Radio Show Archive(s):

November 27, 2010

On www.RepublicBroadcasting.org 12pm CST every Saturday

Third Rail Topics for Today:

What are you doing in your community to ensure that the Institutional Laziness on your city council, county board, sheriff/auditor/treasurer/assessor offices, and/or state legislature is not progressing into Institutional Corruption.

I recently visited our City and County Assessor's office. Their Conference Boards meet two to three times per year, but their minutes are NOT published publicly. Do you even know the people that are on your local Assessor Conference board? Are they rubber stamping what the Assessor office staff provide them?

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Proof that the TAIL IS WAGGING THE DOG... the goliath government budgets are what drive you property taxes, nothing else.

Check out the Iowa Department of Revenue's own words regarding our property taxes:

What causes taxes to increase?

Basically, three variables must interact to decrease or increase your property taxes:

* The combined budgets of the taxing authorities
* The total value of all the property in the taxing unit
* The value of your property

Your taxes increase if...

* The budgets increase and the value of all properties remain the same.
* The budgets and value of property in the entire government unit remain the same but the value of the individual’s property increases.

A powerful and compelling deconstruction of our circumstances and times. Thank you for sharing Alan!

What needs to change to save the world. http://www.freedomainradio.com

Radio Show Archive:Hour 1

On www.RepublicBroadcasting.org 12pm CST every Saturday

Third Rail Topics for Today:

Common Sense; Revisited publisher Clyde Cleveland hosts today's show and has as his special guest, Jeffrey Smith.

Mr. Smith is the Executive Director for the Institute for Responsible Technology and author of "Seeds of Deception."

He is a world renowned expert on GMO foods. More info is available at: www.responsibletechnology.org

"In this sixty minute podcast, Jeffrey Smith describes how the Federal Government has become completely controlled by the five major companies that manufacture GMO products. The inherent dangers to our environment and the health of our families are discussed in detail. The steps we can take now to empower ourselves and get rid of this menace are explained. There is no greater risk to human life on this planet than GMOs. Next week the federal government is set to approve GMO salmon which is the most dangerous product yet to be released into our environment and our food supply. Learn how you can become part of the bottom-up, freedom based solution to this massive problem." - Clyde Cleveland, Your Host for September 18, 2010

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Have you seen it yet?!
Republic Magazine's Articles of Freedom Cover issue
http://republicmagazine.com/magazines/issue19/

The devil will be in the details...

"The legislation will eliminate several FOIA exemptions for certain records provided to the SEC."

“As I said back in July, any exemptions to the Freedom of Information Act, which empowers citizens to monitor their government, must be fashioned with a scalpel,” said Kaufman.

the headline looks good for the sponsoring legislators... but:
a) they should not have voted yes to the original legislation to begin with
b) there should be NO exemptions from FOIA, period.

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From: Grassley Press
Date: Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 2:08 PM
Subject: Judiciary Approves Bill To Repeal SEC FOIA Exemptions
To: Grassley Press

For Immediate Release

Thursday, Sept. 16, 2010

Senate Judiciary Committee Approves Bill To Repeal SEC FOIA Exemptions

WASHINGTON – The Senate Judiciary Committee Thursday unanimously approved bipartisan legislation to repeal exemptions to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) for the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that were enacted as part of the Wall Street reform bill, which was signed into law in July. The legislation is sponsored by Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), and Committee members Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), John Cornyn (R-Texas), and Ted Kaufman (D-Del.).

The legislation will eliminate several FOIA exemptions for certain records provided to the SEC. The exemptions were included in the Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.

You may do a double take on the source of this surprisingly balanced, cogent analysis of the onward march of big government and its inability to solve problems.

Excerpt from The Great Consolidation: "If consolidation creates a crisis, the answer is further consolidation. If economic centralization has unintended consequences, then you need political centralization to clean up the mess. If a government conspicuously fails to prevent a terrorist attack or a real estate bubble, then obviously it needs to be given more powers to prevent the next one, or the one after that."

Full article at:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/17/opinion/17douthat.html