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  1. The point is being missed by everyone but FeatherFall.

    Just fight for individual rights, and fight anything that violates them! Sheesh! Didn't any of you read Anthem, about the world council and everything? The UN's Agenda 21 is a step, however big, or small or thematic in that direction. And that's always bad, really, really bad. *Glaringly obvious*.

    Work with your local tea party to fight it: find it here: http://www.teapartypatriots.org/local/

  2. As stupid as I think the poster is (Obamacare is Romney's plan, after all), I literally don't know how else to portray a person as a witch doctor, with bones through the nose and extravagant markings like that. A witch doctor is to me a common way to imply bad medicine. I'd have to see more before concluding racist.

    True. It's not racist. It's protest and outrage - against individual rights being violated. We need more of that, in industrial quantities. For more - read the works of Ayn Rand. :)

  3. The movie is quite good by Objectivist standards. The story - full of brilliant minds, and cool machines, and a love of machines, books and people of action, and heroism, and fighting bad guys. Just like the Ayn Rand fans should be. And the movie making - *superb*. Martin Scorsese did an *amazing job*. Acting is wonderful too.

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0970179/

    If you have seen it, or read the book, chime in.

    Again, this is not an Objectivist work; it is overwhelmingly good, but not "perfect" so let's focus on the good qualities here.

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    Speaker Change! Great Program!

    You'll want to hear:

    • Pamela Geller - Fox News contributor, creator of the Atlas Shrugs blog (visit http://r20.rs6.net/t...RtbZnXACsQFgg==), and activist best known for her stance against radical Islam
    • Barbara From Harlem - We are grateful to Barbara for stepping in for Sgt. Robert Mansfield who is hospitalized. His campaign for U.S. Congress 2nd District Pennsylvania, is temporarily suspended.
    • "Louise Shilling" - "Editing 2016: Barack Obama's America: My Secret Blockbuster Success"

    NOTE: "Louise Shilling" is a pseudonym. To avoid professional

    backlash, Dinesh D'Souza's film editor does not use her real name to

    speak about her real views -- or her very real professional success.

    DATE: Monday, Sept. 24th

    TIME: 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm

    Snack service ends at 7:05 pm; program begins at 7:15

    VENUE: Eamonn's Bar and Restaurant

    9 East 45th Street - NYC

    ADMISSION: $10 in advance*; $15 at the door - Snacks included

    Click to pre-pay:
    http://gothamteaparty.com/sept-pae

    Questions? Email [email protected]

    ___________________

    * We cannot refund prepaid admissions.

    Gotham Tea Party's mission: Help elect representatives who believe in our Founders' timeless principles of constitutional and limited government, fiscal responsibility, free markets.

  5. About the murders at the U.S. embassies in the Middle East -

    http://news.yahoo.co...6--finance.html

    Those of who care for freedom and a safe America - get active. Where Reason ends, violence begins. And there is A LOT of non-Reason in America today.

    Get active - the life you save could be your own - since we are all Ayn Rand fans.

    Find your local Tea Party here: http://www.teapartypatriots.org/

    NYC Tea Party: http://gothamteaparty.com//home?sid=13.

    The Ayn Rand Institute's 'What Can I Do?' page: http://www.aynrand.o...te_arc_activism

  6. If you are not already active, involved with the Tea Party, get involved. Totalitarianism is made one step at a time. Obamacare mandate, SCOTUS ruling and now this:

    New York OKs nation's first ban on super-sized sugary drinks

    http://news.yahoo.com/york-oks-nations-first-ban-supersized-sugary-drinks-154425573--sector.html

    Get active.

    Find your local Tea Party here:

    http://www.teapartypatriots.org/

    Recommend Atlas Shrugged to everyone, and read the ARI's 'What Can I Do?' page:

    http://www.aynrand.o...te_arc_activism

  7. NYC Meeting - Junto:

    For those who are not familiar with it, Junto is a 30+ year old monthly discussion group in New York City. On 9/6/12, Gary Johnson will be speaking, as well as Richard Kostelanetz. This is an unusually exciting meeting, though a good time is had at them all. I hope you can come.

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    From: nycjunto.org <[email protected]>

    Subject: Second speaker added to next Junto meeting

    Date: Tuesday, August 21, 2012, 8:34 AM

    NYCJUNTO.ORG A monthly meeting with a focus on libertarianism, Objectivism, and investing Masthead_Franklin_email_700.jpg

    Second speaker added to next Junto meeting

    NYC Junto Newsletter

    written by Iris Bell on Aug 20, 2012

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    Contents

    * NEW Junto meeting September 6, TWO SPEAKERS

    * Upcoming Junto speakers through November

    * NYCjunto-discuss list

    * About this newsletter

    **************************************************

    Junto is a group that shares information,

    discusses current issues and presents speakers

    SECOND SPEAKER ADDED:

    8:00pm to 9:00pm

    Gov. Gary Johnson

    Libertarian Party candidate for President

    He’ll update us on his campaign and answer questions.

