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The End Time

The Book of Revelations speaks of the End Time, the Mayan calendar, as well. The way it looks now, in March Congress is going to vote to increase the national debt by one trillion dollars, because if it doesn’t the United States will not be able to pay its bills.  Sounds like the end of America.  America’s economy and Europe’s, as well, will go into the tank if the money is not provided.  We can’t have that, can we? The greatest part of the problem is people who see only the problem, never the cure. The United States is willing to pass its problem on to future generations as long as it can get away with it.  Rather than this one last effort, they say—to get things under control—increasing the national debt by another one trillion dollars is driving the last nail in America’s coffin.  We’ve run out of options.  The majority of the people agree.

 

We’ve allowed government to manage our lives and the economy. Look what government has done to us. Look at Kevin Kelly’s economic prediction I posted yesterday.  We are about to witness the greatest economy of all times, springing up in China because America, instead of getting spending under control,  is playing the blame game.  Give your President credit for getting it right for once, for the first time acting presidential.  We’ve got to stop playing the blame game and fix the problem.  

 

We are all in agreement. We’ve got to cut spending, but a paradigm limitation is befuddling the American people.  We so want our cake and eat it, in fact eating it without the means of paying for it. It means someone later on is going to have to pay for the cake we now eat.  Are Glenn Beck and Joe Smith asses for telling it like it is? 

 

B.C., before Christ, A.D. after the death of Christ, for 2,010 years, rather than our brother’s keeper, it has been after me you come first—rather than taxpayer, government entitlements and such.  Just by coincidence, the Age of Aquarius is an age of brotherhood.  The establishment calls it socialism—or collectively saved by the establishment—collective salvation, Obama calls it.  Not exactly what Jesus had in mind, if you read what he said. In fact, Jesus turned over the money changers tables, which was against the establishment.  The establishment crucified Jesus.

 

One of the victims of the Tucson shooting blames the Tea Party.  It makes as much sense as crucifying Jesus.   

 

The Age f Aquarius, according to astrologers, could have begun a couple of hundred years back, or could yet be a couple of hundred years in our future. Time will tell.  We have not yet arrived. The way it stands now, I’d put my money on China emerging as the leading economy in the world.  I’d bet that the United States is going to end a banana republic with a dictator. 

 

 

 

 

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A Sad End to the American Era??

 

 

            Greatly accelerated by the policies of Barack Obama and his progressive supporters, the bankruptcy of the United States is now a fact of lifeThe only questions left are A.  how and when the masses will become aware of it and B.  Will there be an honorable rebound or complete chaos as a result. Rajjpuut has long been warning about the ills of big government, unconstrained spending and of the deliberate betrayal of the country by the progressive-wing of the Democratic Party. 

 

            When the American Dollar loses the position it’s held for the last sixty years as the world’s reserve currency; virtually immediately a shift toward large-scale inflation will be incurred. How will you know that the curtain’s coming down on the American Greenback? Here are seven likely warning signs marking the end of the global U.S. Dollar standard (for most Americans that would mark the figurative “end of the world”) based upon historical antecedents in other countries which have seen their own currencies destroyed:

 

Warning Indicator #1: the price of gold will begin to accelerate toward it’s natural balance level of $12,000 per ounce. 

 

Since the price of gold has already risen over ten consecutive years some say gold has already achieved the acceleration required to prove the point. Others might be suspicious, “If it’s risen that much, isn’t it time that gold started to drop, no investment always goes up.” True, true, but when a currency is being deliberately devalued by its government, gold and silver always get much more valuable compared to that country’s money; and make no mistake, the United States has been deliberately devaluing the Dollar for roughly the last 28 months; and incidentally devaluing it for roughly the last 45 years. Normally markets and the price of commodities fluctuate all over the place as time passes. But the steady rise of gold (the world’s preferred money) as it is priced in dollars over such an extended time period shows that the dollar is not being taken seriously by knowledgeable people. 

 

Warning Indicator #2: Government’s deficits and liabilities are out of control and the interest on the national debt becomes a major source of deficit increase. 

 

Because the deficits of the United States government are right now well over $1.3 TRillion annually; our national debt has doubled since 2005; our total national debt is over $14 TRillion; and UNfunded liabilities without counting items like welfare and food stamps have now reached $112 TRillion . . . it’s a safe bet that this benchmark has been passed. By the way, even the numbers we’re fed are absolutely false. Did you know that the government counts all $850 billion of payroll taxes (Medicare and Social Security) as current income when we all know that the money in question is supposed to be a “set aside” marked for its intended use only rather than included as “general revenue.”  If you or I or any business carried on their accounting this way, jail-time would be in the offing, but our government has been handling things this way as far as the Social Security "set-aside lockbox" for nearly 80 years.  That's why UNfunded liabilities for Social Security, Medicare and the federal side of Medicaid amount to $112 TRillion, twice the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of the entire world.

Warning indicator #3: Spending gets so out of control that generating high enough tax revenues to deal with federal spending becomes impossible.

 

            Annual deficits are no longer related in any way to tax revenue.   Last year the Democratic-controlled congress refused to pass a budget . . . their most important duty according to the Constitution . . .  revenues were $1.1 TRillion and spending amounted to almost $3.7 TRillion and they want to raise the ceiling on the National Debt. Even if taxes tripled we’d still have run a significant deficit for the year . . . and yes, the interest on the debt runs to roughly $170 Billion yearly . . . all of that’s a sign that the crisis point has been passed.

 

Warning Indicator #4:   The political class begins to bail out and in doing so takes care of their cronies and of the masses to keep them under control -- all at the expense of the middle class. 

 

            Right now federal government unions; state and municipal unions; and other special interest groups are looting the U.S. and the 50 state treasuries. The Obama $787 Billion stimulus cost us a lot of free market real jobs, but the looters maintained and grew the government enormously while the rest of us suffered. $200 Billion per year is wasted on just the federal pensions; welfare amounts to $450 Billion per year; Social Security and Medicare and the federal side of Medicaid cost $1.8 TRillion and much of those funds is tied up in fraud, abuse and waste benefitting the political class . . . none of this was ever authorized by the U.S. Constitution . . . but wait, there’s more: remember national defense; border control and roads and all the other stuff the Constitution actually said the federal government must do? That an an equal amount on “discretionary spending that was never authorized by the Constitution amounst to roughly another $2.6 TRillion . . . aha, now you see why they didn’t want to create a budget! Tell me that a $5.1 TRillion budget with a $1.4 TRillion deficit wouldn’t shock the sensibilities of all sensible Americans. This warning indicator has been passed also.

 

Warning Indicator #5 The government will begin creating money out of thin air.

 

            Yes, this too has already happened. Between late October, 2008 and today, the Federal Reserve Bank has printed and electronically created “magic money” amounting to roughly 29 times the amount of dollars circulating in September, 2008. Technically speaking the 2011 U.S. dollar is now worth 3.4 pennies-worth of the September, 2008 Dollar. In other words, all those banana republics we used to laugh about . . . well, our money is becoming less valuable than theirs. As Stansberry & Associates financial advisors reminds us:  If printing money were truly good for an economy, Zimbabwe would be the world’s wealthiest country.”  Yet that's precisely what we're being told by our President and by our financial leaders . . . .  Our Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has alternated between denying that he was “monetizing the debt” (a.k.a. “printing money”) and then defending the practice. Bernanke and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner denied the United States would ever resort to such “devaluation of the dollar” but it’s going on anyway; meanwhile Bernanke keeps busy explaining that it's not exactly "counterfeiting" what he's doing and it's actually good for the economy in the long run (not mentioning that it's a huge gamble with the future of the country and the planet in the short run). A planetwide “run on the dollar” could literally destroy our currency overnight. The whole world has warned about this; the credit-rating firms have pretended it’s not so, but expect it very soon.

 

Warning Indicator #6: We will not be able to repay our debts in the international community.

