Saturday, November 21, 2009

Slavery or Freedom

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If history is anything to go by, just three per cent of us taking decisive action will be enough to stop dictatorship being established in Europe and the USA and resurrect the real democracy.

We have reached a fork in the road, a crossroads, and the latest film by Alex Jones, The Fall of the Republic, makes our choices clear.

Whether we live in the USA or Europe, we are watching the accelerating speed with which republics and democratic states are being transformed into dictatorships.

Regional dictatorships are emerging in the form of the North American Union and the European Union.

These totalitarian systems will, in turn, be subsumed under a single global dictatorship controlled by the WHO, the UN and the IMF. Behind the UN complex is a corporate crime syndicate that uses these bodies as vehicles for their grab for world domination, also by declaring a pandemic emergency which has given WHO and the UN extraordinary powers over the national governments around the world, including health services and police services.
Alex Jones’s latest DVD, The Fall of the Republic, describes how a predatory financial elite is currently consolidating their power, and is the follow up on the illuminating documentary, The Obama Deception.

The new film -- about to be released and discussed on Infowars -- makes it clear that we must choose between slavery and liberty.
If we take the wrong turning on the fork in the road ahead of us, we will be entering a period of impenetrable darkness, a polar night of history with FEMA concentration camps, barbed wire, wars and famines, forced military or labour service in a police state using nano chips as a means to accomplish a total electronic surveillance of every single person every minute of the day.
Every day we see more evidence of how democracy in the USA is being replaced by an obligatory ecstatic worship of the dictator/president.

It is glaringly obvious that the cult of personality being built around President Obama is just a instrument in a cynical game, a means of strengthening the centralized control of a banking clique pulling the strings of its puppets in Washington DC.

Children are being trained in schools to sing songs of worship of the man-god "Obama“: they are not singing these songs spontaneously of their own free will.

Respect for the Constitution and Bill of Rights is being replaced by the cult of universal genius and charisma of the President; soon the president/dictator will be the only free person left in the USA and his whims will be the only law.

Genuine government involving a reasoned debate about policies has already been replaced by an extensive network of bureaucrats and Czars, who act as obedient instruments ready to do the will of the President whatever that might be.

A hierarchical and centralized electronic surveillance state is already in place thanks to the Patriot Act and other measures. The surveillance state, under cover of claiming to protect agains terrorists, aims to destroy individuality and free-thinking and eliminate anyone who does not bow down to the cult of the president and submit to the ideology.

Free thinking people have been labelled terrorists.

A totalitarian structure is already established that will allow the president/dictator to soon just click his fingers in a monumental building for armies to instantly march into apocalyptic wars, millions of people to be taken from their homes to FEMA camps, because food and water will be cut off from whole regions leaving many more millions to die as the elite’s depopulation program gets underway.

The bureaucrats and officials who carry out these orders and implement the regulations and rules that are being used to oppress the majority of people may obtain a certain amount of power and money in return for their services but they will not enjoy any real freedom either. They will not have any value outside their work of calculating, planning and carrying out an endless stream of crimes that the dictator demands. As soon as they have performed their function like machines, they will be dispensed with. This is what happened in Nazi Germany as well to even the most loyal functionaries.

The elite's contempt for human beings is being paraded before our eyes everyday. We see the brutal spectacle of torture, wars and famine affecting millions of people on TV, desensitizing us to the ghastly suffering of so many people today.

There is, indeed, a depressing similarity between totalitarian structures emerging today, the atmosphere of terror, the prevalent nihilism and Nazi Germany, Stalin’s Soviet Union and Mao Tse Tung’s Communist China.

In the meantime, we know these totalitarian structures with the same features did not appear in different regions around the world accidentally.

Thanks also to people like Alex Jones, we know more about families such as the Rockefellers, the Windsors, the secretive networks such as the Bilderbergs and their plans for world domination. No wonder, Jay Rockefeller is rushing through a bill to dismantle the internet as information flows freely for the first time in history about this group's crimes.

The same bankers who financed the rise of the twentieth century dictators are now financing Obama and Blair, Sarkozy, Merkel and Brown.

Hiding in secret places, casting a greedy eye on the world’s resources, judging everything from the point of view of whether it can be used to increase their enjoyment or power, slaves to their own appetites, these banksters cannot be the future of humanity - and their puppets in government cannot be our rulers.

People like Frederic Mitterand, the French Minister of Culture, who says in his own autobiography that the sight of the slavery, degradation and suffering and sexual exploitation of children "excites“ him, need to be removed from office and treated for psychological problems, not praised and defended by the French Prime Minister as is the case today.

When you consider the caliber of people in government in France today, the secret French government plans to force vaccinate people with a poisonous toxin and strip them of their civic rights, plans which are being circulated by the Health Minister Roselyne Bachelot and the Justice Minister Michele Alliot Marie, are not that surprising.

A rotten tree does not bear good fruit.

Birds of a feather flock together.

Uncovering the monstrous structure of the new world order is frightening - but is also an opportunity. Now we have identified the root of the disease, we can apply the cure.

Not many people are needed to effect a change for the better.
It appears that only three per cent of the colonialists rebelled against the despotic British king. Yes, just three per cent of the colonialists were enough to start and win the first American Revolution and found an independent Republic based on a Constitution.

If the Republic does fall today, it will be because there are not even three per cent ready to rise to the occasion and save it.
But will the Republic fall? Or will the vital three per cent of the people once more step up to the plate, start and win the second American revolution by rallying others?

I believe they will. We can see the resistance growing every day.
The time has, therefore, come to think about what a new Republic and new democratic states might look like.

A revolution that unleashes mindless violence and/or a military coup that leads to tyranny instead of freedom are certainly not what we need. What is required is a systematic plan to achieve clear objectives.

"Life, liberty and pursuit of happiness“ of every person seems to me to be a valid objective.

This is the objective enshrined in the American Constitution, in the Declaration of Independence and Bill or Rights and implicit in modern European constitutions and normative law.

The American Constitution was clearly written with a consciousness of the high value of human beings and every single person. This consciousness was nourished by the soil of certain ideas found in philosophy, religion and art, especially that of the ancient Greeks.

Liberty or freedom is a central concept of the ancient Greeks who inspired the Founding Fathers and is worth taking a moment to explore.

Freedom is not only a moral or philosophical concept but also a social and a political one. The ancient Greeks understood that a person enjoyed freedom if they lived in a free state, a state that was autonomous and that passed laws that guaranteed the freedom of its citizens.

The unfree were those people who were subjected to a foreign laws and who had to serve a foreign ruler.

It is clear that we in Europe and in the USA today are indeed unfree in as far as we do not pass our own laws that serve our interests. Instead, we serve the puppet governments who obey foreign rulers in the form of a corporate crime syndicate.

These entities have corrupted, bribed and bought national governments; the laws that are now rubber stamped by our parliaments serve the interests of that corporate crime syndicate, not our interests as a people.

A huge transfer of wealth has taken place under the cover of wars, economic collapses from the people to this tiny syndicate.

For impoverished populations suffering from the mismanagement of these criminals, the bankers have a solution: a police surveillance state, concentration camps, FEMA camps and now mass murder through biological warfare under the cover of vaccines and even famine.

Freedom has too often come to be understood by the people in the USA and Europe as the freedom of choice when it comes to careers, cars, leisure pursuits etc. People are used to thinking about economic freedom and not political freedom. They are encouraged to think of freedom as the opportunity to satisfy their desires, no matter how destructive to them or others those desires might be.

By contrast, the ancient Greeks defined a free person as someone who lives in a free state, a state whose political and social system allows them to enjoy personal freedom and also directly shape the future of their country themselves. This implies participation in the political process that goes far beyond casting a vote in elections once in every four years for either two parties, which have more or less the same policies, and which work for the same paymasters.

Real democracy requires that free and informed citizens engage every day in the political decision making process, and debate and discuss the best policies or the state as a whole on a continuous basis.

Authentic freedom for the ancient Greeks was the right to make your own choices every day, so that you can develop your highest self, your latent talents, live out your unique life purpose in harmony with the deeper purpose of the cosmos, itself ordered by the divine principles of harmony and justice.

To do this, the ancient Greeks recognized that people needed a functioning free political system state - and they had to give a portion of their time to maintaining that state.

Justice demanded that each citizen enjoyed the same freedom and dignity and that the freedom and dignity of others was protected against the abuses of others.

Those who infringed on the freedom of others or committed crimes were held to account.

Athens was indeed the first democratic state founded on the rule of law. The idea of law was religious in origin. The ancient Greeks considered laws as coming ultimately from a divine source just as the laws in the Old Testament come from God even if the laws of ancient Greece had a more secular and rational character. Athens was unusual for its time because it was ruled by laws and by a free people and not by a dictator or a god-king with absolute power.
Central to the functioning of the free city state of Athens was the notion of responsibility. The ancient Greeks believed no human being can evade the consequences of their actions. Everything is interconnected. A wise, free, strong state must be built on the wise, strong, just characters of its citizens.

That the cosmos itself will react and push back when the actions of people infringe basic laws is an idea central also to Greek drama.

While people may enjoy freedom, creative power, great potential for happiness, they are also responsible for what they do; they are responsible for whether they use their energy and freedom to develop their character to become more wise, courageous, just, virtuous, honest, brave, disciplined, loving and caring.

They are responsible if they misuse their freedom to sink into ignorance, apathy, greed, materialism and corruption.

Indeed, Athens fell to tyranny as its people became more and more corrupted and materialistic.

A new beginning for a new Republic and new democratic states in Europe, means, in my view, that we need to support the development of people’s physical, emotional and intellectual abilities and talents through education, sport, work and the arts, like music, for example.

That way, people will not only enjoy more fulfilling lives themselves; they will also be able to better contribute to the overall prosperity and success of their nation or state.

Today, people are all to often reduced to animal-like existences, to wage slaves or cogs in a corporate machine, given minimum wages or benefits, poor quality food and even poisons by an international corporate crime syndicate that sees an advantage to keeping people in a degraded, ignorant and pliant state.

Today, we have a culture that is run by the likes of the French Minister for Culture, Frederic Mitterand, who openly revels in his decadent appetites, which he satisfies at the expense of the life and health of young and vulnerable people, whom any decent person would try to assist.

