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Organizing for Action: Obama's Recycled Political Machine Pushing Climate Change, Raising Unlimited Cash from Special Interests, and Selling Access 4063680240?profile=original

“Obama, who long cast himself as an ardent opponent of big money in politics” –– even scolding the Supreme Court's ruling on campaign finance reform during his 2010 State of the Union address –– in mid January unleashed his recycled political machine that is pushing on issues that range from climate change to immigration reform to women’s health.

According to Politico, “The president and his allies declared it would be powered by grassroots activists and change politics from outside Washington.”

Not so fast.

If you read the fine print, “[this nonprofit group] shows how disturbing its work really is. Its name is Organizing for Action (OfA), and if its initials seem familiar, that’s because the group is the direct descendant of Obama for America, the president’s campaign organization in 2008 and 2012, noted the left-wing New York Times –– and it's an organization with many of the same Obama strategists, but without the restraint of limited donations.

"It stinks," slammed the Washington Post in an op-ed titled, "The temptation of dark money" –– "judging by recent reports, Organizing for Action should be renamed Paying for Access," because they are raising large sums of money by offering advisory board positions with "the privilege of attending quarterly (and secret) meetings with the president."

It's pretty obvious what access and influence buys in Washington DC these days, but now the Obama Team is openly selling access. Is that even legal?

Or maybe it's just "change we can believe in."

With a massive address list of 20 million, they are circulating emails claiming, "Organizing for Action's mission is to put power back into the hands of the American people. That's why we won't accept a single dollar from corporations, PACs, foreign donors, or lobbyists."

Meanwhile, Jim Messina, Obama’s 2012 campaign manager and the OfA national chairman, and Jon Carson (OfA Director) were traveling across the country “meeting with members of the Obama 2012 National Finance Committee, who are being pressed back to work to find support for the new organization” –– even ”hitting up Hollywood studio executives, California energy investors and Chicago business titans,” reported the Post in February. And in its first days, Organizing for Action "[had] closely affiliated itself with insider liberal organizations funded by mega-donors like George Soros and corporations such as Lockheed Martin, Citi and Duke Energy,” noted Politico in late January.

However, after much criticism, the Washington Free Beacon recently reported, "OFA pledged not to accept donations from corporations and foreign individuals or groups," but will still accept donations from labor unions.

Hmm, we'll see about that.

In my last exposé, Citi’s Massive 'Green' Money Machine, I revealed Citigroup's large footprint inside the Obama White House as well as this green-energy scheme, chronicling their connection to approximately $16 billion of “green” stimulus deals. Meanwhile, I’ve highlighted Duke Energy a few times: Duke’s CEO Jim Rogers and his "2012 DNC Cameo" as well as the money behind it, however, fresh information shows that Duke Energy has more stimulus funds to account for. 

Still, there is a much bigger player to expose at this time: the left-wing billionaire George Soros: Obama’s "Agent of Green."

Labeled by the Right as "the single most destructive leftist demagogue," there has been much said and written about the politically powerful George Soros. Along with his deep-rooted shadowy agenda, we know that Soros funds numerous left-wing organizations, including radical environmentalism groups like the Tides Foundation. Most identified are the “anti-Fox” outlet Media Matters, the extremist Moveon.org as well as Obama’s left arm, Center for American Progress (CAP).

As Soros continues to bankroll the Left's far reaching progressive plans, he's more interested in the bottom line, which is evident by his own words, “I am basically there to make money. I cannot and do not look at the social consequences of what I do.”

True to Soros' nature, he’s cashing in at the Bank of Obama, despite what it's doing to our economy. Starting with the fact that Soros was involved in crafting the trillion-dollar so-called "Recovery Act," which President Obama signed into law in February 2009. A massive economic stimulus bill –– among the biggest in history –– that was sold to the American people as a means save our economy, however, recent revelations reveal the real intent behind the stimulus package; a key tool for advancing clean energy, of which at least ten percent was earmarked for that purpose –– it was packed full of "clean energy provisions." 

 

But what has followed is nothing but pure dirt (cronyism and corruption) including the fact that "in the first quarter of 2009, Mr. Soros went on a stock-buying spree in companies that ultimately benefited from the federal stimulus," including twelve alternative energy and utility companies.  And, after three weeks of intense research, I found that through these twelve, and other timely investments in renewable energy, Soros' green tab exceeds $11 BILLION of stimulus money –– and you, the taxpayer, footed the bill. Keep in mind that this tally is not factoring in the huge profit Soros is making off of these investments.

Most aren’t aware of Soros’ additional links to the president that date back as far as 2004, and how he is key villain in this Green Corruption scandal.

As of late, Daniel Greenfield of Frontpage.com took aim, “George Soros has leased the White House as a summer home for eight years, and appointed a number of his stooges to Cabinet positions, including Chief of Staff.”

In January, President Obama’s named former CAP Senior Fellow Denis McDonough (a deputy national security advisor and a longtime aide to the president) as chief of staff to the White House, to replace outgoing Jack Lew, who is set to take over Timothy Geithner's post as Treasury Secretary. Marita Noon (energy columnist at Townhall.com and my cohort in unearthing the vast amount of clean-energy dirt seeping through our current administration), and I recently completed a collaboration of Mr. Lew and Citigroup: "Wall Street Walks all over the Obama White House."

Daniel Greenfield explains it best, “Denis McDonough’s appointment as Chief of Staff is probably the biggest win for the Soros Lobby since the Obama victory…the George Soros funded Center for American Progress, which is the criminal brain behind the Frankenbody of Obama Inc.”

Subtly put, Edwin Chen of Bloomberg in 2008 described CAP as "an intellectual wellspring for Democratic policy proposals," of which, at that time, a squadron of CAP experts worked with president Obama's transition team along with CAP's president and founder, John Podesta, former chief of staff to President Bill Clinton.

CAP, on my radar since 2010, is closely aligned with the Obama White House, and last summer we gave some insight into the Podesta Group's lobbying connection to SolarReserve and its $737 million in Department of Energy (DOE) loan guarantees, which is also a Citigroup investment, and part of the stimulus created 1705 loan program, the DOE's "junk bond" portfolio.

Looking deeper, you’ll find many CAP associates inside Obama’s 2009 Green Team: both former Climate Czar Carol Browner and the self-proclaimed communist turned CNN contributor, Green Jobs Czar Van Jones. Meanwhile others from CAP had posts inside the Department of Energy like Steve Spinner, a two-time Obama bundler and former DOE Loan Programs Advisor. They are all central to this green-energy scheme, which fit into different categories: "The RAT in the Recovery and the Gang of Eight" as well as the "DOE Dirty Dozen."

We've already unleashed four of the "gang," including General Electric through the 2008, 2009 DOE Electricity Advisory Committee, which includes other green stimulus winners like NextEra Energy and American Electric Power (AEP) –– the former we've covered and the latter we'll get to in this post.

On our journey, we've exposed John Doerr of Kleiner Perkins and our new Secretary of State, Senator John Kerry's part. Now we tackle George Soros, who not only heavily backed candidate Kerry in 2004, but also funds the Apollo Alliance –– a left-wing organization who exerts powerful influence on the views and policies of the Obama administration, of which I had alerted to in 2010 that boasted of writing Obama's trillion-dollar spending spree, and will revisit again.

Further in our "gang of eight" is the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE) that we noted in our Citigroup columns, and eventually we'll get to TJ Glautheir and McBee Strategic Consulting. Adding to the immense corruption, the "DOE Insiders" and CAP's green-energy, crony-corruption complete stories are still in the works.

Soros Funds Obama Victories

Soros has long, deep and shady ties to the Democratic Party, more specifically, Hillary Clinton, yet Soros jumped into the political arena with Barack Obama as early as 2004, and donated to his Senate run. "Soros and his family gave Barack Obama $60,000. This does not include money that Soros was able to funnel to so-called 527 groups (Moveon.org, for example) that have also been politically active; nor does it include money that Soros was able to raise from tapping a network of friends, business associates, and employees," revealed Ed Lasky news editor of American Thinker in 2007.

Soros helped bankroll an Obama victory in 2008, making it on Forbes' Obama's Billionaire" list;

however, Soros' overall political funding statistics are startling, as reported by the New Yorker in February 2012.

