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California State Government is out of control

I am a small business woman in Truckee, California engaged in the sale of home furnishings and accessories.Let me tell you about the state of the economy here in Truckee. We suffer from severe unemployment and a housing market that has been devastated. Our main shopping street is littered with vacant and boarded up store fronts symbolic of hard working small business men and women who could no longer hold on.Now let me tell you how the State of California is helping small business in California deal with this ever shrinking economy and the expanding hardships experienced by small business.On Thursday, August 5, an agent from the State of California Department of Consumer Affairs entered my store and proceeded to inspect labels on upholstered furniture on my showroom floor. She then announced she was taking a $1,300.00 club chair with her to Sacramento for testing. The chair she zeroed in on is manufactured by an American owned and operated company in Marshfield, Wisconsin. I told her all the safety labels required for compliance with California regulations were clearly visible on the chair. She agreed. Yes, they were all present. HOWEVER, SHE WAS TAKING THE CHAIR ANYWAY BECAUSE SHE THOUGHT IT OUGHT TO BE RETESTED. Can someone tell me, what is the point of all the required state labels if that is not sufficient to satisfy the state? This agent certainly could not.I telephoned the agency in Sacramento to verify the credentials of this agent. I was told, yes, she was an agent and had every right to take the chair. I then asked the agent in the store when I could expect the chair to be returned. In a flippant and unconcerned manner, I was told THE CHAIR WOULD NEVER BE RETURNED BUT IN FACT WOULD BE BURNED “TO PROTECT THE PEOPLE OF CALIFORNIA”. When I asked who was to reimburse me for the chair this bureaucrat told me to file an insurance claim. Now there is a clever idea.I then telephoned the manufacturer and was told the chair was in compliance with California consumer protection laws. The product had been tested and was properly labeled. While on the telephone speaking with the company this state bureaucrat shoves a copy of the state regulations in front of me in which she has highlighted in shocking pink the following: “No person shall interfere with, obstruct or otherwise hinder any inspector of the bureau or the departments division of investigation in the performance of his or her duties”. Can you imagine, my telephone call to the manufacturer suggested to her that I was interfering in her duties and in the middle of my conversation required immediate attention to her highlighted regulations? Well, let’s add some intimidation to the help we can expect from the State of California. IF ANYONE SHOULD HAVE BEEN CONCERNED ABOUT INTERFERENCE IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN ME. THIS AGENT WAS ABOUT TO CONFISCATE MY PERSONAL PROPERTY AND COULD NOT EVEN SUPPLY ME WITH A REASONABLE ANSWER AS TO WHY.She proceeded to confiscate the chair. By the way, on her way out she thanked me for my cooperation in helping her protect the people of California. Interestingly, she left all the other furniture produced by this manufacturer on the showroom floor. I guess these pieces did not present a hazard to the people of California from which they needed protection!I am a small business struggling to succeed in a continually dwindling customer base and ever shrinking economy. I take pride in finding American manufacturers to showcase in my store. I do not seek or receive any form of government assistance to operate my business. What I do get from the State of California is a bureaucrat with the regulatory power to confiscate and destroy my personal property without due process. If that is not emblematic of an abuse of discretion what is?My lease expires December 31, 2010. This sort of experience hardly motivates me to continue. Should I choose to close my business the consequences are obvious: another boarded up store front, more names added to the unemployed, a reduction in orders to manufacturers for goods and services, and the list goes on.A small store in Truckee may seem insignificant but this incident is indicative of the arrogance and condescension of government bureaucrats who abuse their discretion under the guise of protecting the people of the State of California.There are governments around the world that confiscate private property without due process. I never dreamed I was living in one. Today a chair, tomorrow a gun, and then what?I do not need this kind of destructive protection, interference in my ability to make a living, and the unreasonable confiscation of my personal property. This is one state employee California could do without. I understand more and more every day the attraction of the Tea Party movement to millions of Americans.Deborah Maloof
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Michael Savage, Still Banned From Britian

A Savage Injustice in Great Britain

"Whether you listen to him or not, or consider yourself a fan or not, radio talk show host Michael Savage has been the victim of a graveinjustice by the British government. He has literally been told that hecannot enter the United Kingdom based on what he has said. The Britspride themselves on being an open-minded and tolerant lot. Heck, theyare willing to accept outrageous sermons by angry mullahs in Britain,all on the grounds of free speech. Well, free speech apparently stopswith Michael Savage.


You can object to some of the things Savage has said over the years. But you can say the same about the British press.

Jaqui Smith, Home Secretary of Great Britain issued a list of people banned from entry into the country. Savage is on that list…..along withmembers of violent terrorist organizations and murderers.

Says Ms. Smith: “If people have so clearly overstepped the mark in terms of the way not just that they are talking but the sort ofattitudes that they are expressing to the extent that we think that thisis likely to cause or have the potential to cause violence orinter-community tension in this country, then actually I think the rightthing is not to let them into the country in the first place. Not toopen the stable door then try to close it later.” She concluded: “It’s aprivilege to come to this country. There are certain behaviors thatmean you forfeit that privilege.”

Excuse me, but what evidence is there that Savage has ever caused violence? Which of Savage’s ”behaviors” is she talking about?

It’s pretty clear that Savage is on the list because the British government, wanting to prevent certain jihadists from entering thecountry to preach violence and terrorism, were desperately looking for a“moral equivalent” that they could prop up as proof that they are notanti-Muslim. In Savage they found a convenient person. But to compareSavage to jihadists is ridiculous. Has he ever called for theassassination of anyone? Has he ever conspired with others to bomb ahouse or blow up an airliner? I don’t even need to answer thosequestions. We all know the answer.

Great Britain needs to reverse itself and prove that it still believes in freedom of speech."


A year later, Savage is still banned from entering Britain.

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The Truth

From A Muslim’s Love Affair: “Obama himself agrees with Muslim fanaticism as normal, as a form of nationalism, and thus protected speech, protected expression, because, again, Obama "once studied the Koran with them."

I’m an Aquarian water-bearer with this message today:

Glenn Beck says, speaking of journalists, “if they ever care to redeem their soul, and actually look into the corruption and things that are going on in the administration, this administration will be exposed as the most corrupt on all times.”

In light of what Beck says, think on this: The political spin doctor Imam Faesal Abdul Rauf, who is on the U. S. payroll, says Osama bin Laden was made in the U. S. and that U.S. law is Sharia law (Allah’s law) compliant, the idea being that the Islamic terrorist threat would go away if the American people would only accept Rauf’s (and Obama’s) Islamic truth.

