Obama’s ‘Iron Curtain’ descends on America… “Under the Marxist rule of President Barack Hussein Obama, Uncle Sam morphs day by day into ‘Uncle Satan’. Ironic when contemplating that Iran has long called America “the great Satan”.”

By Judi McLeod Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Under the Marxist rule of President Barack Hussein Obama, Uncle Sam morphs day by day into ‘Uncle Satan’. Ironic when contemplating that Iran has long called America “the great Satan”.

Far more wily than Uncle Sam or Uncle Sugar, ‘Uncle Satan’ lures scores of U.S. citizens motivated by entitlement mentality with food stamps, free cell phones and unquestioned access to social security, into a trap from which they will never escape.

Comfortable with the guarantee the government will look after them from cradle to grave, few see the walls going up around them.

Canada Free Press (CFP) reader Alan Beckler sends interesting but chilling thoughts about the walls going up around American citizens today.

“While doing some Cold War research today, I ran across a most interesting article on the Berlin Wall history. Attached is an excerpt. What is so chilling is that one could change the German names to present administration names and with our current IRS and DOJ ‘scandals’, it is really chilling.

Dire warnings from this excerpt from ‘The Rise and Fall of the Berlin Wall’ will be lost on low information voters dependent on government handouts but will send chills down the spines of the millions who see that the IRS and Justice Department scandals mark the beginning of the ultimate capture of the U.S. citizenry.

Nothing in the Common Core curriculum teaches children about the fate of ordinary people trapped behind the Berlin Wall. Their teachers likely think of the Wall in terms of Alfred Hitchcock’s movies.

 

The Tip of the Spear… “During the Revolutionary War, the founders felt the need to create an military force in order to liberate themselves from the British Crown, but they were suspect of the kind of government that would create a permanent standing army.” | Flyover-Press.com

The American military of today has its founding in the Cold War. During the Revolutionary War, the founders felt the need to create an military force in order to liberate themselves from the British Crown, but they were suspect of the kind of government that would create a permanent standing army.

 

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Rep. Elbridge Gerry of Massachusetts: “What, sir, is the use of a militia? It is to prevent the establishment of a standing army, the bane of liberty.”

 

Thomas Jefferson: “The spirit of this country is totally adverse to a large military force.”

 

And so it was for the large part of US history, there was no permanent military force that could be used for foreign adventures or domestic suppression.

 

 

 

The Selective Service Act was first passed in 1917 for the WWI. The second Selective Service Act was passed in 1940 for WWII. The modern draft was created by the Selective Service act of 1948.

 

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During the Cold War, the permanent standing Army was created in response to the “Soviet Threat”. Millions of American men went through the doors of the service, as a rite of martial passage for the bulk of the population.

 

Is America Still A Good Country? Patrick J. Buchanan

Is America Still A Good Country?

Human Events ^ | 3-29-13 | Patrick J. Buchanan

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Posted on Sunday, March 31, 2013 11:59:03 PM by ReformationFan

“Not until I went to the churches of America and heard her pulpits aflame with righteousness did I understand the secret of her genius and power. America is great because she is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.”

 

So wrote Alexis de Tocqueville.

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Yet, judged by the standards of those old “pulpits aflame with righteousness,” is America still a good country?

Obama ‘declares war’ on U.S. military (Take a look at alarming slough of presidential actions)

Obama ‘declares war’ on U.S. military (Take a look at alarming slough of presidential actions)

 

 

 

WND ^ | March 13, 2013 | Chelsea Schilling

 

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Is Obama declaring war on U.S. military?

 

 

 

Obama has made no secret of his plans for deep military cuts that would downsize the Pentagon. In 2010, he cut $487 billion from the defense budget. In 2011, he signed into law a budget process intended to cut an additional $492 billion over 10 years.

 

 

 

Cut Commitments, Not Muscle… “On retirement, Robert Gates said any future defense secretary who advises a president to fight another land war in Asia ought to have his head examined. So why do we have 28,000 U.S. troops in Korea and 50,000 in Japan?”

In that year of happy memory, 1972, George McGovern, the Democratic nominee, declared he would chop defense by fully one-third.

 

A friendly congressman was persuaded to ask Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird to expatiate on what this might mean.

 

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The Pentagon replied the Sixth Fleet might have to be pulled out of the Med, leaving Israel without U.S. protection against the fleet of Adm. Sergei Gorshkov, and provided the congressman a list of U.S. bases that would have to be shut down.

 

Radio ads were run in the towns closest to the bases on the Pentagon list, declaring they would be closed and all jobs terminated, should McGovern win.

 

Something akin to this is going on with the impending sequester.

 

Why Are We Still on the DMZ? … “President Eisenhower ended the Korean War 60 years ago. The Chinese armies in Korea went home. Twenty years ago, the Soviet Union collapsed, Russia abandoned communism and ceased to arm the North, and Mao’s China gave up world revolution for state capitalism.”

Why Are We Still on the DMZ?

 

Townhall.com ^ | February 15, 2013 | Pat Buchanan

 

Posted on Friday, February 15, 2013 9:18:01 AM by Kaslin

 

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North Korea has just pulled off an impressive dual feat — the successful test both of an intercontinental ballistic missile and an atom bomb in the 6-kiloton range.

 

Pyongyang’s ruler, 30-year-old Kim Jong Un, said the tests are aimed at the United States. So it would seem. One does not build an ICBM to hit Seoul, 30 miles away.

 

 

 

Experts believe North Korea is still far from having the capability to marry a nuclear warhead to a missile that could hit the West Coast. But this seems to be Kim’s goal.