 

            America’s $55 TRillion international debt amounts to $681, 178 per each American family of four. The average income of American families amounts to less than $50,000 per year. Just the interest on our international debt amounts to $34,000 per family per year. And if we resort to the printing presses to print of more dollars to pay the debt (OOOOPS, I forgot, we’re already doing that!) Then, first the interest rates for borrowing will skyrocket; then people and nations will stop loaning money to America, period.   Friends, once that happens the printing presses can run day and night and there’s no helping us . . . yep, we’ve passed this crisis point, too. The world’s greatest creditor nation has within the 45 year lifetime of President Lyndon Baines Johnson’s “Great Society” which ushered in Medicare and Medicaid and dramatically expanded welfare programs of all ilks become the greatest DEBTOR nation the planet has ever seen.

 

Warning Indicator #7:   American citizens will catch on and, discovering that debt has the potential someday to evaporate in hours, they personally will churn out new debt like a bullet-train parting the atmosphere.

           

            Despite all the talk of the American consumer “cutting back” and practicing austerity issuance of new debt in the United States is soaring. Public and private debt both reached record levels in 2010. The potential is that the economy will twist inside-out if this practice continues. This is the only one of the seven warning indicators that hasn’t yet come to pass.

 

IS THERE, INDEED, NO HOPE?

            Where there’s life there’s hope . . . . Rajjpuut believes the individual ought to prepare himself and his family and other loved ones for the very worst; while still striving to do everything possible to prevent those ills from befalling all of us.  The HOPE that exists lies with the actions of 
individuals protecting themselves^^ and quite frankly with the Republicans in the House of Representatives. UNLESS their actions signal a strong “about-face” to the rest of the world and to our nation’s financial momentum: we’re doomed within 18 months. Everything you and I can do as an individual and through leverage groups such as the TEA Party to change the fiscal- and Constitutional course of the nation must be done. Here’s a story to give us all hope.

            Teddy Roosevelt, a Republican, was the first Progressive president, indeed his personal “Bullmoose Party” was officially called the “Progressive Party.” TR was, thankfully, a great American patriot and his modest progressivism actually benefitted the nation for the most part leading to modernization of the navy, for one good example and the building of the Panama Canal (the land for which was actually stolen from Colombia and renamed “Panama”; not only progressive but unethical as well). Woodrow Wilson was, up till Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, the most sinister progressive politician of them all. After running for a second term under the slogan “He kept us out of war,” within a month of his March, 1917 inauguration he put us into the European War. He left office with the nation undergoing the biggest depression up to that time. The conditions were much worse than what Herbert Hoover (another Republican Progressive) did himself in with. That late 1920 depression came to be known as “The Invisible Depression” after Wilson’s successor Warren G. Harding cut spending 49%; cut taxes 48%; and paid down the National Debt by 30% and was ended within 15 months . . . so it is possible to avert disaster but the Democrats seem to have embraced it and the Republicans must show the political will to do it pretty much on their own, with, of course, constant pressure from you and me.

 

Ya’all live long, strong and ornery,

Rajjpuut

 

 ^^  Purchasing a $100 face-value bag (or more) of "junk silver" might be the simplest most patriotic act you can do while saving yourself.  The bag would cost roughly $2,100 - $2,400 depending upon the value of silver when you buy.  IF and WHEN the currency fails, some sort of new money is going to be in high demand and the 90% silver dimes or quarters minted before 1965; are the most likely candites.  To a lesser extent the 40% silver money minted between 1965 to 1970 would also be accepted as a "new currency" but not nearly so readily as they will be worth 56% less than the 90% coins.

Some more important reading:

 

Here’s some other key reading that’ll shake the earth under most Americans’ feet:

 

http://rajjpuutsfolly.blogtownhall.com/2010/10/26/obama,__to_gop,_%e2%80%9cride_in_back%e2%80%9d;_no_one_tells_truth.thtml

 

 http://rajjpuutsfolly.blogtownhall.com/2010/10/26/%e2%80%9chow_brainwashed_are_you%e2%80%9d_a_test_for_american_voters.thtm

 

All the worst ideas still plaguing America (and a lot of other bad ideas as well) right now are rooted in progressivism, all of them. Think of the worst UNfunded liabilities initiated for “all the best motives” and you’ve described  tyrannical progressivism to a “T.” Here are some of those ideas and the president’ in power when they began: 

1.       Truly Big Government: Teddy Roosevelt

2.     Government Control over large land tracts: Teddy Roosevelt

3.     The Federal Reserve Bank: Woodrow Wilson

4.     The Income Tax: Woodrow Wilson

5.     Fighting in Europe’s Wars: Woodrow Wilson

6.     Government propaganda: Woodrow Wilson

7.     Internment Camps: Woodrow Wilson

8.    Controlling (and shutting down) the press: Woodrow Wilson

9.     Government welfare programs: Herbert Hoover
10. Land banks and other agricultural subsidies:  Herbert Hoover

11.Ultra-high protective tariffs: Herbert Hoover

12. Huge Tax and Spend Government: Franklin Delano Roosevelt

13.Confiscation of Gold: FDR

14. Devaluing the Dollar to fill government coffers: FDR

15. Ultra-big Government: FDR

16.  Social Security: FDR

17.  Expansive Welfare: Lyndon Baines Johnson

18.  Medicare: LBJ

19. Medicaid: LBJ
19 1/2.  Taking silver out of money:  LBJ and Richard Nixon
 
20.  Leaving gold standard entirely:  Richard Nixon
 

21. Government Bailouts of Cities: Gerald Ford

22.             Government control of Mortgage Industry Jimmy Carter

23.   Government bailouts of Chrysler automobile company : Jimmy Carter
 
24.  Regulatory expansion of CRA 77:  Bill Clinton

25.     Expansions by fiat thrice by legislation to Carter’s CRA: Bill Clinton

26.     Motor Voter Act: Bill Clinton
 
27.     Medicare Part D:  G.W. Bush

28.    TARP bailouts: G.W. Bush

29.    Federal Government involved in bankruptcies: Barack Obama

30.   Nationalized Healthcare insurance: Barack Obama

31.   Government bailout  and control of auto companies: Barack Obama

32.   Government control of Banks: Barack Obama
 
33. 
Government control of student loans: Barack Obama

34.  Financial control “reform”: Barack Obama

35.  Bailouts of Banks and Wall Street:  Barack Obama

36.  State Socialism: Barack Obama

 

                

                Remembering the “Watermelon-Connection” wherein ultra-socialists “green on the outside and Deep RED on the inside” want to use Cap and Trade as a stepping-stone to government takeover of virtually everything because it practically requires nationalization of all of a nation’s enterprises; requires the all-powerful central government to control all decisions about what to produce, where to produce it, when to produce, where to market it, and how . . . . isn’t it fitting that Barack Obama and progressive-elitist and would-be president Kerry are so interested in this seriously flawed “science?”  And so looking over that unending list of failure every time serious government taxing, spending, control or interference is contemplated, Senator Kerry still just can’t understand why the masses of sheep are no longer following him to the slaughter house,  "It's absurd. We've lost our minds," he keeps repeating.

 

 

 

 

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Free Our Free Markets


What does the American auto industry, the health care industry, wall street firms and the banking ndustry all have in common; other than they were all on the brink of failure?

