Joe Rogan on Alex Jones : What The Hell Has Happened to Our Country?

Gerald Celente on King World News 9.24.09

Sign of the Times

More Power for the Fed

This might be the main reason I never supported Obama. His loyalty to the banksters. More of the same ol’ folks! The only change you got was speaking ability and skin color.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=105507546&sc=fb&cc=fp

Joined by Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and other top financial advisers at the White House, Obama proposed giving the Federal Reserve more authority to regulate bank holding companies and other large firms whose failure could endanger the U.S. economy. He also called for creation of a new agency that would oversee credit and lending practices, protecting borrowers from entering into the types of risky loans that resulted in the nationwide housing crisis.

This is common sense, you don’t give the guys that screwed things up MORE power and you can’t SPEND YOUR WAY OUT OF DEBT. Someone get Obama a dunce cap! And, look, I know he’s not stupid, so just write sell out punk bitch on it.

Can’t you answer just ONE question Kashkari!

SPIN SPIN SPIN SPIN!

It’s sickening to me how the media has spun those stories about the tea baggers or whatever they’re called Right Wing Domestic Terrorist Extremists of a new Al Queda America (Hitler did the same shit w/his media outlets whenever someone opposed the Nazi party – ironic how history repeats itself). I thought FOX was the big spinners???? Which they still are, but CNN and MSNBC showed off their skills as well this week. I was impressed. This country is so fucked and misinformed when it comes to real journalism. Russia Today is actually one of my favorite new sources, they seem to understand America better than our own MSM. However, I’m happy to see people are finally taking to the streets. The complacent was really starting to work my nerves. I mean the war based on a lie, no Bin Laden (or charges for Bin either), bailouts, people are finding out about the Fed, no M3 reports, massive spending, NAFTA, weak borders, firing CEOs, GITMO, 2 trillion and counting in taxpayer money gone and no accountably!?!?!? Come on, Washington! First, no accountability for the Bush admin and their torturing practices and now none for the spending?

Like I was saying… SPIN SPIN SPIN SPIN!

Demonizing Americans

Get em’ Savage!

Even Olbermann is turning on Obama!

Howard makes some great excuses. “It’s the politics” “The don’t want to antagonize the intelligence community”

Glenn Greenwald
Salon
April 8, 2009

Several weeks ago, I noted that unlike the Right — which turned itself into a virtual cult of uncritical reverence for George W. Bush especially during the first several years of his administration — large numbers of Bush critics have been admirably willing to criticize Obama when he embraces the very policies that prompted so much anger and controversy during the Bush years.  Last night, Keith Olbermann — who has undoubtedly been one of the most swooning and often-uncritical admirers of Barack Obama of anyone in the country (behavior for which I rather harshly criticized him in the past) — devoted the first two segments of his show to emphatically lambasting Obama and Eric Holder’s DOJ for the story I wrote about on Monday:  namely, the Obama administration’s use of the radical Bush/Cheney state secrets doctrine and — worse still — a brand new claim of “sovereign immunity” to insist that courts lack the authority to decide whether the Bush administration broke the law in illegally spying on Americans.

FULL READ HERE:
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/04/06/obama/index.html

More from Russia Today:

Bullshit Caption

Really? Anarchist? Really? Because they are upset at the G20? Geez. We are living in 1984.

Controlling the Farms

Another reason to hate the police

“I don’t want to believe it.” Sounds like the same shit people say about 9/11 being an inside job.

The Real I.D. is coming back?

Bill Seeks To Withhold Highway Funds To States Who Don’t Comply With Real ID

Harold Gray
JustGetThere
February 23, 2009

A new amendment has been introduced that would coerce states to transform their drivers licenses into national ID cards or loose highway funding from the government. The Real ID Act, signed by former President George Bush in 2005, would create a nationwide database interlinked with every DMV across the country. Once implemented, it would prevent any citizen to enter any federal building, airport, open a bank account or any other action that is federally regulated. The bill was passed in a questionable manner, secretly tacked on to a must-pass appropriations bill funding the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Without any congressional debate, the passage of this bill created massive public backlash which lead to several internet campaigns seeking to repeal the act.

Currently, 21 states oppose the Real ID federal mandate that would require states to spend billions collectively, in order to fulfill all the requirements. The vehement opposition by the states has forced the government plan to be pushed back to 2010. Now that many states are in the midst of a revenue downturn, a new Real ID amendment, H.R. 140, has been introduced. Sponsored by Congressman Elton Gallegly from California, the amendment seeks to do the following:

To withhold certain highway funds if a State does not comply with certain requirements in issuing a driver’s license or identification card, and for other purposes.

(1) CALENDAR YEAR 2010- For calendar year 2010, 2 percent.

(2) CALENDAR YEAR 2011- For calendar year 2011, 4 percent.

(3) CALENDAR YEAR 2012- For calendar year 2012, 6 percent.

(4) CALENDAR YEAR 2013 AND EACH CALENDAR YEAR THEREAFTER- For calendar year 2013 and in each calendar year thereafter, 8 percent.

Increasing legislative actions by federal government to exert control over states has kick started a fast growing movement of states claiming sovereignty under the Tenth Amendment. Well over 21 states have introduced legislation asserting their sovereignty, just recently Minnesota and Texas followed suit.

The people and states make up this union, and should have the final say about this personal database being created and stored on the pretense to make us safe. The idea of a national database which includes all of our personal data that could be readily accessed and abused by one bad apple in the government, is not a representation of the freedom that our founders had in mind when forming this great nation under our beloved Constitution.

