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China warns Obama deficit spending must stop
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China warns Obama deficit spending must stop
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Beijing reluctant to keep bankrolling president's belt-buster budget
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Posted: December 19, 2009
11:30 pm EasternBy Jerome R. Corsi
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One day after the Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao snubbed President Obama at the United Nation's Copenhagen Climate Summit, the Chinese warned the United States that China's ability to continue buying U.S. Treasury debt was limited.
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Zhu Min, the deputy governor of the People's Republic of China, told the Shanghai Daily that it is getting harder for the People's Bank of China to buy U.S. Treasuries because the shrinking U.S. current account is reducing the supplies overseas.
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This was dire news for the Obama administration that in 2010 and for the foreseeable future will be dependent on China to buy U.S. Treasury debt in order to fund the trillion-dollar federal budget deficits projected over the next decade.
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The Shanghai Daily reported that Zhu told an academic audience that it was inevitable the value of the dollar would fall in value given the increasing reliance of the Obama administration on issuing U.S. Treasury debt to finance deficit spending.
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"The United States cannot force foreign governments to increase their holdings of Treasuries," Zhu said. "Double the holdings? It is definitely impossible."
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Zhu's warning was clear.
"The world does not have so much money to buy more U.S. Treasuries," he said.
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China's warnings portend that the Obama administration's determination to expand the U.S. social welfare state will necessarily meet a limit when foreign nations lack the U.S. dollar foreign exchange reserves needed to purchase increasing amounts of U.S. Treasury debt.
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Zhu's comments were a warning to the Obama administration that China does not approve of the large and continuing deficits the U.S. is projecting into the future.
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The current account is a measure of a country's current surplus or deficit in international trade, plus international borrowing and lending, plus transfer payments such as foreign aid.
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The largest component in a nation's current account is typically the balance of trade account.
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Specifically Zhu Min was referencing the diminishing magnitude of the continuing U.S. balance of trade with China brought on by reduced demand for consumer goods in the United States.
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According to the U.S. Census Bureau, foreign trade division, the U.S. balance of trade with China for the last decade is as follows:

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By comparison, in 1990, the U.S. negative balance of trade with China was only $10,431,000; in 1985, the U.S. negative balance of trade with China was only $6,000,000.
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This year may end up being the first year in over a decade where the U.S. negative balance of trade with China has been smaller than the negative balance of trade in the previous year.
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Thus, while China's foreign exchange reserves have gained dramatically over time, reaching a current level of $2.3 trillion at the end of September – the largest amount of foreign exchange reserves any nation has ever accumulated in the history of international trade – the rate at which China is accumulating foreign exchange reserves has slowed,
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reflecting a reduction in the United States' purchasing of goods from China during the current global economic downturn.
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According to the U.S. Treasury, China is the largest holder of U.S. Treasury debt, amounting to $798.9 billion in October 2009, with Japan second on the list at $746.5 billion.
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Cop Admits to Pulling Gun on Snowballers | NBC Washington
Yes...they're out there. And some of them have guns and authority.
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Cop Admits to Pulling Gun on Snowballers
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Cop says on video he pulled a gun because he was hit with a snowball
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A plainclothes police detective allegedly pulled his gun out and waved it at a large group of people in a snowball fight at the corner of 14th and U Saturday afternoon.
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The incident began when a plain-clothes detective approached the crowd of people throwing snowballs and got into a verbal altercation with members of the crowd, according to police.
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A uniformed officer responded to the scene after getting calls about a man with a gun.
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The uniformed officer pulled out his weapon as he approached the plain-clothes detective. As soon as the detective identified himself the uniformed officer put his gun back in the holster, police said.
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In a video posted to YouTube, the police officer identifies himself as “Detective Baylor” and in response to someone saying that he pulled a gun on a snowball fight he says:
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“Yes I did because I got hit with snowballs.”
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Andrew C. Wallace -- American People are coming, and they’re coming for you
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AMERICAN
PEOPLE ARE COMING, & THEY'RE COMING FOR YOU -
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Andrew C. Wallace
December 13, 2009
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title is a powerful statement by Pat Caddell, a Democrat, and a Senior
Advisor to the Carter Administration, that he made on Fox News, 12-8-09. -
Caddell also stated that “Americans feel that the future is slipping
away from their children, that they’re losing the future. -
The
politicians don’t care (what the people want), they think the
American people are sheep that they can run over, and that’s the
issue that is going to be tested. They have nothing but contempt for
the very people they are supposed to represent in the greatest nation
on earth”. -
Mr. Caddell further stated (not his exact words) that
never in his long lifetime had he ever seen such a large majority of
Americans from both parties united in anger and opposition to elected
officials. My observation is the same. -
Mr.
Caddell is a brave man and a true patriot because he knows that the
Marxist usurpers in our government will not tolerate peaceful dissent
of any kind. -
Retaliation by their Union and Community Organizer thugs
has been brutal, accompanied by media lies to discredit anyone who questions
the Marxist traitors. -
Both
political parties are run by Marxist traitors who take their orders
from the same large corporations, and tax free foundations controlled
by the super rich in return for money and favorable media coverage. -
Every unconstitutional law such as Health Care, Cap and trade, Stimulus,
Tarp and corporate takeovers is to enrich the super rich and to reduce
us to impoverished slaves. -
Political
Correctness is the Marxist Judas Goat. -
They operate our government as
a giant criminal enterprise to prey on the people of the United States
and the world. -
Officials
who pass and enforce unconstitutional laws, while ignoring constitutional
laws and their oath to the constitution, are the most contemptible of
all traitors. -
I hate these traitors as much as I do child molesters,
and that is not being a racist. -
But, as an Oath Keeper and a Three Percenter,
I will refuse any unlawful government orders to harm the people and
I will not initiate or encourage violence against the traitors in government
except in self defense. -
We
will remove the traitors from office with the rule of law unless they
deny us this option and attack us in various unlawful ways. -
It is obvious
that they are on the verge of losing political power, which I think
will provoke them to take further unlawful actions against the people
which could result in the deaths of millions of Americans and the annihilation
of the traitors. -
We are looking at a French style revolution that was
controlled by no one. The poor people who were promised everything and
lost what little they had, can be expected to react as the Italians
did at the end toward Fascist Dictator Mussolini. -
The
only basis for government power is the Constitution of the Republic. -
Therefore, elected and appointed officials who operate outside of the
constraints of the constitution have no legitimate power whatsoever
except by fear and the barrel of a gun; -
and, most importantly, they
have no constitutional protections, they are rogues, tyrants and most
vile enemies of the people. -
It
is imperative that you convince your Senators to defeat Heath Care,
Cap and Trade, other Expenditures, and Tax Increases. -
We are way past
showing them any respect, show them your contempt, but politely and
forcefully, no threats, except to vote them out of office and prosecute
them for treason. -
© 2009 Andrew Wallace - All Rights
Reserved -
Andrew
C. Wallace is a former Kentucky State Trooper, Kentucky Native, Korean
War Veteran, Commercial Pilot in Alaska, University of Kentucky Undergraduate
in Business, Four years of Graduate School in Economics and Marketing
at University of Kentucky and University of Iowa., Assistant Professor,
Thirty years as Director of Marketing Firm developing and implementing
national Marketing programs for manufacturers and now retired doing research
and writing.
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AS IN THE DAYS OF NOAH - By S.R. Shearer
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failed to "give into" his sexual cravings, he harmed himself
psychologically.- SEE: The ancient Greeks' worship of Dionysus (Bacchus) and the Bacchanids..the Greek belief, inspite of their philosophy of "balance in all things", nevertheless believed that human beings needed an occasional "outlet" for their suppressed desires and mayhem; otherwise Dionysus would cause them to go mad. - on 2009-12-06
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Add Sticky Note[Interestingly, it was Pravda that blew the whistle
on what the CIA was doing in Africa regarding Ebola and
AIDS - please see our article, "The
Drug Epidemic, Viruses, Ebola and AIDS."]- Even so: "Pravda" needs to be taken with a grain of salt. While I personally believe much of what is being written here..(in fact I believe 98% of what is being written here), Pravda nevertheless has some of the most outlandish and imaginative concoctions in their online version as to totally discredit them from any serious researcher's use. - on 2009-12-06
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Like many others, Cathy was introduced to the program
by her perverted father. -
Cathy covers an almost unbelievable
array of conspiratorial crime: forced prostitution (white
slavery) with those in the upper echelons of world politics, -
covert assignments as a "drug mule" and courier.
