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The End is Near 2012 National Defense Authorization Act

December 15, 2011 5 comments

The End is Near 2012 National Defense Authorization Act

Armstrong Economics ^ | December 11, 2011 | Martin Armstrong

Posted on Thursday, December 15, 2011 10:14:20 PM by Razzz42

I am almost without words. Anyone who is against this new 2012 National Defense Authorization Act is being called a “traitor” as is the case with Senator Marco Rubio of Florida. The provisions of the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act, approved by the Senate last week, will allow the military to arrest terrorist suspects in the United States and detain them indefinitely without trial. But the definition of terrorist is anyone who disagrees with government. It might be safer in prison than out here right now.

This is strangely timed with the economic meltdown and if there are widespread bank failures, there will now be troops and tanks out on American streets. No standing army could ever conquer the United States. Yet with 19 guys and a camel, we have lost everything. The sheer intensity of this debate from both sides centers on how this new law will affect US citizens. This is just nuts. Britain endured IRA terrorist attacks. I cannot recall how many times I had to evacuate a building in London because of some threat. But the British did not surrender all their rights as Americans have done. Tea Party – you blew this one!

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‘Disappearing’ dissenters in Obama’s new Amerika (SEE READER RESPONSES)

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‘Disappearing’ dissenters in Obama’s new Amerika

Canada Free Press ^ | 12/15/2011 | Judi McLeod

Posted on Thursday, December 15, 2011 9:58:30 PM by Sioux-san

Edited on Thursday, December 15, 2011 10:02:08 PM by Admin Moderator. [history]

It now becomes perfectly clear why Obama did not want to close down Guantánamo Bay. It’s the perfect place to ‘disappear’ his Tea Party enemies during Election Year…

Obama’s well covered by mainstream media threat to veto what can only be described as Soviet Union Horror Come to America, was only the drama he could milk during the Final Act.

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Wayne Madsen: Holder’s Fast & Furious was Designed to Destablize Mexican Government ~ “the decision to target Judge Roll and Congresswoman Giffords has to do with their knowledge of the malicious and purposeful arming of Mexican drug gangs along the US-Mexico border”

December 15, 2011 2 comments

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Wayne Madsen has learned from his contacts within the Beltway intelligence community that Jared Lee Loughner is an “MK-ULTRA” programmed assassin and that US District Judge John Roll and Congresswoman Gabriel Giffords were targetted for assassination.

The reason for the decision to target Judge Roll and Congresswoman Giffords has to do with their knowledge of the malicious and purposeful arming of Mexican drug gangs along the US-Mexico border by US intelligence agency assets in an effort designed to destablize the Mexican government.

This towards the end of making Mexico more dependent on US military aid and protection from its private security contractors.

A key quote from Wayne Madsen’s report follows:

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(READER RESPONSE: Gunny G) ~ Strange rain: animals that have fallen from sky

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READER RESPONSE: Gunny G…

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And more similar strange things in history…

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(Col Sellin) Members of Congress Cower or Collaborate, As Obama Prepares his Race and Class War| The Post & Email

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IF OBAMA LOSES, HE INTENDS TO BRING DOWN THE COUNTRY WITH HIM

by Lawrence Sellin, ©2011

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Obama’s supporters claim that his alleged birth in Hawaii is enough to make him a “natural born Citizen,” but scholars such as Dr. Herb Titus invoking “natural law” claim that his foreign father precludes it

(Dec. 12, 2011) — Win or lose, chaos is at the core of Obama’s 2012 campaign strategy.

The Constitution and the American way of life are already under intense assault by enemies of the republic. The signs of degeneration are out there in plain sight.

The Obama Administration has spent the United States treasury to the brink of national bankruptcy, which has set the stage for the desired social unrest.

The Occupy War Street movement was just a test of Obama’s chaos strategy. The weakness demonstrated by politicians nationwide has only encouraged future, larger and more violent confrontations to support the Obama agenda either to transform America by force or, if that fails, destroy her.

Expect Occupy Flash Mobs to increase attacks on businesses and Obama opponents.

Watch for the number of premeditated racial incidents to increase.

