tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-78358068849654467532024-03-13T09:08:14.297-07:00Life as we know it, or something similarLife as we know it is taking a dramatic turn. This blog is an aggregation of various news sources relating to the US and World Economics and Politics.
NO, this is not the end of the world, but rather a time when we should be preparing our families & our budgets for a good belt tightening.
Get ready, here it comes:Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger389125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7835806884965446753.post-44472858618813061382014-12-02T21:21:00.001-08:002014-12-03T04:33:42.805-08:00AMERICA IS *NOT* A DEMOCRACY (And Never Was)<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%;">AMERICA
IS *NOT* A DEMOCRACY<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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IT NEVER WAS)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">“I
pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America,<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">and
to the <b><u>Republic</u></b> for which it
stands,<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">one
Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">REPUBLIC vs. DEMOCRACY<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">It is important to keep
in mind the difference between a Democracy and a Republic, as dissimilar forms
of government. Democracy and Republic,
are not only dissimilar but antithetical, reflecting the sharp contrast between
(a) The Majority Unlimited, in a Democracy, lacking any legal safeguard of the
rights of The Individual and The Minority, and (b) The Majority Limited, in a
Republic under a written Constitution safeguarding the rights of The Individual
and The Minority; as we shall now see.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">A Democracy<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The chief characteristic
and distinguishing feature of a Democracy is: Rule by Omnipotent Majority. In a
Democracy, The Individual, and <b>any group
of Individuals composing any Minority, have no protection against the unlimited
power of The Majority. It is a case of Majority-over-Man.</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">A Republic<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">A Republic, on the other
hand, has a very different purpose and an entirely different form, or system,
of government. Its purpose is to control The Majority strictly, as well as all
others among the people, primarily to protect <b>The Individual’s God-given, unalienable rights and therefore for the
protection of the rights of The Minority</b>, of all minorities, and the
liberties of people in general. The definition of a Republic is: a
constitutionally limited government of the representative type, created by a
written Constitution--adopted by the people<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://www.lexrex.com/enlightened/AmericanIdeal/aspects/demrep.html">http://www.lexrex.com/enlightened/AmericanIdeal/aspects/demrep.html</a>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">In the Pledge of
Allegiance we all pledge allegiance to our Republic, not to a democracy.
"Republic" is the proper description of our government, not
"democracy." I invite you to join me in raising public awareness
regarding that distinction.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">A republic and a
democracy are identical in every aspect except one. In a republic the
sovereignty is in each individual person. In a democracy the sovereignty is in
the group.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Republic. That form of
government in which the powers of sovereignty are vested in the people and are
exercised by the people, either directly, or through representatives chosen by
the people, to whom those powers are
specially delegated. [NOTE: The word "people" may be either plural or
singular. In a republic the group only has advisory powers; the sovereign
individual is free to reject the majority group-think. USA/exception: if 100%
of a jury convicts, then the individual loses sovereignty and is subject to
group-think as in a democracy.]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Democracy. That form of
government in which the sovereign power resides in and is exercised by the
whole body of free citizens directly or indirectly through a system of
representation, as distinguished from a monarchy, aristocracy, or oligarchy.
[NOTE: In a pure democracy, 51% beats 49%. In other words, the minority has no
rights. The minority only has those privileges granted by the dictatorship of
the majority.]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The distinction between
our Republic and a democracy is not an idle one. It has great legal
significance.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The Constitution
guarantees to every state a Republican form of government (Art. 4, Sec. 4). No
state may join the United States unless it is a Republic. Our Republic is one
dedicated to "liberty and justice for all." Minority individual
rights are the priority. The people have natural rights instead of civil
rights. The people are protected by the Bill of Rights from the majority. One
vote in a jury can stop all of the majority from depriving any one of the
people of his rights; this would not be so if the United States were a democracy.
(see People's rights vs Citizens' rights)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">In a pure democracy 51
beats 49[%]. In a democracy there is no such thing as a significant minority:
there are no minority rights except civil rights (privileges) granted by a
condescending majority. Only five of the U.S. Constitution's first ten
amendments apply to Citizens of the United States. Simply stated, a democracy
is a dictatorship of the majority. Socrates was executed by a democracy: though
he harmed no one, the majority found him intolerable.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="https://www.1215.org/lawnotes/lawnotes/repvsdem.htm">https://www.1215.org/lawnotes/lawnotes/repvsdem.htm</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">To
boil it down, a REPUBLIC is a government based on the RULE OF LAW. A DEMOCRACY is the RULE OF THE MAJORITY (AKA:
MOB MENTALITY).<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">How often have you heard
people refer to America as a Democracy? When was the last time that
you heard America referred to as a Republic? There is a very
good reason that our Pledge of Allegiance refers to our country as a
Republic and there is a very good reason that our Declaration of Independence
and our constitution</span><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> do
not even mention the word "democracy</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">".</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Many people are under the false
impression our form of government is a democracy, or representative democracy.
This is of course completely untrue. The Founders were extremely
knowledgeable about the issue of democracy and</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <b>feared a democracy as much
as they feared a monarchy</b></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">. They
understood that</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <b>the
only entity that can take away the people's freedom <u>is their own
government</u>, either by being <u>too weak to protect them from external
threats or by becoming too powerful and taking over every aspect of life</u>.</b></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">They knew very well
the meaning of the word "democracy", and the history of democracies;
and they were deliberately doing everything in their power to prevent</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <b>having</b></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> a democracy.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In a Republic,
the</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <b>sovereignty
resides with the people themselves</b></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">.
In a Republic, one may act on his own or through his representatives when he
chooses to solve a problem.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <b>The
people have no obligation to the government; instead, the government is a
servant of the people, and obliged to its owner, We the People. </b></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Many politicians have lost sight of that fact.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A
Constitutional Republic has some similarities to democracy in that it uses</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><u><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">democratic processes to elect representatives and pass new
laws, etc</span></u><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">. </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <b>The critical difference
lies in the fact that a Constitutional Republic has a Constitution that <u>limits
the powers of the government</u>. It also spells out how the government
is structured, creating checks on its power and balancing power between the
different branches</b></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The goal of a
Constitutional Republic was to avoid the dangerous extreme of either</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <b>tyranny or mobocracy </b></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">but what exists in America today is a far cry from the
Constitutional Republic our forefathers brought forth.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Today we have
DO have a mobocracy occurring in our streets all across America.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><a href="http://www.stopthenorthamericanunion.com/NotDemocracy.html">http://www.stopthenorthamericanunion.com/NotDemocracy.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Understanding the difference is
paramount.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">"</span><em><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-style: normal;">Democracy</span></b></em><span class="apple-converted-space"> is the road to<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><em><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-style: normal;">socialism</span></b></em>." - Karl Marx<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #383838; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Socialism is the result of
proletarian democracy. To the degree that the proletariat mobilizes itself and
the great masses of the people, the socialist revolution is advanced.</span> The failure to recognize that genuine
democracy and genuine socialism are absolutely inseparable is only one source
of confusion.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Thomas Jefferson said that liberty and
ignorance cannot coexist:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization,<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">it
expects what never was and never will be."<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Thomas
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7835806884965446753.post-25188298426454629522013-09-13T13:52:00.001-07:002013-09-13T13:52:27.243-07:00Every transaction, every location: trackedBy Richard Pollock<br />
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A CFPB strategic planning document for fiscal years 2013-17 describes the “markets monitoring” program through which officials aim to monitor 80 percent of all credit card transactions in 2013.<br />
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The U.S. Census Bureau reports that 1.16 billion consumer credit cards were in use in 2012 for an estimated 52.6 billion transactions. If CFPB officials reach their stated "performance goal," they would collect data on 42 billion transactions made with 933 million credit cards used by American consumers.<br />
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The CFPB strategic plan shows that in 2012, the bureau was able to gain access to 77 percent of all credit cards and hoped to increase that to 80 percent in 2013. By 2014, the agency also hopes to monitor up to 95 percent of all mortgage transactions.<br />
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“This is one step closer to a Big Brother form of government where they know everything about us,”<br />
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<a href="http://washingtonexaminer.com/cfpbs-data-mining-on-consumer-credit-cards-challenged-in-heated-house-hearing/article/2535726">http://washingtonexaminer.com/cfpbs-data-mining-on-consumer-credit-cards-challenged-in-heated-house-hearing/article/2535726</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7835806884965446753.post-3820294699319482742013-08-26T09:06:00.002-07:002013-08-26T09:06:58.350-07:00Pentagon saysFounding Fathers, Conservatives and Christians are Extremists<h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; font-weight: normal; margin: 0.75em 0px 0px; position: relative;">
Pentagon Labels Founding Fathers, Conservatives and Christians as Extremists</h3>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">George Washington would not be welcome in the modern U.S. military. Neither would Thomas Jefferson or Benjamin Franklin, according to Department of Defense training documents that depict the Founding Fathers as extremists and conservative organizations as “hate groups.”</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">The Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute training guide was obtained by Judicial Watch under a Freedom of Information Act Request. It was acquired from the Air Force but originated from the Pentagon.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><br />
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<a href="http://westernrifleshooters.wordpress.com/2013/08/26/bracken-alas-brave-new-babylon/">http://westernrifleshooters.wordpress.com/2013/08/26/bracken-alas-brave-new-babylon/</a><br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7835806884965446753.post-68659808836338742842013-08-22T16:08:00.001-07:002013-08-22T16:08:22.920-07:00U.S. tax dollars help fund UN 'hate camp' in Gaza.By Paul Alster<br />
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<b>Palestinian children as young as 5 are being taught to hate Jews, glorify martyrs and support jihad, and a U.S.-funded United Nations agency is helping to underwrite the effort</b>, according to a controversial new documentary.<br />
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The United Nations Relief and Works Agency hosts summer camps in which Palestinian children are allegedly being indoctrinated, in scenes captured in “Camp Jihad: Inside UNRWA Summer Camp Season 2013.” <b>In addition to learning hateful phrases, the children are taught that Israel belongs to them by birthright, </b>according to the film by the Center for Near East Policy Research.<br />
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Indoctrination of young Palestinian children is nothing new, but the documentary has raised the ire of Israelis largely because of the UN role. According to UNRWA’s own website, the United States is the single-largest contributor to its work and in 2012 gave more than $232 million, ahead of the European Commission ($204 million), and the United Kingdom ($68 million).<br />
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Interspersed with sack races, arts and crafts and snack time, are <b>scenes of instructors imparting the message that Israel belongs to Palestinians, and they must take it back by force.</b><br />
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The 19-minute film shows Tayma, a <b>West Bank girl of about 8, being asked who the Jews are.</b><br />
<b>“They are a gang of Infidels and Christians,” she replies. “They don’t like Allah and do not worship Allah. They hate us.”</b><br />
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Another West Bank camper, Mesam Abu Hindi, has been taught to advocate violence against Israel.<br />
“For those who are older than me, <b>weapons will accelerate the Right of Return,” the girl states.</b><br />
<b>"When we die as martyrs, we go up to heaven,"</b> says a young girl.<br />
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And in one scene, a camp instructor tells children they will help overthrow Israel.<br />
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<b>"With God's help and our own strength, we will wage war," she says. "And with education and jihad, we will return."</b><br />
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David Bedein, bureau chief of the Center for Near East Policy Research, said his film crew went into the camps and found that the agency is openly advocating taking up arms against Israel.<br />
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“What UNRWA has done is to join in over the last 12 years since the new Palestinian Authority curriculum became as virulent as it is,” Bedein said. “The<b> kids are being trained that what they must do is campaign for the Right of Return – another way of saying ‘destroy Israel.’</b> A UN agency should not [be supporting a] campaign to wipe out another member state of the UN, putting ideas into the minds of children that they should engage in violence to achieve these goals.”<br />
