SHALE GAS – Europe’s COLLAPSE
There will be no revolution in Europe
(Les Echos) This week, France confirmed its ban on shale gas exploitation and the European Parliament demanded environmental impact studies before all test drilling starts. More obstacles for a resource that may yet not be the solution to Europe’s energy problems.

Nathan: Why am I NOT surprised that France (and the EU in general) don’t want cheaper, dependable, long-lasting energy that they don’t have to buy and import from Russia, Norway, or the US or Arabia?  Sometimes I think that they must give a partial lobotomy to everyone at birth (or when they enter the country, except for Arabs who have seemingly been bred without frontal lobes).

Mama’s Note: The silver lining to that nasty cloud is the fact that the oil will still be there when the Luddites have all died of exposure and starvation, or whatever.

IMMIGRATION – Europe’s Collapse
The new Iron Curtain falls on Brenner
(L’Espresso) The pass between Austria and Italy is one of the fracture points of EU immigration policy: on one side, the Austrian police try by all means to block migrants who are headed north; on the other side, Italian agents happily shut one eye.

Nathan: How stupid can the media get?  And how did they forget the REAL Iron Curtain a mere 22 or so years ago?  What a stupid comparison, what a stupid attitude.  Although many libertarians disagree, I believe that good fences make good neighbors, and while people should cross “borders” freely, it should be an honest passage, and will truly work only when BOTH sides of the “border” are truly free nations, where liberty is the rule and not the exception.  That is not the case in either Italy or Austria, today, and the honesty of the tens or hundreds of thousands of people of the Balkans and Turkey and Greece is not a given: they are as much invading hordes as any movement of Muslims or wetbacks or Huns or Visigoths and Ostrogoths…

Islamic wars: Syrian/Arab Street revolt
Syrian Rebels Swap Crosses Atop Churches for Al Qaeda Flags

Nathan: Truth in advertising, or doing what Muslims have done for almost one and a half millennia: stealing the property of those that they reduce to dhimmitude (if they don’t outright kill them)?

In Face of Shutdown, Foreign Aid Continues
(Blue Hornet via Personal Liberty Digest) The State Department confirmed that foreign aid programs for the world’s poor will continue even as states are cutting local aid programs for America’s poor for want of funds. (See more here)

Nathan: Remember the old saying: “Charity begins at home?”  Not once the government has taken over the charity “racket” – usually in connection with the “official” mob  or political machines or just plain grafters and grifters and con-artists.  At a minimum, given the reaction that these people have gotten from this bogus government shutdown, and the failure of their attempts to take guns and ammo away from the ordinary, oppressed, and more and more brutalized peons in this nation, they want to make sure that they do a better job of having nice hidey-holes than the Nazis did.  Ain’t life wunnerful?

HOME FRONT: Breaking up ain’t that hard to do.
Red State Secession Looming?
(Pat Buchanan)

Nathan: This commentary points out some important information.  Buchanan can be a real pain in the tush, but he may not be far off this time.  All of the current secession movements in the news (Jefferson, North Colorado, West Maryland) are all on the state level: large populations are sick and tired of the Tranzis that dominate their state government and force more and more government down their throats.  But there are many movements for entire states to secede FROM the Union (or former Union, if you prefer), or large chunks of states:  Texas (always!) and Alaska are the two most prominent and with the most supporters.  But there are others, including New Hampshire and Vermont, Hawai’i, and Wyoming.  But I suspect that nominally and legally, the secession will be far more subtle and hard to deal with: a Claire Wolf “Hardyville” sort of thing.

Mama’s Note: You forgot to mention northern California! Even some of the “blue” states are breaking up. Good news, but as you indicate, it won’t really help much until each individual is ready to secede from the collective, rather than hope to form a new one that will suit him better.

Politics 2013: Shutdown
Cruz, Interrupted: ‘Seems That Obama’s Paid Political Operatives Are Out in Force Today’
(CNSNews.com)

Nathan: Wonder if they got more than the $15/hour that the fake “government employees” got for protesting in DC last week, when not on their shift at the local McD’s?

Abominable Act (Obummercare) – Congress in action
Mike Lee on Obamacare: ‘We Must Stop It, We Must Defund It, We Cannot Accept It’
(CNSNews.com)

Nathan: There is more, of course:  it is NOT Congress that needs to take the most action: it is a LOT of individuals, in some form of the “Committees of Correspondence” to make it MORE difficult for the individuals to be dragged off to disappear into some form of rendition:  a refusal to pay their stupid game any longer.

