• How America Lost its Freedom
• By JB Williams  Sunday, May 17, 2009
• It’s now clear to most Americans that their country is not only headed in the wrong direction, but on the brink of complete extinction.
• In just the last six months, every major economic sector is speeding towards bankruptcy and the Fed has spent trillions in printed funny money, in an unbridled and ill-fated effort to buy up (not bail out) America’s free-market economic system, leaving the nation, its currency, its people - and yes - FREEDOM, headed towards imminent total collapse.
• Opinions about how to save American freedom and liberty are plentiful. But without a proper fact based diagnosis, there is no way to know which remedy will save the day, and which might kill the patient. Before we can discuss a cure, we must carefully assess the illness…
• The Cycle behind the Downward Spiral
• Money, power and influence over government are indeed at the root of the problem. However, we must separate political spin from fiscal reality in order to properly identify the real culprits.
• The cycle of corruption must be broken and Americans must identify and attack the greatest offenders first.
• If they fail to go after the kingpins of government corruption, they will waste a lot of time and resources chasing their tails in pursuit of mere pawns, or even worse, the wrong guys.
• The cycle is simple, but not easy to break...
• Money is used to buy politicians who then - once in power - return taxpayer funds to those who got them elected.
• Every modern politician campaigns for office on the promise to end this cycle. Yet to get elected, they must participate in that cycle, and once elected, they must complete that cycle by repaying the favor.
• Understanding What Makes Your Government Tick
• Ever heard the phrase “put your money where your mouth is...” or “he with the gold makes the rules...” - ?
• In short, money talks and all else walks!
• I suspect that these famous one-liners originated in a government lobbying meeting. No voice is louder than your wallet.
• Your public protests, petitions and vote are no match for those who are truly serious about their agenda, - serious enough to “put their money where their mouths are...”
• EXAMPLE: Statistically speaking, more than 70% of Americans oppose abortion on demand. But we have abortion on demand because the pro-abortion lobby is willing to “put their money where their mouths are...”
• Over the last ten years alone, the pro-life lobby has spent $6,445,047 - 95% of it with Republican law makers. It wasn’t enough… The pro-abortion lobby spent $18,177,404 during the same period – 82% of it with Democrats.
• Why are Republicans pro-life while Democrats are pro-abortion? Why is the pro-abortion lobby winning the debate? Look at those numbers again.
• Here’s another example with the same outcome… Second Amendment Rights exist only because the pro-gun lobby spent $20,780,715 (85% with Republicans) over the last ten years while the gun-control lobby spent only $1,785,042 (94% with Democrats) in their effort to take your guns away.
• Republican lawmakers are pro-gun because they get paid to be pro-gun.
• Democrats are anti-gun because they are fearful of gun toting American patriots.

• The Second Amendment is winning at the moment only because the pro-gun lobby outspends the gun-control lobby 10 - 1…  

   

   The examples are consistent and endless. Enough said? 
• The BIGGEST Culprits in America Today
• Due to massive volumes of intentional misinformation, the average American has come to believe that public enemy #1 is “capitalism” and public enemy #2 is the “lobbyists” who attempt to promote their capitalist interests in Washington DC. It is FALSE!
• “Lobbyists” are public enemy #2 not because they have that much influence, but because they lobby on behalf of free-market interest, aka “capitalism.” However, they are not even a major player in Washington DC today. So why do they get so much attention?
• Over the last ten years, lobbyists account for a whopping $155,169,482 in political campaign contributions and according to Democrats, they own Republicans. How can that be when 52% of lobbyist funds go to Democrats?
• Besides, this is an embarrassing drop in the bucket when compared to the real culprits who own Washington DC today… and that’s why free-market capitalism and freedom itself are losing the battle for America at present.
• The single largest and most powerful political lobby in Washington DC today is, ready… drum roll please… our nations lawyers.... who lead the way with their cool $1,015,397,309 investment in political corruption over the last ten years, 73% of it invested in Democrats!
• Next time you are wondering how the judicial branch became a nine member oligarchy, look at this number again…
• For those who truly hate political corruption in DC, this would have to make trial lawyers public enemy #1 as no group on earth can even come close to competing with this group.
• Public enemy #2 would have to be the labor unions, which combined, invested over $478,058,579 over the last ten years, and once again, giving 90% of that money and power to Democrats.
• Why is today’s Fed a believer in “collectivism” and “the greater communal good?” Hmmm.... Imagine that!
• They think and act just like the labor unions!
• Are you familiar with the “ proletariat” movement? “(in Marxist theory) the class of workers, esp. industrial wage earners, who do not possess capital or property and must sell their labor to survive.”
• Socio-economic ambulance chasers run Washington DC for the price of a cool billion in campaign contributions.
• If you don’t think corruption pays, count the number of lawyers at the head of every branch of the federal government today.
• But the labor unions not only set a Marxist proletariat policy in DC, they reap the rewards from trillions in (union bid only) federal contracts, funded by the American taxpayer, 90% of whom are not union members and stand opposed to union thugery in the work place and in Washington DC.
• Elitist lawyers and corrupt labor unions operating under Marxist principles, rule the roost today, all at great expense to American taxpayers and American freedom.
• Freedom and free-market capitalism are simply out-gunned in Washington DC.
• If Obama passes pending “Card check” legislation forcing anti-union employees to vote against unionizing in public, half of the nation will need federal witness protection just to outrun union thugs.
• The Worst Offender Today!

• Whenever the topic of corrupt labor unions comes up, most Americans think of the most infamous, the AFL-CIO and its 13,000,000 members. But these guys, despite their huge member base, are NOT the biggest problem in Washington politics anymore.  

   

   No, that title now belongs to the American Fedn of State, County & Municipal Employees.  
• In other words, the people who make their living on the government dole, whose paycheck and livelihood comes directly from the American taxpayer, is now the single most powerful union labor lobby in Washington DC.
• Through their labor union, 1.4 million government (taxpayer funded) employees are now the biggest union lobby organization in America, giving an astounding $40,690,630 in political contributions over the last ten years, and yes, you are right, - 98% of it to Democrats!
• As a result, your tax dollars employ 1.4 million government shirkers who are not happy with the work conditions and wages you offered them, so they formed a union to squeeze more out of the taxpayer.
• A percentage of the wages you pay as a taxpayer, go to the union which in turn invested 98% of $40 million with the Democrats, who guarantee “union only federal contracts” and grow the size and scope of government employment for benefit of their financial political partners, the government employees.
• The cycle is complete.... and free-market Americans are cut out of the equation.

• How America Lost its Freedom

   

   America lost its freedom to elitist lawyers and the Marxist proletariat movement represented by a plethora of labor unions, none more powerful than the government employees union reaching ever deeper into to pockets of the American taxpayer. 
• To save freedom, this cycle of corruption and destruction of freedom must be broken.
• What Americans MUST Do
• First, don’t expect union members to help you do it, because they are profiting by this corrupt cycle, as are lawyers and their clients in search of the brass ring now offered by the liberal courts.
• Neither of these groups is on the side of the American taxpayer today, which means they are not on the side of American freedom and liberty either.
• Both of these groups benefit from an ever larger, more intrusive and more expensive government. Their agenda is to keep the cycle intact at any cost!
• By now you are seeing what a massive financial juggernaut has its death grip on American freedom in Washington DC. You must be wondering what in the world the rest of America, specifically the American taxpayer, can do to break this monumental cycle of anti-American corruption and destruction....
• More than 59,934,814 Americans voted against the current administration and all it stands for in November of 2008.
• What if every last one of these voters reached deep into their pockets and committed $100 on a one-time basis, for the sole purpose of taking immediate actions to break the cycle of corruption which now defines Washington DC?
• What could 59 million American patriots do with a $59 BILLION war chest, focused solely on ending the leftist cycle of political corruption which so clearly has a death grip on Washington DC and our beloved nation today?
• The fact is, $10 from each, or $5.9 BILLION would get the job done, if 100% participated.
• As we know, 100% will NOT participate. 10% participation is the best we can hope for, realistically. 90% will complain, but will never step up!
• Many around the globe seem to understand what too many Americans no longer understand. A reader from Canada recently wrote me;  
    
   “If America falls to the Global socialists, we all fall. America represents freedom to people world wide. Please don’t let that dream die.”
• Is the future of freedom and our nation worth $100 each? - If it isn’t, we deserve to lose it...!
• Never again ask “what can I do?” This, every American patriot CAN do! Will you?
• If your answer is yes, let me know. If the people have this kind of will, together, we can find a way!
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• The Manchurian Candidate
• By: David Horowitz
      FrontPageMagazine.com | Friday, September 11, 2009
• Those who were surprised by the White House appointment of Van Jones – a self-styled “communist,” and a proponent of the idea that the Katrina catastrophe was caused by “white supremacy,” haven’t been paying attention to developments on the left since the fall of Communism, or to president Obama’s extensive roots in its political culture.
• Van Jones is the carefully groomed protégé of a network of radical organizations -- including Moveon.org -- and of Democratic sponsors like billionaire George Soros and John Podesta, former Clinton chief of staff and co-chair of the Obama transition team. 
• At the time of his appointment as the President’s “Green Jobs” czar – and despite a very recent 10-year history of “revolutionary” activity – Jones was a member of two key organizations at the very heart of what might be called the executive branch of the Democratic Party.
• The first is the Center for American Progress which was funded by Soros and is headed by Podesta.
• The second is the Apollo Alliance, on whose board Jones sits with Podesta, Carol Browner and Al Gore.
• This is a coalition of radicals, leftwing union leaders and corporate recruits, which had a major role in designing Obama’s green economy plans, including the “cash for clunkers” program.
• The New York director of the Alliance, who will be writing its applications for tens of millions of dollars in “stimulus” funds, is Jeff Jones (no relation) who was a co-leader of the terrorist Weather Underground along with Obama’s close friend and political ally William Ayers.
• According to his own account, Van Jones became a “communist” during a prison term he served after being arrested during the 1992 Los Angeles race riots.
• For the next ten years Jones was an activist in the Maoist organization STORM – “Stand Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement.”
• When STORM disintegrated Jones joined the Apollo Alliance and the Center for American Progress Democrats.
• As he explained to the East Bay Express in a 2005 article, he still considered himself a “revolutionary, but just a more effective one.” “Before,” he told the Express, “we would fight anybody, any time. No concession was good enough;… Now, I put the issues and constituencies first. I’ll work with anybody, I’ll fight anybody if it will push our issues forward.... I’m willing to forgo the cheap satisfaction of the radical pose for the deep satisfaction of radical ends.”
• Pursuing the deep satisfaction of radical ends is the clear sub-text of Jones’ 2007 book, The Green Collar Economy which comes with a Forward by Robert Kennedy Jr. and enthusiastic blurbs from Nancy Pelosi and Al Gore.
• According to Jones, the Katrina tragedies were caused by global warming, white supremacy, free market economics and the “war for oil” in Iraq.
• This “perfect storm” of social evils deprived poor blacks of the protection of adequate levees and private vehicles which would have allowed them to escape.
• The fact that a fleet of public buses was available but the black mayor and the black power structure in New Orleans failed to deploy them go unmentioned in Jones’ indictment of white racism.
• Instead, “The Katrina story illustrates clearly the two crises we face in the United States: radical socioeconomic inequality and rampant environmental destruction.” To deal with these crises “we will need both political and economic transformation – immediately.”
• How did John Podesta and Al Gore and Barack Obama come to be political allies of a far left radical like Van Jones, a 9/11 conspiracy “truther” and a supporter of the Hamas view that the entire state of Israel is “occupied territory?”
• To answer this question requires an understanding of developments within the political left that have taken place over the last two decades, and in particular the forging of a “popular front” between anti-American radicals and “mainstream liberals” in the Democratic Party.
• The collapse of Communism in the early Nineties did not lead to an agonizing reappraisal of its radical agendas among many who had supported it in the West.
• Instead, its survivors set about creating a new socialist international which would unite “social justice” movements, radical environmental groups, leftwing trade unions, and traditional communist parties – all dedicated to the revival of utopian dreams.
• The new political force made its first impression at the end of the decade when it staged global demonstrations against the World Trade Organization and the World Bank.
• The demonstrations erupted into large-scale violence in Seattle in 2001 when 50,000 Marxists, anarchists and environmental radicals, joined by the giant leftwing unions AFSCME and SEIU, descended on the city, smashed windows and automobiles, and set fire to buildings to protest “globalization” – the world capitalist system.
• In the direct aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, the anti-globalization forces morphed into what became known as the “anti-war” movement.
• An already scheduled anti-globalization protest on September 29 was re-redirected (and re-named) to target America’s retaliation against al-Qaeda and the Taliban.
• The new “peace” movement grew to massive proportions in the lead up to the war in Iraq but it never held a single protest against Saddam’s violation of 17 UN arms control resolutions, or his expulsion of the UN arms inspectors. It did, however, mobilize 35 million people in world-wide protests against America’s “imperialist war for oil.”
• The orchestrators of the demonstrations were the same leaders and the same organizations, the same unions and the same “social justice” groups that had been responsible for the Seattle riots against the World Trade Organization and the international capitalist system.
• A second watershed came in the run-up to the 2004 elections when billionaire George Soros decided to integrate the radicals – including their political organization ACORN -- into the structure of Democratic Party politics.
• Together with a group of like-minded billionaires, Soros created a “Shadow Party” (as Richard Poe and I documented in a book by that name) whose purpose was to shape the outcome of the 2004 presidential race.
• “America under Bush,” Soros told The Washington Post, “is a danger to the world,…”
• To achieve his goal, Soros created a galaxy of 527 political organizations headed by leftwing union leaders like SEIU chief Andrew Stern and Clinton operatives like Harold Ickes. As its policy brain he created the Center for American Progress.
• Soros failed to achieve his goal in 2004 but he went on working to create new elements of the network, such as the Apollo Alliance.
• Four years later the Shadow Party was able to elect a candidate who had spent his entire political career in the bowels of this movement.
• Obama’s electoral success was made possible by the wide latitude he was given by the press and the public, partly because he was the first African-American with a chance to be president and partly because his campaign was deliberately crafted to convey the impression that he was a tax-cutting centrist who intended to bring Americans together to find common solutions to their problems.
• When confronted with his long-term associations and working partnerships with anti-American racists like Jeremiah Wright and anti-American radicals like William Ayers, he denied the obvious and successfully side-stepped its implications.
• Just eight months into his presidency, however, a new Barack Obama has begun to emerge.
• With unseemly haste Obama has nearly bankrupted the federal government, amassing more debt in eight months than all his predecessors combined.
• He has appeased America’s enemies abroad and attacked America’s intelligence services at home.
• He has rushed forward with programs that require sweeping changes in the American economy and is now steamrolling a massive new health-care program that will give the government unprecedented control of its citizens.
• Among the hallmarks of this new radical regime the appointment of Van Jones stood out for its blatant departure from political normalcy.
• In his White House role, the radical Jones would have represented the president in shaping a multi-billion stimulus package, which could easily function as a patronage program of particular interest to his political allies in the “Apollo Alliance,” ACORN and the leftwing unions.
• In the classic manual for activists on how to achieve their radical goals, Obama’s political mentor Saul Alinsky wrote: “From the moment an organizer enters a community, he lives, dreams, eats, breathes, sleeps only one thing, and that is to build the mass power base of what he calls the army.”
• As the president’s green jobs commissar, Van Jones had entered the trillion-dollar community of the federal government and would soon have been building his radical army.
• The rest of us should be wondering who his sponsors were within the White House (senior presidential advisor and long-time “progressive” Valerie Jarrett was certainly one). Then we should ask ourselves what they are planning next.
• David Horowitz is the founder of The David Horowitz Freedom Center and author of the new book, One Party Classroom.

