Apocalypse Nowish

I can’t take it any more. Did someone order an apocalypse? I know there is always one bearing down on us somewhere, but come on! Have you read the headlines lately? By Friday of last week, I was ready for a major meltdown. Looks like I wasn’t the only one:

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Oh, how I can relate. (Massive screaming and hair pulling.) What the hell is wrong with us? Everything is upside down and backwards. Just the highlights:

1. Europe is melting down and about to fall into a black hole of debt which will draw us into the whirlpool right along with them. No one seems to really want to control their spending. It’s like the elite are paying all their crony friends, providing for themselves and knowingly bringing on the destruction of finances planet-wide. Screw the common man – they are taking the system for all it’s worth and then getting out before the implosion hits.

2. Our government — in secret — gave out 7.7 Trillion dollars worth of bailout money to banks – worldwide. Where the hell did they get it? I suspect, they just ‘digitized’ it and spread it around. It made NO difference, just forestalled the inevitable implosion. See #1 above. Say it with me: Weimar Republic.

Digitize me, Fred…

And it exploded…

3. Any time now, the Middle East is going to blow up and hello $200 a barrel for oil. It could be Iran and Israel (or Iran and us). It could be Syria. Hell, it could be Pakistan. WWIII is about to announce itself on the global stage and I’m not convinced we’ll be on the right side of the fight.

4. The minority inmates of the asylum are in control of our country, all the while claiming they are the 99%. (Really, does anyone in government look like a 99 percenter?)

5. Communism never went away… It has surged back thanks to the Progressives putting their comrades in positions of power throughout our nation. The red menace is back baby and it is within our own walls and halls, not to mention spreading across the globe again.

6. Hyperinflation is on it’s way as the world prints money trying to stave off a global depression. Never worked before, won’t work this time. Don’t these idiots ever learn?

7. Our government has gone rogue. They no longer fear having to pay for any transgressions from insider trading to falsifying testimony on things like, oh, I don’t know, running guns to Mexico. There are soooo many corrupt issues in our government these days, I just don’t even know where to start. Get rid of all of ‘em and start over.

8. Taxes, taxes, taxes…

9. Regulations out the wazoo. It’s Atlas Shrugged come to life. We literally can’t breath without violating one law or another.

10. God is being removed systematically from every part of our society. In it’s place, some of the most violent and horrific examples of barbarism are taking place right here in America and elsewhere that I have ever seen.

11. Antisemitism is raising is ghastly head once more. Those that stand against God’s chosen ones will surely fall from grace. Count on it.

12. The Constitution is being utterly ignored and circumvented by our politicians and elite Progressives on both sides of the aisle. I’ve just about had all I can take from these politicians. We must restore the original intent of the Constitution and the ideals our founders based this country on or we are toast.

And speaking of our current economic and political situation, this episode was badly written:

What’s happened to personal responsibility? What’s happened to independence and innovation? Where are morals and ethics any more? Maybe they are all still there, it’s just that the minority is in control and they have the morals of an alley cat and the ethics of, well, a politician. In fact, many of them are politicians. Isn’t it time America put people of character back in control of our homeland? Isn’t it time for the majority to say that’s enough, we aren’t going to take this crap any more? I really, really think so.

Can you blame people for panicking? Can you blame them for storing food, paying off debt and moving to a state that has some sanity left? Gun sales are the highest they have ever been and I personally believe that it has everything to do with what is happening in our country and worldwide today. No longer are survivalists being called crazy, everyone is at least attempting to prep. I’d say if you just read the headlines, you can’t help but think things are trending darkly – Apocalypse Nowish.

By: Terresa Monroe-Hamilton – the NoisyRoom

Wow… They Did It To Us Again!

I don’t know whether to laugh or to cry, to organize anew or to scream, or even to go on fighting or just to throw in the towel…  That is how I feel right now anyway.  By tomorrow I’ll be ready to regroup and charge forward, but today I’m a bit in shock!

Just as Vice President Biden, supposedly VP of all Americans, barely got the words ‘Teaparty Terrorists’ out, we are already being hit by the fallout of the hidden contents and proceedings being leaked and found in the “Grand Compromise” debt bill that President Obama just signed into law hours ago.  Another unread bill.

Only 18-months ago the Obama Administration and the Progressive Left duped, bullied and manipulated us all into ObamaCare, and we are still absorbing and fighting the ugly reality of what all was hidden in that bill. Yet with that memory still fresh, we allowed them to do it to us again.  Obama refused to put out a plan of his own, manipulated the situation, and used the Cloward and Piven Strategy along with the Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals to create another crisis, make the GOP (especially tea party supporters) look like the bad guys and got what he wanted… including a lot more power.  And the right satisfied themselves with the notion that they had won because the conversation in Washington changed and they were promised a committee to study a Balanced Budget Amendment.  Funny how they can run up soon to be $17Trillion in debt without a committee, but voting on a Balanced Budget Amendment requires one.

