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At the end of September, Marita Noon and I began to expose the various failures of Obama’s green-energy expenditures (mainly from the trillion dollar, 2009-stimulus package where over $90 billion was earmarked for "green") –– projects and firms that have gone bankrupt (confirming 15 with more on our radar). A hot topic that became part of the first presidential debate where after President Obama pressed Mitt Romney for supporting tax cuts for oil companies, Romney reminded Obama that he put $90 billion into failing green companies like Solyndra, Fisker, Tesla, and Ener1. “I had friend who said you don’t just pick the winners and losers, you pick the losers,” Romney cleverly added.

We then we moved on to those that are functioning, but facing difficulties –– struggling either financially, while some environmentally, still others laying off workers, and quite a few on life support (approximately 20). 

Lastly, we addressed the "5 million green jobs that Candidate Obama had promised in 2008," of which Team Obama is now claiming victory, however, as we noted, the math doesn't add up, nor does the gimmick accounting –– recycled ones; those that already existed –– used by the Obama administration's Labor Department.

While in Marita's Townhall.com columns we placed an * after the project/company’s name to indicate a political connection (cronyism and corruption), in my subsequent blogs I expanded upon our efforts, and plugged in my research, listing those critical ties. 

In our three-part series, two focused directly on the failures, and our sums were 15 bankruptcies and 20 troubled (a total of 35 with over 65% having meaningful Democrat political connections –– bundlers, donors, supporters, etc). Yet, considering the rapid speed of these "green" bankruptcies and issues (about 10 that I read about just last week), I'm compiling new totals here, which will include a new and updated list by the Heritage Foundation dated October 18, 2012 –– President Obama’s Taxpayer-Backed Green Energy Failures –– with their total of 36 (updated later with a number of 34). And most listed at The Heritage and ours are very similar, however, they have some we don't and vise versa.

1. Solyndra*: Received $535 million DOE loan and $25.1 million in California tax credit. Bankrupt: September 2011
2. Abound Solar*: Received part of a $60 million grant under the Bush administration, and was awarded a $400 million loan under Obama in December of 2010. Abound was awarded a $9.2-million loan from the Export-Import Bank in July 2011. Bankrupt: June 2012
3. Beacon Power*: Received more than $25 million in DOE grants and a DOE loan for $43 million. Bankrupt: October 2011 

4. A123 Systems*: Received $390 million, of which $249 million of it was a Recovery Act Grant. Filed for Bankruptcy October 16, 2012, and two companies are seeking to buy A123; Johnson Controls and the Chinese firm Wanxiangis. 

5. AES Eastern Energy/Energy Storage*: Received $17.1 million DOE conditional commitment on August 2, 2010. Bankrupt: December 31, 2011.
6. Amonix*: Received $6 million in federal tax credits a $15.6 million grant from the DOE for research and development. Bankrupt: July 18, 2012.  
7. Azure Dynamics*: Received millions in stimulus funds and over $1.7 million in Michigan state tax credits. Bankrupt: March 27, 2012 ––  HF ADDITION: states $120 million
   
8. Babcock & Brown: Received $178 million in the largest federal (1603) stimulus wind grant in December 2009. Placed into voluntary liquidation: March 13, 2009
9. Energy Conversion Devices Inc./Uni-Solar: Received a $13.3 million Stimulus tax credit. Bankrupt: February 2011.
10. Ener1*: Received a $118.5 million DOE Stimulus grant. Bankrupt: January 26, 2011.
11. Evergreen Solar, Inc.*: Received Stimulus funds, grants, tax-credits, low-interest loans and subsidies. Bankrupt: August 15, 2011 
12. Konarka Technologies Inc.: Received $20 million in grants from government agencies such as the DOE and the Pentagon. Bankrupt: June 4, 2012.
13. ADDITION Range Fuels*: Range Fuels: $162.25 million in government commitments since 2007, of which $64 million came from a USDA Biofuel loan in 2010 alone, despite financial and technical difficulties, and opposition inside the USDA. 
14. Raser Technologies: Received $33 million Treasury Department Stimulus grant. Bankrupt: May 2, 2011. 
15. SpectraWatt*: Received $500,000 grant from the Renewable Energy Lab via the Stimulus. Bankrupt: August 23, 2011
16. Stirling Energy Systems: Received $7 million from a federal renewable-energy grant and was eligible for nearly $10.5 million in manufacturing September 28, 2011. 
17. Thompson River Power LLC: Received $6.5 million in Stimulus funds from Section 1603. Bankrupt: July 2, 2012.
18. HF ADDITION: Mountain Plaza, Inc. ($2 million); in our unconfirmed list
19. HF ADDITION: Olsen’s Crop Service and Olsen’s Mills Acquisition Company ($10 million);
    in our unconfirmed list
20. HF ADDITION: Nordic Windpower* ($16 million)
21. HF ADDITION: Satcon ($3 million) As reported by the Heritage Foundation October 18, 2012, "A solar company that got a multi-million-dollar grant from the Department of Energy earlier this year announced Wednesday that it will file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, making it the second taxpayer-backed green energy company to file for bankruptcy this week." 
22. HF ADDITION: Willard and Kelsey Solar Group ($700,981) ($6 million); in our unconfirmed bankrupt list

1. Fisker Automotive* –– $528.7 
2. Tesla Motors* –– $465 million 
3. AREVA acquired Ausra Inc.* –– $2 billion  
4. BrightSource Energy* –– $1.6 billion 
5. First Solar* –– $3 billion, plus suspicious Export-Import bank funding 
6. Nevada Geothermal* –– $78.8 million, plus $69 million in federal stimulus-funded grants
7. NextEra Energy Genesis Solar Project* –– $681.6 million
8. SunPower Corp.* (California Valley Solar Ranch project bought by NRG Energy*) –– $1.2 billion DOE loan guarantee
9. AltaRock* –– $6 million, $25 million, plus $1.45 million 
10. Bloom Energy* –– $5 million
11. CH2M Hill* –– $2 billion 
12. Chevy Volt* –– $151 million, $105 million, plus other stimulus funds HF ADDITION: GreenVolts ($500,000) - I'm assuming this is the Chevy Volt
13. ECOtality Inc.* –– $126.2 million  

14. Johnson Controls –– $299 million

15. Montana Alberta Tie Line –– $152 million of federal financing (some reports say $161 million) 
16. National Renewable Energy Lab* –– $200 million
17. Schneider Electric –– $86 million
18. Serious Material (Serious Energy)* –– $548,100   
19. Solar World Industries America –– $4.6 million  
20. ADDITION: Solar City* –– Got a $275 million conditional guarantee (DOE) that was later rejected. Besides some financial issues, Solar City was subpoenaed in July as part of a federal probe of the Treasury grant program. As reported by The Washington Free Beacon (October 18, 2012), SolarCity, is currently being audited by the Internal Revenue Service and investigated by the Treasury Department’s inspector general amid allegations that the firm misrepresented the value of its investment when applying for stimulus grants. So it looks like Solar City" has applied for approximately $325 million in these stimulus grants, according to the SEC filing." So, loan rejected, but the grant is larger (as are the political ties) –– we'll keep an eye on this story.
21. Solar World Industries America –– $4.6 million
22. HF ADDITION: Vestas ($50 million)
23. HF ADDITION: LG Chem’s subsidiary Compact Power ($151 million, part of the Recovery Act, and millions worth of special state tax breaks based on job creation of all things) LG Chem is another green company that President Obama touted during his visit at the LG Chem battery cell production site in 2010.  This is an amusing story that was recently brought to my attention –– according to Wood TV, Michigan (October 18, 2012), "Workers at LG Chem, a $300 million lithium-ion battery plant heavily funded by taxpayers, tell Target 8 that they have so little work to do that they spend hours playing cards and board games, reading magazines or watching movies." Now, their story (more scandalous than what I posted here) is under investigation by the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board –– an oversight agency for the federal stimulus program, what I call the RAT Board –– another huge part of this green corruption scandal.
24. HF ADDITION: Navistar ($10 million) 
25. HF ADDITION: Mascoma Corp.* ($100 million)

Department of Energy Collateral Damage

1. Aptera Motors 
2. Bright Automotive
3. Solar Trust*

 *Denotes companies/projects with confirmed cronyism and/or corruption.

