organization:federal government

Australian budget reports pave way for deeper austerity offensive - World Socialist Web Site

http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/05/23/budg-m23.html

Toujours plus [d’austérité] ... partout.

Australian budget reports pave way for deeper austerity offensive
By Patrick O’Connor
23 May 2013

The Australian corporate elite seized on two reports issued yesterday, by the Australian Treasury department and the Parliamentary Budget Office, to advance its campaign for sweeping European-style austerity measures directed against the working class.

#crise #austérité #australie

How Colleges Are Selling Out the Poor to Court the Rich
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/05/how-colleges-are-selling-out-the-poor-to-court-the-rich/275725

For proof, see the demoralizing report released this week by Stephen Burd of the New America Foundation on the state of financial aid in higher ed. It documents the obscene prices some of the poorest undergraduates are asked to pay at hundreds of educational institutions across the country, even as these same schools lavish discounts on the children of wealthier families in order to lure them onto campus.

And here’s the key bit: Many colleges, he argues, appear to be playing an “elaborate shell game,” relying on federal grants to cover the costs of needy students while using their own resources to furnish aid to richer undergrads.

Hospital Billing Varies Wildly, U.S. Data Shows - NYTimes.com

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/08/business/hospital-billing-varies-wildly-us-data-shows.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=ed

By BARRY MEIER, JO CRAVEN McGINTY and JULIE CRESWELL
Published: May 8, 2013

How Much Hospitals Charge Medicare

A hospital in Livingston, N.J., charged $70,712 on average to implant a pacemaker, while a hospital in nearby Rahway, N.J., charged $101,945.

In Saint Augustine, Fla., one hospital typically billed nearly $40,000 to remove a gallbladder using minimally invasive surgery, while one in Orange Park, Fla., charged $91,000.

Et ici la carte interactive

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/05/08/business/how-much-hospitals-charge.html?ref=business

How Much Hospitals Charge
For the Same Procedures
Data released by the federal government on Wednesday shows that hospitals across the country charge Medicare differing amounts for the same procedure. The data includes bills submitted in 2011 by 3,300 hospitals nationwide for the 100 most commonly performed treatments and procedures like hip replacement, heart operations and gallbladder removal, among hospitals that reported at least 11 cases.

#santé #etats-unis #inégalités #sécurité-sociale

Racial Wealth Gap Widened During Recession - NYTimes.com
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/29/business/racial-wealth-gap-widened-during-recession.html

...the last half-decade has proved far worse for black and Hispanic families than for white families, starkly widening the already large gulf in wealth between non-Hispanic white Americans and most minority groups, according to a new study from the Urban Institute.

Army says no to more tanks, but Congress insists - Yahoo! News
http://news.yahoo.com/army-says-no-more-tanks-congress-insists-115422396.html

WASHINGTON (AP) — Built to dominate the enemy in combat, the Army’s hulking Abrams tank is proving equally hard to beat in a budget battle.

Lawmakers from both parties have devoted nearly half a billion dollars in taxpayer money over the past two years to build improved versions of the 70-ton Abrams.

But senior Army officials have said repeatedly, “No thanks.”
It’s the inverse of the federal budget world these days, in which automatic spending cuts are leaving sought-after pet programs struggling or unpaid altogether. Republicans and Democrats for years have fought so bitterly that lawmaking in Washington ground to a near-halt.

Yet in the case of the Abrams tank, there’s a bipartisan push to spend an extra $436 million on a weapon the experts explicitly say is not needed.

“If we had our choice, we would use that money in a different way,” Gen. Ray Odierno, the Army’s chief of staff, told The Associated Press this past week.

#lobbying #corruption_légale

« Rapatriement médical » quand des hôpitaux états-uniens affrètent des jets privés pour déporter des sans-papiers…

Deported While Unconscious : American Hospitals Quietly Deport Hundreds Of Undocumented Patients
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/deported-while-unconscious-hospitals-deport-undocumented-patients

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Days after they were badly hurt in a car accident, Jacinto Cruz and Jose Rodriguez-Saldana lay unconscious in an Iowa hospital while the American health care system weighed what to do with the two immigrants from Mexico.