We were had again!!  And it is becoming more and more evident that the real terrorists are the people we elect, in both parties!  This entire debt crisis and debate over raising the debt ceiling was a Trojan Horse.

Since the bill was signed this afternoon we have already found out the following:

Before even signing the bill, Obama was already talking about tax increases and tax code reform for the wealthy and corporations.  I wonder if there will be waivers for those who support his re-election through fundraisers, similar to ObamaCare waivers, for supporters and attendees of events like Obama’s combo 5oth B-day party fundraiser?   The Business Insider who just wrote about this subject now warns that they were wrong and the biggest middle class tax increase in history will come in five months, and a tax increase for the top 2% of earners (the job creators) is coming as well, for Obama already said he would let the Bush tax cuts expire.  In fact the revenues from those tax cuts expiring is already factored into this final “Grand Compromise” bill.

Plus, Harry Reid has said the Super Committee will have up or down voting powers of far more than the debt issues and economics.  One of their first agendas is gun control!

Congressman and GOP Presidential Candidate Ron Paul warns that the all-powerful new “Super Congress” created by the vote on the debt ceiling will be used to fast-track tax increases while concentrating more power over the nation’s purse strings in the hands of the Washington elite.

The fact that the establishment of a body which threatens to completely re-write over 200 years worth of constitutionally-based legislative practice has sailed through with barely a whimper of debate from politicians or the mainstream media is a damning indictment of how the Obama administration’s penchant for executive autonomy has aggressively seized control of the political process.

This is appalling, but it shouldn't surprise anyone with the track record they have.  This bill is unconstitutional… so the question is… if  identified as such because of the Super Congress, can it be null and void?

Video: Unconstitutional Super Congress Slipped Into Debt Ceiling Deal - Judge Napolitano Explains

In this same document Illegals Get $20 Billion in Pell Grants (How did that happen?):

SEC. 501. FEDERAL PELL GRANTS.
Section 401(b)(7)(A)(iv) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1070a(b)(7)(A)(iv)) is amended--
(1) in subclause (II), by striking `$3,183,000,000' and inserting `$13,183,000,000'; and
(2) in subclause (III), by striking `$0' and inserting `$7,000,000,000'.
Little things mean a lot... $20 billion slipped in this bill just for Pell Grants... illegals get an early Christmas.

Ya just can't make this stuff up!

And I know there are those of you out there thinking… well, there are going to be 12 members of that Super Committee - 3 Republicans from the Senate and 3 Dems from the Senate as well as 3 Dems from the House and 3 Republicans from the House , so there will certainly be a balance of voices and opinions.  Well not so fast…

From the Daily Standard:

The debt ceiling deal will pass the Senate early this afternoon. No suspense there. But the vote will be worth watching for another reason: Three Republican Senate sources tell TWS that senators who vote against the deal will be ineligible to serve on the so-called “super-committee” for deficit reduction that the legislation creates.

While there’s certain logic to such a policy, it could be self-defeating. Excluding those who vote against the debt deal will ensure that some of the most fiscally conservative members of the Senate Republican caucus, including most of its freshmen, will be reading about the committee’s activities in the newspaper rather than guiding its decisions. Among those who have already declared their opposition to the deal: libertarian-leaning senators Mike Lee and Rand Paul (who appeared on Glenn Beck’s radio show this week and talked about the CNN Ambush and the Weimar Republic coming here); Jim DeMint, the aggressive fiscal hawk from South Carolina; conservative reformers Ron Johnson from Wisconsin and Pat Toomey from Pennsylvania; the ranking member on the Senate Budget Committee, Jeff Sessions; and Florida’s  Marco Rubio, already one of the highest-profile conservatives in Congress. More worrisome for conservatives, however, is that private whip counts in the Senate found that some 20 Republicans expressed support for the proposals that came out of the Gang of Six. And while many of the components of that plan have merit as individual policy proposals, the package involves compromises on taxes anathema to most conservatives. Picking a Gang of Six member – or supporter – would further antagonize conservatives skeptical of the debt ceiling deal.

There’s the problem. If, say, a dozen of the strongest fiscal conservatives vote against the deal, the pool of Republicans that can be expected to hold the line on taxes shrinks very quickly. And if a key Republican objective for the committee is to block tax increases, the exclusion of these strong fiscal conservatives makes meeting that goal more difficult.

Mitch McConnell, who will make the selections, isn’t worried. He told Fox News Channel’s Neil Cavuto yesterday that the likelihood of tax hikes coming out of the committee is “pretty low.”

“What I can pretty certainly say to the American people, the chances of any kind of tax increase passing with this, with the appointees of John Boehner and I, are going to put in there are pretty low,” said McConnell. He added: “I’m comfortable we aren’t going to raise taxes coming out of this joint committee.”

UPDATE: McConnell spokesman Don Stewart says all senators will be considered. "No one is stronger in his opposition to tax hikes than Sen. McConnell. He will have serious discussions with all those who are interested in serving prior to making any appointments."  But we shall see if this really changes…  I personally wouldn’t put my eggs in McConnell’s basket!

