NIST finally admits World Trade Center Bldg 7 was in freefall

This gov't analysis only took them 7 years to complete and is apparently a pack of lies. So the question remains; why did WTC7 collapse? What else are they lying about?
View the analysis as done by a physics teacher.
Debunking NIST report
Alex Young debunks the So-Called 9/11 Debunkers

Take the Red Pill

While I don't agree with all of this, but find it very interesting. Hope you do too.

Source:The Extremist

US unmaned aerial vehicle attacks Pakistan

U.S. Drone Strikes With Deadly Accuracy
The Strike Was One of the Deepest Inside Pakistan Since Missile Attacks Began Years Ago (Read the piece here)
By NICK SCHIFRIN
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Nov. 19, 2008
My opinion: I am shocked and dismayed that our government wages yet another undeclared war, now against Pakistan.
And I hear no outcry from our congress or the media. I am not impressed by our technological superiority when there is no moral authority to govern its use. Shame!

CNBC Guest Talks About Plunge Protection Team

CNBC guest Scott Nations starts talking about the Plunge Protection Team and the propagandists go crazy saying that it is a conspiracy theory when the President's Working Group on Financial Markets which has been given the nickname the Plunge Protection Team is a real group formed after the Stock Market Crash of 1987. It is not a conspiracy theory. Source Rogue Government

Ron Paul questions Bernanke

The Second American Revolution

Gold going to $2000 in 2009

Peter Schiff - Prophet?

This video shows who had the right stuff and who is still spot on.

Ron Paul On This Weekend’s Global Financial Summit

Ron Paul jokes about our absurd hemp laws

Don't you just love this guy? I do.

Now That Obama Has Won . . . There is No Excuse

Now that a Democrat has been elected president, the Democrats in Congress have no excuse. They can no longer pretend that they have to "hold back" to win the election.

They have no excuse to delay war crimes charges against Bush, Cheney and company for Iraq.

They have no excuse to delay war crimes charges for torture.

They have no excuse to delay criminal charges for spying on Americans.

They have no excuse to delay criminal charges for 9/11.

Now is not the time for Democratic machine politics. Now is the time to implement true American values - cherished across the political aisle - of liberty and justice.

There can be no liberty in America unless the tyrants who have tried to imprison us and enslave us are prosecuted.

There can be no justice in America unless the high and mighty are held accountable for their actions.

Obama is a former Constitutional law professor. He knows the value of the Constitution and the rule of law. He promised during his campaign to curb the unconstitutional practices of the executive branch.

But that is not enough. Because if the tyrants in both parties who have trampled on the vision of the founding fathers are not held accountable, then future tyrants will learn that they can get away with it, also.

Now that Obama has won, there is no excuse. Those who have trampled on our country and our people must be held to account for the whole world and future generations to see.

Source: George Washington's Blog

The Reign of Lame Falls Mainly on McCain

I enjoyed this so much I thought I'd share.

by Ann Coulter 11/05/2008

Last night was truly a historic occasion: For only the second time in her adult life, Michelle Obama was proud of her country!

The big loser of this election is Colin Powell, whose last-minute endorsement of Obama put the Illinois senator over the top. Powell was probably at home last night, yelling at his TV, "Are you KIDDING me? That endorsement was sarcastic!"

The winner, of course, is Obama, who must be excited because now he can start hanging out in public with Bill Ayers and Rev. Jeremiah Wright again. John McCain is a winner because he can resume buying more houses.

And we're all winners because we will never again have to hear McCain say, "my friends."

After Bill Clinton won the 1992 presidential election, Hillary Clinton immediately announced that, henceforth, she would be known as "Hillary Rodham Clinton." So maybe Obama can now become B. Hussein Obama, his rightful name.

This was such an enormous Democratic year that even John Murtha won his congressional seat in Pennsylvania after calling his constituents racists. It turns out they're not racists -- they're retards. Question: What exactly would one have to say to alienate Pennsylvanians? That Joe Paterno should retire?

Apparently Florida voters didn't mind Obama's palling around with Palestinian activist Rashid Khalidi and Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, either. There must be a whole bunch of retired Pennsylvania Jews down there.

Have you ever noticed that whenever Democrats lose presidential elections, they always blame it on the personal qualities of their candidate? Kerry was a dork, Gore was a stiff, Dukakis was a bloodless android, Mondale was a sad sack.

This blame-the-messenger thesis allows Democrats to conclude that their message was fine -- nothing should be changed! The American people are clamoring for higher taxes, big government, a defeatist foreign policy, gay marriage, the whole magilla. It was just this particular candidate's personality.

Republicans lost this presidential election, and I don't blame the messenger; I blame the message. How could Republicans go after B. Hussein Obama (as he is now known) on planning to bankrupt the coal companies when McCain supports the exact same cap and trade policies and earnestly believes in global warming?

How could we go after Obama for his illegal alien aunt and for supporting driver's licenses for illegal aliens when McCain fanatically pushed amnesty along with his good friend Teddy Kennedy?

How could we go after Obama for Jeremiah Wright when McCain denounced any Republicans who did so?

How could we go after Obama for planning to hike taxes on the "rich," when McCain was the only Republican to vote against both of Bush's tax cuts on the grounds that they were tax cuts for the rich?

And why should Republican activists slave away working for McCain when he has personally, viciously attacked: John O'Neill and the Swift Boat Veterans, National Right to Life director Doug Johnson, evangelical pastors Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson and John Hagee, various conservative talk radio hosts, the Tennessee Republican Party and on and on and on?