A new beginning for a new Republic and democratic era also requires a new appreciation for what it means to be part of a community in my view.

Today, the assault on the family, the community, the church, on anything that holds people together, has resulted in the atomization of society, in the isolation of people who have been demoted to being not members of humanity but to being part of a “herd”, of the “masses”, estranged from one another and also from themselves.

This alienation makes people miserable and results in a feeling of powerlessness.

A really new beginning requires establishing a framework for government that allows people to feel safe and secure and also gives them the space to live the lives they wish to, as long as they do not harm their fellow human beings.

Today, by contrast, the state has become an apparatus for the constant and minute surveillance and control of people. Violence and the fear of violence has become pervasive. Current laws criminalize just about everyone under the pretext of fighting terrorism - and now the swine flu pandemic.

The Constitution introduces a minimum of rules to ensure that citizens are safe and secure in their pursuit of life, liberty and happiness. There is not a word extra.

A new beginning means also establishing an economic system based on sound money and where people are allowed to build their own homes, put up their own energy systems, like solar panels and grow their own food with their own hands if necessary.
Today, people are stripped of the capacity to provide for themselves and also deprived of adequate benefits from the government.

In the USA, the bankers have thrown 40 million Americans out of their homes; men, women and children have been left to starve and freeze to death while 18 million houses stand empty.

We need to establish an education system where people are actively encouraged to think for themselves, to use their reason and not to submit in blind obedience to authority as people are trained to do today.

It is time to give people a solid education, accurate information and not a stream of half truths, lies and shallow opinions as is currently the case.

The hidden networks like freemasons and secret services that control the media and governments have to be dismantled.

There must be transparency, accountability, a genuine separation of powers among the branches of government, checks and balances that work and a media that is critical and independent – and not just an instrument of propaganda and deception.
A new beginning means putting in place a culture that helps people to develop their higher selves, their creative, productive, happy, virtuous side.

This new beginning is within our reach. We are at a turning point.  
Millions of people are waking up around the world to how their political and economic systems are being manipulated by the international corporate crime syndicate. Many people want to take action – and they must do so if they want to live in freedom and dignity.

Our churches have not taken action. Our police have not taken action. These institutions have sanctioned this slide into a new era of darkness and barbarity.

We, the people, must take action whether we live in Europe or in the USA to stop the establishment of this monstrous, global totalitarian system under WHO, the UN and IMF.

Even if the US or other country's military were to carry out a coup, as some have suggested, and remove the top level of the network of operatives working for the corporate bankers, which has become embedded in its own organization, in governments, in labs and corporations, the military alone cannot restore the Republic.

Any military will need the help of millions of brave, informed, intelligent and disciplined citizens.

Before we can enjoy a new era of freedom and prosperity, security and happiness, in a political and legal framework based on a return to the Constitution and the rule of law, we have to clearly demonstrate by our actions that we really deserve that freedom, that we are willing to endure risks and hardships for that freedom and that we have thought deeply about what we will do with that freedom.

If history is anything to go by, just three per cent of us taking decisive action will be enough to stop dictatorship being established in Europe and the USA and resurrect the real democracy.

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Belgian Bilderberg Agent Named First EU President

Belgian Prime Minister is named first EU president as Brown is forced to settle for Baroness Ashton as foreign minister
(This is big because of the Bilderbergs chock hold on International finances and their relationship with directly or indirectly with the UN, the WHO and program like Agenda 21)
By Jason Groves

Last updated at 10:19 PM on 19th November 2009
The first EU president was tonight named as Belgian Prime Minister Herman Van Rompuy.  (Read Full Article)

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HR 1207 Passed out of Committee to Audit The Fed

Now is the time to contact your Representatives to pass HR 1207

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h111-1207

Excellent site to contact your Representatives!!!
http://www.ronpaul.com/on-the-issues/audit-the-federal-reserve-hr-1...

There are 313 Co-Sponsors, check the list, then contact your Representatives and Senators to get the legislation Passed!
Washington, D.C. - Congressman Ron Paul (TX-14) is pleased to announce that his and Congressman Grayson’s amendment based on HR 1207 has passed in the Financial Services Committee by a vote of 43-26 and will be included in major banking reform legislation.
http://www.house.gov/apps/list/press/tx14_paul/paulgraysonamdt.shtml

This Act will be voted on as soon as the Committee returns from its Thanksgiving break, and we will then know if it will move to the floor.

http://www.campaignforliberty.com/blog.php?view=28983
Rep. Peter DeFazio (D., Ore.) called on Mr. Geithner to resign this week, and said in an interview that Mr. Geithner is too close to Wall Street.

"Quite frankly, all the gambling on Wall Street is doing nothing to put people back to work in America and rebuild our economy," the Oregon Democrat said.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125864421370955721.html?mod=rss_com...

There are End the Fed Rallies Nov 22, good timing to show support to get the Bill passed.

November 22, 2009 End The Fed - H.R. 1207 + S604
http://endthefedusa.ning.com/
http://www.ronpaul.com/on-the-issues/audit-the-federal-reserve-hr-1...

The Federal Reserve

The Federal Reserve is a private corporation owned by a consortium of private banks. The owners are the infamous "international bankers" who have controlled western money for many centuries and who financed all sides of every war since the middle ages. Federal Reserve Notes are not really money, they are notes, debt instruments. The notes are loaned to the United States at full face value plus interest. The interest is paid by the personal income tax. This makes every American taxpayer a slave to private banking interests. It is time to end that economic slavery.

There are two options that Americans better understand and consider quickly: either nationalize the Federal Reserve or dismantle it completely!

1. Nationalize the Federal Reserve. Call it the United States Reserve. Issue United States Notes, debt free money created by the US government. Let banks that are now members of the Federal Reserve join the United States reserve and borrow as they do now from the Federal Government. Let the interest on that pay for the costs of government and government programs instead of it enriching the bankers, who do nothing for the money except manage the debt scam and much worse. Take it over! Nationalize the Federal Reserve

2. Who would EVER recommend that the Fed be nationalized? I'd like to see it dismantled permanently. Ron Paul explains it best :
Before the US House of Representatives, February 4, 2009, introducing the The Federal Reserve Board Abolition Act, H.R. 833.

Madame Speaker, I rise to introduce legislation to restore financial stability to America's economy by abolishing the Federal Reserve. Since the creation of the Federal Reserve, middle and working-class Americans have been victimized by a boom-and-bust monetary policy. In addition, most Americans have suffered a steadily eroding purchasing power because of the Federal Reserve's inflationary policies. This represents a real, if hidden, tax imposed on the American people.

From the Great Depression, to the stagflation of the seventies, to the current economic crisis caused by the housing bubble, every economic downturn suffered by this country over the past century can be traced to Federal Reserve policy. The Fed has followed a consistent policy of flooding the economy with easy money, leading to a misallocation of resources and an artificial "boom" followed by a recession or depression when the Fed-created bubble bursts.

With a stable currency, American exporters will no longer be held hostage to an erratic monetary policy. Stabilizing the currency will also give Americans new incentives to save as they will no longer have to fear inflation eroding their savings. Those members concerned about increasing America's exports or the low rate of savings should be enthusiastic supporters of this legislation.

Though the Federal Reserve policy harms the average American, it benefits those in a position to take advantage of the cycles in monetary policy. The main beneficiaries are those who receive access to artificially inflated money and/or credit before the inflationary effects of the policy impact the entire economy. Federal Reserve policies also benefit big spending politicians who use the inflated currency created by the Fed to hide the true costs of the welfare-warfare state. It is time for Congress to put the interests of the American people ahead of special interests and their own appetite for big government.

Abolishing the Federal Reserve will allow Congress to reassert its constitutional authority over monetary policy. The United States Constitution grants to Congress the authority to coin money and regulate the value of the currency. The Constitution does not give Congress the authority to delegate control over monetary policy to a central bank. Furthermore, the Constitution certainly does not empower the federal government to erode the American standard of living via an inflationary monetary policy.

In fact, Congress' constitutional mandate regarding monetary policy should only permit currency backed by stable commodities such as silver and gold to be used as legal tender. Therefore, abolishing the Federal Reserve and returning to a constitutional system will enable America to return to the type of monetary system envisioned by our nation's founders: one where the value of money is consistent because it is tied to a commodity such as gold. Such a monetary system is the basis of a true free-market economy.

In conclusion, Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues to stand up for working Americans by putting an end to the manipulation of the money supply which erodes Americans' standard of living, enlarges big government, and enriches well-connected elites, by cosponsoring my legislation to abolish the Federal Reserve.

Why Is This Idea Important?

This is important because until we end the Federal Reserve American taxpayers are enslaved to the bankers. Why should the fruits of American labor go into the pockets of the bankers instead of onto the dinner tables of the workers?

Why should these people decide which puppet will be the next American President and decide how we will live?

Thomas Jefferson said ,"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their Fathers conquered...I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies... The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs." And this is where we find ourselves… exactly in the position that Thomas Jefferson warned us about.  How did we get here?  The Obama Deception and Who Controls the Presidency a must see for every American!

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Stiglitz: We Should Have Nationalized Banks

The U.S. economy is suffering because the government did not fully nationalize distressed banks, says Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz.

Nationalization would have give the government more control over financial institutions and basically forced them to lend and kick-start the economy quick into recovery, Stiglitz says.

“If we had done the right thing, we would be able to have more influence over the banks,” Stiglitz told Bloomberg News.

“They would be lending and the economy would be stronger.”

U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has said that banks, which accepted billions in bailout money, need to take on more risk and lend again, which would help fuel faster economic recovery.

“We have this very strange situation today in America where we have given banks hundreds of billions of dollars and the president has to beg the banks to lend and they refuse,” Stiglitz said.

“What we did was the wrong thing. It has weakened the economy and has increased our deficit, making it more difficult for the future.”

“Too big to fail” has become a catch phrase these days as big banks, flush with bailout money, dole out bonuses while Main Street still suffers from high unemployment.

Democrats in Congress are jumping on the political opportunity to cut off the government purse strings via limiting Federal Reserve lending to bailed out banks and giving regulators more power to break up large institutions.

“No more Fed (money) to AIG. No more Fed to Bear Stearns,” says Rep. Barney Frank, according to an Associated Press report.

