“The Worst, If Congress Eventually Passes The ‘Bailout’ Bill, Is Yet To Come”

Socialist “Bailout” Could Spark Collapse

By Cliff Kincaid

September 30, 2008
NewsWithViews.com

While many of the talking heads and pundits on TV have been providing calming words of reassurance about proposed federal intervention in the financial system, analyst Peter Schiff of Euro Pacific Capital has been accurately warning for years about a financial meltdown and says that the worst, if Congress eventually passes the “bailout” bill, is yet to come.

Asked for comment on current media coverage of the financial meltdown, he told Accuracy in Media, “Absent when they have me on, it’s pretty bad.”

Many commentators, Schiff said, are telling people that if the bailout doesn’t go forward, there will be an economic crisis. However, “if we do it, there will be a bigger crisis,” he predicts.

The Myth of the Morally Superior Yankee by Thomas J. DiLorenzo

by Thomas J. DiLorenzo
by Thomas J. DiLorenzo

“Hillary Clinton is a museum-quality specimen of a Yankee – self-righteous, ruthless, self-aggrandizing”

~ Clyde Wilson

Being born and raised in Pennsylvania, I am a northerner but not a Yankee. The same is true of my friend Lew Rockwell, a native of Massachusetts who would qualify for membership in Sons of Union Veterans. The word “Yankee” gained popularity in the early to mid nineteenth century to describe a particular brand of New Englander: arrogant, hypocritical, unfriendly, condescending, intolerant, extremely self-righteous, and believing that he and his were God’s chosen people.

Yankees have never shied away from using the coercive powers of the state to compel others to be remade in their image. That’s why compulsory government schooling originated in New England, as did prohibitionism. It’s also why Stalinism took hold in the North (especially in New York City) in the twentieth century, as did its offshoot, neoconservativism, in more recent times. Indeed, many of the more notorious neoconservatives openly admit that they were Stalinists in their youth and have never fully abandoned those beliefs.

Bush Wants To Bankrupt America: There is Method To His Madness

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Bush Wants To Bankrupt America: There is Method To His Madness

By Sam Hamod

07/01/03: “ICH” – – Some have wondered if GW Bush knows what he’s doing with his tax cut that benefits the corporations and the very rich, and cuts away the remaining money of the poor and the middle class. I say yes, he does know what he’d up to, as do his corporate advisors and his neo-con economist friends and theorists, chief among them Grover Norquist. Norquist has been the chief architect behind the dismantling of the American federal financial structure in terms of benefits for the common citizen, but has helped to create the superstructure of tax breaks for the very rich and the corporatocracy that now has a choke-hold on America.

The plan is very simple, but not obvious on first blush. Make sure that all the money is gone from the U.S. treasury, make sure the deficits are so great that all social and educational programs are cut, increase the military and security budgets to “protect our nation” with all these monies going to corporations and security firms who are extra-national (not tied to any country, but actually more than multi-national in that they are outside the purview of any nation at any single moment) and stave in the social security fund by allowing it to go to private corporations for “investment”-and you have the perfect scenario for saying, “only the private sector can save us-we’re broke and they have the money to run every program, fund every program, but of course, at huge costs and profits for the private corporations.” Our only resource will be the corporate lenders, especially the large extra-national corporations who will have loyalty to no one except their corporate coffers and large share owners throughout the world.

‘Our Surrender Has Been Negotiated’ Jim Kirwan

‘Our Surrender Has Been Negotiated’
Jim Kirwan
9-29-8

Americans do not seem to realize that there is only one point to having a congress at all: The purpose of the US Congress is to serve as a translator for the public, to their government that was suppose to serve the people, and thereby the nation. Congress has no “other” purpose!

I’ve been a vocal observer of this charade officially, for 44 years: during that time I have yet to see the needs of the public served, by the congress, or for that matter by any of the branches of government.

What I have recorded have been the outright crimes and treasons, as well as tyranny’s that this government has continued to do to the public: in the name of the public-essentially without any real consequences for the self-serving actions of this so-called government-whether in the name of setting polices or of creating “public standards.” These corrupt figures have never varied from their practice of selling out the people for personal and-or political gain; just as the subject of all their actions (the public) have never failed to ignore the crimes and treasons that government has continually done to their willfully deaf, dumb and blind approach to everything political!

HOUSE LEADERSHIP INVOKES “MARTIAL LAW,” FORCING MEMBERS TO VOTE ON KEY BILLS WITHOUT FULL KNOWLEDGE OF WHAT THEY ARE VOTING ON: MOVE REPRESENTS EROSION OF THE DEMOCRATIC PROCESS

July 28, 2006

HOUSE LEADERSHIP INVOKES “MARTIAL LAW,” FORCING MEMBERS TO VOTE ON KEY BILLS WITHOUT FULL KNOWLEDGE OF WHAT THEY ARE VOTING ON: MOVE REPRESENTS EROSION OF THE DEMOCRATIC PROCESS
Statement by Robert Greenstein
Executive Director, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

The House Republican Leadership has announced its intention to have the House vote, before adjourning on Friday or Saturday, on several major pieces of legislation that are not yet available to House members in final form because behind-closed-door negotiations on the proposals are still going on.  The Leadership apparently intends to use a process known as “martial law” to allow these bills to be brought to the floor very shortly after negotiations are completed, with the result that Members of the House are likely to have virtually no time to examine and consider the details of the legislation before they will be required to vote on it.

Dr. Paul’s House floor remarks on the bailout

Dr. Paul gave a quick speech on the House floor this morning concerning the bailout.  Due to the nature of the debate today, he didn’t have time to read his full remarks, which were put into the congressional record and are featured below:

The process of this bailout reminds me of a panic-stricken swimmer thrashing in the water only making his situation worse. Even a “bipartisan deal”—whatever that is supposed to mean— will not stop the Congress from thrashing about.

The beneficiaries of the corrupt monetary system of the last three decades are now desperately looking for victims to stick with the bill after they have reaped decades of profit and privilege.

The difficulties in our economy will continue because the Legislative and the Executive branches have not yet begun to address the real problems. The housing bubble’s collapse, as was the Dot Com bubble’s collapse, was predictable and is merely a symptom of the monetary system that brought us to this point.

Eye-Opener: FOXNews.com Donald Trump on $700 Billion Bailout Plan

Friday , September 26, 2008

Donald Trump On 700$ Bailout Plan

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This is a rush transcript from “Your World With Neil Cavuto,” September 26, 2008. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated.

NEIL CAVUTO, HOST: Well, Donald Trump saying, anything close to that $700 billion bailout would be a black eye for an economy he says rushing into one big depression.

Real estate mogul Donald Trump joins me now on the phone.

Donald, you could take care of this issue quite quickly by writing a check yourself, but I guess that is out. What do you make of this?

Rep. Michael Burgess – “we are under Martial Law”

Rep. Michael Burgess – “we are under Martial Law”

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Sunday, Sept 29, 2008

Rep. Michael Burgess (R-TX) reports from the floor of the House that the Republicans have been cut out of the process and called unpatriotic for not blindly supporting the fraudulent bailout. He says the only debate has been about what talking points to use on the American people. The most ominous revelation is when he claims the Speaker has declared martial law.

“I have been thrown out of more meetings in this capital in the last 24 hours than I ever thought possible, as a duly elected representative of 825,000 citizens of north Texas.” Said Congressman Burgess.

Reporter Warns Staged Financial Crisis Part Of Fascist Coup

Reporter Warns Staged Financial Crisis Part Of Fascist Coup

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September 22, 2008

Huffington Post writer threatened by neo-con bloggers after urging readers to remember Prescott Bush’s Fascist “Business Plot”

Steve Watson
[1] Infowars.net
Monday, Sept 22, 2008

A reporter for the left leaning alternative news website The Huffington Post has been attacked by neo-con bloggers and phony right-wing patriots after pointing out that the current financial crisis is part of an intentional coup to transfer unprecedented power to the Executive Branch and place public funds in the hands of the global corporate elite.

Writer Larisa Alexandrovna, makes a number of salient points in an article entitled “[2] Welcome to the final stages of the coup…“.

My crazy uncle; A call for a full psychological evaluation of John McCain

My crazy uncle; A call for a full psychological evaluation of John McCain

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The voting public deserves to know if their candidate is fit to lead

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by Aaron Bellyacher
(Libertarian)
Saturday, September 20, 2008

Let me start off by saying that we all have a crazy uncle, and they deserve all the love and respect in the world. Their psychological conditions and impairments are of no concern to anyone but the immediate family, and that’s the way it should be for everyone, almost.

I think it’s a fair assumption that in order to be a successful president, one must be psychologically sound. I also think it’s fair for the general voting public to be privileged to an audited psychological evaluation for all of the major candidates.

Gunny G: A Few Patriots, But Too Few….

Kucinich says bailout doesn’t have the votes

09/28/2008 @ 4:51 pm

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As the Wall Street bailout talks continue, a critical Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) is not confident that House will pass the legislation, as he told The Hill. “If the votes were there, this would be on the floor,” he said. “The votes aren’t there.”

“Is this the United States Congress or the board of directors of Goldman Sachs?” Kucinich asked today. “Why aren’t we helping homeowners directly with their debt burden? Why aren’t we helping American families faced with bankruptcy. Why aren’t we reducing debt for Main Street instead of Wall Street? Isn’t it time for fundamental change in our debt-based monetary system, so we can free ourselves from the manipulation of the Federal Reserve and the banks?”

“In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.” -Franklin D. Roosevelt

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In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.
-Franklin D. Roosevelt

A NATION IN CRISIS

By Sheriff Jim R. Schwiesow, Ret.

September 29, 2008
NewsWithViews.com

Introduction

The Apostle Paul wrote of just such a time as exists in this nation today, a time when the people would be lovers of themselves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection, false accusers, uncontrollable, despisers of those that are good, traitors, and lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God. In view of the fact that fifty million innocent babies have been murdered intentionally, which of course only highlights Paul’s offering of “being without natural affection.”

There does not exist a more apt description than this of the nature of the United States today, it is a nation that consists, collectively, of a people led away from God by divers lusts, it’s an ever-learning acculturation of those who are never able to come to a knowledge of the truth. It is in fact a nation of people who resist the truth, an irreverent fellowship of men of corrupt mind and reprobate faith.

A Warning to Parents

An inimical indoctrination of the people of this nation begins in the public schools where the ungodly elements of communism, sexual perversion, deviancy, false doctrines and a rejection of Biblical tenants are instilled in young minds and taught as gospel by an autocracy of Marxist persuasion. An open-minded and healthy examination of social issues is disallowed and a narrow subjective and politically correct curriculum is rigidly enforced. The National Education Association (NEA) a radical, revolutionary, and powerful labor union, using the political clout that they purchase with the dues of their members, has eliminated the traditional approach to the training of young minds in the basics of education and concentrated on a radical program of mind control and brainwashing to shape the values – I should say lack of values – of America’s children.