 

Why is he obsessed with a nation half a world away?

 

America has never recognized his, his father’s or his grandfather’s regime. We have led the U.N. Security Council in imposing sanctions. We have 28,000 troops in the South and a defense treaty that will bring us into any war with the North from day one, and a U.S. general would assume overall command of U.S. and Republic of Korea troops.

 

We are South Korea‘s defense shield and deterrent against the North.

 

And while America cannot abdicate her responsibility and role in this crisis, we should be asking ourselves: Why is this our crisis in 2013?

 

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President Eisenhower ended the Korean War 60 years ago. The Chinese armies in Korea went home. Twenty years ago, the Soviet Union collapsed, Russia abandoned communism and ceased to arm the North, and Mao’s China gave up world revolution for state capitalism.

 

 

 

 

 

Epochal events. Yet U.S. troops still sit on the DMZ, just as their grandfathers did when this writer was still in high school.

 

The Life and Wars of General Curtis LeMay… (“In truth, the real LeMay couldn’t have been further from the crazy brute that he’s been made out to be. He was …”)

“…I was surprised to find out that LeMay wasn’t at all the man I thought he was … and I didn’t think he got a fair shake in history.

 

Here is a man who has been marginalized and even vilified as this mad bomber yearning for a nuclear exchange with the Soviets. Hollywood helped solidify that negative image with Dr. Strangelove ..and he became a favorite target for journalists beginning in the 1960s.

 

In truth, the real LeMay couldn’t have been further from the crazy brute that he’s been made out to be. He was a sober, strategic realist, who cared deeply for the men who served under him and for the country he defended. LeMay was perhaps the most brilliant military strategist this nation has ever produced – not my words but those of the late Robert S. McNamara.

 

How US taxpayers are paying the Pentagon to occupy the planet – Opinion – Al Jazeera English

Author gives an insight into what it costs US taxpayers to build and support the American global military presence.

 

Pentagon-funded research indicates that 18 per cent of total foreign military and economic aid goes toward buying base access, “swelling our invoice by around $6.3bn” [EPA]

 

“Are you monitoring the construction?” asked the middle-aged man on a bike accompanied by his dog.

 

“Ah, si,” I replied in my barely passable Italian.

 

“Bene,” he answered. Good.

 

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In front of us, a backhoe’s guttural engine whined into action and empty dump trucks rattled along a dirt track. The shouts of men vied for attention with the metallic whirring of drills and saws ringing in the distance. Nineteen immense cranes spread across the landscape, with the foothills of Italy’s Southern Alps in the background. More than 100 pieces of earthmoving equipment, 250 workers and grids of scaffolding wrapped around what soon would be 34 new buildings.

 

Gunny G: What “The Folks” Are Saying… Over and Over Again !!!!! ~ AN ADMINISTRATION THAT WILL LIVE IN INFAMY

There was a time when people assumed that if America’s future was under attack, it must come from a foreign source–like, say, Japan at Pearl Harbor. Those days are long gone.

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Now, our decline is no one’s fault but our own. We elect leaders who are ignorant of America’s history and contemptuous of its values. The currency in which this ignorance and contempt is expressed is government spending.

 

I am not sure I can fully explain the logic, but those who are filled with hatred for the first 200 years of American history want–for some reason–America’s government to accumulate ever more power and to spend unprecedented amounts of money.

 

 

Does that make sense?

 

Is Pearl Harbor Ancient History? ~ (“The general ignorance of Americans about their own history comes with its own price.”)

By Alan Caruba Wednesday, December 5, 2012

 

I recall in my youth thinking that the Civil War (1861-1865) was ancient history. As with most children, anything that occurred before my birth was “ancient.” In point of fact, the Civil War had ended just 72 years before I was born in 1937 and there were likely some men still alive who had fought in it or recalled it as youth.

 

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I suspect that the Japanese sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, December 7, 1941, the day that Franklin Delano Roosevelt said “will live in infamy” is ancient history to several recent generations of Americans, many of whom are the aging baby boomers, the children born after our troops returned home, married, and began to raise families after 1945, the year World War II ended.

 

Gunny G: What “The Folks” Are Saying About… (Reader Responses…) ~ CIVIL WAR II America’s new cold war

CIVIL WAR II America’s new cold war

Self ^ | 2012 | Steve Newton

Posted on Wednesday, December 05, 2012 7:24:06 PM by Steve Newton

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After a contentious election sometimes emotions run high. The winners are jubilant and the losers are despondent. This time it’s different. After 4 years of an “us against them” policy this nation has never been as divided as we are now since the first civil war. What may have been a deliberate policy to win an election may well transform into a monster that will devour us all.

US planned to blow up the MOON with a nuclear bomb to win Cold War bragging rights over USSR

Revealed: How the U.S. planned to blow up the MOON with a nuclear bomb to win Cold War bragging rights over Soviet Union

 

- Scientists were hoping for giant flash on the moon that would intimidate the Soviet Union

 

- Aim of mission was to launch the nuke by 1959

 

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- Plan was later scrapped due to possible danger to people on Earth

 

It may sound like a plot straight out of a science fiction novel, but a U.S. mission to blow up the moon with a nuke was very real in the 1950s.

 

At the height of the space race, the U.S. considered detonating an atom bomb on the moon as a display of America’s Cold War muscle.