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• Acting Like a Bunch of Christies

   

  By Peter Ferrara on 10.7.09 @ 6:08AM
• I know they don't know it yet. But the Democrat party is in  a death spiral similar to the last days of the wooly mammoth  during the Ice Age. Forget about 1994 and 1980. There is no  precedent for what is coming.
• The Democrats have two fundamental problems. One is the  party leadership in Washington is all left-wing extremists like  Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Barney Frank, Henry Waxman, John  Conyers, Howard Dean, and Charlie Rangel.
• A couple of these folks  have nice personalities. They represent the views of about 7 to  10 percent of the American people.
• The average American has more  in common with the average South Korean than with these  extremists.
• The second problem is gross policy failure.
• Conservatives  have to recognize that the failures of the extremist policies  Washington Democrats are now madly adopting become obvious only  over the longer term, all the more so when the policies are  phased in years into the future.
• But when the failures appear,  they will produce ugly results cascading downward geometrically,  with everything getting worse and worse faster and faster. By  next year, the disasters will not be here yet, but enough  Americans will see what's coming to produce the first political  earthquake.
• Eventually, the Democrats will panic and turn on Barack  Obama. But that will not save them.
• Fools Rush In
• Last week, the EPA declared carbon dioxide a pollutant to  be severely regulated under the Clean Air Act, even though CO2 is  a naturally occurring substance in the atmosphere essential for  the survival of life on the planet.
• Animals, including humans,  breathe CO2 out, and plants must take in CO2 to grow.
• While CO2  in the atmosphere has increased during the industrial revolution,  it is still at a very low level on an historical scale of  thousands and millions of years.
• The EPA and the ideologically rigid Barack Obama insist  that CO2 emissions cause global warming. But the best science has  now proven this doctrine false.
• Again, the definitive explanation  of the falsity, indeed, even foolishness, of the theory of  man-caused global warming is the 880 page treatise Climate  Change Reconsidered published by the Heartland Institute.
• The  scientists associated with Heartland and the Science and  Environmental Policy Project (www.sepp.org) are as first rate as any  on the planet (look it up), including those at the U.N., which  seeks to use the issue to create global governing powers for  itself.
• There is no actual evidence of significant man-caused  global warming.
• Global atmospheric temperatures are down over the  last 11 years, and the decline is accelerating and likely to  continue for another 10-20 years, at least.
• The temperature  patterns for the entire 20th century did not follow CO2 emissions  up, but fluctuated up and down consistent with ocean current  temperature trends, and solar activity. In other words, natural  causes.
• The case for global warming is entirely based on computer  models made up by biased UN scientists, which have failed to  predict temperature trends accurately.
• But President Obama's EPA is rushing ahead with regulatory  burdens not needing legislative approval that will raise energy  costs on the U.S. economy by $2 trillion.
• It will mean higher  costs for electricity, gasoline, coal, natural gas, home heating  oil, and everything that is made and transported using energy.  This will hit the U.S. economy while temperatures continue to  decline.
• A huge political problem for Democrats is that their  rhetoric has been so contrary to the reality they are now  imposing.
• President Obama keeps saying that his brave new world  powered by windmills and floating on sunbeams will create a  booming economy spawned by high paying green jobs. But high cost  energy is not a foundation for job creation or an economic boom.
• Obama's fantasy was already tried by the socialists in Spain, and  they lost many more jobs on net than the "green jobs" created,  which turned out to be mostly temporary construction jobs  building mostly useless, massive, concrete windmills, good  primarily for killing birds.
• The same problem of rhetoric v. reality can be found on  health care.
• President Obama and Congressional Democrats have  convinced themselves that they can finance their new entitlement  in part by slashing Medicare, while denying they are making any  Medicare cuts.
• Wait till seniors with Medicare Advantage plans  find those plans going out of business because Obama's rigid  leftist ideology opposes any private alternative to Medicare,  contrary to the promise that if you like your plan you can keep  it. 
• While President Obama and Congressional Democrats promise  their health overhaul schemes will reduce costs, the regulation  imposed will cause health insurance premiums to soar.
• They and  their literal media clowns continue to laugh off any notion that  the health overhaul involves government rationing.
• But, once  again, here are the death panels with power to ration and deny  your care in Obamacare: the Federal Coordinating Council for  Comparative Effectiveness, the Health Choices Administration, the  Health Benefits Advisory Committee, the Bureau of Health  Information, the Institute of Medicine, the Physician Quality  Reporting Initiative, the National Priorities for Performance  Improvement Office, the Center for Quality Improvement, the  National Center for Health Workforce Analysis, and the  Independent Medicare Advisory Council.
• Last week, Sen. Maria  Cantwell (D-WA) added an amendment to the Baucus bill making sure  the Secretary of HHS has the power to define what is quality,  cost-effective care for each medical condition, and to penalize  doctors who don't follow the brilliant medical insights of the  health bureaucracy.
• Congressional Democrats gleefully joined  President Obama in passing a so-called stimulus bill with almost  $1 trillion in wasteful giveaways, with the promise that it would  stop unemployment from rising over 8%.
• Today, of course,  unemployment is 9.8% and rising, levels not seen since Reagan  buried the Democrats' Keynesian economics with his 25-year,  free-market, supply-side boom.
• In the current misery of  Obamanomics, when you count the underemployment of those stuck in  part-time work who can't find full-time jobs, and those who have  given up looking for work, the real unemployment rate is  17%.
• The stimulus foolishness combined with President Obama's  Democrat-passed budget produced the record shattering deficits  and federal debt that is scaring even the Communist Chinese, not  to mention the American people.
• Don't doubt that we are going  into some natural cyclical recovery for the next few months with  some growth. But unemployment will remain high and even rising,  while any real growth will be accompanied by rising interest  rates and even inflation.
• Expect another downturn in 2011, with  the long-term return of 1970s stagflation, the natural result of  President Obama's 1970s style economic policies.
• We know how well  those worked politically for Jimmy Carter and his Congressional  Democrats.

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• Acting Like a Bunch of Christies

• By Peter Ferrara on 10.7.09 @ 6:08AM

   

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• The morning the Iranians test their first nuclear weapon,  perhaps with Obama's prized UN inspectors there to watch, will  not be a good day politically for Democrats.
• Neither will the  next day when the mullahs begin issuing nuclear ultimatums to  Israel. Or the day Putin invades Ukraine, recognizing that Obama  can and will do nothing. Or the day the Taliban returns to power  in Afghanistan.
• But the biggest problem for President Obama and the  Democrats, absent another terrorist attack, will be the day they  violate their campaign pledge with a tax increase on Americans  earning less than $250,000 per year.
• There is already the  individual mandate in the health care bills, enforced by the IRS  and constitutionally justified under the power to tax, and the  new tax on health insurance.
• Then there are the price increases  under cap and trade and other global warming nonsense.
• Worst of  all, on the horizon, right after the mid-terms, is the Washington  establishment hue and cry for a new value added tax to counter  unmanageable, exploding deficits and debt.
• The emerging, defining characteristic of the Democrat Party  is that it refuses to listen to the people.
• Its leaders already  know everything, on health care, global warming, the economy, tax  policy. Even the French royalty couldn't survive with this  attitude.
• No, there is only one thing that can save the Democrats:  the Republicans.
• Political Confusion
• One  wing wants to give up on the Republicans and create a third  party.
• There are two wings of the Republican Party right now.
• The other wing, led by Sen. McCain, David Brooks, and  David Frum, wants the Republicans to be the Democrat party.
• No  one except me, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, and a few smart pols,  such as Newt Gingrich and Sarah Palin, wants what would really  sweep all before it, a Reagan Republican Party.
• John McCain was such an incompetent presidential candidate  last year that he lost to an unelectably left-wing extremist,  enabling a Far Left takeover of America.
• It is amazing that his  campaign advisors like Steve Schmidt even have the gall to show  their face in Republican circles after that miserable, brain dead  performance, let alone lay a claim to party leadership.
• John  McCain is not the head of the Republican Party. He is the great  mistake of 2008, whose policy and political insights led the  party to its worst defeat since 1932.
• The problem and the opportunity now for Republicans is  shown by the New Jersey Governor's race next month.
• New Jersey is  on the road to becoming a failed state politically, sort of like  Somalia, Afghanistan, and Michigan.
• The state features record  taxes and spending, naturally accompanied by a declining,  failing, economy, and widespread corruption. The incumbent  Democrat Jon Corzine has presided over this developing failure  for years, with no prospect or even hope of a new idea.
• The Republican nominee Chris Christie has run a  content-free campaign emphasizing that he is a Bruce Springsteen  fan.
• So he has watched his lead shrink from 14 points down to 4.
• Republicans whine about a third party candidate, Chris Daggett,  as a spoiler. But as the Wall Street Journal  explains, "Mr. Daggett's appeal has grown because he's  offering voters precisely what Mr. Christie isn't: a specific  plan for controlling runaway taxes and spending."
• Reagan faced a third party spoiler candidate in 1980. He  swept the field in a landslide by offering a pragmatic  conservatism solving problems through free market solutions that  the public can understand and support, along with proven  pragmatic traditional values. Chris Christie needs to prove now  that he can do the same. It is his responsibility to win voters  away from the third party candidate, not cry foul.
• Christie and too many others underestimate the strength of  Republicans and their practical ideas in the age of Obama.
• He  should propose a specific plan to cut and then cap state property  taxes, now averaging more than $7,000 per year, highest in the  nation.
• He should ask Steve Forbes for an overnight dynamically  scored income tax reform plan that would slash the absurd top  rate of 11%. He should propose financing these by slowing the  growth of state spending to the rate of population growth plus  inflation. Republican state legislative candidates should stand  with him in endorsing these ideas.
• If Christie takes this advice, he will win in a landslide,  and probably carry several Republicans to victory as well. If he  doesn't, current trends suggest he will lose, and deservedly so.
• The race is already close enough for the Democrats to steal, as  they did their 60-vote U.S. Senate majority.
• Republican victories  in this fall's races in New Jersey and Virginia will start the  panic of Congressional Democrats, and President Obama's power to  dominate Washington will already be gone. But Christie is  frittering away this crucial opportunity to save America with his  brain dead campaign.
• The Journal further explains the  problem, "Even if Mr. Christie ekes out a win because Mr. Corzine  is so unpopular, the Republican will arrive in Trenton with a  mandate to do what he campaigned on -- nothing."
• Worse than that,  if he governs like an establishment, McCain Republican,  negotiating tax increase deals to "balance the budget," he will  discredit the Republican Party, and encourage even more third  party spoilers across the country.

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• Acting Like a Bunch of Christies

• By Peter Ferrara on 10.7.09 @ 6:08AM

   

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• Just What the Doctor  Ordered
• It is a matter of judgment as to when, but sometimes third  party candidates and even spoilers are necessary to discipline a  hopelessly wayward Republican Party.
• Also next month is a special  election in New York to fill the seat of Republican Rep. John  McHugh.
• Sneaking away with the Republican nomination for the  seat, despite strong local opposition, is ultraliberal state Rep.  Dede Scozzafava. She even has past ties to ACORN and the  ultraleft Working Families Party.
• Her election would only help  the Obama leftists, as the media heralds her as the new, modern  Republican, and she votes for the Obama neo-socialist  agenda.
• Fortunately, the New York Conservative Party is running a  true Reagan Republican, Doug Hoffman.
• The latest poll: Scozzafava  20.3%, Democrat Bill Owens 17.3%, and Hoffman 17.0%. Reagan  Republicans, free market conservatives, tea party patriots,  traditional values conservatives (Scozzafava is pro-choice and  pro-gay marriage), nationwide, need to pour resources into this  race.
• Seriously, I am like Paul Revere at Lexington and Concord  here. A win by Hoffman would be a political jolt that would help  conservatives in the Republican party nationwide.
• Congressional Republicans underestimate the grassroots  anger that will not tolerate support for President Obama's  leftist agenda.
• Any Republican who votes for the Obama/Democrat  health care takeover will be marked not just for a primary  challenge, but, if necessary, for a third party spoiler with the  express purpose of driving the apostate from office.
• If enough  Senate Republicans vote for Obamacare in the end, then a national  third party will be started, and the Republican Party will  implode.
• At a minimum, don't be surprised if an Independent  Conservative Party is started in Maine in the next few  months.
• The same goes for those Republicans who are sufficiently  uninformed on the issue to vote for cap and trade.
• That is why  Rep. Mark Kirk (R-IL) badly hurt his chances to win the open  Illinois Senate seat next year by voting for the ridiculous,  unjustifiable House cap and trade bill.
• Even environmentalists  opposed the bill riddled with special interest loopholes.
• Though  the bill would take us all the way back to 1907 by ultimately  trying to reduce fossil fuel use by 83%, even radical  environmentalists admit it would only slow temperature increases  by an absurd 9/100ths of one degree.
• Conservatives in Illinois  need to meet and coalesce around a true Reagan alternative to  Kirk, who is running as a McCain poster boy.
• Hang Together, or Hang  Separately
• The battle for the future of America is in the Republican  Party.
• Conservatives, tea party patriots, taxpayer activists,  even free market libertarians need to join the fight over whether  we will have a Reagan Republican party, or a McCain Democrat  party, or a dysfunctional party whose vote is hopelessly split by  third party spoilers.
• The threat to our country is now more  serious than ever. If we don't figure this out, we will lose our  country, and the world will enter the New Dark Ages.