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“We went into the UNRWA schools and camps” says Bedein. “There are people who identify themselves very clearly in the film as being teachers, administrators, counselors, and social workers. They all say “We work for UNRWA.””<br />
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Israeli officials blame Palestinian leaders more than the UN agency.<br />
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“UNRWA is not perfect, but the truth of the matter is we don’t have a conflict with UNRWA; we have a conflict with the Arab world,” Paul Hirschson, of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, told FoxNews.com. “The Palestinian Authority is responsible for the syllabus and they have to make sure that the syllabus is appropriate.<br />
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“This indoctrination [by the Palestinian Authority of its children] is very problematic” Hirschson added<br />
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<a href="http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/08/22/us-tax-dollars-help-fund-un-hate-camp-in-gaza-documentary/">http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/08/22/us-tax-dollars-help-fund-un-hate-camp-in-gaza-documentary/</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7835806884965446753.post-90660407064690476622013-08-22T15:57:00.000-07:002013-08-22T15:57:53.173-07:00DHS Manager runs website that promotes race war against 'whites'<span style="font-size: large;"><b>What the heck? Seriously? How much worse can this administration and it's staff get?</b></span><br />
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Original article by By Barnini Chakraborty<br />
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A Department of Homeland Security manager in charge of buying weapons and ammunition for the government is, on the side, running an inflammatory website that throws around gay slurs and advocates the mass murder of "whites" and the "ethnic cleansing" of "Uncle Tom race traitors,"<br />
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His website, “War on the Horizon,” declares, “in order for Black people to survive the 21st century, we are going to have to kill a lot of whites..."<br />
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According to the WOH website, the organization was “created for the purpose of preparing black people worldwide for an unavoidable, inevitable clash with the white race. Whites around the world are absolutely determined to exterminate Afrikan people in all corners of the earth."<br />
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The mission statement also claims to prepare blacks intellectually, spiritually, psychologically and physically for “a global clash that will mean the end of white rule on this planet or the end of the black race as we know it.”<br />
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<a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/08/22/dhs-employee-spends-spare-time-promoting-race-war-against-whites/#ixzz2ck0rpBCq">http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/08/22/dhs-employee-spends-spare-time-promoting-race-war-against-whites/#ixzz2ck0rpBCq</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7835806884965446753.post-17996123682698972712013-08-21T11:14:00.000-07:002013-08-21T11:14:18.563-07:00POTUS meeting signals Imminent Financial Crisis<br />
<b>Presidential Meeting Signals Catastrophic Event: “There Is a Crisis Unfolding Somewhere in the Background”</b><br />
By Mac Slavo<br />
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If there’s one thing we know about how the US government operates, it’s that the American people are often the last to know about serious problems that may be taking place behind the scenes.<br />
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This week, in a move that has spooked a lot of economic and financial analysts, President Barack Obama held a special, closed door meeting with the heads of the U.S. government’s financial, monetary and oversight agencies. It included members of the Federal Reserve, the FDIC, the CFTC, the SEC, and the Federal Housing Finance Agency.<br />
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This has left many wondering what is really going on – and if a serious event is about to take place yet again<br />
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I guess I’m always unnerved as a result of what happened in April, the last time the President of the United States had a meeting with all of the bank heads, and two days later the price of gold was smashed for over $200. </blockquote>
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Now, the President is meeting with all of the heads of the various agencies, institutions, the Fed, and all of the other key money entities in the United States today. What’s that all about?<br />But <b>clearly if the President is having this meeting, there is a crisis unfolding somewhere in the background, and it could very well relate to the dollar, interest rates, and the massive derivatives market associated with interest rates</b>…<br /><br /><b>This surge in interest rates may have already seriously destabilized the entire financial system, and that’s why there is this meeting taking place in the White House toda</b>y. The fact is that the vast majority of derivatives in the global financial system are related to interest rates. </blockquote>
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Now, the entire financial system may be on the precipice of some sort of catastrophic event unfolding because of what we have already seen in the bond market, and how the derivatives are so heavily intertwined. Meaning, we may be on the verge of another disastrous derivatives meltdown. </blockquote>
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John Embry – King World News </blockquote>
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<b>Ahead of the 2008 collapse, as the pillars of our financial system were undergoing a controlled detonation, the Chairman of the Federal Reserve assured us the crisis had been contained. Experts and pundits on television were screaming to investors that everything was fine and to keep buying the dips.</b><br />
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<b>Behind the scenes, however, President Bush, the Federal Reserve, and the world’s leading financial institutions were scrambling to figure out how to keep the whole thing from falling apart. As former US Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson noted, we were on the brink of a historic collapse, and they knew it well ahead of time.</b><br />
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The American people were not as fortunate. Most of us came to the realization things had taken a turn for the worse only after 50% of our wealth had been wiped out in a stock market and housing crash.<br />
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Today, like before, all of the experts in Washington and the mainstream media are making a point to reassure us that we are in the midst of an economic recovery. However, <b>key economic indicators suggest otherwise</b>. We are seeing a plunge in global shipping, a halt in consumer spending, and perhaps most importantly, a significant rise in interest rates and the US government’s borrowing costs.<br />
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Now, as the President meets with a veritable who’s who of government finance, lending and monetary policy one can’t help but think something is amiss.<br />
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Are we on the brink of another global disaster?<br />
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<a href="http://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/presidential-meeting-signals-catastrophic-event-there-is-a-crisis-unfolding-somewhere-in-the-background_08212013">http://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/presidential-meeting-signals-catastrophic-event-there-is-a-crisis-unfolding-somewhere-in-the-background_08212013</a><br />
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7835806884965446753.post-82005373503586665132013-08-20T09:41:00.000-07:002013-08-20T09:42:19.692-07:00Cruz birthers vs Obama birthers<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">By Jake Southern</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>No, Ted Cruz ‘birthers’ are not the same as Obama birthers</b></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #2c2c2c; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 26px;">By</span><span style="color: #2c2c2c; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 26px;"> </span><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/2011/05/23/AFPeNbAH_page.html" rel="author external" style="border: 0px; color: #2c2c2c; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Visit Aaron Blake’s website">Aaron Blake</a></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Why are
the media not denouncing those who question Cruz’s eligibility in the same way
they have denounced the so-called “birthers” who continue to question Obama’s?
Questions about Cruz’s eligibility have everything to do with interpretation of
the law; the questions about Obama’s eligibility had everything to do with a
dispute over the underlying facts." <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #333333;"><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2013/08/19/no-ted-cruz-birthers-are-not-the-same-as-obama-birthers/"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2013/08/19/no-ted-cruz-birthers-are-not-the-same-as-obama-birthers/</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #333333; font-size: 9pt;"><b>NOT NECESSARILY TRUE. </b></span><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 9pt;"><br />
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<span style="background: white;">Obama "birthers" also attack from the <b><i>interpretation
of the law</i> angle.</b> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 9pt;"><span style="background: white;">The weight of legal and historical authority
indicates that the term "natural born" citizen would mean a person
who is entitled to U.S. citizenship "by birth" or "at
birth", either by being born "in" the United States and under
its jurisdiction, even those born to alien parents (Soil Rights); by being born abroad to
U.S. citizen-parents (Blood Rights); or by being born in other situations meeting legal
requirements for U.S. citizenship "at birth". Such term, however,
would not include a person who was not a U.S. citizen by birth or at birth, and
who was thus born an "alien" <i>required to go through the legal process
of "naturalization" to become a U.S. citizen</i>. </span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 9pt;"><span style="background: white;"> </span></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural-born-citizen_clause">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural-born-citizen_clause</a></span></blockquote>
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<span style="background: white;">This means that <b>both </b>Obama and Cruz should be eligible, regardless if either was born overseas or not - since at least one parent was a
US citizen. (Unless he renounced it when filing as a foreign student for aid in
college - <i>cough Obama - cough</i>). </span><br />
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<span style="background: white;"><b>Except for this: </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 9pt;"><span style="background: white;">The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952
(McCarran-Walter Act) states that in order for one's right of "blood
citizenship" to be passed to him, if he only had one parent who was a U.S.
citizen at the time of birth, that the US parent must have resided in the United
States for at least ten years, at least five of which had to be after the age
of 14. </span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 9pt;"><br /></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_and_Nationality_Act_of_1952">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_and_Nationality_Act_of_1952</a></span></blockquote>
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<b style="color: #333333; font-size: 9pt;"><span style="background: white;">Barack Hussein Obama fails the
McCarran-Walter Act test for the right to claim "natural born citizen”
status. Ted Cruz passes this same test.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: white;">Ted Cruz birthers. Obama Birthers. </span><span style="background-color: white;">Ted Cruz birthers vs </span><span style="background-color: white;">Ted Cruz birthers. Obama vs Ted Cruz. N</span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: white;">atural born citizen. Eligibility for presidency. </span></span><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: white;">Ted Cruz birthers. Obama Birthers. </span><span style="background-color: white;">Ted Cruz birthers vs </span><span style="background-color: white;">Ted Cruz birthers. Obama vs Ted Cruz. N</span><span style="background-color: white;">atural born citizen. Eligibility for presidency. </span><span style="background-color: white;">Ted Cruz birthers. Obama Birthers. </span><span style="background-color: white;">Ted Cruz birthers vs </span><span style="background-color: white;">Ted Cruz birthers. Obama vs Ted Cruz. N</span><span style="background-color: white;">atural born citizen. Eligibility for presidency. </span><span style="background-color: white;">Ted Cruz birthers. Obama Birthers. </span><span style="background-color: white;">Ted Cruz birthers vs </span><span style="background-color: white;">Ted Cruz birthers. Obama vs Ted Cruz. N</span><span style="background-color: white;">atural born citizen. Eligibility for presidency. </span><span style="background-color: white;">Ted Cruz birthers. Obama Birthers. </span><span style="background-color: white;">Ted Cruz birthers vs </span><span style="background-color: white;">Ted Cruz birthers. Obama vs Ted Cruz. N</span><span style="background-color: white;">atural born citizen. Eligibility for presidency. </span><span style="background-color: white;">Ted Cruz birthers. Obama Birthers. </span><span style="background-color: white;">Ted Cruz birthers vs </span><span style="background-color: white;">Ted Cruz birthers. Obama vs Ted Cruz. N</span><span style="background-color: white;">atural born citizen. Eligibility for presidency. </span><span style="background-color: white;">Ted Cruz birthers. Obama Birthers. </span><span style="background-color: white;">Ted Cruz birthers vs </span><span style="background-color: white;">Ted Cruz birthers. Obama vs Ted Cruz. N</span><span style="background-color: white;">atural born citizen. Eligibility for presidency.</span></span></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7835806884965446753.post-90455481532496720462013-08-15T06:41:00.001-07:002013-08-15T06:41:53.878-07:00The Obama Agenda: Sheep Farms (you're the sheep)By Jake Southern<br />
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It’s like Pol Pot’s Khmer Ruge, in reverse: out of the
‘burbs, corralled into MegaCities:</div>
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<o:p><b>THE OBAMA AGENDA, THE MORE YOU LEARN THE SCARIER IT GETS </b></o:p><a href="http://americanelephant.wordpress.com/2013/08/14/the-obama-agenda-the-more-you-learn-the-scarier-it-gets/">http://americanelephant.wordpress.com/2013/08/14/the-obama-agenda-the-more-you-learn-the-scarier-it-gets/</a></blockquote>
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It wouldn’t be so worrisome, if there weren’t quiet
approaches from multiple angles:</div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Push for wealth redistribution by changing local
taxation such that money flows from the ‘burbs into the metro areas.</div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Push for “mileage tax”, which flat punishes
commuters for commuting. (that might be the real reason driving the
“black box” requirement from Uncle Fed – they want a “fool-proof” way to charge
you for the miles you drive. Plus, there’s the added benefit of invading
your privacy).</div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->“Sustainable development”/Agenda 21 nonsense,
being fostered at the local level all over the country</div>
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According to our Environmentalist Moral Superiors, crushing
the majority of our population into super-dense “barns” will keep us from
driving cars, so less emissions and less demand for fuel. Plus, Gaia will
be free of our pollution (and existence) in “pristine” areas (= everywhere not
city).</div>
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That’s fine by the Marxists Among Us, b/c “equality”, don’t
you know. Elitists suburbanites, with their flight to quality schools,
etc – gonna get theirs. Plus, more tax money gathered to steer behavior
(basically make suburban commuting impossible).</div>
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And the Fascist Left just loves the idea – they get to
micro-manage <i>everybody</i> tyranny like Bloomberg’s NYC!</div>
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These people are immortal, insane and truly ignorant.
