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The average Joe filed as a candidate for President yesterday. It may take a few days for things to develop but that provides time to build the web site and the momentum.
Check it outTheAverageJoeForPresident.com tweet joe at @joein2012 the blog will be up later today. E-mail: Joe@theaveragejoeforpresident.com
Facebook friend Joe at theaveragejoeforpresident.
The main street media does not even need to know, but they will sooner or later.
God made us the richest nation in the history of the world by providing us with the resources and the knowledge to use them. The financial disgrace of our nation occurred because of a lack of moral dependence on Him for guidance in the decisions made by individuals and a lack of checks and balances over businesses and government officials. Digital money and fictitious legal entities allowed for uncontrolled speculation without accountability.
We are near the end of the experiment of the Republic form of limited government envisioned by the founders of the United States of America.
Our Government is now the largest employer in the world. It tells more people what to do and when to do it than any dictator in history. Government spending in the private sector to create jobs is never effective, digging holes and refilling them with dirt only results in high paid ditch diggers. It adds nothing to the economy; this "redistribution of wealth" in the public good is nothing other than political corruption, the purchasing of votes for political gain and power. What next? Internal social unrest or international pressure, they have already started this phase in the last few days?
Imagine what happens when the US dollar is no longer the world's business currency! What happens when countries refuse to buy our bonds?
We have stood idly by for 40 years allowing the problem to grow worse. As a nation we should feel the urgency of the financial problem, it could wipe out life as we know it in the USA in a matter of days.
What is lacking is the competence of those politically responsible to make the hard decision and take action.
Almighty God, help us not to look at the immensity of the task before us, but help us to look at the immensity of our all-powerful God. With humankind many things are impossible but with You, our Father, nothing is impossible. We want to trust You for supernatural workings in our lives and in the duties before us. As we go about our daily activities help us to see the answer to the question “who is your neighbor?” Help us to understand why it is important to come together as a nation not of individual free men without a purpose beyond our own desires but as people focused on the need to create a unified nation of individuals with strong Christian morals based on the 10 Commandments.
Lord we live in an open society, which can't be ruled but can be broken. The details of our decisions, our determination and how we function is available for the world to see. Our enemies seek to drive a wedge in, get their fingers on it -- and control us for their benefit. They won't need a whip – the yoke of oil and our own need for pleasure will do their work for them. They use the strength of our system of government against us. Our whole country is for sale and, thanks to our addictions to trinkets and oil; we gladly hand over the dollars to buy it from beneath us.
Lord, forgive us; provide us with the aspiration, ingenuity and the integrity to focus our efforts in ways that bring the greatest joy to you.
“Mexican attorney general, Marisela Morales, now estimates at least 200 Mexicans have been killed with Fast and Furious weapons -- among them, a powerful Barrett .50 caliber sniper rifle that downed a Mexican federale helicopter. Morales calls OFF a ‘betrayal’ of her country. In a Los Angeles Times story she said she first learned about Op Fast and Furious from news reports. American officials never briefed their Mexican counterparts on it, Morales says. Don’t feel like the Lone Ranger, Marisela, Eric Holder and the Obama administration has been quite calculating on stonewalling the world on this one.”
AG Eric Holder Caught in OFF Lie
By Earlier-Dated Memos
It’s an oft repeated truism of political life that the “crime” might get you; but it’s the cover-up that always nails the lid on the case . . . so let it be for scurrilous Obama administration bad-boy U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder. Here’s just one more story that the mainstream media (MSM) has been hiding from you for months now as Eric Holder has been playing a rearguard, stonewalling hand for three months now . . . the facts keep slowly dribbling in to Darrell Issa . . . just last week a third gun from “Bordergate” was implicated and has now been linked to the murder of Border Patrol agent Brian Terry, whose death in Arizona last December at the hands of Mexican bandits created the crack now threatening to break the scandal wide open and destroy the career of Eric Holder and his so-far “mum” underlings.
Holder -- who’s denial of knowledge about Operation Fast and Furious (OFF) in July of this year (OFF is the rogue and ill-conceived Obama administration offshoot of the Bush Administration’s less well-known Operation Gunrunner), is plastered on internet videos all over the world – the AG received at least two e-mails updating OFF information nine months prior to stating that he’d only recently learned of OFF in October, 2010 and even before that in July, 2010 and . . . worse luck for the AG, both memos indicate prior knowledge can be assumed since they are operational updates not presentation memos.
The denials by Holder and the recent revelations, of course, spurred California Representative Darrell Issa to ask for a special (outside, non-DOJ) prosecutor to look into OFF and the involvement of Holder’s Justice Department. The festering mess known as “Bordergate” in some circles took an ongoing and successful Bush sting program to capture illegal gun sales and went two giant steps too far by deliberately seeking to sell automatic weapons (34,000+ so far) to members of Mexican drug cartels and then, instead of making an arrest . . . just allowed the guns to cross the border. So far about a hundred of those guns have turned up at crime scenes including the death of two U.S. Border Control agents and several dozen Mexican citizens. Tidbits of information suggest great involvement by the Homeland Security Office and by the Whitehouse itself.
It seems also that Holder’s DOJ manipulated knowledge so that FBI information about the identities of the gun buyers was kept away from Department of Alcohol, Firearms and Explosives and Tobacco members who had been running Bush’s Operation Gunrunner for several years. Many ATF agents who have become “whistle-blowers” tell stories of their great upset when they found that guns sold to known Mexican criminals were being deliberately allowed to cross the border. Several ATF agents and administrators have already lost their jobs as Holder’s DOJ casts about wildly for scapegoats. Mexican officials meanwhile have been conducting their own investigations of American gun-supplying to drug cartels.
To say that the stench in Washington is getting stronger is to repeat the obvious. Besides OFF; Issa’s Oversight and Government Reform committee is also investigating the Solyndra and Light-Squared scandals . . . but it’s hard to imagine that either of those corruptions will catch up to OFF’s reeking stupidity and malfeasance. The insanely idiotic idea was to trace cross-border arms trafficking, and allow the gun-hating Obama administration to then prove the oft-repeated claim that 90 percent of the guns seized in Mexican drug war zones originate in the US. Well, their efforts DISproved it; the actual statistic is closer to 17 percent. But, as Issa’s committee continues its investigation a major international scandal has been born.
Mexican attorney general, Marisela Morales, now estimates at least 200 Mexicans have been killed with Fast and Furious weapons -- among them, a powerful Barrett .50 caliber sniper rifle that downed a Mexican federal helicopter. Morales calls OFF a “betrayal” of her country. In a Los Angeles Times story she said she first learned about Fast and Furious from news reports. American officials never briefed their Mexican counterparts on it, Morales says.
Don’t feel like the Lone Ranger, Marisela, the Obama administration has been quite calculating on stonewalling the world on this one. Eric Holder’s DOJ has inflamed Issa’s committee -- turning over subpoenaed documents only ultra-slowly and heavily redacted (sometimes only words like “the,” “a,” “and,” “an,” and “that” NOT being blacked out in long memos turned over to Issa) and also making witnesses unavailable and transferring or retiring implicated officials such as former “temporary” ATF head Kenneth Melson. Issa has publicly accused Holder , et. al of “gaming” congressional investigators. “There is an ongoing cover-up of a pattern of wrongdoing,” Issa noted last week. “Even though I have subpoena ability, I don’t have the ability to lock people up for contempt until they fess up and give us what we want” hence the call for a special prosecutor.
As noted in a blog two weeks ago, there have now been 76 serious Obama administration scandals about which Rajjpuut has informed his readers . . . and now the MSM is finally covering three of them. The only other one of those 76 scandals touched lightly upon by the MSM so far in the first two and a half years under Obama was their pseudo-journalistic expose of problems associated with environmentalism related to the Gulf Oil Spill (they deliberately missed the whole scandalous part of the story that Obama himself and Interior Secretary Salazar both knew of critical problems with Deep Horizon up to two weeks before the explosion). Now the MSM is really looking hard at Solyndra and Light-Squared and trying NOT to get involved with OFF, but slowly, slowly they’re finding themselves dragged into Bordergate as the evidence mounts and the circle of corruption** expands.
Solyndra, of course, is a story of monumental incompetence and crony-capitalism that’s already cost the taxpayers $535 million. Malfeasance is still a very strong possibility as the Obama administration agreed to a deal in which last-minute Solyndra investors would be paid first in case of bankruptcy, before the taxpayers. The Light-Squared scandal involves the Obama administration seeking to pressure and change a Four-Star Air Force General’s testimony about the dangers of a communication invention sold by an Obama supporter’s broad-band company which mal-affects other battlefield communications and global positioning and thus would have made in-close bombings and artillery very risky for our soldiers in the field. Yes, the “hits” do keep coming . . . and finally the MSM is starting to play them.
Ya’all live long, strong and ornery,
Rajjpuut
** We feel like a broken record here, but about a dozen FAR more serious scandals from 2009, 2010 and earlier this year have all gone totally UNreported by ABC, NBC, CBS, and Cable channels CNN, MSNBC and Headline News. Only FOXNews is looking into Obama’s corruptions. Whole books someday will be dedicated to the “Journ-O-List" scandal; the Carbon-Trading Scandal known as CCX which even FOXNews barely covered; and whole encyclopedias can be filled up with the “Cloward-Piven to Wiley to ’73 Crash to NYC bankruptcy to Rathke to CRA ’77 to ACORN to Clinton to Obama to meltdown” scandal . . . . Rajjpuut (who was once a pretty fair country feature writer and also his J-school’s Academic Excellence Award winner lo’ these many years) blames 97% of the country’s present horrific state and ongoing predictable future financial problems on the MSM which is picking winners and losers in politics and refusing to do its time-honored job in keeping the country aware of government corruption, incompetence and malfeasance.
As discussed tonight on Tea Party Radio, as well as numerous times before, Agenda 21 is an evil, all-encompassing plot to reduce humanity to a simple common denominator of absolute misery, starvation and death under the watchful eye of a small, powerful elite (sounds familiar, doesn't it?) Only an institution as debauched and cunning as the United Nations could come up with something like this...and a current United States "President" whose idea of American exceptionalism is about the same as Hugo Chavez's. The following article by Henry Lamb is a little old, from April, but worth reading again if you have already, and essential if you have not:
http://www6.renewamerica.com/columns/lamb/110424
We can't fight and win this war if we are not armed with essential information. This is very real and enough to make your blood boil.
Will President Obama and his puppet master get there wish?
Posted on NewsMax.com-By David A. Patten-On October 1, 2011:
“FreedomWorks Chairman Dick Armey warns that President Barack Obama’s policies are so misguided that they could trigger civil unrest if continued for a second term.
In an exclusive Newsmax.TV interview to discuss FreedomWorks’ new super PAC, Armey cited high unemployment, the sharp spike in the number of Americans living in poverty, and dysfunctional tax policies as legacies of an administration he described as “hopelessly lost.”
Indeed, the economic contagion shows every sign on spreading. Global stocks closed their worst quarter in nearly three years on Friday on nagging concerns about the world economy and the lack of a credible solution to Europe’s debt crisis.