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Belgian Bilderberg agent named first EU President

Belgian Prime Minister is named first EU president as Brown is forced to settle for Baroness Ashton as foreign minister
(This is big because of the Bilderbergs chock hold on International finances and their relationship with directly or indirectly with the UN, the WHO and program like Agenda 21)
By Jason Groves

Last updated at 10:19 PM on 19th November 2009
The first EU president was tonight named as Belgian Prime Minister Herman Van Rompuy.

Baroness Cathy Ashton, the UK's EU Trade Commissioner, was celebrating after becoming Europe's first foreign minister.
She got the post after being endorsed by Gordon Brown.
Mr Brown said tonight Baroness Ashton would also hold the vice-presidency of the European Commission.

He said the appointment would reaffirm Britain's influence in Europe.

'It shows that Britain is at the heart of Europe and it shows that we are leading the way in extending women's representation in the way we have done,' he said.

Congratulations all-round: Baroness Cathy Ashton (right) and Belgium's Prime Minister Herman Van Rompuy celebrate with a kiss after being named Europe's first foreign minister and first EU president respectively Say cheese: The winners Ashton (far right) and Van Rompuy (far left) are joined by Sweden's Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt (centre left) and European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso for an EU 'family photo'
The Prime Minister said he still felt that Tony Blair - whom he backed for the presidency - would have been 'excellent'.
But he added: 'As the week went by it became clear that the EPP (the centre-right grouping in the European Parliament) wanted to have one of their own members as president of the council.'
The appointments came two hours after Tony Blair was officially out of the running for the presidency when Mr Brown switched his support to Lady Ashton.

Downing Street emphasised that Mr Brown only dropped his insistence on Mr Blair for the role of President of the European Council after arriving for the summit tonight to find support amongst his colleagues rapidly fading.

The situation became clear at a pre-summit meeting of EU Socialist leaders, including the Prime Minister.

Gordon Brown: 'It shows that Britain is at the heart of Europe'
Top job: German Chancellor Angela Merkel congratulates Ashton as Van Rompuy and Reinfeldt look on 'That being the case, Mr Brown took the initiative to ensure that the High Representative role will go to a UK person - someone who is already in the Commission, someone who is a woman - Cathy Ashton,' a Downing Street spokesman said.

Other Socialist leaders - who had been struggling to agree on a centre-left candidate to submit for either of the jobs available, swiftly agreed.

The surprise mustering of support for an outsider was seen as a mixture of pragmatism from Mr Brown coupled with enthusiasm from European Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso.

The only person at tonight's talks over dinner apart from EU leaders themselves, Mr Barroso wants to increase the number of women in his Commission team.

And the role of EU 'High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security' takes the rank of Commission vice-president - one of Mr Barroso's deputies.

He has been impressed by Lady Ashton's performance since she took over as EU trade commissioner from Lord Mandelson almost exactly a year ago.

Winners are grinners: Sarkozy shares a laugh with Van Rompuy whom he backed to the detriment of former British prime minister Tony Blair All smiles: Ashton with her congratulatory flowers and Barroso address the press after the announcement
But few believed she was a serious candidate.

Lady Ashton, 52, is a former leader of the House of Lords who was promoted to that role by Mr Brown in his first reshuffle.

She took over as British commissioner in Brussels when Lord Mandelson rejoined Mr Brown's Cabinet in London.

With Mr Blair out of the way, although he never declared himself to be a candidate, the odds on Belgian Prime Minister Herman Van Rompuy getting the EU presidency role were instantly reinforced.

Both France and Germany had thrown their weight behind him.
Side-by-side: French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, pictured in Brussels today, both backed Mr Van Rompuy. Although he lacks any of the charisma or international recognition of Mr Blair, that is a big plus in many capitals who do not want someone grandstanding around the globe on the EU's behalf.

Before the summit started, EU diplomats said the ill-defined role of President would be 'shaped by the personality of the person who takes the job'.

In the absence of Mr Blair, the role took on a more managerial slant - managing EU summits, co-operating with the Commission and, from time to time, representing the EU on the world stage.
Tony Blair was ruled out of the running for the EU presidency when Gordon Brown switched his support to Lady Ashton
But many argue that the High Representative role is the more powerful job, even though Lady Ashton will be a Commission Vice-President answerable to Mr Barroso.

The High Representative will effectively run the EU's 'embassies' around the world, with a personal staff, grace-and-favour home and all the trappings.

Lady Ashton will reign over the newly-created EU 'External Action Service', effectively a diplomatic corps co-ordinating the European Commission's existing collection of more than 120 delegations around the world, overseeing Europe's global humanitarian aid budget and massaging EU international relations.

Before tonight's decision, Britain was deadlocked with Germany over the decision.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel is said not to be a fan of Mr Blair, reportedly commenting that she didn't like the idea of 'having to listen to Mr Flash all the time'.

Before tonight's decision, Britain signalled its opposition to Mr Van Rompuy, who supports the introduction of new EU taxes.
There are still no official candidates, and yet more than half a dozen politicians are said to be in the running.

Mr Brown was believed to have always had 'Plan B' if it became clear Mr Blair was out of the race.

David Miliband and Lord Mandelson both ruled themselves out of the running to be EU foreign minister.

Who is Cathy Ashton?

Baroness Ashton, 53, has been the EU's trade commissioner for the past year.

She took over from Lord Mandelson who was brought back to the UK Cabinet by Gordon Brown.

The former leader of the Lords was made a life peer in 1999.
In June 2001 she was made a Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State in the Department of Education and Skills, taking charge of Sure Start in 2002.

Two years later she was became Parliamentary Under-Secretary in the Department of Constitutional Affairs. She was also appointed a Privy Councillor in 2006.

Baroness Ashton studied economics at London University and her early career included roles at the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and the Social Work Training Council.

She lives in St Albans with her husband of 21 years, journalist and pollster Peter Kellner. She has two children and three stepchlildren.

Glenn Beck reveals the Plan

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Friends,

What an amazing few days on the road this has been. Your spirits have been high, your faith strong and your spine unbendable. I ended my multiday book tour at The Villages with what had been billed as a rally but could be better described as a candid citizen-to-citizen chat.

Today, I have stopped looking for a leader to show us the way out because I have come to realize that the only one who can truly save our country...is us. To change America's course we need to change ourselves, our expectations and our willingness to accept the unacceptable. When we refuse to allow our children to receive a trophy for participation, we are on the road to restoring the meaning of merit in our Republic. When we insist that no one is too big to fail, we will be able to learn from our mistakes, and when we demand that we are self-reliant, we will ensure that others can rely on us, not the government.

There is much to do, much to learn and time is of the essence. While I will be explaining the entire Plan over the coming weeks and months, I did want to give you a preview of some of the highlights:

- Education is key, and not just for our children. To that end, we will be conducting a series of conventions. These will be full-day experiences where you will be immersed in learning about topics ranging from self-reliance, community organizing, the economy and how to be a political force in your own neighborhood and country. The first one will be in Orlando at UCF Arena on March 27th. You will also be able to vote to have a convention in your region by clicking here.

- I have begun meeting with some of the best minds in the country that believe in limited government, maximum freedom and the values of our Founders. I am developing a 100 year plan. I know that the bipartisan corruption in Washington that has brought us to this brink and it will not be defeated easily. It will require unconventional thinking and a radical plan to restore our nation to the maximum freedoms we were supposed to have been protecting, using only the battlefield of ideas.

- All of the above will culminate in The Plan, a book that will provide specific policies, principles and, most importantly, action steps that each of us can take to play a role in this Refounding.

- On August 28, 2010, I ask you, your family and neighbors to join me at the feet of Abraham Lincoln on the National Mall for the unveiling of The Plan and the birthday of a new national movement to restore our great country.

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URGENT: Why Is Today’s HealthCare Vote For Cloture So Important?? We Need Everyone’s Help Today!

PLEASE HELP STOP THEM FROM GETTING THE 60 VOTES FOR CLOTURE TODAY.  STOPPING THIS IS CRITICAL IN STOPPING OBAMACARE!  IT IS OUR BEST AND EASIEST HURDLE TO STOP THIS!!

The Senate is expected to vote at 8PM EST today, Saturday, on whether to take up the legislation Healthcare Legislation (vote for cloture). The majority leader, Harry Reid, Democrat of Nevada, refused to say whether he had the 60 votes needed to clear that procedural hurdle, but it is believed that he is within a couple of votes.

Today is step one of a series of the most important votes and fight of our lives!!!  Take the time for your kids!

After this this will only need 51 votes and 97% of bills that pass this point ultimately pass and become law.

PLEASE FAX, CALL AND EMAIL AS MANY SENATORS TODAY, AS YOU CAN, BUT DEFINITELY CONTACT:

YOUR STATE’S SENATORS – Thank them for their no votes if they are Republicans

SENATOR BLANCHE LINCOLN - (D-AR) 202-224-4843 & Fax (202) 228-1371 - Still Undecided – Tell her we need her to do the right thing and to please vote “NO” today… Don’t sell out the American People… Please!

SENATOR BEN NELSON - (D-NE) 202-224-6551 & Fax: 1-202-228-0012 -  Says He will vote YES for Cloture but Probably No later… He needs to vote No today Tell him not to do a Kerry… Remember “Well, I voted yes on the war, but then voted no”  This is an even more important vote than the war and we need him to vote “NO” today, or he will be unseated!

SENATOR MARY LANDRIEU - (D-LA) (202) 224-5824  & (202) 224-9735 fax -  Landrieu told everyone yesterday afternoon she was still undecided and reading the bill – Tell her we will make sure she is unseated if she votes yes today on cloture and that we know she is taking a bribe!

SENATOR BARBARA BOXER (MY SENATOR) – (D-CA) 202 224-3553 & (202) 224-0454 fax - The American people and people of California have had enough!  We expect you to vote for the  good and the will of you constituency!!  Vote NO today… or we will vote NO when it is time for your reelection… or sooner!

SENATOR DIANNE FEINSTEIN – (D-CA) 202 224-3841 & Fax: (202) 228-3954 -  The American people and people of California have had enough!  We expect you to vote for the  good and the will of you constituency!!  Vote NO today… or we will vote NO when it is time for your reelection… or sooner!

(then we found out that she was bought off with a 100 million dollar deal for her state… for her vote)

CONTACT AS MANY DEMOCRATIC SENATORS AS YOU CAN!!

