As debt-ceiling crisis grows, McConnell warns default could ‘destroy’ GOP (Then put it on Obama)

Reporting from Washington — As negotiators reconvened at the White House on Wednesday for another round of debt talks, House Republicans appeared to dig in even deeper in their resistance to any sort of deal to raise the federal debt ceiling even as one party leader foretold disaster for the GOP if its members failed to act.

Mitch McConnell, the Senate minority leader who has proposed a fallback plan that would likely ensure the $14.3-trillion debt limit would be raised, said in a radio interview that a default by the United States could critically damage his party heading into the 2012 elections.

A default, McConnell told talk show host Laura Ingraham, “destroys your brand.”

The Kentucky senator said the economic consequences of a default would give President Obama an opportunity to blame the GOP for the country’s economic straits. “Look, he owns the economy,” McConnell said. “He’s been in office for three years. We refuse to let him entice him into co-ownership of a bad economy.”

McConnell said that at this point the GOP had two choices: Either make a bad deal — from their perspective — with Obama or take the country into default, which, McConnell suggested would do even more damage to the party. He compared the situation to 1995, when the GOP forced a government shutdown.

“We know that’s going to happen. Just like we knew shutting down the government in 1995 was not going to work for us,” he said. “It helped Bill Clinton get reelected. I refuse to help Barack Obama get reelected.”

Across the Capitol, House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) sounded his own kind of alarm, saying that a default would take the country into uncharted territory.

(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com …

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Prison Planet.com » Mom Arrested After Refusing TSA Molestation of Daughter

Andrea Fornella Abbott of Clarksville, Tennessee, was arrested by Nashville airport authorities after she refused to let the TSA fondle her daughter.

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Abbott said she did not want her daughter to be “touched inappropriately” or have her “crotch grabbed,” according to a police report.

Her outrage at the “security procedure” landed her in jail. She was charged with disorderly conduct and released on bond, according to The Tennessean.

“(She) told me in a very stern voice with quite a bit of attitude that they were not going through that X-ray,” Sabrina Birge, an airport security officer, told police.

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Has a Military Coup occurred?| The Post & Email (via ~ BLOGGER.GUNNY.G.1984+ ~ (BLOG & EMAIL))

Recently, in a ruling by Army JAG Judge Denise Lind, our worst fears that a military coup has taken place have been confirmed. In a courts-martial pre-hearing concerning the demands of LTC Terry Lakin that the putative Commander- in-Chief must prove that he is a Constitutionally lawful CINC before anyone obeys any military orders, lest they themselves be charged with obeying an unlawful order, Judge Lind stated that any and all orders now origina … Read More

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Jim Rogers Calls U.S. Debt Ceiling Talks ‘A Sham’

While his former colleague at the Quantum Fund, George Soros, was busy discussing the euro zone sovereign debt crisis, Jim Rogers chose to focus this week on the fiscal problems facing the United States.

In an interview on Fox Business News, the legendary investor provided his latest scathing criticism of American politicians and the federal government as a whole.

“They will probably raising the debt ceiling and announce some kind of wonderful deal, which they will promptly ignore,” Rogers contended. “The United States is not going close down. It might be good for the world if the United States closed down for a while, but I can’t see that happening. Something will happen, things will look better, but then in six months or a year, things will be worse again.”

“We are going to default one way or the other but they may not call it default. These debt reduction talks are a sham.”

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CIA Most Likely to Continue Criminal Ways Under Petraeus | Veterans Today

Nowhere in his discussion of how General David Petraeus will fare when he takes over the CIA in August does Washington Post columnist David Ignatius challenge the basic operation of the Agency itself. His article of July 8th asks what sort of agenda Petraeus will pursue and concludes, “America needs a great intelligence service, and it will soon have a director whose ambition matches the agency’s mission.”

Within the parameters of his vision, Ignatius’s article makes perfect sense. He is right on the mark when he writes, “This is a bruised organization, wounded by so many years of public criticism, and it needs a leader, not a martinet.” Where The Post columnist errs, however, is that “the many years of public criticism” does not cause him to reflect on whether the Agency is worth salvaging. This lack of questioning, much less exposing, what are essentially massive and ongoing criminal activities by the CIA directed from the White House typifies how far The Post has slipped since the days it refreshed the practice of journalism by exposing the Watergate scandal.

Ignatius writes that Petraeus will be a Director who told the Senators that confirmed his nomination he will listen to the dissenters and grumblers in the Agency and answer his own e-mail and that on some days he would even eat in the employee cafeteria. (Wow, what a guy, huh?)

Ignatius

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Mass psychosis in the US (via ~ BLOGGER.GUNNY.G.1984+ ~ (BLOG & EMAIL))

Has America become a nation of psychotics? You would certainly think so, based on the explosion in the use of antipsychotic medications. In 2008, with over $14 billion in sales, antipsychotics became the single top-selling therapeutic class of prescription drugs in the United States, surpassing drugs used to treat high cholesterol and acid reflux. Once upon a time, antipsychotics were reserved for a relatively small number of patients with hard-c … Read More

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McConnell’s Plan Shows Weakness (Rush gives him hell)

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RUSH: Well, we knew it was gonna get to this point. The Republicans are nervous, some of them are very nervous, and a few of them are outright paranoid.

Hi, folks, great to have you back, Rush Limbaugh, already the middle of the week here on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network. Our telephone number is 800-282-2882. You want to send an e-mail, the address, ElRushbo@eibnet.com.