To shape the outcome, the Obama campaign will continue to solicit international pressure directed at American election procedures and voters.

Obama will encourage open borders to flood the country with illegal immigrants to sow disorder and intimidate potential Republican voters.

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I’ve Had It with These Masked Thugs (News Analysis)

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I’ve Had It with These Masked Thugs (News Analysis)

Berkeley Daily Planet ^ | 12/15/11 | Gar Smith

Posted on Thursday, December 15, 2011 6:49:13 PM by SmithL

I don’t know about you, but I’m getting fed up with these self-important gangs of masked, black-clad agitators running roughshod over our city streets. They’ve occupied parks, shut down roadways, vandalized private property, assaulted law-abiding citizens and left entire communities afraid to venture into financially struggling downtown business districts. They’ve wielded spray cans and left behind eyesores that have incensed the community.

I am speaking, of course, about the police.

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Will Obama send U.S. citizens to Guantanamo? Outrage as President signs off law…

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Will Obama send U.S. citizens to Guantanamo? Outrage as President signs off law

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Daily Mail ^ | 12/15/11 | Meghan Keneally

Posted on Thursday, December 15, 2011 7:30:58 PM by Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears

President Barack Obama faced a civil liberties backlash today after he signed a law that will allow terror suspects to be held indefinitely- even raising the prospects of U.S. citizens being sent to Guantanamo Bay. The controversial move, revealed last night, effectively extends the laws of the battlefield to American soil.

The move shows a clear hardening of Mr Obama’s anti-terror policies, and a major shift from the liberal stance that helped him sweep into power three years ago.

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John Kerry reporting for duty … to the Muslim Brotherhood

December 15, 2011 1 comment

John Kerry reporting for duty … to the Muslim Brotherhood

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National Review ^ | DEcember 14, 2011 | Andrew C. McCarthy

Posted on Thursday, December 15, 2011 8:26:00 PM by presidio9

Senator John Kerry (D., Mass.) is in Egypt, meeting with leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood — the Islamist organization whose goals are to destroy Israel, “conquer Europe” and “conquer America” (to quote its most influential jurist, Sheikh Yusuf Qaradawi).

The Brotherhood, which operates throughout the world, seeks the imposition by governments of strict sharia law (as outlined in Reliance of the Traveller: A Classic Manual of Islamic Sacred Law) and, eventually, a global caliphate. Naturally, the Obama administration describes it as a “largely secular” and moderate organization — and William Taylor, President Obama’s hand-picked “special coordinator for transitions in the Middle East,” announced last month that the administration would be quite “satisfied” with a Brotherhood victory in the Egyptian elections.

As the Investigative Project on Terrorism reports, Kerry, the 2004 Democratic presidential nominee and key Obama administration congressional ally, “welcomed the results of Egypt’s first democratic elections,” in which “voters gave the Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) nearly 40% of seats, and more than 24% went to the ultra-conservative Salafi coalition led by al-Nour Party.” [ACM: by ultraconservative, IPT means al-Nour is somewhat more impatient than the Brotherhood for the imposition of supremacist Islam; as I've explained on other occasions, the Muslim Brotherhood is Salafist in its ideology.]

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Poll Asks: Is Ron Paul’s Foreign Policy Dangerous To America?

December 15, 2011 8 comments

Poll Asks: Is Ron Paul’s Foreign Policy Dangerous To America?

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The Right Elective Decisions ^ | 12/15/11 | Chris Davis

Posted on Thursday, December 15, 2011 8:36:46 PM by writer33

With all the fawning over Ron Paul and his fiscal policy, it isn’t just fiscal policy that makes an effective President of the United States. It also takes sound foreign policy. So, we want to know what you think of Ron Paul’s worldview and how that worldview may affect the role of the United States of America in the world.

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Prison Planet.com » CNN Admits Ron Paul Could Win Iowa

December 15, 2011 14 comments

With the results of a new survey from Public Policy Polling showing him tied in first with Newt Gingrich for the inaugural Republican primary, CNN admits that Ron Paul could “rock the GOP race” by winning Iowa.

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The CNN report highlights how Ron Paul’s campaign office in Des Moines was a “hub of activity” while Mitt Romney’s campaign office was “still closed at mid-morning”.