I believe the legacy of the 20<sup>th</sup> Century will be “don’t dislocate
the population from the resources”. Our cities will be deathtraps if
anything happens to “The Matrix” (total logistics: fuel, transport,
power, communications).</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7835806884965446753.post-4573367689989886742013-08-15T05:44:00.002-07:002013-08-15T05:44:47.584-07:0022 Signs That Voter Fraud Is Wildly Out Of Control And The Election Was A Sham<br />
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After what we have seen this November, how is any American ever supposed to trust the integrity of our elections ever again? There were over 70,000 reports of voting problems on election day, and there are numerous eyewitnesses that claim that they saw voting machines change votes for one candidate to another candidate right in front of their eyes. In several of the swing states there were counties where the number of registered voters exceeded the total voting age population by a very wide margin. How in the world does that happen? Some of the vote totals that were reported in some of the most important swing states were completely and totally absurd, and yet we are just supposed to accept them on blind faith without ever being able to ask any questions. Of course the Romney campaign has already totally given up, so it isn’t as if there is any chance that the results of the presidential election could be overturned anyhow. But if massive election fraud did take place and nobody is held accountable, what kind of message will that send for the future? Will we ever be able to have faith in the integrity of our elections ever again?</div>
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The following are 22 signs that voter fraud is wildly out of control and the election was a sham…</div>
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<strong>#1</strong> According to the Election Protection Coalition, voters across the United States reported <a href="http://blog.chron.com/txpotomac/2012/11/thousands-report-voting-problems/" style="color: navy; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="more than 70,000 voting problems">more than 70,000 voting problems</a> by 5 PM Eastern time on election day.</div>
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<strong>#2</strong> There were <a href="http://articles.philly.com/2012-11-12/news/35069785_1_romney-supporters-mitt-romney-sasha-issenberg" style="color: navy; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="59 voting divisions">59 voting divisions</a> in the city of Philadelphia where Mitt Romney did not receive a single vote. In those voting divisions, the combined vote total was 19,605 for Barack Obama and 0 for Mitt Romney.</div>
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<strong>#3</strong> The overall voter turnout rate in Philadelphia was only <a href="http://articles.philly.com/2012-11-09/news/34995157_1_voter-turnout-president-obama-gop-voters" style="color: navy; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="about 60 percent">about 60 percent</a>. But in the areas of Philadelphia where Republican poll watchers were <a href="http://washingtonexaminer.com/philly-gop-poll-inspectors-being-ousted-for-dems/article/2512714#.UKLSqYa7lAz" style="color: navy; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="illegally removed">illegally removed</a>, the voter turnout rate <a href="http://www.punditpress.com/2012/11/fraud-in-pa-obama-got-over-99-of-vote.html" style="color: navy; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="was over 90%">was over 90%</a> and Obama received <a href="http://www.punditpress.com/2012/11/fraud-in-pa-obama-got-over-99-of-vote.html" style="color: navy; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="over 99%">over 99%</a> of the vote. Officials in Philadelphia <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/11/12/pa-officials-plan-no-probe-despite-extraordinary-turnout-totals-for-obama-in/" style="color: navy; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="have already ruled out">have already ruled out</a> an investigation.</div>
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<strong>#4</strong> According to <a href="http://www.wnd.com/2012/11/poll-watcher-sees-romney-ballots-changed/" style="color: navy; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="WND">WND</a>, one poll watcher in Pennsylvania actually claims that he witnessed voting machine software repeatedly switch votes from Mitt Romney to Barack Obama…</div>
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<em>It was in Upper Macungie Township, near Allentown, Pa., where an auditor, Robert Ashcroft, was dispatched by Republicans to monitor the vote on Election Day. He said the software he observed would “change the selection back to default – to Obama.”</em></div>
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<em>He said that happened in about 5 percent to 10 percent of the votes.</em></div>
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<em>He said the changes appeared to have been made by a software program.</em></div>
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<em>Ashcroft said the format for computer programming has a default status, and in this case it appeared to be designating a vote for Obama each time it went to default.</em></div>
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<strong>#5</strong> Somehow Mitt Romney won <a href="http://blogs.phillymag.com/the_philly_post/2012/11/07/presidentialelection-2012-results-pennsylvania-counties/#.UKEjA_8mBAM.facebook" style="color: navy; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="55 out of the 67 counties in the state of Pennsylvania">55 out of the 67 counties in the state of Pennsylvania</a> and still managed to lose the entire state by a wide margin because of the absurd vote totals that Obama ran up in the urban areas.</div>
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<strong>#6</strong> Barack Obama received <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/11/12/pa-officials-plan-no-probe-despite-extraordinary-turnout-totals-for-obama-in/" style="color: navy; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="more than 98 percent of the vote">more than 98 percent of the vote</a> in 10 out of the 50 wards in the city of Chicago.</div>
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<strong>#7</strong> Prior to the election, voters in the states of <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/11/02/claims-increasing-switched-votes-in-ohio/" style="color: navy; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Nevada, North Carolina, Texas and Ohio">Nevada, North Carolina, Texas and Ohio</a> all reported that voting machines were switching their votes for Romney over to Obama.</div>
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<strong>#8</strong> There were more than 50 precincts in Cuyahoga County, Ohio where Mitt Romney received <a href="http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/election-fraud-obama-won-more-than-99-percent-of-the-vote-in-more-than-100-ohio-precincts" style="color: navy; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" title="2 votes or less">2 votes or less</a>.</div>
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<strong>#9</strong> There were more than 100 precincts in Cuyahoga County, Ohio where Barack Obama received <a href="http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/election-fraud-obama-won-more-than-99-percent-of-the-vote-in-more-than-100-ohio-precincts" style="color: navy; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" title="more than 99 times the votes">more than 99 times the votes</a> that Mitt Romney did.</div>
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<strong>#10</strong> Barack Obama also received <a href="http://www.punditpress.com/2012/11/in-florida-obama-got-over-99-in-broward.html" style="color: navy; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="more than 99% of the vote">more than 99% of the vote</a> in a number of very important precincts down in Broward County, Florida.</div>
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<strong>#11</strong> Wood County, Ohio (which Obama won) has a voting age population of<a href="http://www.cleveland.com/datacentral/index.ssf/2012/09/ohio_voter_registration_list_i.html" style="color: navy; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="98,213">98,213</a>, but somehow <a href="http://www.cleveland.com/datacentral/index.ssf/2012/09/ohio_voter_registration_list_i.html" style="color: navy; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="106,258">106,258</a> voters were registered to vote on election day.</div>
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<strong>#12</strong> Ten counties in the swing state of Colorado have a voter registration rate of<a href="http://www.redstate.com/2012/09/04/colorado-counties-have-more-voters-than-people/" style="color: navy; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="more than 100%">more than 100%</a>.</div>
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<strong>#13</strong> Barack Obama did not win <a href="http://www.wnd.com/2012/11/did-this-dirty-trick-get-obama-elected/" style="color: navy; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="in a single state">in a single state</a> that absolutely requires a photo I.D. in order to vote.</div>
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<strong>#14</strong> In Ohio, two election judges <a href="http://foxnewsinsider.com/2012/11/07/voter-fraud-watch-two-election-judges-replaced-after-illegal-activity-in-ohio/" style="color: navy; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="were caught">were caught</a> allowing unregistered voters to cast ballots.</div>
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<strong>#15</strong> Many Ohio voters that showed up at the polls on election day were surprised when they were informed <a href="http://godfatherpolitics.com/7942/ohio-residents-told-they-already-voted-when-they-showed-up-at-the-polls-tuesday/" style="color: navy; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="that they had already voted">that they had already voted</a>.</div>
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<strong>#16</strong> In fact, there were reports <a href="http://twitchy.com/2012/11/06/voter-fraud-people-go-to-vote-ballots-already-cast-in-their-names-others-vote-more-than-once/" style="color: navy; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="all over the nation">all over the nation</a> of people being unable to vote because records showed that they had already voted.</div>
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<strong>#17</strong> According to U.S. Representative Allen West, there were numerous “<a href="http://www.wnd.com/2012/11/allen-west-unconscionable-vote-shenanigans/?cat_orig=politics" style="color: navy; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="voting irregularities">voting irregularities</a>” in St. Lucie County, Florida on election day…</div>
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<em>“The thing that spurred our curiosity in our race was the fact that at 1 o’clock in the morning on Election Night, all of a sudden there was a 4,000-vote swing that took me from being ahead to put the lead into my opponent’s hands.”</em></div>
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<strong>#18</strong> In Wisconsin, there were allegations that Obama voters were actually being bussed in <a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=387389068009997&set=a.362561847159386.84375.361783440570560&type=1&theater" style="color: navy; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="from out of state">from out of state</a>…</div>
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<em>The Democrats stationed a self described “BIG Chicago pro bono attorney” as one of their two observers at this small polling place. He remained at the polling place from 7:00 a.m. until well after 8:p.m. …..A high priced CHICAGO attorney, sitting in a Sheboygan WISCONSIN polling place, observing wards comprised of 1500 voters? …. WHY???</em><br /><em>Why would someone from Chicago be observing in Sheboygan Wisconsin? And WHY at such a small polling place? Finally, isn’t it interesting that this would occur at the VERY polling place in which all of the above described events ALSO occurred? AGAIN WHY WOULD A CHICAGO ATTORNEY BE OBSERVING AN ELECTION POLLING PLACE WITH FEWER THAN 1500 VOTERS IN IT, IN SHEBOYGAN WISCONSIN? Of all the places where there has been suspected voting irregularities, and OUTRIGHT FRAUD throughout the ENTIRE United States, WHY HERE? WHY SHEBOYGAN? WHY THIS SMALL WARD?</em></div>
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<em>This lawyer spent the day running in and out making, and taking calls, which coincidentally then coincided with influxes of groups of individuals by the van and bus loads, coming in to register, AND VOTE, using what appeared to be copied Allient energy bills. These individuals often did not have photo I.D.’s, could not remember their own addresses without looking at the paper, and became easily tripped, confused and annoyed when questioned.</em></div>
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<em>Many of these same individuals, just so happened to be dressed in/wearing CHICAGO BEARS apparel, and whom openly discussed “catching busses back to Chicago” with each other, with poll workers, via their cell phones in the lobby area just outside the polling place, as well as in the parking lot, both before and AFTER registering and voting.</em></div>
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<em>One woman was dressed head to toe in CHICAGO BEARS apparel including perfectly manicured BEARS fake fingernails!</em></div>
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<em>She complained because registering was taking too long and she had to hurry up to catch her bus back to Chicago.</em></div>
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<em>We have photos of these people in vehicles with plates from different states, photos of them leaving the polls, and other irregularities.</em></div>
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<strong>#19</strong> Prior to election day, an Obama for America staffer <a href="http://freedomoutpost.com/2012/10/undercover-video-obama-workers-enable-double-voting-across-state-lines/" style="color: #4f809e; font-weight: bold;" target="_blank" title="was caught on video">was caught on video</a>trying to help someone register to vote in more than one state.</div>
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<strong>#20</strong> It is being alleged that unions in Nevada have been <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMGd50sZG4g&feature=share" style="color: navy; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="registering illegal immigrants">registering illegal immigrants</a> and pressuring them to vote.</div>
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<strong>#21</strong> According to <a href="http://townhall.com/columnists/rachelalexander/2012/11/11/obama_likely_won_reelection_through_election_fraud/page/2" style="color: navy; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="townhall.com">townhall.com</a>, there was a systematic effort by the Obama campaign to suppress the military vote because they knew that most military votes would go against Obama…</div>
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<em>Aiding Obama’s win was a devious suppression of the conservative vote. The conservative-leaning military vote has<a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/10/01/military-ballot-requests-down-in-key-battleground-states/" style="color: navy; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="decreased">decreased</a> drastically since 2010 due to the so-called Military Voter Protection Act that was enacted into law the year before. It has made it so difficult for overseas military personnel to obtain absentee ballots that in Virginia and Ohio there has been a 70% decrease in requests for ballots since 2008. In Virginia, almost 30,000 fewer overseas military voters requested ballots than in 2008. In Ohio, more than 20,000 fewer overseas military voters requested ballots. This is significant considering Obama won in both states by a little over 100,000 votes.</em></div>
