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Do you remember the scene? The Senate. Barbara Boxer hearing from a Brigadier General? Silly General! He addresses Barbara as “Ma’m”, and she CORRECTS him, telling him she’s “worked SO hard to earn the title, “Senator”, so please to use that when speaking to her.

Letter sent to Sen. Barbara Boxer from an Alaskan Airlines pilot below. Many of us witnessed the arrogance of Barbara Boxer on June 18, 2009 as she admonished Brigadier General Michael Walsh because he addressed her as “ma’am” and not “Senator” before a Senate hearing.

This letter is from a National Guard aviator and Captain for Alaska Airlines named Jim Hill.

Babs:

You were so right on when you scolded the General on TV for using the term, “ma’am,” instead of “Senator”. After all, in the military, “ma’am” is a term of respect when addressing a female of superior rank or position. The General was totally wrong. You are not a person of superior rank or position. You are a member of one of the world’s most corrupt organizations, the U.S. Senate, equaled only by the U.S. House of Representatives.

Congress is a cesspool of liars, thieves, inside traders, traitors, drunks (one who killed a staffer, yet is still revered), criminals, and other low level swine who, as individuals (not all, but many), will do anything to enhance their lives, fortunes and power, all at the expense of the People of the United States and its Constitution, in order to be continually re-elected. Many Democrats even want American troops killed by releasing photographs. How many of you could honestly say, “We pledge our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor”? None? One? Two?

Your reaction to the General shows several things. First is your abysmal ignorance of all things military. Your treatment of the General shows you to be an elitist of the worst kind. When the General entered the military (as most of us who served) he wrote the government a blank check, offering his life to protect your corpulent derriere, now safely and comfortably ensconced in a 20 thousand dollar leather chair, paid for by the General ’s taxes. You repaid him for this by humiliating him in front of millions.

Second is your puerile character, lack of sophistication, and arrogance, which borders on the hubristic. This display of brattish behavior shows you to be a virago, termagant, harridan, nag, scold or shrew, unfit for your position, regardless of the support of the unwashed, uneducated masses who have madeCalifornia into the laughing stock of the nation.

What I am writing, are the same thoughts countless millions of Americans have toward Congress, but who lack the energy, ability or time to convey them. Regardless of their thoughts, most realize that politicians are pretty much the same, and will vote for the one who will bring home the most bacon, even if they do consider how corrupt that person is. Lord Acton (1834 – 1902) so aptly charged, “Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”

Unbeknownst to you and your colleagues, “Mr. Power” has had his way with all of you, and we are all the worse for it.

Finally, Senator, I, too, have a title. It is “Right Wing Extremist Potential Terrorist Threat.” It is not of my choosing, but was given to me by your Secretary of Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano, and you were offended by “ma’am”?

Have a fine day. Cheers!

Jim Hill
16808 – 103rd Avenue Court East
South Hill , WA 98374

If you care about the way our Country is heading, please circulate this to remind every voter that the “cesspools” MUST be pumped out when we go to the polls in November, 2010

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Barack Obama’s Katrina, Only Much, Much Worse!

The BP Gulf Oil Spill represents a stunning failure of government. Nay, that assessment is too kind. It is coming to be known as a truly defining moment in American history. A moment when it became apparent to all who have eyes to see, and ears to hear, that the current incarnation of US Federal Government has become obsolete. A day that a 220+ year old dinosaur fell down (on the job) and gave up its spirit to the ethers.

How, pray tell, could such a thing happen on the watch of a savior, a messiah of sorts, a modern-day Abraham Lincoln who would heal the country, as he helped heal the world
with the acceptance of the Nobel Peace Prize?! A Democratic President, no less, whose forbearers were most assuredly from the South, the regional economy soon to be devastated by this catastrophe. A man heralded by his supporters as the icon of change (CHANGE We can believe in) from all that DC and the US Federal Government have come to represent.

What in the world has happened here? As it continues to happen in this very moment throughout the entire Gulf of Mexico! The USA faces what is easily the greatest environmental disaster in the history of the Republic, and the US Federal Government is AWOL. An entire region of the country is under assault from an oncoming BLACK WAVE (See this awesome video-documentary of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill) that promises only to get worse ­ much worse, in fact and the Departments of Interior, Energy, Homeland Security, as well as our beloved EPA are permanently OUT TO LUNCH. The Coast Guard response headed by Admiral Thad Allen and Rear Admiral Mary Landry, after innumerable calls to many of their different offices around the nation, leads one to believe that there is simply nobody home.
NOBODY HOME

There’s an old saying, or rather document, which was written by one Thomas Jefferson that goes life this:

“When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.”

Sounds a little radical, I know, but the time has come for us to re-read this little screed. We can insinuate much from the aforementioned Declaration of Independence by pointing out the obvious as follows:
Government owes its existence to the people. Its primary purpose is to protect and safeguard the citizenry of the nation. It also exists to ensure the welfare of the populace, as well as to sustain an order in which all may flourish and pursue their goals. This social contract is very much a two-way street in which the governed promise to carry out their civic duties while the government fulfills the myriad responsibilities of statehood.

What are some of the basic obligations and functions, which all governments are held to and expected to perform, within this contract? They include a good faith commitment to: (i) protect the life, well-being and livelihood of each and every person, (ii) maintain a clean, healthy and safe environment in which to live, work and play and (iii) guarantee access to products and services which are safe, life-affirming and health promoting.

It is now clear that this sacred trust has been flagrantly violated in the most profound and fundamental ways by the US Federal Government. Therefore, WE THE PEOPLE, hand down the following “Citizen’s Indictment” in these United States of America against the current and previous two US Administrations. Since this is a multi-count indictment of tremendous breadth and depth, we have taken the liberty of outlining each count as succinctly as possible. As each investigator employs their own unique process of “discovery”, all are encouraged to flesh out the skeleton of this indictment to their complete satisfaction.

Given the enormous amount of information and data now available in the: (i) public record, (ii) governmental and private sectors, (iii) academic arena and (iv) internet base world wide web, there is a great abundance of factual evidence presented by highly authoritative sources concerning the following allegations. The only constraints in ferreting out all of the pertinent facts/details will be one’s own initiative and dedication to the truth. WE THE PEOPLE, hereby submit, with both great regret and undeterrable resolve, the following bill of indictment for immediate prosecution.

Before we continue with this citizens’ indictment, let’s re-focus on just what are we declaring, and more importantly, demanding in this Declaration of Freedom from an Incapacitated US Federal Government. The following document has been circulating on the internet since July 4 of this year. It will be formally presented to the appropriate government officials in the not too distant future. As follows:

A DECLARATION OF FREEDOM FROM AN INCAPACITATED UNITED STATES FEDERAL GOVERNMENT

We The People of these United States of America (USA) do solemnly take back our rights, liberties and powers, which are considered by all righteous governments to be inalienable, from an unlawful and tyrannical US Federal Government that has wrongfully and systematically encroached upon the inherent rights of its citizens.

We The People acknowledge the wrongful usurpation of powers, as well as jurisdictional and legal necessities originally possessed by the fifty Sovereign States of the USA. Through a longstanding pattern of legislation of unconstitutional law, these inherent powers have been unlawfully stripped from these Sovereign States. Each State is now fully empowered to retain their original sovereign status as established by the US Constitution.