If Paul can secure a strong third place finish in Iowa or beat one of the two establishment candidates, his position as a presidential frontrunner will be firmly locked in for the rest of the 2012 race. A separate American Research Group poll has Paul tied in second with Romney with Gingrich ahead in Iowa.

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Upside-Down American Flag Flies At Occupy Pittsburgh

December 15, 2011 1 comment

Upside-Down American Flag Flies At Occupy Pittsburgh

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WTAE ^ | December 15, 2011

Posted on Thursday, December 15, 2011 4:56:18 PM by rightwingintelligentsia

According to the United States Flag Code, the flag should never be displayed with the union down, unless it’s done as a signal of distress.

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Fred On Everything ~ The Exodus Begins…

December 15, 2011 2 comments

…..When I arrived in Mexico going on ten years ago, it was a mildly sleepy upper-Third World country, whatever that means—corrupt but not dangerous, not rich but hardly poor, barely middle-class overall and climbing, the mañana thing seldom noticeable, and women pouring into the professions. I parodied the American conception of Mexico as perilous hell-hole because it wasn’t. Not even close.

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Sheriff Mack Announces Lawsuit Against SPLC, Run for Congress

December 15, 2011 4 comments

Sheriff Mack Announces Lawsuit Against SPLC, Run for Congress

Independent Film, News and Media / The New American ^ | 12/14/11

Posted on Thursday, December 15, 2011 3:02:53 PM by Press 1 for Free Speech

“It does hurt me to see that the SPLC, which does training for every federal law enforcement agency, including other police and sheriffs agencies all across the country, will actually tell these people that there’s something inherently wrong with someone who quotes the Founding Fathers and our Constitution,” he told The New American.

Sheriff Mack Announces Lawsuit Against SPLC, Run for Congress

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Half of Obamaville Lives in “Poverty” — Which is Exactly What Democrats Want

December 15, 2011 1 comment

Half of Obamaville Lives in “Poverty” — Which is Exactly What Democrats Want

Rush Limbaugh.com ^ | October 15, 2011 | Rush Limbaugh

Posted on Thursday, December 15, 2011 3:03:43 PM by Kaslin

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RUSH: We had this story yesterday, didn’t have a chance to get to it. “Squeezed by rising living costs a record number of Americans — nearly one in two — have fallen into poverty, or they are scraping by on earnings that classify them as low income. One in five American children live in poverty.” Now, stop and think of this, folks. One in two Americans are now poor or low income. Now, this is the kind of story that usually comes out when a Republican is in the White House. Seriously. You don’t get these kinds of stories when a Democrat’s in the White House. We had a story yesterday about homeless children. I said to myself, “We don’t get these kinds of stories when a Democrat’s in the White House. What’s going on?”

And then, and then I remembered. The New York Times, in an op-ed two weeks ago on a Monday, Thomas B. Edsall (now at the Huffing and Puffington Post) wrote a piece in which he said that the Obama campaign was writing off white working class families. They were going to focus on the poor. The focus is on the votes of the poor and the votes of minorities. They are forgetting white working-class voters, meaning they know they can’t get those votes. The white working class is hurt; the white working class wants to work. Obama has policies that are destroying the creation of jobs. They know it. So Obama’s not even gonna make a pretense in the campaign.

Therefore what’s Obama need? More poor people! More people who are told they’re poor. More people who are told they’re poor because Wall Street stole from ‘em. More people who are told they’re poor because the 1% have taken everything from ‘em. So when you see a story — it’s at US News World Report, it’s at MSNBC, it’s everywhere — one in two Americans are now poor or low income. Well, Obama’s not failed. It’s like I said on Greta last night. I reminded everybody: January 16, 2009, Wall Street Journal calls, “Can you give us 400 words on what you hope for the new president?” I said, “It won’t take 400, I can do it in four: ‘I hope he fails,’” and an excrement storm erupted.

I, for six months, was the only guy carrying that message and that water.

