By Tim Worstall, Contributor Just because Karl Marx was a scatterbrained fool whose theorising led to the deaths of hundreds of millions doesn’t mean that he was always incorrect. And we can use one of those rare occasions when he was correct to think about these allegations that Google, Apple and various other high tech companies had a no poaching agreement between themselves. …read more
Source: FULL ARTICLE at Forbes Latest
By hnn
Karl Marx was supposed to be dead and buried. With the collapse of the Soviet Union and China’s Great Leap Forward into capitalism, communism faded into the quaint backdrop of James Bond movies or the deviant mantra of Kim Jong Un. The class conflict that Marx believed determined the course of history seemed to melt away in a prosperous era of free trade and free enterprise. The far-reaching power of globalization, linking the most remote corners of the planet in lucrative bonds of finance, outsourcing and “borderless” manufacturing, offered everybody from Silicon Valley tech gurus to Chinese farm girls ample opportunities to get rich. Asia in the latter decades of the 20th century witnessed perhaps the most remarkable record of poverty alleviation in human history — all thanks to the very capitalist tools of trade, entrepreneurship and foreign investment. Capitalism appeared to be fulfilling its promise — to uplift everyone to new heights of wealth and welfare.
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Source: FULL ARTICLE at History News Network – George Mason University
Liar, liar, Obama is a liar! There is no other way to put it. In an encore, not to the song by the Three Dog Night, but to an earlier article I wrote, Barack Obama stated on a show that the White House did not stop the tours; they had nothing to do with that. Just a few hours after Obama makes that statement on national Television, Jay Carney, the White House Press Secretary states, “The tours are run by the White House, no one else does that.” Can you now say, Liar, liar, Obama’s a liar? How many other times in just the past few months has he come right out and told a bold face lie to the people of the United States? Let us take a quick look, First, Benghazi, where Obama stated for weeks that it was an attack caused by a video placed on U-Tube. Now we know that Obama knew of the truth within hours of the “Terrorist Attack” but continued the LIE because his faithful news media would help him. “Liar, liar, Obama’s a liar!
It was back in August of 2011 that Obama gave the idea of having a “Sequester” if a debt solution could not be put forth. Now Obama is going out and making statements that the Republicans can stop what he designed. Now let us look at something here, Obama “Orchestrated” the Sequester, now he blames the Republicans but he can fix it if the “Republicans” work with him. Liar, liar, Obama’s a liar! You see it was Obama who came up with the idea of the Sequester. It was a plan from the White House made up to make the “Republicans” look bad when it did happen. Here it actually was not supposed to happen because Obama had it in his head that he would get his way and collect even more taxes. So it kind of backfired on him.
Now fast forward to today and all the alleged cuts that are going to happen due to the “Republicans” not doing what Obama wants! That should stick out in your mind; “not doing what Obama wants.” You see this all goes back to his fixation with Karl Marx and his desire back in the 1980′s to cause civil unrest and destroy the United States so he, Obama, can lead the people out of the mess he created! Remember this from an interview with one of the few people that have ever come forward to discuss Obama’s ideology while he was at Occidental College in the 1980′s? (LP-Leon Puissegur; Dr. Drew-Dr. John Drew)
LP; “During that time did Obama display the Marxist ideology?”
Dr. Drew; “We were confiding in each other the way people fight with each other people with major historical struggles in communicating, very down to earth, very honest. Like I said, I am ashamed of my Socialist/Marxist past, I have a conversion story which explains how I became a Christian, Constitutional Conservative. Barack Obama has no …read more
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1869 – Defeat of Titokowaru.
1946 – Belgian government of Spaak, forms
1980 – 3rd Emmy Sports Award presentation
1984 – Gerry Adams, head of Sinn Féin, is seriously wounded in an assassination attempt in central Belfast.
2003 – Start of weekend of protests against war in Iraq that are attended by millions
2005 – Cedar Revolution, where over one and a million Lebanese went into the streets of Beirut to demonstrate against the Syrian military presence in Lebanon, and against the government, following the assassination of Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.