The euro and most commodity prices also fell as investors’ search for safety drove up U.S. government bonds and the dollar.
Adding to a string of global data that has crushed growth-related assets in the past three months, China’s manufacturing sector contracted for a third straight month in September while German retail sales slid at their sharpest pace in more than four years.
Asked whether he is concerned the president’s stewardship over the nation could foment the sort of civil unrest seen elsewhere in the world, the former House majority leader replied: “I think it could. First of all, we have to accept President Obama is just a hopelessly lost, romantic egalitarian.
“If you read his own books . . . his whole accounting of how he went to Harvard and looked up all the Marxist professors. I guarantee you, if you got all your knowledge from Marxist professors, you got everything wrong.”
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Armey’s broadside reflects a political milieu that has grown increasingly toxic since Obama alleged on Monday that House Speaker John Boehner harbors a “my-way-or-the-highway” attitude on taxes.
“This is not class warfare,” Obama said of his proposal to increase taxes on wealthier Americans despite the economic downturn. “It’s math.”
Armey said he has never seen a U.S. leader “so wholly misguided about the nature and character of the way the world works and the history of America in the history of the world, as this president: He just doesn’t know who we are.”
As part of its strategy to empower grass-roots conservatives, FreedomWorks is unveiling a super PAC that will raise and distribute funds to affect political outcomes for both Republicans and Democrats.
“That’s what makes our super PAC so different from others,” said Armey, who was interviewed along with FreedomWorks CEO Matt Kibbe. “Because we want to provide the services and the intelligence that this vast network of people needs to have an impact. And if we give them those tools, I think that we can outgun the deepest pockets in politics.”
Other highlights from the exclusive Newsmax.TV interview with the grass-roots leaders:
FreedomWorks intends to keep up the primary pressure on middle-of-the-road Republicans. “We have to beat the Republicans before we can beat the Democrats,” Kibbe said. “And we’re non-partisan in our insistence that all politicians stand on principle, and vote the way they promised to vote.”
The rise of its “Kosher Tea” organization, which contributed to Republican Bob Turner’s remarkable victory in New York Congressional District 9, is persuading Jewish voters to reconsider their traditional allegiance to the Democratic Party.
“The Jewish community was given sort of a shock into an awakening by President Obama,” Armey said, “in what they felt was a betrayal by him. This gives us a chance to have them re-engage in a whole spectrum of political issues.”
FreedomWorks recently surpassed the 1 million fan mark on Facebook. In a testament to the importance of digital media and social networking to the grass-roots conservative movement, Kibbe said: “Facebook is probably the core of every strong tea party group in this country.”
Armey said tea party members are more interested in a candidate’s genuine commitment to principles than in electability. He added they appear to have a growing confidence in Rick Perry. “We like him because he knows what he stands for and he’s willing to make a commitment to that,” Armey told Newsmax. “And we dare to believe that once he gets past the elections and sits in that office, that he’ll live by those commitments to constitutional limitations on big government.”
Grass-roots conservatives continue to applaud Rep. Michele Bachmann as an authentic small-government conservative, but Armey said: “It looks to me like they’ve had bumpy roads and haven’t navigated them very well.” Armey added her campaign encountered “dysfunction at a critical time.”
Armey said the first thing he’d like to see the next president do is to propose a flat tax. “Washington’s full of slow learners,” he said. “They need more tax revenue, [but] you don’t get that from higher taxes. Simplify the [tax] base, make it a truly fair tax, where everybody is treated the same as everybody else, and that unleashes” investment.
Kibbe added that FreedomWorks will continue holding debt commission meetings around the nation to solicit advice from everyday citizens on what should be done to stem the tide of federal red ink. “We don’t think Washington’s up to the task,” he told Newsmax. “So we’re going to do just like we did with the Contract From America. We’re going to bring it from America back to Washington, and Sen. [Mike] Lee has agreed to hold a hearing, where legislators actually listen to America about what these ideas should be.”
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Note: The following articles and/or blog posts and videos relate to this disturbing issue-You Decide:
I. Top Obama Fundraiser Ok’ed Solyndra Loan!-Posted on DickMorris.com-By Dick Morris-On October 2, 2011:
http://www.dickmorris.com/blog/top-obama-fundraiser-oked-solyndra-loan/
II. How North Dakota Became Saudi Arabia!-Posted on The Wall Sreet Journal-By STEPHEN MOORE-On October 1, 2011:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204226204576602524023932438.html
III. The Obama Investigations!-Posted on The Heritage Foundation-By Mike Brownfield-On September 21, 2011:
IV. Obama’s Predictable Scandals!-Posted on National Review Online-By VICTOR DAVIS HANSON-On September 21, 2011:
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/277797/obama-s-predictable-scandals-victor-davis-hanson#
V. Washington Times Columnist to Obama: Resign!-Posted on Floyd Reports-By Ben Johnson-On August 12, 2011:
http://floydreports.com/washington-times-columnist-to-obama-resign/
VI. Who’s Holding America Hostage?-Posted on Godfather Politics-By GIACOMO-On July 26, 2011:
http://godfatherpolitics.com/258/whos-holding-america-hostage/
VII. Black Chamber of Commerce CEO Blasts ‘Marxist,’ ‘Brownshirt’ Obama-Posted on Vision to America-On April 30, 2011:
http://visiontoamerica.org/358/black-chamber-of-commerce-ceo-blasts-marxist-brownshirt-obama/
VIII. The Ulsterman Report: Obama Justice Department Rocked by Investigation Findings-Posted on News Flavor-By Ulsterman-On November 24, 2010:
IX. Radical Rage: Marxist Mob Plans to Occupy Wall Street!-Posted on FrontPageMagazine-By Matthew Vadum-On September 16, 2011:
http://frontpagemag.com/2011/09/16/radical-rage-marxist-mob-plans-to-occupy-wall-street/
X. “Day of Rage” Obama re-election team in disguise?-Posted on Canada Free Press-By Judi McLeod-On September 16, 2011:
http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/40397
XI. Protesters invade NYC Financial District: ‘Demonstrators invoke Mideast rallies, call for end to corporate greed favoring rich’-Posted on MSNBC.com-By msnbc.com staff and news service reports-Updated on September 19, 2011:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44564317/ns/us_news-life/#.ToSKLmA4jHw
XII. Soros fingerprints all over protests here, too: ‘Sordid ties of architect who specializes in crisis’!-Posted on WND.com-By Aaron Klein-On September 8, 2011:
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=342905
XIII. Obama Mum on Details From Secret AFL-CIO Meeting!-Posted on The Daily Caller-By Matthew Boyle, The Daily Caller-On August 3, 2011:
XIV. Wade Rathke’s Startling Admission: ‘Economic Terrorism’ Engineer Stephen Lerner Is Still On SEIU Payroll-Posted on The Blaze-By Scott Baker-On March 28, 2011:
XV. Revealed — The Left’s Economic Terrorism Playbook: The Chase Campaign By A Coalition of Unions, Community Groups, Lawmakers and Students to Take Down US Capitalism and Redistribute Wealth & Power-Posted on The Blaze-By Naked Emperor News-On March 22, 2011:
XVI. Will Soros Get His Wish? ‘See The Destruction of Capitalism and A New World Order!’-Posted on America’s Survival-By Cliff Kincaid-On May 10, 2010:
http://www.usasurvival.org/ck05.11.10.html
Note: What follows is a letter that was sent to the FBI Director on or about August 2010 requesting that President Obama be investigated for numerous high crimes and misdemeanors-You Decide:
FBI Complaint Letter-Posted on Scannedretina.WordPress.com-By arnierosner-On August 23, 2010:
http://scannedretina.wordpress.com/2010/08/23/fbi-complaint-letter/
Note: My following blog posts contain numerous articles and/or blog posts and videos that relate to this disturbing issue-You Decide:
Is President Obama inciting riots across the US?
http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2011/02/23/is-president-obama-inciting-riots-across-the-us/
Is George Soros deliberately handicapping American energy?
http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2011/03/02/is-george-soros-deliberately-handicapping-american-energy/
President and DOJ have contributed to the racial mess in our country!
Is it important to understand the Marxist assault on the foundations of our system?
Washington Times Calls for Obama’s Impeachment!
http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/08/31/washington-times-calls-for-obama’s-impeachment/
Note: If you have a problem viewing any of the listed blog posts please copy web site and paste it on your browser. Be aware that some of the articles and/or blog posts or videos listed within the contents of the above blog post(s) may have been removed by this administration because they may have considered them to be too controversial. Sure seems like any subject matter that may shed some negative light on 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
What’s wrong with this picture? Looks like the Left is preparing for the 2012 elections!
Posted on 11alive.com-By Paul Crawley-On September 30, 2011:
“ATLANTA - So far, no one has proven it’s a scam, but they haven’t proven it’s for real either.
This week more than 700 senior citizens filled out a rather skimpy form promising a $500 check from the AmericanOpportunities Stimulus Program.
They filled in sensitive information like their name, address, birth date and social security numbers, all with the promise of getting a Visa Check card in return.
But on Thursday, Fulton County government put out a warning that it might be an identity theft scam.
They even sent their own camera crew to the Atlanta headquarters of Rev. Al Sharpton’s National Action Network, where the forms were being handed out by Vanessa Emerson and her son, Brandon.
In the video Vanessa Emerson can be seen brandishing a photo copy of a U.S. Treasury check saying, “I’m going to show ya’ll, I got my money.”
After the alarm went out, Brandon Emerson returned hundreds of the forms to the NAN headquarters at 632 Peoples Street so they could be given back to the seniors who filled them out.
Even though his mother was wearing a NAN T-shirt in the Fulton County government video, her son claimed they are not affiliated with the organization.
Worried seniors continued to stream to the local NAN headquarters on Friday fearing someone may be trying to steal their identities.
“I am scared and I’m going to the bank now and put a fraudulent lock on my account,” senior Bobbie Early told 11 Alive News on Friday.
Eventually the Southeast Regional Director for NAN showed up at the headquarters and began reassuring seniors no one was going to compromise the information.
Tyleis Speight admitted to 11 Alive News the forms had been collected there, but claimed she was a victim, too.
“National Action Network has been frauded as well,” Speight said.
She said they’re still trying to find out who was responsible.
Reached by phone on Friday, Vanessa Emerson said she and her son had no idea the forms they’d been collecting might be fake.
She said they were going out of town and would comment more when they return next week.
The national NAN office insisted they knew nothing about what had happened.
“We had no knowledge of what was going on,” said NAN Executive Director Tamika Mallory.
“We would never authorize anything like that,” she added.
Mallory said NAN’s attorneys are doing their own investigation.
So are Atlanta Police who say they are still trying to determine what crime, if any, may have been committed.”