As liberal Democrat E.J. Dionne Jr. exuded about McCain in The Washington Post during the Republican primaries, "John McCain is feared by Democrats and liked by independents." Dionne proclaimed that McCain "may be the one Republican who can rescue his party from the undertow of the Bush years."

Similarly, after unelectable, ultraconservative Reagan won two landslide victories, James Reston of The New York Times gave the same advice to Vice President George H.W. Bush: Stop being conservative! Bush was "a good man," Reston said in 1988, "and might run a strong campaign if liberated from Mr. Reagan's coattails."

Roll that phrase around a bit -- "liberated from Mr. Reagan's coattails." This is why it takes so long to read the Times -- you have to keep reading the same paragraph over again to see if you missed a word.

Bush, of course, rode Reagan's ultraconservative coattails to victory, then snipped those coattails by raising taxes and was soundly defeated four years later.

I keep trying to get Democrats to take my advice (stop being so crazy), but they never listen to me. Why do Republicans take the advice of their enemies?

How many times do we have to run this experiment before Republican primary voters learn that "moderate," "independent," "maverick" Republicans never win, and right-wing Republicans never lose?

Indeed, the only good thing about McCain is that he gave us a genuine conservative, Sarah Palin. He's like one of those insects that lives just long enough to reproduce so that the species can survive. That's why a lot of us are referring to Sarah as "The One" these days.

Like Sarah Connor in "The Terminator," Sarah Palin is destined to give birth to a new movement. That's why the Democrats are trying to kill her. And Arnold Schwarzenegger is involved somehow, too. Good Lord, I'm tired.

After showing nearly superhuman restraint throughout this campaign, which was lost the night McCain won the California primary, I am now liberated to announce that all I care about is hunting down and punishing every Republican who voted for McCain in the primaries. I have a list and am prepared to produce the names of every person who told me he was voting for McCain to the proper authorities.

We'll start with former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Florida Gov. Charlie Crist. Then we shall march through the states of New Hampshire and South Carolina -- states that must never, ever be allowed to hold early Republican primaries again.

For now, we have a new president-elect. In the spirit of reaching across the aisle, we owe it to the Democrats to show their president the exact same kind of respect and loyalty that they have shown our recent Republican president.

Starting tomorrow, if not sooner.

The Revolution: A Manifesto - in 10 minutes

Pat Buchanan on AntiwarRadio

This is worth listening to.

Ron Paul on Rachel Maddow Show

I'm reposting this, but I found it on the Blog of Bile. Kudos to the Blog of Bile. Check it out!
It occurs to me that I toss around the term 'Bonehead' and assume you know what I'm talking about. Well here is a definition.

Judge Andrew Napolitano - Constitutional Limits?

How did this get on the Main Stream Media (MSM)?

I love Barbara West!

You have to love this. Real questions and a blow hard's bogus answers.

If you have the time, here's an audio podcast that is very good too.

Presidential Debate Protesting Iraq War Veteran Trampled By Police on Horseback - 1 Veteran Trampled, 15 Arrested

Nader /Baldwin Debate on CSPAN

If you missed this, here's your chance. I'm voting for Baldwin.

The Secret Government

John Stossel's Politically incorrect guide to politics

Part 2,Part 3,Part 4,Part 5,Part 6

You Can't Save Free Markets by Socialism!

Senate to Revive Bailout Bill Tonight?

By tmartin • October 1, 2008

As predicted earlier this week, the failed bankers and their government enablers won’t take “no” for an answer. Even though the Bailout Bill was soundly defeated by the House on Monday, the Senate still plans to vote on the bill tonight.

How is this even possible?

In circumvention of normal procedures, the Senate merged the Bailout Bill with another bill that deals with completely unrelated matters: renewable energy tax incentives and a mental health parity provision for health insurance companies (!). If the new hodgepodge version is approved by the Senate, the bill would then be sent back to the House for a final vote.

According to the Campaign for Liberty, the following Senators are considered key votes. Please take a moment to call these Senators and urge them to cast their vote against the Bailout Bill. And please, call your two U.S. Senators and urge them to vote “no” as well.

Elizabeth Dole (NC)
* D.C.: Phone: (202) 224-6342 Fax: (202) 224-1100
* Raleigh: Phone: (919) 856-4630 Fax: (919) 856-4053

Norm Coleman (MN)
* D.C.: Phone: (202) 224-5641 Fax: (202) 224-1152
* St. Paul: Phone: (651) 645-0323 Fax: (651) 645-3110

Roger Wicker (MS)
* D.C.: Phone: (202) 224-6253 Fax: (202) 228-0378
* Jackson: Phone: (601) 965-4644 Fax: (601) 965-4007

Gordon Smith (OR)
* D.C.: Phone: (202) 224-3753 Fax: (202) 228-3997
* Portland: Phone: (503) 326-3386 Fax: (503) 326-2900

Lyndsey Graham (SC)
* D.C.: Phone: (202) 224-5972 Fax: (202) 224-3808
* Greenville: Phone: (864) 250-1417 Fax: (864) 250-4322

Ted Stevens (AK)
* D.C.: Phone: (202) 224-3004 Fax: (202) 224-2354
* Anchorage: Phone: (907) 271-5915 Fax: (907) 258-9305

Listen to one of those who voted "NO!"

Thank you very much!

Who voted yes, and who voted NO.

This NYTimes map presents a good breakdown of the Republican (red) and Democrat (blue) votes against the bailout (sellout) bill. The representatives that voted for the bill are represented in gray.
To see more detail click here.

I urge you to actively campaign against those who voted for the sellout bill in the coming election.

But check this out! The FED is going to bail them out anyway.

Sept. 29 (Bloomberg) -- The Federal Reserve will pump an additional $630 billion into the global financial system, flooding banks with cash to alleviate the worst banking crisis since the Great Depression.