President Obama maintains that under America’s law Muslims have the “legal right” to build a Mosque near ground zero. America’s leftists agree. Obama and America’s leftists also agree that by redistributing America’s wealth worldwide peace could be maintained. By his words and deeds, Obama does not accept American traditional law—the individual’s inalienable or God-given rights. Obama believes in redistribution—take from the rich and give to the poor: Marxism. In order for Obama and America’s leftists to accomplish their lawless goals, they must rewrite the Constitution—“transform” America, according to Obama. Now we know.

Keep in mind that Hitler was legal. Obama is granting Muslims the “legal right” to build a Mosque near ground zero. According to Black’s Law Dictionary, it is not their “lawful right.” Legal is merely a form of law. “Thus ‘legal fraud’ is fraud implied or inferred by law, or made out by construction.” To be lawful, according to Black’s Law Dictionary, the law must be ethical and have substance. The judges at the Nuremburg trials did not accept the idea of a “legal right” to murder 6,000,000 Jews. Many leftists and Muslims don’t have a problem with that, if, in their estimation, it is for the good of all. For the good of all, understand, supersedes inalienable rights.

Who knows best what is for the good of all? By construction, according to Rauf, Allah knows and you don’t question Allah. In other words, you don’t question Rauf. Likewise, you don’t question Obama, or leftists; that is, if you are easily influenced and want to do the right thing. It means you are of the Piscean personality, according to Astrologer’s Handbook, can’t make up your mind, non-combative, and will generally suffer injury than fight for your rights. “They (Pisceans) must learn to stand alone and face the unknown with a simple faith.”

The U. S. Constitution has for its background Higher Law, “simple faith,” which the most corrupt of all presidents, Obama and his leftist revolutionary friends do not accept. Both Obama and the forked tongue spokesman for the United States, Islam’s Imam Rauf, want to ignore the fact that Islam is responsible for terrible brutality and death. Typical for Obama, he refuses to comment on the wisdom of a Mosque near ground zero. This snake in the grass speaks in platitudes and then lowers the boom. Look out! With no explanation, clearly, the American people are being asked, for the sake of peace—peace at any price—to accept Islam. This is the guy who frequently speaks favorably for Islam. What is it going to be when Iran has the atom bomb? Obama is selling out America. In Black’s Law Dictionary, a traitor is defined as one who, being trusted, betrays.

On earth as it is in heaven, we are leaving the Age of Pisces, an age when people have been responsive to authority. They have not had strong wills. We are entering the Age of Aquarius. Aquarian people have much spiritual energy. They believe in the individual—therefore “Higher Law.” They are stubborn in this belief. They hate hypocrisy. They believe in equals among equals. They are independent.

This is a time of upheaval, and prophesized. According to philosopher and cultural historian Richard Tarnas in Cosmos and Psyche, a time of “epochal closure: the end of an era, the end of innocence, the destruction of an earlier mode of life that in retrospect may seem to have been marked by widespread indulgence.”

It is now your choice. You can either let Obama and Islam lead your thinking or accept “Higher Law.” The truth will set you free.

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History-Changers Fool

Some Americans ALL the Time

That great American philosopher Forrest Gump once said, “Stupid is as stupid does,” in other words not by their words but by their deeds do we know who people actually are. The next time you hear someone who loves America called a racist, sexist, or a fascist or whatever, by the left wing progressives or the liberal media remember, that despite all their efforts to change history the Democratic Party is . . .

. . . the party of slavery which justified the practice as “economic necessity” for the plantation system of cotton- and tobacco-growing.

. . . the party of slavery which forbid Black’s learning to read.

. . . the party of slavery which condoned White males raping Black women.

. . . the party of slavery which insisted upon creating new slave states as the young nation expanded westward, just to keep themselves in power.

. . . the party of Robert E. Lee who summarily hung John Brown for freeing slaves.

. . . the party of flogging slaves for minor violations; and hanging them for trying to get their freedom.

. . . the party of selling slaves for profit and breaking up their families.

. . . the party of Jefferson Davis who presided over the Confederacy which was created to keep slavery intact and inviolate.

. . . the party of the Ku Klux Klan.

. . . the party of Dred Scott and allowing slave-chasers to pursue runaways into northern states.

. . . the party of Jim Crow laws for almost 100 years.

. . . the party of ‘separate but equal’ for almost 100 years.

. . . the party of lynching.

. . . the party supporting honor killings by husbands of unfaithful wives.

. . . the party of Woodrow Wilson, the greatest racist who ever occupied the White House.

. . . the party of D.W. Griffith, the racist film-maker who premiered his racist masterpiece “Birth of a nation for Wilson in the White House.

. . . the party of Woodrow Wilson, who first created the idea of propaganda and proved to be the most Fascist president in American history jailing those who talked against his administration; closing down newspapers opposed to his agenda.

. . . the party of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who prolonged an ordinary downturn 8 ½ years (until the Second World War saved the economy) into a GREAT Depression.

. . . the party that segregated the armed forces under Wilson.

. . . the party of FDR who forced people to relinquish gold at $20.76 an ounce and then raised the price of gold to $35 per ounce effectively stealing 61% of all private wealth for the government.

. . . the party of Richard Cloward, Frances Piven and George Wiley who deliberately used Cloward-Piven Strategy to bankrupt New York City and just missed bankrupting New York State.

. . . the party of Wade Rathke (Wiley’s lieutenant) who created ACORN and the SEIU and sought to use ACORN to get what Wiley’s National Welfare Rights Organization could not: guaranteed national income.

. . . the party of Jimmy Carter who created the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA ’77) which required mortgage companies to make very bad loans that ACORN could take advantage of.

. . . the party of the Black Panthers as clearly Fascist a group as the last half of the 20th Century ever created

. . . the party of Bill Clinton, the first ACORN president, who oversaw three expansions of CRA ’77 and creation of the Motor Voter Act which he signed in a ceremony with Cloward and Piven standing directly behind him.

. . . the party of ACORN which used the weak Motor Voter Act to attempt all sorts of voting fraud.

. . . the party of ACORN which used the various CRA ’77 expansions to get zero-down payment $300,000 homes for people without ID; people without jobs; people who listed food stamps as “income”; people with horrific credit ratings; people without even a rental history; people on welfare; illegal aliens; and all manner of people who had NO hope of ever repaying their home loans.

. . . the party of Barack Obama who worked parts of three years as an ACORN attorney brow-beating and shaking-down lenders who tried to avoid making bad loans to deadbeat clients . . . Barack Obama who slashed the brake lines and fouled up the steering cables that put our national economy “in the ditch.”

. . . the party of ultra-left progressives who jumped all over George W. Bush for firing U.S. attorneys that refused to prosecute voter fraud; voter intimidation and to investigate allegations of Motor Voter Act discrepancies.

