WHAT THE MEDIA WILL NEVER TELL YOU ABOUT OBAMA – Part 2

Read: WHAT THE MEDIA WILL NEVER TELL YOU ABOUT OBAMA – Part 1 If You Haven’t

By AJ - Hat Tip to: MJ & Terresa Monroe-Hamilton

A glimpse into Obama’s background, pals and the people who surround him tell us more about who this man really is and why he has put America on such a destructive path.

In Part 1, we discussed Obama’s transformation of America through his actions as President. Now let’s explore some of the real facts about Obama’s upbringing that the media will never tell you.

OBAMA’S BACKGROUND, PALS AND THOSE WHO SURROUND HIM:

Who raised Obama and influenced his ideology and perceptions? For most of us, it begins with our parents. For Obama, however, his father was absent and his mother, a devout Marxist, shipped him off to Hawaii while she remained in Indonesia.

Being raised by his Marxist grandparents, Obama’s grandfather ensured that his mentor would be an influential member of the Communist Party who also happened to be a pornographer and drug user. From age 9 to 18, Obama was mentored by Frank Marshall Davis, Communist Party member number CP47544, who was a hardcore Stalinist with a 600-page FBI file that identified him as being on the FBI’s Security Index.

Obama’s mentor was a subversive, a Communist, a Stalinist – an America-hater through and through.

How do we know this?

"THE UNVETTED" presented by America's Survival, Inc. & AB INDEPENDENT PRODUCTIONS

Investigative journalist’s Trevor Loudon and Cliff Kincaid did what the lamestream media refused to do (most in lamestream may already know Obama’s background, but they will never tell you the truth about him and, as you know, they continue to promote Obama as something he is not).

In 2007, Gerald Horne, a historian at the University of Houston, gave a speech that made the connection between Obama and his childhood mentor, Frank Marshall Davis. Trevor Loudon discovered Mr. Horne’s speech in 2008 while he was researching Obama’s background. Gerald Horne stated:

"...in Hawaii was an African-American poet and journalist by the name of Frank Marshall Davis, who was certainly in the orbit of the CP (Communist Party) -- if not a member -- and who was born in Kansas and spent a good deal of his adult life in Chicago, before decamping to Honolulu in 1948 at the suggestion of his good friend (and Communist Party member) Paul Robeson. Eventually, he befriended another family -- a Euro-American family -- that had migrated to Honolulu from Kansas and a young woman from this family eventually had a child with a young student from Kenya East Africa who goes by the name of Barack Obama, who retracing the steps of Davis eventually decamped to Chicago. In his best selling memoir ‘Dreams From My Father', the author speaks warmly of an older black poet, he identifies simply as "Frank" as being a decisive influence in helping him to find his present identity as an African-American...."

Obama wrote about his mentor, “Frank”, 22 times in his autobiographical book, “Dreams From My Father”.

Investigative journalist Cliff Kincaid decided it was best to go to a Communist to find out whether Frank Marshall Davis was Obama’s childhood mentor. He spoke to Professor Kathryn Takara of the University of Hawaii at Manoa because she knew and wrote about Frank Marshall Davis. Cliff asked her if the “Frank” in Obama’s book is Frank Marshall Davis. She confirmed that, indeed, it is Frank Marshall Davis.

Cliff also interviewed Frank’s biographer, John Edgar Tidwell, who confirmed that Frank Marshall Davis was a member of the Communist Party. Cliff submitted a FOIA request to obtain the 600-page FBI file on Frank and has made the entire file available on his website at USA Survival News.

Lamestream media practically glorifies Communists/Socialists, but definitions of these words help to clarify and ground us in order to overcome the media propaganda:

Communist – One held to engage in left-wing, subversive, or revolutionary activities. An adherent or advocate of a Communist government, party, or movement.

Communism – A doctrine based on revolutionary Marxian socialism and Marxism-Leninism that was the official ideology of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. A totalitarian system of government in which a single authoritarian party controls state-owned means of production.

Socialism – A system of society or group living in which there is no private property. A system or condition of society in which the means of production are owned and controlled by the state. Any of various economic and political theories advocating collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods.

Stalinism – The political, economic, and social principles and policies associated with Stalin; especially: the theory and practice of communism developed by Stalin from Marxism-Leninism and marked especially by rigid authoritarianism, widespread use of terror, and often emphasis on Russian nationalism.

Recall that when Obama and his Communist mentor were together in Hawaii when Obama was 9 years old, Hawaii had only become part of the United States on August 21, 1959 – barely over a decade prior. Hawaii was still in its relative infancy in terms of modernizing and adapting to the foundational principles of America. Despite Hawaii’s attempts to diversify, it remains primarily a tourist state.

Suffice it to say that between Obama’s years in Indonesia and Hawaii, he barely experienced “America”. His ideology and perception of the US came from his Communist mentor, his Marxist/Atheist mother and his Marxist grandparents.

Is it any wonder Obama headed off to Occidental College as a hardcore Marxist Revolutionary? This is confirmed by those who knew him at Occidental and even Obama confirms it in his autobiography when he plainly states that he sought out Marxist Professors.

From Barack Obama's own words - He Searched out Marxist (Communist) Professors in college

Why has Obama spent millions of dollars to seal his college records and everything else about him and his past?

Obama Occidental Friend:"Obama Was A Marxist-Leninist,Looked Toward Coming Revolution" PART1

Obama Occidental Friend:"Obama Was A Marxist-Leninist,Looked Toward Coming Revolution" PART2

And what was Obama’s profession when he finished school? Basically, he taught community organizers - only the Socialist/Marxist/Communist/Progressive kind - how to employ Saul Alinsky tactics to achieve their destructive goals.

Obama aligned himself with criminals (e.g. Tony Rezko) and radical political arms of the Democratic Party (e.g. ACORN). He supported them in pushing to expand the Community Reinvestment Act under Bill Clinton which led to the collapse of our housing market, and his only noteworthy legal endeavor as an attorney was pushing the motor-voter act which enhanced voter fraud in America.

Other than that, voluntarily retiring his law license, writing books about himself, and voting “present” most of the time as a Jr. Senator, this Marxist Revolutionary man has literally done little else before holding the highest office in the land. Yet he knew exactly what he and his comrades wanted to do to America and his actions prove it.