The men had health insurance from jobs at one of the nation’s largest pork producers. But neither had legal permission to live in the U.S., nor was it clear whether their insurance would pay for the long-term rehabilitation they needed.

So Iowa Methodist Medical Center in Des Moines took matters into its own hands: After consulting with the patients’ families, it quietly loaded the two comatose men onto a private jet that flew them back to Mexico, effectively deporting them without consulting any court or federal agency.

When the men awoke, they were more than 1,800 miles away in a hospital in Veracruz, on the Mexican Gulf Coast.

Hundreds of immigrants who are in the U.S. illegally have taken similar journeys through a little-known removal system run not by the federal government trying to enforce laws but by hospitals seeking to curb high costs. A recent report compiled by immigrant advocacy groups made a rare attempt to determine how many people are sent home, concluding that at least 600 immigrants were removed over a five-year period, though there were likely many more.

Save Wounded Knee - NYTimes.com
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/12/opinion/save-wounded-knee.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20130412&_r=0

Une conséquence de la destruction de la propriété collective au profit de la propriété privée.

Now, our heritage is in danger of becoming a real-estate transaction, another parcel of what once was our land auctioned off to the highest bidder. The cries of our murdered people still echo off the barren hills — the cries we remember in our hearts every day of our lives. But they may finally be drowned out by bulldozers and the ka-ching of commerce.

The Wounded Knee site passed from the Oglala into private hands through the process known as allotment, begun in the late 1800s, by which the federal government divided land among the Indians and gave other parcels to non-Indians. The idea was to shift control of our land from the collective to the individual and to teach the Lakota and other Native Americans the foreign notion of ownership. But to us, the policy was just another form of theft.

Costs of Iraq, Afghanistan wars could rise to $6 trillion - World Socialist Web Site

http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/04/02/iraq-a02.html

Costs of Iraq, Afghanistan wars could rise to $6 trillion
By Bill Van Auken
2 April 2013

Over a decade of US wars of aggression in Afghanistan and Iraq will in the end cost as much as $6 trillion, the equivalent of $75,000 for every American household.

#afghanistan #irak #etats-unis

The Military Gets 26 Times As Much Of Your Tax Dollars As Scientific Research Does | Progressive Change Campaign Committee (PCCC)
http://boldprogressives.org/the-military-gets-26-times-as-much-of-your-tax-dollars-as-scientif

As you mull over the taxes you paid to the federal government this year, check out this graphic from the National Priorities Project showing where your taxes went in 2012. As you can see, the military got the lion’s share of funding, getting 26 times as much as scientific research and seven times as much as education:

http://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.boldprogressives.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/NPP-495x393.jpg

Les USA envisagent sérieusement de laisser le secteur concurrentiel fournir les données météorologiques de base au public

PlanetIQ’s solution includes launching a constellation of 12 small satellites in low-Earth orbit to collect weather data, which PlanetIQ says the federal government could access at less cost and risk than current government-funded efforts. ... [PlanetIQ Anne Hale] Miglarese added that within 28 to 34 months from the beginning of their manufacture, all 12 satellites could be in orbit. As for the cost, she says, "We estimate that for all U.S. civilian and defense needs globally for both terrestrial and space weather applications, the cost to government agencies in the U.S. will be less than $70 million per year. As the satellites collect data, PlanetIQ would sell the data to government weather services around the world as well as the U.S. Air Force. The most recently launched polar-orbiting satellite, sent into space by the U.S. in 2011, cost $1.5 billion.