The Fed increased its existing currency swaps with foreign central banks by $330 billion to $620 billion to make more dollars available worldwide. The Term Auction Facility, the Fed's emergency loan program, will expand by $300 billion to $450 billion. The European Central Bank, the Bank of England and the Bank of Japan are among the participating authorities.

The Fed's expansion of liquidity, the biggest since credit markets seized up last year, came hours before the U.S. House of Representatives rejected a $700 billion bailout for the financial industry. The crisis is reverberating through the global economy, causing stocks to plunge and forcing European governments to rescue four banks over the past two days alone.

Get ready for hyperinflation.

Show us the tax money

A message from Carla Howell, The Committee for Small Government chair, on opening up the state budget books in Massachusetts:

This strikes me as a great idea for Washington.

No more help, please

By Stephen Fairfax
While the Billionaire Bailout was narrowly defeated Monday, its certain there will be more attempts to saddle all Americans with the bad debts of people who paid themselves $40 billion annually in dividends, plus massive bonuses, stock options (now worthless) and huge salaries.

As small business owners, my wife and I are fascinated by the concern shown by our political leaders for us and our colleagues. The dire warnings of the past few days frequently include phrases like "small business owners need credit to grow their business, send their kids to college, and save for their retirement." How one saves for retirement by borrowing is never explained. Others claim that small businesses will not be able to pay their employees if they don’t have access to easy credit.

Nearly all of these pronouncements come from people who know little or nothing about running a small business. Few Washington politicians have earned a single free-market dollar in honest commerce, and if they did it was generally long ago. Self-appointed "business leaders" are in fact little more than well-paid lobbyists for very large businesses that use government regulations and laws to place small business owners at a disadvantage. They do not speak for us or any small business owner we know.

There's more, and it's well worth the reading. Read the rest.

Paul Aldrich - Political Medley

Comedian Paul Aldrich performing his brilliant political parody medley, in concert

Our new dollar

Let's hear it for the great sell out (I mean bail out)

Ron Paul w/Cavuto on the Bail out

"McCain? Obama? These are my choices?"

Watched the "Debate" tonight. What a disappointment. Let's look for other choices.

Elitist?

At the risk of repeating myself, Please don't waste your vote on either the D or the R candidate. Neither one will respect their oath of office. Both are significantly flawed to serve as President.

Just say "NO"

We are told that the federal government needs to step into the market place and stem the financial crisis. Please stop and consider that the same powerful people who created this situation now want more power to save themselves from it. They want to take taxpayer dollars to pick up the bill for foolish lending, and irresponsible policies.

These are the same friendly folks that gave us the so called "Patriot Act". The same fine folks that have for the last eight years spent carelessly. Doubled our national debt, debased our currency, squandered our national credit.

This current crisis did not come quickly nor should it have been a surprise. Yet they tell us they need power to fix it and fix it now. I say, "nonsense". Let the market work. Of course it will be painful. We have our leaders to thank for it.

Ron Paul Anounces

With Ralph Nader and Wolf Blitzed

Lew Rockwell interview with Bill Moyers

If you find this interesting, watch part 2. Watch Part 3

If you enjoy Lew Rockwell here is his web site www.lewrockwell.com
You might also enjoy the Ludwig von Mises site /www.mises.org

Election 2008 - Who to vote for??

Let's see; there's Obama; NO!, then there's McCain; NO! Most of America stops thinking right about here. But there are other choices. If you are searching for someone worthy of your endorsement, here are a couple you probably don't know much about. Chuck Baldwin is a man of principle. Maybe him...

Then there's Bob Barr.


Please, do us all a favor. Before you throw away your precious vote on some bonehead that doesn't represent you, break out of the herd and think for yourself. Stop listening the the mainstream propaganda mill and get some information.

Take a look at what the Libertarians stand for. www.lp.org.
Read what the Constitution party is all about www.constitutionparty.com.

While you're at it, take the World's Smallest Political Quiz to see who agrees with you.

Ron Paul - Rally for the Republic

Here is some of what you didn't see on Faux Snooze or CNN or MSNBC (or anywhere else in the "Mainstream media"). Watch Part 2 -- Watch Part 3 The full speech is available on C-Span. Here is a link to Tucker Carlson's speech. Followed by Lew Rockwell and Lew Rockwell part 2. You might want to also take a look at Rally for the Republic website.

Jesse Ventura at Rally for the Republic

If you like part 1, Watch Part 2 and Watch Part 3

Why school choice could never work

The Plan of Salvation

U.S. congressman opposes House resolution on China

2008-08-04 06:22:22
WASHINGTON, Aug. 3 (Xinhua) -- U.S. Republican congressman Ron Paul of Texas described the recent resolution by the House of Representatives on China's human rights situation as "ill-conceived" and "hypocritical" and he urged the U.S. legislature to deal with human rights abuses in U.S. or those created abroad by U.S. foreign policies.

"I rise in opposition to this resolution, which is yet another meaningless but provocative condemnation of China. It is this kind of jingoism that has led to such a low opinion of the United States abroad," Paul, who had run for U.S. president as a Republican candidate earlier, said in a statement posted on the official website of the House.

"We are not debating a bill to close Guantanamo, where abuses have been documented. We are not debating a bill to withdraw from Iraq, where scores of innocents have been killed, injured, and abused due to our unprovoked attack on that country. We are not debating a bill to reverse the odious FISA bill passed recently which will result in extreme abuses of Americans by gutting the Fourth Amendment," he said in the statement made before the House voted to adopt the anti-China resolution on July 30.