Over the past thirty years, no benefactor has contributed more to the Democratic Party and other liberal groups than Soros, the billionaire chairman of Soros Fund Management LLC, a hugely lucrative hedge fund. In 2004, he contributed more than twenty-three million dollars, a record at the time, to Democratic groups aiding John Kerry’s ultimately unsuccessful Presidential bid. In 2008, he was one of the three largest campaign donors to either party, as he gave five million dollars to help make Barack Obama President.

But the king of contributions wasn’t done there, and in September 2012, Soros pledged $1.5 million in donations to a trio of super PACs backing President Obama and congressional Democrats.

Soros and his family even made it on the Center for Public Integrity list of biggest financial backers of election 2012, ranking #18 with total contributions to super PACs at $5.1 million –– of course all pro-Obama and pro-Democrat.

Besides Soros arming the Democratic Party with a large campaign war chest, he has donated some $5 billion of his fortune to left-wing non-profit groups through the Open Society Institute, which as Michelle Malkin says, "is committed to Soros’ militant ideology of toppling the fascist tyranny of the United States, which he says must undergo de-Nazification in favor of justice."

In the summer of 2010 I had written about the cap-and-trade scheme as well as the Soros-funded Tides Center/Foundation participation, which involved the Chicago Climate Exchange and an array of Obama connections; climate crusaders; and radical environmentalist and conservation groups. Additionally, built-in to this scheme at the time were players like Richard Sandor, Al Gore's Generation Investment Management (GIM), Goldman Sachs, as well as the Joyce Foundation and Obama's Senior Advisor and Assistant, Valerie Jarrett. Looming in the midst are two powerful billionaire forces: the "global warming guru" Maurice Strong, and of course, George Soros, of which according to Canada Free Press, both "were working on anti-American schemes as far back as 2006."

There is much more tell about Apollo, but a newly released investigation by Watchdog.org, reveals troubling information about the Tides Foundation, listing big-name liberal donors and the fact that "from 2009 to 2011, the government has given Tides some $28 million in grants paid for by American taxpayers."

And what do taxpayers get for that 28 mill? 

"Liberalism’s most ambitious agenda" –– a laundry list of programs, of which at the conclusion, Watch.org states, "significantly it’s become a meeting place of two potentially warring factions of the Left — labor and environmentalists." Meanwhile, "Tides officials logged 92 White House visits last year," and "Perhaps Tides’ biggest coup was using its Apollo Alliance Project to help draft Obama’s massive stimulus bill."

As I warned in 2010, "our environment has been hijacked," and now we have President Obama vowing to confront climate change in his second term. This time he's armed with a political propaganda machine, a powerhouse of left-wing Big Green groups, plenty of high-powered clean energy lobbyists, and wealthy "green cronies" with access and influence. 

Throw in a new "Climate Cabinet" –– which thrills most environmentalists –– with the likes of Climate Hawk John Kerry as Secretary of State, Climate Czar Heather Zichal as well as the Center for American Progress four-year lease of the White House. Plus, those inside the Obama administration that are directly benefiting from "green" (Citigroup and Goldman Sachs come to mind), be prepared for regulations and legislation that will in some form or another resemble cap-and-trade and demands for additional funds to bankroll Obama's efforts to save our planet.

Furthermore, the president's choice of Gina McCarthy –– labeled as "Obama's Green Quarterback" –– to head the Environmental Protection Agency most say is a signal that the president "plans to make climate change a larger part of his environmental agenda." With Ernest Moniz set to run the Energy Department, don't expect "green corporate welfare" to end either. "Both nominees fit nicely into the pragmatic mold of Obamanomics, seeking to increase government's role in the energy sector with the cooperation of business," writes Timothy Carney, Senior political columnist at the Washington Examiner.

 

Soros Helped Craft the 2009-Recovery Act; Then Went on Stock-Buying Spree

Most relevant to this piece of the Green Corruption scandal is Soros' timely investments, which included twelve alternative energy and utility companies.

Just after the release of Peter Schweizer’s blockbuster 2011 bestseller, one of the most damning revelations featured in Throw Them All Out aired on Stephen K. Bannon's Victory Sessions –– in an interview that starred Schweizer and Wynton Hall of Breitbart.com.

Billionaire George Soros gave advice and direction on how President Obama should allocate so-called “stimulus” money in a series of regular private meetings and consultations with White House senior advisers even as Soros was making investments in areas affected by the stimulus program.

While we know that George Soros has visited the White House on at least five occasions since Barack Obama became president, possibly more, Schweizer gives specifics, "Mr. Soros met with Mr. Obama’s top economist, [Larry Summers, another "green crony"] on February 25, 2009 and twice more with senior officials in the Old Executive Office Building on March 24th and 25th as the stimulus plan was being crafted. Later, Mr. Soros also participated in discussions on financial reform."

Then Schweizer reveals, "In the first quarter of 2009, Mr. Soros went on a stock-buying spree in companies that ultimately benefited from the federal stimulus."

  • Soros doubled his holdings in medical manufacturer Hologic, a company that benefited from stimulus spending on medical systems
  • Soros tripled his holdings in fiber channel and software maker Emulus, a company that wound up scoring a large amount of federal funds going to infrastructure spending
  • Soros bought 210,000 shares in Cisco Systems, which came up big in the stimulus lottery
  • Soros also bought Extreme Networks, which, months later, said it was expanding broadband to rural America “as part of President Obama’s broadband strategy”
  • Soros bought 1.5 million shares in American Electric Power, a company Mr. Obama gave $1 billion to in June 2009
  • Soros bought shares in utility company Ameren, which bagged a $540 million Department of Energy loan
  • Soros bought 250,000 shares of Public Service Enterprise Group, 500,000 shares of NRG Energy, and almost a million shares of Entergy—all companies that came up winners in the Department of Energy taxpayer giveaway that produced the Solyndra debacle
  • Soros bought into BioFuel Energy, a company that benefited when the EPA announced a regulation on ethanol
  • Soros bought Powerspan in April 2009. Just weeks later, the clean-energy company landed $100 million from the Department of Energy
  • In the second quarter of 2009, Soros bought education technology giant Blackboard, which became a big recipient of education stimulus money
  • Soros also bought Burlington Northern Santa Fe and CSX, both beneficiaries of Mr. Obama’s plans for revitalizing the railroads
  • Soros bought Cognizant Technology Solutions, which scored stimulus funds in education and health care technology
  • Soros also bought 300,000 shares of Constellation Energy Group and 4.6 million shares of Covanta, both of which landed taxpayers’ money through the stimulus, the former of which bagged $200 million

In Throw Them All Out, Schweizer catalogs several more of Mr. Soros’ trades and says that, while “it is not necessarily the case that Soros had specific insider tips about any government grants,” nevertheless, Soros’ “investment decisions aligned remarkably closely with government grants and transfers.”

Whether Mr. Soros’s involvement in private White House meetings influenced which companies received stimulus money is unclear. What is certain, writes Schweizer, is that “crony capitalism favors the politically active, and the manipulative. It does not favor one party over the other. It does not care about policy. It just knows how to make money off any policy — your tax dollars, leveraged to the rich.”

Just After the February 2009 Stimulus, Soros Forms New Climate Change Group and Launches Green Growth Fund, Plus Quantum Strategic Partners. Both Silver Lake and Quantum Cash in on Stimulus Funds 

Soros, who manages funds through various accounts in the US and the Cayman Islands, owns shares in financial companies and banks that include Citigroup, JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America and so on. However, as noted, in early 2009, just after the trillion-dollar stimulus bill was crafted and passed (February 2009), with 10% earmarked for alternative energy (almost $100 billion tax dollars), Soros dove into renewable energy –– and from what I gather, financial services tops Soros' interests, yet energy is second with his "sector weightings" at 6.1%.

In addition to the timely investments divulged in Schweizer's book, in 2011 Reuters reported that Soros, through various funds had invested in green companies including "U.S. solar panel maker First Solar Inc (another part of Green Corruption that I'll get to in a bit) and Chinese solar company JA Solar, according to U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission filings. At the same time, his funds have investments in sectors that environmentalists complain about, such as coal company Peabody Energy Corp and oil company InterOil Corp, according to filings.”

Besides spending billions to fund left-wing, radical environmental groups, Soros, in the fall of 2009, announced his plan to invest $1 billion in clean energy (climate change), and formed and financed ($10 million a year for 10 years) an “advisory group’ called Climate Policy Initiative (CPI), which states they are “an independent, not-for-profit organization with long-term support from financier and philanthropist George Soros.”