. . . the party of Barack Obama, a community organizer who taught classes in Saul Alinsky’s “Rules for radicals” in conjunction with ACORN.

. . . the party of Obama appointee Deputy Attorney General Julie Fernandez, who dropped the case of the New Black Panthers intimidating White voters in Philadelphia and threatening a Black poll watcher with a beating; who also instructed Department of Justice (DOJ) employees NOT to pursue cases of voter intimidation or other crimes against Black perpetrators if the victims were White; and instructed DOJ employees to cease investigations of Motor Voter Act discrepancies “because that will just lower turnout.”

. . . the party of Barack Obama who gave us in one law (Obamacare) almost 390 new government agencies.

. . . etc., etc., ad nauseum.

Ya’all live long, strong and ornery,

Rajjpuut

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Power and Control

On Obama’s stand of a mosque on hallowed ground, legal analyst Stephen Eichler asks if the First Amendment backs him. Does it allow for an Islamic theocracy in America? The Koran states: “He it is Who has sent His Messenger (Muhammad) with guidance and the religion of truth to make victorious over all religions even though the Mushrekan (pagans and idolators) hate.” Islam’s “Holy War” against the United States is responsible for the monstrous crime that took the lives of thousands of innocents. And now America’s president calls it an American value to mock American values?

Obama has said that he wants to transform America. He has apologized to the Muslim world for the mistakes America’s government has made, and now this. In Black’s Law Dictionary, we read the definition of a traitor. “One who, being trusted, betrays; one guilty of treason.” Treason: “The offense of attempting by overt acts to overthrow the government of the state to which the offender owes allegiance; or of betraying the state into the hands of a foreign power. Treason consists of two elements: Adherence to the enemy, and rendering him aid and comfort.”

In the name of common sense, if the American people allow Obama to have his way, we do not deserve to be free.

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NATIONAL WALK YOUR DOG IN FRONT OF A MOSQUE DAY!Pass this along.SEPT 11 2010, on the anniversary of the twin towers.Jim Crow Law err Shariah Law has placed taboos on Dogs, Pigs and Monkeys.These taboos are taken very seriously. If you are a patriotic, Loyal American who loves and cares for Dogs, pigs or Monkeysthen you have a responsibility to walk your family members in front of a Mosque on SEPT the 11th 2010.Preferably on a daily basis for many generations, but as a NATIONAL EVENT every 11th of SEPT.In protest against the building of a Mosque on hallowed groundIn protest against the attack in 2001In protest against the racism of Islam against Non-Muslims inside the Islamic Empire.NATIONAL WALK YOUR DOG IN FRONT OF A MOSQUE DAY! 11 SEPT 2010.The crusades have begun,pass this along.This is how the Pride Parades got their start!impromptu protest marches against the oppressions of The Democratic Party.This is what we must now do. I am no supporter of Protest Culture, however I have had enough! Have you?Walk your Dog, Pig or monkey in front of your nearest Mosque on SEPT 11 2010.Carry the true Cross of Christ,Fly your Israeli Flags in abundance,Carry a statue of the Buddha, or perform an excorcism but what ever you do be there.The Crusades have begun!Vive la résistancePope Urban II

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On Power and Control

Admittedly, I’m on a different wave-length than most of today’s Americans. People can’t follow my thinking. At last my own wife follows it, but she says enough after two minutes of it. She hates to hear it. It is frightening. It goes with the territory of Aquarius rising. Having said this, after reading more in the book I’ve mentioned that an unknown sent me, The Great Controversy: The Storm is Coming, with its front cover pictures of the Statue of Liberty and the U. S. Capital building, sending a message of power and control opposing American constitutional liberties, something I write about, coincidentally, a message in the Bible the author of the subject book teaches, only in vastly different terms than mine—his terms, literally in the terms of the ancient writers of the Bible, mine in the terms of cutting edge science and what comes to my mind after reading the Bible—the end result being the same as the author’s ideas: the power and control we Americans are experiencing is “the mark of the beast.”

In the face of this, we read that “House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is suggesting a coordinated effort is behind the opposition to a proposed mosque and community center near Ground Zero, saying the whole dispute has been ‘ginned up’ for political purposes and she supports a probe into those opponents.” Everyone wonders what’s on her mind. What’s her motive in this? The Muslim imam, who is pushing for the mosque, holds to the idea that Osama bin Laden was made in the U.S. I follow that line of thought, but not Osama bin Laden’s line of thought, or the Muslim imam’s thoughts, or Nancy Pelosi’s creature from the lost lagoon thoughts. She ought to be psychologically investigated. It would surely be determined that she is limited to lower animal intelligence, a freak of nature. Even Sen. Harry Reid, due to the fact that he is about to be replaced, says the mosque should be somewhere else. But don’t believe anything Reid says. He speaks with forked tongue.

Given what Pelosi said, I reason that this Muslim imam is obviously in cahoots with enemy powers within America. I’m suspicious that it is a political plot of Muslim and U.S. revolutionaries behind which thoughts is power and control. It is those who are out to divide up the world—egomaniacs—they will do whatever it takes. Given the evidence of their insidious plot to take out America, who knows what backroom double dealing is behind this Pelosi idea of investigation? Whatever, it surely isn’t in Jewish interests. Barack Obama’s philosophy and Muslim theology are too cozy for comfort. He’s leaving the Jewish homeland imperiled and America wide open for mass killing. Moreover, Obama’s “transformation” turns out to be hate America thinking. He maintains the Constitution gives America’s individuals “negative liberties.” We find that Obama is for the good of all; the end result justifies the means: Roosevelt’s legacy. He’s letting Iran build the nuclear bomb. He apologizes for U. S. policies in the Mid-East in the past. It was Muslim terrorists who took down the World Trade Center and killed thousands of people. Obama refuses to call them what they are. He calls them, instead, “enemy combatants.” Yea, right! Bottom line: anything against American values is good.

