Question:  What's Wrong With This Picture?

Posted on CNBC.com-By Patrick Allen, CNBC EMEA Head of News-On April 28, 2011:

“As we approach next year’s presidential elections, the chances of President Barack Obama being ousted by a rival from either side of the political divide are low, according to Thanos Papasavvas, the head of currency management at Investec Asset Management.

“History is very much on the side of the incumbent President and unless we have a double-dip recession with a significant increase in unemployment I don’t believe Obama will lose 2012,” Papasavvas said in an interview with CNBC on Thursday.

“On the economic side, any signs of a deteriorating economic environment will see the Fed enacting QE3 (the third round of quantitative easing, or creating money) and hence indirectly reducing the probability of the economy derailing Obama,” Papasavvas added.

With the Republicans divided and no major rival yet to emerge, Papasavvas believes the American right wing will keep its powder dry for 2016 when four years of fiscal austerity will play into their hands.

“With no credible Republican heavyweight to face Obama, even those who have indicated their intent to run like Mitt Romney are unlikely to burn significant political or actual capital for 2012 preferring instead to wait for the 2016 election,” said Papasavvas.

Strong Dollar Policy?

John Snow, the US treasury Secretary during George W. Bush’s first term as president, spent a lot of time talking up his strong dollar credentials.

The problem for Snow was that no one believed a word he said as he stood by and allowed the period of benign neglect in which the dollar remained weak as the US economy recovered from September 11 and the collapse of the dotcom bubble.

Now Tim Geithner is spending a lot of time talking up his strong dollar credentials and the market is beginning to think the current US Treasury Secretary is beginning to sound an awful lot like Snow during the first term of the Bush administration.

“The market has been interpreting the Geithner comments on the dollar at face value, this is now changing as the evidence of a weaker dollar makes people skeptical about rhetoric,” Papasavvas said.

“What Tim Geithner actually means is that he wants to protect the purchasing power of Americans, not intervene to make the dollar rise against foreign currencies,” he added.

“It must be remembered that the US is a domestically-biased economy. The big costs like healthcare are not exposed to a weak dollar. What Geithner is trying to do is stop domestic inflation that will be felt by the average American,” he added.”

Source:

http://www.cnbc.com/id/42794512

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I. Is The Marxist Plan Obama’s Allies Put In Play Succeeding?-Posted on Declaration Alliance-By Alan Keyes-On June 2, 2011:

http://mail.conservativecontacts.com/hostedemail/email.htm?h=446a7c2a7d86b033379d03fb78125612&CID=8931804902&ch=A20594CB2E47EC51BBCD2F14349AAAE9

II. 12 Powerful People Control Your Destiny!-Posted on Investment Answers-By Sara Glakas-On March 17, 2010:

http://www.investinganswers.com/a/12-powerful-people-control-your-destiny-what-are-they-trying-tell-you-1098

III. The Judas Media-Posted on Floyd Reports-Guest Writer-On April 27, 2011:

http://floydreports.com/the-judas-media/?utm_source=Expose+Obama&am...

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Is the Fed’s concept of buying $600 billion of Treasuries just a smokescreen?

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/11/03/is-the-fed’s-concept-of-buying-600-billion-of-treasuries-just-a-smokescreen/

Is it important to understand the Marxist assault on the foundations of our system?

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2011/01/27/is-it-important-to-understand-the-marxist-assault-on-the-foundations-of-our-system/

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“Food For Thought”

“God Bless & Keep Our USA Safe”

Semper Fi!

Jake

Posted on America’s Survival-By Cliff Kincaid-On June 1, 2011:

“A closer look at the Moscow-funded Russia Today television channel, whose host, American Adam Kokesh, was arrested after a disruption last Saturday at the Jefferson Memorial, reveals some interesting and disturbing corporate and foreign intelligence connections.

As AIM reported, Kokesh, who hosts the show, “Adam Vs. The Man,” joined with pro-Marxist agitator Medea Benjamin to disrupt Memorial Day weekend activities. “I had to spend 4 hours in jail,” whined Kokesh. Now he is threatening to do it again this coming Saturday.

Under pressure from false media reports that Kokesh was just “dancing” and had been unfairly roughed up by police, U.S. Park Police officials are now saying that they are investigating whether officers were “too aggressive” in handling Kokesh and other demonstrators.

As we explained in a column, what happened at the memorial was a deliberately designed provocation, planned in advance by Kokesh, Benjamin, and their comrades. The video shows officers warning them to stop and arresting them when they didn’t. They were arrested because the law prohibits activities that interfere with the solemn atmosphere at the memorials.

A sympathetic profile of Kokesh, a veteran who served in Iraq, gives some of the background necessary to understanding his motivation. It says:

“in February 2006, two days before he was to be deployed on his second tour, he was told by his commanding officer that he was under investigation for bringing back a pistol he had purchased from an Iraqi policeman. His car had been broken into on campus and the pistol was missing. He was charged with three felonies, but accepted a plea bargain for disturbing the peace—a misdemeanor—and his case was passed along to the Naval Criminal Investigative Service. After an eight-month investigation, he was demoted from sergeant to corporal and given an honorary discharge.”

This incident reportedly played a role in his decision to participate in protests as a member of Iraq Veterans Against the War. His Facebook page when he ran for Congress as a Republican describes him as a Ron Paul supporter and “freedom fighter spreading the message of liberty.”

Subsequently, the article said, a Marine Corp three-person review board found “significant negative” conduct on the part of Kokesh and recommended a “general discharge under honorable conditions” for him.

A website for the group, American Patriots Against Kokesh, which opposed his run for office, accused him of working with several different Marxist groups.

This may be why Russia Today, which regularly features Marxist groups on the air, gave Kokesh a show on its English-language affiliate. RT treats fringe characters such as Gloria La Riva of the Party for Socialism and Liberation as major political figures, even using her to defend Castro’s spies jailed in the U.S.

But Kokesh is just one part of this growing propaganda operation. Russia Today has various “partners” in the media business, including the Huffington Post, which is now part of AOL, and What REALLY Happened, a web site that features such stories as “Israel’s Whores in Congress” and “Reflections of Comrade Fidel.” The web site mostly features articles about a number of conspiracies, with a focus on the “inside job” theory that the 9/11 terrorist attacks were staged by the U.S. Government.

Other RT “partners” include Izvestia, which was the official publication of the old Soviet regime, and Trud, the mouthpiece for Soviet labor unions.

A partnership with RT means that the channel runs articles from those “news” organizations.

The acquisition of the Huffington Post by AOL produced a media group claiming to reach 117 Million Americans and 270 million globally. For its part, Russia Today is one of the foreign networks, along with Al-Jazeera, carried by the American taxpayer-supported MHz Networks, into various U.S. media markets.

But the focus on Kokesh has missed the addition of another American to the line-up. Thom Hartmann, who describes himself as the leading “progressive” radio talk show host in the U.S., is hosting a show called “The Big Picture” on the Russian channel.

In a defense of its programming, the channel has also pointed out, “Cenk Uygur of the Young Turks was coming on RT long before MSNBC snatched him up to fill a seat in their very own anchor chair.”

The embrace of the channel by the liberal-left, which regularly criticizes Fox News, a private media company in the U.S., is shocking. The relationship demonstrates that the liberal media have no real objection to government sponsorship or funding of media companies, even when the money comes from authoritarian regimes such as Vladimir Putin’s in Russia. But the controversy goes beyond the simple matter of progressives sharing a political ideology with those, including Putin, a former KGB intelligence officer, behind the Russian channel.

“America is enjoying euphoria of victory over Communism in the Cold War, but Russians say the war is still going on,” notes Konstantin Preobrazhensky, a former Soviet KGB officer. He says the channel is serving the interests of the Kremlin, especially its intelligence agencies, by spreading disinformation about Russian intentions in domestic and foreign affairs.

During the Cold War, it was customary for the Soviet intelligence services, led by the KGB, to use American and Western news outlets and personnel in operations against the United States. Preobrazhensky says nothing has really changed, except that Russia Today television is a more overt way of carrying out the aims of the Kremlin.

This is why AIM published the column, “Russian TV Sounds Like Soviet TV.”

It is so overt that RT hired an alleged Russian spy, Katia Zatuliveter, who is in the process of being deported from Britain. Oleg Gordievsky, the KGB’s former London station chief, directly accused the Russian of spying, saying the 25-year-old woman was working undercover for the Russian foreign intelligence, the SVR, and gathered information about British naval bases around the world.

Nevertheless, RT now features her as a “contributor,” where she criticized the West and its “double-standard” on protests and demonstrations. This is the basic Kremlin propaganda line, which is designed to inhibit Americans from criticizing human rights violations in Russia.

RT covered a conference I sponsored at the National Press Club to deal primarily with the influence of Al-Jazeera. A minor focus was Russia Today’s anti-American programming. Out of courtesy, I agreed to be interviewed on camera. But I was not surprised to discovered that the finished product, reported by Kaeyln Forde, ignored all of the points I made about the channel’s links to the Russian intelligence service.

Shaun Walker of the British newspaper The Independent has discussed this issue in the context of an article noting that the Russian channel has tried to de-emphasize the connection to Moscow by referring to the channel as RT and not Russia Today. Its programs for the American audience are called “RT America.” Since last year, he points out, anchors and correspondents have been told they must refer to it only as “RT,” never “Russia Today,” which has “led some to wonder what the Russians are up to in the U.S.”

The answer, quite clearly, is to mask the hand of Moscow and its intelligence agencies in what goes on the air.

Walker adds, “There have been suspicions, even among some of those inside the channel, that the aim might be a Kremlin, or even a Russian intelligence plan to stir dissent in the US. At the very least, it seems an attempt by Russia to get its own back on a Western world that often lectures Moscow on democracy and human rights, and shine a light on what it sees as the sore points for the US.”

This was the apparent purpose of the provocation launched by Kokesh and Medea Benjamin of Code Pink at the Jefferson Memorial last Saturday. By breaking the law against demonstrations and disorderly conduct at the memorials, they knew they would be arrested and then be able to charge that they were victims of a “police state” just the sort of propaganda that Moscow wants, in order to divert attention away from the Kremlin’s human rights record. Not surprisingly, RT covered the demonstration extensively.