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Note: The following website(s), report(s), articles and/or blog posts reveal Rev. Alfred Sharpton’s seemingly shady background-You Decide:
I. Al Sharpton:
-Posted on DiscoverTheNetworks.org:
“Alfred Charles Sharpton was born in Brooklyn, New York in October 1954, to comparatively prosperous parents. He demonstrated considerable verbal dexterity at an early age and was touted as “the wonder-boy preacher” by age 7, when he toured with gospel singer Mahalia Jackson and Pentecostal minister F.D. Washington. Washington personallyordained Sharpton, who idolized Adam Clayton Powell, as a Pentecostal minister when the boy was 10.
That same year, Sharpton’s parents divorced, leaving the youngster and his mother impoverished and reliant on welfare. In the late 1960s, Sharpton joined the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). In 1969 he wasappointed as youth director of SCLC’s “Operation Breadbasket,” an initiative headed by Jesse Jackson which boycotted businesses accused of failing to hire enough black employees.
In the February 9, 1971 edition of the Communist Party USA newspaper Daily World, CPUSA member Stephanie Allan wrote about a pair of recent rallies (in Chicago and in White Plains, New York) which had been held to support a CPUSA front called The Committee to Free Angela Davis. At the time, Davis was in prison for her role in abetting the murder of a California judge. Eliseo Medina was one of the speakers at the Chicago event, while Sharpton addressed the New York rally. According to Stephanie Allan, Sharpton and fellow speaker J.L. Scott “exposed the connection between [the] A&P [Corporation], U.S. monopoly capitalism, racism and imperialism, and related these to the Angela Davis case and the threat to the vital rights of the Black people.”
Also in 1971, Sharpton established the National Youth Movement, an organization that sought to organize young African Americans to push for increased voter registration, cultural awareness, and job-training programs. He would lead the group for the next 17 years.
After attending Brooklyn College for two years, Sharpton dropped out and had no additional higher education or formal seminary training. He soon began working (as a tour manager) for the entertainer James Brown and, later, for boxing promoter Don King. In 1978, Sharpton made an unsuccessful run for the New York State Senate.
A 2002 telecast of HBO’s Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel showed a 1983 FBI surveillance video in which Sharpton could be seen discussing a money-laundering scheme with mobster-turned-informant Michael Franzese, onetime captain for the Colombo crime family. On the tape, Sharpton appeared to offer to broker a meeting between Don King and a South American drug lord. No indictments were filed.
Sharpton first entered America’s national consciousness on a large scale in November 1987, when he injected himself into the case of a 15-year-old black girl named Tawana Brawley, who claimed that she had been abducted and raped by a gang of six whites in Dutchess County, New York. Despite a complete absence of any credible evidence to support Miss Brawley’s story, Sharpton (along with attorneys Alton Maddox and C. Vernon Mason) made increasingly wild accusations, culminating in charges that then-Dutchess County assistant prosecutor Steven Pagones had participated in the girl’s brutalization. An extensive and costly investigation eventually proved Brawley’s tale to be without factual basis, and a grand jury dismissed her accusations.
When Pagones in 1997 sued Sharpton (as well as Maddox and Mason) for defamation of character, Sharpton, under oath, said he could “no longer recall” having made a number of his slanderous accusations against Pagones and other law-enforcement officials years earlier. Pagones won a $345,000 court judgment against Sharpton and his two accomplices, of which Sharpton was responsible for $65,000. But Sharpton never paid his debt; rather, it was paid (along with $22,000 in interest) in 2001 by a group of wealthy Sharpton supporters.
In 1991 Sharpton formed the National Action Network (NAN), whose platform “revolves around activism against racial profiling, police brutality, women’s issues, economic reform, public education, international affairs, including abolishing slavery in Africa, job awareness, AIDS awareness, and more.”
That same year, anti-Semitic riots erupted in Brooklyn’s Crown Heights section after a Hasidic Jewish driver accidentally ran over and killed a 7-year-old black boy. Within three hours, a black mob had hunted down and slain an innocent rabbinical student, Yankel Rosenbaum, in retribution. Sharpton declared that it was not merely a car accident that had killed the black child, but rather the “social accident” of “apartheid.” He organized angry demonstrations and challenged local Jews—whom he derisively called “diamond merchants”—to “pin their yarmulkes back and come over to my house” to settle the score. Stirred in part by such rhetoric, hundreds of Crown Heights blacks took violently to the streets for three days and nights of rioting. Sharpton reacted to the chaos by stating, “We must not reprimand our children for outrage, when it is the outrage that was put in them by an oppressive system.”
Sharpton ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. Senate in 1992 and 1994, and he received 32 percent of the vote in the 1997 Democratic mayoral primary in New York City.
In 1994 Sharpton was re-baptized into the Baptist faith and became a minister of that denomination.
In 1995 Sharpton—along with such notables as Jeremiah Wright and Barack Obama—helped organize Louis Farrakhan’s October 16th Million Man March.
Also in 1995, Sharpton led his NAN in a racially charged boycott against Freddy’s Fashion Mart, a Jewish-owned business in Harlem. The boycott started when Freddy’s owners announced that because they wanted to expand their own business, they would no longer sublet part of their store to a black-owned record shop. The street leader of the boycott, Morris Powell, was also the head of Sharpton’s “Buy Black” Committee. Powell and his fellow protesters repeatedly and menacingly told passersby not to patronize the “crackers” and “the greedy Jew bastards [who are] killing our [black] people.” Some boycotters openly threatened violence against whites and Jews—all under the watchful, approving eye of Sharpton, who referred to the proprietors of Freddy’s as “white interlopers.” The subsequent picketing became ever-more menacing in its tone until one of the participants eventually shot (non-fatally) four whites inside the store and then set the building on fire—killing seven employees, most of whom were Hispanics.
In 1998 Sharpton was a featured speaker at the Socialist Scholars Conference in New York.
In August 2000, Sharpton held a “Redeem the Dream” rally at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC, where one the the featured speakers was Malik Zulu Shabazz. At that event, Shabazz called on black young people, including “gang members,” to unite against their “common enemy”—“white America” and its allegedly racist police departments. He also articulated a “black dream that when we see caskets rolling in the black community … we will see caskets and funerals in the community of our enemy as well.”
In a May 2003 speech sponsored by Harvard Law School, Sharpton characterized Republicans as racists who “cut taxes for the rich while [they] strangle the poor”; he likened black Republicans Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice to subservient house slaves; he called for “$50 billion a year” in tax hikes so that America could “invest in working-class people, not multi-billionaires”; he proclaimed that “white male land owners” were in control of the United States; and he asserted that the descendants of the white men who “used to buy [blacks], now they rent ‘em.”
A harsh critic of the Iraq War and the Patriot Act (which he called “unpatriotic” and “illegitimate” legislation), Sharpton campaigned for the U.S. presidency in 2004. Though his candidacy was unsuccessful, the Democratic Partyestablishment allowed him to speak in the prime-time slot on the third day of its national convention.
In August 2005 Sharpton visited activist Cindy Sheehan in Crawford, Texas to show support for her anti-war, anti-Bush protest campaign.
On September 24, 2005, Sharpton spoke at the “Call to United Mass Action,” an anti-Iraq War rally in Washington, DC that was co-organized by International ANSWER and United for Peace and Justice. Other speakers at the event, which was attended by an estimated 300,000 people, included Ramsey Clark, Cindy Sheehan, George Galloway,Ralph Nader, Lynne Stewart, Mahdi Bray, Dolores Huerta, Elias Rashmawi, Larry Holmes, Brian Becker, Michael Berg, and Michael Shehadeh.
In March 2008, Sharpton, a strong supporter of Barack Obama’s presidential candidacy, stated that he was accustomed to speaking with Obama on a regular basis—“two or three times a week.” Sharpton often threatens to organize black boycotts of corporations on grounds that they supposedly discriminate against African Americans. Those companies, in turn, commonly try to pacify Sharpton with cash; sometimes they hire him as a consultant. For example:
- In June 1998 Sharpton threatened to call for a consumer boycott of Pepsi, alleging that blacks were underrepresented in the company’s advertising. Less than a year later, Pepsi hired Sharpton as a $25,000-per-year adviser until 2007.
- In November 2003, Sharpton threatened to lead a boycott of DaimlerChrysler over the allegedly pervasive “institutional racism” in the company’s car loan practices. Within six months, Chrysler began supporting Sharpton’s NAN conferences.
- Also in 2003, Sharpton complained that American Honda had too few blacks in management positions. Company executives met with Sharpton, and within two months they began to sponsor NAN events.
- According to one General Motors spokesman, NAN repeatedly asked his company for contributions every year from 2000 through 2006, and GM each time declined to pay anything. Then, in December 2006 Sharpton threatened to call a boycott to protest the carmaker’s closing of an African American-owned GM dealership in the Bronx. In 2007 and 2008, General Motors made monetary donations to NAN.
In April 2009, Sharpton and his NAN were fined $285,000 for having violated election rules during Sharpton’s 2004 presidential bid. According to the Federal Election Commission:
- Sharpton’s campaign illegally accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars in extravagant contributions from private sources.
- Sharpton’s campaign “kept poor records of its activities and expenditures” and illegally commingled funds from the nonprofit NAN with his for-profit ventures.
- Sharpton lied to authorities regarding the amount of money he had raised during his 2004 campaign—so as to illegally qualify for federal matching funds.
On May 2, 2010, Sharpton addressed a church congregation in Danbury, Connecticut, where he said that the late Martin Luther King, Jr.’s dream “was not to put one black president in the White House,” but rather “to make everything equal in everybody’s house.”
In July 2011, Sharpton replaced Cenk Uygur as the host of a nightly news / talk television program on MSNBC.
Sharpton also hosts his own radio program, The Hour of Power, which airs for three hours each weekday in New York.
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http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1527
II. Mainstreaming Demagoguery: Al Sharpton's Rise to Respectability!-Posted on National Legal and Policy Center-By Carl F. Horowitz-On June 2009:
http://nlpc.org/sites/default/files/SharptonSpecialReport.pdf
III. Al Sharpton and the National Action Network: Why Do Corporations, the Media, Democrats (and some Republicans) Play Along?-Posted on Capital Research Center-By Fred Lucas-On May 2010:
http://www.capitalresearch.org/pubs/pdf/v1272894435.pdf
IV. "Outraged" Again: Al Sharpton's Long History of Racism and Vulgarity!-Posted on DiscoverTheNetworks.org-By John Perazzo-On March 5, 2009:
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/outragedagainsharptonrecord.html
V. The Nine Lives of Al Sharpton!-Posted on FrontPageMagazine.com-By John Perazzo-On April 12, 2007:
http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=26098
VI. The Reverend Al Sharpton's Rap Sheet!-Posted on The Free Republic-By Larry Elder-On April 13, 2007:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1816884/posts
VII. Power Dem!-Posted on Old National Review-By Jay Nordlinger-On March 20, 2000:
http://old.nationalreview.com/20Mar00/nordlinger032000.html
Note: The following website reveals Rev. Alfred Sharpton’s connection to the NAACP, which is funded by George Soros’s Open Society Institute-You Decide:
In the early 1990s the NAACP, following the lead of its then-Executive Director Benjamin Chavis, rejected moderate voices and strove instead to form alliances with some of the most radical elements in the black community. For example, Chavis proudly entered his organization into a "sacred covenant" with Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, and pledged never to "forsake Mr. Farrakhan as my brother." He made a similar covenant with theCongressional Black Caucus in September 1993. In 1994 Chavis recruited into the NAACP such prominent black militants as Al Sharpton, Alton Maddox (the attorney best known for his role in the Sharpton-Tawana Brawley hoax),Maulana Karenga, Angela Davis, Calvin Butts, and Cornel West. When the NAACP's Board of Directors voted, by a 53 to 5 margin, to remove Chavis from his position after he had stolen at least $64,000 from the group's coffers, Chavis blamed "forces outside the African American community" for his demise, prominent among which were "right-wing Jewish groups."