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<strong>#22</strong> According to the Naval Enlisted Reserve Association, it appears that thousands of military votes from this election <a href="http://www.nera.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=191:military-ballots-not-counted&catid=81:blog1&Itemid=148" style="color: #4f809e; font-weight: bold;" target="_blank" title="will never be counted at all">will never be counted at all</a>.</div>
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So what do you think about all of this?</div>
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Do you still believe that elections in America are fair and honest?</div>
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<a href="http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/22-signs-that-voter-fraud-is-wildly-out-of-control-and-the-election-was-a-sham">http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/22-signs-that-voter-fraud-is-wildly-out-of-control-and-the-election-was-a-sham</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7835806884965446753.post-53988036817128920042013-08-14T18:31:00.002-07:002013-08-14T18:31:26.927-07:00US Debt Ponzi Scheme: Government Defaults on Debt, then Hides the Truth from the Public.<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Posted by: </span><a href="http://offgridsurvival.com/author/admin/" rel="author" style="background-color: white; color: #232ab7; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;" title="Posts by Off Grid Survival">Off Grid Survival</a><br />
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As Congress gets ready for yet another debt-ceiling fight, it seems our government may have already defaulted on its debts. For the last month, our debt has sat at $16,699,396,000,000; it <a href="http://cnsnews.com/news/article/treasury-ran-98-billion-deficit-july-debt-stayed-exactly-16699396000000" style="color: #232ab7;">hasn’t moved a single penny</a> in either direction. Sadly, what’s most astonishing about the number isn’t the fact that we are over $16 trillion in debt; but instead, the fact that the number hasn’t moved in the last 30 days.</div>
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While most people would take this as a positive sign, the fact is, our debt has grown over $98 billion in the last 30 days – The Government just isn’t reporting it.</div>
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<b>Why wouldn’t the government report $98 Billion dollars of debt, especially when they freely admit to the over 16.6 trillion? </b></div>
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Well the answer to that is actually pretty simple. If they admitted to it, they would be admitting to the fact that the broke the law and allowed the country to basically default on its debt. If the Treasury Department admitted to borrowing the additional $98 billion to cover the $98 billion deficit they declared in their monthly statement for July, the Treasury would be admitting that they had already surpassed the legal limit on the debt.</div>
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So instead of admitting to breaking the law, they just readjusted the scam a bit, and the debt magically stayed $25 million below the legal limit for the last 30 days.</div>
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<span class="headline" style="color: #3b3b3b; font-family: Oswald, sans-serif; font-size: 24px; line-height: 24px;">Our economy is a ticking time bomb…..</span></div>
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How much longer can they continue to pretend were not broke? Think about it; could you continue to buy food and pay your rent if your checking account was in the negative territory? Could you fix the problem by readjusting the numbers in your check ledger, and then continuing to write checks?</div>
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My bet is you would soon find yourself in a small cell. But not our government, they just continue to write checks with money they don’t have and the American public just keeps looking the other way.</div>
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Our economy is basically one big Ponzi scheme, one that would land any other American in Jail if they attempt to manage their finances in the way our federal government runs the country. I just don’t see how it lasts for much longer; if your not prepared, you better <a href="http://offgridsurvival.com/economiccollapse-preparingfinancialarmageddon/" style="color: #232ab7;">start preparing for the possibility of a collapse</a>.</div>
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<a href="http://offgridsurvival.com/ponzischeme-usdebt/">http://offgridsurvival.com/ponzischeme-usdebt/</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7835806884965446753.post-92059446220008271992013-08-08T06:29:00.001-07:002013-08-08T06:29:52.912-07:00Gestapo Police Tactics Here in the USA<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Why You Should Never, Ever Drive Through Tenaha, Texas</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Russell, who moonlighted locally as a country singer, told Henderson and Boatright that they had two options. They could face felony charges for “money laundering” and “child endangerment,” in which case they would go to jail and their children would be handed over to foster care. Or they could sign over their cash to the city of Tenaha, and get back on the road.</span> </blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">“Where are we?” Boatright remembers thinking. “Is this some kind of foreign country, where they’re selling people’s kids off?” Holding her sixteen-month-old on her hip, she broke down in tears.</span> </blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">He says that a Tenaha officer told him, “Don’t even bother getting a lawyer. The money always stays here.”</span></blockquote>
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- From Sarah’s Stillman’s New Yorker article “Taken”<br />
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The following article by Sarah Stillman in the New Yorker has been generating a lot of buzz in the past couple of days, and for good reason. Her piece titled “Taken,” is a stunning portrayal of the i<b>ncreasingly popular police theft tactic known as civil forfeiture.</b><br />
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In a nutshell, civil forfeiture is <b>the practice of confiscating items from people, ranging from cash, cars, even homes based on no criminal conviction or charges, merely suspicion</b>. This practice first became widespread for use against pirates, as a way to take possession of contraband goods despite the fact that the ships’ owners in many cases were located thousands of miles away and couldn’t easily be prosecuted. As is often the case, what starts out reasonable becomes a gigantic organized crime ring of criminality, particularly in a society where the rule of law no longer exists for the “elite,” yet anything goes when it comes to pillaging the average citizen.<br />
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One of the major reasons these programs have become so abused is that the police departments themselves are able to keep much of the confiscated money. So they actually have a perverse incentive to steal. As might be expected, a program that is often touted as being effective against going after major drug<br />
kingpins, actually targets the poor and disenfranchised more than anything else.<br />
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For example: “In 2011, he reports, fifty-eight local, county, and statewide police forces in Georgia brought in $2.76 million in forfeitures; more than half the items taken were worth less than six hundred and fifty dollars.”<br />
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Although lengthy, this is a very important article and I suggest reading the entire thing. If that’s too much for you, I’ve highlighted some key excerpts below. From the New Yorker:<br />
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When they returned to the highway ten minutes later, Boatright, a honey-blond “Texas redneck from Lubbock,” by her own reckoning, and Henderson, who is Latino, noticed something strange. The same police car that their eleven-year-old had admired in the mini-mart parking lot was trailing them. Near the city limits, a tall, bull-shouldered officer named Barry Washington pulled them over.<br />
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He asked if Henderson knew that he’d been driving in the left lane for more than half a mile without passing.<br />
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No, Henderson replied. He said he’d moved into the left lane so that the police car could make its way onto the highway.<br />
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Were there any drugs in the car? When Henderson and Boatright said no, the officer asked if he and his partner could search the car.<br />
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Mistake number one, allowing him to search the car. Although these days if you say no, the cops tend to falsely claim they smell drugs as an excuse to search it anyway.<br />
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The officers found the couple’s cash and a marbled-glass pipe that Boatright said was a gift for her sister-in-law, and escorted them across town to the police station. In a corner there, two tables were heaped with jewelry, DVD players, cell phones, and the like. According to the police report, Boatright and Henderson fit the profile of drug couriers: they were driving from Houston, “a known point for distribution of illegal narcotics,” to Linden, “a known place to receive illegal narcotics.” The report describes their children as possible decoys, meant to distract police as the couple breezed down the road, smoking marijuana. (None was found in the car, although Washington claimed to have smelled it.)<br />
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The county’s district attorney, a fifty-seven-year-old woman with feathered Charlie’s Angels hair named Lynda K. Russell, arrived an hour later. Russell, who moonlighted locally as a country singer, told Henderson and Boatright that they had two options. They could face felony charges for “money laundering” and “child endangerment,” in which case they would go to jail and their children would be handed over to foster care. Or they could sign over their cash to the city of Tenaha, and get back on the road. “No criminal charges shall be filed,” a waiver she drafted read, “and our children shall not be turned over to CPS,” or Child Protective Services.<br />
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If that is not evil, I don’t know what is. What kind of sociopath threatens to take people’s children if they don’t fork over their cash?<br />
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“Where are we?” Boatright remembers thinking. “Is this some kind of foreign country, where they’re selling people’s kids off?” Holding her sixteen-month-old on her hip, she broke down in tears.<br />
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Later, she learned that cash-for-freedom deals had become a point of pride for Tenaha, and that versions of the tactic were used across the country. “Be safe and keep up the good work,” the city marshal wrote to Washington, following a raft of complaints from out-of-town drivers who claimed that they had been stopped in Tenaha and stripped of cash, valuables, and, in at least one case, an infant child, without clear evidence of contraband.<br />
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In general, you needn’t be found guilty to have your assets claimed by law enforcement; in some states, suspicion on a par with “probable cause” is sufficient. Nor must you be charged with a crime, or even be accused of one. Unlike criminal forfeiture, which requires that a person be convicted of an offense before his or her property is confiscated, civil forfeiture amounts to a lawsuit filed directly against a possession, regardless of its owner’s guilt or innocence.<br />
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Owners who wish to contest often find that the cost of hiring a lawyer far exceeds the value of their seized goods. Washington, D.C., charges up to twenty-five hundred dollars simply for the right to challenge a police seizure in court, which can take months or even years to resolve.<br />
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“We all know the way things are right now—budgets are tight,” Steve Westbrook, the executive director of the Sheriffs’ Association of Texas, says. “It’s definitely a valuable asset to law enforcement, for purchasing equipment and getting things you normally wouldn’t be able to get to fight crime.” Many officers contend that their departments would collapse if the practice were too heavily regulated, and that a valuable public-safety measure would be lost.<br />
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But a system that proved successful at wringing profits from drug cartels and white-collar fraudsters has also given rise to corruption and violations of civil liberties. Over the past year, I spoke with more than a hundred police officers, defense attorneys, prosecutors, judges, and forfeiture plaintiffs from across the country. Many expressed concern that state laws designed to go after high-flying crime lords are routinely targeting the workaday homes, cars, cash savings, and other belongings of innocent people who are never charged with a crime.<br />
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In August, 2007, Tenaha police pulled Morrow over for “driving too close to the white line,” and took thirty-nine hundred dollars from him. Morrow told Guillory that he was on his way to get dental work done at a Houston mall. (The arresting officers said that his “stories of travel” were inconsistent, as was his account of how much money he had; they also said they detected the “odor of burned marijuana,” although no contraband was found in the car.) Morrow, who is black, was taken to jail, where he pleaded with authorities to call his bank to see proof of his recent cash withdrawal. They declined.<br />
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“They impounded my car, and they impounded me, too,” Morrow told me, recalling the night he spent in jail. When he finally agreed to sign away his property, he was released on the side of the road with no money, no vehicle, and no phone. He says that a Tenaha officer told him, “Don’t even bother getting a lawyer. The money always stays here.” But finally he decided “to shine a big ol’ light on them.<br />
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<a href="http://libertyblitzkrieg.com/2013/08/07/why-you-should-never-ever-drive-through-tenaha-texas/">http://libertyblitzkrieg.com/2013/08/07/why-you-should-never-ever-drive-through-tenaha-texas/</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7835806884965446753.post-47021936349169186452013-08-08T05:46:00.001-07:002013-08-08T06:01:47.239-07:00Fukishima Still a Global Health Threat<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
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<span style="color: #1f497d;"><span style="font-size: large;">At this point, the World Nuclear
Association and the US NRC need to take over management of the situation.
