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The American Energy Crisis: Armageddon and the End of Income Redistribution
The financial stocks are melting down - trading like they are going out of business. Normally, that is when I would be buying. I would not touch this with a 10 foot pool, because I think many of them ARE going out of business, and that the shareholders in the surviving financial companies will be wiped out.

The Raw Story | Wiretap immunity bill heads to president’s desk
An amendment sponsored by Sens. Chris Dodd D-CT and Russ Feingold D-WI to strip telecom immunity from an update to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act failed 32 to 66, although that was more support than the 31 votes a similar amendment received in February. The shift appears to be a result of Sen. Hillary Clinton D-NY voting in favor of the amendment — she did not vote last time — and Sen. John McCain R-AZ skipping the vote — he opposed the measure last time.

Immediately after the vote on Feingold and Dodd’s amendment, the Senate voted down another offering from Sen. Arlen Specter R-PA, which would have let the court decide not to grant immunity if it decides the warrantless spying was unconstitutional. The amendment failed 37-61. Senators then moved to an amendment from Sen. Jeff Bingaman D-NM, which would have delayed a decision on immunity until Congress receives reports on the warrantless wiretapping from inspectors general of the agencies involved in the program. That measure failed 42-56.

Down In The Hills Survivalist Blog » Blog Archive » Adaptation
The bottom line is you want to call yourself a survivalist, you better be one tough SOB. You better adapt come the hard times or die or suffer a far worse fate. If not you’re just a yuppie survivalist wannabe that ain’t likely to make it.

Can Socialism and Liberty Coexist? | The Survival Podcast
How could something like liberty coexist with socialism? Personally I believe if enforced and mandated by the state it can’t. Yet a recent commenter on one of my podcasts who is an admitted socialist from Canada got me asking the question…

If socialism is so bad, why do billions of people across the globe choose it?

Domestic spying quietly goes on — baltimoresun.com
With Congress on the verge of outlining new parameters for National Security Agency eavesdropping between suspicious foreigners and Americans, lawmakers are leaving largely untouched a host of government programs that critics say involves far more domestic surveillance than the wiretaps they sought to remedy.

These programs - most of them highly classified - are run by an alphabet soup of federal intelligence and law enforcement agencies. They sift, store and analyze the communications, spending habits and travel patterns of U.S. citizens, searching for suspicious activity.