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http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6160
Note: The following articles and/or blog posts reveal the connection between Rev. Al Sharpton and President Obama-You Decide:
I. President Obama looks to Rev. Al Sharpton for help in 2012 reelection bid!-Posted on New York Daily News-BY JONATHAN LEMIRE, DAILY NEWS CITY HALL BUREAU-On April 6, 2011:
II. Al Sharpton plays politics for President Obama!-Posted on Politico-By DOMINIC CARTER-On April 6, 2011:
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0411/52679.html
III. Obama's Harvard Professor, Charles Ogletree Says Al Sharpton Is Obama's Connection to the Disadvantaged Black Community!-Posted on BCN1-By Verena Dobnik-The Associated Press-On April 18, 2010:
IV. Obama's New Partner: Al Sharpton!-Posted on The Wall Street Journal-By PETER WALLSTEN-On March 17, 2010:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704588404575123404191464126.html
V. Al Sharpton Says America Voted For Socialism When They Voted For Obama!-Posted on thegreyfalcon-On March 23, 2010:
VI. Obama Wouldn't Be Here Without Sharpton!-Posted on New York Daily News-On January 19, 2009:
http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/dailypolitics/2009/01/smith-obama-wouldnt-be-here-wi.html
VII. Nation of Islam activists on Obama camp payroll!-Posted on WND.com-By Aaron Klein-On June 3, 2008:
http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=66167
VIII. Even NJDC Can’t Whitewash Obama-Sharpton Connection!-Posted on JisraPundit-By Bill Levinson-On January 18, 2008:
http://www.israpundit.com/2007/?p=7135
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Massive Voter Fraud-Again!
http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/10/25/massive-voter-fraud-again/
President and DOJ have contributed to the racial mess in our country!
The Racial Mess!
http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/08/08/the-racial-mess/
Obama is fomenting a race war?
http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/05/01/obama-is-fomenting-a-race-war/
Who is sponsoring the NAACP’s ‘One Nation Working Together’ rally?
'Game Change': New Book Reveals 2008 Campaigns' Messy Moments-To Include Racism!
Restoring Honor In America!
http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/08/29/restoring-honor-in-america/
Godfather of The Islamic Revolution!
http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2011/02/11/godfather-of-the-islamic-revolution/
Is it important to understand the Marxist assault on the foundations of our system?
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“Food For Thought”
God Bless the U.S.A.!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q65KZIqay4E&feature=related
Semper Fi!
Jake
Do our Congressional Representatives have the fortitude? No Guts-No Glory!
Posted on The Patriot Post-By Ben Shapiro (Archive)-On September 28, 2011:
“The story is one of not covert activity alone,” intoned Sen. Daniel Inouye, D-Hawaii, “but of covert foreign policy .... It is a tale of working outside the system and of utilizing irregular channels and private parties accountable to no one, on matters of national security, while ignoring the Congress and even the traditional agencies of executive foreign policy making. The story is both sad and sordid.”
Sen. Inouye was speaking not of the biggest scandal of the Obama administration, but of the biggest scandal of the Reagan administration—the Iran-Contra scandal. In that scandal, the United States sold weapons to parties in Iran in an attempt to free Lebanese-held hostages, then funneled the weapons cash to the anti-communist Contras in Nicaragua. The outcome of that scandal: indictments against the secretary of defense, the national security advisor, the assistant secretary of state, the chief of covert ops at the CIA and several others.
That scandal pales by comparison to the so-called Fast and Furious scandal now bubbling in Washington, D.C. In fall 2009, Eric Holder and the Department of Justice decided on a strategy supposedly designed to combat gun trafficking on the Mexican border. They didn’t want the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to seize illegal firearms anymore; instead, they wanted them to give firearms to members of the Mexican cartels.
According to the Congressional report, “ATFs Phoenix Field Division began allowing suspects to walk away with illegally purchased guns .... This shift in strategy was known and authorized at the highest levels of the Justice Department.” One goal was to identify “straw purchasers”—legal gun purchasers who hand off those guns to illegal owners. Instead of arresting the straw purchasers and their contacts, however, ATF was to allow the guns to continue to flow to the Mexican drug cartels. “ATF and DOJ leadership were interested in seeing where these guns would ultimately end up,” the report states. “ATF would only see these guns again after they turned up at a crime scene.”
That’s exactly what happened. The entire operation ended with only 20 indictments of straw purchasers—indictments that could have happened immediately upon transfer of the weapons, stopping the flow. In fact, the straw purchasers, at issue, were known to be straw purchasers from the get-go. The indictments only took place at all because U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry was murdered using the weapons authorized for free flow by ATF and DOJ. Terry wasn’t the only person killed because of Fast and Furious—the weapons OK’d by the DOJ and ATF were used in three murders, four kidnappings and an attempted murder in Mexico. They’ve been identified at 11 other crime scenes in the United States.
So what was the real goal of the DOJ and ATF? It certainly wasn’t to shut down access to arms for the cartels—the ATF was agreeing to such access. It wasn’t to stop straw purchasers—the ATF was signing off on the straw purchasers. It wasn’t to track the movements of the cartel—there was no way to do that. It was, very simply, to establish for political reasons that American guns were being used in crimes by foreign cartels.
This was the Reichstag fire of the Second Amendment. By authorizing the passage of weapons to America’s enemies, President Obama and his administration clearly wanted to set up a narrative that America’s lax gun laws were killing American troops and law enforcement officers. They wanted their misuse of law enforcement authority to create the impetus for a crackdown on gun sales in the United States.
How high does this go? Apparently, all the way to the top. The attorney general of the state of Arizona, a Democrat operative, has already resigned in an attempt to avoid the consequences of participating in this fiasco. Middle management at DOJ and ATF has already been thrown under the bus. The acting director of the ATF, Kenneth Melson, has already been defenestrated.
For his part, Obama has denied that Attorney General Eric Holder green-lit the operation, stating, “My attorney general has made clear he certainly would not have ordered gun running to be able to pass through into Mexico.” This is less than credible—how could the head of the DOJ not know about an operation of this magnitude handled by the DOJ? And how could President Obama not know? And why, if the DOJ is uninvolved, do they want a copy of Melson’s confidential interview with Congressional staff?
If this scandal runs all the way up the chain of command—and by all indicators, it could—it is certainly an impeachable offense. This is a high crime, not a misdemeanor.
Pushing an operation designed to undercut American freedoms that ends with the death of Americans is not only illegal, it is unconscionable. And unlike Iran-Contra, it wasn’t done for the right reasons.”
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I. Taxpayers Paid for “Fast and Furious” Plan to Arm the Sinaloa Drug Cartel!-Posted on Floyd Reports-By Ben Johnson-On September 26, 2011:
http://floydreports.com/taxpayers-paid-for-fast-and-furious-plan-to-arm-the-sinaloa-drug-cartel/
II. Christian Blogger Ordered to Surrender His Guns!-Posted on WND.com-By Joe Kovacs-On September 29, 2011:
http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=349713
III. Video: The UN Considers Gun Regulation Treaty!-Posted on ExposeObama.com-On October 2, 2011:
http://www.exposeobama.com/2011/10/02/video-the-un-considers-gun-regulation-treaty/
IV. Video: Fierce Battle Over Gun Rights!-Posted on FoxNews.com-On August 5, 2011:
http://video.foxnews.com/v/1095760427001/fierce-battle-over-gun-rights
V. Video: How Obama and the UN Undermine Gun Rights!-Posted on ExposeObama.com-On June 12, 2011:
VI. Obama: We're working on gun control 'under the radar'-Posted on WND.com-By Jeff Knox-On April 26, 2011:
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=292025
VII. The Obama Investigations!-Posted on The Heritage Foundation-By Mike Brownfield-On September 21, 2011:
VIII. Obama’s Predictable Scandals!-Posted on National Review Online-By VICTOR DAVIS HANSON-On September 21, 2011:
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/277797/obama-s-predictable-scandals-victor-davis-hanson#
IX. Washington Times Columnist to Obama: Resign!-Posted on Floyd Reports-By Ben Johnson-On August 12, 2011:
http://floydreports.com/washington-times-columnist-to-obama-resign/
X. A Congressman Confirms GOP is Talking Impeachment!-Posted on Floyd Report-By Ben Johnson-On July 9, 2011:
http://floydreports.com/a-congressman-confirms-gop-is-talking-impeachment-video/
XI. Video: Why This President Is So Dangerous'!-Posted on ExposeObama.com-On July 9, 2011:
http://www.exposeobama.com/2011/07/09/video-finally-a-congressman-tells-the-country-why-obama-is-so-dangerous/Note: The following websites reveal that George Soros’ Open Society Institute (OSI) and groups that promote a variety of leftwing causes are strong advocates of gun control and fund the Arms Control Association (ACA), which outlines the UN Process on Small Arms, along with the International Action Network on Small Arms (IANSA) that is global movement against gun violence, which has lobbied the United Nations to pass a measure outlawing private gun ownership and effectively overturning the U.S. Constitution’s Second Amendment, along with the-You Decide:
I. Arms Control Association (ACA):
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6924
II. Arms Control Association (ACA): UN Process on Small Arms:
http://www.armscontrol.org/act/2007_03/Anders
III. International Action Network on Small Arms (IANSA): Global Movement Against Gun Violence:
IV. International Action Network on Small Arms (IANSA): National Gun Laws:
http://www.iansa.org/workarea/national-gun-laws
V. International Action Network on Small Arms (IANSA) Members:
http://www.iansa.org/region/americas
VI. International Action Network on Small Arms (IANSA): New US Government Plan to Tackle Arms Trafficking to Mexico!-Posted on July 15, 2011:
http://www.iansa.org/news/2011/07/us-new-government-plan-to-tackle-arms-trafficking-to-mexico
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Did ATF provide weapons to Mexican drug cartels that were subsequently used to kill one of our own?
What is the true intent of the UN Small Arms Treaty?
http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/01/12/what-is-the-true-intent-of-the-un-small-arms-treaty/
Is it important to understand the Marxist assault on the foundations of our system?
Washington Times Calls for Obama’s Impeachment!
http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/08/31/washington-times-calls-for-obama’s-impeachment/
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“Food For Thought”
God Bless the U.S.A.!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q65KZIqay4E&feature=related
Semper Fi!