“Several journalists at the channel have told The Independent that while some coverage of problems in Russia and sensitive issues is allowed, any direct criticism or questioning of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin or President Dmitry Medvedev is strictly prohibited,” Walker reported.

In the September 10, 2010, piece, Walker said, “Even before the recent spy scandal about Russian ‘illegals’ in the United States, western intelligence services have been wary about Russia Today’s correspondents.”

Like Al-Jazeera, RT has hired a number of Western and American faces, many of them attractive females.

RT’s on-air talent includes a number of Americans, including Staci Bivens, a former CNN producer; Lindsay France, formerly with CNN and ABC-TV affiliate KAPP; Lindsay Garfield, formerly with NBC’s Meet the Press; and Sean Thomas, who worked for the NBC affiliate, KSEE in Fresno, California.

The bio for Kaelyn Forde, the RT reporter who covered my conference, notes that she “comes to RT from Spanish-language news network teleSUR.” The bio fails to disclose that teleSUR was launched by Marxist Hugo Chavez of Venezuela.

The bio goes on, “Kaelyn’s interests include investigative and multimedia reporting. In 2009, she produced a full-length investigative documentary, Detrás del Golpe (Behind the Coup), which unmasked the architects of the 2009 Honduran coup d’état and how it was subsequently legitimized in Washington.”

This was, of course, the Hugo Chavez line. Chavez wanted the world to believe that the overthrow of his ally, Manuel “Mel” Zelaya, was a dangerous military coup. In fact, elements of the Honduras government directed the military to oust him from power after he committed illegal and unconstitutional acts.

Rep. Connie Mack noted that teleSUR signed agreements with Al-Jazeera, thereby “creating a global television network for terrorists and other enemies of freedom.”

A “journalist” from teleSUR would seem to be a natural fit for Russia Today television.

Exhibiting some of the provocative behavior that Kokesh would demonstrate at the Jefferson Memorial last Saturday, Forde was arrested by police last November as she was “covering” a leftist demonstration against the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation, where members of foreign militaries are trained by U.S. forces. The institute, once known as the Schools of the Americas, has been a long-time target of Marxist forces. An entire organization, SOA Watch, is devoted to trying to close it down.

Forde, insisting she was a member of the press, was nevertheless charged with unlawful assembly, demonstrating without a permit and failing to obey a police order to disperse.

RT said it paid a fine to have Forde, whose real name is Kaelyn Forde Eckenrode, and a cameraman, Jonathan R. Conway, who was also arrested, freed from jail. A newspaper account said, “Eckenrode was arrested in front of the gas station after a tense exchange with a police officer who told her to leave.”

Columbus (Georgia) Solicitor General Ben Richardson was quoted as saying, “She does comply with police officers, but she does it after some time. The question was whether that constituted reasonable substantial compliance to police. We see why they arrested her, but we have a bigger burden of reasonable doubt.” Hence, charges were ultimately dropped.

It has been quite a road for Forde, whose “Linked in” profile says that she started out at NBC News, where she “Tackled the tough logistics of newsgathering for NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams, The Today Show and MSNBC.”

Source:

http://www.usasurvival.org/ck06.01.2011.html

Question:  Have the Soviet’s former KGB Operatives brainwashed Americans?

In 1985, during an interview with G. Edward Griffin, Yuri Bezmenov, a former Soviet KGB Operative, who defected to the USA in 1968, reveals the Soviet’s strategy for the subversion of the USA and Canada.

He also revealed that this subversion process has been in place in the USA and Canada for the past twenty-five (25) years and has been carried out in four distinct stages, which are: Demoralization, Destabilization, Crisis, and Normalization.”

Note: This video contains Yuri Bezmenov’s interview with G. Edward Griffin, which was conducted in 1985, approximately seventeen (17) years after his defection to the USA-You Decide:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvcZiNt6ypI&NR=1

Note:  What follows are YouTube web sites that contain a series of videos that bring to light a most startling revelation, which is that the collapse of Soviet Communism was in fact a staged deception to mislead the West and open the way for Russia’s domination of the free world, along with KGB connections in America-You Decide:

The Untold Story About The Collapse of Communism!-Posted on YouTube.com-By TheSpiritOfTruth-On May 19, 2006:

https://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=F37A04E836694EF6&annotation_id=annotation_972225&feature=iv

The KGB Connections in America!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGfN3WRA0Vc&feature=watch-now-button&wide=1

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Kokesh, host of the "Russia Today" TV stonewalls on how much he is paid by the Moscow regime of former KGB!-Posted on America’s Survival-By Cliff Kincaid-On June 4, 2011:

http://www.usasurvival.org/ck06.04-1.2011.html

Inside the Ring: Counterspies hunt Russian mole inside National Security Agency-Posted on The Washington Times-By Bill Gertz, The Washington Times-On December 1, 2010:

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/dec/1/inside-the-ring-843880610/?s=al&promo_code=B3D1-1

The Russian Agents, Obama, and the Cover-up-Posted USASurvival.org-By Cliff Kincaid-On July 16, 2010:

http://www.usasurvival.org/docs/russian_agents.pdf

Russia’s Putin sings with expelled agents-Posted on Yahoo News-By The Associated Press-On July 25, 2010:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100725/ap_on_re_eu/eu_russia_singing_spies

The Judas Media-Posted on Floyd Reports-Guest Writer-On April 27, 2011:

Note:  My following blog posts contain numerous articles and/or blog posts and videos that relate to this disturbing issue-You Decide:

The Midterm Elections and the Communist Manifesto!

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/10/08/the-midterm-elections-and-the-communist-manifesto/

Progressives and Communists Are Out of the Closet Together!

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/10/05/progressives-and-communists-are-out-of-the-closet-together/

Communism in Hawaii and the Obama Connection!

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2009/11/19/communism-in-hawaii-and-the-obama-connection/

Obama Czar's Shocking Communist Connections!

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/03/04/obama-czars-shocking-communist-connections/

Confucius Classrooms in the U.S.!

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/05/25/confucius-classrooms-in-the-u-s/

What do CAIR, Anna Chapman, and Rep. Mark Siljander have in common?

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/07/23/what-do-cair-anna-chapman-and-rep-mark-siljander-have-in-common/

Russia Poised to Control 50% of U.S. Uranium Output!

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/12/12/russia-poised-to-control-50-of-u-s-uranium-output/

Will The New START Undermine Our Nuclear Security?

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/03/25/will-the-new-start-undermine-our-nuclear-security/

Who owns our supposedly fair and balanced airwaves and news outlets?

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/10/21/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?

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2011/01/27/is-it-important-to-understand-the-marxist-assault-on-the-foundations-of-our-system/

The Russian View of What Has Been Happening In America!

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/04/22/the-russian-view-of-what-has-been-happening-in-america-2/

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“Food For Thought”

“God Bless & Keep Our USA Safe”

Semper Fi!

Jake

Posted on Declaration Alliance-By Alan Keyes-On June 2, 2011:

“Markets Suffer Severe Drop During 1^st Week of May.

Just weeks ago DAPAC reported on SEIU official Steve Lerner’s stated plans to crash the stock market beginning May 1. It now appears that Mr. Lerner’s plan may be playing out right before our eyes. It also appears he may be receiving help from none other than Obama friend, former Nazi henchman and current Marxist one-worlder, George Soros.

On May 1^st, the SEIU joined hands with the Communist Party USA and the Maoist Progressive Labor Party (PLP), staging Marxist May Day parades across the country.

When market bells opened the following day, May 2^nd, the New York Stock Exchange was limping along, struggling vainly toward the much promised recovery. That all ended nearly as soon as trading began. By Friday, May 6, some trade publications were describing the previous 5 days as “a week of carnage”!

In addition, George Soros’ Quantum Hedge Fund literally dumped their silver holdings, causing one of the largest silver price crashes in history. The market began following suit, and large scale dumps of most precious metals continued throughout the week, further depressing the already weakened market numbers.

All this forces the question, why is it that every time something drastic and disastrous happens in our economy, the names of Obama friends prominently pop up?

Audio files have recently been released which outline a very real plan to collapse the American economy – including crashing the stock market – in an effort to finally and irrevocably bring about the fundamental change, radical change, Obama promised.

This sinister plan apparently launched on schedule and ran through a tumultuous week, replete with a Cinco de Mayo and “Black Friday” commodities stampede. It was complete with rabidly anti-capitalist, pro-Communist “Red” parades co-sponsored by the SEIU and the AFL-CIO. The New York Stock Exchange plunged as planned all during the first week of May, with oil down 15%, widespread “commodities carnage” – and evidence suggests seditious the plan may go all the way to the White House.

Steve Lerner is well known in union thug circles as the guy who uses intimidation to ensure success. March 19, 2011 Steve Lerner met with Abby Scher of Brooklyn College CUNY, Gerardo Dominguez of the Mexican American Workers Association, John Atols of ACORN and a number of other openly Marxist, Obama-faction activists. Surrounded by fellow radicals, Mr. Lerner was unaware he was being recorded, and clearly felt comfortable enough to lay out his step by step plan already underway to “put a boot in the wheel” of the American economy – crashing the stock market and orchestrating a complete banking collapse – in an effort to force Marxism upon the masses. Full audio with transcripts of Lerner’s plot can be found on You Tube, at The Blaze website where this story broke, and all over the Internet.

Lerner identifies this as a union plan, presumably crafted by his long-time cronies at the SEIU, and he calls for the aid of other Obama-faction leaders and community organizers. But evidence suggests Lerner may already have the assistance of Administration insiders and the Community Organizer in Chief – Barack Hussein Obama.

White House visitor logs show that Stephen Lerner has visited the White House repeatedly over the last two years. At least one of these visits was arranged by the office of then White House Political Director Patrick Gaspard – one of Lerner’s previous SEIU colleagues and former leader of one of the most notoriously militant SEIU chapters. Gaspard, not coincidentally, is a close Obama advisor who is now the Executive Director of the Democratic National Party and a key player on Obama’s 2012 election team.