    9:00pm to 10:00pm

    Richard Kostelanetz

    The fall and rise of New York Rockaways

    Thursday, September 6

    Admission Free -- No reservation necessary

    * We'll socialize from 7:00pm to 7:30pm.

    NOTE, many changes here:

    * People who want to make an announcement or introduce

    themselves should sign up on the sheet at the entrance table.

    * At 7:30pm the moderator, Gene Epstein, will call on people

    who signed up, in order. Each person will have up to

    4 minutes to make their announcement, including taking

    comments and questions about it from the audience.

    * The first speaker will begin promptly at 8:00pm. The talk

    will be uninterrupted.

    People in the audience should take notes for questions and

    discussion afterward.

    * When the questions and discussions begins anyone in the

    audience can have 4 minutes for a discussion or rebuttal

    of the speaker’s points.

    * The second speaker will begin promptly at 9:00pm. The talk

    will be uninterrupted.

    People in the audience should take notes for questions and

    discussion afterward.

    * When the questions and discussions begins anyone in the

    audience can have 4 minutes for a discussion or rebuttal

    of the speaker's points.

    * The meeting will continue to 10:00pm or later.

    General Society Library,

    20 West 44 St., between 5th and 6th Aves., NYC

    near the Grand Central Terminal

    Subway: 4, 5, 6, S to Grand Central -- 42nd St.

    or

    B, D, F, 7 to 42nd Street -- Sixth Ave. at Bryant Park

    or

    A, C, E, N, Q, R, S, 1, 2, 3 to Times Square -- 42nd St.

    Bus: M1, M2, M3, M4, M5, M42, M98, M101, M102, M104, Q32

    Train: MTA Metro-North Railroad to Grand Central

    Car: Some private parking facilities in the area. Parking on

    side streets is metered, limited to specific days and times.

    Please note:

    * Discussions are intense, but polite. Participation by all

    attendees is highly encouraged.

    * Junto meets on the first Thursday of every month.

    8:00pm to 9:00pm

    Gary Johnson, Libertarian Party candidate for President

    He's been an outspoken advocate for efficient government,

    balanced budgets, rational drug policy reform, protection of

    civil liberties, comprehensive tax reform, and personal freedom.

    As Governor of New Mexico, Johnson was known for his

    common sense business approach to governing. He eliminated

    New Mexico’s budget deficit, cut the rate of growth in state

    government in half, and privatized half of the state prisons.

    Mark N. Axinn, Chair, Libertarian Party NY reports the

    party submitted over 26,000 signatures for Gary Johnson and

    Jim Gray, in part because of the support from Junto members.

    Learn more about Johnson at:

    GaryJohnson2012.com

    9:00pm to 10:00pm

    Richard Kostelanetz writes:

    Having published in 2003 a book about a NYC community

    which I'd lived for three decades and knew well, I thought it

    appropriate to write another book, not quite a sequel, about the

    NYC community to which I once planned to move. If my SoHo

    was about the rise and fall of an artists' colony in whose history

    I fully participated, so this sequel would be about a decline that

    preceded my participation in its revival as NYC's premier

    beach town. As in its predecessor, I would combine objective

    description and history with personal experience, establishing

    complementary truths.

    If my SoHo memoir portrayed how an art world developed

    within NYC, but not quite of it, this book portrays a string of

    Atlantic beach towns, a group different from others along the

    East Coast in its incorporation into a great city. (Miami Beach,

    recall, is legally separate from Miami.) I suppose that if the

    development of NYC has proceeded differently over the past

    two centuries, NY could have become not just a port city but

    also a beach city, much like Rio de Janeiro, whose black and

    white mosaic path between the street and the beach became a

    popular promenade for everyone, even businessmen discussing

    deals that are then consummated when someone pulls out some

    paper or, nowadays, a laptop computer for recording details.

    If the libertarian theme of the first book held that an

    industrial slum was transformed not by any city planning but

    the spontaneous collaboration of hundreds of young people

    mostly artists who discovered that industrial spaces could be

    occupied, the theme of my Rockaways is that the central city

    undermined it in various ways after World War II. It is now

    coming back thanks to small entrepreneurs.

    I hope to show in conjunction with my talk to do

    a PowerPoint presentation of historic images from the

    Rockaways. It draws upon my Kindle ebook: " The

    Rockaways: The Fall and Rise of NYC's Beach Towns:"

    tiny.cc/Rockaways

    Richard Kostelanetz is a writer and artist. He often

    attends Junto.