Obama: If You've Got A Business, You Didn't Build That

Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, also hardcore Marxists who seek the destruction of America, were at Obama’s side in Chicago and, yes, Bill Ayers has visited the White House more than once. George Soros, international financier and felon who pours millions into NGO’s and community organizers who seek to destroy America, is also a White House visitor. Andy Stern, former SEIU President and devout America-hater won the “most visits to the White House” award under the Obama administration. Stephen Lerner, another SEIU America-hater, visited the White House as he and Frances Fox Piven worked on creating the Occupy Wall Street Astroturf in hopes of accelerating the collapse of America’s economy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDwK-qu_fnE

Bill Ayers: I get up every morning and think...today I'm going to end capitalism

David Axelrod, another ‘red diaper baby’ (i.e. Communist) just as Obama was… Valerie Jarrett, Iranian born hardcore Marxist… Anita Dunn, Mao enthusiast… Van Jones, self-described Communist and author of STORM… Reverend Jeremiah Wright, America-hating Liberation Theologian and hardcore Marxist… and the list goes on. The LA Times still won’t release the Rashid Khalidi tape that undoubtedly shows Obama speaking against Israel.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLzMx3930k4

Van Jones shows his cards at Powershift part 2 of 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCtpLbSIko0

Anita Dunn praises Mao Tse Tung

These are just a few of Obama’s pals and those who surround him. The company he keeps speaks volumes. And, yes, in American culture, people with whom a public official chooses to associate tells us volumes about that person. Coupled with Obama’s actions, we surely know quite a lot about this man.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouQMzHrhfvQ

Obama's Carefully Chosen Friends

The media keeps telling us that Obama is “likeable”, but if they told you the truth about who he is, what he has done and what he really meant when he said he would fundamentally transform America, “likeability” would be the non-issue that it should be because it has nothing to do with anything.

What has become of Obama’s Hope and Change slogan?

“Hope” lies in the fact that ratings for the lamestream propaganda media have plummeted.

The “change” we can believe in is that the vast majority of Americans are seeking the truth elsewhere. We are reading the legislation, the regulations and Executive Orders that Obama spits out at us almost daily. We are informing others, organizing and using the internet to spread the truth.

Ratings are robust for Conservative talk radio, such as Mark Levin and Rush Limbaugh. Online media like Glenn Beck’s Blaze TV and blogs like NoisyRoom, New Zeal and many others have millions of readers/viewers. Yes… even Independents and Democrats are turning to them for real news and facts that American’s want and need to know.

We had no hand in Obama’s background, associations, actions or ideology, but we absolutely have a right to know those things about him as a Presidential candidate. History will record the media’s deliberate cover-up of the truth about Obama.

Many were fooled and taken in by the lies in 2008, but we’re seeing the results, so it’s important to spread the truth. If you encounter kool-aid drinkers, don’t let it get to you. Move on until you find someone who actually uses their brain to think and their eyes to see. There are more of us thinkers than there are kool-aid drinkers who merely regurgitate lamestream media talking points and propaganda.

As Alexis de Tocqueville observed, “America is great because America is good”. We understand that the battle lines are drawn. We truly are fighting an evil that is moving Forward to destroy our culture, our nation and our way of life.

Anyone who knows and comprehends the facts about Obama knows they must vote for Romney/Paul Ryan to end Obama’s reign of terror over America and begin to reverse the transformation.

Victory by a wide margin is essential since we know the groundwork is in place for massive voter fraud and litigation by Obama’s army of lawyers.

We must use the power we have, while we still can, to ensure Obama is not re-elected… and it is your voice and your vote that carries this power. We, our children and future generations will closely examine this time in history.

Fascism or Liberty; it’s time to decide, spread the word and vote on November 6^th to get Obama out of our White House.

After we take back our country, we’ll work on taking back the media and our educational system. J

Video: Famous Painter Jon McNaughton’s Controversial painting… Obamanation (less than 3 mins)  -  Go to interactive site

TAKE THE CHALLENGE… go to www.JonMcNaughton.com

Related:

What the Media Will Never Tell You About Obama – Part 1

Barack Obama's communist connections (May 26, 2008)

http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/vernon/080526

The Frank Marshall Davis Cover-Up Is Over (Aug 27, 2008)

http://www.aim.org/aim-column/the-frank-marshall-davis-cover-up-is-over/

Why Obama's Communist Connections Are Not Headlines (Oct 10, 2008)

http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/10/why_obamas_communist_connectio.html

Obama czar's [John Holdren] shocking communist connections (Mar 03, 2010)

[John Holdren] Edited publication whose founders allegedly fed secrets to Soviet Union:  http://www.wnd.com/2010/03/126872/

Obama's Communist Connections Revisited (Aug 15, 2011)

http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-652604

Connecting the Obama-Communist Dots (Nov 13, 2011)

http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/11/connecting_the_obama-communist_dots.html

An Obama Friend And His Communist Connection (Mar 14, 2012)

http://news.investors.com/article/604399/201203141851/obama-ally-accepts-communist-award.htm

"THE UNVETTED" presented by America's Survival, Inc & AB INDEPENDENT PRODUCTIONS (Aug 19, 2012)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWKOhA9s7as

Getting ready for a wave of coal-plant shutdowns (Aug 19, 2011)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/getting-ready-for-a-wave-of-coal-plant-shutdowns/2011/08/19/gIQAzkZ0PJ_blog.html

Legislating Fascism – Six States & One City Are Now Full-On-Fascist… with More to Come (Sep 05, 2011)

http://noisyroom.net/blog/2011/09/05/legislating-fascism-%e2%80%93-six-states-one-city-are-now-full-on-fascist%e2%80%a6-with-more-to-come/

‘Forward for Communism!’: Is Obama‘s New ’Forward’ Slogan Really a Coincidence? (May 03, 2012)

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/forward-for-communism-is-obamas-new-forward-slogan-really-a-coincidence/

The History of the Department of Homeland Security’s Ammunition Purchases (Aug 25, 2012)

http://theintelhub.com/2012/08/26/the-history-of-the-department-of-homeland-securitys-ammunition-purchases/

Communist Party USA (CPUSA) Says Re-electing Obama is “Absolutely Essential” (June 27, 2012)

http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/print-friendly/47655

What Are The Chances? Obama, Jarrett, and Axelrod, All Connected to Communist Frank Marshall Davis (Aug 9, 2012)

http://askmarion.wordpress.com/2012/08/09/what-are-the-chances-obama-jarrett-and-axelrod-all-connected-to-communist-frank-marshall-davis/

WHITE HOUSE INSIDER: “We Got One Last Chance Here To Make It Right” (Aug 10, 2012)

http://askmarion.wordpress.com/2012/08/10/white-house-insider-we-got-one-last-chance-here-to-make-it-right/

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Which One Is Your Neighbor?

Map Of FEMA Camps: Find The One Nearest You!

Which one is your neighbor? Do you consider FEMA Camps an undesirable neighbor? How many are in your neighborhood?

Preparing for What is Coming as Government is Activating Fema Camps Across U.S.

-->  Single state defies Obama detention plan <--

How about your state?