The is the complete list of faltering or bankrupt green-energy companies by The Heritage Foundation, October 18, 2012 (updated later to reflect 34)  –– President Obama’s Taxpayer-Backed Green Energy Failures

The complete list of faltering or bankrupt green-energy companies:

1. Evergreen Solar ($25 million)*
2. SpectraWatt ($500,000)*
3. Solyndra ($535 million)*
4. Beacon Power ($43 million)*
5. Nevada Geothermal ($98.5 million)
6. SunPower ($1.2 billion)
7. First Solar ($1.46 billion)
8. Babcock and Brown ($178 million)
9. EnerDel’s subsidiary Ener1 ($118.5 million)*
10. Amonix ($5.9 million)
11. Fisker Automotive ($529 million)
12. Abound Solar ($400 million)*
13. A123 Systems ($279 million)*
14. Willard and Kelsey Solar Group ($700,981)*
15. Johnson Controls ($299 million)
16. Schneider Electric ($86 million)
17. Brightsource ($1.6 billion)
18. ECOtality ($126.2 million)
19. Raser Technologies ($33 million)*
20. Energy Conversion Devices ($13.3 million)*
21. Mountain Plaza, Inc. ($2 million)*
22. Olsen’s Crop Service and Olsen’s Mills Acquisition Company ($10 million)*
23. Range Fuels ($80 million)*
24. Thompson River Power ($6.5 million)*
25. Stirling Energy Systems ($7 million)*
26. Azure Dynamics ($5.4 million)*
27. GreenVolts ($500,000)
28. Vestas ($50 million)
29. LG Chem’s subsidiary Compact Power ($151 million)
30. Nordic Windpower ($16 million)*
31. Navistar ($39 million)
32. Satcon ($3 million)*
33. Konarka Technologies Inc. ($20 million)*
34. Mascoma Corp. ($100 million)

*Denotes companies that have filed for bankruptcy.

HERITAGE CORRECTION:

Figures for four companies have been updated: Beacon Power received $43 million from the U.S. government, not $69 million as originally reported. Azure Dynamics received $5.4 million from the federal government, not $120 million as originally reported. Compact Power Inc. received $151 million as part of the stimulus, not $150 million as originally reported. Willard and Kelsey Solar Group received $700,981 in government funding, not $6 million as originally reported.

The following companies have been removed from the original list: AES’s subsidiary Eastern Energy, LSP Energy and Uni-Solar did not receive government-backed loans, based on additional research. The National Renewable Energy Lab did received $200 million in stimulus funding, but it is a government laboratory.

NOTE: My blog reflects the Heritage "corrections," however, I kept in AES and the National Energy Lab –– and we initially had four unconfirmed bankruptcies:

• LSP Energy
• Mountain Plaza Inc.
• Olsen Crop Service/Olsen Mills
• Willard & Kelsey Solar Group

So far, at least $15 billion of "green" taxpayer money is either gone or still at risk, and the majority was funneled to Obama and Democrat cronies 

As you can see tracking President Obama's failed green-energy expenditures is like aiming at a moving target, and calculating the exact dollar amount is even more difficult to pinpoint. This is partly due the fact that companies/projects received multiple green government subsidies that weren't recorded or tracked properly (federal and state loans, grants and special tax credits, and from various programs and agencies). Also, some of these firms were given a loan guarantee, yet didn't have access to the entire amount,  prior to their bankruptcy.  However, as a ballpark figure, I'd say that at least $15 billion that we know of at this time. And here's why...

I had purposely listed the bankrupt and troubled from the Department of Energy's Loan Guarantee Program (DOE LGP) first. Since 2009, the DOE has guaranteed $34.7 billion – 46% through the 1705 ($16 billion of which 90% are politically connected), 30% through the 1703 ($10.3 billion—AREVA and Georgia Power), and 14% through the ATVM ($8.4 billion and 3 of the five loans are tied directly to Obama).

Marita and I covered eleven companies from the DOE LGP (Solyndra, Abound Solar, Beacon Power, Fisker Auto, Telsa Motors, AREVA, BrightSource Energy, First Solar, Nevada Geothermal, NextEra Energy's Genesis Solar Project, and SunPower/NRG Energy's California Valley Solar Ranch), noting that from that program alone, close to $10 billion of taxpayer money is already gone, while, as you can see, some is still at risk. What's interesting to note is that of the "26 loan guarantees under the 1705 program, of which the DOE doled out in excess of $16 billion, “23 of the loans were rated “Junk grade” due to their poor credit quality, while the other four were rated BBB, which is at the lowest end of the 'investment' grade of categories.”

Meaning that the DOE had already put the majority of that $16 billion into excessively risky investments. And to add insult to taxpayer injury, the driving force behind these decisions weren't based merit as the DOE would have you believe –– obviously it was cronyism and corruption. My April 2012 analysis of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform March 2012 report confirmed that over 90% have meaningful political ties to President Obama and high ranking Democrats, or both, which gives credence to Congressman Ryan's jab to the so-called "Stimulus Sheriff," Vice President Joe Biden during the VP debate, "$90 billion in green pork to campaign contributors and special interest groups." Ryan went on to call the Obama green-energy expenditures what it is, "crony capitalism and corporate welfare."

In case you missed our Obama Green Energy Failures, Three Part Series:

• Part One ––  Obama Never Admits Green Failure (September 30, 2012 @ Townhall.com); Obama Green Energy Investments: Bankrupt. My "in the weeds" edition here, Special Report Part One: Obama, the Green Loser; Cronyism Inc.
• Part Two Romney to Obama: “You Pick the Losers," (October 7, 2012 @ Townhall.com)  Obama Green Energy Investments: Troubled. My "in the weeds" edition here, Special Report Part Two: Obama, the Green Loser; Cronyism Inc.
• Part Three ––  Obama's Green Jobs Promise: 355 Jobs and Counting  (October 15, 2012 @ Townhall.com). My "in the weeds" edition here, Special Report Part Three: Where are the 5 Million Green Jobs Candidate Obama Promised?  

PS: If anyone cares to add up these failed green-energy expenditures, drop me a line and I'll post it on my blog. Thanks, Christine @calfit32@gmail.com; THE Green Corruption blogger.

Don't take the bait.  There are no talks scheduled.  Anything to stop talking about their real failures.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jt44D6ZlFKI&feature=player_embedded

You’ve got to watch this eye-opening, scary video by Trevor Loudon,

Glenn Beck’s “go to” person for identifying President Obama's inner

circle of friends, socialist supporters, and the mentors who dramatically

influenced his political perspective. Loudon authored the acclaimed

book “Barack Obama and the Enemies Within”. He exposed Van Jones,

the “green jobs czar,” as a radical leftist, which led to Jones’ departure

from the Obama administration.

Loudon’s bottom line, well-documented, message is that for decades,

You owe it to your family and friends, and to America, to blast this to your

PLEASE, Share it NOW…America is running out of time!

       LADIES PLEASE GIVE US ANOTHER CHANCE,  WE WILL DUE THE RIGHT THING BY YOU.  WE PROMICE.

Alright, I know that the Electoral College remains a mystery to most people, but after a quick Google of the topic, anyone should be able to have enough information to realize why the founding fathers put such a system into place.

Evidently CBS Sunday Morning programmers/editors/writers have had their fingers broken or don't have access to a computer....

CBS Sunday Morning (10/21) just finished a piece on the Electoral College that was created to undermine and vilify this part of voting process. Using young school children (they're so cute, innocent and honest that you have to have sympathy with them - typical emotional blackmail tactics), they set out to show how UNFAIR the Electoral College is to the voters (after all, "your vote doesn't count") and how antiquated the process is ("no other country in the world uses a construct like the Electoral College").

What they don't explain is that the Founding Fathers realized the destructiveness of anarchy brought about by the popular vote, how 'popularity' and 'emotionality' could swing this country onto the wrong course; sort of like being hoodwinked by a slick talking community organizer with silky words but no action plan.....oops been there, done that.