So I said last night to Greta, “He has not failed.” From his perspective, he has had resounding success: Bankrupting the country, joblessness, increased debt, a transfer of money from the private sector to the public sector to government that’s never been done before on this level. The cutting down to size of the private sector, the class warfare, he’s succeeded — and when you see one in two Americans are now poor or low income, and you understand Obama’s gonna spend a billion dollars in his reelection targeting those people? The more poor the better. (New…..

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(Today is)Bill of Rights Day: What’s Left of Them?

December 15, 2011 1 comment

(Today is)Bill of Rights Day: What’s Left of Them?

CATO ^ | 12/15/11 | Nat Hentoff

Posted on Thursday, December 15, 2011 3:07:22 PM by Bokababe

John Jay, the co-writer of the Federalist Papers and the first chief justice of the United States (1789-95), wrote in a 1786 letter to Thomas Jefferson that he was worried that under our evolving founding document that became the Constitution, Congress would have exorbitant power.

“These three great departments of sovereignty,” he told Jefferson, “should be forever separated and so distributed to serve as checks on each other.”

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Department of Justice Releases Investigative Findings on the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office

December 15, 2011 5 comments

Department of Justice Releases Investigative Findings on the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office

Department of Justice ^ | December 15, 2011 | Office of Public Affairs

Posted on Thursday, December 15, 2011 1:11:23 PM by Beowulf9

WASHINGTON – Following a comprehensive investigation, the Justice Department today announced its findings in the ongoing civil rights investigation of the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office (MCSO). The Justice Department found reasonable cause to believe that MCSO, under the leadership of Sheriff Joseph M. Arpaio, has engaged in a pattern or practice of misconduct that violates the Constitution and federal law. The investigation, opened in June 2008, was conducted under the provisions of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the Title VI implementing regulations.

The department found reasonable cause to believe that a pattern or practice of unconstitutional conduct and/or violations of federal law occurred in several areas, including:

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‘Disappearing’ dissenters in Obama’s new Amerika

December 15, 2011 2 comments

It now becomes perfectly clear why Obama did not want to close down Guantánamo Bay. It’s the perfect place to ‘disappear’ his Tea Party enemies during Election Year.

Obama’s well covered by mainstream media threat to veto what can only be described as Soviet Union Horror Come to America, was only the drama he could milk during the Final Act.

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Prison Planet.com » Faux Conservatives Smear Ron Paul Ahead Of Iowa Run In

December 15, 2011 33 comments

Limbaugh suggests anyone but Ron Paul can beat Obama when exact opposite is true

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December 15, 2011

With the latest polls showing Ron Paul within touching distance of the lead in Iowa with less than three weeks to go to the caucus, the phony conservative big guns have set about a desperate campaign to smear the Congressman, for fear that he could actually win.

Appearing on on Fox News Channel’s “On the Record with Greta van Sustren” on Wednesday night, radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh lambasted Paul, claiming that “right now anybody other than Ron Paul could beat Obama if the election were tomorrow — easily.”

Limbaugh also suggested that Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum and Texas Gov. Rick Perry were the most conservative candidates.

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A Rick Perry comeback? It all rides on Iowa now.

December 15, 2011 4 comments

A Rick Perry comeback? It all rides on Iowa now.

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The Christian Science Monitor ^ | 12/15/2011 | Amanda Paulson

Posted on Thursday, December 15, 2011 11:09:38 AM by wolfman23601

At this stage, that seems unlikely. But Politico is reporting that internal polls from both Mr. Perry and Mitt Romney find significant slippage in Newt Gingrich‘s Iowa standing. And Perry is one of the beneficiaries. “I believe [Ron] Paul can trip up Newt here, and that’s great news for Romney because Newt is done if that happens,” one Iowa caucus-watcher told Politico. “Watch Rick Perry. He’s going for a top-three finish, and that could be to Romney’s expense.” How well do you know Rick Perry? Take our quiz Perry’s strategy amounts to betting everything on Iowa, where he’s making a major push, despite being stuck in the low double digits in the polls.

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Ron Paul: Iran wants to disrupt world oil supply because we are provoking them

December 15, 2011 1 comment

Ron Paul: Iran wants to disrupt world oil supply because we are provoking them

The Right Scoop ^

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Posted on Thursday, December 15, 2011 1:05:50 PM by mnehring

In a town hall yesterday, Ron Paul said that Iran is acting in a “rational manner” by threatening to disrupt the world oil supply in the Persian Gulf. He believes Iran is only defending itself from the provocations of the West and told the crowd that if he were president, he’d be “provoking them a lot less.”