TEPCO and Japan's government have proven that they can not handle the situation,
and it threatens the global population.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<strong>Japan’s Nuclear Accident Response Director Warns that Tepco’s Actions Might Cause Reactor BuIldings to Collapse</strong></div>
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Tepco’s ill-considered efforts to change soil permeability and water flow have <a href="http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/08/fukushima-worse-than-you-know.html" title="caused severe problems at the site">caused severe problems at the site</a> … including highly radioactive groundwater <a href="http://enenews.com/nhk-contaminated-underground-water-may-have-moved-aboveground-at-fukushima-plant-asahi-immediate-concern-its-spilling-into-pacific" target="_blank" title="bubbling up to the surface">bubbling up to the surface</a>.</div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Engineers are now facing a new emergency. The Fukushima plant sits smack in the middle of an underground aquifer. Deep beneath the ground, the site is rapidly being overwhelmed by water. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">The spent fuel pool at Fukushima Unit 4 is the top threat to humanity, and is a national security issue for America.As such, it is disturbing news that the ground beneath unit 4 is sinking.Specifically, Unit 4 sunk 36 inches right after the earthquake, and has sunk another 30 inches since then.Moreover, Unit 4 is sinking unevenly, and the building may begin tilting. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">Obviously this is a massive public health issue … if it gets into the ocean obviously this could be spread throughout the Pacific, could also get into the food supply. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">No wonder even top Japanese government officials are calling for Tepco to be fired … </span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7835806884965446753.post-82152350263982080612013-08-01T12:03:00.001-07:002013-08-01T12:03:09.139-07:00Turning the USA into a Socialist Dictatorship<b>Obama's Creeping Authoritarianism</b><br />
By DANIEL HENNINGER <br />
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If we learned anything about Barack Obama in his first term it is that when he starts repeating the same idea over and over, what's on his mind is something else.<br />
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The first term's over-and-over subject was "the wealthiest 1%." Past some point, people wondered why he kept beating these half-dead horses. After the election, we knew. It was to propagandize the targeted voting base that would provide his 4% popular-vote margin of victory—very young voters and minorities. They believed. He won.<br />
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The second-term over-and-over, elevated in his summer speech tour, is the shafting of the middle class. But the real purpose here isn't the speeches' parboiled proposals. It is what he says the shafting of the middle class is forcing him to do. It is forcing him to "act"—to undertake an unprecedented exercise of presidential power in domestic policy-making. ObamaCare was legislated. In the second term, new law will come from him<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"So where I can act on my own, I'm going to act on my own. I won't wait for Congress."</span></blockquote>
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Please don't complain later that you didn't see it coming. As always, Mr. Obama states publicly what his intentions are. He is doing that now. Toward the end of his speech last week in Jacksonville, Fla., he said: "So where I can act on my own, I'm going to act on my own. I won't wait for Congress." (Applause.)<br />
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The July 24 speech at Knox College in Galesburg, Ill., has at least four references to his intent to act on his own authority, as he interprets it: "That means whatever executive authority I have to help the middle class, I'll use it." (Applause.) And: "We're going to do everything we can, wherever we can, with or without Congress."<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Every president since George Washington has felt frustration with the American system's impediments to change. This president is done with Congress.</span></blockquote>
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The political left, historically inclined by ideological belief to public policy that is imposed rather than legislated, will support Mr. Obama's expansion of authority. The rest of us should not.<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">The U.S. has a system of checks and balances. Mr. Obama is rebalancing the system toward a national-leader model that is alien to the American tradition.</span></b></blockquote>
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To create public support for so much unilateral authority, Mr. Obama needs to lessen support for the other two branches of government—Congress and the judiciary. He is doing that.<br />
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Mr. Obama and his supporters in the punditocracy are defending this escalation by arguing that Congress is "gridlocked." But don't overstate that low congressional approval rating. This is the one branch that represents the views of all Americans. It's gridlocked because voters are.<br />
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Take a closer look at the Galesburg and Jacksonville speeches. Mr. Obama doesn't merely criticize Congress. He mocks it repeatedly. Washington "ignored" problems. It "made things worse." It "manufactures" crises and "phony scandals." He is persuading his audiences to set Congress aside and let him act.<br />
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So too the judiciary. During his 2010 State of the Union speech, Mr. Obama denounced the Supreme Court Justices in front of him. The National Labor Relations Board has continued to issue orders despite two federal court rulings forbidding it to do so. Attorney General Eric Holder says he will use a different section of the Voting Rights Act to impose requirements on Southern states that the Supreme Court ruled illegal. Mr. Obama's repeated flouting of the judiciary and its decisions are undermining its institutional authority, as intended.<br />
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The three administration nominees enabled by the Senate's filibuster deal—Richard Cordray at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Thomas Perez at the Labor Department and EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy—open a vast swath of American life to executive authority on steroids. There won't be enough hours in the day for Mr. Obama to "act on my own."<br />
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In a recent Journal op-ed, "Obama Suspends the Law," former federal judge Michael McConnell noted there are few means to stop a president who decides he is not obligated to execute laws as passed by Congress. So there's little reason to doubt we'll see more Obamaesque dismissals of established law, as with ObamaCare's employer mandate. Mr. Obama is pushing in a direction that has the potential for a political crisis.<br />
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A principled opposition would speak out. Barack Obama is right that he isn't running again. But the Democratic Party is. Their Republican opponents should force the party's incumbents to defend the president's creeping authoritarianism.<br />
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If Democratic Senate incumbents or candidates from Louisiana, Alaska, Missouri, Arkansas, North Carolina, Montana and Iowa think voters should accede to a new American system in which a president forces laws into place as his prerogative rather than first passing them through Congress, they should be made to say so.<br />
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And to be sure, the other purpose of the shafted middle-class tour is to demolish the GOP's standing with independent voters and take back the House in 2014. If that happens—and absent a more public, aggressive Republican voice it may—an unchecked, unbalanced presidential system will finally arrive.<br />
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A final quotation on America's system of government: "To ensure that no person or group would amass too much power, the founders established a government in which the powers to create, implement, and adjudicate laws were separated. Each branch of government is balanced by powers in the other two coequal branches." Source: The White House website of President Barack Obama.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7835806884965446753.post-23653941020764773082013-07-31T11:33:00.001-07:002013-07-31T11:33:26.454-07:00What?? US Court of Appeals 5th Circuit Rules that NSA cell phone tracking without warrant is constitutional?<span style="font-size: 13px; font-style: italic;">by </span><a href="http://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?email-send=genesis" style="color: blue; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; text-decoration: none;" title="Send an email to the author">Karl Denninger</a><br />
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You <strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">do</span></strong> know that your phone is <strong><em>always</em></strong> communicating with the towers when it's turned on, right? That's how it works -- it has to occasionally ping back and forth between the tower and device in order for a call to route to you, a text message to be delivered, etc.<br />
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Guess what? <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/31/technology/warrantless-cellphone-tracking-is-upheld.html?_r=1&" style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">There now is a court ruling</a> that since you <strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">voluntarily</span></strong> "gave" that information to the cell company <strong><em>even though it would be impossible for you to have such a device and have it work without giving that data to them</em></strong> because your giving that data (your location) was "voluntary" <strong><em>it is not protected under the 4th Amendment and thus does not require a warrant.</em></strong><br />
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The closely watched case, in the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, is the first ruling that squarely addresses the constitutionality of warrantless searches of historical location data stored by cellphone service providers. <strong>Ruling 2 to 1, the court said a warrantless search was “not per se unconstitutional” because location data was “clearly a business record” and therefore not protected by the Fourth Amendment.</strong></blockquote>
<strong><em>Note that this is <span style="text-decoration: underline;">historical data</span></em></strong>.<br />
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That is, exactly what the NSA is grabbing from <strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">all</span></strong> cell carriers in bulk <strong><em>without a warrant</em></strong>.<br />
"In bulk" means <strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">for everyone</span></strong>.<br />
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All the time.<br />
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The root of the problem here is <strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">not</span></strong> that it might lead to you "right now." It's that the data, once acquired <strong><em>is never erased</em></strong> and thus becomes a record that can be used<strong><em>at any time in the future</em></strong> if it becomes politically (or otherwise) expedient to use in order to implicate you in something.<br />
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The usual argument on the other side is something along the lines of <em>"I'm not doing anything wrong so I don't care."</em> Uh huh.<br />
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You're a rather trusting sort, you know. After all, there is no evidence that the government would <strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">ever</span></strong> turn into something evil <strong><em>at any time in your lifetime</em></strong> and then use that data to ex-post-facto link you to something they don't like -- right?<br />
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There's no <strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">history</span></strong> of governments doing things like this, is there? Oh wait -- there is. There are in fact dozens of such instances through history, <strong><em>and in virtually every single case the citizens who were ultimately <span style="text-decoration: underline;">murdered</span> as a consequence never saw it coming 5, 10 or 20 years down the road because at the time they "consented" the evil thing wasn't happening -- yet.</em></strong><br />
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The most-obvious of course is the Jews in Nazi Germany, but by no means the <strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">only</span></strong> example. Indeed, the history when it comes to privately-owned arms is that material and serious constraints on their personal ownership tend to come 10 or 20 years before the citizens are murdered by their very own government. <br />
This is much-more-insideous in that these "records" can be -- and will be -- used to link you to a political protest (e.g. "you were at the Washington Mall during the time that xxxx happened") <strong><em>and while today that's considered a protected activity who says it will be tomorrow?</em></strong><br />
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The real error here is that "business records" are not accorded 4th Amendment protections. <strong><em>Why not?</em></strong> I give the cell company access to my location <strong><em>not because I want them to have it but because it is necessary for their systems to know where I am for the service I am contracting for to work.</em></strong><br />
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The very premise under which the court ruled is incorrect -- if you and I agree that you may have some piece of information <strong><em>for the purpose of providing me a service or good</em></strong> that <strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">does not</span></strong> mean that I am giving you license to use it for whatever <strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">other</span></strong> purpose you may cook up later on.<br />
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If we cannot get our government to respect the fact that private citizens and private companies have the right to allocate information <strong><em>for specific purposes</em></strong> and that doing so <strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">does not</span></strong> give a general level of permission to <strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">either</span></strong> entity to then use that data <strong><em>outside of the specific purpose for which it was negotiated</em></strong> then we need a new government that <strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">does</span></strong> respect that fact.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7835806884965446753.post-73172660129687390542013-07-30T16:16:00.005-07:002013-07-30T16:16:36.084-07:00OBAMA QUIETLY PUSHES FORWARD WITH ANTI-SUBURBAN CAMPAIGN<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span class="meta-sep" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #888888; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: baseline;">BY</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #888888; line-height: 24px; text-transform: uppercase;"> </span><span class="author vcard" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #888888; font-weight: bold; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="url fn n" href="http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/author/paul" style="background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px; color: #888888; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="">PAUL MIRENGOFF</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I wrote <a href="http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2012/07/michelle-obamas-shhhh-moment-and-what-it-tells-us-about-her-husbands-plans-to-spread-the-wealth.php" style="background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px; color: #354f98; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">here</a> about President Obama’s plans to redistribute wealth from the suburbs to the cities, as exposed by Stanley Kurtz in his book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/1595230920/?tag=powlin0b-20" style="background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px; color: #354f98; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Spreading The Wealth: How Obama Is Robbing The Suburbs To Pay For the Cites</em></a>. Stanley returns to this theme in <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/354734/regionalism-obamas-quiet-anti-suburban-revolution-stanley-kurtz" style="background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px; color: #354f98; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">a post</a> about the latest element of the president’s regionalist policy — the July 19 publication of a Department of Housing and Urban Development regulation broadening the obligation of recipients of federal aid to “affirmatively further fair housing.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As Stanley explains, the <em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">apparent</em> purpose of this rule change is to force suburban neighborhoods with no record of housing discrimination to build more public housing targeted to ethnic and racial minorities. Several administration critics have noticed the change and challenged it, even as the mainstream media declines to cover the story.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But, says Stanley, the <em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">underlying</em> thrust of the rule change is more revolutionary than forcing racial and ethnic diversity on the suburbs:</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The new HUD rule is really about changing the way Americans live. It is part of a broader suite of initiatives designed to block suburban development, press Americans into hyper-dense cities, and force us out of our cars. Government-mandated ethnic and racial diversification plays a role in this scheme, yet the broader goal is forced “economic integration.” </span></i></blockquote>