1782 – Thomas Hart Benton, (rep), “Old Bullion”
1884 – Winter Haynes Watts, composer
1933 – René Felber, former member of the Swiss Federal Council
1951 – Rick Dees, radio disc jock (KIIS LA)
1958 – Albert Alexandre Louis Pierre, Prince of Monaco/bobsledder (Oly-1988)
1972 – Aris Brimanis, Cleveland, NHL defenseman (Phila Flyers)
1757 – John Byng, English Admiral executed by firing squad at 52 for for neglecting his duty in defence of Minorca
1883 – Karl Marx, German philosopher (Communist Manifesto), dies at 64
1981 – Ken Barrington, cricketer (82 Tests for England, 6806 runs), dies
1983 – Maurice Ronet, actor (Circle of Love, Frantic, Sphinx), dies at 55
1986 – Marlin Perkins, TV host (Wild Kingdom) at 80
1996 – Nico Kiasashvii, professor of English Literature, dies at 69
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Source: FULL ARTICLE at HistoryOrb.Com – This Day in History
By The Huffington Post News Editors
* 200 mln Chinese seen travelling abroad by 2020
* Europe should exploit Communist history
* Spain seeks slice of market
By Victoria Bryan and Clare Kane
BERLIN/MADRID, March 7 (Reuters) – European countries will need to focus less on beach holidays and more on communist history, rolling landscapes and even poetic trees if they want to take advantage of growing numbers of tourists from China.
According to the China Tourism Academy, some 200 million Chinese could be travelling abroad annually by 2020, up from 82 million in 2012.
While the overriding image of the Chinese tourist in Europe is one of busloads of shoppers heading for the luxury boutiques in Paris and Milan, Europe must not get carried away by these stereotypes and think of other ways to tempt them on a long-haul flight, experts at the ITB travel fair in Berlin said.
“We’re been thinking not like Chinese, but like Europeans,” Eduardo Santander, the head of the European Travel Commission, which promotes tourism to the continent, told Reuters.
“Europe is still the number 1 tourism destination so far but that may dramatically change in 10 to 15 years if we don’t change some patterns.”
For Chinese tourists, the sun and beaches of the Mediterranean that are so popular with Brits, Germans and Russians hold little appeal, said TUI Travel CEO Peter Long.
Instead they want to visit places that hold historical relevance for their own culture, they enjoy classical music and, wanting to escape the smog back home, they appreciate a clear blue sky, Santander said, citing a study the group had done among Chinese web users.
Interesting places for Chinese travellers looking to explore Communist history include the German city of Trier, the birthplace of Karl Marx and Montargis, a little-known town 60 miles south of Paris. …read more
Source: FULL ARTICLE at Huffington Post
By John T. Harvey, Contributor I just did a quick Google search and found 39 million hits for Obama and socialist and 63 million for Obama and communist. I’m sure not every single page was linking our president to one of those political philosophies, but a great many were. It is a matter of fact to many Americans that Barack Obama is a devoted follower of Karl Marx. …read more
Source: FULL ARTICLE at Forbes Latest
By Bruce Watson
Filed under: Taxes, Income Tax, Tax Laws
On Sunday, the Sixteenth Amendment, the one that laid the groundwork for a permanent federal income tax, celebrated its 100th birthday. Needless to say, not everybody was lining up to celebrate. In Forbes, wealth manager David Marotta used the anniversary as an opportunity to exhort readers to “Let the Income Tax Die at 100.” Meanwhile, over at The Global Dispatch, Robert Harriman paired anti-tax quotes from a trio of Founding Fathers with a pro-tax quote from Karl Marx.
Even the biggest fans…
Happy 100th Birthday, Income Tax! originally appeared on DailyFinance.com on 2013-02-04T13:28:00Z.
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It was a chilly, early November night in New York City. The mild fall weather was coming to an end, and winter was near on this memorable evening in 1960. In a few days, Americans would go to the polls to choose a new president, either Vice President Richard M. Nixon or the popular Senator from Massachusetts, John F. Kennedy. Mountains of books would later be written to tell us about that historical election, but those stories are for another time.
This story is about the chance meeting of Russian Premier Nikita Krushchev and a pretty 17 year old who worked part time as a chambermaid at the Waldorf Astoria hotel on Park Avenue in midtown Manhattan. The Premier was on his second visit to the United States but was restricted to New York City and Soviet property on Long Island. Krushchev had appointed himself the leader of the USSR’s United Nations delegation, and it was there a few days earlier when he had made the headlines with his famous shoe-banging-on-the-table demonstration decrying American colonialism.
Annie Swanson had come from her hometown in Ames, Iowa to New York City to seek fame and fortune as a Broadway actress following her graduation from high school in June, 1960. She was an introvert, somewhat of a wallflower during her school years, and had a dream to become rich and famous and to show everyone back in Iowa that anything is achievable for those with goals and aspirations. She was staying with her aunt and uncle who lived in New York while she pursued her dreams. To help pay her way, she worked part time at the Waldorf Astoria hotel and took classes at night.