 

The secret project, innocuously titled ‘A Study of Lunar Research Flights’ and nicknamed ‘Project A119,’ was never carried out

 

Barack Obama, the Quintessential Liberal Fascist (Timely archived article)

“They fear that the development and building of People’s (community) Organizations is the building of a vast power group which may fall prey to a fascistic demagogue who will seize leadership and control and turn an organization into a Frankenstein’s monster against democracy.” – Saul Alinsky responding to his critics, Reveille for Radicals; p. 199

 

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Prison Planet.com » The Army’s Secret Cold War Experiments on St. Louisans

 

Folks in St. Louis woke up to disturbing news this morning. If they hadn’t got the memo, their city was apparently used as a secret Army experimentation laboratory during the 50s and 60s where citizens were intentionally, but unknowingly, infected with harmful biological agents.

In an exclusive KSDK.com investigation, sociologist Lisa Martino-Taylor’s research revealed the truth behind what took place in St. Louis and other cities where the Army conducted chemical experimentation on unsuspecting citizens.

America’s Last Crusade (Come Home America) by Patrick J. Buchanan

 

For Americans of the Greatest Generation that fought World War II and of the Silent Generation that came of age in the 1950s, the great moral and ideological cause was the Cold War.

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It gave purpose and clarity to our politics and foreign policy, and our lives.

Reagan’s wisdom on the Middle East: LEAVE!

 

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Ronald Reagan is America’s most beloved president of recent years. We remember how he restored prosperity while ending the Cold War without getting us all nuked. The affection for Reagan was shown when his death two years ago was followed by a national outpouring of grief and affection.

 

FlyoverPress.Com…Welcome to the American Gulag: Using Involuntary Commitment Laws to Silence Dissenters By John W. Whitehead

 

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Liberty Knows No Compromise Donate today to help defray the costs of this important free newsletter Click to Subscribe to Our Daily News Service or Contact Us “Raub’s case exposes the seedy underbelly of a governmental system that is targeting Americans-especially military veterans-for expressing their discontent over America’s rapid transition to a police state… That the government is using the charge of mental illness as the means by which to immobilize (and disarm) these veterans is diabolically brilliant. With one stroke of a magistrate’s pen, these service men are being declared mentally ill, locked away against their will, and stripped of their constitutional rights.”

I Don’t Like Ike by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.

 

Eisenhower’s farewell speech was a long and nearly hysterical argument for the Cold War. He presented it as more

 

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than a military policy against Russia, but rather as a grand metaphysical struggle that should take over our minds and souls, as bizarre as that must sound to the current generation.

 

His words were Wilsonian, even messianic. The job of U.S. military policy is to “foster progress in human achievement” and enhance “dignity and integrity” the world over. That’s a rather expansive role for government by any standard. But he went further. An enemy stands in the way of achieving this dream, and this enemy is “global in scope, atheistic in character, ruthless in purpose, and insidious in method.” This great struggle “commands our whole attention, absorbs our very beings.”

 

Rand Paul unloads on Obama in Tampa

 

‘We will not let you bankrupt this great nation!’

 

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A transcript of remarks by U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., at the Republican National Convention, Wednesday, Aug. 29, 2012, as prepared for delivery:

 

When the Supreme Court upheld Obamacare, the first words out of my mouth were: I still think it is unconstitutional!

 

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The left-wing blogs were merciless. Even my wife said – can’t you please count to ten before you speak?

 

So, I’ve had time now to count to ten and, you know what – I still think it’s unconstitutional!

 

Do you think Justice Scalia and Justice Thomas have changed their minds?

 

I think if James Madison, himself – the father of the Constitution – were here today he would agree with me: the whole damn thing is still unconstitutional!

 

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This debate is not new and it’s not over. Hamilton and Madison fought from the beginning about how government would be limited by the enumerated powers.

 

Boiled Like a Frog

 

Q. How do you boil a frog? A. Put it in a pot of cold water and turn on the heat.

 

HaHa. LOL. Yeah, not so funny when it happens to you and me. And I have news for you, it’s happening ALL THE TIME.

 

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The heat is being turned up so slowly you don’t even realize it and soon it may be too late.

 

Sanitizing Obama’s Radical Past (An eyewitness to young Obama’s Marxist-Leninist ideology)

 

A striking clash between those who feel a profound duty to report that the young Obama was nurtured by Marxists, socialists, and Communists and those who think it is a better idea to erase this information from the public record is on display in two current books. One book provided key politically significant details of a heated debate I had with the young Marxist-Leninist Obama over Christmas break 1980.

 

(“they called it “Neocon,” the new form of conservatism, it only reminded me of Stalin. It was gulags, controlled press, police state laws, one party rule, all power centralized, everything controlled, a stealth overthrow of America”) When Did the Soviet Socialist Republic of America Begin? | Veterans Today

When they called it “Neocon,” the new form of conservatism, it only reminded me of Stalin. It was gulags, controlled press, police state laws, one party rule, all power centralized, everything controlled, a stealth overthrow of America.

Prison Planet.com » All Over America Government Control Freaks Are Forcing Preppers Back On To The Grid

In recent years there have been huge numbers of Americans that have sought to go “off the grid” and live a more independent lifestyle. It has been estimated that there are now approximately 3 million “preppers” in the United States, and many of them just want to be left alone so that they can take care of themselves and their families on their own land.

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But that is not the way America works anymore. In many areas of the country, government control freaks have essentially declared war on preppers and are attempting to force them back on to the grid. In some states, “nuisance abatement teams” are conducting armed raids on off the grid properties. Property owners are being cited for “code violations” and are being told that they are “bothering the neighbors”. In some cases, trees and gardensare being forcibly removed. In other cases, entire structures are being relocated or torn down.