These are industries where the production side of the industry is no longer a free market with many producers competing head-to head to earn the business of consumers, or customers, of the industry. instead each of these industries are controlled by a relatively small number of very large corporations that have transformed these markets into oligopolies.
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Spree Killers, the Second Amendment, and Those Damned Guns
This is not about guns or freedom of speech.
It is about the impossibility of forcing psychiatric therapy on someone who is obviously disturbed but who has (and will insist upon using) the right to continue being mentally messed up, without interference from police, physicians, or other protectors and defenders of the public.
This is a 'lawyer disease' - a social problem created by the same profession that refused to let gays be subjected to contact tracing (thus accelerating the spread of AIDS) and now are refusing to allow meaningful tort reform (thus accelerating the CYA ordering by doctors of tests and procedures that cost about 150 Billion (with a B) dollars annually).
Shakespeare was a bit harsh but right about the problems created by lawyers, but nobody listened. Were he alive today he might have some words about the ACLU and even the ACRU as well.
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Kevin Kelly's Economic Prediction

  1. The Law of Connections: The collapsing microcosm of chips and the exploding telecosm of connections will tear the old laws of wealth apart and prepare territory for the emerging economy.
  2. The Law of Plentitude: Curious things happen when you connect all to all.  Adding a few more members can dramatically increase the value for all members
  3. The Law of Exponential Value: The chart of Microsoft’s cornucopia of profits is a revealing graph because it mirrors several other plots of rising stars in a Network Economy. However, the same forces that feed on each other to amplify network presences into powerful overnight standards can also work in reverse to unravel them in a blink. Success will become nonlinear and self-regulating.
  4.  The Law of Tipping Points:  Significance precedes momentum. Success became infectious and spread pervasively.  It became difficult not to be infected. For instance, how long could one hold out not having a telephone?
  5. The Law of Increasing Returns:  Them that’s got shall get. It depends on this: while centralized government gets more punishing, the Network Economy rewards schemes that allow decentralized creation, and punishes those that don’t.
  6. The law of Inverse Pricing: While the worst—government—gets more costly each year, the very best gets cheaper each year. It is a major engine for the new economy.
  7. The Law of Generosity:   Microsoft makes huge profits by giving away its Web browser, thereby creating a need. 
  8. The Law of Allegiance: The prosperity of the company is directly linked to the prosperity of the network.  
  9. The Law of Devolution: The tightly linked nature of any economy, but especially the Network Economy’s ultraconnected constitution, make it behave ecologically. The fate of individual organizations is not dependent entirely on their own merits, but also on the fate of their neighbors, their allies, their competitors, and, of course, on that of the immediate environment.  
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Evolution

The Scopes Trial, held in 1925, the year of my birth, and coincidentally, Werner Heisenberg’s publication of the uncertainty principle, the forerunner of quantum mechanics, published in September 1925, the month and year of my birth, all connecting with the time and place of my birth at 4:21 p.m., September 17, 1925 in Houston Texas, making me Aquarius rising.  

 

By coincidence, immediately after I posted “Intelligent Design” on the Tea Party blog, I turned on the History Channel. Surprisingly, the Scopes Trial was being aired.  It was like my post was predestined.  In the Scopes trial, two big time lawyers, Clarence Darrow for the defense and William Jennings Bryan, three time presidential candidate for the Democrats, for the prosecution, Scopes was on trial for teaching in public school that we humans evolved from monkeys. The folks called it the Scopes Monkey Trial. It was seen as the trial of the century. It was modernists who said religion was consistent with evolution and fundamentalists who maintained that “the Word of God” (The Bible) trumped all human knowledge. Amazing! The judge forbid any scientific knowledge from being presented at the trial, which left Darrow to attack religious fundamentalism, and his friend, religious fundamentalist Bryan.  It didn’t help the fundamentalists any that Bryan died shortly after the trial. They blamed it on Darrow. Familiar?

 

Isn’t it interesting that after I posted “Intelligent Design” that I viewed the Scopes Trial?  It’s as if I’m being directed by voices of the past. With knowledge of the Scopes Trial, now that I’m directed by voices from the past, I must tell you that both the modernist and fundamentalist views were wrong. Neither position lines up with Intelligent Design, nor the message in the Bible.

 

God did not create a perfect universe.  God decided to create the time-space universe and man—and change. Genesis 1:26—“And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion . . . ,” our physical image or our spiritual image?  Modernists and fundamentalists, with opposing views, using the world is flat idea instead of their spiritual selves to make judgments (monkeys don’t possess human spiritual values) how could that be a matter of opinion? Spiritually, we did not evolve from monkeys. It is ridiculous to argue that. It was monkey see, monkey do. We are animals physically, obviously evolved from monkeys, humans spiritually, with no connection to monkeys. But these people were acting, ironically, like monkeys. If we start with such a ridiculous idea, then everything we read in the Bible is wrongly interpreted. And boy! Was that ever true in what William Jennings Bryan said at the trial.  Bryan knew to the year when the world began, I think some 22,000 years ago.  It’s scary. In a world that is technologically rapidly advancing, hundreds of millions of the faithful believe the Scriptures trump all human knowledge.

 

Is it any wonder that religious zealots would think America is the Great Satin?  Is it any wonder that the pope would send Christian Crusaders to the Holy Land to take it back from Islam? Think of the suffering and death man’s foolish interpretations of the Scriptures have caused.  It is unbelievable. “After our likeness,” says the Bible.  God created man with reason and the ability to self-govern. The faithful allow themselves to become mindless herd animals.

 

Fundamental to life is control of the situation we find ourselves in—so to speak, small fish finding a way to keep from being eaten by big fish. Making man in our image involves Higher Law, which happens to be the background of the American Constitution, if we but knew it.  We’ve been brainwashed. If you knew the story of my life, you would know that your control of the situation requires that you look within for your answers.  You would know, if you look within, your power to control is far greater than you thought.

 

For the good of all, the people in control make war; the winner has God on his side. It’s insane.  An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth?  For God’s sake, God didn’t create man to make war. The Bible is the moral story of man, the good and the evil. In the New Testament, Jesus teaches that we are our brother’s keeper; that we must do unto others as we would have them do unto us.  Who could disagree? This is making man in our unique spiritual image.  I AM THAT I AM—the Supreme Consciousness—included, my conscious awareness, as limited by me, Jesus: “But seek ye first the kingdom of God.” The kingdom of God is distinguished from the kingdom of heaven. The kingdom of God is internal in each of us, if we but knew it.  We are consistently being misdirected.

 

Astrologers tell us about the Age of Pisces, when people would be extremely responsive to the feelings of others, when they would unconsciously absorb the ideas and mental outlook of those around them, when they would desperately want to do the right thing, but as a rule would not have strong wills, when they would be influenced by external factors. With the Age of Pisces came Jesus. Jesus told Peter that before the cock crowed Peter would deny him three times.  It fits with what we read in astrology books, and in the Bible, with regard to seeking first the kingdom of God.

 

Astrologers tell us the Age of Pisces is ending, being replaced by the Age of Aquarius, and that Aquarians are born under the sign of brotherhood, whose symbol is the water-bearer who spills out the life-force of mankind: spiritual energy—who are stubborn in belief, who operate as equals among equals, who are not dependent on others.  This has a lot of similarity with what Jesus preached, if you are open minded, but not if you have been brainwashed by the orthordoxy.

 

Fox News: “Now that they're freshmen in a GOP-run House, the political movement's candidates are running smack into the traditions, partisan divisions and powerful competing interests that make it so hard to redirect the government,” exactly what I’ve been writing.   

 

Jesus said in earth as it is in heaven. We read in Cosmos and Psyche astonishingly consistent correspondence between planetary alignments and the archetypal patterns of human history. Astrologers talk about our signs as being archetypically, from the standpoint of the original pattern of man, how we feel as we go through life, how we naturally uplift people, what our spiritual mission is.

 

We’ve not wanted information that rocks the boat. We are now developing a new image, a growth image, forced by the rapidly changing world. Join us, my representatives, or be left at the switch.  We will replace you.

 

Pluto, known as a generational planet, is now unfavorably aligned with Saturn, the learning planet, and until November 2012, a month prior to the Mayan calendar’s end of the world prediction.