The rest of the piece went on to talk about the organizations who have put into plan the nullification/revocation of the Electoral College, even having 'constitutional scholars' backing such plans....oops been there, done that too.

This insidious plan to nullify the Electoral College must be exposed and stopped before it negates that safeguards put into place by our founding fathers.

States who participate in the plan to nullify the Electoral College include Massachusetts. The nullification phenomenon is all the more important because of the deafening silence from Washington. It should come as no surprise that there are no fiery, angry complaints from Washington regarding this challenge to the Constitution by Massachusetts legislators. Five other states already have passed similar measures. The current administration is very choosy in how it asserts its authority.

The Constitution can be altered or amended only through a constitutional convention or a two-thirds vote in both Houses of Congress (Article 5). State legislatures are not empowered to alter or amend the Constitution.

The Founders were very specific about their preference for representative versus direct democracy. They thought, with a few exceptions, that direct democracy would be more likely to lead to a tyranny of the people very much like what was seen in the murderous and cruel actions of mobs in the latter stages of the French Revolution.

John Adams and Thomas Jefferson argued these points extensively, especially during their famous correspondence. Adams took the representation side and Jefferson the populist.

Adams was motivated by a lack of trust in the ability of “the people” (as a bloc) to make the wisest decisions. He argued that better-qualified people (educated and with upstanding character) should be selected by the general electorate so they could then make the best decisions in their representative capacity. In this way, the mob mentality of large populations, like that of the French Revolution, could best be negated.

We must defend our Constitutionality.

We must ensure that the safeguards put into place over 200 years ago remain.

We MUST make this an issue along with our political party affiliations, or we will be ruled by the emotional, pandered to masses whose motivation comes from what they can get from those who still pay taxes.

Obama’s election firewall is melting like a house of wax all over America.  States like Florida, Virginia, Iowa, Michigan, and Wisconsin where President Obama’s election machines had once appeared impregnable are now crumbling.  What is even more telling is that Ohio, the battleground of all battleground states is now fast becoming Obama’s possible Waterloo.

According to many recent national polls, including results from Fox News Poll that was released Friday, October 19^th, Obama’s lead over Republican challenger Mitt Romney is narrowing.  The president’s former lead of 49-42 percent from late September has dwindled to 46-43 percent.  What appears even clearer is that the president’s second debate performance, while well scripted at how to be evasive and fact challenged, and has not slowed Romney’s growing momentum.

The growing White House cover up of how U.S. ambassador to Libya J. Christopher Stevens and 3 other Americans were murdered on September 11^th  at the American consulate in Benghazi is taking center stage.  As more and more intelligence documentation, real time videos, and congressional documents are made public a bizarre and tragic web of deceit is being unearthed.

The White House and the president’s campaign have stepped up their visits to Ohio and other battle ground states as well as their attacks on Romney.  Their hope is that voters would ignore the facts that these murders were avoidable and preventable.  But on Monday October 22^nd, the last presidential debate should bring the truth of the Benghazi scandal and the unraveling of the administration’s stonewalling into America’s living rooms.

The presidential election stakes are much, much higher now.  Now the White House narrative and tangled terrorist assault storylines are unraveling, thanks to the recent congressional hearings on Capitol Hill. Its gets even worse.  President Obama and Vice President Joe Biden are now telling competing versions of the Libyan murders’ timeline. 

Timing is everything, and with Foreign Affairs being on the table for the last debate, the White House is on lock down.  It is refusing to honor requests for documents from congress that detail what the president knew, when he knew it and what action did he take. Fear that truth of possible evidence being covered up concerning pre and post attack terrorist activity by the White House could prove an administration cover up is in play.

What evidence could the administration be afraid of providing congress and the American voter before the election?  Could it be proof that Ambassador Stevens desperately sent request after request to the State Department for more security, while terrorists linked to al-Qaeda steadily increased their attacks and assaults as late as August on the consulate?

Could it be evidence that the President decided to ignore in-person daily Security Council briefing.  Will White House meetings records reveal that he either golfed or attended entertainment and Hollywood fundraisers on the lead up to the anniversary of the most horrific terrorist attack in the nation’s history?

What is so important in the timeline which lead up the murders in Benghazi that Obama is afraid that voters will discover?  What the administration possibly fears can be found in the recent Fox News video concerning the timeline that led up to the Benghazi tragedy.   ( Read More )

Today marked an epiphany in my life. An event occurred which set me off on a quest. Like Don Quixote, I am probably tilting at windmills, but I must pursue the seemingly impossible dream nonetheless.

I was out in the front yard washing out the endless supply of dirty litter pans when much to my surprise, the Chinese made hose connector blew off the end of my Chinese made hose, thereby drenching me and my Chinese made clothes. I paid good, hard-earned money for all of the above, so I naturally found myself in a somewhat inhospitable state of mind. After graphically discussing the ancestry of the evil people who made these despicable items of torture, I went in and changed into dry clothes and convinced myself that now was the time to publically address this deplorable situation.

For years now, I, like all other Americans, have watched the value of my money dwindle. Each time I go into a store, my money seems to purchase less for the same expenditure. And, like most people, it has come to my attention that darn near everything I purchase is made in China, or Taiwan, or Korea, etc.  Some of the products are OK, others are so-so. Those from mainland China are almost without exception --- JUNK!  And as indicated, I am not discussing their charming little sail boats. I am talking about the boatload after seemingly endless boatload of consumer products that are poorly made, broken in the original container, broken shortly after being put into service, and in some cases, downright hazardous to your health and well-being. It would seem that quality control is a phrase that does not translate into either of the common Chinese dialects (Mandarin or Cantonese for those who are interested).

I can’t count the number of times I have purchased a product only to discover I could just as easily have flushed the money paid down my Chinese made toilet and saved a lot of time and travel. (assuming of course that the toilet still works). I have decided that there are two distinct issues here that need to be addressed. I shall deal with them in turn.

I, like many working Americans, shop at what are referred to as the “Big Box” stores; most notably, Wal-Mart. Usually, if the item is bad out of the box or reasonably new (30 days or less) and you can still locate the sales ticket, Wal-Mart will grudgingly replace the item. After 30 days you are instructed to get in touch with the manufacturer. Now, I don’t know about the rest of you, but I am NOT going to spend hours on the phone, in the middle of the night,  with a functionally illiterate customer service representative in China. The only way to prevent this problem is if you agree to pay Wal-Mart for an “Extended Service Policy”. OK, most items carry about a year of manufacturer’s warranty. At one time, a store that sold products from a manufacturer was considered an agent in fact of the manufacturer. They were required to honor the original warranty. For instance, if I buy a car, any dealership in the country is required to honor the manufacturer’s warranty. There was a time when a store, Sears for instance, would replace or repair a misbehaving item of merchandise with no hassle. Wal-Mart? Forget it. Unless you pay them first, they don’t honor any warranty … period. You buy it, it’s yours, and the manufacturer. This needs to be stopped. If a store sells a product, they should be made to honor the full term of the manufacturer’s warranty without a payoff. When they sell a product they should be forced to stand behind it. If the product line has a history of shoddy workmanship and constant failures, then it behooves the store to find another source of products that they can reasonably expect to last through the warranty period. They should take the same gamble that a car dealer has to take. This must be made enforceable under state or federal law (preferably state law). There should be no ambiguity; if a store sells a product, they are on the hook for the warranty if it fails or breaks under normal usage. Period.

