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With quiet dignity a hooded figure revealed himself from the protective ring of trees.  Mounting a small hillock he faced the sea of expectant faces.  A measured sweep of his hands pulled back the hood to reveal a wizened face framed by a long white beard.  For a long moment not a sound was heard or movement evident in the crowd.

The robed figure examined the myriad of faces before him with watery blue eyes that shone with intelligence and understanding. What he saw before him was hope.  Hope on faces that only hours before had expressed only despair and fear.  Their faces were still haggard but fire now dwelled in eyes that had previously only contained the spent ashes of surrender. His grey cloak marked his as one of the Wise Ones; dedicated to preserving knowledge from the past so that humanity would not have to relive it. Tonight he would be reading a selection from The Chronicles of Chaos. The hushed gathering listened with an intense reverence as the old one began to read from the ancient scroll.

“At the beginning of the Twenty First century a new religion rose to great acclaim and with much fervor. Its followers worshipped an all-powerful god named Political Correctness and a host of minor deities including Diversity, Tolerance, Sensitivity and Inclusion. Its priests were called Professors and they were charged with passing on its teachings to the youth and guarding its most holy of secrets. Collectively, this priesthood was called Academia and they resided in their own communities called Universities.  Sustained by the public treasury their power grew and their prestige spread like a swarm of locusts upon the earth.

The elite of the every generation would be turned over to the Professors to be indoctrinated into the new religion. It was at the Universities that the young were taught to despise the old ways and to reject the teachings of their parents. The old traditions, cultures, holidays, religious practices, and beliefs were reviled, trampled and belittled so that they could be replaced in the minds of the young with the new teachings of the new religion. After their period of indoctrination and training the new prostheletizers of Political Correctness would be sent forth to spread its doctrine far and wide.

The fearsome deities of Political Correctness were bloodthirsty and constantly demanded sacrifices to sate their Perpetual Outrage. The lives, careers, reputations and power of countless individuals were sacrificed to appease the ever angry gods and eventually all but a brave or foolish few were forced to acknowledge their supremacy. Their power and influence was everywhere and all feared to say what they truly thought or felt for fear of the great retribution of their fanatical followers. A single word uttered in carelessness or a stray thought out of context was enough for one to be summoned to judgment before those charged with satisfying the never-ending lusts of Political Correctness.

The minor deities also were a dark and foreboding force that had to be appeased. Many were followers of the feminine Right to Choose cult and untold millions of the unborn were sacrificed in an orgy of infanticide on the blood splattered altar of Convenience. The deviant and the perverse demanded, and eventually received, the sacrifice of the once sacred institution of marriage to appease the demands of Equality. And the followers of the high priest Gore and the god Gaea demanded the rejection and reversal of the evil Industrialization. No longer would the Creator be worshipped but only the Creation and isms of Political Correctness.  So it was said, and so it was done.

With the growth of the religion of Political Correctness came the persecution of the followers of the One True religion. He who born of a virgin, nailed on a cross and known as the Messiah, Savior and King by his followers was banned from the schools and the public square. Increasingly, his followers were forced to cower behind their church doors as their dwindling leaders were toppled by scandal, arrested and punished for hate speech, or cowed by the new religion. Many of this priestly class of the Old Religion became converts of Political Correctness and even taught its doctrine in their houses of worship.

There are those who believe that the religion of Political Correctness was derived from the horrendous worship of the dark god Marxism whose victims had numbered in the hundreds of millions before he was cast out of the great temple of ideology and his followers mocked and discredited. But their last adherents had been among the Professors and many believed the worship of Multiculturalism, Diversity and Tolerance was merely the disguised worship of Marxism, resurfacing in another form. We may never know the truth.”

The Wise One stopped reading and lowered the scroll in his hand. “Let us never forget what happened, and may we never repeat it. In the end the righteous were cast down and evil was called good and good was called evil. Every knee was forced to bow and every tongue confess that there was no longer right or wrong, only different, and that the right to not be offended was the greatest right of all.”

He looked up at the crowd and said, "that is all for tonight, we will read more from The Chronicles tomorrow.”

Reverently he rolled the scroll back up and put it carefully into its resting place. Tomorrow the sun would rise again, and with it would come hope that man might once again know logic and common sense, tradition and virtue, morals and values, self-control and self-restraint. Perhaps once again man would realize that he was not merely a slave or an animal or a mindless drone but a builder of great civilizations and capable of great deeds… Only time would tell if it was too late to reverse the cataclysmic results of the Before or if the faint hope for the scattered remnant that remained in the After could ever be fulfilled. Only the Wise Ones, the Sages of Old, still said there was a chance for humanity to redeem itself. Maybe, but just maybe, that would be enough. The Wise One motioned for the crowd to rise to its feet and together they solemnly chanted the mantra of hope that bound them together and showed the way for the future:

“Learn from the Past or we are doomed to repeat it.”

“Learn from the Past or we are doomed to repeat it.”

“Learn from the Past or we are doomed to repeat it.”

members from massachusetts, what are you doing ,backing that fool mark fisher for governor, the members in nevada backed the wrong candidate thats why we still have harry reid.I sometime think most of you must be rino's,because who you back

While chalaque obama is destroying companies providing electric power to us, he is rewarding lobbyists and his well connected friends, who are engaged in the same businesses he is shutting down.

See this:

http://epaabuse.com/4874/editorials/obama-issues-global-warming-rules-then-exempts-ge-powered-plant/

His friends at General Electric have been making a fortune from government manipulation and cronyism for years.

COINCIDENCE OR NOT???

Canadian Oil
Hmm... this is 'interesting'.
Kind of adds a little 'dimension' to the topic-, like "the Rest of the Story".
Kind of tarnishes the 'environmental' platform!

Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad owns all of the rail lines in the US connecting to western Canada, and they haul 80%+ of the crude from Canada to the Midwest and Texas, or charge other Short Line railroads a fee to use their tracks.

BNSF charges $30 per barrel to haul the oil, where the Keystone would cost $10 by the State Department’s own estimates.
BNSF is owned by Berkshire-Hathaway whose chairman is Warren Buffet.

In the last 2 election cycles, Buffet gave extensively to democrat causes and candidates, including $40K+ to Obama in 2012. He also bundled and hosted numerous fundraisers for Obama.

If anyone here believes the pipeline isn't being blocked by Obama on Buffet’s behalf, you're nuts.
B-H could stand to lose $2B+ a year if the pipeline goes in, and Buffett makes the same amount every year it's delayed.
This is crony capitalism at its finest, and what is making people mad at our government and capitalist system.

Note: Please read Part 1 regarding this disturbing and gut-wrenching issue:

Obama is the Manifestation of a Multi-Generational Soviet Plot to Destroy America! (Part 1)-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On April 2, 2014:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/obama-is-the-manifestati..

Note:  The following articles and/or blogs and videos relate to and/or further support the above article and/or blog regarding this disturbing and gut-wrenching issue-You Decide:

Are We Recreating the Third Reich?-Posted on Canada Free Press-By John W. Whitehead (Bio and Archives)-On May 5, 2014:

“First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out—Because I was not a Socialist. Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out—Because I was not a Trade Unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—Because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.”—Martin Niemoller

Despite what some may think, the Constitution is no magical incantation against government wrongdoing. Indeed, it’s only as effective as those who abide by it. However, without courts willing to uphold the Constitution’s provisions when government officials disregard it and a citizenry knowledgeable enough to be outraged when those provisions are undermined, it provides little to no protection against SWAT team raids, domestic surveillance, police shootings of unarmed citizens, indefinite detentions, and the like.

Unfortunately, the courts and the police have meshed in their thinking to such an extent that anything goes when it’s done in the name of national security, crime fighting and terrorism. Consequently, America no longer operates under a system of justice characterized by due process, an assumption of innocence, probable cause and clear prohibitions on government overreach and police abuse. Instead, our courts of justice have been transformed into courts of order, advocating for the government’s interests, rather than championing the rights of the citizenry, as enshrined in the Constitution.

Just recently, for example, the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in U.S. v. Westhoven that driving too carefully, with a rigid posture, taking a scenic route, and having acne are sufficient reasons for a police officer to suspect you of doing something illegal, detain you, search your car, and arrest you—even if you’ve done nothing illegal to warrant the stop in the first place.

In that same vein, the U.S. Supreme Court declared in a 5-4 ruling in Navarette v. California that police officers can, under the guise of “reasonable suspicion,” stop cars and question drivers based solely on anonymous tips, no matter how dubious, and whether or not they themselves witnessed any troubling behavior.

And then you have the Supreme Court’s refusal to hear Hedges v. Obama, a legal challenge to the indefinite detention provision of the National Defense Authorization Act of 2012 (NDAA), thereby affirming that the President and the U.S. military can arrest and indefinitely detain individuals, including American citizens, based on a suspicion that they might be associated with or aiding terrorist organizations.

All three cases reflect a mindset in which the rule of law, the U.S. Constitution, once the map by which we navigated sometimes hostile terrain, has been unceremoniously booted out of the runaway car that is our government, driven over and left for road kill on the side of the road. All that can be seen in the rear view mirror are the tire marks on its ragged frame.

What we are dealing with, as I document in my book A Government of Wolves: The Emerging American Police State, is a run-away government hyped up on its own power, whose policies are dictated more by paranoia than need. Making matters worse, “we the people” have become so gullible, so easily distracted, and so out-of-touch that we are ignoring the warning signs all around us and failing to demand that government officials of all stripes—the White House, Congress, the courts, the military, law enforcement, the endless parade of bureaucrats, etc.—respect our rights and abide by the rule of law.

The Supreme Court’s refusal to hear the NDAA indefinite detention case—which challenged whether the government can lawfully lock up American citizens who might be deemed extremists or terrorists (the government likes to use these words interchangeably) for criticizing the government—is one such warning sign that we would do well to heed.

The building blocks are already in place for such an eventuality: the surveillance networks, fusion centers and government contractors already monitor what is being said by whom; government databases track who poses a potential threat to the government’s power; the militarized police, working in conjunction with federal agencies, coordinate with the federal government when it’s time to round up the troublemakers; the courts sanction the government’s methods, no matter how unlawful; and the detention facilities, whether private prisons or FEMA internment camps, to lock up the troublemakers.

For those who can read the writing on the wall, it’s all starting to make sense: the military drills carried out in major American cities, the VIPR inspections at train depots and bus stations, the SWAT team raids on unsuspecting homeowners, the Black Hawk helicopters patrolling American skies, the massive ammunition purchases by various federal agencies such as the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Education, the IRS and the Social Security Administration.

Viewed in conjunction with the government’s increasing use of involuntary commitment laws to declare individuals mentally ill and lock them up in psychiatric wards for extended periods of time, the NDAA’s provision allowing the military to arrest and indefinitely detain anyone, including American citizens, only codifies this unraveling of our constitutional framework.

Throw in the profit-driven corporate incentive to jail Americans in private prisons, as well as the criminalizing of such relatively innocent activities as holding Bible studies in one’s home or sharing unpasteurized goat cheese with members of one’s community, and it becomes clear that “we the people” have become enemies of the state. Thus, it’s no longer a question of whether the government will lock up Americans for First Amendment activity but when. (It’s particularly telling that the government’s lawyers, when pressed for an assurance that those exercising their First Amendment rights in order to criticize the government would not be targeted under the NDAA, refused to provide one.)