In nature, big fish thrive on little fish. Might makes right. It’s the so-called law of the jungle now in practice in America: to be exact, Obama and Pelosi law. We are taught in America of an “Almighty God in Heaven,” which Obama calls collective thinking. Yea, right! In The Great Controversy, Obama’s thinking is called “the sign of the beast.” There is an “Almighty Allah” in Paradise in the Middle-East. Both Obama thinking and Islamic thinking are manmade, both opposing the U.S. Constitution, the idea behind the Declaration of Independence, and the emblem of American freedom, the Statue of Liberty. This imam wants Sharea law, the law of Islam, which gives woman zero rights. Yes, the imam was right when he said Osama bin Laden was made in the United States. It is “the sign of the beast,” or as Islam calls it, “the Great Satin.” A mosque near ground zero would be a great Islamic victory. It would show America up for what she has become, the most successful nation on earth, the work of the devil. It would make Obama bin Laden an Islamic hero, and as well, Hitler and Mao heros to place a mosque near ground zero. This is exactly what President Obama, a disguised South of the Border dictator, wants. He wants power and control, the “mark of the beast.” In the book, The Storm is Coming, The “mark of the beast,” namely Obama, Pelosi and colleagues, these are the people who need to be investigated, my friends. This debate should not go away. It should be discussed from now until election day, that we might send Obama, Pelosi and colleagues back to where they came from.

Yea, I know, I’m on a different wave length. I ask myself, “what is wrong with the American people? Why are they not up to speed?” My ideas come from within. The idea put forth in The Great Controversy, of big, powerful external control, so-to-speak the “mark of the beast”—or a mosque at ground zero—it doesn’t work; its aim is to divide and conquer; it’s crazy thinking.

There is no “Almighty” in Heaven or Paradise. There is a God-self. That works! The external “Almighty Collective,” leads to individual enslavement. What I read in the Scriptures is that we are all God’s children. There is scientific proof that I am right. Also, I’m right about this: there is an Age of Aquarius, the idea of on earth as it is in Heaven—what Jesus preached: we are our brother’s keeper. Yet here we are at the threshold of a great future afraid to step across. Wake up, America! Your days of freedom are numbered.

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New York City has been seriously endangered by terrorists three times in the last 43 years, but most Americans only know about two of those attacks. In a related story, two days ago, Timothy Geithner, did tw0 things the Obama administration has shied markedly away from . . . he spoke the truth and he praised George W. Bush . . . therein lies a tale . . . .

Our country has been under serious attack from within for at least 44 years. Two Columbia University socialists Richard Cloward and Frances Piven published an article on their “Cloward-Piven Strategy” in a 1966 article in “The Nation,” "The Weight of the Poor: A Strategy to End Poverty" argued that many Americans who were eligible for welfare were not receiving benefits, and that a welfare enrollment drive would create a political crisis that would force U.S. politicians, particularly the Democratic Party, to enact legislation "establishing a guaranteed national income.” Their ideas were based upon those from two books of Saul Alinsky the infamous self-avowed Neo-Marxist community organizer from Chicago. More on Cloward and Piven later . . . .

Those of you who have read Alinsky’s horror masterpiece “Rules for Radicals” know that the main progressive trick is to relentlessly stay on the attack while creating situations in which they’re perceived to have the moral high ground (at least by their own activists and the left-leaning very sympathetic media). Where will they attack? Anywhere that a perception or an actual weakness can be found. Back about March 20, 2007, Dick Morris wrote a great editorial blog that day, three leading progressive Democratic spokespersons were on the attack against Republicans, totally unfairly in retrospect, but George W. Bush and the Republicans around him seemingly went “quietly into that dark night” and refused to defend themselves except in the most milquetoasty of ways.

The four main areas of progressive attack at that time were all bogus 1) supposed corrupt individuals (Stephens and Delay were eventually cleared); 2) Iraq the unwinnable war and the “War on Terror” in general; 3) the economy; and 4) the dismissal of a set of United States Attorneys. Truth fought for resolutely in these four areas might have changed today’s situation dramatically. This fourth situation was the least important at the time but has become very important today. Let’s look at all four of these problem areas more closely . . . .

#1 Nancy Pelosi made a big deal about “draining the swamp” but today the truth can finally be appreciated. Of about six corrupt Democrats that ought to have been in her gunsights only two are now looking at ethics trials. As for the main Republicans, Delay was finally cleared just last week after never seriously being at risk, Stephens died in a plane accident in southeast Alaska, being cleared a few months after losing the election for his senate seat. Most importantly, the loss of Stephens’ senate seat in a very close election in 2008, has allowed the Obama agenda to do an incredible amount of damage by providing that all-important 60-40 cushion. The Republican Party, not having its own truly active ethics policemen on the one hand (a failing that needs to be corrected immediately); giving every “appearance” of inpropriety on the other hand; and not standing behind its members on the third hand allowed this to happen in utterly wimp-like fashion. Truth alone is not enough to ensure that necessary conservative values like fiscal-conservativism and Constitutional conservativism will win the day, Truth needs to be defended energetically.

#2 Bush did NOT mount a spirited defense of his approach in Iraq (the “Surge” or “New Way Forward” was now two months old) generally speaking he remained mum although the news was almost immediately good. While there is much to be recommended in an approach of “under-promise and over-deliver” in comparison with the inanities of the opposite Obama-like notion of HYPE-HYPE-HYPE and more HYPE over-promising and dramatically under-delivering . . . you’ve got to communicate! For example, Rajjpuut saw a History Channel exclusive on the very day of the bus bombings in London that revealed the incredible successes of the U.S. War in Terror and how they were brought about (of perhaps 500 great success stories they admittedly covered only 14-15 in the segment, but it was impressive!). Now clearly, one does NOT want the CIA revealing its most impressive tactics, but for several years of outstanding work being reduced to a 90-minute show on the History Channel (does anyone besides Rajjpuut watch the History Channel) is definitely NOT getting the record of success across. Just revealing once every couple months the nature of some success stories (perhaps themselves six months old) that would have been helpful but instead we got nothing. Compare that preferred approach with the demoralizing “rely on luck”/man-caused disasters/ and “there is NO war on terror” strategems that seem to highlight the Obama approach and you get the picture.

#3 NOT getting the truth about the ECONOMY out to the American people was Bush’s biggest failing and its evils are plaguing us still today. In November, 2003, James Stack of investech.com revealed a graph he called the “Housing Industry Bubble” (housing prices had soared, yes, but stocks in the housing industry had risen an amazing 1300% in a relatively short time) and began talking about a coming “sub-prime lending crisis.” We had ample warning, you see. Bush and the Republicans saw the problem within a year themselves and sought to correct things with a bill in January, 2005 that would have undone most of the steroid-like ills brought about by the 1998 final version of mortgage-guarantee legislation. They were defeated.

Finally in July of 2007, enough Democrats agreed that a problem existed to pass a heavily-diluted law based upon their January, 2005 efforts. It proved to be way too little, way too late, but it did enough good that Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner recognized two days ago that Bush had saved our bacon. Without Bush’s administration passing that law, Geithner said, the recession would have been much, much deeper and housing prices would have dropped far, far lower. Americans that watch FOX News find this out three years later, most Americans inundated by the mainstream media (MSM) will never find this out . . . much like the successes in the war on terrorism, this underlines a severe problem with simple communication.