“We’re just looking for trouble,” Paul said. “We’re building the war propaganda against Iran just as we did against Iraq.”

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Pesident Obama to stay in D.C. while Michelle Obama, daughters head to Hawaii

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Pesident Obama to stay in D.C. while Michelle Obama, daughters head to Hawaii

WaPo ^ | 12/15/2011 | David Nakamura

Posted on Thursday, December 15, 2011 11:48:35 AM by Cheerio

First lady Michelle Obama and first daughters Sasha and Malia are headed to Hono­lulu on Friday for a 17-day vacation — without the president.

At least for now.

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Prison Planet.com » NDAA Gives Pentagon Green Light to Wage Internet War

December 15, 2011 1 comment

In addition to kidnapping Americans and tossing them into Camp Gitmo without recourse or trial, the draconian NDAA bill passed in the House yesterday contains language that will allow the Pentagon to wage cyberwar on domestic enemies of the state.

NDAA Gives Pentagon Green Light to Wage Internet War cyber

 

The following language is in the final “reconciled” bill that will now travel to the Senate and ultimately Obama’s desk where it will be signed into law despite earlier assertions that he would veto the legislation:

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Marines promoted inflated story for Medal of Honor recipient (Barf Alert)

December 15, 2011 1 comment

Marines promoted inflated story for Medal of Honor recipient (Barf Alert)

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The Washington Post ^ | December 14, 2011 | McClatchy Newspapers

Posted on Thursday, December 15, 2011 10:17:14 AM by World’sGoneInsane

With Dakota Meyer standing at attention in his dress uniform, sweat glistening on his forehead under the television lights, President Barack Obama extolled the former Marine corporal for the “extraordinary actions” that had earned him the Medal of Honor, the nation’s highest award for valor. SNIP

But an exhaustive assessment by a McClatchy correspondent who was embedded with the unit and survived the ambush found that the Marines’ official accounts of Meyer’s deeds….

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Compromise Sucks!

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In other words, to interrupt the Marxist take-over of America, conservatives must nominate a man or woman whom is “Obama-light,” with respect to some of the major issues of the day.

How can this be happening to we the people?

What happened to ‘right-thinking’ warriors like John Bolton, Tom Tancredo, and other owners of unassailable conservative pedigree?

Why has Rick Santorum failed to round up any appreciable support? What happened to the Michele Bachmann surge that seemed so promising last spring?

Frankly, conservatives have a right—nay, make that a duty—to be upset.

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Obama to approve indefinite detention and torture of Americans

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Obama to approve indefinite detention and torture of Americans

http://rt.com/usa/news/obama-detention-veto-defense-853/ ^

Posted on Thursday, December 15, 2011 9:23:08 AM by kronos77

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Less than a month after he threatened to veto terrifying legislation that would cease constitutional rights as we know it, Obama has revoked his warning and plans to authorize a bill allowing indefinite detention and torture of Americans.

After passing in the House of Representatives earlier this year, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012 went before the US Senate last week, where it was met with overwhelming approval. In the days before, the Obama administration issued a policy statement on November 17 saying explicitly that the president would veto the bill, as it would challenge “the president’s critical authorities to collect intelligence incapacitate dangerous terrorists and protect the nation.”

Opposition from the White House seemed all but rampant until RT revealed earlier this week that Senator Carl Levin told lawmakers that the legislation was altered because “the administration asked us to remove the language which says that US citizens and lawful residents would not be subject to this section.”