Parents, if you think that you have any input in the way that public schools educate your children you need to put that thought out of your mind quickly. The majority of public school systems view your children as property of the state and therefore beyond your control. Moral relativism is promoted and ethical codes and morality based upon absolute standards is not a part of their satanic bible. If it feels good do it is their motto and their creed. You need to get your children out of the public schools and you need to do it now before anymore of our children are corrupted and led down criminal paths to the point that many additional millions of dollars have to be spent on correctional facilities to incarcerate the emotional cripples turned into the streets by the public schools.

America in Decline

The United States has crossed a great divide and is now on a dizzying slide downward through an ever-quickening succession of events, both of the cosmos and of man-made induction, which are driving this nation toward a now inevitable time of a complete and climactic destruction. Prayers from an apostate people for deliverance from catastrophic events current and future will not be heard, in the parlance of the Bible it is a time for sackcloth and ashes.

DEMISE OF AMERICA

By Frosty Wooldridge
September 29, 2008
NewsWithViews.com

Can you hear the clock ticking on the demise of America? Yes, Congress expects to pass a package bailout deal to save all those bankers, realtors and lenders from their dirty deals for the past 15 years. They might as well tighten a tourniquet around America’s arm while her legs fall off.

A reader said, “I admire your efforts, and I admire your passion. I hate to say it, but I think the cause is lost. I don’t say it because I think the causes you push are unjust. Far from it. I say it because the globalists have done their work very well.

“Americans have been ‘enstupidated’. Having read John Taylor Gatto’s seminal work, and several thousand other books on history and political subjects, it just appears to me that the main goals have been achieved. The communist party agenda has largely been enshrined in State and (especially) Federal laws. Rule of law is dead, as well as is obedience and fealty to our Constitution. Most people, especially so called elected officials and law enforcement, are ignorant as to what is actually written in our Constitution.

“One thing struck me recently as I was re-reading John Taylor Gatto’s book. The goal of public schools is not education, but social control. It was to make revolution impossible by dumbing the populace down, and making them dependent upon their leaders. Previous generations of Americans (and other nations) often found their political leadership superfluous as they were more than capable and confident of seeing to their affairs without government direction.

Call Ron Paul Correct About the Economy

Call Ron Paul Correct About the Economy

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Written by Charles Scaliger

Friday, 26 September 2008 19:40

A year ago, Congressman Ron Paul was just beginning to turn heads on the national electoral stage, owing to his presidential campaign’s unexpected success at raising money. Congressman Paul was briefly applauded by media elites — until the full meaning of his message began to sink in. For Congressman Paul, as almost everybody knows by now, is an uncompromising foe of Big Government, and the greatest champion of the Constitution in Washington for at least a generation.

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Are You Tired of Being Ripped Off By Congress and the White House?

Is this Wall Street Bailout the Last Straw for You?

Well we have a chance to do something about it this November, on Election Day.  The people of Pennsylvania showed us the way.

Last year, Pennsylvania residents learned that their legislature–Republicans and Democrats–had connived in the middle of the night to give themselves a raise in violation of the state constitution, which said raises could only be given to the next cycle of elected officials, not to those who were voting. They got around this by declaring the increases “undocumented expense reimbursements.”

The citizenry rose up and in a leaderless grassroots campaign, they swept out off office many long-time members of the legislature who had voted for the measure, as well as a judge who backed the action (the state’s judges get whatever the legislators get)!

If Pennsylvania voters can do this, so can the rest of America.

Ron Paul On Your World w/Neil Cavuto

Ron Paul On Your World w/Neil Cavuto

Pakistan Investigating US Marine Activity Inside Marriott Hotel Days Before Huge Bombing

Pakistan Investigating US Marine Activity Inside Marriott Hotel Days Before Huge Bombing

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September 24, 2008

Authorities probing into truck load of steel boxes unloaded into hotel in secret by marines

Steve Watson
[1] Infowars.net
Wednesday, Sept 24, 2008

Pakistani authorities investigating last Saturday’s huge bombing of the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad are looking into evidence that US marines were occupying two floors just days prior to the blast and were witnessed unloading a truckload of steel cases inside.

“The authorities want to ascertain if it was a routine exercise or part of some special mission that does not have the approval of the government of Pakistan,” Pakistan’s largest newspaper [2] The News reported.

The reports of the mysterious activity [3] first surfaced in the Pakistani media on Sunday.

Has the Election Just Been Cancelled?

Has the Election Just Been Cancelled?

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September 25, 2008

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Thursday, Sept 25, 2008

CNN is [2] reporting that McCain has “suspended his campaign” and is asking Obama to do the same, due to the economic crisis:

Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain announced Wednesday that he is suspending his campaign to return to Washington and focus on the “historic” crisis facing the U.S. economy.

Is this the first step in canceling the elections due to “national emergency”?

Ron Paul: Greenspan, Bernanke Should Be Criminally Charged

Ron Paul: Greenspan, Bernanke Should Be Criminally Charged

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September 26, 2008

Congressman says civil unrest after meltdown could lead to martial law

Paul Joseph Watson
[1] Prison Planet
Friday, September 26, 2008

Congressman Ron Paul says that the bailout bill is likely to pass, heralding a 10-year plus economic depression for America and the potential for martial law should civil unrest arise as the financial meltdown worsens.

Speaking on The Alex Jones Show, Paul said of the bailout, “They want dictatorship, they want to pass all the penalties and suffering on to the average person on Main Street,” adding, “We will have a depression or recession, it’s locked in place due to previous Federal Reserve actions.”

“When they say that if we don’t do exactly as they say and turn over more of our money and more of our liberties and exempt themselves from any court in the whole nation, they’re trying to intimidate us and lead us into doing the wrong thing,” said Paul.

Is the bailout needed? Many economists say ‘no’

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Is the bailout needed? Many economists say ‘no’

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last updated: September 26, 2008 08:01:53 AM

WASHINGTON — A funny thing happened in the drafting of the largest-ever U.S. government intervention in the financial system. Lawmakers of all stripes mostly fell in line, but many of the nation’s brightest economic minds are warning that the Wall Street bailout’s a dangerous rush job.

President Bush and his Treasury secretary, former Goldman Sachs chief executive Henry Paulson, have warned of imminent economic collapse and another Great Depression if their rescue plan isn’t passed immediately.

Is that true?

“It’s more hype than real risk,” said James K. Galbraith, a University of Texas economist and son of the late economic historian John Kenneth Galbraith. “A nasty recession is possible, but the bailout will not cure that. So it’s mainly relevant to the financial industry.”

“Kicked Out of Congress For Asking Questions About 9/11″

Cynthia McKinney: 9/11 – Now Or Never

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Friday, September 26, 2008

Former Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney speaks at the 2008 Now Or Never event held in New York City. McKinney discusses how, on the very day of 9/11, she and other members of Congress were handed talking points to repeat the mantra that America was attacked because it was “free”. McKinney talks about how she was kicked out of Congress for asking questions about 9/11 and passionately reminds people that many individual acts of justice can tear down the walls of oppression.

McCain and the POW Cover-Up

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Upon return from Vietnam, John McCain greets then-President Richard Nixon. (Photo: File)

John McCain, who has risen to political prominence on his image as a Vietnam POW war hero, has, inexplicably, worked very hard to hide from the public stunning information about American prisoners in Vietnam who, unlike him, didn’t return home. Throughout his Senate career, McCain has quietly sponsored and pushed into federal law a set of prohibitions that keep the most revealing information about these men buried as classified documents. Thus the war hero who people would logically imagine as a determined crusader for the interests of POWs and their families became instead the strange champion of hiding the evidence and closing the books.

Reporter Warns Staged Financial Crisis Part Of Fascist Coup

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Huffington Post writer threatened by neo-con bloggers after urging readers to remember Prescott Bush’s Fascist “Business Plot”

Steve Watson
Infowars.net
Monday, Sept 22, 2008

A reporter for the left leaning alternative news website The Huffington Post has been attacked by neo-con bloggers and phony right-wing patriots after pointing out that the current financial crisis is part of an intentional coup to transfer unprecedented power to the Executive Branch and place public funds in the hands of the global corporate elite.

Writer Larisa Alexandrovna, makes a number of salient points in an article entitled “Welcome to the final stages of the coup…“.

Referring to the Bush administration’s “Wall Street bailout bill“, Alexandrovna warns that a fascist coup is in it’s closing stages, describing the proposed legislation as “treachery being conducted in the light of day.”

She writes:

“Now, if you do not yet understand that the Wall Street crisis is a man-made disaster done through intentional deregulation and corruption, I have a bridge in Alaska to sell to you (or Sara Palin does anyway). This manufactured crisis is now to be remedied, if the fiscal fascists get their way, with the total transfer of Congressional powers (the few that still remain) to the Executive Branch and the total transfer of public funds into corporate (via government as intermediary) hands.

[...] we already now have in writing, formally as presented to Congress, the intentions of this administration to nullify Congressional powers permanently, to alter Judicial powers permanently, and to openly steal public funds using as blackmail the total collapse of the US economy if these powers are not handed over. You do see how this is blackmail, do you not? You do see how this is a manufactured crisis precisely designed to be used as blackmail, do you not?”

Why Is a US Army Brigade Being Assigned to the ‘Homeland’?

Published on Thursday, September 25, 2008 by Salon.com

Why Is a US Army Brigade Being Assigned to the ‘Homeland’?

by Salon.com

by Glenn Greenwald

Several [1] bloggers [2] today [3] have pointed to this obviously disturbing article from Army Times [4], which announces that “beginning Oct. 1 for 12 months, the [1st Brigade Combat Team of the 3rd Infantry Division] will be under the day-to-day control of U.S. Army North” — “the first time an active unit has been given a dedicated assignment to NorthCom, a joint command established in 2002 to provide command and control for federal homeland defense efforts and coordinate defense support of civil authorities.” The article details:

They’ll learn new skills, use some of the ones they acquired in the war zone and more than likely will not be shot at while doing any of it.They may be called upon to help with civil unrest and crowd control or to deal with potentially horrific scenarios such as massive poisoning and chaos in response to a chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear or high-yield explosive, or CBRNE, attack. . . .

October 1 Surprise???

October 1 Surprise???

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Ron Paul: 10 Year Depression? Possible Martial Law?

Ron Paul: Congress Has Opted For 10-Year Plus Depression

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September 26, 2008

Congressman says civil unrest after meltdown could lead to martial law

Paul Joseph Watson
[1] Prison Planet
Friday, September 26, 2008

Congressman Ron Paul says that the bailout bill is likely to pass, heralding a 10-year plus economic depression for America and the potential for martial law should civil unrest arise as the financial meltdown worsens.