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DHS Announces Halloween Checkpoints In Tennessee To Keep Children Safe

DHS Announces Halloween Checkpoints In Tennessee To Keep Children Safe

Following the announcement that TSA agents would be involved in manning highway checkpoints in Tennessee, the State’s Homeland Security Commissioner said yesterday that a raft of new “security checkpoints” would be in place over the Halloween period to “keep roadways safe for trick-or-treaters”.

Well, if it’s ‘for the children’, who are we to kick up a fuss?

“State Troopers will be conducting safety checkpoints, sobriety roadblocks, saturation patrols and other enforcement techniques to look for aggressive or impaired drivers,” over the next few days, in order to “keep roadways safe for trick-or-treaters,” according to Department of Safety and Homeland Security Commissioner Bill Gibbons, whose office’s role includes “terrorism prevention”.

Since the Jackson Sun has already announced where the checkpoints will be located, enabling any bad guys to avoid them, is this really about keeping the kids safe or is it about revenue generation?

States raise much-needed cash from impounding vehicles from unlicensed drivers, but legal precedent dictates that the checkpoints would be in violation of the 4th amendment and therefore unconstitutional unless “public safety” can be cited as a pretext.

Hence, they’re labeled DUI checkpoints and every traveler has their protection against unreasonable searches and seizures violated.

If it’s “for the children,” then the constitution is null and void.

Apparently, because one person was killed in a car crash in Tennessee last Halloween, that justifies the bill of rights being discarded in favor of Soviet-style checkpoints.

In reality, this represents another example of how Homeland Security has stepped way beyond its mandate and is becoming a literal occupying force in America.

Earlier this month, it was announced that Transportation Security Administration officials would be manning highway checkpoints in Tennessee targeting truck drivers.

After public outrage, the TSA attempted to neutralize the controversy by claiming that the inspections were carried out by State Troopers (the TSA agents were there to try to recruit truck drivers into becoming snitches for the ‘See Something, Say Something’ campaign), and that the checkpoints were merely temporary.

In reality, the program was the latest phase of the TSA’s rapidly expanding VIPR program, under which TSA agents have been deployed to shake down Americans at everywhere from bus depots, to ferry terminals, to train stations, in one instance conducting pat downs of passengers, including children, who had already completed their journey when arriving in Savannah.

So let’s not concern ourselves with the fact that Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano admitted to how her department was authorizing illegal aliens, felons who have knowingly broken the law, to work inside the United States, so long as we’re safe in the knowledge that Americans will be getting searched at checkpoints in order to take care of trick-or-treating children this Halloween – that’s what really matters.

Hmmm… Why not? After all the government knows better than you about what your children should eat, about sex education, about what they should learn in school, what vaccines your kids must have… and I guess they know better than you how to keep them safe!?! This year it will be to check the questionable drivers on the road and unsavory types in the neighborhoods. Next year it will include the older kids who could be gang members. And they next year it might be anyone in costume… after all who knows what those 6-year-olds might be hiding?!? Wonder if they will be patting these kids down by then to see what they have hidden under those costumes and in those candy bags?? Might need to strip search them too?? Camel’s nose under the tent people…

And isn’t Tennessee the state who is running regular checkpoints already? And where people keep encountering U.N. troops? Wake-up America~

Feds to Cut Off All TV and Radio Broadcasts on 11.09.11 - Is There a Connection Here? You Be the Judge…

DID YOU KNOW THE FEDS WILL TEMPORARILY CUT OFF ALL TV AND RADIO BROADCASTS ON NOV. 9th, 2011 (11.09.11)?

The Blaze: If you have ever wondered about the government’s ability to control the civilian airwaves, you will have your answer on November 9th.

On that day, federal authorities are going to shut off all television and radio communications simultaneously at 2:00PM EST to complete the first ever test of the national Emergency Alert System (EAS).

This isn’t a wild conspiracy theory. The upcoming test is posted on the Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau website.

Only the President has the authority to activate EAS at the national level, and he has delegated that authority to the Director of FEMA.  The test will be conducted jointly by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) through  FEMA, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) National Weather Service (NWS).

In essence, the authority to seize control of all television and civilian communication has been asserted by the executive branch and handed to a government agency.

The EAS has been around since 1994. Its precursor, the Emergency Broadcast System (EBS), started back in 1963.  Television and radio broadcasters, satellite radio and satellite television providers,  cable television and wireline video providers are all involved in the system.

So this begs the question: is the first ever national EAS test really a big deal?

Probably not. At least, not yet.

But there are some troubling factors all coming together right now that could conceivably trigger a real usage of the EAS system in the not too distant future.  A European financial collapse could bring down U.S. markets. What is now the “Occupy” movement could lead to widespread civil unrest. And there are ominous signs that radical groups such as Anonymous will attempt something major on November 5th- Guy Fawke’s day.

Now we know in the event of a major crisis, the American people will be told with one voice, at the same time, about an emergency.

All that’s left to determine is who will have control of the EAS when that day comes, and what their message will be.

THE STATE CAN ‘SEIZE CONTROL’ AND ‘THERE IS NOTHING I CAN DO’: GLENN BECK WEIGHS IN ON NOV. 9TH EMERGENCY BROADCAST TEST

The Blaze recently reported that at 2 p.m. EST on Wednesday, November 9th, The Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Federal Communications Commission will conduct the first-ever national test of the Emergency Alert System, where radio and televised broadcasts across the country will be disrupted for roughly…three-and-half minutes:

“In essence, the authority to seize control of all television and civilian communication has been asserted by the executive branch and handed to a government agency,” wrote Buck Sexton in our earlier report.

During the upcoming test, an audio message will likely recite, “this is a test” while text at the top of the screen might read that an “Emergency Alert Notification has been issued.”

While emergency broadcast tests are typically used by state and local governments to issue severe weather alerts and other emergency information, there has never been a nationwide activation of the system before. Federal agencies cite the reasons for the national test are to ensure emergency preparedness and to pinpoint flaws in the new EAS system.

Meanwhile, the thought of the nation’s broadcast systems being completely cut off for nearly four minutes — in addition to broadcasters being stripped of control — has left many, including Glenn, feeling unsettled over who, exactly, will have power over our airwaves.

When speaking about the old EBS tests, Glenn said that it “didn’t take control away from the broadcaster.” The new system, however, “seizes control of the broadcast frequency.”

“If the state wants to take control…they can just take it and there is nothing I can do about it” Glenn stated.

