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Editorial: Is A Weaker U.S. Part Of Debt Deal?
National Security: With his boss on vacation, Vice President Joe Biden has a very important job to do. He’s in China, begging communist officials to please keep buying our bonds. If they do, what’s he giving them in return?
Sending Biden to China, pardon the phrase, raises red flags about what we might commit to while he’s there. What is Biden, the gaffemeister in chief, authorized to give the Chinese?
Officially, the White House says Biden’s in China to sell its leaders on the U.S. debt-ceiling deal that will trim $2.5 trillion from the expected deficits of $10 trillion over the next decade.
But with S&P downgrading us from AAA to AA+ just a week ago, Biden wouldn’t seem to have much standing to argue that it’s a good deal. Fiscally, we’ve never been in worse shape. So how can Biden persuade the Chinese — who already hold $2 trillion or so in dollar-based assets — that more debt is a good deal for them?
Will he tell China’s apparatchiks that a half-trillion, maybe more, of the cuts in the debt deal come out of defense? Or that the cuts were so severe that even new Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has warned of going too far — and possibly hollowing out the military? If so, China may agree it’s a good deal.
The administration has signaled as much. On the eve of Biden’s trip, the White House suddenly announced it wouldn’t sell F-16 jets to Taiwan — a huge strategic favor to the Chinese. Was there a quid pro quo?
(Excerpt) Read more at investors.com …
War On Terror’s New Targets: Veterans, Tea Partiers, Anti-Fed Activists
Big Sis uses methods designed to catch Al-Qaeda terrorists as tools to silence dissent against big government
Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
Thursday, August 18, 2011
Two new videos recently released by the Department of Homeland Security add to the mountain of evidence that proves Big Sis has now dispensed with all pretense of the war on terror being focused on Al-Qaeda Muslims, as tools that were designed to catch foreign terrorists are now being targeted against Americans who are opposed to big government.
The two recent PSAs (watch them below), part of Homeland Security’s “See Something Say Something snitch campaign, portray white middle class Americans as terrorists in almost all of the scenarios shown in the clips.
Far from representing some superficial nod to political correctness, this is in fact a deliberate effort by the feds to characterize predominantly white, middle class, politically engaged Americans as domestic extremists. It’s all part of the agenda to frame dissent against big government as dangerous radicalism……………………..
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Costo Pulls The Plug On Electric Vehicle Charging Stations
Back in the 1990s, when it seemed like electric vehicles were gaining traction with consumers, Costco did something unusual: the big-box retailer installed charging stations at many of its California locations. Now, however, those stations are being removed, and electric car fans aren’t happy.
According to Plug In America, Costco has offered no official explanation for removing the charging stations other than the Xeroxed signs taped to each that read, “Please be advised that this electric charger will be removed on August 15th, 2011. Sorry for the inconvenience.”
Costco’s move seems curious for a couple of reasons. For starters, the California Energy Commission has launched a special grant program to fund the upgrade of older, AVCON charging stations to newer J1772 models that can accommodate modern electric vehicles like the Chevy Volt and the Nissan Leaf. Costco would seem to be tailor-made for that initiative, so why not apply?
But apart from the fact that upgrading should be of minimal cost to Costco is the fact that sales of electric cars and plug-in hybrids are booming these days. At a time when other companies (even McDonald’s!) are rolling out the red carpet for electric vehicle owners, why would Costco yank the rug out from under them?
(Excerpt) Read more at greencarreports.com …
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Ron Paul supporter takes out full-page ad that asks: ‘Have you ever had sex with Rick Perry?’
A Ron Paul supporter in Texas has taken out a full-page ad in a local alternative weekly newspaper seeking women who have slept with the presidential candidate.
“Have you ever had sex with Rick Perry?” asks the ad, which runs in this week’s Austin Chronicle. The ad was placed by Robert Morrow, who describes himself as a “self-employed investor and political activist” and a three-time delegate to the Texas state Republican convention.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com …
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Drinking With Bob – Best Rants Ever
I love his rants.
Best Ever.
80 awesome rants.
Aliens may destroy humanity to protect other civilisations, say scientists
It may not rank as the most compelling reason to curb greenhouse gases, but reducing our emissions might just save humanity from a pre-emptive alien attack, scientists claim.