History shows that the U.S. government is not averse to locking up its own citizens for its own purposes. One need only go back to the 1940s, when the federal government proclaimed that Japanese-Americans, labeled potential dissidents, could be put in concentration (a.k.a. internment) camps based only upon their ethnic origin, to see the lengths the federal government will go to in order to maintain “order” in the homeland. The U.S. Supreme Court validated the detention program in Korematsu v. US (1944), concluding that the government’s need to ensure the safety of the country trumped personal liberties. That decision has never been overturned.

In fact, the creation of detention camps domestically has long been part of the government’s budget and operations, falling under the jurisdiction of FEMA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency. FEMA’s murky history dates back to the 1970s, when President Carter created it by way of an executive order merging many of the government’s disaster relief agencies into one large agency. During the 1980s, however, reports began to surface of secret military-type training exercises carried out by FEMA and the Department of Defense. Code named Rex-84, 34 federal agencies, including the CIA and the Secret Service, were trained on how to deal with domestic civil unrest.

FEMA’s role in creating top-secret American internment camps is well-documented. But be careful who you share this information with: it turns out that voicing concerns about the existence of FEMA detention camps is among the growing list of opinions and activities which may make a federal agent or government official think you’re an extremist (a.k.a. terrorist), or sympathetic to terrorist activities, and thus qualify you for indefinite detention under the NDAA. Also included in that list of “dangerous” viewpoints are advocating states’ rights, believing the state to be unnecessary or undesirable, “conspiracy theorizing,” concern about alleged FEMA camps, opposition to war, organizing for “economic justice,” frustration with “mainstream ideologies,” opposition to abortion, opposition to globalization, and ammunition stockpiling.

Now if you’re going to have internment camps on American soil, someone has to build them. Thus, in 2006, it was announced that Kellogg Brown and Root, a subsidiary of Halliburton, had been awarded a $385 million contract to build American detention facilities. Although the government and Halliburton were not forthcoming about where or when these domestic detention centers would be built, they rationalized the need for them in case of “an emergency influx of immigrants, or to support the rapid development of new programs” in the event of other emergencies such as “natural disasters.”

Of course, these detention camps will have to be used for anyone viewed as a threat to the government, and that includes political dissidents. So it’s no coincidence that the U.S. government has, since the 1980s, acquired and maintained, without warrant or court order, a database of names and information on Americans considered to be threats to the nation. As Salon reports, this database, reportedly dubbed “Main Core,” is to be used by the Army and FEMA in times of national emergency or under martial law to locate and round up Americans seen as threats to national security. As of 2008, there were some 8 million Americans in the Main Core database.

Fast forward to 2009, when the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released two reports, one on “Rightwing Extremism,” which broadly defines rightwing extremists as individuals and groups “that are mainly antigovernment, rejecting federal authority in favor of state or local authority, or rejecting government authority entirely,” and one on “Leftwing Extremism,” which labeled environmental and animal rights activist groups as extremists. Both reports use the words terrorist and extremist interchangeably. That same year, the DHS launched Operation Vigilant Eagle, which calls for surveillance of military veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, characterizing them as extremists and potential domestic terrorist threats because they may be “disgruntled, disillusioned or suffering from the psychological effects of war.”

These reports indicate that for the government, so-called extremism is not a partisan matter. Anyone seen as opposing the government—whether they’re Left, Right or somewhere in between—is a target, which brings us back, full circle, to where we started, with the NDAA’s indefinite detention provision, whose language is so broad and vague as to implicate anyone critical of the government.

Unfortunately, we seem to be coming full circle on many fronts. Consider that a decade ago we were debating whether non-citizens—for example, so-called enemy combatants being held at Guantanamo Bay and Muslim-Americans rounded up in the wake of 9/11—were entitled to protections under the Constitution, specifically as they relate to indefinite detention. Americans weren’t overly concerned about the rights of non-citizens then, and now we’re the ones in the unenviable position of being targeted for indefinite detention by our own government.

Similarly, most Americans weren’t unduly concerned when the U.S. Supreme Court gave Arizona police officers the green light to stop, search and question anyone—ostensibly those fitting a particular racial profile—they suspect might be an illegal immigrant. Two years later, the cops have carte blanche authority to stop any individual, citizen and non-citizen alike, they suspect might be doing something illegal (mind you, in this age of overcriminalization, that could be anything from feeding the birds to growing exotic orchids).

Likewise, you still have a sizeable portion of the population today unconcerned about the government’s practice of spying on Americans, having been brainwashed into believing that if you’re not doing anything wrong, you have nothing to worry about. It will only be a matter of time before they learn the hard way that in a police state, it doesn’t matter who you are or how righteous you claim to be—eventually, you will be lumped in with everyone else and everything you do will be “wrong” and suspect.

Martin Niemoller learned that particular lesson the hard way. A German military officer turned theologian, Niemoller was an early supporter of Hitler’s rise to power. It was only when Hitler threatened to attack the churches that Niemoller openly opposed the regime. For his efforts, Neimoller was arrested, charged with activities against the government, fined, detained, and eventually interned in the Sachsenhausen and Dachau concentration camps from 1938 to 1945.

As Niemoller reportedly replied when asked by his cellmate why he ever supported the Nazi party:

• I find myself wondering about that too. I wonder about it as much as I regret it. Still, it is true that Hitler betrayed me… Hitler promised me on his word of honor, to protect the Church, and not to issue any anti-Church laws. He also agreed not to allow pogroms against the Jews… Hitler’s assurance satisfied me at the time…I am paying for that mistake now; and not me alone, but thousands of other persons like me.

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Buy A Vote – Kill A Republic!-Posted on The Post & Email-By Sharon Rondeau-On May 4, 2014:

FROM “IN DEFENSE OF RURAL AMERICA”

by Ron Ewart, President, NARLO, ©2014

(May 4, 2014) — NOTE: This may be one of the most important articles we have written in the last 10 years of writing our weekly column.