Watch Glenn discuss these unsettling developments in the video HERE:

Seems There Are Going to be a lot of Unusual Things Going on Around that Time…  Is There a Connection Here? You Be the Judge…

From the Intel Hub
Massive Tsunami Drill Coincides With Continent Killer Asteroids Close Pass In November

Excerpt:

The following is to take place November 9 – 10, 2011 according to the International Tsunami Information Center — the conspiracy deepens:

9-10 November 2011: In August 2010, the PTWS Steering Committee (SC) met to discuss the progress of the PTWS during the intersessional period, including the next PTWS exercise. Considering the general objectives of PACWAVE08, the SC approved the PACWAVE Summary Report and requested Working Groups 2 and 3 (Tsunami Detection, Warning and Dissemination; Tsunami Awareness and Response) to cooperate in the preparation of an end-to-end communication exercise PACWAVE11 in November 2011. The actual evacuation of local communities (or parts of it) will be left to the decision of local or national authorities. A PTWS Exercises Task Team was formed, chaired by ITIC and New Zealand, to organize the exercise and elaborate on detailed scenarios.PacWave11 will be held on 9-10 November 2011 as a multi-scenario exercise that will allow all PTWS countries to exercise using a destructive local or regional tsunami scenario.  PacWave 11 will also be used to introduce new tsunami advisory products of the PTWC that were proposed by the PTWS Enhanced Tsunami Warning Products Task Team and approved by ICG/PTWS-XXIV. IOC Circular Letter 2390 was issued on 13 May 2011 announcing the exercise and requesting PTWS Countries to nominate a PacWave11 focal point.  IOC Manual and Guides 58 on How to Plan, Conduct, and Evaluate Tsunami Exercises was issued in July 2011.  The PacWave11 Exercise Manual (IOC TS 97) was published in August 2011.  UNESCO will issue a press release on 1 November 2011.

UN (UNESCO) Exercise Pacific Wave 11
There is a Naval Operation happening on Nov 9-10 called Exercise Pacific Wave 11,  to take place on Nov 9-10, 2011.

Exercise Pacific Wave 11
http://itic.ioc-unesco.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1686&Itemid=2333&lang=en
Letter from above site
http://itic.ioc-unesco.org/images/docs/ioc_cl_no.2390.pdf

Flyer for the exercise
http://itic.ioc-unesco.org/images/docs/pacwave11_flyer.pdf
Note this link at the bottom is where  you can download pdf files (also click the documents tab for more documents).

Exercise Pacific Wave 11. A Pacific-wide Tsunami Warning and Communication Exercise, 9–10 November 2011
http://www.ioc-cd.org/index.php?option=com_oe&task=viewEventRecord&eventID=998
This google document allows you to see the entire document, while the pdf file below I could only see the title page.
http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:hwVUW_MiPq4J:unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0021/002114/211498e.pdf+execise+pacific+wave+11&hl=en&gl=us&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESjaJrzpgJU5CyMd28bUDXVifyrlHMGS83rSazE0Lt_A7pHnXHVRkcEieQh6tmpstPen73gzvlBb4esUUvoqcMU96qQeUCsE5Q2xM72MVFuJEsGt1-djuMqc79BX9jxi7cA-oTYv&sig=AHIEtbQ6eVIZDGJkCkh_lCZiW-UTqzx4mA&pli=1
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission

Technical Series
EXERCISE PACIFIC WAVE 11
A Pacific-wide Tsunami Warning and Communication Exercise
9–10 November 2011
http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0021/002114/211498e.pdf (this file will lock up and  you will only see the title page)

This page allows you to download the manual
http://www.ioc-cd.org/index.php?option=com_oe&task=viewDocumentRecord&docID=7707
Scroll down until you see on google doc p 25, & p 26

"Sample Tsunami Energy Forecast Map" and "Sample Coastal Tsunami Threat Map"
This isn't the first time Exercise Pacific Wave has been done. It was done in 2006 on May 16 and 17 using Philippines and Chile tsunami sources. Java is in roughly the same region as the Philippines and experienced several large devastating EQs (and a tsunami) soon after the exercise.

Pacific Wave was done again from October 28-30, 2008, and used a northeast Japan source.

Coincidentally there are other exercises scheduled.
Mega tsunami drill in Crete, Greece right now

The scenario:

An 8R scale earthquake strikes close to the island of Crete. A huge tsunami is generated.
The exercise is based on the July 365 BC tsunami when an undersea earthquake measuring over 8R occurred in the sea west of Crete and caused not only huge geological changes on the island, but terrible disasters, exacerbated by a tsunami that led to erase from the map dozens of cities Crete and caused thousands of dead.

The drill

The Pan-European wide drill called "Poseidon" was organized "on the map" last May and takes place these days 24 and October 25 on location (the schedule was for Chania but I heard that they included Heraklion too -the two biggest cities of Crete) .

On location, there are "watchers" from over 30 countries participating in the European Civil Protection Mechanism.  (I heard on tv that it concerns especially all the countries that are around the Mediterranean Sea).

Video: ΑΣΚΗΣΗ ΓΙΑ ΤΣΟΥΝΑΜΙ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGBrDbOFUmg&feature=player_embedded

Poseidon is a program funded by the European Union, aimed to prepare the Civil Protection Mechanism in Greece to deal with a devastating earthquake tsunami, through the cooperation of Civil Protection Authorities at local, regional, national and European level. The Civil Protection Authorities of Cyprus and France participate in this project and an evaluation of the exercise will be performed through the European Civil Protection Mechanism.

Check this too (both from the same site):  Successful test of the Tsunami Warning System in North-eastern Atlantic, Mediterranean and connected seas

Paris, 10 August – The communication network of the Tsunami Early Warning and Mitigation System for the North-eastern Atlantic, the Mediterranean and connected seas (NEAMTWS) was tested successfully on 10 August, marking a leap forward for the system which was initiated under the aegis of UNESCO’s Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) in 2005.

The test involved the Tsunami Warning Focal Points of 31 countries in the region. They received a test message at 10.36 UTC via electronic mail, fax and the Global Telecommunications System (GTS) from the Kandilli Observatory and Earthquake Research Institute (KOERI, Turkey). Early results show the messages were well received within a few minutes of being sent.

UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokov

a expressed satisfaction over the success of the test. “This past decade alone has shown us the terrible destructive power of earthquakes and tsunami on several occasions,” said the Director-General. “Today’s test represents a significant step towards improving security for the lives of tens of millions of people in the North-eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean, and meeting UNESCO’s ambition of establishing early warning systems globally.”
http://neamtic.ioc-unesco.org/

Also another drill October 12
Malaysia and 19 other nations to join Tsunami alert test
http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2011/10/7/nation/20111007093729&sec=nation

Shelby County Hospital (TN)
http://www.lakelandtn.gov/pdfs/emergency/Volunteer%20Announcement%2011%2009%2011%20Community%20Exercise.pdf

On November 9, 2011 hospital personnel and various first responder agencies from the MidSouth region will participate in a community medical exercise. This exercise will provide practical training experience to prepare for medical response during a large scale event. On Wednesday November 9th, hospital personnel will work with volunteer patients playing the role of injured victims to provide a realistic and practical experience in treatment and response Oddly enough…the UK’s NEAF Nuclear Emergency Exercise has Exercise Nightstar 11 on 9 November 2011.
http://www.hse.gov.uk/nuclear/emergexeprog.htm

Nightstar is an annual ‘live play’ demonstration of emergency arrangements.
Lessons learned from previous Nightstar...