About this time yesterday we quoted Senator Mitch McConnell as saying nothing substantive will ever get done in this country until Barack Obama is removed from the Oval Office. As long as Obama’s in the Oval Office nothing is gonna get done. All right, fine. And I said I don’t know how you walk that back. But he did. I sat here and I mean we were ladling praise out. We’re just not used to hearing Republicans talk that way. Now, Trump, you know, say what you want about Trump, Trump showed the way here. Trump showed how you rattle Obama. Trump showed how you get under the thin skin of Obama and how you get him off his game. Trump showed that. You just go right after him. You just get rid of all your fear. You get rid of whoever you’re gonna offend or what the press is gonna say about you and you just tell people the truth. And Obama can’t deal with that. He’s never had to deal with that his whole life. He’s led a very sheltered, protected, you know, whenever he got a C, always somebody around to make it an A, maybe an A-.

But you go out and make that really powerful statement, which has the added benefit of being true. We’re not gonna get anything seriously accomplished as long as he’s in the Oval Office, as long as he’s president. Gotta be defeated. And then a few hours later after not telling anybody, you submit a plan without running it by your colleagues, and everybody is asking of me what I think of this. The number one problem I have with it has nothing to do with its substance. There’s some problems I had, but it shows weakness. My gosh, we’ve got Obama and the Democrats predictably following every page in their playbook, knowing exactly what they’re gonna do before they do it, scaring senior citizens, and the minute they come out with that, here’s this proposal that basically shows panic. To me it reeked of a lack of resolve. I think Obama needed to think that these Republicans were serious about taking this to the end and now he knows that they’re not. Now he knows the Republicans are not united on that concept. Now he knows that there are

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Plane Truth

According to the White House website, President Obama enjoys the comfort and convenience of two “highly customized” Boeing 747s with “4,000 square feet of floor space on three levels,” including ” a medical suite,” two galleys that “can feed 100 people at a time” and “an extensive suite for the President that features a large office, lavatory, and conference room” — all at taxpayer expense. But as he proved at his press conference on Monday, where he once again inveighed against “these egregious loopholes that are benefiting corporate jet owners,” Obama cannot stop complaining about other people’s fancy airplanes.

After all, children’s lives are at stake. “You go talk to your constituents,” the president recalled telling Republican leaders last month, “and ask them are they willing to compromise their kids’ safety so that some corporate jet owner continues to get a tax break. And I’m pretty sure what the answer would be.” Me, too: “Huh?” There is a legitimate point here about the unfair, irrational complexity of the tax code, but it is buried beneath so much cheap demagoguery that getting to it may require a backhoe.

Obama objects to the fact that owners of corporate jets can write off the cost of their purchases over five years instead of the seven required for commercial aircraft. If this policy continues, he warned at a press conference two weeks ago, “it means that food inspection might be compromised,” along with college scholarships, medical research, the National Weather Service and Medicare.

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The 545 People Responsible For All Of U.S. Woes

Have you ever wondered why, if both the Democrats and the Republicans are against deficits, we have deficits? Have you ever wondered why, if all the politicians are against inflation and high taxes, we have inflation and high taxes?

You and I don’t propose a federal budget. The president does. You and I don’t have the Constitutional authority to vote on appropriations. The House of Representatives does. You and I don’t write the tax code. Congress does. You and I don’t set fiscal policy. Congress does. You and I don’t control monetary policy. The Federal Reserve Bank does.

One hundred senators, 435 congressmen, one president and nine Supreme Court justices – 545 human beings out of the 235 million – are directly, legally, morally and individually responsible for the domestic problems that plague this country.

I excluded the members of the Federal Reserve Board because that problem was created by the Congress. In 1913, Congress delegated its Constitutional duty to provide a sound currency to a federally chartered but private central bank.

I excluded all but the special interests and lobbyists for a sound reason. They have no legal authority. They have no ability to coerce a senator, a congressman or a president to do one cotton-picking thing. I don’t care if they offer a politician $1 million dollars in cash. The politician has the power to accept or reject it.

No matter what the lobbyist promises, it is the legislation’s responsibility to determine how he votes.

A CONFIDENCE CONSPIRACY

Don’t you see how the con game that is played on the people by the politicians? Those 545 human beings spend much of

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A new U.S. law-enforcement tool: Facebook searches | Reuters

A Reuters review of the Westlaw legal database shows that since 2008, federal judges have authorized at least two dozen warrants to search individuals’ Facebook accounts. Many of the warrants requested a laundry list of personal data such as messages, status updates, links to videos and photographs, calendars of future and past events, “Wall postings” and “rejected Friend requests.”

Federal agencies seeking the warrants include the FBI, DEA and ICE, and the investigations range from arson to rape to terrorism.

The Facebook search warrants typically demand a user’s “Neoprint” and “Photoprint” — terms that Facebook has used to describe a detailed package of profile and photo information that is not even available to users themselves.

These terms appear in manuals for law enforcement agencies on how to request data from Facebook. The manuals, posted on various public-advocacy websites, appear to have been prepared by Facebook, although a spokesman for the company declined to confirm their authenticity.

The review of Westlaw data indicates that federal agencies were granted at least 11 warrants to search Facebook since the beginning of 2011, nearly double the number for all of 2010. The precise number of warrants served on Facebook is hard to determine, in part because some records are sealed, and warrant applications often involve unusual case names. (One example: “USA v. Facebook USER ID Associated with email address jimmie_white_trash@yahoo.com,” a sealed case involving a drug sale.)