“The more people who are dependent on government handouts, the more votes the left (Progressives) can depend on for an ever-expanding welfare state.”  Thomas Sowell, conservative columnist, author

The Planned Liberal-Driven (Progressive) Destruction of American Capitalism and Freedom

To read the story of the Roman Republic turned Empire is to read the general history of mankind in a kaleidoscope of greed, ambition and the lust for power, wealth and political influence at the expense of the masses.  All of Roman history was well-known to the Founding Fathers and they were determined to set up a system of government containing several checks and balances to preclude the repeat of the sordid Roman tragedy.  Within the Declaration of Independence and the U. S. Constitution, the framers thought they had found that delicate balance between self-government and the weaknesses and avarice of man.

Unfortunately, in their attempts to find that perfect balance, they were tripped up by three things they could not control within those two documents.   The first was the ability of a clever and devious mind to get around any obstacle.  Why would men of power, wealth and political influence care about the limits of a little blueprint for freedom?  The rise of the industrialist titans and money-brokers of the late 19^th and early 20^th Centuries proved that.  It is rumored that a cabal of those titans had President McKinley assassinated.  It is not a rumor that J.P. Morgan II loaned $100 million to the federal government because it had run out of money.  (Imagine a government running out of money.  How can that be?)  You can buy a lot of political influence with $100 million.  What is $100 million in the early 20^th Century worth today ….. $100 Billion, maybe?

The second thing the Founding Fathers didn’t count on was the industrial revolution that pulled people from the rural areas of America into big cities.  Rural people are generally self-reliant, self-sufficient and quite independent.  If they can’t buy their food, they at least can grow it.  But people who live in big cities, without employment, have no choice but to rely on government for their subsistence.  In point of fact, people in big cities, where most Progressives live (100% Democrats), become hopelessly dependent on government, especially when large industries go broke and the jobs dry up.  Unfortunately, poor, dependent, unemployed people are easily manipulated by government and will enthusiastically vote for their manipulators. 

The third thing the Founding Fathers were not able to weave into the U.S. Constitution was a check and balance against citizen apathy.  If the citizens don’t care, those in power can do just about anything they want when no one is paying attention, and, ladies and gentlemen, those in power are doing just about anything they want to do today with increased militarization of law enforcement.  It is called a police state and America has arrived(i.e., Randy Weaver, Ruby Ridge, ID; the Branch Dividian, Waco, TX; Cliven Bundy, Clark County, NV; and many more).

Herein lie the three necessary ingredients for the rise to power of the Progressives (100% Democrats) in the early 20^th Century.  First, the industrialist titans grossly exploited the people in their factories.  The people, quite naturally, turned to the unions and the government to counter the titans’ power.  Out of that confrontation came riots, violence and upheaval and a heavier intrusion by government into people’s lives.  Perhaps this wasn’t a bad thing, but don’t think for one minute that the Progressives (100% Democrats) didn’t see that as an opportunity to increase their political power.

The titans moved to entrench their political power and lobbied for a private central bank that become the Federal Reserve under the 16^th Amendment.  To collateralize the loans the titans (central bankers) would make to government, they lobbied for a federal income tax to be the source of repayment for those loans and got it.  The income tax also became law under the 16^th Amendment, in direct violation of three other constitutional provisions that required all taxes to be apportioned.  Thus, the income produced by every American worker, for his or her entire lifetime, was the source of repayment for the loans made by the Federal Reserve to the Government.  In other words, each citizen, an involuntary borrower, has a lifetime obligation to pay for a loan or loans over which that citizen never signed.  That, as we have stated before, is involuntary servitude.

Unfortunately, for American capitalism and freedom, it gets worse.  The Progressives (100% Democrats), determined to consolidate their power, turned to monetary and other promises to the people from the public treasury in exchange for votes.  What a brilliant strategy.  This ploy especially works well with citizens who are apathetic, dependent on government, or just generally dumb.  There are certain classes of society that are more susceptible to this dependency than other classes.

Then in the late 20′s and early 30′s came the Great Depression that many historians put directly at the feet of the Federal Reserve, and you have the makings of a perfect storm for Progressives (100% Democrats).  FDR (a 100% Democrat) pounced on the Great Depression with a vengeance and he literally sucked dry the pride, self-reliance and independence of a very large segment of the American people with government promises.  He bought off industry with subsidies.  He bought off agriculture with subsidies and he bought off the people with even more subsidies.  He then, to insure compliance with federal law, bought off the states with their own money.  To do it, he threw the constitution out the window and badgered the legislative and judicial branches of government to get what he wanted.  Some call FDR a hero.  We call him the second dictator of a rapidly-declining America, where President Wilson was the first.  Government has been buying off business, agriculture, the people and the states ever since, with disastrous results.

The Progressives (100% Democrats) over the last 100+ years got their way, and the statistics tell the whole story.  Way too many Americans have been bought off by government promises in exchange for their votes and will not bite the hand that feeds them.  The capital necessary for a robust economy has been sucked out of that economy to pay for those promises.  The promises have been so many that the country is now in a financial death spiral and there are no political solutions to bring America back from the abyss.  ObamaCare just poured more fuel on the financial fires, thereby securing our path straight to hell. 

The statistics don’t lie.  In an article at the CNS News website (http://www.cnsnews.com/commentary/terence-p-jeffrey/86m-full-time-private-sector-workers-sustain-148m-benefit-takers) dated April 16, 2014, where we are as a country and where we are going is laid out succinctly in revealing statistics.  There is no turning back.

In the opening paragraph of the article, the author makes the following statement:

“Buried deep on the website of the U.S. Census Bureau is a number every American citizen, and especially those entrusted with public office, should know. It is 86,429,000.  That is the number of Americans who in 2012 got up every morning and went to work — in the private sector — and did it week after week after week.”  (This number represents only private sector jobs, not government jobs, which private sector jobs ultimately pay for.)