Obama made clear in a now infamous 2008 campaign rally that SEIU’s agenda is his agenda.

Obama led a SEIU member chant after recalling how he started his early “organizing career” with SEIU troops on the ground, and went on to declare, “Just imagine what we can do together. Just imagine a President whose life’s work is your (SEIU’s) work”! It seems we no longer need to imagine. The present occupant of the Oval Office has brought sedition to the presidency – the highest office in the land. Barack Obama’s own front group “Organizing for America” helped stage the recent Wisconsin “Days of Rage” protests that were notable for union-led violence, death threats and radical acts of intimidation, and now it appears he and his Administration may be connected to a far-left coalition actively plotting to collapse the American economy.

My friends, Stephen Lerner’s closed-attendance discussion at The Left Forum was not some simple academic and theoretical discussion of what revolutionary resistance might look like. It was a high-level presentation of a very real, well thought out plan for economic terrorism already in play, and a well-received recruitment call to leftwing radical leaders of other Obama-faction organizations to join him.

Stephen Lerner’s terrorist plans, and actions of incitement and enlistment are outright sedition, all potentially prosecutable offenses.

In normal circumstances, we could count on the Department of Justice to investigate and uphold the rule of law. But alas, as we have seen with Eric Holder’s refusal to prosecute colleagues, supporters and friends of Obama, including the election fraud and racist thuggery at the hands of the New Black Panthers, the once venerable DOJ is a rogue agency in a rogue Administration, and can no longer be trusted to do its duty.

Why have not the murky, possibly orchestrated causes behind the terrible economic crisis of the 2008 national fiscal collapse been investigated and disclosed to the nation?

No, we must instead call upon this 112^th Congress, and demand an immediate investigation of Stephen Lerner, and all of those who participated in his conspiratorial call to anarchy, sedition and economic terrorism on March 19.

That investigation must include disclosure of all the participants and plotters lurking behind the scenes who are actively working to disrupt and destroy America – even if that road leads us to Obama billionaire funders like George Soros, and directly to the White House.

This is no longer a matter of speculation. The Marxist plan to smash our republic is alive and active within the corridors of power in America as never before. Their plans to launch their latest assault on these United States evidently launched, of course, Marxist May Day – May 1, 2011 – and have been sounded to their foot soldiers in a very real and potentially calamitous call as just the beginning of their designs to harm our nation.

I warned when Obama first appeared on the national scene that he was at the least an academic Marxist surrounded by radicals, and a menace to the security, sovereignty and prosperity of the nation.

Now there is evidence in abundance to confirm my judgment. We MUST force Congress to act NOW – before the evil forces that mean to destroy America are able to fully implement their plans.

The very survival of our country is at stake if we do not take seriously the threat within. I implore you, fax Congress TODAY.

Keep Faith,

Alan Keyes
www.DeclarationAlliance.org”

Source:

http://mail.conservativecontacts.com/hostedemail/email.htm?h=446a7c2a7d86b033379d03fb78125612&CID=8931804902&ch=A20594CB2E47EC51BBCD2F14349AAAE9

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The Stock Market Is Sending Three Bearish Messages-Posted on Money and Market-By Claus Vogt-On June 1, 2011:

http://www.moneyandmarkets.com/the-stock-market-is-sending-three-bearish-messages-44933

Video: Three Warning Signs from the Stock Market-Posted on Money and Market-By Claus Vogt-On June 1, 2011:

http://www.weissmoneynetwork.com/three-warning-signs-from-the-stock-market-45360?mam

Video: Here Comes the Next Wave of the Debt Crisis-Posted on Money and Market-By Bryan Rich-On May 16, 2011:

http://www.weissmoneynetwork.com/here-comes-the-next-wave-of-the-debt-crisis-45324

Video: Questions for Ben Bernanke-Posted on Money and Market-By Mike Larson-On May 16, 2011:

http://www.weissmoneynetwork.com/my-questions-for-ben-bernanke-45322

Video: Approaching Another Economic ‘Tipping Point’-Posted on Money and Market-By Mike Larson-On May 13, 2011:

http://www.weissmoneynetwork.com/approaching-another-economic-‘tipping-point’-45320

The Unstimulated Obama Economy-Posted on The Heritage Foundation-On May 31, 2011:

http://blog.heritage.org/2011/05/31/morning-bell-the-unstimulated-obama-economy/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=Morning%2BBell

Consumer Confidence Takes Surprise Drop in May-Posted on CNBC.com- By Reuters-On May 31, 2011:

http://www.cnbc.com/id/43223542

Are You Better Off Now Than You Were Two Years Ago?-Posted on Pajamas Media-By AWR Hawkins-On May 30, 2011:

http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/are-you-better-off-now-than-you-were-two-years-ago/

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Manipulation Behind Market Plunge!

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/05/08/manipulation-behind-market-plunge/

Is the Fed’s concept of buying $600 billion of Treasuries just a smokescreen?

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/11/03/is-the-fed’s-concept-of-buying-600-billion-of-treasuries-just-a-smokescreen/

What we haven’t been told about the President’s background!

Is it important to understand the Marxist assault on the foundations of our system?

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2011/01/27/is-it-important-to-understand-the-marxist-assault-on-the-foundations-of-our-system/

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“Food For Thought”

“God Bless & Keep Our USA Safe”

Semper Fi!

Jake

I’m prompted to write this blog by Glenn Beck’s argument that America is Judeo-Christian.  Beck is extremely knowledgeable on what is taking place, but on this I disagree. America’s Declaration of Independence includes the phrase, “to assume among the Powers of the Earth, the separate and equal Station to which the Laws of Nature and Nature’s God entitle them” does not assume a religious origin.  The Declaration was signed by Congress’ representatives of the thirteen colonies.  In the First Amendment of the U. S. Constitution, we read, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof . . .”

While America’s morals come from Judeo-Christian values, to say that America is Judeo-Christian is an important misstatement of facts,  an idea that has gotten America in a heap of trouble, and can get us in far more trouble than we can handle.

It took close to a billion years of life on our planet to produce the person you are, the most aware of all life.  While the law of the jungle applies to all other life, the Laws of Nature and Nature’s God entitle us to God-given rights, the U. S. Constitution says, to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, and specifically, that no law respecting the establishment of religion  be enacted, nor prohibiting the free exercise thereof.

Religion is based on superhuman agencies involving devotional and ritual observances dating back to ancient times.  Compare ancient times to today’s world. In just the past 100 years, our world has considerably revved up.  Ancient beliefs may be comfortable,  but they block us from addressing current issues—cause us to live in the comfort of a past that we know, thus to prevent us from facing stark reality: our world is on fire and religion is fanning the flames. Clearly, America should remain with natural law and Nature’s God—respecting the establishment of religion, but also respecting life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.  By fighting ancient religious beliefs in the Middle East, we are contributing to a building disaster, causing faithful adherents of ancient religious beliefs opposed to Judeo-Christian beliefs to hate both all the more.

I’ve learned the hard way. I cut from the herd—went on my own.  Everyone I knew thought I was nuts, including Uncle Sam. The IRS was going to teach me a lesson I’d never forget.  Natural law and Nature’s God has become the law of the jungle in America.   Uncle Sam ended hanging himself with his own rope.  In my case, natural law won. Nature’s God is for the individual.  The Judeo-Christian religions, based on  ancient doctrines and dogmas, are the problem, not the cure.

It is all a matter of conscious awareness, of which we are individually in control.  To a large extent, and most unfortunately, we are ruled by fear of the unknown and comforted by that which we’ve known for ages.  We’re living in the past, but time waits for no man.

Chance favors the prepared mind. The New Age was born in 1925, in the year that Hitler wrote Mein Kampf, the year Congress authorized the Nazi tax collector, the IRS, to examine personal records for income tax purposes, the year that  physicist Werner Heisenberg published his uncertainty principle (the forerunner of quantum mechanics).  I was born in 1925.

My makeup, according astrologer Jean Avery, “He becomes the water-bearer by walking to the beat of a different drummer. He may be the person to bring back information that has been lost to civilization for centuries.”  According to Numerology and The Divine Triangle, as to my path of destiny number 7, I may be the person to “reveal some of the mysteries of life to a waiting world.” And, according to Astrologer’s Handbook, with my Saturn, the learning planet, trine Pluto, the generational planet, “This trine gives the natives the ability to understand the laws by which subtle forces are organized, enabling them to use those laws consciously or unconsciously. It favors those who work in such fields as physics . . .”  

According to The Physics of Consciousness, under “A God for Tomorrow,” “Now we see that the independent existence of matter and the absoluteness of space were false dogma. But it has only been with the advent quantum theory that we have discovered proof that we exist as something more than pieces of matter. In the development of quantum theory, the observer emerges as a co-equal in the foundry of creation. . . The tests of Bell’s theorem have shown us that objective reality as it has been conceived is not the true fabric of reality. . . The observer interacts with matter. Consciousness, the substance of this new-found reality that defines the observer, has fundamental existence.  It is the quantum mind that is the basic reality.”  

Bell’s theorem has proven that it is not the supernatural God of Islam, Judaism, or Christianity that rules the universe, but as written in America’s Declaration, natural law and Nature’s God.

Bell’s theorem has shown science that once two subatomic particles connect, they are always in communication, no matter if on the opposite extremes of the universe.  Science is now aware that there is more than the time-space dimension.  

Somebody please tell Glenn that instead of talking about  Jews, Christians, and  the threat of the Muslim Brotherhood, none of which is going to bring peace, it going to take learning that it is all the orthodoxy’s flapdoodle to keep people under its control that brings on war. 

How long is it going to take for Obama to become aware that there is no such thing as a supernatural God, or objective reality, or collective salvation?  We are all subjective and according to one definition of anarchy, a theory that regards the absence of all direct or coercive government as a political ideal and that proposes the voluntary and cooperative association of individuals and groups as the principal mode of organized society, this is our future.  Welcome to the Age of Aquarius.