We The People demand that the US Federal Government immediately cease and desist from legislating, executing and adjudicating all law which is not in strict compliance with natural law, common law and constitutional law. Furthermore, we demand an expeditious review of all US Federal Statutes in order to determine their fitness in this regard.

We The People demand that the US Federal Government immediately cease and desist from all illegal enforcement actions against its citizens, as well as citizens of other nations, which are in obvious contravention of international law, scriptural law, common law and US constitutional law. Toward this end, we demand the immediate closure of the extra-judicial detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, as well as the Bagram Internment Facility and all others that operate outside the rubric of both the US Criminal Law Code and Uniform Code of Military Justice.

We The People demand an immediate and permanent suspension of each and every law, statute and rule/regulation that is in violation of divinely ordained human rights, civil rights, and constitutional rights. Especially where these rights are violated in the course of the repugnant state-sponsored administration of torture by the US Federal Government and its proxies in “safe” national havens around the world, we demand immediate termination of such inhumane and totally unacceptable conduct.

We The People demand an immediate cessation to all war-making activity around the world to include the illegal and undeclared wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan. This demand also includes the many wars being waged by proxy through covert agencies (CIA), as well as by all corporate, mercenary entities such as Wackenhut and Xe Services (Blackwater). The US Government will immediately end the illegal and abhorrent practices of rendition, as well as the extrajudicial killing of foreign citizens by drones and any other means utilized in foreign lands.

We The People further demand that all economic and financial warfare being waged against the perceived enemies of the USA be permanently ended. The relentless manipulation of the financial/economic markets of the world, to include equity, bond, commodity, real estate, derivative and currency, must cease without exception.
Furthermore, the US Federal Reserve (privately owned, international crime syndicate) must be placed in a temporary receivorship, as its collection agency, the IRS, is dissolved and reconstituted as a lawful revenue-collecting entity in order to carry on the affairs of State.

We the People demand that the aerosol spraying of chemtrails in our skies, fluoridation of our water supplies, and the irradiation and chemical poisoning of our food be stopped. The EPA, FDA and NIH will be re-chartered, as will all other agencies and departments which have profoundly violated the public trust. The critical Departments of Homeland Security, Treasury, Energy and Interior will be subjected to an immediate review and reorganization in the interest that the People will be served first, not the corpocracy which has been unduly enriched for many decades.

We The People demand a planned and orderly dissolution of the current US Federal Government. It has become apparent to all citizens, that there has been a multi-decade and ongoing pattern of conduct throughout the executive, legislative and judicial branches of the US Government, which has been deemed to be in profound and fundamental violation of both the Public Trust and Social Contract.
Through this intractable behavior, the sacred and inviolable Governing Documents of this once great nation have been left in tatters. We aim to see them restored to their rightful place and, over time, greatly improved upon to reflect the evolving realities and emerging needs of a rapidly changing world.

We The People demand the planned election and appointment of a law-abiding transitional US government, which will assume the proper, timely and thorough administration of all duties and responsibilities starting with strict compliance with the US Constitution and the Bill of Rights. This transitional government shall override all powers and perceived rights of governance which have been unlawfully arrogated unto the US Corporation and executed through the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC).

Finally, We The People demand that a TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION COMMISSION be established in order for the suppressed truths regarding all matters of State that have taken place without the People’s knowledge and consent, and which have unduly put the American people at great risk and in substantial jeopardy, be given a full airing within the body politic.

We The People have spoken, and we expect a substantive response to these demands in the immediate future, whereupon the appropriate re-establishment of this Constitutional Republic may proceed forthwith. A national conference to discuss the RESTORE AMERICA PLAN will be convened as soon as possible.

May God Bless America.

Concerned Citizens of the Fifty Sovereign States

Declaration Issued on Independence Day, July 4, 2010

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Part 1: Accelerating costs of jackpot or anchor babies on American taxpayers

Every year, 400,000 pregnant women enter the United States illegally to birth their babies on American soil. Their children become instant citizens and their mothers become instant wards of the American taxpayer. They enjoy taxpayer paid deliveries in our hospitals, unlimited medical health, K-12 educations, ‘free’ breakfasts and lunches, ‘free’ English as a second language classes and assisted housing, food stamps and social security benefits.

In an excellent expose’ by Mark Cromer, www.capsweb.org, senior writing fellow, titled: “American Jackpot: Remaking America by Birthright Citizenship”
(http://tinyurl.com/ya29za3), he explains phenomenon occurring only in the United States. No other country in the world allows it.

Only one U.S. House congressman named Nathan Deal (R-GA) has entered a bill, HR 1968 to stop this abuse of the 14th Amendment, but his bill has languished in committee for over 10 years: another instance where you Congress sits on its thumbs while you pay and pay.

Unfortunately, this ‘jackpot baby’ syndrome has continued for over 30 years and will continue until someone in Congress stops it.

“Indeed, the United States today stands virtually alone among power-house industrial democracies in granting unequivocal birth citizenship,” said Cromer. “The notion of being an instant American if born on United States soil has been so romanticized at critical junctures in our evolving popular culture it is now seen by many as a fundamental characteristic of the American identity.

“So there’s no small amount of irony in the fact that the policy of granting birthright citizenship in America has become a core gravitational ‘pull factor’ that has resulted in the largest sustained wave of mass human migration ever witnessed in the history of the nation-state; a human tsunami that has played a critical role in the rapid erosion of the quality of life that so many immigrants seek on these shores. It also increasingly poses a non-consensual makeover of the culture that American citizens had neither voice nor vote in unleashing.”

Dr. John C. Eastman, Dean of Chapman University’s law school in Orange, California, is a leading scholar in the nation on constitutional law and has testified before Congress on the issue of birthright citizenship. Eastman states that the framers of the 14th Amendment had no intention of allowing another country to wage demographic warfare against the U.S. and reshaping its culture by means of exploiting birthright citizenship. Eastman said, “We have this common understanding of when you come here to visit, that you are subject to our jurisdiction. You have to obey our traffic laws.

If you come here from England, you have to drive on the right side of the road and not on the left side of the road. But the framers of the 14th Amendment had in mind two different notions of ‘subject to the jurisdiction.’ There was what they called territorial jurisdiction- you have to follow the laws in the place where you are-but there was also this more complete, or allegiance-owing jurisdiction that held that you not only have to follow the laws, but that you owe allegiance to the sovereign.”

MASSIVE FINANCIAL AND CITIZENSHIP FRAUD

Anchor babies, upon birth in a U.S. hospital cost from $6,000.00 to as much as a $500,000.00 per birth depending on complications such as Down’s Syndrome, Autism, heart birth defects, etc. They also cost an average of $9,644.00 each year for their education and thousands more for English classes and breakfast and lunch programs.

“Dr. Edward J. Erler, a political science professor at Cal State San Bernardino, has spoken out against the political malaise and the popular misconception that has blossomed around the continued awarding of citizenship to virtually anyone born in the country,” said Cromer. “Echoing the sentiments of Eastman, Erler points out that the framers of the 14th Amendment sought to reassure the Congress in 1868 that the citizenship provisions did not cover-nor were they crafted with the intent to grant-citizenship to the children of foreign nationals born in the United States.”