On Friday, November 4th, Krushchev came back to the hotel after a trying day at the United Nations. He had planned to rest for a couple hours before going out to dinner and drinks with some members of his delegation. It was a chance meeting as Annie, dressed in her proper maid’s attire, was startled when the door to the suite opened and Nikita Krushchev entered the room. Without all the steamy details, let’s just stipulate that 40 weeks later, a baby boy was born in New York to an Iowa teenager and a Russian statesman. What happened later is that Annie moved back to her parents’ farm near Ames. Premier Kruschchev and the new American President, John F. Kennedy, had multiple confrontations that changed the world in the 3 years following early November of 1960; and the November night in New York was gone forever.
No one knew about the tryst for many years. Andrew Campbell was raised to believe his father was Iowa farmer Nathan Campbell, a former classmate of Annie’s at Ames High School. She reunited with Nathan when she returned from New York City with her bundle of joy. They married in 1962 and raised Andrew and his two step-sisters as an ordinary Midwestern family while they farmed a section of ground north of Ames.
When Andrew finished high school in 1979, he was accepted at Yale. At Ames High School, he was an award-winning debater, class president, and one of the most charismatic and popular students in the school. He wanted to become a lawyer, advocating for the less affluent and also for political causes such as social justice and the unfairness of capitalism regarding wealth distribution. He was a member of the Young Democrats and had dabbled in Karl Marx’s and Freidrich Engels’ theories. But his biggest achievement up to then occurred when he was given a primetime speaker slot at the 2004 Democratic National Convention at the Fleet Center in Boston. Even though John Kerry lost to incumbent George W. Bush in the 2004 election, a star was born in Boston. Andrew was elected to the Senate from Iowa in 2006 and won the early Democrat Straw Poll in Iowa to propel him face to face with Hillary Clinton to run for President of the United States in 2008.
But when a background check revealed that his biological father was Russian Premier Nikita Krushchev, who had died in September of 1971, detractors were concerned that Andrew was not qualified to run for president because of the “Natural Born Citizen” clause contained in Article II, Section 1 of the United States Constitution. Andrew was born in New York to an American citizen and a Russian. That made him a U.S. citizen, and even a “native” U.S. citizen (as opposed to naturalized); but did it make him a natural born citizen?
The requirements for office holders are stated in the Constitution, but the definitions are not always clear. That is why we have a Supreme Court. It is supposed to rule on litigation according to the original intent of the founders. We all know that liberal or progressive justices (even though they are supposed to be apolitical) do not like the Constitution and especially do not adhere to original intent. If they did, we would have a federal government with an annual budget of about 10% of the bloated leviathan that is Washington D.C. and enumerated powers with the rest reserved to the States as the 10th Amendment requires. Instead, we have the mess we now face with an unsustainable deficit and a debt that will never be repaid.
Natural Born is listed in the Constitution only for the President and Vice President. Senators and Representatives do not have to be natural born citizens, only citizens. For definition and precedence, never challenged, in the 1875 SCOTUS decision in Minor v. Happersett, it was unanimously agreed that to be a “natural born” citizen, a person must meet two qualifications: 1) born on U.S. soil (including territories and military bases) to 2) TWO citizen parents. It does not say “a” citizen parent. It says “citizen parents”. Andrew Campbell, whose biological father was Nikita Krushchev, is NOT a Natural Born citizen of the United States of America. The founders were clear that anyone with dual allegiances could not become president.
Therefore, Barry Soetoro, aka Barack Hussein Obama (not his legal name, never changed), is NOT eligible to be POTUS, regardless of whether he was born in Kenya, Honolulu, or Timbuktu. It doesn’t even make a difference if his obviously fake long form birth certificate presented on April 27, 2011 is accepted – even by the co-conspirators in Hawaii. The birth scenario or location is irrelevant. It doesn’t even make a difference if his Social Security number #042-68-4425 does not pass the country’s E-Verify system and comes back flagged as fraudulent. It doesn’t even make a difference if his Selective Service registration is bogus like it has been proven to be. It doesn’t make any difference where he spent 1981-83 while he was supposedly matriculating at Columbia. He is NOT a Natural Born citizen. Period. End of story.
Note: Some of this story is fiction. The last three paragraphs are not contrived; they are true.
“And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free.” — John 8:32
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