Speaking on The Alex Jones Show, Paul said of the bailout, “They want dictatorship, they want to pass all the penalties and suffering on to the average person on Main Street,” adding, “We will have a depression or recession, it’s locked in place due to previous Federal Reserve actions.”

Heroic Act, Medal Denied – And A Debate

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Heroic Act, Medal Denied – And A Debate

Defense Secretary Robert Gates questioned a fallen marine’s award for covering a grenade to save his comrades.

By Gordon Lubold, Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor

Washington – Sgt. Rafael Peralta died in Iraq in 2004 after covering a grenade to save comrades. But today his family and Marine brothers wonder why a grateful nation isn’t grateful enough to bestow upon him its highest military honor.

The Pentagon is awarding Sergeant Peralta the Navy Cross, the second-highest award for valor, and not the Medal of Honor, the award for which he was recommended by his fellow Marines, the Navy, and the Marine Corps.

“The Biggest Fraud In U.S. History”

NO AMNESTY FOR WALL STREET

By Chuck Baldwin
September 26, 2008
NewsWithViews.com

At the time of this writing, the U.S. House and Senate are poised to pass a $700 billion bailout to Wall Street. At the behest of President George W. Bush, the U.S. taxpayers are going to be on the hook for what can only be referred to as the biggest fraud in U.S. history.

Virtually our entire financial system is based on an illusion. We spend more than we earn, we consume more than we produce, we borrow more than we save, and we cling to the fantasy that this can go on forever. The glue that holds this crumbling scheme together is a fiat currency known as the Federal Reserve Note, which was created out of thin air by an international banking cartel called the Federal Reserve.

According to Congressman Ron Paul, in the last three years, the Federal Reserve has created over $4 trillion in new money. The result of all this “money-out-of-thin-air” fraud is never-ending inflation. And the more prices rise, the more the dollar collapses. Folks, this is not sustainable.

Already, Bear Stearns was awarded a $29 billion bailout, followed quickly by the bailout of Freddie and Fannie that will cost the taxpayers up to $200 billion. Then the Fed announced the bailout of AIG to the tune of $85 billion. Mind you, AIG is an enormous global entity with assets totaling more than $1.1 trillion. Moreover, the Feds agreed to pump $180 billion into global money markets. And the Treasury Department promised $50 billion to insure the holdings of money market mutual funds for a year. Now, taxpayers are being asked to provide $700 billion to Wall Street. (I hope readers are aware that, not only will American banks be bailed out, but foreign banks will also be bailed out. Then again, at least half of the Federal Reserve is comprised of foreign banks, anyway.) In other words, the Federal Reserve is preparing to spend upwards of $1 trillion or more. Remember again, this is fiat money, meaning it is money printed out of thin air.

All of this began when the U.S. Congress abrogated its responsibility to maintain sound money principles on behalf of the American people (as required by the Constitution) and created the Federal Reserve. This took place in 1913. The President was Woodrow Wilson. (I strongly encourage readers to buy G. Edward Griffin’s book, The Creature from Jekyll Island.) Since then, the U.S. economy has suffered through one Great Depression and several recessions–all of which have been orchestrated by this international banking cartel. Now, we are facing total economic collapse.

But don’t worry: the international bankers will lose nothing–not even their bonuses. They will maintain their mansions, yachts, private jets, and Swiss bank accounts. No matter how bad it gets on Main Street, the banksters on Wall Street will still have the best of it–President Bush and the Congress will make sure of that. This is one thing Republicans and Democrats can agree on.

The Creation of the Second Great Depression By Ron Paul

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The Creation of the Second Great Depression By Ron Paul 25/09/08 “Lew Rockwell” — – Whenever a Great Bipartisan Consensus is announced, and a compliant media assures everyone that the wondrous actions of our wise leaders are being taken for our own good, you can know with absolute certainty that disaster is about to strike. The events of the past week are no exception. The bailout package that is about to be rammed down Congress’ throat is not just economically foolish. It is downright sinister. It makes a mockery of our Constitution, which our leaders should never again bother pretending is still in effect. It promises the American people a never-ending nightmare of ever-greater debt liabilities they will have to shoulder. Two weeks ago, financial analyst Jim Rogers said the bailout of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac made America more communist than China! “This is welfare for the rich,” he said. “This is socialism for the rich. It’s bailing out the financiers, the banks, the Wall Streeters.” That describes the current bailout package to a T. And we’re being told it’s unavoidable. The claim that the market caused all this is so staggeringly foolish that only politicians and the media could pretend to believe it. But that has become the conventional wisdom, with the desired result that those responsible for the credit bubble and its predictable consequences – predictable, that is, to those who understand sound, Austrian economics – are being let off the hook. The Federal Reserve System is actually positioning itself as the savior, rather than the culprit, in this mess!

George B. Clark – Old Stuff You May Want

George B. Clark <brasshat@kingcon.com> to Undisclosed-Recipient date Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 12:23 PM subject old stuff u may want. mailed-by kingcon.com

Ladies and gents,

I have finally decided to do what I mentioned several months back. That is to begin providing some of my printings, many original, many copies of ancient things that I’ve located over fifty plus years of digging.

Originally I offered them on cd’s but I’ve been having some problems with the material and my cd maker SO, instead I will offer them in a PDF file which you can download and print if you wish.

ONE point I would like to make. I claim a copyright on this material, so if anyone sends a copy to someone else I will be very peturbed. VERY.

I believe, and I hope you agree, the price I’m asking, for a load of research and work on my part, isn’t too much for anyone that wants a copy to pay me, themselves.

1. Register of Marine, Navy, and US Army officers serving with the 4th Brigade, the 5th Brigade, and with USA units in France. 85 pages of details.

This has been upgraded to include all differences I’ve found since the original printing. That was 54 pages in 12 point, this is 85 in 11 point. Many new additions, many corrections, much supplimental material found. If you are interested in further research in the part played by key members of each unit, you really should have this for further reference. Send $4.00 and I’ll send. No plastic, sorry.

LYING BY MEDIA KNOWS NO BOUNDS By Cliff Kincaid

By Cliff Kincaid

September 23, 2008
NewsWithViews.com

The Washington Post gives candidates a “Pinocchio” for lying in campaign ads. But the Post, known locally as the Compost, has been telling some whoppers of its own.

First, the Post ombudsman, or consumer advocate, has admitted that someone (unidentified) on the national desk of the paper misrepresented GOP vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin’s remarks about terrorism and Iraq to make her look like a fool.

In another case, in what may be a first, the paper has criticized John McCain for running an ad based on information in the Post. The paper now claims that its own information was misleading.

Finally, at this late date in the campaign, the Post still has not uttered a word about Barack Obama’s childhood mentor, a communist named Frank Marshall Davis. Post writer David Maraniss wrote a 10,000-word article about Obama’s growing-up years in Hawaii, without noting that Davis was a significant influence over Obama during that time. Maraniss simply made the decision that the information was not significant or relevant and that Post readers didn’t have the right to know.

This is a case of lying by omission.

RON PAUL ENDORSES CONSTITUTION PARTY CANDIDATE CHUCK BALDWIN FOR PRESIDENT

Posted 1:00 AM Eastern
by Sarah Foster
September 23, 2008
© 2008 NewsWithViews.com

After months of refusing to endorse any candidate in November’s presidential election race, Congressman Ron Paul—who ran a hard race for the GOP nomination—announced Monday afternoon in a press statement that he was supporting Constitution Party nominee Rev. Chuck Baldwin.

HURRICANE IKE, THE MEDIA AND HOUSTON by Alan Stang

by Alan Stang
September 23, 2008
NewsWithViews.com

[Announcement: Did you know Alan Stang has a new radio show? Click here for details.]

For many years, I did hard news. I don’t know why they call it “hard”; maybe because it is hard to get. To get it you hit the bricks and search it out. Hard news is the facts, what actually happened. Later, there is commentary, opinion about what happened. Of course, it no longer works that way. Most of today’s “news” is propaganda crafted by expert disciples of Joe Goebbels and Freud’s son-in-law, Ed Bernays to trick its victims into doing or not doing something.

Consider for instance Chris the Kook Matthews. He runs a show called “Hardball,” where he specializes in throwing softballs to Senator Hussein. Chris the Kook said that when he meditates on Senator Hussein a thrill runs all the way up his leg. Ask the normal men of your acquaintance about this. You will learn that a normal man would be mortified were he caught saying it. So Chris the Kook is not a normal man.

On the other hand, although I know that the recent Republicrud National Convention was a Hitler rally conducted in English and that Governor Sarah was chosen to quench the stench, it is perfectly true that the sight of her produces a thrill that begins at my big toe, travels to my ankle, where it kerbobbles a bit, proceeds upward to the knee and then to the hip, where it kerbobbles again. By the way, I checked with the Love Priestess. She said it’s okay. It’s normal.

Gunny G: Next To Last Newsletter, Marine Richard Keech….

GyG: I received this e-mail from Richards cousin, Joan Page Keech….

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“jpagespann@aol.com” <jpagespann@aol.com>
Sunday, September 21, 2008

This is my next to last Richard Keech Newsletter.

I am too filled with emotion to make any comments of my own. So here
is an e-mail I received recently from Richard’s daughter, Nancy and a
copy of a letter to his dad from his son, Steven, a letter so beautiful
and honest that it portrays Richard as I have never been able to.

Hello Joan,

In August, we visited my Dad twice at CTC in HDSP. My dad is confused
and withdrawn. He does not wear his hearing aids anymore because he
wants to “cancel out the prision environment”. The CTC environment is
horribly isolating and Dad is suffering because he wants to be around
friendly people. He says that this experience is worse than being a
Japanese prisioner of war. As a result, my Dad is giving up and dying.

The on-call Doctor told us last Sunday that the CTC medical staff had
initiated the paperwork for a compassionate release from prision.

As usual, we are always hopeful, that my dad can die at home.

Love,
Nancy

(As of today, no news about the compassionate release.)

Dad,

Have you ever read the book “dead zone” by Steven King? I’m not usually
a Steven King fan, but I like this one book. The thing about the book
is its theme. The book is all about the definition of the word “hero”.

The protagonist of this book knows something terrible is going to
happen. Everybody he loves is going to die, his lover, his child and
his friends. No one else in the world perceives this tragedy. As a
matter of fact, most people are unwittingly helping the tragedy to
occur through inaction.

Ron Paul Speaks; The Ron Paul Revolution: Tribute To The Ron Paul Revolution

Ron Paul Speaks; The Ron Paul Revolution: Tribute To The Ron Paul Revolution

Video: Ron Paul

See Also, same webpage, The Ron Paul Revolution, etc.