The only good thing we’ve heard today is the Fitch and Moodys have agreed to allow us to retain our AAA credit rating at least for now.  But they have put us on a kind of probationary status until after the “Super Committee” has been chosen and they see what type of action they take to resolve the debt crisis.  So let us be very clear… our AAA credit rating could very will still be downgraded!  S&P on the other hand has not yet announced and a downgrade seems almost baked in because of the stand they took on a minimum of $4Trillion in cuts needed in the compromise bill to avoid it.  A downgrade to AA+ is expected from S&P say most experts.  Maybe the members of Congress should have looked a bit harder at Senator Tom Coburn’s letter:  9,000,000,000,000 Ways to Balance the Budget.  (Seems our Federal Reserve Chief Bernanke had a bit to say about the U.S. Economy too!)

And, lost in the endless drama of the debt-ceiling negotiations, but last week, the Republicans in charge of the House of Representatives launched an unprecedented attack on the U.S.'s environmental regulations. GOP Representatives added rider after rider to the 2012 spending bill for the Environmental Protection Agency and the Interior Department, tacking on amendments that would essentially prevent those agencies — charged with protecting America's air, water and wildlife — from continuing their chokehold on energy production in the U.S..

Among the riders or last week were:

• A rider that would prevent the EPA from issuing any regulations on greenhouse-gas emissions over the next year — despite the fact that the Supreme Court has ruled the agency has the responsibility to regulate those emissions as a public-health threat under the Clean Air Act.

• A rider that would stop the EPA from carrying out tough new automobile-fuel-efficiency standards that were announced last week — standards that have the support of all the major automakers, however we are not sure how voluntary that support was.

• A rider that would prevent the EPA from labeling the toxic ash left over from coal combustion as hazardous waste — something that could alarm the people of Kingston, Tenn., buried by a coal-ash spill in 2008?

However, the Democrats are still in charge of the Senate, so we don’t know if any of these riders made it to the final EPA-Interior spending bill. The left feels that these demands were less about actual policy than about making a political point.  Guess we will have to see how much of their point remained in the bill to be made?!?  I wouldn’t look too hard to find them! (See The Time’s inside the Republican war on the EPA… or perhaps it could be called the Republican pro-American jobs and energy war?)

August 2, 1934

"With the death of German President Paul von Hindenburg, Chancellor Adolf Hitler becomes absolute dictator of Germany under the title of Fuhrer, or "Leader." The German army took an oath of allegiance to its new commander-in-chief, and the last remnants of Germany's democratic government were dismantled to make way for Hitler's Third Reich. The Fuhrer assured his people that the Third Reich would last for a thousand years, but Nazi Germany collapsed just 11 years later."

Are we seeing the beginning of our ‘Reich’ now?  Read more Here.  Remember, just like Obama told us and wrote about his plan to fundamentally transform America, Hitler wrote Mein Kampf (Official Nazi Translation), explaining his plan… and nobody listened either.  But that is the elephant in the room that nobody wants to talk about or take on.

Right after Obama was elected, Pat Buchanan wrote a piece called the Weimar Solution and people ridiculed him, as they did Glenn Beck when he warned us what was coming.  Somehow it doesn’t seem as funny now!

Lyndon LaRouche:  “Obama to Become ‘Fuhrer’ After Debt Ceiling Vote”  Is he right?

I am sure there will be a lot more to come and I will be doing updates… but wanted to get something out.  Nobody has an actual copy of the bill yet, that I know of.

I will hope and pray that what tea party “ideal” supporter Marco Rubio says and believes will be the ultimate outcome… continued honest debate:  Rubio:  “This Debate Will Continue” but I would advise you all to consider and prepare for Alex Jones and Lyndon LaRouche’s predictions.  As Glenn Beck has said many times, “I’d rather be prepared and be wrong… and would be glad to admit it than have been right and not prepared or shared my thoughts with others, so they could prepare!”

Since yesterday the reports of huge food orders by the government through FEMA, mass troop movements across the country and concern about the Super Committee being able to make decisions to vote up or down on without filibusters, amendments or even much debate on a full gamut of topics including gun control… or gun confiscation is frightening and has filled the blogosphere with comments by people in the know like Judge Andrew Napolitano, Senator Rand Paul, Congressman and GOP Candidate Ron Paul to name just a few… yet the mainstream media has been virtually silent… again.  There comes a time when we all must wonder, question and stand or we will be held accountable for the results of our inaction if we didn’t.

When I heard about the powerful Super Committee, a Super Congress, basically only accountable to Obama… the vision of the 2008 Obamessiah, as so many of his followers saw him, with 12-disciples flashed in my head.  Someone will surely come up with that visual once the 12 are chosen.  (Harry Reid, John Boehner, Mitch McConnell and Nancy Pelosi will each choose 3 members of the committee).