“It’s difficult to fathom how those who defy American law can derive benefits for their children by their defiance; or that any sovereign nation would allow such a thing,” Erler said. “That it has been allowed to happen on such a massive scale and has even been encouraged by various groups gets Terry Anderson’s blood boiling. A life-long black resident of South Los Angeles, Anderson has used his talk radio show to decry not only the radical and rapid transformation of traditional black neighborhoods in Los Angeles and the erosion of the black power structure in the face of explosive immigration, but to blast the government’s policy of granting birthright citizenship to illegal immigrants, children by their defiance; or that any sovereign nation would allow such a thing.”

Cromer said, “Ticking off a list of impacts that illegal immigration has brought down on the black working class community-from increased competition for jobs to overcrowded classrooms where black students suffer under a bilingual curriculum-Anderson says illegal immigrants brazenly celebrate “hitting the jackpot” when they have a baby in America.”

“It’s wrong, it’s a misinterpretation and it angers me because that was written for my ancestors,” Anderson says. “And now it is being misused. They took an amendment made for us and turned it around against us.”

As a teacher, I watched the destruction of American classrooms in Denver, LA, Chicago, Detroit, Dallas and Miami. With over 50 different languages in major city schools, millions of fatherless children and no appreciation for or understanding of American educational standards and culture, those anchor babies slowly and today more speedily transform America into another country inside our own country. By 2042, Mexicans and their offspring will become the dominant ethnic group in America according to a recent PEW report.

As we pour over 240,000 legal and illegal immigrants into our country every 30 days, and allow this Jackpot Baby or Anchor Baby phenomenon to continue, American communities, schools and cities cannot, and will not enjoy a happy ending as our civilization balkanizes against itself on multiple levels. If you don’t think it’s happening, take a three day visit to Detroit or Los Angeles. Everyone is from some other country, few speak English, half of them can’t write their name in English and all of them are legal Americans.

For further information, visit and join www.capsweb.org for a sobering reality check of what is happening to our country.

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By Toby Moreland

The Soviet Union was a front for the alliance between international bankers and the British Empire. Marxist-Leninist ideology is illegitimate to the core; it is a tool used in the process of “ideological subversion,” a method of weakening independent nations and ultimately turning them into socialist “democracies” under internationalist control.”

In a 1980’s interview with G. Edward Griffin, Yuri Bezmenov, KGB defector and expert in propaganda, said the subversion methods employed in the U.S. by the KGB were designed to “change the perception of reality of every American to such an extent that – despite the abundance of information – no one is able to come to sensible conclusions in the interest of defending themselves, their families, their community, and their country.”

This multi-stage process requires media complicity/mediocrity, control of educational policy, widespread corruption in politics and industry, and the unlimited money/credit of the international bankers who funded and controlled the USSR.

Scrupulous and influential opponents are discredited, threatened or murdered. It goes very slowly, and its purpose is to eventually bring the target nation to total collapse, when efficient shifts of power structure and economy can take place.

It is important to understand that the goal of ideological subversion is NOT to convert everyone to the left. Leftist ideology must only be presented as a legitimate alternative for the subversion to be successful. The Hegelian dialectic does the rest, and when the economic structure deteriorates within the target nation, the subverted population – divided, dumbed down, short-sighted and reactive – will beg for the expansion of government programs.

According to Bezmenov, the first stage of this process – demoralization – usually takes 15 to 20 years because this is the amount of time it takes to educate a single generation of students. In the United States, the super-patsy, this process has continued uninterrupted for at least 50 years. It has been applied in any area of society where public opinion is formulated.

Bezmenov said that about 80-85% of the KGB’s resources, money, and manpower went toward this subversion process. They recruited journalists, filmmakers, actors, musicians, activists, etc. He said many KGB agents were exchange students.

Here are a few examples of application from Bezmenov’s lecture in Los Angeles in 1983:

Religion – “Destroy it. Ridicule it. Replace it with various sex cults which bring people’s attention, faith – whether it is naive or primitive – it doesn’t really matter. As long as the basically accepted religious dogma is slowly eroded and people are divorced from the Supreme Being. Replace accepted, respected religious organizations with fake organizations. Distract people’s attention from the real faith, and attract them to various different faiths.” (without any unifying philosophy, important discussions are held exclusively in the realm of humanistic materialism, which clearly favors the central bankers and is always subject to change at their whim.)

Education – “Distract them from learning something which is constructive, pragmatic, efficient. Instead of mathematics, physics, foreign languages, chemistry…teach them history of urban warfare, natural foods, home economy, your sexuality…anything. As long as it takes you away…” (U.S. students rank near the bottom of developed nations in math and science testing, despite having spent more money per pupil than any other nation. See Charlotte Iserbyt’s The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America)

Social Life – “Replace traditionally established institutions and organizations with fake organizations. Take away the initiative from people. Take away the responsibility from naturally established links between individuals, groups of individuals, and society at large, and replace them with artificially, bureaucratically controlled bodies…the main concern of social workers is not your family, not you, not social relations between groups of people. The main concern is to get their paycheck from the government. What will be the result of their social work doesn’t really matter.” (i.e Replacing individual accountability with bureaucratic bodies that are not held accountable, …this is the Soviet council form of government.)

Media – “Who elected them? How come they have almost monopolistic power over your mind? They can rape your mind. But how come they have the nerve to decide what is good and what is bad for the ELECTED - by you – president and his administration. Who the hell are they? Spiro Agnew, who was hated by the liberal left, called them ‘a bunch of enfeebled snobs,’ and that’s exactly what they are. They think they know. They don’t.”

Feminism – “I don’t know how you feel about feminism. I don’t think that to be equal with men you have to politicize your movement. You cannot legislate equality; you have to BE equal. But that distracts your mind from real issues: family, loyalty, and moral foundations.”

In a nut shell, this process destroys, weakens, or simply replaces any existing organizations and institutions that work for the nation’s own interests. Sane individuals with a sense of history understand that people in power cannot be trusted, hence the checks, balances, limitations and unalienable individual rights provided by our Constitution. A belief in Marxist-Leninist ideology (state tyranny) requires a child-like hope for benevolent dictators that care about the interests of everyone. History shows that these are disposable mouthpieces of world government.

Co-founder of the World Federation for Mental Health and friend of UN Charter author and Soviet spy Alger Hiss, Dr. Brock Chisholm, nailed it when he said, “To achieve world government, it is necessary to remove from the minds of men their individualism, loyalty to family traditions, and religious dogmas…”

If We Had A Choice

Bezmenov concluded his lecture with a powerful message. The answer to subversion is “bringing society back to religion. Something that you cannot touch and eat and put on yourself. But something that rules society and makes it move, and preserves it.”

This all relates to a great lie about religion that has been carefully instilled in most: that some individuals need religion. They’ve got it backwards. Societies NEED religion more than individuals do. If there is not a single, unifying philosophy that all men are under together, then men (or perhaps the spirits they worship) will rule as they see fit. If this is true, and I believe it is, how could the Creator (if he exists) prove his existence and mankind’s purpose in a more effective way? History seems to prove we have a choice: be ruled by the laws of God, or subject to the claws of Man.

