It's March 3rd and the Winter is turning into Spring - the weather's getting nicer. But Government remains bad and is getting worse. Thankfully, people are demanding the truth, and revised histories are turning up, putting to pasture the Elites' simplistic and false histories that have brainwashed us into acquiescence to their Powermongering.

I'm just back from cleansing in New Mexico. It isn't good enough to think a "balanced diet" and an occasional walk will maintain your health. We're so acidic that extraordinary measures - like Cleansing and yoga - need to be taken on a monthly basis. Government aggravates our non-alkaline blood with their control of the air (poisoning it with chemtrails, shown here in Las Vegas), water (poisoning it with chlorine), agriculture (depleting it with GMOs & pesticides, or allowing non-disclosed hazardous pollution), medicine (using regulation to bankrupt naturopaths, or letting their pain specialists rot in jail [while politicians like Senator McCain can get away with pain med abuse that would jail a regular person] and pharmaceuticals (using FDA to harass supplement companies, or lying about dangerous vaccines and requiring forced drugging, or pushing therapies that don't work like chemotherapy). Hippies and conservatives should be able to cooperate when it comes to freedom to live cleanly.

How govt got this awful could be described as a "silent coup". Liza Perrson writes how the GOP Government stealthily passed precedents transferring congressional Power to the "Unitary" executive branch - changes that will survive the November election. There's more and more evidence that Cheney et. al. had planned a "Pax Americana" well before 9/11. Of course, getting the cops to do the bidding of the elite is critical - here's a policeman encouraging citizens to snoop on all who "don't belong" and who might engage in "suspicious behavior". The ACLU says the FBI already has almost a million names on its Terror Watch list.

How we got here as a species requires new views of history. This Jewish writer's history of Stalin's purges reminds us that no ethnic group has resisted the temptation of savagery in pursuit of some idealism. And when the US reign of the Neocons comes to an end, will we be able to say, "don't blame us, we weren't part of the Empire"?  More surprising Jewish history comes from this Tel Aviv professor - particularly his allusion to Koestler's "The 13th Tribe", about the mass conversion of the 8th century Khazars in the Caucusus, and how they became the European Ashkenazi.

No one's immune from the new history, even Stalin's friend FDR - in this case from John Flynn of the "Old Right".

These revised histories are a response to consumer demand for the truth, and it's refreshing to see skepticism from all sorts of people: witness this Oscar winner's doubts over government explanations regarding the Moon Landing and 9/11.

Back to Stalin, it appears his gulag is being reopened to detain immigrants in the European Union. And communists are making a comeback in our own Police State, in the form of liberal front groups, according to Makow, especially those with "human rights," "peace," "tolerance," or "diversity" in their names.

Another activist group are environmentalists: Now that the globe may be cooling instead of warming, will the enviros still try to push their same Big Government solutions? My former Cato colleague Pat Michaels concedes warming does exist, if marginally, and that humans can be partially blamed for it.  But the more important question, I think, is how to make polluters pay.

Major communist fighter & erudie conservative William F. Buckley passed away last week. He gave gravitas to the movement, but he disgustingly purged any mavericks like Rand, Sobran, Welch, and Rothbard, whom history will remember much more than WFB - according to Rockwell.

For those that want to protest Big Government in D.C., or at the GOP Convention, Devvy Kidd discusses both options. If we shrink government, the People will gain more small business start up opportunities: this person says "why wait? quit your corporate job now!" Lysander Spooner said the goal of everyone should be to start a sole proprietorship, with affordable credit if needed, from a free banking system. Of course, if you form an unpopular opinion, your small business could be arbitrarily stolen by Big Brother, as happened to this poor Lebanese retailer in Detroit.

To learn more about real economics, the Mises Institute just found this 1960s classic by Ballve; it's like Hazlitt's Economics in One Lesson.

Prominent libertarian Lew Rockwell voted in 1972 for McGovern over Nixon, a decision that brings ridicule from modern conservatives. It turns out that today's McGovern is no big regulating liberal. Here he opposes heavy-handed mortgage regulations in response to the worsening Recession. The world is turning upside down.