At that time, Soros had this to say, “The problem of global warming is primarily a political problem at this point.” Adding, “The science is beyond dispute, but how do we achieve the objectives we all know are necessary? That is a political problem.”

Later in early 2011, Soros teamed up with the private equity firm Silver Lake Kraftwerk to invest in “the energy and resource sectors,” of which he hired folks from Kleiner Perkins (KPCB) –– the Venture Capital firm of John Doerr and Al Gore that I've tackled quite a few times.

Also in 2011, Soros' Quantum Strategic Partners led a $25 million investment round "into a start-up that aims to cut electricity waste, the latest addition to the billionaire investor's green-energy portfolio," reported Reuters. Soros jumped into this venture with existing investors KPCB, Google Ventures, Foundation Capital and Lux Capital. The company Transphorm, based in Goleta, California, received $9 million in stimulus grants, of which details can be found in my extensive research on KPCB Greentech Portfolio that secured all kinds of loans, grants and special tax breaks (federal and state) –– tied to at least $10 billion of Obama's taxpayer funded green-energy spending spree.

NOTE: From what I gather, there is the Quantum Fund with familiar big green winners, and Quantum Strategic Partners is an investment fund managed by Soros Fund Management, and are the lead investor in Crystal Financial, however, they also are investing in green, and I have yet to locate a Quantum Strategic Partners cleantech portfolio. 

But the big catch for Soros was Cathy Zoi.

Zoi, an Al Gore acolyte, who is also one of the “DOE dirty dozen” tied to billions of clean-energy stimulus funds, is the former Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency Cathy Zoi, who oversaw the disbursement of more than $30 billion in green-energy stimulus funds in her Department of Energy post" at the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) –– a post which began in April 2009, and later she briefly filled the role of Acting Undersecretary for Energy, yet in March 2011, she jumped the DOE ship to work for Soros.


In February 2012, Silver Lake Kraftwerk and others invested $81 million into the California solar firm SolarCity –– a solar firm that I covered in my February post, “Obama's Jobs Council Closed: Mega-Rich Member Penny Pritzker "Rumored" for Commerce Job, “Related” to Two Large Green Corruption Stories.”

The SolarCity story includes other billionaire players and Obama donors like Elon Musk, Nicholas J. Pritzker, Al Gore's firm Generation Investment Management LLP as well as Obama Wall Street buddies: Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, and Citigroup. Adding to the sleaze, as of December 2012 SolarCity was under a federal prove regarding their $341 million in grant, and looking deeper I found 27 1603 grants for "USB SolarCity Master Tenant," which ranges over 15 states, totaling over $88 million. This means that SolarCity snagged approximately $429 million of tax-free cash.

Soros Green Stimulus Stock Winners

Number 1: NRG Energy 

NRG Energy CEO David Crane Thoughts on $5.2 Billion of Taxpayer Money, "It is just filling the desert with panels." 

As stated, just after the stimulus was passed in February 2009, Mr. Soros bought 500 shares of NRG Energy, and as of the latest data I could find (the end of December 2012), his current shares are 866,137, which according to Insider Monkey is valued at $19,912,000.

Interesting enough, President Obama’s other billionaire buddy Warren Buffett along with Mr. Soros –– both revered "as legendary figures in the investment world of our times" –– seem to gravitate toward the same stock ideas, but “the investment styles of the two are night and day different.”

Buffett too is heavily invested in NGR Energy, is connected to First Solar, and they both stand to benefit from key energy decisions coming down legislative pipeline: both on the rejection of the Keystone Pipeline; while Soros and T. Boone Pickens in the passing of the NAT GAS Act.

When I get to the rest of Soros "green stimulus stocks" in this post, I'll share more on Pickens and the NAT GAS Act (H.R. 1380), which died with the 112th Congress, and was referred to Committee.

Meanwhile, there is another ploy that should be pointed out that was reported by Breitbart.com, which cites more Soros Fund Management natural gas investments. But also, President Obama in April 2012, in order to expedite the natural gas boom, "decided to form an inter-agency natural gas council run by Cecilia Muñoz, a former community organizer with La Raza and White House bureaucrat with deep ties to George Soros."

But I digress a little...

 

NRG Energy Inc., a Fortune 500 and S&P 500 Index company, owns and operates one of the country's largest and most diverse power generation portfolios that includes coal, nuclear, gas, wind and solar generation, of which we know they are in cahoots with Citigroup.

NRG's highly paid president and CEO since 2003 (and stock owner), David Crane had this to say back in 2011, “I have never seen anything that I have had to do in my 20 years in the power industry that involved less risk than these projects.” “It is just filling the desert with panels,” he added. 

Crane was referring to how NRG and its partners secured $5.2 billion in federal loan guarantees, plus hundreds of millions in other subsidies for four large solar projects.

While Crane is a friend of the Clintons, which is one reason why, in September 2010, NRG made a $1 million contribution through the Clinton Global Initiative to deliver solar power to Haiti. Crane did in fact place his bet on Hillary Clinton during her 2008 run for the presidency, but later, and along with other NRG executives, sided with then-Senator Obama. In fact, according to OpenSecrets.org, since 2004 NRG Energy has donated $1,191,047 to both political parties, primarily to Republicans in 2006, however, the shift that went to blue in 2008 and 2010 is quite amusing, with top five candidate donations going to Democrats, including President Obama –– with the exception of David Dewhurst (R-TX)..

In October 2012 the Heritage Foundation reported on more NRG favoritism, where they "received the go-ahead from the Interior Department to produce wind energy off the coast of Delaware, despite doubts that the project in question will actually materialize." But the bias has been flowing out of the Department of Interior since Obama took office in 2009, and began pushing his green agenda –– a discovery Marita and I chronicled in our Special Seven series last summer, which included many favored DOE loan recipients.

Lachlan Markay goes on to unravel Kathleen McGinty, Director at NRG Energy and a “protégé of the former Vice President Al Gore; her White House influence; and subsequent visits to key environmental officials.

In fact Gore acolytes have infiltrated the Obama administration, and we've already uncovered the former vice-president's extraordinary "carbon foot print" inside the Green Bank of Obama. It turns out that Gore is also an Obama White House visitor, and we know about two of them. In December 2009, President Obama met with Gore in the Oval Office in advance of his meeting with business and environmental leaders at the White House regarding the Copenhagen conference, and Gore also visited the Obama White House on April 8, 2010. 

Keeping it in the NRG family, President Obama snagged the support of Jason Few's wife when Arvia Few became a bundler for his re-election campaign. According to the Washington Free Beacon, "Mr. Few became senior vice president of Houston-based Reliant Energy in 2008. He was named president of Reliant in May 2009 when NRG Energy acquired Reliant for $287.5 million [and abruptly left the company in October 2012]. Mr. Lew currently serves as executive vice president and chief customer officer of NRG Energy.

In an analysis of the DOE Loan Program by Veronique de Rugy (an extremely significant report I'll revisit in a bit), as of June 2012, "Reliant Energy and Reliant Energy Tax Retail LLC, two NRG Energy companies, reported receiving at least 37 grants under the ARRA," of which we know that in late 2009, Reliant Energy was among 100 winners that came out of the $3.4 billion of smart grid stimulus grants for just under $20 million.

Where are the other 36 grants for Reliant?

More digging required... but another NRG company, "Green Mountain Energy, received two grants under the ARRA in the second quarter of fiscal year 2011." Furthermore, "NRG will also be eligible to receive $430 million from the Department of the Treasury" –– in addition, many NRG companies have already benefited from the 1603 grant program, which was created under the 2009-Recovery Act "to support the deployment of renewable energy resources."

 

Still, SolarCity, Reliant, and Green Mountain are nothing compared to NRG's overall footprint inside the Green Bank of Obama.

 

Both NRG Energy and Crane are aggressively pushing clean energy, and according to Mark Gunther of GreenBiz.com in 2011, "[Crane] is passionate about the climate crisis –– he was active in USCAP, the failed big biz-big green coalition that lobbied for federal regulation of greenhouse gases." So passionate that since 2000, OpenSecrets.org records that NRG Energy has spent $10,356,000 in lobbying efforts, and $2,500,000 in 2012 alone. And that  "5 out of 14 NRG Energy lobbyists in 2012 have previously held government jobs."