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All 21 reported cases of rape with aggravated assault — the highest number since records were started — in the Norwegian capital of Oslo last year were committed by “non-Western immigrants” and 90 percent of all rape victims were Norwegian women, police have announced.

Oslo police spokesman Hanne Kristine Rohde defied the strictures of political correctness to release the figures in an interview on the national Norwegian broadcaster, NRK. She said she was aware that the “statistics are controversial.”

When she was asked by NRK if the police were not “stigmatising an entire community” by releasing the statistics, Ms Rohde said she “wants to contribute to a better and safe world. That’s why the truth needs to be told. I hope the debate will focus on that,” she told NRK.

According to the police figures, the number of rapes with violent assault committed in Oslo also doubled compared to 2008. According to the police statement, “in each and every case, not only in 2008 and 2009 but also in 2007, the offender was a non-Western immigrant. At the same time, in 9 out of 10 cases, the victim was Norwegian, not just by nationality, but also by ethnicity.”

The NRK report concluded that “not a single one of the offenders had a Western background. Four people have been arrested. In all other cases, the victims reported that the offenders either looked like non-Western immigrants, or they spoke a non-Western language. Not a single case has been connected to a Western man.”

According to official figures released in 2008, Third World immigration accounted for 25 percent of Oslo’s population. Data from the city and state statistics bureau shows that of Oslo’s 560,484 residents, 137,878 were immigrants.

The largest single immigrant group continues to be from Pakistan. Next in line is Somalia. Other countries with relatively large immigrant groups in Oslo include Sri Lanka, Iraq, Turkey, Vietnam and Iran.

In addition, an ever growing group of Third World immigrants is dependent on welfare. A study by Tyra Ekhaugen of the Frisch Centre for Economic Research and the University of Oslo concluded that immigration has increased the pressure on the welfare state, because many immigrants do not join the tax-paying part of the population.

Third World immigrants are, the study showed, recipients of social security benefits at a rate ten times that of native Norwegians — destroying the liberal argument used by pro-immigration politicians in Norway that immigration was necessary to maintain the social welfare state.

More than half of all social security benefits in the city of Oslo are spent on non-Western immigrants. Immigrants from Africa have the highest unemployment rate, with official figures in 2005 showing a black unemployment rate of 17.5 percent.

Immigrants from Asia had an unemployment rate of 12.3 percent, while those from South and Central America had an unemployment rate of 10.1 percent. The average unemployment rate amongst native Norwegians was 2.4 percent.

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I was watching the Scott Brown acceptance speach, during the speach, Scott mentioned he had to beat the Mass. political machine, as a person who has run against the two party political machines, it is tough, so just what is the machine?

The poltical machine could be described as big brother on steroids, it all starts on the federal level with the head of each political party, the president on down to the precinct level, you have someone in charge on a national level who is in charge of state leaders of their party, who then is in charge of county leaders, who are in charge of city leaders, who are in charge of the small precincts, it is a top down organization, not what is sometimes referred to as a grassroots org.

When you think of it is sort like the hitler youth core for each party, they will do and say anything to discredit their opponents, the whisper campaigns, the fund raising, when you have a machine set up like they do, it is very tough to have an independent win against it.

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Google’s clash with China is about much more than the fate of a single, powerful firm. The company’s decision to pull out of China, unless the government there changes its policies on censorship, is a harbinger of increasingly stormy relations between the US and China.

The reason that the Google case is so significant is because it suggests that the assumptions on which US policy to China have been based since the Tiananmen massacre of 1989 could be plain wrong. The US has accepted – even welcomed – China’s emergence as a giant economic power because American policymakers convinced themselves that economic opening would lead to political liberalisation in China.

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If that assumption changes, American policy towards China could change with it. Welcoming the rise of a giant Asian economy that is also turning into a liberal democracy is one thing. Sponsoring the rise of a Leninist one-party state, that is America’s only plausible geopolitical rival, is a different proposition. Combine this political disillusionment with double-digit unemployment in the US that is widely blamed on Chinese currency manipulation, and you have the formula for an anti-China backlash.

Both Bill Clinton and George W. Bush firmly believed that free trade and, in particular, the information age would make political change in China irresistible. On a visit to China in 1998, Mr Clinton proclaimed: “In this global information age, when economic success is built on ideas, personal freedom is essential to the greatness of any nation.” A year later, Mr Bush made a similar point: “Economic freedom creates habits of liberty. And habits of liberty create expectations of democracy … Trade freely with the Chinese and time is on our side.”

The two presidents were reflecting the conventional wisdom among America’s most influential pundits. Tom Friedman, New York Times columnist and author of best-selling books on globalisation, once proclaimed bluntly: “China’s going to have a free press. Globalisation will drive it.” Robert Wright, one of Mr Clinton’s favourite thinkers, argued that if China chose to block free access to the internet, “the price would be dismal economic failure”.

So far, the facts are refusing to conform to the theory. China has continued to censor new and old media, but this has hardly condemned it to “dismal economic failure”. On the contrary, China is now the world’s second largest economy and its largest exporter, with foreign reserves above $2,000bn. But all this economic growth shows little sign of provoking the political changes anticipated by Bush and Clinton. If anything, the Chinese government seems to be getting more repressive. Liu Xiaobo, a leading Chinese dissident, was recently sentenced to 11 years in prison for his involvement in the Charter 08 movement that advocates democratic reforms.

Google’s decision to confront the Chinese government is an early sign that the Americans are getting fed up with dealing with Chinese authoritarianism. But the biggest pressures are likely to come from politicians rather than businessmen. Google is an unusual company in an unusually politicised industry. If the Googlers do indeed head for the exits in China, they are unlikely to be crushed by a stampede of other multinationals rushing to follow them. To most big companies the country’s market is too large and tempting to ignore. Despite Google, US business is likely to remain the lobby that argues hardest for continuing engagement with China.

The pressures for disengagement will come from labour activists, security hawks and politicians – particularly in Congress. To date, the Obama administration has based its policy firmly on the assumptions that have governed America’s approach to China for a generation. The president’s recent set-piece speech on Asia was a classic statement of the case for US engagement with China – complete with the ritualistic assertion that America welcomes China’s rise. But, after being censored by Chinese television in Shanghai and harangued by a junior Chinese official at the Copenhagen climate talks, Barack Obama may be feeling less warm towards Beijing. An early sign that the White House is hardening its policy could come in the next few months, with an official decision to label China a “currency manipulator”.

Even if the administration itself does not move, the voices calling for tougher policies against China are likely to get louder in Congress. Google’s decision to highlight the dangers of cyberattack from China will play to growing American security fears about China. The development of Chinese missile systems that threaten US naval dominance in the Pacific are also causing concern in Washington. Impending US arms sales to Taiwan are already provoking a dispute.

Meanwhile, protectionism seems to be becoming intellectually respectable in the US in ways that should worry China.

A trade war between America and China is hardly to be welcomed. It could tip the world back into recession and inject dangerous new tensions into international politics. If it happens, both sides will share the blame. The US has been almost wilfully naive about the connections between free trade and democracy. The Chinese have been provocative over currency and human rights. If they want to head off a damaging clash with America, changes in policy would be well advised.