If you have time call and fax more of them!! I saw a survey recently that said: 1 Fax equals... 10 Calls Equals... 100 Emails. I say lets do it all if we can! Fax, Call and Email everybody if you can, but at least Nelson, Lincoln and your own state's Senators!! -

Senator's Contact Information – Easy to Use!! (Phone info is right here… you have to dig a bit for fax or email, but everything is here!)

ALL THE REPUBLICANS ARE VOTING “NO

Remember… these people work for you!!

Take  at least10 minutes to call and fax the big 3 above…  Whatever you say or write… say what you feel!

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SAMPLE LETTER/FAX

Dear Senator ______________,

I urge you to vote “NO”  to cloture today and stop this bill from proceeding!  Junk this bill!!!

I am normally in favor of debate, but the American People all know what is going on these days on the Hill and that if this bill goes through with 60 votes Harry Reid and the other liberals in the Senate will pass this bill with the help of the White House using arm twisting, bribes and by the illegal method of reconciliation… needing only 51 votes to pass this type of bill .  A bill that the American people don’t want.

“Please vote no” and encourage your fellow Senators like Ben Nelson, Mary Landrieu, Blanche Lincoln and other moderates who are being pressured to join you in doing the right thing!

We all know that 97% of the bills that pass the cloture vote phase are ultimately passed and signed into law. Nobody has the votes to make enough changes to make this bill palatable to the American People… or turn it into an actual healthcare reform bill, instead of a revenue generating power grab at the expense of the people you represent, so there is no reason for debate or further review.  The more review the angrier Americans will become!

The American people will not stand for another John Kerry excuse like: “Well, I voted yes on the war, but then I voted no”  This is an even more important vote than the war and we need you to vote “NO” today, to the right thing, or you will be unseated!

We also know that many Senators have been bought off…  Mary Landrieu told the American people just yesterday  on national TV that she was still reading the bill and was undecided…  Now we all know she was bought off with a deal of $100 million dollars for her state, in exchange for her vote on this bill.  In the real world that is called a bribe!

I am a  member of several large and powerful national organizations and am also a blogger as well as part of a blogging circle. Looking at the official polls, polls within my sphere of influence and after talking to everyone I know, which is a group comprised of Democrats, Conservatives, Liberals, Republicans, Libertarians and some totally non-political people… the large overwhelming majority do not want this bill or any version of ObamaCare!!

The chant from all corners is: “KILL THIS BILL AND THEN START OVER WITH HONEST BIPARTISAN HEALTHCARE REFORM”

The percentage of people who support any of the bills that are floating around varies between 29 and 32% and are dropping daily. The percentage of people who disapprove of all the bills that are floating around varies between 51 and 54%, but in many areas the people against ObamaCare is 2 to 1, and disapproval is rising as well.

Most people favor incremental healthcare reform which includes:

Tort reform; Fraud reform; Portable health insurance; Deficit neutral solutions; Sensible cuts; Spending Accounts that allow roll-overs into 401 K’s for unspent amounts… and other sensible measures

They also want:

No tax increases to cover this so-called reform; No governmental funds for abortions; No coverage of Illegal aliens, only American citizens and legal residents; No over-seer that gets between patients and their doctors (i.e. death panels); No government-run public option, single payer or trigger of any kind… no matte what you call it; and no electronic healthcare records of any kind, let alone ones with access ability to people’s financial records or placed on micro-chips in our bodies or any of the other Big Brother items in all these bills or hidden in bills already passed!!!

I/we will make sure that Senators that vote yes today for cloture or help get this billed passed in any way will lose re-election or be impeached. We are angry and tired of being ignored!!!!!!!

(Your Name) An American Mom/An American Dad/A Patriot… or whatever you feel

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74% of voters rate the quality of health care they now receive as good or excellent and they know their coverage will be worse and more expensive after ObamaCare passes and even worse when they reach old age under the new system.  The also fear all the intrusive stipulations and measures added into the bills; many of which we haven’t even found or realized yet.  And these voters realize that the increase in the deficit, increased taxes and reduction in freedoms certainly makes no sense in any time, but especially in today’s economic climate, and in the end there will still be millions uninsured!  Rasmussen Poll….

Rasmussen

Many of the people who favor government controlled (socialized) heathcare still won’t have coverage after we destroy the present system while upping our costs, taxes and debt…  And many who support ObamaCare are not regular voters…  For those of us who are, God forbid that this disastrous program passes… but let us make sure we do remember come election day, who supported this bill and who supported us!

Note there are provisions in the Constitution for the Federal Government to make anyone buy healthcare, just as there are no provisions the Constitution for the Federal Government to collect Federal Income Tax.  Ding Ding Ding… There are provisions for impeachment, recalls, judicial reviews and for the courts to over turn unconstitutional laws… unless the court is packed with radicals, another Ding Ding Ding…

Friday, November 20, 2009

URGENT CALL TO ACTION: Call Sen. Nelson & Lincoln: Vote No on Reid’s Bill Saturday

** URGENT CALL TO ACTION **

Call Senators Nelson & Lincoln (Now, Today and again tomorrow morning): Tell Them to Vote No on Reid’s Bill Saturday

Below is the text from an email I just received from the RNC. Whatever you may think of them at the moment, they are doing us a service by putting out this call to action.
Please take a minute to make a couple of quick calls to these two Senators plus your own Senator(s).

Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-AR) 202-224-4843
Sen. Ben Nelson (D-NE) 202-224-6551

If you have time call and fax more of them!! I saw a survey recently that said: 1 Fax equals... 10 Calls Equals... 100 Emails. I say lets do it all if we can! Fax, Call and Email everybody if you can, but at least Nelson, Lincoln and your own state's Senators!! -

Senator's Contact Information

After months working in secret behind closed doors, Harry Reid this week finally unveiled his 2,074-page government-run health care plan. His plan would increase health care premiums, increase taxes on families and small businesses by half a trillion dollars, cut Medicare by another half trillion dollars, and allow federal funds to be used for abortions.

Harry Reid has scheduled a critical vote this Saturday night that will allow the Senate to take-up his bill. If that vote succeeds, Harry Reid will be dangerously close to finally imposing President Obama’s government-run health care scheme on America.
Two Democrat Senators - Ben Nelson (D-NE) and Blanche Lincoln (D-AR) - are critically important to defeating Saturday’s vote. The RNC urges every concerned citizen to call Sens. Ben Nelson and Blanche Lincoln TODAY and tell them to vote against Harry Reid’s liberal bill when it comes up for a vote on Saturday.

This is the best opportunity there will be to stop President Obama, Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi from imposing their government-run health care plan on America. Again, please call Sens. Ben Nelson and Blanche Lincoln TODAY and tell them to vote against Harry Reid’s health care bill when it comes up for a vote on Saturday.

Related:

Stop Senate ObamaCare Cloture Vote On Saturday! Why This Vote Is Im...

United States Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121 or (202) 2225-3121 

Senators from your State.

Palin-Hating 101

Sarah Palin's book tour is underway, and she's hitting all the major spots -- Oprah, Barbara Walters, Hannity and The Factor. It's been more than a year since she and her running mate lost to the Obama/Plouffe/Axelrod public relations machine, yet she still finds herself front-and-center in the national spotlight, even despite stepping down as governor of Alaska months ago.

Her influence and allure are practically unprecedented among failed vice presidential candidates. (Can anyone imagine Lloyd Bentsen, Jack Kemp or Joe Lieberman selling People magazine covers or sitting down for an hour with Oprah?) Even though she was skewered by the liberal media, lambasted by the self-loathing feminists, and slaughtered by the oh-so-cool "30 Rock" and "SNL" glitterati, Palin remains incredibly popular among conservatives.

Not only that, she's got real power. President Obama's been trying to sell the country on health care reform for months, but she managed to change policy overnight with a pointed note...on Facebook.

And, she's still someone people want to know about. Her book "Going Rogue: An American Life," was a best seller before it even hit the shelves.

And for these very reasons, her detractors are absolutely apoplectic right now.

Anyone witnessing the spin job being furiously whipped up against Palin in a desperate effort to stanch her book sales and cauterize her acclaim is in for a real treat. It is a truly acrobatic and dizzying display of agility -- but unlike the Flying Wallendas, these stunt men and women of the liberal media aren't fooling or wowing anyone. Their cheap sideshow parlor tricks are so transparent we should all demand our money back.

Newsweek, in advance of Palin's book release, obviously went for subtlety. Their headline read, "How Do You Solve a Problem Like Sarah? She's bad news for the GOP -- and everybody else, too." Accompanying it was a photo of her in running shorts used in a June 2009 Runner's World spread. Newsweek's message was clear: You are not to take this woman seriously. Never mind that Runner's Week told me that the photos from that shoot are still under a one-year embargo, and that Newsweek ran the photo without Runner's World's knowledge or permission. No biggie.

On "Hardball," Chris Matthews, who's still recovering from that bizarre bout of restless leg syndrome that suddenly befell him last year, actually had the audacity to say of the attention Palin is getting for her book release, "I've never seen hype like this." Apparently, the overwrought sensationalism of the Denver Democratic National Convention, where Obama stood amidst faux White House columns, under fireworks, next to Sheryl Crow and Will.i.am -- or "Hype and Change 2008" -- is but a distant memory to Matthews.

In another segment, on another night, Matthews and MSNBC reporter Norah O'Donnell decided that the crowd at a Palin book signing was, well, too white. "I think there is a tribal aspect to this thing. In other words, white vs. other people," said Matthews, ever the sociology scholar.

 

The leftwing media has long tried to ascribe a scary nativism to Palin, who best described the phenomenon during her recent Oprah interview, when she said that Katie Couric had looked at her like she was part of some kind of nomadic tribe from Alaska. Asking her what she read was like asking her if she read.

Others have tried to carefully feign disinterest in the hopes that, much like the flu, disinterest is contagious. The Washington Post published a book review by Ana Marie Cox, in which she smugly "confesses" she didn't have time to read the entire book, "It's terrible, I know, but if I didn't read it all, neither can Sarah Palin claim to have completely written it." In that one sentence, we know that Cox's time constraints excuse wasn't the issue. She simply wanted to be able to write in a book review that Palin's book didn't make her to-do list. Her anti-review review is fine for Cox, but what's the Washington Post's excuse for publishing it?

