Actor Mark Ruffalo has been placed on a terror advisory list by U.S. officials after organizing screenings for a new documentary about natural gas drilling.

…his efforts to raise awareness and demand a stop to natural gas drilling reportedly attracted the attention of officials from Pennsylvania’s Office of Homeland Security – and he recently discovered it had landed him on a terror alert watchlist.

He tells GQ magazine, “(It’s) pretty f**kin’ funny.”

Lew Rockwell’s David Kramer adds:

So let me get this straight: Under a “liberal” Democratic Administration that claims to be really, really “concerned” about the environment, a liberal supporter is now considered a possible terrorist because he is promoting a film that is concerned about the environment. Still believe that big business only controls the Republican Party?

Here’s something even more bizarre from the New York gubernatorial debate:

And as the taco became a TV debate about free market economics in my dream, Sean Hannity is on right now debating rent control in light of this debate. It’s actually great marketing, a catchy phrase – “The Rent is Too Damn High!” You can go to the official Web site and buy “The Rent is Too Damn High!” T-shirts.

Iran’s terrorist president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad states the following about capitalism:

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told a U.N. General Assembly session on poverty this week that capitalism is on the verge of death and that it’s time for a new economic system.

“The discriminatory order of capitalism and the hegemonic approaches are facing defeat and are getting close to their end,” Ahmadinejad said at a summit meeting assessing progress on achieving U.N. goals to drastically reduce poverty by 2015.

“The undemocratic and unjust governance structures of the decision-making bodies in international economic and political fields are the reasons behind most of the plights today humanity is confronting,” he said, according to an English translation of his prepared remarks.

Hegemony and “the undemocratic and unjust governance structures of the decision-making bodies in international economic and political fields” are not capitalism. It is the linkage between government and business (Italian fascism) in which the wealthy control key institutions.

For example, NAFTA, WTO, the European Union, the UN, and the development of proposals such as “harmonizing” (forcing copyright laws to be exactly the same in all countries) and “the public’s right to know” (shutting down non-government-sanctioned news sources) are anything but capitalist. Despite hijacking the economic concept of “free trade”, which by definition means the absence of legislation and treaties, all require government legislation which is more friendly to corporations. This has nothing to do with free trade or capitalism, other than the pursuit of wealth.

And if one views the varying link between effort and pay as “discriminatory”, well then they’re right.

Bolivian President Evo Morales stated:

…it was jeopardizing the future of “Mother Earth.”

The claims that capitalism is bad for the environment is only true due to the fact that it is handled by legislation rather than the judicial system.

For example, a business-friendly environmental law from the EPA would create limits on releasing a pollutant. As this business would be following the law, a nearby neighborhood would be unable to challenge the sickness, except by trying to overturn the law in the federal court system (often a waste of time and money)

However, resorting to the judicial system would prevent this sort of intrusion and poisoning, forcing businesses to pay a fine and cease further activity in the region. As for out-of-court settlements, a parent would not be likely to sell out their dying children and relatives.

See this example of a Pennsylvania town filled with exploding tap water and “methane fog”, permitted due to a business-friendly federal environmental law which renders the state courts almost helpless.

Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez also rejected the “global economic order, which continues to be an extremely unjust and plundering order that benefits rich countries.” The Venezuelan and Nicaraguan speakers raised similar complaints.

I assume this is referring to the pressuring of governments to accept pseudo-capitalist “free trade” treaties which force agribusiness/pharmaceutical-friendly patent laws, as well as the “nation-building” of Afghanistan and Iraq (which is also not capitalist, as the link to self-defense from these countries is weak if any). See this article about an neocon-penned Iraqi law forcing farmers to use “registered” (Monsanto-friendly and sterile) seeds.

If anything, capitalism is rising better than ever before, due to the use of the Internet to expose politicians’ past activities, videotape fraudulent news reports, spread classified documents, weaken copyright protection, and dig up laws and treaties the media doesn’t want you to know about and post them on blogs, as well as to organize protests and grassroots political campaigns. A past column from this blog describes this in detail.

Tonight, I left the following comment on his blog (entitled Catholic & Enjoying It, which I also just added to my blogroll):

What’s the difference between the mosque issue and, for example, allowing the construction of a Planned Parenthood facility next to an existing Catholic church? Would pro-choice protests outside the church disrupt Mass? Would the church facilities and Mass attendants be in danger of violence, or held responsible for a violent parishioner? Would Planned Parenthood demand the convenience of renting the basement of a church next door?

Something to think about.

The Archive’s last major exposure happened when videos were discovered from the BBC, CNN, and some local Fox-affiliate channels where the collapse of the Salomon Building (aka WTC7) was reported some 10-20 minutes in advance. Until official responses came forward, these videos were repeatedly removed by Google (YouTube) et al and removed from the Internet Archive. According to the blog link above, so-called "birthers" apparently refer to this as "scrubbing the Internet"

(CNN Video, BBC Video, Fox 5 DC Video, Response given by BBC)

Official explanations from AP, The Standard, and Washington could be given regarding this, but something else comes to mind. In 1986, an income tax protestor pointed out inconsistencies in copies of the Constitution’s Sixteenth Amendment (direct federal income tax, ratified 1913) delivered to the states. A federal appeals court (never went any higher) ruled against him, because (1) then-Secretary of State Philander Knox marked it as valid, and (2) "73 years after certification of the amendment’s adoption and after countless judicial applications, would promote only disorder."

The reason this is an issue is because the House and Senate passed resolutions two months ago declaring Obama born in Hawaii. And you can bet there’d be disorder if the courts validate this!

So regardless of the law, Obama will be the 44th President, and there’s no stopping anyone.

I should start a budget prostitution service called “The Stimulus Group”