Today’s Toons By: Pookie

Today’s Toons By: Pookie
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Freddie & Fannie Unconstitutional Bail Out….By: Devvy

Freddie & Fannie Unconstitutional Bail Out Using What?
The National Expositor ^ | 21 July, 2008 | Devvy Kidd

Posted on Friday, September 19, 2008 9:25:34 AM by kellynla

Arthur Henning of the Chicago Tribune said back in 1935, “The New Deal will bring the Communist Party within striking distance of overthrow of the American form of government…” Mark Sullivan of the Buffalo Evening News also expressed alarm in 1935: “The New Deal is to America what the early phase of Nazism was to Germany…”

The nation is awash in fear because they are coming to realize that while they’ve been buying all the hype from the cabal of gangsters in Washington for decades, reality is now setting in as poverty is slamming millions who used to belong to the middle class. From dangerous lending practices to the derivatives time bomb waiting to go off and inflation getting ready to launch into hyper inflation, the situation is more grim by the week. A financial catastrophe so many have been warning about for decades, it’s all coming home to roost. The “perfect storm” as it’s being called. The beast is now devouring itself and we the people are caught in their cross fire.

Unfortunately, most Americans haven’t been listening. They’re either addicted to sports, shopping, porn, drugs or yaking on their cell phones while the world has been heading for financial Armageddon. Oh, they perk up when they hear things like how many new jobs Bill Clinton created! Clinton used to love to brag that he had created 14 million new jobs during his tenure. He did? Sure, and Mr. Jones can thank Clinton for all three of his minimum wage jobs while Clinton supported the destruction of our true and meaningful job bases: ag, industrial and manufacturing. George W. Bush has steadfastly supported the same destructive redistribution of America’s wealth into the hands of foreign countries while our people go without – backed up by both Democrats and Republicans.

IS SARAH PALIN QUALIFIED TO BE PRESIDENT? PART 1 of 2 By: Devvy

By: Devvy
September 11, 2008

© 2008 – NewsWithViews.com

Juan McCain’s choice as his partner for the GOP ticket has, to put it mildly, created a media firestorm not seen in a long time. The attack on Gov. Palin has been vicious and relentless. It is both dividing and uniting Americans at the same time. The frenzy has created a circus atmosphere with sales of her designer eye glasses ($375.) shooting through the roof. There are disgusting photo shop (fake) pictures of her in scanty clothing, nudity, in a bikini holding a rifle, as well as outrageous claims about her life. In an effort to sort out the dung from documented truth, I’ve spent many hours trying to chase down the truth.

Probably the biggest rumor is that she faked her pregnancy and the newest child to her family really belongs to her daughter. Is there any proof of such an outlandish allegation? Mrs. Palin did not announce to anyone that she was pregnant until she was seven months along. It’s rather difficult to hide a seven month pregnancy and some wonder why she kept it a secret so long? I would think it might be because she and her husband knew their little baby was a Down Syndrome child and they just wanted their privacy for as long as they could have it.

US MEDIA IS MENTALLY ILL By Dr. Laurie Roth

By Dr. Laurie Roth
September 12, 2008
NewsWithViews.com

I have been too hard on our media and U.S. news. I forgot for a moment that they have the taste and emotional needs of a 10 year old, they want to be an adult right now, but don’t do their chores or follow through with homework. If its Hanna Montana or Britney on TV they are right on the story. The new Britney (since Britney hasn’t shaved her head recently) to them is Governor Sarah Palin and family. They have slammed her faith in Christ, her marriage, her choices when pregnant with her disabled boy, her pregnant daughter, her experience and the assaults and orgy continue. Of course, the attacks don’t even make the cover of Inventors Weekly or Mad magazine. They are so out of reality that the Star Wars series doesn’t even want them as a back drop for the next attack star planet. No one wants the attacks from the Obama camp or our media whores except The Psychiatrist’s union to study and research extreme patterns of mental illness and pathological liars.

As long as the news is sexy, full of gossip or a slam on our country and conservative thinkers, they are fine. Give them real news, priorities and try to impart any sort of old fashion balance and loyalty, they have a tantrum, run away from home and flunk class. I’m getting tired of putting our media back a year since they continuously flunk out, now I say expel them and send them to a camp to do chores cleaning up their own horse manure for a few summers.

McCAIN FEEDS PALIN TO THE WOLVES By Cliff Kincaid

By Cliff Kincaid

September 13, 2008
NewsWithViews.com

The McCain campaign is running an ad saying the wolves are out to get Sarah Palin. But the campaign fed her to the wolves in the Charlie Gibson interview. The interview, at least the part on foreign policy, looked like a police interrogation. The only thing missing was a rubber hose.

Conservative bloggers are complaining about Gibson’s performance, saying he got some facts wrong. But police have the right to lie in order to get a confession. The McCain campaign knew this going in.

LISTEN UP, EYE ROLLERS PART 1 of 2 Deanna Spingola

Deanna Spingola
September 14, 2008
NewsWithViews.com

People who rely on broadcast media and/or government education to formulate their perceptions often roll their eyes in exasperation and conspiracy-nut-contempt when exposed to reliable information that challenges their beliefs. For the majority, easy prey for predatory propagandists and history revisionists, the possibility that they have been blatantly deceived by their own government is unthinkable, despite the monstrous evidence of pandemic corruption. Denial is the proverbial mental comfort zone; it is an easy refuge. It requires nothing! Schopenhauer said: “All truth goes through three stages, first it is ridiculed. Then it is violently opposed. Finally it is accepted as self-evident.”

The U.S. Government lies, cheats, steals, misappropriates public funds, seizes and redistributes private funds, outsources middle-class jobs through phony trade agreements, succumbed to the privately-owned Federal Reserve, has given away or sold our technology and public lands to well-connected private citizens and/or foreign countries, has secretly initiated the North American Union, confiscates private property,[1] kills and maims its own citizens, kills and maims foreign citizens and has established a Nazi-style police state. Individual citizens would receive prison terms for comparable crimes. However, criminal cronies shield each other in and out of office![2] They rationalize these insidious behaviors as necessary with ambiguous phrases – “national security,” or “national interests,” as if everyone in the nation had a common interest, when, in fact, the people’s government serves corporate interests.[3] From extensive experience, they lie proficiently. Even more remarkable, our taxes pay for our own institutionalized indoctrination without our knowledge and certainly without our consent.

OBAMA: I’M A CITIZEN OF THE WORLD PART 1 of 2 By Joe Kress

By Joe Kress

September 14, 2008

NewsWithViews.com

“I am a citizen of the World” is exactly what the United States candidate for president said before an audience of one million in his visit to Germany. John Kennedy said, “Ich bin ein Berliner, “but in a different context than what Obama said since Kennedy inferred he was in support of the people of Berlin in opposing the Soviets walling off all of Germany’s Eastern Zone. Obama, on the other hand, stated he is a citizen of the world, (not what one calls an American citizen).

CAUSE AND EFFECT: WHY SCIENTISTS SUCCUMB TO POLITICAL CORRECTNESS By Frosty Wooldridge

By Frosty Wooldridge
September 15, 2008
NewsWithViews.com

Dr. Albert A. Bartlett, University of Colorado at Boulder, wrote another stunning paper concerning America’s love affair with self-delusion. Dr. Bartlett remains the premiere voice in America concerning the greatest predicament facing our civilization in the 21st century.

While everyone in America suffers from its symptoms from gridlock, air pollution, crowding and higher energy prices–no politicians from governors to senators address it. Most Americans either demonstrate any awareness or they dismiss it out of hand. Yet, it accelerates as THE single greatest dilemma facing America and the world in the 21st century.

“Throughout the world, scientists are prominently involved in seeking solutions to the major global problems such as global climate change and the growing inadequacy of energy supplies,” Dr. Bartlett said. “They present their writings in publications ranging from newspapers to scientific journals, but with a few rare exceptions, on one point they all replace objectivity with “political correctness.”

”In their writings the scientists identify the cause of the problems as being growing populations. But their recommendations for solving the problems caused by population growth almost never include the recommendation that we advocate stabilizing our population. Political Correctness dictates that we do not address the current problem of overpopulation in the U.S. and the world.

THE FINAL DESTRUCTION OF THE MIDDLE CLASS By Joan Veon

By Joan Veon
September 15, 2008
NewsWithViews.com

The Great 2008 Transfer of Wealth

Americans are confronted with what appears to be the worse economic situation since the Great Depression. What will history say about the U.S. credit crisis turned global financial crisis? At every turn investors are faced with new problems, new crises, and less than desirable solutions which include debt, deflation and a transfer of wealth.

With regard to debt, the American taxpayer has been made the lender of last resort for international bank Bear Stearns and now the two Government-sponsored Enterprises-GSEs, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. On top of the $29B for Bear Stearns, Fannie and Freddie’s debt of $5.4T has been effectively transferred to the balance sheet of the USA. This is equal to the entire publicly traded debt of the U.S. which is also the same as the total of America’s mortgage-related assets. In addition to personal debt, every American now has a financial responsibility for Bear Stearns and Fannie and Freddie.

We, the people, have saved the foreign investors such as China which owns $376B, Japan which owns $228B, South Korea which owns $65B, Taiwan which owns $55B, and Australia which owns $33B, from losing faith in America. It is the stockholders, both common and preferred, that have been given the raw end of the deal. While large financial institutions such as JP Morgan, which owns $1.2B of Freddie and Fannie stock, said a complete loss would only erase one or two months of profits, contrast this to smaller banks such as the Central Virginia Bank in Richmond which has $20M in shares of Freddie and Fannie. That type of loss will put them in the same kind of trouble as Lehman Brothers, not enough capitalization. There are 15 other banks that hold 10% or more of their capital in shares of Freddie and Fannie.

FREDDIE, FANNIE, FASCISM: WHERE WAS CONGRESS By: Devvy

By: Devvy
September 15, 2008

© 2008 – NewsWithViews.com

“I told all four that there were going to be some times where we don’t agree with each other. But that’s OK. If this were a dictatorship, it’d be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I’m the dictator.” Gov. George W. Bush (R-TX), President-elect, December 18, 2000

Fascism: A philosophy or system of government that is marked by stringent social and economic control, a strong centralized government usually headed by a dictator, and often a policy of belligerent nationalism; oppressive or dictatorial control.

A little over a week ago, these united States of America took another gigantic step towards Fascism when the U.S. Department of Treasury and the unconstitutional, privately owned “Federal” Reserve” bailed out two more private corporations ostensibly to calm fears in the market:

SARAH PALIN’S ANSWERS: VERY TROUBLING By Chuck Baldwin

By Chuck Baldwin
September 16, 2008
NewsWithViews.com

Alaska Governor Sarah Palin gave her first exclusive interview as John McCain’s Vice Presidential running mate to ABC’s Charles Gibson last week. Her answers were very troubling, especially to those of us who believe in constitutional government. On foreign policy, especially, Palin reveals herself to be just another neocon; one who would enthusiastically promote Bush’s preemptive war doctrine.

