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4063728647?profile=original                       Are Hollywood actors cowards about Obama Syrian military action?

As President Obama prepares the nation to go to war through his apparent ‘go it alone’ strategy where are the screams of alarm from Hollywood? Remember when the left cost Hollywood elite accused former President Bush of “Cowboy Diplomacy?” Now, with Britain on the sidelines with the rest of Obama’s coalition of the unwilling, his charm offensive at the G-20 Summit in Russia is under performing. Hollywood’s liberal millionaires are currently deafeningly silent.

This is in strange contrast to the continued poisonous verbal assaults by Hollywood actors lobbed against then President George Bush. Unlike Obama, Bush worked tirelessly to build an international 46 nation “Coalition of the Willing” to join the United States in war against Iraq.

Obama on the other hand cannot seem to muster a 2 nation Coalition of the Unwilling. Barack Obama has not made his case to America nor to the world and it is totally apparent to Americans to many of the former American Iraq and Afghanistan allies. This is Obama’s War and its launch has more to do with his embarrassment over a red line in the Syrian soil which even now he has attempted to erase.

As U.S. military forces prepare for war through its Mediterranean battleship presence, Hollywood with its liberal Obama yes men and women, seem to be hiding and strangely and uncharacteristically silent about possible military action and war.

Seann Penn, who like Hanoi Jane Fonda has had a penchant for visiting wartime enemies of America has not flung one typically profane word or otherwise toward Obama. Where is the outrage Penn is famous for when he attacked Bush as a war monger? Are 100,000 dead Syrians and 40 thousand of them innocent civilians in this civil war conflict not enough for Penn and his conscience of convenience?

What about Jaime Foxx who has no problem playing a president on the big screen and also attacking Bush with comments over the Iraq war in 200. He then told MSNBC in an interview, "I think George Bush and the guys that are there, just don't have the charisma to pull off the things that they're trying to do.”

Now fast forward to November 2012 when Foxx stood on stage at the Soul Train awards and called President Obama, “Our Lord and Savior.” Where is the charisma that this same “Lord and Savior” was supposed to possess to dazzle and impress the world’s nations with? Foxx, like his fellow actors are cowards whose principles shift with the box office printouts of their latest movies, and took cover when Obama decided to use military action as a run up to a possible war.

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The Return of the Robber Barons

               

 THE RETURN OF THE ROBBER BARONS

The world in which the economist lives is as alien to the average citizen as are the Plains of Mars.  Yet, economists and their postulates are the driving force of our “modern” economic system.  Economists, since the Great Depression  have had more impact on changing the character or our nation then any of the tumultuous events  since that time including the disastrous economic and social upheavals of The Great Depression and World War II.  One economist, more than any other is responsible for the economic and moral decline of America and for that matter of most of the western democracies.  That man is John Maynard Keynes.   It is an anomaly that this man and his monumental commentary on the causes and solutions to economic destabilization and the promotion of a universal economic and social equilibrium, (The General theory of Employment, Interest and Money), has so greatly influenced academia and has become so invested in government policy and  is so widely accepted by government policy makers.  His entire theory and his defense of it is so garbled, inconsistent, and so  incorrect that it should have been rejected as rapidly as economists  rejected the economic absurdity of Huey Long and Francis Townsend and his Townsend Plan during the 1930’s. This assessment of Keynes’ General Theory would be suspect if not for the fact that it is the consensus of a number of Keynes’ highly respected contemporary peers.  Among his detractors we find F.A. Hayek, Henry Hazlitt and Ludwig von Mises.  A current critique is David Stockman author of the current bestseller, THE GREAT DEFORMATION, The Corruption of Capitalism in America (Public Affairs, 2013).

                Keynes’ greatest contribution in aid of his monetary scheme is the concept that the government through its central bank should have exclusive control of the currency, print money and expand the money supply to the point where interest rates would be reduced to the zero point.  To Keynes, interest rates naturally exceed the value of money lent and when allowed to rise will bring on a depression or recession.  Hence, interest rates on invested funds (as well as stock dividends) should be eliminated.  Although Henry Hazlitt’s critique of The General Theory consisting of a virtual word by word sentence by sentence examination and repudiation of the General Theory is greatly informative, it is burdened with a thoroughness that makes it as difficult to read and comprehend as is Keynes’ General Theory itself.  Fortunately this problem has been remedied by economist Hunter Lewis in his recent E-Book WHERE KEYNES WENT WRONG, And Why World Governments Keep Creating Inflation, Bubbles and Busts.  Mr. Lewis has reviewed, as did Hazlett, each paragraph of the General Theory and found it irrational and based upon suppositions, assumed facts and fanciful economic theory.  Fortunately, he states his case in layman’s language.  The question he tries to answer is the one that confounds even David Stockman and indeed the rest of the rational world: if Keynes is indeed as irrational as Hazlett asserts, why have economists from Harvard to Berkley extolled and adopted the dogma encompassed in his General Theory? Why is Keynesism the foundation of our national and world economic structure after having been so soundly repudiated?  How can economists like Paul Krugman, Ben Bernanke, and Allen Greenspan along with virtually every member of the Federal Reserve Board and Treasury Department subscribe to Keynesian doctrine? 