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Another survivor, Paul Bonaci who survived two decades of
torture under Project MONARCH has disclosed strong corroborating
evidence of wide-scale crimes and corruption from the municipal/state
level all the way up to the White House. -
He has testified
about sexually abused males selected from Boy's Town in Nebraska
and taken to nearby Offutt AFB. -
At Offutt, they were subjected
to intense MONARCH programming, directed mainly by Commander
Bill Plemmons and former Lt. Col. Michael Aquino." -
NOTE: Linked
to both Offutt and the Presidio cases is Lt Colonel Michael
Aquino (see above). He was attached to the DIA's (Defense
Intelligence Agency) Psychological Warfare Division and
holds a top secret security clearance for his work in military
intelligence and on classified psychological warfare. -


Old, somewhat washed-out
picture of Aquino as a young army officer (left);
more recent picture of Aquino (right) -
His hypnotic manipulation of people made him an ideal candidate
for the position of "Master Programmer" in Project MONARCH. -
Aquino was responsible for developing various "training
programs" aimed at creating MONARCH slaves; -
he worked as
a liaison between various "research labs" in the United
States, the government and the intelligence community. -
After Brussell began blowing the whistle on what was going
on at the Presidio Day Care Center, Aquino and others were
arrested for child molestation. -
The evidence was overwhelming
as to their guilt their guilt (please see article by San
Jose Mercury News as reported earlier in this article);
however, -
at the intervention of America's intelligence community
and to the dismay of the victim's parents, all charges were
dropped. -
The same "intelligence authorities" were responsible
for intervening in a similar fashion in the Franklin case
in Omaha, and in another case at Offutt Air Force Base (see
below). -
[Please see our article, "The
Supernatural, America's Intelligence Agencies, the Republican
Elites, Drugs and Pedophilia."] -
Lt. Col. Aquino was the military intelligence officer involved
in the Presidio pedophilia scandal that Brussell uncovered at
the Presidio Day Care Center shortly before she was "hit" but
the CIA. -
NOTE: Curiously,
one of the military bases - besides the Presidio in San
Francisco - that played a major role in Project MONARCH
was Offutt U.S. Air Force Base near Omaha - -
Offutt AFB played
a major role immediately following the 9/11 attacks as George
W. Bush made the base his post-attack headquarters for a
short period. -
THE CRUX OF BRUSSELL'S DISCOVERY
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Now, while it's no doubt true that over the years sexual perversion
has been the silent partner of money and power -- the province,
as it were, of the rich and powerful rather than what some call
the "lower orders of society" -- what Brussell discovered among
the elites in Washington was much more than the "run-of-the-mill"
type of sexual deviancy that characterized other regimes of
the rich and powerful in the past. -
BRUSSELL DISCOVERED THE FIRST SIGNS THAT BETRAYED WHAT THE
GOVERNMENT WAS UP TO AT SRI AND OTHER FACILITIES THROUGHOUT
THE COUNTRY - -
CLUES THAT INDICATED THAT THE GOVERNMENT WAS BEING
SUCCESSFUL IN BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN THE "WORLD OF MAN" AND
"THE SPIRIT WORLD;" -
SIGNS THAT THE SAME EVIL ENTITIES THAT ENTERED
OUR WORLD SO MANY YEARS AGO PRIOR TO THE FLOOD WERE BEGINNING
TO DO SO AGAIN - AND AT THE INVITATION OF THE U.S. GOVERNMENT; -
this is, after all, what such top secret projects as MK-ULTRA
and its sister projects, Project MONARCH, MK- SEARCH and SPELLBINDER
were all about. -



Transforming child-abductees
into sex slaves. Former FBI agent Ted Gunderson has
written and commented extensively on organized pedophile
abductions. Gunderson believes that as many as 50,000
children are involved each year in such abductions,
and - other than the 2,500 found dead after their abductions
- THEY ARE NEVER FOUND AGAIN. The government likes to
pretend that the abductors of these children are "dirty
old men;" but the manner and permanence in which most
have disappeared belies the fact that something much
more sinister is "afoot." The efforts of "dirty old
Men" simply cannot account for the "thoroughness" of
what's happening. -
PRETENDING NOT TO BELIEVE
IN THE SUPERNATURAL -
Naturally enough, most "average" Americans refuse to believe
what's going on. They cling - at least on the surface - to the
idea of a world where "official science" pretends NOT
to believe in the supernatural: the world, so to speak, of Carl
Sagan. -
A scientific and skeptical attitude towards the
supernatural seemingly predominates. What cannot be seen, touched,
and scientifically verified is cast off as superstition and
the product of "old wives fables." The mere mention
of the supernatural is often received with a smile of incredulous
contempt. -
Reason and progress - these are supposedly the passwords
of Modernity. -
However, it's all just a carefully orchestrated government
PRETENSE; one designed to obscure what the government
is really up to in laboratories throughout the country - -
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VERY EXTREME MEASURES ARE BEING USED TO HIDE THIS PRETENSE
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BUT MURDER ...
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Murder! - that's pretty "heavy." Still, what Michael Parenti
calls America's "government within a government" has been doing
it for years now. -
The list of those who have been assassinated
by America's "Rogue Government" is endless: JFK, RFK, Martin
Luther King, Jr., etc. -
[Please see our articles, "MK-Ultra
and the Search for the Manchurian Candidate" and
"The Utility of Police Brutality
in the Elite's War against the Poor;" please also
see our article, "The Evil in Our
Midst."] -
NOTE: Michael
Parenti received his Ph.D. in political science from Yale
University. He has won awards from Project Censored, the
Caucus for a New Political Science, the city of Santa Cruz,
New Jersey Peace Action, the Social Science Research Council,
the Society for Religion in Higher Education, and other
organizations. -
In 2007 he was awarded a Certificate of Special
Congressional Recognition from U.S. Representative Barbara
Lee. He now serves on the advisory boards of Independent
Progressive Politics Network, Education Without Borders,
and the Jasenovic Foundation; as well as the advisory editorial
boards of New Political Science and Nature, Society
and Thought. He also served for some 12 years as a judge
for Project Censored. -
Dr. Michael Parenti -
"TERROISM, GLOBALISM AND CONSPIRACY -
William
Blum, a former analyst for the U.S. State Department, has made
an extensive list of those government leaders and other "politicos"
who have been "killed off" by the government in his book, Rogue
State. -
The list includes hundreds and hundreds of well-known
figures. -
Blum writes:
"From 1945 to the end of the century, the United States
attempted to overthrow more than 40 foreign governments [by
assassinating their leaders], and to crush more than 30 populist-nationalist
movements struggling against intolerable regimes. In the process,
the US caused the end of life for several million people,
and condemned millions more to a life of agony and despair." -
NOTE: In early
2006, Blum briefly became the subject of widespread media
attention when Osama bin Laden issued a public statement
in which he quoted Blum and recommended that all Americans
read Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower. -
As a result of the mention sales of his book skyrocketed.
Rogue State shot up from #205,763 to #26 on Amazon.com's
index of the most-ordered books. -
In a May 22, 2006 article
entitled, Come Out of the White House With Your Hands
Up, Blum wrote,

William Blum
"Since the bin Laden recommendation, January 19, I have
not been offered a single speaking engagement on any campus
... This despite January-May normally being the most active
period for me and other campus speakers." -
So much for the "courage of conviction" of average Americans
in the face of an onset of "super-patriotism." -
In such cases,
it seems that saving one's skin trumps speaking out for the
truth. -
But the list of those the elites have "killed off"
does not confine itself to these well-known cases. -
It extends
well beyond them to men and women of much less prominence, AND
INDICATES HOW CAVALIERLY THE ELTES RESORT TO MURDER WHEN THEIR
INTERESTS ARE CHALLENGED. -
We have previously described the
case of Gary Webb who linked the CIA to the drug epidemic in
the United States. -
[Please see our article, "The
Death of Gary Webb."] -


Gary Webb: Kill the Messenger
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There is, however, more, much more; for example there is the
long-forgotten case of Hale Boggs and Nick Begich; -
Boggs was
a member of the Warren Commission that had investigated the
assassination of JFK; he had developed deep reservations regarding
the findings of the Commission and had decided to go public
with his misgivings. He was killed before he could do so. -
Then
there are the cases of Paul Wellstone and Mel Carnahan, both
of whom had become thorns in the sides of the elites. -
And the
list goes on and on from there: Gary Webb, William Colby, Judi
Bari, David Ferrie, Rose Cheramie, Mary Meyer, Frank Olson,
Malcolm X, James Rector, Fred Hampton, Walter Reuther, Allard
Lowenstein, etc., etc., etc. -
[Please see our article, "The
Evil in our Midst."] -
That's pretty bad! - but the list of those who have been killed
off because they had the temerity to investigate the government's
involvement with ETs is even longer, and includes such people
as Ann Livingston, Karla Turner, Troy Bonner, Gary Caradori
and his son, and many others. -
Professor G. Cope Schellhorn writes:
"Death by gunshot to the head. Death by probable poisoning.