 

When a lesson from a prior life was not learned, one can experience inexplicable guilt. Saturn, the source of many self-imposed restrictions,   known by the placement of Saturn in the chart, Saturn in my 9th House means I have serious interest in religion—philosophically. I base my philosophy on what I believe to be right, not on what is acceptable. That’s Aquarian.

 

A new world order, an innovative, entrepreneurial world is already emerging, a world, according to astrologer Jeanne Avery, with Aquarius rising, which is my rising sign. My emerging world began in 1925.  I may bring back information that has been lost to civilization for centuries, says Avery. I can be very avant-garde, can be the forerunner in setting style, discovering new methods, can show the rest of humanity the way, says Jeanne Avery. I know where the fruit grows and where the spotlight can hit.

 

Jesus, Avery, and I say, “Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house. Let your light so shine before men that they may see your good works . . .”(Mt. 5:15, 16).  I’m inclined to believe that all these coincidences in my life are not by coincidence.  Why would all my dreams have come true?  I’m doing as I’m ordered to do.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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It’s been called a federal retirement plan that’s better than the official federal retirement plan, a taxpayer-funded program for government workers that may be ripe for abuse.But it’s a gravy train that could be brought to an abrupt halt very soon.Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) has filed a request with the Government Accountability Office [GAO], the Congressional watch dog agency, to audit once more the nearly century old federal workers’ disability program, where federal workers get lucrative disability payments. The government lists beneficiaries in their 100s receiving these taxpayer-funded payments.The program, the Federal Employees’ Compensation Act [FECA], which the government launched in 1916, is supposed to cover lost wages for federal employees who suffer on-the-job injuries.But many federal workers stay on the program for decades, well into their retirement. Those federal workers on disability can get nearly 75% of their salary tax-free for the rest of their life if they have one dependent, with annual cost of living adjustments.Related LinksThe Black Swan Events of 2011?U.S. Cancer Costs May Hit $207 Billion by 2020A History of Debt-Ceiling FightsWhere is the Deficit Czar?Housing Market Remains HAMPered YOU MIGHT ALSO BEINTERESTED IN7 Things That Will Cost More in 2011 86 Teens Pregnant at One Memphis High School Jobless Claims Post Biggest Jump in 6 Months A Nice, Wholesome Hooters Girl for the Kids Palin Targeted in Violence-Tinged Tweets Following Arizona Massacre That compares to regular federal retirees with 30 years of service who get much less, 56% of their gross wages, which is taxable. “FECA has no limits on the amount of time spent in the program or the amount of money given to recipients,” the Senator notes in her statement, and adds: “FECA has no caps or cut-off periods, which is why there are reported cases of recipients in their 90s and 100s still receiving workers' compensation benefits.“Stunningly, the program does not require regular third-party certifications of continued need for payments, which “expose the FECA program to possible fraud,” the Senator, ranking member on the Senate Homeland Security panel, said in her letter to the GAO.The senator also indicated in her statement the benefits were even more generous than federal retirement, noting they contain an annual cost-of-living adjustment, where as federal retirement pay does not.Already, public sector workers make, on average, about a third more than their private-sector counterparts, studies show.The Congressional Budget Office, a nonpartisan federal research agency, has already made similar findings.“FECA benefits substantially exceed a worker's retirement benefits in most instances,” the CBO says.The Labor Department says there are roughly 49,000 purportedly injured federal workers who have not returned to work and who are receiving FECA disability payments to cover lost wages.Out of those 49,000 recipients, about 7,200 workers are listed as being over age 65 and potentially will not return to work.Senator Collins says in a statement that the Labor Department unit which oversees the program paid out about $2.8 billion in disability payments over a recent 12-month span, without ensuring whether federal workers employees are exploiting the program."At the U.S. Postal Service, for example, 1,000 employees currently receiving federal workers' compensation benefits are 80 years or older,” the Senator adds. “Incredibly, 132 of these individuals are 90 and older and there are three who are 98. This abuse may extend across the government where the Dept. of Labor regularly pays benefits to employees in their 70s, 80s, 90s, and even 100s.”In her statement, Senator Collins notes she has asked the GAO “to audit FECA and report on the length of time individuals remain on the program, the number of recipients who exceeded the standard federal retirement age, and how the federal program compares to state workers' compensation best practices,” to see if the federal program is more lucrative, in turn hurting federal taxpayers.Senator Collins also asked the GAO to compare FECA’s records against the government’s “Death Master File and the civilian payroll database,” to ascertain whether deceased federal workers continue to receive benefits or whether recipients are "double dipping.""I am increasingly concerned that individuals with no intention of returning to work continue to receive these benefits," said Senator Collins in her statement.Sen. Collins has also suggested transferring workers' compensation recipients to the federal retirement system when they reach retirement age. "These individuals should be switched to the retirement system. They're never going to return to work over age 90,” she has said.Federal worker groups have opposed that idea, noting that injured federal employees have forfeited their right to sue the government in exchange for disability payments, among other issues.The Washington Timesquotes Shelby Hallmark, director of the Office of Workers' Compensation Programs at the Department of Labor, who in 2004 testified to Congress about the problem."Under current law, the thousands of long-term FECA (Federal Employees' Compensation Act) beneficiaries who are over normal retirement age have a choice between federal retirement system benefits and FECA benefits, but they overwhelmingly elect the latter because FECA benefits are typically far more generous," Hallmark reportedly said.The Times says a “2005 audit by the Office of Inspector General for the Veterans Administration found that beneficiaries can remain on workers' compensation rolls until they die.”And it says “in 2003, the U.S. Postal Service's inspector general cited potential savings of $19 million over 10 years if only 255 totally disabled postal employees were required to retire.”The Timessays that “same report found there were 81 employees who had been collecting workers' compensation payments for between 40 and 50 years.”The CBO report says that “FECA provides what could be considered a windfall for permanently disabled employees who otherwise would be retired, indefinitely paying them benefits that are higher than those offered by their retirement plans. “And the CBO notes that “permanently disabled employees covered by the Federal Employees Retirement System can cash out the defined-contribution portion of their retirement plans in addition to receiving FECA benefits. The higher benefits could encourage some employees to claim to be disabled in order to raise their retirement income.”Roughly 140,000 FECA claims were filed in 2006, the CBO says; of those, 55,000 federal employees received long-term replacement benefits (averaging about $36,000) for a job-related injury, disease, or death. About three-fourths of those beneficiaries received augmented benefits. More than 60 percent of the beneficiaries were at least 55 years old.The CBO says that “such benefits are out of line with those of other workers' compensation systems.”It adds that “only six state systems authorize additional benefits for employees with at least one dependent, and those benefits are much smaller—about $5 to $10 per week in five states and $25 per week in the sixth, compared with 8.33% of the worker's previous salary in the case of FECA, or about $80 per week for an employee making $50,000 per year. Moreover, salaries and other employee benefits do not increase for workers with dependents.This is of a piece with what cities and towns are seeing across the country. Eight out of ten senior California Highway Patrol officers discover a disabling injury about a year before they retire, the Economist Magazine reports.And according to an audit released in August 2010 by the Buffalo City Comptroller, the city spent $1.99 million in taxpayer funds on health insurance premiums for 152 deceased employees – some [of whom] had died as long ago as 1998.Print Email Share Comments (55) Text Siz
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Forget the "new tone of civility."  Forget that the Tea Party had NOTHING to do with the shootings in Tucson.  Forget the fact the shooter was a loon who claimed two of his favorite books were The COMMUNIST Manifesto and Mien Kampf.  None of that matters.

Now, those associated with Giffords, those who were there with her when she was shot (and who we can assume are themselves Democrats) are now targeting Tea Party Leaders....you have to read this!  It is simply unbelievable.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/01/15/arizona-shooting-victim-arrested-threat/

The Sheriff of Pima County needs to be sacked and run out of town - he started all of this, and if anyone in the Tea Party gets hurt, I will donate money to sue that fat bag of crap until he cant afford a freakin hamburger!!!!!!