Filmer l’arrestation des migrants sans-papiers

Toews approved TV show filming B.C. immigration raids - British Columbia - CBC News

Signalé par Elisabeth Vallet de la Chaire Raoul Dandurand à Montréal cet article inquiétant

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2013/03/16/bc-border-security-cbsa-agreement.html?cmp=rss

Approval for a reality show production crew to film an immigration raid at a Vancouver construction site came directly from the federal government, documents obtained by a Vancouver woman show.

Helesia Luke, who has a background in television production and now works with non-profits in Vancouver, was troubled by news of the immigration raid being filmed on Wednesday, so she asked the federal government for the production agreement.

Le Canada punira les Palestiniens s’il leur venait l’idée de faire respecter les Droits de l’Homme par Israël :
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2013/03/06/pol-cp-baird-fantino-palestinian-speech.html

Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird has told a powerful pro-Israel lobby that Palestinians will feel “consequences” from Canada if they pursue the Jewish state at the International Criminal Court.

#wag_the_dog

BP civil trial opens - World Socialist Web Site

A propos de l’ouverture du procès BP.

http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/02/27/bptr-f27.html

BP civil trial opens
By Bryan Dyne
27 February 2013

Nearly three years after the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion, which killed 11 workers and leaked more than 4 million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, the federal civil trial of oil giant BP began Monday. The total amount that will be paid out under the Clean Water Act could amount to $17.6 billion.

This trial comes after BP settled last November for $4.5 billion toward all criminal charges relating to the 2010 spill, where it plead guilty to 11 counts of manslaughter, one count of obstruction of Congress and two other misdemeanors. Settlement discussions for the civil charges are ongoing.

En Australie, un Aborigène déjoue les projets de mines d’uranium d’Areva

►http://bigbrowser.blog.lemonde.fr/2013/02/19/atomique-en-australie-un-aborigene-dejoue-les-projets-de-min

...Jeffrey Lee a fait savoir, sur le site australien The Age, que "le fait que les Blancs m’offrent ceci ou cela ne m’intéresse pas" , et qu’il n’était pas "intéressé par l’argent. J’ai un travail. Je peux acheter de la nourriture, je peux aller pêcher et chasser". Sur le site Environment News Service, il explique aussi : "J’ai dit non aux mines d’uranium à Koongarra, car je crois que la terre et les croyances propres à ma culture sont plus importantes que l’exploitation minière et l’argent. L’argent va et vient, mais la terre est toujours là, subsiste toujours si nous nous en occupons, et s’occupera toujours de nous."

http://images.moneymanager.com.au/2010/05/28/1520699/kakadu-420x0.gif

Se trouvent à Koongarra de l’art rupestre aborigène, des sites sacrés, des roches ocres et de la brousse. Dans la conception aborigène du « temps du rêve », explique Environment News Service, le site abrite aussi la demeure de Namarrgon, être mythique qui manie la foudre, et « ancêtre créateur responsable d’un spectaculaire orage électrique sur le plateau d’Arnhem ». L’électricité, déjà...

http://www.theage.com.au/national/land-of-riches-given-over-to-kakadu-20100528-wlkk.html

La Mission Très haut débit dévoile son plan pour la fibre optique
http://www.latribune.fr/technos-medias/telecoms/20130122trib000744109/la-mission-tres-haut-debit-devoile-son-plan-pour-la-fibre-optique-.html

Le principal motif de satisfaction des collectivités locales viendra sans doute du long chapitre consacré à la « question centrale et stratégique pour la soutenabilité financière des projets de déploiements de réseaux #FTTH (#fibre jusqu’à l’abonné) notamment publics » que constitue le sort du réseau #cuivre de boucle locale historique, celui de France Télécom, le bon vieux réseau téléphonique qui sert actuellement de support à l’ADSL. Car le projet de feuille de route dit explicitement qu’« il n’est pas économiquement pertinent de maintenir durablement deux réseaux parallèles », le cuivre et la fibre, et qu’il faudra examiner avec l’opérateur historique « les conditions opérationnelles, juridiques et financières de telles opérations d’extinction du cuivre », laquelle se fera « de manière progressive et organisée. »

#infrastructure

Les Etats-Unis, séparés de la plus grande partie du monde par deux océans et bordés par des alliés, est, par la force de la géographie, parmi les pays les mieux protégés au monde. Néanmoins, six décennies après V-J Day, près de 300 000 soldats américains sont stationnés à l’étranger (...).