Death by probable strangulation. Deaths possibly by implantation
of deadly viruses. No one lives forever. Yet the recent suspicious
deaths of UFO investigators Phil Schneider, Ron Johnson, Con
Routine, Ann Livingston and Karla Turner, as well as the deaths
of a host of researchers in the past, only seem to add emphasis
to a reality with which many of the more aware UFOlogists
are now quite familiar: -
not only is UFO research potentially
dangerous, but the life span of the average serious investigator
falls far short of the national average." -
NOTE: G. Cope
Schellhorn is an English professor who retired from academic
life to write and explore. He was born in Sparta, Wisconsin,
educated at Pembroke Hill School in Kansas City, received
degrees from the University of Missouri, Kansas City, and
the University of Iowa and taught at the University of North
Dakota, University of Iowa and South Suburban College, Cook
County, Illinois. -
Schellhorn continues:
"Mysterious and suspicious deaths among UFO investigators
arc nothing new. -
In 1971, the well-known author and researcher
Otto Binder wrote an article for Saga Magazine's special
UFO Report titled "Liquidation of the UFO Investigators:'
Binder had researched the deaths of "no less than 137
flying saucer researchers, writers, scientists, and witnesses'
who had died in the previous 10 years, 'many under the most
mysterious circumstances.' -
"The late astronomer Dr. M.K. Jessup was the first to reveal
details of the Philadelphia Experiment-he died a few months
later. -
"The selected cases Binder offered were loaded with a plethora
of alleged heart attacks, suspicious cancers and what appears
to be outright examples of murder. -
We will have occasion to
refer to many of these cases, but first let us take a look
at more recent evidence of highly suspect deaths among present
day researchers." -
- Phil Schneider
- Ron Rummel
- Ron Johnson
- Danny Casolaro
- Deck Slayton
- Brian Lynch
- Don Elkin
- Roger Hill
- Jonathan Walsh
- Ashad Sharif
- Trevor Knight
- Peter Ferry
- Alistair Beckman
- Andrew Hall
- M.K. Jessup
- James McDonald
- Dorothy Kilgallen
- M. K. Jessup
- Frank Edwards
- Arthur Bryant
- Richard Church
- Willie Ley
- Etc., etc.
It's
like something out of Mad Magazine, and includes such
well-known names (at least in UFO circles) as -
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Schellhorn goes on:
"How do we explain the rash of heart attacks that took so
many lives: Frank Edwards, Rep. Rouse, author H. T. Wilkins,
Henry E Kock, publicity director of the Universal Research
Society of America, author Frank Scully and contactee George
Adamski? -
How do we correlate accurately the large number of
purported suicides, including: Rev. Della Larson, contactee,
author Gloria Lee (Byrd), Marie Ford, UFO enthusiast who discovered
Larson's body, researcher Doug Hancock, and, more recently,
researcher Feron Hicks? -
What do we do with the inordinately
large number of cancer deaths which pepper the UFO field and
burn doubtful holes in our credulity: Canadian researcher
Wilbert B. Smith, Brazilian researcher Dr. Olavo Fontes, Jim
and Coral Lorenzen, and the deaths of biologist Ivan Sanderson
and CUFOS founder James A. Hynek. -
"UFOlogy is not the safe, hobbyistic pastime some would like
it to be. There is danger, real danger in sticking your nose
in places where the powers that be don't want you to be. The
deaths listed above are highly suspicious. Most appear to
be outright murder." -


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headlines (left) read "homosexual ring;" but that's
not true: It was a pedophile ring. Gary Caradori (left),
an investigator for the Nebraska State Senate Committee
was killed in connection with this case. Just before
he was murdered, Caradori called committee chairman
Loran Schmit, and said, 'I got … [the proof] Loran.
We've got 'em by the balls." That evening, Caradori
caught a plane out of Chicago to Omaha. He was on his
way back from the All Star game in Chicago with his
son, but the plane came apart in the air (in other words,
it blew up) and crashed. The NTSB refused to issue a
ruling on the cause of the crash. While he had been
in Chicago, Caradori had been working on leads he had
developed in the Franklin case - leads that he told
Loran "ran from Offutt Air Force Base to the White House."
Gary's briefcase and papers were inexplicably missing
from the crash site, along with the two rear seats of
the plane. -
MURDER OOZES OUT OF EVERY
PORE OF THE U.S. GOVERNMENT -
The
fact of the matter is, murder oozes out of every pour of the
U.S. government today - or at least that part of the government
that Parenti has labeled "a government within a government"
(see above) - -
and that is so much the case that Pulitzer Prize-winning
Journalist Seymour Hersh, speaking at the University of Minnesota
recently spoke of what he calls an on-going DOMESTIC
"executive assassination ring" run by the CIA. -
Hersh went on to say:
"The Central Intelligence Agency has been very deeply involved
in DOMESTIC activities [involving murder] against people
they thought to be enemies of the state." -
The callous nature in which the CIA conducts its business of
murder is revealed in one horrible instance that occurred in
August of 1987 in a rural community just south of Little Rock. -
There CIA officers murdered two teenage boys [Kevin Ives and
Don Henry] because they witnessed a CIA-protected drug drop. -
The drop was part of a drug smuggling operation based at a small
airport in Mena, Arkansas. -
The Mena drug operation was a part
of the Iran-Contra/pedophile "goings-on" that James Flannery,
Gary Webb, Gary Caradori, John DeCamp and others were investigating
- investigations that led to the murders of both Webb and Caradori. -
THINK ABOUT THAT - THE MURDER OF CHILDREN IN THE INTEREST
OF AMERICA'S "ROGUE GOVERNMENT." The instance is related
in Mara Leveritt's book. The Boys on the Track.


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AND SO, ONCE AGAIN ...
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And so, once again we are brought back to the words of Christ
"As it was in the days of Noe [Noah], so shall it be also
in the days of the [coming of the] Son of man." (Luke 17:26) -
The gap between the "Spirit World" and the "World of Man" is
being bridged - and it's being done NOT by black-robbed
Satan worshippers in gothic-like buildings, but by scientists
in some of America's most prestigious universities - scientists
funded by the CIA, the military and elements of the American
business community - -
THE EXACT SAME PEOPLE WITH WHOM THE
CHURCH HAS MADE "COMMON CAUSE" IN "RETURNING THE UNITED STATES
TO CHRIST AND THE CHURCH." -
[Please see our articles, "The
Evil in Our Midst," "Apostasy:
Christianity In The Service Of A "Religio-Political-Corporate-Terrorist,"
"Luciferic Christianity"
and "The God-Men of America's New
World Order System."] -
Plainly,
the eruption of these evil entities is occurring in the United
States, and it is polluting our country BEYOND REMEDY! -
It's not with reason that the Lord has warned us to -
"COME OUT OF HER, MY PEOPLE, that ye be not partakers
of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues." (Revelation
18:4) -
[Please see our article, "The
Cost of Discipleship."] -
It's not without reason that the Lord has declared Babylon
(i.e., the United States) to be -
"... the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul
spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird [i.e.,
evil entity]." (Revelation 18:2) -
It seems here - precisely here - that Christians stumble; even
most of my erstwhile friends, co-workers who have been with
me for years. They believe that they can defy the command of
God, and that He will still be with them when the going gets
really tough; that they will go when "the Spirit moves them"
- as if the Spirit of God would act in contradiction to the
Word of God. -
My good friend, Constance Cumbey once told me a story about
idiots like these; she said:


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It's like a married man -
a Christian - in an office who sees a beautiful female co-worker
across the room and wants "to get to know her." A mistake!
Nonetheless, he begins to "find himself" at the drinking fountain
when she is there; then the "coffee room" - and all the time
that small voice in his "inner being" is whispering in his
ear, "Don't do it!" -
"Steve, people over-estimate their ability to resist evil;
they push the envelope too far. -
But that would be prudish! He can restrain
himself; he's an adult; he's a Christian who has control of
his feelings. "I can stop when I have to." From there they
begin to have lunch together - and what's wrong with that?
- just being pleasant. Finally, they begin to "work late"
on "office projects" - and after they finish, they go out
to have a bite to eat - still, that small voice in his "inner
being" is saying, "Don't do it; stop before it's too late."
Still, nothing "bad" has happened yet - and he tells himself
once again that he can stop any time he wants to. Inevitably
they end up naked and in bed with each other in a hotel room
- AND HE THINKS HE CAN STOP THEN? - HARDLY!"
If he couldn't stop at the drinking fountain, OR
at the coffee room, OR at the lunch table, OR
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also with all those who say they can defy God insofar as His
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And as were the days of Noah, so shall be the coming of the
Son of man.
For as in those days which were before the flood they were
eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until
the day that Noah entered into the ark,
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There are those, of course, who say, "We are Christians." To
those, I would simply say what Jesus said to the Jews so many
years ago:
"Think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our
father: for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones
to raise up children unto Abraham." (Matthew 3:9) -
God bless you all,
S.R. Shearer
Antipas Ministries
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Any tax imposed on financial transactions would have to take effect internationally to keep Wall Street jobs and related business from moving overseas, U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Thursday.
