GM, Amtrak and an Increasingly Fascist America

Dr. Ron Paul
Infowars
June 8, 2009

Last week, General Motors finally declared bankruptcy. Many in government thought $20 billion in taxpayer dollars would save the company, but as predicted, it only postponed the inevitable. The government will dump another $30 billion into GM and take a 60 percent controlling interest for it. Public officials are now involving themselves in tactical business decisions such as where GM’s headquarters should move and what kind of cars it will build.

The promise that this is temporary and will eventually be profitable is supposed to ease the American people into accepting this arrangement, but it is of little comfort to those who remember similar promises when the American taxpayers bought Amtrak. After three years, government was supposed to be out of the passenger rail business. 40 years and billions of dollars later, the government is still operating Amtrak at a loss, despite the fact that they have created a monopoly by making it illegal to compete with Amtrak. Imagine what they can now do to what is left of the great American auto industry!

In a truly free market, GM would get your money one way and one way only – by selling you a car you want, at a price you are willing to pay. Instead, the government is giving public money to a private company in spite of the market signals it has been sending. Throwing money at GM does not stop it from being an engine of wealth destruction; on the contrary, it simply gives it more wealth to destroy.

Had it been allowed to fail naturally, the profitable pieces of GM would have been bought up and put to good use by now. The laid off employees would likely have found new jobs and all that capital would be in private hands, reinvested in companies that produce products demanded by consumers. Instead, we are all poorer now.

Political pressure, rather than the rule of law, is deciding how to divide up the remains of GM. The bondholders had billions in retirement savings invested in the company, and though they were entitled to nearly three times as much as the United Auto Workers, the bondholders were left with just a 10 percent stake compared to the union’s 17.5 percent stake. For their 60 percent stake, taxpayers have a future of constant bailouts to look forward to.

Comingling public control of private business is known as fascism. While today’s politicians may feel emboldened with all their new power, history will only repeat itself as all this collapses on itself. It is the height of hubris for bureaucrats and politicians to attempt to control the market and the freewill of the American people. In the end, the market always wins out. Maybe one day future generations will wise up and allow free markets to function and thrive without the albatross of government around its neck. For now, it looks like those in charge have not learned the lessons of the past, and have doomed us to repeat those mistakes once again.

Ron Paul: No End To Secret Prisons!? Ignoring Habeas Corpus!? No Penalty For Torture!?

What do you think about Obama taxing 90% of the AIG bonuses?

I had several people ask me, “What do you think about Obama taxing 90% of the AIG bonuses? Pretty cool right?”

My thoughts are, Nah, it’s not cool. You’re actually a little late there BO, you shouldn’t have bailed them out in the first place! If you ask me AIG is being parading in the media to misdirect our anger about the bailouts, excessive spending and so-called stimulous packages.

Wake up folks! Barack is screwing you just as much as Bush did. We are being robbed daily in broad ass daylight!

Time for some Q and A:

1. Now, was it Obama who put the tax on or Congress?

2. Does he all the sudden have congress’s power of the purse?

3. Or is he just running rampant like Bush w/exec orders? People need to think about those things, not analyze that which is there to distract them.

Been Thinking Again…

I was thinking this week as I was listening to an interview and came to the conclusion that essentially this summer the American people were HIJACKED by their Federal Government, Wall Street and the Federal Reserve (which is not part of the Gov.).

When pensions started disappearing in the 70s. People were forced to build their own retirement (if they dreamed of retirement) with IRAs, Savings, Money Markets, 401ks, employer matched 401ks and so on. We have been conditioned to invest for ourselves over the past 30 years, because this is the smart thing to do. Just as we were conditioned that renting a home is throwing away your money. In turn, you had all these people saving and building up their retirement funds, just to have it stolen from them by their own Government.

What people need to understand is….

THE MONEY DIDN’T DISAPPEAR. The years of investing did not just go up in smoke, it was drained from the American people and the final heist was taken in a more rapid manner. Wall St., the Federal Reserve and the Federal Gov. got it and it isn’t coming back anytime soon (or possibly ever). When Americans start to figure this out, perhaps we will see some CHANGE. Or perhaps when they figure out that our Gov has bankrupted and enslaved future generations w/these foolish bailouts or so-called “stimulus” spending we’ve seen over the past 6 months from Bush and BO. What’s troublesome is you don’t have anyone in the mainstream media telling you this.

Instead we are getting bullshit unworthy news stories like this: http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2009/03/19/20090319abrk-sweep0319.html

Teen arrested after pot found in locker A 17-year-old Coronado High School student was arrested Wednesday afternoon after a random sweep turned up drugs in a campus locker, police said.A police K-9 team was conducting the drug sweep when the dog alerted officers to a locker in the boy’s locker room. School staff opened the locker and found a backpack that contained two baggies of marijuana, police spokesman Sgt. Mark Clark said. After staff confronted the student, he admitted to having the drugs and buying them off-campus a couple days earlier, Clark said. WHO CARES RIGHT? It’s pot, a harmless plant, not crack. =(

FEMA/Concentration Camps by Halliburton

FEMA COFFINS

Ok, now I don’t believe this is some Bigfoot believing, alien visited nutjob making this shit up.

Since 9/11, and seemingly without the notice of most Americans, the federal government has assumed the authority to institute martial law, arrest a wide swath of dissidents (citizen and noncitizen alike), and detain people without legal or constitutional recourse in the event of “an emergency influx of immigrants in the U.S., or to support the rapid development of new programs.”

Beginning in 1999, the government has entered into a series of single-bid contracts with Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg, Brown and Root (KBR) to build detention camps at undisclosed locations within the United States. The government has also contracted with several companies to build thousands of railcars, some reportedly equipped with shackles, ostensibly to transport detainees.

According to diplomat and author Peter Dale Scott, the KBR contract is part of a Homeland Security plan titled ENDGAME, which sets as its goal the removal of “all removable aliens” and “potential terrorists.”

Fraud-busters such as Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Los Angeles, have complained about these contracts, saying that more taxpayer dollars should not go to taxpayer-gouging Halliburton. But the real question is: What kind of “new programs” require the construction and refurbishment of detention facilities in nearly every state of the union with the capacity to house perhaps millions of people?

Sect. 1042 of the 2007 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), “Use of the Armed Forces in Major Public Emergencies,” gives the executive the power to invoke martial law. For the first time in more than a century, the president is now authorized to use the military in response to “a natural disaster, a disease outbreak, a terrorist attack or any other condition in which the President determines that domestic violence has occurred to the extent that state officials cannot maintain public order.”

The Military Commissions Act of 2006, rammed through Congress just before the 2006 midterm elections, allows for the indefinite imprisonment of anyone who donates money to a charity that turns up on a list of “terrorist” organizations, or who speaks out against the government’s policies. The law calls for secret trials for citizens and noncitizens alike.

Also in 2007, the White House quietly issued National Security Presidential Directive 51 (NSPD-51), to ensure “continuity of government” in the event of what the document vaguely calls a “catastrophic emergency.” Should the president determine that such an emergency has occurred, he and he alone is empowered to do whatever he deems necessary to ensure “continuity of government.” This could include everything from canceling elections to suspending the Constitution to launching a nuclear attack. Congress has yet to hold a single hearing on NSPD-51.

U.S. Rep. Jane Harman, D-Venice (Los Angeles County) has come up with a new way to expand the domestic “war on terror.” Her Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007 (HR1955), which passed the House by the lopsided vote of 404-6, would set up a commission to “examine and report upon the facts and causes” of so-called violent radicalism and extremist ideology, then make legislative recommendations on combatting it.

According to commentary in the Baltimore Sun, Rep. Harman and her colleagues from both sides of the aisle believe the country faces a native brand of terrorism, and needs a commission with sweeping investigative power to combat it.

A clue as to where Harman’s commission might be aiming is the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act, a law that labels those who “engage in sit-ins, civil disobedience, trespass, or any other crime in the name of animal rights” as terrorists. Other groups in the crosshairs could be anti-abortion protesters, anti-tax agitators, immigration activists, environmentalists, peace demonstrators, Second Amendment rights supporters … the list goes on and on. According to author Naomi Wolf, the National Counterterrorism Center holds the names of roughly 775,000 “terror suspects” with the number increasing by 20,000 per month.

What could the government be contemplating that leads it to make contingency plans to detain without recourse millions of its own citizens?

The Constitution does not allow the executive to have unchecked power under any circumstances. The people must not allow the president to use the war on terrorism to rule by fear instead of by law.

Lewis Seiler is the president of Voice of the Environment, Inc. Dan Hamburg, a former congressman, is executive director.

This article appeared on page B – 7 of the San Francisco Chronicle  http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/02/04/ED5OUPQJ7.DTL

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Why isn’t BO shutting shit like this down?

Reminds me of this flick:

A letter from the boss

I’m sure this was written to get a message across, but it’s beautiful and I understand were the writer is coming from.

To All My Valued Employees,

There have been some rumblings around the office about the future of this company, and more specifically, your job. As you know, the economy has changed for the worse and presents many challenges. However, the good news is this: The economy doesn’t pose a threat to your job. What does threaten your job however, is the changing political landscape in this country.

However, let me tell you some little tidbits of fact which might help you decide what is in your best interests.

First, while it is easy to spew rhetoric that casts employers against employees, you have to understand that for every business owner there is a back story. This back story is often neglected and overshadowed by what you see and hear. Sure, you see me park my nice vehicle outside. You’ve seen my big home at previous years Christmas parties and see me go away on incrediable vacations. I’m sure; all these flashy icons of luxury conjure up some idealized thoughts about my life.