"Instead of addressing these and scores of other pressing issues over which we do have authority, we prefer to spend our time criticizing a foreign government over which we have no authority and foreign domestic problems about which we have very little accurate information," the congressman added.

Paul described it as "ironic" that the resolution calls on the Chinese government to begin negotiations, without preconditions, directly with the Dalai Lama or his representatives.

"For years U.S. policy has been that no meeting or negotiation could take place with Iran until certain preconditions are met by Iran. Among these is a demand that Iran cease uranium enrichment, which Iran has the right to do under the terms of the Non-Proliferation Treaty. It is little wonder why some claim that resolutions like this are hypocritical," he said.

"Instead of lecturing China, where I have no doubt there are problems as there are everywhere, I would suggest that we turn our attention to the very real threats in the United States where our civil liberties and human rights are being eroded on a steady basis," Paul said.

"The Bible cautions against pointing out the speck in a neighbor's eye while ignoring the log in one's own. I suggest we contemplate this sound advice before bringing up such ill-conceived resolutions in the future," he said.

In response to the U.S. Congress' adoption of the resolution on China's human rights situation, a spokesman for the Beijing Olympic Games said last Thursday that the resolution was an attempt to politicize the Games.

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao also rejected the resolution as an abominable conduct by a handful of anti-China lawmakers.

"Such a deed itself is blasphemy to the Olympic spirit, and is against the common wishes of people all around the world, including people of the United States," Liu said.

U.S. President George W. Bush had announced that he would travel to Beijing next week to attend the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games.

He Touched Me

Baseless searches - Yup that's Okay

The Washington Post Published: August 1st, 2008 01:00 AM
WASHINGTON – Federal agents may take a traveler’s laptop or other electronic device to an off-site location for an unspecified period of time without any suspicion of wrongdoing, as part of border search policies the Department of Homeland Security recently disclosed.
Officials may share copies of the laptop’s contents with other agencies and private entities for language translation or other reasons, according to the policies, dated July 16 and issued by two Homeland Security agencies, U.S. Customs and Border Protection and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

“The policies … are truly alarming,” said Sen. Russell Feingold, D-Wis., who is probing the government’s border search practices. He said he intends to introduce legislation soon that would require reasonable suspicion for border searches, as well as prohibit profiling on race, religion or national origin.

Officials said that the newly disclosed policies – which apply to anyone entering the country, including U.S. citizens – are reasonable and necessary to prevent terrorism. Officials said such practices have long been in place but were disclosed last month because of public interest.

Civil liberties and business travel groups have pressed the government to disclose its procedures as an increasing number of international travelers have reported that their laptops, cell phones and other digital devices have been taken and their contents examined.

The policies state that officers can “review and analyze information” in the traveler’s laptop “absent individualized suspicion,” and that the laptops and other devices are to be returned “in a reasonable period of time.”

The policies cover “any device capable of storing information in digital or analog form,” including hard drives, flash drives, cell phones, iPods, pagers, beepers, and video and audio tapes. They also cover “all papers and other written documentation,” including books and pamphlets.

Reasonable measures must be taken to protect business information and attorney-client privileged material, the policies say, but there is no specific mention of the handling of personal data such as medical and financial records.

When a review is completed and no probable cause exists to keep the information, any copies of the data must be destroyed. But the documents specify that there is no limitation on authorities keeping written notes about the materials.

“They’re saying they can rifle through all the information in a traveler’s laptop without having a smidgen of evidence that the traveler is breaking the law,” said Greg Nojeim, senior counsel at the Center for Democracy and Technology. Notably, he said, the policies “don’t establish any criteria for whose computer can be searched.”

Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff wrote in an opinion piece published last month in USA Today that “the most dangerous contraband is often contained in laptop computers or other electronic devices.” Searches have uncovered “violent jihadist materials” as well as images of child pornography, he wrote.

In April, the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in San Francisco upheld the government’s power to conduct searches of an international traveler’s laptop without suspicion of wrongdoing.

Opinion: Is anyone paying attention? Read the 4th amendment!!

I should be so creative

MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.

Performance Audits in Washington State

What's wrong with WEA running our schools?

EFF Update - May 6, 2008 - SPECIAL REPORT
A special report with Lynn Harsh on the WEA and the loss to the education system in Washington State.
EFF update June 9, 2008

Property Tax Rally - Freedom Matters

The History of WA Ferries

July 4th

Thank you Evergreen Freedom Foundation for the good work you do.

Bob Barr on Faux Snooze Sunday

Faux Snooze - Put on a happy face

Isn't this the way it always goes? If you don't like what someone says, label them as a kook, a conspiracy nut, whatever. Watch the way they dis Peter Schiff. Then brush him off as a quack.

Is Big Brother watching you?

The technological enslavement grid is getting increasingly more insane and most people don’t even care. Apparently most people and Americans especially like being slaves just as long as they are told that they are free.

The U.S. Senate is set to pass a bank bailout bill that will include a provision in the legislation that will require almost all online financial transactions to be reported to the Internal Revenue Service(IRS).

Read the entire article in Here

Goodbye FISA, Hello Police State

Mark Klein, the retired AT&T engineer who stepped forward with the technical documents at the heart of the anti-wiretapping case against AT&T, is furious at the Senate's vote on Wednesday night to hold a vote on a bill intended to put an end to that lawsuit and more than 30 others.

[Wednesday]'s vote by Congress effectively gives retroactive immunity to the telecom companies and endorses an all-powerful president. It’s a Congressional coup against the Constitution.

The Democratic leadership is touting the deal as a "compromise," but in fact they have endorsed the infamous Nuremberg defense: "Just following orders." The judge can only check their paperwork. This cynical deal is a Democratic exercise in deceit and cowardice.