Whether we can credit George Soros, David Crane, NRG executives or their lobbying money –– most likely an "all of the above" strategy –– there is no doubt that NRG Energy has "access and influence," as reflected in the sheer volume of green government subsidies. Moreover, it is clear that those that hire lobbyists and make campaign contributions have a much better rate of return on investments than those that don't.

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NOTE: This is another rather lengthy post, thus I've changed the title of my blog to The Green Corruption Files. Please feel free to continue reading and review the rest of "Soros Stimulus Stock Winners," including NRG Energy's part in Green Corruption  –– (a Fortune 500 and S&P 500 Index company) and its subsidiaries that were the recipient of most of 1705 stimulus loans: $5.2 BILLION of taxpayer money and counting.  

Beware: most of these renewable energy and utility firms lead to more crony, corruption players and stories, confirming the size and scope of Obama's "green corruption" scandal –– the largest, most expensive and deceptive case of crony capitalism in American history.

 

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Despite the axpression of interest from several prominate members of congress over the past 5 years and the fact that the parents of those interested members of congress whose parents and elderly family members are among the millions of senior citizens being taxed on their SS benifits.

The back door recovery of benifits that have been paid continues, worse than ever and growing with a higher prcentage of seniors annual tax liabilty.  I have calculated the  percentage of tax liabiliy created by the taxing of SS benifits this year to be as much as 70% of the taxability for the 2012 tax year.  This is a golden goose situation whereby the government counters ther obligation with the back door recovery of Social Security payments using the senior citizens as an unaware scource to recover those payments.

 

Our benelovent government has for years been using funds from the Social Security trust fund which is supposed o be sacrosanct and forever seperate from being used for general governmental purposes, and justifying that use by issuing interest bearing bonds to the fund to replace those funds.  Those bonds became included in the national debt which all citizens are ulimatly responsable for, what a scheme that has been and still is making the seniors of this great land responsable to o repay those benifits which a benolavant government provided them with and now doubling down on requiring our seniorsw who have worked all their lives to finance the fund from theirifetime earnings as is requireed by our benelovant government and thereby creating a scam of such magntude that exceeds all of the scams in the history of the world.  What kind of unconsiable people have we the people been putting in charge of our affairs all these years?

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Republican members of Congress are using hearings to hold the bureaucrats accountable for their actions in regard the sequester and things they are doing that they are blaming on it. While Rep. Andy Harris (R-MD) exposed the Obama administration’s duplicity on alleged cuts to pediatric vaccinations a few weeks ago, Representative Trey Gowdy (R-SC) grilled a Department of Homeland Security Under Secretary as to why his department released ten “level 1″ aggravated felons from federal custody, claiming it was due to sequester cuts.https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=j6Y9sEesayQ

During the exchange between the South Carolina congressman and DHS Under Secretary Rafael Borras, Gowdy asked, “There was nothing else [you] could do as a cost savings measure. Is that your testimony?”

Borras andswered, “No, that is not my testimony.”

Gowdy, knowing the DHS had more than a year and a half to prepare for sequestration, asked him anyway how long his department had to prepare. The release of felons into the community when it would have only cost them about $1,200 to keep them locked up is irresponsible and reckless, but then nothing has been on the “up and up” with this administration since it began. It seems the same approach to cutting out White House tours, is the same approach given to the release of convicted felons. After all, the Washington Times reported, regarding an email to Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service Official Charles Brown: In the internal email,… Brown said he asked if he could try to spread out the sequester cuts in his region to minimize the impact, and he said he was told not to do anything that would lessen the dire impacts Congress had been warned of. “We have gone on record with a notification to Congress and whoever else that ‘APHIS would eliminate assistance to producers in 24 states in managing wildlife damage to the aquaculture industry, unless they provide funding to cover the costs.’ So it is our opinion that however you manage that reduction, you need to make sure you are not contradicting what we said the impact would be,” Mr. Brown, in the internal email, said his superiors told him.

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DON'T GIVE IN AND DON'T GIVE UP

WE ARE HERE 2 HELP 1 ANOTHER ~ It AIN'T EASY ~ I PRAY FOR AMERICA OUR BELOVED COUNTRY AND ALL YOU TIRED BLOGGERS OUT THERE ~ I'M TIRED 2 BUT I KEEP ON FIGHTING THE GOOD FIGHT OF FAITH ~ I WAS IN A CAR ACCIDENT IN FEB ~ GOD SPARED MY LIFE JUST SO I COULD CHEER ALL OF YOU FOLKS UP MY TRUCK WAS TOTALED BUT I'M ALIVE BECAUSE JESUS IS ALIVE IN ME AND JESUS LOVES EVERYONE SO JUST REMEMBER THIS TEARS MAY ENDURE FOR A NIGHT BUT JOY COMETH IN THE MORNING GOOD NIGHT AND MAY GOD BLESS YOU AND MAY GOD BLESS AMERICA ONCE AGAIN HAPPY RESSURECTION SUNDAY COMING UP ON THE 31st GLORIA M BOROFF REV Portland, Oregon

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PRAYER

The following is taken from "Preparation for Death" by Saint Alphonsus De Liguroi, Chapter XXX entitled 'Efficacy of Prayer.'

"Not only in this, but in a thousand places in the Old and the New Testament, God promises to hear all who pray to Him.  Cry to me, and I will hear thee. 'Call upon me, and I will deliver you from all dangers.'  'If you ask anything in My name, that I will do.'  ''Whatsoever you shall ask through my merits, I will grant.'  'You shall ask whatever you will, and it shall be done unto you.'  ''Ask as much as you wish: all that you ask will be given to you.'  There are many other similar passages.  Hence Theodoret has said that prayer is one, but can obtain all things.  St. Bernard says that when we pray, the Lord will give either the grace we ask, or one that is more useful to us.  The prophet animates us to pray by assuring us that God is all mercy to those who invoke His aid.  'Thou, O Lord, are sweet and mild, and plenteous in mercy to all that call upon Thee.'   The words of St. James are still more encouraging.  'If any of you want wisdom, let him ask of God, who giveth abundantly to all men, and upbraideth not.'  This apostle tell us that when we pray to the Lord, He opens His hands, and gives us more than we ask.  'He giveth to all men abundantly, and upbraideth not.' He does not reproach us with the offences that we have offered to Him; but when we pray to Him, He appears to forget all the injuries that we have done Him.St. John Climacus used to say that prayer in a certain manner forces God to grant us whatsoever we ask of Him.  "Prayer piously offers violence to God."  But it is, as St. Tertullian says, a violence which is dear to him,and which he desires from us.  Yes; for, as St. Augustine says, God has a greater desire to give us His graces, than we have to receive them.  The reason is, because God is of His own nature infinite goodness.  Hence he feels an infinite desire to impart his goods to us.  Hence St. Mary Magdalene de Pazzi used to say, that God feels as it were under an obligation to the soul that prays to Him;  because by prayer it opens to Him the way by which He can satisfy His desire of dispensing His graces to us.  David says that the goodness of God, in instantly hearing all who pray to Him, showed him that he was He was his true God.  'In what day soever I shall call upon Thee, behold, I know Thou art my God."   Some, observes St. Bernard, complain that God is wanting to them; but the Lord far more justly complains that many are wanting to Him by neglecting to ask His graces.  Of this precisely the Redeemer appears to have complained one day to His disciples.  'Hitherto you have not asked anything in My name: ask, and you shall receive, that your joy may be full.'  As if He said: Do not complain of Me if you do not enjoy complete happiness; complain of yourselves for not having asked My graces: ask Me for them henceforth, and you shall be satisfied.

Hence, in their conferences, the ancient monks came to the conclusion, that there is no exercise more conducive to salvation than to pray always, and say: "Lord, assist me, incline unto my aid, O God."  The Venerable Paul Segneri used to say of himself, that in his meditations he was at first accustomed to spend his time in pious affecftions; but, having afterward learned the great efficacy of prayer, he endeavored generally to employ himself in petitions to God.  Let us always do the same.  We have a God who loves us to excess, and who is solicitous for our salvation, and therefore He is always ready to hear all who ask His graces.  The princes of the earth, says St. Chrysostom, give audience only to a few; but God gives audience to all who wish for it."