Watching from afar, extraterrestrial beings might view changes in Earth’s atmosphere as symptomatic of a civilisation growing out of control – and take drastic action to keep us from becoming a more serious threat, the researchers explain.
This highly speculative scenario is one of several described by scientists at Nasa and Pennsylvania State University that, while considered unlikely, they say could play out were humans and alien life to make contact at some point in the future.
[excerpt: rest at link]
(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk …
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When’s the Pump Gonna Plunge??
OK, with oil now trading at just a bit over $81.00 a barrel after today, when is the bottom going to fall out of these gas prices? In New Hampshire today, I just paid $3.65/gallon today.
According to NYMEX.com, the price of RBOB is $2.78/gallon. It seems to me that gas should be somewhere around $3.35/gallon, unless I am missing something.
Anyone have any insight on this?
George Washington; Usurpers; Free Government, etc. “Dick” Gaines
GEORGE WASHINGTON, farewell address, Sep. 19, 1796
If in the opinion of the People, the distribution or modification of the Constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it be corrected by an amendment in the way which the Constitution designates.
But let there be no change by usurpation ; for though this, in one instance, may be the instrument of good, it is the customary weapon by which free governments are destroyed.�
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George Washington Quotes II
One Man Against Tyranny
Maria Strobel could not believe it of her Führer. Adolf Hitler and his party—a group of senior Nazis that included Heinrich Himmler, Joseph Goebbels and Reinhard Heydrich—had spent more than an hour in her Munich bierkeller. Hitler had delivered a trademark speech, and, while they listened, Himmler and the others had run up a large beer bill. But the whole group had left in a hurry—leaving the tab unpaid and Strobel untippped…………………………..
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Is This A Second Great Depression – Or Could It Become Something Worse?
With the US and European economies having slowed markedly according to the latest data, and with global growth continuing to disappoint, a reasonable question increasingly arises: Are we in another Great Depression?
The easy answer is “no” – the main features of the Great Depression have not yet manifest themselves and still seem unlikely. But it is increasingly likely that we will find ourselves in the midst of something nearly as traumatic, a long slump of the kind seen with some regularity in the nineteenth century, particularly if presidential election-year politics continue to head in dangerous direction.
The Great Depression had three main characteristics, seen in the United States and most other countries that were severely affected. None of these have been part of our collective experience since 2007.
First, output dropped sharply after 1929, by over 25 percent in real terms in the US (using the Bureau of Economic Analysis data, from its website, for real GDP, using chained 1937 dollars). In contrast, in the U.S. we had a relatively small decline in GDP after the boom peaked. According to the BEA’s latest online data, GDP peaked in the 2nd quarter of 2008 at 14.4155 trillion and bottomed out in the 2nd quarter of 2009 at 13.8541 trillion; a decline of about 4 percent.
Second, unemployment rose above 20 percent in the US during the 1930s and stayed there. We experienced record job losses for the post-war US, with around 8 million jobs lost. But unemployment only briefly touched 10 percent (in the 4th quarter of 2009; see the Bureau of Labor Statistics website). Even if we include the highest estimates – which include people discouraged from looking for a job, thus not registered as unemployed – the jobless rate reached around 16-17 percent. It’s a jobs disaster, to be sure, but not the same scale as the Great Depression.
Third, in the 1930s the credit system………………..
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Big Sis Continues To Hide Details On Mobile Body Scanners
Big Sis Continues To Hide Details On Mobile Body Scanners
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DHS makes a mockery of Freedom of Information Act
Prisonplanet.com
Aug 18, 2011
Big Sis Continues To Hide Details On Mobile Body Scanners 260511bigsis
In response to a Freedom of Information Act Lawsuit, the Department of Homeland security, headed by ‘Big Sis’ Janet Napolitano, has released just a handful of pages of documents pertaining to the use of mobile naked body scanners, half of which are completely redacted.
The documents were obtained by the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) as part of it’s lawsuit to uncover details of a secretive program to install radiation firing naked body scanners in all manner of public places, beyond the nation’s airports, in surface transit and even street-roving vans.
The DHS wrote EPIC on August 8, stating “After further reviews we have determined that some documents that were originally withheld in full will be partially released to you.”
The new documents reveal nothing new at all, however, with entire pages having been blacked out by the agency.