With talk of Unions running the show, most folks aren't seeing the other side of the picture.  That being, George Soros and the Sandler Banking Family.  Our government for years, longer than my short life, have been catering to special interest groups.  The future of our country needs to be by the people for the people and stay that way.

Unions donate to the Democrats and the benefits only help the Union workers, yet our taxes go to pay for not being represented by the unions.  In fact we're loathed by the unions.  The Democrats dance to Soros and Sandler like puppets on a string, knowing they'll be taken care of and again we loose.

Today, the Tea Party has punched a hole in this structure as the Tea Party is not playing along and the big money changers have not infiltrated the Tea Party.  This is the time to move on stopping all donations from special interests groups, all businesses and all foreign interests.  Business exists to feed its own interests therefore, donations from any business is a selfish donation.  Donations by legal US citizens, with a cap, will keep the playing field real and eliminate specials interests such as Soros and the Sandlers.  

In this way, should your children go to war, it's a war of US interest and not one that helps the bottom line of Special interests.  Nothing could be more ill than the death of one child because it's good for our banking or hedge fund companies.  Nothing could be further from God and Country.

Posted on National Review Online-By ANDREW C. McCARTHY-On June 1, 2011:

“Which is worse: bad leadership or no leadership?

That’s a question for a Congress that remains AWOL while young Americans continue to be placed in harm’s way in military missions increasingly divorced from American national interests. Like developments in Afghanistan and Iraq that cry out for a public examination of what U.S. forces are doing overseas, President Obama’s incoherent war in Libya brings increasing urgency to the question.

To recap, the president unilaterally ordered air strikes in Libya despite the fact that Moammar Qaddafi’s regime had neither attacked nor threatened the United States and that the regime was considered a valuable American ally in the war on terror by the Obama administration, just as it had been by the Bush administration. Indeed, the Bush State Department had opened the foreign-aid spigot to Qaddafi, and settled past terrorism claims against him, after the dictator forswore the pursuit of nuclear weapons and shared intelligence on al-Qaeda supporters in his country. Those supporters largely hail from eastern Libya, which — surprise! — is now the stronghold of an opposition affectionately called “the rebels” by pro-interventionists.

That opposition is better understood as the Libyan mujahideen — Libya having sent more jihadists to fight against American forces in Iraq than any other country proportional to its population.

If you’re not dizzy enough yet, President Obama started out even more enthusiastic about Qaddafi (an Obama admirer) than was his predecessor. Foreign aid, including military aid to the brutal regime, was increased.

Moreover, when violent unrest broke out, Obama gave Qaddafi the same kid-gloves treatment he extended to anti-American dictators repressing their opponents in Iran and Syria.

Soon, though, Obama convinced himself that Qaddafi was about to fall. This misimpression was compounded by European pressure (driven by the continent’s dependency on Libyan oil reserves) and by what Victor Davis Hanson sagely diagnosed as a desire to avoid being seen as once again trailing rather than leading events, as in the case of Egypt. All this together induced a lethal flip-turn, and the president announced that it was time for Qaddafi to go.

Yet, Obama’s unprovoked military offensive, in conjunction with NATO, is ostensibly divorced from this stated American goal. We began attacking Qaddafi’s forces and his compound while disavowing any intention to oust him. We are there only to protect civilians, administration officials maintain. Meanwhile, attacks against Qaddafi intensify,“rebel” atrocities against black Africans are ignored, and intervention hawks like Sen. John McCain (until recently asupporter of the U.S. embrace of Qaddafi) advocate that the rebels be armed and trained, notwithstanding their known terrorism ties.

Obama did not seek congressional authorization to commence combat operations in Libya. In compliance with the 1973 War Powers Act (WPA), however, he notified Congress about his commitment of U.S. forces.

This triggered the 60-day time limit within which the WPA instructs a president to either obtain congressional approval or withdraw U.S. forces. That deadline came and went on May 21 with no congressional authorization and no movement to wind down the mission — even though, when he began bombing, Obama had assured Americans that the mission would last “days, not weeks.”

The WPA is probably unconstitutional. It was enacted over the veto of an embattled Pres. Richard Nixon, and, ever since, presidents of both parties have regarded it as non-binding, though they have substantially complied with its terms to avoid a constitutional showdown. I could exhaust you with a couple of thousand words on the relative merits of the arguments pro and con, but that would be pointless, for two reasons.

First, WPA disputes between the political branches are not justiciable.

The federal courts are not going to intervene, certainly not with a left-wing Democrat in the White House. Such controversies were meant by the Framers to be worked out politically, not by resort to the courts.

Which gets us to the second and more important point: The WPA is craven. It is designed to allow Congress to carp from the sidelines or stay silent without being accountable. Presidents are implicitly encouraged to initiate hostilities, and the issue becomes whether they comply with the WPA’s arbitrary deadlines. Of course, in the absence of an attack (or at least the threat of an attack) on the United States, presidents should never take the nation to war without the approval of the people’s representatives; the salient issue in debates over the use of force is whether war is necessary to advance some vital American interest. If the stakes involve something important enough to go to war over, fidgeting over 60-day time frames is frivolous.

The WPA is sideshow. The Framers vested Congress with not only the power to declare war but also with the power of the purse. Federal legislators don’t need to wait 60 days. They can vote at any time to deny public funds to a presidentially initiated war, and they can deny the aggression political legitimacy by voting against the use of force. But such congressional action requires leadership rather than gamesmanship. With rare exceptions, today’s lawmakers would rather lie low in the tall grass.

Our young men and women deserve much better. In the absence of congressional debate over the Libyan intervention, the administration has not been compelled to clarify American goals.

If the true objective is protecting civilians, how does doing so in Libya advance American interests?

Are there limiting principles, or is our financially strapped nation now obliged to be the world’s policeman and, ultimately, the world’s nation-builder?

Why Libya but not Iran, Syria, Yemen, Tunisia, Bahrain, Sudan, etc.?

And if, as Stanley Kurtz persuasively argues, the Obama administration is stealthily sowing a novel“responsibility to protect” doctrine into international law, what are its ramifications?

Why wouldn’t it, for example, justify other uninvolved nations to impose their policy preferences on American allies (such as Israel) under the cover of protecting “oppressed civilians” (such as the Palestinians)?

The road to jihadist terror is paved from here to Afghanistan, Gaza, and Kosovo with good intentions toward besieged Muslim “rebels” who invariably turn out to be virulently anti-Western and allied with Islamic militants.

How do we know Libya is not a rerun of that costly error?

With a few honorable exceptions, Congress is sitting on its hands rather than pressing for answers. Meanwhile, President Obama takes the imperial presidency to warmaking heights George W. Bush would have been flayed for even contemplating, much less trying.

The antiwar Left has gone mute — proving yet again that its main objection is not to war but to commanders-in-chief whose names are followed by the designation “R.” The Republican leadership is feckless — making very little noise, and doing even less.

As we learned in the Bush years, lawmakers love to yap about Congress’s constitutional war power. That power, however, is a duty not a debating point. It’s a duty on which the current Congress is derelict.

• Andrew C. McCarthy, a senior fellow at the National Review Institute, is the author, most recently, of The Grand Jihad: How Islam and the Left Sabotage America.”

Source:

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/268503/congress-has-war-powers-too-andrew-c-mccarthy

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Morning Bell: Time For Thoughtful Moves in Libya-Posted on The Heritage Foundation-On June 2, 2011:

http://blog.heritage.org/2011/06/02/time-for-thoughtful-moves-in-libya/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=Morning%2BBell

Rep. Allen West: ‘I Cannot Understand’ U.S. Role in Libya-Posted on CNSNews.com-By Nicholas Ballasy-On May 31, 2011:

“(CNSNews.com) – Republican Congressman and retired Army veteran Allen West (R-Fla.) said he “cannot understand” America’s involvement in Libya and that U.S. military is being used as a “rent-a-force” in the region.

“For every decision there are consequences and we have to sometimes analyze what could be those consequences. Just the same with operations in Libya – I cannot understand it. I don’t know what the goal and objective are,” West said in an address at the Heritage Foundation on Tuesday.

“No one can clearly tell me who these rebels or who the rebel leaders are – where they come from; what do they seek to have; what are they going to bring to the table different than Moammar Gadhafi. Moammar Gadhafi’s a bad guy, there’s no doubt about it but there are means by which you can contain him, instead of committing our Air Force and our Navy to be kind of like a ‘rent-a- force’ to them.”

President Obama recently called the U.S. military operations in Libya, which began 71 days ago, a “slow, steady process” where the U.S. and its allies attempt to “wear down the regime forces and change the political calculations of the Gadhafi regime to the point where they finally realize that they’re not going to control this country.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nXFzwBHO9o&feature=player_embedded

Source:

http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/rep-allen-west-i-cannot-understand-us-ro

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Godfather of The Islamic Revolution!

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2011/02/11/godfather-of-the-islamic-revolution/

Is Israel the next Arab Facebook Campaign?

Is it important to understand the Marxist assault on the foundations of our system?

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Fellow Patriots:

The following statement was made on a Fox comment page regarding San Francisco as a sanctuary city.  Please help get the word out regarding the illegal activity of so called sanctuary cities. 

The Statement:

Here in San Francisco we have a new local hire ordinance that allows illegal foreign workers to qualify as local, by lowering the bar of residency to seven days, and allowing applicants to use consular id cards as identification

The Law:

"Any person who encourages or induces an illegal alien to reside knowing or in reckless disregard of the fact that such residence is in violation of law, shall be punished as provided  for each illegal alien in respect to whom such a violation occurs fined under title 18 imprisoned not more than 5 years, or both."

Section 274 felonies under the federal Immigration and Nationality Act, INA 274A(a)(1)(A):

Hello folks!  Tea Party Radio tonight, and Dale Robertson (Tea Party Founder) will be calling in for the first time in a while since his surgery!  Tune in, listen in, or better yet CALL IN @ 646-200-4032.  As usual, we will be as informative and interesting as usual with a host of topics that are the most vital to our nation.

God Bless the United States of America!