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"It would have to be an international rule, not just a U.S. rule," Pelosi said at a news conference.
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But support is tepid among key legislators, especially those from the New York region who worry that finance jobs could disappear if the tax drives trading activity overseas.
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Democratic Representative Peter DeFazio said his separate proposal, which would tax a wider array of trading activity, would cover all U.S. corporations and individuals no matter where their trades took place.
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• hundreds of millions on national periodicals;
• tens of millions on electronic media;
• at least $40 million on New York newspapers;
• more than $10 million on a New York publishing house;
• millions on World Media Association junkets and conferences;
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Like many others, he refused to talk to me for the film. But in a Church-sponsored film, Reverend Moon in America –one of the many media efforts he spun out in the Eighties — he had this to say:
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In 1993, a secret meeting of the Muslim Brotherhood Palestine Committee – mostly senior Hamas leaders – was held in a Philadelphia Marriott.
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For 14 years, CAIR got away with the lying to us about who they are, justifying Islamic terrorist attacks, legitimizing suicide bombings, presenting speakers who had been Holocaust deniers, making incendiary presentations about the United States and urging Muslims not to talk to the FBI.
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Last week, a new book, Muslim Mafia, disclosed or elaborated on many of these developments within CAIR.
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Four Congressmen, led by Sue Myrick, (R-NC), held a press conference to protest the fact that CAIR, a Hamas front group, had a plan to insert interns into key congressional committees. The book made plenty of other disclosures that were highlighted by the Congressman.
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Cynthia Tucker of the Atlanta Journal Constitution called CAIR a "mainstream" group unfairly targeted by right wing wackos.
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Congressmen John Conyers and Loretta Sanchez, who had done CAIR's bidding for years, were among those who leapt to CAIR's defense.
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And yet earlier this year, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ordered that CAIR officials be included in conference calls about the Middle East; the State Department even dispatched key CAIR officials – some of whom have made blatantly racist statements claiming that the reports of the Darfur genocide was actually part of a "Zionist" conspiracy – on official U.S. diplomatic missions.
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And in the last few years, National Public Radio (NPR), the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times and the Detroit News – to pick at random from the media – have become a cheerleading squad for CAIR, interviewing CAIR officials as if they were no different that Rotary Club officials while suppressing any negative information about CAIR.
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The New York Times' public editor even made the startling admission last year that it did not call Hamas a terrorist group, "though it sponsors acts of terror against Israel."
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And not all Klansmen engaged in lynching. But no one would hesitate to call out the KKK for the racism and terror at the root of its ideology and tactics.
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Where is CAIR on stoning on women? Senior CAIR officials adamantly refuse to condemn the barbaric practice of stoning Muslim women.
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Where is CAIR on Israel and Jews? Some senior CAIR officials routinely refer to Jews as "Zionazis" and top CAIR guests at their dinners – most recently former Congressman Paul Findley – blamed Israel for the horrific attacks on 9/11. Right after 9/11, top CAIR officials denied that Saudis were behind those horrific attacks.
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The Goldstone Report, which purported to document "Israeli war crimes" in the war with Hamas in January, was one of the most dangerously one-sided, dishonest reports ever produced by the United Nations.
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The Goldstone report effectively took all of the propaganda put out by Hamas – much of it demonstrably false – and presented it as a fact.
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The fact that the Goldstone report has gotten this far is attributable to one thing only: the existence of a powerful Islamic lobby at the United Nations.
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In yet another example of the inverted focus when it comes to radical Islam, Random House, Yale University Press, and now a German publisher, won't publish books that are "critical" of, or potentially offensive to, Muslim extremists.
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Even the much celebrated journalist Fareed Zakaria of CNN and Newsweek showed his true profile in cowardice when he advised Yale University Press not to include images of the Prophet Mohammed in a book about the controversy stirred by the 2005 publication of the Danish cartoons.
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Pure evil is winning in Washington folks...like cancer it must be cut out quickly... Fight those legislators who allow evil to grow and get rid of them as soon as we can....
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SAN JOSE, Calif. -- When California wildfires ruined their jewelry business, Tony Becker and his wife fell months behind on their mortgage payments and experienced firsthand the perils of subprime mortgages.
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Now that the bottom has fallen out of that market, Goldman finds itself in a different role: as the big banker that takes homes away from folks such as the Beckers.
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Unable to identify a lender, the couple could neither capitalize on a mortgage hardship provision that would allow them to defer some payments, nor on a state law enabling them to offset their debt against separate, investment-related claims against Goldman.
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In July, the Beckers won a David-and-Goliath struggle when Goldman subsidiary MTGLQ Investors dropped its bid to seize their house.
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Joining other Wall Street firms that bought millions of subprime mortgages, Goldman companies have gone to courts from California to Florida seeking approval to foreclose on the homes of middle- and lower-income Americans who couldn't keep up with their loans' soaring monthly payments.
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Some borrowers were speculators or homebuyers who exaggerated their incomes on loan applications, thinking they'd always have an escape hatch because housing prices would keep rising.
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Many of the families being put on the street never would've gotten their big mortgages if investment banks hadn't provided a seemingly insatiable secondary market for millions of loans to marginally qualified buyers.
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Subprime borrowers were supposed to provide a safe income stream for investors who bought mostly high-grade, triple-A-rated bonds from Goldman and bigger subprime players, such as now-defunct Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch .
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Now, millions of these borrowers have defaulted on mortgage payments, contributing to a historic slump in home prices and depressing the bonds' value. Half the homes in some California neighborhoods have been subject to foreclosures or short sales, in which a home is sold for less than the mortgage balance, and either the seller or the lender takes a loss.
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Earlier this year in Los Angeles , the Wall Street giant took possession of the home of Gladys Aguirre , a housecleaner who's married to a construction worker. Together, the couple listed monthly earnings of $7,480 , including $3,480 from a job she'd held for two months.
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Aguirre originally took a $444,000 subprime mortgage on Sept. 1, 2005 , from Argent Mortgage Co. , a subsidiary of big subprime lender Ameriquest Mortgage Co. , which shut down in 2007. The adjustable interest rate sent her monthly payments zooming to $3,800 from $2,479 , and Aguirre couldn't keep pace on that loan or a $119,000 second mortgage. She filed for bankruptcy protection.
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In San Fernando, Calif. , Dina Alfero-Pacheo qualified for two mortgages totaling nearly $500,000 , with monthly payments starting at $2,004 . By 2007, the payments had grown to $3,761 . In a bankruptcy filing early this year, Alfero-Pacheo said she was a bartender earning $3,800 a month.
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Not only did Mendez fall 11 months behind on her mortgage payments, but her home's value also plummeted to $100,000 .
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The Beckers charged that in their case, Goldman engaged in years of obfuscation and resistance.
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"In bankruptcy court, they tried to portray us as incompetent or deadbeats,'' said Celia Fabos-Becker , blinking back tears as she sat with her husband in their living room, with boxes of mortgage-related documents surrounding them.
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The couple thought they'd made a safe bet in 2000 when they opened a retail jewelry business in two San Diego County areas populated mainly by military personnel.
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After a wildfire ravaged much of the area in 2002, the Beckers refinanced their house to generate some $70,000 in cash to prop up their two stores.
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To stall foreclosure, the Beckers wound up negotiating "forbearance agreements" with Ocwen Loan Servicing, a Florida company, that required the couple to pay several thousand dollars under the threat that their house would be auctioned off in a week or a month, Fabos-Becker said. Their monthly payments rose to nearly $3,300 from $2,650 .
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The couple already had taken Goldman and Morgan Stanley , another Wall Street firm, to arbitration over their $325,000 in stock market losses, accusing the investment banks of misleading investors about public offerings.
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On the same day in June 2006 , Goldman sued to end the arbitration, and Ocwen filed papers seeking to foreclose on the Beckers' home.
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In desperation, the couple filed for bankruptcy protection. With no money to hire an attorney, they acted as their own lawyers.
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As the months dragged on, Fabos-Becker finally found a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission confirming that Goldman had bought the mortgages.
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Then, when a lawyer for MTGLQ showed up at a June 2007 court hearing on the stock battle, U.S. District Judge William Alsup of the Northern District of California demanded to know the firm's relationship to Goldman, telling the attorney that he hates "spin."
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That was an understatement. MTGLQ, a limited partnership, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Goldman that's housed at the company's headquarters at 85 Broad Street in New York , public records show.
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In July, after U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Roger Efremsky of the Northern District of California threatened to impose "significant sanctions" if the firm failed to complete a promised settlement with the Beckers, Goldman dropped its claims for $626,000 , far more than the couple's original $356,000 in mortgages and $70,000 in missed payments. The firm gave the Beckers a new, 30-year mortgage at 5 percent interest.