Others still have tried to dismiss Palin as some would-be celebrity, who -- how dare she?! -- had the gumption and considerable bad taste to write a book. And promote it. (Irony alert: Al Gore has his own television network.)

A radio host asked me recently if the perception that she is more "human interest story than person-of-action" will harm her in the long run. The fact is, there is no one on the planet more "human interest story than person-of-action" than our current president, who penned his terribly self-satisfied autobiography at the ripe old age of 43, while a mere state legislator.

But we don't see the liberal press fretting over President Obama's penchant for self-promotion. They coo when he goes on Letterman to talk about all the cool stuff that happens when you're president -- during a recession and a war. And they applaud his Nobel Peace Prize, for which he was nominated after just 12 days in office. And they rally around his embarrassing Olympic bid, which actually argued that the IOC should choose Chicago so that he and Michelle could stop and see the fam while in their old neighborhood. Obama's "me, me, me, me, me, me, me" aria is fine. But Palin's plain-speaking and honest stab at defending herself against her seething critics is schlocky showboating and shameless self-promotion. Please.

Regardless of all of these tired wheezes and coughs at trying to suppress Sarah Palin, she seems totally immune in every way. She'll make a fortune on this book; she'll continue to grab headlines; and she'll remain an influential figure within the party. The liberal media just hasn't realized it yet, but when it comes to Palin, there's no such thing as bad publicity. It sure is fun to see them try, though.

S. E. Cupp :: Townhall.com Columnistby S. E. Cupp

Stop Senate ObamaCare Cloture Vote On Saturday! Why This Is Important… Please Read

Kill the BILL Today - Stop ObamaCare In The Senate!

Alert: We Have the Chance to Kill Socialized Medicine TODAY (by Saturday)

Reid and Senate Democrats announced they will file cloture today on the motion to proceed regarding ObamaCare. He will go to the floor for cloture on the motion to proceed to a House-passed tax bill, to begin the Senate debate on ObamaCare.

This vote will require 60 votes and will likely occur on Saturday.

Several Democrats have said they will not vote for the bill. Remember cloture is a three day process - file on day one, day two is an intervening day and the vote occurs on day three. Reid is using a House-passed tax bill as a "shell" allowing him to offer up the language he released tonight as a substitute amendment if he gets cloture on the motion to proceed.

Reid’s Senate version of ObamaCare calls for:

  • Hiding the $1.8 Trillion price tag by not accounting for actual costs; over 2.5 Trillion+ in actual costs.
  • Major reductions in Medicare benefits to Seniors.
  • Major Tax Increases on every American to pay for it all…  The Bill mentions tax increases 183 times.
  • Reid called for increasing the Medicare payroll tax.

Senator Gregg said earlier yesterday on GretaWire that the actual cost of the Pelosicare Bill is $3 Trillion Dollars and it will end up as single-payer socialized medicine and will ultimately cut a Trillion in Medicare… and that HarryCare won’t be any better

Will the Health Care Bill Pass? - Video

If we can stop the bill today… everyone will have until after the Senate’s Thanksgiving Break to continue reading and to understand what all is in the bill.

Everyone that has read or is in the know says it is a bad bill with affects for all Americans and still leaves millions uninsured.

There are many frightening measures and fees in both HarryCare and PelosiCare that will ultimately be merged and forced on us if we don’t stop this bill and the best time to stop it is today, when they will need 60 votes instead of only 51.  Publicly funded abortions, ultimate single-payer socialized medicine, huge tax increases, rationing, huge Medicare cuts, the implementation of implanted RFID chips, access to your financial records, more loss of freedoms and much more… not to mention the financial cost that we cannot absorb.

The Dems will try to sell us on “this vote will just open debate on Healthcare”.  In reality this vote will get the bill passed because they will then go to reconciliation where they just need to 51 votes to control 1/6 of the American Economy after no reform to America’s healthcare.

Please Fax, Call and Email your state’s Senators and as many others as you can!!  And if you can get to your Senator’s office or the Capital… even better!

United States Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121 or (202) 225-3121

Senators from your State.

or have the faxes sent for you:

Select Below to Tell the Senate to REJECT 'ObamaCare':
Select Here - SEND YOUR FAXES NOW!

If you are not sure of what is at stake… take your lunch break and watch these videos below: (IT IS IMPORTANT AND TODAY IS THE DAY TO FIGHT BACK):

STOP OBAMACARE – Part 1 - Video

STOP OBAMACARE – Part 2 - Video

STOP OBAMACARE – Part 3 - Video

STOP OBAMACARE (Including Just Some of the New Hidden Taxes) – Part 4 - Video

STOP OBAMACARE (The Murtha Effect) – Part 5 - Video

STOP OBAMACARE – Part  6 - Video

Earlier this week we got a sneak peek of rationing… suddenly suggesting that women now not start their getting mammograms until they are 50 (instead of 40) and then only getting them every other year, instead of every year. (I am not a proponent of mammograms and many things that Big Pharma and the AMA push… but this is was a clear test of rationing!)  Now this is a suggestion… in the future it will be a mandate… and this truly is only the beginning.

Thursday, November 19, 2009

What A List… The Fundamental Transformation of America… It Matters!

The Fundamental Transformation of America - When Obama wrote a book and said he was mentored as a youth by Frank, (Frank Marshall Davis) an avowed Communist,   people said it didn't matter.  (We all know that our associations always matter!)

When it was discovered that his grandparents, were strong socialists, sent Obama's mother to a socialist school, introduced Frank Marshall Davis to young Obama, People said it didn't matter.

When people found out that he was enrolled as a Muslim child in school and his father and step father were both Muslims, people said it didn't matter.When he wrote in another book he authored “I will stand with them (Muslims) should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.” people said it didn't matter.

When he admittedly, in his book,  said he chose Marxist friends and professors in college,people said it didn't matter.

When he traveled to Pakistan , after college on an unknown national passport,people said it didn't matter.

When he sought the endorsement of the Marxist party in 1996 as he ran for the Illinois Senate,people said it doesn't matter.

When he sat in a Chicago Church for twenty years and listened to a preacher spew hatred for America and preach black liberation theology, people said it didn't matter.

When an independent Washington organization, that tracks senate voting records, gave him the distinctive title as the "most liberal senator", people said it didn't matter.

When the Palestinians in Gaza , set up a fund raising telethon to raise money for his election campaign,people said it didn't matter.

When his voting record supported gun control, people said it didn't matter.

When he refused to disclose who donated money to his election campaign, as other candidates had done, people said it didn't matter.

When he received endorsements from people like Louis Farrakhan and Mummar Kadaffi and Hugo Chavez, people said it didn't matter.

When it was pointed out that he was a total, newcomer and had absolutely no experience at anything except community organizing,people said it didn't matter.

When he chose friends and acquaintances such as Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn who were revolutionary radicals,people said it didn't matter.

When his voting record in the Illinois senate and in the U.S. Senate came into question,people said it didn't matter.

When he refused to wear a flag, lapel pin and did so only after a public outcry,people said it didn't matter.

When people started treating him as a Messiah and children in schools were taught to sing his praises,people said it didn't matter.

When he stood with his hands over his groin area for the playing of the National Anthem and Pledge of Allegiance,people said it didn't matter.

When he surrounded himself in the White house with advisors who were pro gun control, pro abortion, pro homosexual marriage and wanting to curtail freedom of speech to silence the opposition people said it didn't matter.

When he aired his views on abortion, homosexuality and a host of other issues, people said it didn't matter.

When he said he favors sex education in Kindergarten, including homosexual indoctrination, people said it didn't matter.

When his background was either scrubbed or hidden and nothing could be found about him,people said it didn't matter.

When the place of his birth was called into question, and he refused to produce a birth certificate,people said it didn't matter.

When he had an association in Chicago with Tony Rezco, a man of questionable character, who is now in prison and had helped Obama to a sweet deal on the purchase of his home, people said it didn't matter.

When it became known that George Soros, a multi-billionaire Marxist, spent a ton of money to get him elected,people said it didn't matter.

When he started appointing czars that were radicals, revolutionaries, and even avowed Marxist/Communist,people said it didn't matter.

When he stood before the nation and told us that his intentions were to "fundamentally transform this nation" into something else, people said it didn't matter.

When it became known that he had trained ACORN workers in Chicago and served as an attorney for ACORN,people said it didn't matter.

When he appointed a cabinet members and several advisors who were tax cheats and socialist,people said it didn't matter.

When he appointed a science czar, John Holdren, who believes in forced abortions, mass sterilizations and seizing babies from teen mothers,people said it didn't matter.

When he appointed Cass Sunstein as regulatory czar and he believes in "Explicit Consent", harvesting human organs with out family consent, and to allow animals to be represented in court, while banning all hunting,people said it didn't matter.

When he appointed Kevin Jennings, a homosexual, and organizer of a group called gay, lesbian, straight, Education network, as safe school czar and it became known that he had a history of bad advice to teenagers,people said it didn't matter.

When he appointed Mark Lloyd as diversity czar and he believed in curtailing free speech, taking from one and giving to another to spread the wealth and admires Hugo Chavez,people said it didn't matter.

When Valerie Jarrett was selected as Obama's senior White House advisor and she is an avowed Socialist,people said it didn't matter.

When Anita Dunn, White House Communications director said Mao Tse Tung was her favorite philosopher and the person she turned to most for inspiration, people said it didn't matter.

When he appointed Carol Browner as global warming czar, and she is a well known socialist working on Cap and trade as the nations largest tax, people said it doesn't matter.

When he appointed Van Jones, an ex-con and avowed Communist as green energy czar, who since had to resign when this was made known, people said it didn't matter.

When Tom Daschle, Obama's pick for health and human services secretary could not be confirmed, because he was a tax cheat, people said it didn't matter.

When as president of the United States , he bowed to the King of Saudi Arabia ,people said it didn't matter.

When he traveled around the world criticizing America and never once talking of her greatness,people said it didn't matter.

When his actions concerning the middle-east seemed to support the Palestinians over Israel , our long time friend,People said it doesn't matter.

When he took American tax dollars to  resettle thousands of Palestinians from Gaza to the United States ,people said it doesn't matter.

