Things in Detroit Just Keep Getting Worse...

http://io9.com/5913561/detroit-plans-to-shrink-by-leaving-half-the-city-in-the-dark

Capital Controls Have No Place in a Free Society

Capital Controls Have No Place in a Free Society

You Defeated the Durbin Amendment!

You Defeated the Durbin Amendment!

A message from the Alliance for Natural Health

AUDIT THE FED!

The Audit the Fed bill is finally going to be voted on in the House of Representatives, and we need to put the pressure on our Congressmen to vote YES to audit the FED. Let's hold them accountable to WE THE PEOPLE. Below are some important links:

- Text of the bill (containing simply 300 words): 

http://www.opencongress.org/bill/112-h459/text

- Current Sponsors and Co-Sponsors: http://www.dailypaul.com/155726/update-hr-459-55-co-sponsors

Included in the list are our very own Walden, Kurt, Wu, and Defazio. However, we need to get our Senators and other Congressmen on board.

- This is the official website and has  lots of great information, plus a petition to sign that will be faxed to your Congressmen and Senators: http://www.auditthefed.com/

Article about upcoming vote: http://thehill.com/blogs/on-the-money/banking-financial-institutions/229539-ron-pauls-push-for-federal-reserve-audit-to-hit-the-house-floor

I hope everyone will the sign the petition and then call or write their Congressmen and Senators today :) The vote will happen in July, but we need to put the pressure on now, and tell them that we DEMAND a full AUDIT OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE BANK. Is it so much to ask to take a look at the books?

Ron Paul on auditing the Fed :http://lewrockwell.com/paul/paul769.html

Give Us Our Land Back

Press release 001-0512

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Citizen Coalition Requests Federal Lands to Be Returned

to the Counties

LEBANON, OR - May 25, 2012

An Oregon citizens coalition calling themselves Give Us Our Land Back is petitioning the US Congress to return ownership of federal land in Oregon to the counties of Oregon.

All US Forest Service, Bureau of Management, and National Park Service lands in Oregon will be given back to the counties, if the "Petition To De-Federalize Oregon Lands" is successful.

The online petition is at http://giveusourlandback.org.

In an letter on the website, Give Us Our Land Back executive director Mike Dubrasich wrote, "The Federal Government is trustee of 53% of the landbase of Oregon, and they have violated that trust exceedingly.

"The Federal Government has denied the rights of Oregonians to care for and steward our own forests, watersheds and rangelands; imposed fees and duties on us for use of our own public lands; erected locked gates and refused entry to the People of Oregon into our own public lands; burned vast tracts, incinerating the wealth of Oregon; destroyed our wildlife; polluted our air and water; fouled our streams; introduced exotic pests -- and in so doing our homes, businesses and communities have become bankrupted, our schools, roads and public safety have been threatened, and our economy has been crippled."

"The best stewardship arises from local ownership and jurisdiction. We residents of Oregon know our environment, appreciate and understand our watersheds, forests, and rangelands, and wish to assume responsibility for our own environment -- which is our birthright, heritage, and legacy to future generations."

"Oregon is not a colony. We are a state with the same rights, responsibilities, and equal footing with every other state in the Union. ... In order to rectify this untenable situation, we have prepared a petition to the U.S. Congress, respectfully requesting redress of our grievances by returning ownership of our public lands to the Counties."

The goal of Give Us Our Land Back is not privatization. "We wish public lands to remain public, but owned and managed by counties, not the Federal Government".

"The justifications for transferring title of federal lands back to the counties are constitutional, pragmatic, and ethical," stated Mr. Dubrasich. "The land rightfully belongs to the residents. We can do a far better job of stewardship and resource conservation of our local environment than any Washington DC bureaucracy. Justice is best served by local control."

Give Us Our Land Back is collecting signatures from across the U.S. To date citizens from 25 states have signed the Petition to De-Federalize Oregon Lands.

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Additional information may be obtained from:

Mike Dubrasich, Exec Dir
Give Us Our Land Back
33862 Totem Pole Rd.
Lebanon, OR 97355
541-223-5764
http://giveusourlandback.org
miked@giveusourlandback.org

Ron Paul: Lawyers Confirm All Delegates Are Unbound!

Amendment to End Raids on Farms Fails to Pass in Senate

Here is an article on the proposed legislation, which would prevent the FDA from carrying weapons and raiding farms:

http://reason.com/blog/2012/05/24/rand-paul-calls-for-an-end-to-the-fdas-i

The amendment failed, but here are the Senators who supported the bill. Please write them to encourage their actions. Thank them for fighting for us, and let them know we are behind their efforts:

http://reason.com/blog/2012/05/24/here-are-the-15-senators-who-voted-to-st

Smith and Thornberry Seek to Lift Propaganda Ban

Congress seeks to lift propaganda ban? Thoughts please?!

http://www.buzzfeed.com/mhastings/congressmen-seek-to-lift-propaganda-ban

Here is what Adam Smith had to say about it:
http://adamsmith.house.gov/News/DocumentSingle.aspx?DocumentID=296439

Supreme Court Lets Stand Student’s $675,000 Penalty For Downloading 30 Songs

This is just AWFUL. Think about it, he was 15 when he downloaded and shared those songs. In my book that isn't old enough to understand the complex legalities of "piracy". Poor guy, I just feel so bad for him.

Supreme Court Lets Stand Student’s $675,000 Penalty For Downloading 30 Songs

Congress Getting Stupider According to Flesch-Kincaid Scale

"An analysis weighing congressional speeches against the Flesch-Kincaid scale—best known as that numerical score that tells you how smart you are when you run the word count diagnostic in your word processing software—reveals that legislators speak at a 10.6 grade level.

That's down from 11.5 just seven years ago. In the span of less than a decade, Congress' rhetorical skills have receded nearly a full grade, the Sunlight Foundation discovered. The report readily admits the unreliability of the Flesch-Kincaid test, which grades language on complexity, not clarity. But it is still a decent metric for judging the quality of one's words.

That quality is declining on Capitol Hill, and it's a bipartisan effort. Democrats in the 112th Congress speak at a 10.8 grade level, with Republicans declaiming at a 10.5 mark. But the GOP could take some solace in the knowledge that a reading of Democratic scores showed that the further left a member of Congress is ideologically, the more his or her grade tends to decline."

Read the full story here: Congress is Getting Stupider