Une grande partie de l’argent que le gouvernement fédéral consacre à la « défense » ne concerne ni la sécurisation des frontières du pays, ni la protection de ses citoyens. Au lieu de cela, l’armée américaine impose la politique étrangère américaine.

Si aujourd’hui un fabricant d’armes détient ce que Eisenhower a appelé une « influence injustifiée », c’est Lockheed Martin. Le cabinet a des contrats avec le Pentagone pour un montant d’une trentaine de milliards de dollars par an (...) Aujourd’hui, Lockheed Martin consacre 15 millions de dollars par an au lobbying et aux contributions de campagne. (...). Lockheed Martin a contribué aux campagnes de neuf des douze membres du Supercommittee, 51 des 62 membres du House Armed Services Committee (...) en tout, 386 des 435 membres du 112e Congrès.

http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2013/01/28/130128crat_atlarge_lepore?currentPage=all

Another sweetheart bank settlement on mortgage fraud - World Socialist Web Site

http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/01/09/bank-j09.html

Another sweetheart bank settlement on mortgage fraud
By Andre Damon

9 January 2013

Ten major financial firms agreed on Monday to pay $3.3 billion in cash to settle allegations of mortgage fraud by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) in the latest in a string of sweetheart settlements between the major Wall Street banks and their nominal regulators. As usual, there were no criminal charges and no bank officials were held accountable.

The settlement, which nominally totals $8.5 billion, includes $3.3 billion in direct payments to borrowers and $5.2 billion in loan modifications and other forms of “borrower assistance” left largely at the discretion of the banks.

Cloud Atlas - 2012
http://vimeo.com/46545428

http://ghull.com/#/126006
http://cache.krop.com/georgehull-50746b7211ff3e0.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_Atlas_(film)

#film et peut-être bien #film_barré

Violente offensive contre le Planning familial aux États-Unis.

Soit par le moyen de restrictions budgétaires,
Oklahoma  : Judge says Oklahoma can end Planned Parenthood contract http://newsandinsight.thomsonreuters.com/Legal/News/2012/12_-_December/Judge_says_Oklahoma_can_end_Planned_Parenthood_contra Judge says Oklahoma can end Planned Parenthood contract
(avec des arguments faux-culs) (26/12/12)

OKLAHOMA CITY, Dec 24 (Reuters) - A federal judge on Monday rejected Planned Parenthood’s bid to stop Oklahoma from ending its contract with the women’s health organization to provide food vouchers and counseling to poor mothers in the Tulsa area.

U.S. District Judge Stephen Friot of the Western District of Oklahoma ruled that Planned Parenthood failed to prove its contract with the state’s department of health was terminated for political reasons related to the group’s support of abortion rights. The state contract ends on Jan. 1.

The judge said Planned Parenthood’s performance shortfalls - mostly drops in caseload - did not themselves seem to be problems that could lead to a cut in ties.

Michigan, Northern Michigan commissioner blocks Planned Parenthood grant request, says they ’kill babies’ http://www.mlive.com/news/index.ssf/2012/12/northern_michigan_commissioner.html (30/12/12)

GRAND TRAVERSE COUNTY, MI — A county commissioner successfully blocked a casino profit sharing request by Planned Parenthood for sex education money this week in northern Michigan, saying the organization exists to “kill babies.”

The Traverse City Record-Eagle reported that Grand Traverse County Commissioner Jason Gillman, a Tea Party adherent who publishes the blog Right Michigan, convinced fellow commissioners to spike a $12,500 grant application for abstinence-based sex education in area schools.