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"Pentagon To Gas Crystal City Residents Substance is harmless, assures newspaper, but terror paranoia fearmongering is contagious" The above quote is from the article next, below. It rang a bell for me of something 60 Minutes ran maybe some 20 years or so ago about the mlitary gassing experiments in San Francisco; and that it was both unannounced and unexplained afterwrards. I recall that they reported many people were harmed and it was never det … Read More

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Draft Judge Andrew Napolitano for Senate

For Immediate Release

Contact: Anthony Del Pellegino NJ4Napolitano@gmail.com

Effort to Draft Judge Andrew Napolitano to Run for U.S. Senate Against Bob Menendez in 2012 is Launched

Bookmark and Share As the national political maneuvering for a nominee to oppose President Obama in 2012 slowly gains momentum, many in New Jersey are looking not only at changing the direction we are currently headed in by replacing one leader for another in the White House. They are also looking to help turn this nation around by replacing one of the individuals who represents our state in the U.S. Senate. And the man they seek to do that with is Judge Andrew Napolitano.

As such, today one grassroots Republican activist has introduced a website that intends to test the waters in an attempt to draft Judge Napolitano in to next year’s U.S. Senate race.

Anthony Del Pellegrino the creator of DraftNapolitanoNJ.wordpress.com states that this campaign to draft Judge Andrew Napolitano to run for the U.S. Senate from New Jersey “is a manifestation of disatisfaction with a political process that has become controlled by career politicians.” He adds that this campaign to draft Judge Andrew Napolitano to run for the U.S. Senate from New Jersey is based on three basic factors.

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The dissatisfaction with the state Republican Party’s inability to recruit and nominate candidates who have been able to mount truly viable campaigns for the U.S. Senate, and the inability of those candidates who were nominated to effectively articulate the case against the liberal policies of those who currently hold the state’s two U.S. Senate seats.

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Our belief that Judge Andrew Napolitano is a leader who has a true understanding of what is wrong in America and why we are headed in the wrong direction.

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The understanding that Judge Napolitano has the proven ability to rise above partisan politics and the political rhetoric, and advance the cause of creating a responsible but limited federal government.

According to Del Pellegrino, defeating Democrat incumbent Bob Menendez in 2012 is essential to advancing a limited, constitutional based, government and defeating Menendez is just as important to the future of our nation as is who we elect for President in 2012.

“The balance of power could be held in the hands of New Jersey where, depending on whether Republican win the vice president’s tie-breaking vote in 2013 or not, Republicans could pick up the third or fourth seat they need to wrest control of the United States senate away from the liberal led Democrat majority that currently exists and which Menendez is a part of” , said Del Pellegrino.

At the moment the G.O.P. is poised to go through an election cycle inwhich they could easily win seats currently held by Democrats in North Dakota, Nebraska, Montana, and Missouri. They also have a good chance to win Virginia, New Mexico and Wisconsin. But a defeat of former Governor Jon Corzine’s hand picked successor, Bob Menendez, could insure Republicans control of the senate.

“In the recent past, New Jersey Republicans have failed to nominate a candidate strong enough to defeat Menendez. Instead they ran with establishment candidates who were career politicians and only offered New Jersey voters the opportunity to replace one career politician for another”, said Del Pellegrino.

New Jersey has not elected a Republican to the U.S. Senate since 1972 and some believe that the current slate of possible candidates for the Republican senate nomination have little chance of breaking that drought. Yet they do believe that Andrew Napolitano, a former New Jersey Superior Court justice, can.

Judge Napolitano, who is currently the chief judicial analyst for FOX News, represents all the principles that voters reinforced in the 2010 midterm elections.

Andrew Napolitano is a devout scholar of the United States Constitution, and understands that it is a document that is being abused and circumvented by power-hungry legislators in a runaway legislative process. His respect for the law and the founding principles of our nation are unsurpassed and is only part of a solid foundation for representing the people of New Jersey in the United States.

Unlike Bob Menendez and more so than any of the other current potential 2012 G.O.P. senate nominees, Judge Napolitano knows that government can not be effective or sustained by spending more than it has. He also knows that it does not serve the people by reaching in to their pockets and spending their money on unsustainable federal programs that cost more than they are worth. Andrew Napolitano truly understands that the government which governs best, governs the least and he knows that the true greatness of this nation is based not in its federal bureaucracy, but its people.

For these reasons, today the Draft Judge Andrew Napolitano for U.S. Senate effort begins.

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GUNNY G: THE PASSING OF THE REPUBLIC WE COULD NOT KEEP IN AMERICA (Excerpt)

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“Since that unlucky event, there has been no recourse, no escape from Washington’s

self-proclaimed, self-defined, self-interpreted and increasingly unlimited authority. We the People are not governed by consent but by force. This fact is too obvious to require extensive elaboration, yet many continue to believe we are “free” because we have “democracy” – that is, we may vote.”

“But we do not have a choice. There is no freedom option. Just Government X (Republican) or Government Y (Democrat). This duopoly is far more subtle – and thus, far more effective – than the obvious single-party tyrannies of the past. But in fact we do have a single ruling elite – and so, no real choice – if your choice is liberty.”

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The Chosen One (Who is Obama Really?) – Must Read

…But there was never anything silly, nor light-hearted, nor casual, about Barack Obama’s efforts to keep the public’s eyes from the basic facts of his life, from birth to his candidacy for president. On the contrary, this opacity is a deliberate policy. Why? The presumptive answer, absent testimony from those involved, is to ensure that real facts interfere as little as possible with the image and narrative that he and his associates have carefully crafted for him. Distinguishing between reality and that narrative would require above all a skeptical attitude, sure to be characterized by Democrats and the media in the most derogatory terms.