The DHS invokes several FOIA exemption clauses, ironically including one that cites “invasion of personal privacy”.
“The privacy interests of the individuals in the records you have requested outweigh any minimal public interest in disclosure of the information.” the DHS writes.
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Ron Paul: Perry ‘Makes Me Look Like a Moderate’
Presidential candidate Ron Paul, who has long called for abolishing the Federal Reserve, said he now looks “like a moderate” compared with GOP rival and fellow Texan, Gov. Rick Perry, who said it would be “almost treacherous, or treasonous,” if the central bank increased the money supply before the 2012 election.
Referring to Mr. Perry, the Texas congressman told supporters at a campaign event in Concord, N.H., Wednesday that “He realizes that talking about the Fed is good, too. But I tell you what: He makes me look like a moderate.”
Mr. Paul added, “I have never once said [Fed Chairman Ben] Bernanke has committed treason.”
(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.wsj.com …
English Warning To Americans: DONT GIVE UP YOUR GUNS! – YouTube
English Warning To Americans: DONT GIVE UP YOUR GUNS!
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THE “G” WEBLOG @N54 by R.W. “Dick” Gaines
Sooner or later, it will have to be the American people themselves
that decide to put a stop to this out-of-control government
arrogance. Perhaps the sentiments of the late Lyn Nofziger will be
helpful at this point.
You will recall that Mr. Nofziger served as press secretary in Ronald
Reagan’s administration as Governor of California and as a White
House advisor during the Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan
presidencies. Shortly before he passed away, he composed a short
treatise entitled “These Things I Believe.” Here it is:
THE “G” WEBLOG @N54 by R.W. “Dick” Gaines
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“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor ? he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.”
-Marcus Tullius Cicero 42 B.C
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Prison Planet.com » Architects & Engineers – Solving the Mystery of WTC 7
Thursday, August 18, 2011
This is AE911Truth’s new 9/11 documentary on the mysterious destruction of World Trade Center Building #7 on 9/11/01. Join actor, Ed Asner, and architect, Richard Gage, AIA, as they narrate an unfolding story that decimates the official account (“collapse due to normal office fires”) of this 47 story high-rise which was destroyed on the afternoon of 9/11 in record time: top to bottom in under 7 seconds – and at free-fall acceleration for a third of its fall.
This is AE911Truth’s best shot at a professionally produced 15 minute informative and engaging WTC 7 documentary – designed for newcomers. It is free. Please spread far and wide.
The documentary includes several of the dozens of technical and building experts that were interviewed and that appear in our forthcoming full length documentary – 9/11: Explosive Evidence – Experts Speak Out. Altogether of course there are more than 1,500 Architects & Engineers that have signed the AE911Truth petition calling for a new investigation of the destruction of all 3 high-rises at the World Trade Center on 9/11.
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Ron Paul ‘forgets’ Rick Perry’s name, praises Jon Stewart [Video]
Ron Paul doesn’t seem too impressed with the big-talkin’, big-walkin’ governor of Texas.
Speaking to volunteers for his presidential campaign in New Hampshire Wednesday, Paul brought up the New New Thing in the GOP race, Rick Perry and his highly criticized remarks about Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke. (Watch video here.)
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com …
via Ron Paul ‘forgets’ Rick Perry’s name, praises Jon Stewart [Video].
Gunny G: And then…they came for…The Marines…
And then…they came for…The Marines…
And then…they came for…The Marines…
http://gunnyg.blogspot.com/2011/06/gunny-g-how-bad-can-things-get.html
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VIDEO: SEIU Mob Attacks Shopping Mall Security Guards in San Francisco
Once again, union members are up to their tiresome intimidation tactics.
In San Francisco, CA, a group of striking janitorial workers carrying SEIU signs at the Westfield Mall was caught on video taunting and scraping with security guards trying to open up the entrance.
This video adds to a string of surfacing union acts within the past couple of days. Recently, an Ohio business man was shot for being ‘non-union‘ and a Communication Workers of America (CWA) representative called for “open season” on “managers and scabs” of Verizon.
(Excerpt) Read more at mrctv.org …
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English Warning To Americans: DONT GIVE UP YOUR GUNS!
English Warning To Americans: DONT GIVE UP YOUR GUNS!