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The ultimate vision is to make all neighborhoods more or less alike, turning traditional cities into ultra-dense Manhattans, while making suburbs look more like cities do now. In this centrally-planned utopia, steadily increasing numbers will live cheek-by-jowl in “stack and pack” high-rises close to public transportation, while automobiles fall into relative disuse.</span></i></blockquote>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 22.453125px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To help us understand this vision, Stanley turns to San Francisco and its “Plan Bay Area” program:</span></span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In effect, by preventing the development of new suburbs, and reducing traditional single-family home development in existing suburbs, Plan Bay Area will squeeze 30 years worth of in-migrating population into a few small urban enclaves, and force most new businesses into the same tight quarters. The result will be a steep increase in the Bay Area’s already out-of-control housing prices. This will hit the poor and middle class the hardest. While some poor and minority families will receive tiny subsidized apartments in the high-rise PDAs, many others will find themselves displaced by the new development, or priced out of the local housing market altogether.</span></i></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Obama administration has helped promote Plan Bay Area. It awarded the agencies that developed the program its second-highest “Sustainable Communities Grant” in 2012, citing the way Plan Bay Area “encourage[es] connections” between jobs, housing, and transportation. As Stanley says, this “encouragement” amounts to locating new residents –-poor and minorities included — in existing prosperous communities, replicating Manhattan-style “priority development areas.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Stanley expects that HUD and other agencies will soon begin to press localities directly, rather than through the medium of California’s new regionalist scheme. The Sustainable Communities program will be its vehicle, along with suits against recalcitrant suburbs under the Fair Housing Law. As HUD Secretary Donovan admitted when he announced his agency’s new regulation broadening the obligation of recipients of federal aid to “affirmatively further fair housing,” the reg isn’t really focused on preventing “outright discrimination and access to the housing itself.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Donovan also proclaimed: “Make no mistake: this is a big deal.” And so it is. While the MSM portrays the Obama administration as devoid these days of big ideas, in reality his big ideas are too controversial for him to discuss.</span><br />
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<b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">REALLY? What are we, stupid now? </span></b><b><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">So you expect us to believe that in the immediate wake of the Zimmerman trial, among riots in Oakland and Sanford FL, and even a <a href="http://www.opposingviews.com/i/society/guns/trayvon-supporters-call-cat-george-burn-it-alive">live cat burning</a>, over a trial which has been teaming with government sponsored race baiting since day one, suddenly by sheer coincidence, </span><span style="font-size: 14px;">FORTY</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"> young black men all decide to roam the
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7835806884965446753.post-83467456537576171162013-07-11T11:45:00.000-07:002013-07-11T11:45:03.216-07:00FUTURE HEADLINE: North Colorado secedes from Colorado, becomes 51st state!<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Georgia, Century, Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">
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According to <a href="http://denver.cbslocal.com/2013/07/09/effort-to-create-new-state-called-north-colorado-grows/" style="border: 0px; color: #b82026; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">CBS in Denver</a>, “There’s a growing effort to create a 51st state out of parts of northeast Colorado.”</div>
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Organizers of the secessionist effort in a dozen rural counties in what some hope will become the state of “North Colorado” say their<b> interest in breaking away stems from the fact that their “interests are not being represented at the state Capitol.”</b></div>
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We’re not talking here about a classic secession from the union, the kind Texas is always rumored to be on the verge of, <b>but of the simple formation of a new state out of an existing one.</b> West Virginia was created this way many moons ago, as were Maine, Kentucky, and Vermont.</div>
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Three other counties in Colorado and two in Kansas have also expressed interest in joining the secessionist movement. Leaders hope to have the measure voted on as early as November. Even if most voters decide that “North Colorado” is a good idea, however, the bill will still have to gain approval from the Colorado General Assembly and the U.S. Congress.</div>
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It may just be a temporary answer to the problem, anyway. Liberals have a way of invading the loveliest places in America and making them uninhabitable: e.g. Boulder, CO, Santa Fe, NM, and everywhere in California. What’s to stop liberals from moving in and undoing all the good secession might do? New Hampshire, where “Live Free or Die” was once taken seriously, is looking more and more like Massachusetts every day. With massive immigration, even Texas is not immune from the trend. Northern Colorado is a fast-growing area with lots of oil and gas that needs to be regulated.</div>
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Anti-secessionists love smugly to call Texas secession a pipe-dream on the basis that it <a href="http://ideas.time.com/2012/11/19/can-texas-really-secede-from-the-union-not-legally/" style="border: 0px; color: #b82026; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">“isn’t legal.”</a> If you’re seceding, though, the goal is to break from the rules imposed upon you by the institution, so why would you stop and ask for its permission first? “Is it alright, parent, if I refuse to heed the rule you told me to obey?” </div>
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And why are <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeff-schweitzer/secession-movement_b_2191701.html" style="border: 0px; color: #b82026; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">liberals against secession</a> in the first place?<b> Do they enjoy tormenting conservatives so much that they’d rather live in disharmony with them than let us go our separate ways? </b></div>
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President Obama's decision last week to suspend the employer mandate of the Affordable Care Act may be welcome relief to businesses affected by this provision, but it raises grave concerns about his understanding of the role of the executive in our system of government.</div>
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Article II, Section 3, of the Constitution states that the president "shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed." This is a duty, not a discretionary power. While the president does have substantial discretion about <em>how</em> to enforce a law, he has no discretion about <em>whether </em>to do so.</div>
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This matter—the limits of executive power—has deep historical roots. During the period of royal absolutism, English monarchs asserted a right to dispense with parliamentary statutes they disliked. King James II's use of the prerogative was a key grievance that lead to the Glorious Revolution of 1688. The very first provision of the English Bill of Rights of 1689—the most important precursor to the U.S. Constitution—declared that "the pretended power of suspending of laws, or the execution of laws, by regal authority, without consent of parliament, is illegal."</div>
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To make sure that American presidents could not resurrect a similar prerogative, the Framers of the Constitution made the faithful enforcement of the law a constitutional duty.</div>
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Attorneys general under Presidents Carter, Reagan, both Bushes and Clinton all agreed on this point. With the exception of Richard Nixon, whose refusals to spend money appropriated by Congress were struck down by the courts, no prior president has claimed the power to negate a law that is concededly constitutional.</div>
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In 1998, the Supreme Court struck down a congressional grant of line-item veto authority to the president to cancel spending items in appropriations. The reason? The only constitutional power the president has to suspend or repeal statutes is to veto a bill or propose new legislation. Writing for the court in <em>Clinton v. City of New York</em>, Justice <a class="topicLink" data-ls-seen="1" href="http://topics.wsj.com/person/S/John-Paul-Stevens/6030" style="color: #093d72; outline: none;">John Paul Stevens</a> noted: "There is no provision in the Constitution that authorizes the president to enact, to amend, or to repeal statutes."</div>
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The employer mandate in the Affordable Care Act contains no provision allowing the president to suspend, delay or repeal it. Section 1513(d) states in no uncertain terms that "The amendments made by this section shall apply to months beginning after December 31, 2013." Imagine the outcry if Mitt Romney had been elected president and simply refused to enforce the whole of ObamaCare.</div>
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This is not the first time Mr. Obama has suspended the operation of statutes by executive decree, but it is the most barefaced. In June of last year, for example, the administration stopped initiating deportation proceedings against some 800,000 illegal immigrants who came to the U.S. before age 16, lived here at least five years, and met a variety of other criteria. This was after Congress refused to enact the Dream Act, which would have allowed these individuals to stay in accordance with these conditions. Earlier in 2012, the president effectively replaced congressional requirements governing state compliance under the No Child Left Behind Act with new ones crafted by his administration.</div>
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Republican opponents of ObamaCare might say that the suspension of the employer mandate is such good policy that there's no need to worry about constitutionality. But if the president can dispense with laws, and parts of laws, when he disagrees with them, the implications for constitutional government are dire.</div>
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Democrats too may acquiesce in Mr. Obama's action, as they have his other aggressive assertions of executive power. Yet what will they say when a Republican president decides that the tax rate on capital gains is a drag on economic growth and instructs the IRS not to enforce it?</div>
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<span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.5px;">Of all the stretches of executive power Americans have seen in the past few years, the president's unilateral suspension of statutes may have the most disturbing long-term effects. As the Supreme Court said long ago (</span><em style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.5px;">Kendall v. United States</em><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.5px;">, 1838), allowing the president to refuse to enforce statutes passed by Congress "would be clothing the president with a power to control the legislation of congress, and paralyze the administration of justice."</span></div>
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The United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) is a U.S. federal court established and authorized under theForeign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (FISA) (50 U.S.C. § 1803, Pub.L. 95–511, 92 Stat. 1788, enacted October 25, 1978). The court oversees requests for surveillance warrants against suspected foreign intelligence agents inside the United States by federal law enforcement agencies (primarily National Security Agency and the F.B.I.). Congress created FISA and its court (also called the FISA Court) as a result of the Church Committee recommendations.[1]</div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">They have no jurisdiction except for requests for surveillance warrants against suspected foreign intelligence agents inside the United States.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">The NSA PRISM wiretapping is not being used against foreign agents, but against US citizens, and PRISM does not wait for warrants. To suggest that FISC has any jurisdiction to either authorize or oversee PRISM is laughable.</span></b></div>
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<b><i>"This program, by the way, is fully overseen not just by Congress, but by the FISA Court — a court specially put together to evaluate classified programs to make sure that the executive branch, or government generally, is not abusing them, and that it’s being carried out consistent with the Constitution and rule of law. "</i></b></blockquote>
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Unlike the Supreme Court, the FISA court hears from only one side in the case — the government — and its findings are almost never made public. A Court of Review is empaneled to hear appeals, but that is known to have happened only a handful of times in the court’s history, and no case has ever been taken to the Supreme Court. In fact, it is not clear in all circumstances whether Internet and phone companies that are turning over the reams of data even have the right to appear before the FISA court. </blockquote>
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One of the most incredible things that has occurred in the aftermath of Edward Snowden’s NSA leaks has been President Barack Obama’s laughable attempt to justify the spying by claiming the process has judicial oversight, as he did in the quote above. What he fails to mention of course is the fact that the FISA court that signs off on all these activities is a secret court, the opinions of which are never made public. Does he think the American public is so brain-dead it is incapable of recognizing the difference between a regular court of law and a secret one? Apparently he does. For those of you that have yet to get up to speed on America’s “parallel Supreme Court,” which also disturbingly happens to constructs its own laws, please read the article below from The New York Times: </blockquote>
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WASHINGTON — In more than a dozen classified rulings, the nation’s surveillance court has created a secret body of law giving the National Security Agency the power to amass vast collections of data on Americans while pursuing not only terrorism suspects, but also people possibly involved in nuclear proliferation, espionage and cyberattacks, officials say. </blockquote>
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The rulings, some nearly 100 pages long, reveal that the court has taken on a much more expansive role by regularly assessing broad constitutional questions and establishing important judicial precedents, with almost no public scrutiny, according to current and former officials familiar with the court’s classified decisions. </blockquote>
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The 11-member Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, known as the FISA court, was once mostly focused on approving case-by-case wiretapping orders. But since major changes in legislation and greater judicial oversight of intelligence operations were instituted six years ago, it has quietly become almost a parallel Supreme Court, serving as the ultimate arbiter on surveillance issues and delivering opinions that will most likely shape intelligence practices for years to come, the officials said. </blockquote>
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Unlike the Supreme Court, the FISA court hears from only one side in the case — the government — and its findings are almost never made public. A Court of Review is empaneled to hear appeals, but that is known to have happened only a handful of times in the court’s history, and no case has ever been taken to the Supreme Court. In fact, it is not clear in all circumstances whether Internet and phone companies that are turning over the reams of data even have the right to appear before the FISA court.<br /><br />Created by Congress in 1978 as a check against wiretapping abuses by the government, the court meets in a secure, nondescript room in the federal courthouse in Washington. All of the current 11 judges, who serve seven-year terms, were appointed to the special court by Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., and 10 of them were nominated to the bench by Republican presidents. Most hail from districts outside the capital and come in rotating shifts to hear surveillance applications; a single judge signs most surveillance orders, which totaled nearly 1,800 last year. None of the requests from the intelligence agencies was denied, according to the court. </blockquote>
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The court has indicated that while individual pieces of data may not appear “relevant” to a terrorism investigation, the total picture that the bits of data create may in fact be relevant, according to the officials with knowledge of the decisions. </blockquote>