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That lowered their monthly payment to $1,900 , less than half the maximum $4,000 a month their subprime loans could've demanded.
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Fabos-Becker, 60, said that the trauma has left her hair "a lot grayer." Much of the stress would have been alleviated, she said, if a law required lenders to identify themselves, especially to borrowers facing hardships.
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"I take solace," Tony Becker said, "in knowing that I was up against the worst possible opponent -- the biggest, strongest investment bank in the world."
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Goldman Sachs and other Wall Street firms turned to secret Cayman Islands deals to draw overseas investors, including European banks and other foreign financial institutions, to invest hundreds of billions of dollars in securities tied to risky U.S. home loans. Unlike U.S. investors that lost money on the securities, however, these overseas institutions have fewer legal options.
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Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, October 30, 2009 -
House ethics investigators have been scrutinizing the activities of more than 30 lawmakers and several aides in inquiries about issues including defense lobbying and corporate influence peddling, according to a confidential House ethics committee report prepared in July.
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The report appears to have been inadvertently placed on a publicly accessible computer network, and it was provided to The Washington Post by a source not connected to the congressional investigations. The committee said Thursday night that the document was released by a low-level staffer.
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Watchdog groups have accused the committee of not actively pursuing inquiries; the newly disclosed document indicates the panel is conducting far more investigations than it had revealed.
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Shortly after 6 p.m. Thursday, the committee chairman, Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.), interrupted a series of House votes to alert lawmakers about the breach. She cautioned that some of the panel's activities are preliminary and not a conclusive sign of inappropriate behavior.
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It also outlines the work of the new Office of Congressional Ethics, a quasi-independent body that initiates investigations and provides recommendations to the ethics committee. The document indicated that the office was reviewing the activities of 14 other lawmakers. Some were under review by both ethics bodies.
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the committee announced over the summer that it was reviewing lawmakers with connections to the now-closed PMA Group, a lobbying firm.
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Rangel said he spoke with ethics committee staff members regarding a conference that he and four other members of the Congressional Black Caucus attended last November in St. Martin. The trip initially was said to be sponsored by a nonprofit foundation run by a newspaper.
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Tampa, Florida -- Most stories about fallen soldiers end with Taps, but Susan Price says as she is learning about the details of her son's death, the story is just beginning.
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Price says her son, Aaron Michael Kenefick, is gone, but she is a mother with the deepest wound you can imagine.
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However, this mother of the man who was twice selected Marine of the year says she and the families of other fallen soldiers are upset about the way the troops on the ground in Afghanistan are being treated by the Pentagon
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According to Price, they are all concerned. She says they don't mind defending America, but she says the men and women who are protecting America need to be protected.
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His unit was trapped in a fire fight.
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When
you call your local bank after hours to check the balance of your account,
or you want to find out if a particular check has cleared the bank,
and you hear a voice with a distinctly Pakistani or Indian accent (and
we aren't talking Cherokee here), or you get the same accent when you're
placing a macy's orf JCPenney catalog order, or answering an ad on an
all night infomercial, the odds are about 50-50 that Hillary Clinton
was paid handsomely for outsourcing those US jobs to India, Pakistan,
Indonesia, or China. -
Since the Clintons were no longer in the White
House they could no longer use the super-size money-laundering washing
machines at the Democratic National Committee to scrub quid
pro quo dollars from foreign countries to make them look like squeaky
clean American working class contributions. -
Instead, those paying for
a US Senator's help to outsource hundreds of thousands of telemarketing
jobs from the United States simply donated money to the William
J. Clinton Presidential Library. -
Most
of Infosys' 850 American employees have been outsourced to
India. According to a 2006 Newsweek article, Cisco Systems
transferred over 3,000 jobs to India and was also building a new Infosys
office in Monterray, Mexico. -
The quid pro quo in this case?
Bill Clinton made two speeches to Cisco employees to the tune of $150
thousand per speech. Cisco employees—or at least those who still
had jobs in the United States—donated $39,450 to Hillary's reelection
campaign. -
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pressure mounted by Congressmen and Senators to kill outsourcing legislation,
Clinton, Sen. John Kerry and Sen. Chuck Schumer were instrumental in
creating the Senate India Caucus to pressure Congressmen and Senators
who were trying to derail their efforts. -
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was Speaker Nancy Pelosi. -
Hillary went to India with Dr. Sant Singh
Chatwal in late February, 2008 where Indian businessmen, led by Chatwal,
raised $5 million for Hillary's presidential campaign. -
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returned she told the media that "...outsourcing will continue.
There is no way to legislate against reality. We are not in favor of
putting up fences." -
In Hillary's mind, as Secretary of State
for the United States of America, if we can't move the businesses—like
Macy's or Walmart or your local bank—to the third world where's
tomorrow's consumers need jobs, we'll simply move the jobs. -
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IT Professionals Association of America [ITPAA] responded to
Clinton's arrogance by awarding her its Weasel Award. -
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there's a new man in the White House. (Notice I did not say "new
president".) -
A man who spend millions of dollars to conceals the
truth of his birth is clearly a man who [a] was not born in the United
States, and thus, cannot be construed as an Article II citizen, and
[b] cannot constitutionally seek, or hold, the office of President of
the United States. -
Which, or course, also means any laws, decrees or
other documents he signed while sitting in the Oval Office are constitutionally
null and void. -
The
man currently occupying the White House who has yet to satisfy the American
people that he is actually an Article II citizen of the United States,
Barack Hussein Obama, has turned back the pages of history to the Clinton
Era when Bill Clinton began issuing militarily-sensitive waivers under
the Trading With the Enemy Act of 1917 to America's deadliest
enemy. -
Obama did what Clinton did in 1996 when he transferred the authority
to issue military technology waivers from the Department of Defense
to the Department of Commerce, The current decisions was likely made
by Obama Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, Weapons Czar Ashton Carter (a
former Undersecretary of Defense during the Clinton years)
and Chief Technology Czar Aneesh Paul Chopra (and a Harvard friend of
Obama.) -
The reason? Bush-43 Defense Secretary Robert Gates was, first
and foremost, too patriotic to serve in the Obama Administration. -
Gates
served in some of the most sensitive defense roles in the nation. He
spent 26 years in the Central Intelligence Agency and in the
National Security Agency under President George H.W. Bush.
Prior to that, he was a wartime officer in the USAF. -
Under President
George W. Bush, he served as head of Defense. It's safe to say that
Gates was the the last person Obama wanted either at Langley or at the
Pentagon. -
Obama wanted Leon Panetta in Langley. And Obama. had already
picked Sen.Chuck Hagel [R-NE] for the job at the Pentagon because Hagel
was just another decorated antiwar Vietnam veteran.. Who could ask for
a better choice for the DoD? -
When
Hagel's personal problems bit him in the behind, Richard Danzig, SecNav
under Clinton, became Obama's next top choice. Danzig was followed by
John Hamre, Deputy Defense Secretary under Clinton's Defense Secretary
William Cohen. -
With his short list running out after Colin Powell flatly
turned him down Obama appeared to be, at least temporarily, stuck with
Bush's man, Gates. -
Which explains why Obama did the same thing Clinton
did in 1996. William Cohen, Clinton's Defense Secretary was also a Republican.
While Cohen was a liberal, Clinton didn't fully trust him and knew if
Cohen suspected that Clinton was selling technology to China that was
detrimental to the United States, his friends in the Senate would learn
about it very quickly. -
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same was true about Obama and Gates. -
Obama knew if Gates controlled
whether or not waivers on military technology were issued to nations
that might sell the technology to our enemies, or use the technology
against us themselves, Gates would rule against the waiver. -
In Clinton's
case, there were few men he trusted as completely as he did Big Bill
Daley, the former Mayor of Chicago, and one of the few politicians in
American who knows how to get the dead fto vote when his boss needs
a few \ more votes to win an election. -
Clinton moved control of the
waivers from the Defense Department where it rightly belongs, to Commerce
where Daley and John Huang, one of Gen. Liu Huaqing agents, would do
his bidding. -
On
Sept. 29 Obama issued a Presidential Determination that copied
the Presidential Decision Directive issued by Bill Clinton
that transferred the waiver authority from the Department of Defense
to the Department of Commerce. -
Only in this case, Obama's Presidential
Determination altered one key provision in the Defense Authorization
Act of 1999 that was designed to defang overzealous presidents. -
When Clinton sold China 300 super computers, he did irreparable harm
to the United States. Congress was determined that no future president
would possess the power to arbitrarily transfer critical technology
without first notifying Congress what he was doing, and getting their
consent to complete the transfer the technology. -
Only,
Obama's Presidential Determination violates Section 1512 of
the the Defense Authorization Act of 1999 by ignoring the proviision
that requires the President or his agent in the Department of Defense
(or elsewhere) to notify Congress whether the transfer of missile or
space technology to China (in this instance), would harm the space-launch
technology of the United States, or in any way, help or assist China
advance their missile programs or systems. -
The law was passed in the
aftermath of the Loral Space Systems and Hughes Electronics
espionage case. -
Loral was fined $20 million in that case, and Hughes
Electronics was fined $32 million by the State Department. -
It was
imperative, in 1998, that Bernard Schwartz of Loral and Mike Smith of
Hughes Electronics should have been criminally-charged with espionage
and made to stand trial for treason against the United States of America.