However, what you don’t see is the back story.

I started this company 13 years ago. At that time, I lived in a 700 square foot cottage. I lived there for 6.5 years. I traded caretaking services in exchange for living in my cottage. I started my company out of my cottage. I could not afford to rent any space. My first month I grossed $35.00. I earned this by cleaning a house. I spent 6 hours scrubbing toilets and getting on my hands and knees cleaning a kitchen floor that had not been cleaned in months. I was thankful for this job.

My wife and I had a simple diet. We had to be thrifty. We drank a lot of water as we could not afford a simple Coca Cola or an adult beverage. After our first year we could afford to go out on occasional date nights. Our big financial splurge was limitted to $7 at a local Monday Night football special. $1.00 each for hotdogs, a $1 beer for me, $2 Chardoney for my wife and $2 tip for our server as we stretched this food and beverage for four quarters of a football game. Nearly every dollar I earned was reinvested into our tiny start up company. We shared a vehicle. After a year and a half I bought an old beat down Isuzu sedan for $800. I could fold down the back seat, open the trunk and slide in a lawnmower as long as I dissambled the handle. After another year I sold that vehicle and bought an old Jeep Wagoneer wilth no rear glass. The snow would blow through but I could get a lawnmower in easier or a snow blower in the winter time. I did not take any time off. I worked an average of 100 hours per week marketing my company, answering the phone and performing work. I wore every hat.

Most other people I knew had jobs that paid handsomely. My friends worked 40 hours a week and spent every dime they earned. They drove nice cars and lived in expensive homes and wore fancy clothes. Instead of hitting Home Depot for tools I searched garage sales to buy tools. My friends refinanced their mortgages and lived a life of luxury. I, however, did not. I put my time, my money, and my life into a business with a vision that eventually, some day, I too, will be able to afford these luxuries my friends supposedly had. Althought that did not seem important to me. I just wanted to survive. I longed for just a day off. A vacation to me was a simple day off sometime in the future. When I got sick after shoving snow for 15 hours at a time day after day I kept on shoveling. I had a commitment to honor with my customers. I kept on shoveling even when I could no longer feel my arms.

So, while some of you physically arrive at the office at 7:30 or 8am and then leave at 4 or 5pm, I don’t. There was and is no “off” button for me. When you leave the workplace, you are done and you have a weekend all to yourself. I unfortunately do not have the freedom. I eat, and breathe this company every minute of the day. There is no rest. There is no weekend. There is no happy hour. Every day this business is attached to my hip like a 1 year old special-needs child. You, of course, only see the fruits of that garden — the nice house, the nice vehicles, the vacations… You never realize the back story and the sacrifices I’ve made.

Now, the economy is falling apart and I, the guy that made all the right decisions and saved his money, have to bail-out all the people who didn’t. The people that overspent their paychecks suddenly feel entitled to the same luxuries that I earned and sacrificed a decade of my life for.

Yes, business ownership has is benefits but the price I’ve paid is steep and not without wounds.

Unfortunately, the cost of running this business, and employing you, is starting to eclipse the threshold of marginal benefit and let me tell you why:

I am being taxed to death and the government thinks I don’t pay enough. I have California state taxes. Federal taxes. Nevada modified business tax. Property taxes. Sales and use taxes. Payroll taxes, Workers compensation insurance and taxes, Unemployment taxes, local business taxes. Taxes on taxes. Government mandates and regulations and all the accounting that goes with it, now occupy most of my time. I pay more money on taxes than I earn. You know what my “stimulus” check was? Zero. Nada. Zilch.

The question I have is this: Who is stimulating the economy? Me, the guy who has provided 20 some people good paying jobs and serves over 1,200 clients per year with a flourishing business? Me, the guy who created jobs and paid several million dollars in employee pay over the past 10 years? Or, the single mother sitting at home pregnant with her fourth child waiting for her next welfare check? Obviously, government feels the latter is the economic stimulus of this country.

The fact is, if I deducted (Read: Stole) 50% of your paycheck you’d quit and you wouldn’t work here. I mean, why should you? That’s nuts. Who wants to get rewarded only 50% of their hard work? Well, I agree which is why your job is in jeopardy.

Here is what many of you don’t understand … to stimulate the economy you need to stimulate what runs the economy. Had suddenly government mandated to me that I didn’t need to pay taxes, guess what? Instead of depositing that large tax payment into the Washington black-hole, I would have spent it, hired more employees, and generated substantial economic growth. My employees would have enjoyed the wealth of that tax cut in the form of promotions and better salaries. But you can forget it now.

When you have a comatose man on the verge of death, you don’t defibrillate and shock his thumb thinking that will bring him back to life, do you? Or, do you defibrillate his heart? Business is at the heart of America and always has been. To restart it, you must stimulate it, not kill it. Suddenly, the power brokers in Washington believe the poor of America are the essential drivers of the American economic engine. Nothing could be further from the truth and this is the type of change you can keep.

So where am I going with all this?

It’s quite simple.

If any new taxes are levied on me, or my company, my reaction will be swift and simple. I fire you. I fire your co-workers. You can then plead with the government to pay for your rent or mortgage, your SUV, and your child’s future. Frankly, it isn’t my problem any more.

Then, I will close this company down, move somewhere, and retire. You see, I’m done. I’m done with a country that penalizes the productive and gives to the unproductive. My motivation to work and to provide jobs will be destroyed.

If you lose your job, it won’t be at the hands of the economy; it will be at the hands of a political hurricane that swept through this country, steamrolled the constitution, and will have changed its landscape forever. If that happens, you can find me sitting on a beach, retired, with no employees to worry about enjoying a fine cigar…..

Signed,

Your boss

Who Killed The Constitution (1 of 5) Tom Woods

More prospective on walking on your home.

An Open-Letter to My Pro-Obama Friends

By Bretigne Shaffer

(www.bretigne.com) is a writer and filmmaker.  Her weekly Internet TV show “On the Banks” can be seen at www.breakthematrix.com, channel 2 every Friday at 12:00 Pacific Time.

I got a call from one of you the day after the election.  You were so happy.  You had “not been so proud to be an American for… decades!”  You’re living overseas, and you told me about watching the results in a bar with other Americans and how you were all hugging and crying you were so happy.  As I hung up the phone, I found that I felt happy for you too.

Most of you know that I supported neither McCain nor Obama, that I view them as equally opposed to peace and freedom and equally ignorant of sound economic principles.  I wasn’t going to be happy with the election results no matter who won, so I can at least be glad that some of my friends are happy, and I am.  And after his first few days in office, even I have to admit that Obama has done some very good things for which he is receiving well-deserved praise.  It is not my intention to dismiss these accomplishments, nor is it my intent to rain on anyone’s parade.  But I do want to ask you all a big favor.

I’m going to make some predictions about Obama’s presidency.  Essentially, I’m going to predict that four years from now, an Obama presidency will not look very different from the George W. Bush presidency, or from what I imagine a John McCain presidency would bring.  If I’m wrong about this, then I promise that I will re-think my beliefs about our political system and about politics generally.  But if I am right, then I’m asking you to do the same.  I’m asking each of you to consider the seemingly bizarre proposition that there really is no significant difference between candidates offered up by the established party system; that Republican and Democrat are virtually indistinguishable; and that neither party has at heart the interests of you or me or “the American people.”  I’m asking you to consider the possibility that continuing to vote for these people just helps to perpetuate the very ills you seek to cure.

So here are my predictions.  I’m going to leave aside areas such as the environment (I don’t believe that government solutions to environmental problems will help anyone other than special interest groups — many of you probably don’t agree with me) and wealth redistribution (I’m old fashioned and believe that theft is wrong even when the government does it) because we may not be on the same page on these issues.  (However, on the issue of wealth redistribution, I will say this:  Do you really believe that the same man who voted to bail out billionaire bankers at the expense of ordinary taxpayers is really going to help the poor stick it to the rich?  Really?)

I’ll stick to the areas where I think most of us agree:  War and foreign policy; civil liberties; and the economy.

Let’s start with war and foreign policy.  Obama was not an anti-war candidate, and he is not an anti-war president.  His opposition to the US occupation of Iraq was based not on a principled stance against pre-emptive invasion and occupation of a foreign country, but on his view that it had damaged the US’s credibility and therefore its ability to engage in military interventions in the future.  Senator Obama voted to continue funding the Iraq war and voted against a 2007 pullout in June of 2006.  He does not plan to bring troops home from Iraq, but to redeploy them in Afghanistan, and he “support[s] plans to increase the size of the Army by 65,000 soldiers and the Marine Corps by 27,000 Marines.” (from Obama’s website, change.gov)

In an article for Foreign Affairs last year, Obama said “I will not hesitate to use force, unilaterally if necessary, to protect the American people or our vital interests whenever we are attacked or imminently threatened.”  (Emphasis mine.)  He has promised AIPAC (the American Israel Public Affairs Committee) that he will “…do everything in my power to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.  Everything.”  Coming from the future leader of one of the most heavily nuclear-armed nations in the world, these are chilling words.  Prior to his election, Obama also spoke of expanding the war on terror to Pakistan (indeed, by the end of his first week in office, he had already ordered air strikes on villages in Pakistan, killing at least 17 people including three children), and prior to his inauguration he remained silent as the Israeli government killed hundreds of civilians in Gaza with weapons provided by the US government.