                In my recent book OBAMANOMICS, Nation Building on a Charge Card (Amazon Kindle, 2013) I attempted to explain the popularity of Keynesism.  I start by suggesting that the greater volume of the General Theory is irrelevant to the present economic community.  For the liberal elite, their only interest in Keynesism is its assertion that the government should assume a dominant autocracy over a nation’s and for that matter the world’s money recourses.  When he published his General Theory in 1936, many economists let it pass apparently believing it was not intended to be serious work.  Others no doubt passed on criticizing the work to avoid the scathing broad side that Keynes was noted to unleash on his critics. 

                The General Theory was  published when the world and America were in the trough of the Great Depression and Capitalism was under attack.  Roosevelt, Stalin, Mussolini and Hitler had each declared that Capitalism was a failure and that a new economic order was mandated to bring to the oppressed masses, social justice.  Keyens’s General Theory, whether so intended or not provided a rational support to the rise of the super state.  I do not intend by the above grouping to suggest that each of the world leaders were during the 30’s of the same character.  Each, however, would lead their nations away from capitalist individualism and put their nation on the pathway to a new social order rejecting the legal and social traditions that would have placed restraints on their ambitions.  Fortunately for America, the transition was not wrought by brutality and was imposed upon us by a gentler hand. (It was the old frog in the boiling pot approach). Roosevelt, upon taking office had already launched a program of big government spending and confiscatory taxation.  Keynes’ General Theory, premised as it was on the concept of deficit spending and market intervention fit like a glove on Roosevelt’s heavy handed market intervention.  Keynes’ theory on suppressing or eliminating interest rates and expanding the money supply through deficit spending to stimulate economic growth thrives yet today having been adopted as the policy justification underlying Roosevelt’s New Deal and has also the effect of confirming the liquidity policies of the Federal Reserve. 

                Keynes knew as few did at the time, that he who controlled the economic structure of any nation through a central banking structure controlled not only the wealth of the nation but also held dominion over the liberties and the limits thereon of the nation’s citizens.  Keynes avoided the raging philosophical confrontation between Capitalism and totalitarian socialism by espousing yet a new doctrine which he asserted (when convenient) was not anti capitalist.    Keynes believed and so stated in his General Theory, that the individual, whether businessman or laborer was too ignorant to wisely manage his own affairs, thus concluding that the wealth of a nation should be managed by others (never quite identified) who had the superior knowledge and experience to make the right choices and decisions in managing the nation’s capital. Of course this argument justifies in Keynes’ work that Central Banks and central planning is a necessity and that governments should have dominion over the individual, his property and his welfare.  Keynes asserted that those superior persons appointed to manage our money and welfare would alleviate man from the burdens of every day endeavor and bring to all a universal, sustainable prosperity, eliminate recessions and depression and equally distribute the wealth of the nation.  (This is of course the same allusions promoted by communists and socialists) Weather we call this system communism or socialism is basically irrelevant.  It is however without doubt despotism in is most virulent form.   It is our present misfortune to have a government of self anointed economic imperialists motivated not by our nation’s moral and law based traditions, but upon their Keynesian belief that they are superior to us all and through central banking and central planning can lead the nation into their conception of a new utopian social order.

                As pointed out by his above named detractors, the greatest absurdity engaged in by present economists is the Keynesian concept that when the policy of deficit spending, regulation and taxation fails to stabilize the economy, the inevitable answer is that you obviously have been too timid and must create more debt, more spending and more regulation ad infinitum until your program finally works. This is the position taken by Paul Krugman, in his New York Times Articles. What is left of the economy and the savings of the multitude by that time you reach his intended equilibrium is not addressed in the General Theory.  Keynes of course is no advocate of personal saving, to him that only defeats the market intervention. Savings to Keynes is considered almost anti social as it runs contrary to his conception that the more spending there is the more jobs are created.  He ignores the fact that savings are converted into investments, but to him investing is defined as money printing and deficit financing. 

                Without addressing the cause of our current recession (yes, we are still in a recession) which I address in my book OBAMANOMICS Nation Building on a Charge Card  I would again refer to the criticism of David Stockman and Mr. Lewis.  The continuing bubble to burst economy they refer to is the direct consequence of Federal Reserve’s Keynesian money policy. Roosevelt and Nixon in order to finance larger and larger and more intrusive government knew they could not do so as long as the American dollar was the world’s reserve currency and was backed by a gold standard.  Roosevelt ended gold-dollar convertibility and Nixon took the nation off the gold standard altogether.  The dollar was allowed to float and money inflation became the means to finance big government.  As a consequence the value of the dollar has decreased by 95% since the Federal Reserve took over the money market.   Energy prices and food prices continue to rise as real personal income declines.  Most significant, the rich are becoming richer while the rest of the population suffers from economic stagnation or retraction.  How does this happen?  The answer to this question lies in simple money market economics which Keynesian economist shroud in a jargon that is meant to and does mislead the public away from an understanding of how the general public is being pillaged through our Federal Reserve and big government policies.

