Archive for July, 2009
Military Deployment in US for Swine Flu?
“The U.S. military wants to establish regional teams of military personnel to assist civilian authorities in the event of a significant outbreak of the H1N1 virus this fall, according to Defense Department officials.” http://edition.cnn.com/2009/US/07/28/military.swine.flu/
The proposal is coming from U.S. Northern Command’s Gen. Victor Renuart, who was recently assigned his own full Army Brigade which began its first deployment inside the US on October 1 2008. This is a violation of the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878. The Posse Comitatus Act was started to limit the powers of the federal government to use military forces on American streets, because thats a short road toward totalitarianism. http://www.armytimes.com/news/2008/09/army_homeland_090708w/
The government is already preparing for a massive vaccination campaign against the H1N1 flu, including setting up vaccination clinics in your childrens’ schools. This, even though officials have stated in their own words that the swine flu is currently no worse than the seasonal flu. The plan is to fast track the vaccine production and have it ready for release by October with minimal testing. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090710/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_swine_flu
Short term testing on vaccines rarely catch long term side effects, and limited test groups make the validity of the testing even worse. The current proposed test group only includes “as many as 1,000″ and will not be finished with test results before the vaccine is released in October.http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/07/25/swine.flu.vaccine.volunteers/
As the government saw with the last swine flu vaccination campaign in 1976 and more recently with the Gardasil vaccine (only 1,200 tested), the harmful side effects of vaccines can be much worse than expected. http://articles.latimes.com/2009/apr/27/science/sci-swine-history27 or http://www.nvic.org/Downloads/NVICGardasilvsMenactraVAERSReportFeb-2009u.aspx
And now, due to the fact that the World Health Organization has listed the swine flu as a pandemic, this opens up the federal government and President Obama to the possibility of utilizing the “emergency actions” powers listed in Presidential Directives NSPD-51 & HSPD-20. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Security_and_Homeland_Security_Presidential_Directive
1 comment July 31, 2009
It’s really hard listening to these 2 idiots, but at least they are talking about.
Add comment July 30, 2009
Barney Frank discusses H.R. 1207: The Federal Reserve Transparency Act of 2009
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US citizens must take front line in national security: Napolitano
By Sebastian Smith (AFP) – 4 hours ago
NEW YORK — A top US domestic security chief called Wednesday on ordinary citizens to join law enforcement bodies in fighting an increasingly elusive — and homegrown — terrorist threat.
“We need a culture of collective responsibility, a culture where every individual understands his or her role,” Janet Napolitano, secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, said in a speech in New York.
Referring to a spate of arrests around the country of US citizens and residents charged with jihad-type militancy, Napolitano said that ordinary people were often the first line of defense.
In just the latest case, seven people were arrested Monday, including an American-born Muslim convert and his two sons living in a quiet North Carolina suburb.
Napolitano stressed she was not advocating “a culture of spying on one another,” but said that crucial intelligence came from the bottom up.
“You are the ones who know when something is not right in your community,” she said.
“Arrests have been made in places like Minneapolis and North Carolina, so I think better education about the depth of the threat is important.”
Napolitano, also due to visit Ground Zero, site of the devastating September 11, 2001 terrorist attack on Manhattan, said in her speech at the Council on Foreign Relations that modern communications have sharply increased the sophistication of threats.
“The tools for creating violence and chaos are as easy to find as the tools to buy music online or restocking inventory,” she said. “If 9/11 happened in a web 1.0 world, terrorists are certainly in a web 2.0 world now.”
That growing elusiveness is what requires a “much broader society response,” she said, calling even on children to join an effort previously shouldered by police and other security services.
“There’s actually an important role we can play in educating even our very young about watching for, and knowing what to do, if you’re in an airport and you see a package left with no one around,” she said.
She insisted that President Barack Obama’s administration was committed to repairing the erosion of civil liberties that took place under his predecessor, George W. Bush.
“We have to be careful,” she said. “That’s a balance to be struck.”
An example, she said, was the need to respect mosques and other Islamic institutions.
“We have to be very careful about profiling a religious institution just as we have to be careful about profiling individuals,” she said. “We have to be very, very careful about interfering with the free exercise of religion.”
Even as US troops become increasingly mired in fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan, attention is building on violent plots hatched within US borders — often led by US citizens or residents.
The Washington Post on Wednesday described the chief suspect in the North Carolina arrests, Daniel Boyd, as the son of a US marine who had a “typical American childhood” in suburban Washington, DC.
This week, a New York court unsealed a confession made in January by a Long Island man, Bryant Vinas, who says he joined al Qaeda to attack US forces in Afghanistan and had plotted to attack a New York commuter train.
In May, five Miami men found guilty of plotting to blow up the Sears Towers in Chicago, which just this month was renamed the Willis Towers.
Also in May, four New York men — three of them US citizens — were arrested on charges of trying to blow up synagogues and destroying a US military plane.
Copyright © 2009 AFP. All rights reserved.
Add comment July 29, 2009
Alan Grayson grills Ben Bernanke on Foreign Lending
Alan Grayson, a Florida Democrat who has been very critical in the past of Fed actions takes it to Bernanke today regarding foreign central bank lending. If the 90 or so Democratic cosponsors of Ron Paul’s HR1207 bill doesn’t convince you that Fed transparency is bipartisan then Grayson’s grilling of Bernanke should.
What I find especially horrid about this is that the U.S. is bankrupt and the Fed is not only printing money and handing it out to U.S. financial institutions, but is handing it out to foreign central banks so they can hand it out to their own financial institutions. Meanwhile the value of the dollar takes more of a hit exacerbating the “hidden” inflation tax on every person in the world who holds dollars.
Editor’s note: Barney Frank, chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, has no idea when the Federal Reserve was established.
Add comment July 22, 2009
Jesse Ventura: They Spent 100 Million Dollars Investigating Clinton But Only 4 Million On 9/11!
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TIM GEITHNER REFUSES TO ANSWER BRAD SHERMAN’S QUESTION!!! SUPPORT H.R. 1207 AUDIT THE FED
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Facts on the Fed in 7 Minutes
The Federal Reserve is one of the most powerful and secretive institutions in Washington, long considered beyond the reach of lawmakers. But now, as details emerge of how the Fed secretly doled out more than a trillion dollars during the financial crisis, a rare bipartisan movement in Congress demands that the Fed be held accountable.
Add comment July 15, 2009
More of the Same (Russia Covering Our News AGAIN!)
Barack Obamas indefinite detention claim, coupled with the enemy combatant right he inherited, enables him to lock up any US citizen forever without a trial, author and political consultant Naomi Wolf told RT.
Add comment July 14, 2009
I’m on a Michael Scheuer kick! Conversations With History w/Michael Scheuer
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Bill Maher interviews Michael Scheuer
Former director of CIA’s Bin Laden Unit interviewed on Real Time with Bill Maher (09-21-2007). Includes a bonus shout out to Ron Paul, a smackdown to US policies in the Middle East, and a heated discussion on Israel. A little something for everyone.
Add comment July 2, 2009
Our Governing Elite Does Not Care About The Future Of America! – Michael Scheuer
Man, Glenn Back is such a dumbass. However, at least he admits that he is gullible and has a hard time seeing the truth.
Add comment July 2, 2009