The sad truth of the matter is that George W. Bush in 2000 ran on more of an anti-war platform than did Obama in 2008.  Indeed, the danger inherent in a President Obama is that he will be perceived as being less bellicose than Bush or McCain.  I believe that this will allow him to get away with even more than McCain might have, as he will face neither the public opposition nor opposition in Congress that a Republican president would have.

So, here are my foreign policy predictions:

At the end of Obama’s first four-year term:

1. The US will still have an active military presence in Iraq.
2. The US will have attacked at least one more country that poses no direct threat to us.  (I’m not even going to count his early air strikes on Pakistan.)
3. Military spending will have increased.
4. US citizens will be no safer from terrorist attacks. I say this because I believe the (sadly all-too-accurate) perception of the US as an imperialist warmongering nation will persist.  I realize this one is open to interpretation.  I would just ask you to honestly ask yourselves at the end of these four years whether this is the case.

My one caveat to this section is this: If the US government becomes financially unable to maintain its empire abroad, then Obama’s military aspirations may be hampered by budget constraints.  However I maintain (and Obama’s own words support me here) that this will not be because of any lack of will on his part.

Moving on to civil liberties and human rights, I have to admit that this is the one area where Obama’s presidency is already looking different from that of his predecessor.  In his first few days in office, President Obama signed executive orders to 1) close Guantanamo within a year; 2) officially ban the use of torture in the military; 3) close the CIA-run secret prisons around the world; and 4) review detention policies and procedures and review individual detention cases.  He has also suspended the military trials at Guantanamo for 120 days, and has acted to combat government secrecy.  These are all good things and Obama is receiving well-deserved praise for them.

More important though, the fundamental problems facing civil liberties and human rights in this country do not stem from the operation of some detention centers.  The damage inflicted has its roots in such things as the USA PATRIOT ACT (which Obama voted to re-authorize), drug law enforcement, and the repudiation of the very foundation of due process of law, habeas corpus.  The big questions then, are: 1) whether Obama’s administration will actually follow through on his executive orders and close Guantanamo, close the CIA prisons and truly end torture (there is also of course the question of what will then happen to the detainees); and 2) whether Obama will be able to tackle the more fundamental problems such as restoring habeas corpus and due process.

And there are some fundamental issues that Obama has not even taken on.  While he is aware of the fact that more than one percent of American adults, and one out of every nine black men, are in prison, he does not tackle this issue head on.  Nor does he really address the war on drugs in its entirety, nor the increasingly dangerous police state it has helped to spawn.  To his credit, he has promised to end the illegal federal raids on medical marijuana clinics, and to eliminate the inherently racist sentencing disparities between crack and powder cocaine.  However these measures don’t even come close to addressing the fundamental problem that is the drug war itself.  And some of his moves so far do not inspire hope:  His appointment of Eric Holder, formerly a big proponent of mandatory minimum sentencing is worrisome.  Even more disturbing, Obama has pledged to strengthen two federal programs (“Community Oriented Policing Services” (COPS) and the Byrne grant program) that have actually contributed to increased militarization of local police forces.

My predictions, then, are a bit more muted than in the other sections.  On some of the big questions I listed above, I do not have any predictions.  I hope that he does do all of these things, and if he does I will give him credit for it, and even admit that he may be better than McCain in this one area after all (although remember McCain said he was against torture too).  To me though, real change means more than simply reversing the most outrageous of measures put in place by the previous administration.  However if under Obama habeas corpus and/or due process (including an end to warrant-less searches and seizures) are fully restored, then I will absolutely admit that there are significant differences between the two men, and I will reconsider my view that real change cannot come through the political process.

I am also very concerned about Obama’s plans for what amounts to compulsory national service for young people.  The idea is that schools receiving federal funds will be strong-armed into implementing “service” (for government-approved endeavors of course) as part of their graduation requirements.  I am not going to include this in my predictions however as I really don’t have a strong view on whether this will come to pass or not.

What I do predict is the following.  By the end of Obama’s first term in office:

1. More than 1% of US adults will still be in prison.  This number will very likely be even higher than it is today, and the black and Hispanic portion of that population will not have decreased by any significant amount.
2. We will still suffer from the kind of police abuse that is becoming more and more common: military-style raids on unarmed civilians in their homes; the shooting and tasering of unarmed citizens; and police and judicial corruption leading to the jailing of many more innocent people than can be acceptable under any system.  The militarization and aggressive behavior of police forces will probably become worse before they get any better.  This is another one that is somewhat open to interpretation.  I would ask you to rely on your own honest judgement regarding whether you believe things have really changed in this area.
3. “No-Fly” lists will still be in place, and there may even be more restrictions on travel.
4. There will be more restrictions on gun ownership and the right to self-defense.
5. The police tactics and suppression of dissent at the 2012 RNC and DNC conventions will be just as brutal as they were in 2008.
6. Government surveillance of US citizens will continue (remember that bill Obama voted for that gave immunity to the telecoms companies that assisted with this in the past?),

Now for the easy part: the economy.

It is true that President Obama has inherited a tremendous problem from the previous administration.  Any president would be hard-pressed to come out of the next four years claiming victory in this area.  In fact, the best that anyone could do would be to not make things any worse by allowing markets to function, overvalued assets to depreciate and poorly run companies to fail.  Barack Obama is not going to do that.

With his support for the massive financial-industry bailouts, and his plans for stimulus packages to get the economy on track again, President Obama is doing all the wrong things.  What got us into this mess was too much borrowing and spending, too much government involvement in markets, and now he wants to implement more of the same as the solution.  I’m not even going to ask you all to agree with my assessment.  Just watch what happens.

My prediction:  By the end of Obama’s first four years in office, the US economy will be in much, much worse shape than it is now.  Specifically:

1. The US will have massive inflation.  The dollar will lose at least 50% of its value against most goods and services, and certainly against the goods and services most people use every day.  This is a very conservative estimate.  It will probably be much worse.
2. Unemployment in the US will be worse than it is now.  It will be at least in the double digits.

Maybe you all have a different concept of what “change” means than I do.  If so, then fair enough.  But for me, at a bare minimum, any real change cannot possibly include a continuation of the US government’s interventionist and imperialist foreign policy.  Nor can it include the maintenance of the police state that allows government agents to spy on US citizens, burst into their homes in the dead of night armed to the teeth, seize the property of people not even connected to crime s, shoot and taser non-violent citizens with impunity and incarcerate nearly 1% of the population — or incarcerate anyone for crimes that have no victims.  I believe that these things will continue unabated under the Obama administration.

If you agree with me that the continuation of these problems would not constitute the kind of “change” you are looking for, then I’m asking you to accept my challenge:  If, by the end of Obama’s first term in office, these areas are not significantly different from how they are now — that is, if the US is as much an imperialist, warmongering state as it is today, if civil liberties at home are no more protected than they are today and if the economy is in significantly worse shape than it is today — then I will ask you to admit that you were wrong about Obama.  More than that, I’m going to ask you to rethink your views on about the political process more broadly.  And I promise to do the same.

For years, I have said that real progress towards peace, freedom and respect for individual rights cannot come from working within the very system that sustains itself through war and the expansion of state power over people’s lives.  If in fact the Obama administration does herald great and significant change in these areas that we agree upon, then I promise to rethink these beliefs.

Let me correct myself on one point.  Up above I said that there was no discernible difference between the Republicans and Democrats, or between McCain and Obama.  That’s not quite true.  Obama is smarter.  He will pursue his ends in a more intelligent and a more publicly palatable way than John McCain would have, and he will very likely be more successful in attaining them because of it.  But what remains the same are the ends themselves.  Ultimately, both parties stand for upholding American empire overseas and expanding the scope of the state in people’s lives and the economy at home.  If I am wrong about this, then I promise to re-think everything.  But if I am not, then I hope you will do the same.  Let’s talk again in four years.

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.

You simply know better this way.

Kennesaw, GA’s | Mandatory Gun Law, A Proven Success By Chuck Baldwin 11-6-99

The New American magazine reminds us that March 25th marked the 16th anniversary of Kennesaw, Georgia’s ordinance requiring heads of households (with certain exceptions) to keep at least one firearm in their homes.

The city’s population grew from around 5,000 in 1980 to 13,000 by 1996 (latest available estimate). Yet there have been only three murders: two with knives (1984 and 1987) and one with a firearm (1997).

“After the law went into effect in 1982, crime against persons plummeted 74 percent compared to 1981, and fell another 45 percent in 1983 compared to 1982. And it has stayed impressively low. In addition to nearly non-existent homicide (murders have averaged a mere 0.19 per year), the annual number of armed robberies, residential burglaries, commercial burglaries, and rapes have averaged, respectively, 1.69, 31.63, 19.75, and 2.00 through 1998.”

With all the attention that has been heaped upon the lawful possession of firearms lately, you would think that a city that requires gun ownership would be the center of a media feeding frenzy. It isn’t. The fact is I can’t remember a major media outlet even mentioning Kennesaw. Can you? The reason is obvious. Kennesaw proves that the presence of firearms actually improves safety and security. This is not the message that the media want us to hear. They want us to believe that guns are evil and are the cause of violence. The facts tell a different story.

What is even more interesting about Kennesaw is that the city’s crime rate decreased with the simple knowledge that the entire community was armed.

The bad guys didn’t force the residents to prove it. Just knowing that residents were armed prompted them to move on to easier targets. Most criminals don’t have a death wish. There have been two occasions in my own family when the presence of a handgun averted potential disaster. In both instances the gun was never aimed at a person and no shot was fired. Yet, in both cases the thugs bent on criminal mischief decided to take their ambitions elsewhere and my family remained safe. Only God knows what would have happened if a firearm had not been handy.