According to hagiography, Barack Obama was born to a hippy girl from an insignificant family and raised in poor circumstances, out of which he rose through brilliance. Yet his haughty demeanor, his stilted language when off the teleprompter, his cultural likes and dislikes, bespeak an upbringing in an environment at once so upscale and so leftist that it makes him almost a foreigner to ordinary Americans….

Consistent with the Barack Obama we know, however, are his real family, his real upbringing, and his real choices of profession and associates. His mother’s parents, who raised him, seem to have been cogs in the U.S. government‘s well-heeled, well-connected machine for influencing the world, whether openly (“gray influence”) or covertly (“black operations“). His mother spent her life and marriages, and birthed her children, working in that machine. For paradigms of young Barack’s demeanor, proclivities, opinions, language, and attitudes one need look no further than the persons who ran the institutions that his mother and grandparents served—e.g., the Ford Foundation, the United States Information Agency, and the Central Intelligence Agency—….It is here, with these people and institutions, that one should begin to unravel the unknowns surrounding him.

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GUNNY G” ATTENTION BLOGGERS / ONLINE NEWS !!!!!

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Has a Military Coup occurred?| The Post & Email

Recently, in a ruling by Army JAG Judge Denise Lind, our worst fears that a military coup has taken place have been confirmed. In a courts-martial pre-hearing concerning the demands of LTC Terry Lakin that the putative Commander- in-Chief must prove that he is a Constitutionally lawful CINC before anyone obeys any military orders, lest they themselves be charged with obeying an unlawful order, Judge Lind stated that any and all orders now originate with the Pentagon and no longer with the Office of the civilian President and Commander-in-Chief.

This issue is now much greater than just LTC Lakin and his refusal to obey an unlawful order; it is a case of the Military Command saying that the Military (the Pentagon) has taken over the government and that orders no longer come from the putative Commander-in-Chief. It is a ruling that says there has been a Military Coup, and we are now ruled by a Military Junta. (NOTE: This is not the same as that which recently occurred in Honduras – a lawful act to uphold their Constitution, until a legitimate President and CINC can be duly selected or elected – this is a secret and treasonous takeover of our Constitutional form of government, with a person of unknown origins and allegiances as the de facto pResident in charge).

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The Great Unraveling: The Economic Assassination of the USA : Information Clearing House: ICH

Conditions have worsened, not improved, because of force-fed austerity, not badly needed stimulus to create jobs, reemploy people, and revive real economic growth, not the illusory kind since the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) officially declared June 2009 the end of recession.

At 11:05AM on July 8, Obama commented from the Rose Garden, doing what he does best – dissembling and distorting reality to conceal what’s going on and why.

His best shot was saying:

“We still have a long way to go and a lot of work to do to give people the security and opportunity that they deserve.”

In fact, since day one in office, he’s done precisely the opposite, an agenda still in place. It includes bailing out criminal banks, their complicit counterparties, and other corporate favorites, as well as waging multiple imperial wars. At the same time, he stiff-armed budget strapped states and spurned efforts to create jobs, leaving unemployed Americans largely on their own sink or swim.

His latest excuse is “know(ing) that we’d have ups and downs on our way back from this recession. And over the past few months, the economy has experienced some tough headwinds – from natural disasters, to spikes in gas prices (because markets are manipulated), to state and local budget cuts” that lost jobs because federal aid was cut off when most needed.

Nonetheless, he said “we can make this better.” Indeed so, but “we” don’t because resources are diverted elsewhere, not where they’re most needed, and that pattern will continue unchanged.

via    The Great Unraveling:  The Economic Assassination of the USA  :      Information Clearing House: ICH.

Don’t Support the Troops — Bring Them Home : Information Clearing House: ICH

Reversing long-standing policy, President Obama will now send condolence letters to the families of U.S. military personnel who commit suicide in combat zones.

That’s nice. But he could prevent future suicides by bringing all the troops home and ending America’s interventionist foreign policy.

“They didn’t die because they were weak,” Obama said. “And the fact that they didn’t get the help they needed must change.”

But the help they really needed was not to be sent to invade foreign countries in the first place and to fight senseless wars, like the ones in Iraq and Afghanistan. Repeated combat tours in behalf of imperial policies are intolerable. But even one tour is one too many. For the last 10 years the U.S government has fought aggressive wars by choice. They were not defensive but rather a continuation by other means of American intervention in the Arab and Muslim worlds. The criminal attacks on 9/11 were not the cause of that intervention but the consequence.

Wars of aggression such as the U.S. government has pursued since 2001 have many costs. First are the lives lost and ruined among the foreign population. Presidents Bush and Obama undoubtedly are responsible for more than a million deaths, many civilians among them, including those in Pakistan and now Libya. The U.S. government calls many of its victims “insurgents” and “militants,” but that may mean only that they objected to a foreign occupier. The cost also includes destruction of water and sanitation facilities and power generation, jeopardizing the health and lives of people, especially children and the elderly.

Another obvious cost is the money sunk into imperial missions. The occupation of Afghanistan costs

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: Information Clearing House: ICH

From the middle of the nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth imperialism was the dominant national ideology, transcending class and party divisions. Britain was saturated in the ethos and attitudes of empire. They infused plays and books and, later, films. They informed school textbooks. They inspired paintings, prints and engravings. They filled newspapers and magazines. They figured in advertisements and packaging. The impact was arguably greater than that of any previous dominant ideology because its pre-eminence coincided with the rise of the mass market and the mass media. — ‘Imperialism and juvenile literature’ edited By Jeffrey Richards. Manchester University Press, 1989

So what’s changed? Not much really. Today of course, the ideology of imperial expansion now masks itself as ‘humanitarian intervention’ or ‘democracy-building’.