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The politicians are going about the health care issue completly the wrong way ( of course ) They are trying to fix it by getting the government to involved, the real problem is, bringing the doctors and hospitals price of services down, why does it cost $5.00 for an asprin, $20.00 for a pair of paper slippers, $200.00 for a doctors visit, $3000.00 for a colonoscopy and on and on

If the hospitals would have normal mark ups, the insurance companies would pay less, and in turn charge people lower insurance rates, CASE SOLVED

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Angie Harmon is not afraid to come out and say she doesn’t like how President Obama is handling the job — but she’s sick of having to defend herself from being deemed a racist.

“Here’s my problem with this, I’m just going to come out and say it. If I have anything to say against Obama it’s not because I’m a racist, it’s because I don’t like what he’s doing as President and anybody should be able to feel that way, but what I find now is that if you say anything against him you’re called a racist,” Harmon told Tarts at Thursday’s Los Angeles launch of the new eyelash-growing formula, Latisse. “But it has nothing to do with it, I don’t care what color he is. I’m just not crazy about what he’s doing and I heard all about this, and he’s gonna do that and change and change, so okay … I’m still dressing for a recession over here buddy and we’ve got unemployment at an all-time high and that was his number one thing and that’s the thing I really don’t appreciate. If I’m going to disagree with my President, that doesn’t make me a racist. If I was to disagree with W, that doesn’t make me racist. It has nothing to do with it, it is ridiculous.”

Speaking of dislikes, the starlet has also had enough of the double-standards in the media.

“I do think McCain would have done a better job, only because I think he has more experience. I also think if W or John McCain or Reagan would have gone and done a talk show, the backlash would have been so huge and in his face, and ‘What is our president doing? How unclassy!’ But Obama does it and no one says anything,” Harmon said.

And in spite of the scornful opinions most of her Tinseltown counterparts have shared on Gov. Sarah Palin, Harmon remains a true fan.

“I admire any kind of woman like her. My whole motto is to know what I stand for and know what I don’t stand for and have the courage to live my life accordingly and she does exactly that. The fact that this woman has made the decisions she’s made and literally lived her life according to that and takes heat for it is absolutely disgusting to me,” she added. “People cannot look at this woman. I really think they’re afraid of her and her morals, ethics and values and the fact that she hangs on them. Is she the most experienced person in the world? But she was running to be the Vice President, so we then put the most inexperienced person as the President. That didn’t make any sense to me.”

However Harmon is definitely in the Hollywood minority when it comes to her criticism of Obama as other lasses at the Latisse party were quick to advocate their unequivocal support.

“The sort of criticism over the last couple of weeks is a bit unfounded, he’s been in office for barely any time and I think he inherited a lot on his plate and he’s doing a pretty remarkable job,” quipped Mandy Moore. “I think it’s cool that he went on Leno and I watched the “60 minutes” interview as well last week. The guy is just so articulate and he is so well versed in something that is so new to him and I think he has a good team around him. It sounds cliché, but he makes me feel proud to be an American.”

Debra Messing also told Tarts that our new President is not only meeting her expectations, but going far beyond.

“He is thoughtful and considerate and he gets all the information before he speaks which I think is a wonderful quality for the ruler of the free world to have,” she explained.

The ladies of “Entourage” certainly showed their Obama-loyalty too.

“It’s not an over night process. It’s going to get worse before it gets better; we’re all kind of in the same boat now. Everybody’s broke and everybody’s struggling and he makes me feel like I know him and that I know Michelle and that they’re like us and they’re out to try to save the USA. It’s just an amazing period to watch him take on these challenges and everyday in the news to hear about AIG or possibly global currency changing, it’s incredible. He’s facing big challenges and he’s got a lot of support and I’m just praying things get better,” Debi Mazar said, while co-star Perrey Reeves added that Obama is a “wonderful leader” and she’s looking forward to his future endeavors.

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In the last few days I have seen the now famous video of Senator Pelosi, Speaking to a group of illegal aliens,

I have never been so disgusted at a politician as I am every time I see that video, can you believe a US Senator is saying this garbage, It is the most egregious pandering to an ethnic group I have ever seen.

In my mind, Nancy Pelosi and the Ilk like her should be tried for treason, and kicked out of office immediatly.

I am also nominating Nancy Pelosi as DEADBEAT POLITICIAN of the month.

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So you looked in the mirror and you saw you were not to blame. You looked at the TV screen and saw the faces of the culprits. You studied the internet, you listened to talk radio shows and heard the outraged hosts cast blame and name names. You read the newspaper editorials and you knew, or thought you knew, who and what caused the global crash, and you knew it might get worse.

You knew it wasn’t you, who wrecked the world economy. You knew it was someone without any scruples. You knew, or thought you knew, that the culprits must have skipped high school Civics class, or failed Ethics or World Religion in college or plagiarized their class assignments and cheated on their tests.

Mostly you knew YOU were not to blame. How could you be to blame, with your crummy little job? Besides, you always did your civic duty and voted in most elections. At least the elections that really meant something, the national elections and mid-term elections, when you felt smug and superior for voting for either the smoothest Democrat or Republican candidate.

You knew, in your heart of hearts, that gangsta rap and violent video games and strip clubs wrecked the world economy. How did you know this? Because highly paid talk radio hosts and local politicians and presidential candidates all said they did. You also knew that steroid-abusing, spoiled, overpaid sports stars wrecked the world economy. How did you know this? Because highly paid sportswriters and talk show hosts said they did. When they told you this, on those endless TV sports shows, you nearly tore up your season tickets in a fit of justified anger.

You knew that silicon-breasted models, like Pam Anderson and her PETA gang, wrecked the world economy. You knew that PETA and Greenpeace were far worse that the PATRIOT Act, because self-righteous talk radio hosts told you they were and you believed them.

You knew that Conspiracy Theorists wrecked the global economy. How? Because they eroded faith in public officials. Not that these public servants weren’t beyond scrutiny but by wasting valuable time, discussing wacky ideas instead of contributing to the economy, these conspiracy theorists left America vulnerable to the next attack, which they endlessly predicted. You knew these sick people, sicker than gangsta rappers or spoiled sports stars, wanted the economy to fail. Why? Because they needed to fulfill some dark, pessimistic yearning or they had all invested in gold.

You looked in the mirror and you knew that religious nuts wrecked the economy. The ones who wanted to home school their kids.

You knew that gun nuts had wrecked the world economy. Why? Because they mistrusted the government for some reason, and kept mentioning Oklahoma City or Waco or Ruby Ridge or Randy Weaver, people and places you had never heard of before.

You knew that unions had wrecked the world economy. Why? Because union workers wanted better paying jobs and health insurance. These greedy bastards wanted a wage that was only 50-100 times smaller than the CEOs, instead of 500-1000 times smaller. You knew that all the jobs in America and Europe went overseas because of union demands and those greedy union officials, and thus these leeches helped wreck the world economy. How did you know this? Because highly paid talk radio hosts and wealthy elected officials said they did.