When he upset the Europeans by removing plans for a missile defense system against the Russians,People said it doesn't matter.

When he played politics in Afghanistan by not sending troops the Field Commanders said we had to have to win, people said it didn't matter.

When he started spending us into a debt that was so big we could not pay it off, people said it didn't matter.

When he took a huge spending bill under the guise of stimulus and used it to pay off organizations, unions and individuals  that got him elected, people said it didn't matter.

When he took over insurance companies, car companies, banks, etc people said it didn't matter.

When he took away student loans from the banks and put it  through the government, people said it didn't matter.

When he designed plans to take over the health care system and put it under government control, people said it didn't matter.

When he set into motion a plan to take over the control of all energy in the United States through Cap and Trade,people said it didn't matter.

When he finally completed his transformation of America  into a Socialist State, people finally woke up.... but it was too late.  It all mattered!!

Any one of these things, in and of themselves does not really matter.  But.... when you add them up one by one you get a phenomenal score that points to the fact that our Obama is determined to make America over into a Marxist/Socialist society.  All of the items in the preceding paragraphs have been put into place.  All can be documented very easily.  Before you disavow this, do an internet search.  The last paragraph alone is not yet cast in stone.  You and I will write that paragraph.  Will it read as above or will it be a more happy ending for most of America ?  Personally, I like happy endings.

If you are an Obama Supporter, please do not be angry with me because I think your president is a socialist but there are too many facts supporting this.  If you seek the truth you will be richer for it.  Don't just belittle the opposition.  Search for the truth.  I did.  Democrats, Republicans, Independents, Constitutionalist, Libertarians and what have you, we all need to pull together.  We all must pull together or watch the demise of a society that we all love and cherish.  If you are a religious person, pray for our nation.

Never before in the history of America have we been confronted with problems so huge that the very existence of our country is in jeopardy.  Don't rely on most television news and what you read in the newspapers for the truth.  Search the internet.  Yes, there is a lot of bad information, lies and distortions there too but you are smart enough to spot the fallacies.  Newspapers are a dying breed.  They are currently seeking a bailout from the government.  Do you really think they are about to print the truth?  Obama praises all the television news networks except Fox who he has waged war against.  There must be a reason.  He does not call them down on any specifics, just a general battle against them.  If they lie, he should call them out on it but he doesn't. 

Please, find the truth, it will set you free.

Our biggest enemy is not China , Russia , Iran ; no, our biggest enemy is a contingent of politicians in Washington DC .

Source:  AARP Blog

"America will always do the right thing, but only after failing at everything else." - Winston Churchill

Normally this is exactly what everyone would say when Obama is defeated and removed from office after the next presidential election.  But this is not “normal”!

The problem this time is that we (the American people) are waaay down the road on many things like the loss of rights, Agenda 21, Climate Change, destroying our Healthcare System and over our eyeballs in debt.  And it is not Obama alone… We are fight a machine that has waited and worked  for years to be in power with everything aligned… Wade Rathke and ACORN,  Stern and SEIU, George Soros, the CFR, the Bilderberg Group and other International Banker who control the Federal Reserve, the United Nations, internal thugs from Chicago and who knows who else but list goes on…

And the question is… Do we have what it takes to stand up??  And why haven’t we??

We have options of legislation, judicial review, impeachment and you can bet our Founding Fathers would be collecting the feathers by now…

Federally Created Dust Bowl in CA – Another Test Crisis ??

CA Central Vally Despair flows as fields go dry and unemployment rises

In a state that is virtually bankrupt… the number one on the list of American states ready to fail, while having the eighth largest economy and largest population in the Country, how could the Federal government allow, no order the water turned off, to the San Joaquin Valley to save a minnow??

In July, Alana Semuels wrote for the Los Angeles Times:

MENDOTA, CALIF. — Water built the semi-arid San Joaquin Valley into an agricultural powerhouse, the breadbasket of America. Drought and irrigation battles now threaten to turn huge swaths of it into a dust bowl.

Farmers have idled half a million acres of once-productive ground and are laying off legions of farmhands. That's sending joblessness soaring in a region already plagued by chronic poverty.

Water scarcity looms as a major challenge to California's $37-billion agricultural industry, which has long relied on imported water to bloom. The consequences of closing the spigot are already evident here in rural Fresno County, about 230 miles north of Los Angeles. Lost farm revenue will top $900 million in the San Joaquin Valley this year, said UC Davis economist Richard Howitt, who estimates that water woes will cost the recession-battered region an additional 30,000 jobs in 2009.

Standing in a parched field in 104-degree heat, valley farmer Joe Del Bosque pointed to cracked earth where tomatoes should be growing. He didn't bother this year because he can't get enough water to irrigate them. He's cultivating only about half of the cantaloupe and asparagus that he did in 2007. He has slashed his workforce, and his bills are mounting.

"We can't survive at 10% of our water," said Del Bosque, 60, a white cowboy hat, long sleeves and jeans protecting him from the blistering sun.

CONGRESS CREATED DUST BOWL?

With the unemployment on the rise in the state, 11.5 percent for May, Governor Schwarzenegger last Friday afternoon activated the California Disaster Assistance Act for Fresno County and called for the federal government to make a federal disaster declaration for the county.

But this declaration unlike those used in response to the destruction caused by natural disasters is in response to providing temporary supplemental assistance to local governments and non-profit organizations that supply food and other aid to those who are impacted by the drought statewide. The order also waives the one-week waiting period for unemployment insurance.

Driving through the Central Valley, specifically along Interstate 5, the impact from the combination of the three years of drought is very noticeable as many fields lie fallow and signs dot the former farm lands claiming you are viewing a 'Congress Created Dust Bowl.' Studies estimate that as of May, the lack of water in the San Joaquin Valley, California's Central Valley has cost 35,000 jobs and $830 million in farm revenue.

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The article goes on to say: “U.S. Senators Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein are calling on President Obama to issue a federal disaster declaration for Fresno County to assist the region in obtaining emergency food, job training, crisis counseling, legal services and unemployment assistance. The federal assistance would help thousands of Fresno County residents who have lost their jobs and are struggling to feed their families because of severe drought conditions.

Interesting… because Dianne Feinstein has links to the CFR and Senator Boxer is one of main proponents of Cap and Trade which will lead to the signing of the Copenhagen Climate Bill and trigger the parts of AGENDA 21 that have not already been implemented. – UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs - http://www.un.org/esa/dsd/agenda21/

Dead and Dying–California’s Central Valley Dust Bowl

I took a drive this week from Sacramento to Los Angeles, and had an eye opening experience. Down the entire length of the 5 freeway, we saw not the green luscious fields of produce or green orchards laden with fruit, but dusty dead and dying orchards. Rows after row, acre after acre, miles after mile of them, perfectly formed, perfectly helpless… lifeless.

By way of explanation, these signs dotted the dusty dry roadside: “Congress Created Dust Bowl. Thank You Sacramento!”

My lawn is green. My kids have plenty of water to spray in the yard, yet California’s orchards aren’t getting a drop this year despite the best rainfall in three years and five reservoirs filled to over capacity.

There’s no doubt that we’re in a drought, but why the sudden drop in water availability only for farmers? Are the politicians in Sacramento more concerned about the plethora of city votes than the small handful of agricultural ones? We will all be paying for Sacramento’s blunder. The Central Valley provides up to 8% of the nation’s fresh produce.

Watching the staggering waste just made my heart ache. We had to pull over and take pictures. The contrast with past green was stark—it takes 30 years to build an orchard like this up to full production! Almonds, walnuts, citrus… Why do we have green lawns while these resources are left to die?

—Beetle Blogger

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Politics and Drought In California from NPR

A few weeks ago, Ty and Janet Lompa were doing the unthinkable: cutting down 110 acres of walnut orchards. That’s roughly 10,000 trees and a third of their entire acreage.

“It takes 30 years to get ‘em here,” says Janet Lompa, “and about a minute and a half to knock ‘em down.”

Ty Lompa helped plant many of these trees with his father, and they used to water the orchard with flood irrigation from the project built by the federal government. But when water started to become an issue, “we immediately switched over to micro-irrigation,” says Lompa. “So we have absolutely no runoff.”

But the Lompas’ farm relied entirely on federal water — they have no groundwater of their own. They can keep part of their orchard alive with water they carried over from last year, but the rest can’t be saved.

“You can’t leave trees in the field and just let ‘em die,” Ty Lompa says. “You’re gonna get bugs, you’re gonna get disease, so they have to come down.”

The Lompas are furious because they blame government, not nature, for the death of their trees. And Janet Lompa tells her four children that “the politicians gave it all to the fish” when they ask why there’s no water.

Politics Takes Control

Farmers throughout this region echo the sentiment that politics, not the drought, is the problem. Most of California gets its water from a huge estuary called the Delta, where two big rivers join in the center of the valley. But so much water was being pumped out of the Delta that a tiny smelt there, an endangered species, is disappearing. So late last year, a federal judge ruled that the amount of water being delivered to the south had to be sharply cut back.

In April, in a sweltering tin shed in the middle of the Westland’s water district, about 200 farmers gathered to hear what Tom Birmingham had to say about the crisis. Birmingham is the executive director of the irrigation district. Yes, the drought is a problem, he says, but he believes the much bigger problem is that court ruling.

“Since mid-February, as a result of that biological opinion, we’ve lost approximately 300,000 acre-feet of water. It’s floated out the Golden Gate.”

That means it was given to the fish.

“The state of California has gone from 15 million people when these projects were built 50 years ago, to almost 30 million,” Gary Coehlo says. “And we haven’t added one bit of water, storage, conveyance, dams — anything. Now, the need for water has become greater, and they’re gonna dry us up,” adds Tony Coehlo.

Does any of this make sense?? Would the Federal government really shut off water and cause a dust bowl? Could it really take months and months to hold hearings until one of the major food production areas in America is destroyed? Could a bankrupt State and Federal Government really choose to add thousands upon thousands of people onto the unemployment and welfare rolls? Could a bankrupt State and failing Federal government really choose to cut off a major food supply, causing increases in the cost of groceries to a public that is facing somewhere between 10 and 20% unemployment… on purpose?

I just heard 5 television hosts in past 3 days say they fear that the government plan is to put the American People and America itself into such dire straights that they will beg the government… and then the United Nations to help us and takeover… Have we really become that lethargic and dumbed down that we are willing to let that happen?