I hope they lock this jack wagon up and make him do some time for making a death threat! Arghhh!! I am so pissed off!!!!

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“Barack Obama is Destroying Our Economy on Purpose,” an interview with author James Simpson.On March 9, Brannon Howse of Worldview Radio interviewed author James Simpson. Entitled “Barack Obama is Destroying Our Economy on Purpose,” Howse’s interview of Simpson concentrated on Columbia University professors Richard Andrew Cloward and Frances Fox Piven who wrote an article in 1966 for The Nation magazine. “The article was published on May 2, 1966 and laid out what is now known as the ‘Cloward-Piven Strategy’. The plan calls for the destruction of capitalism in America by swelling the welfare rolls to the point of collapsing our economy and then implementing socialism by nationalizing many private institutions,” explains a synopsis on the Worldview Radio website. “Cloward and Piven studied Saul Alinsky just like Hillary Clinton and President Obama.”Alinsky is considered to be the founder of modern community organizing in America. Alinsky’s teachings influenced Obama early in his career as a community organizer on the far South Side of Chicago. Obama worked for Gerald Kellman’s Developing Communities Project where he learned and taught Alinsky’s methods for community organizing. Obama would later work for ACORN (the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now.According to Sol Stern of the Manhattan Institute, ACORN is a modern successor of the radical 1960’s “New Left” and holds a “1960’s-bred agenda of anti-capitalism” to be implemented through “undisguised authoritarian socialism.”“This new and complete Revolution we contemplate can be defined in a very few words. It is … outright world-socialism, scientifically planned and directed,” H.G. Wells wrote in The New World Order.It is a brand of “undisguised authoritarian socialism” supported by the establishment. As the Union News reported last October, ACORN receives funding from the Robin Hood Foundation, a charity supported — to the tune $9,859,453 — by the globalist George Soros and his Soros Fund Charitable Foundation.“Soros is the visible side of a vast and nasty secret network of private financial interests, controlled by the leading aristocratic and royal families of Europe, centered in the British House of Windsor,” writes William Engdahl. According to Engdahl, Soros “is part of a tightly knit financial mafia — ‘mafia,’ in the sense of a closed masonic-like fraternity of families pursuing common aims.”As Antony Sutton documented (Wall Street & the Bolshevik Revolution), the very fount of “authoritarian socialism” was created and lavishly funded by the bankers. “The involvement of the Rockefellers with their supposed blood enemies, the Communists, dates back to the Bolshevik Revolution,” notes Gary Allen (None Dare Call it Conspiracy, chapter 6). “The Federal Reserve-CFR insiders began pushing to open up Communist Russia to U.S. traders soon after the revolution.”In addition, the bankers have supported “communism” in the United States. Considering this, it should come as no surprise the anti-capitalist “Cloward-Piven Strategy” was published by The Nation, a magazine with a well-documented connection to the CIA. As researcher Bob Feldman notes, The Nation is connected to the National Endowment for Democracy, a CIA front group involved in overthrowing countries around the world by way of “color revolution.” The CIA has a history of collaboration with the Ford Foundation (see James Petras: “The Ford Foundation and the CIA: A documented case of philanthropic collaboration with the Secret Police”).A d v e r t i s e m e n tIn 1954, Rowan Gaither of the Ford Foundation told Reese Commission investigator Norman Dodd that “the directives under which we operate is that we shall use our grant making power to alter life in the United States so that we can comfortably be merged with the Soviet Union.”This merging with the Soviet Union (or more accurately, “authoritarian socialism”) has nothing to do with the sort of communism taught in school textbooks — a dictatorship of the proletariat and the workers — but rather it is an authoritarian control system engineered by the bankers and the global elite. “This new and complete Revolution we contemplate can be defined in a very few words. It is … outright world-socialism, scientifically planned and directed,” H.G. Wells wrote in The New World Order.It is a mistake to believe the Cloward-Piven Strategy is scheme cooked up by academic Marxists of “New Left” bent dedicated to the destruction of capitalism in the name of some sort of vaguely defined humanitarianism. In fact, “the destruction of capitalism in America by swelling the welfare rolls to the point of collapsing our economy and then implementing socialism by nationalizing many private institutions” is a meticulous plan on the part of the global elite to consolidate power and destroy all opposition.It has nothing to do with liberating the proletariat but rather subjecting them to banker engineered “world-socialism, scientifically planned and directed” and devised to transform the planet into a banker dominated high-tech prison gulag.Print this page.Comment RulesLoginUsername:Password:Remember meRegisterLost your password?Comments are closed.
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The folks who brought us the “Defend Public Education” actions last March in California, Wisconsin, New York and Michigan are planning a new round this year and will be drawing on the “energy” created by the violent, destructive riots in Europe.The Huffington Post reported last year about college students shutting down major freeways in California. In Wisconsin, protesters threw “punches and ice chunks” at police after the students were refused entry into an administration building in Madison.Now, plans are being made for a month of similar actions this year, kicking off March 2nd.Some activists have complained that unions are not currently leading the charge because they’ve become too “corporatist.” But they believe once they make their move, unions will move to “co-opt” the movement.“Student strikes” will occur in March to fight budget cuts and increased fees for students. What's happening in Europe is about to be emulated in America, friends.Radicals know this is one of their last opportunities to keep the gravy train running on time. But reality, courtesy of fed up taxpayers, may interrupt their plans.One of the movement’s leaders, Los Angeles high school teacher Omar Hussein, recruited “student militants” to support the March 4th protests in 2010. He’s a leader again this time around, according to sources within the movement.The month of “actions” will be capped off with a global action stemming from a huge union/socialist rally in London March 26th. As many as one million people will show their solidarity with those “in the firing line of the government’s cuts,” according to a statement posted on a public employee union website.The pro-big government radicals are in the planning stages of something similar in the United States. One radical from Arizona pledged that the actions will be “very militant” because what they’ve done so far hasn’t worked and “there are no other options now.”Radicals who fantasize about Che Guevara’s revolution, the Soviet States of America and the good ole days of Chairman Mao will soon be making their move. They’ll be doing their best to seize the current “crisis” and push their socialist agenda.Will they get anywhere? The big government agenda certainly had its wings clipped in the November election. But that doesn’t mean violence, upheaval and chaos can be stopped.And we shouldn’t kid ourselves that it’s simply a small band of “student militants” that break a few windows and celebrate at the local (fair trade) coffee house. When this action occurs, SEIU, AFL-CIO, NEA, AFT, NAACP and others will be right behind them to push the socialist agenda forward.This is the moment to stand up to them, crash their agenda and defend a free and capitalist America.Kyle OlsonKyle is founder and CEO of Education Action Group Foundation, a non-partisan non-profit organization
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Intelligent Design

All these questions we read on this blog and no answers; we are getting nowhere. What comes around goes around, but not always.  America was peopled by Europeans. They came to a wild land with many dangers, by reason of having the freedom to do their thing without government interference.  When King George’s taxes were seen as oppressive, they said, no way, wrote the Declaration of Independence, and beat the most powerful nation in the world, in fact, replaced the most powerful nation in the world, so what’s the answer? I haven’t heard it here.

 

Here is the answer. Knowledge has no mathematical definition.  For instance, the molecular knowledge in DNA requires the quantification of the amount of information, to give quantity to something having only quality, as anything scientific, or legal, most have a precise or mathematical definition.  The everyday definition is that knowledge conveys something useful.  Neither the legal nor mathematical definition takes into consideration that knowledge conveys something useful. After beating around the bush, both come up with useless answers. A good example is Obamacare.  The proverbial Tree of Knowledge, with its serpent, go ahead and partake, and know what the gods know. That’s my advice.

 

In communication systems, information is not required to contain knowledge. The same might be said of biological systems, except for the fact that information that does not provide selective advantage is lost. Evolution involves the creation of information that provides a selective advantage, something in which the information is useful.