Prayers up my friends!

Ask Marion~  -  Last updated on on August 3, 2011 at 5:15p.m.ET

Wrapping Up 2009 (Part 2 of 6) – Who Would Want to Fundamentally Change America and Destroy the Economy?

American Progressivism, Cloward and Piven, Saul Alinsky, SDS, the Radkes and ACORN, Jeff Jones & Bill Ayers and and their disciples – Video 1

Radical Progressives Realized They Needed to be In the System – And so they are… See Cloward and Pivin with Bill Clinton - Video 2

For anyone who really still thinks that Hillary Clinton would be a better option or future candidate  Hillary Clinton’s college thesis was  called:  There is Only the Fight a paper on the Alinsky perspective, a comrade of Cloward and Piven and revolutionary hero to the radical Progressive left.

Stimulus, TARP and the illusion of Jobs Created, ObamaCare… Not Doing Anything the HC Crisis Claimed, and the blackhole of Fannie and Freddie (No Debate, Secretive and ongoing Crisis) – Video 3

The Federal Reserve – The Biggest Swindle of All – Video 4

 Pimco and China Not Buy the US Governments Insistence that People Are Buying Our Bonds… So What Happens Next???   - Video 5

Please Read up on the Weimar Republic…

The Futility Economy

By James Howard Kunstler at Whiskey & Gunpowder

On the first business day of the new year and oil traded above $80 a barrel, which means the price has re-entered the danger zone where it can crush industrial economies. This is a central element of the predicament we find ourselves in. The US economy is essentially a Happy Motoring economy. During the whole nervous period since the collapse of Lehman Brothers, American gasoline consumption hardly went down at all, though so many other activities collapsed, from house-building to trucking. Yesterday, The Seattle Times published a story with the idiotic headline: Oil Touches $80 on US Economy, Demand Optimism. Apparently, they think high oil prices are “a good sign.”

How much can a nation not get it? Would $100 oil ignite a new orgy of “consumer” spending and another round of investment in commercial real estate? Welcome to the Futility Economy. This is the economy where Nature and its material companion, Reality, punish us for our stupidity and fecklessness. This is the economy that will tear the United States apart, after it bankrupts us at every level, and mercilessly drives the population down by one-third through starvation, homelessness, violence, disease, and sheer political cruelty.

Whatever you thought our economy was the past thirty years — whatever model of it you have in your head — that is definitely not what we are going back to. Like one of Dickens’s Yuletide ghosts, Reality is leading us by the hand into new circumstances. We resist like crazy. We throw our hands over our eyes. We don’t want to look. We want to return to the comfort of our dreary routines — living in places that aren’t worth caring about, weaving endlessly in freeway traffic, drawing a paycheck at the air-conditioned cubicle, inhaling Buffalo wings by the platterful, with periodic side-trips to the state-chartered casino where there’s always a chance of scoring a lifetime’s income on one lucky bet. And at the end of the day, you can retire with a simulated prostitute on your laptop screen! And not even have to fork over a dime — except perhaps for the Internet connection fee.

Reality is taking us out of that familiar, if sordid, realm, whether we like it or not. Our destination is an everyday economy where you rarely travel far from the place you live, where you have to make provision for you own health, your own old age, your own income, your own diet, your own security, and your own education. If you’re really fortunate, some or all of these necessities can be obtained in conjunction with your neighbors in the place where you live — but don’t expect an increasingly mythical federal government to supply any of it. Expect a new and different way of organizing households based on extended families and kinship groups. Be prepared for agriculture to return to the foreground of everyday life, where farming is back at the center of the economy. Think about how you will cultivate your best role in a social network so the things you do will be truly valued by the other people who know you. Learn how to make your own music and write your own scripts. Try to study history. Resist cults. Keep your mind clear and your senses sharp.

Even if you have a dim sense that this is where we’re headed, most of you probably want to stay where you are. The investments we’ve made in the current mode of existence are so monumental that we can’t imagine letting go of them. This will be the theme of American life for the next couple of years as we struggle mightily to escape the confining armor of the Futility Economy and move closer to ways of life that have more of a future. Right now, all the power and authority in our culture has dedicated itself to remaining inside that old armor. 

The Master Wish around the country, including among people who ought to know better, is that we can “solve” our economic problem by finding some other way to run all the cars. Even hardcore environmentalists yammer incessantly about hybrid and “plug-in” cars as the “solution” to our blues. One of Barack Obama’s first acts as president was to “save” the giant car companies. This is exactly the kind of signature behavior of a Futility Economy. It’s based on the idea that we have to continue driving cars all the time and for everything, at all costs.

The religion of the Futility Economy is Techno-Triumphalism, which is the belief that an endless sequence of magic tricks performed by shaman scientists can defeat the Second Law of Thermodynamics, which rules the universe — which true scientists ought to know cannot be defeated. Their colleagues, the shaman economists believe in parallel magic tricks, such as the idea that increased borrowing can “solve” a problem of runaway over-indebtedness. These are the actions that currently engage the people in charge of things in our society.