Speaking of the Bush doctrine, it was extremely enlightening that Sarah Palin demonstrated surprising ignorance as to what the Bush Doctrine is. Gibson asked: “Do you agree with the Bush doctrine?” Palin’s response: “In what respect, Charlie?” Continued questions revealed that Sarah Palin was totally ignorant of the Bush doctrine.

A SALUTE TO OUR U.S. CONSTITUTION By Chuck Baldwin

By Chuck Baldwin
September 17, 2008
NewsWithViews.com

On this date in 1787, the U.S. Constitution was adopted. 39 delegates from 12 of the 13 colonies (Rhode Island did not send a representative) affixed their signatures to the greatest civil document ever conceived by men. Famous patriots such as George Washington, Roger Sherman, Alexander Hamilton, Benjamin Franklin, Robert Morris, Gouverneur Morris, James Madison, George Clymer, and Abraham Baldwin were among this gallant group.

Under divine Providence, it has been allegiance to the Constitution that has preserved our liberties and protected our very way of life. Most of the problems, failings, and frustrations that plague our nation today are due to the propensity of our civil magistrates to ignore or blatantly abuse constitutional government. Accordingly, fidelity to the Constitution would likely repair most of the damage done by this neglect.

It is the responsibility of a free people to jealously guard the principles upon which their liberties are predicated. For citizens of these United States, the principles that duly protect our liberties are contained in the U.S. Constitution, Bill of Rights, and Declaration of Independence. Therefore, it is incumbent upon every American to studiously familiarize himself with these documents.

BRING AMERICA DOWN TO THE THIRD WORLD LEVEL By Frosty Woodbridge

By Frosty Wooldridge
September 18, 2008
NewsWithViews.com

With our financial foundation crumbling faster than a sandbar in the path of Hurricane Ike, do Americans understand the ultimate path of America’s treacherous future?

On NBC this week, 18,000 immigrants became citizens of the USA. They raised their right hand and swore to uphold the U.S. Constitution. Whether they understood it or not raises another question. They arrived from hundreds of countries already in the clutches of poverty. They arrive into the USA at over 2.2 million annually. They arrive from poverty-torn countries. They arrive in America as environmental refugees. Why?

Grinding poverty exists in Africa, China, India, Bangladesh, Mexico, South America, Indonesia, Russia and many other parts of the world. It chokes its victims in a vice-like grip of futility. It features disease, an uneducated populace, corruption and starvation. It’s called the Third World. Most of us have no clue how much suffering exists outside America while we spend $9.2 billion on weight loss programs every year.

Nonetheless, hundreds of letters arrive in my email box weekly from around America. But several times a month, letters arrive from foreign countries. One angry writer from Madras, India, a Mr. Singh, expressed his dim view of a piece I wrote concerning H-1B visas that displaced jobs from American citizens. We must remember that all 2.2 million legal and illegal immigrants arrive in this country as job seekers who will displace American workers by undercutting wages. Singh taunted me in his letter.

“I suppose you think I’m the enemy,” he said, “because I have taken one of your out-sourced jobs as well as an entire factory of workers here in India. However, we can make the product cheaper than you Americans. Your artificially high wages cannot compete with our labor market. Besides, it’s time Americans drop their artificially high standard of living to the poverty levels of the rest of the world.”

I wrote back, “Is it possible that you maintain an artificially low standard of living by sustaining an artificially high overpopulation level of 1.1 billion people? Wouldn’t India be better off with only 300 million like America? Wouldn’t China be better off with 300 million instead of 1.3 billion? Wouldn’t Bangladesh with 144 million people in a landmass the size of Iowa be better off with only a million? Wouldn’t your standard of living rise to the level of a First World country if you had a smaller population?”

SEX AND THE BLACKBERRY by Marc H. Rudov

SEX AND THE BLACKBERRY

by Marc H. Rudov
September 18, 2008
NewsWithViews.com

Bedroom Boredom

Nobody was less shocked than I to learn that 87% of workplace professionals bring PDAs into their bedrooms and that 35% of them would choose these devices over their spouses. This is the finding of Sheraton Hotels & Resorts in a survey of 6500 execs from Australia, China, Germany, the UK, and the US.

Why are so many people literally in love with their BlackBerrys? Dysfunctional relationships and bedroom boredom abound, and people are choosing inanimate objects for companionship. Essentially, men and women loathe talking directly and frankly to each other and, consequently, become sexually entangled for the strangest reasons and in the wrong ways.

If you don’t believe me, just sit in the back row of a divorce court one day. Listen to the parade of parties, allegedly once in love, excoriate each other. This all-too-common downward spiral occurs when spouses cohabit without ever experiencing emotional intimacy, from avoiding more issues than they discuss.

NATIONAL ID & THE CONUNDRUM OF ENFORCEMENT By: Devvy

By: Devvy
September 18, 2008

© 2008 – NewsWithViews.com

The clock is ticking on the shadow government’s tracking of your every move with the so-called National ID. For those who might not be familiar with this Nazi style snooping and forced production of “Show your papers,” Rep. Sam E. Rohrer, has very thoroughly and succinctly explained it in this column. It is a must read for all Americans (perhaps this weekend) to fully understand they may soon be forced to accept the loss of their rights or lose their job:

“A few weeks ago we introduced Lowell Rogers to you. He’s a tugboat engineer. His employer is about to be brought under a security/identity scheme — a Real ID card of sorts for maritime employees. It’s called the Transportation Worker Identification Credential (TWIC). Apparently, since the Department of Homeland Security can’t get Real ID implemented, due to the largest state rebellion since the Civil War, they’ve decided to pick us off — one occupation at a time.”[1]

Congressman Ron Paul explains the real issue here:

“National ID cards are not proper in a free society,” Paul stated. “This is America, not Soviet Russia. The federal government should never be allowed to demand papers from American citizens, and it certainly has no constitutional authority to do so.”[2]

Voluntary v mandatory

“Supporters claim it is not a national ID because it is voluntary. However, any state that opts out will automatically make non-persons out of its citizens. The citizens of that state will be unable to have any dealings with the federal government because their ID will not be accepted. They will not be able to fly or to take a train. In essence, in the eyes of the federal government they will cease to exist. It is absurd to call this voluntary.”[3]

Lawmakers Want Review Of Medal Of Honor Case

San Diego Union-Tribune
September 19, 2008
Pg. 1

Lawmakers Want Review Of Medal Of Honor Case

By Rick Rogers and Steve Liewer, Staff Writers

A day after the military denied a San Diego Marine a posthumous Medal of Honor, some members of Congress urged the Pentagon to reconsider and the president to intervene.

At least five Southern California representatives – Democrats and Republicans – made appeals yesterday on behalf of Sgt. Rafael Peralta, who was awarded a Navy Cross.

Peralta was killed Nov. 15, 2004, when he intentionally pulled an insurgent’s grenade to his chest and shielded fellow servicemen from its blast during a battle in Fallujah, Iraq, according to the Navy Cross citation.

Ron Paul Blasts “Secret Government” Running Economy

Congressman warns middle class in danger of being wiped out, says Congress is oblivious and Fed has no clue

Steve Watson
Infowars.net
Thursday, Sept 18, 2008

Congressman Ron Paul has issued a stinging address concerning the financial crisis in which he outlines how the current economic problems, created via malinvestment and shift to a debt based economy, are now being mismanaged by private interests in secret.

What’s more he says he is not sure the Federal Reserve has any idea what to do next and that the Congress is totally oblivious to the whole sorry state of affairs – a cocktail of elements he warns puts the middle class of America in serious jeopardy.

“Today we had a lot of financial fireworks in the markets, a lot of things are going on, and I think we are in the middle of something very big.” the Congressman stated.

Speaking on the recent collapse and government bailout of several big financial institutions he warned:

“We’re talking about big bucks, we’re not talking about hundreds of millions or even hundreds of billions, we’re talking about trillions of dollars, the obligation is immeasurable.”

Ron Paul Was Right

Ron Paul Was Right
Reason’s Hit and Run ^ | September 17, 2008 | David Weigel

Posted on Thursday, September 18, 2008 11:04:47 AM by Captain Kirk

They all laughed at him. Then they panicked and went looking for gold.

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NO LESSER OF EVILS–
JUST THE GENUINE ARTICLE!

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Gold’s huge rally — prices shot up over 8 percent — came as the government moved overnight to rescue troubled insurer American International Group Inc. with an $85 million bailout loan. The Federal Reserve stepped in after AIG, teetering on collapse from losses tied to the subprime crisis and the credit crisis, failed to find adequate capital in the private sector.

Fearing more tightening of credit markets, investors reacted swiftly and began dumping stocks and socking money into gold, silver and other safe-haven commodities. Gold is especially attractive during times of crisis because the metal is known for holding its value.

Ron Paul Could have Dropped Carroll Quiqley Bombshell! v.2

By Illuminated1234 | September 18, 2008

v.2 UPDATED with Clinton footage mentioning Carroll Quigley! And Quigley telling you why he wrote the book.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkGCXSY3dRA
9/12/2008 I really wish Ron Paul would elaborate more on Quigley and give his quote about the central banks working in concert to take over world economies.

When he said Quigley I held my breath and thought he was going to drop that bombshell, but he didn’t.

Could you imagine if he would have?
And why do you think he didn’t?

He would get a lot more attention to abolshing the Fed publicly if he’d given that excerpt from Bill Clinton’s mentor.

The fact that Clinton praises him in his inaugural speech gives airtight credibility to the this phenomenal exerpt from the book:

Did Bill Ayers write Obama’s “Dreams”?

Did Bill Ayers write Obama’s “Dreams”?

Prior to 1990, when Barack Obama contracted to write Dreams From My Father, he had written very close to nothing.

As an undergraduate, Obama had written what he justifiably calls some “very bad poetry.” He published nothing under his own name in The Harvard Law Review, where he served as an editor and as president. And after leaving Harvard, he published nothing in its review or in any law journal.

Then, in 1995, this untested 33 year-old produced what Time Magazine has called–with a straight face– “the best-written memoir ever produced by an American politician.”

No Medal Of Honor For Marine Who Saved Others

USA Today
September 18, 2008
Pg. 4

No Medal Of Honor For Marine Who Saved Others

Some upset at lesser honor for sergeant who covered grenade

By Gregg Zoroya, USA Today

WASHINGTON — A rare decision by Defense Secretary Robert Gates to reject a Marine Corps recommendation that one of its heroes receive the Medal of Honor has angered Marines who say Sgt. Rafael Peralta sacrificed his life to save theirs.

Peralta’s family was notified of the decision Wednesday by Lt. Gen. Richard Natonski, a top Marine Corps commander. Col. David Lapan, a Marine spokesman, said he was unaware of any recent award nomination that was denied in this way.