Jim Seigfreid

Arab Leader Speaks Truth About Islam

Mosab Hassan Yousuf, son of Hamas leader of West Bank Sheik Hassan Yousuf talks on T.V and as an Palestinian Arab Muslim claims he supports Israel because he is righteous and knows through his religion and history whose land it really belongs to, the Israelis.

He exposes all Arab lies against Israel and criticizes Islam for the hatred it teaches since he experienced it when he was a young boy. He very well admits the Arabs don't want peace, just hate, war and fight while Israelis are striving for peace. Thank you Mus'ab Hassan Yousuf you are a righteous Arab and are respected for spreading the truth, not Paliwood lies.

Posted on The Blaze-By Billy Hallowell-On June 1, 2011:

“LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Two Iraqi men living as refugees in Kentucky tried to send sniper rifles, Stinger missiles and money to al-Qaida operatives in their home country, and both boasted of using improvised explosives against American troops there before moving to the U.S., according to court documents unsealed Tuesday.

Thirty-year-old Waad Ramadan Alwan and 23-year-old Mohanad Shareef Hammadi, both of Bowling Green, were arrested last week after an investigation that began months after they arrived in the U.S. in 2009. Neither is charged with plotting attacks within the United States, and authorities said their weapons and money didn’t make it to Iraq because of a tightly controlled undercover investigation.

Alwan is charged with conspiracy to kill a United States national, conspiracy to use a weapon of mass destruction and attempting to provide material support to terrorists. Hammadi is charged with attempting to provide material support to terrorists and knowingly transferring, possession or exporting a device designed or intended to launch or guide a rocket or missile.

The FBI said in an affidavit that Alwan told an informant that he took part in insurgent attacks on U.S. troops in Iraq using both improvised explosive devices and a sniper rifle, saying “lunch and dinner would be an American.” Court documents say Hammadi also told an informant he planted improvised explosives in Iraq.

The men pleaded not guilty to the charges during a preliminary hearing Tuesday, and they’re in federal custody pending a detention hearing.

The criminal complaints against the two men say they entered the United States legally in April 2009 and had refugee status. By late 2010, Alwan had told the informant he wanted to help terrorists in Iraq, and he recruited Hammadi early this year, authorities said. They are accused of trying to send the rifles, missiles and C4 plastic explosives to Iraq.

Federal prosecutors and the FBI declined to say how the two men were able to enter the country as refugees, or what they were doing in Bowling Green, a city of 60,000. State officials said at least 253 Iraqi refugees have moved to the city since 2008 but wouldn‘t comment on whether the state’s refugee office dealt with the suspects.

“Perhaps they just thought it was a lovely community,” said FBI Special Agent in Charge Elizabeth Fries, who declined to say what the men did for a living.

A Department of Homeland Security official, who requested anonymity because the investigation is ongoing, said Alwan and Hammadi slipped through gaps in the immigration vetting system that have since been filled. The official said the agency now checks people repeatedly as new information becomes available.

Their arrests come after FBI Director Robert Mueller said in February that his agency was taking a fresh look at Iraqi nationals in the U.S. who had ties to al-Qaida’s offshoot in Iraq. The group had not previously been considered a threat in the U.S.

Hammadi’s court-appointed attorney, James Earhart of Louisville, said he doesn‘t know much about the case beyond what’s in the criminal complaint.

“I haven’t had a chance to sit down and talk with him yet,” he said.

Federal Public Defender Scott Wendelsdorf, who represents Alwan, declined comment.

No one answered the door Tuesday afternoon when a reporter went to Alwan‘s and Hammadi’s listed addresses in Bowling Green.

Iraqi government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh said the government is trying to find out more about Alwan and Hammadi but currently has no information.

Court documents say the probe of Alwan began in September 2009, five months after he’d come to the U.S. Late the next year, authorities started using an informant to record conversations with him.

According to the criminal complaints, Alwan told the informant he was involved in insurgent attacks in Iraq from 2003 until 2006. The FBI said Alwan drew diagrams of four types of improvised explosive devices, or IEDs, for the informant.

In January, investigators identified fingerprints belonging to Alwan on a component of an unexploded IED that was recovered by U.S. forces in Iraq in 2005, the FBI said.

The informant told Alwan that he worked for groups that received money from Osama bin Laden and was planning to send money and weapons to Iraq in secret compartments on cars.

The criminal complaints say that in January, Alwan recruited Hammadi to assist him, describing the younger Iraqi to the informant as a relative whose work as an insurgent was well known. Later that month, Alwan and Hammadi allegedly delivered money to a tractor-trailer, believing the money would ultimately be shipped to al-Qaida in Iraq. They later helped delivered weapons that included two Stinger missiles, authorities say.

“In reality, these weapons and money never made it outside of Kentucky,” Fries said.

Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear said state officials have known about the investigation for several weeks, but declined further comment.”

Source:

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/two-iraqi-men-arrested-in-ky-for-attempting-to-send-weapons-and-money-to-al-qaida/

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Could Steps That Team Obama Has Taken Be Emboldening Terrorists?

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2009/12/30/could-steps-that-team-obama-has-taken-be-emboldening-terrorists/

What are CAIRs obstructionist goals?

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Jake

Question: What's Wrong With This Picture?

Posted on The Blaze-By Jonathon M. Seidl-On June 1, 2011:

“Martin Bashir, it seems, is not a fan of Sarah Palin. And during his MSNBC show and “Clear the Air” segment, he went looking for a way to roast the possible 2012 candidate who is now on a national bus tour. So what tool did he use to blast the woman even many of her detractors see as patriotic? The American flag.

According to Bashir, Palin could be breaking the law by displaying the American flag on her tour bus:

{…}

Here’s what he had to say:

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“In fact, the whole thing could be in breach of a federal law because the United States Flag Code establishes important rules for the use and display of the stars and stripes, the flag of the United States. Under standards of respect and etiquette, it’s made clear that the flag of the United States should never be used for any advertising purpose whatsoever. Yet that’s precisely what Sarah Palin is doing. She’s using the flag of the United States for her own financial purposes. She drapes herself in the stars and stripes and makes millions of dollars in the process. This has got nothing to do with the presidency and everything to do with filling her pockets. And by raising her profile, she raises her income. It is as simple as that. So she was right when she said that hers is not a campaign bus. It‘s a cash bus and she’ll keep it rolling for as long as she can.”

NewsBusters quickly takes Bashir to task, especially reminding him that the U.S. Flag Code is not federal law:

“The only problem: the Supreme Court ruled in 1989 that flag burning is protected by the First Amendment. If flag burning is protected speech, certainly displaying the flag on a tour bus is legal. Or do the rules not apply to Sarah Palin? In Bashir’s warped sense of reality, conservatives like Palin would be arrested for flying the American flag at rallies in which they promote causes that Bashir does not support.

[...]

The Congressional Research Service, a non-partisan organization that provides legal analysis to members of Congress, clarified that observance of the Flag Code is “purely voluntary” in a 2008 congressional report: “While wearing the colors may be in poor taste and offensive to many, it is important to remember that the Flag Code is intended as a guide to be followed on a purely voluntary basis to insure proper respect for the flag.”

Considering Palin’s profile has been raised so much in the last week, she can expect attacks like this from the left. But attacks like this are a weak attempt at a nuanced smear campaign.”

Source:

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/msnbc-anchor-palins-use-of-american-flag-could-be-breach-of-federal-law/

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Comedian Jokes About Killing Sarah Palin if She’s Elected President-Posted on Conservative Byte-On June 7, 2011:

http://conservativebyte.com/2011/06/comedian-jokes-about-killing-sarah-palin-if-shes-elected-president/

‘Diversity’ and ‘Peace’ Lead Indiana College to Ban National Anthem!-Posted on Conservative Byte-On June 7, 2011:

The Judas Media-Posted on Floyd Reports-Guest Writer-On April 27, 2011:

http://floydreports.com/the-judas-media/?utm_source=Expose+Obama&am...

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American Flag Clothing Sparks New Protest!

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/05/10/american-flag-clothing-sparks-new-protest/

Who owns our supposedly fair and balanced airwaves and news outlets?

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/10/21/who-owns-our-supposedly-fair-and-balanced-airwaves-and-news-outlets/

Obamanites Get Violent in Support of the Agenda!

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/04/05/obamanites-get-violent-in-support-of-the-agenda/

Is it important to understand the Marxist assault on the foundations of our system?

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Jake

Posted on The Blaze-By Billy Hallowell-On May 31, 2011:

The left-leaning blog ThinkProgress isn’t happy with Sen. Chuck Schumer’s statement that Palestinians and Arabs“don’t believe there should be an Israel.” Here’s the text of the statement Schumer made at a Jewish function this past Sunday:

“The reason there is no peace in the Middle East is very simple. It’s because the majority of Palestinians and the majority of Arabs don’t believe there should be an Israel. It’s that simple. Anyone who tries to figure out a way to solve this conflict without realizing that truth will never get anywhere.”

ThinkProgress cites various polls that seem to contradict Schumer’s statements:

“Polling conducted in 2009 indicated that 74 percent of Palestinians support a two-state solution based around the contours of the international consensus. Polling conducted in 2010 found that 71 percent support peace negotiations with Israel and that a majority of Palestinians oppose rocket attacks on the country.”

You can click here to read more or watch Schumer’s comments below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-ry1SBHRdw&feature=player_embedded

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http://www.theblaze.com/stories/chuck-schumer-tells-audience/

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Video: AIPAC Attendees Say Jews Who Criticize Israel Are Traitors!-Posted on YouTube.com-By ThinkProgress2-On May 24, 2011:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHh9EruXVks&NR=1

Arab Leader Finally Speaks The Truth About Radical Islam!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=5LvqRHBChRY

The Horrors of Hamas!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9-9Hd88_WA&NR=1

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Is President Obama in on the Uprising in Egypt?

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Godfather of The Islamic Revolution!

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Is it important to understand the Marxist assault on the foundations of our system?