Resucitating McGovern's reputation pleases me, since an early political book I read growing up was Hunter Thompson's, "Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail," about the McGovern campaign. It's nice when progressives become pro-market, and it's nice when conservatives find tolerance in alternative lifestyles.

Regulations are a "shell game," a collusion between Big Business and Big Government. Big Agra, in the form of Monsanto, for example, consistently schemes with their bureaucrat friends at FDA and USDA to avoid disclosure to consumers that their "recombined" version of a natural hormone in milk, is not safe. Don't drink the water either, if you don't want the known poison fluoride. Another threat to health, according to the FDA, is tamiflu, the purported antidote to the flu, especially a possible avian flu pandemic - and Bush's bioterrorism plan includes forced tamiflu drugging. Don't build that immigration wall at the border - with this kind of coming Police State we need to escape!

Shell Game actually is a new novel in which NeoCons detonate an A-Bomb in America, to blame Iran and justify an expansion of Empire. In a radio interview to boost sales, the author stunned the host with new evidence about the tragic 9/11 Coverup.

As the majority of Americans who doubt the veracity of the 9/11 Commission Report grows to an even higher percentage, we can expect the FBI to testify, like it did yesterday, that "in the future" we'll obey the law when spying on Americans without warrants, but that up until now we haven't been able to, "for national security" reasons. Could they be spying on dissidents, progressives and libertarians? Nah, "It Can't Happen Here!"

To stem independent thinking, the State long has seen government schooling as key. California courts just ruled as criminal the schooling at home of children. Mises' Tom Woods warned about this result, in quoting a 19th century Big School activist. Woods, by the way, recommends a great reminder of our Constitution, politically-incorrect style.

Meanwhile, the immigration controllers and healthcare/development do-gooders are making havoc for this Ghanaian doctor in Maryland. Hey activists, nationalists and medical protectionists: humans have a right to go where they please on Earth! If Africans want their entrepreneurs to stay, they need to limit their governments' rapaciousness, as Alvaro Llosa wrote similarly for Latin American development. And when poor foreigners try to trade, as the Palestinians try to do in this example, to pull themselves out of misery, they are blocked by Imperial puppets. Another way Elites torture the world's poor is via its Drug War, which among many problems, denies opioid medicine to relieve pain. Now these internationalists want to deny the ancient coca leaf for South Americans. A client, Pain Relief Network, just lost a court case to protect access to pain medicine, but this gardening supplier is now free - after a decade in prison for selling the wrong kind of lightbulbs.

To cure this mess, to right the reversed world, a book has been released, "The Revolution: a Manifesto". Leading the needed revolution will be attendees of this weekend's "Organized Resistance" conference. With American's mood at its lowest point since 2002, if now's not the time for change, when is?

Maybe McGovern can lead the new libertarian revolution.

Enlightened people realize Government is a creature of the powerful, and thus do what they can to box it in (as our Founders tried with the Constitution). Government, however, demands to be fed, on behalf of its powerful controllers who use govt to consolidate oligopolic control. So when the Central Banks around the world facilitate Takeovers disguised as bailouts, let us be honest about what's really happening. We may seek freedom from Government, but the beast is hungry to feed on us. Reason's collected nice criticism of the Bear Stearns bailout.

Quick advice: with economic implosion, it's not too late to diversify your assets into EuroPacific Capitol, whose owner Peter Schiff argues here against Wall Street's Arthur Laffer. Schiff is a protege of "investment biker" Jim Rogers, a contrarian commodities bull who just said we "should abolish the Fed!" And this Video at the recent Austrian Scholars Conference got rave reviews.

Many entrepreneurs - some geniuses and others billionaires - did fine without govt schooling. Sufficient internet research enlightens one about the dangerous nature of government schooling. So perhaps more and more parents will free their kids, allowing them to self-design a superior education experience. We also need to free the kids from forced drugging from vaccines - here's the FTC petition to protect us from false vaccine advertising.

While setting kids free from govt education makes sense, why can't progressives understand that freedom to choose healthy lifestyles must include all other health freedoms, in order to have a better health system? After opposing govt interference in natural supplements, for example, the Organic Consumers Assoc makes the opposite recommendation for overall health reform: ceding health care to the govt (universal health care). For systems to improve, they must be freed from all govt subsidies and interference. I have a medical savings account with catastophic insurance, and I eat an alkaline diet and do kundalini yoga every morning - that's one secret of healthy living. If we repealed the FDA and USDA, repealed state benefit mandates, repealed state prohibitions on out-of-state insurance purchasing, and forced price disclosure on the part of hospitals and doctors, the health system would become more innovative and cheaper as well.