OK. That problem is relatively easy to solve. The other problem is going to be a powder keg. China has most favored nation status with the US of A. They are considered a major “trading” partner. This does not mean what you think it does. Normally, a trading partner is one who sells their products in our markets and allows our manufacturers to sell their products in the foreign market. Not so with China. We owe China an incredible amount of money. Money borrowed in boatloads by our screwed up federal government. No names or finger pointing here as all administrations have spent more than they had on hand. Both parties are to blame. We spend like there is no tomorrow. Since we can’t repay our debt to China in the foreseeable future, we give them most favored status. They send us tons and tons of what amounts to crap and we get to sell … zip … in their markets, unless you count MacDonald’s burgers as a trade item. They have us over a trade barrel and they know it. They can send whatever they want, no matter how crummy, and we are more or less forced to take it. Our federal government has failed us miserably in this area. All of our homegrown manufacturing has left for China and other labor friendly countries. They can let quality go to pot and still make a killing selling it to us. China taxes the manufacturers and charges an export duty to ship our own stuff back to us. We on the other hand make every effort to keep import duties low so as to not tick the Chinese off. The consumer pays for all this good old boy backroom dealing. The manufacturers get their products to market here for little or no real investment in labor. They let quality slip because who is going to call them in the middle of the night? The politicians let the junk into our markets, driving local production out of business. The stores sell the cheap junk below what a mom and pop store can manage which drives out the competition, small though it is. The big box boys buy the junk for next to nothing and sell it to the unsuspecting public with no assurance that it will work or keep working past next Tuesday. Everybody benefits except the American consumers. I propose a slight change in the status quo.

Let’s create an agency (yes another one) to inspect at random as many products as possible at the port of entry. Any products found lacking in safety or quality are denied entry. The manufacturer is put on notice that they will not be allowed to ship goods into the USA for a period of six months. After six months, their products will again be tested and if found to be unable to meet the requirements, they are banned for a period of one to five years. Those who do manage to pass the second test will be hit with a 25% import duty for a period of five years after they are granted access to our markets. These “fees” will help defray the cost of staffing the agency and testing labs. These conditions are to be foisted on American companies doing business abroad as well as foreign companies. Any company who has three or more violations in a ten year period will be permanently banned from US markets. Severe? Yup. I don’t see any alternative. If we don’t put a stop to this travesty, it will only get worse … much worse.

Hmmmm ...  just an afterthought.  I just bought a package of “Texas Gulf Coast Shrimp” at Kroger. When I got it home, sure enough, at the bottom of the package was the statement “Farm raised in Thailand”. Sighhhh. What’s next?

How Romney Can KO Obama in Monday Debate!-You Decide:

Posted on The Post & Email-By Sharon Rondeau-On October 19, 2012:

“HOLD OBAMA ACCOUNTABLE”

by JB Williams, ©2012

(Oct. 19, 2012) — The final 2012 presidential debate is scheduled for this coming Monday evening and the subject will be Foreign Policy. This is an area where the Obama Administration has failed more miserably than even their domestic and economic disaster.

The Obama campaign is on the verge of free-fall. The latest Gallup poll shows Romney up 52%-45% over Obama, gaining another point following Obama’s improved debate performance. Immediately following this week’s debate, LIVE pollster FrankLuntz interviewed a group of “undecided” voters, most of whom voted for Obama in 2008. Almost all of them switched to Romney after watching Obama’s more aggressive, but still defenseless performance.

Meanwhile, the Internet was raging with threats to assassinate Mitt Romney, all posted by Barack Obama supporters. The Obama campaign was heading into total meltdown. The Secret Service is aware and following the leads on numerous death threats made against Romney by angry Obama supporters.

Front and center on the national news is Benghazi-gate, although the lame-stream press is not quite up to speed with all of the nasty little details. People have to learn the facts online at publications like Breitbart, until the press has no choice but to confront the truth with Obama and Clinton.

Obama’s Foreign Policy trouble begins right here, with the fact that this administration has experienced more high-level security leaks than a kitchen colander, and the fact that every member of the Military, Intelligence community and State Department knows how dangerous these leaks are to both foreign policy and national security. Even most civilians are smart enough to figure this out.

Next are Obama’s insane Rules of Engagement on the field of battle, responsible for more American KIA and WIA in three years than Bush had in all eight years combined. Then, there are the ongoing bold faced lies from this administration about what is actually happening.

First, they said the 9-11-12 attacks on U.S. Embassies were the result of an obscure anti-Islam third rate youtube video. They said that it was not an act of terrorism and had nothing to do with U.S. Foreign Policy, or even with radical Islam.

They told us it wasn’t a planned attack, but rather another organic reaction to a youtube video. They even arrested the film producer, whom we have not seen or heard from since.

Then we all watched terrorists raise the black flag of jihad over our embassies. We watched our Ambassador be raped, murdered and dragged through the streets. We saw the initial attack spread across the Middle East, country after country, embassy after embassy.

Two weeks after the attacks, Obama still didn’t have the FBI on the ground investigating, after all the evidence was long gone. The last time America had an ambassador assassinated was under Jimmy Carter, the last president to project a weak Foreign Policy and a tolerance that borders on an open invitation, for terrorist acts against America.

Eventually, they admit what many of us knew from the start, that the youtube film had nothing to do with it, that it was terrorist groups, it was a planned attack, many of them, and that the very people that Obama and Clinton “liberated” in the Middle East were now attacking their liberators, with U.S. weapons.

The so-called Arab Spring was not organic at all. The entire meltdown of the Middle East is nothing but a community organizing operation run out of the Obama White House and State Department — using old organizing friends like Ayers and Dohrn, on the ground in the Middle East months in advance to stir, fund and arm the uprising that ended with the Muslim Brotherhood in charge of the Middle East.

My Note:  The following articles and/or blog posts support the above statement-You Decide:

You wouldn’t expect George Soros’ tentacles here, or would you? ‘Group promoting ‘peace’ in Middle East tied to Occupy, MoveOn, ACORN, more!’-Posted on WND.com-By Aaron Klein-On December 25, 2011:

http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=381317

Another Soros tie to Occupy Wall Street. Envisions ‘New Economic World Order’ no longer dominated by 1 superpower!-Posted on Klein Online-On October 13, 2011:

http://kleinonline.wnd.com/2011/10/13/soros1another-soros-tie-to-oc...

In short, the Obama Administration is indeed promoting democracy (mob rule by a proletariat) here and abroad. In the Middle East, when you give terrorists the power to elect their own government, it turns out they elect terrorists. Who would have guessed?

American tax dollars were used to ignite the Muslim uprising across the Middle East, then topple numerous Middle Eastern governments, resulting in a totally destabilized region which in the end, is using U.S. funds, technologies and arms to attack American soldiers and Embassies across the region.

It’s hard to imagine a worse Foreign Policy than that, but it does get worse.

Bill Clinton sold nuclear technology to China during the 90s. China and Russia shared that technology with North Korea and now Iran. While the Obama Administration claims that Iran is still a few years from having long range nuclear weapons, the truth is that they most likely have it today, purchased from Russia, China and North Korea.

Iran is again threatening to destroy Israel and the U.S. President is too busy fund raising to meet with Netanyahu, leaving Israel in a position of having to defend itself unilaterally.

Benghazi might be the tipping point, as more and more information drips out into public view. Americans died needlessly, brutally, on Obama’s watch. And the Administration is only worried about who to blame in order to protect Obama.

The Obama Administration is still searching for who to blame, with Obama and Biden acting like they never heard of Benghazibefore, Hillary Clinton trying to take one for the team, then blaming Intel for getting it all wrong, denying that they reduced security at the embassies only to later claim that they did have requests for more security.

In the end, it appears that they all knew there was a significant increasing threat and simply refused to answer calls for better protection only days before the attacks. Despite their efforts to blame their failures upon an obscure youtube film, it is Obama and Clinton who are responsible for the numerous attacks on U.S. Embassies.

Many 2008 Obama supporters are jumping ship and switching to Romney in 2012. Others are panicked and threatening to assassinate Mitt Romney if Obama loses his re-election bid. Both make Obama’s chances of re-election look dismal and that makes Obama very desperate.

Some are floating theories that Obama might open up strikes on Libya or Syria, just to change the headlines.

But if Romney uses all of these facts to tear Obama’s Foreign Policy apart in the last debate, he can knock Obama out of the race and well he should.

Our soldiers don’t take an oath to any politician. They take an oath to the U.S. Constitution and the American people, to protect and defend against all enemies, foreign and domestic. They don’t risk life and limb for wealth redistribution or some Marxist utopian global vision.