English Warning To Americans: DONT GIVE UP YOUR GUNS!:
The British people have been completely disarmed according to UN resolution, and here are personal accounts of british citizens of why Americans need to fight for their constitutional rights.
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New Video Surfaces Showing Unprovoked Attack by Philadelphia Teens
Philadelphia – A new video has surfaced showing a group of teen girls attacking a worker outside City Hall in Philadelphia, myfoxphilly.com reports.
The video, shot in May, shows a woman being attacked in broad daylight. The video shows the woman walking outside City Hall when a pack of teenage girls appears from behind her and slams her into the ground, hitting her repeatedly.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com …
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Human Prison Boxcars . . . and Precincts… (via ~ BLOGGER.GUNNY.G.1984+ ~ (BLOG & EMAIL))
More guns in bars, less crime
More guns less crime? John R. Lott‘s pithy summary describing the advantages of owning guns seems to be borne out in Virginia according to a report by Mark Bowes of the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
Last year the Virginia legislature passed a law allowing those with gun permits to carry concealed weapons into bars and restaurants serving alcohol. Opponents predicted Wild West shootings and bloody mayhem from drunken patrons; instead
The number of major crimes involving firearms at bars and restaurants statewide declined 5.2 percent from July 1, 2010, to June 30, 2011, compared with the fiscal year before the law went into effect, according to crime data compiled by Virginia State Police at the newspaper’s request. (snip)
“The numbers basically just confirm what we’ve said would happen if the General Assembly changed the law,” said Philip Van Cleave, president of the pro-gun Virginia Citizens Defense League, which strongly lobbied for the law’s change that made Virginia one of 43 states to allow concealed guns in restaurants that serve alcohol. “It’s sort of a big yawn. So from my point of view, none of this is surprising.”
Granted, Virginia has enjoyed an over all drop in crime and these figures may just reflect that.
“Keep in mind,” Van Cleave added, “what the other side was saying — that this was going to be a blood bath, that restaurants will be dangerous and people will stop going. But there was nothing to base the fear-mongering on.”
Or as
David Rittgers, an attorney and decorated former Army special forces officer who is now a legal policy analyst at the libertarian Cato Institute, said the growing number of states that are adopting concealed-carry measures like Virginia’s have seen no appreciable rise — and in some cases a decline — in violent crime.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com …
‘Authorized Journalists’ show hostility of press toward ‘conservative’ views
Regular readers know I use the term “Authorized Journalists” to describe the establishment press, the folks who won’t cover Gunwalker but fall all over each other trying to get more gun laws passed as a result of it. This comes in from The Washington Times: At a Chicago press conference held by Sen. Dick Durbin of IL, himself one of the biggest enemies of the Second Amendment in government, conservative journalist William Kelly tried to ask him a question:
“Senator, you’ve blamed the tea party…but do you bear any responsibility for this downgrade crisis?”
The press went wild—the “Authorized Journalists,” that is, dismissing Kelly as a Tea Party organizer, telling him he wasn’t a reporter and couldn’t ask questions—the same thing happened to me at a Brady Campaign event at a public park in California, except my antagonist was an “Only One”—and the bottom line is they harassed Kelly for credentials—not anyone else, just him, and a law enforcement rep escorted him out.
The regressive left habitually and falsely accuses Second Amendment activists of not caring about the rest of the Bill of Rights, but this shows that’s just projection and deflection masking their own hostility to all freedom—remember John Kerry saying the press didn’t need to give Tea Partiers equal time because their opinions weren’t valid?
When the history of our time is written—as it always is, by the victors—let’s work toward making sure their shameful abdication of all semblance of ethics is what people remember about these wretched subversives, these Fourth Estate Fifth Columnists.
That means we need to be the ones who win.
(Excerpt) Read more at examiner.com …
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Garofalo: Herman Cain “Being Paid To Run,” Has Stockholm Syndrome”
Liberal activist and actress Janeane Garofalo appeared on Keith Olbermann‘s “Countdown” show on the Current TV network Wednesday night. Garofalo went on several rants, one of which included accusing the Tea Party, which she calls a “fundamentalist” movement, of racism.
Garofalo also said successful businessman Herman Cain is either being paid to run or is suffering from Stockholm syndrome because he is a “person of color” running as a Republican in the party’s presidential primary.