Yes, there are times when gun accidents occur. There are many more accidents involving automobiles, airplanes, bathroom shower stalls and backyard swimming pools, however. And let’s not forget that freedom is risky business. Freedom allows people to make mistakes recognizing that the alternative is worse.

A local newspaper columnist recently said that other nations are free without possessing firearms. He fails to see the obvious fact that people who are not free to own firearms are not free. Many people live their entire lives and never know a day of real freedom. And, while I’m sure that there are those who would choose to live without freedom, there are some of us who would rather die free than live enslaved.

Additional Info Here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kennesaw,_Georgia

Thinking & Common Sense

God gave us a brain to think, to think naturally and in simple terms, and not in a complicated way.

When we think naturally and use common sense to address problems we will be able to arrive at simple solutions.

But our education system tortures us mentally and forces us to think in complicated ways. Our teachers, economists, politicians and so-called experts in God and religion make mountains out of mole-hills, turning simple truths to complex arguments and “scientific theories and equations”.

These experts need to make things look difficult to survive and to make sure that we have to rely upon them for solutions. It is often said that, “in the land of the blind, the man with one eye is the King”.

Thinking used to be a pleasure and so very invigorating. But now experts have ensured that thinking is difficult and tiring, so burdensome, that we don’t think at all.

The result is that common sense is thrown out of the window, and we have been conditioned to rely on our mental crutch, the so-called experts to think for us.

How sad.

It Is So Difficult To Understand The Financial Crisis

Many have expressed to me that they are overwhelmed by the complexity of the global financial tsunami and are absolutely confused as to how to prepare and survive the crisis.

When I explained in simple terms, they refused to accept the explanations as to them “it was too simple. It must be more complicated as otherwise how can the crisis become a global fiasco?

Consider the following and my simple explanation:

1. financial engineering: new ways of gambling

2. Investors: gamblers

3. Stock & Futures Markets: casinos

4. Financial Analysts: casinos’ salesmen / women

5. Bonds: I.O.Us.

6. Banks: Dishonest Money-lenders (actual money-lenders licensed not as banks, but as money-lenders, cannot create “money out of thin air”. They have to use their own capital – 100% to lend)

7. Currencies / fiat money toilet papers

8. Derivative markets: ponzi scheme

So many people have difficulty accepting my explanations as the simple reality. This is even after the recent exposé of the US$50 Billion fraud by Bernard Madoff, the former chairman of NASDAQ. He declared to the FBI, that his scheme was essentially a Ponzi scheme (i.e. using one set of “investors’ money” to pay off an earlier set of “investors”).

Banks worldwide have collapsed!

Why?

Two reasons – (i) they gambled at the casino and lost trillions and (ii) almost all their borrowers that borrowed huge sums (leveraging 30 times or more i.e. if a borrower has $1 million capital, he can borrower $30 million) have defaulted.

Common sense tells us that if our income is only $X and we borrow 30 times in excess of $X, there is no way that we can repay the debt, unless our gambling bets pay out in excess of 30 times the original amount of $X.

Common sense tells us that if our total family monthly income is e.g. RM3,500, we cannot afford a lifestyle that requires a monthly expenditure of RM10,000 financed by credit-cards with only 5% monthly payment on the outstanding. When interests start piling up on the accumulated monthly outstanding, a point will be reached whereby the cardholder cannot even keep up with the payment of the interests. The cardholder defaults and he gets sued by the lawyers acting for the credit-card companies and or banks.

Common sense tells us that if you are conned into buying something allegedly worth US$500,000 when its actual value is US$5,000 and you borrowed to buy the inflated “asset”, there is no way that you will continue paying the installments and the interests on such an acquisition. The bank on the other hand is stuck with an “asset” supposedly worth US$500,000 but its actual worth is only US$5,000 or less.

Common sense tells us that the banks and the governments (fearing a systemic banking collapse) will lie and cover up the con-game until it cannot cover up anymore as too many banks are having the same problems and more importantly, the con-game cannot be covered-up anymore because borrowers are walking away and saying to the banks and governments – “You conned us, you take the blame.”

Common sense tells us that these so-called assets which “investors” have invested cannot be real assets, but mere papers masquerading as assets (such as CDOs, synthetic CDOs and CDO Squared – toilet papers). Therefore, so-called sophisticated “investors” were borrowing toilet papers to “invest” in toilet paper assets!

Common sense tells us, and thinking naturally and in simple terms will enable us to conclude, that only greedy people can be lured by such con-games and that when gambling at such casinos, these so-called sophisticated investors were not using common sense.

Common sense tells us that we, the remaining hardworking people should not allow any government to use our tax revenue to bailout such reckless and greedy b@#st@#ds.

Common sense tells us that when gamblers lose millions at the Las Vegas, Macau or Genting Highlands casinos, no government can justify and or dare to bailout such stupid and greedy gamblers. We would vote them out of office.

Common sense tells us that since all these “clever people” by their reckless, irresponsible and fraudulent conduct have destroyed the economy, they should be prosecuted and sent to jail and the keys thrown away!

Common sense tells us that a system that allows such frauds and gambling should be banned and made illegal.

Common sense tells us that when common thieves rob a jewelry shop or a bank, they are sentenced to long terms of imprisonment and whipped as well, these sophisticated thieves should be likewise be whipped and sent to prison for life imprisonment, as their destruction is a million times more devastating than the common thieves!

Common sense tells us that when times are hard, we should be prudent and thrifty to overcome and survive the hardships, so why are we encouraged to borrow more and more and to spend, spend and spend?

Common sense tells us that when a shop is offering a discount, a reduction in the price of a product, the shop-keeper is encouraging us to spend and buy the goods.

Common sense tells us therefore, interest charges and penalty interests are the cost of a debt / borrowings from the perspective of the borrower and revenues and profits, when the debt is fully paid, from the point of view of the lender.

Common sense tells us that it is not out of kindness that banks lower interest charges. Like the shop-keeper, it is to encourage more borrowings. More borrowings mean more debts and ultimately more profits for the bankers.

Common sense tells us that we should not get into debts unnecessarily and not to borrow to purchase things that are not within our income and our ability to repay.

Common sense tells us that we should not commit fraud and or be a party to a fraud.

Common sense tells us more importantly, not to be greedy and lust for material wealth.

Common sense tells us that we should be angry, very angry with the so-called “sophisticated and up-right people” who commit fraud and the regulatory authorities and political leaders who cover-up their crimes.

Finally, common sense tells us that we should take action to put a stop to these crimes and scandals.

Please use common sense and do something before it is too late!

Why it’s Important to Bear Arms

Why it’s important to bear arms. In case you forgot history. You know, the part where the government gets too big and you can’t do shit about it?

Listen to the whole thing the very end is the best part. “It’s not about duck hunting, it’s about protecting us from you guys up there (pointing towards the legislators). – Dr. Suzanna Hupp”

Ms. Hupp gives a great interview here but FOX NEWS cuts her sound as she is speaking (I hate that channel on so many levels).

US releases first part of drug aid for Mexico

MEXICO CITY – The U.S. government finally released the first part of a $400 million aid package Wednesday to support Mexico’s police and soldiers in their fight against drug cartels. The money comes at a critical time: Mexico’s death toll from drug violence has soared above 4,000 so far this year, and drug-related murders and kidnappings are spilling over the U.S. border as well.

Doesn’t really sound like our problem right? I mean if people want to get do drugs – they will! If homos want to marry – they will! If women chose to have abortions… guess what… they will! It’s called freewill and we can’t do shit about it. So why waste the time messing with it?

So let me get this right we can help Mexico with their drug problem, bailout the auto makers, Citigroup, AIG and the rest of Wall Street. Yet, I just talked to the 3rd person I know that just got laid off and it’s obvious we are headed for worse times. I tell you it just makes me so happy to read something like this after hearing about another friend losing their job today. GO USA!

Then, I’m really running on fumes when it comes to having faith (I wanted to have faith at least until this time next year but he isn’t making it easy) that BO will do the right thing – “Obama also said Central America should get more than the $65 million in aid it is getting as part of the Merida Initiative. And while Obama has frequently criticized Colombia’s human rights record, he pledged his full support for Uribe’s fight against the leftist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, which sustains its rebellion with cocaine profits.” Where does this money come from? We just had a 8 trillion bailout and we are running a multi-trillion fake war!

The Drug War is a failure. Let’s give up on it! Besides, when the CIA has been caught bringing up to South Central, LA. Doesn’t that kinda seem like chasing the tail a bit?

“If the United States strips us of those resources, what will be done? Where will they come from?” Andres Pastrana asked in an Associated Press interview. The former Colombian president worked with U.S. President Bill Clinton to launch Plan Colombia, which has spent more than $6 billion in U.S. aid since 2000 to fight drug trafficking and leftist rebels. <<< Great job Billy! I’m telling you folks he wasn’t that great.

FULL READ HERE:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081203/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_obama_drug_war

Tootles!

Intersting Thought About Obama

Obama was sold to us, not just as a President but as a savior. The McCain-Palin charade was an important part of the sales campaign: you can’t have an Heroic Knight unless there’s a Fearsome Dragon to be slain. A friend pointed out to me that McCain’s campaign was mostly negative attacks on Obama. Another way to frame that is to say that the campaign was all about Obama, rather than about issues. The negative attacks caused just as much bonding between Obama and his followers as did Obama’s inspiring speeches. The negative and the positive themes were played against one another, in the media, with all the precision of a symphony.