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Posted on CNSNews.com-By IBRAHIM BARZAK, Associated Press-On May 28, 2011:

“RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Egypt lifted a 4-year-old blockade of the Gaza Strip on Saturday, greatly easing travel restrictions on the 1.5 million residents of the Palestinian territory in a move that bolstered the Hamas government while dealing a setback to Israel’s attempts to isolate the militant group.

The sense of relief was palpable as buses piled high with luggage crossed the Rafah border terminal and hundreds of people traveled abroad for overdue medical appointments, business dealings and family affairs. In Israel, fears were heightened that militants and weapons will soon pour into the territory.

“I was so happy to hear that the Egyptian border is opening so I can finally travel for treatment,” said Mohammad Zoarob, a 66-year-old suffering from chronic kidney disease.

He said he had been waiting for a medical permit from the Palestinian health ministry for five years so he could go to Egypt for treatment. When Palestinian officials coincidentally approved the permit on Saturday, he kissed his family goodbye, rushed to the border and was quickly whisked across.

“They put me in an ambulance and in five minutes I reached the Egyptian side of the crossing,” he said.

Saturday’s expansion of the Rafah crossing was a tangible benefit of the popular unrest sweeping through the Arab world. The blockade, which has fueled an economic crisis in Gaza, is deeply unpopular among Arabs, and Egypt’s caretaker leaders had promised to end it since the ouster of longtime President Hosni Mubarak in February.

Israel and Egypt imposed the blockade after the Islamic militant Hamas seized control of Gaza in June 2007. The closure aimed to weaken Hamas. But the Iranian-backed group remains firmly in power, operating the border crossing even at a time when it is supposed to be reconciling with the rival Fatah movement.

Until Saturday, the Rafah border terminal had functioned at a limited capacity. Only certain classes of people, such as students, businessmen or medical patients, were eligible to travel and the crossing was often subject to closures, leading to huge backlogs that forced people to wait for months.

Under the new system, virtually anyone can travel, and a much larger number of Palestinians are expected to be able to cross each day.

Hundreds of Gazans gathered early Saturday as the first bus load of passengers crossed the border at 9 a.m. Two Egyptian officers stood guard next to a large Egyptian flag atop the border gate as the vehicle rumbled through. One after another buses crossed Rafah, pulling blue carts behind them with luggage piled high.

“All we need is to travel like humans, be treated with dignity and feel like any other citizens of the world who can travel in and out freely,” said Rami Arafat, 52, who hoped to catch a flight out of Cairo on Sunday to attend his daughter’s wedding in Algeria.

Nearby, 28-year-old Khaled Halaweh said he was headed to Egypt to study for a master’s degree in engineering at Alexandria University.

“The closure did not affect only the travel of passengers or the flowing of goods. Our brains and our thoughts were under blockade,” said Halaweh, who said he hadn’t been out of Gaza for seven years.

Inside the border terminal Saturday, the atmosphere was orderly, as Hamas police called passengers one by one to register their travel documents.

By the close of operation at 5 p.m., 410 people had crossed into Egypt, said Salama Baraka, head of police at the Rafah terminal, well above the daily average of about 300 in recent months.

Thirty-nine were turned back because they did not have the proper visas or travel documents, Baraka said. Israeli media quoted Egyptian officials as saying some were also on Egyptian “terror lists.” In the past, Egypt had rejected passengers found to be on “blacklists.” An additional 150 people crossed from Egypt into Gaza.

With the crossing now operating six days a week, officials hope to raise the daily number of travelers to 1,000. Baraka said ten thousand people are registered to travel between June and August 25.

“Today is a cornerstone for a new era that we hope will pave the road to ending the siege and blockade on Gaza,” said Hatem Awideh, director general of the Hamas border authority in Gaza. “We hope this facilitation by our Egyptian brothers will improve travel and will allow everyone to leave Gaza.”

About 100 Hamas supporters marched with Palestinian and Egyptian flags outside the border terminal in a gesture of gratitude to Egypt.

“This courageous step by Egypt reflects the deep historic relations between the Palestinian and Egyptian nations,” said Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zahri.

The new system will not resolve Gazans’ travel woes completely, though.

Men between the ages of 18 and 40 still will have to obtain Egyptian visas, a process that can take months. Women, children and older men must get travel permits, which can be obtained in several days.

Israel, which controls Gaza’s cargo crossings, allows most consumer goods into Gaza, but still restricts exports as well as the entry of much-needed construction materials, saying they could be used by militants. Israel also enforces a naval blockade aimed at weapons smuggling.

Israeli and American officials have expressed concerns that Hamas will exploit the opening to bring weapons and fighters into Gaza. In January 2008, masked militants blew open the Rafah border wall, allowing thousands of people to pour in and out of Egypt.

Egyptian officials say they have security measures in place to keep weapons from crossing through Rafah.

Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon said the Rafah opening puts “additional responsibility on the Egyptians about what happens in Gaza.”

“Both Israel and Egypt have mutual interests against global Jihad terror and against Hamas terror and I expect that cooperation will continue for the benefit of both sides,” Ayalon said on Channel 10 TV.

Opposition lawmaker Nachman Shai blamed the Israeli government for failing to prevent the opening of Rafah. Israeli officials had lobbied Egypt to leave the restrictions in place.

“Mubarak is gone, there is a new government and we already see how Israel-Egypt relations are substantially deteriorating,” he said. “A significant security breach was created today under our noses.

Hamas has long used tunnels to get arms into Gaza. Gaza militants now have military-grade rockets that have hit cities in southern Israel. Israeli military officials believe that Iranian experts are already in Gaza training Hamas. The fear is that it will now become even easier for them to get into the territory.

“One trainer who tells them how to set up the rockets and how to use them is equal to a large quantity of weapons,” Amos Gilad, a senior Israeli Defense Ministry official who works closely with Egypt, told Channel 2 TV.

The border opening comes on the heels of an Egyptian-mediated unity deal between the rival Palestinian factions Hamas and Fatah.

Hamas has governed Gaza since routing Fatah forces in 2007, leaving the Fatah-dominated Palestinian Authority in control only of the West Bank.

Earlier this month, the sides signed a reconciliation deal in Cairo. But details are still being worked out, and Hamas will be in charge of the Palestinian side of Rafah.

Both Egypt and Fatah officials played down any significance, describing the expanded operations of Rafah a victory for all Palestinians. Nabil Shaath, a senior Fatah official, said he considered the border opening a fruit of the unity deal.”

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http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/after-4-years-egypt-reopens-its-border-g

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In border opening, Gazan relief but Israeli worry!-Posted on CNSNews.com-By IBRAHIM BARZAK, Associated Press-On May 27, 2011:

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Video: Netanyahu: 'Militant Islam Threatens the World'-Posted on CNSNews.com-May 2011:

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Video: Socialists Explain How They Worked With Muslim Brotherhood In Revolutions!-Posted on YouTube.com-By NakedEmperorNews1-On May 31, 2011:

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Video: Obama Seeks Affirmation from Our Enemies!-Posted on CNSNews.com:

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“God Bless & Keep Our USA Safe”

Semper Fi!

Jake

Sara Palin, speaking of her current bus tour to historical places, said it is so important for Americans to learn about our past that we might clearly see our way to our future. Sara is visiting the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island, which is now a national museum. It was where nine million European immigrants entered the United States, long before government entitlements.  Well Sara, since you brought it up, I’ll talk about our past, something I have not been hearing.

The game Congress is playing, called the shell game, is to make you think the pea is under a shell other than the one it is under.  In the end, there is not a dime’s worth of difference in Republicans and Democrats. They are all after the same goal.  

A vote was taken yesterday in the House of Representatives, part of Congress’ shell game, rejecting the Presidents spending plans.  As much as the President, Congress wants to keep government redistribution of the nation’s wealth in place.  Spending taxpayer money to help people out is what allows Members of Congress to keep permanent career jobs.  Imagine how many votes a politician would get who advocated the elimination of government entitlement. 

Politicians put government entitlement in place and now we can’t survive without them.  The President has now given us a $14.7 trillion debt, and wants to give us trillions of more debt. Half of the voters approve of him while few approve of Congress. There is little doubt of who is going to win.

I’m privileged to have lived before government redistribution of the nation’s wealth, when hard work and doing the job well was what counted; when the American people depended on the family; when we saved for a rainy day.  In so doing, we left the nation a better place for future generations. 

By turning what used to be a personal responsibility over to career politicians, we leave future generations with an astronomical debt, for the first time in the history of America, a worse place to live. 

Congress has us over a barrel and knows it. Our so-called representatives are trying now to convince the public that they are taking the needed steps to balance the budget—in the future, nothing specific.  

We elect representatives to public office for the purpose of doing something constructive. What we’ve gotten from our elected representatives, made out by construction, is the greatest fraud of all times.

Going to Congress for the cure is like going to the fox to watch over the henhouse.

It isn’t a pretty picture.  How do you think we got in this mess? Congress is making  you think it is doing something for you when it is not. As always, Congress is doing for itself. The future of the American people is grim.  Best that you be prepared.

Posted on Pajamas Media-By AWR Hawkins-On May 30, 2011:

“On October 28, 1980, President Ronald Reagan looked into the camera for closing remarks during his last debate with Jimmy Carter and said:

“Next Tuesday is election day. Next Tuesday all of you will go to the polls. You will stand there in the polling place and make a decision. I think when you make that decision it might be well if you ask yourself, “Are you better off than you were four years ago?”

While I don’t know what went through the minds of the millions of television viewers who heard Reagan ask that question that night, by the time they entered the voting booth a week later a clear majority of them had decided the answer to Reagan’s question was: “No, we are not better off.”

The results of the presidential election of 1980 proved that Reagan had done a masterful job of drawing attention to the disaster Carter wrought upon our economy, our military, our energy supplies, our national morale, and on and on.

And though we’re just over halfway through President Obama’s first term in office, it seems all Americans should ask themselves if we’re better off now than we were two years ago.

The answer is just as straightforward: No, we’re not.

Unemployment is at 9% and our national debt is over $14,000,000,000,000. According to Reuters, our floundering economy is only poised to get worse. Obama’s answer to the unemployment and incomprehensible debt is to raise taxes to the tune of $2 trillion: that’s “$1 trillion in new taxes on wealthier Americans (and small businesses)” and another trillion sought “in higher tax revenues by reducing tax breaks and subsidies.”

