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Will Australia Follow China's Google Ban?
gadgetopia writes "A news report in Forbes says that China has blocked Google with its great firewall; now the world waits to see if Australia's Minister for Censorship, Senator Stephen Conroy, will do the same following his outrageous attacks on Google."
You're being manipulated. Evidence that Tea Partiers are violent has been almost entirely fabricated; when pressed for concrete evidence, nobody can actually produce any despite significant motivation. If you feel otherwise, please feel free to link the video on YouTube that proves your point.
Skip the part where you link to more vague hit pieces on the New York Times, please. I'm asking for concrete evidence, which in this age of video-cameras-on-every-phone is hardly asking for much.
IMHO, Tea Partiers are the ones trying to stop the full-on march to fascism, not create it. You can not create a fascist government regime by campaigning to strip the government of power! That's just stupid. Look to the ones trying to collect government power.
I don't know enough about McCarthy to make a solid statement on him one way or another, however, the Venona Project (released to the public in 1995) proved that McCarthy was at least partially right, by showing that there were communist spies in the US government.
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." ~Thomas Jefferson
My favorite was Stewart's last-night moment of Zen - they had a clip from Fox with some woman going "well we need to fight this because he's a communist!". The commentator says "well, he's not a communist" and she says "well then he's a progressive which is the new code word for communist. Glenn Beck taught me that"
Sir. You are either an idiot or a troll. You were watching a comedy show. The woman is an actress and the "commentator" is a comedian.
Why is it so hard to only have politicians for a few years, then have them go away?
Oh yes because anyone who watches a particular news channel can be pigeon holed as a mindless drone incapable of thoughtful reasoning. Give me a break. Did it ever occur to you that other people might not see things the same way as you do and still have a valid point? The tea party has been defined by the individuals who belong to it. From where I'm sitting it seems to be mostly a group of citizens who feel they aren't being properly represented for the taxes they are paying, and who are not aligned with the agenda of the current administration. How exactly, does that make them a product of Fox news? Fox is just reporting on what's happening. Perhaps it is you that is star struck by Obama believing everything he's selling you without question. And I know it might be hard for you to understand but tax cuts for big businesses create something that we desparately need right now. JOBS!!!! Slam big business all you want, but who do you think employs all those little guys out there that have it so bad? Yes, let's stick it to the rich, they're greedy and don't deserve it anyway. Guess who suffers? It ain't the rich, they just lay people off and do what they've always done. Way to stick up for the little guy huh?
I don't believe in karma, I just call it like I see it.
Don't forget the USA. It's already fallen to fascism, and the worst effect are just around the corner.
No, they didn't act irresponsibly. It's bad business for a bank to give out a loan to someone who's unlikely to pay it off - hence why those people were denied loans and the government created the CRA to strong-arm banks into making those loans. What's good for the bank (meaning increasing profits) is to NOT give out loans to people unlikely to pay it off.
I beg you, learn something about economics, finance, or banking in general (as in read a textbook). All you're doing is making yourself look ridiculous by spouting off irrelevant crap and insults instead of learning how the industry actually works.
they're introducing new (same as the old) REG-U-LA-TIONS so it doesn't happen again. because REG-U-LA-TIONS will fix the problem. DUH
If you knew anything about the history of our economy, you'd know that every time the economy is good regulations are loosened, then after people get greedy and make mistakes, regulations are tightened because people want someone to blame and by having more regulations, they can pretend that things will be different next time. It's a cycle that happens endlessly.
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." ~Thomas Jefferson