You knew that illegal immigrants wrecked the world economy. You saw them standing there by the road every day, silently wrecking the economy in their shabby clothes. You knew that somehow they snuck into the country, somehow bypassed the airport where the PATRIOT Act was enforced in full swing, and slowly wrecked the entire world economy with their sly offer to do all the dirty work. You just knew they were to blame. How? Because highly paid talk radio hosts and politicians told you they were.

You knew that greedy homebuyers were to blame. They wheedled those honest bankers out of all that hard-earned money, and bought houses they couldn’t afford. For years these scammers had clicked on those flashy internet links that promised them $500,000 houses for $500 down. Then they took the money offered by Freddie & Fannie & IndyMac & Wamu and bought houses they hoped to flip because they watched that reality show, Flip This or That Old House, and conspired to wreck the world economy.

You knew that Libertarians, Anarchists, Independents and so-called Constitutionalists and all these other third party candidates had wrecked the world economy. You just knew it! You knew these wacky people were always the ones calling for increased accountability rather than trust in the Two Party system. And, thankfully, you knew that you had never handed them your hard-earned dollars, your sacred vote or heeded their wacky warnings.

These noisy rabble rousers always claimed that the Two Party system protected the ruling elites, protected bankers and Wall Street speculators from oversight or scrutiny, protected top intelligence chiefs and professional politicians and their lobbyists, protected Pentagon toymakers and corporate dons and ultra-secret societies, protected them all from too much scrutiny.

Of course, Thank God, the highly paid talk radio and TV hosts and Op-Ed columnists of the US mainstream media always lampooned these moralistic cretins. They belittled and taunted these nut cases with their wide-eyed messages that the entire ruling elite was somehow suspect. But this coalition of troublemakers, including people like Ron Paul, Ralph Nader, Cynthia McKinney, Dennis Kucinch, Bob Bowman, Uri Avnery, Dahr Jamail, Naomi Wolf, Wayne Madsen, Steve Lendman, Norman Finkelstein, Devy Kidd, Robert Fisk, Noam Chomski, Rob Moody, Jeff Rense, Alex Cockburn, Paul Craig Roberts, Michael Moore, Murray Rothbard, Sherman Skolnick, Jon Gold, Aidan Monaghan, Alex Jones and thousands of others just like them and their spawn, swayed enough believers.

And pretty soon, wouldn’t you know it, the entire world economy was wrecked.

Along with dozens of other fine Internet writers, longtime gadfly and history buff, Douglas Herman correctly predicted the meltdown of the US economy with columns like “Money—Funny, Scary, Paper Money” (Google), years before Gerald Celente or Nouriel Roubini. He lives in Bullhead City, Arizona and frequents douglasherman7@yahoo.com

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PRESIDENT-elect Barack Obama is being hit by shocking charges – it’s against the law for him to take office because he isn’t a “natural-born” U.S. citizen! A stunning lawsuit by a former government official claims the 47-year-old politician was actually born in Kenya, which would disqualify him from office. GLOBE’s Special Report rips the lid off the simmering controversy. It’s must reading for every American!

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Ever wonder if the politicians you elect are batting for you, or are they just interested in keeping their party in power?

Well here is proof that you need, in an article that was written about some of the things siad by Rush and Hannity,

” “I think that our leadership, Mitch McConnell and John Boehner, are taking the right approach,” Gingrey said. “I mean, it’s easy if you’re Sean Hannity or Rush Limbaugh or even sometimes Newt Gingrich to stand back and throw bricks. You don’t have to try to do what’s best for your people and your party.

As you can read here, it is protect your people and your party at all costs.

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Obama’s inauguration cost is going to become quite expensive. The cost of President-elect Barack Obama’s presidential inauguration is rumored to cost between $150 and $160 million to pull off. Having such a high cost for the Obama inauguration of course brings to mind comparisons between Obama’s and that of past Presidents of the United States. The last inauguration, which took place in 2005 for President George W. Bush cost only $42.3 million, whereas the 1993 inauguration for President Bill Clinton totaled $33 million.

The cost of the enormous budget is only partly to blame for inflation and a rising cost to product in the economy, but mostly it will be because of the extreme differences planned to take place at this inauguration that weren’t quite as needed in the past. The reasoning coming from Washington, is that most of the new federal funding that has been dedicated from the White House to help with soaring costs is due to the expected attendance. It is being reported that the huge influx of people to the area of Washington is estimated at between 1.5 to 2 million people.

To deal with all of the people coming to Washington for the inauguration, President Bush even took the step of declaring the District of Columbia in a state of emergency. This is something that is typically only done when something like a disaster takes place, and is most seen when floods or fires take place. Now Washington is being declared in this state of emergency simply because so many people are expected to want to witness the inauguration of President-elect Barack Obama. The hope now is that the weather holds out, and that there isn’t snow on the day of the inauguration, because that could cause costs to grow even more, and could lead to more emergency funding being needed.

One of the things that have to be on the top of everyone’s agenda for planning this inauguration is the importance of safety and making a smooth transition. It seems like an immense expense that could be spent better elsewhere on one hand, but also a scary thought that it takes this much money to help not only protect the incoming President of the United States but the millions of people in the audience. With such a hefty price-tag, the American people are going to expect (rightly so) quite a show when the parade and inauguration take place, and the promise of a new direction for the country should soon follow.

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Minnesota Rep. Keith Ellison’s groundbreaking pilgrimage to Mecca last month was paid for by an American Muslim organization that has ties to Islamic radicals and is “the Muslim equivalent of the neo-Nazi party,” his critics say.

Ellison, a Democrat, became the first U.S. congressman ever to make the hajj pilgrimage when he visited Islam’s holy city in December. The trip was funded by the Muslim American Society of Minnesota, a non-profit interfaith group that is one of 55 branches of the MAS nationwide. The pilgrimage was hailed by Muslim activists in the U.S.

“A U.S. congressman going on hajj sends a very positive message to the Muslim world about America and the religious diversity in America,” said Ibrahim Hooper, communications director for the Council on American-Islamic Relations, a Muslim advocacy group.

But Ellison, the only Muslim in Congress, is coming under fire for his ties to MAS, which one terrorism expert called “the Muslim equivalent of the neo-Nazi party.”

It is the de facto arm of the Muslim Brotherhood in the U.S.,” said Steven Emerson, director of the Investigative Project on Terrorism. “The agenda of the MAS is to … impose Islamic law in the U.S., to undermine U.S. counterterrorism policy.”

The MAS was founded by members of the Muslim Brotherhood, an international Islamist movement created in Egypt in 1928. Radical members of the Brotherhood founded the terror group Hamas and were among the first members of Al Qaeda.

The Muslim American Society’s former secretary general has acknowledged that the group was founded by the Brotherhood, and in 2004 he estimated that about half of MAS members were in the Muslim Brotherhood.

“Ikhwan [Brotherhood] members founded MAS, but MAS went way beyond that point of conception,” Shaker Elsayed told the Chicago Tribune, explaining that the group had expanded to include a wider viewpoint.

The Department of Justice has never taken action against MAS and declined to comment on whether it was investigating the group’s ties.

“As a general rule, the Justice Department does not comment on whether or not a particular group or individual is under investigation or has been under investigation,” said Dean Boyd, a spokesman for DOJ.