Gasoline, which was $1.81 a gallon when Obama took office, has jumped to over $4 more than once. (It’s now hovering around $3.70.) Throughout this more than 100% jump in gasoline prices, Obama maintained his offshore drilling moratorium and prevented us from drilling for more oil in the western states and Alaska.

Obama’s arrogance is so great that when a citizen asked him how average Americans were supposed to make ends meet with gas prices so high, Obama simply “suggested that the gentleman consider getting rid of his gas-guzzling vehicle.”

We don’t even have to revisit Obama’s quasi-government takeovers of GM, Chrysler, and a myriad of banking institutions to understand why our national morale is low. It’s so low, in fact, that columnists and bloggers grasping for a suitable analogy now compare today’s political and social climate to the malaise we endured under Carter.

And if you think the comparison to the Carter years is a stretch, just consider the irony of one of the other questions Reagan asked as he looked into that camera in 1980:

Is it easier for you to go and buy things in the store than it was four years ago?

Well? Is it easier for you to go and buy things in the store than it was two years ago?

Reagan wanted the people listening to him to know that it was time to make a choice: that America faced a perilous future unless we changed course at that moment in time.

And I dare say we will face an even more dire future now than we would have then, if we don’t determine to change our course in 2012.

ALSO READ: “Herman Cain: Barack Obama Is Not a Patriot.”

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http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/are-you-better-off-now-than-you-were-two-years-ago/

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Issa: Rising Energy Costs: An Intentional Result of Government Action!-Posted on YouTube.com-By oversightandreform-On May 26, 2011:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=CuyPq7tCpNQ

Obamacare for Israel!-Posted on National Review Online-By ANDREW C. McCARTHY-On May 25, 2011:

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/268034/obamacare-israel-andrew-c-mccarthy

Palin, Others Slam ‘Corrupt’ Pelosi Healthcare Waivers!-Posted on NewsMax.com-By Newsmax Wires-On May 18, 2011:

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Pro-Obama Media Always Shocked by Bad Economic News!-Posted on RealClearPolitics-By Michael Barone-On May 30, 2011:

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/05/30/pro-obama_media_always_shocked_by_bad_economic_news_110028.html

Consumer Confidence Takes Surprise Drop in May!-Posted on CNBC.com-By Reuters-On May 31, 2011:

http://www.cnbc.com/id/43223542

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Jake

Question:  What's wrong with this picture?

Posted on The Brookings Institution-By Bruce Jones, Director, Managing Global Order, The Brookings Institution-On May 27, 2011:

“This has been a week of big speeches. President Obama used his Middle East speech to paint a picture of the new realities in that region, and to forestall the Palestinian drive for statehood at the U.N. He partially succeeded on the first, and largely failed on the second. 

His blunt language about the symbolic emptiness of the Palestinian’s drive for statehood misread the mood in the Arab world and beyond.

Then the second big speech of the week undercut his strategy.

Israeli President Netanyahu scored rhetorical and political points with his energetic speech in Congress, after the Fatah/Hamas reconciliation gave him an opening.

On derailing the Palestinian Authority’s drive to the U.N., he blew it. His proposal to the Palestinians – effectively, abandon your red lines, accept all of ours, and then we’ll think about negotiating a compromise – was so flagrantly unrealistic that it rapidly recharged the Palestinians and drove much of Europe, hesitant after the Hamas reconciliation, back to the Palestinian camp.

As things stand, the United States and Israel are facing a diplomatic blowout at the General Assembly in September and the prospect of vetoing a Security Council resolution on statehood that will have overwhelming international support.

Against the backdrop of Middle East maneuvers (and Midwest tragedies), much less notice will be paid to the third speech, President Obama’s to the U.K. Parliament.

That’s a shame, because he was in fine form. This was a speech in the tradition of his Prague speech on nuclear disarmament, his Cairo speech on engagement with the Arab world, and his Nobel speech on the moral case for war: finely wrought, compelling arguments from a thoughtful president with an instinctive understanding of the changing world.

His topic was international order – an order, he acknowledged that “has already been reshaped for a new century” by dramatic economic growth in countries like China, India and Brazil.

This was no apologia for western decline. Rather, the president emphatically rejected the notion that the “rise of the rest” undercuts western influence.

He acknowledged that cooperation and global responsibility from the new powers will be essential to managing the economic and security threats in front of us. He made a better case here than he has before about why we should welcome, not fear, the rising economies – because “the prosperity of all nations is inextricably linked” and therefore “a new era of cooperation is required to ensure the growth and stability of the global economy.”

Against a stale argument about whether the United States is now “leading from behind,” he acknowledged that U.S. leadership will have to change – to focus on building partnerships and adapting to the new realities of the time.

The president left no doubt, though, that the United States and the West remain central to managing the new global order.

He was at his most compelling in arguing that “when threats and challenges require nations to work in concert with one another, we remain the greatest catalyst for global action.” Conceptually, that’s exactly right.

There are more players on the global stage now, and U.S. relative power is not what it once was.

The United States alone, however, retains the diplomatic reach to forge the alliances and catalyze the collective action necessary to navigate today’s globalized world.

Brazil and India can drive initiatives in niche roles, but have only regional, not truly global clout. China has global economic reach, but its diplomatic strategy teeters between defensive and alienating, and nobody’s looking to China to take the lead on solving global problems.

Other actors have important roles to play, he stressed, but only the democratic West can drive us to a new order that is “more peaceful, more prosperous, and more just.”

(I’d tried my hand earlier at a tagline for strategy for the new international order, and came up with ‘forging cooperation, regulating competition, and managing conflict.’ No wonder I’m not a presidential speechwriter.) 

His argument is about to be put to a tough test.

President Obama used the rest of his speech to re-re-cast developments in the Middle East in terms of their relationship to universal values, forged in Westminster and adopted in America’s own revolution.

He did a better job in London than he had in Washington of acknowledging that the West bears its share of responsibility for the Middle East’s current ills through its long-time backing for dictators, and was more frank about America’s ongoing interests. Both elements will help reposition America to what he acknowledged is a skeptical Middle East. (A question for the White House communications team: why are the president’s overseas and UN speeches always so much better than his domestic ones?)

Can his Middle East strategy live up to the rhetoric of the London speech?

Right now we’re watching two new orders being born: one global, one in the region. I’ve long argued that a critical test for the new global order is whether it can “manage” a turbulent challenge to regional order in the Middle East. Perhaps that was backwards. Better, rather, to ask whether the United States can forge the partnerships, build the alliances, and catalyze global action in the Middle East in a way that shapes the emerging order.

In Libya, the United States did this very well in the first phase, marrying western military power to regional legitimacy and U.N. legal authority. Things look a little more dicey now, with NATO struggling to dominate one of the Arab world’s weakest armies, and tentative support from the emerging powers now abandoned. 
 


America’s dominant role in the Middle East is challenged, but no new actor can hope to displace it. If the challenge is to help consolidate emerging democracies and kick-start stagnant economies, can the United States build the partnerships and alliances necessary to that challenge?

The president was least convincing when he hinged the West’s continuing influence on its economic leadership – Asia’s money managers have a pretty strong rebuttal to that argument. His point was not cash, though; it was the model of free economics underpinning free politics and vice versa. Fair enough, but cash matters too – and Asia has lots of it, the West rather less. At international gatherings last week in Cairo and the Gulf, I heard the word “China” a lot more than the words “the West.”

President Obama travels from London to the G8. Watch for the G8 to come up with a big number in pledges for the new Middle East; and then watch for next year’s G8 accountability report to try to mask the fact that most of that money hasn’t appeared.

More compelling would be precisely the kind “global catalyst” role the president’s speech called for.

My colleague Salman Shaikh has noted that the United States lags in drawing in the diplomatic energies of the constructive middle powers in the region.

Europe can create a pathway to free trade with the EU market that could do for the democratic process in the Middle East what the carrot of EU membership did for Eastern Europe after the fall of the Soviet Union.

The Gulf has cash to spare; America’s pledge of $2 billion for Egypt in debt relief and investment guarantees has already been dwarfed by Qatar’s pledge of $10 billion.

Brazil has grappled better than most with the kind of food price inflation and youth unemployment that are strangling North Africa’s economies, and could offer valuable advice. India and Indonesia and Turkey have roles to play in sharing the lessons from their own (still young) democratic transitions.

Only the United States can pull this into a collective effort, undergirding a fragile transition. By doing so, it can demonstrate what we have to gain from a changed international order. That’s what leadership will look like in the Middle East. The president’s London speech is as good a starting point as we’re likely to find. Now, his strategists should read it.”

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http://www.brookings.edu/opinions/2011/0527_global_order_jones.aspx

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http://www.brookings.edu/opinions/2011/0407_middle_east_indyk.aspx

The Rise of the Islamists-Posted on Foreign Affairs-By Shadi Hamid-May/June 2011:

http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/67696/shadi-hamid/the-rise-of-the-islamists

Terrorism After the Revolutions-Posted on Foreign Affairs-By Daniel Byman-May/June 2011:

http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/67697/daniel-byman/terrorism-after-the-revolutions

Managing a Changing World-Posted on The Brookings Institution-By Bruce Jones, Director, Managing Global Order-On March 15, 2011:

http://www.brookings.edu/multimedia/video/2011/0315_changing_world_jones.aspx

Video: Dying America is a Tremendous Opportunity For U.S. Revolution!-Posted on YouTube.com-By NakedEmperorNews1-On May 29, 2011:

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Video: Socialists Explain How They Worked With Muslim Brotherhood In Revolutions!-Posted on YouTube.com-By NakedEmperorNews1-On May 31, 2011:

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Video: Obama Seeks Affirmation from Our Enemies!-Posted on CNSNews.com:

http://www.cnsnews.com/cnsnewstv/v/49289

Podesta: Obama Can Use ‘Armed Forces’ To Push Progressive Agenda-Posted on The Blaze-By Jonathon M. Seidl-On November 18, 2010:

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/podesta-obama-can-use-armed-forces-to-push-progressive-agenda/

The Judas Media-Posted on Floyd Reports-Guest Writer-On April 27, 2011:

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“God Bless & Keep Our USA Safe”

Semper Fi!