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America’s Marxist picnic… (“…why government no longer worries about communists”)

America‘s Marxist picnic

Exclusive: David Kupelian explains why government no longer worries about communists

David Kupelian is an award-winning journalist, managing editor of WND, editor of Whistleblower magazine, and author of the best-selling book, The Marketing of Evil His newest book, How Evil Works, released to much critical acclaim in the spring of 2010.

Is Obama Springing a Communist Surprise Come November? | We the People of the United States

History usually repeats itself, and if you have lived two lives, as I have done, you have a good chance of seeing that re-enactment with your own eyes.

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In 1978, I paid with two death sentences from my native Romania for helping her people rid themselves of their Marxist dictatorship, carefully disguised as socialism.

MARXISM, AMERICAN-STYLE…

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Marxism? In America? The very idea sounds absurd to most people.

After all, this is the “land of the free.” Plus, we won the Cold War against the Soviet Union and its miserable Marxist “utopia,” didn’t we?

Moreover, Marx himself – the bearded German revolutionary who predicted the world’s workers would rise up and conquer all the evil factory owners and usher in a socialist paradise – was wrong, wasn’t he? His big “workers’ revolt” never happened – except in Russia. And it’s certainly not happening in today’s America.

Ronald Reagan’s wisdom on the Middle East: LEAVE!

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Ronald Reagan is America’s most beloved president of recent years. We remember how he restored prosperity while ending the Cold War without getting us all nuked….

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UN Agenda 21 and the Military

By Dr. Ileana Johnson Paugh Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Welcome to UN Agenda 21 “sustainability” in the last bastion of capitalism – the U.S. military. According to the May 19, 2012 issue of Army Times, “The Defense Department, like other federal agencies, is already under orders from the White House to curb energy use throughout its operations and emphasize Sustainable Development. “Planners must make bases more walkable.”(Sean Reilly)

The euphemisms concocted by the environmentalists with the Club of Rome, the original developers of the scare tactic idea of fabricated global warming/climate change catastrophes, have made their way into the military lingo.

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The federal government guidelines demand “compact development,” “mass transit,” “energy conservation,” “sustainable development,” and high-rise mixed housing, a five-minute walk from shops and work. Land preservation must be included in military missions, a monumental challenge, costing a huge amount of taxpayer dollars since the Defense Department has 300,000 buildings and 2.2 billion square feet.

Dorothy Robyn, Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Installations and Environment, described U.S. military bases as “very sprawling, very auto-centric; you have to have a car to get around.” She bemoaned the fact that one base has 70,000 parking spots and the daily population never exceeds 40,000. “Urban sprawl” destroys Mother Nature and must be eventually eradicated by the environmentalist lobby. All confiscated land will be rededicated to wilderness.

Jon Christian Ryter — Man’s Last Revival, Part 1

I’m inclined to believe that there have been many times over the last century that God has looked down on planet Earth, shook His head in sad dismay and said, “That’s enough. The stench of Man is an abomination that has finally reached the gates of Heaven.” I believe there have been two cataclysmic end time “close calls” in modern history, as well as the staging period between the end of World War II and the climax of the “Cold War” which actually ushered in what we theologically refer to today as “the end times.”

What were those two cataclysmic events? World War I and World War II, and the decade immediately following each war. We could begin with World War II since, at the end of that war, the United Nations voted statehood on Israel and fulfilled Ezekiel’s valley of dry bones prophecy with the rebirth of a nation that had been dead and buried since Nebuchadnezzar’s Babylonian army conquered the Jews (Judah) in 597 BC. (The 10 Northern tribes were conquered by the Assyrian, Shalmaneser V in 722 BC.) Most of the Jewish males were dispersed throughout the Assyrian Empire in the first of the two Diasporas. At that time, Shalmaneser V forced thousands of Assyrian citizens, loyal to Assyrian gods and customs, to repopulate Israel and generationally, erase not only the Hebrew customs and, more important, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob from the minds and memories of the former Hebrews, but any vestige of what used to be the nation Israel on land God granted to His people (which is the reason for the eons-old war between the Arabs and the Jews) which is what leads to the final conflict of mankind in the Valley of Megiddo where the last war man will fight will take place.

The second Diaspora occurred in 597 BC. Only, at the end of that captivity, the Jews from the Southern Kingdom (Judah and Benjamin) returned to the land of Palestine and restored Solomon’s Temple in Jerusalem. Keep in mind, Hebrews from the Northern Kingdom who remained loyal to Solomon’s son Rehoboam, and those who escaped from the Assyrians in 722 BC, moved to the Southern Kingdom, maintaining the unbroken tribal identity of Jacob. There are, and never were, any “10 Lost Tribes of Israel.” They were simply absorbed by Judah and like the Judahites today, are all collectively referred to as “Jews,” the slang term for the Judahites.

Obama’s Plan To Seize Control Of Our Economy And Our Lives (Read this executive order)

President Obama has made clear that he’s determined to continue pushing his “progressive” agenda, regardless of constitutional limitations on his power. He aims to have his way by issuing more and more executive orders.

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The most ominous sign of possible things to come appeared on March 16, 2012, when President Obama signed executive order 13603 about “National Defense Resources Preparedness.”This 10-page document is a blueprint for a federal takeover of the economy that would dwarf the looming Obamacare takeover of the health insurance business. Specifically, Obama’s plan involves seizing control of:* “All commodities and products that are capable of being ingested by either human beings or animals”* “All forms of energy”* “All forms of civil transportation”

“All usable water from all sources”* “Health resources – drugs, biological products, medical devices, materials, facilities, health supplies, services and equipment”* Forced labor ( or “induction” as the executive order delicately refers to military conscription)Moreover, federal officials would “issue regulations to prioritize and allocate resources.”Each government bureaucracy “shall act as necessary and appropriate.”To be sure, much of this language has appeared in national security executive orders that previous presidents have issued periodically since the beginning of the Cold War.