Jake
Posted on The Telegraph-By Nile Gardiner-On September 29, 2011:
“Ezra Klein, a columnist at The Washington Post, has written an interesting piece on why “Europe could decide the 2012 election”. Klein writes that “the 2012 election is likely to be decided by the actions of a handful of European leaders” taken over the next two weeks. He warns that the debt crisis in Europe “can shatter an already fragile global economy”, with significant implications for the United States and the fortunes of President Obama. Klein notes that Europe’s leaders could do more “to secure Obama’s reelection” than Obama’s own advisers:
“It doesn’t have to happen, of course. Europe has the resources to get through this crisis. But it doesn’t have the governance structures necessary to do so, nor is it clear that it has the political will needed to create them. At the moment, Greece is teetering on the edge, and so things could get very bad, very quick. And if they do, our economy is going to get very bad, very quick – and so will President Obama’s reelection chances.”
If Europe somehow vastly exceeds the market’s expectations and emerges with the strong fiscal union that everyone knows they can form but no one thinks they will create, it could do more to restore global confidence and kickstart an economic recovery than any single piece of legislation we can pass here, and that could do more to secure Obama’s reelection than any message David Plouffe can think up.
This Washington Post piece echoes President Obama’s declaration earlier this week that the European crisis is “scaring the world”, as well as his administration’s calls for a more aggressive, integrated response by the European Union. As I’ve noted previously, while faith in the European project is flagging all over the continent and Euroscepticism is on the rise,
Eurofederalism is alive and well among American liberals in the media and within the Obama administration itself. Some of the strongest supporters of ever-closer union in Europe can be found in Washington and New York, despite the fact that a federal Europe has never been in the interests of the United States. As even the Germans begin to lose faith in the euro, American liberals will no doubt continue to cling to the illusory dream of a federal Europe, which as we speak is starting to go down in flames.
I expect in the coming weeks that Barack Obama will increasingly focus upon the European financial crisis in an effort to distract attention away from his own economic record. He will also seek to blame Europe’s leaders for some of the economic ills America faces. But ultimately, no matter what the EU decides to do about the financial contagion spreading from Greece to Portugal, Italy, Spain and France, President Obama will be judged in 2012 on his own Big Government record, which looks similar to a lot of the heavy-spending interventionist policies that have spectacularly failed across the Atlantic.”
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I. Why Have European Countries Succumbed To Governance By The EU?
Posted on Post & Email-by Don Hank, blogging at Laigle’s Forum-On February 9, 2011:
(“Feb. 9, 2011) — The EU is the progressives’ dream. It is headed by the unelected European Commission, which is the only body entitled to propose legislation. Further, the public at large and their elected MEPs (Members of European Parliament) are thereby shut out of all meaningful decision making. The Commission does not consult with the voters but only with interest groups, and the details are ironed out by committees, which could be referred to as technocrats.
The national governments (called “local”) are obliged to adopt – or harmonize – EU legislation, so they are puppets of the regime.
We see the outlines of this system in our American “democracy,” where interest groups rule over the majority and the majority likes it or lumps it.
What you read here presumably is what a North American Union would look like. You will recall that in the latter days of his administration, GW Bush — whose father chattered a lot about the New World Order — was in fact toying with just such a supranational scheme, called the Security and Prosperity Partnership. A secret meeting held in Canada would have laid the groundwork for implementation of the scheme. Fortunately, the plot was outed and the plan was scrapped — temporarily or permanently, who knows?
Some GOP “moderates” now want to draft Jeb Bush for president in 2012.
Don Hank
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“Before these are drawn up, the Commission consults a wide range of interest groups and advisory bodies and having drawn up such proposals it will consult experts via various committees and groups to get the technical details right.”
Sonya Jay Porter is an Englishwoman, a free-lance writer and a member of the UK Independence Party, which is working to get Britain out of a political alliance with the European Union. In the article below she tells us why.
How The EU Parliament Works:
…And it’s not like Britain’s
by Sonya Jay Porter
Many people throughout Europe and the rest of the world still think that the parliament of the European Union is democratic.
Compared to that in Britain, It isn’t.
To begin with, the Members of the European parliament (MEPs) are not elected as in Britain, on a ‘first past the post’ system but by a multi-member type of proportional representation. There is currently a total of 732 seats in the EU parliament and these are allocated to each member state on the basis of population, Germany having the largest number and Luxembourg the fewest. Britain now has 72 seats, or about 9.8% of the total. Once elected, MEPs then sit, not in national blocks but in seven Europe-wide political groups. As stated in the EU’s Guide to its Institution (2005), ‘between them, they represent all views on European integration, from the strongly pro-federalist to the openly Eurosceptic’. You will notice the use of the word ‘openly’. But so far, so democratic.
It is important to realise that unlike the British Parliament (which we know by its place-name as ’Westminster’), the European parliament does not consist of a proposing Chamber, such as the House of Commons, and a scrutinizing Chamber like the House of Lords.
Decision-making at European Union level involves various European institutions, in particular:
The European Commission
The European Parliament
The Council of the European Union
According to The Guide, The European Commission, which now consists of 27 members, is independent of national governments and its job is solely to represent and uphold the interests of the EU as a whole. The Commission alone is responsible for drawing up proposals for new European legislation which it then presents to the Council and the parliament and it is here that democracy begins to falter, for the Commissioners are not elected but appointed.
A new Commission is set up every five years within six months of the parliamentary elections and it is the member state Governments which agree together who is to be the new Commission President. The President then, in discussions with the member state Governments, chooses the other Members of the Commission who will all have held political positions in their own countries but are neither MEPs (Members of Parliament) nor have been elected to this position by the populations of the EU member states.
It is the Commission alone, which is responsible for drafting proposals for new European legislation. Before these are drawn up, the Commission consults a wide range of interest groups and advisory bodies and having drawn up such proposals it will consult experts via various committees and groups to get the technical details right.
However, the European Council is the EU’s main decision-making body with its first duty being to pass European laws, in many cases, but not all, jointly with the European parliament. In some fields, the Council alone legislates but has to consult parliament. The Council, which consists of ministers from the member states, will discuss, behind closed doors and away from the media, the proposals put forward by the Commission. Which ministers attend which meetings depends on what subjects are on the agenda. For instance, Environment Ministers will attend a meeting on the environment and Finance Ministers will attend a meeting on financial matters. If then agreed, the proposal may then be put to the chamber of the European parliament.
And it is in the European parliament that democracy really breaks down.
Before being voted on, the proposals will go to various Committees of MEPs for possible amendment after which the chamber will be given perhaps 24 hours’ notice of the coming vote in which to study these amended proposals. Discussion will also take place as to who will speak for each group and for how long on which measure. At this stage in Westminster, there would be an active debate in the House of Commons, often taking a considerable time, but in the European parliament speaking time is allocated amongst the Parliamentary Groups on the basis of size, and most MEPs will get around just one minute to speak. Nor are these are not what would be recognised in the British Parliament as debates but just short talks, mainly designed for the media.
After these speeches come the votes. But once again, although a proposal can be won or lost on 51% of those voting, the method of counting votes is quite different from that at Westminster. No ‘ayes to the right’ and ‘noes to the left’. Instead, most votes go through merely on a show of hands. Bearing in mind that scores of proposals and their amendments can be brought forward for voting on in one day, and that there are nearly 800 possible voters, it is not surprising that there can be some spectacular mistakes. The UK Independence Party, which sits with the European Freedom and Democracy Group, has formally requested that all votes be taken electronically but this was refused by the parliamentary authorities. In spite of this, should any vote be lost, this is not the end of the matter. It then goes to ‘Conciliation’, after which in most cases, the proposal goes through into EU law.
In Britain these EU laws (known as either directives or regulations) go through Parliament in the sense that committees have a short debate where they are asked to ‘take note’ of a particular directive or regulation. Note that there is no option to reject them and although there is a vote on ‘taking note’, this is academic since unless we have an appropriate veto, Britain has no choice but to accept these EU laws which now comprise some 84% of all British legislation.
Which means that whatever the unelected European Commission puts forward as a proposal will become law in Britain and the other EU states because there is virtually no way of stopping it. And that means the countries of the European Union are ruled not by democracy but by a form of dictatorship known as an oligarchy, dictatorship not by one but by a group.
But a dictatorship nonetheless.
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http://www.thepostemail.com/2011/02/09/how-the-eu-parliament-works/
II. Obama administration filled with activists for globalism: ‘Seeking ‘climate change adaption,’ crackdown on firearms, gun sellers!’-Posted on WND.com-By Aaron Klein-On October 1, 2011:
http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=350049#ixzz1ZdXprxHX
III. Debunking Obama’s Tax Demagogery!-Posted on DickMorris.com-By Dick Morris And Eileen McGann-On October 1, 2011:
http://www.dickmorris.com/blog/debunking-obamas-tax-demagogery/
IV. Obama’s Real Debt Plan: Tax the Middle Class!-Posted on The Daily Caller-By Brian Wesbury-On July 28, 2011:
http://dailycaller.com/2011/07/28/ignore-the-fire-alarms/
V. President Obama was set to release Jonathan Pollard but Vice President Biden told him: "Over my dead body!"-Posted on Israel National News-By Elad Benari-On October 2, 2011:
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/148394#.ToiPemA4hwM
VI. Will Joe Biden Drop Obama from the Ticket?-Posted on Vision to America-By V2A-On October 1, 2011:
http://visiontoamerica.org/4475/will-joe-biden-drop-obama-from-the-ticket/
VII. Are People Falling Out Of Love With Obama?-Posted on DickMorris.com-By Dick Morris-On October 1, 2011:
http://www.dickmorris.com/blog/are-people-falling-out-of-love-with-obama-dick-morris-tv-lunch-alert/
VIII. Obama’s Former Wall Street Donors Turn Against Him!-Posted on LA Times-By Nathaniel Popper, Los Angeles Times-On September 30, 2011:
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-obama-wall-street-20110930,0,6677823.story
IX. Fmr. Clinton Adviser: ‘Very Possible’ Obama Will Bow Out of Presidential Race!-Posted on CNSNews.com-By Grant M. Dahl-On September 29, 2011:
X. Warning: The threat of suspended elections is real!-Posted on Canada Free Press-By Judi McLeod-On September 30, 2011:
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/40802
XI. Video: Rush: 'Barry Soetoro' elected with 'no identity documents': ‘Warns of president's strategy to avoid defeat at polls by suspending election’-Posted on WND.com-On September 30, 2011:
http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=350585
XII. Obama’s Predictable Scandals!-Posted on National Review Online-By VICTOR DAVIS HANSON-On September 21, 2011:
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/277797/obama-s-predictable-scandals-victor-davis-hanson#
XIII. Europe Stunned After Being Told “Obama Is Not In Charge”!-Posted by EU Times-On September 18, 2011:
http://www.eutimes.net/2011/09/europe-stunned-after-being-told-obama-is-not-in-charge/
XIV. HHS Privately Calls Obamacare “Recipe For Disaster”!-Posted on Judicial Watch-On September 16, 2011:
http://www.judicialwatch.org/comment/reply/10820
XV. Video: Rush Reads Six Pages of Headlines of Obama Blaming Other People!-Posted on ImpeachObamaCampaign.com-By Ben-On August 9, 2011:
XVI. Now Carney Admits: ‘The White House Doesn’t Create Jobs’!-Posted on The Blaze-By Madeleine Morgenstern-On August 5, 2011:
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/now-carney-admits-the-white-house-doesnt-create-jobs/
XVII. Obama's Failed Presidency!-Posted on American Thinker-By Steve McCann-On August 1, 2011:
http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/08/obamas_failed_presidency.html
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How the EU’s Lisbon Treaty Affects U.S. National Security!
http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/03/30/does-the-eu’s-lisbon-treaty-affect-u-s-national-security/
New World Order By Executive Order!
http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2011/02/13/new-world-order-by-executive-order/
Powerful men who meet secretly to plan on how to run our country!