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4063680048?profile=original            Save America Gun rights advocates rally for Second Amendment in Utah

Round one of the gun control battle on Capitol Hill has been seemingly won by default by the protectors and supporters of the U.S. Constitution’s Second Amendment. This win for gun rights advocates became obvious to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) this week. He ordered Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) to pull the so-called assault weapons provision from the bill. This bill had been passed by the Democrat controlled Judiciary Committee.

This comes on the heels of what appeared by many vote counters inside the Washington D.C. Beltway to be headed for total defeat. Even Reid’s own count reportedly indicated the most Democrat votes, that could be mustered to support the assault weapons ban was only 40. This is far less than the 60 votes President Obama needed to prevent a Republican filibuster of the bill. This is a victory for gun rights in the continuing congressional gun control battle

For the hysterical claims and attacks raised by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel's in an attempt to strong arm national gun rights supporters with their bluster, it is a bitter defeat. This is also an important set back to the hysterical theatrics that the president displayed as he attempted to use his bully pulpit to force congress to submit to his will after the tragic shooting in Newtown, Connecticut.

Despite the facts that demonstrate the shooter Adam Lanza, was suffering from apparent severe mental illness issues, Obama resorted to scare tactics to pin the blame on gun rights. This is where he failed to exercise true presidential leadership. He clearly purposed his focused on fear mongering because it was what the liberal media hysteria machine wanted and craved. After all, who would be able to sustain the withering assaults from the main stream media, he had to reason.

But, Obama and the alphabet soup of media networks underestimated the commitment of gun rights and constitutional advocates who were unwilling to witness nor permit the undoing of those basic rights Americans who dear. When the president felt he was falling back on what he thought was an easy target, gun owners, gun owners and supporters instead locked arms and moved forward!

Even former astronaut Mark Kelly’s recent cheap trick to spur on support against gun owners did not prevail. He tried to resurrect the legitimate sincere sympathy Americans felt over the attack upon his wife, former congresswoman Gabby Giffords. She had survived a vicious attack in an armed assault against her which resulted in the tragic deaths of six victims in Tucson, Arizona in January 2011.

Kelly tried in vain, in March to dramatize that the legal buying of an AR-15 style weapon was somehow a national news story special bulletin about the evils of assault style weapons. It fell flat, because Kelly had purchased the gun legally and had gone through the proper legal guidelines to register the weapon. So where was the story and where was the news if everything he did was legal?

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Re the blog post giving up.

 re: Check out the blog post 'Friends, I've been receiving a lot of e-mails lately
where the senders are so frustrated and worn down that they talk about giving
up.

 

Without a positive optimistic plan and ideal to look forward to and work for, what else is left?  Hayek in “Why I am Not a Conservative and Ayn Rand in her “Conservatism and Obituary” both detailed out the main Achilles heel in “conservatism.” You all refuse to read them and to learn from them.

  1. Conservatism is not a movement, it is mainly a reaction.
  2. It desires to keep, or go back to the old status quo.
  3. Its ideals are always to go back to a “golden time.”
  4. Once you save the republic, liberty and freedom then what?  What vision do you have for the future that can capture the imagination of young people?

Classical liberalism was not conservative, if was revolutionary. It failed when it absorbed the 19th century idea of historical inevitability. It plan was what the tea parties main plan is minus the desire to interfere worldwide with other nations or to be the world’s cop, only CL’s worldwide vision was future oriented: Cosmopolitanism (universal citizenship), eventual open borders, total free trade (not managed trade), a complete worldwide division of knowledge and labor. The withering away of the state (yes that was originally a CL ideal not socialist/communist). America’s CL founders created a blueprint for a worldwide federation of free states with a free people that can organically grow. Conservatism and socialism put an end to that vision.  From sea to shining sea became the limits of America and like all organic organisms, once you stop growing you create a ring of repugnance around yourself that eventually keeps shrinking you until you die. Jingoism and xenophobia kept us from bringing in Mexico, Cuba, Panama, the Phillpines and Puerto Rico, after all you can’t have those Spanish speaking Catholics enter a primarily Protestant country. What an opportunity wasted.

 

How many “Conservative” have adopted Malthusian beliefs? How many churches have taken the Kool-Aid and have gone green? How many have stupidly adopted the terms and ideals of the conspiratorial neo-left with no understanding of what the real purposes of them are? Sustainability, social justice, the precautionary principle, cap and trade/climate, et al. All Trojan horses, can you tell anyone intelligently how they all hang together and uphold a neo-leftist plan and ideology?

How many of you picked up and read Peter Diamandis new book Abundance or Matt Ridley’s The Rational Optimist?  You limit yourselves and then your groan about there is nothing to do? YOU could become truly revolutionary techno-evolutionaries and take up  the techno-neoclassical liberal position!  But that would require you to put down your bibles and the latest idiotic work from the right wing bubbleheads: Insanity, O’liely, Bimbo et al.  

Your lack of in-depth knowledge is your Achilles heel. While you are playing checkers on the old cracker barrel, your enemies are playing three dimensional chess and then you wonder why they have been slowly winning over the last 70 years?  

 

You’ve ridden the short bus to school for far too long and then wonder how this all happened?

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The following is the text of a speech I delivered Wednesday, March 20, 2013 at a monthly event known as Open Carry NIght. The owners of this Godfather's Pizza franchise are true patriots and strong 2nd Amendment supporters.

I invite each of you to apply the principle laid out in this speech to other government intrusions into our individual rights and areas of personal responsibility, such as ObamaCare, and voice your opinions to your elected representatives.

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I don’t like public speaking. So, I’m at a bit of a loss to explain why I was so anxious to accept this opportunity to speak to you tonight. On one hand, I know exactly what I want to say; but on the other, I am a little unsure how to begin. So, let’s begin at the beginning.

We’ve all heard, read and/or recited all the quotes and platitudes like Washington’s “A free people ought not just to be armed, but also regulated and disciplined”, Jefferson’s “When the people fear the government there is tyranny; when the government fears the people there is Liberty”, “An armed society is a polite society”, and my personal favorite by Ben Franklin. “Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be Happy”.  Nothing to do with the 2nd Amendment – just my favorite quote.

But, although our general concerns are valid, the 2nd Amendment argument against government tyranny is not entirely why we are gathered here on Open Carry Night tonight. We stand united in support of the 2nd Amendment, but for a more personal, a more individually important reason. Can anyone guess what that is? Here is a clue.

A friend sent me a picture yesterday of a road sign. I brought it with me tonight to read to you. It reads, “Welcome to Wisconsin. ATTENTION CRIMINALS, TERRORISTS – Over 170,000 Wisconsin Residents Have A Legal Permit To Carry A Handgun – They Are Armed And Prepared To Defend Themselves And Others Against Acts of Criminal Violence – YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED – ILLINOIS AND CHICAGO HOWEVER HAVE BEEN DISARMED FOR YOUR CONVENIENCE " . "                                                                                                                                                                                                              

I was reading the Declaration, the Constitution, the Federalist Papers and research sources that provided analysis a few years ago and a conclusion which I’d like to share with you came to me like a bolt of lightning. I didn’t read it. It just dawned on me.

How many people over 55 do we have here tonight, raise your hands?!! I ask this because how we were taught the founding of our nation differs dramatically from the way our grandchildren are being taught about it – if they are taught at all – today.

For instance, if you engage in an online chat with a young person today, he/she will immediately be backed up by peers shouting you down if you allude to the fact that this nation was founded on Judeo-Christian principles. This is the result of teaching them the failed philosophies of Secular Humanism, Moral relativism and Values Clarification. The concept of Individual Responsibility – accepting personal responsibility for one’s decisions and actions which is the Keystone of freedom – is rapidly going the way of the dinosaurs in our government-run educational system and government does NOTHING by accident.

 

It really becomes clear when you read any of our founding documents – The Declaration, The Constitution and Bill of Rights, The Northwest Ordinance – all of which combined form what is referred to as “the Organic Law” of the United States. As an aside: Did you know that the Declaration and Constitution were written for a 3rd grade reading level at the time? Doesn’t that beg the question, “Why do we need the SCOTUS to tell us what they mean?”

 

The underlying foundational concept forming what we know and love as America is known as NATURAL LAW. Natural Law can be summed up this way:  Positive actions or thoughts get positive results; negative actions or thoughts get negative results. There are inalterable laws of Natural behavior just as immutable as the Law of Gravity, and just as unforgiving. It is the natural order of things. Ignorance of these laws or ignoring their existence is the primary reason our society, our values as a nation, appear to be in a freefall to oblivion.