They risk life and limb for freedom and liberty. Americans bow to nobody!

Romney must remind the American people of this next Monday night and he must hold Obama accountable for the many disasters he has created. If he does, that will bring about the end of the worst administration in U.S. history.

If he doesn’t, God help America!”

jb.uspu@gmail.com

Source:

http://www.thepostemail.com/2012/10/19/how-romney-can-ko-obama-in-m...

Note: The following articles and/or blog posts relate to and/or further support the above article and/or blog post-You Decide:

CIA TOLD D.C. BENGHAZI ATTACK NOT SPONTANEOUS WITHIN 24 HOURS!-Posted on Big Peace-By AWR HAWKINS-On October 19, 2012:

“The CIA is indicating that they told Washington the Benghazi attack was militant in nature, rather than spontaneous, within 24 hours of its occurrence. 

According to a report released today, the “CIA station chief in Libya” alerted Washington that the attack was not in response to a video. 

However, media outlets are doing their best to leave Obama a little wiggle room by claiming “it is unclear who, if anyone, saw the cable outside the CIA at that point.” In other words, the station manager sent the alert, but there’s no hard evidence anyone saw the alert in Washington.

Quick question: What does it say about the culture within the Obama administration if, in fact, they ignored or didn’t even look at the CIA alert? 

The CIA station chief did his job and compiled a report within 24 hours based on eye-witness interviews. This is going make it much, much harder for the mainstream media to blame the intelligence community for Benghazi. 

Source:

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2012/10/19/CIA-Told-Washington-B...

More On Benghazi!-Posted on Western Journalism-By JIM EMERSON-On October 20, 2012:

“The murder of Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans was part of a larger strategy to drive all western influence out of Libya.  An earlier attack on an International Red Cross facility and an RPG attack on the British Ambassador’s vehicle drove the British out of Benghazi. Feeling emboldened, the extremists felt that they could force the Americans to leave. Earlier, probing attacks yielded little results; but the lack of a response from the Americans sent a clear message: the United States or the Libyan government would not respond to future attacks.

Criticism:

Retired Colonel David Hunt properly laid the blame of the death of 4 Americans at Benghazi on Secretary Hillary Clinton and her State Department. He pointed out that it was Hillary Clinton who prohibited the posting of Marines at any diplomatic posts in Libya.  The only security allowed were local, contracted security guards who weren’t allowed to have loaded weapons. It made sense that they would run when the consulate was under attack; they couldn’t fight back. This tragedy is what happens when your policy is based on political correctness.

The most incompetent security official of all time, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Charlene Lamb, believed that the consulate had the right amount of security prior to the attack.  She actively opposed any requests for additional security measures despite previous attacks on diplomatic posts.  Col. Hunt compared the mission to a cardboard box, and the people within the compound didn’t have a chance; since the guards weren’t allowed to carry bullets, the facility was an easy target. Seems like Ms. Lamb’s expertise makes her less qualified than a junior mall cop. Americans died because she wanted to be politically correct by maintaining a low profile in Libya.

They knew it was happening:

Testifying before Congress Ms. Lamb said the State Department was aware of the September 11 attack while it was in progress via instant audio and video feeds being provided in real time from communications equipment on the compound in Benghazi. The feed was also provided to operations centers in the Pentagon, Key Military units, Intelligence Agencies, FBI, State Department, and the White House. For six hours, the Administration heard and saw the events as they were happening and did nothing. That is called failure of leadership; Mr. Obama is too busy appearing on the David Letterman and Jon Stewart shows trying to hide his own incompetence.

If it wasn’t for Col. Hunt, this little detail of the Benghazi murders would have never been reported.”

Source:

http://www.westernjournalism.com/more-on-benghazi/

It’s Not Complicated!-Posted on The Post & Email-By Sharon Rondeau-On October 19, 2012:

“ENEMIES OF THE U.S. ARE ALIVE AND WELL"

by OPOVV, ©2012, Presidential Candidate

Is this what our granddaughters will be forced to wear?

(Oct. 19, 2012) — I was watching one of the mundane television “news” shows, and this person said she was “for” Obama, and that got me to thinking that she wasn’t “for anything,“ but, rather, “against everything.”

For instance, we all know that this Obama character has never been vetted as to his legal qualifications to hold the office of president. Everybody knows except Obots, who find it expressly difficult to decipher fake and fraudulent Birth Certificates, and when cornered, answer that, actually, both Birth Certificates were and are legal and the insurmountable evidence to the contrary doesn’t fit into their way of thinking. Don’t bother us with facts, they say, and then retort with the “racist” epitaph, as if calling someone a name can erase the truth.

Another Truth is that our economy is alive and healthy, or would be if Obama and the Fed would leave their nefarious mitts off of it.  The so-called “stimulus” money borrowed from China doesn’t make any sense, especially since China can’t take care of their children who suffer from horrible clefts and have to rely on American doctors to rectify the situation. Something, indeed, is rotten in Denmark.

And rotten is precisely the word.  Why, there’s an election in the Netherlands and all the candidates are Muslim, a fate that we can look forward to. Your granddaughters will all be wearing burqas. Sharia will be the law of the land and our Constitution a fading memory, as will be Christmas and Easter.

I am not responsible for the failure of illegal immigrants to become legal immigrants. It’s not my problem, nor is it yours. And we’re not responsible for the neglect of illegal immigrant parents as to their children becoming legal citizens. So, bottom line? When I say ALL illegal immigrants must be deported, that includes the children of the irresponsible parents. Such a shame and too bad, but the word “illegal” has only one meaning.  You can reform all you want, but you can’t reform breaking the law.

The Federal Reserve Bank is a con.  It’s a privately-owned business that’s out to steal as much from you as they can get away with, and they’re getting away with the kitchen sink by passing today’s debt onto the unborn citizens of our country. The Fed is a shell game and the National Debt is nothing more than fancy bookkeeping, otherwise known far and wide as the “National Fleece.” Our so-called money is nothing but a promissory note that is backed by NOTHING. All of the wealth of America is backed by an empty promise. Abolish the Fed and we take control of our own money; the sooner, the better.  While we’re at it, I’d tell China and the UN to take a hike.

Think about it: do you want control of America or are we to give it away to the 535 crooks in Congress who represent themselves, first, and you and I are at the bottom of their list?

And now, to end on a positive note, buy guns and plenty of ammo because it’s better to go down fighting than to be led to slaughter as a lamb, I’d say. What, you think our enemy is just sitting around playing Parcheesi? I wouldn’t count on it.

OPOVV

http://www.opovv.com/

Source:

http://www.thepostemail.com/2012/10/19/its-not-complicated/print/

Coming Down to the Wire!-Posted on The Post & Email-By Sharon Rondeau-On October 19, 2012:

“WILL THE U.S. “LEAD FROM BEHIND” OR BE OUT IN FRONT?

by Gunnery Sergeant John McClain, USMC, Retired, ©2012, blogging at Gulf1

(Oct. 19, 2012) — We’ve now had three debates, two by the presidential contenders, and one by the vice presidential contenders, and we should have a fairly good understanding of where each is coming from, and how each considers handling the issues at hand before us.

Most of those touting these elections are making their talking points on the issues immediately at hand, and while they are of extreme importance, it is no less important to take note of how they came to be problems, issues needing resolution, and whether they became problems because of past political action, wrongly taken, or if they are natural to progression in a culture.

We have the most massive “debtor society” ever to exist in history, and we have it solely because the original form of our Nation, our principles and precepts provided for unprecedented growth, productivity, and innovation, moving our Nation forward at a pace no other Nation in history has ever experienced.  At the same time, we have lived in much the same way as previous generations, as if all of this growth has come without any commensurate growth in responsibility.

Our growth has brought two diametrically competing ideologies into direct confrontation, the idea of self-government and sovereign citizenship, and the idea of socialism, and society superseding rights and liberties of the individual.  The personalities and circumstances provide they must play out the confrontation in this election, as there is no room left for both; they exist in conflict with each other.