Is it important to understand the Marxist assault on the foundations of our system?
Does Our President Hate America?
http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2011/03/04/does-our-president-hate-america/
Godfather of The Islamic Revolution!
http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2011/02/11/godfather-of-the-islamic-revolution/
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“Food For Thought”
God Bless the U.S.A.!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q65KZIqay4E&feature=related
Semper Fi!
Jake
What’s wrong with this picture?
Posted on WND.com-By Aaron Klein-On October 1, 2011:
“The newly appointed chief of President Obama’s Social Innovation and Civic Participation Council is a member of a globalist organization whose activists can be found throughout the Obama administration.
Jonathan Greenblatt was appointed the new head of Obama’s Social Innovation Unit earlier this month.
Greenblatt is the founder of a civic service company that works in partnership with Google and the Huffington Post. He has several ties to Google.
Read what we’ll need to accomplish to restore America to greatness.
WND reported last week that until his appointment to the Obama administration, Greenblatt served as the director of a social justice group funded by George Soros.
The organization, the Aspen Institute, works closely with Soros and even was reportedly used by the billionaire in a failed attempt to engineer the defeat of President Bush in the 2004 elections.
Now it has emerged that Greenblatt is a member of the globalist group Pacific Council on International Policy, or PCIP. He previously chaired PCIP’s energy and environment committee and served on its globalization committee.
The PCIP was founded in 1995 in partnership with the Council on Foreign Relations.
The group says it is the “premier international affairs organization focused on policy issues of special resonance to the West Coast.”
Its goals include “building our network of globally oriented business, civic and government leaders.” Also, the group aims to convene exchanges with global policy makers and opinion leaders while partnering with organizations around the world to “promote mutual understanding and coordinated action.”
The group recently led a taskforce on so-called climate change adaption. Its recommendations include building government funds to support large-scale “climate adaption” projects.
PCIP last year released a major report on U.S.-Mexico border security that recommended the U.S. government crackdown on gun sellers.
The report says: “The United States should intensify efforts to curtail the smuggling of firearms, ammunition and bulk cash into Mexico by aggressively investigating gun sellers, regulating gun shows, reinstituting the Clinton-era ban on assault weapons, conducting targeted inspections of southbound traffic and providing leads to a more robust Mexican Customs authority.”
The PCIP is funded by the Ford Foundation, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and the Rockefeller Foundation.
In an online question-and-answer session with the PICP, Greenblatt told the group he believes the world “needs to pursue policies that blend a long-term commitment to sustainable development with opportunities for widespread economic prosperity in emerging markets.”
Asked to list his favorite global resources online, Greenblatt says he follows the Twitter account of economist Jeffrey Sachs.
Sachs is a Soros-funded economist. He is a member of the Soros-funded Institute for New Economic Thinking, or INET, which holds yearly conferences in the mountains of Bretton Woods, N.H.,that openly seek to restructure the world economy. Last year, Sachs keynoted the event.
Sachs also founded the Millennium Promise Alliance, a nonprofit organization that says it is dedicated to ending extreme poverty and hunger.
Critics have called the Millennium group, which is funded by Soros to the tune of $50 million, a wealth-redistribution scheme.
Investor’s Business Daily reported the Millennium goal called for a “currency transfer tax,” a “tax on the rental value of land and natural resources,” a “royalty on worldwide fossil energy projection – oil, natural gas, coal,” “fees for the commercial use of the oceans, fees for airplane use of the skies, fees for use of the electromagnetic spectrum, fees on foreign exchange transactions, and a tax on the carbon content of fuels.”
Global group abounds in Obama administration:
Meanwhile, multiple Obama administration members are also activists in the PCIP.
Earlier this week, WND reported Obama’s pick for Commerce secretary is a PICIP member.
Obama’s ambassador to France, Charles Rivkin, is a member of the PCIP. Last October, he invited a 29-member delegation from the PCIP to a conference in France for the stated purpose of discussing Arab and Islamic relations in the country.
Rivkin was at the center of a scandal when WikiLeaks released a cable in which he proposed the U.S. Embassy in France initiate a multipronged effort to “engage” and help to “empower” France’s Muslim minorities.
Rivkin called the effort a “Minority Engagement Strategy,” which was largely directed at Muslims in France.
WND found other PCIP members inside the Obama administration.
James B. Steinberg, deputy secretary of state, serves on the PICP board of directors. He also serves on the science and security board of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, a journal that argued during the Cold War for the U.S. to hand its nuclear weapons to an international organization.
The Bulletin, as WND reported, was founded by scientists who were accused of spying for the Soviets and passing along vital nuclear secrets.
Vilma S. Martinez, U.S. ambassador to Argentina, is the chairman of the PCIP’s Mexico Study Group.
Former Utah Gov. Jon M. Huntsman Jr., a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, was appointed by Obama as ambassador to China in August 2009. He is a PCIP founding director.
Jeffrey L. Bleich, Obama’s appointment for U.S. ambassador to Australia, is a PCIP member.
Diana Farrell, deputy director of the National Economic Council, is a member of the PCIP as well as the Council on Foreign Relations and the Bretton Woods Committee. She is a frequent speaker on U.S. global engagement.
Byron Auguste, a member of Obama’s White House Council for Community Solutions, serves on the PCIP board. He is also on the board of trustees of the Center for American Progress, which is funded by Soros and led by John Podesta, who served as co-chairman of Obama’s transition team.
Last year, PCIP member Steven Myers joined the State Department’s advisory committee on international economic policy.
John B. Emerson, appointee for Obama’s advisory committee for trade policy and negotiations, is a member of both the PCIP and CFR.
In April, Obama nominated PCIP member Janet Yellen to serve as vice chairman of the Federal Reserve.
PCIP member Alan D. Bersin was appointed commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
Last March, Obama appointed PCIP member Michael Camunez to the position of assistant secretary for market access and compliance in the Department of Commerce.
Ernest James Wilson, a member of the PCIP board, was elected chairman of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting in September 2009. He served as a policy advisor on Obama’s presidential transition team on matters of communication technology and public diplomacy.
Organization accuses U.S. of 'structural racism':
Greenblatt, meanwhile, also serves as director of the Impact Economy Initiative at the Aspen Institute.
Aspen’s mission statement says the nonprofit seeks “to foster values-based leadership, encourag[e] individuals to reflect on the ideals and ideas that define a good society, and ... provide a neutral and balanced venue for discussing and acting on critical issues.”
The group leads a number of social justice global initiatives and espouses an ideology that government intervention is necessary to fix what it claims are various social and racial injustices that permeate U.S. society.
Aspen’s website says the group is dedicated to repairing what it terms “structural racism.”
The group contends that “public policies, institutional practices, cultural representations, and other norms work in various, often reinforcing ways to perpetuate racial group inequity in every key opportunity area, from health, to education, to employment, to income and wealth.”
A member of Aspen’s board is Henry Louis Gates Jr., a Harvard professor who sparked a national race controversy in July 2009 when Obama criticized local Cambridge police who had arrested Gates after a burglary had been reported on his property.
Aspen runs a program that provides training and seminars for federal judges.
'Clandestine' Soros summit:
Soros has provided significant funding to the Aspen Institute. His Open Society Institute has provided more than $400,000 to the group since 2004.
The New Yorker magazine reported on a 2004 “clandestine summit meeting” that took place at the Aspen Institute.
“The participants, all Democrats, were sworn to secrecy,” said the magazine, including Soros and four other billionaires who “shared a common goal: to use their fortunes to engineer the defeat of President George W. Bush in the 2004 election.”
Soros himself spoke at numerous Aspen events, including a 2004 seminar entitled “America’s Role in the Fight Against Global Poverty” that also featured Al Gore as a speaker.
Aspen hosted Soros in 2006 for a talk about his new book “The Age of Fallibility: Consequences of the War on Terror.”
Discover the Networks notes that Jim Spiegelman, Aspen’s director of communications, formerly worked as a “special assistant” to Soros.
Also, Arjun Gupta, who serves on Aspen’s board of overseers, is a vice president at the Chatterjee Group, which advises the Soros Fund Management Group.
Meanwhile, Greenblatt is the founder and president of All for Good, an open source, Web-based initiative that says it seeks to engage more Americans in service. It has the largest database of volunteer listings ever compiled and provides content to a wide range of government, nonprofit and personal websites.
Greenblatt has stated he was inspired to found All for Good in December 2008 by Obama’s call for more participatory civic service.
Greenblatt formerly served on the Technology and Innovation working group of the Obama-Biden Presidential Transition team.
All for Good was built by a group of volunteers from Google, the Craigslist Foundation and other organizations, reportedly with input from Arianna Huffington. The group currently maintains strategic partnerships with Google and the Huffington Post.”
With additional research by Brenda J. Elliott.
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http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=350049#ixzz1ZdXprxHX
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I. Europe Stunned After Being Told “Obama Is Not In Charge”!-Posted by EU Times-On September 18, 2011:
http://www.eutimes.net/2011/09/europe-stunned-after-being-told-obama-is-not-in-charge/
II. Video: Is Obama Regulating Rural Areas by Executive Order?-Posted on ExposeObama.com-On August 4, 2011:
II. Is The Soros-Sponsored ‘Agenda 21’ A Hidden Plan For World Government?-Posted on The Blaze-By Mike Opelka-On June 14, 2011:
III. Obama Wants You (And Your Kids) T0 Serve the State!-Posted on The American Conservative Union-By Jeffrey Folks-On July 13, 2011:
http://www.conservative.org/acuf/issue-183/issue183news3
IV. Awareness of Bilderberg Cabal Explodes in 2011!-Posted on FourWinds10.com-On June 13, 2011:
http://www.fourwinds10.com/siterun_data/government/new_world_order/news.php?q=1307980157
V. Bilderberg Group 2011: Full Official Attendees List!-Posted on FourWinds10.com-On June 11, 2011:
http://www.fourwinds10.com/siterun_data/government/new_world_order/news.php?q=1307806529
VI. The Bilderbergs: A Very Large Head of The Snake!-Posted on FourWinds10.com-On June 11, 2011:
http://www.fourwinds10.com/siterun_data/government/new_world_order/news.php?q=1307980489
VII. U.S. Media Blackout of Bilderberg 2011!-Posted on FourWinds10.com-On June 11, 2011:
http://www.fourwinds10.com/siterun_data/government/new_world_order/news.php?q=1307979641
Note: The following Institutes work closely with George Soros:
I. Aspen Institute (AI):
Founded in 1950 by Chicago industrialist Walter Paepcke, the Aspen Institute (AI) seeks “to foster values-based leadership, encourag[e] individuals to reflect on the ideals and ideas that define a good society, and ... provide a neutral and balanced venue for discussing and acting on critical issues.” The organization pursues these objectives by way of seminars, public conferences, issue-analysis forums, and young-leader fellowships.