Black box legislation a threat to personal freedoms

I fear for the loss of our freedoms and liberties under the Obama administration. We expect our government to be run by people we elect. If they don’t perform well, we have the opportunity to throw them out. But with the proliferation of “czars” appointed by the president, we are out of the loop when it comes to controlling our own destinies.

They are in charge of such areas as borders, Medicare, manufacturing, electronic health records, faith-based initiatives, workplace issues and so on. The list now contains about 35 czars, whose names, backgrounds and goals we know nothing about. Van Jones, the disgraced “green jobs” czar and buddy of Obama, had to resign when he was outed as a self-declared communist.

We’re All Branch Davidians Now by Anthony Gregory

Nineteen years ago, just outside Waco, Texas, the FBI demonstrated once again that the state at its core is a killing machine. Monarchy, democracy, or republic – any government as conventionally defined is a legal monopoly on violence. The state is always inclined toward oppression, division, conquest, and bloodshed, because these are its tools of trade.

Matters are no different here. The myth of a free America was always seen with bitter irony by those not blessed by such freedom. In the founding generation, as half a million labored in slavery, many who fought in the Revolution genuinely believed in liberty, but for the ruling elite who chided them on, liberty was hardly more than a slogan. This has always been true of our political leaders. The Father of the Country was a centralizing slaveowner. Old Hickory talked up freedom as he threatened war on South Carolina and forced the Cherokee to flee from their ancestral land on a barbarously murderous walk of shame. The Great Emancipator turned America into a military dictatorship and abolished the revolutionary right of secession. Wilson’s New Freedom was cover for a Prussianized war machine generating revenue for his profiteering buddies on Wall Street. Roosevelt’s Four Freedoms failed to include the freedom not to be drafted or interned in a concentration camp. Ronald Reagan threw the word freedom around as he trained Latin American torturers and raped the Bill of Rights in the name of fighting drugs. The United States has never lived up to its rhetoric.

Prison Planet.com » Mars Attacks: Military Prof Says Pentagon Has Plan to Fight Aliens

Following the Second World War, a newly minted national security state designated the Soviet Union as a mortal enemy. It inaugurated the Cold War, a multiple trillion dollar, decades-long bonanza for the military-industrial complex Eisenhower would later warn about. Korea, Vietnam, and dozens of other countries around the world became the battleground for an epic (if largely mythical) and profitable struggle against an enemy created by Wall Street bankers (who also empowered Hitler and the Nazis).

Noninterventionism: Cornerstone of a Free Society by Anthony Gregory

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…The War of 1812 resulted in martial law in Louisiana, where people were jailed without habeas corpus simply for criticizing military law. A judge was jailed for issuing a habeas corpus writ.

During the Mexican War the executive branch unilaterally adopted taxing powers over U.S.-controlled ports in Mexico.

The Civil War brought with it mass conscription, corporate welfare, the death of real federalism, the suspension of habeas corpus, the jailing of thousands of dissenters, the censoring of hundreds of newspapers, the creation of a national leviathan with such new agencies as the Department of Agriculture, military commissions, and the use of the army against civilian draft rioters in New York.

With World War I, thousands of new agencies were created, millions were enslaved to fight in a royal European family feud, American citizens were jailed for saying things I say every day, income-tax rates skyrocketed into the 70s, and the federal government implemented economic controls that were later brought back in peacetime during the New Deal. In fact, the New Deal was basically the revitalization of the wartime economy from World War I.

World War II saw the conscription of 11 million Americans, the detention of hundreds of thousands of “enemy aliens” without due process, Japanese internment, martial law in Hawaii, a quasi-fascist command economy complete with comprehensive price controls, tax rates above 90 percent, censorship, and the prolonging of Herbert Hoover’s and Franklin Roosevelt’s Great Depression, which didn’t end until the U.S. government stopped consuming 40 percent of America’s income to wage the war.

The Cold War gave us drafts, especially during the hot wars with Korea and Vietnam, and surveillance and psy-ops directed against peaceful activists by U.S. intelligence agencies. With the war on terror we have lost the last remnants of the Fourth Amendment, habeas corpus has taken another beating, we are treated like prison inmates every time we fly, peaceful activists have been spied on, media have been manipulated by Washington, torture has become normalized, soldiers are not allowed to quit after completing their first or even third tour of duty, and Americans’ telecommunications have been exposed to surveillance by the military.

(“forcing eight grade students at Liberty Middle School in Fairfax County, to seek out the vulnerabilities of Republican presidential hopefuls and forward them to the Obama campaign”) Virginia Middle School Teacher Now Forcing Students To Do Opposition Research In Class On GOP

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Welcome to Amerika. Obama has press secretaries in the media. He also has his brown shirts in the unions, especially teachers unions.

Indoctrinating kids has been a staple of the Obama regine of terror.

The latest craze in Obama indoctrination is forcing eight grade students at Liberty Middle School in Fairfax County, to seek out the vulnerabilities of Republican presidential hopefuls and forward them to the Obama campaign.

No, this is not Nazi Germany, this is not Mao’s China, this is not North Korea. It’s whatever is left of America.