More importantly, Bush did NOT use the bully-pulpit of the presidency to expose the facts behind the economic threats facing the nation in January, 2005 when they first tried to pass their bill and stop the sub-prime lending crisis in its tracks . . . it’s a long and sordid tale that needed to be told (besides the two attacks on the World Trade Center in 1992 and then on 9/11/2001 by Islamist extremists, American terrorists attacked the city between 1967 and 1975) Bush and his administration and conservatives in general failed us by NOT informing everyday Americans about this internal attack and its continuing endangerment to our system and our people:

A. Cloward-Piven and George Wiley in 1967 create the National Welfare Rights Organization to implement C-P Strategy and bring about their “Guaranteed National Income.” They put almost seven million newbies onto the welfare rolls and by 1975 New York City is bankrupt and required a federal government bailout; New York State just missed bankruptcy. Cloward, Piven and Wiley did not achieve a guaranteed national income but they proclaim success publicly and on his mentors’ advice, Wiley moves to attack weaknesses in voter registration and housing as the next focal area for “manufactured crisis” strategy. He doesn’t have long to wait.

B. Jimmy Carter sweeps into office with a wave of progressive Democrats in November, 1976. In 1977 they pass the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA ’77) which for the first time requires really bad home loans be granted. Thankfully, it’s a very poorly crafted law and lenders can sidestep it fairly easily. Some background: Americans between 1946 and 1998 had the highest home ownership in the world 62-65%, the system is the envy of the whole planet. Only one in 404 loans in 1975 is made with 3% or LESS downpayment. ACORN is established in Arkansas in 1977 by a George Wiley lieutenant named Wade Rathke (later he’ll start up the SEIU union) and immediatedly moves into voter registration and housing and by 1980 becomes a chief backer of Bill Clinton, who’ll become the first ACORN president.

C. By 1985 only 1 in 198 home loans in the country have been made with less than 3% down payment. ACORN isn’t having much success but they’re patiently refining their C-P and Alinsky shakedown approach. Soon lenders will, as a matter of course, accept the “necessity” of making horrifically bad loans to recipients with virtually no chance of ever repaying their mortgages.

D. In 1992, George H. W. Bush fails to veto a bill with an expansion in CRA ’77 to Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac even though he detests the idea. Why? It’s a small part of a much larger bill. A horrible example of why large, complicated bills can be so dangerous. Bush only was over-ridden on one of his 44 vetoes during his four-year term, too bad he didn’t make it 45 vetoes, eh? ACORN now has something to bite on and things get rapidly worse for the country from this point forward.

E. Bill Clinton sweeps into office. He immediately gets the Motor Voter Act passed with Cloward and Piven standing right behind him during the signing ceremony (a photo of which you can find in about twenty places on the internet).

F. A community organizer in Chicago named Barack Obama begins working as a lawyer for ACORN in late ’94 and immediately begins shaking-down home lenders in the area. In ’95, Bill Clinton gets two expansions to the CRA ’77 mortgage-guarantee idea passed. Meanwhile ACORN has learned its craft now a horrific 1/7 of all home loans are made with less than 3% down payment and Freddy and Fannie are on the hook.

G. Bill Clinton gets his ’98 expansion of mortgage-guarantee law passed putting the whole system on steroids. ACORN goes into overdrive shaking down lenders so that people without ID; people without jobs; people claiming foodstamps as “income”; people with horrific credit ratings; people without rental history; people on welfare; and illegal immigrants qualify for home loans . . . many of them “qualify for $500,000 homes. This is 1998, by 2005, 1/3 of all home loans will be made with less than 3% down payments.

In November, 2003, James Stack of investech.com starts publishing his “Housing Industry Bubble” chart and warning of the impending sub-prime lending crisis and you know the rest . . . however, you know it NOW; why didn’t the conservatives warn us over and over and over and over again until Americans got the picture . . . even if voters didn’t take it seriously at first, it would certainly have explained a lot of things later, no? So we have a literal provable and obvious case of two internal terrorist attacks on the USA; the bankruptcy of NYC in 1975 and the financial collapse of 2007 and the Republican Party did NOT have the wherewithal to put them both before the voters for as long as it took????

#4 Let’s talk about a less complicated and less dire example of the progressives’ ability to manipulate truth and create havoc, but one that's very important right now . . . we can use it as a good example of how they work and of what Bush did wrong . . . .

Today, Attorney General Eric Holder and the Obama Department of Justice, under Obama’s appointee Deputy Attorney General Julie Fernandez, is perhaps the most dangerous organization in the government. Without belaboring the point they might steal the 2010 and 2012 elections. For example, the dropping of the already won case of voter intimidation against the New Black Panthers actions in November, 2008 in Philadelphia; the oral order from Fernandez to a roomful of DOJ employees not to prosecute cases where the victims are White and the perpetrators Black; and worst of all, instructions from Fernandez that the DOJ “had no interest in allegations of Motor Voter Law improprieties because that’ll just reduce turnout.” Tie all that into ACORN’s activities and you see we could have a problem at the voting booths. Let’s talk about Bush’s problem . . . .

A surprising example of the impotence of the Bush Administration arose with the dismissal of a bunch of U.S. Attorneys. An immediate, prolonged and vociferous attack on the Administration was mounted by the leftist Democrats. It was also a totally-fabricated and phony “scandal” which the Bush Administration met with a whiny half-hearted defense, cowardly backtracking and concessions instead of forthrightly counter-attacking with full exposure of the underlying lies. Bottom line, the Bush DOJ was immaculate compared to today’s Kangaroo operation under Obama. Let’s refresh your memory . . . .

First of all, the DOJ has the legitimate power and authority to dismiss U.S. Attorneys at any time for any reasonable cause . . . or even without cause. There is no civil servant U.S. Attorney class who got their on merit by passing an exam. They are a part of the executive branch and are assigned by the Attorney General to work prosecuting different areas as the Administration in power sees fit. And what exactly did the EMPLOYEES in question do that caused them to be removed? They all pulled Julie Fernandez-like incompetencies! That’s right it seems they all deliberately went light on prosecuting or even pursuing voter fraud cases. They were removed and replaced with attorneys that the DOJ assigned to vigorously prosecute the voter fraud statutes, such as they are (conservatives in 1993 called Clinton’s Motor Voter Act a “license for voter fraud”). A President has the right without qualms to remove any person who serves at his pleasure. Can a president be unethical in doing so? Of course, think of Richard Nixon and his attorneys general and special prosecutors. Was that the case in Bush’s firings? Not on your life. And, like namby-pamby teddy bears the Administration hemmed and hawed like school boys caught with a Playboy hidden in their history text.