 

The first biological systems on earth, one cell organisms, had to have for their survival collective intermediaries  Humans are the only biological system created to be self-governed. The establishment position is that knowledge does not have to be useful. The prime consideration is that the establishment remain in control, thus the intermediary—something useless.  In religion, man creates an intermediary god—something  useless. 

 

In the Scofield Study Bible Introduction (to be read), we read, “The Dispensations are distinguished, exhibiting the majestic, progressive order of the divine dealings of God with humanity, ‘the increasing purpose’ which runs through and links together the ages from the beginning of the life of man to the end in eternity. Augustine said: ‘Distinguish the ages, and the Scriptures harmonize.’”  Thus, all said and done, the establishment seeks to carry us back in time, to the time when life had intermediaries—hive mentality, and later herd mentality.

 

In Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District, a federal judge decided that Intelligent Design involved religious belief. I’m not religious but certain that I’m here by Intelligent Design.  Quantum physicists who try to show that we are here by Intelligent Design are accused of trying to smuggle God into science, God, the supreme being.  Some quantum physicists, I’m here to tell you, do not see God as a supreme being, but as the supreme consciousness of the universe, and that we are inextricably part of it.

 

If we did not have the supreme being the acceptable definition, but rather Intelligent Design or Supreme Consciousness, the law and science required to accept that we are logically each here by Intelligent Design, the individual therefore empowered, of course Intelligent Design would be rejected by the establishment.

 

Knowledge being quantified, wherein something useful is not a consideration, the individual merely a quantity—does not have a legal leg to stand on—it is precisely this reasoning—that we are merely a quantity with no rights—that made it legal to eliminate German Jews.

 

Taking it for granted that the progressive order of the universe leaves us here with increasing purpose, it is a distortion of the meaning of the word progressive to quantify us.  Quantum, the same as quantity, the smallest excitation of a quantized wave or field, as a photon, a photon is a tiny packet of energy that is created by our observing light waves. From wave we create a particle merely by observation, thus by Intelligent Design these tiny packets of energy, through our eyes, are channeled to the brain, processed, and we see a tree.  Knowledge, by scientific and legal definition, does not take this scientifically proven fact into consideration. Thus we have progressive government. Thus, the American masses, on the Yellow Brick Road, went to see the Wizard of Oz, and believing, do not want to be confused by the facts I reveal.

 

When life commenced on earth, one cell organisms, some intermediary force directing life, and still only one life form capable of being self-directed, by Intelligent Design, in that the establishment is against Intelligent Design, and the Supreme Being an invention, an intermediary, early Americans, it seems, were here before their time.  It is now back to what comes around goes around.  America’s government, having painted itself into a corner, and desperate, is implementing all manner of devices—lies—to remain in control. Flying on a wing and a prayer and adding weight as it goes, the United States, a disaster waiting to happen, is the same as Europe.

 

 The law, based on reason—codified experiences—and some things never change,  America’s current keepers of the law, maintaining that they must interpret the law in light of today’s needs; that is, needs as they see it, don’t accept that we are here with increasing purpose.  The way our judges reason, we are here for their purpose.  I know the law; they don’t.

 

Mahatma Gandhi knew the law. He reasoned that non-violence is not a garment to put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and must be an inseparable part of our living; that is, living by the Intelligent Design that created us. America’s judges have changed from Jim Crow law. Now they have replaced Intelligent Design with themselves. Never in the history of law has the law ever come down to a full circle of truth. That’s because we leave the law to the professionals. In Early American courts, lawyers were forbidden.  We only think we’ve advanced beyond animal. Expedience is always in the rule of law. The ink had not dried on the Constitution when expedience left only white people with rights.   The makers and keepers of the law simply will not turn lose of their hold on the people.

 

I’m not a quantum physicist but understand the subtle workings of the universe. I’m ahead of my time. You can read about me in astrology books. I’m an individual Intelligent Design’s increasing purpose put here to deliver a message. I’m someone taken with a grain of salt, but time waits for no man. The moment of truth is now upon us.  The time has come for another quantum leap in our human destiny. We’ve delayed the change, but only for a limited time. Pressure is building behind the dam. The makers and keepers of the law refuse to open the flood gates.  

The longer we wait, the worse the consequences. After the inevitable happens, comes the innovation that always accompanies disasters.  The process begins of rebuilding what we lost by refusing to look within for our answers.

 

 

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I have An Oligopoly. Do You?

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Blue Shield of California is planning to go forward with planned health insurance rate increases despite calls from government regulators to delay the move.

The San Francisco-based insurer said Friday that it asked an independent actuary to review the increases and would issue refunds if problems were found with the rates.

The insurer has implemented two rate hikes since Oct. 1. Some policyholders would pay 59 percent more in premiums cumulatively over the three increases.

California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones had asked Blue Shield to delay planned March 1 increases so his department could do a full review.

Blue Shield CEO Bruce Bodaken says the increases are necessary because of rising health care costs.

""Consumer advocates fear that the health care law could worsen some of the very problems it was meant to solve — by reducing competition, driving up costs and creating incentives for doctors and hospitals to stint on care, in order to retain their cost-saving bonuses.
“The new law is already encouraging a wave of mergers, joint ventures and alliances in the health care industry,” said Prof. Thomas L. Greaney, an expert on health and antitrust law at St. Louis University. “The risk that dominant providers and dominant insurers may exercise their market power, individually or jointly, has never been greater.”""
The above quote is from the November 21, issue of the New York Times.
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Never Let A Crises Go To Waste

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This picture is of Mt. Hood, 35 miles northeast of my home. It represents the mighty rock upon which my faith in God rests, and with good reason. All of my dreams have come true.

 

Let the tragedy at Tucson go down in history as the re-awakening of spiritual America, the so-called spirit of 76.

 

President Obama, at the Tucson memorial, said our hearts are full of gratitude for those who saved others. The hopes of the nation are with you. That’s fine, but Obama did not know the reason for Jared Lounghner’s monstrous deed. It should have been obvious to everyone that Jared was consumed with self-hate, as it is inconceivable that anyone who thought highly of himself would do what Jared did. But no, those who think highly of themselves cannot put themselves in Jared’s place.

 

Our ego-self is the part we show the world, but deep within each of us lives an archetypal self, which was on display when the bullets were flying. It is the innate desire to protect our own kind from harm. That desire must surely be weighing heavily on President Obama and a great many Americans in the aftermath.

 

President Obama can be commended for telling us we must not use this tragedy to play the blame game.  But this is clear: The great division in the nation at this time is due to poor leadership. Lest I play the blame game, though, I must add that poor leadership can be attributed to how the individual perceives himself, whether he feels self-reliant and personally responsible or dependent on others. This is the key to the door of self-realization.

 

President Obama said we can do better than this, but he did not, and has not in the past told us how. We can only assume that he is reaching out for answers. We’ve got to do a rewrite on the course we are taking. Otherwise, we are an accident waiting to happen.

 

The memorial bears witness to the fact that our leaders are cognizant of their souls. My Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary: Our immaterial essence, animating principle, or actuating cause of life. Jesus said “in earth as it is in heaven.” Were it on earth as it is in heaven, it would be limited to what our sensibilities tell us. We are all-too-prone to be sidetracked by our sensibilities. In earth connects with our inner selves—as it is in heaven: the state of our being.

 

Surely you cannot believe that you are not here for a purpose, or that no one is here for a purpose, or that this tragedy had no purpose. Jesus said we are our brother’s keeper. Clearly, this was exhibited in Tucson.  It is weighing heavily on the nation.

 

Jared was a young man whose blame game left him without his soul for guidance. After Jesus said “in earth as it is in heaven,” he said, “No man can serve two masters,” and then he said: “But seek ye first the kingdom of God.” Thank God that I never lost my soul. I’ve many times been mad enough to kill.