                The Federal Reserve is not a government agency.  It is owned and managed by member banks and is independent of and in many ways more powerful than our constitutionally created government.  The chairmanship of the Fed is an autonomous office once the chairman is appointed.  This independence is asserted to make the Fed immune from political influences which in itself is an absurdity.  The Fed is, as intended by its early advocates, dominated by the large Wall Street banks as is the Department of the Treasury where Wall Street bankers find a home.  The current Fed policy of quantative easing, pumping billions of dollars into the economy is supposedly intended to encourage economic growth and end our present recession is in actuality creating only inflation and dollar devaluation.   There could be no other result when the Fed uses the Wall Street banks as the conduits to money expansion.  Would it be a surprise to anyone that these banks, being the first to receive the funds would get the first take and would first enhance their own position before passing the money through their system to stimulate the economy by granting loans that are burdened with their interest costs?  Books have been written about the Fed, its dubious founding, and its deleterious effect on our national economy.  The paper money the Fed prints, supposedly backed by the full  faith and credit of the United States Government is in actuality a farce as the so called faith and credit is backed only by more printed money  that has no real value except that value caused by the money  monopoly enjoyed by Wall Street and the Federal Reserve.  As President Obama sets out on a new crusade to allow the Federal government to entrench itself ever deeper into the nation’s educational institutions, he does so with the knowledge that there are no real restraints to his ambitions as the Fed will print the money to make it happen. It is time that our nation, as urged by David Stockman and many traditional economist, to eliminate the Federal  Reserve and put our money back on a free market gold standard and thus eliminate the autocracy of the Wall Street bankers over the nation’s economy! It is time to end the crony Capitalism addressed by David Stockman that makes billionaires on Wall Street and paupers on Main Street.                     

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Life, Liberty and Property

No other economic system has brought more people out of poverty, provided for the health and well-being of millions and raised the standard of living more societies than capitalism. When people cooperate to fulfill their own self interest, they all benefit.

Capitalism and freedom are inextricably linked. When the Declaration of Independence was first drafted it read "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal and endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and Property."

This was changed later to read "pursuit of happiness" because the Founders did not want the document to be perceived to support slavery. But the first draft read 'property'. Why?

The concept of property, and private property rights are indispensable to freedom and liberty. They are also indispensable to capitalism. Realize first that the term property includes much more than the material items we buy, store or make. Property also includes our thoughts, actions, education and experience and labor. Our voices, spirituality and even our lives are also our property. What we do with our property, how we employ it to better our lives and take care of our families ought to be completely up to us. Government was created, and its only function should be to protect our property and our right to employ, or not to employ them as we see fit.

The Declaration of Independence listed those three specific rights, and then the very next line explained the function of government: “That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men”. Then, in the US Constitution, the government created specifically to secure our rights is strictly limited in its power, lest the government created by the governed become too powerful. Also, to further restrict the power of government and to secure our rights and property, the Bill of Rights was added to the Constitution before the states would ratify it.

So, our God-given rights are also our property and government exists to secure these rights and the Constitution exists to protect us from government. The freedom assured to the people in such an arrangement naturally leads to capitalism. It is this system, a Federal government with strictly limited powers and a populace with the freedom to employ their property as they wish, allowed the United States to rise from a small, backward agrarian society to become a world power in less than a century.

It is this legal respect for personal property that allowed great innovation, invention and industry to flourish. It is the mobility that was granted to our people by our freedoms that allowed the country to grow and our people to prosper. The extension of the concept of property to include our ideas that allowed the Wright Brothers to invent the first powered aircraft. It allowed the Thomas Edisons, Henry Fords and the Steve Jobs of our country to patent and protect their ideas, grow companies and provide incomes and livelihoods to an untold millions of people. I’ve seen the other side. In my time in the Army, I’ve served both in Germany and in South Korea. I’ve seen what communism looks like staring back from across Europe's Iron Curtain and the DMZ. I’ve seen the misery and poverty that comes from a centrally planned economy where personal property rights don’t exist and liberty is unknown. The walls that I guarded wearing the uniform of freedom were not constructed by us to keep the forces of communism out. Those walls were built by the forces of communism to hold their own people in.

For once you strip the people of their liberty, their freedom and their property, in all its forms, you’ve stripped them of their individuality. They no longer exist for themselves, they no longer have any worth except to fill some role that betters the State. They are more like workers in an ant hill with no individual rights, no personal property, no way to improve their lives for all property and all means of production belong to the queen.

But, now, our Constitution and the concept of property are under attack. We have a president that is alienating those that create. He, and his allies on the Left, are making enemies of those that innovate, build and dream. He is espousing a philosophy that states that in order for anyone to get ahead, we have to pull the successful among us down. Somehow he is trying to convince us that by taking money from some of our citizens and giving that money to the government, that the poor among us will be better off. The truth is that all that will happen is that all of us become poorer.

This rhetoric is designed to simultaneously group us into the “masses” and divide us into groups. It has been called “class warfare” but it goes much deeper. The term “fairness” is used over and over to espouse a false argument that there should be an equality in outcome, that we should all be the same, that some having more is somehow unfair to those that have less. In capitalism, wealth can be created exponentially through innovation, invention and starting a small business, hiring people and becoming a large business. Having wealth and creating wealth is not dependent upon seizing the wealth from others. Now we are being told that we can achieve equality, and “fairness” only by seizing the wealth of others and to give it to those that do not contribute.