FULL READ HERE:
http://www.infowars.com/bill-seeks-to-withhold-highway-funds-to-states-who-dont-comply-with-real-id/

Citigroup Banks Fall for $27 Million Nigerian Email Scam

by Tim Stevens, posted Feb 23rd 2009 at 3:37PM

Over the years, we’ve covered many, many Nigerian scams — the sort where you’ll get an e-mail out of the blue indicating that someone in Nigeria (or another nearby country) will wire you some amount of money if you give them your account information. Naturally, these hackers are just trying to rip you off, and we’re hoping that you’re wise to their game. We’re horrified to learn that officials at Citibank, however, have not wised up, acting on fake letters as if they were real, and actually wiring money to a series of accounts without proper authorization.

The scam was perpetrated by 37-year-old Paul Gabriel Amos, a Nigerian citizen living in Singapore. With the help of fraudulent documents, Amos asked Citibank to transfer $27 million from a Citibank account held by the National Bank of Ethiopia into 24 different accounts around the world, all of which he and fellow scammers controlled. Amos’s misdeeds were thankfully detected, albeit after the transfer was complete; he was arrested when flying into Los Angeles, and is currently being held after being denied bail by a federal judge in Manhattan. If convicted, he could spend the next 30 years in jail.

As for Citibank, well, we guess its latest misstep will just be covered by taxpayer-funded bailouts!

Why don’t they grill the bankers like this?

Why don’t they grill the bankers like this? Oh, because they don’t want to “back talk” their masters.

Why did give the auto-makers them the money anyway?!?!?!?! We KNEW they were going to fail regardless!

Obama’s Broken Promises

1. Make Government Open and Transparent
2. Make it “Impossible” for Congressmen to slip in Pork Barrel Projects
3. Meetings where laws are written will be more open to the public
4. No more secrecy
5. Public will have 5 days to look at a Bill
7. We will put every pork barrel project online

This is great!

City of Chandler gets less than 15% of traffic-photo fines

Megan Boehnke – Feb. 13, 2009 08:20 AM
The Arizona Republic

It may be painful to write a $210 check to Chandler, courtesy of that photo of you zipping down Arizona Avenue.

But it would be a mistake to think the Police Department or anyone else in the city is raking in money from its photo-enforcement program.

After state and court fees were removed, the city brought in just more than $50,000 last fiscal year. The money is earmarked by the City Council for traffic safety programs. Less than 15 percent of the money from violators’ fines came back to the city.

Records are not available on how many photo-enforcement tickets were issued during fiscal 2008. Between November 2007 and November 2008, the city issued about 16,000 tickets for photo enforcement violations.

Money from the tickets has been spent on such items as the speed reader boards that the City Council, in 2007, decided to purchase and place in front of cameras to warn drivers how fast they’re going. The rest goes to other traffic programs such as jaywalking education, according to an April 28 City Council memo.

That revenue number compares to the $4 million generated by the state since its highway program expanded last fall, sparking fiery debate over the state’s motives for installing the cameras. That money goes to a Photo Enforcement Fund that is subject to legislative appropriation.

Since the start of the legislative session last month, numerous bills have been introduced to put an end to photo enforcement on state highways, including one that made it out of committee and is headed to a floor debate in the state House of Representatives

Although the bill would overturn the DPS program, it would not affect city-run programs, which in Chandler would include red-light and speed-on-green cameras in 12 intersections.

Police and city officials say Chandler’s programs are strictly for the safety of drivers. And although no studies have been done to show a decrease in accidents – mostly because of other variables such as an increase in population and the widening of intersections that would also influence accident numbers – anecdotally, police officers say they’re responding to fewer calls.

That is especially the case at Arizona Avenue and Warner Road, an intersection that had one of the highest accident rates, Officer Scott Williams said last month. That intersection has had a “significant decrease,” he said.

The new stimulus package was passed the same way the Patriot Act.

The new stimulus package was passed the same way the Patriot Act.

I thought we were going to see a more TRANSPARENT Government? Again, we do see the CHANGE?

MORE HERE:

Will the stimulus actually stimulate? Economists say NO!

By Kevin G. Hall | McClatchy Newspapers

WASHINGTON — The compromise economic stimulus plan agreed to by negotiators from the House of Representatives and the Senate is short on incentives to get consumers spending again and long on social goals that won’t stimulate economic activity, according to a range of respected economists.

“I think (doing) nothing would have been better,” said Ed Yardeni, an investment analyst who’s usually an optimist, in an interview with McClatchy. He argued that the plan fails to provide the right incentives to spur spending.

“It’s unfocused. That is my problem. It is a lot of money for a lot of nickel-and- dime programs. I would have rather had a lot of money for (promoting purchase of) housing and autos . . . . Most of this plan is really, I think, aimed at stabilizing the situation and helping people get through the recession, rather than getting us out of the recession. They are actually providing less short-term stimulus by cutting back, from what I understand, some of the tax credits.”

House and Senate negotiators this week narrowed the differences between their competing stimulus plans. In so doing, they scrapped a large tax credit for buying automobiles that would’ve caused positive ripple effects across the manufacturing sector. They settled instead on letting purchasers of new vehicles deduct from their federal taxes the state and local sales taxes on the cars they bought.

The exception to this is for buyers of plug-in hybrids, cars that run off a battery that can be charged at home or in the office. Buyers of these vehicles, available in very limited supply, could get a tax credit of up to $9,100.

A Republican-backed proposal that would’ve provided a $15,000 tax credit to first-time homebuyers also was scaled back dramatically. Instead, the compromise provides first-time homebuyers a tax credit of up to $8,000, and it doesn’t have to be repaid over the life of the mortgage. Incentives already in place offer buyers a $7,500 credit that must be repaid, so the bill is an improvement, but short of what many economists think is necessary.

Another reason that some analysts frown on the stimulus is the social spending it includes on things such as the Head Start program for disadvantaged children and aid to NASA for climate-change research. Both may be worthy efforts, but they aren’t aimed at delivering short-term boosts to economic activity.

“All this is 25 years of government expansion jammed into one bill and sold as stimulus,” said Brian Riedl, the director of budget analysis for the Heritage Foundation, a conservative policy research group.