Our Victorian ancestors were less coy about colonizing, claiming to be on a ‘civilizing mission’. But ‘civilizing’ the Libyans, the Iraqis or the Afghans would be a step too far in these allegedly politically correct times but it’s the same thing by another name.

Yet the abysmal failings of Western ‘democracy’ are all around us. We have governments that regardless that an ‘opposition’ exists are effectively one-party states and have been ever since the early years of the 20th century. From 1945 to 2009 it was a Tory/Labour ‘coalition’ and now we’re back to the pre-WWI war Tory/Liberal version. It makes little difference that every five years we vote for one or the other. Successive governments are an intrinsic part of an ossified and corrupt state self-’regulated’ for generations—and it still is—the expenses scandals and now the News of the World/News Corp fiasco notwithstanding.

The ever-expanding scale of the criminal enterprise that is Murdoch’s News Corp, reveals the awful truth about capitalism’s version of democracy; namely that it only works for those in power and for those with power. For a single corporation to have direct access and control at the very heart of government smacks of the days of William Randolph Hearst, made famous by Orson Welles in Citizen Kane, where rich and powerful individuals are able to determine the fate of a nation.

The questions that are never asked

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Rage & Outrage Are Waiting : Information Clearing House: ICH

Our ‘troops’ have been murdering unarmed people around the world for so long that most see this as just part of the inevitable price we pay for our place as the leaders of the world.

July 12, 2011 “Information Clearing House” — Many think that 7-11-11 will be the day that the US Stock Market will collapse; but whether or not this will happen on that date is not the point. The point is that the time has come for all our blatant disregard for the greed and arrogance of the uncommon-criminals that have run this civilization into the muck of history to finally have to pay for everything that we have been doing for far too long.

Our ‘troops’ have been murdering unarmed people around the world for so long that most see this as just part of the inevitable price we pay for our place as the leaders of the world. No one asks if anyone, besides ourselves, wanted us to assume this role as “the self-appointed-leader of the whole-wide-world.”

We have been “AT WAR” against the world since 1991, in Iraq. And we have now expanded that illegal war into our wars upon Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq again in 2003, Somalia, and now Libya: With other wars planned for Lebanon, Syria, Bahrain, and a number of other nations as their own civil wars spill over into new threats against the New World Order and its Fascist policies. So far these illegal and unilaterally declared wars-on-terror” have cost us over three trillion dollars but they have also cost us the respect of the entire community of nations and earned us the hatred of billions of people the world over.

Just like Israel we have been making war upon unarmed women and children, in nation-states without armies or air forces, anywhere where the population cannot return fire in kind. The numbers of the innocent and the dead are horrifyingly huge. In Iraq alone about four years ago there had already been over two million murdered, two million seriously disabled and another two million that had fled the county to avoid being murdered. And those numbers have only grown since that time. Because after those numbers became a reality we began using drones to add to the death tolls that have continued to skyrocket. Our “forces” are attacking people in their own homes and murdering them at will overseas. In much the same way as our own police forces here have begun to arm their departments with military tanks and fascist powers that take no account of the Constitution or anything beside what each thug in uniform might decide to do at any given point in time. The police have become FEARED in much the same way that ordinary people once feared criminals: Only this is worse because the police were supposed to be the agency of government that people could look to for protection rather than torture, accusations and possibly death that can easily now result because someone called “911,” or because someone dared to ask a question of an officer that had responded to such a call. (1)

People can now also be arrested fo

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Mass psychosis in the US

Has America become a nation of psychotics? You would certainly think so, based on the explosion in the use of antipsychotic medications. In 2008, with over $14 billion in sales, antipsychotics became the single top-selling therapeutic class of prescription drugs in the United States, surpassing drugs used to treat high cholesterol and acid reflux.

Once upon a time, antipsychotics were reserved for a relatively small number of patients with hard-core psychiatric diagnoses – primarily schizophrenia and bipolar disorder – to treat such symptoms as delusions, hallucinations, or formal thought disorder. Today, it seems, everyone is taking antipsychotics. Parents are told that their unruly kids are in fact bipolar, and in need of anti-psychotics, while old people with dementia are dosed, in large numbers, with drugs once reserved largely for schizophrenics. Americans with symptoms ranging from chronic depression to anxiety to insomnia are now being prescribed anti-psychotics at rates that seem to indicate a national mass psychosis.

It is anything but a coincidence that the explosion in antipsychotic use coincides with the pharmaceutical industry’s development of a new class of medications known as “atypical antipsychotics.” Beginning with Zyprexa, Risperdal, and Seroquel in the 1990s, followed by Abilify in the early 2000s, these drugs were touted as being more effective than older antipsychotics like Haldol and Thorazine. More importantly, they lacked the most noxious side effects of the older drugs – in particular, the tremors and other motor control problems.

The atypical anti-psychotics were the bright new stars in the pharmaceutical industry’s roster of psychotropic drugs – costly, patented medications that made people feel and behave better without any shaking or drooling. Sales grew steadily, until by 2009 Seroquel and Abilify numbered fifth and sixth in annual drug sales, and prescriptions written for the top three atypical antipsychotics totaled more than 20 million. Suddenly, antipsychotics weren’t just for psychotics any more.