Have you heard of and checked the information on Agenda 21 – a treaty signed, brought back and implemented under George W. Bush and Bill Clinton.

Update (Sept 2009): After Sean Hannity's visit, rally and coverage, Senators DeMint and McCain went to the matt to bring water back to the central valley of California. Who stopped them? California Senators Boxer and Feinstein… and was certainly prompted by Speaker Pelosi.

Conservative talk show host Sean Hannity travelled to California’s Central Valley to help bring national attention to the on-going water crisis.

Water activists say after nearly a dozen marches and protests, it’s time to try something different, so last Thursday Hannity broadcasted his national show from a dry, dirt field west of the Fresno/Kings County line.

The Federal government has cut off water to the bread basket of America and refuses to turn it back on.

Since Hannity’s visit Senators DeMint and McCain drafted legislation to get the water flowing…

"Control oil and you control nations; control food and you control the people." …Henry Kissenger, former US Secy of State, member Carlisle Group etc etc

Response 9/23/09:

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U.S. Senate to California Farmers: Drop Dead

Demonstrating once again the moonbat priorities of the Democratic Senate majority, the Senate has voted to screw over hundreds of thousands of farmers and endanger our national food supply for the sake of a two-inch fish that probably isn't endangered anyway.

Because of the ruling of Moonbat Judge Oliver Wanger, millions of gallons of freshwater that could be growing crops and providing livelihoods to hundreds of thousands of people are washing uselessly into the sea. Farmers are facing bankruptcy and tens of thousands are out of work.

California's dingbat senators Dianne Feinstein and Babs "Ma'am" Boxer stood by and did nothing to correct this insanity. It took a Republican from South Carolina, Jim DeMint, to try and rescue California's farmers by proposing an amendment to restore water to the farmers in the San Joaquin valley. Guess what? Senate Demoncrats... including both dingbat senators from California... voted it down. And Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has interfered to keep the water turned off several times before.

Update: Senior Dingbat Dianne Feinstein compares supplying Farmers with water to "Pear Harbor."

Source: Moonbattery

The question needs to be WHY?? Why is our own government shutting off the water to the most fertile areas in California if not all of America?

This is what they do in countries like Venezuala… Iran… or the old Soviet Union, countries run by Obama’s friends!!! Putting the Delta Smelt before people? Creating food shortages so we are more dependant on foreign supplies to push their global agenda or New World Order? Creating an emergency to impose even more control, cut more freedoms and grab more power?

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Feds shut off water to California farms in controversial effort to help threatened species

By NewsWax | Aug 12, 2009

A farming town in California claims that it may disappear due to the United States federal government shutting off water pumps, though the government states the actions are necessary to save several marine species.

In July 2009, action by the Federal Bureau of Reclamation to protect threatened fish stopped irrigation pumping to parts of the California Central Valley causing canals leading into Huron, California and the surrounding areas and the farms that rely on them to lose their primary irrigation source. Unemployment has reached 40% in some areas as the farms have dried up.

California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger stated the action is putting the fish “above the needs of millions of Californians".

Highlighting the city’s plight, Huron Police Chief Frank Steenport stated, “A year from now, [Huron] may not be here.”

In an interview on Tuesday, comedian Paul Rodriguez, the mother of whom owns a farm in the area, criticized the actions of the government and called for President Barack Obama to review the decision. “This used to be an almond orchard. Now all that is left is firewood.”

Laura King Moon, assistant general manager of the State Water Contractors, a nonprofit association of 27 public agencies from across California that purchase water from the government under contract, said “these cuts are crippling on our people and businesses — especially in the Central Valley where farmers are being forced to fallow their land and workers are being laid off. Rather than piecemeal restrictions, we need to balance the needs of the environment and the needs of people with a collective plan for the Delta.”

The National Marine Fisheries Service, an agency within the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, states the water pumping inside central California threatens several marine species. In the Huron area, the delta smelt is specifically targeted.

In defense of the actions, Rod McInnis, the southwest regional director for NOAA’s Fisheries Service stated, “What is at stake here is not just the survival of species but the health of entire ecosystems and the economies that depend on them. We are ready to work with our federal and state partners, farmers and residents to find solutions that benefit the economy, environment and Central Valley families.”

Delta Smelt

Delta smelt, Hypomesus transpacificus, are slender-bodied smelts, about 5 to 7 cm long, of the Osmeridae family. They have a steely blue sheen on the sides and seem almost translucent. Smelts live together in schools and feed on zooplankton (small fishes and invertebrates). One female may lay from 1,400 to 1,800 eggs. Mature unfertilized eggs are about 1 mm.

Habitat

Delta smelt are currently endemic to the Sacramento Delta, California, where it is distributed from the Suisun Bay upstream through the Delta in Contra Costa, Sacramento, San Joaquin, Solano and Yolo counties. The delta smelt is a pelagic (live in the open water column away from the bottom) and euryhaline species (tolerant of a wide salinity range). They have been collected from estuarine waters up to 14 ppt (parts per thousand) salinity.

Life cycle

Most delta smelt live one year and die after their first spawning (semelparous). Delta smelt spawning occurs in spring in river channels and tidally influenced backwater sloughs upstream of the mixing zone (saltwater-freshwater interface). The Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers then transport the delta smelt larvae downstream to the mixing zone, normally located in the Suisun Bay. Young delta smelt then feed and grow in the mixing zone before starting their upstream spawning migration in late fall or early winter.

Delta smelt are preyed upon by larger fish, especially striped bass and largemouth bass which are invasive species in the Sacramento Delta.[1]

Delta smelt used to be a common fish in the Sacramento - San Joaquin rivers estuary. The population is much smaller than historically and the species was listed in 1993 as threatened under the California Endangered Species Act (CESA) and Federal Endangered Species Act (FESA) (Federal Register 58:12863; March 5, 1993). Critical habitat was listed for delta smelt on December 19, 1994 (Federal Register 59:65256). In 2008, the California Fish and Game Commission moved to uplist delta smelt to endangered under CESA.

Court protection

On August 31, 2007, California Federal Judge Oliver Wanger of Federal District Court protected the rare declining fish delta smelt by severely curtailing human use water deliveries at San Joaquin-Sacramento River delta from December to June. [2] It should be noted that these are the pumps at the Banks Pumping Plant that send water to Central and Southern California for agricultural and residential use. As a result of this ruling, large portions of the heavily-agricultural western San Joaquin Valley have been denied water allocations used for farmland irrigation. This, in conjunction with the persistent drought affecting the region, has caused large amounts of farmland to become fallowed.

Source: mensnewsdaily.com

When Khadafi says Obama should remain president forever, they are ‘teargassing’ protesters in Pittsburgh outside the G20 and not reporting it until story appears in British press,Hugo Chavez openly invites Obama to join the Dictator’s Club in his UN speech, and Obama has filled the White House with czars, cabinet members and even a few approved positions with radicals who believe it is okay to nudge the system, control the masses and are filled with ideas like minnows are more important than people… it is past time to take notice!!

“When you control the food supply… you control everything!”…Remember who said that??

The Obama Administration and the radicals in Washington are consistently testing the American People: the TARP and Stimulus swindles, the Patriot Act, Net Neutrality, the Hate Crimes Bill Stuck in with another Bill, the House passing Cap and Trade, the PelosiCare Bill, just the other day HC rationing the announcement that now mammograms are not needed until age 50 and then every other year, no longer securing our borders, taking away our rights... one by one, ludicrous gun laws, even Fed Income Tax (there is nothing in the Constitution that allows Federal Income Tax or Federal Healthcare). If we let go, allow it, or don't remove the officials responsible... we lose - they win!

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SEIU, Obama’s Pet Organization, Targets Non-Union Eagle Scout… As WH Pushes Volunteerism on American Youth???

SEIU Targets Non-Union Eagle Scout

In pursuit of an Eagle Scout badge, Kevin Anderson, 17, has toiled for more than 200 hours hours over several weeks to clear a walking path in an east Allentown park.

Little did the do-gooder know that his altruistic act would put him in the cross hairs of the city's largest municipal union.
Nick Balzano, president of the local Service Employees International Union, told Allentown City Council Tuesday that the union is considering filing a grievance against the city for allowing Anderson to clear a 1,000-foot walking and biking path at Kimmets Lock Park.
"We'll be looking into the Cub Scout or Boy Scout who did the trails," Balzano told the council.

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SEIU, sister organization to ACORN, and headed up by Andy Stern, the single most frequent visitor to the White House… that has Obama’s ear and whose organization beats up anyone who speaks up against either groups agenda now persecutes Boy Scout… Eagle Scout, volunteerism, America’s Youth…

What is it going to be like when they are in charge? What is it going to take for us to stand up?? What would our Founding Fathers have done??

We better question ourselves and figure the answer to those questions quickly… before we no longer have the choice or opportunity to stand up! Our Rights, Our Traditions, and Common Sense are being attacked Daily!

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Ho Ho No: Postal Service Drops Santa Letters Program

God Rest Ye Merry Merchants

Ho Ho No: Postal Service Drops Santa Letters Program

AP - Nov. 18: Santa Claus at Santa Claus House in North Pole, Alaska.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Thousands of starry-eyed children all over the world are writing letters to the jolly man at the North Pole this holiday season, but they will not likely get a response from Santa Claus or his helpers.

The U.S. Postal Service is dropping a popular effort begun in 1954 in the small Alaska town of North Pole, where volunteers open and respond to thousands of letters addressed to Santa each year. Replies come with North Pole postmarks.

Postal Service officials said they are tightening rules in such programs nationwide after a postal worker in Maryland recognized a volunteer in the agency's Operation Santaprogram as a registered sex offender. The postal worker interceded before the individual could answer a child's letter, but the Postal Service viewed the episode as a big enough scare to make changes to the program.

People in North Pole are incensed by the change, likening the Postal Service to the Grinch trying to steal Christmas. The letter program is a revered holiday tradition in North Pole, where light posts are curved and striped like candy canes and streets have names such as Kris Kringle Drive and Santa Claus Lane. Volunteers in the letter program even sign the response letters as Santa's elves and helpers.