 

John Adams once said, “Our Constitution is made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”  That quote has been used by some religious zealots to bolster attempts at imposing religious doctrine on people where no specific religion was intended, but the unifying concept embraced within it of a higher power than man or his governments was intrinsic and is essential to the preservation of our rights and liberties. A return to religious tolerance and awareness of Natural Law are all that is required to secure our liberties for all time – with the 2nd Amendment, of course.

 

Political Correctness is an attempt to undermine and destroy this concept of tolerance. PC’s concept of “toleration” is a mechanism to introduce a new law system as a prelude to the new intolerance.  True tolerance was represented by the “American melting pot” concept with which many of us grew up. We were all Americans – proud, unabashed, unafraid, un-hyphenated and united as one people. Political correctness divides us by granting minority status to subgroups based on sex or sexual orientation, races and ethnicities.  Is there anyone here who doubts this? Have you ever noticed how progressives are tolerant of anything and anyone except any who favor placing limits on tolerance?

 

The confirmation of our Judeo-Christian roots is found within the verbiage of our founding documents, charters and state constitutions – many of which refer to our blessings of liberty coming from God, or the Supreme Being, or the Great Architect of the Universe, or simply the Creator. Consequently, the phrase, "God-Given Rights" is more than the three words than form it. It also is not intended to be religiously divisive or even inject any specific religion into secular discussions of government's limitations, because the beautiful thing about the framer’s concept of Natural Law is that it doesn’t matter if you are Christian, Hindu, Muslim, Jew, Buddhist, Wiccan, Agnostic, Atheist, Liberal, Conservative or vegan. Everyone benefits from the framers' interpretation of the origin of our rights. They are secure from government infringement and cannot be taken away from any of us. 

 

A religious view of the origin of our rights is not required of anyone; tolerance of the views held by those who DO believe is required of everyone. With that tolerance, the rights of everyone are secure. Without that tolerance, and without an awareness that our rights are ours because we exist as part of His creation of the family of Man and the Laws of Nature, everyone’s rights are at risk.

 

Where’s the evidence? It is widely known and understood that the Unanimous Declaration of the Thirteen United States – what we refer to as the Declaration of Independence – is one of the most profound utterances on the subject of the rights of Man ever written. The Constitution then explains and organizes those thoughts and forms a government of the people based on those concepts.

In its first paragraph, Jefferson justifies the separation from Great Britain using the phrase, “… and to assume among the Powers of the Earth, the separate and equal Station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them …”

 

In the second paragraph, Jefferson wrote: "We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain UNALIENABLE RIGHTS, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness – That  to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed, that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive to these Ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its Foundation on such Principles and organizing its Powers in such Form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness." 

If you look up the definition of ‘Unalienable” today you will very likely be redirected to the word “Inalienable,” usually with the comment that ‘unalienable’ is simply an alternative spelling of ‘inalienable’. This is partially correct, but at one point in time - the time of the American Revolution - there certainly existed an important difference between the two words.

Unalienable Rights

Unalienable Rights are defined as: [Rights which are] incapable of being alienated, that is, sold and transferred. All individuals have unalienable rights. (According to Black’s Law Dictionary, Sixth Edition.)

Inalienable Rights

Inalienable Rights are defined as: Rights which are not capable of being surrendered or transferred without the consent of the one possessing such rights. (According to Morrison v. State, Mo. App., 252 S.W.2d 97, 101.)

"Jefferson's original draft of this phrase in the Declaration of Independence was written: "We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable; that all men are created equal and independent, that from that equal creation they derive rights inherent and inalienable, among which are the preservation of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. 

Members of the Declaration committee of the Continental Congress that had been selected to write the document included Benjamin Franklin and John Adams who had different beliefs. The word "inalienable" was changed to "unalienable" and read: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness." 

The above two paragraphs come from nationally respected political author Mary Mostert in an article she wrote on January 11, 2006 "Unalienable vs. inalienable rights". She explains the change; as Thomas Jefferson reflected a Deist philosophy and did not believe in a loving and caring Heavenly Father vs. the 18th century version of "intelligent design" reflected by Franklin and Adams.

This is a critically important philosophical distinction that has been lost through the evolution of language. It is highly important to understand that when the two words did hold separate meanings, the Declaration committee of the Continental Congress opted to use the word, “unalienable,” in the final draft of the Declaration of Independence, over Jefferson’s original wording which included, ‘inalienable.’

Without getting too deep into meta-ethics, it’s clear that the committee supported the idea that human rights, or Natural Rights, were inherent in all people and could not be transferred, even by those having the rights. Most importantly, these rights were not created by governments, but rather were acknowledged to already pre-exist and supersede government. Therefore, claiming these rights are unalienable, a government cannot later claim that a people have spoken or chosen to give up their rights. The only way possible to forfeit an unalienable right is as a just penalty for violating another person’s unalienable rights. 

“The rights of life and personal liberty are natural rights of man.  '… to secure these rights,' says the Declaration of Independence, 'governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.' The very highest duty of the States, when they entered into the Union under the Constitution, was to protect all persons within their boundaries in the enjoyment of these 'unalienable’ rights with which they were endowed by their Creator.' Sovereignty, for this purpose, rests alone with the States. It is no more the duty or within the power of the United States to punish for a conspiracy to falsely imprison or murder within a State, than it would be to punish for false imprisonment or murder itself.” U S v. CRUIKSHANK, 92 U.S. 542 (1875)

 

Let me repeat that:  Our Natural Law rights descend from God (the Creator) and are therefore “unalienable” because neither Man nor his governments have any powers over “the laws of Nature and of Nature’s God”. In other words, I cannot take YOUR Natural rights away; you cannot take MY Natural rights away; and neither of us as individuals nor government can force us to give up our Natural rights through coercion, edict, legislation or treaty; nor can we surrender them voluntarily as individuals or as a group without affecting the efficacy (effectiveness, value) of everyone's rights. They are ours by virtue of our existence in the Family of Man – inseparable from our Humanity – because we were created by Him. Government lacks the jurisdiction, the authority to regulate or alter our Natural, UNalienable rights. INalienable rights can be regulated or altered by government.

 

In addition, no one can claim as a right anything which when exercised by them interferes with another’s (any others) ability to exercise his or her rights. That is just another way of saying, “Your rights end where my nose begins.”

 

This is the meaning of ‘Rights’ as used and understood by the founders, as surely as they used capital letters within the text of sentences to emphasize the words they thought important. The concept of Natural Law rights and their origin is what is most significant about our Constitution, and distinguishes it from ANY other constitution of ANY other nation that has ever existed anywhere in the world at any time. The vast majority of all Constitutional scholars agree with this interpretation of its significance. Conversely in nations where governments grant rights to their citizens, governments can and do just as easily take them away. 

 

The defining question then becomes, “How can one have an unalienable right to life, [ liberty and the pursuit of happiness ] if the right to defend that life (self-defense) doesn’t exist as an inherent part of that right?”  Obviously, one cannot.  We have the 2nd Amendment BECAUSE we have a NATURAL RIGHT TO LIFE AND A NATURAL RIGHT TO DEFEND IT. That’s why, when Ted Nugent says the only “permit” he needs is the 2nd Amendment, I agree with him.

 

"Naturally", these rights go with us wherever we legally go and the natural right of self-defense is a logical extension of the application of our rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That is why the current administration's support of the United Nations International Small Arms Treaty is so alarming, and this conceptual view of our rights is diametrically opposed and so important for people to understand. Defense against the "wolves" of society -- the predators who prey upon the sheep in violation of their rights -- is at least as necessary today as at any time in the past. It was understood by the founders that individual citizens needed the ability to defend themselves against the excesses of other men – and governments – and wrote the latter into the Declaration as a "duty" or obligation (paragraph 2).

In Warren v. District of Columbia (444 A.2d 1, D.C. App.181), the fundamental principle of American law (that a government and its agents are under no general duty to provide public services, such as police protection, to any individual citizen) was decided and explained. As the phrase “fundamental principle of American law” suggests, this holding is not some legal aberration unique to the District of Columbia. It is universal, being enunciated by formal statute as well as judicial decision in many states. Nor is it simply a cynical ploy for government to avoid just liability, as I originally thought. The proposition that individuals must be responsible for their own immediate safety, with police providing only an auxiliary general deterrent, is inherent in a free society. 