Not just for psychotics anymore

By now, just about everyone knows how the drug industry works to influence the minds of American doctors, plying them with gifts, junkets, ego-tripping awards, and

via Mass psychosis in the US.

Will the Real Tea Party Revolutionaries Please Stand Up?| The Post & Email

WITH AN USURPER IN OFFICE, THE GOVERNMENT NO LONGER REPRESENTS THE PEOPLE

by Jedi Pauly

The painter of “The Spirit of 76,” Archibald MacNeal Willard, was a veteran of the American Civil War. He died in 1918.

(Jul. 13, 2011) — Way back in Colonial times, our Colonial forefathers were subject to a non-representative monarchy form of government that made laws without the consent of the governed Colonials. That British Government in those times created a political condition of involuntary servitude owed to the government by the American People or citizen “subjects” (those subject to the soil jurisdiction) of the King and his Parliament in England. This condition of involuntary servitude to the King and his Parliament was called “taxation without representation,” because the King and his Parliament in England would pass laws without the consent of the Colonists. The Colonists were not represented by the government because the Colonists did not elect the Parliament. The Parliament represented the King’s and State’s interests and not the political interests or political rights of the Colonials. The laws that were passed would then place a demand for taxation upon the Colonials in order to pay for the laws that were passed without their consent. This was the essence of political involuntary servitude.

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Will the Real Tea Party Revolutionaries Please Stand Up?| The Post & Email

WITH AN USURPER IN OFFICE, THE GOVERNMENT NO LONGER REPRESENTS THE PEOPLE

by Jedi Pauly

The painter of “The Spirit of 76,” Archibald MacNeal Willard, was a veteran of the American Civil War. He died in 1918.

(Jul. 13, 2011) — Way back in Colonial times, our Colonial forefathers were subject to a non-representative monarchy form of government that made laws without the consent of the governed Colonials. That British Government in those times created a political condition of involuntary servitude owed to the government by the American People or citizen “subjects” (those subject to the soil jurisdiction) of the King and his Parliament in England. This condition of involuntary servitude to the King and his Parliament was called “taxation without representation,” because the King and his Parliament in England would pass laws without the consent of the Colonists. The Colonists were not represented by the government because the Colonists did not elect the Parliament. The Parliament represented the King’s and State’s interests and not the political interests or political rights of the Colonials. The laws that were passed would then place a demand for taxation upon the Colonials in order to pay for the laws that were passed without their consent. This was the essence of political involuntary servitude.

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Is Congress Legitimate Given Obama’s Usurpation of the Presidency?| The Post & Email

“NATIVE BORN, NATURAL BORN, AND JUST PASSING THROUGH”

July 13, 2011

John Jay was the first Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court after our nation’s founding. It was Jay who urged the Framers to include the term “natural born Citizen” as it pertained to the qualifications for the office of the President and Commander-in-Chief

Dear Senator DeMint,

I hope this gets to you, as I think this is a vitally important issue and you are one of the few people in Congress at least making conservative “noises!”

It seems the current phrase is “Cut, Cap and Balance” in an effort to find some fiscal sanity before our country is completely destroyed by Mr. Obama and his fellow Marxists.

Now this is coming from a Congress (collectively AND individually) who, after repeatedly telling us they would be different, have overspent over the years and with Obama at the throttle have gone on a binge unlike any seen in history!

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Sen. Webb on the roots of the Tea Party

People looking for an explanation for the rise of the Tea Party need to look no further than America’s Scots-Irish heritage, according to Sen. James Webb (D-Va.).

The movement has its roots in the populist-style, bottoms-up democracy that emerged from Scots-Irish migration to America, he said.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com …

via Sen. Webb on the roots of the Tea Party.

Prison Planet.com » Senator: Obama Creating Panic To Push Through Debt Hike

Senator Jim DeMint has accused President Barack Obama and Timothy Geithner of deliberately fostering panic in order to push through an agreement that would allow the debt ceiling to be raised, accusing the White House of “burning the clock” in order to push a decision close to the deadline, echoing how Congress was threatened with “martial law in America” before the 2008 bailout vote.

On Sunday Treasury Secretary Geithner painted a grim picture of the so-called economic “recovery,” telling NBC’s Meet the Press, “it’s going to feel very hard, harder than anything they’ve experienced in their lifetime now, for a long time to come.”

Geithner also told Fox News that the US would be forced into default if an agreement on raising the debt ceiling was not reached.

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New Mexico town dissolves police dept after gun smuggling scandal

The scandal-plagued, tiny New Mexico border town of Columbus is dissolving its police department and asking the county sheriff to protect its citizens.

An employee at Columbus City Hall confirmed to The Lookout that the police force has been dissolved. The Luna County Sheriff’s Office will now take over patrolling the town.

The town has been upended since federal authorities arrested Police Chief Angelo Vega, Mayor Eddie Espinoza, Village Trustee Blas Gutierrez and nine other residents for conspiring to smuggle hundreds of guns to drug cartels over the border in March. All of the accused have pleaded not guilty, and their trial is expected in October, according to the Las Cruces Sun News.

The Associated Press presciently reported in May of 2009 that a law enforcement “vacuum” had made the town attractive to drug smugglers who moved over the border to settle down in Columbus. The “four-man police force in Columbus has turned over seven times in three years because of scandal or apathy,” the AP reported, adding that more residents of the formerly modest town were driving flashy cars and buying fancy homes. Vega, who had then just nabbed the police chief job, told the AP that no illegal activity would be tolerated. “This is a new day for Columbus,” he said.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com …

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Obamageddon Coming to a City Near You?