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Prison Planet.com » Rise Of The Beast System: 11 Ways That Amerika Is Becoming More Like North Korea

December 15, 2011 1 comment

Should we just get it over with and change the spelling of America to “Amerika”? Every single day, the United States of America is becoming more like North Korea. In North Korea, the citizens are told that everything that they do needs to be monitored, tracked, recorded and very tightly controlled so that everyone can be kept safe. No dissent is allowed at all. If government officials in North Korea even suspect that you are thinking the wrong thing, your entire extended family can be shipped off to a prison camp. And you know what? North Korea is a pretty safe place. There is not much terrorism in North Korea. But why in the world would anyone ever want to live like that? America is supposed to be a bastion of liberty and freedom, but now we are falling for the same totalitarian lies that so many other societies have fallen for throughout human history. We are witnessing the rise of the beast system – a system of control more pervasive than anything that the world has ever seen. We are constantly being told that the emerging “Big Brother” control grid is being put into place for “our safety”, but someday we are going to wake up in a dystopian nightmare where government tyrants have absolutely unlimited control over our lives.

Those that approve of the “Big Brother” police state control grids being constructed all over the world should really study North Korea. That country is what the end result looks like.

North Korea is a totalitarian police state hellhole. No rational human being would ever want to live there. You can see an absolutely amazing National Geographic documentary on what life is like inside North Korea on YouTube right here. If you have never seen that documentary before, it is definitely worth the time that it takes to watch it. If we stay on our current path, our country is going to become just like North Korea.

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Holder Speaks Up for Voting Rights

December 15, 2011 4 comments

Holder Speaks Up for Voting Rights

New York Times ^ | December 15, 2011 | NYT Editorial

Posted on Thursday, December 15, 2011 8:21:30 AM by Cincinatus‘ Wife

For months, the Justice Department has largely been silent as Republican-dominated legislatures in state after state made it harder for minorities, poor people and other Democratic-leaning groups to vote. On Tuesday, however, Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. spoke out forcefully and promised to use the full weight of his department to ensure that new electoral laws are not discriminatory. To live up to that vow, he will have his hands full.

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What About Forgery, Lies and Cover-ups Do They not Understand?| The Post & Email

December 15, 2011 1 comment

“IT’S JUST OUR CONSTITUTION

by Dr. Laurie Roth, Presidential Candidate

Why do the current presidential candidates not address the “natural born Citizen” question?

(Dec. 15, 2011) — ‘It is as if a ‘plague of fear, intimidation and cowardice,’ has swept over the hearts and mouths of our Political leaders and most media. As a Mom, I know kids love to play games but those currently running for President are the biggest gamers ever! Our current political crop and most media are stuck on ‘hide and go seek.’ Desperate for votes and power, they run for cover at the mere notion they might be called a racist or have that other dreaded disease, ‘birtherythmia.’

Donkeys are running around whinnying while Elephants are stampeding, and all the while an ineligible President sits in our White House and we aren’t supposed to notice. ‘Politically expedient,’ ‘bigger fish to fry,’ birthers are annoying,’ ‘Obama showed his birth certificate, that is good enough for me.’

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Terrorist attack survivors outraged by White House guest

December 15, 2011 2 comments

Terrorist attack survivors outraged by White House guest

The Washington Times ^ | 12/14/11 | Ashish Kumar Sen

Posted on Thursday, December 15, 2011 8:09:18 AM by markomalley

Survivors of a 1996 terrorist attack in Saudi Arabia that killed 19 U.S. servicemen are offendedthat an Iraqi official with ties to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps was welcomed to the White House this week.

“Outrage at the visit to the White House really doesn’t describe what I feel,” said William M. Schooley, who survived the June 25, 1996, bombing of the Khobar Towers.

“I watched outstanding airmen die that night and witnessed horrific carnage. The survivors of Khobar Towers have been swept under the rug and now have received the greatest insult,” he added.

The Washington Times first reported Tuesday that Hadi Farhan al-Amiri, who serves as Iraq’s transportation minister, was part of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s delegation to the White House on Monday.

The FBI linked Iran’s Revolutionary Guard to the terrorist attack on the Khobar Towers. No Iranians were named in the indictment, and the Saudi Hezbollah was blamed for the blast.

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Prison Planet.com » Big Sis Orders ICE To Prepare For Mass Influx of Immigrants

December 15, 2011 8 comments

Directive follows leaked KBR memo requesting subcontractors to service detention camps

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Thursday, December 15, 2011

Department of Homeland Security chief Janet Napolitano has directed ICE to prepare for a mass influx of immigrants into the United States, calling for the plan to deal with the “shelter” and “processing” of large numbers of people.