We must recognize that if we stand idly by and by our inaction, allow the government to seize the property of some of our citizens under the false premise that it benefits us all, we all lose. For once a freedom is lost, once we surrender a liberty, it will not come back. We must recognize that the government is not only trying to convince us they are only seeking to achieve "fairness" and only they can best determine what that means and they will take, by force, the property from some of our citizens for those ends. How is it, in the words of Mark Levine, that we are wise enough to choose our leaders, but not our lightbulbs? This entire concept turns our founding on its head and the government has become supreme. The people have surrendered their Liberty.

Capitalism, and the concept of private property, has proven that one can employ their property: their ideas, labor, capital, experience, education, hard work, spirituality, time and dreams and put them to work to advance their well-being, raise a family, and leave this a better country, a better world for your children than how you inherited it. We are close to losing this America. We are close to losing our freedoms. We have a government now that does not respect personal property and believes it can choose better how you should employ your property. For every new power the government gains, it must necessarily take a like amount of freedom from us.

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http://charlotte.cbslocal.com/2013/09/03/graham-nukes-in-hands-of-terrorists-could-result-in-bomb-coming-to-charleston-harbor/

And here is a followup article 

http://www.infowars.com/sen-graham-warns-of-nuke-strike-after-missing-nuke-report/

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 By Oscar Y. Harward

 

Education for our children, whether it be public schools, charter schools, private schools, church schools, etc., must focus on training more ‘values’ of ‘right v. wrong’ on civility as taught in ‘civics’ classes; an approach that seems to have become minimized, or perhaps, disappeared.  It appears children are not even taught ‘privacy rights’ in ‘public schools’.  Children and older individuals and groups ignore and infringe on personal properties as it these ‘rights’ do not even exist.

 

Prior to the 1963 SCOTUS decision to remove the ‘Holy Bible’ from our public schools, there was very little crime in each community.  As ‘God’ was removed, our public schools became unguarded zones to open sex, illegal drugs, guns, etc.

 

Now, there are many schools that seem to have ‘teachers’ in ‘public schools’ who do not even know and/or teach our Constitution and its’ values.  It has become a rarity to even recite the ‘Pledge of Allegiance’ in public schools.  Parents are joining and encircling their children’s lives in parent/child(ren) public schools, yet seem to be swallowed by our immoral individual teachings.

 

Fundamental freedoms, as written by our Founding Fathers, in building our nation based on Christian values are most important to restoring our social, fiscal, and national security, ‘in that order’.

 

Each responsible parent wants his/her child(ren) to get the best education.  Each responsible parent should be allowed to choose from multiple approved responsible school resources, and taxpayers’ funding(s) should be directed to the child(ren).  No schools, public schools, charter schools, private schools, church schools, etc., should be allowed to continue with public funding without responsibility of teaching our children these values.

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HEREWEGO

Here we go again...another politician needs a war to cover their rear on more important matters, like Benghazi, IRS,
NSA, Deficit, and Jobs etcetc...
Why are we, mostly Jewdayoh(phonetic?)/Christians aiding Muslims who are killing Christians?
WE, the U.S. in U.S.A., founded our country on the belief in GOD and Biblical Principles.
We are surrendering to Godless Muslims and Political B.S..
Return our Rights to our States and abolish Federal Incompetent Govt.
P.S.I deeply pray the politicians who cause so many useless deaths and misery should meet EACH of their
victim's soul on Judgement day and explain to them why it is so, in the presence of GOD.
Cal

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What I did today

I wrote a short note to Timmie Kaine. What do you all think . Too nice?I said it first but now news sites are using it. Fools. Any congress member voting for a no win situation like Syria is a fool. Your buddy Barack , is setting the whole congress up for the blame. Assad is not the bad guy here, Obama is. He is supporting radical Muslim fighters and the Muslim brotherhood. If you can't see that you ARE a FOOL. Do you really think a Lilly white Christian like your self is going to be one of the elites when Obama destroys this country?Fool. Get your head out of obamas ass and stand up for our country, or expect to look for a new job and a new home out of Virginia when this is over. The true American Patriots will keep our country. No thanks to fools like you.If you have the balls reply with your pitiful excuses. Fool
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IS OBAMA IMPEACHABLE?

Is Obama Impeachable?

 

Just what makes a president impeachable?  The Constitution states very plainly that a president may be impeached for “… high crimes and misdemeanors…”.  Can he be impeached for lying about the Bengazi attack?  Nope.  If Lying were an impeachable offense every president since at LEAST Buchannan should have been impeached.  Lying is immoral, but it is not a crime.  Now if that lie obstructed justice in some way that would be a crime; however I have no idea how we could prove that one unless we could come up with something in writing.  We certainly can’t expect either Hilary or Holter to fill us in.  They have both been caught lying to congress.

Did the President authorize the stand down o our forces when the diplomatic mission in Bengazi asked for help or did some ground commander accept Hilary’s orders. 

I recently read a blog on a Tea Party site that listed 100 reasons he is impeachable.  Guess what?   Maybe three of those one hundred reasons are actually impeachable offenses!