Conservatives, Libertarians (like Ol’ Rajjpuut) and Independents have been

very unhappy campers in this country for quite awhile, most of the time they

find themselves voting Republican and biting their tongues or voting for an

ineffectual 3rd Party. The Republican Party has not stood by their promise of

fiscal conservativism and Constitutional conservativism for the most part and when they actually did, they’ve proven virtually gutless in the process.

Why Bush, Rove, AG Gonzalez, etc. didn’t take the moral high ground and on a case by case basis expose the crucial type of cases these attorneys were refusing to prosecute is anybody’s guess . . . but it amounted to INCOMPETENCE. Truth is not enough. TRUTH NEEDS TO BE MADE OBVIOUS AND TO BE DEFENDED VIGOROUSLY! Hopefully, today’s conservatives have the stomach to do the hard work for as long as it takes until our nation is once again free.

Ya’ll live long, strong and ornery,

Rajjpuut

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Rajjpuut's Folly: The Devils, You Say!

Three Leftist Books Every Informed

American Voter Should Read

Saul Alinsky: “Rules for Radicals”

Wade Rathke: “Citizen Wealth: Winning the Campaign to Save Working Families”

http://www.gopublius.com/HCT/HillaryClintonThesis.pdf

#1

And the “last shall be first” it’s said, so we’ll begin by looking at Hillary Clinton’s Honor Thesis “There is Only the Fight . . .” An Analysis of the Alinsky Model. Not too much needs be said, the work speaks for itself. Alinsky is clearly a personal hero and Clinton fawns over him and his books “Reville for Radicals” and “Rules** for Radicals” like a blushing high school freshman. Both Alinsky and Hillary Rodham were native Chicagoans. Young Ms. Rodham interviewed Alinsky twice and was even offered a job by Alinsky but ultimately turned him down and went to law school instead. But her worship is, nevertheless TRUE LOVE, equating Alinsky in the summation with Martin Luther King, Jr. and Walt Whitman saying, “. . . each embraced that most radical of political faiths: Democracy.”

In this she appears willfuly ignorant that the country (which she said Alinsky was such a patriot of) is a Republic and that the methods Alinsky espouses are all “power plays” rather than having any basis in integrity or honor. Democracy to Alinsky means tyranny of the masses, or at least the tyranny of all those Alinsky can mass together for a demonstration. Alinsky calls himself a Marxist and, of course, Marxism seeks to replace the American Constitution more or less with “Das Kapital.” Rodham does mention numerous inconsistencies that she implied made her head swim (“After spending a year trying to make sense of his inconsistency, I need three years of legal rigor” she described her turning down Alinsky’s job offer and heading off instead to law school). But she clearly admires Alinsky’s practical power in making things happen for the poor and yet is taken aback by notions that the ends justify the means and other inconsistencies. So unlike the Marxist ideologue Barack Obama who was raised a Communist from birth, Hillary Clinton, nee Rodham shows she’s been exposed to a another ethical approach to government.

This is why Clinton is so dangerous. Unlike the true believer and foreign-developed Marxist Barack Obama (who must act in pre-catalogued ways in accord with Das Kapital), Clinton is an American-developed semi-Marxist who like her husband really has a feel for American institutions and traditions. Expect Hillary Clinton to run for president in 2012 or expect Bill Clinton to do a body transplant into her body and run again that way. In any case we haven’t heard all there is to say from the Clintons and that is one great reason that reading this thesis is highly recommended by Rajjpuut.

#2

Wade Rathke: Citizen Wealth: Winning the Campaign to Save Working Families is a recent book written by the founder of ACORN and SEIU and a lieutenant of George Wiley (who along with Cloward and Piven bankrupt NYC between 1968 and 1975). His latest imperatives? A. Using the internet to accelerate the demise of capitalism. B. “The Maximum Eligible Participation Solution” which is nothing more than an updated but apparently not improved (Thank God!) version of Cloward-Piven Strategy relying upon the ultra-leftist politicians to create some stupid program which the ultra-radicals on the street can abuse to every thinking person’s lament.

Mostly the book is a hodge-podge of community-organizer war stories with a bit of his perspective of “the future of community-organization.” Interestingly, Rathke has thus far defied ACORN’s recent firing of him and still works with three of their affiliate organizations (the ACORN name has been changed on Rathke’s orders to COI for Community Organizations International). Rathke’s brother Dale was involved in nearly $1 million worth of embezzlement from ACORN over many years and it appears that Wade covered-up the scandal for at least eight years – ah me, trouble in Utopia.

Anyone who reads this book has super-fodder for contradicting doubters who refuse to believe in Cloward-Piven and their plots and even in the bankruptcy of NYC by Rathke’s mentor George Wiley.

#3

Saul Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals” is a small book with a big wallop. Starting out with the book’s dedication (to the devil no less!) through its repeated emphasis that the end justifies the means . . . one gets the picture quickly here: these are nasty people. Remember Hillary Clinton read it and wrote her thesis on it; Barack Obama read it and later taught a class in Rules for Radicals as well as practicing its tenets as an ACORN lawyer shaking down mortgage companies; Richard Cloward and Frances Piven read it and created their infamous Cloward-Piven Strategy. A must read for anyone interested in preventing progressive takeover of the USA.

Ya’all live long, strong and ornery,

Rajjpuut

** This is NOT precisely true, Hillary's thesis was created in 1969 and Alinsky's Rules for Radicals was not published until 1971. The "second book" of Alinsky's was his "Training Manual" created some time after Reville for Radicals, and ever expanding. About 95% of the content of that TM went into his second book Rules for Radicals which showed his followers the evolution in his community organizing that took place over the next 25 years.