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• Sunstein: Americans too racist for socialism
• Defends communism, welfare state but says 'white majority' oppose programs aiding blacks, Hispanics
• Posted: October 07, 2009
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• By Aaron Klein
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• JERUSALEM – The U.S. should move in the direction of socialism but the country's "white majority" opposes welfare since such programs largely would benefit minorities, especially blacks and Hispanics, argued President Obama's newly confirmed regulatory czar, Cass Sunstein.
• "The absence of a European-style social welfare state is certainly connected with the widespread perception among the white majority that the relevant programs would disproportionately benefit African Americans (and more recently Hispanics)," wrote Sunstein.
• The Obama czar's controversial comments were made in his 2004 book "The Second Bill of Rights," which was obtained and reviewed by WND.
• 
   Cass Sunstein
• In the book, Sunstein openly argues for bringing socialism to the U.S. and even lends support to communism.
• "During the Cold War, the debate about [social welfare] guarantees took the form of pervasive disagreement between the United States and its communist adversaries. Americans emphasized the importance of civil and political liberties, above all free speech and freedom of religion, while communist nations stressed the right to a job, health care, and a social minimum."
• Continued Sunstein: "I think this debate was unhelpful; it is most plausible to see the two sets of rights as mutually reinforcing, not antagonistic."
• Sunstein claims the "socialist movement" did not take hold in the U.S. in part because of a "smaller and weaker political left or lack of enthusiasm for redistributive programs."
• He laments, "In a variety of ways, subtle and less subtle, public and private actions have made it most difficult for socialism to have any traction in the United States."
• Sunstein wants to spread America's wealth
• WND first reported Sunstein penned a 2007 University of Chicago Law School paper in which he debated whether America should pay "justice" to the world by entering into a compensation agreement that would be a net financial loss for the U.S.
• He argues it is "desirable" to redistribute America's wealth to poorer nations.
• A prominent theme throughout Sunstein's 39-page paper, entitled "Climate Change Justice" and reviewed by WND, maintains U.S. wealth should be redistributed to poorer nations. He uses terms such as "distributive justice" several times. The paper was written with fellow attorney Eric A. Posner.
• "It is even possible that desirable redistribution is more likely to occur through climate change policy than otherwise, or to be accomplished more effectively through climate policy than through direct foreign aid," wrote Sunstein.
• He posited: "We agree that if the United States does spend a great deal on emissions reductions as part of an international agreement, and if the agreement does give particular help to disadvantaged people, considerations of distributive justice support its action, even if better redistributive mechanisms are imaginable.
• "If the United States agrees to participate in a climate change agreement on terms that are not in the nation's interest, but that help the world as a whole, there would be no reason for complaint, certainly if such participation is more helpful to poor nations than conventional foreign-aid alternatives," he wrote.
• Sunstein maintains: "If we care about social welfare, we should approve of a situation in which a wealthy nation is willing to engage in a degree of self-sacrifice when the world benefits more than that nation loses."
• Sunstein proposed 'socialist' bill of rights
• In "The Second Bill of Rights," WND also reported, Sunstein proposed a new "bill of rights" in which he advanced the radical notion that welfare rights, including some controversial inceptions, be granted by the state.

• Among his mandates:
   

  • The right to a useful and remunerative job in the industries or shops or farms or mines of the nation;
    
     
  • The right to earn enough to provide adequate food and clothing and recreation;
    
     
  • The right of every farmer to raise and sell his products at a return which will give him and his family a decent living;
    
     
  • The right of every businessman, large and small, to trade in an atmosphere of freedom from unfair competition and domination by monopolies at home or abroad;
    
     
  • The right of every family to a decent home;
    
     
  • The right to adequate medical care and the opportunity to achieve and enjoy good health;
    
     
  • The right to adequate protection from the economic fears of old age, sickness, accident, and unemployment;
    
     
  • The right to a good education.
• On one page in his book, Sunstein claims he is "not seriously arguing" his bill of rights be "encompassed by anything in the Constitution," but on the next page he states that "if the nation becomes committed to certain rights, they may migrate into the Constitution itself."
• Later in the book, Sunstein argues that "at a minimum, the second bill should be seen as part and parcel of America's constitutive commitments."
• WND has learned that in April 2005, Sunstein opened up a conference at Yale Law School entitled "The Constitution in 2020," which sought to change the nature and interpretation of the Constitution by that year.
• Sunstein has been a main participant in the movement, which openly seeks to create a "progressive" consensus as to what the U.S. Constitution should provide for by the year 2020.
• It also suggests strategy for how liberal lawyers and judges might bring such a constitutional regime into being.
• Just before his appearance at the conference, Sunstein wrote a blog entry in which he explained he "will be urging that it is important to resist, on democratic grounds, the idea that the document should be interpreted to reflect the view of the extreme right-wing of the Republican Party."

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  A Primer on 'Martial Law'
• Published: Wed, 16 Sep 2009
• Description: Freedom Watch: Expert weighs in on H1N1 pandemic bill and the possibilty of martial law

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• George Soros: Billionaire for the Left
• By: Lowell Ponte
      FrontPageMagazine.com | Thursday, November 13, 2003
• PONTEFICATIONS

• UNDER OUR CONSTITUTION HE CAN NEVER BE PRESIDENT,

  but if any Democrat gets elected President in 2004 it will be because this foreign-born billionaire kingmaker, George Soros, pledged to raise $75 million to defeat incumbent Republican President George W. Bush.
• “George Soros has purchased the Democratic Party,” said Republican National Committee spokeswoman Christine Iverson.
• Since he who pays the piper calls the tune, what tune will this international financier demand from the party and President his millions purchased? 
• What hidden agendas and interests, domestic and foreign, might be served? 
• Can any American trust a Democratic Party whose strings are pulled by this controversial Radical Left-inclined puppet-master?
• Soros funds an army of leftist foundations and enterprises.
• He reportedly provided $20 million in seed money for the Center for American Progress, described by the Wall Street Journal as “a new liberal think-tank that is financing the likes of Bush-hating pundit Eric Alterman” (of The Nation magazine).
• He has also helped fund and coordinate anti-Bush tactics with the Democrat-aligned, Gore-supporting ultra-leftist group MoveOn.org.
• Can parents keep their kids drug-free if a Democratic President must dance to the intoxicating tune of George Soros, who has donated millions to marijuana-decriminalization groups and initiatives? 
• Democrat and former Jimmy Carter Administration Secretary of Health and Human Services Joseph Califano called Soros “the Daddy Warbucks of drug legalization.”
• Can Israel survive, given the hostility that Jewish-born Soros has expressed toward the Jewish State?
• A global philanthropist, Soros has rarely donated to Jewish charities or causes. But in a November 5 speech to a conference of the Jewish Funders Network, Soros blamed the policies of President Bush and Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon for the upsurge in worldwide anti-Semitism.
• Soros also blamed himself for the rise in anti-Semitism because he is one of the “Jewish financiers” who, in his agreement with the vicious words of just-retired Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohammad, “rule the world by proxy.”
• Abraham Foxman, National Director of the Anti-Defamation League, called it “absolutely obscene” that Soros blames Israel and Jews for anti-Semitism and used the rhetoric of anti-Semites in doing so.
• Said Foxman: “He buys into the stereotype…It’s blaming the victim for all of Israel’s and the Jewish people’s ills.”
• And what happened to longstanding Democrat demands that we pass “campaign finance reform” to get the “corrupting influence” of wealthy contributors out of politics?
• Days ago Democratic campaign frontrunner for the 2004 nomination Howard Dean, former Governor of Vermont, announced that he would decline public funding of his campaign to avoid the $45 million spending ceiling this would put on his primary campaign. (Dean has already raised $25 million.)
• Dean urges two million supporters to send him $100 apiece, but he surely does not expect this to happen. Dean is willing to run without federal matching funds only because he knows that big money can and will be provided to him by billionaire George Soros, who last September hosted a fundraiser at Dean’s Vermont home.
• (Dean’s wife and therefore children are Jewish, but he has moved away from America’s traditional bi-partisan support for Israel.
• This is probably part of what Soros likes about Howard Dean and would expect Dean to make U.S. policy if elected President.)
• But will the American people vote for a candidate and Democratic Party that George Soros rules by proxy?

  • Apparently so..They did in November 2008
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• “A President Dean,” says a Wall Street Journal Editorial, “would owe far more chits to Mr. Soros than Vice President Dick Cheney has ever owed to Halliburton.  All this gives the lie to the reform promise to get big money out of politics….”
• Who is this shadowy, controversial man George Soros? 
• Born in 1930 in Hungary, he watched Nazis march into his nation and kill relatives in a 1944 extermination of 440,000 Hungarian Jews.
• He survived by pretending to be Ayran, and then witnessed Soviet Marxists replace the Nazis. “My experiences under Nazi and Soviet rule,” he says, “have sensitized me.”
• Soros’ father Tivador, a lawyer/publisher/writer, changed the family’s real last name, Schwartz, to Soros in 1936. 
• “Soros grew up in a family that was so detached from its Jewish roots,” summarized a Business Week reviewer of his biography, “that they even vacationed in Nazi Germany, with Tivador shrugging off ‘No Jews Allowed’ signs by telling his wife, ‘You are a foreigner, it’s not for you.’”
• After World War II, Soros fled alone as a poor 17-year-old immigrant to London, where he worked at a variety of small jobs. 
• “I broke my leg and was taken care of, free of charge, by the National Health Service,” recalled Soros with gratitude.

  • Well, this might explain a few things for us in 2009 America
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• “I depended on government assistance.”  He also, with resentment, remembers from these years how little assistance various Jewish social welfare agencies he approached were willing to give him.
• Although he would later become a naturalized American citizen, Soros remains in social outlook very much a European and believer in the paternalistic neo-feudalism euphemistically called “democratic socialism” or “social democracy.”
• Soros in 1949 enrolled at the Fabian socialist London School of Economics (one of whose later students would be adept businessman Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones).
• Soros there became friends with Sir Karl Popper, philosopher and author of the 1945 book The Open Society and Its Enemies. He graduated LSE in 1952.
• From his interpretation of Popper’s “open society,” Soros developed his own opaque philosophy.
• As described by former New York Times journalist (and Soros publication editor) Michael Kaufman in his 2002 biography Soros: The Life and Times of a Messianic Billionaire, “Soros had developed a contempt for tribal sectarianism of all kinds and found much of the zeal of pro-Israel Zionists to be unappealingly chauvinistic.”
• According to Kaufman, Soros described his own Jewishness thus: “It did not express itself in a sense of tribal loyalty that would have led him to support Israel.”
• As to Soros’ views concerning President Bush, Neil Hrab of the Capital Research Center has written, “Financial analyst and Soros friend Byron Wien thinks the financier may feel hostility toward all forms of ‘right-wing nationalism,’ perhaps as a consequence of growing up in Nazi-occupied Hungary.
• And Soros may believe a strong Left can be a good barrier to resurgent ‘far-right’ movements.” 
• What this overlooks, of course, is that the Nazis were a movement of the Left, not the Right. Nazi was a contraction of the German words for “national socialist.”  
• In the open society of America, young George Soros arrived on Wall Street in 1956 with $5,000 and quickly demonstrated a singular genius for investing others’ money and his own.
• This “Hungarian Horatio Alger” of financial sorcery came to be called “the greatest money manager in the world” by satisfied clients of his Quantum Fund.
• Soros was chief among the creators of the modern “hedge fund” through which investors are protected by diversified simultaneous bets for and against the economy in a variety of ways.
• But Soros also made a fortune by high-stakes gambles such as currency speculation in the world economy.
• In 1992, for example, he wagered $10 billion that by concerted attack he could devalue the British Pound. He won, pocketed at least $1.1 billion profit in a single day, and ever since has been called “the man who broke the Bank of England.” 
• (By this act of economic rape upon ordinary British working class savings accounts, Soros repaid Britain for the generosity and help it gave to him as a struggling young immigrant with a broken leg.)

  • Sounds like he is a certified, royal (no pun intended) son of'a bitch
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• In the process of destroying the purchasing power of the British Pound, Soros dealt a political blow to the government of British Prime Minister John Major from which the Tory Party has yet to recover.
• This is the same kind of damage he hopes to inflict in 2004 on America’s Republican Party.
• Businesspeople tend to admire Soros for his power and skill, wrote Andrew Leonard at Salon.com, and liberals tend to applaud his generosity to leftist causes. But what if it had been Osama bin Laden using financial machinations to break the Bank of England?
• Soros’ “life raises some troubling questions about the autonomy of capital in the era of globalization,” writes Leonard. “Make enough money, and you don’t have to obey anyone’s rules.”
• Similar high-roller global financial machinations by Soros over the years have led to accusations that he caused the economic collapse in Asia in 1997 and, according to one anti-Semitic publication, the near-50 percent devaluation of the Russian Ruble in 1998.

  • Is Soros then behind America's current (2009) dollar troubles?
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• Soros “was involved in the Mexican bailout with their President Ernesto Zedillo,” reported the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review last July, adding, “Most recently, Soros worked on the Euro, pushing the U.S. dollar down to a near all-time low.” 
• Soros has, in other words, caused you to pay more for every imported product you buy.
• Soros’ 1998 book The Crisis of Global Capitalism: Open Society Endangered called for more government controls to prevent abuses and shortsightedness by “amoral” multinational capitalists. In effect, Soros’ message was, “Stop me before I kill again!”
• But he was not so sanguine in 2002, when a French court found him guilty of insider trading and fined Soros 2.2 million Euros (roughly $2 million).
• He told reporters he would appeal the verdict but as of yet has not, dismissing the court’s ruling as “a queer decision.” To this multi-billionaire, a $2 million fine is a trifle, a mere slap on the wrist.
• Today Forbes Magazine ranks him the 28^th richest person in the United States, with an estimated fortune worth $7 billion. 
• This comes after Soros has given away an estimated $5 billion to causes ranging from the Solidarity Movement in Poland to Vaclav Havel’s dissident movement in Czechoslovakia and to Leftist groups in the United States (including the Democratic Party). 
• (When another eccentric named Ross Perot in 1992 bought his own political party and used it in a rumored secret scheme with Bill and Hillary Clinton to divide the vote and thereby conquer incumbent Republican President George H. W. Bush, Perot was only the 44^th richest American after making billions on government contracts.
• Bill and Hillary were rumored to have promised him all the computer contracts for their socialized medicine system, thereby making Perot the single richest man in America.)
• Soros is not just a nominal capitalist made rich through Communist connections, as was Armand Hammer (who we now know delivered millions of dollars from Moscow to the Communist Party USA).
• Soros may dislike President Bush and American dominance in the world, but he generally prefers private institutions to government bureaucracies and favors local governments over the United Nations.
• In his own eccentric way, Soros appears to be an opportunistic, misguided idealist whose warped, surrealistic childhood produced a warped view of society.
• And now what Soros calls “the central focus of my life” is defeating President Bush, an undertaking he deems “a matter of life and death.”
• “America, under Bush, is a danger to the world,” Soros told Laura Blumenfeld of the Washington Post.  “Then he smiled,” she wrote, “’And I’m willing to put my money where my mouth is.’”
• Neoconservatives in the Bush Administration are viewed by Soros as “a bunch of extremists guided by a crude form of social Darwinism.”
• “When I hear Bush say, ‘You’re either with us or against us,’ it reminds me of the Germans,” said Soros, likening President Bush to the Nazis and their slogans such as “Der Feind Hort mit,” “The enemy is listening.”
• “Bush feels that on September 11^th he was annointed by God,” Soros told Blumenfeld. “He’s leading the U.S. and the world toward a vicious circle of escalating violence.”
• Soros puts these arguments in a new book titled The Bubble of Global Supremacy, due out in January. His publisher PublicAffairs Press promises an “intensely critical analysis of the Bush administration’s foreign policy.” An excerpt appears in the December issue of the Atlantic Monthly magazine.
• Because he wants “regime change” in the United States and opposes our intervention in Iraq, Soros is supporting Howard Dean in particular and the more left-wing Democratic candidates in general.
• But what does it say about Dean and the Democratic Party that they have sold their souls to this strange Euro-billionaire?
• George Soros advocates legalized marijuana, hates and boycotts Israel, is regarded by many as anti-Semitic, is a recently-convicted inside trader and global financial manipulator who seeks an end to American supremacy – that is, the global debasement and weakening of the United States? 
• Is this who American voters want as the puppet-master and power behind the throne directing foreign and domestic policies of the United States of America?
• Indeed, will voters support a party that only months ago was screaming for campaign finance reform to prevent the rich from dominating our politics –
• but that now has rejected all such reform and instead sold itself to a single eccentric billionaire whose anti-American views resemble those of France? 
• Is this what Democrats now call democracy? 
• Perhaps they should end the pretense and just rename themselves George Soros' Party. 
• Or the Democratic Party and its candidates can reassert their integrity by denouncing George Soros and refusing to take or benefit from this oddball's money. 
• Mr. Ponte co-hosts a national radio talk show Monday through Friday 6-8 PM Eastern Time (3-5 PM Pacific Time) on the Genesis Communications Network. Internet Audio worldwide is at GCNlive .com. The show's live call-in number is 1-800-259-9231. A professional speaker, he is a former Roving Editor for Reader's Digest.