How about Fast and Furious?  Sorry you can’t impeach for the actions of a subordinate.  Now if there is PROOF that he personally authorized that then just maybe that is a crime.  But first you have to prove that the law was in fact violated and that the whole thing wasn’t a case of really bad judgment.  If the goal was to put guns in the hands of known criminals, then yes that is a felony.  I believe Holter did do that, but who is going to prosecute him.  He is the nation’s chief prosecutor!  Is there anyway to prove to the senate that Obama did in fact have prior knowledge that this crime was to be committed and either overtly or tacitly authorized it?  I doubt it.  Once again we know Holter isn’t afraid of congress or of blatantly lying to them.  He was convicted of contempt of congress for that and just laughed it off.  Again who is going to prosecute?

Spying in many ways with many of the agencies he controls on average American Citizens without due process?  Impeachable and we can prove it.  He has admitted it openly.

Ignoring the Constitution by consistently violating the second, fourth, fifth tenth and fourteenth amendments?  Impeachable because it violates his sacred oath.  Violation of a sworn oath is a misdemeanor and in this case, probably a felony.

He has disclosed secret grand jury material by exposing the existence of a sealed indictment of one of the Benghazi attackers in violation of Rule 6(e) of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure that clearly states: “… no person may disclose the indictment’s existence except as necessary to issue or execute a warrant or summons.’’

It is said that he has thwarted Congress by (1) failing to enforce all or parts of laws duly enacted by Congress, including the Defense of Marriage Act, the No Child Left Behind Act, and the Affordable Care Act; and (2) after Congress refused to pass his Dream Act, unilaterally issuing an executive order directing immigration officers to no longer deport an entire class of illegal immigrants who came here as children, regardless of individual circumstances, and to give them work-authorization permits.  Impeachable.  No President is above the law.  But that one is on very shaky ground.  Law enforcement agencies have use their own discretion when enforcing laws for literally centuries in this country.  Otherwise you should be arrested in South Dakota for drinking a malt on Sunday or taking a drink of alcohol on Sunday in some southern states.

 He has violated the Constitution when, on January 4, 2012, (1) he bypassed the U. S. Senate to appoint three members of the National Labor Relations Board, actions that were ruled unconstitutional by the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit which affirmed previous decisions by the Court of Appeal for the D.C. Circuit and the Third Circuit; and (2) he bypassed the U. S. Senate to appoint Richard Cordray to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

These last three are direct quotes from the articles of impeachment offered to the house by The Black Republicans Association.  These articles are well thought out and I recommend reading all of their Articles of Impeachment at
http://godfatherpolitics.com/12154/blacks-file-articles-of-impeachment-against-president-obama/#CYGEY4TrqmQ5cLaU.99

So OK, he is indeed impeachable and the House of Representatives can do that with a clear conscience; however, once impeached by the House he must be tried by the Senate.  The Senate is controlled by the democrats and led by a fervently anti-constitutionalist senior senator from Nevada known as Harry Reid.  Just how far do you think that trial would go?  Even as far as Slick Willy’s?  Probably not.

 

 

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Fools

Every congress person or represenitve that goes along with Obama on Syria is a fool.. Think about it, which side is Obama rooting for? My guess is the Brotherhood. Or the "rebels". In order for the rebels to take over Assad needs to go and the rebels are not getting there. Assad has the upper hand for now and the rebels need help. Receiving a little help from Obama the rebels released the gas in Damascus trying to frame Assad. Now Obama want to take Assad out so the MB can infiltrate and take over. Obama knows he can't force this alone and survive the scrutiny so he tricks congress to ok the strike so they can be blamed for it. The fools in congress can't/ won't see this.Once the attacks take place we are going to be plauged with trouble. Just maybe Mr. Putin will help us find something else for Obama to do.
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Is my mind gone?

Hi Patriots, is my mind going or is it ok to think like Rush Limbaugh??I wrote yesterday about Syrian rebels using gas to set Assad up for removal so the MB could take over, and the fact Obama was helping the rebels. Here's where I might be losing it, Rush stated on his show the same thing.Is it ok to think like Rush? I am scared...
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ky senate race

Tea Party Leader Who Endorsed McConnell Opponent Is Registered Democrat freebeacon.com A prominent Kentucky Tea Party leader who endorsed the Republican primary challenger to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is a registered Democrat who signed a pledge to support Democratic polici

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There is no wonder why the vast majority of Americans are opposed to military action in Syria when the possible outcomes are so damaging:
 
1. The US military attacks with cruise missiles which does some damage, Assad stays in power, their civil war continues as it has. Why attack, no change? Except with no international support, the credibility of the US is severely damaged. Bad outcome. US forces are put in harm's way and we kill people with no strategic change in the situation in Syria. 
2. The US attacks, Assad stays in power, Syria and/or Iran attacks Israel in retaliation to US attack, much larger regional conflict is ignited. Bad. We could be dragged into defending Israel from an attack which we instigated with no long-range plan of success. Or we could abandon Israel. Also very bad outcomes. 
3. The US military attacks, destroys Syria's air force and air defenses, Assad falls. Rebels, including Al Qaida seize control including Syria's chemical weapons stockpiles. Bad. This scenario doesn't even guarantee the end of the conflict as Hezbollah, Al Quds, Iran, Alwites still support Al Assad and could easily continue fighting even after Assad is gone - Think Egypt, only worse. Very bad outcome. We give chemical weapons to Al Qaida. 