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“The Department of Homeland Security wants a plan to deal with sudden mass migrations of immigrants to the U.S.,” reports Government Security News.

“DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano, according to a statement by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, recently directed ICE to develop a national-level mass migration plan. The plan will outline how to address the health care, sheltering, processing, transition and disposition of large numbers of undocumented individuals who might arrive in the U.S. as the result of a mass migration, said ICE on Dec. 13.”

Part of the preparations for sheltering and processing an influx of people includes the construction and manning of detention camps.

In 2006, Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg, Brown and Root was contracted by Homeland Security to build detention centers designed to deal with “an emergency influx of immigrants into the U.S,” or the rapid development of unspecified “new programs” that would require large numbers of people to be interned.

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Prison Planet.com » Flip Flopper Obama: WILL NOT VETO DETENTION BILL

December 15, 2011 7 comments

Mac Slavo

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December 15, 2011

This evening the U.S. House of Representatives passed, with overwhelming support, the National Defense Authorization Act in a 283-to-136 vote.

You’ll note that at the time the legislation was being debated President Obama assured Americans that he would never sign the bill if it came to his desk.

The bill, which allows for the indefinite detainment of those, including American citizens, suspected of engaging in or supporting terrorist activity has not changed in any meaningful way over the last few weeks. This, of course, leaves inquiring minds questioning why the President would have so abruptly reversed his position:

Less than a month after he threatened to veto terrifying legislation that would cease constitutional rights as we know it, Obama has revoked his warning and plans to authorize a bill allowing indefinite detention and torture of Americans.

After passing in the House of Representatives earlier this year, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012 went before the US Senate last week, where it was met with overwhelming approval. In the days before,the Obama administration issued a policy statement on November 17 saying explicitly that the president would veto the bill, as it would challenge “the president’s critical authorities to collect intelligence incapacitate dangerous terrorists and protect the nation.”

Opposition from the White House seemed all but rampant until RT revealed earlier this week that Senator Carl Levin told lawmakers that the legislation was altered because “the administration asked us to remove the language which says that US citizens and lawful residents would not be subject to this section.”

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(“Can Congress make legal something that is inherently wrong, and can Congress take a freedom that is a part of our humanity and make its exercise criminal?”) The Government as Lawbreaker, ~ Again Judge Andrew Napolitano (SEE READER COMMENTS)

December 15, 2011 6 comments

The Government as Lawbreaker, Again

Townhall.com ^ | December 15, 2011 | Judge Andrew Napolitano

Posted on Thursday, December 15, 2011 5:42:24 AM by Kaslin

Can Congress make legal something that is inherently wrong, and can Congress take a freedom that is a part of our humanity and make its exercise criminal?

If there were no First Amendment, would we still have the freedom of speech? The answer, like many in the law, depends on what values underlie the legal system. If the government is the source of our rights, then without the First Amendment’s guarantees of free speech, any government could legally punish you for saying words and expressing thoughts it hated or feared; and it could even silence you before you spoke.

On the other hand, if our rights come from our humanity and our humanity is a gift from God, then we would still enjoy the freedom of speech, whether it is insulated from government interference by the First Amendment or not. The wording of the First Amendment itself gives us a peek at what its authors thought. They wrote: “Congress shall make no law … abridging the freedom of speech.” It doesn’t say that Congress shall grant freedom of speech; rather, it prohibits Congress from interfering with it. And by referring to free speech as the freedom of speech, the drafters recognized that the freedom of speech already existed before the country that they were founding even came to be.

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Perry links himself to military, cites record (Reader Response, Sgt Dakota Meyer MOH, Etc…)

December 15, 2011 2 comments

Marine Dakota Meyer’s is one of the heroes (in the above video) supporting Gov. Rick Perry’s candidacy for president.

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Today the MSM is reporting about an investigation of events surrounding Dakota Meyer’s acts of heroism in battle (they don’t discount his heroism, nor the appropriateness of his Medal of Honor but believe the Marine Corp “inflated” the circumstances and his acts, and that this could “tarnish one of the signature moments of [Obama’s] time as commander in chief.”).