FULL READ HERE

Best thing I’ve heard in a while

If we must go to war of resources…

If we must go to war of resources, can’t we INVADE Saudi Arabia instead of Iraq? I think that would be the more justifiable action.

Please read the article below. Here this might wet your appetite:

In a particularly egregious recent case, a woman was gang-raped as punishment by seven men who found her alone in a car with a man who was not her relative. She escaped the sentence of 200 lashes and six months in prison only because of a pardon by King Abdullah, yet he also said he believed the sentence was appropriate.

Remember this, 15 of the (supposed) 19 high-jackers from 9-11 came from Saudi Arabia (according to our Gov) and Bush delivered millions of dollars worth of weapons to them free of charge in February. If you need more information on our absurd relationship w/Saudi Arabia I would recommend reading Sleeping With the Devil: How Washington Sold Our Soul for Saudi Crude. It is a critique written by former Central Intelligence Agency officer Robert Baer of the relationship that exists between the United States and Saudi Arabia. Baer asserts that the U.S.’s political relationship with the House of Saud is not only hypocritical of American values, but also forms an unstable foundation for the safety of the U.S. economy.

Do you understand my hatred for American Governors yet? See I hate hypocrites and lairs, thieves, rapists, murders, child molesters, do you see the pattern here?

The Saudis’ dubious interfaith agenda at the UN

The country’s lack of religious freedom betrays its lofty rhetoric. The real aim of its ‘dialogue’ is to promote a global blasphemy law.

By Donald H. Argue and Leonard A. Leo

from the November 13, 2008 edition

Saudi King Abdullah, who initiated this week’s special session, is quietly enlisting the leaders’ support for a global law to punish blasphemy – a campaign championed by the 56-member Organization of Islamic Conference that puts the rights of religions ahead of individual liberties.

If the campaign succeeds, states that presume to speak in the name of religion will be able to crush religious freedom not only in their own country, but abroad.

The UN session is designed to endorse a meeting of religious leaders in Spain last summer that was the brainchild of King Abdullah and organized by the Muslim World League. That meeting resulted in a final statement counseling promotion of “respect for religions, their places of worship, and their symbols … therefore preventing the derision of what people consider sacred.”

The lofty-sounding principle is, in fact, a cleverly coded way of granting religious leaders the right to criminalize speech and activities that they deem to insult religion. Instead of promoting harmony, however, this effort will exacerbate divisions and intensify religious repression.

Such prohibitions have already been used in some countries to restrict discussion of individuals’ freedom vis-à-vis the state, to prevent criticism of political figures or parties, to curb dissent from prevailing views and beliefs, and even to incite and to justify violence.

They undermine the standards codified in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the keystone of the United Nations, by granting greater rights to religions than to individuals, including those who choose to hold no faith – or who would seek to convert.

Another stark irony hangs over the UN special session this week. Saudi Arabia is one of the world’s worst abusers of religious freedom, a fact recognized by the Bush administration when it named it a “country of particular concern” under the International Religious Freedom Act in 2004. The king couldn’t hold such a conference at home, where conservative clerics no doubt would purge the guest list of Jews from Israel, Baha’is, and Ahmadis.

The Saudi government permits the public practice of only one interpretation of Islam. This forces the 2-to-3 million Christian, Hindu, Buddhist, and other expatriate workers there to leave their convictions at the border, since non-Muslim places of worship are prohibited, non-Muslim religious materials risk confiscation, and even private worship is affected by the strictures.

It also violates the rights of the large communities of Muslims who adhere to Islamic traditions other than the one deemed orthodox by Saudi clerics. In the past two years, dozens of Shiites have been detained for up to 30 days for holding small religious gatherings at home. One Ismaili, Hadi Al-Mutaif, is serving a life sentence after being condemned for apostasy in 1994 for a remark he made as a teenager that was deemed blasphemous. The alleged crime of apostasy, in fact, can be punished by death.

The government’s policies are enforced by the Commission to Promote Virtue and Prevent Vice, a roving religious police force, armed with whips, that regularly oversteps its authority and is unchecked by the judiciary.

Women seeking to exercise basic freedoms of speech, movement, association, and equality before the law have experienced particularly severe abuse.

In a particularly egregious recent case, a woman was gang-raped as punishment by seven men who found her alone in a car with a man who was not her relative. She escaped the sentence of 200 lashes and six months in prison only because of a pardon by King Abdullah, yet he also said he believed the sentence was appropriate.

Holding a session on advancing interfaith dialogue abroad is a pale substitute for hosting it in the kingdom, where the message of respect for freedom of religion and belief is most needed.

Against the background of Saudi repression and the kingdom’s role in exporting extremism, including through school textbooks preaching hatred of “unbelievers,” the UN and every world leader attending the special session should be demanding an end to severe violations of religious freedom in Saudi Arabia.

Dialogue is no substitute for compliance with universal human rights standards.

The monarch would make a far greater contribution by exponentially increasing his efforts to promote religious freedom at home, where religious intolerance reigns. A welcome first step would be to release Hadi Al-Mutaif and all other religious prisoners who remain behind bars in Saudi Arabia.

Something to marinate on

My friend’s father brought up an interesting point about the war on Saturday and I could not agree more. As soon as the war started he told his wife that there should be draft. She said, but if there were a draft our sons are of age and could go. He said, that’s the point. It would get everyone’s attention on the war, because AMERICA would then be involved and would be forced to make moral decisions based on someone’s life that would effect them, therefore approaching the death machine of war in a different light.

Much like this economic situation we are in. See how everyone talking about it now when only a few (myself [I was only repeating what I heard], Jim Rogers, Max Kieser, Dr. Paul, Peter Schiff, etc.) were screaming the sky is falling two years or more ago.

In conclusion a draft isn’t a bad idea. I think we would be out of Iraq, saving lives and trillions of dollars a lot sooner!

My Man Noam Chomsky!

Zinn on Cartoon

Chuck Baldwin on voting 3rd party

A Marketed Product.

An interview with Professor Noam Chomsky from the documentary “American Feud: A History of Conservatives and Liberals” helps explain the “lipstick on a pig” debate and put it in context.

Biden lashes out at corporate greed. Yet he voted for the bailout?

Biden lashes out at corporate greed. Yet he voted for the bailout?

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden said Wednesday that Barack Obama will attack corporate greed and go after executives who reward themselves at the expense of employees.

Biden took direct aim at executives who draw big salaries while leading failed companies where employees are losing pensions. “Their pensions go first,” he told a roaring crowd.

FULL READ HERE:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081023/ap_on_el_pr/biden

The Message

Speak Up!

Oliver Stone – “W” Comes Out Today

As many of you know “W” comes out today, so I thought I would dedicate today’s email to the director himself, Oliver Stone. In addition, this one goes out to my friends, Prezgay, Sheary and James as they have all mentioned Oliver Stone in a negative manner. Perhaps this will shift their view.

Oliver Stone claims he did not distort a thing to tell the story. Some believe this is an attempt to make Bush look bad, like he hasn’t already done that. I tend to believe Stone as he is a some creditability with me and I think you might agree once you read the following. Stone was admitted into Yale University, where he subsequently dropped out after one year. Stone had become inspired by Joseph Conrad’s novel Lord Jim as well as by Zorba the Greek and George Harrison’s music to teach English at the Free Pacific Institute in South Vietnam. Stone taught in Vietnam for six months after which he worked as a wiper on a United States Merchant Marine ship, traveling to Oregon and Mexico, before returning to Yale, where he dropped out a second time. Stone also a veteran of the Vietnam war, Stone served with the U.S. Army from April 1967 to November 1968. He specifically requested combat duty and was assigned to the 25th Infantry Division and the 1st Cavalry Division, and was wounded twice in action. His personal awards include the Bronze Star with “V” device for valor for “extraordinary acts of courage under fire”, and the Purple Heart with one Oak Leaf Cluster.

Now this same year Bush was attending Yale. You know when he wasn’t do his “patriotic” duty for country he would help rapidly ruin 40 years later? So Stone volunteered for the front lines and Bush didn’t even step foot in Nam; same w/Cheney, except that was 5 times over.

Other things Stone and Bush have in common

* Both born in 1946

* Both born into wealthy families

* Both went to Yale (at the same time)

* Both served in the military (Only one had the balls to go to war)

* Both used drugs

He was recently admitted permission by Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to make a documentary about him. Stone had been previously refused permission by the Iranian government when the President’s media advisor, Mehdi Kalhor, denounced Stone as being part of the “Great Satan” of American culture, despite his opposition to the Bush administration. He said “It is right that this person [Stone] is considered part of the opposition in the US, but opposition in the U.S. is a part of the great satan. We believe that the American cinema lacks culture and art.” Stone reacted with outrage, saying “I have been called a lot of things, but never a great satan. I wish the Iranian people well, and only hope their experience with an inept, rigid ideologue president goes better than ours.” However, Ahmadinejad approved permission a month later, saying he had “no objections” provided the documentary was based on accurate facts. Stone is due to visit Tehran to negotiate the production of the film with Iranian officials, possibly the president himself.

So he can talk w/Mahmoud Ahmadinejad yet Condie Rice can’t? hmmm…. In other words the Bush admin chooses not to speak to our so-called “enemy”. KNOW YOUR ENEMY.

Oliver on “W”

Oliver Stone w/ Bill Maher “Bush Would Have Died in Vietnam”

The Claim:

http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1810026489/video/10221435

Some of his great films:

* Scarface

* Platoon

* The Doors

* JFK

* Wall Street

* Any Given Sunday

* Natural Born Killers

* Born on the Fourth of July

Either way, enjoy your weekend!