A Gates-appointed panel unanimously concluded that the report on Peralta’s action did not meet the standard of “no margin of doubt or possibility of error,” Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said. The argument about whether to award Peralta the nation’s highest military honor centers on whether a mortally wounded Marine could have intentionally reached for the grenade after suffering a serious head wound.

LESSER OF TWO EVILS PART 1 of 2 By Jon Christian Dryer

LESSER OF TWO EVILS
PART 1 of 2

By Jon ChristianRyter

September 17, 2008

NewsWithViews.com

Congressman Ron Paul [R-TX.], who isn’t running for anything (except President in the State of Montana) wants to change the outcome of the upcoming national election. Dr. Paul, accompanied by three longshot presidential candidates at the National Press Club on Wednesday, Sept. 10, opened his speech saying “The coverage of the presidential election is designed to be a grand distraction…The truth is that our two-party system offers no real choice…” Offered by Dr. Paul at the Press Club as the preferred candidates you should first consider voting for were three longshot candidates that the Congressman attempted to package as a “third party choice.” First was conservative Crossroads Baptist Church pastor Chuck Baldwin. When conservatives speak about Sen. Barack Obama’s qualifications to pick up the red phone at 3 a.m., his under-two-years of political experience dwarfs Baldwin’s complete and utter lack of anything that could even remotely be construed as political experience. The same can be said about longshot liberal citizen’s advocate and environmentalist Ralph Nader who, granted, has been a fixture around DC for more years than most of us have lived. But, like Baldwin, he has no political experience that qualifies him to sit in the Oval Office. And while the office of President is on-the-job training for every new chief executive, the core knowledge of running a nation must already exist in that new President at 12:01:01 p.m. on January 20, 2009 because at that time, its too late for a new president to crack open a textbook called “Politics 101: A Primer On Being President.”

Is The Time Now At Hand?

“I am grateful to those who carry my articles on their websites and pray for God’s blessings upon them. But, I know that there will come a time, and very soon, when my words will be blocked and censored. The prophets of old who were sent to deliver hard messages unto God’s people and to their kings and religious leaders were censored and imprisoned, and those who speak the truth today can expect the same circumstances as even now we see an unrighteous abridgement – by a fascistic government – of individual rights and liberties.“

(Excerpt)

The Big ‘What If’ (How will Black Americans react if Obama is defeated?)

The Big ‘What If’ (How will Black Americans react if Obama is defeated?)
WaPo ^ | 9/14/2008 | Randall Kennedy

Posted on Monday, September 15, 2008 1:00:22 AM by mojito

….Never before have my emotions been so exercised by a political campaign. For one thing, never before has a candidate so fully challenged the many inhibitions that have prevented people of all races, including African Americans, from seriously envisioning presidential power in the hands of someone other than a white American. With intelligence, verve and elegance, Obama has opened the public mind to the idea of a black president and made that idea broadly attractive.

History Dept. Chair: Palin Somehow Connected to Pacific Northwest Hate Groups

History Dept. Chair: Palin Somehow Connected to Pacific Northwest Hate Groups
NewsBusters ^ | September 16, 2008 | P.J. Gladnick

Posted on Tuesday, September 16, 2008 10:04:51 AM by PJ-Comix

The chair of the Connecticut College history department, Catherine McNicol Stock, has suggested that Sarah Palin is somehow associated with Pacific Northwest hate groups such as Posse Comitatus and the Aryan Nations. Her proof? Well, because Palin lived in areas with low “diversity.” I kid you not. Here is the professor’s “learned thesis” presented in a Philadelphia Inquirer opinion column melodramatically titled, “Intolerance thrives in Palin’s Pacific Northwest” (emphasis mine):

Despite her efforts to portray herself as an average, small-town, “folksy” American, Sarah Palin’s political views – ardently pro-gun, pro-censorship, antichoice and antigay – make John McCain’s conservative credentials pale in comparison. What few observers have said, however, is these beliefs are not just extreme – they are radical, and even bear a comparison with some of the most notorious “rural radicals” of our time.

Cloak and Swagger

Cloak and Swagger
Focal Point USA ^ | September 11, 2008 | Rich Carroll

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During our nation’s history of Presidential campaigns, no candidate has ever been shrouded behind a cloak of secrecy more than Barack Hussein Obama. Speaking or writing his middle name is verboten in the hopes that this act alone will make his Muslim faith go away.

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“It is always darkest just before it goes completely black.”
— unknown

Let’s pretend. Pretend along with me for a few moments that it actually matters whether John McCain or Barack Obama assumes the American presidency in January.  Gosh – just which of these fine fellows should we elect?

With McCain, we get a crashing economy and WWIII (sung to the tune of “Bomb, Bomb, Bomb, Bomb, Bomb Iran”).  With Obama, we get a crashing economy and WWIII.  My, oh my.  How on earth will we ever decide?

Black or a Pit Bull with Lipstick?

Well, instead, perhaps we should focus on what really matters to Americans:  Shall we elect America’s first Black President or her first female Vice President (the latter of which would be one very shaky heartbeat away from the throne, at that)?  Now there’s a real choice for all the brain-dead, politically-correct denizens of what we laughingly call the United States of America.

By allowing Ron Paul to be shoved off the stage earlier this year by the controlled media, we proved that we really don’t care about substance, after all.

Already, direct comparisons between Sarah Palin and Barack Obama are flying around the Web, as though they are the only two candidates who matter.

“Manning’s Fierce Prayer for Bristol Palin”

“Manning’s Fierce Prayer for Bristol Palin”
Date: Wednesday, 3 September 2008

Ron Paul As You Are Seldom Allowed To See Him By MSM!

Ron Paul Usually Not Given TV Time By Media–Why?????

CANDIDATES & MEDIA IGNORING ANGRY VOTERS OVER IMMIGRATION By Frosty Wooldridge

By Frosty Wooldridge
September 11, 2008
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“Civilizations die from suicide, not murder.” — Arnold Toynbee

No matter what the polls report, neither McCain nor Obama address the accelerating 20 million illegal aliens undercutting our laws, working in violation of our U.S. Constitution and degrading our language, culture, schools and medical systems.

Abetting this ‘silent’ McCain/Obama cartel, national media squelches every aspect of America’s most dangerous immigration topic.

Both candidates, while doing nothing to stop the invasion during their entire U.S. Senatorial careers, voted to give amnesty to 20-30 million illegal aliens in the June 2007 vote—with no idea of the ultimate number or the cost to American taxpayers. Both voted to double legal immigration from 1.2 million annually to over 2.4 million each year. Obama nor McCain promote any kind of a plan for defense of our borders from further illegal migration into the United States.

CANDIDATES & MEDIA IGNORING ANGRY VOTERS OVER IMMIGRATION By Frosty Wooldridge

By Frosty Wooldridge
September 11, 2008
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“Civilizations die from suicide, not murder.” — Arnold Toynbee

No matter what the polls report, neither McCain nor Obama address the accelerating 20 million illegal aliens undercutting our laws, working in violation of our U.S. Constitution and degrading our language, culture, schools and medical systems.

Abetting this ‘silent’ McCain/Obama cartel, national media squelches every aspect of America’s most dangerous immigration topic.

Both candidates, while doing nothing to stop the invasion during their entire U.S. Senatorial careers, voted to give amnesty to 20-30 million illegal aliens in the June 2007 vote—with no idea of the ultimate number or the cost to American taxpayers. Both voted to double legal immigration from 1.2 million annually to over 2.4 million each year. Obama nor McCain promote any kind of a plan for defense of our borders from further illegal migration into the United States.

“About 70 percent of voters believe that controlling the U.S. borders is more important than legalizing illegal immigrants,” a new Rasmussen Report national phone survey reveals. “Only 21 percent think legalization is more important. Three out of four respondents said the government is not doing enough to secure the borders.

WHY THE MEDIA FEMINISTS HATE SARAH PALIN By Cliff Kincaid

By Cliff Kincaid

September 11, 2008
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Columnist Marc H. Rudov calls them the “fascist feminists.” These are the feminists in the media and elsewhere who detest Sarah Palin because of her role as a successful wife and mother and defender of the unborn. Palin’s decision to have a Down syndrome child, when 90 percent of these children are being aborted in the womb, has proven in dramatic terms not only that there are articulate pro-life women in America but that there are women who will take a leadership role on “culture of life” issues of concern to millions. And this one could be vice-president of the United States.

It could be the story of our lifetimes, something that could be historical in nature and a lesson for generations to come.

With the Palin pick, a loving and caring pro-life mother has been offered to the American people and especially young women as a role model in the political arena. An article distributed by Catholic News Service noted in a headline that Sarah Palin is a politician who “lives her truth” and “walks the walk.” Don’t expect to see any stories like this in the secular “progressive” media.

The feminists and their allies in the media, who treat abortion as a human right, when abortion destroys basic human rights, are on the defensive. Their vicious attacks have already generated a backlash in her favor. But the controversy goes far beyond Palin and the fate of those, now some 40 million, who have lost their lives through abortion. What will we as a society do with the increasing numbers of elderly Americans with health problems? Will they be directed into a national health care plan that rations care, treatments or medicine?

IS SARAH PALIN QUALIFIED TO BE PRESIDENT? PART 1 of 2 By: Devvy

By: Devvy
September 11, 2008

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Juan McCain’s choice as his partner for the GOP ticket has, to put it mildly, created a media firestorm not seen in a long time. The attack on Gov. Palin has been vicious and relentless. It is both dividing and uniting Americans at the same time. The frenzy has created a circus atmosphere with sales of her designer eye glasses ($375.) shooting through the roof. There are disgusting photo shop (fake) pictures of her in scanty clothing, nudity, in a bikini holding a rifle, as well as outrageous claims about her life. In an effort to sort out the dung from documented truth, I’ve spent many hours trying to chase down the truth.

RON PAUL CALLS ON VOTERS TO SUPPORT THIRD PARTY CANDIDATES by Sarah Foster

Posted 1:00 AM Eastern
by Sarah Foster
September 11, 2008
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“In his words: “I am deeply disappointed by Bob Barr’s decision not to participate in today’s press conference just as I have been disappointed with the Barr campaign throughout this election cycle.

“The idea that he was busy is absurd. I am sitting in the National Press Club right now waiting for his hastily called press conference to begin. This is the same building where Dr. Paul’s presser just ended. Barr committed to participate, but had his campaign manager call us minutes before it started to tell us that Bob thinks “it just isn’t worth it.” I look forward to hearing him explain how breaking a promise to Congressman Paul constitutes a wise campaign strategy.”

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Ron Paul: US in Georgia for pipeline

Paul: US in Georgia for pipeline

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US Congressman Ron Paul says the United States is in Georgia not for democracy but to protect an oil pipeline bypassing Russia.

Gunny G: Yeah, That’s EXACTLY What I Said….