“This assignment was just creepy beyond belief — like something out of East Germany during the Cold War,” one frustrated father, who asked for his family to remain anonymous, told The Daily Caller.

The fear of martial law

Official photographic portrait of US President Barack Obama (born 4 August 1961; assumed office 20 January 2009) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

The fear of martial law

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Renew America ^ | 3/21/2012 | Alan Caruba

Posted on Thursday, March 22, 2012 2:12:53 PM by WPaCon

The President of the United States of America, Barack Hussein Obama, has generated so much fear that the most common theme of posted comments and private communications is that he will refuse to relinquish power if defeated in November or that, under some pretext, he will declare a state of martial law.

Many, myself included, did not like the Patriot Act that was enacted following 9/11 but there is little evidence that this law has been abused to deprive Americans of their fundamental rights and freedom, though surely some suspected of being terrorists were detained.

An Executive Order posted on the White House website on Friday, March 16, 2012, has generated a wave of fear. It is officially about “National Defense Resources Preparedness” and its stated policy addresses “national defense resource policies and programs under the Defense Production Act of 1950.”

Its stated policy is that “The United States must have an industrial and technological base capable of meeting national defense requirements and capable of contributing to the technological superiority of its national defense equipment in peacetime and in times of national emergency.” (Emphasis added)

In 1950 the nation was entering a new phase of history following World War II. It would be called the Cold War led by the then-Soviet Union, but 1950 is also important because on October 1, 1949, Mao Zedung had proclaimed the birth of the People’s Republic of China, instituting a Communist regime that continues to this day. With German and Japanese totalitarian threats vanquished, new ones were emerging.

The Fear of Martial Law (“The President of the United States of America, Barack Hussein Obama, has generated so much fear that the most common theme of posted comments and private communications is that he will refuse to relinquish power if defeated in November or that, under some pretext, he will declare a state of martial law.”)

By Alan Caruba Sunday, March 18, 2012

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The President of the United States of America, Barack Hussein Obama, has generated so much fear that the most common theme of posted comments and private communications is that he will refuse to relinquish power if defeated in November or that, under some pretext, he will declare a state of martial law.

Many, myself included, did not like the Patriot Act that was enacted following 9/11 but there is little evidence that this law has been abused to deprive Americans of their fundamental rights and freedom, though surely some suspected of being terrorists were detained.

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An Executive Order posted on the White House website on Friday, March 16, 2012, has generated a wave of fear. It is officially about “National Defense Resources Preparedness” and its stated policy addresses “national defense resource policies and programs under the Defense Production Act of 1950.”

Its stated policy is that “The United States must have an industrial and technological base capable of meeting national defense requirements and capable of contributing to the technological superiority of its national defense equipment in peacetime and in times of national emergency.” (Emphasis added)

In 1950 the nation was entering a new phase of history following World War II. It would be called the Cold War led by the then-Soviet Union, but 1950 is also important because on October 1, 1949, Mao Zedung had proclaimed the birth of the People’s Republic of China, instituting a Communist regime that continues to this day. With German and Japanese totalitarian threats vanquished, new ones were emerging.

The new EO evokes fear because it is occurring in peacetime and, more specifically, when the United States remains the strongest military power on Earth. There is no indication that an attack by any other nation is anticipated, so the implementation of the EO raises concerns that its purpose is not what it says.

Hard Truths About the Culture War – Robert Bork

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Moral liberalism and the decadence of culture.

What began to concern me more and more were the clear signs of rot and decadence germinating within American society-a rot and decadence that was no longer the consequence of liberalism but was the actual agenda of contemporary liberalism. . . . Sector after sector of American life has been ruthlessly corrupted by the liberal ethos. It is an ethos that aims simultaneously at political and social collectivism on the one hand, and moral anarchy on the other. -Irving Kristol, “My Cold War“

Equivocation has never been Irving Kristol’s long suit. About the fact of rot and decadence there can be no dispute, except from those who deny that such terms have meaning, and who are, for that reason, major contributors to rot and decadence. We are accustomed to lamentations about American crime rates, the devastation wrought by drugs, rising illegitimacy, the decline of civility, and the increasing vulgarity of popular entertainment. But the manifestations of American cultural decline are even more widespread, ranging across virtually the entire society, from the violent underclass of the inner cities to our cultural and political elites, from rap music to literary studies, from pornography to law, from journalism to scholarship, from union halls to universities. Wherever one looks, the traditional virtues of this culture are being lost, its vices multiplied, its values degraded-in short, the culture itself is unraveling.

(Col Sellin) Sheriff Arpaio – ‘I Suspect a Forgery.’ Now what? » Publications » Family Security Matters

…..The singular raison d’être of the mainstream media has been, for a long time, to protect the political interests of the Democratic Party.

Unfortunately, the Democratic Party of today bears no resemblance to the one I remember from my youth in a blue collar New Jersey neighborhood.

What You’re Not Supposed to Know about War – Thomas J. DiLorenzo – Mises Daily

It is a testament to the power of government propaganda that several generations of self-described conservatives have held as their core belief that war and militarism are consistent with limited, constitutional government. These conservatives think they are “defending freedom” by supporting every military adventure that the state concocts. They are not.

Even just, defensive wars inevitably empower the state far beyond anything any strict constructionist would approve of. Prowar conservatives, in other words, are walking contradictions. They may pay lip service to limited constitutional government, but their prowar positions belie their rhetoric.

“War is the health of the state,” as Randolph Bourne said in his famous essay of that title. Statism, moreover, means central planning, heavy taxation, fascist or socialist economics, attacks on free speech and other civil liberties, and the suffocation and destruction of private enterprise. Classical liberals have always understood this, but conservatives never have. (Neoconservatives either don’t understand it or don’t care.)