Ellison gave the keynote address at MAS-Minnesota’s conventions in 2007 and 2008, and one of the organization’s directors took time off his job to campaign for Ellison during his run for the House in 2006. Ellison was also the first guest on an MAS radio show launched last month.

Representatives for MAS-Minnesota did not return calls or e-mails requesting comment. But Mahdi Bray, the national director who campaigned for Ellison, denied his group had funded the congressman’s pilgrimage, calling the story a “myth” and “urban legend” that needed to be laid to rest.

“Keith Ellison is a member of Congress who knows that congressmen don’t take trips sponsored by nonprofits. That would be a breach of congressional ethics,” said Bray, executive director of the MAS Freedom Foundation.

But Ellison’s office told FOXNews.com that MAS had indeed paid for the congressman’s hajj.

“The trip, funded by the Muslim American Society of Minnesota, was fully reviewed and approved in advance by the House Ethics Committee,” Ellison’s office said in a statement to FOXNews.com.

The office, which did not say how much Ellison’s trip cost, defended MAS as a highly regarded interfaith organization with many ties in Minnesota.

“The Muslim American Society of Minnesota is a widely respected 501c3 organization incorporated in Minnesota, whose mission is to promote interfaith understanding,” Ellison’s office said in a statement to FOXNews.com. “The Muslim American Society of Minnesota (MASMN) has an ongoing interfaith project with the Minnesota Council of Churches, and a community outreach partnership with the St. Paul Police Department.”

Ellison’s office stressed that prominent Minnesota politicians, including former Vice President Walter Mondale, are close to the MAS. It did not address allegations that MAS has ties to the Muslim Brotherhood.

Emerson said Ellison’s embrace of MAS was an attempt to legitimize the group, which he called out of the mainstream. “It’s very troubling that he is trying to project an image of moderation, but he is tied to these radical groups,” Emerson told FOXNews.com.

MAS has stirred up controversy in Minnesota for its activities in the state, including a fatwa, or religious edict, it issued barring Muslim taxi drivers from carrying passengers with alcohol. MAS said in its 2006 decree that Islamic jurisprudence prohibited carrying those passengers “because it involves cooperating in sin according to Islam.”

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The MAS magazine, “The American Muslim,” has printed articles defending “martyrdom operations” to wrest control of Gaza and the West Bank from Israel.

The Minnesota chapter at one time featured writings from Islamic clerics praising Hamas and urging Muslims to “wage Jihad until death.” The postings, which were active as late as June 2007—one month after Ellison first addressed the group’s convention—have since been removed.

Though the MAS Web site has been washed of the religious texts that critics found offensive, Emerson says the group’s ties to the Muslim Brotherhood remain intact.

“Their founding ideologues are all members of the Muslim Brotherhood,” Emerson said. “I don’t think you can get more radical in the United States without crossing the line to incitement.”

Those accusations have some Muslim activists fuming.

“If you read the anti-Muslim hate sites on the Internet, every Muslim is the devil incarnate,” said Hooper.

“In general any Muslim who seeks to have positive participation in American society is going to come under attack by those who seek to marginalize and exclude the American Muslim community,” he said.

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A lot of people have a lot of different views on the current conflict Isreal is in, Heres my view, and I think it will reflect the average Joe out there,

Isreal is doing the right thing by getting rid of the threat of constant rocketing by the Hamas, The way I look at it, Hamas is biting the hand that feeds it,

Lets go back a couple of years, Isreal gives the palasienes what is called the Gaza strip, They have the opportunity to have there little state and run a government from it, They have the opportunity to start all over, What do they do? they elect a terrorist group to run the Government, and start sending rockets into Isreal, It is often siad, just because you have freedom, it doesnt mean you know how to use it, these Hamas just do not get it, and frankly do not deserve to have the land that was given to them.

In fact, If you gave Hamas everything they wanted, they would still start a war, because it seems to be the only thing these highly uneducated people know to do

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By Henry Makow PhD

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If there were a webcam in the Monkey House at the local zoo, would you watch it?

Then, why watch TV or go to the movies? Why cruise the Internet or listen to most music? It’s the same thing: the chest pounding, screeching, defecating and copulating of monkeys. Of course humans outdo monkeys with mindless killing and mayhem.

If not a Monkey House, then the world increasingly resembles a hive which, thanks to the mass media, vibrates at the same frequency. For example, when the stock market is plummeting, everyone is panicking. (When Money is God, an economic downturn becomes a spiritual crisis.)

But there are other causes for the widespread gloom: the spreading knowledge that our institutions (government, media, education, religion etc.) have been subverted and society now has no way of self- correcting.

The world feels like a roller coaster and we are holding on for dear life. Perhaps we need to let go. Perhaps we need to vibrate at our own unique frequency.

Perhaps I would be more effective if I devoted more energy to my private life. The external world is negating my private world even though it hasn’t physically impinged on it yet. I have impoverished myself by my constant focus on the Monkey House. I don’t think I am alone in this.

Our minds are like blotters, hoping to find a reflection of our ideals in the world. We need to turn the mirror around so the back faces the world. We need to use our personal lives (not the world) to reflect our ideals.

I envy people who can make God, Jesus or Mohamed the focus of their thoughts. I often resolve to read the lives and saying of mystics. Clearly I need another focus. Family. Sports. A hobby. I’d like to hear from readers about how they have changed their focus.

TIME OUT

Feeling fatigued recently, I resolved to unplug the world for 24 hours. I would be a Robinson Crusoe of the soul. I put on a Gregorian chant and tried to meditate. It’s all about where we direct our attention minute-by-minute. I would focus on God. Order. Peace. Truth. Sanity. A calm came over me.

At the same time, I had to resist temptations which made me realize how addicted I am to my computer terminal. From that monitor l try to satisfy all my desires. Down that chute come the corn niblets of encouraging news, email, book sales, stock quotes etc. I have to agree with the yogis who say suffering is due to seeking happiness outside ourselves.

Yet that’s all we do: manipulate the world to make us feel good. When will we realize we cannot feel good unless we ARE good?

How we hate to be alone. That’s why we are constantly talking on cell phones or watching TV. Why do we self-evade? As Paul Elmer More said, “we exhaust a great effort and expense to be poorly entertained.” Let us enjoy our selves.

After about four hours of meditating, I felt quite detached and refreshed, and started getting bored. So I broke down and checked my e-mail and the latest headlines on Rense. (I want to be in the world but not of it. I don’t want to be stranded in a limbo between two worlds.)

CONCLUSION

If we are engaged in a spiritual war, perhaps detaching from the world for set periods of time is the way to fight it. They seem to want to keep us in a state of high anxiety. They have been promising to invade Iran for six years. Is this the real agenda—to keep us on the edge of our seats?

I’m going to continue to fight the good fight. But maybe we can partially win if we don’t let the enemy into our home and heart.

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2008, What a good year for politicians to nominated as a Dead Beat Politician ! There are so many choices, George Bush for Running the economy into the ground? McCain for his hapless run for President? Blago for his wanting to sell Obamas Senate seat? The list goes on and on.