You could not more simply be encouraged to THINK.

A Bible versus I don’t agree with

I understand why some struggle w/religion as an institution. Here’s a Bible versus I don’t agree with.

Everyone must submit himself to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established. The authorities that exist have been established by God (does that include the Bush Admin, Saddam, Central Banks and New World Order?). Consequently, he who rebels against the authority is rebelling against what God has instituted, and those who do so will bring judgment on themselves. For rulers hold no terror for those who do right, but for those who do wrong (What if the rulers are doing terror?). Do you want to be free from fear of the one in authority? Then do what is right and he will commend you. For he is God’s servant to do you good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword for nothing. He is God’s servant, an agent of wrath to bring punishment on the wrongdoer. Therefore, it is necessary to submit to the authorities, not only because of possible punishment but also because of conscience. This is also why you pay taxes, for the authorities are God’s servants, who give their full time to governing. Give everyone what you owe him: If you owe taxes, pay taxes; if revenue, then revenue; if respect, then respect; if honor, then honor. Agreed

THE OFFICAL

“Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God. Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God: and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation. For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power? do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise of the same: For he is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil. Wherefore ye must needs be subject, not only for wrath, but also for conscience sake. For this cause pay ye tribute also: for they are God’s ministers, attending continually upon this very thing. Render therefore to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute is due; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honor to whom honor.”

A word from Presidential candidate Chuck Baldwin. If you don’t know who he is. Look him up, doesn’t get much more real than this cat.

It seems that every time someone such as myself attempts to encourage our Christian brothers and sisters to resist an unconstitutional or otherwise reprehensible government policy, we hear the retort, “What about Romans Chapter 13? We Christians must submit to government. Any government. Read your Bible, and leave me alone.” Or words to that effect.

No doubt, some who use this argument are sincere. They are only repeating what they have heard their pastor and other religious leaders say. On the other hand, let’s be honest enough to admit that some who use this argument are just plain lazy, apathetic, and indifferent. And Romans 13 is their escape from responsibility. I suspect this is the much larger group, by the way.

For example, what if our President decided to resurrect the old monarchal custom of Jus Primae Noctis (Law of First Night)? That was the old medieval custom when the king claimed the right to sleep with a subject’s bride on the first night of their marriage. Would our sincere Christian brethren sheepishly say, “Romans Chapter 13 says we must submit to the government”? I think not. And would any of us respect any man who would submit to such a law?

FULL READ HERE:

http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig8/baldwin1.html

Good Read By Charlotte Iserbyt

Good Read By Charlotte Iserbyt, she wrote The Deliberate Dumbing Down of a America. – http://www.deliberatedumbingdown.com/  (I have a PDF copy if you want it)

The Bald Eagle, still free, is flying with both wings. The United States, no longer free, is flying with but one wing … as pilots would say “on a wing and a prayer.”

This article explains why our formerly free country is in the 21st Century flying with only one wing.

The most devastating aspect of The Fork’s use is that we victims hadn’t the foggiest idea we were being victimized, but thought, to the contrary, that the government had our best interests at heart. The government, in partnership with the “usual suspects:” the elitist, internationalist corporate sector, the tax-exempt foundations, the Federal Reserve Bank, the educational system, the controlled media, and some important religious denominations, has year after year, consistently, worked to create an environment which keeps its citizens ignorant regarding what is really going on, thereby creating the necessary citizen apathy which allows “the usual suspects” to accomplish the dismantlement of the greatest, freest, most successful nation in the history of the world. If Americans do not understand how they have been victimized by “The Seven Prong Fork,” if they do not start asking questions, and demanding answers; if they do not take action to reverse our nation’s slide into world government, they will experience, in the very near future, what George Orwell described so well in his novel 1984:

“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on the human face—forever…and remember, that is forever.”

For the history of regional governance and subversion in the United States and abroad the reader can go to americandeception.com, a FREE website, which provides scanned primary research, and click on researcher/writer D. Niwa’s “hot-off-the-press” The Emerging North American Union (NAU), which includes a most useful Timeline (1921-2006); Maureen Heaton’s The Impossible Dream; and The Don Bell Reports. This website also makes available to the public, for the first time, the 4000-page transcript of the 1953 Reece and Cox Congressional Committee hearings related to the investigation of the subversive activities of the tax-exempt foundations, for which Norman Dodd served as Research Director. During a meeting in New York City in 1953 Dodd was told by Rowan Gaither, the President of the Ford Foundation, that the White House instructed the foundations “to use their grant-making power to so alter life in the United States that we can be comfortably merged with the Soviet Union.” The foundations, especially Carnegie, Rockefeller, and Ford, concerned that the American people, to whom they owed their tax exemption, would have access to the record of these hearings, scooped up all available copies immediately after the hearings were abruptly terminated in 1954. President Eisenhower, carrying out the above treasonous directive to the foundations, signed the first agreements with the Soviet Union in 1958 at the peak of the Cold War. (Had those hearings NOT been terminated, it is unlikely Americans would be looking at the demise of their nation under the NAU, or that the virtual merger of Russia’s and the United States’ basic political, economic, cultural, educational, and law enforcement systems would have taken place over the past 48 years.)

THE DEVIL’S SEVEN PRONG FORK consists of:

Prong One: Semantic Deception, covered by George Orwell in 1984, calls for lying through the deceitful use of words. Few Americans question the innocent-sounding words/phrases such as “regionalism,” “consolidation,” “democracy” “free trade,” “public/private partnerships,” “school choice,” “base closures” “faith-based,” “freedom,” “patriot,” “security,” “prosperity,” “peace” et al. Why has no one told the American people that regionalism, be it local, county, state, national or international, is COMMUNISM? The regionalization (consolidation) of the world is quite similar to the three-stage plan outlined by Stalin at the 1936 Communist International. At that meeting, the official program proclaimed: “Dictatorship can be established only by a victory of socialism in different countries or groups of countries, after which there would be federal unions of the various groupings of these socialist countries, and the third stage would be an amalgamation of these regional federal unions into a world union of socialist nations.” What Stalin called for is taking place in front of our very eyes, with the NAU and other emerging global regional groupings, following the model of the European Union. Regionalism erases constitutional, geographical borders and in so doing does away with locally-elected officials, creating larger and larger municipal units managed by faceless, highly-trained, socialist change agent bureaucrats. A communist writer, Morris Zeitlin, admits that regionalism is communism in an article entitled “Planning is Socialism’s Trademark” published in the Communist Party’s Daily World 11/8/75. Go to deliberatedumbingdown.com where the deliberate dumbing down of America…A Chronological Paper Trail can be downloaded FREE. Zeitlin’s article is found on Page 134.

More recently, former President of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev confirmed Zeitlin’s comments when he, during a visit to London on March 23, 2000, referred to the emerging European (regional) Union (EU) as “the new European Soviet.” Does this not make the NAU the New American Soviet?

Regionalism has been fostered not only by the left, as would be expected, but by mainstream conservative leadership as well. I recall, at a Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in the mid-seventies an exchange of views between the former editor of National Review, William Rusher, and myself. I asked “Why doesn’t the conservative media (Human Events, National Review, etc.) ever discuss regionalism? His response was: “I guess they just don’t think it’s very important.”

On December 28, 2006 Michael Medved, neoconservative writer and radio talk show host, wrote “Shame on Demagogues Exploiting ‘North American Union’”, an article which confirms what Rusher said but goes even further by actively supporting the NAU (regionalism). Medved’s article Townhall.com is a vitriolic diatribe in which he attacks concerned, well-informed and highly-respected Americans, including journalists, due to their opposition to the NAU and the highway through Texas and the Great Plains connecting the USA, Mexico, and Canada. He calls them “paranoid, lunatics, losers, crooks, cranks, demagogues and opportunists.” His hysterical ranting indicates that CNN’s Lou Dobbs and Jerome Corsi, amongst other writers, are succeeding in waking up Americans to the fact that their nation is on its way out as a Constitutional Republic unless they act quickly. Dobbs described the merger controversy this way in a recent CNN broadcast “For any American to think that it is acceptable for the president of the United States and…our government, to proceed without the approval of Congress or a dialogue and a debate and a public voice from the people of this country is absolutely unconscionable…What they’re doing is creating a brave new world, an Orwellian world, in which the will of the people is absolutely irrelevant.”

EARTH times.org reported 1/7/07 “’A U.S.-European economic partnership like NAFTA is critical to both regions’ economies’, new European Union President Angela Merkel of Germany says.” The late Andrew Carnegie, who, in 1886, called for “creating two nations out of one people” (return the United States to the ‘mother’ country—England) must be smiling from his grave!

Other examples (IN SOLID CAPS) of the use of deceptive words follow:

President Bush’s PATRIOT Act is probably the most unpatriotic, treasonous Act ever passed by the Congress.

President Bush’s FREEDOM (Mental Health) Initiative will eventually, if fully implemented, mandate mental health screening and services lifelong for all Americans. Anyone familiar with the history of the Soviet Union will immediately recognize this initiative’s resemblance to the Soviet Union’s use of the mental health system to incarcerate political dissidents. In 1948 Alger Hiss, Soviet agent, redefined “health” as a “state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.” The international elite view those opposed to world government as “mentally sick.”

The President’s innocent-sounding FAITH-BASED Initiative is referred to in an article in The Washington Post as “communitarian.” Most dictionaries define communitarianism as a form of communism.

And one certainly could ask how the SECURITY and PROSPERITY Partnership (Canada, Mexico, and USA) is going to make us more secure or more prosperous, considering the freedom and security-destroying effects of the Real ID Act, NAFTA, CAFTA, the Office of Homeland Security and the prosperity and job-destroying (redistribution of wealth) effects of NAFTA and CAFTA.