Thus, you have the celebrated neoconservative writer Victor Davis Hanson writing in the December 2, 2009, issue of Imprimis that antiwar activism and other “factors” that make people “reluctant” to resort to war are “lethal combinations” that supposedly threaten the existence of society.

~ GUNNY.G.CONFIDENTIAL ~WAKE UP AMERICA.1984.PLUS IS HERE!: RONALD REAGAN’S WISDOM ON THE MIDDLE EAST: LEAVE!

Ronald Reagan’s wisdom on the Middle East: LEAVE!

OC Register ^ | July 21, 2006 | John Seiler

Posted on 06/17/2007 1:22:37 PM EDT by OrthodoxPresbyterian

Ronald Reagan is America‘s most beloved president of recent years. We remember how he restored prosperity while ending the Cold War without getting us all nuked….

American History, American War, American Empire by David Gordon

American Empire Before the Fall. By Bruce Fein. Campaign for Liberty, 2010. Vii + 219 pages.

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It is hardly news that George Bush’s Iraq War has been a disastrous failure and that Barack Obama, learning nothing from his predecessor, has renewed and expanded our crusade in Afghanistan. Criticisms of recent American policy have not been slow in coming, and Bruce Fein, in this excellent book, has given us one of the best of these. But he does more than this. He embeds his criticism of our current military misadventures within a full-scale account of the history of American foreign policy.

As Fein sees matters, our country began well. Washington and Jefferson rejected empire and instead sought to limit military action to the defense of the United States. Unfortunately, the lesser lights who assumed control of American foreign policy in the nineteenth century proved unequal to the task of upholding the wisdom of the Founding Fathers. Fein sees an early portent of trouble in the Monroe Doctrine, which exceeds the bounds of strict self-defense. Matters really got out of hand with the Mexican War, clearly an imperialist venture; and since then our policy has abandoned restraint, culminating in the twentieth century with the pursuit of world mastery.

Fein raises a simple and devastating objection to the dominant thrust of our foreign policy. Why should we involve ourselves in foreign wars when victory for the party we oppose would pose no threat to us? Suppose, e.g., that the Taliban were to overthrow the Karzai government and regain power. Henry Kissinger, who evidently takes his sorry record under Nixon to qualify him to render further advice, warns of the dire danger posed by a Taliban victory. In a brilliant riposte, Fein says, “Kissinger is unable to articulate a single coherent national security interest of the United States that rides on the outcome of the Afghan war. He sermonizes that if [the] Taliban prevails, the fall-out will threaten Pakistan, India, Russia, China, and Indonesia — but the United States is omitted from the list.” (p.168, emphasis in original) Fein goes on to dispute Kissinger’s assessment of the threats to these other nations, but his fundamental point is that “enemy” control of other nations does not endanger the United States. Given the manifest costs of wars in death and destruction, not to mention their tendency to aggrandize the State and assault civil liberties, the case against our reckless policy of aggression is conclusive.

Lawrence Sellin | Danger Room | Wired.com…

Commit this to memory, you valiant souls who put yourselves in harm’s way for your country: Do not film yourself making lewd remarks. Do not mouth off about your superiors with reporters present. Do not rage against the bureaucracy, do not humiliate the men and women under your command, and above all else, do not have sex with people you work with.

America’s Communist President ~ Alan Caruba

America’s Communist President

The Canada Free Press ^ | 12/11/2011 | Alan Caruba

Posted on Monday, December 12, 2011 12:53:10 PM by Olympiad Fisherman

In his extraordinary book, “Dupes: How America’s Adversaries Have Manipulated Progressives for a Century”, the historian, Dr. Paul Kengor, stated in his introduction that “We now know that American Communists and their masters in Moscow were acutely aware that they could never gain the popular support they needed to enlist the support of a much wider coalition that could help them push their private agenda.”

Most threatening, however, was Dr. Kengor’s discovery that “it was nothing short of stunning to research this book during the presidential bid of Barack Obama and hear so many of the names in my research surface repeatedly in the background of the man who became president of the United States of America. The way in which so many names and themes from the Cold War past aligned and made their way into Obama’s orbit was chilling …

Doing Foreign Policy by Justin Raimondo ~ “.The internet, too, you’ll recall, was supposed to liberate us all from the confines of government control”

…..The internet, too, you’ll recall, was supposed to liberate us all from the confines of government control, a theory that didn’t work out so well for Julian Assange. Indeed, Assange’s persecution is one of many post-9/11 realities confirming Hadar’s contention “that the Political Man remained alive and well, including in these United States. Notwithstanding the end of the Cold War, fresh rationales emerged for perpetuating our warfare state – political Islam, a resurgent Russia, a rising China, climate change, humanitarian disasters.”

That these habitués of the Beltway naively discounted the persistence of Political Man, and innocently repeated the error of 19th century classical liberals who saw the progress of mankind toward liberty as inevitable and irrevocable, is hard to believe. And, indeed, Hadar does more than hint that “libertarian” support for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan – and the “color revolutions” in the former Soviet republics – was very far from an innocent error. The anti-interventionist libertarian critique of these wars, he writes,

“Received very little attention in the first stages of the military response to 9/11 and during the invasion of Iraq [and this] could be explained by the disproportionate influence of pro-war libertarians operating from think tanks and magazines affiliated with the movement. Brink Lindsey, for example, then with the Cato Institute, called for invading Iraq in a January 2003 Reason online debate, suggesting among other things that regime change “offers the opportunity to attack radical Islamism at its roots: the dismal prevalence of political repression and economic stagnation throughout the Muslim world” and that “the establishment of a reasonably liberal and democratic Iraq could serve as a model for positive change throughout the region.”