To make matters worse, our allies have decided NOT to assist us in military intervention. The UN will not support military intervention. 81% of Americans are against intervention. Russia and China have warned us against intervention (which would make no difference to me if our national security was threatened, which it is not), Syria and Iran have promised to attack Israel if we attack Syria. Again, we have a totalitarian regime fighting against Islamic extremists groups, including Al Qaida. What's our role here? 

We can, however, provide humanitarian aid to the victims and Syrian refugee civilians, support our true ally in the region, Israel and interdict Iran's supply routes into Syria in Iraq. All good outcomes.

Chemical weapons cannot be destroyed by an air attack. Delivery systems can be damaged and the chemicals themselves can be spread by the use of explosives, but not destroyed. Either Assad will retain the chemical weapons or the opposition will seize them. 

How can this Administration convince us that they know everything that happened in Damascus with this chemical attack- what weapons were used, how they were delivered, who conducted the attack, and just as importantly, who did not conduct the attack, how many casualties there were, which chemical agents were used, etc with a "high confidence" ? But they still can't tell us anything about Benghazi where we apparently had dozens of CIA agents on the ground? So, we're supposed to trust their word now? How many times has this administration lied to us?

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Impeach Barack!!!

Barack's Brother is Founder of the Muslin Brotherhood.

By a Proud American

Barack has been funneling billions of dollars to the Muslin Brotherhood in Egypt and ordered Louis Lerner to grant the Brotherhood non-profit status via the IRS. This in addition to donating billions to Muslin Madrases in the United States for their mosques, and he claims the power to do so.1

Barack has left a wide trail of:

  1. contempt for the American people from the 9/11 Twin Towers destruction, to

  2. blocking development of our tremendous national resources that could bring us out of the Barack-induced recession from

  3. banning drilling, cancellation of the Canadian pipe-line,

  4. refusal to grant permission to develop our vast oil and natural gas resources,

  5. going to bed or merely playing cards while our ambassador and his team were massacred in Benghazi, thus defying the long-standing policy of “leave none behind”,

  6. denying U.S. Corporations the right to non-profit status while

  7. granting his Muslim buddies unquestioned non-profit status retroactively for over 2 years, (8) changing the U.S. Culture and its sense of independence, freedom and caring about out neighbors in time of need, as well of a sense of

    (9) loss for our personal privacy,

    (10) choice of health care and/or

    (11) well-being.

The U.S. Constitution demands representative government. This is too much for Barack to stand.

(12)HE IS A DICTATOR, NOT OUR REPRESENTATIVE!!!

  1. He claims the right to plunge us into a war supporting his brother-in-law and risking possible boots on the ground midst nerve gas, as well as

  2. the future destruction of America's future. Why? Because

  3. he claims that he has the right to plunge the U.S. Into a war with Syria when there is LITTLE OF NOTHING IN IT FOR US!!!

  4. You Barack are not an American! You hate us and have sworn to plunge it into the 17th century so deeply that it may never recover!

  5. Even your wedding ring declares Allah as the only true God.

  1. We gave you every chance to prove yourself. YOU HATE AMERICA. Well, fella, the feeling is mutual. You have done nothing but earn total and absolute contempt in return!

  2. It's time. IMPEACH BARACK!!! and send him back to the the world country he came from, never to return!

  3. No more Barack, No More!

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1Obama's Brother Linked to Muslin Brotherhood. NewYork Time, Michael Savage 8/20/13

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Did the White House Help Plan the Syrian Chemical Attack?

There is a growing volume of new evidence from numerous sources in the Middle East — mostly affiliated with the Syrian opposition and its sponsors and supporters — which makes a very strong case, based on solid circumstantial evidence, that the August 21, 2013, chemical strike in the Damascus suburbs was indeed a pre-meditated provocation by the Syrian opposition.

The extent of US foreknowledge of this provocation needs further investigation because available data puts the “horror” of the Barack Obama White House in a different and disturbing light.

On August 13-14, 2013, Western-sponsored opposition forces in Turkey started advance preparations for a major and irregular military surge. Initial meetings between senior opposition military commanders and representatives of Qatari, Turkish, and US Intelligence [“Mukhabarat Amriki”] took place at the converted Turkish military garrison in Antakya, Hatay Province, used as the command center and headquarters of the Free Syrian Army (FSA) and their foreign sponsors. Very senior opposition commanders who had arrived from Istanbul briefed the regional commanders of an imminent escalation in the fighting due to “a war-changing development” which would, in turn, lead to a US-led bombing of Syria.

The opposition forces had to quickly prepare their forces for exploiting the US-led bombing in order to march on Damascus and topple the Bashar al-Assad Government, the senior commanders explained. The Qatari and Turkish intelligence officials assured the Syrian regional commanders that they would be provided with plenty of weapons for the coming offensive.