Prong Two is the constant use of German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Hegel’s (1770-1831) Dialectic in moving persons toward predetermined goals and objectives. About thirty years ago, before I had the foggiest idea of education change agent manipulation of the community, including teachers, to get destructive immoral and non-academic programs initiated without too much flack, I unknowingly played out the dialectic method but this time in regard to doing laundry. I put my red woolen sweater in the laundry (hot water) with my husband’s white cotton shirts. The result: pink cotton shirts for my him and a red sweater the size of a wash cloth for me. The important result, as it relates to how the dialectic plays out, is that I never had to do laundry again, not for my husband, not for either of my two sons. The mandate was “Don’t give Mom your laundry!” Now, had I never wanted to do laundry again and had I understood how the use of the dialectic inevitably gets what one wants, I would have done exactly what I unknowingly did with such success.

Prong Three is the use of Gradualism (put the frog in cold water and gradually turn up the heat until the frog is dead, without having the faintest idea what happened to him.) For over 150 years we have had gradualism used on us. Richard Gardner, former U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State and U.S. Ambassador to Italy, said in a 1968 speech “The Hard Road to World Order:” “In short, we are likely to do better by building our ‘house of world order’ from the bottom up rather than the top down. It will look like a great, ‘booming, buzzing confusion,’ to use William James’s famous description of reality, but an end run around national sovereignty, eroding it piece by piece, is likely to get us to world order faster than the old-fashioned frontal attack.”

Prong Four is Control of the Media. David Rockefeller, in Baden-Baden, Germany, 1991, thanked the major media for keeping secret the elitists’ plan for the world. He said:“… it would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subjected to the lights of publicity during those years. But, the world is now more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government.”

Prong Five/Endless Money Supply depends on the unconstitutional, private Federal Reserve Bank’s ability to create hundreds of billions of dollars out of thin air, when necessary. The education “industry,” for example, has been a recipient of whatever it wanted to “deliberately dumb down” and “condition” future Americans so they don’t know what is happening to them or their country. If you haven’t been taught what economic/political system you have, why would you be upset if, as is the case today, the public/private partnerships implement the corporate fascist/socialist planned economy? Your neighbor’s glazed expression when asked if he approves of the NAU or, at the local level, the consolidation of all the cities in his county (regionalism) is a good example of the damage inflicted on their brains (cognitive dissonance) by the public education system.

Prong Six relates to control of agenda of Republican and Democrat Parties, allowing only those individuals with an international socialist philosophy to be nominated and, once elected, ensuring they vote the One Party (internationalist) Line.

Prong Seven is UN control of education lifelong under the umbrella of the school district (community re-education). The late Professor Benjamin Bloom, an internationalist closely associated with UNESCO, and the father of The Taxonomy of Educational Objectives, in which all teachers have been trained, said in his book All Our Children Learning: “The purpose of education and the schools is to change the thoughts, feelings and actions of students.” The UN and the tax-exempt foundations have created a socialist America through Skinnerian/Pavlovian behavior modification programs (animal training which bypasses the brain) and the radical change from academics to the communist/fascist polytechnical (lifelong school- to- work job quota system) being implemented today under the controversial No Child Left Behind/ No American Left Alone Act.

DAMN! I’m afraid of Americans!

As you know there are some really dumb people in the US. For details please see the story below. A few simple-minded folks really believe Barack is a terrorist. Shit, I wish he was, at least then I would know where he is coming from (because he is STILL a mystery to me). See, lately I’m starting to gravitate towards siding with the terrorists a bit more than our own lying government, at least they fight in something they believe in (Killing Americans because we invaded their land), while we fight for the MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX. Again, if McPain and Palin get elected we deserve whatever we have coming to us (because we are fucking stupid). If BO gets elected, I can understand that a bit more. He at least knows how to speak and carry himself. I think a lot of smart people are been deceived by him or they are simply settling from him. Who knows maybe the NeoCons will just steal the election (again)?

HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE SHEEP

When John McCain asked “Who is the real Barack Obama?”, a supporter shouted back: “He is a bomb.”

If he is a bomb, can I be a microwave? I would like to put a red white and blue FREEDOM sticker over that retard’s mouth.

At the same meeting another man brought the crowd to its feet when he took the microphone and bellowed: “I’m mad, I’m really mad! And what’s going to surprise you, is it’s not the economy – it’s the socialists taking over our country.”

This man clearly doesn’t know what socialism is. Socialism is a 2 trillion dollar bailout like we had over the past 3 weeks buddy! Except this is a new breed of socialism, one where the people don’t get to benefit from it. ; )

I want out of this country bad and starting today I’m taking donations through Paypal at Lenox8081@yahoo.com I’ll just walk on the house and guess what??? I won’t send you anymore emails!

The negative approach taken by the McCain-Palin campaign has coincided with a series of aggressive expressions towards the Democratic nominee over his Left-wing associations and background.

Apart from highlighting John McCain’s connections to the Keating Five scandal, the Obama campaign has perceived benefits in staying above the fray but is always prepared with a defence when attacked.

With Mr Obama leading in the polls and only 24 days to go before the US presidential election, the series of outbursts have sparked the interest of the Secret Service, which guards the candidates and other dignitaries.

They launched a brief investigation after a man was heard – but not recorded – by several journalists shouting “kill him”, when Mrs Palin, the Republican vice-presidential nominee, was speaking of Mr Obama’s links to Bill Ayers, a former domestic terrorist who is now a professor in Chicago. The two men sat together on educational committees but have rarely been in contact for six years.

Before a rally in Pennsylvania this week, local Republican leader Bill Platt warmed up the crowd by several times referring to “Barack Hussein Obama,” focusing on the Illinois senator’s middle name, trying to highlight his differences with other Americans.

When John McCain asked “Who is the real Barack Obama?”, a supporter shouted back: “He is a bomb.”

Chants of “Nobama, Nobama” mingled with cries of “terrorist,” as one banner in the crowd declared: “Go ahead, let the dogs out.” A REAL LIVE AMERICAN RETARD

During question and answer sessions impassioned Republicans have implored Mr McCain to take a tougher line in next week’s final debate with Mr Obama.

At a rally in Wisconsin on Thursday Mr McCain was forced to concede that he would bring up the Rev Jeremiah Wright, Mr Obama’s former pastor who was captured on film preaching “God damn America!”.

At the same meeting another man brought the crowd to its feet when he took the microphone and bellowed: “I’m mad, I’m really mad! And what’s going to surprise you, is it’s not the economy – it’s the socialists taking over our country.”

Addressing the increasingly hostile tone of his opponent’s campaign, Mr Obama said yesterday in Ohio: “They can run misleading ads and pursue the politics of anything goes. But it’s not going to work. Not this time. I think that folks are looking for something different. There’s nothing easier than riling up a crowd by stoking anger and division. “But that’s not what we need right now in the United States.”

His running mate, Senator Joe Biden, said that “if Mrs Palin heard hate-filled shouts from the crowds, she should be “at least saying ‘whoa, whoa, whoa that’s overboard’”.

The McCain campaign has said that amid the hubbub the candidates could not hear inflammatory remarks from the podium, adding that it disapproves of warm-up speakers emphasising Mr Obama’s middle name.

Yesterday it released another negative ad towards Mr Obama, called “Ambition”, which it said would be televised nationally.

The narrator says: “Obama’s blind ambition. When convenient, he worked with terrorist Bill Ayers. When discovered, he lied. Obama. Blind ambition.”

Full Story Here:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/uselection2008/barackobama/3174101/Barack-Obama-called-terrorist-at-Republican-rallies-as-US-election-campaign-turns-nasty.html

America is a disgrace.

Hopefully I can continue to work for myself because
I think I’m going to start a new morning ritual that employers might
not dig. Perhaps something like this? Every morning once I awake, check my email, read the nightmares (headlines), send out some REAL news, drink my coffee, get Sug & Mad feed and out the door; I think I’m going to start BURNING A FLAG IN THE FRONT YARD.

You may agree after reading this.

If you’d just gotten a government bailout, you might be tempted to hold a retreat at a nice California hotel — and that’s exactly what American International Group (AIG: 3.51, -0.36, -9.30%) executives did.

The committee on Oversight and Government Reform held a hearing on Tuesday at 10:00 a.m. Eastern time. to address and examine downfall of AIG, the world’s largest insurance company. The committee planned to discuss the financial excesses and regulatory mistakes that led to AIG’s government bailout.

One of the items discussed was AIG’s expenditure of $440,000 for a corporate retreat at the St. Regis Monarch Beach resort in Los Angeles, Calif. These
funds were spent on Sept. 22, a week after the Federal Reserve extended an $85 billion emergency loan to AIG to keep it from going bankrupt due to insurance liabilities.

According to the receipt from the St. Regis,
the eight-day company retreat was a lavish one – $139,000 was spent on
hotel rooms, while even more money — $147,301 — was spent on
banquets. Another $23,380 was spent on undisclosed spa treatments and
another $6,939 was spent on golf. A full $9,980 was spent on room
service and food and cocktails at the hotel lounge.

The St. Regis Monarch Beach resort is described on its Web site as “a landmark resort of legendary proportions.” 

Legendary, indeed. Please see attached bill.

“AIG spending all dat money money”

Today, America is a disgrace. I might tell Madison to stop pledging her allegiance to this country until we get our shit straight. I’m sorry, this might not be PC, but this is just too much! RIGHT?!?!?!?!?!?!