Soit directement par la loi,
Texas , Planned Parenthood loses bid to delay Texas funding law http://edition.cnn.com/2012/12/31/us/texas-planned-parenthood/index.html (1/01/13)

(CNN) — A Texas judge denied a Planned Parenthood request for a temporary restraining order Monday that would have extended the organization’s ability to participate in the state’s revamped Women’s Health Program.
A law going into effect Tuesday requires the state to fully fund women’s health clinics with the exception of those that are affiliated with abortion providers. Previously, such establishments obtained 90% of their money through the Social Security Administration and other federal funding.

Arizona, Arizona goes to court to halt gov’t funding of Planned Parenthood http://azstarnet.com/news/state-and-regional/arizona-goes-to-court-to-halt-gov-t-funding-of/article_afebdb3a-0a85-5025-ad0c-55b7bb85987e.html (1/01/13)

PHOENIX - Attorneys for the state and abortion foes are asking a federal appeals court to let it cut off federal and state funding for Planned Parenthood because the agency also offers abortions.

In legal briefs filed with the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, the lawyers contend a trial judge erred last year when he said a new state statute aimed at Planned Parenthood apparently violates federal laws.

U.S. District Judge Neil Wake ordered the state to continue allowing the organization to get family planning funds while the case goes to trial.

But Steven Aden, an attorney with the privately funded Alliance Defending Freedom that is helping the state defend the law, said allowing the injunction to remain in place “would frustrate the public’s interest, expressed through its elected representatives, in ensuring that taxpayer dollars do not directly or indirectly support abortions.”

Canada’s native peoples protest chronic poverty and government attacks - World Socialist Web Site

Résistance et révolte des peuples premiers du Canada contre le gouvernement

http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2012/12/31/cana-d31.html

Canada’s native peoples protest chronic poverty and government attacks

By Carl Bronski
31 December 2012

The last weeks of 2012 have seen protests by Canada’s impoverished native population snowball.

As Attawapiskat First Nations Chief Theresa Spence enters her fourth week of a hunger strike aimed at drawing attention to the federal government’s failure to honor native treaty rights, aboriginal peoples across the country continue a series of road and rail blockades, demonstrations, and sympathy hunger strikes in what has become known as the “Idle No More” movement. This mobilization, although initially unassociated with Spence’s protest, has dovetailed with the Chief’s actions and served to highlight recent Conservative government actions aimed at opening up vast swathes of native land for capitalist resource-extraction projects.

Canada First Nations

Pour avoir une petite idée des combats que sont en train de mener les Nations premières canadiennes. Très intéressant, et franchement pour ce qui me concerne, total respect.

Idle No More
http://idlenomore1.blogspot.ca

Idle No More calls on all people to join in a revolution which honors and fulfills Indigenous sovereignty which protects the land and water. Colonization continues through attacks to Indigenous rights and damage to the land and water. We must repair these violations, live the spirit and intent of the treaty relationship, work towards justice in action, and protect Mother Earth.

http://www.leaderpost.com/technology/7742751.bin

IdleNoMore in Historical Context
http://decolonization.wordpress.com/2012/12/24/idlenomore-in-historical-context

Much has been said recently in the media about the relationship between the inspiring expression of Indigenous resurgent activity at the core of the #IdleNoMore movement and the heightened decade of Native activism that led Canada to establish the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples (RCAP) in 1991. I offer this short analysis of the historical context that led to RCAP in an effort to get a better sense of the transformative political possibilities in our present moment of struggle.