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History of a Meltdown and the
Upcoming American Coup d'Gras
Fact 1: Today, August 17, 2010, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner gave George W. Bush credit for saving the day with his actions watering down the weakened mortgage-guarantee model. Without Bush’s actions, Geithner said, housing prices would have dropped much further and the recession would have been much deeper. What was he talking about? Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae and the fact that today 90% of all home loans feature federal government involvement . . . and the fact that George Bush tried in January, 2005, and partially succeeded in July, 2007 in undercutting the mortgage-guarantee disaster when a few brave Democrats voted with him. In other words, the whole financial meltdown could have been much, much worse. But how did this problem arise? And more importantly why did it get so very bad?
Fact 2: Back in 1975 only one in every 404 home loans was made with less than 3% down payment. The largest portion of home loans were made with 15%-20% down. At this time America had the highest home ownership in the world, in a given year since 1946, 62-65% of all Americans owned their own homes. The system was definitely NOT broken.
Fact 3: Under Jimmy Carter, CRA ’77 a mortgage-guarantee law that required lenders to make knowingly bad loans was created. Thankfully the law was poorly crafted and easy to get around.
Fact 4: ACORN was also created in Arkansas in 1977 by a lieutenant of George Wiley (Wiley had along with Richard Cloward and Frances Piven of Cloward-Piven Strategy infamy taken eight years to deliberately bankrupt NYC in 1975 and just missed bankrupting NY state . . . their planned for creation of a “National Guaranteed Income” fell through and NYC was bailed out by the federal government. The threesome publicly bragged about their great “accomplishments” and instructed their followers that housing and voter registration should be the next area for “contrived crisis” attack on capitalism and the American way of life) named Wade Rathke. ACORN would continue on in the proud community organizer tradition of Saul Alinsky and Wiley. Cloward, Piven, Alinsky, Wiley and Rathke were all communists. While Cloward and Piven called themselves “socialists,” the rest called themselves either Marxists or Neo-Marxists. Most interesting of all: Rathke not only was key in Bill Clinton's presidential success, he was also the founder of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) the group of thugs whose head Andy Stern has (according to White House logs) spent more time and visited more often than any other guest of the Obamas.
Fact 5: By 1985, 1 in 196 home loans was made with less than 3% down. The system was still solid.
Fact 6: In 1992, President George H. W. Bush failed to veto an expansion os the Community Reinvestment Act of 1977 which he detested; this allowed mortgage-guarantee legislation to force Fanny’s and Freddie’s involvement with bad loans. The applicable part of the law was a rider of a much bigger law -- one more reason to keep laws simple and straightforward. Overnight America was in trouble.
Fact 7: In 1993, Bill Clinton signed the Motor Voter Act (called by conservatives “a license for voter fraud”) with Richard Cloward and Frances Piven standing behind him during the signing ceremony the picture in question can be found in several places, including:
Fact 8: In 1995, Barack Obama was working as an ACORN lawyer shaking down home lenders to make extremely bad loans required by these extremely bad CRA laws. Lenders ran through all sorts of gyrations including “local standards” that would prevent such horrendous loans being approved, anything to avoid giving out such high-risk loans. Demonstrations and sit-ins etc. to “shame” the banks were just some of the nice tactics ACORN used. Harassment of bank officials was commonplace.
Fact 9: In 1995, President Bill Clinton cheerfully signed two more expansions of CRA ’77. Some Progressive Republicans joined Progressive Democrats to make this happen.
Fact 10: By 1995, 1 in 7 home loans was made with less than 3% down an expansion of 27 times the amount of “iffy” loans.
Fact 11: In 1998, Bill Clinton signed the steroid version of the CRA ’77 expansions forcing banks, etc. to make very bad loans as a matter of course. Some Progressive Republicans joined Progressive Democrats to make this happen.
Fact 12: ACORN now went into overdrive. People without ID; people without a rental history; people without jobs; people who listed their only income as food stamps; people with abysmal credit ratings; people on welfare; even illegal aliens found home (often very expensive homes) loans guaranteed to them.
Fact 13: The housing market took off. Speculation surrounding everything about the industry ran rampant.
Fact 14: A whole new “derivatives” industry was created on Wall Street, to take advantage of Alan Greenspan’s lax understanding of economics. Greenspan proclaimed in 2002 that the Derivatives were the savior of Wall Street and crashes would now be a thing of the past. Sub-prime mortgages were soon being packaged together as a financial instrument and sold as a derivative.
Fact 15: In November, 2003, a contrarian investment advisor named James Stack through his Investech.com website began warning of a horrific bubble and a sub-prime lending crisis. For 52 weeks a year for the next five years he regularly ran a chart of the “Housing Industry Bubble” and warned of the coming financial disaster.
Fact 16: By 2005, 1 in 3 home loans was made with less than 3% down. At this point 68.5% of Americans now owned their own homes . . . at what cost? At the cost of threatening our very way of life. But ACORN in the southwest now went hogwild in pursuing loans for illegal aliens.
Fact 17: Bush and the Republicans tried to handle the crisis they now saw coming clearly ahead by attacking the ’98 Clinton expansion in January, 2005, along with other CRA ’77 provisions. The Democrats stopped them cold.
Fact 18: Finally in July, 2007, enough patriotic Democrats could see the problem and a watered down version of the Republican attempt from 18 months earlier was passed. It was far too little, far too late, but it did help a bit and that’s what Timothy Geithner was praising today. However, the vast machinery of the five CRA ’77 versions is still in place awaiting the next version of ACORN to put it into action.
Fact 19: ACORN has been in the voter registration business for 33 years now. Recently the Obama Department of Justice (DOJ) dropped a voter intimidation suit against four New Black Panthers that had been verbally abusive to White voters at a Philadelphis polling place and threated a Black poll watcher with “beating him to death”. All caught on video. The case had been all but won by the Bush DOJ and handed over to them. After 17 months the case was dropped with only the one Black Panther (the fellow with a nightstick) “punished” by not being able to return to that polling site until November 2012. Obama’s appointee Deputy Attorney General Julie Fernandez presumably responsible for that decision also made two other decisions you should know about. She told a roomful of DOJ employees the DOJ had “no interest in prosecuting cases in which Black perpetrators intimidated Whites at polling places. And she told another roomful of DOJ employees that the department would not be investigating Motor Voter Act infractions at all “because it might lower turnout.” The next step in the grand design begins with voter fraud in the 2010 mid-term elections, count on it.
Ya’ll live long, strong and ornery,
Rajjpuut
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Finally, this is a start, a government report. Granted the Democrats will not push anything through the House or Senate because they are all in on it, however...the people can push it.

Yes we can!

Can you see this is an opening we've been looking for? An offical report.. Start now, put on the pressure, turn up the heat, shout it loud and clear. Spread the report to all your contacts via email, facebook, twitter and any other mode you can think of. Send copies to your local new papers, call, fax and write letters to Congress and Senate. Won't do any good, we'll never know till we try. It is the American way…GrizzlyMama

Posted: August 16, 2010
12:01 am Eastern
By Jerome R. Corsi
© 2010 WorldNetDaily




Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif.

Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., the ranking Republican on the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, issued a scathing staff report today charging that the White House has "used the machinery of the Obama campaign to tout the president's agenda through inappropriate and sometimes unlawful public relations and propaganda initiatives."

An advance pre-publication copy of the report, shared by Issa's Washington office with WND, accuses the White House of nothing short of criminal activity. It charges the Obama administration
with violating federal laws to advance what the Government Accounting
Office has characterized as an unlawful "covert campaign," using federal
resources "to activate a sophisticated propaganda and lobbying
campaign."