The founded Nation depends on individual initiative, personal responsibility; assumption by the citizen of the Sovereign Duties which must be fulfilled in every State or Nation if it is not to fall. The limits placed on the federal government keeping local issues entirely in the hands of The States, and The People, respectively, and not subject national debate.

We have the remnants of the “founded Nation” and the substantial portion of our population, which remains in the same or similar circumstances as in the past.  The citizens making up this portion remain of the established mindset.

On the other side are those who stand on the notion our establishment was less than perfect, and progressive ideas must be used to modify and alter our Nation to provide the egalitarian opportunity we see as rightfully that of all citizens.  There can be no doubt our beginning was less than perfect, yet there should be equally no doubt, the necessary alterations were limited and precise, issues of equal application of the law, and consequences of failure to do so.

We know there had to have been active progress from the initial establishment to eliminate inequity, and from this, “progressivism” had its rightful place.  At the same time, we know that most of the principles and precepts we established upon, were time tested, true, and absolutely necessary for egalitarian life.  That our Western, Judeo-Christian culture is based on a “natural order” foundation arrived at by the Greeks, where logic and reason found principles, and these social principles are in the main, exactly the same as those found through religious doctrine derived from Judeo-Christian precept, means we have the best set of tools possible to establish a truly egalitarian society.

Progressive change to bring principle to bear equally, and provide an equal opportunity for all has continued from the start, and while one can always find inequality on outcome, it must be realized at some point, we have made equal opportunity as close as is humanly possible, and at such a point, we must stop, because man is not constantly changing, but is relatively stable, and can be seen as such by our history.

This Nation has the opportunity to “get it right” as no other ever has before, because we have a greater access to the full knowledge of the history of the world, more than at any time in the past; all the failures, and causes, and we also have great cause to stop our current attitude towards change, looking at the world before us, and knowing at the very least, some of what we are confronted with is in direct result of bad planning, poor decisions in the past, and the utter failure to adhere to our principles.

Our world is at a crisis point, one with a common source, an utter failure of principle allowing the whole world’s economy be operated on a “relative base” with no attempt to established any fixed value for the exchange of commodities.  This idea is based on the fact that by logic, it will work as well as any, if every participant is absolutely honest and no participant seeks advantage.

That world does not exist, and our current stance, teetering on the edge serves as proof beyond all doubt, and some Nation is going to choose to take the conservative position, and re-establish on a firm foundation.  The Nation whose people choose this first, will be the first benefactors of security in economics, and will lead while economies are in flux.  We will determine the cost of our fecklessness by how responsibly we act, and how much vigor we put in setting our affairs in order.  We can lead, or as ‘chief debtor’, we can be driven.  We have to choose if we would lead.”

Source:

http://www.thepostemail.com/2012/10/19/coming-down-to-the-wire/print/

Note:  The following recent videos and articles and/or blog posts relate to this extremely disturbing issue-You Decide:

http://www.westernjournalism.com/muslim-brotherhood-behind-benghazi-attack-with-link-to-obama/

Video: Obama: If Four Americans Get Killed, It’s Not “Optimal”!-Posted on Western Journalism-By KRIS ZANE-On October 20, 2012:

http://www.westernjournalism.com/obama-if-four-americans-get-killed...

Video: Mother Of “VILE RAT” Killed In Benghazi Attack Speaks Out About Obama & The US State Dept!-Posted on YouTube-By MOXNEWSd0tC0M-On October 10, 2012:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47aUq-hLFRk&feature=player_embedded

Video: Mother Blames White House Leaks For SEAL Son’s Death!-Posted on Western Journalism-By DANIEL NOE-On October 9, 2012:

http://www.westernjournalism.com/mother-blames-white-house-leaks-fo...

Video: He Said Allahu Akbar-The Attack On Fort Hood!-Posted on YouTube.com-By FortHoodHeroes-On October 17, 2012:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbHtwNex4Lk&feature=plcp

DICK MORRIS PREDICTS OBAMA-IRAN ‘OCTOBER SURPRISE’: ‘I think they feel that Romney would assist Israel in attacking them’!-Posted on WND.com-On October 20, 2012:

http://www.wnd.com/2012/10/dick-morris-predicts-obama-iran-october-...

Obama’s Media Allies Struggle To Conceal Red Mentor!-Posted on Western Journalism-By CLIFF KINCAID-On October 20, 2012:

http://www.westernjournalism.com/obamas-media-allies-struggle-to-co...

‘CENSORSHIP HAS REACHED SMALL TOWN AMERICA’: ‘Dreams from My Real Father’ proves hot to handle for tiny Midwest city!-Posted on WND.com-By DREW ZAHN-On October 19, 2012:

http://www.wnd.com/2012/10/censorship-has-reached-small-town-america/

Video: Obama Must Be Removed From Office!-Posted on Western Journalism-By GABOR ZOLNA-On October 20, 2012:

http://www.westernjournalism.com/obama-must-be-removed-from-office/

Code Pink: “We Support the Murder of American Troops.” Michelle Obama “Keep up the Good Work”!-Posted on Soda Head- By safari-On April 5, 2012:

http://www.sodahead.com/united-states/code-pink-we-support-the-murd...

Treason in America: Move Over ‘Hanoi Jane’ – Meet ‘Baghdad Barbara,’ ‘Weasel Waxman,’ and ‘Jihad Jodie’-Posted on Big Peace-By Lt. Col. Robert “Buzz” Patterson-On October 15, 2010:

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2010/10/15/Treason-in-America--M...

Video: Former US Navy SEAL Ben Smith addresses the crowd about the threats we face!-Posted on YouTube.com-By MajorDaveNC-On September 23, 2012:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfXSQoXnaFs&feature=related

Note: My following blog posts contain numerous articles and/or blog posts and videos that reveal: 1) the live presentation by Joel Gilbert, his DVD Film titled "Dreams From My Real Father," along with the newly released film titled "The Unvetted”; 2) the Islamic infiltration inside our government armed with our secrets, to include the President's secret link to Hamas; 3) the Islamic infiltration inside our military; 4) the Communist infiltration inside our government, to Include President Obama's secret link to Communists; 5) the George Soros connection, to include the shared agendas of George Soros and the President; and 6) the disastrous results of these infiltrations, links and connections-You Decide: 

The Vetting: ‘Obama, Radical Islam and the Soros Connection’! (Part 1):

http://wethepeopleusa.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-vetting-obama-rad... 

The Vetting: ‘Obama, Radical Islam and the Soros Connection’! (Part 2):

http://wethepeopleusa.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-vetting-obama-rad...

The Vetting: ‘Obama, Radical Islam and the Soros Connection’! (Part 3):

http://wethepeopleusa.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-vetting-obama-rad…

The Vetting: ‘Obama, Radical Islam and the Soros Connection’! (Part 4):

http://wethepeopleusa.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-vetting-obama-rad...

Note: My following blog posts relate to this disturbing & time sensitive issue-You Decide:

Arming Our Enemies!

http://wethepeopleusa.ning.com/profiles/blogs/arming-our-enemies?xg...

Red Flags All Around–But the Media Won’t Tell!

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blog/show?id=4301673%3ABlogPos...

Dishonest Media Avoids Truth about Obama Through Diversions!

http://wethepeopleusa.ning.com/profiles/blogs/dishonest-media-avoid...

http://wethepeopleusa.ning.com/profiles/blogs/was-obama-rattled-by-...

Just Happened!

http://wethepeopleusa.ning.com/profiles/blogs/just-happened?xg_sour...

An Open Letter To Communist Valerie Jarrett!

http://wethepeopleusa.ning.com/profiles/blogs/an-open-letter-to-com...

“Innocence” Film a Premeditated Provocation for Islamic Terror?

http://wethepeopleusa.ning.com/profiles/blogs/innocence-film-a-prem...

The Film ‘Innocence of Muslims’ — Made By Terrorists?

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blog/show?id=4301673%3ABlogPos...

2000 Dead Soldiers and Obama Can Still Do No Wrong!

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blog/show?id=4301673%3ABlogPos...

Treason in America: Move Over ‘Hanoi Jane’!