Both men should be spending the balance of their natural lives in prison. -
In our society, rich men are exempt from the full penalty of the law
because those who contribute millions of dollars to politicians can
expect politicians to exceed on their behalf and pardon their crimes. -
However,
today, even though Obama chose to signore that provision of law, Section
1512 of the Defense Authorization Act mandates that the President
of the United States certify that the technology he is allowing to pass
into other hands will not harm the United States if that information
falls into the wrong hands, nor will it benefit the recipient's efforts
to develop either guided missiles or rockets for space exploration. -
Obama apparently chose to ignore that requirement because he knows he
is not an Article II citizen, and thus, is not constitutionally the
president of anything. -
The new policy, with appears to structure a new
era of cooperation between the United States and China can, and likely
will have, extremely dangerous consequences for the United States. -
China
now possesses the power to collapse the economy of the United States
at will, whenever they wish. -
And while US economists are convinced it
will harm China equally as bad, any nation with the brute power to regulate
its currency by fiat, has an internallly secure monetary system. -
Henry
Sokolski, Director of the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center,
noted early during the Vietnam War that had Lyndon Johnson, Richard
Nixon, Gerald Ford, and Jimmy Carter not forced the US military under
their command to use UN Rules of Engagement (which meant not using any
more force than that which your enemy possesses) the United States would
have won the Vietnam War in less than 90 days. -
By forcing the major
powers to use UN rules of engagement in the future, the United States
and the industrialized nations will never again be able to win a war
against any inferior third world terrorist nation. Watching Obama make
Clinton's mistakes all over again, Sokolski said "...It was
foolish for us to do this in the 1990s and is even more dangerous for
us to do this now." -
Gary
Milhollin, Director of the Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control
said he, too was shocked by the decision to shift that responsibility
back to Commerce—a change that George W. Bush never made. -
"It''s
shocking that it would be delegated to the Secretary of Commerce whose
job it is to promote trade, rather than to the Secretary of State or
the Secretary of Defense who have far more knowledge of responsibility
within their organizations for missile technology." -
The
Chinese got Loral-Hughes, Part I in 1998. It appears that under
Obama, they expect to get Loral-Hughes, Part II. -
The new green light
for China suggests that the Manchurian Candidate we currently have at
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue had three masters all along, First were his
Muslim father and Muslim stepfather who taught him to hate every white—including
his mother whose race he denounced. Second was his Muslim mentor, King
Abdullah of Saudi Arabia who paid for his Harvard education. And finally,
his communist political mentor, George Soros who led him down the primrose
path to the bankers to whom he has surrendered. -
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former newspaper reporter with the Parkersburg, WV Sentinel. He authored
a syndicated newspaper column, Answers From The Bible, from the mid-1970s
until 1985. Answers From The Bible was read weekly in many suburban
markets in the United States.
Today, Jon is an advertising
executive with the Washington Times. His website, www.jonchristianryter.com
has helped him establish a network of mid-to senior-level Washington
insiders who now provide him with a steady stream of material for use
both in his books and in the investigative reports that are found on
his website.
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How many more crimes will be created tomorrow that aren’t crimes today for the ATF to enforce? How many more budget increases will be granted before the “F” in ATF is completely defunded?
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9-16-09 - In my last commentary, “Get the F out of ATF,” I ended it with a statement that it was an abomination that taxpayers spend $800,000,000 a year to fund a government agency whose mission is contrary to our Constitution.
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The ATF has a mission to enforce laws of which well over 95% didn’t even exist 42 years ago.
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The ATF exists only because politicians thought it necessary to restrict citizens’ access to firearms. Otherwise, there would be no law enforcement agency called BATFE. Instead, it would be called BATE.
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In 1967 we didn’t have problems selling firearms across state lines. If you, living in California, wanted to buy a rifle from Joe’s gun shop in Dallas that you found in Shotgun News, you called them on the phone, sent them a check, or gave them your credit card information, and a few days later it would arrive at your home.
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DROS stands for Dealers Record of Sale. If a 4473 DROS form is not filled out when a dealer makes a sale, and I might add, recording the information precisely as prescribed by law, it is an illegal sale.
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Now I ask a question of you prudent citizen. Who cares if there is a law requiring a 4473 DROS form? Do I care? No. Do you care? Probably not. Does the dealer care? The dealer only cares because if it isn’t filled out properly or omitted, he could lose his license, be cited, prosecuted, fined or even jailed if its chronic.
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In other words if he doesn’t have a 4473 DROS filled out and put into the dealer’s filing cabinet, he could be in trouble when the ATF comes looking for it.
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Do I still care? No I don’t. Do you care if the dealer has it filled out and puts it into his filing cabinet? Probably not. But the ATF cares.
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They care because politicians told them they were going to require the dealer to fill out a 4473 DROS for each firearm transfer and make them put it into a filing cabinet.
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And, the job of the ATF is to make sure the dealer filled it out accurately and filed it. If you didn’t understand this process and the requirements, I can understand if you have been nervous all these years about firearm sales.
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But, I’m sure, like thousands of others who are now reading this, you feel much safer knowing that your DROS form is resting peacefully in a filing cabinet at your local gun dealer. I know I can sleep at night. Now you can too.
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But seriously, I ask you again. If no one cares other than politicians and the ATF, why is it a law? Why should there be an agency designated with the duty to make sure the 4473 DROS form has been filled out and placed in the dealer’s filing cabinet?
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Well, let me tell you what the politicians who created this law said it would do. It will reduce crime.
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Now, don’t you feel completely stupid and inadequate? Think of all the lives that have been saved because of it. Even if it was just one life, isn’t it worth it? Again, I digress and find myself getting caught up in the moment.
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You see, the 4473 DROS form is what I like to refer to as a government initiated “hoop jumping” session. This is the process by which the government makes you and the dealer jump through hoops like trained dogs in belief that if you jump hard enough and high enough, that crime will be deterred.
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And, I challenge anyone to prove otherwise with hard cold data, not B.S.
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None of it, not a single law on the books has done anything to reduce crime rates. Not a thing.
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No one from the Brady Bunch, no one from the ATF and no one from the federal government can prove it. No one will prove it.
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You see, I can make that statement because all I have to do is show you the FBI’s Uniform Crime Statistics for the last century.
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And the official scoreboard shows nothing other than a big jump in violent crime starting in the late sixties and remaining well above historical levels for the last 42 years. All this nonsense passed down year after year, gun bill after gun bill, with the continuing promise of reducing crime, has in fact done nothing reduce violent crime rates.
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This is why some Americans despise the “F” in ATF and the politicians who promote it, fund it, and promulgate its existence.
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We have been duped by politicians for over 40 years that gun control will reduce crime. They have continually lied, deceived and stretched the truth, but they have not dealt straight with the American people on this issue.
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With all the Republican rhetoric and grandstanding about reigning in the ATF’s budget because of their “heavy-handed” tactics against the American people, the ATF’s budget increases each and every year by millions. They have done nothing to restrain the growth of the ATF. Democrats and Republicans are both to blame. None are innocent in this.
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How long and how many times will we be made to look stupid by politicians on this issue? How many more crimes will be created tomorrow that aren’t crimes today for the ATF to enforce? How many more budget increases will be granted before the “F” in ATF is completely defunded? How many more times are gun owners going to be sucker-punched into believing that some gun laws are a good thing? Let me be the first to pop your bubble. There is no such thing as a good gun law! They’re all bad and they all encroach on the rights of those with no intent of committing a crime.
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Tax his land,
Tax his bed,
Tax the table
At which he’s fed.
Tax his tractor,
Tax his mule,
Teach him taxes
Are the rule.
Tax his work,
Tax his pay,
He works for peanuts
Anyway!
Tax his cow,
Tax his goat,
Tax his pants,
Tax his coat.
T ax his ties,
Tax his shirt,
Tax his work,
Tax his dirt.
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Tax his tobacco,
Tax his drink,
Tax him if he
Tries to think..
Tax his cigars,
Tax his beers,
If he cries
Tax his tears.
Tax all he has
Then let him know
That you won’t be done
Till he has no dough.
When he screams and hollers;
Then tax him some more,
Tax him till
He’s good and sore.
Then tax his coffin,
Tax his grave,
Tax the sod in
Which he’s laid.
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Put these words
Upon his tomb,
Taxes drove me
To my doom…’
When he’s gone,
Do not relax,
Its time to apply
The inheritance tax.