 

What to do with people who have lost their souls?  At this time, President Obama does not know. Why doesn’t he know?  Because he is a Harvard trained lawyer. Harvard’s view has been made abundantly clear in the appointment to the Supreme Court of Elena Kagan. When asked if she believed that God plays a part in our laws, Kagan was evasive. That is a tragedy in and of itself. The Tucson massacre could have and should have been avoided. We can all take a share of the blame. Jared should have been placed in a structured environment where he could have been nurtured back to sound mental health.

 

Blame the courts for leaving psychopaths free to commit their murderous acts. Blame the A.C.L.U. Citizenship should not be seen as a fundamental right; it should be seen as an earned privilege if we are to preserve ordered liberty.  Where was President Obama in his message at the memorial. He was like the man that wrote the St. Louis Greens. It was a good song, but it didn’t sell.

 

I think I know the law as good as anyone you can find, and better than any judge, and surely better than President Obama. The record I left for you proves it. I know that God is in the law. I know that God looked out for me when I used my Constitution to protect my rights. I know how great my reward has been. Follow me and the law. Jesus said, “Ask and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you. . . Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.”

 

We’ve turned entitlement upside down; we have corrupted our purpose.  If we don’t rewrite the law, we can kiss the America we love and cherish goodbye.

 

 

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The Real Rate of Inflation and How to Protect Yourself

 

The CPI, or Consumer Price Index, is the official measure of inflation in the

United States. The government utilizes the CPI as a way to make adjustments to

interest rates for things like TIPS (Treasury Inflation Protected Securities) bonds

and entitlement payouts like Social Security. According to the Bureau of Labor

and Statistics, the CPI for the month of August was 1.1%, which means that prices

were up just 1.1% over the previous year. According to Federal Reserve chairman

Ben Bernanke, this is proof positive that there is no inflation to be had, and that we

are, in fact, in a deflationary spiral.

This explains why those purchasing TIPS bonds to preserve their wealth via inflation

protected interest adjustments in recent weeks were actually getting near negative

interest rates - in some cases buying TIPS was an immediate loser in terms of capital

gains. It may also explain why, for two years running, the U.S. government has failed to

make upward adjustments to social security checks.

On its face, viewing the government’s official numbers, the uninformed observer would

assume that inflation really is under control, and that the immediate threat, as touted by

mainstream economist is deflation. This has been used to justify what has been referred

to Quantitative Easing 2, or QE2, leading to ever more money printing by The Fed.

As with all things “official,” however, the CPI lacks appropriate weighting for critical goods -

essential goods - like food and energy.

The following chart from Casey Research shows just how skewed the “official” CPI figures are.

Hint: It’s as big a lie, if not bigger, than the unemployment numbers!

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While you may be able to get a great deal on debt-based assets like a house or a car,

it’s obvious that the real cost of living, as measured in critically essential goods like food

and energy, is skyrocketing - just as wages, credit availability and jobs are plummeting.

In April of 2010 we wrote about the possibility of significant food prices increases by 2011,

estimating that at current rates the price of food by April of 2011 may rise 20% - 30%.

Admittedly, we may have been wrong.

It’s may be much worse than we originally anticipated.

If the US dollar continues to be debased by Federal Reserve and Treasury Department

intervention, we can expect hyperinflationary price increases much sooner than we think.

The hyperinflations of the Weimar Republic and Zimbabwe started in similar fashion.

The first few years saw price increases of anywhere from 10% to 35% on foodstuffs.

Within five years however, they were experiencing significant price jumps and overall

instability with their currencies, topping off with inflation rates well above 100,000%

per year. It is a truly terrifying proposition.

What is the best way to protect yourself against such price instability?

Ideally, you’d want to be invested in hard assets - things that will actually be worth something

when paper money is not.

A number of ideas come to mind, and should be able to fit most any budget:

  • Gold (physical bullion preferable)
  • Silver (physical bullion or 90% junk silver for those on tight budgets)
  • Stored dry goods such as wheat, corn, rice, beans, oils & fats, sugar,
  • salt, coffee, tobacco
  • Tools
  • Guns, ammunition
  • Skills (developing skills that will be tradeable for other goods is just like
  • having cash in your pocket. Can you sew, or grow food, or machine tools, or weld?)

For those who have not yet taken steps to protect themselves against the possibility of

inflation - hyperinflation - take another look at the chart above.

Historically, for the last 100 years, the US dollar has lost over 95% of its value.

Do you think The Fed or US government will implement policies that aim to change this trend?

For more information about hyperinflation and what you can do, we recommend

the following articles:

What is money when the system collapses?

Hyperinflationary Depression - No Way of Avoiding Financial Armageddon


Author: Mac Slavo
Date: October 27th, 2010
Visit the Author's Website: http://www.SHTFplan.com/


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Contact: Jackson-Lee

Email: Jose Borjon

Phone: (202) 225-3816


 


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STATEMENT FROM CONGRESSWOMAN SHEILA JACKSON LEE


 


Washington, Jan 13 - 2011


 


“Wednesday evening in Tucson, Arizona, President Obama
accurately said, ‘There is no way to know what triggered the

rampage that left six people dead, thirteen others wounded and

the nation shaken.’ And he further challenged us by saying,

‘we can be better.’ I agree.


“Also on Wednesday in Washington, D.C., on the floor of the
House, in tribute to Congresswoman Giffords, her staff, those

who lost their lives and the wounded, I said that ‘now it is

time for us to do our best, to be a servant and a leader

giving to others first, showing by example.’


“That is why I am so very, very disappointed that the
former Vice Presidential candidate, Sarah Palin, chose to

interrupt this spirit of harmony by interjecting an eight

minute discussion that was more divisive than it was unifying.

I am saddened because the day that she chose, was the day of

the Memorial Tribute, and that day should have been a time

when no one interjected themselves above the non-partisan

spirit of reflection and inspiration. Further, the use of the

term “blood-libel” was unfortunate and warrants a

clarification. I hope -- as we go forward, we can have a

collective unified voice against violence, and not focus on

our individual selves or any perceived personal slight. And we

should continue to reach out to each other.


“Finally, I join the President in saying again, ‘We can be
better,’ and I personally believe America is at her best when

she is doing her best.”


 

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FROM FLOYDREPORTS.COM

If you havent seen this site, please visit it - a sister org is doing the pledge against Obama care that was referenced by Rush and the Wall Street Journal - below is info and links (If I get this right!)

If it doesnt post correctly, for sure you can find it at Floyd Reports.

Sign it TODAY!

 

Fellow Patriots,
Far and wide, Americans sent a message last November that we want less taxes and smaller government that starts with the Repeal of Obamacare. The 112th Congress was sent to Washington with this mandate and now we must support John Boehner, Eric Cantor and the other members in succeeding at these specific endeavors.
The U.S. House has scheduled a vote for a full and complete Repeal of Obamacare when it holds a vote on House Resolution 2 next week.
Members of Congress need to hear from you TODAY.
http://floydreports.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3668d6dcdf76634e54cc134ed&id=d3a2fd1147&e=91df3efa4fThey need you to remind them that Repeal of Obamacare is the will of the American People.
They need to be reminded that Repeal of Obamacare demonstrates a commitment to the Constitution, fiscal responsibility, and fundamental American freedoms.
Independent Women's Voice along with Americans for Tax Reform and American Majority have formed the only official coalition to Repeal Obamacare in full, once and for all. We've since been joined by dozens of other state and national leaders who share our desires to end Obamacare in the 112th Congress.
Will you join the tens of thousands of other Americans in voicing support for H.R. 2, the full Repeal of Obamacare?
Our efforts have been supported by Rush Limbaugh, who on September 28, 2010 stated:
"Obamacare must be repealed... Okay, you say you want to repeal it? Sign the pledge."
Then the Wall Street Journal followed suit on September 30, 2010:
"Launched a week ago by the nonprofit outfits Independent Women's Voice and American Majority Action...The hard political slog ahead could use an accountability tool like The Repeal Pledge."
By signing the letter in support of H.R. 2, you will be sending a clear message to Members of Congress, the U.S. Senate and the White House. We must be clear next week and for the fight ahead in the Senate that Americans do NOT want Obamacare.
We know there are many requests in your inbox to sign petitions to Repeal Obamacare. This, however, is the only one that is tied to concrete and specific actions required of our Representatives and Senators - this is the Repeal effort where your signature amplifies the importance of their pledge, and helps us hold them accountable.
Moreover, this is the letter that will put pressure on those who claim to oppose ObamaCare but so far are signaling they will follow the wishes of Nancy Pelosi. Your signature reminds them that 2012 is coming sooner than they think and that there will be a price for ignoring the will of the American people AGAIN.
Voice your support for H.R. 2, the full Repeal of Obamacare by signing the letter here.
Let's save America and put an end to Obamacare in the 112th Congress.
Yours in freedom,
 