I encourage you to read the entire article in Wired. Then call your Senators and tell them to vote against the bill. The Senate is set to vote on July 8th on the FISA Amendments Act of 2008, which also largely legalizes Bush's warrantless wiretapping program by expanding how the government can wiretap from inside the United States without getting individualized court orders.
Related article about Tecksploitation here

Don't listen to Bernanke - Buy Gold

These two videos of Marc Faber are very illuminating.
Video #1 - Video #2
Related reading
Americans' loss of confidence: Worse even than it looks

Talk of more war

The D's and the R's are beating the drum for more war; this time in Iran. Dr. Paul spoke on the floor of the house. Please give a listen and then contact your representative. Let them know that we don't want another war!
There is already a lot of support in the house. What a shame that Dr. Paul was speaking to an empty chamber. Please, don't keep silent!

Bob Barr - A Real choice

When does life begin Mr. Obama?

Boyd Powers - Save the planet?

Couldn't believe my eyes, but here it is. Boyd Powers could be our next president.

Ron Paul Denounces The New FISA Bill

Ron Paul gave a regretful statement on the House floor regarding the recently passed warrant-less wiretapping, telecom immunity FISA bill. He was regretful that he wasn’t there to vote “No”.

Mr. Speaker, I regret that due to the unexpected last-minute appearance of this measure on the legislative calendar this week, a prior commitment has prevented me from voting on the FISA amendments. I have strongly opposed every previous FISA overhaul attempt and I certainly would have voted against this one as well.

The main reason I oppose this latest version is that it still clearly violates the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution by allowing the federal government to engage in the bulk collection of American citizens’ communications without a search warrant. That US citizens can have their private communication intercepted by the government without a search warrant is anti-American, deeply disturbing, and completely unacceptable.
Read Dr. Paul's entire statement on FISA here

Source: Liberty Maven

A Video Portrait Of Barack Hussein Obama

This video runs a 13 minutes and makes several good reasons for not supporting Obama for president. What is truly frustrating is that the Republican candidate is equally flawed.

Howard Zinn’s “What the Classroom didn’t Teach Me About the American Empire”

This short video is somewhat depressing, but worth watching. I don't subscribe to all of Mr. Zinn's ideas, but to deny American Imperialism is intellectually dishonest(In my humble opinion).

Al Gore and the Constitution

Endorsing Barack Obama, Al Gore proclaims:

After eight years in which our constitution has been dishonored and disrespected, we need change.

He has a point. But he should have said sixteen years.

Source: Cato@Liberty

Suicidal Spending

This presentation does an excellent job of explaining the fiscal problems facing our country. Watch the presentation While you're there be sure to check out the rest of the information and charts.

Good news sparks more fear mongering

On Thursday, June 12, the United States Supreme Court issued a ruling restoring the writ of habeas corpus. Those being held as suspected terrorists should now be able to challenge their detentions in a court of law, as our Constitution requires.

This is good news! The Judicial Branch has moved to block the overreaching power of the Executive Branch. This means America's system of "checks and balances" still has some life! But more must be done to restore and preserve the rule of law. We must . . .
* Continue to use our right to "petition Congress for a redress of grievances"
* Compel the Legislative Branch to deny the Executive Branch the power to spy on Americans without a warrant
* Ensure that both the Executive and Judicial branches execute the laws of the land

This means . . .
* The lawsuits against the telecom companies that aided the President's warrantless spying must have their day in court -- no immunity for the telecoms!

* Congress must block the President's relentless drive for "legalized" warrantless spying powers -- the existing Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) must NOT be replaced.

To accomplish these goals we must overcome the fear-mongering propaganda of those who favor unchecked presidential power.

* On last Friday's Bill O'Reilly show Laura Ingraham claimed that the habeas decision would result in the release of vast numbers of terrorists

* The Bush administration is claiming that a failure to replace FISA will cause existing surveillance on terrorists to end when old warrants lapse in August.

Both of these claims are dishonest. Here's the truth . . .

* The right of habeas corpus is the right to challenge a detention in court, not a guarantee that anyone accused of terrorist actions will actually be released -- no one will be released if the government has solid legal grounds for detaining them.

* Back in February, before the Protect America Act expired, the Executive Branch had the power to renew surveillance warrants for 12 months. If any surveillance actually lapses in August (and we have no way of knowing if that's true), it will be because the Bush administration failed to renew their so-called warrants for 12 months -- perhaps so that they could make this a campaign issue.

We must continue to resist this kind of fear mongering, and give Congress the courage to do the same. We must maintain our drumbeat of opposition to replacing FISA with so-called compromise legislation that grants telecom immunity and legalizes warrantless spying.

"The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose." Frederick Douglas

Don't Talk to the Police

Excellent talk about the 5th amendment protection from self incrimination. Runs about 30 minutes, but worth the time.

The other side of the story

Barna article foretells 2008 election

This analysis is (in my humble opinion) spot on. I encourage your reading it by clicking this link, but here is a one sentence summary. McCain has a good ole fashion ass whoop'n in his future.

Too bad there is no satisfaction in saying "I told you so". Sadly the R's are behaving like lemmings with blinders on. I think I'll vote Libertarian this time.

Police to Seal Off D.C. Neighborhoods

Can you say Police State? The Examiner has the scoop on a controversial new program announced today that would create so-called "Neighborhood Safety Zones" which would serve to partially seal off certain parts of the city. D.C. Police would set-up checkpoints in targeted areas, demand to see ID and refuse admittance to people who don't live there, work there or have a “legitimate reason” to be there. Wow. Just, wow.