Idle No More: Chief Theresa Spence’s hunger speaks to all of us
http://rabble.ca/columnists/2012/12/idle-no-more-chief-theresa-spences-hunger-speaks-all-us
By Naomi Klein

I woke up just past midnight with a bolt. My six-month-old son was crying. He has a cold — the second of his short life — and his blocked nose frightens him. I was about to get up when he started snoring again. I, on the other hand, was wide-awake. A single thought entered my head: Chief Theresa Spence is hungry. Actually it wasn’t a thought. It was a feeling. The feeling of hunger. Lying in my dark room, I pictured the chief of the Attawapiskat First Nation lying on a pile of blankets in her teepee across from Parliament Hill, entering day 14 of her hunger strike.

Canada’s First Nations protest heralds a new alliance
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/dec/20/canada-first-nations-new-alliance

Canada’s placid winter surface has been broken by unprecedented protests by its aboriginal peoples. In just a few weeks, a small campaign launched against the Conservative government’s budget bill by four aboriginal women has expanded and transformed into a season of discontent: a cultural and political resurgence.

Support growing for First Nations blockade of CN Rail line in Sarnia: group
http://www.leaderpost.com/technology/Support+growing+First+Nations+blockade+Rail+line+Sarnia+group/7742700/story.html

People from Aamjiwnaang First Nation and supporters gather for a meeting with officials as their blockade of the CN St. Clair spur line that began Friday, continues in Sarnia, Ont. A member of a southwestern Ontario First Nation blockading a CN Rail line in Sarnia says gestures of support are flooding in as the protest reaches its fifth day. Ron Plain of the Aamjiwnaang (AWN’-ja-nong) First Nation says.

Chief Theresa Spence’s hunger strike has full backing of Attawapiskat residents
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/politics/article/1306869--chief-theresa-spence-s-hunger-strike-has-full-backing-of-attawapis

Chief Theresa Spence’s hunger strike has full backing of Attawapiskat residents. Chief Theresa Spence’s home is smack-dab in the middle of this tiny, remote First Nation: a large, yellow trailer that was always bustling, with people coming in and congregating outside.
There is no one here now except a teenage girl house-sitting.

#canada #peuples-autochtones #nations-premières #résistances

Alan Turing should be pardoned, argue Stephen Hawking and top scientists
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/dec/14/alan-turing-pardon-stephen-hawking

Alan Turing, the Enigma codebreaker who was convicted of homosexuality in 1952, should receive a posthumous pardon, Professor Stephen Hawking and other leading scientists have urged.

In a letter to the Daily Telegraph, Hawking, the world-renowned physicist, and 10 other signatories say David Cameron should “formally forgive” the mathematician.

Growing food in the desert: is this the solution to the world’s food crisis? | The Observer
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/nov/24/growing-food-in-the-desert-crisis

the work that Sundrop Farms, as they call themselves, are doing in South Australia, and just starting up in Qatar, is beyond the experimental stage. They appear to have pulled off the ultimate something-from-nothing agricultural feat – using the sun to desalinate seawater for irrigation and to heat and cool greenhouses as required, and thence cheaply grow high-quality, pesticide-free vegetables year-round in commercial quantities.

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2012/11/23/1353687441504/Food-from-the-desert-toma-008.jpg

Seawater Greenhouse: A new approach to restorative agriculture | Global Water Forum
http://www.globalwaterforum.org/2012/05/28/seawater-greenhouse-a-new-approach-to-restorative-agriculture

There are now some 200,000 hectares of greenhouses around the Mediterranean, and over 1 million in China, where 30 years ago, there were almost none. This is because yields that are achieved in greenhouses can be 10 to 100 times greater than yields achieved outside. They also enable high value crops to be grown ‘out of season’.

The Seawater Greenhouse enables year-round crop production in some of the world’s hottest and driest regions. It does this using seawater and sunlight. The technology imitates natural processes, helping to restore the environment while significantly reducing the operating costs of greenhouse horticulture. In addition to not having to discharge concentrated brine, it also benefits from the fact that high salinity water has a powerful biocidal or sterilising effect on the air that passes through it. This reduces or eliminates airborne pests.

http://www.globalwaterforum.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Figure-4.png?9d7bd4

#agriculture #serres #désalinisation

Does the US health system work well ? 15% of US physicians agree: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2012/11/15/six-out-of-every-seven-doctors-agree-our-health-care-system-doesnt-w - aggressive insurers, administrative overhead, lousy coordination, restricted patient access to care, uninsured patients... Horrible value for such an expensive system: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2012/11/09/the-single-best-graph-on-whats-driving-our-deficits - yet another reason to choose France !