“[He's] in this presidential race because he deflects the racism that is inherit in the Republican party, the conservative movement, the Tea Party certainly. [In] the last 30 years the Republican party has been moving more and more to the right, but also race-baiting more. Gay-baiting more. Religion-baiting more,” Garofalo said.
“But, Herman Cain, I feel like, is being paid by somebody to be involved and to run for president so that you go like ‘I love that, that can’t be racist. He’s a black guy, a black guy asking for Obama being impeached.’ Or ‘it’s a black guy whose anti-Muslim. It’s a black guy who is a Tea Party guy.’”
Garofalo also had some conspiracy theories as to who may be putting Cain up to this.
“And I feel like wouldn’t that suit the purposes of whomever astroturfs these things. Whether that be the Koch brothers or Grover Norquist or any anything. It could even be Karl Rove. ‘Let’s get Herman Cain involved so it deflects the obvious racism of our Republican party,’” Garofalo said.
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com …
via Garofalo: Herman Cain “Being Paid To Run,” Has Stockholm Syndrome”.
“… America Can’t Be Saved Or Returned To Its Roots Until The “R” Party Is Destroyed”
“… America Can’t Be Saved Or Returned To Its Roots Until The “R” Party Is Destroyed”
Atlanta billboard says blacks ‘betrayed’ by pro-abortion leaders
Atlanta billboard says blacks ‘betrayed’ by pro-abortion leaders:
Going on the offensive is a good thing. To quote George Patton (from the film):
Now there’s another thing I want you to remember: I don’t want to get any messages saying that we are holding our position. We’re not holding anything.
Let the Hun do that. We are advancing constantly and we’re not interested in holding onto anything except the enemy. We’re going to hold onto him by the nose and we’re going to kick him in the ass.
We’re going to kick the hell out of him all the time and we’re going to go through him like………………………
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But America IS A Police State by Steven Greenhut
But America IS A Police State by Steven Greenhut:
Six Fullerton cops, responding to a phone call alleging that someone in the downtown area might be breaking into cars, approached a 130-pound homeless man named Kelly Thomas, grabbed his backpack and, according to eyewitnesses, began Tasering him and beating him into a pulp. He died a few days later at a local hospital.
According to eyewitnesses…………………
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News ‘Journalists’ Shill for the State by Scott Lazarowitz
News ‘Journalists’ Shill for the State by Scott Lazarowitz:
It’s bad enough the possibility that there might have been some hanky-panky going on regarding the vote count at the Iowa Straw Poll this week, in which Ron Paul received 4,671 votes to Michele Bachmann’s 4,823, a difference of just 152 votes.
But to see one national media outlet after another completely ignoring Dr. Paul’s virtual tie for the #1 spot, and others who
via BLOGGER.GUNNY.G.1984(+): News ‘Journalists’ Shill for the State by Scott Lazarowitz.
Who – and What – Are Behind the ‘Official�History’ of the Bin Laden Raid? by Russ Baker
Who – and What – Are Behind the ‘Official�History’ of the Bin Laden Raid? by Russ Baker:
Article Summary: When you look closely, nothing seems right about what will surely become the accepted account of the raid that nailed America‘s enemy number one. And then things get even weirder…
The establishment media just keep getting worse. They’re further and further from good, tough investigative journalism, and more prone to be pawns in complicated games that affect the public interest in untold ways. A significant recent example is The New Yorker‘s vaunted August 8 exclusive on the vanquishing of Osama bin Laden.
The piece, trumpeted as the most detailed account to date of the May 1 raid in Abbottabad Pakistan, was an instant hit. “Got the chills half dozen times reading @NewYorker killing bin Laden tick tock…exquisite journalism,” tweeted the digital director of the PBS show Frontline. The author, freelancer Nicholas Schmidle, was quickly featured on the Charlie Rose show, an influential determiner of “chattering class” opinion. Other news outlets rushed to praise the story as “exhaustive,” “utterly compelling,” and on and on.
To be sure, it is the
Jesse Ventura’s ‘FEMA Camp’
Jesse Ventura‘s ‘FEMA Camp’
Jesse Ventura’s ‘FEMA Camp’:
He cuts the razor wire on America‘s concentration camp conspiracy











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