Prison Planet.com » The Russian Bear Is Back, The Soviet Union Is Being Revived And The Cold War Is Not Over

The American Dream

November 24, 2011

If you believe that the United States is the “sole superpower” in the world, then you really need to read the rest of this article. Most Americans have very little idea what is actually going on in the rest of the world and how the global balance of power is shifting. For example, can you name the country that is the number one oil producer in the world, the number one oil exporter in the world, the number one exporter of natural gas in the world and that also has the second most powerful military in the entire world? In case you need a hint, it is not Saudi Arabia, it is not China and it is not the United States. The correct answer is Russia. The Russian Bear is back in a big way. Did you know that Russia is rapidly becoming one of the top suppliers of oil to the United States?

Prison Planet.com » Medvedev threatens to target U.S. missile shield in Europe if no deal is reached

Will Englund

Washington Post

Wednesday, November 23, 2011

President Dmitry Medvedev said Wednesday that Russia will target the American missile defense system in Europe with its own missiles if Moscow cannot reach an agreement with Washington and NATO on how the system will be built and operated.

Medvedev said time hasn’t run out for an agreement, but he accused the United States of failing to take into account Russian concerns.

His declaration, in a televised address, comes a year after he met with the heads of NATO states in Lisbon and said Russia was willing to consider joining in on missile defense, if it could be included as an equal partner.

Hatred Still – The force that brought down the Twin Towers hasn’t been defeated.

Hatred Still – The force that brought down the Twin Towers hasn’t been defeated.

City Journal ^ | Autumn 2011 | Andre Glucksmann

Posted on Sunday, November 20, 2011 4:56:47 PM by neverdem

At first, 9/11 seemed impossible. Witnesses couldn’t believe their eyes; officials were bewildered; wild tales swirled of conspiracies involving the CIA, the Jews, real-estate speculators. Yet the impossible happened, and the site of its occurrence in Manhattan fittingly became known as Ground Zero, recalling the devastated landscapes left in the past by atomic experiments.

Now that the general alarm has dissipated, however, we can see that the attack on New York was not unprecedented in its inspiration, its actors, or even its method. The strategy of causing panic by burning cities and terrorizing populations was theorized a century and a half ago by Russian nihilists such as Bakunin and Nechayev, as Dostoyevsky’s novel Demons described. The indiscriminate targeting of civilians wasn’t new: fanatical ideologies both profane and religious have done it since Guernica. Neither were the operational tactics: the World Trade Center was attacked by Islamists in 1993, and the means of destruction—a hijacked airplane—was anticipated in 1994, when an Airbus, commandeered by a jihadist group in Algeria, was supposed to crash in Paris. As for the suicidal dimension, professional martyrs have abounded among Bolsheviks, Nazis, and all true believers determined to give their lives for the cause. The pieces were thus already in place; all that was missing was the plan necessary to put the unthinkable into action.

A War Prevented: Pope John XXIII and the Cuban Missile Crisis

A War Prevented: Pope John XXIII and the Cuban Missile Crisis

Crisis Magazine ^ | November 11, 2011 | Ronald J. Rychlak

Posted on Saturday, November 12, 2011 4:17:11 PM by NYer

The Holy See is the oldest continuing international organization in the world. Its Secretary of State office was established in 1486, and that is also when its first permanent representatives were established in Venice, Spain, the Holy Roman Empire, and France. Today, the Holy See maintains diplomatic relations with 176 states. It is also the only Permanent Observer State at the United Nations, and it participates in various internationals conventions and agreements. While it is officially neutral, it is not silent.

The Holy See’s diplomatic prowess was tested severely during the twentieth century. Nevertheless, it played a crucial role in maintaining world peace, especially during the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union.

The Holy See and the Soviet Union had a very strained relationship. After World War II, Catholic leaders in the new areas of Soviet control were suppressed. Priests, bishops, and cardinals were given show trials and sent to prisons. Eventually, the Soviets engaged in covert activities to undermine the papacy itself by promoting the slander of Pius XII as “Hitler’s Pope.” Despite all this, the Vatican continued to influence Soviet leaders. In fact, Bl. Pope John XXIII helped bring the superpowers back from the edge of war in October 1962 – 49 years ago last month.

Foreign Policy Experts Agree With Ron Paul’s Foreign Policy

 

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Ron Paul is often chided by his Republican opponents for his extreme views on American foreign policy. His calls for ending all foreign wars and shutting hundreds of military bases across the globe have drawn howls from his GOP rivals, who have labeled the moves irresponsible and naïve.

His campaign pledge of cutting all foreign aid and withdrawing U.S. participation in the World Trade Organization and the United Nations has been at odds with even the most conservative members of his own party.

 

Yet as voting day in Iowa and New Hampshire draws near, Paul, the Congressman from Texas, is finding support for his non-interventionist positions from a growing number of foreign policy experts.

“He’s attacking our rich lazy friends, why is that not more popular,” said Harvey Sapolsky, emeritus professor of public policy and organization at MIT. He backs Paul’s calls for reducing America’s military budget, arguing that much of it is used to defend wealthy nations’ security.

A huge, Cold War-era global presence — with hundreds of overseas military bases — isn’t necessary, now that the Soviet threat is over and the collapse of communism, Sapolsky said.

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