Given this current state of things, and the current course we’re on, my guess is that when the falsity of these ideas and actions are exposed, they will become evident not gradually but very rapidly and shockingly. The people in charge of things will lose their vested legitimacy in a flash, and the institutions they command will become irrelevant overnight. The process would be traumatic for all of us as routines we counted on for a thousand particulars of everyday life vanish or collapse. A Great Indignation will rise across the land over the perceived swindles involved. A lot of effort will go into avenging the swindles instead of rebuilding an economy out of the ashes of futility.

Regards, James

You may be asking…

Why aren’t the media or the American People standing up… I mean really standing up.  I believe the answer lies in the comment of a caller into Sean Hannity’s radio program earlier today.  She said after traveling around the world she realized that Americans no longer think for themselves nor pray and give their emergencies to God.

And sadly that is true.  Why?  Because back to the 1930’s and especially since the 1960’s generations of Americans have been brainwashed, and even more so in the elitist Ivy League and other leftist colleges and universities like Berkley and Stanford, and many of those in the media, were trained and indoctrinated in those institutions… in Marxist theory, Rules as outlined by Saul Alinsky and a movement designed by Cloward and Piven.  And so were an army of future community organizers and politicians.

They were trained in socialism and disdain for the American dream, capitalism and the average American and have been behind the attacks from within and without for the past 40+ years.  And with that indoctrination, they were trained to replace God with “the Cause”.  As Hillary Clinton wrote:  There is Only the Fight.

Related: 

Wrapping Up 2009 (Part 1 of 6)

The Weimar Solution

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"THERE IS ONLY THE FIGHT..."
An Analysis of the Alinsky Model

A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Bachelor of Arts degree under the Special Honors Program, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts.

Hillary D. Rodham
Political Science
2 May, 1969

[from page 10...]

"Alinsky outlines American history focusing on men he would call 'radical,' confronting his readers again with the 'unique' way Americans have synthesized the alien roots of radicalism, Marxism, Utopian socialism, syndicalism, the French Revolution, with their own conditions and experiences:

Where are the American Radicals? They were with Patrick Henry in the Virginia Hall of Burgesses; they were with Sam Adams in Boston; they were with that peer of all American Radicals, Tom Paine, from the distribution of Common Sense through those dark days of the American Revolution...

The American Radicals were in the colonies grimly forcing the addition of the Bill of Rights to our Constitution. They stood at the side of Tom Jefferson in the first big battle between the Tories of Hamilton and the American people. They founded and fought in the LocoFocos. They were in the first union strike in America and they fought for the distribution of the western lands to the masses of people instead of the few...They were in the shadows of the underground railroad and they openly rode in the sunlight with John Brown to Harpers Ferry...They were with Horace Mann fighting for the extension of educational opportunities...They built the American Labor movement...

Many of their deeds are not and never will be recorded in America's history. They were among the grimy men in the dust bowl, they sweated with the share croppers. They were at the side of the Okies facing the California vigilantes. They stood and stand before the fury of lynching mobs. They were and are on the picket lines gazing unflinchingly at the threatening, flushed, angry faces of the police.

American Radicals are to be found wherever and whenever America moves closer to the fulfillment of its democratic dream. Whenever America's hearts are breaking, these American Radicals were and are. America was begun by its Radicals. The hope and future of America lies with its Radicals.9

Words such as these coupled with his compelling personality enabled Alinsky to hold a sidewalk seminar during the 1968 Democratic Party Convention in Chicago. He socratically gathered around him a group of young demonstrators on the corner of Michigan and Bilbo on Monday night telling them that they were another generation of American Radicals.10"

Hillary Clinton’s Wellesley Thesis:

pdf file:
http://www.gopublius.com/HCT/HillaryClintonThesis.pdf

photo copied original:
http://www.gopublius.com/HCT/HillaryClintonThesis.html

Source for both:
http://gopublius.com/hillary-clintons-wellesley-thesis-page/

CBS News article:
Hillary Rodham's 1969 Commencement Address
The Speech That Got Her First Media Coverage:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/11/03/politics/main3448588.shtml

Wrapping Up 2009 (Part 1 of 6) - Glenn Beck Named ‘Misinformer’ of the Year by Soros Affiliate SEIU and the Washington Post

Truth can stand by herself… If allowed to (paraphrased Thomas Jefferson) Full quote in segment 1.

No matter which side of the debate you are on, or whether you support Obama or not… or whether you like Glenn Beck or Chris Wallace, I ask you to take the time to watch this mini series wrap up (all week), unless you watch it live or on TiVo and then share the info. Our country stands at the edge and everyone needs to be aware and choose a side… or you will be lost in the middle without a voice. And no choice is a definite choice. It is the choice to let others decide the fate of your life for you.