North Pole Mayor Doug Isaacson agreed that caution is necessary to protect children. But he's outraged the North Pole program should be affected by a sex offender's actions on the East Coast — and he thinks it's wrong that locals just found out about the change in recent days.

"It's Grinchlike that the Postal Service never informed all the little elves before the fact," he said. "They've been working on this for how long?"

The Postal Service began restricting its policies in such programs in 2006, including requiring volunteers to show identification.

But the Maryland incident involving the sex offender prompted additional changes, even forcing the agency to briefly suspend the Operation Santa program last year in New York and Chicago.

The agency now prohibits volunteers from having access to children's family names and addresses, spokeswoman Sue Brennan said. The Postal Service instead redacts the last name and addresses on each letter and replaces the addresses with codes that match computerized addresses known only to the post office — and leaves it up to individual post offices if they want to go through the time-consuming effort to shield the information.

Anchorage-based agency spokeswoman Pamela Moody said dealing with the tighter restrictions is not feasible in Alaska.

"It's always been a good program, but we're in different times and concerned for the privacy of the information," she said.

Moody stressed that kids around the world can still send letters to Santa Claus. The Postal Service still runs the giant Operation Santa Program in which children around the world can have their letters to Santa answered, and the restrictions do not affect private organizations running their own letter efforts.

But what will change are the generically addressed letters to "Santa Claus, North Pole" that for years have been forwarded to volunteers in the Alaska town. That program will stop, unless changes are made before Christmas.

Losing the Santa-letter cache is a blow to the community of 2,100 people, who pride themselves on their Christmas ties. Huge tourist attractions here include an everything-Christmas store, Santa Claus House, and the post office, where visitors can get a hand-stamped postmark on their postcards and packages if they ask for it.

Another issue raising the hackles on some locals is separate recent change. Anchorage — 260 miles to the south — is now processing the thousands of requests for North Pole postal cancellation marks on Christmas cards and packages from outside the state. It's a job long handled by nearby Fairbanks, about 15 miles (25 kilometers) away.

Moody said with as many as 800,000 items processed last year, Fairbanks is not equipped to handle the overload. Anchorage is the only city in Alaska with the high-speed equipment necessary to do the job without delay. Moody disagreed with the mayor's belief that the process creates a false postmark.

Santa Claus House, built like a Swiss chalet and chock full of all items Christmas, sells more than 100,000 letters from Santa and one of the lures is the postmark.

Operations manager Paul Brown believes his business will be affected under changes to the volunteer Santa letter program because tens of thousands of letters are addressed to Santa Claus House, North Pole, Alaska.

Those letters will still be forwarded to volunteers but it's unclear yet if anything will be done with them. Those intercepted by the postal service will probably eventually be shredded.

Brown worries about misinterpretations of the changes, such as people believing it's no longer possible to get individual pieces of mail graced with the North Pole postmark.

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Reid Unveils 2,074-Page Health Bill. Do You Think Congress Will Read It?

Harry Reid unveiled his $849 billion health-care bill tonight. It weighs in at 2,074 pages. Keith Hennessey runs through the tax hikes in the bill:

The following is from the Joint Tax Committee estimate of the revenue effects of the Reid bill. I have listed provisions with major revenue effects (+$20 B / 10 years) and a few others that have significant policy or political impacts. There are some smaller changes as well, which you can see for yourself in the 3-page document. All revenue figures are revenues raised over the ten-year period 2010-2019.

1. 40% excise tax on health coverage in excess of $8,500 (individuals) / $23,000 (families). Amounts are indexed for inflation by CPI-U + 1% – begins in 2013 – $149 B tax increase

2. Additional 0.5% Medicare (Hospital Insurance) tax on wages in excess of $200,000 ($250,000 for joint filers) – begins in 2013 – $54 B tax increase

3. Impose annual fee on manufacturers and importers of branded drugs – begins in 2010 – $22 B tax increases

4. Impose annual fee on manufacturers and importers of certain medical devices – begins in 2010 – $19 B tax increase

5. Cut in half (to $500K) the amount of an executive’s compensation that a health plan can deduct from its corporate income taxes – begins in 2013 – $600 million tax increase

6. Impose 5% excise tax on cosmetic surgery and similar procedures – begins for surgery in 2010 – $6 B tax increase!

In total the bill would raise taxes by $370 B over ten years.

Analysis on the tax hikes from Hennessey at the link. Reid has decided to raise the Medicare payroll tax on individuals making more than $106,800; perhaps not the smartest way to boost employment.

The CBO report says the bill would save $127 billion over 10 years--but as Allahpundit notes "$127 billion over 10 years sounds like a lot until you remember that $176 billion was October’s monthly deficit." We still haven't gotten a look at the CBO report to see just how bad the Medicare cuts will be [Update: The CBO (download here) reports Medicare will be cut by $491 billion over 10 years], but tell grandma and grandpa not to worry: Under this bill they'll get $500 in 2010 when Harry Reid just so happens to be up for reelection.

The bill also allows taxpayer-funding for abortions through the public health insurance plan and the health insurance exchanges; the language is similar to the Capps amendment that tried to conceal federal funding of abortion through an accounting gimmick (see here). National Right to Life Committee calls the amendment "completely unacceptable."

Senator Mitch McConnell said in a statement: “This bill has been behind closed doors for weeks. Now, it’s America’s turn, and this will not be a short debate. Higher premiums, tax increases and Medicare cuts to pay for more government—the American people know that is not reform.”

Posted by John McCormack on November 18, 2009 10:59 PM – The Weekly Standard: The Blog

And if we let them take this monstosity to Conference… in other words, proceed… it will then be loaded up with whatever horrors are in the Pelosi verson before the final vote… but we won’t get to read it again.

For God Sake America… Stand up and Stop This… Hasn’t TARP, the Stimulus Bill, The GM…Bank…and AIG bailouts, the disastrous recovery programs and etc etc been enough to warn us?? We are out of time to wait and see…!!

Please Read the Bill Posted online and then Contact your Senator, the moderates on both sides and all the Democratic Senators… especially the Blue Dogs and known teeterers.

United States Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121

Senators from your State.

ObamaCare will make things worse for everyone… It has nothing to do with healthcare reform… it is one of the major steps in the Obama Administration’s Redistribution of Wealth Plan!!

The time to stand up is now… If the Senate Version of the ObamaCare Bill Passes the Vote this Saturday… the vote to take the next step… it will be ‘almost impossible’ to stop it… and the America you know will change forever!!

Please wake-up, stand-up and fight America… Please!!

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Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Continental Congress 2009

Just Received This From One of My As A Mom Group Friends…

My Fellow Americans,

I am one of the Continental Congress delegates for the State of Oregon, each delegate was elected through elections which were held on October 10, 2009, we are in session at present in St. Charles, ILL, and you can watch the live stream feed at www.cc2009.us or at www.freedom.tv.

Please make this viral to all of your contacts in your email address book, the people of this Nation need to hear this message and need to know that there is a body out there that is working very hard on preserving our FREEDOM, LIBERTY AND THE PURSUIT TO HAPPIENESS.

Please give us your input and ideas, each state has a elected delegate you can communicate with, please go to our site and click on the US map and on your respective state at www.cc2009.us. Thank you, your humble servant, God Bless America.

Margarete Murphy
OR-Delegate CC2009

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The Charge Of "Treason" Filed Against President Obama In US District Court, Washington (09-346-RCL)
PRESS RELEASE: November 17th, 2009 by American Grand Jury
Lt. Commander Walter Fitzpatrick III levels charge in an effort to avert what he described as a pending civil war.

American Grand Jury has incorporated the Fitzpatrick criminal complaint within its Presentments. The Presentments were served on the United States District Court for the District of Columbia on July 2nd, 2009. The Presentments are still pending before Chief Judge Royce Lamberth. Two Orders, a Motion to Reconsider, and a Response have been issued. The American Grand Jury Response to the Court's 2nd Order was filed in late October. The Response is currently pending before the Court.

If acted upon, the Grand Jury Presentments would require that Obama be criminally indicted for fraud as to "Eligibility" and "Treason" per the Fitzpatrick complaint.

American Grand Jury is actively pursuing the serving of Presentments in a number of United States District Courts in different States.

Please visit http://ProsecuteObama.org for further details.

Comment:

Freeman - Regardless of what anyone may think about the so-called American Grand Jury, patriots CAN sign a real petition for impeachment at: http://www.impeachobamacampaign.com/

today, and the proceedings can commence once control of Congress is stripped from the radical-left Dems in2010.

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National Debt Now Tops $12 Trillion Headed to $14 Trillion – Chinese Telling Us Not to Pass ObamaCare… Please Read and Watch

If you are not a financial expert, like me, please watch these video below…

During Obama’s Asia Visit… the Chinese asked Obama how we were going to pay for Obamacare… and encouraged him to abandon it. They also did not bite on his sales pitch for Cap and Trade… even after Obama’s embarrassing bow to the Emperor of Japan. Newspapers in Japan are not printing photo of Obama’s bow because of the weakness it shows.

National Debt Now Tops $12 Trillion

National Debt Now Tops $12 Trillion

It's another record-high for the U.S. National Debt which today topped the $12-trillion mark. Divided evenly among the U.S. population, it amounts to $38,974.34 for every man, woman and child.

Technically, the debt hit the new high yesterday, but it was posted on the Treasury Department website just after 3:00 p.m. ET today. The exact calculation of the debt is a 16-digit tongue-twister and red-ink tsunami: $12,031,299,186,290.07
This latest milestone in the ever-rising journey of the National Debt comes less than eight months after it hit $11 trillion for the first time. The latest high-point is not unexpected, considering the federal deficit for the just-ended 2009 fiscal year hit an all-time high at $1.42-trillion – more than triple the previous year's record high.

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Senator Gregg said earlier today on GretaWire that the actual cost of the Pelosicare Bill is $3 Trillion Dollars and it will end up as single-payer socialized medicine and will ultimately cut a Trillion in Medicare…

Will the Health Care Bill Pass? - Video

Senator Gregg says keep the bill out of Conference… Keep them from voting to take the Bill to the Next Step!!

And do you ever wonder why the Healthcare Bill is being crammed down out throats no matter what Americans want? It is SEIU… the Unions who over promised and now need the government to bail them out. Andy Stern of SEIU has been to the White 22-times… to lobby!
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