The view wasn’t much more supportive on the other side of the political spectrum. In a brief on the stimulus compromise, William Galston, a senior fellow at the center-left Brookings Institution and a former Clinton White House adviser, warned Thursday that a bank-rescue plan being finalized will make the $789 billion look like “pocket change.”

“While the stimulus bill is a necessary condition for economic stabilization and recovery, it is hardly sufficient,” Galston wrote. “As the lesson of Japan in the 1990s shows, fiscal stimulus without financial rescue yields stagnation — at best.”

” . . . Serious observers believe that recovery cannot begin until we acknowledge that losses in the financial system amount to some trillions of dollars, rendering many institutions insolvent. The temptation will be to muddle along, hoping that these institutions can gradually regain strength without putting massive amounts of taxpayers’ money at risk. If we go down that road, we are likely to end up with zombie banks whose balance sheets are riddled with near-worthless investments — banks that cannot lend to credit-worthy customers and who cannot trust one another,” Galston wrote.

With the economy in a tailspin, doing nothing isn’t an option, however.

“Something is better than nothing, and bigger was better than smaller in terms of the stimulus needed,” said Chris Varvares, president of prominent forecaster Macroeconomic Advisers in St. Louis. “The economy needs a fiscal jolt.”

Even some proponents of a stimulus are disappointed, however. Harvard University economist Martin Feldstein, a former adviser to President Ronald Reagan, was an early supporter. He said that government is now the only engine left to spark economic activity, but he said that the compromise falls short of what’s needed.

“If the choice is between the current bill and an improved bill, I would say wait and improve the bill,” Feldstein told CNBC on Wednesday after the compromise was announced. “I am disappointed with the structure of this bill.”

Like Yardeni and other analysts, Feldstein wanted more incentives for consumers to make big purchases that have ripple effects across the economy. When a car is purchased, it helps not only the carmaker, but its suppliers, the trucking companies and railroads that transport cars, the states that issue license plates and so on.

Still, could this stimulus get the U.S. economy back on its feet?

By itself, probably not. The stimulus plan, however, is supposed to work in tandem with new efforts by the Treasury and the Federal Reserve to rid banks of distressed assets that are poisoning their balance sheets, and with other federal efforts to halt mortgage delinquencies and foreclosures. Much will depend on the details of both federal attack plans, which the Obama administration promises are coming soon.

There’s also the problem of time. Much of the stimulus is to be spread over a two-year period or longer — and 2009 looks increasingly bleak.

A Wall Street Journal survey of 52 mainstream economic forecasters published Thursday found that while most forecasters still think there could be slow growth by the second half of the year, that won’t offset steeper-than-projected declines in the first half of 2009.

That means this is essentially a lost year for the economy. Most scenarios envision the economy picking back up again next year.

The president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, in a speech in Detroit Thursday, tried to put a brave face on the tough year ahead. Thomas Donohue acknowledged that big business didn’t get in the stimulus bill some of the tax-relief measures it most wanted, but promised the Chamber’s support.

“The bottom line is that at the end of the day, we’re going to support the legislation. Why? Because with the markets functioning so poorly, the government is the only game in town capable of jump-starting the economy,” Donohue said.

FROM HERE:
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/227/story/62082.html

Patriot Act – NOBODY READ IT!

Tasers CAN kill

OHIO COP TASERED HANDCUFFED FEMALE

I’ve added a new category – Police Brutality

I like the sound of this caller

Scaring people is not leadership

President Obama has been “AWOL” in negotiations over the economic stimulus package, Sen. Lindsey Graham said Thursday in a scathing rebuke of the new president.

The South Carolina Republican told FOX News that Obama has not been providing leadership, and he criticized the president for giving TV interviews and writing an editorial touting the package, rather than addressing the complaints of lawmakers.

“This process stinks,” Graham told FOX News, before repeating a lot of his criticisms on the Senate floor. “We’re making this up as we go and it is a waste of money. It is a broken process, and the president, as far as I’m concerned, has been AWOL on providing leadership on something as important as this.”

Republican senators and congressmen have been reluctant to direct any criticism at the president since his inauguration. They mostly have fired shots at Democratic leaders in the House and Senate, saying they have obstructed the bipartisan process Obama sought.

But Graham broke that practice after Obama granted a round of interviews defending his plan Tuesday and wrote an op-ed in The Washington Post Thursday in which he warned of disastrous consequences if Congress does not pass the stimulus bill.

“Scaring people is not leadership. Writing an editorial that if you don’t pass this bad bill we’re going to have disaster — we’ve had enough presidents trying to scare people to make bad decisions,” Graham said.

“I like President Obama, but he is not leading. Having lunch is not leading … and doing TV interviews is not leading.”

Obama renewed his plea for the bill at the Energy Department Thursday, shortly after Graham spoke.

“The time for talk is over. The time for action is now,” Obama said.

Obama, in his op-ed, wrote that inaction could lead the economy into an irreversible decline.

“Because each day we wait to begin the work of turning our economy around, more people lose their jobs, their savings and their homes,” he wrote. “And if nothing is done, this recession might linger for years. Our economy will lose 5 million more jobs. Unemployment will approach double digits. Our nation will sink deeper into a crisis that, at some point, we may not be able to reverse.”

FROM HERE:

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/first100days/2009/02/05/graham-says-obama-awol-stimulus-debate/

Nothing like hitting a woman!

Police dash cam:Recently released video:From the video captured by two Millville Police car dashboard cameras, emerge two very different versions of what happened in the pre-dawn hours of February 3, 2008.

The just-released video is at the center of a lawsuit in which Sheila Stevenson, 42, claims she became the victim of excessive force, after then-Millville Police Officer Carlo Drogo pulled her over for illegally riding her bicycle on a sidewalk.