However, that paragraph, in and of itself, is not the whole picture.  The rest of the story from the article goes like this:

“All told, including both the welfare recipients and the non-welfare beneficiaries, there were 151,014,000 who “received benefits from one or more programs” in the fourth quarter of 2011.  Subtract the 3,212,000 veterans, who served their country in the most profound way possible, and that leaves 147,802,000 non-veteran benefit takers.  The 147,802,000 non-veteran benefit takers outnumbered the 86,429,000 full-time private sector workers 1.7 to 1.”

The problem, and the reason why America’s path is unsustainable and unresolvable at the same time, is that those 147,802,000 people get to vote.  If the 86,429,000 people get angry and lobby their Congressmen and Senators to stop this government-instituted grand theft and Ponzi scheme, they are outvoted by the 147,802,000.  And guess what?  The Progressives (100% Democrats) have known this would happen at the start of the 20^th Century, over 100 years ago.  It’s just another repeat of the history of socialism.

There is more than one way to change a Republic to an Empire, and you don’t have to use force to do it.  You just have to manipulate the apathetic, weak and dumb masses to give up their freedom for 30 pieces of silver in exchange for a vote for the Progressives (100% Democrats), who brought this non-violent coup d’etat upon America and killed capitalism and freedom at the same time.  Progressives (100% Democrats) have managed to kill all of the attributes of a free and generous nation, in a little over 100 years, and very few Americans are aware of it, or don’t care.  Obama didn’t cause it.  He is just the latest facilitator, complicit with all the other Progressives (100% Democrats).

The rise of the Progressives (100% Democrats) in America, the head-long rush to socialism, the growth of the mega, out-of-control bureaucracies and the implementation of radical environmentalism into law, has morphed America into a mirror image of Rome, with all of the potential tragic consequences.

Like all giant bureaucracies, Rome became inflexible and could not adapt to new ideas and new processes.  It had built up a society that the government created by providing bread, wine and entertainment to the people for free, to keep the people fat, dumb and happy.  All Rome could do to maintain the status quo and fulfill their promises to the people so they wouldn’t riot and preserve their own elite power structure was to regulate more and tax more, a self-fulfilling prophecy to destruction.  Rome didn’t necessarily buy votes with the public treasury; they bought the perception of tranquility.  If you don’t see the parallel between the Rome Republic (turned empire) and the American Republic turned socialist and eventually an empire, you just aren’t paying attention to the irrefutable facts.  Once a government, conceived in liberty, starts buying votes, the Republic has no chance of survival as a free nation and will eventually morph into an oligarchy of the elite or an outright dictatorship, as did Rome after 500 years as a Republic.  How far away is America from one of these freedom-ending scenarios?

Buy a vote – kill a Republic!  It is a foregone conclusion.  Buying votes with welfare was never authorized by the U.S. Constitution.  It was imputed there by the oligarchs in government in each political cycle on America’s path to socialism.  Socialism has never worked in all of human history, but you can’t tell that to a Progressive (100% Democrat).

The solution to this apparently unsolvable dilemma lies in the answer to the question, “Where is John Galt?”  Those of you who have read Ayn Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged” will get it.

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NOTE:  The following article represents the opinion of the author and is not necessarily shared by the owners, employees, representatives, or agents of the publisher.

-   Ron Ewart, a nationally known author and speaker on freedom and property issues and author of his weekly column, “In Defense of Rural America,” is the President of the National Association of Rural Landowners (NARLO)  (http://www.narlo.org), a non-profit corporation headquartered in Washington State, an advocate and consultant for urban and rural landowners.  He can be reached for comment at info@narlo.org.

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John Podesta to Congress: Barack Obama Can Unilaterally Destroy Economy & You Can’t Stop Him!-Posted on Political Outcast-By MARK HORNE-On May 5, 2014:

http://politicaloutcast.com/2014/05/john-podesta-congress-barack-obama-can-unilaterally-destroy-economy-cant-stop/#YDpUeeXJ1pbk8QB3.99

Edward Snowden: NSA Spies More on Americans Than Russians!-Posted on National Journal-By Dustin Volz-On April 30, 2014:

http://www.nationaljournal.com/tech/edward-snowden-nsa-spies-most-on-americans-20140430

What’s Oprah Got to Do With Opportunity? Mike Lee Knows!-Posted on The Foundry-By Ken McIntyre-On April 30, 2014:

http://blog.heritage.org/2014/04/30/whats-oprah-got-opportunity-mike-lee-knows/?utm_source=heritagefoundation&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=morningbell

Video: Shocking! Obama Set To Murder Millions Thru Euthanasia Via Obamacare?-Posted on Before It’s News-By  Wake up America (Reporter)-On May 1, 2014:

http://beforeitsnews.com/conspiracy-theories/2014/05/shocking-obama-set-to-murder-millions-you-wont-believe-it-until-you-see-this-video-2462322.html?utm_source=direct-b4in.info&utm_medium=verticalresponse&utm_content=beforeit39snews-verticalresponse&utm_term=http%3A%2F%2Fb4in.info%2FbWhK&utm_campaign

VA & Obamacare Death Panels!-Posted on The Post & Email-By Sharon Rondeau-On April 30, 2014:

http://www.thepostemail.com/2014/04/30/va-obamacare-death-panels/pr...