Pulling no punches, the Oversight Republican Report accuses the Obama White House of "violating federal law prohibiting the use of appropriated funds for publicity or propaganda purposes."

"The White house has failed to transition from campaign mode to leadership mode and is now inappropriately leveraging those campaign-trail relationships to unlawfully generate support for the
president's agenda," the report concludes.

Read in its entirety, the Oversight Republican Report charges the Obama administration with the type of callous, unethical and possibly criminal manipulation of public opinion that is reminiscent of Watergate
and the illegal campaign activities engineered by Donald Segretti on
behalf of the Committee to Re-Elect the President during Richard Nixon's
presidential election campaign of 1972.

In 1964, Donald Segretti pleaded guilty to three misdemeanor counts of distributing illegal campaign materials, for which he served in federal prison four months of a six-month term.

The Obama administration's abuses alleged in the Oversight Republican Report can be summed up under the term "astro-turfing," a fraudulent public relations activity in which "the White House and the agency whose
resources it is co-opting attempt to create the impression that
grassroots support for a particular policy exists when in fact it has
been fabricated using taxpayer dollars."

The report points to several instances of alleged, unlawful abuses:

The National Endowment for the Arts

On Aug. 6, 2009, on behalf of the White House Office of Public Engagement, NEA Director Yosi Sergent invited a group of artists, producers, promoters, organizers, marketers and other influencers of the
arts to participate in a conference call designed to encourage involvement in President Obama's United We Serve program.

Nell Abernathy, director of outreach for United We Serve and Buffy Wicks, deputy director of the White House Office of Public Engagement, identified the goal of the NEA program was to recruit artists to create
art to support the president's agenda "with the same enthusiasm and with
the same energy that we all saw in each other during the campaign."

The Oversight Republican Report, however, contends the initiative was illegal.

"The use of taxpayer dollars and federal employees to create an alliance whereby the NEA becomes the de facto strategic communications arm of the White House is unlawful," the report alleges. "Using a
government e-mail account and government personnel and resources to host
a call using artists and arts group to support the president's agenda
is a clear violation of federal law."

The report stresses that it was inappropriate for representatives of the White House and the NEA to formerly ask artists and entertainers to use their talents to support the president's agenda "because many of
these people rely on NEA grants to subsidize their livelihoods."

The Department of Justice

In October 2008, the Justice Department's Office of Public Affairs added Tracy Russo, the chief blogger and deputy director for online communications for Sen. John Edwards' presidential campaign, to direct
the Department's "new media efforts."

The Oversight Republican Report documents that Russo covertly attempted to shape public opinion by posting comments on the Internet anonymously, or through the use of a pseudonym, attacking authors or contents viewed as critical of the president, in an effort to shape
debate online.

The report concludes, "The deployment of Justice Department resources to generate clandestine comments on message boards and blogs is a highly improper use of the Department's resources."

The report cites GAO rulings stating that covert propaganda violates Title 5 U.S.C. Section 3107 of federal law, which prohibits the use of publicity experts unless specifically appropriated for that purpose.

Office of Education

The Oversight Republican Report details that beginning on the morning of April 24, 2009, U.S. Department of Education Deputy Assistant Secretary for External Affairs and Outreach Massie Ritsch launched an
e-mail campaign in coordination with the White House to promote
President Obama's plan to begin a federal takeover of student loans.

The report again charges criminal abuses: "The intent of the e-mail is clearly to create grassroots support for the president's education agenda by inappropriately leveraging Ritsch's position as a Department
of Education employee. Because it was drafted or intended to influence
members of Congress while they consider the president's federal student loan plan, it is unlawful."

Federal workforce

The Oversight Republican Report charges that in March 2010, White House Office for Health Reform Director Nancy-Ann DeParle sent "overtly partisan, unsolicited health-reform e-mails to career civil servants in
executive branch offices, suggesting to recipients that they were being
officially instructed by the White House to support the president's
health-care reform proposals."

Again, the report charges the Obama White House with illegal activity: "Criminal statutes prohibit executive branch officials from using appropriated funds to influence the legislative process. Title 18
of the United States Code, section 1913, prohibits federal employees
from engaging in the very activities DeParle urges."

Department of Health and Human Resources

The Oversight Republican Report charges that the Department of Health and Human Resources contracted with Jonathan Gruber, a health-care economist from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, to provide "technical assistance" to support President Obama's health care reform proposals.

For this, Gruber was paid $297,600, plus another $95,000 for a second HHS job.

The Obama administration then relied upon and distributed Gruber's commentary and views to publications including Time, The Washington Post, the New York Times and the New Republic without revealing that
Gruber was a paid HHS consultant.

"Using HHS appropriations to contract a highly visible health-care expert to advocate on behalf of administration policies under the guise of providing 'technical assistance' is inappropriate," the Oversight
Republican Report concludes, while further alleging that the
administration's failure to disclose Gruber's status while touting his
work violates GAO's policy prohibiting covert propaganda.

Other abuses

Among the additional abuses, the Oversight Republican Report cites a cable television ad featuring 84-year-old Andy Griffith promoting Medicare and the Obama administration's health-care reform bill.

The Department of Health and Human Services paid $700,000 to make the cable television ad buy, and the report alleges the commercial – run in July 2010 – gave the appearance that it
was "designed to affect general elections by convincing seniors to
support one of the Democrat's major legislative initiatives."

The report further charges the White House of posting "fictitious and misleading" information about jobs "saved and created" on the White House-maintained website Recovery.gov.

Also criticized are signs the Federal Highway Administration has encouraged the states to post, announcing that new federal highway projects were being funded by stimulus dollars.



David Axelrod

Axelrod and astro-turfing

The practice of using covert propaganda to push political opinion is familiar to at least one administration official, Obama Senior Advisor David Axelrod.

Prior to joining then-Sen. Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign, Axelrod was a partner in AKP&D Message & Media, a Chicago-based media and public relations firm that listed among its corporate clients
Cablevision and AT&T.

According to a Business Week report published in 2008, AKP&D set up front organizations for corporations that wanted to run public issue ads without having the ads identified as having been
paid for by the corporations.

Business Week cited as an example a television commercial Axelrod's firm created for Commonwealth Edison, the largest electric utility in Illinois. The ad warned a ComEd bankruptcy and blackouts could occur
unless a rate hike was approved. The ad was sponsored by CORE, which
described itself as "a coalition of individuals, businesses and
organizations."

After a complaint was filed with state regulators, ComEd was forced to admit it had bankrolled the entire $15-million effort.

http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=191809

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