Some of the words used to describe such a plan by those quoted in the Examiner story include "breathtaking" and "cockamamie," but that hardly begins to scratch the surface. Interim Attorney General Peter Nickles actually said that measures of this sort have "been used in other cities.” Which cities are those, Mr. Nickles? Warsaw?

Today's proposal appears to be a desperate attempt by the city to tamp down recent violence that has ravaged the city, especially in Ward 5. The "Neighborhood Safety Zones" would last up to 10 days. It's a struggle to think of words to describe such a plan other than authoritarian or ghettoization.

In the words of Michael Cannon
If the DC gun ban works so well
. . . then why do we see stories like this? And this?

A Police State Takes Hold in Venezuela

Many people expected that after his painful electoral defeat in the constitutional referendum last year, Hugo Chávez was going to stop his systematic assault against democracy and civil liberties in Venezuela.

Last week, he decreed a new intelligence law (no need for a National Assembly here) that basically turns Venezuela into a police state. The new law requires that people:

“… comply with requests to assist the agencies, secret police or community activist groups loyal to Mr. Chávez. Refusal can result in prison terms of two to four years for most people and four to six years for government employees.”

The law also stipulates that the police agencies can conduct surveillance activities on the population, like wiretapping, without a warrant. Furthermore, the authorities can deny access to evidence to defendant lawyers under the grounds of “national security.”

It’s interesting how people sympathetic to Chávez around the world, but particularly in Latin America, call anyone who criticizes their beloved leader a “fascist.” They fail to recognize that many of his policies, especially laws like this one, have fascism written all over them.

Source: Cato@Liberty
Opinion: Sleep well America! We have the "Patriot Act".
Feel better now?

4th Amendment is Dead in Indiana

This is what we have come to with petty bureaucrats' blatant abuse of power and complicity by the police. They appear to be clueless of the constitution.

Food for thought about money

EXCERPT FROM THE US CONSTITUTION, Article I, section 10: No State shall ... coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts....

FROM THE US TREASURY WEBSITE: "Federal Reserve notes are not redeemable in gold, silver or any other commodity, and receive no backing by anything. The notes have no value for themselves, but for what they will buy."

A LESSON FROM HISTORY BOOKS: The past 300 years have proven that ALL fiat money experiments ended in complete devaluation. From Rome to Britain: every empire vanished into oblivion soon after it went off the gold standard. It is time to recognize the obvious: Unbacked money has never worked.

Source: The Prudent Investor

Texas Supreme Court: Return the Children

Source: Cato@Liberty
Yesterday, the Supreme Court of Texas ruled that Child Protective Services (CPS) abused its discretion by seizing 468 children from the Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints ranch in Eldorado. Eugene Volokh has a roundup of the legal analysis.

I wrote about this case a few days ago at NRO, but space limitations kept me from going into more detail about how the women and children were treated while in state custody. For those who have not followed this matter closely, the children were seized by CPS but the mothers were ”permitted” to remain with their children on the condition that they comply with all CPS rules and commands.

CPS invited some mental health workers to the various shelters to help care for the hundreds of children. The mental health workers were disturbed by what they saw of CPS’s treatment of the women and children, and their written reports corroborate the bitter complaints of the FLDS mothers. I don’t think the news media has given this aspect of the story the attention it deserves — so here are some excerpts from the various reports that have been made public:

* “Women were constantly lied to about where their children [were] and when they could see their lawyers and about when they would be reunited with their children.”

* “Constant reminders that the adult women were only guests and that they were not in charge of the children and what CPS did to them. [The children] belonged to CPS now and they could talk, interrogate, separate and treat them any way [CPS] wanted. This included physical exams and x-rays without [parental] supervision.”

* “I sat with Audrey while three of her children were removed for six hours of questioning.”

* “The children arrived healthy and happy and left sick and crying.”

* “The door to the room was almost constantly open. Even when the women closed the door to reduce noise during naptime or to dress themselves or the children, it was almost immediately opened again [by a CPS worker].”

* “The women were lied to and denied access to their attorneys.”

* “At least 5 mothers reported that at night CPS [workers] circled their beds, held flashlight in their faces & then would sit inches away from them as they tried to sleep. Mothers reported that they were scared CPS would take their children during the night.”

* “The CPS workers were openly rude to the mothers and the children, yelled at them for trying to wave to friends and family members in surrounding shelters, threatened them with arrest if they did not stop waving to others, continually reminded them that the women were guests only and could be made to leave if they did not cooperate, threatened the mothers with never seeing their children again if they did not cooperate, and ignored requests for anything.”

* “The children were amazingly clean, happy, healthy, energetic, inquisitive, well behaved, and self-confident; while the mothers were consistently calm, patient, and loving with their children.”

* “Living conditions in the coliseum were not conducive to good health for anyone, and the presence of hostile CPS workers who spied on them constantly, kept them awake at night by shining lights in their faces and talking and laughing created enormous stress for the mothers and children. None of them slept well or enough.”

* “Try to imagine all these children from age 1 to 12 years, left in that coliseum [separated from their mothers] with only CPS and [police officers] to care for them. The only others were mothers whom CPS decided were under 18 and kept in their custody along with their children. The floor was literally slick with tears in places. A baby was left in a stroller without food and water for 24 hours and ended up in the hospital. A 4 year old boy was so terrified that he snuck away and hid and was only found after the coliseum had been emptied the next day.”

* “I witnessed a young mother named Rosinith be required by CPS to board the bus back to the ranch, though her young child was in the hospital with 104 degree fever and even though the child’s physician had personally requested the mother’s presence at the hospital. This event haunts me still, and I cannot imagine such a heartless act.”