In the course of trying to handcuff Stevenson, the video shows Drogo as he sprays himself in the face with pepper spray and she appears to push him. Drogo then appears to knock Stevenson to the ground to subdue her. Drogo is seen, seemingly doubled over in pain, as other officers arrive.

I am not doing nothing, Stevenson screamed on the video.

Put your hands behind your back, one of the other officers ordered.

Can you not do this? Im not doing nothing! Im not doing nothing, she wailed.

Seconds later, Drogo approaches Stevenson again and appears to punch her four times.

Why are you hitting me? Youre hitting me! Why are you hitting me? Stevenson cried out. Why did you hit me and Im handcuffed?

Stevenson was eventually led away by officers and put into a police cruiser. She was later convicted of resisting arrest.

Stevensons civil suit, filed in Cumberland County Superior Court in December, names Drogo, other Millville Police officers and the city of Millville as defendants.

Stevensons lawyer would not comment on the case, nor would Millvilles Police chief, citing pending litigation.

Drogo resigned from the police department in October for undisclosed reasons. He would not talk with NBC 10 News on-camera, but issued a statement in which he stood by his actions and called Stevensons allegations a distortion of the facts.

Drogo also insisted the arrest was lawful and described Stevensons lawsuit as frivolous.

Meanwhile, theres now a warrant out for Stevensons arrest on drug possession charges, stemming from her encounter with police that was caught on camera.

Another Day, Another Obama Nominee with “Tax Problems” That’s 4 now!

First, I must say I love my country and the behavior it promotes. I’m calling for a tax revolt this year!

Reuters
February 5, 2009

A Senate committee on Thursday abruptly postponed a vote to confirm President Barack Obama’s labor secretary nominee following a news report that her husband may have tax problems.

A joint statement from the Senate Labor Committee’s Democratic chairman and its top Republican made no mention of the report in the USA Today newspaper.

But they said the indefinite delay was to “allow members additional time to review documentation submitted in support” of the nominee, Democratic Representative Hilda Solis of California.

USA Today reported on Thursday that Solis’ husband paid about $6,400 on Wednesday to settle tax liens that had been outstanding for as long as 16 years against his business.

This week has already seen two of Obama’s high profile nominees withdraw from consideration due to tax issues — Tom Daschle, who Obama had picked to head the Department of Health and Human Services, and Nancy Killefer, Obama’s choice to oversee budget and spending reform.

FULL READ HERE:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090205/pl_nm/us_obama_labor;_ylt=A0wNcxNRRYtJEB0BIRtZ.3QA

I’m sorry, but this is just stupid

Folks,

The Barack admin is nothing more than the closing pitcher (or clean up batter) for the Bush admin. They are coming in to further the destructive agenda that has been in place for decades. The BO admin’s agenda is to (I suspect) is to destroy the dollar and break the bank – creating choas and what comes from choas bigger Government and more laws. Also, one the currency is destoryed we can have an Amero or even better in the eyes of the owners a GLOBAL currency. YIP PEE!

Example of the nonsense: In BO’s stimulus package he intends to spend $75 million for anti-smoking ads. Yet for his child healthcare plan he plans to raise taxes on a pack of cigarettes by .61 cent.

Now, I know I’m not as smart as BO, but that doesn’t make any sense!

“Obama said its going to create jobs and yet only 7% goes to infrastructure for this year,” Paige construed. “The rest of it’s going into more government programs; there are fine noble causes,” she noted, specifically mentioning a $400 million HIV awareness campaign and $75 million for anti-smoking ads–”but why is this in a stimulus package? They just loaded it up with pork,” she concluded.

FULL READ HERE:
http://www.hispanicbusiness.com/news/2009/1/30/will_the_stimulus_package_stimulate.htm

To offset the nearly $33 billion cost of the program, Obama will also raise taxes on tobacco by 61 cents, some say disproportionately on the middle class and low income Americans.

FULL READ HERE:
http://www.examiner.com/x-2888-World-News-Examiner~y2009m2d5-Obama-subsidizes-child-health-care-by-raising-taxes

Burn em if you got em!

Not looking much better Obama (again)! 2

Tom Daschle issues apology for failing to pay taxes

Daschle says he is ‘deeply embarrassed’ by what he calls ‘errors’ that led him to miss $128,000 in owed taxes. Obama says he ‘absolutely’ still supports Daschle for Health and Human Services post.

By Michael Muskal

11:42 AM PST, February 2, 2009

Tom Daschle, the onetime majority leader of the U.S. Senate who has been nominated to become secretary of Health and Human Services, apologized to his former colleagues today for failing to pay more than $128,000 in owed taxes.

In a letter to the Senate Finance Committee, which is considering the nomination, Daschle wrote that he was embarrassed by the disclosures. He sought to explain how he had overlooked taxes on additional income for consulting work and how he had initially failed to pay taxes on the use of a car service.

“I am deeply embarrassed and disappointed by the errors that required me to amend my tax returns,” said Daschle, who had expected to have smooth sailing through the confirmation process in the Senate. “I apologize for the errors and profoundly regret that you have had to devote time to them.”

Daschle is expected to appear before the Finance Committee meeting in closed session this afternoon. He recently filed amended tax returns for three years and paid $128,203 in back taxes and $11,964 in interest.

FULL READ HERE:

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/washingtondc/la-na-obama-cabinet3-2009feb03,0,5899446.story

A letter to Obama from Cynthia McKinney

President Obama, Don’t Become Complicit in Their Crimes!

On Thursday, January 29th, I sent President Obama this message:

“Mr. President: The Bush Administration lied to the people in pursuit of war. As a result, at least one million Iraqis and thousands of U.S. soldiers are dead. Thousands more are maimed. The stature of the U.S. is severely damaged. The U.S. Constitution is in shreds after signing statements, wiretaps, and torture. Your obligation is to investigate and bring to justice those who violated U.S. and international law, such as the torture treaty. Failure to do so makes you complicit in their crimes.”