Heather Higgins
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A New Revelation

It has been suggested that I’m being naive to say Obama spoke the truth at the memorial for the fallen in Tucson, Arizona. Said Obama: "None of us can know exactly what triggered this vicious attack. None of us can know with any certainty what might have stopped these shots from being fired or what thoughts lurked in the inner recesses of a violent man's mind. . . Those who died here, those who saved lives here — they help me believe. We may not be able to stop all evil in the world, but I know that how we treat one another is entirely up to us. . . At a time when we are far too eager to lay the blame for all that ails the world at the feet of those who happen to think differently than we do . . . Have we shown enough kindness and generosity and compassion to people in our lives?"

Was Obama the proverbial wolf in sheep’s clothing of which Jesus spoke? Said Jesus: “A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit” (Mt. 7:18). Aah! But there is more here than meets the eye.

Obama said, “Those who died here, those who saved lives—they helped me believe.”  There was the time when I blamed all of my woes on others. I played the blame game.  I believed that I had done all that anyone could do, but no one appreciated me. Coincidentally, I was a miserable wretch; my business enterprise was on the rocks and my wife was divorcing me. I blamed it all on a corrupt government.   

Yes, the evidence was there, externally. I was right. My government was corrupt.  I studied the Constitution and particularly how to go about taking Uncle Sam to court. I felt that voices of the past were speaking to me, encouraging me. They helped me believe. The next thing you know, I was not playing the blame game anymore. I was internally empowered.  

A corrupt tree cannot bring forth good fruit, but said Jesus: “seek ye first the kingdom of God.” We need to distinguish the ego-self from the God-self.  I had yet to find my inner self. And speaking of that, President Obama has had a rude awakening. Playing the blame game got him nowhere. In fact, he lost big time. It would not be wise to rub it in.

President Obama was cognizant of my misguided thoughts at the above mentioned unfortunate time in my life when he said, “they helped me believe.” The voices of the past helped me believe. Obama was speaking to those people who instinctively thought more of other lives than they did of their own. Obama told his audience the story of each of these heroes when the bullets were flying. Two died that others might live. Obama was visibly shaken. His countenance was deeply troubled. I could read his mind; I knew his pain well. Those Tucson heroes inspired him. I could see it in the look on his face throughout the time he was there.  His wife instinctively knew his thoughts. I could see it in the look on her face.  Those two are extremely close. I heard Obama say it. Mrs. Obama was extremely proud of her husband for what he said at that memorial. Everyone there was in tune. It was an extraordinary time for America. As well as the Obamas, that memorial was quite an awakening for me.  Thank God! There is yet hope for us.

If you want to prove me wrong, don’t believe the President. Continue believing he is the worst president America has ever had. If you want to prove me right, pray for a miracle. Give the President credit for taking a peak at his inner self, and give him the help he needs to serve his country well. Please give me some feedback.

 

 

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After the Calamity Hope and Renewal

At the Memorial for the fallen in Tucson, Arizona last night, for the first time I’ve seen the President, in my opinion, act presidential—forget politics—at long last our President spoke the truth.  For the first time I’ve listened to him, President Obama, instead of angering me, made me proud to be an American. I heard President Obama say something I thought I’d never hear him say. He admonished us to not let this tragedy divide us. Our President united the American people last night in Tucson.  Praise God!

 

I’m reminded of the death of my grandson. His mother and I clashed. She is very much the feeling person. I’m very much the thinking person. Both of us are very stubborn in our beliefs.  Three years ago, my daughter telephoned me with the sad news that my grandson was dead. Instantly, my heart went out to her. We cried. My daughter said she wanted to visit me. We had not visited for years.  She brought my grandson’s guitar with her, which I’ve learned to play quite well.  Now I play the guitar, my keyboard, and sing. I’m a one-man band. It brings me a lot of pleasure. My daughter and I are communicating like mature adults. I love her very much. For the first time, I can see that my daughter has much to offer, even though she admonished me during her visit for killing a slug that was eating my plants.

 

My grandson was a talented artist. He was away in college when he died. His friends told his mother he died of an overdose of heroin. He and his girlfriend split, his mother told me. My grandson was never a druggy. Heroin is a killer drug. Not knowing what he was doing, my grandson died a senseless death at age 21.  Coincidentally, drugs played a role in the Tucson tragedy. So many lessons we ignore!  My grandson’s death and the Tucson tragedy are signs of the time. We must deal differently with this problem.

 

Again, on a personal note, on the first date with my fourth wife, a hike in the mountains near Mt. St. Helens, on the day the mountain erupted, a sign—after the calamity hope and renewal—the calamity my life had been brought wife number four and I together. My fourth wife was sent to me. From the moment we met, I knew she was meant for me. Our meeting took place only two weeks after wife number three walked out. The last thing I wanted when we met was another wife. My fourth wife is the best thing that could ever happen to a man.

 

We learn that nine year-old Christina Taylor Green, God rest her soul, was born on the day the World Trade Center was destroyed and thousands died. Christina died by the hand of a druggy madman. After the calamity hope and renewal, this tragedy brought the American people together.

 

I’m a born again non-Christian. I believe Jesus is my savior and redeemer. How do you reconcile that? My faith is based on personal experience, not religion. A sign of the time, on Good Friday 1975, this non-Christian, by the way, not anti-Christian, arrived in Miami, Florida on Easter Sunday for the first day of my new life.  

 

In the Bible, Jesus tells us “in earth as it is in heaven,” but first comes the kingdom of God, this distinguishing aspect of earth, heaven, and God has been made clear by the cutting edge of science. Science has now found that the independent existence of matter and the absoluteness of space is false dogma. Nothing can exist without consciousness.  As conscious beings, we are more than matter. Consciousness, the substance of this newfound reality, the observer interacting with matter, and having fundamental existence, science now fits our existence into the overall tapestry of reality.

 

Faith was never meant to be blind faith. Those willing to observe greater truths than their religions bring them will find hidden wonders in what they already believe.

 

We are more than Republicans, Democrats, liberals, conservatives, Jews, Christians, Muslims. There are natural laws we cannot overcome. We are all God’s children. Believing this, I’ve experienced miracles, not the least of which was being led to the Constitution. After studying the Constitution, and using it, my life changed drastically for the better.

 

The Constitution tells us that President Obama is a servant of the Higher Law, the background of the Constitution; and the same for Congress, the Judiciary, and the bureaucracy; and the same for the people.  President Obama reminded us in his Tucson speech that we are a government of the people, by the people, for the people.

 

Again from personal experience, I can say we have no idea of the power God has vested in we, the people, though the Constitution.  We can make everyone in government serve the people, and the people all we could ever hope to be.  It seems to me that President Obama, in his Tucson speech, agreed. Our President, we know, can be led astray. He has much with which to contend. Let us help him live up to his high principles and values.

 

 

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