VA director at Phoenix hospital got $9K bonus after 40 vets died from delays!-Posted on The Washington Times-By CJ Ciaramella, The Washington Free Beacon-On April 24, 2014:

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/apr/24/va-director-phoenix-hospital-got-9k-bonus-after-40/

Arrest The Tyrant!!! Obama Could Be Going Down Soon!!!-Posted on Before It’s News-By FREEDOMFIGHTER2127-On May 1, 2014:

http://beforeitsnews.com/economics-and-politics/2014/05/breaking-arrest-the-tyrant-obama-could-be-going-down-soon-2464524.html?utm_source=direct-b4in.info&utm_medium=verticalresponse&utm_content=beforeit39snews-verticalresponse&utm_term=http%3A%2F%2Fb4in.info%2FdWlj&utm_campaign

Labor Force Participation at 36-Year Low!-Posted on CNSNews-By Terence P. Jeffrey-On May 2, 2014:

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/terence-p-jeffrey/labor-force-participation-36-year-low

False East/West Paradigm Hides The Rise Of Global Currency!-Posted on Personal Liberty Digest-By Brandon Smith-On May 6, 2014:

http://personalliberty.com/false-eastwest-paradigm-hides-rise-globa...

IMF Bailout for Ukraine and a New World Currency!-Posted on The New American-By Alex Newman-On May 7, 2014:

http://www.thenewamerican.com/economy/item/18207-imf-bailout-for-ukraine-and-a-new-world-currency?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_campaign=65931bbc4a-The_Editors_Top_Picks_3_12_143_12_2014&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8ca494f2d2-65931bbc4a-289754749

Obama Unleashes the Left: ‘How the government created a federal hunting license for the far left’!-Posted on The Wall Street Journal-By DANIEL HENNINGER-On May 7, 2014:

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304431104579548052289065492#sthash.732KHAAv.dpuf

Obama admin releases photo of Obama depicted as a king!-Posted on The D.C. Clothesline-By Michael Lotfi-On May 8, 2014:

http://www.dcclothesline.com/2014/05/08/obama-admin-releases-photo-obama-depicted-king/

Ted Cruz Releases Definitive List of 76 ‘Lawless’ Obama Actions!Posted on The Daily Caller-By Patrick Howley, Political Reporter-On May 7, 2014:

http://dailycaller.com/2014/05/07/ted-cruz-releases-definitive-list-of-76-lawless-obama-actions/#ixzz318hG5YHm

Holocaust Survivor Says Obama’s America identical To Hitler’s Germany!-Posted on Last Resistance-By Dave Jolly-On May 7, 2014:

http://lastresistance.com/5665/holocaust-survivor-says-obamas-america-identical-hitlers-germany/#y4eZTl6MbEOOQavO.99

Utopia and the Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy!-Posted on FrontPage Magazine-By Frontpagemag.com-On May 8, 2014:

http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/frontpagemag-com/utopia-and-the-vast-left-wing-conspiracy/?utm_source=FrontPage+Magazine&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=442137dee0-Mailchimp_FrontPageMag&utm_term=0_57e32c1dad-442137dee0-156514678

Corsi: Tea Party Patriots Must Confront Obama’s Tyranny!-Posted on TeaParty.org-By Dr. Jerome Corsi Exclusive-On May 4, 2014:

http://www.teaparty.org/corsi-need-1-million-tea-party-loyalists-say-obama-efforts-strip-us-freedoms-41072/

Video: Patriot Action Network Sounds Off In Support Of OAS!-Posted Patriots for America-By Harry Riley-On May 8, 2014:

http://patriotsforamerica.ning.com/forum/topic/show?id=2734278%3ATopic%3A722582&xgs=1&xg_source=msg_share_topic

Note: Please read Part 3 regarding this disturbing and gut-wrenching issue:

Obama is the Manifestation of a Multi-Generational Soviet Plot to Destroy America! (Part 3)-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On May 20, 2014:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/obama-is-the-manifestation-of-a-multi-generational-soviet-plot-2

Note:  My following blogs relate to and/or further support the above articles and/or blogs and videos regarding this disturbing and gut-wrenching issue-You Decide:

America...................Rise Up Or Surrender!-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On May 3, 2014:

http://teapartycommandcenter.org/profiles/blogs/america-rise-up-or-...

New EPA Land Grab, Complete Control Over All Private Land in America! (Part 1)-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On April 11, 2014:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/new-epa-land-grab-comple...

Is Barack Obama Our Last American President?-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On April 8, 2014:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/is-barack-obama-our-last...

Brainwashing in America: ‘WHY FEW DARE CALL IT CONSPIRACY”!-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On March 21, 2014:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/brainwashing-in-america-...

The Russian View of What Has Been Happening In America!

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/04/22/the-russian-view-of-what-h...

New World Order By Executive Order!

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2011/02/13/new-world-order-by-executi...

Americans – Like Nazi Germans – Don’t Notice that All of Our Rights Are Slipping Away (Part 22)!-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On March 28, 2014:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/americans-like-nazi-germ...

Are 9 Dead Bankers A Sign Of Pending Economic Collapse and War? (Part 5)-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On March 27, 2014:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/are-9-dead-bankers-a-sig...

Veterans and members of our Armed Forces under attack!

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/05/23/veterans-and-members-of-ou...

The Midterm Elections and the Communist Manifesto!

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

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-underst...

Communist Party Leader: Obama Victory “Dawn of a New Era”!

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

Was Obama’s Real Job to Destroy America’s Moral & Ethical Foundations?

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/was-obama-s-real-job-to-...

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

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/05/03/what-we-haven’t-been-told-...

White Reds Exploiting Blacks: The Weather Underground, Barack Obama, and the Fundamental Transformation of the United States!

 http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/white-reds-exploiting-bl...

Communists and Muslims: The Hidden Hand of the KGB!

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

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

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-vetting-obama-radica... 

Who Is George Soros?

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/dishonest-media-avoids-t...

An Open Letter To Communist Valerie Jarrett!

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

The Greatest Fraud Perpetrated in American History!

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2011/06/20/the-greatest-fraud-perpetr...

Vote Fraud – What They Aren’t Telling You!

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/vote-fraud-what-they-are...