On Wednesday, January 28th, I sat in front of the television and I couldn’t believe what I was hearing.  Exactly what I’ve been saying, myself.  But it was coming from an unexpected source:  the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture, Manfred Nowak.  I wrote down every word.  He said that the United Nations has proof that former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld knowingly approved of torture as a policy for the United States.  He said that President Barack Obama has a responsibility to investigate and prosecute those who condoned, conducted, or approved of torture.

Further, Jonathan Turley, in an MSNBC interview stated that if Obama fails to investigate or prosecute that he would be an “accessory.”

This is significant.  It means that all of us, sadly, were right to pursue impeachment of the key figures in the Bush Administration.  Impeachment was the Constitutional imperative; but the Constitution didn’t mean anything to either the Republican or Democratic national leadership.

And to think, on this day filled with impeachment news, Nancy Pelosi took impeachment “off the table” for this cast of villainous characters.  I never will forget watching Rocky Anderson, former Mayor of Salt Lake City, say on national television that Nancy Pelosi should be impeached for impeding impeachment.  But Nancy Pelosi isn’t the only one who obstructed justice.

In fact, how could Dick Durbin and Harry Reid, so voluble in standing up to Roland Burris because he was Governor Blagojevich’s pick for Obama’s vacated Senate seat, sit as quiet as church mice in the face of repeated calls for impeachment because of the reckless criminality of the Bush Administration?

And now, we have the United Nations tell us the equivalent of “Houston, we have a problem.”

Some of us knew all along, from the very beginning, that the Bush Administration was the quintessence of election theft, graft, corruption, and war criminality.  Some of us recognized early on that our struggle was “against principalities, against powers, . . . against spiritual wickedness in high places.”  It is impossible to “go along and get along” with illegal and immoral acts.  But that is exactly what the national leadership of this country asked us all to do, and that is exactly what they did.

Dr. King was confronted with the expediency of staying on the civil rights track, remaining with his friends in the civil rights movement, or doing what his conscience impelled him to do.  That’s when he made his famous statement, that popular chroniclers of Dr. King seem to have forgotten:

“When I first decided to take a firm stand against the war in Vietnam, I was subjected to the most bitter criticism, by the press, by individuals, and even by some fellow civil rights leaders. There were those who said that I should stay in my place, that these two issues did not mix and I should stick with civil rights. Well I had only one answer for that and it was simply the fact that I have struggled too long and too hard now to get rid of segregation in public accommodations to end up at this point in my life segregating my moral concerns.”

Dr. King had to leave behind some of his best friends in the movement when he decided to speak out against the Vietnam War.  Dr. King could have bowed to the pressure and stayed in his “civil rights” lane.  But he knew that the war was wrong and he had to use every fiber in his being to stop it.  Even his life, itself.

One of the first underreported acts of President Obama was to sign an order continuing the drone airstrikes, resulting in at least 22 killed so far.  For the dead children of Afghanistan or Pakistan or Gaza, it doesn’t matter to their parents if the bomb was dropped by Bush or Obama or the client state they support.  And President Obama has made it clear that the bombs will continue to drop; it is up to us–the people of the United States–to stop them.  That’s why it was on my birthday, in front of the Pentagon in 2007, that I declared my independence from every bomb dropped, every child killed, every veteran maimed in the name of U.S. wars.  I said it, and I meant it, and I knew I was going to have to do something I’d never done before if I was ever going to have something I’d never had before.  So I left the Democratic Party.

I don’t regret my decision one minute.  I draw my strength from Dr. King, who in his own way, did the same thing when he refused to segregate his moral concerns.

My neighborhood in Los Angeles, Watts and South Central, is already a police state.  Tonight, 25 to 30 young black men, standing handcuffed, outside the barber shop.  Every night, routine dehumanization is carried out in black and brown neighborhoods by LAPD.  I see it.  I never miss it.  It’s all around me.

Oscar Grant murdered in cold blood by law enforcement.  Robert Tolan, murdered in cold blood by law enforcement, for driving his father’s car, mistaken for stolen.

Filiberto Ojeda Rios assassinated by the U.S. government; I met his wife and heard the entire story of what happened as he was shot by the FBI and then bled to death.

Innocent black and brown and poor white men on death row.  How many Troy Davises and Mumia Abu Jamals will we allow to exist in our country?

Native Americans trying to survive despite genocide and ethnic cleansing, struggle against drug and alcohol abuse and poverty, and try to keep their culture alive.

And yet the likes of Harry Reid, Dick Durbin, Nancy Pelosi, and now Barack Obama say nothing about the pain I see on the mean streets and reservations across our country, and the miscarriages of justice that are its regular feature, but they allow Bush and company to get away with the highest of crimes, involving millions of deaths.

In each of these writings, I ask you, too, to write to the White House and let them know that you exist.  We didn’t recruit President Obama to run, so I am clear on the limitations of a White House letter writing campaign.  But trust me, our collective efforts will congeal into the movement for dignity, real peace, and true justice that we so desperately need for ourselves and the rest of the world.

Stimulus/Inflation package not transparent?

One damn freedom at a time!

Sorry for the language but this is getting ridiculous!!!!

FREE COUNTRY MY ASS!?!?!?!?!?! THIS IS NOT FREEDOM and don’t give me that bullshit that I should be happy I was born here.

The police state is here! I mean…. FOR REAL…. it’s like George Orwell’s 1984! When is enough ENOUGH!?!??!?!

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court ruled Monday that police officers have leeway to frisk a passenger in a car stopped for a traffic violation even if nothing indicates the passenger has committed a crime or is about to do so.The court on Monday unanimously overruled an Arizona appeals court that threw out evidence found during such an encounter.