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Building Permit Tax
CDL license Tax
Cigarette Tax
Corporate Income Tax
Dog License Tax
Excise Taxes
Federal Income Tax
Federal Unemployment Tax (FUTA)
Fishing License Tax
Food License Tax
Fuel Permit Tax
Gasoline Tax (currently 44.75 cents per gallon)
Gross Receipts Tax
Hunting License Tax
Inheritance Tax
Inventory Tax
IRS Interest Charges IRS Penalties (tax on top of tax)
Liquor Tax
Luxury Taxes
Marriage License Tax
Medicare Tax
Personal Property Tax
Property Tax
Real Estate Tax
Service Charge T ax
Social Security Tax
Road Usage Tax
Sales Tax
Recreational Vehicle Tax
School Tax
State Income Tax
State Unemployment Tax (SUTA)
Telephone Federal Excise Tax
Telephone Federal Universal Service Fee Tax
Telephone Federal, State and Local Surcharge Taxes
Telephone Minimum Usage Surcharge Tax
Telephone Recurring and Non-recurring Charges Tax
Telephone State and Local Tax
Telephone Usage Charge Tax
Utility Taxes
Vehicle License Registration Tax
Vehicle Sales Tax
Watercraft Registration Tax
Well Permit Tax
Workers Compensation Tax
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Not one of these taxes existed 100 years ago, and our nation was the most prosperous in the world. We had absolutely no national debt, had the largest middle class in the world, and Mom stayed home to raise the kids. Like in the years 1769 thru 1940… What in the heck happened? Can you spell ‘politicians?’ (Or entitlement programs?)
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This entry was posted on September 4, 2009
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ISM Colorado Homeland Security News & Research:“The Axis of Idiots” ….J. D. Pendry, Retired Sergeant Major, USMC
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“The Axis of Idiots” ….J. D. Pendry, Retired Sergeant Major, USMC
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You threw the Shah under the bus, welcomed the Ayatollah home, and then lacked the spine to confront the terrorists when they took our embassy and our people hostage.
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Jimmy Carter, you are the father of the Islamic Nazi movement.
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You’re the runner-in-chief.Bill Clinton, you played ring around the Lewinsky while the terrorists were at war with us. You got us into a fight with them in Somalia and then you ran from it.
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Your weak-willed responses to the USS Cole and the First Trade Center Bombing and Our Embassy Bombings emboldened the killers. Each time you failed to respond adequately, they grew bolder,
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until 9/11/2001.
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John Kerry, dishonesty is your most prominent attribute. You lied about American Soldiers in Vietnam .
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You’ve accused our military of terrorizing women and children in Iraq. You called Iraq the wrong war, wrong place, wrong time, and the same words you used to describe Vietnam. You’re a fake!
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You want to run from Iraq and abandon the Iraqis to murderers just as you did to the Vietnamese. Iraq, like Vietnam , is another war that you were for, before you were against it
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John Murtha, you said our military was broken. You said we can’t win militarily in Iraq.
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You accused United States Marines of cold-blooded murder without proof and said we should redeploy to Okinawa. Okinawa, John? And the Democrats call you their military expert!
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Are you sure you didn’t suffer a traumatic brain injury while you were off building your war hero resume?
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You’re a sad, pitiable, corrupt, and washed up old fool.
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You’re not a Marine, sir. You wouldn’t amount to a good pimple on a real Marine’s ass. You’re a phony and a disgrace. Run away, John.
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Dick Durbin, you accused our Soldiers at Guantanamo of being Nazis, tenders of Soviet style gulags and as bad as the regime of Pol Pot, who murdered two million of his own people after your party abandoned Southeast Asia to the Communists. Now you want to abandon the Iraqis to the same fate. History was not a good teacher for you, was it? Lord help us! See Dick run.
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Ted Kennedy, for days on end you held poster-sized pictures from Abu Ghraib in front of any available television camera.
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Al Jazeera quoted you saying that Iraqi’s torture chambers were open under new management.
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If you truly supported our troops, you’d show the world poster-sized pictures of that atrocity and demand the annihilation of it.
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Did you see the news, Teddy? The Islamic Nazis demonstrated another beheading for you.
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Your legislation stripping support from the South Vietnamese led to a communist victory there. You’re a bloated, drunken, useless old fool bent on repeating the same historical blunder that turned freedom-seeking people over to homicidal, genocidal maniacs.
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To paraphrase John Murtha, all while sitting on your fat, gin-soaked ass in Washington
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Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Carl Levine, Barbara Boxer, Diane Feinstein, Russ Feingold, Pat Leahy, Barack Obama, Chuck Schumer, the Hollywood Leftist morons, et al, ad nauseam: Every time you stand in front of television cameras and broadcast to the Islamic Nazis that we went to war because our President lied, that the war is wrong and our Soldiers are torturers, that we should leave Iraq, you give the Islamic butchers - the same ones that tortured and mutilated American Soldiers - cause to think that we’ll run away again, and all they have to do is hang on a little longer.
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It is inevitable that we, the infidels, will have to defeat the Islamic jihadists. Better to do it now on their turf, than later on ours after they have gained both strength and momentum.
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American news media, the New York Times particularly: Each time you publish stories about national defense secrets and our intelligence gathering methods, you become one united with the sub-human pieces of camel dung that torture and mutilate the bodies of American Soldiers.
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You can’t strike up the courage to publish cartoons, but you can help Al Qaeda destroy my country. Actually, you are more dangerous to us than Al Qaeda is. Think about that each time you face Mecca to admire your Pulitzer.
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Your Collective Stupidity will destroy us. Self-serving politics and terrorist-abetting news scoops are more important to you than our national security or the lives of innocent civilians and Soldiers.
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You are America’s ‘AXIS OF IDIOTS.’
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It bothers you that defending ourselves gets in the way of your elitist sport of politics and your ignorant editorializing.
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There is as much blood on your hands as is on the hands of murdering terrorists. Don’t ever doubt that.
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Your frolics will only serve to extend this war as they extended Vietnam. If you want our Soldiers home as you claim, knock off the crap and try supporting your country ahead of supporting your silly political aims and aiding our enemies.
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I’m also questioning why you’re stealing air that decent Americans could be breathing.
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Yes, I’m questioning your patriotism. Your loyalty ends with self.
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You don’t deserve the protection of our men and women in uniform. You need to run away from this war, this country. Leave the war to the people who have the will to see it through and the country to people who are willing to defend it.
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Our country has two enemies: Those who want to destroy us from the outside and those who attempt it from within.
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Semper Fi,
J. D. Pendry - Sergeant Major, USMC, Retired
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DEFENDER PUBLISHING: PART TWENTY-EIGHT: Read It Before It Is [Further] Banned By The US Government
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Add Sticky NoteCatholic priests who tried to warn about what was coming died under mysterious circumstances.
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2012 and the Ancient Cherokee Rattlesnake Prophecies
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The “Cherokee Rattlesnake Prophecies,” also known as the “Chickamaugan Prophecy” or the “Cherokee Star Constellation Prophecies,” are part of a series of apocalyptic prophecies made by members of the Cherokee tribe during 1811–1812.
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The prophecies are very similar to Mesoamerican belief, and are viewed by scholars as likely referring to the return of the feathered serpent god Quetzalcoatl in the year 2012.
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Like the Maya, the Cherokee calendar ends mysteriously in the year 2012 when astronomical phenomena related to Jupiter, Venus, Orion, and Pleiades cause the “powers” of the star systems to “awaken.”
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A portion of the “Rattlesnake Prophecy” reads:
At this time [2012] of the fingers striking Jupiter that Orion Star System will awaken. And the Pleiades and Orion will war once again as in old. Jupiter and Venus will awaken to its destiny of Time/Untime of cycles. Orion will war with Pleiades, Jupiter will war with Venus.…
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In the year…2012 an alignment will take place both on the Cherokee calendar and in the heavens of the Rattlesnake Constellation.… It is the time of the double headed serpent stick. It is the time of the red of Orion and Jupiter against the white blue of Pleiades and Venus.…
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In the year…2012 the Cherokee Rattlesnake Constellation will take on a different configuration. The snake itself will remain, however; upon the Rattlesnake shall be added upon its head feathers, its eyes will open and glow, wings spring forth as a winged rattlesnake. It shall have hands and arms and in its hands shall be a bowl. The bowl will hold blood. Upon its tail of seven rattles shall be the glowing and movement of Pleiades.
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The Rattlesnake shall become a feathered rattlesnake or feathered serpent of Time/Untime [Quetzalcoatl?].
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And upon the Rattlesnake is also the Milky Way. A crossing of the Milky Way shall be seen at these times [2012].
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2012 and Prophecy from the Zohar on Messiah’s Return
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Widely considered the most important work of Jewish Kabbalah, the Zohar is a collection of books written in medieval Aramaic over seven hundred years ago containing mystical commentary on the Pentateuch (five books of Moses, the Torah).