I will not vote for McCain or Obama!
Christianpatriot.com ^ | Monday, September 8th, in the year of our Lord 2008 | Pastor Rev. Robert Celeste

Posted on Wednesday, September 10, 2008 8:29:22 PM by 30-06 Springfield

Psalm 15

My dear brothers and sisters in the Lord, please, please, please stop sending me things trying to convince me that I should vote for John McCain because he has anointed Sarah Palin as his running mate. Please understand this, I am not going to vote for either McCain or Obama.

Now, let me agree with you that Sarah Palin is the best of the four on the ballot for President and Vice President.

It is a sad day for the Republic and it is a sad commentary that the best the two major parties could come up with is Obama/Biden and McCain/Palin. But what is even sadder is the number of Christians who are so desperate for a political saviour that they are willing to put aside conscience, Christianity, and self respect to vote for McCain because he anointed the gal from Alaska. I cannot help but wonder two things, are you that desperate and fooled or is it that you can shave with your eyes closed so that you don’t have to look yourself in the face each morning? Are you not like those who rejected Jesus because He had not come as a warrior king?

Bob Barr Shows Leadership to Unify Liberty Movement Asks Paul to Run as his Vice President

Bob Barr Shows Leadership to Unify Liberty Movement

September 10th, 2008 by Shane Cory

Asks Paul to Run as his Vice President

Atlanta, GA – Bob Barr, the Libertarian Party nominee for president, has invited GOP Congressman Ron Paul to be his running mate in the upcoming election. In a letter sent to Paul, Barr called Paul one of the “few American patriots” who exist in today’s society, and asked him to “seriously consider this final offer as an opportunity to show true, lasting leadership beyond party politics.”

Barr cited Paul’s 1987 letter to then-GOP Chairman Frank Fahrenkopf, in which Paul stated that, “after years of trying to work through the Republican Party both in and out of government…[Paul] concluded that [his] efforts must be carried on outside the Republican Party.”

From Bob Barr To Ron Paul….

From Bob Barr To Ron Paul….

Ron Paul Statement to the National Press Club(Endorse 3rd Party Nader, McKinney, & Baldwin….

Paul Statement to the National Press Club(Endorse 3rd Party Nader, McKinney, & Baldwin- Barr noshow)
Ron Paul’s Campaign for Libtardy ^

Posted on Wednesday, September 10, 2008 9:47:54 AM by mnehrling

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The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to the doctrinaire and academic thinkers. Instead the two parties should be almost identical, so that the American people can ‘throw the rascals out’ at any election without leading to any profound or extensive shifts in policy.

Carroll Quigley – Author of Tragedy & Hope

The coverage of the presidential election is designed to be a grand distraction. This is not new, but this year, it’s more so than ever.

Ron Paul: Reject the major parties, go for a third

Paul: Reject the major parties, go for a third

By SUZANNE GAMBOA and SAM HANANEL – 15 hours ago

WASHINGTON (AP) — Libertarian-leaning congressman Ron Paul is urging voters to reject John McCain and Barack Obama and support one of the third-party candidates for president.

GyG: Semper Bugger Off!

Washington [State] Freeway Speed Cameras to Begin Ticketing
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Posted on Tuesday, September 09, 2008 6:48:50 PM by Clint Williams

Washington state DOT officials announce the kickoff of a statewide speed camera program.

WSDOT / ATS speed cameraThe Washington State Department (WSDOT) will unleash its freeway speed cameras in the southwest portion of the state on Monday, September 15. WSDOT officials held a kickoff event in Chehalis on Friday to announce the date that ticketing will begin. The cameras will first appear in white Ford SUVs parked on the side of the road in a work zone on Interstate 5 south of Chehalis.

“Along with our Washington State Patrol partners, we place a high priority on highway safety,” WSDOT State Traffic Engineer Ted Trepanier said. “The automated traffic safety cameras are just part of the highway safety program.”

This program is designed to generate millions in revenue from $137 citations generated by the fully automated vans. Washington officials neglected to mention that ATS, an Arizona-based vendor, is the primary partner in charge of all aspects of the ticketing process in exchange for a significant portion of the revenue.

THE RE-BIRTH OF THE REPUBLICAN REVOLUTION By Jon Christian RYTER

THE RE-BIRTH OF THE REPUBLICAN REVOLUTION

By Jon Christian RYTER

On Thursday, March 6, 2008 Congressman Ron Paul posted a 7-minute video on his website officially ending his presidential campaign. The Republican Texan, who ran on a libertarian platform, said that while he has suspended his bid for the White House, his “campaign for freedom will continue in this new phase…” calling for a convention in Washington, DC on June 21. Without defining what it was, Dr. Paul said: “I don’t mind playing a key role in this revolution, but it has to be more than a Ron Paul revolution.” What we have here is the rebirth of the Republican Revolution. Only, this time around, it will be a people-orchestrated revolution where the conservative voters of America, inspired by Dr. Paul, take back their nation through the House of Representatives and the US Senate.

Congressman Ron Paul will make a major announcement next week in Washington D.C. at the National Press Club.

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Friday, September 5, 2008
Ron Paul to Make Major Announcement Next Week

Congressman Ron Paul will make a major announcement next week in Washington D.C. at the National Press Club.

It wouldn’t normally matter whom the Republican Party nominated….

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Send Page To a Friend Ichabod! By Laurence M. Vance “And she named the child Ichabod, saying, The glory is departed from Israel: because the ark of God was taken, and because of her father in law and her husband.” ~ 1 Kings 4:21 05/09/08 “LewRockwell” – – It’s done, it’s over, it’s official: The Republican Party nominated John McCain to be its 2008 presidential candidate. Conversely, and more importantly, this means that the Republican Party failed to nominate Ron Paul to be its 2008 presidential candidate. It wouldn’t normally matter whom the Republican Party nominated. Bigger government and less liberty have always been the result. And if you think Reagan was an exception then you are sadly mistaken. This time, however, the Republicans had a chance to nominate the only candidate who embodies everything good that the Republican Party has ever claimed to stand for. Ron Paul is undoubtedly the most pro-life, pro-family, pro-property, pro-liberty, pro-Constitution candidate in history.

“MORE AND MORE WEATHER MODIFICATION PROGRAMS ARE PLANNED WITHOUT YOUR KNOWLEDGE OR CONSENT”

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“Since the late 1980s, these experimental weather modification programs have grown in scope and sophistication. The public has been denied access to this information, in most cases, and weather modification has usually not been reported by the media except on rare occasions. “
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“MORE AND MORE WEATHER MODIFICATION PROGRAMS ARE PLANNED WITHOUT YOUR KNOWLEDGE OR CONSENT”
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FORECASTING YOUR WEATHER

By Rosalind Peterson
September 6, 2008
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What meteorologists and the media are not telling you

The National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), will provide to anyone that requests the list, a copy of experimental weather modification programs ongoing (as well as historical), in the United States. This list is not complete due to the fact that many experimental weather modification programs are “classified top secret” by the U.S. military. These experimental programs are unregulated and are not subject to oversight by anyone. In addition, the public, ranchers, watershed supervisors, forestry, the Environmental Protection Agency, states, agriculture food producers, fish and game agencies, local counties, and anyone else that depends upon the weather, are usually not notified in advance of these programs being initiated.

NOAA has, under its umbrella, the National Weather Service (NWS). If the NWS is notified about these experimental weather programs, they rarely put this information into their state and local weather forecasts, leaving the public to believe that their weather is “normal” or that “extreme and other weather events” are caused by climate change or “global warming.” The NWS provides weather information to local, county, and state meteorologists who then use this information to add to local weather forecasts in the area where you live, but most neglect to advise the public about these modification programs.

The National Weather Service uses weather models in their forecasting. These models are based on data which is collected from a variety of sources and historical information. There is just one glitch.

AMERICA’S WORST PRESIDENTS By Jon Christian Ryter

AMERICA’S WORST PRESIDENTS
By Jon Christian Ryter

In its Feb. 26 issue, US News & World Report listed—in their view—America’s 10 worst presidents. The list, compiled by their senior editor, Jay Tolson, from the results of 5 presidential surveys lists the least effective presidents rather than the worst. From that perspective, listed as the 8th least effective president was William Henry Harrison who got pneumonia just before the inauguration. He died a month later, becoming the shortest reigning president. The poll picked James Buchanan—the only homosexual to become president—as the worst president because they believed that Buchanan, who preceded Lincoln, had an opportunity to stop the spread of slavery into the western territories but did nothing to stop it. Two of those on Tolson’s list are on my list: Ulysses S. Grant and Richard Nixon. But, two of those on his “worst” list would be on my “best” list if I had compiled one.

I suspect if US News & World Report compiled a list of the ten best presidents, most of those on my “worst” list would be on their best list. Before considering who would be on my “best” list, let’s look at those who have done the best job of destroying the Bill of Rights or, at least, of abrogating liberty. The president who did the most to marginalize liberty in the United States was Franklin D. Roosevelt.

As the 32nd President of the United States, Franklin D. Roosevelt’s first official act —on the day he took office—was to classify the people of the United States as an enemy of the federal government. This was done by covertly rewording the Trading With the Enemy Act of 1917 within the Emergency Banking Relief Act of 1933 in order for the bankers who crashed the stock market in 1929 and brought about a three year recession (that FDR’s manipulations converted into a decade-long depression) to seize the gold possessed by the American people and replace it with debt-backed paper scrip that was redeemable in nothing.

Roosevelt created the unelected bureaucracy that swallowed the accountability factor of the US government. By blaming the bureaucracy for writing regulations that could never have been enacted by an elected legislator who had expectations of getting reelected, the politicians deflected voter accountability. Further, Roosevelt politicized the US Supreme Court in order to drive the ideological agenda of the liberal Congress. But, more than anything else, Roosevelt earned the distinction of being the worst president because, on Nov. 26, 1941 British Prime Minister Winston Churchill (in a wiretapped call taped by the Gestapo, Gestapo File #321-41) called FDR to inform him that the Japanese fleet was sailing towards Hawaii to attack the American fleet at Pearl Harbor—and asked Roosevelt to do nothing so the United States could enter the British war against the Axis without any voter backlash in the 1942 midterm election. Knowing Americans were soon going to be killed in a surprise attack, FDR boarded his private train for a belated Thanksgiving celebration in Warm Springs, Georgia. Because FDR deliberately did nothing in order to get the United States into a war America could have easily avoided, 3,219 American navy and army personnel died on Sunday, Dec. 7, 1941. Another 1,272 were wounded.

Pookie’s Toons…. 8.05.08

Pookie’s Toons…. 8.05.08

Meet the Senator Most Likely to Start a Nuclear War The Real McCain

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The Real McCain

By JEFFREY ST. CLAIR

04/09/08 “Counterpunch” – – It’s November 19, 2004, a mere two weeks after the election that returned George W. Bush to power, and Senator John McCain has traipsed off to New Hampshire to give a speech calling for 50,000 more troops to be sent into the quagmire of Iraq, press flesh and raise money for an expected run at the presidency in 2008. John Sununu, former New Hampshire governor and Bush family consigliere, wryly quipped about McCain’s junket to the Granite State, “What took him so long?”