    He's been a contributing/advisory editor of many arts

    journals. He's the author of over fifty books, among them are

    "Political Essays", "Thirty Years of Visible Writing", and

    "More On Innovative Music(ian)s".

    He's also written over three dozen booklets. He's edited

    and introduced over three dozen anthologies and many essays,

    reviews, poems, fiction pieces, experimental prose pieces,

    plays, scenarios, photographs, and numerical art items. In

    scores of publications and places, prominent and obscure

    around the world, he's created theatrical texts, one person

    concerts, texts for composers, choreography scores, one person

    exhibitions of prints, books, drawings, audiotapes, canvases,

    videotapes, photographs and had many retrospectives.

    He's done Hörspiel: extended audio art. He's also created ten

    films, hologram exhibitions and over a dozen extended features

    for radio, plus many lectures and presentations at institutions

    around the world.

    His individual entries on his work in several fields appear

    in various editions of Wikipedia, NNDB.com, Britannica.com,

    Who's Who in Hell, Postmodern Fiction, Contemporary Poets,

    Who's Who in America, Contemporary Novelists, Who's Who

    in the World, Who's Who in American Art, Directory of

    American Scholars, Advocates for Self-Government, Baker's

    Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, Who's Who in U.S.

    Writers, Editors, and Poets, Readers Guide to Twentieth-

    Century Writers, The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of

    Literature, The Facts on File Companion to American Poetry,

    The Chronology of Webster's Dictionary of American Writers,

    The Facts on File Companion to 20th Century Poetry,

    Contemporary Jewish-American Dramatists and Poets,

    The HarperCollins Reader's Encyclopedia of American

    Literature, The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Multiethnic

    American Literature

    Individual entries on Richard's work in several fields appear

    in various editions of Readers Guide to Twentieth-Century

    Writers, Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature,

    Contemporary Poets, Contemporary Novelists, Postmodern

    Fiction, Webster's Dictionary of American Writers, The

    HarperCollins Reader's Encyclopedia of American Literature,

    Baker’s Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, Directory of

    American Scholars, Who's Who in America, Who's Who in

    the World, Who's Who in American Art, NNDB.com, and

    Britannica.com, among other distinguished directories.

    Otherwise, he survives in New York, where he was born,

    unemployed and thus overworked.

    Visit his site:

    tiny.cc/rKosti

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    Visit Junto's site for information on current and past speakers,

    read previous newsletters, to sign up for the Junto enewsletter:

    NYCjunto.com

    Visit Junto on Facebook:

    on.fb.me/JuntoNYC

    Follow Junto on Twitter (we thank Kevin Levine):

    twitter.com/NYCJunto

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    Junto focuses on libertarianism, Objectivism and investing.

    Our founder and host is Victor Niederhoffer.

    Visit his site at:

    DailySpeculations.com

    **************************************************

    Please em-ail the above text to your freedom loving friends

    who might be interested in Junto.

    Feel free to use the above text to promote Junto among

    libertarians, Objectivists and investors.

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    Come to Junto, meet these upcoming speakers:

    * October 4, Gary Hoover, read his bio:

    tiny.cc/HooverBio

    * Nov. 1, Greg Rehmke, program director Economic Thinking,

    programs for high school, homeschool & college. Visit his site:

    tiny.cc/gRehmke

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    NYCjunto-discuss list

    Junto members can discuss Junto speakers and other topics.

    You can read these posts at:

    yhoo.it/JuntoP

    To post to this list you need to be a member of it.

    Become a member at:

    yhoo.it/JuntoD

    or send an email to:

    [email protected]

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    About Junto

    * Gene Epstein moderates Junto. He's the economics editor

    and books editor of Barron's, the weekly business

    magazine, author of "Econospinning: How to Read Between

    the Lines When the Media Manipulate the Numbers."

    * Iris Bell writes this e-newsletter.

    * Oleg Atbashian created NYCjunto.com. He also sends out

    this e-newsletter and cares for its email list.

    * Andy George helps with the sound system and supplies music.

    * Our founder and host is Victor Niederhoffer. Visit his site at:

    DailySpeculations.com

    * This e-newsletter comes out twice a month. You might

    get an occasional extra email about a timely event.

    * To subscribe to this newsletter put "Junto list" in the

    subject line, email your name & preferred email address to:

    [email protected]

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  8. Seeing this thread inspired me to upload this snippet. I was leaning against doing it since it's so insubstantial, but starting from 10 through 20 seconds in you get a good soundbite. Back in 2009 who knows, it could have gone viral. Mix it with Santelli's rant plus I don't know what else and you might have something.

    Holy moly! That's a wow. Ayn Rand and a Tea Party sound bite! :)

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