Encompassing a broad range of issues, many of AI's policy-work programs are rooted in the belief that the United States is a nation whose history amounts largely to an unbroken narrative of injustice; that government intervention frequently represents the best remedy for social and economic problems; and that America's deep-seated “structural racism,” while “harder to see than its previous incarnations,” is just as likely as its forerunner to “perpetuate racial group inequity.” This latter perspective is consistent with the views of a prominent AI board of trustees member, Henry Louis Gates.
Aspen Institute (AI) has numerous noteworthy connections to the billionaire philanthropist George Soros. For example, in August 2004 Soros and other wealthy Democrats gathered at the Institute to brainstorm ways in which they could use their fortunes to engineer the defeat of George W. Bush. That same year, Soros spoke at an AI seminar (which also featured an appearance by Al Gore) titled “America’s Role in the Fight Against Global Poverty.” In 2006 Aspen sponsored a Soros talk where the billionaire promoted his book The Age of Fallibility: Consequences of the War on Terror. Jim Spiegelman, Aspen’s director of communications, formerly worked as a “special assistant” to Soros. And Arjun Gupta, who serves on Aspen’s board of overseers, is a vice president with the Chatterjee Group which advises Soros and the Soros Fund Management Group.
Soros's Open Society Institute (OSI) has awarded the Aspen Institute numerous large grants over the years, including $50,000 in 2004, another $50,000 in 2005, $195,000 in 2008, and $125,000 in 2009. The latter grant was earmarked for “international human rights and international humanitarian law and their application in American jurisprudence.” In 2011, OSI funded AI's publication of a report blaming the overrepresentation of blacks and Latinos in U.S. prison populations on “the failure of so many of our society’s institutions.”
Soon after the inauguration of President Barack Obama in 2009, AI developed a close working relationship with the U.S. State Department. Said Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that year: “We can’t imagine a better partner than the Aspen Institute.”
Additional Information On The Aspen Institute (AI):
Though headquartered in the U.S., the Aspen Institute also has seven branches overseas -- in Spain, France, Germany, Italy, India, Japan, and Romania.
During his opening remarks at an Aspen Institute event in March 2011, Eboo Patel, the founder of a national movement promoting interfaith religious cooperation and one of President Barack Obama's advisers on faith, derided George Washington as a slaveowner; identified slaves and their descendants as the people who, because they “responded to America’s original sin with a magnanimous blessing,” were “most responsible for the continuity of the American project”; lamented Americans' resistance to Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf's efforts to construct an Islamic Center near Ground Zero in Manhattan; and asserted that “the six fundamentals of Shariah” are “remarkably” similar to “the privileges enumerated in America’s Founding Documents.”
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http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7681
II. Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET):
The Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET) was conceived in January 2009, when Anatole Kaletsky -- a Times of London economics writer who opposes the “noninterventionist model of capitalism” and favors deficit spending and “stimulus packages” as bulwarks against economic depression -- discussed with George Soros “the unique opportunity to reshape economics in the wake of the financial crisis.” Eight months later, Soros assembled 25 economists, financiers, and journalists in Bedford, New York to brainstorm the idea. This “Bedford Summit” resulted in a “unanimous agreement that our economic paradigm must change,” and a “recognition of the importance of empowering the young generation of economists to rethink” the field of economics. Toward that end, INET was created as a nonprofit foundation in October 2009 with an initial $50 million pledge by Soros's Open Society Institute. Kaletsky became a member of INET's governing board.
Co-founding INET with Soros was Jim Balsillie, CEO of the Canadian telecommunications company Research in Motion. In 2010 Balsillie was appointed to the United Nations High-Level Panel on Global Sustainability, charged with addressing “the growing risk of dangerous climate change.”
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http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7646
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New World Order By Executive Order!
http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2011/02/13/new-world-order-by-executive-order/
Powerful men who meet secretly to plan on how to run our country!
The Midterm Elections and the Communist Manifesto!
http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/10/08/the-midterm-elections-and-the-communist-manifesto/
Did ATF provide weapons to Mexican drug cartels that were subsequently used to kill one of our own?
Who owns our supposedly fair and balanced airwaves and news outlets?
Is it important to understand the Marxist assault on the foundations of our system?
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“Food For Thought”
God Bless the U.S.A.!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q65KZIqay4E&feature=related
Semper Fi!
Jake
By John W. Lillpop
As one who has been duly (and innocently) impressed by the education and business experience brought to the presidential fray by candidate Herman Cain, I find myself in a deep depression, approaching excessive misery, after learning that my admiration for the feisty entrepreneur is actually an attempt to cover-up latent racism and disregard for any and all black people.
The ‘real’ me was abruptly exposed by Bill Maher and Janeane Garofalo, professional comics who apparently moon light as practitioners of Abnormal Psychology.
Although they acted separately, both of these gifted clinicians reached the same conclusion: The mere notion of any Republican supporting any black candidate without malice of thought was just about the most hilarious thought in the whole damn universe.
And when said Republican is also a member of the Tea Party, the hilarity is simply awesome!
As reported at the reference, Garofalo ignored President Obama’s call for ‘toning down the rhetoric,’ in American politics, with these soothing words:
"Herman Cain is probably well liked by some of the Republicans because it hides the racist elements of the Republican party. Conservative movement and tea party movement, one in the same.”
Thanks much for that intelligent contribution to the debate, Janeane!
Your analysis is so profound that it will surely be used by scholars as a basis for explaining the irrational ObamaMania that spread throughout America in 2008.
How else to explain the election of an inexperienced community organizer with no discernable experience or accomplishment, with a Muslim name, and with an obvious disdain for America, than by conceding that “White liberal quilt” was to blame?
Garofalo’s liberal do-do was echoed by Bill Maher who vented about Rick Perry and Cain:
“Rick (Perry) started talking, and he sounded so dumb that now they're even considering voting for a black guy.”
Maher said of Newt Gingrich, "Let me put your unpopularity in context for you - you're a Republican and you're polling behind a black guy"
Once again, a liberal genius has helped clarify the ebb and flow of racial politics.
Indeed, Maher’s biting commentary helps one understand Obama’s dwindling support among African-Americans.
Namely, Barack is so bleeping incompetent that even blacks are considering voting for a white guy!
To assure that a repeat of the Maher- Garofalo meltdowns does not occur, perhaps black candidates should show a little professional courtesy and ALWAYS run as Democrats, just as God intended?
http://nation.foxnews.com/janeane-garofalo/2011/09/29/garofalo-racist-republicans-support-herman-cain
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2011/10/01/bill-maher-rick-perry-sounded-so-dumb-republicans-are-even-considerin#ixzz1ZdQrnJ7i
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By John W. Lillpop
Who would have imagined that Barack Obama, America’s Nobel Peace Prize winner and world-renown peace monger, would turn out to be a brutal killer of Islamic bad eggs?
After all, until recently Obama insisted that blabbing with our enemies, AKA, diplomacy, would eliminate the need for dumb wars and violent killings.
Yet in the most dramatic transformation of his persona to date, The One seems to have gone from Talker-in-Chief to Assassin.
Which proves just how devastating approval ratings in the 30s can be to a non-messiah figure facing reelection!
The president’s new image started with the messy removal of Osama bin Laden back on May 1 when Navy Seals invaded bin Laden’s ‘luxury’ digs in Pakistan and proceeded to teach the 6’11” freak a vital lesson about Jihad, American style.
The president’s newly minted, “Don’t Mess With Obama!” toughness continued when Obama ordered what was left of UBL to be dumped into the sea, without last rites or a proper Christian burial.
Even more shockingly, Obama apparently ordered Navy Seals to send bin Laden to the tender-loving-care of 72 virgins without first reading the brutal killer his Miranda Rights, a real no-no to people like Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich.
Then just two days ago, Obama added another notch to his holster by ordering predator drones to free the world of one Anwar al-Awlaki, Al-Queada Chief and American citizen, which is more than can be stated with certitude about BHO himself.
With all the modesty one would expect from a seriously flawed narcissist, Obama hailed the demise of Anwar al-Awlaki as yet another reason why he (Obama) should be reelected.
Surprisingly, Obama failed to mention that the policies and technology which bagged bin Laden and Anwar al-Awlaki were 'inherited' from W.
He did, however, crow with pride that ridding the world of another terrorist was a significant victory for progressive values; albeit, blemished, ever so slightly, by the on-going 'Fast and Furious Scandal' in which he may be complicit in the death of a US border patrol agent.
So, what’s next for America's Nobel Peace Prize winner turned Assassin?
White House insiders, speaking on strict conditions of anonymity, claim that Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and North Korea’s Kim Young Ill may both face time rocky times ahead, especially if the U.S. unemployment rate does not fall dramatically-- and soon!
However familiar many of you are with the Agenda 21 initiatives that are being implemented right under our noses, there is still a lot that is not being said, or even thought about. Here are some links to go to for further information:
At first blush, I thought that this was just too crazy to actually happen, or hold any truth. That was about two & 1/2 years ago, when it really began to hit home. Here is what really strikes me now, and I'm passing it along just for those who still cling to the idea that we still live in a sane and/or easily-recoverable universe;
The idea that the undocumented Chicago thug, who was put into place in the highest office in the land by other international elites bent on our wholesale destruction, is an idiot or incompetent, is COMPLETELY WRONG.
"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and he carries his banners openly. But the traitor moves among those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the galleys, heard in the very hall of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor—he speaks in the accents familiar to his victims, and wears their face and their garment, and he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation—he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of a city—he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to be feared." ......Cicero, 42 B.C.E
These oh-so-slight (sic) incremental changes in our policies and local regulations are just what Doctor Soetoro has ordered to infect the body of America with the incurable virus of Government Regulation, Control, and the implementation of Agenda 21 priorities. As if we don't have enough problem with regulation and control already, with a Federal Behemoth grown exponentially larger than EVER Constitutionally authorized, the plethora of devastating regulations arising from this new "Jobs Bill", and the looming disaster of the Obamacare monster (among others) signal a shift in policies and priorities that will seal the lid of the coffin of free-enterprise and American Exceptionalism shut FOREVER.
Why would you strangle energy production, while at the same time MANDATE electric vehicles that would add to the strain of a crippled electrical grid? STUPID? NOOOOOO. Agenda 21 Priorities---get people out of their vehicles and into "Sustainable Communities".
Why would you implement policies that will dramatically increase the cost of food, water, housing....and cripple the economic engine that would allow them to sustain themselves and their families, unless they are dependent on the government? STUPID? NOOOO!!!!