Indeed, unprecedented weapons distribution started in all opposition camps in Hatay Province on August 21-23, 2013. In the Reyhanli area alone, opposition forces received well in excess of 400 tons of weapons, mainly anti-aircraft weaponry from shoulder-fired missiles to ammunition for light-guns and machineguns. The weapons were distributed from store-houses controlled by Qatari and Turkish Intelligence under the tight supervision of US Intelligence.

These weapons were loaded on more than 20 trailer-trucks which crossed into northern Syria and distributed the weapons to several depots. Follow-up weapon shipments, also several hundred tons, took place over the weekend of August 24-25, 2013, and included mainly sophisticated anti-tank guided missiles and rockets. Opposition officials in Hatay said that these weapon shipments were “the biggest” they had received “since the beginning of the turmoil more than two years ago”. The deliveries from Hatay went to all the rebel forces operating in the Idlib-to-Aleppo area, including the al-Qaida affiliated jihadists (who constitute the largest rebel forces in the area).

Several senior officials from both the Syrian opposition and sponsoring Arab states stressed that these weapon deliveries were specifically in anticipation for exploiting the impact of imminent bombing of Syria by the US and the Western allies. The latest strategy formulation and coordination meetings took place on August 26, 2013. The political coordination meeting took place in Istanbul and was attended by US Amb. Robert Ford.

More important were the military and operational coordination meetings at the Antakya garrison. Senior Turkish, Qatari, and US Intelligence officials attended in addition to the Syrian senior (opposition) commanders. The Syrians were informed that bombing would start in a few days.

“The opposition was told in clear terms that action to deter further use of chemical weapons by the Assad regime could come as early as in the next few days,” a Syrian participant in the meeting said. Another Syrian participant said that he was convinced US bombing was scheduled to begin on Thursday, August 29, 2013. Several participants — both Syrian and Arab — stressed that the assurances of forthcoming bombing were most explicit even as formally Obama is still undecided.

The descriptions of these meetings raise the question of the extent of foreknowledge of US Intelligence, and therefore, the Obama White House. All the sources consulted — both Syrian and Arab — stressed that officials of the “Mukhabarat Amriki” actively participated in the meetings and briefings in Turkey. Therefore, at the very least, they should have known that the opposition leaders were anticipating “a war-changing development”: that is, a dramatic event which would provoke a US-led military intervention.

The mere fact that weapon storage sites under the tight supervision of US Intelligence were opened up and about a thousand tons of high-quality weapons were distributed to the opposition indicates that US Intelligence anticipated such a provocation and the opportunity for the Syrian opposition to exploit the impact of the ensuing US and allied bombing. Hence, even if the Obama White House did not know in advance of the chemical provocation, they should have concluded, or at the very least suspected, that the chemical attack was most likely the “war-changing development” anticipated by the opposition leaders as provocation of US-led bombing. Under such circumstances, the Obama White House should have refrained from rushing head-on to accuse Assad’s Damascus and threaten retaliation, thus making the Obama White House at the very least complicit after the act.

Meanwhile, additional data from Damascus about the actual chemical attack increases the doubts about Washington’s version of events. Immediately after the attack, three hospitals of Doctors Without Borders (MSF: médecins sans frontières) in the greater Damascus area treated more than 3,600 Syrians affected by the chemical attack, and 355 of them died. MSF performed tests on the vast majority of those treated.

MSF director of operations Bart Janssens summed up the findings: “MSF can neither scientifically confirm the cause of these symptoms nor establish who is responsible for the attack. However, the reported symptoms of the patients, in addition to the epidemiological pattern of the events — characterized by the massive influx of patients in a short period of time, the origin of the patients, and the contamination of medical and first aid workers — strongly indicate mass exposure to a neurotoxic agent.” Simply put, even after testing some 3,600 patients, MSF failed to confirm that sarin was the cause of the injuries. According to MSF, the cause could have been nerve agents like sarin, concentrated riot control gas, or even high-concentration pesticides. Moreover, opposition reports that there was distinct stench during the attack suggest that it could have come from the “kitchen sarin” used by jihadist groups (as distinct from the odorless military-type sarin) or improvised agents like pesticides.

Some of the evidence touted by the Obama White House is questionable at best.

A small incident in Beirut raises big questions. A day after the chemical attack, Lebanese fixers working for the “Mukhabarat Amriki” succeeded to convince a Syrian male who claimed to have been injured in the chemical attack to seek medical aid in Beirut in return for a hefty sum that would effectively settle him for life. The man was put into an ambulance and transferred overnight to the Farhat Hospital in Jib Janine, Beirut. The Obama White House immediately leaked friendly media that “the Lebanese Red Cross announced that test results found traces of sarin gas in his blood.” However, this was news to Lebanese intelligence and Red Cross officials. According to senior intelligence officials, “Red Cross Operations Director George Kettaneh told [them] that the injured Syrian fled the hospital before doctors were able to test for traces of toxic gas in his blood.” Apparently, the patient declared that he had recovered from his nausea and no longer needed medical treatment. The Lebanese security forces are still searching for the Syrian patient and his honorarium.

On August 24, 2013, Syrian Commando forces acted on intelligence about the possible perpetrators of the chemical attack and raided a cluster of rebel tunnels in the Damascus suburb of Jobar. Canisters of toxic material were hit in the fierce fire-fight as several Syrian soldiers suffered from suffocation and “some of the injured are in a critical condition”.