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• Tuesday, October 13, 2009
• EDITORIAL: An administration of radicals
• The president surrounds himself with dubious aides
• By THE WASHINGTON TIMES
• We know that "safe schools czar" and "Queering Elementary Education" essayist Kevin Jennings failed to oppose homosexual man-boy relationships and that science czar John Holdren has written, without objection, that "laws requiring compulsory abortion could be sustained under the existing Constitution."
• We know that one-time Health and Human Services secretary nominee Tom Daschle had to withdraw because of a failure to pay his taxes.
• But what has not been adequately tallied is how many of President Obama's nominees and appointees are radical or just plain embarrassing.
• When radicalism and ethical shortcomings reach such a critical mass, it's time to broadcast the dishonor roll.
• Therefore, in addition to Mr. Jennings, Mr. Holdren and Mr. Daschle, please consider the ramifications of an administration manned by the likes of the following.
• The radicals:
• Van Jones: The "special adviser for green jobs" resigned on Sept. 5 after stories broke about his ties to a Marxist group, his profane criticisms of congressional Republicans and his association with Sept. 11 "truthers."
• Harold Koh: Barely approved to be the chief legal counsel for the State Department, Mr. Koh is an advocate of the dangerous notion of "transnationalism," which would elevate foreign law above the U.S. Constitution. Mr. Koh has endorsed a "global regulatory" regime to outlaw firearms.
• Sonia Sotomayor: Senate questioners barely touched on the two most disturbing parts of the new Supreme Court justice's record. First was her opinion in Hayden v. Pataki that states can be forced to allow currently incarcerated murderers and rapists to vote. Second was her discriminatory claim in several speeches that because of "inherent physiological or cultural differences," gender and national origins "will make a difference in our judging."
• Ezekiel Emanuel: This key White House adviser on health policy has written that "allocation [of medical care] by age is not invidious discrimination" and that "services provided to individuals who are irreversibly prevented from being or becoming participating citizens are not basic, and should not be guaranteed."
• Louis Butler: The new nominee for a federal district judgeship in Wisconsin is a proponent of the theory that manufacturers should be forced to pay damage awards in lawsuits even if there is no evidence that their products made anybody sick.
• Charles W. Freeman Jr.: His nomination to chair the National Intelligence Council was withdrawn after public notice of his remarks that American reactions to Sept. 11 gave evidence of "an ugly mood of chauvinism," that Israeli settlements in disputed lands are "inherently violent" and that the biggest error of Chinese leaders during the Tiananmen Square uprising was their "overly cautious" reaction.
• The ethically dubious:
• Timothy F. Geithner: The Treasury secretary not only failed to pay all his taxes but actually accepted reimbursement for taxes he never paid.
• Yosi Sergant: This activist was forced out as communications director at the National Endowment for the Arts after he used government resources to commingle politics with the arts.
• Bill Richardson: The New Mexico governor withdrew as nominee to be secretary of commerce because of a federal investigation into alleged improper business dealings in his state.
• Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr.'s involvement in the pardons of fugitive Marc Rich and some Puerto Rican terrorists should have been disqualifying.
• And all of that is just a sampling.
• Climate czar Carol M. Browner earlier this year was still a leader of Socialist International's Commission for a Sustainable World Society. White House counsel Gregory B. Craig and Justice Department Civil Rights chief Thomas E. Perez have troublesome backgrounds as well. And so on.
• An old but true rule of governance is that "personnel is policy." With the Obama administration, that's a scary thought.

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• Dem Apparatchik Describes Millions of Americans as Terrorists
• Kurt Nimmo
   Infowars
   October 12, 2009
• In many ways, Obama receiving the peace prize last week is a non-story.
• War criminals and other psychopaths like Henry Kissinger routinely get the award. Sundry heads of state and their minions are invariably praised as peacemakers after handing down murderous directives no different than Charlie Manson telling his LSD-addled zombies to kill innocents.
•           Don’t think Obama deserved the Nobel? You’re a terrorist, according to DNC communications director Brad Woodhouse.
• In the case of Obama’s award, the real story is in the aftermath and the reaction.
• For instance, consider the reaction of a top Democratic National Committee official after Republican Party Chairman Michael Steele said it was “unfortunate” Obama was given the award.

• Ben Smith of Politico included the following quote in a report filed on October 9:

   

  “The Republican Party has thrown in its lot with the terrorists — the Taliban and Hamas this morning — in criticizing the President for receiving the Nobel Peace prize,” DNC communications director Brad Woodhouse told POLITICO.
• “Republicans cheered when America failed to land the Olympics and now they are criticizing the President of the United States for receiving the Nobel Peace prize — an award he did not seek but that is nonetheless an honor in which every American can take great pride — unless of course you are the Republican Party.
• “The 2009 version of the Republican Party has no boundaries, has no shame and has proved that they will put politics above patriotism at every turn. It’s no wonder only 20 percent of Americans admit to being Republicans anymore — it’s an embarrassing label to claim,” Woodhouse said.
• In short, every American who has a problem with Obama receiving the award is a terrorist, according to the DNC.
• Steele, of course, didn’t say anything about the fact Obama is a terrorist who has as commander in chief ordered the murder of thousands in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and other less publicized places around the world, either directly or through proxies.
• Steele wouldn’t dare. His former boss, George Bush Jr., was responsible for killing over a million Iraqis.
• Democrats and Republicans are identical when it comes to killing people. Both parties — the flip side of the same party — are seasoned pros in the gruesome art of serial murder.
• After Bush the Lesser’s father bombed Iraq back to the Stone Age, Democrat Bill Clinton engaged in ad hoc bombings, boycotts, and sanctions that resulted in the death of hundreds of thousands of people, including 500,000 children.
• In addition to bombing Yugoslavia and Iraq, Clinton attacked Afghanistan and the Sudan (where he bombed a pharmaceutical factory). He enthusiastically supported Turkey in its wanton slaughter of Kurds.
• In the recent past, U.S. presidents have supported brutal dictators such as Diem, Mobutu, the Shah, Pinochet, Suharto, Savimbi, Marcos, Fujimori, Salinas, and many others.
• In Latin America, U.S.-backed (armed and trained) forces committed massacres, political murders, torture, and the rape of women before killing them.
• Reagan, the hero of the Republicans, was responsible for many of these crimes.
• Henry Kissinger is emblematic of the sort of pond scum that gets the Nobel peace prize.
• Kissinger is responsible for almost unbelievable instances of mass murder in Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos, East Timor, Chile and Cyprus. For his role in these genocidal conflicts, he is hailed as an “elder statesman” by the corporate media.

• As for the Taliban, the “terror” group mentioned by Woodhouse, it was created by the CIA.

   

  It didn’t create Hamas — that was left up to the Israelis.
• 263 Responses to “Dem Apparatchik Describes Millions of Americans as Terrorists”
• gregory andert Says: 
     October 12th, 2009 at 4:58 pm   

  Hey Woodhouse, if you or any of your trolls are reading this, stick a phucking gun down your throat and pull te trigger you ass hole MAFIA swine………….

• KiD WiZDOM Reply:
  October 12th, 2009 at 5:05 pm

  JESUS’ TRIAL
    When Jesus was brought to trial before the Roman governor Pontius Pilate, he was charged by the religious leaders with grave offenses: “subverting [the Jewish] nation and forbidding the paying of taxes to Caesar and saying he himself is Christ a king.” (Luke 23:1, 2) This three-pronged charge actually meant they were accusing Jesus of high treason or, as the Romans expressed it, crimen laesae magistrates (today called “lese majesty”). Pilate recognized this when later saying, “You brought this man to me as one inciting the people to revolt.” (Luke 23:13, 14) In 48 B.C.E., the statute called Lex Julia Majestatis had made it an offense to engage in any activity against the sovereign power or the commonwealth of Rome. This law was given broad application so that, by Jesus’ time, virtually any insult to Caesar or any activity giving an outward appearance of sedition could be the basis for the charge of treason. Tiberius, the Caesar then reigning, was particularly sensitive to criticism or opposition, and his rule was noted for the encouragement of “informers” who would bring accusations against supposed traitors.
    Throughout the Roman Empire no king could rule without Caesar’s consent and appointment. Thus, Pilate, in questioning Jesus, apparently concentrated his interrogation on the issue of Jesus’ kingship. (Matt. 27:11; Mark 15:2; Luke 23:3; John 18:33-37) Pilate endeavored to free Jesus as guiltless but the Jewish leaders cried out: “If you release this man, you are not a friend of Caesar. Every man making himself a king speaks against Caesar.” (John 19:12) The term “friend of Caesar” was a title of honor often bestowed on provincial governors: but the Jewish leaders here evidently used it in a general way, implying that Pilate was laying himself open to the charge of condoning high treason, Fear of a jealous emperor was a factor influencing Pilate in pronouncing the death sentence on an innocent man. Meanwhile the priests loudly proclaimed their loyalty to the imperial throne, saying, “We have no king but Caesar,” thereby rejecting any theocratic rule. (John 19:13-16; compare Isaiah 9:6, 7; 33:22.) They objected in vain to the title of “King of the Jews” that Pilate had placed on Jesus stake. (John 19:19-22) The Romans customarily posted a sign identifying the crime for which a criminal was condemned.

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• Democrats In Congress Do The “Hoodwink” and “Rope A Dope” on America! Dems Will Start Funding ACORN Again On Halloween!
• Bachmann: Dems Will Start Funding ACORN Again on Halloween
• Now America KNOWS why some Democrats seemed to agree to this!  They KNEW what was up all along!
• Are you pi$$ed America?

• Funded ONE MILLION dollars through HOMELAND SECURITY?

   

  Janet Napolitano should be excoriated for this!

   

  Congress should DEMAND a full AUDIT of Homeland Security to see how much in federal funding has gone to ACORN all in the name of “Safety” and “Security”…….

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• Oct-03-2009 19:00
• Into the Dark: America's Descent into a Police State
• Gordon Duff Salem-News.com
• Manipulated America: Divided we Fall.
• (CINCINATTI, Ohio) - "From Turkey, they were putting all these bin Ladens on NATO planes. People and weapons went one way, drugs came back...A lot of the drugs were going to Belgium with NATO planes.
• After that, they went to the UK, and a lot came to the U.S. via military planes to distribution centers in Chicago and Paterson, New Jersey."...FBI translator, Sibel Edmonds in the American Conservative
• Top US officials are reported to have been selling US nuclear weapons secrets around the world as part of a spy ring which includes members of Congress from both parties.
• These and other accusations are broadly substantiated, but only by the American Conservative and newspapers around the world, including significant revelations about a 9/11 coverup. How can this be done in a "free country?"
• Massive penetration of, not only Congress, but the Pentagon and State Department are outlined in detail, naming those involved and how it was done.
• Foreign intelligence agencies from Israel, Turkey and Pakistan, regularly accessed highly classified information and sold it around the world, even to terrorist organizations.
• If 9/11 was a terrorist attack, inside job or planned to drag the US into an endless war in the Middle East for some other purpose, the information needed to plan the attacks was sold or given away by high ranking Americans who were under investigation by the FBI until 2001.
• That investigation was ended by the Bush Administration and buried using States Secret Privilege, leading to the biggest espionage disaster in American history.
• This doctrine, since 2001, has been used to end nearly every aspect of accountability in our government.
• Any information can be withheld from Congessional investigations, such as with the 9/11 Commission and any whistleblower can be silenced, even those reporting threats to national security, as with Sibel Edmonds.
• "John Ashcroft’s Justice Department confirmed Edmonds’s veracity in a backhanded way by twice invoking the dubious State Secrets Privilege so she could not tell what she knows.
• The ACLU has called her 'the most gagged person in the history of the United States of America.'"

  • Another government cover-up, like the Franklin scandal from the 1980s and 1990s?
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• Since 2001 and continuing thru with President Obama, a regime of suppression and disinformation has taken over in Washington, totally unaccountable to Congress or the people. With the destruction of any ability for a people to make an informed decision through state secrecy laws without oversight and limit, there can be no democratic rule.
• What are the basic mechanisms to overthrow a democracy?
• First is the press. If you can manipulate the news, suppressing stories, stopping investigations and protecting "flawed" individuals while making the public look under their beds for imaginary enemies, your power is almost unlimited.

  • Currently this is what the Obamatrons are doing courtesy of the NBCs, CBSs, ABCs, CNNs, MSNBC and I am not totally convinced FOX is not involved too
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• If you control three institutions, you control a nation.
• Second is government itself. If you can control government by putting the real power in the hands of a few committee chairmen or key "deal makers" and can flood the system with dirty money, there will be no real investigations, only coverups and no real laws, only raids on the public treasury by the powerful while crumbs are passed out to others.
• Third is public opinion. Turning an intelligent electorate into a howling mob requires an endless series of both outlandish conspiracies and real threats, the truth behind all being misdirected through a concerted effort to divide a populace and keep them at each other, even to the brink of civil war, all to protect the economic cabal growing fat off "terror war" and "deregulation," a buzzword for massive theft.
• When former FBI translator, Sibel Edmonds, reported that Osama bin Laden was an active US asset up to the second the planes hit the twin towers on 9/11, she was put under Patriot Act gag orders by Attorney General John Ashcroft that lasted for years.
• Now that she is speaking, laying out facts supported by key FBI and CIA experts, nothing is hitting our papers. How bad are the facts being kept from us?
• "The 2008 Sunday Times series detailed Edmonds' allegations that Bush's Under Secretary of State Grossman --- the third-highest ranking official in the State Department, after Colin Powell and Richard Armitage --- worked closely with both the Turks and Israel in obtaining and selling U.S. nuclear weapons technology on the worldwide black market, and that he had even tipped off Turkish diplomatic colleagues about the true identify of then-covert CIA operative Valerie Plame-Wilson's front company, Brewster Jennings, several years before the operation was named publicly by columnist Robert Novak"
• While we were pretending to use our Patriot Acts to defend America through torturing suspects to get the truth, we are learning that much more of that coerced testimony may have been gathered to support a wide coverup of government crimes, many at the highest level.