The case involved a 2002 pat-down search of an Eloy, Ariz., man by an Oro Valley police officer, who found a gun and marijuana. A bag of fucking weed and a gun?!?!?!?! I thought we were still allowed to carry weapons?

The justices accepted Arizona’s argument that traffic stops are inherently dangerous for police and that pat-downs are permissible when an officer has a reasonable suspicion that the passenger may be armed and dangerous.

The pat-down is allowed if the police “harbor reasonable suspicion that a person subjected to the frisk is armed, and therefore dangerous to the safety of the police and public,” Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said.

The case is Arizona v. Johnson, 07-1122.

Excuse me, am I hearing this shit right?

Wasn’t this supposed the era of post-racialism? Robert Reich apparently didn’t get that message. In his appearance before Congress on structuring the stimulus plan on January 7th, Reich suggested that the package discriminate against white male workers:

I am concerned, as I’m sure many of you are, that these jobs not simply go to high-skilled people who are already professionals or to white male construction workers.  … I have nothing against white male construction workers.  I’m just saying that there are a lot of other people who have needs as well. … Criteria can be set so that the money does go to others, the long term unemployed minorities, women, people who are not necessarily construction workers or high-skilled professionals.

Basically, Reich wants Congress to create some means testing that doesn’t explicitly keep stimulus funds from paying the salaries of white males.  He suggests that the lawmakers create “criteria” that will have that effect in practice without being crass enough to say, No Whites Need Apply.  Congress has done this in milder form for the last few decades by mandating set-asides for women- and minority-owned businesses in government contracts, but even those don’t require the businesses to refuse to hire white male construction workers.

This sounds a lot more like a paternalistic welfare program than a real effort to improve American infrastructure.  We’re building roads and bridges for all Americans, using tax money from all Americans.  Everyone should have equal access to the jobs created by this stimulus plan.  What Reich proposes is flat-out official racism by government, refusing to hire people on the basis of their skin color.  Didn’t our last election demonstrate a rejection of that kind of thinking?  And note that Reich offers the racist rationalization that he doesn’t have anything against white male construction workers.  Maybe some of his best friends are white male construction workers, too.

Nancy Pelosi defends why taxpayers are now paying for abortions.

Now I would like to preface that BO did some pretty good things last week w/his EO reversals. I was sincerely impressed. However, I didn’t like that on Friday Obama lifted a ban on federal funding for international groups that promote or perform abortions.

MORE HERE:
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/01/19/sources-obama-may-use-executive-order-reverse-abortion-policy/

Or Fox News for those that don’t like CNN you ol’ Silly Billys!:

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/first100days/2009/01/23/obama-lift-ban-overseas-abortion-funding/

I look at it like this, people are going to get abortions. Sorry “conservatives” it’s true. People are going to do whatever they want. However, I don’t want to pay for it. If you’re going to have careless sex or your kid is having CARELESS sex…

THEN YOU PAY FOR IT SON!  I AM NOT YOUR FATHER!        = )

Besides, didn’t Bush AND Barack tell us that we’re broke and on the verge of suffering “dire consequences?”

I really DON’T like her.

Cops. I just don’t like em

Folks,

Believe it or not I got both of these stories yesterday from two people that don’t even know each other.

Believe this or not the New World Order is here and these are their thugs. Killing people with no legit reason and using their tasers for kicks.

Perhaps every cop that uses a taser should be tased 8 times, then hit them w/pepper spray as they are being wrestled to the ground w/each limb held by a different person? That way they might use their conscience next time.

1. These cops are a disgrace to the tainted uniform they wear!!! “Why are you still shocking him!?!??!” Yeah, really why? He was already on the ground and you had 4/5 thugs on him already.

http://www.tmz.com/2009/01/06/caught-on-tape-cops-attack-actors/

2. Calif. cop shoots apparently helpless man in the back “First, an officer grabbed Oscar by the neck and pushed him against the wall,” the Oakland Tribune quoted her as saying. “Oscar didn’t fight him, but he didn’t go down either. He was like, ‘What did I do?’ Then another officer came up with his Taser and held it right in his face. Oscar said, ‘Please don’t shoot me, please don’t Taser me, I have a daughter,’ over and over again, real fast, and he sat down.”

FULL READ & VIDEO HERE:

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Video_shows_police_shooting_man_laying_0105.html

Illegal license plate covers in AZ

All,

This past Saturday I was the first that I know of to be pulled over on the most ridiculous AZ law yet. In case you haven’t heard there is a new law banning license plate holders. You know the license plate holder that states your MSU alumni, or “I’d rather be fishing” or I risked my life for this hypocritical bullshit country (army, marines, navy, etc.). I know, I know. It’s VERY hard to believe in a free country you can no longer have a license plate holder. Thing is maybe 8 of every 10 vehicles have these covers by default. They come by default when you purchase your vehicles or perhaps you are just showing some pride?

License-plate frames that celebrate your favorite college or sports team become illegal next month if the frame obscures the state’s name.

Starting Jan. 1, police can stop you if “Arizona” isn’t clearly visible at the top of the plate. Violators will be fined an average of $135, plus court fees, depending on the city where the violation is discovered.

Law-enforcement officials say the law will help officers differentiate between in-state and out-of-state vehicles, a difficult task given the state’s profusion of specialty plates. Arizona issues license plates in more than 60 styles, from a plate honoring amateur radio operators to one that promotes wildlife conservation.

Bullshit! 9 out of every 10 license are the same cactus sunset scene!

More Here:
http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2008/12/10/20081210platecover1210.html

Lately as I drive the freeways and highways of Arizona I have worn my hood over my face or held my hat up to cover my face so the camera can’t see me. This guy took it a step further:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX9_Y_-Vk6k&feature=channel Check the pic for my new “Sunday Drive” attire.