Glenn Named ‘Misinformer’ of the Year – Thomas Jefferson on the Truth – Video 1

Facts, Claim and then the Truth Appears - Video 2

Mark Lloyd, the Fairness Doctrine, ‘Net Neutrality’, Venezuela - Video 3

Must Remember the Past and Layout the Facts to Move Forward including Van Jones - Video 4

Obama teaching Clowrd and Piven – Video 5 ( For anyone not familiar with their teachings: Cloward-Piven.com)

Ornaments with Communists on White House Christmas Tree – Video 6

Truth vs. Revisionism Relating Directly to Thomas Jefferson:

“This brings us to the crux of today’s revisionism, elevating Adams and diminishing Jefferson. In our history, Jefferson has been the patron political saint for those who believe in small government, decentralized power, low taxes, and individual liberty. Thomas Jefferson, in other words, is the icon of everything today’s Socialist-Marxist Left wants to destroy. They are delighted to minimize and demonize him.”

-Lowell Ponte, FrontPageMagazine.com, 7/11/2001

Three Lessons from Thomas Jefferson Courtesy of Glenn Beck

Three lessons can be learned from Thomas Jefferson: 1) Question with boldness, 2) Hold to the truth, and 3) Speak without fear. These lessons can be and should be applied to education. They need not apply just to the humanities but they lend themselves quite well to it. If we hold on to these three principles, we will be able to cut away from the bias that foments everything we are bombarded with.

The first principle is the most important. Thomas Jefferson said, "Question with boldness even the existence of God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear." Questioning is the most important thing we can do. We are constantly told what to think, how to think and what is the absolute truth. In reality these "truths" are colored by a person's education and upbringing.

You would be right to question what I write, as that is the point of questioning with boldness. You must question everything you do not believe to be true but equally if not more importantly is to question what you do believe to true. Why do you believe what you believe? If you cannot answer that you need to do some serious soul searching. Knowing why you believe something makes your argument stronger.

The second principle is to hold to the truth. Once you have found the answers to your questions; it is time to speak to the truth as you understand it. You must always speak the truth. A lie, no mater how large or infinitesimal, will come back to haunt you. Honesty is the best policy and one that you should seek to employ in your daily life. It is of the upmost importance to be truthful and honorable. For if we are to be free it is our moral duty to be honest and hold to the truth.

The third and final principle: speak without fear is paramount in a free society. You must be able speak your mind without fear of repercussions. You must be able to speak out against injustices or things you disagree with. To speak without fear is to know you are right. You cannot ever be afraid to speak out against those in power because a free society demands mistrust of those who hold power and make decisions that affect all of us.

If we are to be truly free we must break the shackles that have bound us. We must educate ourselves and not rely on anyone but ourselves. We must not allow others to make decisions for us that would be better made by us. We must question with boldness. We must hold to the truth. We must speak without fear. Only then can we be truly free and fulfill an idea that permeates through American culture: that all men are created equal.

The Kennedy Center Honors – Tribute to Mel Brooks

Note: Did anyone else watch the Kennedy Honors last Nite? I found it pretty upsetting. The part where he asks about a Dictator GREATER than he and saying the New World Order is here. They were pretty blatant and it was sickening to watch them all applauding this kind of treasonous trash.

The Obama's gave this a standing ovation… any wonder with all the parallels between Obama and his plans for America and Hitler... and the Weimar Republic.

And throwing “NWO”, public service, the gay agenda and the positives of Islam into every TV program and commercial ‘they’ can through the NEA goes right along with the Alinsky Rules for Radicals... If you say it often enough, people become numb and except the inevitable, which is just another reason we need to fight their media brainwashing or stop watching it... and especially our kids and grandkids.

Media Give Pass to the Obama they Favor, and Fear

With President Obama’s choice of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to replace David Souter on the Supreme Court sure to elicit the predictable fawning praise from the majority of the mainstream media, an important question needs to be asked: Is the mainstream media lauding and giving a pass to the president because they agree with him, or because they fear him? There is mounting evidence that it may be a bit of both.

Earlier this month, The Hollywood Reporter referred to the fear. While discussing the fact that the networks were “seething” behind the scenes at the prime-time Obama press conferences that cost them millions, the magazine said no network official wanted to be quoted by name, “fearing repercussions from the administration.”

“If the president wants to make it tough for your network, he can,” said one such executive. Another said, “Nobody wants to take on the White House, so we’ll have to tiptoe through this.”

Gee, if memory serves, network executives did not exhibit such a fear of retribution when George W. Bush occupied the White House.

But, maybe the network executives are right to fear this new president and what he can do to them or the bottom line of their companies. The evidence is there for all to see.

While our sacred Constitution grants him no such authority, Obama has had no trouble firing the head of General Motors, rewarding union “activists” with control of Chrysler, unilaterally forcing health care executives to forego $2 trillion (with a “T) in future revenue, implicitly telling Citigroup and Bank of America that they must fire their CEO’s, and blackmail, extort, or threaten the state of California that unless it restores wage cuts to a union, he will rescind billions in already granted stimulus money.