• The American Conservative goes on:

    

  These are some of the things Edmond has sworn to under oath, taken from an interview with former CIA official Philip Geraldi printed in the American Conservative:
• PHILIP GIRALDI: We were very interested to learn of your four-hour deposition in the case involving allegations that Congresswoman Jean Schmidt accepted money from the Turkish government in return for political favors. You provided many names and details for the first time on the record and swore an oath confirming that the deposition was true.
• Basically, you map out a corruption scheme involving U.S. government employees and members of Congress and agents of foreign governments.
• These agents were able to obtain information that was either used directly by those foreign governments or sold to third parties, with the proceeds often used as bribes to breed further corruption.
• Let’s start with the first government official you identified, Marc Grossman, then the third highest-ranking official at the State Department.
• SIBEL EDMONDS: During my work with the FBI, one of the major operational files that I was transcribing and translating started in late 1996 and continued until 2002, when I left the Bureau. Because the FBI had had no Turkish translators, these files were archived, but were considered to be very important operations. As part of the background, I was briefed about why these operations had been initiated and who the targets were.
• Grossman became a person of interest early on in the investigative file while he was the U.S. ambassador to Turkey [1994-97], when he became personally involved with operatives both from the Turkish government and from suspected criminal groups. He also had suspicious contact with a number of official and non-official Israelis.
• Grossman was removed from Turkey short of tour during a scandal referred to as “Susurluk” by the media. It involved a number of high-level criminals as well as senior army and intelligence officers with whom he had been in contact.
• Another individual who was working for Grossman, Air Force Major Douglas Dickerson, was also removed from Turkey and sent to Germany. After he and his Turkish wife Can returned to the U.S., he went to work for Douglas Feith and she was hired as an FBI Turkish translator. My complaints about her connection to Turkish lobbying groups led to my eventual firing.
• Grossman and Dickerson had to leave the country because a big investigation had started in Turkey.
• Special prosecutors were appointed, and the case was headlined in England, Germany, Italy, and in some of the Balkan countries because the criminal groups were found to be active in all those places.
• A leading figure in the scandal, Mehmet Eymür, led a major paramilitary group for the Turkish intelligence service. To keep him from testifying, Eymür was sent by the Turkish government to the United States, where he worked for eight months as head of intelligence at the Turkish Embassy in Washington.
• He later became a U.S. citizen and now lives in McLean, Virginia.
• The central figure in this scandal was Abdullah Catli. In 1989, while “most wanted” by Interpol, he came to the U.S., was granted residency, and settled in Chicago, where he continued to conduct his operations until 1996.

  • Chicago, huh?
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• GIRALDI: So Grossman at this point comes back to the United States. He’s rewarded with the third-highest position at the State Department, and he allegedly uses this position to do favors for “Turkish interests”—both for the Turkish government and for possible criminal interests.
• Sometimes, the two converge. The FBI is aware of his activities and is listening to his phone calls. When someone who is Turkish calls Grossman, the FBI monitors that individual’s phone calls, and when the Turk calls a friend who is a Pakistani or an Egyptian or a Saudi, they monitor all those contacts, widening the net.
• EDMONDS: Correct.

• GIRALDI: And Grossman received money as a result. In one case, you said that a State Department colleague went to pick up a bag of money…

    

  EDMONDS: $14,000
• GIRALDI: What kind of information was Grossman giving to foreign countries? Did he give assistance to foreign individuals penetrating U.S. government labs and defense installations as has been reported?
• It’s also been reported that he was the conduit to a group of congressmen who become, in a sense, the targets to be recruited as “agents of influence.”
• EDMONDS: Yes, that’s correct. Grossman assisted his Turkish and Israeli contacts directly, and he also facilitated access to members of Congress who might be inclined to help for reasons of their own or could be bribed into cooperation.

  • NOTE: It will be recalled that Israel and Turkey up until quite recently, have had quite a cooperative working relationship
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• The top person obtaining classified information was Congressman Tom Lantos.
• A Lantos associate, Alan Makovsky worked very closely with Dr. Sabri Sayari in Georgetown University, who is widely believed to be a Turkish spy.
• Lantos would give Makovsky highly classified policy-related documents obtained during defense briefings for passage to Israel because Makovsky was also working for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC).
• GIRALDI: Makovsky is now working for the Washington Institute for Near Eastern Policy, a pro-Israeli think tank.
• EDMONDS: Yes. Lantos was at the time probably the most outspoken supporter of Israel in Congress. AIPAC would take out the information from Lantos that was relevant to Israel, and they would give the rest of it to their Turkish associates.
• The Turks would go through the leftovers, take what they wanted, and then try to sell the rest. If there were something relevant to Pakistan, they would contact the ISI officer at the embassy and say, “We’ve got this and this, let’s sit down and talk.” And then they would sell it to the Pakistanis.

  • It's all beginning to make sense now, isn't it?
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• GIRALDI: ISI—Pakistani intelligence—has been linked to the Pakistani nuclear proliferation program as well as to al-Qaeda and the Taliban.
• So the FBI was monitoring these connections going from a congressman to a congressman’s assistant to a foreign individual who is connected with intelligence to other intelligence people who are located at different embassies in Washington. And all of this information is in an FBI file somewhere?
• EDMONDS: Two sets of FBI files, but the AIPAC-related files and the Turkish files ended up converging in one.
• The FBI agents believed that they were looking at the same operation.
• The original targets were intelligence officers under diplomatic cover in the Turkish Embassy and the Israeli Embassy. It was those contacts that led to the American Turkish Council and the Assembly of Turkish American Associations and then to AIPAC fronting for the Israelis. It moved forward from there.
• It didn’t start with AIPAC originally. It started with the Israeli Embassy.
• GIRALDI: So the FBI was monitoring people from the Israeli Embassy and the Turkish Embassy and one, might presume, the Pakistani Embassy as well?
• The FBI would intercept communications to try to identify who the diplomatic target’s intelligence chief was, but then, in addition to that, there are individuals there, maybe the military attaché, who had their own contacts who were operating independently of others in the embassy.
• EDMONDS: They were the secondary target. They got leftovers from the Turks and Israelis.
• GIRALDI: So the network starts with a person like Grossman in the State Department providing information that enables Turkish and Israeli intelligence officers to have access to people in Congress, who then provide classified information that winds up in the foreign embassies?
• EDMONDS: Absolutely. And we also had Pentagon officials doing the same thing.
• We were looking at Richard Perle and Douglas Feith. They had a list of individuals in the Pentagon broken down by access to certain types of information. Some of them would be policy related, some of them would be weapons-technology related, some of them would be nuclear-related.
• Perle and Feith would provide the names of those Americans, officials in the Pentagon, to Grossman, together with highly sensitive personal information: this person is a closet gay; this person has a chronic gambling issue; this person is an alcoholic.
• The files on the American targets would contain things like the size of their mortgages or whether they were going through divorces. One Air Force major I remember was going through a really nasty divorce and a child custody fight. They detailed all different kinds of vulnerabilities.
• GIRALDI: So they had access to their personnel files and also their security files and were illegally accessing this kind of information to give to foreign agents who exploited the vulnerabilities of these people to recruit them as sources of information?

  • NOTE: Recall the VA employee's laptop that was "stolen" during George W. Bush's term in office? Any connection?
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• EDMONDS: Yes. Some of those individuals on the list were also working for the RAND Corporation. RAND ended up becoming one of the prime targets for these foreign agents.
• GIRALDI: RAND does highly classified research for the U.S. government. So they were setting up these people for recruitment as agents or as agents of influence?
• EDMONDS: Yes, and the RAND sources would be paid peanuts compared to what the information was worth when it was sold if it was not immediately useful for Turkey or Israel.
• They also had sources who were working in some midwestern Air Force bases.

  • NOTE: Any connection with the B52 bomber and it's payload of an armed nuclear bomb that was loaded and flown out of Minot AFB in the Dakotas to an air base in Louisiana, also during the George W. Bush admin? There was speculation the bomb was intended for a specific troublesome country in the Middle East. Heads rolled,of course but as usual, probably not the heads that should'eva been rolling. Air men connected with the scandal were found to have been "suicided" or "whacked" in auto accidents. Even the base CO in the Dakotas was found in a field..yes.."suicided." Was all this additional scandal and tragedy to hush up some people?
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• The sources would provide the information on CD’s and DVD’s.
• In one case, for example, a Turkish military attaché got the disc and discovered that it was something really important, so he offered it to the Pakistani ISI person at the embassy, but the price was too high. Then a Turkish contact in Chicago said he knew two Saudi businessmen in Detroit who would be very interested in this information, and they would pay the price. So the Turkish military attaché flew to Detroit with his assistant to make the sale.
• GIRALDI: We know Grossman was receiving money for services.
• EDMONDS: Yes. Sometimes he would give money to the people who were working with him, identified in phone calls on a first-name basis, whether it’s a John or a Joe.
• Grossman would brag, “We just fax to our people at the New York Times. They print it under their names.”
• He also took care of some other people, including his contact at the New York Times.

• GIRALDI: Did Feith and Perle receive any money that you know of?

    

  EDMONDS: No.
• GIRALDI: So they were doing favors for other reasons. Both Feith and Perle were lobbyists for Turkey and also were involved with Israel on defense contracts, including some for Northrop Grumman, which Feith represented in Israel.
• EDMONDS: They had arrangements with various companies, some of them members of the American Turkish Council. They had arrangements with Kissinger’s group, with Northrop Grumman, with former secretary of state James Baker’s group, and also with former national security adviser Brent Scowcroft.
• The monitoring of the Turks picked up contacts with Feith, Wolfowitz, and Perle in the summer of 2001, four months before 9/11.
• They were discussing with the Turkish ambassador in Washington an arrangement whereby the U.S. would invade Iraq and divide the country.
• They were negotiating what Turkey required in exchange for allowing an attack from Turkish soil. The Turks were very supportive, but wanted a three-part division of Iraq to include their own occupation of the Kurdish region.
• The UK would take the south, the rest would go to the U.S.
• The three Defense Department officials said that would be more than they could agree to, but they continued daily communications to the ambassador and his defense attaché in an attempt to convince them to help.
• Meanwhile Scowcroft, who was also the chairman of the American Turkish Council, Baker, Richard Armitage, and Grossman began negotiating separately for a possible Turkish protectorate. Nothing was decided, and then 9/11 took place.
• Scowcroft was all for invading Iraq in 2001 and even wrote a paper for the Pentagon explaining why the Turkish northern front would be essential. I know Scowcroft came off as a hero to some for saying he was against the war, but he was very much for it until his client’s conditions were not met by the Bush administration.
• GIRALDI: Armitage was deputy secretary of state at the time Scowcroft and Baker were running their own consulting firms that were doing business with Turkey. Grossman had just become undersecretary, third in the State hierarchy behind Armitage.
• You’ve previouly alluded to efforts by Grossman, as well as high-ranking officials at the Pentagon, to place Ph.D. students. Can you describe that in more detail?
• EDMONDS: The seeding operation started before Marc Grossman arrived at the State Department. The Turkish agents had a network of Turkish professors in various universities with access to government information.
• Their top source was a Turkish-born professor of nuclear physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was useful because MIT would place a bunch of Ph.D. or graduate-level students in various nuclear facilities like Sandia or Los Alamos, and some of them were able to work for the Air Force.
• He would provide the list of Ph.D. students who should get these positions. In some cases, the Turkish military attaché would ask that certain students be placed in important positions.
• And they were not necessarily all Turkish, but the ones they selected had struck deals with the Turkish agents to provide information in return for money.
• If for some reason they had difficulty getting a secuity clearance, Grossman would ensure that the State Department would arrange to clear them.
• In exchange for the information that these students would provide, they would be paid $4,000 or $5,000. And the information that was sold to the two Saudis in Detroit went for something like $350,000 or $400,000.
• You’ve named people like former House Speaker Dennis Hastert, now a registered agent of the Turkish government.
• GIRALDI: This corruption wasn’t confined to the State Department and the Pentagon—it infected Congress as well.
• In your deposition, you describe the process of breaking foreign-originated contributions into small units, $200 or less, so that the source didn’t have to be reported. Was this the primary means of influencing congressmen, or did foreign agents exploit vulnerabilities to get what they wanted using something like blackmail?
• EDMONDS: In early 1997, because of the information that the FBI was getting on the Turkish diplomatic community, the Justice Department had already started to investigate several Republican congressmen.
• The number-one congressman involved with the Turkish community, both in terms of providing information and doing favors, was Bob Livingston. Number-two after him was Dan Burton, and then he became number-one until Hastert became the speaker of the House.
• Bill Clinton’s attorney general, Janet Reno, was briefed on the investigations, and since they were Republicans, she authorized that they be continued.
• Well, as the FBI developed more information, Tom Lantos was added to this list, and then they got a lot on Douglas Feith and Richard Perle and Marc Grossman.
• At this point, the Justice Department said they wanted the FBI to only focus on Congress, leaving the executive branch people out of it. But the FBI agents involved wanted to continue pursuing Perle and Feith because the Israeli Embassy was also connected. Then the Monica Lewinsky scandal erupted, and everything was placed on the back burner.
• But some of the agents continued to investigate the congressional connection.
• In 1999, they wiretapped the congressmen directly. (Prior to that point they were getting all their information secondhand through FISA, as their primary targets were foreigners.)
• The questionably legal wiretap gave the perfect excuse to the Justice Department. As soon as they found out, they refused permission to monitor the congressmen and Grossman as primary targets.
• But the inquiry was kept alive in Chicago because the FBI office there was pursuing its own investigation. The epicenter of a lot of the foreign espionage activity was Chicago.

  • Chicago again...Very interesting...
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• GIRALDI: So the investigation stopped in Washington, but continued in Chicago?
• EDMONDS: Yes, and in 2000, another representative was added to the list, Jan Schakowsky, the Democratic congresswoman from Illinois.
• Turkish agents started gathering information on her, and they found out that she was bisexual.
• So a Turkish agent struck up a relationship with her. When Jan Schakowsky’s mother died, the Turkish woman went to the funeral, hoping to exploit her vulnerability. They later were intimate in Schakowsky’s townhouse, which had been set up with recording devices and hidden cameras.
• They needed Schakowsky and her husband Robert Creamer to perform certain illegal operational facilitations for them in Illinois. They already had Hastert, the mayor, and several other Illinois state senators involved.

  • Illinois again...I wonder if Obama figures anywhere in this; either as a willing traitor or an unsung hero?
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• I don’t know if Congresswoman Schakowsky ever was actually blackmailed or did anything for the Turkish woman.
• GIRALDI: So we have a pattern of corruption starting with government officials providing information to foreigners and helping them make contact with other Americans who had valuable information.
• Some of these officials, like Marc Grossman, were receiving money directly. Others were receiving business favors: Pentagon associates like Doug Feith and Richard Perle had interests in Israel and Turkey.
• The stolen information was being sold, and the money that was being generated was used to corrupt certain congressmen to influence policy and provide still more information—in many cases information related to nuclear technology.
• EDMONDS: As well as weapons technology, conventional weapons technology, and Pentagon policy-related information.
• GIRALDI: You also have information on al-Qaeda, specifically al-Qaeda in Central Asia and Bosnia. You were privy to conversations that suggested the CIA was supporting al-Qaeda in central Asia and the Balkans, training people to get money, get weapons, and this contact continued until 9/11…
• EDMONDS: I don’t know if it was CIA. There were certain forces in the U.S. government who worked with the Turkish paramilitary groups, including Abdullah Çatli’s group, Fethullah Gülen.

• GIRALDI: Well, that could be either Joint Special Operations Command or CIA.

    

  EDMONDS: Maybe in a lot of cases when they said State Department, they meant CIA?