Here is a website that has a simulation:
http://thetruthbehindthescenes.wordpress.com/2011/10/24/what-would-happen-if-asteroid-2005-yu55-hit-earth/

§ 1.7 Earth Impact by an Asteroid: Prospects and Effects
http://www.permanent.com/a-impact.htm

400 meter-wide asteroid to make pass by Earth

Posted on October 25, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

October 25, 2011 – A 1300-foot-wide (400 meters) asteroid, which is more than one and a half times the length of a soccer pitch, will pass within 0.85 lunar distances of the Earth on November 8/9, 2011. Discovered on December 28, 2005 by Robert McMillan of the Spacewatch Program near Tucson, Arizona, 2005 YU55 is believed to be a very dark, nearly spherical object. According to NASA’s Near Earth Object Program: “Although classified as a potentially hazardous object, 2005 YU55 poses no threat of an Earth collision over at least the next 100 years. However, this will be the closest approach to date by an object this large that we know about in advance and an event of this type will not happen again until 2028 when asteroid (153814) 2001 WN5 will pass to within 0.6 lunar distances.” While neither the European Space Agency (ESA) nor NASA has suggested that YU55 poses a threat to Earth, plans to develop a mission to counteract a potential asteroid collision in the future are already underway. The ESA is planning to fire an ‘impactor’ satellite into a ‘test’ asteroid in 2015 to see if the object’s trajectory can be altered.  The Agency is conducting the test mission in light of the minimal threat posed by the 700-1100-foot-wide 99942 Apophis asteroid, which has a one in 250,000 chance of impacting Earth in 2036. -IWO

See this on the web page > Current trajectory of space object 2005 YU55

** Are the dates of the first-ever national test of the Emergency Alert System, instead of the usual state or local tests, coinciding with all the unusual ‘natural’ occurrences on or around 11.9.11 as well as the on-going global manmade OWS protests coincidental, planned, really a test, if so a test for what or is it the dreaded spark to set off a national emergency, to test ‘their’ ability to ignite a spark for a coming planned event for the future or the actual spark beginning the takeover by a Global NWO??? 

Food for thought… You be the judge!  And if it is more than coincidence are you prepared? **

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Ivana Trump Escorted Off Plane: Napolitano Declares 'The System Worked'

In response to a Nigerian Muslim trying to blow up a flight from Amsterdam to Detroit on Christmas Day, the government will now prohibit international travelers from going to the bathroom in the last hour before the plane lands.

Terrorists who plan to bomb planes during the first seven hours of the eight-hour flight, however, should face no difficulties, provided they wait until after the complimentary beverage service has been concluded.

How do they know Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab didn't wait until the end of the flight to try to detonate explosives because he heard the stewardess announce that the food service was over and seats would have to be placed in their upright position? I can't finish my snack? This plane is going down!

Also prohibited in the last hour of international flights will be: blankets, pillows, computers and in-flight entertainment. Another triumph in Janet Napolitano's "Let's stay one step behind the terrorists" policy!

For the past eight years, approximately 2 million Americans a day have been subjected to humiliating searches at airport security checkpoints, forced to remove their shoes and jackets, to open their computers, and to remove all liquids from their carry-on bags, except minuscule amounts in marked 3-ounce containers placed in Ziploc plastic bags -- folding sandwich bags are verboten -- among other indignities.

This, allegedly, was the price we had to pay for safe airplanes. The one security precaution the government refused to consider was to require extra screening for passengers who looked like the last three-dozen terrorists to attack airplanes.

Since Muslims took down Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988, every attack on a commercial airliner has been committed by foreign-born Muslim men with the same hair color, eye color and skin color. Half of them have been named Mohammed.

An alien from the planet "Not Politically Correct" would have surveyed the situation after 9/11 and said: "You are at war with an enemy without uniforms, without morals, without a country and without a leader -- but the one advantage you have is they all look alike. ... What? ... What did I say?"

The only advantage we have in a war with stateless terrorists was ruled out of order ab initio by political correctness.
And so, despite 5 trillion Americans opening laptops, surrendering lip gloss and drinking breast milk in airports day after day for the past eight years, the government still couldn't stop a Nigerian Muslim from nearly blowing up a plane over Detroit on Christmas Day.

The "warning signs" exhibited by this particular passenger included the following:

His name was Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab.

He's Nigerian.

He's a Muslim.

His name was Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab.

He boarded a plane in Lagos, Nigeria.

He paid nearly $3,000 in cash for his ticket.

He had no luggage.

His name was Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab.

Two months ago, his father warned the U.S. that he was a radical Muslim and possibly dangerous.

If our security procedures can't stop this guy, can't we just dispense with those procedures altogether? What's the point exactly?

(To be fair, the father's warning might have been taken more seriously if he had not simultaneously asked for the U.S. Embassy's Social Security number and bank routing number in order to convey a $28 million inheritance that was trapped in a Nigerian bank account.)

The warning from Abdulmutallab's father put his son on some list, but not the "no fly" list. Apparently, it's tougher to get on the "no fly" list than it was to get into Studio 54 in the '70s. Currently, the only people on the "no fly" list" are the Blind Sheik and Sean Penn.
The government is like the drunk looking for his keys under a lamppost. Someone stops to help, and asks, "Is this where you lost them?" No, the drunk answers, but the light's better here.

The government refuses to perform the only possibly effective security check -- search Muslims -- so instead it harasses infinitely compliant Americans. Will that help avert a terrorist attack? No, but the Americans don't complain.

The only reason Abdulmutallab didn't succeed in bringing down an airplane with 278 passengers was that: (1) A brave Dutchman leapt from his seat and extinguished the smoldering Nigerian; and (2) the Nigerian apparently didn't have enough detonating fluid to cause a powerful explosion.

In addition to the no blanket, no computer, no bathroom rule, perhaps the airlines could add this to their preflight announcement about seat belts and emergency exits: "Should a passenger sitting near you attempt to detonate an explosive device, you may be called upon to render emergency assistance. Would you be willing to do so under those circumstances? If not we will assign you another seat ..."