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/10/16/treason-in-america-move-over-‘hanoi-jane’/

My Opinion of How and Who Controls the People! (Part 1)

http://wethepeopleusa.ning.com/profiles/blogs/my-opinion-of-how-and...

WILL WE THE PEOPLE ALLOW A CRIMINAL SYNDICATE TO STAY IN POWER?

http://wethepeopleusa.ning.com/profiles/blogs/will-we-the-people-al...

Still Don’t Know Who to Vote For? Then Read This!

http://wethepeopleusa.ning.com/profiles/blogs/still-don-t-know-who-...

Note: The following videos seem extremely appropriate today:

A Republic, If You Can Keep It!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGL8CiUtXF0

Breaking Point: 25 Minutes That Will Change America:

http://www.goptrust.com/25_minutes_Breaking_Point.html

We The People:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVAhr4hZDJE&feature=player_embedded

I Stand For America!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTlDyY5i9i4&feature=player_embedded#at=208

Madison Rising - The Star Spangled Banner!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8C7i9kdEf8

Hank Williams Jr New Song Dedicated to Obama: "Takin' Back the Country"!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uY-Z1hjquqo&feature=player_embedded

The Fightin Side of Me!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32-OyyLJzHw&feature=player_embedded

Freedom Isn’t Free:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfIO3VMLdRE

Declaration to Restore the Republic!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYycZOCJv4k&feature=player_embedded

Note:  If you have a problem viewing any of the listed blog posts, please copy website and paste it on your browser.  Sure seems like any subject matter that may be considered controversial by this administration is being censored-What happened to free speech?-You Decide.

“Food For Thought”

God Bless the U.S.A.!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q65KZIqay4E&feature=related

Semper Fi!

Jake

http://blackroberegimentpastor.blogspot.com/2012/10/horrors-of-domestic-violence-and-dv.html

“ The Horrors Of Domestic Violence And the D.V. Industry "

“ The Horrors Of Domestic Violence And the D.V. Industry "

In case you were not aware, October in the United States is designated as “National Domestic Violence Awareness Month.” Throughout the month, there are various meetings, protests, government sponsored and payed for events alerting all Americans and even those around the world to the horrible crime of domestic violence/abuse. It saddens me that these events are not attended by Many Biblical Pastors throughout this once great nation. In fact, deeply saddened am I, that so many Biblical Christians and their pastors really on the most part avoid speaking in public and intervening in their rightful role of identifying, coming against through corrective action and removing such a wicked matter as acts of Domestic violence. I probably shouldn't be so surprised really as many of the responsibilities of the Biblical church have been quite willingly turned over to the “world” and governments but I must share anyway, for there are still those who need to know and there is no better way to share truth and what is right, then through Biblical truth.

I am not at all sure how much time in actuality we the true Church of Jesus Christ have left on this Earth, we are after all, in the “end days” and as well, just a remnant of what most call themselves and identify themselves as “Christians.” Recognizing the shortness of time, I still do however wish to take that time in identifying and placing the exact Biblical responsibilities of what the “Church” should be involved in regarding the horrible crime of domestic violence. There are of course matters we should all consider when speaking and sharing here about domestic violence and abuse whether Christian or not and I want to make sure though that those who will dare to call themselves by the name of Christ in any form, will come to know their full responsibility and truth regarding what and whom is involved in such a heinous matter and how to deal with those who perpetrate such criminal acts and equally as important...to identify and contend with rightfully those who would take advantage of such criminal acts. So, please continue in reading below...

Let us start here with a simple definition and understanding of what the term; “domestic violence” means shall we ? Now, I know much of the world will right away disagree with me, but remember, the explanation is in Biblical terms and not of the world. So here goes, “Domestic Violence is an evil act where by any person or group of persons physically or verbally attacking an intimate partner or family member. It is an unchrist like act that is of a selfish, manipulative and evil behavior to gain something whether it be loyalty, something physical, emotional spiritual or other.” That is the very bottom line of what the act of domestic violence is. Let me please explain further; by it's very nature, Domestic Violence/abuse is a very unbiblical and unchrist like act. There is absolutely no excuse for Domestic Violence...and let me say right here as well, I am not speaking of the act of protecting one's self from being attacked, that is something entirely different. What I am speaking of is; any person who (acts out/lashes out some may say) either physically or verbally purely out of a self-centered and manipulative fashion to gain something, ie..”control.”

Now, if you are agreeable with me in my terminology and explanations of what encompasses in regards to the act of domestic violence...good, if not well, perhaps you can keep reading on here.... The world may or may not agree with what the Bible describes especially husbands/wives and brothers and sisters in Christ are to do with one another(Ephesians 4, Malachi 2:2, Colossians 3, John 13;34-35, etc..) but the bottom line is as husbands, wives, children and with one another, if we dare to call our selves “Christians” or “good people” our motivator and example should be out of love and not selfish gain or anything based on a lie correct ?(please know that Biblical love is not of “jesus butterflys”) Well, unfortunately the sad reality for the “Church” it appears, that divorces, accusations of domestic abuse/violence and abortion(an ultimate act of domestic violence as far as I am concerned) are basically at the same rate in the so called “Church” as it is in the world(non-believers). How can this be ? Are not Christians commanded by Jesus to be the “light and salt of the world” you may ask ?

The Church has failed on the most part in helping those who suffer from matters such as domestic violence because many have gone off following “other gospels”and “doctrines of demons.” These days too, many pastors do nothing more than refer their female congregants to the police or their local “domestic violence programs” when there is an accusation of domestic abuse. It is much worse for men who suffer at the hands of domestic violence, for the world pretty much has written men off as the primary aggressor in the vast majority of cases and even if they are true victims, men are still blamed and found at fault for domestic violent acts against them anyway. Sadly, the “Church” also has believed many if not all of the lies about domestic violence as well, even the lies that the church has no place in intervening. Pastors more often than are telling men to “suck it up” and also blame the men for the beating they took from their female partner/spouse. Likewise, often times female victims of D.V. are simply sent by pastors or pastor's wives to “shelters” where the women are indoctrinated with unbiblical and very evil feminist doctrines of man hating and of acceptance of matters of witchcraft and in when there are women who are not true victims but simply looking for a reason to escape their marriage through divorce, often times, almost all women are taught in these D.V. Programs and shelters how to manipulate and lie to courts so that they may gain control and custody of children, homes and property. The sad fact is; many of these so called domestic violence programs receive most of their funding via tax dollars(the evil culprit once again of title IV federal Funding arises) and are paid per “each victim serviced.” There is a built in mechanism without any accountability what-so-ever for such programs these “programs” often “pad their numbers, lie, cheat and steal our tax money to propagate false reporting of domestic violence. I know some female victims of domestic violence and feminists are already going batty here, screaming for help from Diana but use all the information I am giving is true, but the reality here is, the vast majority of domestic violence programs are not interested in helping real victims of domestic violence, do not help true victims of domestic violence, they only feed off them like vultures and throw these poor women away when they are done using them up. The vast majority of the Domestic Violence Industry is interested only in seeing all men in our society emasculated, feminist ideologies propagated further, and more cold-hard cash gained to purport their lies and their unbiblical agenda.

I hope you see and understand now that the world with many of it's domestic violence programs actually diminish and hurt the cause of women, the real victims of domestic violence/abuse and the cause of Christ. I myself as a therapist can attest to an have heard with my own ears some of my own female clients confide in me the names of several local domestic violence programs and attorneys that were teaching them how to fraudulently claim domestic violence claims (with police and in courts) against their male significant others so that as I shared earlier, they may gain, custody and control of children, homes and property through fraudulent gain. What I am describing here with you are certainly acts not done by true Christians, but what is equally concerning is that there are pastors and so called “Christians” who decidedly t, knowingly aware of such horrendous and evil practices by many domestic violence programs, cops, courts, etc... and still anyway, I once again reiterate, referring any women to such worldly programs, are doing true victims of domestic violence a great harm and disservice to them. For those who may be in more information about the true agenda of many of the world's domestic violence programs, you certainly don't need to take my word for it, pick up and read your Bible and I would highly suggest you get or purchase this book entitled; “When She Was Bad...Violent Women And the Myth Of Innocence” written by Patricia Pearson who herself, is a feminist... a warning to all the who purchase the book, there is much use of profanity and other adult content and language in the book including speaking about homosexuality and description of gross crime scenes... http://www.amazon.com/When-She-Was-Bad-Innocence/dp/0140243887 .