* “By the second day, I was ready to run in front of the CNN cameras to shout that there was a travesty happening inside those walls…. Of course I was cautioned not to interfere in a ‘crime scene investigation.’”

* “I have always been proud to be an American and a Texan but this incident is not what America or Texas stands for and something must be done to undo the horrible injustice that has been done.”

Government thug attacks news cameraman

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The Ron Paul Reagan and Goldwater Platform Video

Memorial Day 2008 - A Tribute

Main Stream Media - The big lie machine

In this video, Jerry Day, a TV producer in Burbank, CA exposes the stunning disconnect between the major media version of the U.S. Presidential election coverage and candidate popularity trends on the internet.

See for yourself who the real frontrunner is when you ask the American people.

Yes. Surprising as it may seem, Ron Paul is actually still in the race! Although you wouldn’t know it based on major media coverage, which has gone so far as to exclude him completely, making it appear as though McCain is the sole Republican in the running.

More so than any other presidential candidate, Ron Paul is trying to improve the fatally flawed health paradigm in time to benefit you and your children.

If you agree with Ron Paul's message of freedom and liberty then JOIN THE CAUSE and SPREAD the word! Tell ALL your friends and relatives, and remind them that Ron Paul is still in the running.

If only a small fraction of you can spread this message in YOUR networks, your communities, and at work, just imagine what we can do.

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They stressed safety constantly. The instructors were experts in their field and treated us with great patience and kindness.
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Why the U.S. Has Gone Broke

Source: Global Research - Chalmers Johnson

The military adventurers in the Bush administration have much in common with the corporate leaders of the defunct energy company Enron. Both groups thought that they were the "smartest guys in the room" -- the title of Alex Gibney's prize-winning film on what went wrong at Enron. The neoconservatives in the White House and the Pentagon outsmarted themselves. They failed even to address the problem of how to finance their schemes of imperialist wars and global domination.

As a result, going into 2008, the United States finds itself in the anomalous position of being unable to pay for its own elevated living standards or its wasteful, overly large military establishment. Its government no longer even attempts to reduce the ruinous expenses of maintaining huge standing armies, replacing the equipment that seven years of wars have destroyed or worn out, or preparing for a war in outer space against unknown adversaries. Instead, the Bush administration puts off these costs for future generations to pay or repudiate. This fiscal irresponsibility has been disguised through many manipulative financial schemes (causing poorer countries to lend us unprecedented sums of money), but the time of reckoning is fast approaching.

There are three broad aspects to the U.S. debt crisis. First, in the current fiscal year (2008) we are spending insane amounts of money on "defense" projects that bear no relation to the national security of the U.S. We are also keeping the income tax burdens on the richest segment of the population at strikingly low levels.

Second, we continue to believe that we can compensate for the accelerating erosion of our base and our loss of jobs to foreign countries through massive military expenditures -- "military Keynesianism" (which I discuss in detail in my book Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic). By that, I mean the mistaken belief that public policies focused on frequent wars, huge expenditures on weapons and munitions, and large standing armies can indefinitely sustain a wealthy capitalist economy. The opposite is actually true.

Third, in our devotion to militarism (despite our limited resources), we are failing to invest in our social infrastructure and other requirements for the long-term health of the U.S. These are what economists call opportunity costs, things not done because we spent our money on something else. Our public education system has deteriorated alarmingly. We have failed to provide health care to all our citizens and neglected our responsibilities as the world's number one polluter. Most important, we have lost our competitiveness as a manufacturer for civilian needs, an infinitely more efficient use of scarce resources than arms manufacturing.  Continue Reading

Jesse Ventura - True Patriot

Ron Paul - 20/20 interview Banned ABC interview

We the people

Men in Black

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. — Springfield's men in black are returning.

The city's new police commissioner, William Fitchet, says members of the department's Street Crime Unit will again don black, military-style uniforms as part of his strategy to deal with youth violence.

Fitchet's predecessor, Edward Flynn, had ditched the black attire as part of an effort to soften the image of the unit. Flynn left Springfield in January to become the police chief in Milwaukee.

Sgt. John Delaney told a city council hearing Wednesday that the stark uniforms send a message to criminals that officers are serious about making arrests.

Delaney said a sense of "fear" has been missing for the past few years.    Source: Fox News

My opinion:
They may be onto something here. New York city is doing something similar.
Watch the video

Now where is it in the constitution... that part about ruling by fear and intimidation?

Hmmm, Oh I know where I saw that. They also wore these cool little insignias to let you know that they meant business. This one is kinda scarey.   How bout this?

Harry Reid says taxes are voluntary

I think this video demonstrates at least two things.
1. Anyone could be a senator.
2. Harry Reid is an idiot or a liar; most likely both.

Wholesale Prices Soar in March, Up 1.1 %

WASHINGTON -- Inflation at the wholesale level soared in March at nearly triple the rate that had been expected as the costs of energy and food both climbed rapidly.

The Labor Department reported Tuesday that wholesale prices rose by 1.1 percent last month, the second largest increase in the past 33 years, exceeded only by a 2.6 percent rise last November. Analysts had been expecting a much more moderate 0.4 percent rise in wholesale prices for the month.

Core inflation, which excludes energy and food, was better behaved last month, rising by just 0.2 percent, down from a worrisome 0.5 percent rise in February.

For the past 12 months, wholesale prices are up by 6.9 percent and core inflation is up by 2.7 percent, the biggest year-over-year increase in nearly two years.

The inflation pressures are occurring at a time when the overall economy is slowing and many analysts believe may have toppled into a recession. That raises concerns that the country could be facing another bout of stagflation, the malady that last occurred in the 1970s when economic growth stagnated but inflation kept rising.