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In addition to interpreting Scripture, the “Vaera” section (volume 3, section 34) includes “The signs heralding Mashiach,” or “The coming of the Messiah.” The fascinating date for “his” appearance is set in the Zohar at late 2012. Given the rejection of Jesus by orthodox Jews as Messiah, this coming could herald the unveiling of Antichrist in 2012.
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J. R. Church of Prophecy in the News called my office recently and led me through verses 476–483 of this part of the Zohar to point out what nobody, as far as I have been able to find, in the 2012 research community has written before—that the time of Jacob’s trouble (the Great Tribulation) will commence according to this ancient text in the year 2012 when the “kings of the earth” gather in Rome and are killed by meteoric stones from the sky.
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Interestingly, among other scholars of the implications of the year 2012, a few have pointed to a prophecy by Malachy O’Morgair, or “St. Malachy” as he is known to Catholics, having to do with “the last pope.”
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The prophecy, taken from St. Malachy’s “Prophecy of the Popes,” is among a list of verses predicting each of the Roman Catholic popes from Pope Celestine II to the final pope, “Peter the Roman,” whose reign would end in the destruction of Rome.
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According to Malachy’s prophecy, the next pope (following Benedict XVI) is to be the final pontiff, Petrus Romanus, or “Peter the Roman.” He will assume authority during a time of great tribulation, and then “the city of seven hills will be destroyed, and the terrible and fearsome Judge will judge his people.”
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2012 and Matthew 24
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Is it possible that Jesus marked the year 2012 as prophetic? When His disciples asked, “Tell us, when shall these things be? And what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world [aion]?” (Matthew 24:3), Jesus answered, “as the Days of Noe [Noah] were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be” (Matthew 24:37).
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The word aion in this text is not the general word for “time” (chronos) in Greek. Aion is the word the Greeks used to designate an actual cycle of the Milky Way alignments or the span of an age.
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David Flynn says of this: “The answer Jesus provided His apostles for ‘when’ the end of the aion would occur was specific. The astronomical signs in the heavens would be just as those during the days of Noah when Leviathan encircled the horizon in the dawn of the Summer solstice. There could have been no more accurate comparison made between our present time than the age of Noah….The present aion is coming to a close. Like the sunteleia before, there will be great upheaval and change.”
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2012 and Christian Prophecy
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The man who is known as the “Walking Bible” due to extensive memorization of Bible texts, Jack Van Impe, recently broadcast on his syndicated Jack Van Impe Presents a special show called “December 21, 2012: History’s Final Day?” in which he described various cultural and secular sources pointing to the year 2012 as being ominous.
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Some of the material he covered is listed above, such as the Mayan prophecy and the I-Ching. But Impe also shared how he had gone through three thousand headlines and found that everything the prognosticators were saying about the year 2012 reflected what the book of Revelation and the Old Testament prophets foretold for the end of time.
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Another Christian researcher who believes the year 2012 could be important is Pastor Mark Biltz of El Shaddai Ministries. Based on his research into Jewish feasts and blood moon eclipses, Biltz found on NASA’s website evidence that a rare event called a “tetrad”—in which four consecutive total lunar eclipses or blood moons appear in a century—will coincide with Passover holy days in 2014–2015.
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According to Biltz, tetrads have historically appeared around special dates in Israel’s history such as during Passover and Succoth following Israel becoming a nation in 1948, and again in 1967–1968 following the Six-Day War when Israel recaptured Jerusalem.
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In 2014–2015, blood moons will occur the first day of the Hebrew year and again on the High Holy Day of Rosh Hashanah. If these are in fulfillment of the prophecies of Jesus in Matthew 24:29–30 and Joel 2:31 concerning “The sun [being] turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of the Lord,” they could indicate the imminent return of Christ hypothetically in 2015–2016.
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As noted in a previous entry, this would also mean the year 2012 could be the “midst of the week” when Antichrist breaks his covenant with Israel and Great Tribulation begins.
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2012 and First Degree Tracing Board Shows the Way
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When research began for Apollyon Rising 2012 and I became aware of the nearly five hundred-year-old Mayan prophecies connecting the “colonial count 1776” with the final thirteen katuns of their calendar ending in the year 2012 (and how academia viewed this as a mirror of the countdown to the “Christian Last Judgment”), I wondered if early American scholars—and specifically architects of Freemasonry involved in the design of Washington DC, the Great Seal of the United States, and other iconic artifacts important to the founding of this country—were aware of this Mesoamerican timeline.
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It seemed too much of a coincidence that the final thirteen katuns ending in 2012 would match the starting and ending date on the Great Seal by chance.
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My investigation into the matter resulted in numerous examples of the year 2012 related to America (and other places of the world), which I detail in my book.
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But due to the nature of this entry, I list here one final finding directly connected with Freemasons and the designers of the capital city in Washington DC that illustrate their knowledge of the ending date 2012.
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This discovery came as a result of Dr. Robert Lomas of the University of Bradford in the UK openly posting on the school’s website an archive on Freemasonry that he had received from the Masons.
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The reason behind the decision to make this information available is unknown, but thankfully it included the tracing board of the 1st-degree Freemasons.
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When I discovered this page at the college, I was amazed that the galactic alignment scheduled to occur in 2012 is clearly depicted on the tracing board.
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Even more surprising, it is connected with the ladder that the enlightened Mason may use to reach the location of the Great Architect of the Universe in 2012—shown to be the seven-star Pleiades system of Apollo/Osiris!
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The tracing board is stunning in its symbolism, depicting nearly everything we have stated thus far concerning the god of Freemasonry, the myths associated with him, and the date on which he is prophesied to return.
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When interpreting the symbolism of this tracing board, it is important to remain faithful to the information provided on the University’s website, which in turn is consistent with Scottish Rite Freemasonry.
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Specific language from the site, therefore, has been used in deciphering the tracing board’s meaning, including the following:
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The Blazing Star, or glory in the centre, refers us to the Sun, which enlightens the earth, and by its benign influence dispenses its blessings to mankind in general. The Indented or Tessellated Border refers us to the Planets, which, in their various revolutions form a beautiful border or skirtwork round that grand luminary, the Sun.…
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In all regular, well-formed, constituted Lodges, there is a point within a circle round which the Brethren cannot err. This circle is bounded between North and South by two grand parallel lines.… On the upper part of this circle rests the Volume of the Sacred Law, supporting Jacob's ladder, the top of which reaches to the heavens.
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The three great pillars supporting a Freemason's Lodge are emblematic of those Divine attributes, and further represent Solomon King of Israel, Hiram, King of Tyre and Hiram Abiff.… Solomon King of Israel for his wisdom in building, completing, and dedicating the Temple at Jerusalem to God's service; Hiram King of Tyre [Lucifer of Ezekiel 28:11–19?] for his strength in supporting him with men and materials; and Hiram Abiff [Osiris, according to Freemasonry] for his curious and masterly workmanship in beautifying and adorning the same.
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[The] Mason who is possessed of this virtue in its most ample sense may justly be deemed to have attained the summit of his profession; figuratively speaking, an ethereal mansion, veiled from mortal eyes by the starry firmament, emblematically depicted in our Lodges by seven Stars, which have an allusion to as many regularly made Masons; without which number no Lodge is perfect, neither can any candidate be legally initiated into the Order…
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Using the descriptions of the symbols provided by Masons, the first thing one notes at the bottom of the ladder is the point within the circle: the symbol of Ra, Osiris, and Isis joined in procreation, “bounded between North and South by two grand parallel lines.”
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The blazing star near the center of the board represents the Dog Star Sirius, which is related to Lucifer and the Osiris epic at length, according to Albert Pike in Morals and Dogma. He noted that the 1st-degree Masons who would use this tracing board would be ignorant of this connection; they would think the blazing star represents the “sun,” as they are instructed to believe according to guidelines on the university website.
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But those adepts “initiated into the mysteries” understand it is Sirius—connected to Lucifer, Isis, Osiris, and the all-seeing eye of Osiris—as “his is the All-Seeing Eye in our Lodges,” according to Pike.
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Concerning this deity, instructions on the University website to the 1st-degree Freemasons go on to explain that the sun and moon at the top of the board are “messengers” of the god.
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Understanding this, the solstice sun in the upper left corner does in fact tell us something very clearly about “time” and its relationship with the Isis/Osiris symbolism. The sun is depicted sitting in the “dark rift” of the Milky Way, while the moon on the right is joined by the seven stars of the Pleiades.
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Simply put, this is the arrangement that will happen when the Mayan Long Count calendar concludes and the winter solstice sun aligns with the the “dark rift,” a place the Maya described as being the “Road to the Underworld.”
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The tracing board thus conveys that at the moment this galactic alignment occurs, the dawn of a new age of Osiris will begin when the ladder to heaven joins the devout Mason with his Great Architect of the Universe on December 21, 2012.
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