    

  GIRALDI: When they said State Department, they probably meant CIA.
• Not once did anybody use the word “al-Qaeda.” It was always “mujahideen,” always “bin Laden” and, in fact, not “bin Laden” but “bin Ladens” plural.
• EDMONDS: Okay. So these conversations, between 1997 and 2001, had to do with a Central Asia operation that involved bin Laden.
• There were several bin Ladens who were going on private jets to Azerbaijan and Tajikistan. The Turkish ambassador in Azerbaijan worked with them.
• Marc Grossman was leading it, 100 percent, bringing people from East Turkestan into Kyrgyzstan, from Kyrgyzstan to Azerbaijan, from Azerbaijan some of them were being channeled to Chechnya, some of them were being channeled to Bosnia.
• There were bin Ladens, with the help of Pakistanis or Saudis, under our management.
• From Turkey, they were putting all these bin Ladens on NATO planes. People and weapons went one way, drugs came back.

• GIRALDI: Was the U.S. government aware of this circular deal?

    

  EDMONDS: 100 percent.
• A lot of the drugs were going to Belgium with NATO planes. After that, they went to the UK, and a lot came to the U.S. via military planes to distribution centers in Chicago and Paterson, New Jersey.
• Turkish diplomats who would never be searched were coming with suitcases of heroin.
• GIRALDI: And, of course, none of this has been investigated. What do you think the chances are that the Obama administration will try to end this criminal activity?
• EDMONDS: Well, even during Obama’s presidential campaign, I did not buy into his slogan of “change” being promoted by the media and, unfortunately, by the naïve blogosphere.
• First of all, Obama’s record as a senator, short as it was, spoke clearly. For all those changes that he was promising, he had done nothing.
• In fact, he had taken the opposite position, whether it was regarding the NSA’s wiretapping or the issue of national-security whistleblowers. We whistleblowers had written to his Senate office. He never responded, even though he was on the relevant committees. (end)
• Our questions regarding Edmonds and the extent of what her charges mean are several:
• 1.  How can an FBI investigation of this scope be ended so quickly without any information reaching the public? We have come to believe that everything is leaked? How is such control maintained?
• 2.  When a story like this is broken, why is there no followup investigation by the FBI, Congress or any attempt by investigative reporters, outside a few, to tell the American people the truth?
• 3.  Why has President Obama kept the same repressive and illegal policies in place that were used by the Bush administration?
• We are well beyond conspiracy theory. With the ability of our government to silence this story, which undermines the official versions of nearly everything from 9/11 to the most basic aspects of our national security, can any version of anything, investigated or not, commissions or not, ever be taken as more than part of the real conspiracy behind the conspiracies?
• We have long accepted that our government was for sale to the highest bidder and that our press sold its soul after 9/11 for the privilege of being fed lies and continual access to more of the same. Anyone breaking with the crowd was cut off, denied access and pushed out.
• Everyone working to stifle open government, end challenges to government power and continue down this path is a part of this conspiracy.
• A government operating in secret is, in itself, a conspiracy.
• They are working against, not only the idea of democracy, but against the lives of everyone living in America.
• This has left Americans subject to war for profit, rigged elections, economic slavery at the hands of financial pirates and the Obama administrations willingness to continue Bush era policies to impoverish working Americans.
• Under the guise of patriotism, extremist groups, funded and organized, sometimes publicly, sometimes secretly, by special interest and supported by massive press organizations, some under foreign control,
• The saddest part of this is the willingness of millions of Americans to join in to silence any movement for a free government.
• Groups clamoring for "freedom," sometimes armed, are working feverishly on behalf of war profiteers, foreign spy agencies and criminal elements in our power elite.
• Why is suppressing the truth about 9/11 a way of making us free? Why is challenging the oil and defense cartels considered fascism?
• With continual talk about conspiracies, Zionists, Socialists and endless cabals running a secret government, the real power, the multinational corporations and banking consortiums that control the Federal Reserve system, set oil and commodity prices, manipulate currencies set the course of human history, all unseen, have been around for decades.
• The real goal is power, economic power.
• Stealing oil, running drugs and looting our defense budget is only part of it.
• Governments come and go, elections, real or rigged, assassinations, coups, none of it means much. Even the most secure democracy can be taken down by a handful of dedicated men, be they terrorists, spies or foreign agents. 9/11 proved that.
• If only the intelligent can see and understand the danger, then the real cabal attacks the intelligent as "liberal" and "weak."
• If the patriotic and brave become a danger, send them to war or give them an imaginary enemy, fill the news with warnings and alerts.
• If an investigation starts, channel it into a pet "paid off" Congressman or two and feed it lies.
• Lying is now an honorable part of our national secuity effort.
• If someone stands up, what happens? With Edmonds, John Ashcroft issued executive orders to have her silenced.
• Others are called "truthers" as a way of discrediting them.
• How have we sunk to the point where asking for the truth can discredit someone?

• They come in two flavors:

    

  1. Debunkers present wild and implausible explanations attacking eye witness testimony, science and even video evidence using sarcasm and backed by powerful organizations. Debunkers need prove nothing, only claim, with no accountability, that they have "debunked."
• If a story threatens to break, debunkers, agents of the cabal, jump on it immediately.
• 2. Debunkers also join any investigation but lead it to the "Twilight Zone." Every legitimate story is dumped on the door of "Zionists" or space aliens by this type of debunker. They take plausible attacks on government lies and poison them with insane speculation in order to discredit anyone asking for a legitimate investigation.
• Today, as usual, America is divided and moving toward a period of domestic discord and even home grow terrorism.
• Our military forces have become a prime recruiting ground for the corporate cabal.
• Every group that is easily influenced and easily misinformed, military, police, gun owners or those in isolated rural areas, are subject to wild stories of race war, imaginary Communist takeovers or worldwide Jewish conspriacies.

• Whatever is blown up, a nuclear plant, a famous bridge or monument, the result will be the same:

    

  * More oppressive laws* More defense spending

    

  * More taxes or more debt

    

  * More dead American soldiers

    

  * More high prices for gas

    

  * More and more pundits on TV crying about socialism
• It doesn't take a genius to understand any of this. We love watching movies and TV shows about government conspiracies identical to the one we really seem to have.

• Where is the line? How much has to be lies before we have become the thing we fear most of all, a police state?

    

  Would we even know?

• Gordon Duff is a Marine combat veteran and a regular contributor to Veterans Today. He specializes in political and social issues. You can see a large collection of Gordon's published articles at this link: VeteransToday.com.

    

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• DEMOCRATIC   TYRANTS RULE THE U.S.

• By   Sheriff   Jim R. Schwiesow, Ret.

     

  October   21, 2009
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• “And   it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them:   and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations. And   all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written   in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.   If any man have an ear, let him hear.” Revelation 13:7-9
• The   people of this country, and in fact of the entire world, are witnessing   the concluding constituents of an ancient and diabolical plan, an infernal   contrivance that is as evil and fiendish as the spirit behind it, Satan   the god of this world.
• It is the quest for world conquest through the   institution and insinuation of fear, which is a mystery only to those   who lack the illuminating power of God’s Spirit.
• It is a demonic   - formerly clandestine and now forthright - sinister weaving together   of finance religion and politics by the Order of the Illuminati an order   that envelopes and encompasses the earthly sons of Satan.
• These are no   less wicked and evil than their demonic counterparts of the dark and dirty   Mephistophelean spirit world that guide them, lead them, and possess them   in spirit.
• A   HISTORY
• The   Order of the Illuminati born of Satan and implemented by his manservant   Adam Weishaupt in Bavaria on May 1st of 1776, is a self-perpetuating order   of men by which the Luciferian torch for a new world order has been passed   on seamlessly to succeeding generations by the many previous constituents   that have returned to the dust from whence they came, and from which they   will be resurrected to everlasting condemnation and shame before a righteous   and everlasting God.
• It is not without reason that socialists and communists   annually celebrate May 1st the day of the birth of this Faustian pact   with the Devil; it is their guiding light.
• From   its inception the members of this occultist order cunningly and surreptitiously   accessed the policy-making agencies and offices of European governments,   and by their inclusion in such they did, as contributing members, enable   the international financial fiats that moved them to a controlling dominance   over every national government in the world today.
• Like virulent microbes   they have invaded and infected the social and governmental entities of   every nation on this globe including those of the United States,
• our nation   is now totally - and irrevocably - controlled and in the grasp of the   infernal democratic tyrants that carry out the agenda for the implementation   of a worldwide demonic kingdom.

  • And many in the Republican party are as guilty as any in the Democratic. I have a long and well working memory. I have not forgotten the Bush years and some heavy violations of the Constitution.
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• The   strategic contrivances of our now totalitarian government and of the Marxist   indoctrination agents of the media and learning institutions - in tandem   with the criminal machinations of our corporate, industrial, and financial   magnates - have brought this nation to a now imminent abolition of sovereignty,   a termination of the constitutional right to private property and inheritance,   and the destruction of family and religion.
• The first of these will become   an absolute reality when Comrade Obama signs the United Nations Climate   Change Treaty in Copenhagen in December; the second of these has putatively   been accomplished by the Supreme Court’s destruction of imminent   domain, and the third is already a state of being, the family structure   and religion have been effectively destroyed.
• SATAN AND MEN HATE GOD
• One   cannot read of, or study, the French Revolution without a shuddering revulsion   in regard to its deep wickedness and inhumanity.
• It brought with it a   sickness of spirit and a reign of terror that threatened to destroy all   of Europe, and this was only the first of many such European occurrences   that were produced by the behind the scenes maneuvering of the Order of   the Illuminati.
• Hitler’s Third Reich, Mussolini’s Fascist   Dictatorship and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, as well as a   host of other European and world tyrannical movements, were all brought   to fruition by, and as a consequence of, the godless, occultist, humanistic   and demonist maneuverings of the Illuminati –now a worldwide satanic   endeavor.
• Socialism   is a means to an end, the mechanism by which a worldwide satanic kingdom   will be realized.
• It is a planned methodology that suppresses human dignity,   robs men of their God-given spirit and reduces the human species to an   animalistic nature.
• It is a way for Satan to blaspheme Almighty God and   to demean men, both of whom he hates. What better way to blaspheme God   than to reduce man, who was created in the image of God to an animalistic   nature?
• It was Satan who worked through his servant Charles Darwin to   propagate the lie of evolution, and it was Satan who, through his children   of the Illuminati, brought this monumental and monstrous lie to ascendancy,   in the hearts and minds of men, over the truths of the Bible.
• A   PROPOGATER OF ALL THAT IS EVIL
• In 1847   the Illuminati formed the Communist League, and it was the Illuminati   that commissioned, a year later, Karl Marx to write the Communist Manifesto.
• Likewise it was the Illuminati that financed Lenin’s viciously cruel   1917 October Revolution a movement that very nearly brought them to world   domination, and it was dear folk the Illuminati that financed the election   campaign of the itinerant Kenyon born Marxist usurper that sits in the   office of presidency of the United States of America.
• Via the internet   untold millions of dollars of mysterious, illegal and undocumented contributions   rolled into his campaign coffers from unidentified corporate and financial   Illuminati magnates from the four corners of the world.
• Socialism is merely   the false face of the Marxist Communism that will very shortly conquer   the world.
• In the United States the last vestige of opposition to this   satanic system has been swept away. In the plaintive parlance of the backseat   child’s question, “Are we there yet?” The answer is,   “Yes we are!”
• The   United States was – notice I have written was – the last bastion   of freedom in the world.
• The Federalists instigated a civil war that provided   the gateway into the country that the internationalists had been seeking.
• During the nineteenth century these had consolidated their control of   the central banks throughout Europe, nationalism in Europe was as a matter   of reality already dead, a thing of the past.
• Though Hitler would have   denied it he was in fact owned body and soul by the Illuminati and completely   under their control, the order was absolutely and entirely responsible   for his massive crimes against humanity.
• The central banks in Europe,   being firmly under the control of the Illuminati, used their finance of   the monumental war debt of the American Civil War to export their socialistic-communistic   control to the new land.
• They forced congress to pass the “National   Banking Act” of 1863, and from that time forth the wealth of the   nation has been steadily gathered into the hands of the wealthy few internationalists   that now completely control the nation’s economy.
• The   crowning achievement by the Illuminati, that cinched the delivery of the   people of the United States into the hands of the agents for a new world   order, came with the founding of the American Federal Reserve System in   1913.
• The nation’s fiscal future was now in the hands of a privately   controlled central bank not controlled by the government, but rather endorsed   as the supreme controller of our currency by congressional politicians   in a treacherous and traitorous sellout of the people’s sovereignty.
• With this move the Illuminati now held complete sway over the people’s   destiny.
• Charles Lindberg, Sr. addressed the perfidy of congress with   these words: “When the president signs this bill the invisible government   of the monetary power will be legalized…the worst crime of the ages   is perpetrated by this banking and currency bill.” These are words   with which I most heartily concur.
• Notice   that the recessive economy, that is being currently experienced, has affected   only the common people.
• These have been forced out of the markets, their   savings and retirement accounts have been depleted, their homes have been   re-possessed, and their jobs have been terminated. Their losses were reflected   only briefly by a downturn in the markets into which they had been lured   by their own greed and by the tempters of the financial world who offered   them wealth without honest endeavor.
• In truth the moneyed internationalist   investors have at a rock bottom prices acquired their assets causing the   markets to rebound, but the jobs, homes, savings and tangibles were not   regained. That wealth has been transferred from the many unto the few   who control their destinies.
• It was   a manufactured and manipulated crash in every sense of the word, remember   control is gained through crisis and fear and absolute control is gained   by ever escalating crisis and fear.
• It is fear that makes people receptive   to the intimations of false saviors, be reminded of that when the world   seems to be crashing down around your ears and all hell is breaking out,   the devil and his minions, both man and spirit, haven’t finished   with us just yet, more crisis await and more pseudo saviors stand ready   take advantage of your fears.
• The   politicians who prevail of course should have thwarted all of this and   the media moguls that report on the state of being of the nation should   have kept us duly informed, either these were monumentally stupid or they   are an integral part of the conspiracy, I am firmly in the camp of those   who opt for the latter, but do admit that I also endorse the former.
• COUNTING   DOWN TO THE END
• The   Club of Rome, founded by the Illuminati in 1968, has divided the world   into ten political/economic regions: North America (The United States,   Mexico and Canada), Europe, Japan, Australia, Russia, South America, North   Africa and the Middle East, Central and Southern Africa, and India and   Malaysia/China.
• This tells me that we are in the very late stages of Biblical   prophecy.
• In Satan’s new world order these regions will be amalgamated   into the whole of a world government under the dragon’s iron control.
• Even   now we are rapidly progressing through the final stages of the end of   the age, the world, as we have known it, is dissipating into a new age   that will be more terrifying than any other age in the history of mankind.
• The passing through stage must necessarily be so frightening as to compel   a thoroughly terrified people to accept a world government - under Satan,   and they will.
• Before that comes to pass we can expect civil strife, race   wars, disease and pestilence, hunger and starvation, and economic conditions   so severe as to require worldwide rationing and a control of commerce   that will precede the taking of a mark in order to buy or sell, all of   which will usher in a third world war that will end with the re-established   ascendancy of Europe and the demise of the United States as a world power.
• This war is not to be confused with the war of all wars that will come   at the end of Satan’s reign, a war that unless Christ return to   establish His control no flesh would be saved.
• Our   faith calls us, as believers and followers of Christ, to yield to Him   in every way and to carry out his great commission to bring the message   of the Gospel to a lost world so that those who believe upon the only   Son of God should have eternal life.