Do you see the potential for double-jeopardy here? If government can "permit" only certain people (police, permit holders) to provide that immediate safety for themselves while requiring everyone to do so, that not only creates a double jeopardy exposure for the citizens who are NOT "permitted" (“Your immediate safety is your responsibility, but we cannot let you provide that), but it makes a mockery of the phrase, " ... all men are created equal." Make no mistake:  Police carry guns to protect themselves from criminals with guns, not to protect the general public. 

Twice in the past 3 ½ years in the Heller and McDonald cases the U.S. Supreme Court has upheld the 2nd Amendment as an individual right. The 2nd Amendment is about self-defense, and has been trivialized to mean something akin to protecting a recreational pastime. The open/concealed carry option and codifying Iowa state uniformity with respect to weapons laws are steps toward restoring what is a God-given or Natural Right of the people to self-defense, reserved by the U. S. Constitution for the people in the Bill of Rights as the 2nd Amendment. It never was about hunting. Hunting and self-defense both use guns or arms of some type, which are just tools to accomplish respective tasks. Similarly, a garden hose can be used to water food plants, apply fertilizer or weed control as well as to extinguish out-of-control fires. It can also be used as an instrument of torture. The gun is just a tool. The person controlling the trigger is the weapon.

 

All of the rights listed in the Bill of Rights are individual rights and the recent battles over the interpretation of whether the 2nd Amendment was an individual or collective right demonstrate clearly what a tenuous hold we have on all our freedoms without recognizing this historic, ecumenical view of their origin – and the superior mechanism it provides for their future security. The Natural Law argument and the second amendment together provide the people the tools to keep the wolves at bay.

 

I leave you with these quotes from John Adams, one of my favorite presidents.

Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.”  - John Adams, 17 July, 1775 in a letter to his wife Abigail.

Finally, a quote directed to the attention of us all:

"Posterity, you will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it. If you do not, I shall repent in heaven that ever I took half the pains to preserve it." John Adams.

Thank you.

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We’re supposed to believe that passing more laws would prevent tragedies like this from happening, but aren’t guns already banned in schools? Here’s the thing about criminals. They don’t care about the law. It’s what makes them criminals. You cannot pass a law to prevent crazy people from doing crazy things.  http://www.truthinexile.com/2012/12/21/assault-weapons-ban-discussion-a-distraction-from-the-real-problem/

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The original intent of the founders was to have a Federalist system which consisted of individual states and a small central government with very limited powers. The idea was that the states would send the senators to Washington to represent them. If a senator started voting against the best interests of the state which he represented, he could be immediately recalled.

What happens today when a senator violates his oath of office and votes for unconstitutional bills? Nothing. Senators are elected for six years and even when those six years are up, it is almost impossible to take them out.re-election In some years that number has been as high as 96%.                            http://www.truthinexile.com/2012/02/09/why-the-17th-amendment-is-bad-and-should-be-repealed/                                    

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What the Constitution says about taxes:

What the Constitution says about taxes:

The Founders who designed our Constitution sought to balance the power of the federal government against the states in order to keep both in check. The national government was thus originally prohibited from collecting taxes from individuals. Article I, Section 9 of the Constitution states: "No capitation, or other direct Tax, shall be laid unless in Proportion to the Census or Enumeration." This meant that the federal government could collect revenue from the states according to population, but had to leave the methods of collection to them. The federal government was to collect revenue in other, less intrusive ways (tariffs, excise taxes, consumption taxes) so as to limit the amount of money it could raise by its own authority    http://www.repeal16thamendment.com/                    

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Repeal the 17th Amendment?

Predictably, the liberal intelligentsia has responded with scorn. Of all the “goofy ideas from those lovable wacky Tea Partyers [sic],” John Aloysius Farrell writes atUSNews.com, this is the “stupidest.” Repeal talk is “truly regressive,” even “Paleolithic,” Timothy Egan seethes in Sunday’s New York Times.

Apparently, the only thing worse than peasants with pitchforks is peasants with pocket Constitutions.    http://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/repeal-17th-amendment      

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How the 17th Amendment Has Stolen Your Freedom


From the AIP Platform:

Repeal of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Amendments

We consider the federal income tax to be destructive of our liberty, privacy, and prosperity. Therefore, we are working to bring about its complete elimination and the repeal of the Sixteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. We recommend that the current system be replaced by an equitable, simple, noninvasive, visible, efficient tax, one that does not destroy or even infringe upon our economic privacy and liberty.

We also call for the repeal of the Seventeenth Amendment. Its enactment greatly reduced the power of our state legislatures and state governments – which are much closer to the people – and damaged our system of federalism.

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“3 Years Dead; Senator Nancy Schaefer, More Yet Being Murdered”