How “climate change” is supposedly impacting New Mexico and other southwestern states because of ensuing drought and devastating wildfires!-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-ByJake Martinez-On February 10, 2014:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/how-climate-change-is-su...

GENERAL CEMENTS PLAN TO END OBAMA’S REIGN: ‘Working in Washington now to implement radical solution’!

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/general-cements-plan-to-...

Letter to our NM U.S. Senator Tom Udall (re: Petition for Return of Government to Our Constitutional Principles)!-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On April 17, 2014:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/letter-to-our-nm-u-s-sen...

Letter to our NM U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (re: Petition for Return of Government to Our Constitutional Principles)!-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On March 29, 2014:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/letter-to-our-nm-u-s-sen...

Letter to our NM Governor Martinez regarding a “Petition for Return of Government to Our Constitutional Principles”!-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On March 29, 2014: 

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/letter-to-our-nm-governo...

Extensive Research Into Senator Obama’s Background Completed on November 3, 2008:

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2009/04/26/extensive-research-into-se...

Where Is America Today?

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/05/26/where-is-america-today-2

Is it time to call for Obama’s resignation!

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/06/09/is-it-time-to-call-for-oba...

Washington Times Calls for Obama’s Impeachment!

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/08/31/washington-times-calls-for...

Note:  The following videos wholeheartedly share my sentiments regarding what we are currently experiencing in America today-You Decide:

A Republic, If You Can Keep It!

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

The Fightin Side of Me!

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

When Injustice Becomes Law, Resistance Becomes Duty!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrqO_Hljf08

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

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/10/23/what-happened-to-free-speech/

“Food For Thought”

Hello: When Are Americans Going To Wake Up?-God Bless America!

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

http://www.greatdanepro.com/Pray%20For%20America/index.htm

Semper Fi!

Jake

Read More at: Black Robed Pastor Website!!

Here's something that ALL, and I do mean 'all' Tea Parties can get behind and promote. Granted, everyone needs to consider it worthwhile first, but I am confident that not one TEA PARTY group could deny supporting this (except for the 1 or 2 insignificant Tea Parties set-up by the Left to distract and confuse).

I'm going to make this very short... Almost all modern-day Tea Party groups point to the now famous Boston Tea Party of 1773, as their example for pushing back against unfair government taxes. Thereby giving us Taxed Enough Already as the proper battle-cry. Due to politics, Tea Parties have had to take on many issues in addition to the Taxing issues so they find themselves struggling at times for a single issue for Tea Party members to get behind. However, I believe someone has come up with an idea that is PERFECT FOR ALL TEA PARTIES! Before I go on and on about the possibilities that the following idea touches, I think its only fair that everyone read it first. I'm convinced that your TP Leaders will see the logic, and the implications for TP involvement to help push the following.

Ok, here's the link... http://www.newfreedom2014.com/

Go there and read it through, then sleep on it, or take a break, then come back and read it again. Before anyone signs it they should feel confident that it puts America back on the correct path, but once you do sign it by all means send the link to every darned person in your State.

Not only does the 'idea' makes so much sense, it's an issue that all TP's and their memberships could easily get behind and help push, push, push. Personally, I've now read it a couple of times and I believe it's a true piece of genius and comes at the exact right time. This will be perfect for Operation American Spring to take to DC on the 16th, and have a massive 'sign-up' party on the Mall! Plus it WILL show our corrupted politicians that we are true Patriots looking to save this Nation, and that we WILL do this with... or without them!

Sorry, that wasn't very short after all... was it?

For God and Country!

How Despicable; Demonic and Wicked these Democrats are!
They are willing to drag that poor woman Monica out of the past to deflect and shift the blame from Obama so the stupid Americans will
say to themselves, Obama is no where as bad as Clinton was and we love Clinton.
They ruined her reputation once before to save Dirty Bill, and now are doing it again to save this fraud.

It's the truth ! after all it is not about stopping crime or gun violence It is about disarming America and then nothing is in their way of total control !

We seem, as a nation to just forget about history. One of the problems is that we don't teach any real history anymore, The men and women that founded or country were people that desired to allow  Jesus Christ to have a great part in everything they did. Prayer was important in each decision that was made. While all of those involved did not see eye to eye on every detail about their spiritual  lives they did at least recognize the existence and power of an almighty God, This country was, in our way of speaking, peppered with word of God, It was the salt of the earth, That salt today has lost it's savor and our strength has been diminished because of that great loss. In those days even those people that did not acknowledge Jesus Christ still reverenced his authority and basic involvement in day to day activities.

Even if they completely denied Him they did not stop the people that did believe from worshiping Him in open assembly.

We have lost that concept in our nation we are dearly paying a price for it. Our Churches have created a jesus christ that is closer to what they think he should be like , rather than just trusting the one we see in the word of God. We call that Christianity and you do not have to be born- again to be a member of it

Most of the real men that use to stand behind our pulpits has sold out for the love of money and that is their basic god. The problem is most of them don't even know it. They still think that have the power of God but because of the religious dogma in most churches God, like Elvis has left the building.

He standing outside knocking at the door and saying ( IF ANY MAN WILL ANSWER I WILL COME IN  AND SUP WITH HIM AND HE WITH ME,) but most churches won't let Him in.

It's awfully bad to be deceived by a friend, a parent, a spouse or anyone we might think of but we get to the place that we are deceiving ourselves, now that really bad, When we will not look at ourselves and see truth about ourselves we are in real trouble. It's always easy to see what somebody else needs to do to make things better but what do (I) need to do.

Our churches are full of people but we can't get one person to run on a platform that if he is elected one of the first things he will do is say (LET US PRAY TO AND END IT IN JESUS NAME) You might say that against the law, so you mean to tell me you are going to Washington and not change any of the laws? My point is folks we must open our eyes to what is really needed in our country and it is not more laws. Do you remember a man called the Apostle Paul, a man that stood against a whole world of religious people and still, basically all by himself preached Jesus Christ and Him crucified? Do you remember him?