I know, the simple answer is just to drive 10 mph under the speed limit and come close to causing an accident like every other scared Arizonian. But I can’t. It’s a simple matter of principle here. We’re going 100 mph towards east Berlin or George Orwell’s 1894 and I don’t like it. I was brainwashed another story when I was going up – that we live in a free country! So I’m gonna keep fighting the good and just fight.

I wrote Fascism on the ticket because a (foreign) corporation is calling the legislative shots here. I suspect this law was passed so a license plate cover wouldn’t block the license plate as they attempt to record you information to send you a bullshit photo radar ticket.

Is it just me or is this ridiculous!?!?!?!?!

India blamed Pakistan and I knew it was going to unfold

I knew it, as soon as India blamed Pakistan, I knew we would jump on board to help them invade, place sanctions or do whatever else India wants to do to further irritate the people of the middle east (our self-created enemy). It’s a simple equation; with an enemy comes fear, with fear people are willing to give up there civil liberties/freedoms and as a bonus you get a war which translates to $$$. Here comes another bullshit war or at the very least will send more Americans to die or have their lives ruin in a far off country that did not hate us prior to our invasions.

Rice ‘pushed’ the Pakistani leaders to move against the perpetrators of the terror strikes warning that ‘otherwise, the US will act,’ the ‘Dawn’ reported on Saturday.

The clear message was conveyed to Pakistan’s top leadership by Rice during her brief stopover in Islamabad on Thursday, diplomatic sources said, giving credence to the report.

Rice said that there was ‘irrefutable evidence’ of the involvement of Pakistani elements in the Mumbai attacks, the sources said.

She travelled to Pakistan after a visit to India, where she was shown the extensive evidence gathered by investigators to prove the linkages between the Mumbai attackers and Pakistan-based elements, especially the banned Lashker-e-Toiba terror group, the sources said.

FULL READ HERE:
http://www.infowars.com/?p=6399

McCain warns Pakistan of Indian strikes
Indian Express
December 7, 2008

US Senator John McCain has said he believes that if Pakistan does not act against individuals and groups linked to the Mumbai Terror attacks, it could be a “matter of days” before India carries out surgical strikes against such elements.

Bohemian Grove

The Bohemian Club’s all-male membership includes artists, particularly musicians, as well as many prominent business leaders, government officials (including many current and former U.S. presidents), and senior media executives.^[3][4] As a measure of the club’s exclusivity, it is reported the waiting list for membership is from 15 to 20 years. While a fast-track, three-year membership process is possible, two current members must sponsor the prospective member. An initiation fee of $25,000 (as of 2006) is required in addition to yearly membership dues. Elected members are allowed to prorate the initiation fee into equal annual payments until they reach the age of 45.

Members may invite guests to the Grove although those guests are subject to a screening procedure. A guest’s first glimpse of the Grove is typically during the “Spring Jinks”, in June, preceding the main July encampment. Bohemian club members can schedule private day-use events at the Grove any time it isn’t being used for Club-wide purposes, and are allowed at these times to bring spouses, family and friends, though female and minor guests must be off the property by 9 or 10 p.m^.

After 40 years of membership the men earn “Old Guard” status, giving them reserved seating at the Grove’s daily talks, as well as other perquisites.

The Grove motto is “Weaving Spiders Come Not Here”, which implies that outside concerns and business deals are to be left outside. When gathered in groups, Bohemians usually adhere to the injunction, though discussion of business often occurs between pairs of members.^[2] Important political and business deals have been developed at the Grove.^[5] The Grove is particularly famous for a Manhattan Project planning meeting that took place there in September 1942, which subsequently led to the atomic bomb. Those attending this meeting, apart from Ernest Lawrence and military officials, included the president of Harvard and representatives of Standard Oil and General Electric. Grove members take particular pride in this event and often relate the story to new attendees.

McKinney Prevented From Leaving U.S.

How is a women that just ran for president not allowed to leave the country? She was on the damn ballot!

Former Congresswoman and presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney has been prevented from leaving the country after she planned to give a speech in Damascus Syria at a Conference being held to commemorate the 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Has McKinney been put on a terrorist watch list merely for speaking out in support of 9/11 first responders and passionately questioning the official 9/11 story?

“Today, November 23rd, I was slated to give remarks in Damascus, Syria at a Conference being held to commemorate the 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and, sadly, the 60th year that the Palestinian people have been denied their Right of Return enshrined in that Universal Declaration. But a funny thing happened to me while at the Atlanta airport on my way to the Conference: I was not allowed to exit the country,” writes McKinney.

“I do believe that it was just a misunderstanding,” she adds, though why a well known former Georgia congresswoman who represented Atlanta, the city in which she was born, would not be allowed to board a plane raises disturbing questions.

Has McKinney been put on a terrorist watch list merely for speaking out in support of 9/11 first responders and passionately questioning the official 9/11 story?

As many will recall, McKinney was perhaps the first major public figure to doubt the official version of events way back in 2002, which at the time was tantamount to treason.

McKinney has since become a vocal advocate for the 9/11 truth movement and appeared at numerous 9/11 truth conference and events.

She also made headlines for attempting to get answers on what had happened to $2.3 trillion dollars that was quietly declared “missing” from the Pentagon budget the day before 9/11.

McKinney was set to travel to Damascus to give a speech about the ailing plight of Palestinians and the Israeli lock down of Gaza, which is preventing Palestinian citizens, half of them children, from getting access to basic staples such as food, fuel and medical supplies, but Uncle Sam stopped her from doing so.

A misunderstanding? This is not the first time McKinney has been apprehended by the authorities. In April 2006 a Capitol Police officer prevented McKinney from entering a House office building when she did not present identification. Capitol police immediately apologized to McKinney after the incident, but the officer in question later claimed that McKinney had hit him. The fact that McKinney was not arrested on the spot for assaulting a police officer strongly suggests that assault claim was concocted or exaggerated.