But a decision has to be made for the award for being Dead Beat Politician of the year, Our staff had a lot to chose from, but we did it,

We endorse Govenor Rod Blagoyavich

We look forward to the weekly deadbeats for 2009

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WASHINGTON (AP) – A House Democrat is daring Senate leaders to block a black man from taking President-elect Barack Obama’s vacated Senate seat.

Rep. Bobby Rush of Illinois points out that Roland Burris would be the only black man in a chamber populated overwhelmingly by white senators.

Senate Democratic leaders earlier Tuesday added an explicit note of support for Burris personally, but not for his appointment by the embattled governor of Illinois, Rod Blagojevich. The leaders said the Democratic caucus would refuse to seat Burris if Blagojevich appoints him, and called their stance a reflection of the scandal-tainted governor.

Blagojevich denies charges that he tried to sell Obama’s Senate seat for personal gain.

The 71-year-old Burris is a former Illinois attorney general.

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@ 3:33 pm by Walter Alarkon

Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) thinks that President-elect Obama picked same-sex marriage opponent Rick Warren to give the inauguration invocation because Obama “overestimates” his ability to unify people.

“Oh, I believe that he overestimates his ability to get people to put aside fundamental differences,” said Frank, the first House member to come out of the closet voluntarily.

Frank, on MSNBC on Monday, said that he’s delighted Obama was elected and that the country is headed into the “best time” for public policy since the New Deal.

“But my one question is, I think he overestimates his ability to take people, particularly our colleagues on the right, and, sort of, charm them into being nice,” Frank said. “I know he talks about being post-partisan. But I’ve worked, frankly, with Newt Gingrich and Tom DeLay, the current Republican leadership. The current Republican leadership in the House repudiated George Bush. I don’t know why Mr. Obama thinks he’s going to have them better than George Bush.

“And so, to be honest, when he talks about being post-partisan, having seen these people and knowing what they would do in that situation, I suffer from post-partisan depression,” Frank said jokingly.

Frank and same-sex rights advocates have fiercely criticized Obama for picking Warren, an evangelical pastor who supported a same-sex marriage ban in California.

Frank said that Warren’s attempts to reach across to the gay and lesbian community and other groups such as Muslims doesn’t allay his objection to Warren’s featured inaugural role.

“I think Rick Warren’s comments, comparing same-sex relationships to incest, is deeply offensive, wildly inaccurate, and very socially disruptive,” Frank said. “And I’m glad he is talking to the Muslims. I’m glad everybody’s talking to everybody. We’re not here talking about not having conversations. We’re talking about singling somebody out for a great honor. And I think the president-elect made a serious mistake in doing that.”

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So Caroline Kennedy wants to be the next senator for New York, Well isn’t that special? Let’s look at her qualifications,

1. ahh, She is a resident of New Yorks Upper east side

2. ahh, She is a Kennedy

3. ahh, ahh, She wrote a book

Well dog gone it, she deserves it,

Enough with the non sense, Caroline Kennedy is going to run because, she is being asked by the far left to run, and she is being brain washed into it, because of her name, This is not all that different from other high profile names, Arnold Swartznegger, Jesse Ventura, and a variety of other big name people, And the funny thing is, the ignorant people will vote these types in every time.

The same thing happens when a politician dies in office, and right away the will try to get the spose to run in the position, this is the symphathy vote, it almost allways works.

Now I like Caroline as much as the next person, but there are a lot of politicians more qualified, Heck she has not even voted half the time in the last 2 decades.

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PRESIDENT-ELECT Barack Obama was “saddened and sobered” that his old political ally, disgraced Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, was arrested yesterday on charges he tried to sell Obama’s old Senate seat to the highest bidder.

Saddened? Sobered? Is he kidding?

This, from the guy who championed himself as the very face of ethical reform in Washington?

This, from the great orator who once opined that the rising seas would recede after his election?

This, from the guy who promises to kick the lobbyists out the door and down the street?

That’s not to say Obama’s hands are dirty here. Clearly, he and Blagojevich appear to be cut from a different cloth.

At the very least, Obama is not a crude dope with a runny mouth who doesn’t shut up even after everyone knows he’s being watched by the feds. And most likely wiretapped.

More importantly, there has never been evidence that Obama is involved in the sale of his own seat or any of the other big-time rancid corruption that dominates his home town of Chicago.

Obama probably should be commended for crawling out of that stinking swamp smelling as rosy as he does.

Still, it’s a little alarming that he stuck with and supported Blagojevich even after many fellow Democrats, including his top aide, David Axelrod, washed their hands of him.

Obama also opens himself up to harsh criticism that maybe he’s not the great reformer he makes himself out to be.

His reaction was “insufficient at best,” Republican National Chairman Mike Duncan said yesterday. “Given the president-elect’s history of supporting and advising Governor Blagojevich, he has a responsibility to speak out and fully address the issue.”

And Obama has about used up his favorite excuse for all his friends in low places – that they were mere acquaintances.

He tried that with the Rev. Jeremiah Wright and wore it out with the unrepentant Chicago terrorist Bill Ayers.

The real problem here is that his home state’s government is under siege and the appointment to his old Senate seat is in the hands of a common criminal.

Blagojevich could appoint himself to the Senate tomorrow and start drawing his $170,000 salary from federal taxpayers right away.

And Obama’s standing around all sad and sober? This is no time for sadness or sobriety.

He’s on the verge of becoming the most powerful man in the free world and his political sway today carries the force of lightning.

It’s time for Obama to take charge.

At the very least, Obama should announce right away that he won’t replace federal prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald until he gets to the very bottom of this crime in Chicago – however long that takes.

churt@nypost.com

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It is here, an organization for the people, you need to visit this one.

http://november5.org

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The CDS spreads on British debt jumped even higher on Tuesday, touching 100 at one stage. This is a little frightening.

I suspect it reflects fear that the liabilities of the British-based banks—which include HSBC and Standard Chartered, with all their global exposure, as well as RBS, Barclays, Lloyds TSB, HBOS, and Northern Rock—are disturbingly large for the size of the UK economy.

Britain has no real debt in foreign currencies. Like other AAA states, it borrows in its own currency. This is a lifesaver.

However, and here is the awful catch, some of these private banks have vast dollar positions, so as more of them fall into the hands of the British state (partially or fully) the dollar debt implicitly moves across onto the sovereign balance sheet.

This is not a subject that I have seen discussed anywhere, but it is worth pondering. What killed Iceland was the dollar/euro debts of its three big banks, not its own sovereign debt in Krona. It is the dollar liabilities of Russia’s banks and companies that is now causing a run on the rouble.

Here lies the real danger of taking over all these banks so nonchalantly.

I suspect that some hedge funds have already spotted this Achilles Heel and are now testing the trade.

(Although a US hedge fund told me last weekend he was targeting the default risk in five other countries in Europe—and the EIB — but not British debt because he thought that the UK’s role as a military power and a permanent UN Security Council member provided an extra shield, ie the global order has too much political investment in Britain to let it happen. I have no idea whether this is a good judgement, but I pass it on)

By the way, my colleague Yvette Essen showed me the CDS data on some of the US states. These are quite revealing too.

Michigan 192

California 165

Nevada 164

New Jersey 150

Ohio 104

So, California is now priced as a greater bankruptcy risk than Slovakia 150.

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