• For   by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is   the gift of God:

   

  Not   of works, lest any man should boast.
• © 2009 - Jim   R. Schwiesow - All Rights Reserved

• Jim   Schwiesow is a retired sheriff with 46 years of law enforcement service.   He served with the Unites States Army with the occupation forces in post   war Berlin, Germany, and has a total of nine years of military service,   which includes six years in the U.S. Army Reserve.  

  His   law enforcement service includes: three years in the military police,   fifteen years as an Iowa municipal police officer, and twenty-eight years   as the duly elected sheriff of Sioux County, Iowa.  

  Jim   has written a number of articles, which have been published in various   professional law enforcement journals.  

  E-Mail: jimr@orangecitycomm.net    

   

  Web-Site: www.sheriffjimonline.com  

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• Hoyer Says Constitution’s ‘General Welfare’ Clause Empowers Congress to Order Americans to Buy Health Insurance
• Wednesday, October 21, 2009
            By   Matt Cover, Staff Writer
• (CNSNews.com) – House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) said that the individual health insurance mandates included in every health reform bill, which require Americans to have insurance, were “like paying taxes.”
• He added that Congress has “broad authority” to force Americans to purchase other things as well, so long as it was trying to promote “the general welfare.”
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  House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) (AP Photo)
• The Congressional Budget Office, however, has stated in the past that a mandate forcing Americans to buy health insurance would be an “unprecedented form of federal action,” and that the “government has never required people to buy any good or service as a condition of lawful residence in the United States.”
• Hoyer, speaking to reporters at his weekly press briefing on Tuesday, was asked by CNSNews.com where in the Constitution was Congress granted the power to mandate that a person must by a health insurance policy.
• Hoyer said that, in providing for the general welfare, Congress had “broad authority.”
• “Well, in promoting the general welfare the Constitution obviously gives broad authority to Congress to effect that end,” Hoyer said. “The end that we’re trying to effect is to make health care affordable, so I think clearly this is within our constitutional responsibility.”
• Hoyer compared a health insurance mandate to the government’s power to levy taxes, saying “we mandate other things as well, like paying taxes.”
• The section of the Constitution Hoyer was referring to, Article I, Section 8, outlines the powers of Congress, including raising taxes, but not the purchasing any type of product or service.
• The opening paragraph of Section 8 grants Congress the power to raise taxes to, among other things, “provide for the … general welfare of the United States.”
• Section 8 partly reads: “The Congress shall have Power to lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States.”
• The Constitution then details the specific powers of Congress, including raising an Army and Navy, regulating commerce between states, and to “make all laws necessary and proper” for the carrying out of these enumerated powers.
• “To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof,” concludes Section 8.
• CNSNews.com also asked Hoyer if there is a limit to what Congress can mandate that Americans purchase and whether there is anything that specifically could not be mandated to purchase.
• Hoyer said that eventually the Supreme Court would find a limit to Congress’ power, adding that mandates that unfairly favored one person or company over another would obviously be unconstitutional.
• “I’m sure the [Supreme] Court will find a limit,” Hoyer said. “For instance, if we mandated that you buy General Motors’ automobiles, I believe that would be far beyond our constitutional responsibility and indeed would violate the Due Process Clause as well – in terms of equal treatment to automobile manufacturers.”
• Hoyer said that the insurance mandate was constitutional because Congress is not forcing Americans to buy one particular policy, just any health insurance policy.
• “We don’t mandate that they buy a particular insurance [policy] but what we do mandate is that like driving a car -- if you’re going to drive a car, to protect people on the roadway, and yourself, and the public for having to pay your expenses if you get hurt badly – that you need to have insurance,” said Hoyer.
• In 1994, the Congressional Budget Office reported the following about health insurance mandates: “A mandate requiring all individuals to purchase health insurance would be an unprecedented form of federal action. The government has never required people to buy any good or service as a condition of lawful residence in the United States.
• An individual mandate would have two features that, in combination, would make it unique. First, it would impose a duty on individuals as members of society. Second, it would require people to purchase a specific service that would be heavily regulated by the federal government.”
• Under all five of the health care bills currently being considered in Congress, every American adult would have to have a policy that conformed to government standards for coverage and premiums.
• Each bill creates Bronze, Silver, and Gold health insurance plans and mandates that Americans buy one of them, either through their employer or through government-run exchanges.
• David B. Rivkin, a constitutional lawyer with Baker & Hostetler, told CNSNews.com that Hoyer’s argument was “silly,” adding that if the general welfare clause was that elastic, then nothing would be outside of Congress’ powers.
• “Congressman Hoyer is wrong,” Rivkin said. “The notion that the general welfare language is a basis for a specific legislative exercise is all silly because if that’s true, because general welfare language is inherently limitless, then the federal government can do anything.
    
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• Congress passes 'Pedophile Protection Act'
• Opponents worry over special 'hate crimes' treatment for homosexuals
• Posted: October 22, 2009
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• A "hate crimes" plan that opponents have warned will be used to crack down on Christian speech, even the reading of the Bible, is poised to be signed by President Obama, a longtime proponent of the plan to give homosexuals and those with other alternative lifestyles special protections not provided other classes of citizens.
• The Senate approved the "hate crimes" plan 68-29 today after Democrats strategically attached it to a "must-pass" $680 billion defense appropriations plan.
• Most Republicans, although normally strong supporters of the U.S. military, opposed the plan.
• "The inclusion of the controversial language of the hate crimes legislation, which is unrelated to our national defense, is deeply troubling," Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., told Fox News after the vote.
• The plan also hands out federal money to states and local governments in pursuit of "preventing" hate crimes.
• Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., said the move is a step toward thought crimes and suggested the bill will be a warning against those to speak out about their religious faith.
• Obama was strongly supported during his 2008 presidential campaign by homosexual advocates, and has expressed a willingness to act on the proposal, calling it an "important civil rights issue."
• The plan – which creates federal protections and privileges for homosexuals and other alternative lifestyles but denies those protections to other groups of citizens – earlier was approved in the U.S. House.

• When the Senate earlier approved a key move, Mathew Staver, founder of Liberty Counsel, said, "In … months President Obama and the Democratic-led Congress have forced on the American people the most radical and immoral agenda.  

  "The administration and the Democratic-led Congress are out of touch with the mainstream. They represent the most fringe extreme elements of America. They will not be able to continue their efforts to undermine moral values, socialize the economy and trash American pride and heritage.  
• "The people will not remain silent forever," he said.
• The House vote prompted the American Family Association to alert its constituents and create a procedure for them to send e-mails to Washington about the plan.
• "In its never-ending quest to shred America's Judeo-Christian value system, the left is planning to hurriedly push through a 'thought crimes' bill," the alert said. "So-called 'hate crimes' laws are really laws that criminalize thought, because they punish an individual not for what he did but for what he thought. Politically incorrect thoughts about homosexual behavior will result in enhanced criminal sanctions under this law."
• The AFA said, "Everywhere hate crimes laws have gone into effect, they have been quickly used to intimidate, silence and punish people of faith who express deeply held religious objections to the normalization of homosexuality.
• "Such laws not only punish officially disapproved speech and thought, they create two tiers of victims. Under hate crimes laws, some victims get more protections than others, which violates the fundamental American principle of equality under the law," the alert said. "In fact, such laws actively discriminate against heterosexual Christians who are victims of crime, since they will get less legal protection than homosexual victims."
• The American Family Association said since "sexual orientation" nowhere is defined in the law, "this law will give pedophiles, voyeurs, and exhibitionists special protections, which is why the bill has correctly been called 'The Pedophile Protection Act.'"
• Also offering an online "contact Washington" process is the organization Pray in Jesus Name, founded by former U.S. Navy Chaplain Gordon Klingenschmitt, who was involuntarily removed from the U.S. military after he prayed "in Jesus name."
• His organization submitted via fax almost 400,000 petitions to Washington opposing the "hate crimes" law.
• Also, a separate larger Fed Ex campaign to warn U.S. Senate members of the dangers of the "hate crimes" plan dispatched more than 705,000 letters to senators.
• The letter-writing effort was organized by WND columnist Janet Porter, who also heads the Faith2Action Christian ministry. It allowed citizens to send individually addressed letters to all 100 senators over their own "signature" for only $10.95.
• Klingenschmitt said there is a remote chance Obama may not like the proposal, since it is linked to funding for an engine for the F-35 fighter jet, which he has opposed.
• "If President Obama vetoes the F-35 second engine, as he promised when speaking in Phoenix last spring, he will ironically kill the homosexual agenda and their evil 'Pedophile Protection Act,'" he wrote.
• Attempts by Republicans to add amendments stating "pedophilia is not protected as a sexual orientation" were  blocked by House Democrats.
• In fact, Rep. Alcee Hastings, D-Fla., said all alternative sexual lifestyles should be protected.
• "This bill addresses our resolve to end violence based on prejudice and to guarantee that all Americans regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability or all of these 'philias' and fetishes and 'isms' that were put forward need not live in fear because of who they are. I urge my colleagues to vote in favor of this rule," he said.
• Further, the proposal has a broad definition of "intimidation," so a Christian pastor's sermon could be considered 'hate speech" if heard by an individual who then acts aggressively against someone based on "sexual orientation."
• The pastor, Klingenschmitt said, could be prosecuted for "conspiracy to commit a hate crime" or "inciting violence against gays" for quoting the Bible.
• As it went through the House, the version was H.R. 1913, or the Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2009. The Senate then worked on its own version, and it ultimately was added as an amendment to a defense spending plan.
• As WND reported, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder admitted a homosexual activist who is attacked following a Christian minister's sermon about homosexuality would be protected by the proposed federal law, but a minister attacked by a homosexual wouldn't be
• The revelations came from Holder's June testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, which was taking comments on the proposal. The measure also was the subject of discussion on talk radio host Rush Limbaugh's July 3 show.

• "This is the question," Limbaugh said. "(Sen.) Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) presents a hypothetical where a minister gives a sermon, quotes the Bible about homosexuality and is thereafter attacked … by a gay activist because of what the minister said about his religious beliefs and what Scripture says about homosexuality. Is the minister protected?"  

  No, said Holder.  
• "Well, the statute would not – would not necessarily cover that," Holder stated. "We're talking about crimes that have a historic basis. Groups who have been targeted for violence as a result of the color of their skin, their sexual orientation, that is what this statute tends – is designed to cover. We don't have the indication that the attack was motivated by a person's desire to strike at somebody who was in one of these protected groups. That would not be covered by the statute."
• Continued Limbaugh, "In other words: ministers and whites are not covered by the hate crime statute because we're talking about crimes that have a historic basis, groups who have been targeted for violence as a result of their skin color, sexual orientation. So hate crimes are reserved exclusively for blacks and homosexuals. Everybody else can get to the back of the bus on this one."
• The bill was nicknamed "The Pedophile Protection Act" when Rep. Steve King proposed an amendment during its trek through the U.S. House that would specify pedophiles could not use the law to protect their activities.
• Majority Democrats flatly refused.

  • And this law comes in the midst of yet another child murder in Florida..(week of Oct 22, 2009). Yeah, protect the child rapists/murderers and thereby force the family members of said child to seek retribution and justice by their own means; thus government's continued contribution to crime.
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• Erik Stanley, senior legal counsel with the Alliance Defense Fund, told WND the move is alarming because "this would be the very first governmental and societal disapproval of a sincerely held religious belief, held by a majority of Americans, namely that homosexual behavior is immoral.
• "It's the first time the federal government is writing into law a disapproval of that belief," he said.
• While he said he doesn't believe there will be "immediate" prosecutions of pastors and churches for teaching the biblical injunction that homosexual behavior is sin, "I think the effect on speech and religious speech is nonetheless real."
• He said he does expect that pastors soon will begin being called to testify in "hate crime" cases in court "as to what that pastor preaches, what the church teaches, what the Bible teaches."
• "When this happens, there will be a shock wave through pastorates in America," he said.
• Ultimately, he warned that the homosexual advocates who have pushed the "hate crimes" plan consider this law just the first step "toward silencing Christians."
• That development already has been observed not only with the enactment of "hate crimes" laws in other nations but in the "hate crime" related speech codes existing on many university campuses in the U.S., Stanley said.