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Geoffrey R. Stone, a professor of constitutional law at the University of Chicago, said he was troubled by the idea that the court is creating a significant body of law without hearing from anyone outside the government, forgoing the adversarial system that is a staple of the American justice system. “That whole notion is missing in this process,” he said. </blockquote>
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<b>Sorry, but secret courts pretty much destroy the rule of law entirely. We should all be outraged, offended and motivated to change this for good.</b></blockquote>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7835806884965446753.post-90546661003338098662013-07-06T15:05:00.000-07:002013-07-06T15:05:02.689-07:00Are you prepared? Zimmerman-Martin riots begin in 5...4...3...2..Reposted from BonnieGadsden<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In light of the Trevon Martin racial hysteria, I'm doing a little research into the LA Riots of 1992 to see what we are to expect if fuel keeps being thrown on the fire and it rages out of control. I found a series of posts on www.aussurvivalist.com from a man about his first hand experience in the riots</span><br />
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<b>The L.A. Riots: A First hand experience</b><br />
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<a href="http://whyguncontrol.blogspot.com/2013/07/are-you-prepared-zimmerman-martin-riots.html">http://whyguncontrol.blogspot.com/2013/07/are-you-prepared-zimmerman-martin-riots.html</a><br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7835806884965446753.post-40773423874240305862013-07-06T13:33:00.001-07:002013-07-06T13:33:20.144-07:00Full Global Financial Collapse in next 12 months?<br />
It looks like the collapse is at our doorstep knocking. With China, EU, UK, Japan etc. in full collapse mode. I am expecting to see major bank failures soon followed by bail-ins and extreme money printing later this year.<br />
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Think of this as 1996+/- in Japan. Seven years in after the Nikkei went kaput. The Japanese Central Bank apparatchik probably though the same. Not, and deflation still kicking their behind 17 yrs later.<br />
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Moral of the story is – If you save the Bankster you impoverish a sizeable percentage of the present population and you kneecap economic growth for the next generation.<br />
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I remember about 10 yrs ago hearing about “parasite singles” in Japan. About 4 yrs ago, I started hearing ” herbivore males”. All these are sign of an economically dead generation. A good majority of the Japanese kids coming of age since the Nikkei collapsed are member of this generation.<br />
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Japan’s decades of economic stagnation after pursuing a low interest rate policy should be a warning to all central banks, particularly the European Central Bank, according to Satyajit Das, a former banker and author of “Traders, Guns and Money”.<br />
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<a href="http://beforeitsnews.com/financial-markets/2013/07/the-market-trap-is-being-set-with-china-eu-uk-japan-etc-in-full-collapse-mode-major-bank-failures-soon-followed-by-bail-ins-and-extreme-money-printing-the-whole-world-is-turning-japane-2575376.html">http://beforeitsnews.com/financial-markets/2013/07/the-market-trap-is-being-set-with-china-eu-uk-japan-etc-in-full-collapse-mode-major-bank-failures-soon-followed-by-bail-ins-and-extreme-money-printing-the-whole-world-is-turning-japane-2575376.html</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7835806884965446753.post-65103379467178961772013-06-30T20:04:00.001-07:002013-06-30T20:04:19.859-07:00Amerika - Government By Terror, Torture and Tyranny<em style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17.328125px;"> by Stephen Lendman</em><br />
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America governs lawlessly. Out-of-control rogues run things. Conditions go from bad to worse. Tyranny threatens everyone. So does possible global war.</div>
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Fear-mongering, saber rattling, hot wars, proxy ones, drone ones, geopolitical ones, financial ones, anti-populist ones, mass incarceration, censorship, lawless sanctions, subversion, sabotage, targeted assassinations, mass murder, cyber-war, and horrific draconian harshness reflect out-of control governance gone mad.</div>
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<strong>Lying is official policy.</strong> So is state terror. Independent governments aren’t tolerated. They’re targeted. Regime change is prioritized. World peace is threatened. Humanity’s menaced. Survival’s uncertain.</div>
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Daily revelations explain more. War is called peace. State-sponsored assassins are called freedom fighters. Real ones are called terrorists.</div>
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<strong>Capital has divine rights.</strong> Monied interests run things. Plundering the earth for profit is prioritized. Popular needs go begging. Social America’s dying. Poverty, unemployment, hunger, homelessness and human misery go unaddressed. Corporate rights alone matter.</div>
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<strong>Democracy’s a four-letter word.</strong> Out-of-control power is unaccountable. Rule of law principles are mocked. Tyranny’s the law of the land. Advancing America’s imperium matters most.</div>
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Workers are exploited. They’re unprotected. Human and civil rights are sacrificed. Wealth, power and privilege are served. Militarized control supports them. Nonbelievers aren’t tolerated.</div>
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Torture is official policy. Gitmo is America’s public face. Innocent detainees suffer. So do many others. Thousands of political prisoners fill America’s gulag. It’s the world’s largest. It operates globally. Mercy isn’t in Washington’s vocabulary.</div>
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Diktat power rules. Police state terror threatens everyone. Freedom’s fast disappearing. Dissent’s not tolerated. Heroic whistleblowers are criminalized.</div>
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Even retired four star generals aren’t safe. More on that below.<br />Journalists are spied on. So is everyone worldwide. Big Brother watches everyone. It’s no longer fiction.</div>
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Censorship prevents truth and full disclosure. Managed news misinformation substitutes. Students are debt entrapped for life. Millions have no futures. An entire generation’s lost.</div>
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Madness substitutes for sanity. Unconscionable wrongdoing persists. America’s unsafe to live in. Oblivion awaits. Most people are too out of touch to notice. Others are dismissive.</div>
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Failure to act responsibly matters. It lets Washington get away with murder and much more.</div>
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Rogues running America take full advantage. Who knows what’s next.</div>
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The Pentagon’s former second in command’s being investigated. General James (Hoss) Cartwright allegedly leaked information higher ups want suppressed.</div>
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Cyberwar is official US policy. In spring 2010, Iranian intelligence discovered Stuxnet malware contamination. Its Bushehr nuclear facility was affected. US/Israeli cyber-war bore full responsibility.</div>
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Cartwright perhaps explained. He ran cyber-operation Olympic Games. Obama ordered stepped up attacks. Targeting Iran is prioritized.</div>
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Perhaps there’s hope if retired four star generals become whistleblowers. Maybe other insiders will be emboldened to act. Legions more than ever are needed. Hopefully many will come forward responsibly.</div>
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Edward Snowden provided a vital service. He’s a hero in his own time. He’s globally recognized. He deserves praise, not prosecution. History won’t forget him. He revealed what everyone needs to know.</div>
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Unprecedented global spying is official US policy. It’s lawless. Spies “R” us defines it. Police states operate this way. America’s by far the worst. It’s unmatched in human history. No one’s safe anywhere any time.</div>
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Shoot the messenger. Snowden’s hunted. He’s a wanted man. Washington wants him arrested. It wants him prosecuted. It wants him imprisoned. It wants him silenced. Perhaps it wants him dead.</div>
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It wants information he knows suppressed. London’s Guardian revealed it. It plans telling more. On June 28, it headlined “US army blocks access to Guardian website to preserve ‘network hygiene.’ ”</div>
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It wants truth suppressed. It wants its message alone circulated. “The US army has admitted to blocking access to parts of the Guardian website for thousands of defense personnel across the country.”</div>
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“A spokesman said the military was filtering out reports and content relating to government surveillance programs to preserve ‘network hygiene’ and prevent any classified material appearing on unclassified parts of its computer systems.”</div>
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Pentagon officials lied. Censorship is official US policy. NETCOM On-Line Communication Services operates from San Jose, CA. It’s an Internet service provider.</div>
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Spokesman Gordon Van Vleet said it filtered “some access to press coverage and online content about NSA leaks.”</div>
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“The Department of Defense routinely takes preventive ‘network hygiene’ measures to mitigate unauthorized disclosures of classified information onto DoD unclassified networks.”</div>
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An Army Network Enterprise Technology Command (NETCOM) spokesman said policy affects hundreds of defense facilities. Doing so suggests far worse future policy.</div>
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Washington may block anti-government content. It may do so routinely. Alternative media sites may be targeted. Vital truths more than ever may be suppressed.</div>
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Revealing them responsibly risks being criminalized. So may discussing what’s already known. Pointing fingers the right way is dangerous. Doing so risks being charged with aiding and abetting America’s enemies.</div>
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Van Vleet added:</div>
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“We make every effort to balance the need to preserve information access with operational security, however there are strict policies and directives in place regarding protecting and handling classified information.”</div>
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“Until declassified by appropriate officials, classified information – including material released through an unauthorized disclosure – must be treated accordingly by DoD personnel. If a public website displays classified information,” blocking it will follow.</div>
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“Classified” includes vital information people have a right to know. Suppressing it reflects police state harshness. Rogue states operate this way. It bears repeating. America’s by far the worst.</div>
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According to an unnamed Pentagon spokesman:</div>
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“The Guardian website is NOT being blocked by DoD. The Department of Defense routinely takes preventative measures to mitigate unauthorized disclosures of classified information onto DoD unclassified networks.”</div>
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On June 25, Guardian editors headlined “Edward Snowden: in defense of whistleblowers,” saying:</div>
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He’s no traitor. America’s First Amendment matters. It “prevents prior restraint and affords a considerable measure of protection to free speech.”</div>
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Obama violates its letter and spirit. He’s done so by “show(ing) a dismaying aggression in not only criminalizing leaking and whistle blowing, but also recently placing reporters under surveillance – tracking them and pulling their phone and email logs in order to monitor their sources for stories that were patently of public importance.”</div>
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Thanks to Snowden, we know more about what NSA whistleblower Thomas Drake called “a vast, systemic institutionalized, industrial-scale Leviathan surveillance state that has clearly gone far beyond the original mandate to deal with terrorism.”</div>
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Snowden is today’s Daniel Ellsberg. Releasing the Pentagon Papers got him targeted. He also faced Espionage Act charges.</div>
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He might have gotten life in prison. He was lucky. Gross government misconduct saved him. His 1973 trial collapsed. At the time, judge William Byrne, Jr. ruled:</div>
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“The totality of the circumstances of this case which I have only briefly sketched offend a sense of justice.”</div>
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“The bizarre events have incurably infected the prosecution of this case.”</div>
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Federal judges today don’t speak this way. Ellsberg later said:</div>
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“The public is lied to every day by the President, by his spokespeople, by his officers.”</div>
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“If you can’t handle the thought that the President lies to the public for all kinds of reasons, you couldn’t stay in the government at that level”</div>
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“The fact is Presidents rarely say the whole truth – essentially, never say the whole truth – of what they expect and what they’re doing and what they believe and why they’re doing it and rarely refrain from lying, actually, about these matters.”</div>
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Ellsberg’s a modern day hero. So is Snowden. Washington fears ugly truths revealed. Doing so arouses public anger.</div>
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Perhaps it emboldens others to tell more. Coming forward threatens America’s imperial ambitions. Preventing them responsibly matters most.</div>
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<a href="http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-06-30/guest-post-america-government-terror-torture-and-tyranny">http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-06-30/guest-post-america-government-terror-torture-and-tyranny</a><br />
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7835806884965446753.post-28207965665411116832013-06-13T14:46:00.003-07:002013-06-13T14:46:46.933-07:00The system is rigged: 5 Things Nobody Tells You About Being Poor<b>Guest Post: 5 Things Nobody Tells You About Being Poor</b><br />
By John Cheese<br />
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Foul Language Sanitised by [Annonie-Mouse]<br />
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Being poor is like a game of poker where if you lose, the other players get to [take advantage of] you. And if you win, the dealer [takes advantage of] you. A bunch of you reading this are among the 45 million “working poor” in America, and if you’re not, you know somebody who is. Like me.<br />
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I’m not blaming anybody but myself for getting into this situation and I’m not asking for anybody’s sympathy. What I am saying is that people are quick to tell you to pick yourself up by your bootstraps and just stop being poor. <b>What they don’t understand is the series of intricate financial traps that makes that incredibly difficult.</b><br />
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If you’re not poor, that’s awesome. I’m not mad at you, or jealous. Hopefully you’ll never find out that …<br />
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<b>#5. You Get Charged for Using Your Own Money</b><br />
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This is the future, where many businesses no longer accept cash as payment. That means you are required to have a checking account to function in the economy. And if you’re poor, that means at some point you’re going to get bank-[taken advantage of]. </blockquote>
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Because having a checking account while poor doesn’t just mean you have to be responsible and good at math — you have to be perfect. Meticulous, flawless record keeping is the difference between surviving and having the bank seize your next paycheck.<br /><br />Let’s say you’re running late for work and hurriedly stop to get gas, paying with a bank card. In your haste you forget to write the $55 down (gas being $4 a gallon, you know). So while you spent the last week until payday thinking you had $50 in your account to absorb minor purchases, you actually were $5 in the red. </blockquote>
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So payday comes. You go to the bank to deposit your check, at which point the bank takes it, sticks it in their pocket and says, “Thank you very much! I’m buying myself a new pair of shoes with that [money]!” They then inform you that your account was at -$200 at the moment you deposited your check. </blockquote>