The election of the first African-American president was widely hailed as a giant step forward for American racial politics. The future, however, may remember this administration as a giant step back for Black America during a period of deepening alienation, anger and despair in America’s inner cities.

Not since the 1960s, when scores of American cities were shaken by one race riot after another, have African-Americans faced such deadly conditions: high expectations and hopes running up against a reality of vanishing jobs, shrinking government budgets and a fractured and fragmented leadership. Barring an unlikely change in economic fortunes we could soon face a new period of explosive anger and even violence; alternatively, the urban poor could fall prey to a new kind of passive despair and anomie as hope dies on one inner city street after another.

Either way, the mainstream press’s slowly fading intoxication with the Obama administration has led it to miss the dimensions of the new urban crisis now stalking the United States. The liberal Reagan, they swooned back in the good old days. No — the new FDR! No, wait! The new Lincoln!

But as the rosy glow surrounding the administration and all its works slowly dies away, many Americans will be taken aback at the urban crisis that quietly and unostentatiously took shape while the fatuously exhilarated press choirs sang about the hope and the change that was coming our way.

via Obamageddon Coming to a City Near You?.

Prison Planet.com » Bernanke: Fed May Launch New Round of Stimulus

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke told Congress Wednesday that a new stimulus program is in the works that will entail additional asset purchases, the clearest indication yet that the central bank is contemplating another round of monetary easing.

Bernanke said in prepared remarks that the economy is growing more slowly than expected, and should that continue the central bank stands at the ready with more accommodative measures.

“Once the temporary shocks that have been holding down economic activity pass, we expect to again see the effects of policy accommodation reflected in stronger economic activity and job creation,” he said

“However, given the range of uncertainties about the strength of the recovery and prospects for inflation over the medium term, the Federal Reserve remains prepared to respond should economic developments indicate that an adjustment in the stance of monetary policy would be appropriate.”

Full story here.

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State of emergency declared in Quartzsite, Ariz.

QUARTZSITE, Ariz. – A state of emergency has been declared in the small western Arizona town of Quartzsite after a video of a woman being arrested during a public city council meeting went viral and prompted death threats to council members.

Jennifer “Jade” Jones, a blogger and vocal critic of local government, was delivering remarks during the public comment session of a June 28 city council meeting when she was interrupted.

A video posted on YouTube shows council members interrupting her and asking her to leave or be escorted out.

The mayor of Quartzsite, Ed Foster, is heard telling officers to leave Jones alone. “Officer, that woman has the floor you are violating my rules of order,” says Foster.

In the end Jones is restrained and escorted out of the council chambers. On her blog she says her arm was injured in the fracas.

The video has sparked public outrage from some who call it a violation of Jones’ first amendment rights.

Since it went public, Mayor Foster has been ousted and Quartzsite Police Chief Jeff Gilbert has taken control of the town.

(Excerpt) Read more at azfamily.com …

via State of emergency declared in Quartzsite, Ariz..

Mitch McConnell urges tea partiers: It’s time to create a third party

(READER RESPONSE: Gunny G)

The real solution is clearly outlined in the DOI!

Our first constitution had no president, no congress, no supreme court—the things we have had the sole problems with—each state (country)then, and its people, would be free to form another union, remain independent, etc.

But that would be too simple for such a diversified society…

(“A Constitution changed from Freedom, can never be restored; Liberty, once lost, is lost forever…)

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Stephen Pidgeon believes it was during this brief time with Malcolm X that Stanley Ann Dunham conceived the son we know as Barack Hussein Obama (via ~ BLOGGER.GUNNY.G.1984+ ~ (BLOG & EMAIL))

Stephen Pidgeon believes it was during this brief time with Malcolm X that Stanley Ann Dunham conceived the son we know as Barack Hussein Obama http://www.coachisright.com/a-new-theory-about-obama%E2%80%99s-birth-the-obama-error/ … Read More

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"Pentagon To Gas Crystal City Residents Substance is harmless, assures newspaper, but terror paranoia fearmongering is contagious" The above quote is from the article next, below. It rang a bell for me of something 60 Minutes ran maybe some 20 years or so ago about the mlitary gassing experiments in San Francisco; and that it was both unannounced and unexplained afterwrards. I recall that they reported many people were harmed and it was never det … Read More

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U.S. Troops Asked If They Would Shoot American Citizens Iraq vet exposes how he was trained to round up Americans in martial law exercise, asked if he would kill his own friends and family Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet Monday, February 4th, 2008 U.S. troops are being trained to conduct round-ups, confiscate guns and shoot American citizens, including their own friends and family members, as part of a long-standing program to prepare for the de … Read More

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Gingrich Urges Republicans to Call Obama’s Bluff on Social Security Scare

President Obama on Tuesday told CBS News that senior citizens might not get their Social Security checks next month if Republicans won’t agree on a deal to raise the nation’s debt limit.

“This is not just a matter of Social Security checks — these are veterans’ checks, these are folks on disability and their checks. There are about 70 million checks that go out…I cannot guarantee that those checks go out on August third if we haven’t resolved this issue,” Obama said.

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, a Republican presidential hopeful, advised Republicans to turn tables on Obama.

Gingrich said Republicans should immediately pass a $100-billion cut in spending, balanced by a $100 billion increase in the debt limit.

“That takes us all the way through to September,” Gingrich said. “And they should call that the Social Security Payment Guarantee bill. And then they should say to the president, ‘Here, we’ve taken care of August. All you have to do is get Harry Reid and the Senate Democrats to pass it. You sign it. We can guarantee every senior citizen their Social Security check. Now, Mr. President, are you prepared to stop senior citizens from getting their checks?’”