Four months into his presidency and Obama has removed all doubt that he is the most “activist” president of our lifetimes. He is an activist president who demonstrates his leftist leanings with almost every action and non-action.

One such non-action being his decision not to reject or correct America-bashing strongmen Hugo Chavez or Daniel Ortega at last month’s Summit of the Americas. Why? Because in a number of ways, Obama - like many in the mainstream media - empathizes with the socialist anti-capitalistic philosophy espoused by Chavez and Ortega.

While the mainstream media gushes over their chosen leader, it would behoove those not under the Obama spell to coldly and quickly look at the facts. Obama has skillfully and repeatedly said words he thinks the nation wants to hear. But behind the curtain, he is pushing every button and pulling every lever that will accelerate his brand of socialism down the tracks.

To my Venezuelan-born wife, Obama’s words, deeds and threats elicit memories of the leader of her former and failing country. Presidential “activism” by Chavez has brought Venezuela to ruin, while exponentially increasing the suffering of her people.

What is most amazing in all of this is that Obama’s aides make little effort to hide his agenda. When asked about the White House further engineering the makeup of U.S. companies, press spokesman Robert Gibbs said, “In terms of management changes, obviously in both the case of financial institutions and in the case of auto companies, the government has…weighed in on changes at the CEO level and at the board of directors level…we’ll have to wait and see what these individual tests bring.”

Big media has announced its love and fear of this “activist” president. Maybe it’s time for the rest of us to pay much more attention to what’s going on in this White House.

Author MacKinnon’s wife, a Venezuelan American, noted that what is going on here during the past 4-months, at an accelerated pace, is exactly what has happened in Venezuela under dictator, Hugo Chavez, during the past 12-years.  HMMM… and is this not what we just heard from Russia’s newspaper Pravda??  And like what went on in the Weimar Republic (Germany)… while nobody was paying attention?

• Media Fear of the President and His Administration?
• No Checks and Balances from the Media?
• America likened to: Venezuela, Soviet Union, and Germany and being warned by China about Economy?
• Unbridled Spending?
• One: bailout:  nationalization of companies: and launch of programs that America can’t pay for and the American public doesn’t want, after another…?
• Individual Rights curtailed daily?

What will you tell your children and grandchildren that you were doing while this was going on??

By Douglas MacKinnon is a former White House and Pentagon official and author of the novel, “The Apocalypse Directive.” – WashingtonExaminer.com

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• American capitalism gone with a whimper – Pravda 
  
• The Weimar Solution  
  
• "The Future of Capitalism." - Capitalism Could Fail  
  
• How Obama’s Socialism Works 
  
• March to Socialism: Out of Money 
  
• We the Sheeple? – Glenn Beck
• American Progressivism 
  
• Liberal Fascism
  

We the Sheeple? – Glenn Beck

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GLENN: Okay, so I'm reading the story in Pravda, American Capitalism Gone With a Whimper. They are taking us that it's happening at breathtaking speed because we're sheeple, that Russia, they already went through this, and you need to learn the lesson. And this is what they say is happening. First the population in America was dumbed down through a politicized and substandard education based on pop culture rather than the classics. Americans know more about their favorite TV dramas than the drama in D.C. that directly affects their lives. True. They care more for their right to check down a McDonald's burger or a Burger King burger than for their constitutional rights and then they turn around and lecture us in Russia about our rights and about our democracy? Pride blind the foolish.

That line sticks out to me: Pride blind the foolish. We're arguing over things we should not be arguing about. The other line that sticks out to me is the substandard education based on pop culture rather than the classics. I was with George Wythe University who was the guy who was really the mentor to Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, and Thomas Jefferson had a way of education, and it's all based in the classics. At George Wythe University, they only have textbooks. They only use the classics. I've seen the difference.

Pravda goes on and says, "Then their faith in God was destroyed until their churches, all tens of thousands of different branches and denominations were for the most part little more than Sunday circuses and their televangelists and top protestant mega-preachers were more than happy to sell their souls in flocks to be on the winning side of one pseudo-Marxist politician or another. Their flock may complain but when explained that they would be on the winning side, their flocks were ever so quick to reject Christ in hopes of earthly power. The final collapse came with the election of Barack Obama. His speed in the past three months have been truly impressive. His spending and money‑printing has been record‑setting, not just in America's short history but in the world. If this keeps up for more than another year ‑‑ and there is no sign that it will not ‑‑ America will best resemble the Weimar Republic and, at worst, Zimbabwe."