Le testament politique du #libertarien Ron Paul

Ron Paul’s Last Speech to Congress : 30+ Strangely Ordered Questions - Conor Friedersdorf - The Atlantic
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/11/ron-pauls-last-speech-to-congress-30-strangely-ordered-questions/265263

– Why are sick people who use medical marijuana put in prison?
– Why does the federal government restrict the drinking of raw milk?
– Why can’t Americans manufacturer rope and other products from hemp?
– Why are Americans not allowed to use gold and silver as legal tender as mandated by the Constitution?
– Why is Germany concerned enough to consider repatriating their gold held by the FED for her in New York? Is it that the trust in the U.S. and dollar supremacy beginning to wane?
– Why do our political leaders believe it’s unnecessary to thoroughly audit our own gold?
– Why can’t Americans decide which type of light bulbs they can buy?
– Why is the TSA permitted to abuse the rights of any American traveling by air?
– Why should there be mandatory sentences—even up to life for crimes without victims—as our drug laws require?
– Why have we allowed the federal government to regulate commodes in our homes?
– Why is it political suicide for anyone to criticize AIPAC ?
– Why haven’t we given up on the drug war since it’s an obvious failure and violates the people’s rights? Has nobody noticed that the authorities can’t even keep drugs out of the prisons? How can making our entire society a prison solve the problem?
– Why do we sacrifice so much getting needlessly involved in border disputes and civil strife around the world and ignore the root cause of the most deadly border in the world-the one between Mexico and the US?
– Why does Congress willingly give up its prerogatives to the Executive Branch?
– Why does changing the party in power never change policy? Could it be that the views of both parties are essentially the same?
– Why did the big banks, the large corporations, and foreign banks and foreign central banks get bailed out in 2008 and the middle class lost their jobs and their homes?
– Why do so many in the government and the federal officials believe that creating money out of thin air creates wealth?
– Why do so many accept the deeply flawed principle that government bureaucrats and politicians can protect us from ourselves without totally destroying the principle of liberty?
– Why can’t people understand that war always destroys wealth and liberty?
– Why is there so little concern for the Executive Order that gives the President authority to establish a “kill list,” including American citizens, of those targeted for assassination?
– Why is patriotism thought to be blind loyalty to the government and the politicians who run it, rather than loyalty to the principles of liberty and support for the people? Real patriotism is a willingness to challenge the government when it’s wrong.
– Why is it is claimed that if people won’t or can’t take care of their own needs, that people in government can do it for them?
– Why did we ever give the government a safe haven for initiating violence against the people?
– Why do some members defend free markets, but not civil liberties?
– Why do some members defend civil liberties but not free markets? Aren’t they the same?
– Why don’t more defend both economic liberty and personal liberty?
– Why are there not more individuals who seek to intellectually influence others to bring about positive changes than those who seek power to force others to obey their commands?
– Why does the use of religion to support a social gospel and preemptive wars, both of which requires authoritarians to use violence, or the threat of violence, go unchallenged? Aggression and forced redistribution of wealth has nothing to do with the teachings of the world’s great religions.
– Why do we allow the government and the Federal Reserve to disseminate false information dealing with both economic and foreign policy?
– Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority?
– Why should anyone be surprised that Congress has no credibility, since there’s such a disconnect between what politicians say and what they do?

texte complet :
http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/2012_cr/ronpaul.html
(à noter, il y a une coquille dans le texte complet qui écrit APAC là il faut lire AIPAC)

#etats-unis #idéologie