As CNSNews.com has reported, daily U.S. Treasury Statements show that the ongoing flow of federal tax revenue is more than enough to cover the combined costs of federal spending on interest payments, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, the Veterans Affairs department and federal workers wages and insurance benefits (including wages and insurance benefits for military personnel).

In the absence of a debt-limit deal, if Social Security checks don’t go out in August, that would be President Obama’s choice.

via Gingrich Urges Republicans to Call Obama’s Bluff on Social Security Scare.

Arming Yourself for the Zombie Apocalypse: How To Build the Ultimate Survival Shotgun by Creek Stewart

As a Survival and Preparedness instructor, I take my line of work very seriously – sometimes too seriously. Occasionally, though, I like to take on survival projects that are just downright fun. This article highlights one of those projects.

I’m fortunate in that I’ve been able to turn my passion into my profession – this being the study of Survival and Preparedness. I’ve always enjoyed building survival kits of all shapes and sizes. I enjoy the challenge of fitting lifesaving survival necessities into small compact containers. I’ve built survival kits using film canisters, candy tins, key-rings, boxes, bottles, tubes, bags and everything in-between. For this project, I decided to build a survival kit using a shotgun platform – creating the Ultimate Survival Shotgun. My challenge was that everything had to be included in or on the gun itself – no extra pack items or containers. Below is what I did as well as the survival logic behind each decision.

Ultimately your survival needs fall into five main categories. Your situation dictates the order. They are:

* Water

* Fire

* Shelter

* Signaling

* Food

Every survival kit must include contents that directly or indirectly meet these five basic survival needs. The shotgun platform I decided to use is the Mossberg 500 – PUMP. I chose a pump action because it is easier for me to troubleshoot and work on in the field compared to other models. I chose the Mossberg brand because it is a very popular gun, and there are literally hundreds of aftermarket modification pieces and parts designed to fit this gun. I knew I would want to add on some of these extras to increase the gun’s survival value. Below is a photo of the shotgun “off the shelf” – before my survival modifications.

Mossberg 500 Pump Action Shotgun Before Survival/Zombie Modifications

I will now break down each survival modification and detail why it was included in the final build.

via Arming Yourself for the Zombie Apocalypse: How To Build the Ultimate Survival Shotgun by Creek Stewart.

The Right to Lie to the Cops by Anthony Gregory

In Casey Anthony’s case we see an example of a grave injustice in the modern system. I’m not talking about her acquittal. When the prosecutor fails to prove someone’s guilt beyond a reasonable doubt, the only responsible thing for the jury to do is refuse to damn the suspect to time in a cage. An innocent person imprisoned is so much worse than a guilty person let go, as in the former instance the state seduces all of society to cheer on and legitimize an injustice. Also, whereas justice for the guilty is at least a metaphysical possibility outside of prison, it is downright precluded institutionally for the innocent on the inside.

The actual travesty here is the offense of which Casey Anthony has been convicted: four counts of providing false information to a law enforcement officer. This should not be an offense in a free society, and I am struck by how little this horror has gained attention in the last week.

Lying in most circumstances is immoral. And lying to cover up one’s crimes might be especially egregious, and arguably criminal in itself. But Casey Anthony was acquitted of the actual crime of murder. As far as the state is concerned, she has not been proven guilty. So why is her dishonesty with the police an offense against the law?

Many can’t even relate to this point as they like the idea of this person suffering at least somewhat for a crime they assume she committed but got away with. Taking it to different contexts, we can see the full injustice involved in criminalizing lying to the police. What if people are lying to protect themselves from persecution? Indeed, when we engage in the thought experiment of what would be a morally acceptable lie, we can’t help but think of such examples as lying to Nazis about Jews hiding somewhere, or lying to cover for a runaway slave. If lying is ever defensible, it doubtless is when the only deceived and harmed persons are agents of oppression, and it is done purely in service of preserving someone’s rightful freedom.

via The Right to Lie to the Cops by Anthony Gregory.

Prison Planet.com » Sen. Mitch McConnell is Killing The Republic

In blatant contradiction to the Constitution and intent for the separation of powers, Republican Senator Mitch McConnell has proposed solving the debt ceiling issue by handing over the power of the purse (specified under Section 1 Article 8 of the Constitution) over to the Office of the Presidency.

Read More from Paul Joseph Watson’s Article: Executive Dictatorship: McConnell Proposes Handing Over Power of Purse to Obama

Section 8 – Powers of Congress

The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;

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Obama’s birth status — comparing Xs and Os Obama’s birth status — comparing Xs and Os Give Us Liberty ^ | Saturday, May 7, 2011 | Tom Kovach Posted on Saturday, May 07, 2011 5:13:23 PM by Brown Deer “Well if ‘Junior’ is not the son of ‘Senior’, then whose son is he?” In pondering that question, I chose to contemplate the geographic origin of a mysterious Social Security number that was examined by Jack Cashill. That got me to wondering whether Ob … Read More

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Obama’s birth status — comparing Xs and Os Obama’s birth status — comparing Xs and Os Give Us Liberty ^ | Saturday, May 7, 2011 | Tom Kovach Posted on Saturday, May 07, 2011 5:13:23 PM by Brown Deer “Well if ‘Junior’ is not the son of ‘Senior’, then whose son is he?” In pondering that question, I chose to contemplate the geographic origin of a mysterious Social Security number that was examined by Jack Cashill. That got me to wondering whether Ob … Read More

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