By: Ann Coulter is Legal Affairs Correspondent for HUMAN EVENTS and author of a long list of books including: Godless

The System ‘Worked Really Very, Very Smoothly’ in Detroit?

Exclusive: The System Failed...Miserably Presidential Policy: Does It Make the Grade?, James Carafano, PhD The administration has a lot to do. Let's hope they get it right before the jihadists get lucky.

Rash of 2009 Homegrown Terror Plots Ends ‘Denial' Steve Emerson How did homegrown radicalization develop? And will the flurry of terror cases in 2009 force the issue?

The System ‘Worked Really Very, Very Smoothly' in Detroit? Daniel Pipes Eight and a half years after 9/11, our counterterrorism apparatus still appears to be in catch-up mode. What needs to be done to bring security in line with 2010 threats?

Homeland Security 101 Frank Gaffney, Jr. Napolitano told CNN that, "Right now, we have no indication [that Abdulmutallab's actions were] part of anything larger." Not "part of anything larger"? Is she serious? Does she take us for fools?

Tightening the Noose on Foreign Policy Herbert London As the plans for American foreign policy are being debated in the White House and the corridors of Congress, it is increasingly apparent that the options are limited.

Video: ‘Underwear Bomb' Packed Enough Explosive to Bring Down Flight 253 Radio Interview: Witness Says Terrorist Suspect Aided Onto Northwest Flight Sans Passport Video: Janet Napolitano gets grilled by Matt Lauer about her statement that "the system worked." Video: President's Statement on Terror Plot "this was an isolated terrorist incident" Video: Krauthammer and Stephen Hayes Blast President's Statement on Iran Al Qaeda Leaders Behind Christmas Day Attack Were Released from Guantanamo Bay in 2007 Video: Flight 253 Terrorist Warns ‘More Like Me' Are Coming to America The Imprudent Tyranny of Harry Reid - writes legislation that 'cannot be repealed!' Why Was Umar AbdulMutallab in Houston? Whom Did He Visit There? What Did He Plan? Hail 2010! The year of the American Citizen! Detroit terror attack: Yemen is the true home of Al-Qaeda. America's Latest Wake-Up Call Came on Flight 253 It looks like Sarah Palin is right again, this time on the issue of profiling. Exclusive: Why Worry about a Muslim Center at Ground Zero? Rachel Lipsky Serious questions must be asked of the Imam behind the mosque planned at Ground Zero and essential, unambiguous answers should be demanded, before we engage in self destructive deeds which undermine our own freedom and security.

Health Care Reform: A Modest (Hippocratic) Proposal Paula D. Gordon, Ph.D. Congress has a choice: Pass the proposed legislation and risk repeal by those voted into office in 2010 or begin anew with some realistic, low cost, clearly stated initiatives. Which will they choose?

Exclusive: You Can't Make This Stuff Up! (12/29/09) The Editors A daily roundup of idiocy, buffoonery and incompetence - courtesy of your government and its enablers.

We choose, you peruse.

1. Underwear Bomb Revealed as Terror Suspect Warns More Attacks Coming (FOX)
2. Al Qaeda takes credit for plot to down plane (WT)
3. Illinois Congressman Says Obama Official Agreed That Moving Terrorists to U.S. Prison Would Increase Risk (CNS)
4. Homeland Security Touts 2009 Accomplishments, Including ‘Secure Flight' Program (CNS)
5. Al Qaeda's Clear Message - The U.S. has to rethink jihad's global recruitment of terrorists. (WSJ)
6. Six Uncomfortable Answers
7. Preventing the Next Terrorist Attack - by Andrew Cline
8. Cyber-security chief resigns in protest - Calls consolidation of power in National Security Agency 'bad strategy'
9. States Draft Bills Regarding State Sovereignty
10. Key security agencies lack permanent leaders (WT)
11. Putin: U.S. Missile Shield Holding Up Nuke Deal (FOX)
12. Cross the River, Burn the Bridge - Obamacare is the fast-track to a permanent left-of-center political culture. By Mark Steyn
13. The Tipping Point in Iran (WSJ)
14. ‘No Place in Constitution' Gives Congress Authority to Mandate Health Insurance - Is Trampling on Individual Rights (CNS)
15. Justice transfers Panthers pursuer out of D.C. office (WT)
16. Letting The Cat Out of the Bag
17. Forget Supreme Court Challenges to this Monstrosity!
18. Shameless Islamist Doublespeak Rages On (PAJAMAS)
19. How the West Rejuvenated Pan-Islamism and the Global Jihad
20. The Open Hand, Slapped (Richard Perle)
21. Family of Kidnapped U.S. Soldier Urges Taliban to Send Son Home (FOX)
22. Analysis: Detroit terror attack is a major intelligence and security failure (TELEGRAPH UK)
23. Let's Roll 2 [Mark Steyn]
24. Janet Napolitano Made A Fool Of Herself On TV Talkshows
25. Let My Terrorists Go
26. Lying to Ourselves
27. On Planet Janet
28. Obama Acknowledges Flaws in Security, Vows Fixes… But Blames Bush (Again)
29. So What? Why Don’t We Profile? (FOX)
30. What? Nigerian Suspect Given Lawyers, Civilian Trial, Constitutional Rights
31. Republican Congressman Calls on Napolitano to Resign
32. Ooops! Freed Gitmo Alumni Plotted Airline Bombing
33. Lawmakers Spar Over Obama’s Decision to Transfer Gitmo Detainees to Illinois Prison
34. Was the Attack on Detroit Flight Staged?

Thanks To Family Security Matters and Warbird

Barack's ememies list

Sorry to disillusion those of you who are still in denial about President Barack Obama's true socialistic and dictatorial nature, but this guy's militancy against his perceived enemies puts Richard Nixon's White House to shame. His war on Fox News is just his latest salvo.

Obama's perceived enemies are all those who have the temerity not to roll over for his extreme agenda. They all must be demonized, marginalized and silenced by a president who has turned the Oval Office into a glorified street-organizing headquarters to attack his opponents. Indeed, this self-described uniter is the most divisive president in memory, and his uncontrollable ego can't countenance legitimate dissent.