Part of health freedom is the right to medicine when in pain, but when the Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing last Wednesday on addiction, they ignored the crisis in pain management, as testified by a client, the Pain Relief Network.

The Whole Foods chain has done more than any entity in cleaning up peoples' diets and environmental behavior. Markets work: even today, Pepsi announced it would replace its poisonous high fructose corn syrup with cane sugar. As a yogi I hate chemicals in food, but as a libertarian I fear ceding power to government to do something about it. Private property rights - for waterways - would do so much also to save the environment, particularly in terms of over-fertilization or govt subsidies for energy alternatives like ethanol or electricity.

Government is government, whether it's killing foreigners in unnecessary wars or smothering incentives with regulations and welfare. And yet not only do people seem to have no problem with a govt takeover of healthcare, but also they still seem unconcerned about the growing Police State:

Pity America's poor civil libertarians. In recent weeks, the papers have been full of stories about the warehousing of information on Americans by the National Security Agency, the interception of financial information by the CIA, the stripping of authority from a civilian intelligence oversight board by the White House, and the compilation of suspicious activity reports from banks by the Treasury Department. On Thursday, Justice Department Inspector General Glenn Fine released a report documenting continuing misuse of Patriot Act powers by the FBI. And to judge from the reaction in the country, nobody cares.

Reason's Sanchez slams wiretapping here. If someone thinks security is better than liberty, he probably also worries not at all about the "law of unintended consequences." Very few understand, for example, that the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act can result in non-animal protesters being labeled, fined and jailed as "terrorists".

As Big Brother prepares to crack down on U.S. dissidents, it will be harder for individuals to defend themselves if the Supreme Court decides, based on tomorrow's oral arguments, that the Appeals Court was wrong to overturn Washington, D.C.'s gun ban. If this ban doesn't violate our 2nd Amendment Right to Defend ourselves from criminals or govthugs, what does? Without defense, we'll be treated as this suspect was, in rendition flights for torture in anonymous dungeons.

In addition to having force as a way to assert constitutional rights, juries need to nullify laws if prosecutors or judges try to imprison citizens with unconstitutional laws. But trying to assert this jury right is next to impossible, as you can see with this awful peer pressure here.

Dissidents overseas suffer in the worst way. Pity the Dalai Llama's Buddhist monks, being oppressed by China's government; or the Iraqi translators, denied entry into the U.S. because they're needed to "build democracy in Iraq". But wait, here's a Senatorial candidate seeking an end to U.S. embargo against Cuba. Will voting for this candidate matter? Emma Goldman says if doing so made any difference, "voting would be illegal." Next up for imperial brutality is Iran, with Air Force General Fallon no longer around to stop the march. But this March 19, anyone can march in front of the IRS, to protest War.

To help yourself assert your Freedom, imagine how you'd react if personally meeting Ayn Rand. And going further into history, NBA legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar blogs how my hero, Thomas Jefferson, was a hypocrite for excluding his slaves from his opposition to slavery - in the words of that time's DeVinci: a freed slave named Benjamin Banneker. But history is full of foul imperialists too; John Adams was not among them.

Four years from the Mayans' end time, 2012, let's hear Art Bell's interview of Graham Hancock, an ancient mysteries investigator. Apparently our solar system will pass the galactic center in that year's winter solstice (December 21), exposing the Sun to extreme energy; the Sun, in turn, will reflect some of that energy towards Earth, changing our polarity, and much more, perhaps. That, or nothing happens. Or maybe we shouldn't care, at least this month, as March Madness brings us our annual college basketball tournament fun.

Plus, the fourth and final Battlestar Gallactica series is about to begin! (Speaking of outer space, here's Exopolitics' Alfred Webre interviewing Stephen Greer about the UN Conference on Disclosure - will ETs be part of our life in a few years? apparently so, specifically in 2013).