To drive people out of their homes, and starve them, to promote "Sustainable Development." Part of the Agenda 21 plan is to REDUCE the number of people on this planet. By a few billion. Sound crazy? Read what some of Obosoetoro's "czars" have said, and written in years past. Sunstein, Chu, Axelrod, Van Jones, the Weathermen...it really is a very long list.
I really believe that this is probably the very last time that American History will be made, and recorded, because if we fail now, THERE WILL BE NO MORE AMERICAN HISTORY. It will be just that, HISTORY, with no future to record.
Just watching and listening to the rants of the anarchists among us, with their pathetic little marches on Wall Street, and the Union Thugs populating the White House with their Community Organizer, who owes them so much, it will indeed be a miracle if we even HAVE an election in 2012.
There is absolutely NOTHING these people are not capable of and willing to do.
We must hold to a better and more powerful standard, and keep the God of our fathers at our side and in our hearts, or we will die along with our nation and any hope we may have had for our progeny.
Final Thought:
"The reason why men enter into society is for the preservation of their property...(therefore) whenever the legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they (the officials of the government,) put themselves into a state of war with the people, who thereupon are absolved from any further obedience, and are left to the common refuge which God hath provided for all men against force and violence. Whensoever...the legislative shall transgress this fundamental rule of society, and either by ambition, fear, folly or corruption, endeavor to grasp themselves, or put into the hands of any other, an absolute power over the lives, liberties and estates of the people, by this breach of trust, THEY [the government officials] FORFEIT THE POWER THE PEOPLE HAD PUT INTO THEIR HANDS...and it devolves to the people, who have a right to resume their original liberty, and...provide for their own safety and security." John Locke Second Essay Concerning Civil Government; pp 75-76, par. 222
These were among the first bedrock principles our Founding Fathers based our Independence, Constitution and Bill of Rights upon, and are solely inarguable. Time has not altered, nor CAN alter these basic tenets of human rights and freedoms, and the gifts of liberty and self-determination we are all blessed with by our Creator.
"The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for, among old parchments or musty records; They are written on the whole of humanity, as with a sunbeam, by the Hand of the Divinity Itself, and cannot be obscured by mortal power."---Alexander Hamilton
"We hold these truths to be self-evident..."
God Bless the United States of America
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Posted on The Tennessean-By Bob Smietana, The Tennessean-On October 1, 2011:
““For the past four years, pastors in Nashville and around the country have tried to pick a fight with the Internal Revenue Service.
The IRS has refused to fight back.
The pastors are challenging an IRS ban on endorsing candidates from the pulpit, which is based on rules that forbid nonprofits from taking part in political campaigns. Preachers say the ban violates their rights to free speech and freedom of religion.
“I don’t want anyone censoring what I say in the pulpit,” said the Rev. Henry Coles of World of Faith Christian Center in Nashville, with a congregation of about 400.
Coles is one of 475 preachers nationwide signed up for Pulpit Freedom Sunday this weekend, according to the Alliance Defense Fund, a Christian legal group based in Scottsdale, Ariz., that organized the event. Most will endorse candidates and then send their sermons to the IRS.
If the IRS investigates them, the Alliance Defense Fund will sue.
“The issue of whether the IRS can censor what a pastor says in the pulpit has never been tested in court,” said Erik Stanley, senior legal counsel for the Alliance Defense Fund.
Clergy should think twice before breaking the law, said Barry Lynn, executive director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State.
“Americans attend church for spiritual guidance, not to get a list of candidates to vote for on Election Day,” Lynn said in a statement.
The ban on nonprofit political endorsements dates to the 1950s. Lyndon B. Johnson was mad at nonprofits that opposed his re-election, so “he rammed these rules through to punish his opponents,” said Richard Hammar, editor ofChurch Law and Tax Report.
The IRS has not punished any pastors involved in Pulpit Freedom events. Hammar said both conservative and liberal churches often ignore the ban without consequences.
The Rev. Steve Hickey, pastor of Church at the Gate in Sioux Falls, S.D., is one of 100 preachers who took part in last year’s event. He believes that if a politician holds a position that conflicts with his faith, it’s his job as a preacher to point that out, no matter what the IRS says.
At least four pastors in Middle Tennessee participated last year. The Alliance Defense Fund declined to list who else in the Nashville area was participating this year.
Frank Sommerville, a Dallas-based attorney who advises nonprofits and churches, said the IRS has not investigated any churches since 2009, after a judge ruled that an investigation of a Minnesota megachurch was invalid. The agency must draft new procedures before launching any new church investigations, Sommerville said.
Even when those rules are in place, he doesn’t expect the IRS to tangle with the Alliance Defense Fund.
“The IRS is never going to be baited into a confrontation with a well-funded, well-lawyered organization,” he said.”
- Contact Bob Smietana at 615-259-8228 or bsmietana@tennessean.com.
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I. Archbishop Warns Obama: You’ll Cause ‘Conflict Between Church and State of Enormous Proportions’!-Posted on CNSNews.com-By Terence P. Jeffrey-On September 29, 2011:
II. Christian Blogger Ordered to Surrender His Guns!-Posted on WND.com-By Joe Kovacs-On September 29, 2011:
http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=349713
III. ObamaCare: "An Assault on Religious Freedom"!-Posted on NewAmerican-By JAMES HEISER-On September 28, 2011:
IV. Vanderbilt University nondiscrimination policy called unfair to religious groups!-Posted on The Tennessean-By Michael Cass and Jennifer Brooks, The Tennessean-On September 27, 2011:
V. Is Prophecy Motivating Fundamentalists to Vote?-Posted on NewAmerican-By JOE WOLVERTON, II-On September 27, 2011:
VI. Moral decline and the end of big ideas!-Posted on The Washington Post-By Francisco Dao-Updated on September 26, 2011:
VII. West Virginia Schools Defend Bible Course Against ACLU!-Posted on Christian Post-By Eryn Sun, Christian Post Reporter-On September 23, 2011:
VIII. Why Christianity is a Religion of Peace and Islam is Not!-Posted on Godfather Politics-By THE GODFATHER-On September 26, 2011:
http://godfatherpolitics.com/1164/why-christianity-is-a-religion-of-peace-and-islam-is-not/
IX. Ex-Muslim Author: Koran Demands ‘Jihad’ & Teaches Believers To ‘Hate’ Christians And Jews!-Posted on The Blaze-By Billy Hallowell-On September 14, 2011:
X. Obama: Screw Easter, Happy Ramadan!-Posted on Floyd Reports-By Ben Johnson, The White House Watch-On August 1, 2011:
http://floydreports.com/obama-screw-easter-happy-ramadan/
XI. Stop Obama’s Attack on Christianity!-Posted on The Patriot Update-By Michael Reagan-On July 16, 2011:
http://patriotupdate.com/articles/stop-obamas-attack-on-christianity
XII. No Separation of Mosque and State!-Posted on NewAmerican-By BRUCE WALKER-On July 12, 2011:
http://www.thenewamerican.com/culture/faith-and-morals/8184-no-separation-of-mosque-and-state
XIII. Liberals, Democrats More Likely to Disbelieve Bible!-Posted on CNSNews.com-By Terence P. Jeffrey-On July 9, 2011:
http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/liberals-democrats-more-likely-disbeliev
XIV. The Great American Awakening!-Posted on MSNBC-By Rep. Jim DeMint-On July 11, 2011:
XV. Obama Wants to Cut God Out of Government!-Posted on Floyd Reports-By Guest Writer-On July 6, 2011:
http://floydreports.com/obama-wants-to-cut-god-out-of-government/
XVI. MSNBC’s Religious Expert Excoriates ‘Radical,’ ‘Theocratic’ Christians Who ‘Hate’ America!-Posted on The Media Research Center-By Scott Whitlock-On July 6, 2011:
http://www.mrc.org/biasalert/2011/20110706051327.aspx
XVII. The Judas Media-Posted on Floyd Reports-Guest Writer-On April 27, 2011:
XVIII. Bible DVDs banned in the UK!-Posted on Blackpool Gazette-On September 27, 2011:
http://www.blackpoolgazette.co.uk/news/local/police_stop_cafe_displaying_bible_passages_1_3811486
XIX. European Politician Calls New Generation To Defend Christianity! -Posted on Business Directory-By George Vogt-On August 4, 2011:
XX. Sarkozy: Mideast Christians victims of 'cleansing': ‘French President makes damning comments following church attacks in Egypt, Iraq.’-Posted on Middle East Online-On January 7, 2011:
http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=43513
Note: My following blog posts contain numerous articles and/or blog posts and videos that relate to this disturbing issue-You Decide:
Faith of Our Forefathers!
http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/05/09/faith-of-our-forefathers/
Godfather of The Islamic Revolution!
http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2011/02/11/godfather-of-the-islamic-revolution/
Massive Voter Fraud-Again!
http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/10/25/massive-voter-fraud-again/
What is the true intent of the UN Small Arms Treaty?
http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/01/12/what-is-the-true-intent-of-the-un-small-arms-treaty/
What Happened to Free Speech?
http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/10/23/what-happened-to-free-speech/
Have the “power elite” and pseudo-experts covertly sold us corruption disguised as freedom?
Does Europe have a future?
http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/05/09/does-europe-have-a-future/
Is it important to understand the Marxist assault on the foundations of our system?
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“Food For Thought”
God Bless the U.S.A.!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q65KZIqay4E&feature=related
Semper Fi!
Jake
Then why did he? Am I next? Where is 'due process'? In the name of 'Stopping Terrorism' does the President have the right to start killing us?
Remember, the Tea Party has been called Terrorists by high powered Politicians including Mr. Joe Biden. Does this mean we are now on the Presidential 'hit list'?
The left has been screaming about Bush and Guantanamo Bay, but did we hunt down and openly kill U.S. Citizens there? NO! Yet, when it is convenient for the Obama administration to kill U.S. Citizens he gets a free pass?
Am I out of my mind? Read this: http://teaparty.org/article.php?id=1408
Sooooo, fellow Tea Partiers, are you next? The Government has already publicly declared you (and myself as well) as terrorists.
Question: What is the Tea Party going to do about this killing?
Shall we: Endorse, Object or just look the other way?
....and your answer is:_____________________________
O.k. what I'm hearing is this 'terrorist' deserved to die and OBTW he was also a U.S. Citizen, so in the end his killing was justified, without Due-Process.
The last time a President ordered a killing of a U.S. Citizen was during the Civil War and that was done by President Lincoln.
Lets follow the logic:
X. it's o.k. to kill a terrorist who is a U.S. Citizen if he/she is on foreign soil doing terrorist acts.
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X. it's o.k. to kill a terrorist who is a U.S. Citizen if he/she is doing terrorist acts.
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X. it's o.k. to kill a terrorist who is a U.S. Citizen if he/she is planning terrorist acts.
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X. it's o.k. to kill a terrorist who is a U.S. Citizen if he/she is a terrorist.
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X. the government decides who is a terrorist.
Questions?
OBTW - Tea Party = Terrorist