so helped sow the seeds of radical Islam today. In Afghanistan they built dams to irrigate the Helmand valley, making it perfect to sow actual seeds, opium poppy seeds. The past is strewn with patterns, and warnings, if only anyone had bothered looking and tried to understand. But history is a bit too complicated for today’s politicians.
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Looks like Richmond is going to be the TV version of Alexandria Safe Zone:
I could have sworn there was a Fargo thread. I can't find it for the life of me.
Why do Hollywood statists they always have to inject political bull$#@! into everyfuckingthing? I'm so sick of everything being politicized, I could run screaming into the streets.
Something tells me they're Ready for Hillary!
Fargo Season Two Will Feature Ronald Reagan and Feminism
http://www.vulture.com/2015/01/fargo...ld-reagan.html
http://www.ign.com/articles/2015/01/...be-a-characterEW and IGN both confirmed with Landgraf afterward that FX will be casting the role of Reagan — not using footage — and that his character will interact with others in a supporting role. Other information about the Reagan role, however, was unavailable. The second season will serve as a prequel (kind of) to the first, with attention centered on Lou Solverson's 1979 Sioux Falls incident. Landgraf reportedly added that the next installment will also be more comedic and feature feminism more prominently:
A lot of what it’s about is the cultural transformation that was going on at the time. ... It’s about the sense that the war has come home. It’s also about feminism, so there are some really significant female characters.
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Based on the idea of natural rights, government secures those rights to the individual by strictly negative intervention, making justice costless and easy of access; and beyond that it does not go. The State, on the other hand, both in its genesis and by its primary intention, is purely anti-social. It is not based on the idea of natural rights, but on the idea that the individual has no rights except those that the State may provisionally grant him. It has always made justice costly and difficult of access, and has invariably held itself above justice and common morality whenever it could advantage itself by so doing.
--Albert J. Nock
The first episode aired last night after The Walking Dead to get the lead-in, but the second episode will air tonight and continue on Mondays:
Looks like Breaking Bad with a slightly different cast. Saul and at least 2 other characters (one you will recognize his head in the photo above), and looks like at least 1 set from the old show. It is not as heavy on comedy as one might expect, about the same as Breaking Bad. There are some parts of the story that are a little strange, though.
freedomisobvious.blogspot.com
There is only one correct way: freedom. All other solutions are non-solutions.
It appears that artificial intelligence is at least slightly superior to natural stupidity.
Our words make us the ghosts that we are.
Convincing the world he didn't exist was the Devil's second greatest trick; the first was convincing us that God didn't exist.
LOL they all want to get away from the women, but the women insist on coming with.
Rumor about Lt Dan in a new show which is a spin off from "Criminal Minds" I think.....
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You have the right to remain silent. Anything you post to the internet can and will be used to humiliate you.
Everyone needs to see this.
CitizenFour tonight at 9 on HBO and available for download on itunes.
Here’s how to watch “CitizenFour,” the pro-liberty film that won the Oscar for best documentary
Perhaps the most politically important Oscar victory last night was the triumph of “CitizenFour,” the documentary about NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, in the best documentary category.
This is great news, because it ensures more people will watch the movie and find out how creepy and invasive the NSA really is.
As Edward Snowden said in his statement about the win, “My hope is that this award will encourage more people to see the film and be inspired by its message that ordinary citizens, working together, can change the world.”
If you haven’t had a chance to watch it yet, you can tune in tonight on HBO. It’s also available for download on iTunes. Here’s a hint of what to expect:
Read more at http://rare.us/story/heres-how-to-wa...s7ML1xoGXk2.99
Anyone seen this?
The Newburgh Sting
The FBI targets a Muslim community in Newburgh, New York and arrests four men in 2009 during a sting operation, claiming they tried to help a Pakistani business man, who was working with the FBI, with terrorist attacks.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3645982/Geeky Randy's summary
2 December 2014 | by Geeky Randy (United States) – See all my reviews
Premiering at the 2014 Tribeca Film Festival in April, this HBO-distributed documentary details the backgrounds of four men that the Federal Bureau of Investigation tied to the 2009 Bronx terrorism plot. Pieced together mainly through hours of unreleased footage that was recorded by Shaheed Hussain, a Pakistani businessman working as an FBI informant; interviewees include family members of the accused, as well as the local Newburgh Muslim community. A troubling, enraging and brilliant examination of entrapment (whether or not you believe that is what actually happened). It is inevitable that this documentary will lean in favor of the defendants, as this type of subject is difficult to be neutral when the media's portrayal of the accused has been anything but "innocent until proved guilty".The Newburgh Sting
The Newburgh Sting (2014) is a documentary film about the Federal Bureau of Investigation's sting operation on four Muslim men involved in the 2009 Bronx terrorism plot. Beginning in 2008, an FBI informant, Shaheed Hussain, recorded hours of conversations with the men who were ultimately arrested and convicted of planting three non-functional bombs next to two synagogues in Riverdale, Bronx and for planning to use Stinger missiles to shoot down United States military cargo planes near Newburgh, New York. The point of view of the documentary is that it was later brought to light that the plot with the four men who were coaxed into participating was created by the FBI. The men argue that this was a case of entrapment. In April, 2014, the film was shown at the Tribeca Film Festival.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Newburgh_Sting
About halfway through. So far, pretty good, though this season there are more characters and events that are obviously based on the real thing. Part of it was filmed on location in Moscow, and the White House curators were consultants for the WH sets- some of the furniture may be authentic.
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