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The bank can hit you with a $35 fine for every charge that comes in while you are in minus territory. The bank will not tell you they charged you this money. You will have no idea anything is wrong. </blockquote>
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It’s a silent chain reaction in which every charge that comes through during those few days before payday draws the $35 fee. The $8 you spent at the gas station for cigarettes, the $24.99 that automatically comes out for your Internet access … for each, the bank silently zaps out the charge and $35 on top of it, until your next paycheck is gone. Five seconds of oversight gave the bank the right to take away a week’s worth of your labor. </blockquote>
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Some of you are saying, “Fine, just tell the bank to go [jump in a lake]. Walk out the door and just do everything by cash or money order.” Ah, but now when you get paid, you have to go somewhere to cash your paycheck — and businesses charge up to $8 to do it. If you’re working in the service industry, congratulations — an hour of your labor just vanished … just so you could use your own money. Some describe this as a “poverty tax.” Others refer to it as [explicitaves] </blockquote>
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The one piece of advice I can offer here is that you’ll be surprised how many businesses will give you some leeway if you just call them and beg. Banks are run by human beings (as of the writing of this article) and if you get a person on the phone you can get them to waive overdraft fees, particularly if it’s a first offense. Even businesses waiting on a payment will give you an extra week or two if you call and explain it. In this economy, they’re so used to people just taking the money and disappearing that they’re happy to hear you’re operating in some kind of good faith.</blockquote>
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Otherwise, you’re going to be in a bind. And this is when you’ll find out …<br />
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<b>#4. There is an Industry That Profits by Keeping You Poor</b><br />
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Think you’re too smart to ever use one of those shady “payday loan” places? Well, you should know that nobody thinks they’re a good deal. People go there because they’re choosing between which [Service] provides the [Least downside].<br /><br />Say the gas bill is a month past due, and they’re threatening to turn it off (if so, it’s $150 to get it reconnected). Or you’re about to be late on a credit card payment (which would be a fee and a doubling of your interest rate). Or your favorite [TV] broke, and [a Sesame Street TV Marathon] is coming up. That is when you find yourself swallowing your pride and heading to the payday loan place. </blockquote>
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A standard 14-day “payday” loan charges $15.50 per $100 borrowed. So a $500 loan ends up being $577.50 (or 1.5 tanks of gas in interest). But if you don’t have it after 14 days, that’s fine — they offer to extend your loan to 180 days. It makes the payments minuscule. Oh, and you’ll be paying back $1,275 at 403.10 percent APR. </blockquote>
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Yes, you got [taken advantage of], in the name of your financial [institution] avoiding the credit card company’s [more harsh financial penalties]. And it’s a [heck] of a lot better than going over on your checking account again and starting up their infinite circular [financial catch 22].<br /><br />All right, let’s say you wised up. You save and cut back. You resist an offer to, say, buy a computer on Best Buy’s finance plan, because you’re too smart to take on more debt. And no monthly cell phone payments for you, oh no. You’re not going to put yourself in a hole again!</blockquote>
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Congratulations. You just did. It turns out …<br />
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<b>#3. No Credit Can be Just as Damaging as Bad Credit</b><br />
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On the spectrum of financial responsibility, from “that billionaire who drives an old Dodge Dakota” down to “MC Hammer,” you’d think that the next step up from being overdue on a bunch of bills would be to have no bills at all. Don’t buy it if you can’t afford it, right? </blockquote>
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You’ll find out the problem the next time somebody does a credit check — having no credit will stop you from getting a loan or an apartment just as fast as having bad credit. And more importantly, if you have old bad credit due to a bunch of previous [unfortunate financial decisions], simply vanishing off the credit map doesn’t do anything to fix it.<br /><br />t took me six months to find a place to rent after applying for every property that appeared in the paper across five towns. I was denied each time. It was my lack of credit due to years of me and lenders deciding to just stay out of each other’s hair, like those old sitcoms where roommates would draw a line down the middle of the house. I even used a prepaid cell phone where I’d just be buying minutes off the shelf rather than get locked into a contract with all those termination fees and [stuff]. When I needed something big, like a computer upgrade or furniture, I’d wait for a windfall, like a tax return, and pay cash. It’s called financial responsibility, [people]!<br /><br />Nope. It turns out that to a business, a customer with no credit is like a girl giving you the silent treatment — they assume something is wrong. </blockquote>
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And everybody checks your credit — if I want to get Direct TV, I have to pay $310 worth of startup fees (the size of your up-front payments/deposits depends on your credit history). </blockquote>
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Utilities are even more — which means trying to move to a new place costs hundreds of dollars in deposits (remember the $150 to get my gas turned on). If I need a new car, well, let’s just say I need to show up at the dealership with a shoebox full of cash. </blockquote>
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So repairing credit means opening accounts (having a cell phone plan is a good one, having your utilities in your own name — as opposed to the landlord’s — is another) and, you know, making sure to pay your [finacial] bills on time. And don’t bother trying to shortcut the system by saving the shoebox full of cash, getting a loan, then paying it all off the next month. Length of credit is part of your credit score. They want to know your ability to make steady, long term payments without missing a month or being late</blockquote>
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<b>#2. Your Next Expensive Disaster is Always Around the Corne</b>r<br />
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[Stuff] happens, always at the exact worst time. A tire blows on my car and, without a spare, it instantly becomes a paperweight. There’s $80 for a new tire, $50 for a tow. Now, it’s a good idea to have a separate bank account set up specifically for these situations because they are unavoidable. It’s also a good idea to have a [winning lotto ticket in yout back pocket]. It’s not that simple. </blockquote>
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You get the same domino effect with sudden financial disasters as you do with the bank fees. For instance, I worked a [undesirable] service industry job, which meant I got paid by the hour, and didn’t get paid unless I showed up — no paid time off. But I couldn’t physically get to work because of the [unfortunate] flat tire. It’s a rural area, no subway or buses. So it’s double [unfortunate] — not just lost work time, but lost time that is spent paying for a tow and a tire. And if I didn’t happen to have that money sitting around, it meant waiting until payday, and missing work until then. </blockquote>
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Which meant my next paycheck would be short. By the time I get it fixed and add in the missed work time, that $80 tire just turned into a $250 [problem]. That’s life in a world with no financial margin for error. It’s like trying to climb out of a [hole and only falling deeper in]. </blockquote>
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Years ago, we bought a house with the help of our in-laws. You know, because owning property is the responsible adult thing to do. The very first [glorious] night of moving in, we got a massive water leak. I couldn’t just call the landlord — I was the landlord. I couldn’t call a plumber because we didn’t have the $150 to pay the guy, not until payday. So the leak was allowed to run until we could put the money together to pay one. So two weeks later, we hand the guy $150. And then, a week later, the water bill arrives. </blockquote>
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You find yourself thinking, “Man, we could get caught up if this bad [stuff] wouldn’t keep happening!” Then it finally hits you that bad [stuff] happens like clockwork. Not because God hates you, but because you’re poor and you’re using cheap [things] that break. Maybe you don’t pay the $150 for a plumber, but have a handy friend fix it for you for $50. Awesome, you saved $100! Then six months later you have a leak again, because it turns out he fixed it with rubber bands and Fruit Roll-ups. </blockquote>
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Everything in a poor person’s life is a cash vampire. My truck has 170,000 miles on it and the MPG is so bad that every time I start it, the ghost of an Indian appears in the passenger seat and cries. About twice a year, something under the hood grinds to a halt or melts — always another $500 on a tow and repairs. And that was the money I was saving to get a more reliable car. </blockquote>
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[Heck], even my own body does it to me. I lost my last job because of chronic back pain, losing my health insurance in the process. Which means I can’t treat my chronic back pain. Can’t afford to get dentist check-ups, so more expensive problems are allowed to grow and fester. And so on.</blockquote>
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<b>#1. You’re Always in Survival Mode</b><br />
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There’s a phrase in the working world that drives me crazy. One guy says, “The money’s not great, but I love my job.” And somebody responds, “Hey, happiness is all that really matters.” </blockquote>
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To be clear, that’s probably true for people at a certain level of income. If you aren’t struggling to pay the bills, then happiness is indeed a pretty [darned] awesome extra. But you know those movies like American Beauty, about the guy with the unfulfilling career who abandons it to live life to its fullest? Yeah, don’t forget that after quitting their jobs they still come home to houses that look like [Cape Cod]. </blockquote>
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But down here, at this level, you take what you can [be fortunate enough to] get. Fantasies about holding out for that dream job will ruin you. </blockquote>
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For instance, long before reading to this part, some helpful commenter has surely skipped down and chimed in with, “Why don’t you just get a job, you lazy [person]!” Wait, did you think I was unemployed? [Heck] no, it’s been years since I was out of work for any long period of time. I’ve always had jobs. [Lousy, Lousy] jobs. </blockquote>
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A huge chunk of this economy runs on shitty jobs now. Recently, McDonald’s held a job fair with 50,000 openings. They got more than 1,000,000 applications. Tens of millions of you will wind up in one of these jobs, it’s sheer math. </blockquote>
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These service jobs pay hourly, they give you little or nothing in terms of benefits and there is nothing in the way of security even from week to week — your hours could get cut at any time, for any reason. Sure, you can take a second part-time job. Though, that’s assuming you can find one that works around your primary job’s schedule — just mentioning that you have another job in an interview is often enough to stop that interview mid-sentence. Why hire you when there are 30 guys in line behind you with completely free schedules? </blockquote>
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So in answer to the inevitable, “You need to dream bigger, and strive forth to get a new career for yourself!” Hey, I totally agree. But now we’re back in the Catch-22 poverty [situation]. Once you’re in this tier of jobs, getting out isn’t just hard, it’s expensive. </blockquote>
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Sure, you can take classes at night at a community college or something. Maybe you’ll even get financial aid or loans to pay for your books or tuition. What they will not pay for is the time you missed at work while you were in classes or for a babysitter or for transportation. And you sure as [heck]better be certain that you have some kind of aptitude for whatever you’re studying (which, by the way, you won’t know until you’ve spent a year or two studying it) because that’s the only chance you’re going to get. </blockquote>
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You can do it the old-fashioned way, by working your way up the corporate ladder from within whatever [lousy] job you have. But that is also expensive because promotions often require you to move. I got offered a promotion at my [lousy] service job (washing semi trucks with high-pressure hoses, the job that eventually destroyed my back) that would have required me to move several hours away. And moving costs money — remember what I said about the cost of getting utilities turned on? And how landlords check your credit? </blockquote>
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And then there are the intangible costs. I would be abandoning my children, for instance — I share custody with my ex-wife, who obviously was not going to be moving with me. How many visits would I get in before my car broke down? And moving away from friends and family also comes with a cost — think of the favors you do for each other (i.e. the friend/brother/uncle willing to fix the truck for free, because you helped paint his porch, etc).</blockquote>
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It’s not impossible, but it’s taking a huge risk. And if the new job doesn’t work out after you bet all of your chips, you’re triple [unfortunate]. And at that point the world will wag its finger at you and tell you how irresponsible it was to move when you were so poor. “Ha, you poor people are always doing stupid [things] like that!”<br />
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And on and on. People do get out of this situation — I got paid to write this, for instance. All I’m saying is that the journey is something like trying to go from the Earth to the Moon.<br />
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<b><span style="color: red;">** WARNING: Original link contains significant amounts of language that is NSFW. **</span></b><br />
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<a href="http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-06-13/guest-post-5-things-nobody-tells-you-about-being-poor">http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-06-13/guest-post-5-things-nobody-tells-you-about-being-poor</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7835806884965446753.post-56181476148155482872013-06-06T16:23:00.002-07:002013-06-06T16:23:42.981-07:00Is this the next phase of persecution for those who do not support Obama?<br />
It is no secret that the IRS has and is persecuting people for their political beliefs. It is also clear that Veterans are under persecution by DHS which on their list as likely terrorists. The below video is of a genuine authentic document that the government admits is real and exists. Is this the next phase of persecution for those who do not support Obama?<br />
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The following video details the contents of a department of defense document entitled "Internment and Resettlement operations" also known as FM 3-39.40. The document is 325 pages long and is signed by Joyce E Morrow, administrative assistant to the Secretary of the Army.<br />
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It was created in 2010, however, it has just been recently leaked to the public via the internet and can now be downloaded from multiple sources. In the description below you will find the download link for the document. I strongly encourage you to download it yourself and verify everything that is being said here.<br />
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Highlights:<br />
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* Applies within US territory<br />
* Addresses the detainment of US citizens<br />
* SSN are to be recorded along photographs and fingerprints<br />
* Cooperating agencies are listed as DHS, FEMA, DOD, and the UN<br />
* Includes psychological operations officers to "identify malcontents, trained agitators, political leaders" and to "develop and executes indoctrination programs to reduce or remove antagonistic attitudes"<br />
* Lists conditions for use of lethal force including terminating escape attempts<br />
* snipers during riots for apprehension and fire lethal rounds.<br />
* Shows basic layout for containment including interrogation area and mortuaries, double barb-wire fences, watched over by 24 guard towers.<br />
* US Army has been running job ads for positions in these facilities since 2009.<br />
* Created in 2010 under Obama Administration.<br />
* Predates the NDAA of 2012 with authorizes the military detainment of US citizens - clearly showing a long term agenda at work<br />
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<a href="http://beforeitsnews.com/obama/2013/06/leaked-obama-document-is-this-the-next-phase-after-irs-tea-party-persecution-2452322.html">http://beforeitsnews.com/obama/2013/06/leaked-obama-document-is-this-the-next-phase-after-irs-tea-party-persecution-2452322.html</a><br />
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