See, unfortunately, the thing is, the title is not very sensationalist.  Throughout the course of his Senate testimony, Secretary of Defense Panetta very clearly establishes that:

1) The President and the US military specifically do not "take orders" from the American people via their elected members of Congress.
2) They merely "inform" the Congress of any wars they participate in.
3) But before doing so, they seek "permission" from international bodies like the UN and NATO.
4) The UN, NATO or an "ad-hoc coalition of nations" gives the US military the "legal basis" to attack third parties.

So, the obvious questions here are:

1) Who does Obama "take orders" from?
 and
2) If UN "permission" provides Obama the "legal basis" to attack anyone, why not the US?

Here's the pitch I would make to a billionaire, since I happen to have been thinking about this for a little while --

Peg Bitcoin to a basket of physical commodities.

Just as an experiment.  Bitcoin has the potential to be the first digital currency that is pegged (by the market even) to a small handful of physical elements.  All it needs is a little push in the right direction by someone with the means and motivation to do so.

Unfortunately I don't know what the consequence (including benefit) of this would be.  I couldn't really say how to monetize this idea.  I can see how it might be profitable.  It could qualify as philanthropy.  Or it could just end up being a really novel failure.  Regardless, someone should do it.

I mean, if I were a billionaire, I would throw a million dollars at fun ideas like this just to see what happens.  Of course, that's probably one reason I'm not a billionaire...

For those of you too young to know any recent history...

Clinton bombed Serbia in an undeclared "NATO action" during the Kosovo War, citing the typical liberal talking points of international cooperation and peacekeeping.  Republicans feigned outrage at this, warned of international bodies giving orders to the US military, and used it to drum up support for his impeachment.  In '99, candidate George Bush seized the opportunity to campaign on the notion that the US should not be involved in "nation building" and criticized using the military for purposes that did not warrant our strategic interest.  When his father's buddies did 9/11, Bush, poor stooge that he was, apparently felt the best way to uphold this campaign promise was to waste a trillion dollars destroying Iraq, and then simply not re-build it.  To his credit, he did get Congressional approval at least first though.

So, the moral of this story is:  don't vote.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/rss_viewer/birth-certificate-long-form.pdf

Be serious.  This is not a long form birth certificate.  It's a hack job that someone pieced together from a photocopy with some green checkered background.  There isn't even a notary seal.  I can't believe any state would produce something this sloppy.

But the accounting system only accounts for Bitcoins.

You can say that Dollars don't really exist either, since they're just numbers on little pieces of paper, and those papers are "just an accounting system".

As much as I would like to see Alex Jones endorse Bitcoin... the reality is that it probably isn't going to happen.  His largest sponsor is a gold dealer.  And calling in to argue for Bitcoin with "environmentalism" definitely isn't the best approach.  Honestly, I'm not really sure what you're trying to accomplish with this.

Just for anyone who might be new or who might have missed the controversy between TradeHill and Dwolla last summer, this should give you an idea.  According to the datestamp, I made it on July 27th 2011.  That was after reading this thread posted by TradeHill, explaining their side of things.

Over the last year I have designed and prototyped a cost-effective, mid-scale aquaponics-based food production system.  It is sized to either supplement the normal diet of a single person, or to completely support a person on an expedient basis.  It can be scaled up to feed an entire family.

The system was designed with modularity, durability, expandability, automation and cost in mind.

I will soon offer this as a packaged kit deliverable within the 48 states.  The kit includes the equipment needed to raise chickens, tilapia, duckweed, and a small vegetable garden year-round.

I would like to offer them for Bitcoins.

I am seeking one or two investors in order to complete final documentation, create a website and build the first two production units for sale.  Payback would be contingent upon sale of the first two kits, secured by an interest in the unit(s) themselves.

For more information, contact me via PM or e-mail me @yahoo.com.

Edit:
Here is a short video that gives an overview of the system.

Here is an idea that wouldn't require changing everything at once.  For a while, just display two values, "Bitcoins" and "New Bitcoins".  "New Bitcoins" should be at least 100 times larger to avoid confusion.  You could even add Satoshis to be precise.  After a while, just drop "New Bitcoins".