My friend, I have told you these things were coming. I tell you now, they are coming. We must educate ourselves and be involved and put down our differences and connect with ‑‑ make a vow to yourself today that there are Democrats out there, if you're a Republican, that there are Democrats out there that truly get it. They don't hate America. There are Democrats now that are saying in their own circles, they don't want to say anything. I really, truly believe not enough people are reaching out to the other party and to the independents as well. They are saying to each other, this is crazy. This can't... but they want to believe. There's nothing, there's nothing wrong with being wrong. What's wrong is being wrong and then not admitting that you were wrong and just keep going down the path because you're too proud. Pride blind the foolish. The media elite will ask me, "Where were you when George Bush..." well, for the first half, blind. For the second half, speaking out. It doesn't matter. I'm not on any side. Are you? When it really comes down to it, are you on any side other tha n your children's side? The minute the Democrats say, "Whoa, Marxism, oh, wow," and they turn around and they say small government, I'm with them. I'll call myself a Democrat. I don't care. Minute the Republicans do it, fine. If the it's the, you know, polka dot purple people eater party, then guess what button I'm wearing. I don't care.

Let's just start speaking the truth to each other. These past two weeks have been the most breathtaking of all, Pravda continues. First came the announcement of a planned redesign of the American Byzantine tax system by the they thieves who used it to bankroll their thefts, loss and swindles of hundreds of billions of dollars. These make our Russian oligarchs look more than ordinary street thugs in comparison. Yes, the Americans have beat our own thieves in sheer volumes. These men, of course, are not elected panels but made up of appointees picked from the very financial oligarchs of their henchmen who are now gorging themselves on trillions of American dollars in one bailout after another. They are also usurping the rights, duties and powers of the American congress. Again congress has put up little more than a whimper to their masters. And then came Barack Obama's command that GM's president step down from leadership of his company. That is correct, dear reader of Pravda. In the land of pure free markets, the American president now has the power, the self‑given power to fire CEOs, and we can assume other employees of private companies, at will. Come hither, go dither, the centurion commands his minions. More advice to us and then to the people of Russia from the e ditorial this weekend in Pravda, next.

(OUT 10:43)

GLENN: So this weekend I'm reading an article out of Pravda, an editorial, American Capitalism Gone With a Whimper, and it has so much in it. They are warning us against Marxism and saying that it is coming at a breathtaking speed here in America. The article continues, "So it's no surprise that the American president is followed up with his bold move of declaring that he and another group of unelected chosen stooges will now redesign the entire automotive industry and will even be the guarantee of automotive policies. I'm sure that if given a chance, they would happily try to redesign for the whole world. Prime minister Putin less than two months ago warned Obama and the U.K.'s Blair not to follow the path to Marxism; it only leads to disaster. Apparently even though we suffered 70 years of this Western‑sponsored horror show, we know nothing, as foolish drunken Russians. So let our wise Anglo‑Saxon fools find the folly of their own pride. But again the American public has taken this with barely a whimper, but a free man whimper. So it shouldn't be any surprise to discover that the Democratically congress of America is working on regulation that would give the American treasury department the power to set fair minimum salaries, evaluate performance and control how private businesses give out pay raises and bonuses. Barney Frank stresses that this only a ffects the companies that receive government monies. But it is retroactive. And taken to a logical extreme, this would include any company or industry that has ever received a tax break or incentive. The Russian owners of American companies ‑‑ listen carefully, America. The Russian owners of American companies and industries should look thoughtfully at what is happening in America and look at the option of closing their facilities down and fleeing the land of the Red as fast as possible. In other words, divest while there is still value left. The proud American will go down into his slavery without a fight, beating his chest and proclaiming to the world how free he really is. And the world will only snicker.

Now, there are going to be those who dismiss this coming out of Pravda as political games. They will dismiss this as, "Well, of course they are saying that because they want to destroy America." Whatever. Sometimes there's a great amount of truth in an imperfect messenger. There is an awful lot of truth in this editorial. We'll include it in our free e‑mail newsletter. Don't have to agree with it, don't have to agree with everything in it. Some of the stuff is pretty harsh. But let's just make sure that the last sentence isn't true. The proud American will go down into his slavery without a fight, beating his chest and proclaiming to the world how freely he truly is. That is why I say we must stop arguing back and forth about the parties because we're not seeing the real issues. They are giving you the scraps off the table and we beat our chest and we say, "We're free. No, but I like freedom because the Republicans." "No, no, the Democratic freedom is better." They are both slavery. One's just slavery light and the other is socialism. The world will only snicker because of our arrogance for so long. Let's just think the unthinkable. Think of it as an actual possibility so we can avoid it. And unite together and rediscover who we truly are, not what we've allowed ourselves to become.

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Related Resources:

• American capitalism gone with a whimper - Pravda
• The Weimar Solution
• "The Future of Capitalism." - Capitalism Could Fail
• How Obama’s Socialism Works
• March to Socialism: Out of Money
• Senior creditors: Chrysler deal violates 5th Amendment
• Confusion: Fascism vs Socialism... Progressivism... And What Happened to Capitalism?
• Confirmed: The Obama DHS hit job on conservatives is real
• Michael Farris - United Nation’s Convention on Rights of a Child Material
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• OBAMA'S LEAP TO SOCIALISM
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