Marines promoted inflated story for Medal of Honor recipient

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The government as lawbreaker, again ~ Judge Andrew Napolitano

December 15, 2011 10 comments

The same founders who drafted the First Amendment also accepted Thomas Jefferson’s values articulated in the Declaration of Independence that we are endowed by our “Creator with certain unalienable rights, (and) that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

” It is clear beyond serious dispute from just scratching the surface of history that wedded to this country at its birth is the Judeo-Christian concept of the natural law. The natural law is the self-evident truth that our rights come from our humanity; that we have them by virtue of our mortal existence; that they do not depend upon government for their existence; that they do not vary as a consequence of where we are now or where our mothers were when we were born; and thus we remain fully endowed of these rights so long as we live, wherever we go. If you believe that we are the present result not of a supreme being, but of natural selection, you can accept as the founders did that humanity – and not government – is the repository of freedom.

I suspect that most people accept the natural law. We have even seen people in the government claim to accept it. Yet almost as soon as they take the oath to uphold these values, they start rejecting them. In the Patriot Act, for example, Congress made it a crime to reveal that the feds came calling on you with a search warrant in which a federal agent authorized himself to search records that you might have.

This, of course, not only violates the Fourth Amendment, which stipulates that only judges may authorize searches, but it also violates the First Amendment because it punishes speech.

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Today’s Toons 12/15/11

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Today’s Toons 12/15/11

The Briefing Room ^ | 12/15/11 | pookie18

Posted on Thursday, December 15, 2011 4:35:19 AM by pookie18

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Ron Paul gains ground, further stirring Republicans

December 15, 2011 7 comments

Ron Paul gains ground, further stirring Republicans

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Rooooters ^ | December 14, 2011 | Daniel Trotta

Posted on Thursday, December 15, 2011 12:42:52 AM by upchuck

Republican presidential hopeful Ron Paul declared on Wednesday his campaign was “peaking at the right time” as polls show him closing in on the two perceived front-runners.

The libertarian congressman from Texas with a passionate core of followers complained that pundits were dismissing his longshot campaign prematurely and sounded optimistic about catching former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney and former House of Representatives speaker Newt Gingrich.

All three and others are seeking to represent the Republicans and unseat Democratic President Barack Obama next November. The first of a series of Republican nominating contests is set for January 3 in Iowa.

“The momentum is building up and a lot of the candidates so far would come and go. They would shoot to the top and drop back rapidly. Ours has been very steady growth, then in this last week or two there has been a sudden extra growth,” Paul told reporters after meeting voters in Amherst, New Hampshire.

Public Policy Polling released a survey on Tuesday showing him one percentage point behind Gingrich for the lead in Iowa.

Paul took 21 percent in the survey compared to 22 percent for Gingrich with Romney third at 16 percent.

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Obama to be challenged on ballot in all 50 states

December 15, 2011 4 comments

Obama to be challenged on ballot in all 50 states

The Post and Email ^ | 12/14/2011 | Sharon Rondeau

Posted on Thursday, December 15, 2011 2:32:07 AM by ExtremePatriot

Capt. Pamela Barnett (Ret.) has founded a website and initiative which seeks to assist citizens wishing to challenge Obama’s constitutional eligibility and name placement on the presidential ballot for 2012. She and her team are currently compiling election law from all 50 states and will be providing forms and sample letters which registered voters can use to file a complaint.

Barnett has recently appeared on The Roth Radio Show and the Andrea Shea King Radio Show to detail her plan to challenge Obama’s eligibility based on the claim that he is not a “natural born Citizen” as required by Article II, Section 1, clause 5 of the U.S. Constitution. Barnett also operates the website “Unlawful President” and will be releasing a book entitled Never Vetted, the first chapter of which was published on the internet at no charge for informational and educational purposes.

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Rush Limbaugh On the Record with Greta Van Susteren

December 15, 2011 1 comment

Rush Limbaugh On the Record with Greta Van Susteren

FNC, Youtube ^ | 12/14/2011 | Greta Van Susteren, Rush Limbaugh

Posted on Thursday, December 15, 2011 3:43:09 AM by iowamark

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