Source?

Okay yes, rejecting legal tender does tend to hinder the imposition of silly notions like the labor theory of value.  I'm sorry to be the one to break this to you, but work does not actually have inherent value.  No one owes you anything for the unproductive work that you perform.

But, no, without legal tender, no one would be forced to work for "altruistic reasons".  People can always perform work that is productive and that returns value.  It should be obvious that, absent some type of forced servitude, no one is forced to work for nothing and I'm not really sure where you got that idea.

It means the market isn't yet big enough to profitably arbitrage between Bitcoin and all the currencies in the dollar index.

LOL no, the gov is not honest about inflation rates.  You just missed a decimal place.

Money is just an asset that is very liquid.  Federal reserve notes are very liquid, but they aren't necessarily assets.  Gold is an asset, but it isn't as liquid.

It's like saying a cocktail must be liquid and alcoholic.  Federal reserve notes are like 3.2 beer.  Gold is like jello shots.

From everything that I have read and seen about this, I haven't found a reason to dismiss it.  There's nothing patently absurd about it, like magnets in a circle or anything.  Fusion is real.  Catalysts are real.  It is plausible that fusion reactions could be catalyzed to occur at low temperatures.  Rossi has a background in synthetic fuels.  So it is reasonable that he would be experienced working with nickel and hydrogen and thermal reactors.  But besides the science, and the multiple recorded demonstrations with people like Nobel committee members in attendance, there is also a huge amount of, shall we say, disturbing circumstantial evidence --

1) Sudden Greek financial troubles, government collapse, riots.  Signs point to an engineered collapse.  First manufacturing plant is in Greece.
2) Potential Italian financial troubles.  Researchers are from Italy, were ostracized from there, and have talked about returning.
3) Potential Spanish financial troubles.  Spain has built a bunch of solar power that won't pay off for decades.  That will turn out to have been a poor investment if this is real.
4) Potential US default.  The US has been used as a global hedge.  And we're sick of it.  Viable small scale power in the US means collapse of the global financial system.
5) A decade of rumors of successful US Navy cold fusion experiments.
6) Two decades of rumors that Pons/Fleischmann was real, and suppressed.
7) The completely irrational push from the top down, over the last decade at least, to subsidize wasteful energy consumption of all types.  Arab states are pumping as fast as they can.  Ones that don't are invaded and deposed.  Mass-produced energy efficient vehicles are torpedoed by government.  Building giant uninsulated houses in the desert is subsidized.  There is no movement on carbon controls.  Nuclear power is demonized.  It makes absolutely no sense.  Global energy consumption is totally unsustainable without some type of breakthrough.  Someone knows more about this than the general public, and probably most of the scientific establishment.

I realize it is counter-intuitive to say that financial collapse is circumstantial evidence of free energy.  But one thing that is important to understand with regards to the global financial system is that, from a macro perspective, it is only profitable to invest in technologies that can be centralized and controlled.  Things like free software, sustainable agriculture and distributed energy production are not good investments, because they cannot be monopolized.  Limited resources can be monopolized.  Centralized power production can be monopolized.  Proprietary software can be monopolized.  Unsustainable real estate development can be monopolized.  Large-scale monoculture farming can be monopolized.

The central banks will throw huge sums of money at these technologies, because they can be compartmentalized, controlled, and used to control people.  They are "low risk".  Distributed, sustainable, integrated technologies are very "high risk", from the perspective of investment banks, since they cannot be controlled as easily.  And, more importantly, because they are liberating to the wage-slaves who comprise the collateral backing the 700-trillion-dollar global debt-based financial system.

There's no reason for it to consume water.  It could be cooled with a car radiator.

Once you get past the annoying production, this video has some good info.  It kind of hits the viewer over the head, but it's mostly just bog-standard patriot crap.

Anybody know the name of the preacher?  He's a fairly well known televangelist guy.  I want to see that entire clip.

Nevermind, found it.  It's Rod Parsley.

When the president does it, that means that it is not illegal.

It's not even economists or traders.  It's bots.

Unfortunately that's pretty much what my Logic 101 class was like.  Any idiot can be a college professor these days.