Jake

First of all, think on this: There is no such thing as objective reality.   If the American people don’t get the whole truth of what is taking place this election season, life as we know it will be gone for good.

In all life, life is a struggle, and then came human keepers of life, better known as environmentalists.  What could be more noble than saving the planet?  Greedy capitalists are polluting, using up natural resources, utterly disregarding other life.   

Environmentalists are feeling people who know better than average folks how to save the planet. Their end justifies the means. Children know better than adults what is good for all. Capitalism is bad. Environmentalists  capitalize on reeducating America’s children.  Capitalists  drain natural resources; encourages greed; take from the poor.  Collectively,  we can beat greedy capitalists polluting  the environment.  Radical Islam, collectively  on the same wave length, they took down the World Trade Center “with their bare hands.”

There is something missing in how we’re being educated to save the planet. There is always  those who want to radically change the world.   The missing element is the intent of human life.  Humans were not meant to be trained to jump through the hoops of those with a calling to save the planet from disaster. We were not created with hive mentality.  We were created with reason and logic.

You are reading the thoughts of an individual who cut from the herd. I went on my own.  According to those educating us on how to save the planet—always that we must radically change to the way they have it—on  my own, when life could have easily gone wrong for me, everything went right.  Environmentalists are dead wrong. Come to think of it, my way is the way it was with America’s pioneers.  On their own, they built the greatest, most generous nation ever in the history of the world.  Being on our own does not necessarily spell greed, not anymore than being on the taxpayer’s back spells generosity.  Whose cause is greater, mine, or the environmentalists?  Environmentalists have a bigger than life calling.  I studied the U. S. Constitution and felt that voices of the past were speaking to me. I had a bigger than life calling.

I was created with reason and logic.  What makes my logic inferior to the environmentalists?  They have not proven their case.  They are going to the young and inexperienced,  to the ignorant and irresponsible with their pleas.  Does the majority vote make right; I, by myself, make wrong?  It is me or the environmentalists.

America began with pioneers who took personal responsibility.  They built a prosperous economy, made life relatively easy for the American people.  Wolves in sheep’s clothing move in when life is easy, when people begin to want cradle to grave security.  America turned from a nation of rugged individuals  into a hothouse environment, government twisting valves and pulling levers. Do I not know what is better for me than the majority vote?  If it is the majority vote, then why would I take personal responsibility for my life? 

“The very purpose of the Bill of Rights was to withdraw certain subjects from the vicissitudes of political controversy, to place them beyond the reach of the majorities and officials and establish them as legal principles to be applied by the courts.” West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette.  

It is always some noble cause. After Germany self-destructed, when the German people were desperate for answers, along came Hitler with promises of making things right and blaming Germany’s Jews for everything that went wrong.  The pattern is unmistakable. Those who vote for the environmentalists, without taking into consideration that they are voting for giving up control of their lives, are asking for slavery.

We can be cognizant of the environment and not be taken in by self-serving frauds spreading  half truths that aid no one but themselves.   A vote for any mainstream Republican or any Democrat is a vote for government control over your life.

I looked within for my answers and discovered the power that lies in me.  My life is good.  Are you not blessed with reason and logic?  Before you cast your vote, I recommend that you study the U.S. Constitution.  It was written with you in the driver’s seat and your best interests in mind.

Posted on America’s Survival-By Cliff Kincaid-On May 30, 2011:

“Adam Kokesh, an American who stars on KGB-TV, otherwise known as RT or Russia Today television, staged a publicity stunt at the Jefferson Memorial on May 28 and is now complaining about his arrest for “dancing.” His video is getting attention from the media, while his followers are insisting that he was the victim of harsh police tactics. But an examination of the video of his arrest shows that the event was a planned provocation by professional agitators arranged in coordination with Medea Benjamin of Code Pink, who was also arrested.

Kokesh anchors the “Adam Vs. The Man” TV show on Russia Today, an English-language channel provided in the U.S. and other Western countries which is funded by the Moscow regime of Vladimir Putin, a former KGB officer. The channel is considered a propaganda outlet for Russian intelligence services and hired an alleged Russian spy who is in the process of being deported from Britain.

One of the regular stars of the Kokesh show is Luke Rudkowski, the founder of We Are Change and advocate of the theory that the 9/11 terrorist attacks were staged by the U.S. Government and blamed on Muslims.

The Kokesh stunt, which included advance notice to the press and demonstrators armed with cameras to record the inevitable confrontation, appears to have been designed to generate interest in Kokesh’s show on the Russian government-funded propaganda channel and to depict the U.S. as a police state.

An “anti-war” veteran, former Republican candidate for Congress, and Ron Paul supporter who called for the impeachment of President Bush, Kokesh wants the public to believe that he was arrested for “dancing” at the site when the video actually shows that he and his associates were engaged in disorderly conduct. Their activities succeeded in closing down access to the memorial while the arrests were in progress.

A local report on the Fox TV affiliate in Washington by reporter Roz Plater treated the protesters at the Jefferson Memorial as innocent victims of the police and even showed Benjamin inviting more demonstrators to the memorial for another protest.

What the reporter failed to point out is that Code Pink is a pro-Marxist organization that disrupted several appearances by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Washington and staged a demonstration calling for an end to military aid to Israel. Benjamin has met with leaders of the terrorist group Hamas but claims she doesn’t support terrorist organizations.

A U.S. District Court has ruled that the Park Service has a substantial interest in promoting a “tranquil environment” at national memorials and can forbid activities that interfere with that atmosphere. The law is not intended to interfere with free speech and but to protect the rights of families to appreciate the solemn nature of the memorials.

The video clearly shows a police officer warning the “dancers” that demonstrations, including dancing, would get them arrested.

A series of email exchanges on the controversy at the Jefferson Memorial produced this response from an attorney about the way Kokesh was handled: “He was not arrested for dancing. He was engaged in an act of disorderly conduct. He was requested to cease and desist several times and did not. He intentionally provoked the Park Police to where he gave them no option but to restrain him. He resisted and got exactly what he was attempting to make happen. Where are your concerns for the innocent people attending with their families? How about their rights to attend and not have their rights infringed upon by this intentional act of disturbing the peace of another. I am afraid that I might have been a little more physical than the Park Police with this jerk.”

As Medea Benjamin and an associate were arrested, Kokesh is visible in the background, wearing sunglasses and a “Disobey” T-shirt, dancing around and trying to draw attention to himself. The police react by taking him to the ground, after several unheeded warnings of “get to your knees,” and arresting him.

“I’ve got a bad shoulder,” one of the protesters whines, as he is handcuffed. Another was yelling, “This is a police state.”

The demonstration fits right into the anti-American propaganda line of Russia Today, which has been described by Konstantin Preobrazhensky, a former Soviet KGB officer who defected to the West, as “a part of the Russian industry of misinformation and manipulation” of foreign audiences. The obvious purpose in this case is to suggest that the U.S. is an oppressive state with no right to criticize the Kremlin’s increasingly authoritarian nature.

Another example of such fare is the RT story, “FBI targeting political activists as terrorists,” which faults the FBI for investigating far-left groups for having international Marxist connections or links to violence. “The FBI and other government agencies are cracking down on those who are not willing to say in line with the status quo,” the propaganda piece claims. In this case, the FBI reportedly raided the home of an activist with alleged links to a Marxist-Leninist group, the Freedom Road Socialist Organization. Other members of this group were raided by the FBI last September, on suspicions of providing support to foreign terrorist organizations.

RT regularly features Marxist and radical commentators in the U.S. such as Noam Chomsky, Gloria La Riva of the Party for Socialism and Liberation, Carl Dix of the Revolutionary Communist Party, and 9/11 “inside job” advocate and radio host Alex Jones.

Jones, who describes himself as “a loyal American who loves my country,” has appeared regularly on RT to denounce U.S. foreign policy and even to defend Russia’s invasion of Georgia.

While he offers up a lot of anti-government views, which strike a chord with some libertarians, Kokesh is also at the service of the liberal-left, interviewing figures such as Medea Benjamin and “social justice” advocate Jim Wallis of Sojouners. Interestingly, his followers have suggested such figures as Ron Paul, Alex Jones, Andrew Napolitano, and Noam Chomsky as guests on his show.

Kokesh represents an anti-American mix of commentators from across the political spectrum, all designed to make America look like a bad place to live.

Not surprisingly, Russia Today interviewed Kokesh on the air about the “dancing” controversy, giving him yet another platform to spout his nonsense about “the brutal nature of the police force.” RT was obviously pleased with the effort by their American employee to disrupt U.S. Memorial Day activities.

However, on the Free Republic website, one person noted: “These people knew the rules when they went there. They went there to start trouble at a place where thousands of real Americans go to learn about history and honor our founding fathers. They asked stupid questions of the Park police when they already knew what the result would be. They got what they wanted, they got arrested. I thought the police were exceptionally restrained. Park Police are probably the most professional of all of the police departments in DC.”

Source:

http://www.usasurvival.org/ck05.30.2011.html

Note:  My following blog posts contain numerous articles and/or blog posts and videos that relate to this disturbing issue-You Decide:

The Midterm Elections and the Communist Manifesto!

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/10/08/the-midterm-elections-and-the-communist-manifesto/

Progressives and Communists Are Out of the Closet Together!

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/10/05/progressives-and-communists-are-out-of-the-closet-together/

Who is sponsoring the NAACP’s ‘One Nation Working Together’ rally?

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/09/28/who-is-sponsoring-the-naacp’s-‘one-nation-working-together’-rally/

Is it important to understand the Marxist assault on the foundations of our system?

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2011/01/27/is-it-important-to-understand-the-marxist-assault-on-the-foundations-of-our-system/

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“Food For Thought”

“God Bless & Keep Our USA Safe”

Semper Fi!

Jake