The Commando eventually seized an opposition warehouse containing barrels full of chemicals required for mixing “kitchen sarin”, laboratory equipment, as well as a large number of protective masks. The Syrian Commando also captured several improvised explosive devices, RPG rounds, and mortar shells. The same day, at least four HizbAllah fighters operating in Damascus near Ghouta were hit by chemical agents at the very same time the Syrian Commando unit was hit while searching a group of rebel tunnels in Jobar. Both the Syrian and the HizbAllah forces were acting on intelligence information about the real perpetrators of the chemical attack. Damascus told Moscow the Syrian troops were hit by some form of a nerve agent and sent samples (blood, tissues, and soil) and captured equipment to Russia.

Several Syrian leaders, many of whom are not Bashar al-Assad supporters and are even his sworn enemies, are now convinced that the Syrian opposition is responsible for the August 21, 2013, chemical attack in the Damascus area in order to provoke the US and the allies into bombing Assad’s Syria. Most explicit and eloquent is Saleh Muslim, the head of the Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) which has been fighting the Syrian Government. Muslim doubts Assad would have used chemical weapons when he was winning the civil war.

“The regime in Syria … has chemical weapons, but they wouldn’t use them around Damascus, five km from the [UN] committee which is investigating chemical weapons. Of course they are not so stupid as to do so,” Muslim told Reuters on August 27, 2013. He believes the attack was “aimed at framing Assad and provoking an international reaction”. Muslim is convinced that “some other sides who want to blame the Syrian regime, who want to show them as guilty and then see action” is responsible for the chemical attack. The US was exploiting the attack to further its own anti-Assad policies and should the UN inspectors find evidence that the rebels were behind the attack, then “everybody would forget it”, Muslim shrugged. “Who is the side who would be punished? Are they are going to punish the Emir of Qatar or the King of Saudi Arabia, or Mr Erdo?an of Turkey?”

And there remain the questions: Given the extent of the involvement of the “Mukhabarat Amriki” in opposition activities, how is that US Intelligence did not know in advance about the opposition’s planned use of chemical weapons in Damascus?

It is a colossal failure.

And if they did know and warned the Obama White House, why then the sanctimonious rush to blame the Assad Administration?

Moreover, how can the Obama Administration continue to support and seek to empower the opposition which had just intentionally killed some 1,300 innocent civilians in order to provoke a US military intervention?

Yossef Bodansky, Senior Editor, GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs

Copyright Defense and Foreign Affairs and Oilprice.com 2013

Did the White House Help Plan the Syrian Chemical Attack?

Yossef Bodansky

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IMHO

Good day Patiots, Here's what I'm am thinking, Syria is a problem that we should stay out of, but our president says we have to help. Here's the rub, Obamacare is coming quick and Obama thinks he can tie congress up with Syria until Oct. 1 and the chance to kill Obamacare goes out the window. Not forgetting Obama has not found a way to help hisMuslim Brotherhood buddies win in Syria. There were some very small articles leaning toward the Syrian rebels orFree Syrian Army or whatever name they call themselves today had mishandled the WMD's and let the gas loose.If the Free Army unleashed the gas Obama cannot attack Assad and help the MB. What's a stupid ass to do?Tie congress up until Oct 1, get Obamacare thru then just forget about Syria since Assad may not have caused the gas attacks.How can WE THE PEOPLE let Syria and the rest of our middle eastern "friends" know it is Obama stirring the stink up.
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Air Travel Carbon Credits and more

The EU has signed on and only needs the US, China and India to agree to disclose data and embrace the pay to pollute carbon scheme. What a load of BS that airlines would pay for their carbon footprint that exceeds some limit set by a committee and to pass on the cost to the customers, which essentially makes it a world wide tax.

In addition to that tax our own EPA has delayed the increase in alternative fuel requirement for the US gasoline producers, which also require them to buy carbon credits traded as a commodity. Trading carbon credits are a money making scheme for those who have pushed the carbon credit and trading Ponzi scheme on the world. It would be an amazing story if it were fiction, but it is true. The western world has agreed to pay fines for carbon pollution and the men who designed and pushed the system will make billions. What a scam and a huge waste of money in the form of penitence and a world tax.

This is but one of the pledges that Obama has made to fight pollution in the US and world wide. It also re-distributes western wealth.

 

Add these taxes onto the nation and company carbon credit trading Ponzi schemes and you have a complete web of money making wealth re-distribution load of BS. People like AL Gore and George Soros own the trading companies and billions will be made brokering all of these various carbon credits. 10 Trillion dollars a year could be made if the US joins the world in this program. Always follow the money! No one could make something like this up and they have sold the world on it via the Kyoto and other global warming treaties. These also require alternative energy which is not commercial so it does drive up costs and diverts more tax dollars to various groups, e.g., ethanol, wind mill and solar panels producers.

 The US should denounce these schemes use all of natural resources and let the market place develop alternative energy as it becomes economically viable. WE have hundreds of years of resources and these world wide taxes and exchanges are nothing but money, power and control for the ones who control them.

 

If the US will drop these and use our resources jobs will return with lower energy costs. Perhaps some of these people want to see less jobs and a weaker US?

 

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