The press corps, already bored with Bush and election post-mortems, tags along. McCain’s the darling of the moment, the opinion press’s favorite senator, a media-made maverick, who was sedulously courted by both John Kerry and George Bush. McCain, true to form, flirted with them both and sniped at them both, but in the end remained wedded to the GOP, even as the party fell further under the sway of neo-cons and Christian fundamentalists that McCain publicly claims to abhor.

But that’s all part of the McCain profile. He is the senator of the hollow protest. McCain is nothing if not a political stunt man. His chief stunt is the evocation of political piety. From his pulpit in the well of the senate, McCain gestures and fumes about the evils of Pentagon porkbarrel. He rails about useless and expensive weapons systems, contractor malfeasance, and bloated R&B budgets.

But he does nothing about them. McCain pontificates, but never obstructs. Few senators have his political capital. But he does nothing with it. Under the arcane rules of the senate, one senator can gum up the works, derail a bad (or good, though those are increasingly rare in this environment) bill, dislodge non-germane riders, usually loaded with pork, from big appropriations bills. McCain is never that senator. He is content to let ride that which he claims to detest in press releases and senate speeches.

today’s toons…. 04.08.08

today’s toons….

More Awful Truths About Republicans

Did somebody say, “Not a dime’s worth? — thegunny, 419

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More Awful Truths About Republicans

Daily Article by Robert B. Ekelund and Mark Thornton | Posted on 9/4/2008

As the economic debacle facing Americans continues to materialize, those responsible are running for cover with ten Republican senators refusing to attend their own national convention. Four years ago we observed that the so-called “Republican philosophy” of small government, sound money, and balanced budgets was illusory in terms of the history and then-current policies of the Republican Party.[1] However, even we would never have guessed how awful the Republican Party economic policy would become. From mere mercantilism, the Republican Party is now flirting with comprehensive socialist economic policy and another Great Depression.

The Republican Party was founded on big government and economic intervention with roots in the economic platforms of Federalist icon Alexander Hamilton and Whig leader Henry Clay. Indeed, the term “New Deal” was coined in 1865 to characterize Lincoln and his Republican Party economic platform. Republicans became the “mercantile” party of big business, big government, external protection, centralized monetary control, strong restrictions on immigration, and aggressive foreign policy.

From FDR’s New Deal to LBJ’s Great Society, Democratic policies forced many free-market activists into the Republican fold. People like Robert Taft, Barry Goldwater, Ronald Reagan, and of course Ron Paul, represent this free-market faction in the Republican Party. For example, free markets, deregulation, and balanced budgets became the Republican mantra (if not reality) during the Reagan administration. The orchestrated marginalization of Ron Paul is just one indicator that the free-market faction has been routed and that the mercantilists are firmly in control. In fact, as we endure the current economic malaise, we can note that the Republican-dominated Congress (1994–2006) and the administrations of George W. Bush have morphed Republican-style mercantilism into corporate socialism.

It Doesn’t Matter Who Wins

Hoping Against Hope for No Signs of Life

by Karen Kwiatkowski
by Karen Kwiatkowski

We now have Obama/Biden and McCain/Palin. If you are a voter, you will be thinking: “There are some great things and some awful things about both tickets, so how do I know which team will be best for the country?”

In case you missed it – the country is filled with 300 plus million people, many of whom are deeply in debt. Before they can even start to pay off that debt, they work 113 days each year to pay off their local, state and federal taxes. This legal plunder supplements local, state and national borrowing which has produced a kind of snowballing catastrophe, bankrupting municipalities and cities across the country, and creating a nation that owes an astounding $100 trillion dollars that it has little intention and less capability of paying back.

That’s pretty overwhelming. But there’s more! This same nation lays claim to an unsustainable military empire, and in pursuit of easy living and glory has warped its national culture and economy into an ungodly union of Spartan machismo and Bismarckian pre-fascism.

The icing on the cake is not that electoral systems are generally untrustworthy, as are the politicians themselves. The icing on the cake is that over 100 million Americans will actually show up to vote this November with a fervently held idea that the vote means national change of any kind.

Keeping this in mind – which pair of presidential hopefuls would be better? If it is true that a government that governs least, governs best, we need to choose the weakest, least imaginative and laziest candidate. We want a president and vice president who are able to happily accomplish the limited executive duties as set forth in Article II of the Constitution, and then lie back utterly exhausted, without a single creative idea about what they could do next.

Police tell owners: ‘We’re inspecting your guns’

Police tell owners: ‘We’re inspecting your guns’
WND ^ | August 21, 2008 | staff reporter

Posted on Wednesday, September 03, 2008 7:37:04 PM by Daffynition

Oklahoma police investigating the shooting deaths of two girls have told area residents with guns to bring them in for a test to determine whether they were used in the attack, sparking concern among those who own guns for hunting and self-defense.

The Mansourian Candidate

The Mansourian Candidate

Having written a book on intellectual fraud, Hoodwinked, and being something of a literary detective, I had no doubt on reading Barack Obama´s 1995 memoir, Dreams From My Father, that Obama did not really write it.

The style is above his pay grade, way above.

Berg v. Obama Update — Wednesday, September 3 Summons Reissued, Obama to be Served by Tomorrow

Wednesday, September 3, 2008

Berg v. Obama Update — Wednesday, September 3

Old, Grizzled Third-Party Candidate May Steal Support From McCain

Who Is Wrecking America? By Paul Craig Roberts

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Who Is Wrecking America?

By Paul Craig Roberts

03/09/08 “ICH ” — – Does the liberal-left have a clue? I sometimes think not.

In his book, “What’s the Matter With Kansas?,” Thomas Frank made the excellent point that the Karl Rove Republicans take advantage of ordinary’s people’s frustrations and resentments to lead them into voting against their best interest.

Frank’s new book, “The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule,” lacks the insight that distinguished his previous book. Why does Frank think that conservatives or liberals rule?

Neither rule. America is ruled by organized interest groups with money to elect candidates who serve their interests. Frank’s book does not even mention the Israel Lobby, which bleeds Americans for the sake of Israeli territorial expansion. Check the index. Israel is not there.

BOYCOTT O’REILLY?

VANITY — BOYCOTT O’REILLY THURSDAY NIGHT
Self | 2 Sep 08 | Laverne

Posted on Tuesday, September 02, 2008 9:27:17 PM by Laverne

Please Boycott FNC at 8PM on Thursday Night. O’Reilly, the ultimate panderer will interview Obama on the VERY NIGHT THAT MCCAIN ACCEPTS THE PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATION.

It is not only unprecedented for the opposing candidate to intrude on the acceptance speech, it is beyond belief that FNC would permit Mr. O’Reilly to pander and kiss up to Obama.

Race War?

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Race War?

Posted By Abe Greenwald On September 2, 2008 @ 4:32 PM In Contentions | 28 Comments

At the Philadelphia Daily News, Fatimah Ali [1] warns:

If McCain wins, look for a full-fledged race and class war, fueled by a deflated and depressed country, soaring crime, homelessness – and hopelessness!

Sounds like a pretty enfeebled bunch of warriors to me. Deflated, depressed, homeless, and hopeless. What makes Ali so sure this gloomy mob will be able to rally themselves and rise up against the rest of the country? Oh yeah, that’s right: hope.

At the core of the Obama phenomena, deep inside that bubble of hope, change, and the newest iteration “American promise,” there’s a frenzy of bitterness and cynicism that won’t cease on account of something as inconsequential as the truth. Crime is not on the rise, the economy is mending, and George W. Bush reduced chronic homelessness by a third. But don’t tell Fatimah Ali because she has hope. Hope that Barack Obama will enter the White House and start slaying fictional dragons.

McCain Attempting To Win Backing Of Ron Paul?

McCain Attempting To Win Backing Of Ron Paul?

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September 2, 2008

Reports suggest GOP nominee worried he cannot win election without votes of Texas Congressman’s supporters

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Tuesday, September 2, 2008

Will Hillary Endorse McCain/Palin?

Will Hillary Endorse McCain/Palin?
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Posted on Tuesday, September 02, 2008 9:19:26 PM by truthfinder9

To those who watched Senator Clinton’s speech last week, many found it to be more about her and her failed campaign than support for Barack Obama. Many thought it was more about her sending messages to her supporters about how she’ll be back and if you don’t support Obama, oh well.

She kept a straight face to try to hide the animosity created during the Democrat Civil War where millions think she was abandoned by her party. This and the treatment by the Obama campaign has sent many angry voters to the McCain camp. The choice of Governor Sarah Palin has garnered more Hillary supporters.

Is Hillary next? We’ll she stop holding her tongue and abandon the pretense of supporting Obama? There is some speculation to this end.

today’s toons…. 8.3.08

today’s toons….

McCain’s “Palin” pick will likely win the Election of 2008, but may have devastating consequences in the future for the Bill of Rights.

(EDITOR’S NOTE: Overwhelmingly the response I received via email on Aug. 30 suggests that whatever else happens this November, that Sen. John McCain will win the Election of 2008 only because he was smart enough to put Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin on the ticket even though the polls taken on Friday, Aug. 29 show the Democratic Obama-Biden ticket with an eight point lead over McCain-Palin. My initial thoughts were that the pro-choice Hillary Clinton female supporters who historically vote Democratic would not jump ship and vote for McCain simply because he put a woman, who just happens to be pro-life and is a gun rights advocate to boot, on his ticket. My gut instinct was that McCain and Sen. Barack Obama would split the female voters who were “female Reagan Democrats.”

Shaft the Navy, Stiff the Nation, Start a War? by Douglas Herman

Shaft the Navy, Stiff the Nation, Start a War?

by Douglas Herman

Exclusive to STR

September 2, 2008

Dear Senator McCain, (perhaps soon to be Hail-To-The-Chief): I write this letter as a fellow US veteran and fellow Arizonan.

With only a few days to go until the big top, I imagine you are giddy with excitement. Like a kid in a candy store with an insatiable craving for sugar.

From where I sit, this contest could go either way. Not that I have a pony in this race, so to speak, but I have a vested interest, called my country.

The art of crafting fine beer (Miller/Coors microbrew)

The art of crafting fine beer (Miller/Coors microbrew)
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Posted on Tuesday, September 02, 2008 9:17:55 AM by dynachrome

A year ago, Coors Brewing – before its new joint venture with Miller Brewing – unveiled the creation of tiny AC Golden Brewing Co. The upstart brewery would operate as a stand- alone brewer, with its own budget.

The aim: Brew small-batch, handcrafted beers that would mimic the success of the parent company’s popular Blue Moon Belgian White, a craft-style wheat ale.