We have Christian universities all across this country. Where are the men and women that graduate from them each year.? What has happen to us as a nation? Who are we? Nehemiah went back to Jerusalem and viewed the destruction and dropped to his knees and prayed( my God) and went about even to the place of holding a weapon in one hand and working with the other, We have become our own worst enemies and the majority of the worst of us is sitting on a church pew every Sunday morning. Our sons are drunks ,our daughters are whores or worse an we act like we are God's gift to humanity. If our spirituality was dynamite. we wouldn't have enough to blow the fuss of a peanut.

People we live in a world of our own. We think we can close our eyes to truth, vote some man or woman into office and fix our problems but we are the problem. Each one of us have a responsibility and are part of what has happen to our nation because we have forgotten God Almighty and have set back on our stool of do nothing and lost a nation. We are so lazy  and irresponsible that we expect our children to pay for our pleasures and let us just ride into eternity on a gravy train. Guess what. we can do that but even in eternity we will be held accountable. Our children will be slaves to someone and their children will as well but we will pay for our transgressions even if it's in eternity, you just wait and see.

What if we like it or not, when we call ourselves (Christians) we are the ones that have dropped the ball. Our pastors, deacon, bishops and any church leader you can think of are responsible the  fall of a nation. We have been very comfortable just allowing ourselves to be religious in our own eyes and never even ask God or His Son Jesus Christ what he thought about what we were doing. It's a tough pill to swallow but until we open our spiritual eyes and ears as believers we will continue to slid down the slope of destruction.

SELAH-- MEDITATE ON THESE THINGS

QB for Green Bay

In a news conference Deanna Favre announced she will be the starting QB for the Packers next season. Deanna asserts that she is qualified to be the starting QB because she had spent 16 years married to Brett while he played QB for the Packers. Even though she has actually never played football at any level from grade school up and never run the offense of any team or played the game.

During this period of time, she became familiar with the definition of a corner blitz, the nickel package, and man-to-man coverage, so she is now completely comfortable with all the other terminology involving the Packers offense. A survey of Packers fans shows that 50% of those polled supported the move.

Does this sound idiotic and unbelievable or familiar to you??   Hillary Clinton makes the same claims as to why she is qualified to be the President and 50% of  Democrats polled agreed.

She has never run a city, county, or state during her "career" of being Bill Clinton's wife. When told Hillary Clinton has experience because she has 8 years in the White House, my immediate thought was "So has the pastry chef".

When it comes to running the State Department, her biggest achievement was getting a US Ambassador and 3 other Americans killed, by pretending terrorism had been defeated.

Author’s credentials:

Ian Rutherford Plimer is an Australian geologist, professor emeritus of earth sciences at the University of Melbourne, professor of mining geology at the University of Adelaide,and the director of multiple mineral exploration and mining companies.

He has published 130 scientific papers, six books and edited the Encyclopedia of Geology.

Where Does the Carbon Dioxide Really Come From?

 Professor Ian Plimer could not have said it better!

If you've read his book you will agree, this is a good summary.

PLIMER: "Okay, here's the bombshell. The volcanic eruption in Iceland. Since its first spewing of volcanic

ash has, in just FOUR DAYS, NEGATED EVERY SINGLE EFFORT you have made in the past five years to

control CO2 emissions on our planet - all of you.

Of course, you know about this evil carbon dioxide that we are trying to suppress - it’s that vital chemical compound

that every plant requires to live and grow and to synthesize into oxygen for us humans and all animal life.

I know....it's very disheartening to realize that all of the carbon emission savings you have accomplished

while suffering the inconvenience and expense of driving Prius hybrids, buying fabric grocery bags,

sitting up till midnight to finish your kids "The Green Revolution" science project, throwing out all of

your non-green cleaning supplies, using only two squares of toilet paper, putting a brick in your toilet

tank reservoir, selling your SUV and speedboat, vacationing at home instead of abroad.  Nearly getting

hit every day on your bicycle, replacing all of your 50 cent light bulbs with $10.00 light bulbs.....well, all

of those things you have done have all gone down the tubes in just four days.

The volcanic ash emitted into the Earth's atmosphere in just four days - yes, FOUR DAYS - by that volcano

in Iceland has totally erased every single effort you have made to reduce the evil beast, carbon. And there

are around 200 active volcanoes on the planet spewing out this crud at any one time - EVERY DAY.

I don't really want to rain on your parade too much, but I should mention that when the volcano Mt Pinatubo

erupted in the Philippines in 1991, it spewed out more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere than

the entire human race had emitted in all its years on earth.  Yes, folks, Mt Pinatubo was active for over

One year - think about it.

Of course, I shouldn't spoil this 'touchy-feely tree-hugging' moment and mention the effect of solar and cosmic

activity and the well-recognized 800-year global heating and cooling cycle, which keeps happening despite our

completely insignificant efforts to affect climate change.

And I do wish I had a silver lining to this volcanic ash cloud, but the fact of the matter is that the bush fire

season across the western USA and Australia this year alone will negate your efforts to reduce carbon in our

world for the next two to three years. And it happens every year.

Just remember that your government just tried to impose a whopping carbon tax on you, on the basis

of the bogus 'human-caused' climate-change scenario.

Hey, isn’t it interesting how they don’t mention 'Global Warming' anymore, but just 'Climate Change'-

you know why? It’s because the planet has COOLED by 0.7 degrees in the past century and these global

warming bull artists got caught with their pants down.

And, just keep in mind that you might yet have an Emissions Trading Scheme - that whopping new tax -

imposed on you that will achieve absolutely nothing except make you poorer.  It won’t stop any volcanoes

from erupting, that’s for sure.