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“3 Years Dead; Senator Nancy Schaefer, More Yet Being Murdered”
This week marks the three year anniversary of the murder of former Georgia State Senator Nancy Schaefer. Since the one-year anniversary of her death, I have taken the time to write about her death. Also in sharing my thoughts to some degree, about what occurred to her and update all, as to the progress of the truth about what sadly occurred to her, her husband and Nancy's film documentary producer/director; Bill Bowen. Yes, it is sad...they were all mysteriously found dead and the cover-up and lies about their deaths continues even to this date. To many who knew and know of this tragedy, It really is more than unfortunate that three innocent human being were killed and there are government agents as well as others who killed them/others yet run free and even to this date still partake in the cover-up of their deaths http://youtu.be/_TcDTJlPWbE.
Bill+bowen.jpgMy newest readers of my weekly blog article may very well have no idea who Senator Nancy Schaefer and Bill Bowen were. This makes sense to me as seeing the degree of what many State of Georgia officials, United States Government agents as well as much of the “lame stream media” has done to actively suppress even the knowledge of what dirty “business” Senator Schaefer and Bill Bowen were exposing just before their deaths. For those who unfortunately may be unaware of that business, please allow me to summarize their work as this; “exposing corrupt judges, lawyers, police, CPS agencies, Domestic Violence Programs and others involved in the destruction of families for financial profit.” Nancy and Bill were successful in sharing what was occurring at the time in our government in the way of families and children being destroyed for cash, and when Nancy and Bill's first film came out exposing the truth about these fore mentioned evilists, many eyes were opened(Part 1 of the film... http://youtu.be/48YF1uEuCUA). We all know(well, at least I'd like to think at least most are awake enough to be aware) the atrocities and terroristic actions our US, it's States, Counties and others were taking against families all in the name of cash. Innocent families destroyed, innocent parents jailed, separated, children being wrongly placed in foster care, adopted out all so that unconstitutional and illegal government agents could make cold, hard-cash. Bill and Nancy Film shortly before their deaths. That film is currently, well... we will just say, in hiding with someone for “safe keeping.”
To bring everyone up to date as one of my goals here in this article as stated earlier, I will simply acknowledge that these sort of murders, illegal incarcerations, separations and more that Nancy and Bill exposed, have not changed. As a matter of fact, there are more instances of these types of horrendous actions occurring not only in the USA, but all around the world today. No doubt that evil still reigns in this world all around us... satan has not taken a holiday since Bill and Nancy being both murdered. Those of us who have suffered and labored very hard in exposing evil such as what Senator Schaefer and Bill Bowen have also done, continue to suffer greatly. For the readers here who are not aware, I myself am a victim of a Foreign Immigration Marriage Scammer named Jennie Basal who was able to conspire with corrupted Genesee County, NY judges, lawyers, teachers and others to have a City of Batavia, NY cop threaten to murder me as well as illegally take my children, house and all property from me. In fact, to this very date of this article being written, the Genesee County, NY Clerk has refused to give me transcripts from court proceedings. I and others have asked and asked and asked for nearly one year now for those documents and others but to no avail. This is the sort of evil and illegal manner that millions of other Americans, just as myself have been treated and endured as well. You see, It's not just me. But as others just as myself, there are many others also who are waiting for persons such as Jennie Basal and her Genesee County, NY officials to actually make good on their threat to murder I and others http://www.corruptgenesee.com. Please take special note, it's not that I'm afraid... no... make no mistake about it, I am simply stating here that I am waiting and prepared and I'll leave it at that.
Yes, murder is a scheme being used by the devil and his people and for those who are ignorant of that fact, children robbed from homes via Child Protective Services, Family Courts, judges, lawyers, cops, social workers, domestic violence program workers, teachers, psychologists, Filipina Migration Marriage Scammers and all others like them, are all in the murder for hire and murder for cash business http://murderdeathandabuseinfostercare.blogspot.com/. It is what it is, there is no other name for murder for cash. The history and facts speak for themselves. When good and honest people speak up for what is good and demand justice in our nation.... as what Senator Nancy Shaefer, Bill Bowen and others often times did/do---they are often and wrongfully demonized by those who are active in destruction of families and kidnapping children for financial profit schemes. It is so obvious to me that Former Georgia State Senator and Bill Bowen could not be demonized to the point of being silenced, even though through threats, they were told to remain silent about the kidnapping children and destruction of families for cash schemes(that still go on today without check). Thus, they were murdered by those involved in “cash for kids” and "destruction of families for profit" schemes for continuing to expose those horrific evil acts of our government and others just like them.
For those who were and still are close to Nancy and Bill in heart... in what they stood champion for, there likely will come no peaceful end and solution to the evil we still see yet today. I increasingly see bizarre video's often times posted on places like YouTube and equally bizarre statements being made on social websites of folks who purport to be also “victims” of Family Law Government Agents. However, these sort of folks often use a type of murder to kill off good folks and the real victims of the Family Law Government Agents as well. Often using character assassination, false propaganda, dissension and “divide and conquer” techniques, these types of people are often successful in maintaining confusion, causing wasted time and effort as well as resources in fighting them off so that good minded folks who have been raped via Family Law Government Agents can get justice. I cannot help but think and believe there are many Jezebel's and Ahab's that work for the US and it's State's propaganda machine. Thus, we see the influx of false “victims” infiltrating those who are the real victims of what also Bill and Nancy exposed. To the wise in heart and equally to the wicked judges, lawyers, psychologists, CPS workers, domestic violence program workers, cops and Foreign Immigration Marriage Scammers, and others like them... we know that the evil one is hard at work trying to distract from truth, but for those of us who know truth, we will never quit exposing you...never.
We that are fighting for our families are fighting a vicious army that has no qualm of letting up on it's evil actions, we know through their actions that evilists enjoy equally the taste of blood and of money. The sad reality is that Senator Nancy Schaefer and Bill Bowen were not the first victims of this evil war on families and children for cash. No, and they are certainly and sadly will not be the last. Personally, I am praying fervently and working hard towards revival in our nation and our world. Of course the Lord Jesus Christ's move through the Holy Spirit does not depend only on me and what I say and or do. In reality, it depends upon everyone's repentant hearts to turn from wickedness and the move of God's Spirit to bring much needed reconciliation and peace as well as end to families and children murdered for financial profit. In the mean time though, until that day when all evil men and women repent of their indulging in wickedness, I educate, I expose and I remove evil wherever and whenever possible. I do earnestly pray that all people everywhere, irregardless of where they live(and read this article), will indeed repent of their wickedness before that “shot heard around the world” is fired. If we do not have that wholesale repentance, we can only expect to see more blood shed. Upon that day and time, it will be to late for many, the blood will flow more than we have ever seen or witnessed before.
Let us pray and act so that the deaths and murders of all families, children, Senator Schaefer and Bill Bowen were not in vain. Those of us who are on the side of truth, especially Biblical Truth are “all” Senator Nancy Schaefer and Bill Bowens' now....The God of the Bible demands justice. Do your part before it's to late.
Proverbs 24:11-12 “if you hold back from rescuing those taken away to death, those who go staggering to the slaughter; if you say, “Look, we did not know this”—does not he who weighs the heart perceive it? Does not he who keeps watch over your soul know it? And will he not repay all according to their deeds? “
Rev. Paul Waldmiller~Black Robe Regiment Pastor
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Friends,

I've been receiving a lot of e-mails lately where the senders are so frustrated and worn down that they talk about giving up.  My response has been, and always will be: HELL NO!  I refuse to give up and refuse to allow our liberties to be taken away.

As I recently told a friend, WE have to become the new "Zealots".  We have to keep the lamp lit, educate others who are either misinformed, ignorant, or so emotionally invested in their politics that they can't see the dangers of tyranny regardless of political party.

Our forefathers understood that for our republic to survive we have to have an educated, well informed electorate.  For the past 100 years, there have been forces insidiously working to re-write history, manipulate our educational curriculum, and effectively dumb down our population.  Couple that with the technology generation that gets their information either in sound bites from the comedy channel or texting and "Twittering", that they know more about the lives of the Kardashian family than they do about our constitution.

To that end, I am sharing some resources that you may find useful.  

JPFO has updated a valuable resource document called "Gun Facts".  It is a free PDF download in a couple of different file sizes; one for printing and a smaller file for screen viewing.  I am including both links.  Browse the info and use it to dispel the myths being spread about guns.

 
 
 
 
 
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New Jersey Congressman Leonard Lance has asked the question about why DHS bought so many bullets and other military hardware.  No answer from Secretary Neapolitano.  Why?  To my mind when Congress does not get an answer from DHS they need to cut off the funding immediately.  This administration told us that they were going to be transparent but in fact they are the most non-transparent administration in the nations history.  What are they hiding?  Congress has the right to know!  Support Congressman Lance because he asked the tough questions and support the Constitution of the U.S.

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Jesus saves sinners

 Many scoffers and antagonists have done ugliness to Jesus. Saul of t\Tarsus for example.When  The spirit revealed himself to Saul he then Knew with eyes and heard with ears and became Paul. He then used what God knew he had in experience as a Jew of Jews and a citizen of Rome to bring Gods children to belief in Christ. I am offended when people stomp on Christ and make dirty art but am as hapy as the prodigal father to see them convert. The war on creationism is won by creationism but so many don't know it yet. here are your sites and books to check. Darwins Black box by Micheal Behe, Tornado in a junkyard by James Pearloff, Institute for creation research- ICR.org. genesisveracity.org, Creation museum.org, creation on the web. Feel free to search these as I often don't arrange the websites correct

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America We Have a Problem!

The title of this post is an obvious takeoff on the famous words "Houston we have a problem", which was the line attributed to the Apollo 13 astronauts who realized that they were in a life threatening situation that needed to be resolved fast. It was an understatement as is the title here.

By now most of you know that Homeland Security’s Janet Napolitano is REFUSING to answer questions about the agency’s purchase of 7000+ AR15s, 1.6 billion rounds of ammunition and nearly 3,000 armored personnel carriers with bullet proof glass capable of stopping 50 caliber rounds and solid tires that can take serious bullet penetration and keep going.

In a YouTube video a DHS spokesman said the armored vehicles were for serving warrants but did not say what kind of warrants DHS might have the occasion to serve. They are obviously expecting that someone will be shooting at them and have outfitted themselves to withstand heavy fire. Who do they expect to be doing the shooting?  These vehicles will carry up to eleven “operators” and there are firing slits so they can engage someone without leaving the vehicle.

We are well past conspiracy theories at this point. We have a serious problem. Everyone should be hounding their representatives for answers until Washington reveals the truth and disbands this army whose purpose they will not reveal.

It would appear that DHS, which has no connection with the armed services and would not be deployed outside the country, could only be deployed inside the USA but against whom? They will not say. They are using your tax money to create a standing army within the US which, common sense would indicate, is likely to be used against you. I think their refusal to be accountable is the answer and we had better take our government back as quickly as possible.

We really need to push for Obama’s impeachment.  I would like to ask every member of Congress these few important questions:

  1. Will you support the Constitution of the United States as your oath of office requires; yes or no?
  2. According to the Constitution, what are the qualifications to hold the Office of President of the United States? (they should answer  35 years old, natural born citizen Article 1, section 2, paragraph 6 of the Constitution)
  3. That being the case, and since the birth certificate Barack Obama posted on the internet clearly indicates that he is a citizen born in Hawaii but also that only one of his parents was a citizen of the United States and so has admitted that he did not have the two citizen parents at the time of his birth which is the requirement to be a natural born citizen, why haven’t you and your colleagues started impeachment proceedings?

 Barack Hussein Obama is the poster child to be used when someone asks why the President must be a natural born citizen! This is why!

http://www.teaparty.org/big-sis-refuses-to-answer-congress-on-bullet-purchases-21924/

 

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