Discover the truth about the intimidation tactics used by today's White House in Whistleblower magazine's "MOB RULE: Under Obama, Chicago-style bullying and intimidation go nationwide"

Consider:

• He has smeared medical doctors with reckless charges that they administer unnecessary courses of treatment for profit, e.g., tonsillectomies and limb amputations.
• He publicly berated Chrysler's senior creditors as a "small group of speculators" who "endanger Chrysler's future by refusing to sacrifice like everyone else," merely because they wouldn't acquiesce to his demands and insisted on asserting their contractual rights.
• He has demonized "big oil" and other energy producers, free-market capitalists, corporate executives, pharmaceutical companies, Republicans who oppose his health-care plan as dishonest and partisan, the wealthy, municipal policemen who dared arrest his Ivy League professor friend for disturbing the peace, pro-lifers, global warming skeptics, the CIA, the military, the best health-care system in the world and George W. Bush every time he needs cover for the inevitably negative consequences of his policies.
• He uses his White House blog to attack his political opponents.
• He condemned opponents of amnesty for illegal aliens as "demagogues."
• He foreshadowed his true nature in the campaign with his spontaneous denunciation of small-town Americans as bitterly clinging to their guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them.
• His administration has likened "tea party" protesters to an "angry mob" and "potential terrorists." His adviser David Axelrod has said they "are not in the mainstream and not in the majority" and represent "the angriest and most strident voices."
• In reference to opponents of his health-care scheme, he said in a speech to a joint session of Congress, "I will not waste time with those who have made the calculation that it's better politics to kill this plan than improve it." He also said: "I don't want the folks who created the mess to do a lot of talking. I want them just to get out of the way so (Democrats) can clean up the mess." And this: "If you misrepresent what is in this plan, we will call you out."He has targeted and vilified the entire insurance industry for daring to oppose his plan, describing them as "those who would bend the truth – or break it – to score political points and stop our progress as a country," and accusing them of "filling the airwaves with deceptive and dishonest ads ... designed to mislead the American people." Even the liberal New York Times acknowledged Obama's use of "unusually harsh terms" in attacking the industry as being "interested only in preserving their own 'profits and bonuses.'" And in a true Stalinesque intimidation move, he is threatening to repeal the industry's antitrust exemption.
• He has abused the office of the presidency to personally attack Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck and conservative talk radio in general. As we speak, his "czars" are devising schemes to shut down that very medium.
• Now he has launched an orchestrated attack against the only television network that makes a sincere effort at offering balance, Fox News Channel, in an attempt to isolate, demonize and delegitimize the organization because it won't follow suit and join the state-run media. The administration is vacillating between boycotting and allowing some administration officials to appear on the network. Obama singled Fox out as "entirely devoted to attacking my administration." Rahm Emanuel said it's "not a news organization so much as it has a perspective." David Axelrod said, "It's really not news; it's pushing a point of view." Axelrod implored ABC's George Stephanopoulos and his network "not to treat (Fox) as a news organization." White House communications director Anita Dunn, who has bragged about her success at controlling the media, said Fox is "like a wing of the Republican Party" that "spouts Republican talking points."
• They are also watching average citizens who speak out against Obama, the White House or their agenda.
• Homeland Security has a a right wing extremist list and an enemies list a mile long. See the DHS “report” here (PDF file here)  You might

The common denominator of all these vicious White House attacks is that their targets are those who oppose the administration's agenda. Instead of selling its agenda the old-fashioned way – by convincing the unconvinced – it attacks those who dare to articulate and air the opposing point of view. This is a totalitarian, bullying administration, which is revealing its heightened state of panic and desperation over the public's growing awareness of the dangerousness of its policy prescriptions for America.

David Limbaugh is a writer, author and attorney. His book “Bankrupt: The Intellectual and Moral Bankruptcy of Today's Democratic Party” (Regnery) was recently released in paperback.

Source:  WND

Let us all remember that today they come for your neighbor… tomorrow they come for you~

Confirmed: The Obama DHS hit job on conservative is real

Pulling No Punches

John McCain is red in the face and hopping mad. I’m sitting in his office in the Senate Russell Office Building, and he’s just rushed in after delivering a speech on the Senate floor where he seethed about the earmarks in the Homeland Security Bill.

“Can you believe they are putting $6 million of pork into Homeland Security?” he asks with his trademark clenched-fists. “They promised they wouldn’t do that. Ben Nelson [the Democratic senator from Nebraska] just inserted a $200,000 museum in Omaha into the legislative branch appropriations bill. These earmarks are a creeping disease. First members condemn them, then they condone, then they embrace them.” Then Mr. McCain adds, “Eight or nine Republican appropriators routinely vote for this pork.” Shaking his head he says, “It’s killing our party.”

If you thought that the senior senator from Arizona would ride off into the political sunset last November, inconsolable after losing his bid for the presidency, think again. He’s over it. And he’s as energized and spry as ever I’ve known him.

I interviewed John McCain for these pages four years ago when he was just launching his presidential campaign. Now I’m here to see how he is coping with defeat, and what his priorities are this year.

Many feared he’d become the Obama administration’s ambassador to the Republican Party, cutting deals to get things done. On the contrary: He’s emerged as one of the lead critics of Obamanomics.

He says he has worked to keep his relations with President Barack Obama “cordial,” but he pulls no punches criticizing the president’s economic policies. “Never. Never have I seen such a transfer from the private enterprise system to the government of such massive scale,” he says. He goes through the list: car companies, banks, insurance firms owned by government, and he especially grimaces when he mentions the $787 billion stimulus package.

Terry Shoffner

Not much has improved because of the stimulus. Mr. McCain scoffs, “And now, the answer is, according to the Obama economists, we didn’t spend enough.” He’s referring to the notion that we should have a second stimulus. This is not something the senator favors.

Asked about the deficits, his response is blunt. “I think it’s the biggest problem we’ve ever faced.”

Ever? “Yep,” he replies. “The only time where we amassed greater debt was during World War II, and that was temporary spending. We won the world war and then cut back. But now . . . the spending is permanent.”

“Look, this is a very popular, attractive, and eloquent president,” he continues. “But I think he was elected to govern in a centrist fashion. And instead,” he says, the administration is “governing from the far left.” Mr. McCain thinks this approach will capsize. “They don’t get that this is a right-of-center nation. Sooner or later, it becomes increasingly clear to the American people that he’s out of sync with the majority.” The latest polls are already showing some of this slippage: Mr. Obama’s favorable rating is now just over 50%, down from 70% his first weeks in office.

Will Mr. Obama ever move to the center as President Clinton did? “He will try to, but he’s got an overwhelmingly liberal Congress and his political instincts are to move to the left. It’s not an accident that he has the most liberal voting record in the United States Senate,” he says, reciting a line from his campaign. On health-care reform, Mr. McCain calls the Pelosi bill “a fish in the sun” that smells more rotten the longer it sits. But he’s worried that this may end badly. The administration has “co-opted the hospitals, he’s co-opted the pharmacists; he’ll co-opt AMA [American Medical Association]. And by the way, if the pharmaceutical companies can save us $100 billion, why don’t they do it now? For the love of God, doesn’t this mean that they’ve been ripping us off?”

In the 2005 interview, Mr. McCain told me rather famously that “I don’t understand economics very well.” The Obama team echoed that phrase throughout the campaign. It’s still stuck in his craw, and it’s one of the first topics he brings up.