Congress in action – Politics 2013: Shutdown
‘Non-Essential’: Harry Reid Shuts Down Own Office
CNSNews.com

Nathan: Gasp!  For once I agree with Harry Reid.  His office (and HIM) are totally non-essential even with 2+ million federal employees (not counting uniformed Constitutional military).  Why doesn’t he just go back to Nevada for good?

Europe’s Collapse – Culture wars: Killing babies
EU Measure Seeks to Declare Abortion a ‘Human Right’
(CNSNews.com)

Nathan: So, Europe continues to go downhill, morally and ethically – and in population (except for all the Muslims flooding the place).  Killing the innocent has long been considered a “right” given to kings, other royals, nobles, and the thugs who work for them, but now ANYone (or at least, any woman) has the right to kill an innocent person on a whim.  If this passes.

Mama’s Note: Nathan… any woman always could kill their unborn, and probably have for all of history, but most did not. Just as anyone can take a weapon, ANY weapon, including their bare hands, and kill anyone who can’t defend themselves – but most do not. Abortion is  no more terrible than any other murder, and just possibly not as demonic as some of the abuse and terror perpetrated on children down through that same history. And MUCH of that murder and torture have been condoned and even facilitated for some, all that time.

The fact that so many treat abortion, or murder by cop, so casually is only one factor in the fabric of human history, and can’t be resolved until individuals accept their own sovereignty and self responsibility. So, passing this “law,” or any number of “laws” against abortion will not really make much difference because it does nothing to change the hearts and souls of those for whom it is supposedly written.

Stupid people – Congress in action – Abominable Act (Obummercare)
Rep. Johnson on Reading the 10,535 Pages of Obamacare Regs: ‘Not My Responsibility’
(CNSNews.com)

Nathan: Just whose IS it then?  No representation committed here, for sure.  More and more, these people come across as cunning enough, but inherently and impossibly stupid.  Tell me, does he really KNOW how to read?  And does he KNOW how to delegate?  A couple of congressmen together, with a few staffers, could break this down, analyze it, and put together a good summary.  And then (theoretically) this goofball could read it.  But no, not in the United States Congress!

Mama’s Note: Actually, that would just be a waste of time. I’ll give you a one sentence summary. It is funded through theft, and carried out via aggression. That’s all anyone needs to know to reject the Unaffordable Act… or any other act of Congress.

Theft by government
Feds Collect $56 Billion in Taxes in 9 Days of ‘Shutdown’
(CNSNews.com)

Nathan: And supposedly gave WHAT in return for this thieving?  We do not know, and they aren’t going to tell us.  But I can tell you this:  ANYthing we get doesn’t make this stealing acceptable, moral, or right.

Home front: TSA Thuggery
TSA Loudspeakers Threaten Travelers With Arrest For Joking About Security
(Police State USA via Infowars.com)  George Bush Intercontinental Airport, Houston, TX (audio recording with related images and commentary)

“You are also reminded that any inappropriate remarks or jokes concerning security may result in your arrest,” the loudspeaker message states. These new loudspeaker warnings remind us that the TSA continues to excel at indoctrinating Americans to be well-behaved prisoners via obedience training – reminding them that they can be disappeared if they dare speak out of turn, even in a humorous way.

Mama’s Note: Not that I consider “infowars” as a reliable source, but this illustrates just how desperate the goons have become.

Nathan: For your consideration: a major American airport in which this recording has been played hundreds or thousands of times a day for many, many months, through which 40 MILLION people pass each year – and yet is not reported except in the most doubtful of media venues, by a man and organization known for outrageous and outlandish claims.  And NO one objects or even comments or reports on it?  The recording sounds real, but then it could be faked for aggrandizement of Alex Jones and crew.  If this is a real recording, it does not just show desperation on the part of the thugs, but it shows how inured average Americans (and foreign travelers) have become to living and traveling as permanent suspects of the police state.  How much farther can these things go?

Mama’s Note: I didn’t even think about it not being reported in other media. A search turned up a few alternate and freedom type news sites reporting the UTube, most with comments. A good many bloggers covered the video and made their own comments. The MSM has pretty much ignored this sort of thing from the beginning, and that’s no surprise, but there isn’t a lot that gets past the bloggers. The links are all over a good many forums as well.

But I really think that each little item like this pushes a lot of people closer to the edge. The lady in the local Post Office – a staunch union member employee – was telling ME all about how stupid and destructive the “shutdown” was, even though it didn’t affect her job. She ranted for quite a while on the insanity of the coming stamp price hike and all the stupid “rules” they are saddled with. Shocked me to the teeth, I can tell you. When the government employees start to “get it,” the end is possibly in sight.