The bottom line here for the “Church”, is that it as a body, has a real and Biblical mandate to protect those who suffer at the hands of tyrants, aggressors and oppressors such as domestic violence. I do not have room here in this particular article to provide all the Bible verses containing about God's commands in reference to justice, mercy, widows, orphans, etc... but it is high time the Church takes back from the world what was previously and so sadly-willfully surrendered in it's mandate to protect/help all victims of evil and in doing and what is right before the Lord. There are currently religious people such as that of the social gospel, the Circumcision Group and other cults doing the work but not sewing of the Bible or of following Jesus Christ. Others not belonging to Jesus Christ are doing the work that belongs solely to God's people and this should not be. We true believers in Christ Jesus should take into our arms every victim of such terroristic acts as domestic violence and keep those true victims from harm and influence--- for those who would slither their lies to manipulate such an evil agenda as Communism, Socialism and Feminism all have their own evil and perverse agenda. Christ said He is the Way, the Truth and the Life... our moral and Biblical obligation is in more than proclaiming Biblical truth, it is also in our actions and in exposing what is evil and in protecting women, men and children from the wicked world which will destroy them for a sick , and in the the end, only use up victims like those of domestic violence and toss them to the side as the devil always does.

So my question especially to Christian pastors and Christian men is; O men of God, are you willing to protect the women, the children and other men who need defense against the enemies of this world ? Not only to proclaim all the Biblical truth, but in action, in manner of biblical love... no matter how fierce your enemy and the resistance of the devil's minions may attack you, you will help those who suffer and need your protection ?

Pastor Paul Waldmiller~Black Robe Regiment Pastor

THEY ARE GOOD PEOPLE , KIND PEOPLE,  HONEST  PEOPLE, FAIR PEOPLE  ,PROUD TO BE  CHRISTIANS AND AMERICIANS.

ARAB MUSLIMS shoot little girls that just want to go to school!!

A generation ago the Black civil rights lobby stood solidly beside the state of Israel. Liberals; moderates and conservatives were united in unequivocal support.

Pelosi, Reid, Obama and other “progressives” called the Tea Party “teabaggers”, “racists”, “astroturf”, “Nazis” ” and “extremists”. The Department of Homeland Security described the Tea Party as “right-wing extremists” and ”insurgents”, saying “Right-wing extremists will attempt to recruit and radicalize veterans in order to boost their violent capacities.”

How long before members of Tea Parties are called “killers”?

Hasn’t that already happened? It was more than heavily inferred by the “progressive” Party Pravda after a nut job working solo shot “Gabby” Giffords.

How long before expressing dissent leads directly to arrest and torture?

Bill Ayers’ Weather Underground Central Committee meant to cause the collapse of the United States government. Ayers and his group would deal with resistant Americans by “establishing re-education centers in the south-west”. Those who refused to convert to Communism would be “eliminated”. As in: concentration camps would be used to kill 25 million Americans.

Consider this from Yahoo News, USA Today and ABC News:

“Congress could be least productive since 1947”

The story attacks the Republican House for a lack of legislative success.  This is typical of “progressives” who never miss an opportunity to parrot messages dictated by the George Soros funded Media Matters via Valerie Jarrett and the White House.

It might be statistically true that “Congress is on pace to make history with the least productive legislative year in the post-World War II era,” but to insinuate this is the fault of the House Republican majority is fiction.

The U.S. Senate, under the failed “leadership” of “progressive” Harry Reid, has refused to allow a majority of House passed bills to even come to a vote in the U.S. Senate.

The reason so many believe the House is to blame for this are the lies spread by “progressive” shills like Yahoo News, USA Today, ABC News and their ilk.

Should the 112th Congress come to be “defined by partisan divisions and legislative failures”, the blame will rest squarely on Reid and his “progressive” co-conspirator in the Oval Office.  The “progressive” Senate majority has not even passed a budget in over three years.  They even voted down the one from the White House 97-0.  This is a clear dereliction of duty.

Thanks to the utter failure of their “progressive” policies, the only card left for them to play is vintage Saul Alinsky, blaming the right for problems caused by the left.  This has been the M O of “progressives” since they seized control of the Democratic Party.

The most egregious of lies propagated by the institutionalized “progressive” left is the one spoken by Nancy Pelosi during the TARP debate.  On September 28, 2008 Pelosi laid the blame for the economic collapse entirely on George W. Bush and failed Republican policies.  Sound familiar?  Obama’s using it against Romney daily.

The 2008 financial collapse was a direct result of failed “progressive” social engineering in the U.S. housing market.  For decades the U.S. has had nothing remotely resembling a free market in residential real estate.  Instead, “progressive” big government created monstrosities Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac controlled over half of all U.S. mortgages.  For twenty years, Conservatives warned about the systemic risk Fannie and Freddie posed to the financial system but they were constantly thwarted by the left.  To this very day, the institutionalized “progressive” left denies the essential part Fannie and Freddie played in creating the housing bubble and causing the financial crisis.

Whether in the area of journalism or politics, once the facts are in members of the institutionalized “progressive” left prove themselves to be nothing more than bold faced, willfully deceitful psychopaths unfit to serve the public.

Be it Fast and Furious, the Benghazi terrorists, fudging the poll numbers or lying about the rate of inflation and unemployment, the so-called mainstream media is lying through its teeth to protect Obama and help his re-election.  Enough!  It is time to rage against the media!

http://mjfellright.wordpress.com/2012/10/20/rage-against-the-media/

Don't get lost in the details of events spiraling out of control around the world and here in the USA. Step back and observe from the perspective of an outsider watching the events unfold as a multi-colored tapestry where the picture is not clear until you can see the complete work, "the Big Picture".

Maybe this will help serve to connect the pieces......

Obama's home church for 20 years lead by Jeremiah Wright gave Minister Louis Farrakhan their man of the year award for 2007. In part the award was for his work in Libya helping to establish the world MATHABA organization.

The talk of race riots if Obama loses is part of a plan---"we see things from afar, know that they will soon come within our own borders......The United States of America is moving closer and closer to great civil strife, unrest and bloodshed...." Minister Louis Farrakhan the leader of the Nation of Islam is an arm of the Muslim Brotherhood in the USA see the attached article "Is America Headed for Civil War?". If you want to here all about it listen to this speech he delivered at Madison Square Garden. Listen close and you might be able to identify the man who does the introduction....Who himself is famous for saying "God Bless America, no, no, no, God Damn America."

Now that you can identify the links between them consider other links and associations that are calling for the destruction of America as we know it.

Occupy Wallstreet fighting Obama's battle against the 1% or maybe 20% of America that provides 80% of the jobs and income for those who work for a living.

Flash mobs -- when a group of people appear in one location unexpectedly and usually put on some sort of rehearsed performance -- have practically become a staple of YouTube in recent years unfortunatly they have taken a violent turn. what's next.

A small group of radicals are instigating more and more violent action by groups who follow the crowd. With a little facial recognition software the same people can be seen again and again. Who are those people and where do they get their training?

Look at what is happening in your area and know that it is happening all around the country.

These actions have taken down countries in the Middle East and are rearranging the geopolitical map of the world.

The United States of America is in the middle of a war we must TAKE ACTION!

The conflagration of events and the outcome of the ensuing conflict is in the Hand of God.

Do your part and pray that He will find enough of His people remaining within the country to save us from ourselves.

       WHO WILL NOT LIE TO YOU,  WHO WILL RAISE YOUR WAGES,  YOU HAVE TEN MILLION VOTES  MORE THAT WE DO.  VOTE FOR TWO CHRISTIANS WHO WILL NOT LET YOU DOWN. OBAMA IS A OUT AND OUT LIER.  SMOKER AND X DOPER.