FULL STORY HERE:
http://www.foxbusiness.com/story/markets/industries/finance/aig-executives-blow–getting-bailout/

My First Mention of Paul

I know some of you might not be into politics and to be honest I wasn’t either until recently once I realized the state of this country and how it is quickly nose-diving. This is being caused by several factors you may have heard of recently in the news such as the very expensive war (which seems very pointless at times), the broken borders, cost of poor health care, the value of the dollar is hitting all time lows, gas prices continue to rise, the housing market has taken a crap (Side Note: The last two are cornerstones of our economy) etc. In 2007, I purchased my first home and started my first business. So what happens in this country is an even bigger deal to me now and that should be the same with anyone who intends to live in this country.

This email was initiated today when I was speaking with my grandmother about Ron Paul and she has never even heard of him. As have many others have recently spoken with.

If you take a second and look at the attachment Ron Paul is getting a lot of attention; just not from the media. He was the 2nd most searched on Yahoo.com last week (Side Note: Yahoo is 2nd most popular search engine after google.com) and on December 16th he broke the fund raising record by raising over 6 million dollars in one day. Problem is the NeoCons own most of media outlets and if elected he won’t fall in place w/their agendas like Bush and Clinton have for the past two decades. So Ron Paul is viewed as a threat and in turn he is silenced. I’m not a conspiracy theorist either, but facts are facts and anyone can find them if you look close enough.

Here is some great online information about Ron Paul. If you haven’t heard of him check him out. He is a constitutionalist and the only person I think that can turn this country around. If you think everything is running on cruise control in the right direction, it’s time to wake up.

How to fix the Economy

Glen Beck. telling it like it is.

Sean Hannity. I’m not a fan.

Again he won this poll, but most people have still not heard of him.

So if we have your attention now. Make sure you are registered as a republican, so you can vote for Ron Paul.

Ronald Ernest “Ron” Paul (born August 20, 1935) is a Republican United States Congressman from Lake Jackson, Texas, a physician, and a 2008 U.S. presidential candidate. Originally from Green Tree, Pennsylvania, he has represented Texas districts in the U.S. House of Representatives (1976–1977, 1979–1985, and 1997–present). Paul placed a distant third in the 1988 presidential election, running as the Libertarian nominee while remaining a registered Republican. After his 1961 graduation from Duke University School of Medicine and a residency in obstetrics and gynecology, he became a U.S. Air Force flight surgeon, serving outside the Vietnam War zone.

Paul has been described as conservative, Constitutionalist, and libertarian.[2] He advocates an attenuated, non-interventionist foreign policy, having voted against actions such as the Iraq War Resolution, but in favor of force against terrorists in Afghanistan. He favors withdrawal from NATO and the United Nations. Having pledged never to raise taxes, he has long advocated ending the federal income tax and reducing government spending by abolishing most federal agencies; he favors hard money and opposes the Federal Reserve. He also opposes the Patriot Act, the federal War on Drugs, and gun control. Paul is strongly pro-life, advocates overturning Roe v. Wade; and affirms states’ rights to determine the legality of abortion.[3]

Throughout his 2008 presidential campaign, Paul has been a leading candidate in Republican straw polls, though he has substantially lower numbers in landline opinion polls. He has strong Internet support, leading in web searches and YouTube subscriptions. On December 16, 2007, Paul had the largest one-day fundraiser in U.S. political history, raising over $6 million in 24 hours through a grassroots effort, organized independently from the official campaign.

ZEITGEIST: ADDENDUM

ZEITGEIST: ADDENDUM couldn’t have come at a better time. This easy to understand and well cut documentary gives us a good lesson in modern monetary policy, which I think all American could use right now. It goes into comprehensive detail on why I consider the Fed ENEMY NUMBER 1. Addendum is the follow up to the highly discussed and award-winning documentary, Zeitgeist. It’s definitely a watch that require a little commitment, as it runs about 2 hours (well worth your time). In addition, it may give you a little insight about your possible future as an American citizen or as a global citizen.

I have spent countless hours over the past few years researching some of the facts that presented in this film through many different sources such as books, modern and historical news articles, mainstream news, independent news, other documentaries and I have even visited my local library and checked out some old coffee-stained books (at least I hope it was coffee). As a majority, most of the time the facts check out (at least, the important ones). I really wish this wasn’t true, because frankly, it’s bit terrifying. I suppose, I would find it easier to write off as bullshit if I thought these guys that make these statements (including Ron Paul, Jim Cramer, Alex Jones, Chuck Baldwin, Max Keiser, Dennis Kucinich, Bob Barr, Jim Rogers, Peter Schiff, Cynthia McKinney, etc.) had some kind of agenda. Such as making money. However, that wouldn’t explain it because they do not profit from their exposures and a lot of times these documentaries are released on the Internet or they charge just enough to cover production and self-distribution costs. Example being this documentary, it’s available on the site for $5 and it was uploaded last week shortly after it’s release (Thursday, October 2nd, 2008). Let’s just say that Peter Joseph is not trying to be the next Michael Moore. ; )

As usual, I have no agenda of my own. If you must pin me w/that, then you can call it an agenda of concern, because this is the country and world I live in (and I can’t simply love it or leave it). Also any opposition is welcome, please free feel to email me as I would love to be incorrect on this.

DIRECT LINK TO FULL DOCUMENTARY:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7065205277695921912

WWW:
http://www.zeitgeistmovie.com/

Rating:
“I give 5 out of 5 stars and I can say that in the first 30 minutes. It’s my new favorite doc.”

Please forward this. Thank you for you time and consideration!

It’s really this simple…

It’s really this simple…

9/11 ?

Some of you may have met my good and long-time friend Mike while he was out here last September. Now I want to pre-face this just a bit. Mike has opinions, but is not as nearly as opinionated as I am. At least, not in a outspoken manner like I am. Anyway, he doesn’t voice his political views too often and I certainly don’t think he is a loon or easily convinced. However, recently he was compelled to write the following to friends and family members. Which you know me - I want answers! So, I thought it was great. Please see below.

I have seen numerous films and videos based on all of the 9/11 allegations.  This information can be taken however you wish, but I decided to send a short clip of a Pentagon Strike (Below).  Sickening.  This is only a small piece of the puzzle, as there are many other stories related to the attacks.  From hundreds of millions of dollars worth of gold missing from the storage units under the WTC, to the sudden shift and lack of security miraculously in the buildings that were most affected in NYC, or the third building (Building 7) that fell.  These were the first 3 buildings to EVER FALL FROM FIRE in the history of mankind.  Also, the FBI collected 85 tapes from the pentagon attack and only released 2. What exactly are you hiding?  Wouldn’t you want to better prove your case to the American public, or even more, the skeptics?

I really try not to get involved in conspiracy theories, etc. but the more I realize our way of life in America is headed in the wrong direction and may cease to exist, the more I worry.  How much longer can we continue to let the power and control of our government figures keep us in the dark and ruin us as a country?  The saddest thing is, the view of our nation has been forever tarnished by the greedy and murderous hands in Washington, who don’t represent our true culture and way of life in any way.  They are nothing more than the largest form of organized crime,most definitely surpassing the Mafia.  Murder has been prosperous for these types in the past, and there are plenty of sick human beings out there who can continue to kill for financial/power gains.  Most of your historically prominent mafia figures would have considered themselves good Christians/Catholics, whatever.  They justify their means, and think they can repent and all is forgiven, or have been sucked into the way of life believing this is the only way to protect your culture.

The war in Iraq?  Why don’t we want to leave?  Do you know how much of the fighting is privatized?  The private contractors (Blackwater, Halliburton, the Carlyle Group, etc.) sent there to fight, usually make 150,000-200,000 per mercenary to fight there.  Our men and women in TRUE U.S. uniforms?  An experienced corporal of 3 years service makes $19,980.  General Franks who commanded all of the forces in Iraq for at least 2004?  His salary was $153,000.  The mercenaries were making more than our top general!!  These guys don’t fight on the front line like our soldiers, and are killing innocents just like they are cowboys in the wild west, yet make more than our top general?

How much are corporations making off of this war.  For example, Pizza Hut and all of your favorite fast food restaurants have been able to set up on our bases in Iraq, increasing their profits dramatically.  Do you think the CEO’s of these companies want to see that income go away with the troops being withdrawn?  Halliburton has been quite possibly the most profitable company in this war, and everyone knows who was on the board (and I’m sure will continue to receive a financial benefit from the profits), Dick Cheney.  Now we are finding all of these contractors were awarded record billion dollar contracts, and almost none of the contracted work has been completed, yet they were paid for this abandoned work.

I’m not sure who you vote for anymore will truly matter.  All I know is you can try to make the best informed decision, and I’m not in any way going to suggest which way to go.  I’m not so sure both sides aren’t just as corrupt as the other and trying to give us false alternative choices.  I just needed to have venting session after I ran across this clip.  Sometimes, I honestly still feel like crying when I think about the human lives that have been sacrificed, the families that have been affected, and may continue to be for the future to come.  Especially when you speak or interact with the families/friends directly associated with the wars and/or 9/11 attacks.

Sorry, I feel like I’ve begun to ramble, but just a little food for thought.  Bye now!

Mikie

The New Pentagon Video (what a joke): http://www.pentagonstrike.co.uk/flash.htm#Main

Some one finally talking about on mainstream news. Look at the end of this video the poll shows 67% of the viewers thought it was an inside job: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tBNDaDhNH0&NR=1

If it’s not. ANSWER THE QUESTIONS!