I don’t like her or her MANDATORY healtcare plan

Clinton unveils mandatory health care insurance plan. Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Hillary Clinton announced a $110 billion health care reform plan Monday that would require all Americans to have health insurance.

Hillary later remarked that anyone wishing to opt out of such a system would have their wages “garnished”. When pressed on ABC’s This Week, earlier in the year, Hillary said: “I think there are a number of mechanisms” that are possible, including “going after people’s wages, automatic enrollment.” I like what Moynihan says, U.S. Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan added “anyone who thinks [the Clinton health care plan] can work in the real world as presently written isn’t living in it.”

Clinton’s package would also require insurers to provide coverage for anyone who applies for it and would also bar insurance companies from charging people with greater health care costs more for their premiums.

I have a solution, let’s keep the Clinton’s out of the white house!

Shit, that was one of things I was thinking of cutting if shit hits the fan.

FULL READ HERE:
http://edition.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/09/17/health.care/index.html
http://www.infowars.com/?p=6077

It’s time for another socialist bailout in the name of failure!

All,

It’s time for another socialist bailout in the name of failure! So let’s call our bullshit congressmen and women and tell them what we really think. I suggest hitting your thumbnail w/a hammer as hard as you can before you call so that way you are really pissed and don’t forget to use a lot of cuss words! Before I get into the AZ socialists I would like to provide Dennis Kucinich and Ron Paul’s phone numbers in the case that you want to call them and thank them for NOT VOTING for the first failed bailout. I mean, you got to be a RETARD to not see that coming! This is effecting everyone NOW and I think you can all see that. Take some time, get involved! What’s 5 minutes?

FYI: I called all the numbers provided to make sure my message got through.

Dennis:
216-252-9000
http://kucinich.us/index.php

Dr. Paul:
Phone Number: (202) 225-2831
Phone Number: (979) 285-0231
http://www.house.gov/paul/

McWar’s Info:
Phoenix Office:
5353 North 16th Street Suite 105
Phoenix, AZ 85016
Main: 602-952-2410
Fax: 602-952-8702

Tempe Office:
4703 South Lakeshore Drive Suite 1
Tempe, AZ 85282
Main: 480-897-6289
Fax: 480-897-8389

Tucson Office:
407 West Congress Street Suite 103
Tucson, AZ 85701
Main: 520-670-6334
Fax: 520-670-6637

Washington Office:
241 Russell Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
Main: 202-224-2235
Fax: 202-228-2862

John Kyl’s Info:
WASHINGTON, D.C. OFFICE
730 Hart Senate Building
Washington, D.C. 20510
Phone: (202) 224-4521
Fax: (202) 224-2207

PHOENIX OFFICE
2200 East Camelback, Suite 120
Phoenix, Arizona 85016-3455
Phone: (602) 840-1891
Fax: (602) 957-6838

“A race w/time” – Dennis

End the Fed – Next Weekend 11/22/08

In an effort to get everyone on the same page and to make this rally a great success, I am cross-posting this announcement to various groups. We need your participation and we seriously need more internet chatter promoting it!

This is a nationwide rally to “END THE FED” on Saturday, November 22, 2008 at ALL of the Federal Reserve Banks across the country. Please check out the following sites and sign up – you will find event info and group organizers specific to your city:

http://restoretherepublic.net/home.php
(Scroll down to the End The Fed info)

http://endthefed.us/index.php

http://endthefedusa.ning.com/

http://www.meetup.com/End-The-Fed/

The numbers of folks signing up could be much higher. Share these links with your local Meet-Up groups and every other pro-Constitution, anti-big government group you belong to! Don’t take it for granted – they might not otherwise know! I know of several people who would be interested in this, but don’t spend a lot of time surfing the ‘net, (I’m sure you do, too) so I’m sending them an email directly. It is important to get this information to as many people as possible RIGHT NOW, so please take time and make the effort to pass it along. Don’t assume that folks already know. Sharing is caring!

Since ending the Federal Reserve system is one of the main objectives of Paul supporters and Nader, McKinney, and Baldwin all agreed on the 4 Points as well, reach out to those third party supporters for their participation, too.

Point #4 was this: The Federal Reserve: We seek a thorough investigation, evaluation and audit of the Federal Reserve System and its cozy relationships with the banking, corporate, and other financial institutions. The arbitrary power to create money and credit out of thin air behind closed doors for the benefit of commercial interests must be ended. There should be no taxpayer bailouts of corporations and no corporate subsidies. Corporations should be aggressively prosecuted for their crimes and frauds.

Anyone who can’t make it to a Fed Bank city could organize local rallies at State Houses, Town Halls, parks, corporate banks that received bailout money, etc. Get creative.

The time is now, so let’s make this thing a success! Pass it along & I’ll see you there!

Income Tax Truth from Tom Cryer

Attorney, Tom Cryer, won a unanimous NOT GUILTY verdict in federal district court defeating the IRS’s claim that Tom “willfully” failed to file federal income tax returns. Tom refused to file tax returns because the IRS could not show him any law making him liable for ‘filing’ a tax return.

HIS SITE:
http://www.truthattack.org/

Washington’s $5 Trillion Tab

I feel like the $700 billion bailout was just another distraction so we would be stuck on that number. Because we all know it’s much much more. Read this Forbes article for more info.

Elizabeth Moyer, 11.12.08, 05:15 PM EST

Fighting the financial crisis has put the U.S. on the hook for some $5 trillion a report says. So far.

For all the fury over Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson’s $700 billion emergency economic relief fund, it seems downright puny when compared to the running total of the government’s response to the credit crisis.

According to CreditSights, a research firm in New York and London, the U.S. government has put itself on the hook for some $5 trillion, so far, in an attempt to arrest a collapse of the financial system.

FULL READ HERE:
http://www.forbes.com/business/2008/11/12/paulson-bernanke-fed-biz-wall-cx_lm_1112bailout.html