Such a development would put the Federal Reserve in a bind. The central bank has been cutting interest rates in an effort to combat the current slowdown. However, if inflation pressures keep rising, it might be forced to stop cutting interest rates for fear that it would make inflation worse.

For March, energy prices jumped 2.9 percent, the biggest increase since November. The price of gasoline was up 1.3 percent while natural gas rose by 4.2 percent. Home heating oil shot up by 13.1 percent and diesel fuel, used to power the nation's trucking fleet, increased by 15.3 percent.

Analysts believe the economy will be hit with more energy pressures in coming months, reflecting the fact that crude oil costs are remaining at record levels above $111 per barrel.

Food costs rose by 1.2 percent in March, reflecting big increases in the price of vegetables, rice, and beef.

Outside of food and energy, the price of soap and detergents jumped 2 percent, the biggest gain in more than two years, while pet food increased by 1.3 percent.

However, the price of new cars dropped by 0.2 percent and the cost of light trucks was down 0.3 percent, indicating the struggles that automakers face as a weak economy dampens demand.

The government will report on consumer prices on Wednesday with the expectation that they rose by 0.3 percent in March.

Source: MoneyNews - Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Statewide Voter Database

We were informed by the Secretary of State this last Saturday that since the election in 2004 they have removed over 400,000 dead people and felons. Yike! There is a new voter database administered by the Secretary of State. He also reported that the only county that was dragging its feet on this was (you guessed it); King county. I find this news a hopeful sign.
The news is especially poignant when one recalls that the last governors race was decided by 129 votes. Let's elect Dino Rossi to another term!

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Ben Stein's new movie - "Expelled : No Intelligence Allowed"

Ben Stein is taking up the defense of intelligent design. It will be opening April 18th only in theaters. I urge you to pass the word and support this film with your patronage.
Read more about it
View the movie trailer

Some sound doctrine

I listened to these and found them so interesting, I thought I'd share the links.
Roger Oakland
Emergent church part 1
Emergent church part 2
Emergent church part 3
Emergent church part 4
Emergent church part 5
Emergent church part 6
John MacArthur
The emergent church part 1
The emergent church part 2
How to test the spirits part 1
How to test the spirits part 2
How to test the spirits part 3
How to test the spirits part 4
How to test the spirits part 5
A call to discernment part 1
A Call to discernment part 2

False Teachers

"For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but {wanting} to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance to their own desires, and will turn away their ears from the truth and will turn aside to myths." 2Timothy 4:3,4 Also read 2 Peter 2.

The unbiblical musings of Paula White and friends


I found these on The Independent Conservative

Onward the Revolution!

by Pat Buchanan

Having cheerfully confessed he knows little about economics, John McCain is advancing himself as a foreign-policy president, a "realistic idealist," he told the World Affairs Council of Los Angeles.

But judging from the content of his speech, McCain is no more a realist than he is a reflective man.

Speaking of our five-year war in Iraq, McCain declares, "It would be an unconscionable act of betrayal, a stain on our character as a nation, if we were to walk away from the Iraqi people and consign them to the horrendous violence, ethnic cleansing, and possible genocide that would follow a reckless, irresponsible and premature withdrawal."

Fair point. There is surely a great risk in a too-rapid withdrawal.

But if a U.S. withdrawal, after 4,000 dead and 33,000 wounded, and a trillion dollars sunk, runs the risk of a genocidal calamity, what does that tell us about the wisdom of those who marched us into this war?

What threat did Saddam ever pose comparable to the cataclysm McCain says we face if we pull out? Who, Senator, put America on the horns of so horrible a dilemma?
Continue reading

Iraq ruling elite needs US troops to stay in power

"Samsonite Releases New Roller Wallet"

Source: The Onion

Celebrating the age of Bush

Marci Kaptur North American Union Cintra

One world government? Watch the video!

From Worship To War

Reverend Wright Sermon - In context
"We want revenge, we want payback and we don't care who gets hurt"

Iraqi police in Basra shed their uniforms, kept their rifles and switched sides

Abu Iman barely flinched when the Iraqi Government ordered his unit of special police to move against al-Mahdi Army fighters in Basra.

His response, while swift, was not what British and US military trainers who have spent the past five years schooling the Iraqi security forces would have hoped for. He and 15 of his comrades took off their uniforms, kept their government-issued rifles and went over to the other side without a second thought. Continue reading
Related story - Police refuse to support Iraqi PM's attacks on Mehdi Army

Supreme Court Ruling Rebukes the President

President Bush wanted Texas to adhere to a World Court ruling and the Texas courts resisted. After years of wrangling, the Supreme Court has just agreed with Texas.

I couldn't be happier. I'm so tired of this administration's abuse of power. Read all about it

Global Hawk Achives UAV Flight Record

March 28, 2008 Northrop Grumman Corporation's RQ-4 Global Hawk has successfully completed a flight lasting 33.1 hours at altitudes up to 60,000. While the milestone does not match the 54 hour flight achieved by QinetiQ’s Zephyr in 2007, it is a record for a full-scale, operational unmanned aircraft - and there was still fuel left in the tank.

The March 22 flight, which took place over Edwards Air Force Base, California, overtakes both the official and unofficial world un-refueled endurance records for operational unmanned airplanes.

"It was a picture perfect flight, landing flawlessly on centerline with enough fuel remaining to continue for two more hours," said Jerry Madigan, Northrop Grumman vice president of high-altitude long-endurance (HALE) systems. "The pilots and ground crew, as well as Edwards Air Force Base senior leadership were very impressed with the Global Hawk's performance, meeting or exceeding every flight objective."