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• DAMAGING   DISCLOSURES IN VAN JONES SCANDAL
• By Cliff Kincaid
    October 25, 2009
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• When   Van Jones resigned his White House job, under fire for his pro-communist   views, White House adviser David Axelrod said that Jones had himself made   the decision to leave the administration.
• But new documents indicate that   Jones didn’t even write his own resignation letter.
• It is now abundantly   clear that he was pushed out because the scandal threatened to implicate   Obama friend and White House adviser Valerie Jarrett in the scandal that   gave him a critical White House position without proper vetting.
• Jones,   a self-identified communist, was an anti-police activist in Oakland, California,   before an extreme makeover landed him at the George Soros-funded Center   for American Progress in Washington, D.C. as a “senior fellow.”
• This is the entity that has provided a number of top officials for the   Obama Administration and even sponsored public appearances by cop-killer   apologist Marc Lamont Hill, the fired Fox News analyst who appeared regularly   on The O’Reilly Factor.
• The   documents I have received indicate that many different officials from   the White House, operating on the evening of Saturday, September 5, and   into the early morning hours of Sunday September 6, were preoccupied with   the matter of how to arrange Jones’ ouster from the White House   Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ).
• It is clear that the increasing   scrutiny devoted by Glenn Beck of Fox News to Jones’ communist connections   was taking its toll on the Obama Administration.
• Citing   his coverage of Jones, the Center for American Progress (CAP) had attacked   Beck for “red-baiting” and channeling Joe McCarthy, the anti-communist   Senator.
• Yet,   Jones was deeply involved in a Marxist group, Standing Together To Organize   a Revolutionary Movement or STORM, which sent some of its members of Cuba   for brainwashing.
• Jones was also on a list of “veteran activists”   attending a conference in the summer of 1998 at the University of Illinois   at Chicago, the same place where Weather Underground leader Bill Ayers   is now a professor, in order to plot the "Black Liberation Agenda   for the 21st Century" under the auspices of the Black Radical Congress.
• Angela Davis, former Communist Party USA official, participated, and the   CPUSA helped organize the event. Jones named a son in honor of Amilcar   Cabral, the African Marxist.
• CAP   insisted that Jones had renounced his communist views in 2000 and favored   “business-based solutions” for the environment.
• But in fact   he gave an interview last year to “Uprising Radio” stating   that his goals were “transforming the whole society” and going   beyond "systems of exploitation and oppression” and even “eco-capitalism.”
• When   I initially requested documents through the Freedom of Information Act   (FOIA) relating to the hiring of Jones by the White House CEQ and the   agency’s knowledge of his communist background, the agency said   it had none.
• However, Jones, the “Green Jobs Czar,” was technically   a “special adviser” at the CEQ, and his hiring had been announced   by Nancy Sutley, chair of the CEQ.
• It was strange, to say the least, that   the entity which employed him had no documents about how he was hired   and by whom.
• There   is nothing in the new documents I have received—and I requested   a copy of anything relating to his resignation—indicating that Jones   had written the resignation statement himself.
• Indeed, there are no emails   from Jones himself about any of this. Everything seems to have been orchestrated   by the CEQ working under the supervision of Obama’s White House   advisers.
• “This   is Van’s [resignation] statement,” states an email from Jonathan   K. Carson, chief of staff at the CEQ. “He understands that it will   be sent out tonight.” The tone of “he understands” suggests   that Jones has been informed or even told how his resignation will be   carried out.
• Before   becoming chief of staff at the CEQ, Carson was national field director   for Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign.
• The   timing of the email exchanges was unusual, indicating that the controversy   was so intense that things couldn’t wait until Monday, September   7.
• The   Carson email was dated Saturday, September 5, around 10:42 p.m., and was   sent to a number of high-level Obama Administration staffers, including   Communications Director Anita Dunn, press secretary Gibbs, and Patrick   Gaspard, Director of the White House Office of Political Affairs and former   operative and lobbyist for the Service Employees International Union (SEIU).
• The   CEQ said, however, that it was withholding three documents totaling 5   pages in response to my request.
• The   documents which have been released are nevertheless significant because   they help demonstrate that Jones was indeed answerable to Obama’s   inner circle.
• Obama White House adviser Valerie Jarrett had said publicly   that “we” had been following Jones since his days as an activist   in Oakland, California, and had “recruited him into the White House.”   The “we” presumably included the president himself.
• The   mounting controversy over his role in the administration and the attention   being given to his communist background was something that greatly concerned   Obama’s top advisers.
• The   focus, as noted by New Zealand blogger Trevor Loudon, who broke the story   of Jones’ communist connections, was going to the question of “who   hired him and why an easily identifiable communist revolutionary with   a police record could serve as a presidential adviser.”
• As this   attention was building, AIM released a column, “Van Jones Scandal   Threatens the Obama Presidency,” on the late afternoon of September   5, in which we pointed out that “…if Jones’ background   can sink Jones, the President himself is in trouble.
• Obama has decades   of friendly associations with communists and terrorists, ranging from   Communist Party USA member Frank Marshall Davis in his youth in Hawaii   to communist terrorists Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn in Chicago when   he was doing community organizing and running for political office.
• By   comparison to Obama, when it comes to nefarious connections, Jones is   a piker.”
• After   his forced ouster, Jones’ former patron and sponsor, John Podesta   of the Center for American Progress, adopted the White House line and   declared that Jones “has chosen to resign because he believed he   was serving as a distraction to the president’s agenda. I respect   that decision.”
• But   the documents released to this columnist through the FOIA include no indication   whatsoever that Jones wanted to resign. Instead, the documents indicate   that a resignation letter was written for Jones and issued in his name.
• At about   the same time that Carson informed the White House that a statement of   resignation would be issued in Jones’ name, CEQ chair Nancy Sutley   sent an email to Carol Browner, the White House energy czar and an associate   of the Socialist International, informing her about the pending “Resignation   of Van Jones.” At one minute after midnight, the Jones resignation   statement had been sent out.
• An email   from another CEQ official, Jessica Maher, a former senior policy advisor   for socialist Senator Bernie Sanders, was sent shortly thereafter. She   said that “I reached out to Reid, Pelosi, Durbin and Hoyer offices.”   Damage control was now completely underway.
• The   White House line was that Jones was gone and it was time to move on. The   Jones resignation letter was sent out along with a statement thanking   him for his service from Sutley.
• “Christine   has the list of the White House reporters for both of the statements to   be sent to,” stated an email from Obama’s former Senate press   secretary and now White House spokesman Benjamin LaBolt.
• Christine   is Christine Glunz, who functioned as Jones’ mouthpiece and sidekick   and previously worked for disgraced former Illinois Governor Rod R. Blagojevich.
• The   coverage followed the carefully orchestrated White House line. “In   a statement Saturday night,” CNN declared, “the White House   said Jones was giving up his post at the Council on Environmental Quality,   where he helped coordinate government agencies focused on delivering millions   of green jobs to the ailing U.S. economy.”
• On September   6, Obama adviser David Axelrod was on NBC’s “Meet the Press”   and denying that the president had asked Jones to resign. “Absolutely   not,” Axelrod said. “This was Jones’ own decision.”
• Axelrod   added, “He said in his statement that he didn't want his comments   to become a distraction from the issue, which is so important to the future   of our economy and communities around the country. And I commend him for   making that decision.”
• Meanwhile,   $500 million has already been authorized by the Obama “stimulus”   bill for “green jobs” projects that Van Jones was supposed   to specialize in.
• One   group that has been following where the money is going with keen interest   is Green for All, Jones’ former organization, which is working to   funnel it to left-wing labor unions to hire “green collar”   workers.
• ©   2009 Cliff Kincaid - All Rights Reserved

• Cliff Kincaid,   a veteran journalist and media critic, Cliff concentrated in journalism   and communications at the University of Toledo, where he graduated with   a Bachelor of Arts degree.

   

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• U.S. combat injuries rise sharply
• Three-month total in Afghanistan surpasses 1,000
• By Ann Scott Tyson
   Washington Post Staff Writer
   Saturday, October 31, 2009
• More than 1,000 American troops have been wounded in battle over the past three months in Afghanistan, accounting for one-fourth of those injured in combat since the U.S.-led invasion in 2001.
• The dramatic increase in amputees and other seriously injured service members comes as October marks the deadliest month for U.S. troops in Afghanistan.
• Expanded military operations, a near-doubling of the number of troops since the beginning of the year and a Taliban offensive that has included a proliferation of roadside bombings have led to the great increase in casualties.
• In mid-2007, 600 U.S. troops were wounded in Iraq each month out of about 150,000 troops deployed there. In Afghanistan, about 68,000 troops are currently installed, with about 350 wounded each month recently.
• U.S. troops in Afghanistan are suffering wounds at a higher rate than those who were serving in Iraq when violence spiraled during the military "surge" two years ago.
• Pentagon press secretary Geoff Morrell acknowledged that the casualties in Afghanistan have surpassed Iraq surge proportions and noted that the violence in Afghanistan is directed more against U.S. and other coalition forces, whereas it was heavily sectarian in Iraq. "It shows you how we are the targets and how effectively they are targeting us," Morrell said.
• He noted that Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates has become concerned about the rising number of wounded and has ordered thousands of additional support troops to Afghanistan to look for, and minimize, the roadside bombs.
• Military doctors say the nature of the Afghanistan casualties is reminiscent of those in Iraq in 2007. "We're seeing similar types of injuries from Afghanistan that we saw in Iraq" before and during the surge, said Lt. Col. Shelton Davis, chief of physical medicine at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington.
• The bombs account for 70 to 80 percent of U.S. and coalition casualties in that country, according to Lt. Gen. Thomas F. Metz, director of the Pentagon's Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization.
• More than 1,000 improvised explosive devices, or roadside bombs, exploded or were found in Afghanistan in August, more than double any monthly total until this summer.
• The bombs are so powerful, he said, that they can take out the latest mine-resistant vehicles the Pentagon has employed to protect troops. In addition, insurgents have begun targeting troops on foot.
• Metz told military reporters this week that IEDs are now the "weapon of choice" for Taliban fighters.
• He said that the rise in bombings has coincided with the doubling of U.S. troop numbers this year and that further troop increases -- now under consideration by President Obama -- would bring more bombs.
• As U.S. ground forces moved in this year, Metz said at a House Armed Services Committee hearing this week, "the enemy was ready with a very thick array of IEDs. . . . Those soldiers and Marines ran into those IEDs, and it was what we predicted."
• Walter Reed's Ward 57 provides wrenching proof of the devastating effectiveness of the bombs, with patients suffering amputations, spinal cord damage, traumatic brain injuries and fractures.
• On Aug. 18, Lt. Dan Berschinski, 25, of Peach Tree City, Ga., was serving as a platoon leader with the Stryker brigade combat team in Kandahar province, where the roads were laced with bombs and his unit had to operate without engineer support or mine-detection equipment.
• His platoon was crossing a footbridge when a bomb threw Berschinski to the ground, deafened a sergeant and blew up Pfc. Jonathan Yanney, a radio operator. An initial search located part of Yanney's shredded helmet, pieces of a boot and some small body parts that Berschinski said team members put in a plastic bag.
• Realizing that not only the roads but also the foot trails were too dangerous, Berschinski and his men moved on by walking through shin-high water. Regrouping in a mud-walled compound later that day, Berschinski was passing a gate when another bomb blew up underneath him, bouncing him off a wall and tossing him back into the crater that had formed.
• "I immediately reached down -- up, really, since I was upside down -- for my legs. I could tell they were gone," Berschinski said in a written account provided by his family. His right leg and hip and his left leg above the knee were amputated. According to Metz, few soldiers have survived stepping on such bombs.
• But the survival rate among the wounded is greater than in previous conflicts because of improved first aid, quick evacuations to field hospitals and better armored protection.
• Busy wards in wartime
• As more wounded flow in, hospitals must adjust.
• "We can open more beds as needed and bring on more staff as needed. As you can imagine, that is not without its own challenges," said Col. Paul Pasquina, chief of orthopedics and rehabilitation at Walter Reed and the Bethesda National Naval Medical Hospital.
• He noted that although military medical personnel are in demand stateside, they also must deploy overseas.
• "The ward is pretty full now," said Tracy Glascoe, a physician assistant on Ward 57.
• One significant challenge, she said, is helping wounded troops transition from a regimen of constant ward care so that they can work on further physical rehabilitation.
• Resting the stub of his right leg on his hospital bed one day last week, Spec. Harrison Ruzicka, 23, said he is eager for physical therapy. Ruzicka, who is from North Carolina knows he faces a long recovery but said he was thankful to be alive after a bomb flipped his armored vehicle into a river on Aug. 7.
• He recalled being pinned under the vehicle and fearing he could drown in the river.
• He said he screamed for help but quickly realized no one was there. He somehow got loose, swam to the embankment and dragged himself onto land with his arms. He knew his legs were broken. "I didn't want to look at them because I would have put myself in shock," he said.
• He started calling for his good friend, vehicle driver Sgt. Jerry R. Evans Jr., 23, of Eufaula, Ala. "I was in his wedding party," Ruzicka said. "There was no response. Nothing from him."

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• Wall Street tax must be international: Pelosi
• Thu Nov 19, 2009
• By Andy Sullivan
• 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.
• "It would have to be an international rule, not just a U.S. rule," Pelosi said at a news conference.
• "We couldn't do it alone, we'd have to do it as an international initiative."
• Several House Democrats have proposed a Wall Street tax to pay for job-creating legislation they plan to pass in December.
• The tax, which could raise $150 billion per year, would tap into widespread public outrage at Wall Street in the wake of the financial crisis.
• "There's something really out of kilter in this society," said Democratic Representative Marcy Kaptur, noting the gap between wages in her Ohio district and Wall Street bonuses.

  • There's something "out of kilter" alright and it stinks to the heavens..
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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.
• The No. 4 Democrat in the House, Representative John Larson, said his proposal to impose a 0.25 percent tax on over-the-counter derivatives transactions would apply internationally.
• "Part of our proposal would include that it would be international," Larson told Reuters after meeting with other lawmakers about the jobs package.

  • So..American Jobs creation/formulation is going to the "Global Community?"
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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.
• Pelosi and other Democratic leaders have emphasized that the proposal is merely one of many ideas in play.
• "It hasn't been developed to a high priority, but it has substantial currency in our caucus," Pelosi said.
• Britain urged other governments earlier this month to consider a bank tax as a way to fund future bailouts, and France and Germany have also called for a bank tax.
• The International Monetary Fund is studying the idea.
• LITTLE ADMINISTRATION SUPPORT
• But it has little support in the Obama administration.
• Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said on Thursday that he has "not seen a version of that tax that I think would be appropriate for our country."
• Democrats are developing their jobs bill to ease double-digit unemployment levels that threaten an economic recovery. The Senate is expected to act early next year.

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• Climate treaty endangers U.S.
• By PATRICIA STEBBINS

               

  December 08, 2009
• Hanging over our free­dom and sovereignty is a document called the“United Nations Climate ChangeTreaty.”

• So what, you may say?

                              

  Here’s what.
• The plan is to have signatories from all countries –Third World, radical leftist nations, and us. Unless we forbid President Obama to sign up America, we’ll be caught in this awful net.
• Here’s what it says: 1. Create a world government with power over every nation signing; 2.Transfer wealth from the West to theThird World; 3. Enforce these measures.
• Now let’s explore what these measures mean to us.
• The first one creates a social­ist world government, some­thing our president appears to advocate.The wording provides the U.N. with power over our country, over our Constitution.

• Yes, this world government will have power over our govern­ment, imposing its will on our energy use, resources and jobs.

  Can you live with that?
• The second will force Ameri­can taxpayers to support and subsidizeThird World nations – unstable countries, with no economies nor the capacity to rule themselves without dicta­tors.
• If you think the economy and unem­ployment are bad now, just wait until this treaty goes into effect – IF we allow our president to sign it!
• In effect, this is redistribution of wealth, reducing the U.S. to Third World status and impov­erishing our citizens.
• Stated in the document is the proviso that once a nation has signed, it may not cancel its membership without the approval of all the other member nations.
• The third goal of the treaty is the most ominous.
• Let that sink in.
• No future president, no elected Congress or Senate can vote to take us out of the agreement. And why would they agree to let us out – we will be the biggest cash cow they’ve ever had!
• Recently, theTimes printed an ominous article, quoting agencies of the U.N. and other governmental entities, includ­ing alarming statistics about the impending doom of the alleged global warming. Coincidentally, all these groups are dedicated to a one-world government control­ling all energy and economies.
• Yet multitudes of prestigious independent scientists are loudly saying global warming is a hoax and effort to control nations
• I invite readers to check out the following sites and decide for yourselves: http://online.wsj.com/ article/SB100014240527487 035746045745005802856790 74.html?mod=googlenews_ wsj#printMode http://www.climatescien­ceinternational.
• Their voices go unheard by the media.
• Something dreadful is hap­pening to our country.
• Our Democrat president and Con­gress are hell bent on imposing socialized medicine on us.They are pushing“cap and trade,” an energy program which will destroy our gas and coal indus­tries and lose an estimated two million more jobs while chasing windmills and solar panels.

• They have given millions for a‘Teddy’ memorial (this inserted by Sen.

  John Kerry) in the defense budget!
• We are forced to watch as 40‘czars’are turning out to be a bunch of radical lunatics with unlimited power and answerable only to Obama.
• Our major automobile produc­ers, banks, insurance companies are being run by the govern­ment while Congress refuses to investigate the corrupt ACORN and SEIU organizations.
• Our president and elected offi­cials are planning to eliminate states’rights and give the federal government sweeping powers over things that are now under the rule of the states.
• This can result in gaining control over schools, energy production, the environment and the wealth of every U.S. citizen.
• Can’t happen in America?
• It IS happening and we must wake up and demand our legislators remember their oath to defend and protect our Constitution and liberties!
• Fed up with“Democrat Dicta­torship” yet? Do you really want to send another one to Washington in January?
• Patricia Stebbins lives in East Sandwich.