“Could I mention, Steve, that I kept hearing during the campaign the stuff about McCain being weak on economics. They obsessed about this in the media. They never said Obama is weak on economics. I came to Washington as a Reaganite limited government tax cutter.” He’s right about the media treatment. Neither candidate had a strong command of economics—certainly not Mr. Obama, as events have shown. Mr. McCain was simply being honest.

He seems perplexed that his pals in the media turned on him in 2008 after years of worshipful press treatment. “In 2000 [when he ran against George W. Bush] I used to go chat with reporters on the back of the bus, and we would have these long, pleasant conversations . . . . I was the underdog clawing my way up. But then in 2008, I noticed that it would be kind of a gotcha session with the press—a totally more hostile attitude.”

Yet conservatives had warned Mr. McCain that he would remain a media darling up until the moment he won the GOP nomination, at which time they would rip him apart. I’m only surprised that he was surprised this happened.

Mr. McCain is initially reluctant to talk about the campaign, but he provides me with snippets of what went right and wrong. He believes that he could have won the election had it not been for the market collapse in mid-September. “We were three points up on September 14. The next day the market lost 700 points and $1.2 trillion in wealth vanished, and by the end of the day we were seven points down. We lost the white college graduate voters, who became profoundly disillusioned with Republicans. And by the way, that was the way it ended up. We lost by seven points.”

He certainly was dealt a lousy hand. But I challenge him on whether he might have played that hand better. During the first days of the financial crisis, Mr. McCain looked indecisive and worse, a creature of Washington insider politics. Why did he suspend his campaign, and why did he vote for the $700 billion bank bailout plan, which was wildly unpopular with voters?

“You have no idea the pressure I was under,” he says. “I remember being on the phone with President Bush, Vice President Cheney, the Treasury secretary and [Fed Chairman Ben] Bernanke. They assure me the world financial system is going to collapse if I don’t vote for the bill. So I do the impetuous and rash thing by saying, look, I have got to go back to Washington and see how I can help. And by the way, so did Obama—but it was McCain that was the impetuous one. Obama came back to Washington.” Mr. McCain grumbles, “He was at the White House with me. But he wasn’t impetuous.” This is the only time in our interview he shows any bitterness about the campaign.

He feels he was misled by the Bush economic team. He wanted the focus of the rescue plan to be on housing and home owners under water—not the lenders or the big banks. “Paulson and Bernanke both told me on the phone, our primary focus is going to be on the housing crisis. That’s our primary focus. And then three days later they switched their whole priorities around.” Instead, the Bush administration got a $700 billion check from Congress to save banks, investment houses and eventually car companies.

Had he been president, Mr. McCain says he would have done things differently. “Small business has been ignored in this whole bailout. You know, I hate to use the word but it seems to me that the philosophy of Tim Geithner and Ben Bernanke is trickle down, you know? Save Wall Street, save these financial institutions and then maybe they’ll have enough money to loan to the small business person. Wall Street seems to be doing okay. The executive salaries are fine.”

He continues: “But I just came from driving down Central Avenue in Phoenix and saw closed up storefronts because they’re too small to save, but these giant banks are too big to fail.” This is vintage John McCain, the economic populist fighting for the little guy.

If the market crash was the low point, I ask him for his best memory from the campaign. “The high point, I think, was the convention, the selection of Sarah Palin, and the enthusiasm that was generated all over the country.” His fondness for Mrs. Palin and her family strikes me as from the heart; he believes she was a net asset for the ticket.

“Let’s face it,” he says, “she galvanized our base in a way that I couldn’t. Everywhere she went she drew enormous and enthusiastic crowds like a rock star.” He says his only regret in selecting the Alaska governor was that no one on the campaign predicted the ferocity of the assaults against her. “To the liberal left, particularly the feminists, she is their worst nightmare.”

Since Mr. McCain was the co-sponsor of the McCain-Lieberman bill last year to limit CO emissions through a cap-and-trade system, I ask him about the climate change bill that passed the House last month and he surprised me with his opposition. “I believe climate change is real . . . but this 1,400-page bill is a farce. They bought every industry off—steel mills, agriculture, utilities,” he says.

So you wouldn’t vote for the House bill? “I would not only not vote for it,” he laughs, “I am opposed to it entirely, because it does damage to those of us who believe that we need to act in a rational fashion about climate change.”

A s Mr. McCain keeps circling our discussion back to fiscal responsibility, I ask him if the trillion dollar deficits are a sign that America is an empire in decline. “I think there’s a risk of that . . . unless we change. I’m a student of history. The shift in power from the British to the United States took place when the economy and the world’s gold reserves shifted and Britain went from the world’s [creditor] to a world debtor. The same thing could be happening now. I emphasize ‘could.’”

My last question is about the possibility for a 2012 rematch against Mr. Obama. “No chance,” he says.

But the good news for those who admire this maverick is that he’s likely to stay in the Senate for years and is focusing single-mindedly on holding back Obamanomics. For now, that means trying to stop budget busters like ObamaCare, but also saving a few million dollars at a time by cancelling museums in Nebraska, turtle crossings in Florida, and the endless flow of dollars to Democratic Rep. John Murtha’s airport to nowhere in Johnstown, Pa.

And then Mr. McCain is out the door—running to vote on another anti-pork amendment.

By STEPHEN MOORE - a senior economics writer for the Wall Street Journal.

Newsmax Poll Shows Strong Support for Sarah Palin in 2012

An Internet poll sponsored by Newsmax.com reveals that nearly 4 out of 5 respondents would support Sarah Palin as the Republican nominee for president in 2012.

A slightly larger majority believe the then-Alaska governor helped John McCain in the 2008 presidential race — while only 31 percent think McCain did a good job running for president.

The poll drew more than 600,000 responses, and Newsmax will provide the results to major media and share them with radio talk-show hosts across the country.

Here are the poll questions and results:

1) What is your opinion of Sarah Palin? Favorable: 83 percent Unfavorable: 17 percent

2) Do you believe Sarah Palin as a running mate helped or hurt John McCain? Helped: 80 percent Hurt: 20 percent

3) In the election between McCain-Palin and Obama-Biden, who did you vote for? McCain-Palin: 81 percent Obama-Biden: 16 percent
Other: 3 percent

4) Would you support Sarah Palin as the Republican nominee for president in 2012? Yes: 78 percent No: 22 percent

5) Do you believe McCain did a good job running for president? Good Job: 31 percent Bad Job: 69 percent

6) Do you believe Barack Obama "bought" the White House by outspending McCain? Yes: 72 percent No: 28 percent

Posted: Daily Thought Pad

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