According to Yogi Bhajan, people are supposed to raise their consciousness via kundalini yoga or some similar spiritual discipline, to survive the 2012 transition and prosper in the Aquarian Age. Christians can start on this journey by learning about their spiritual sage, St Francis of Assisi, as former Soviet Premier Gorbachev has done. Back to space, yesterday Arthur C. Clarke, the great SF writer who helped develop space communications and travel, passed away - he saw religion as evidence of humanity's infancy.

Narayan the Face Reader said the Powermongers would amass as much control as possible as the Piscean Age comes to an end (in 2012). And that they would fight like hell, like cornered tigers, to protect their gains. One aspect of control comes from buying off the intelligentsia; indeed, this interview shows how taxpayer funded research tends to brainwash scientists into an innovation-threatening conformity. And with this enforced conformity, some congresscritter now is proposing funding FDA salesmen visiting doctors to give "unbiased" info, to counter the "biased" info of Big Pharma reps.

And the scientists are ganging up on simple, effective drugs, like opioids for pain (such as Oxycontin); but Reason's Jacob Sullum writes that Prohibition has no basis in science. Whether it's scientists behaving like nazis, or Drug Warriors ravaging the lives of pain patients, government is getting out of control. But when reformers try to uncover government abuses with FOIA requests, there is less sunshine on govt now than ever.

It's not like the Powermongers are amassing power just now, as 2012 approaches. Since time's beginning the Governing Class has abused the majority, often with the approval of the Sheep-like masses. Ike warned us against this Military-Industrial Complex, perhaps because he knew that WWII was not as necessary as the conforming majority insists? Of course, if you discuss the crime FDR committed in withholding foreknowledge of Pearl Harbor from his Hawaiian military officers, or if you study the problems in the 9/11 Investigation, as Obama's Rev Wright did (and as this Japanese politician is doing), you get attacked as a bigot by the NeoCon Axis. [And speaking of Japanese, it turns out that next door in Korea, that country had a classical liberal worth praising back in the 1700s.]

On the 5th anniversary of the West's immoral and counterproductive preemptive attack on the sovereign nation of Iraq, the usually great George Mason economist, Walter Williams, falls into a jingoistic, nationalistic frenzy with respect to fear of "IslamoTerrorism". How pathetic. As Rose Wilder Lane wrote in her 1943 classic, "Discovery of Freedom," the safest place to be for a dissident, during the Dark Ages Millenium from 500 AD until 1500 AD, was in the Islamic Empire, from Spain to Central Asia's Samarkand. Yesterday 200 peaceful anti-Iraq War dissidents were arrested, when protesting in front of the IRS. (And Oklahoma, a conservative state, may jail these CONSERVATIVE activists, for, well, activism).

The best defense against terrorists or criminals is commerce, to build wealth which decreases the demand for redress of greivances. The second best defense is being armed with a gun; but Alex Jones disagrees with libertarians who seem confident that the Supreme Court has the necessary 5 votes to overturn D.C.'s gun ban.

To protect your assets as the New (information/gnossis) Age starts, Investment Biker author Jim Rogers discusses investing in "things," while abolishing the Fed Reserve, which Robert Novak castigates here for entering new territory with its unauthorized bailout of an investment bank. For those laughing at gold's sudden minor reduction, dont' be fooled! (But Gary North does suggest an exit strategy for gold). And here's the Times urging caution before joining Rogers in buying up commodities.

To save the environment, which apparently is going to hell as 2012 arrives, from Big Business polluters, the solutions touted by Big Environment usually fail - witness ethanol. Now, the Prius Car does just as poorly. As I often recommend, property rights and restitution are the environment's best friends, as Mary Ruwart ("Healing Our World" author) can explain. McCain's worldwide "cap-and-trade" system is a govt effort, and thus is doomed to failure.

One of the most shocking revelations of our supposed modern world is that more humans suffer as slaves than ever before. Will they be free by 2012? Only with free trade, in my opinion (which is a prerequisite to building a middle class, which is a prerequisite to building a broader array of small businesses, which will need to pay labor, thus cutting slavery). If we accepted Mencken's definition of slave, we'd have even more than the referenced report.

Let's forget about the Powermongers' march to 2012 for a month, though, as we watch 20 year olds try to win basketball games.