Friday, April 15, 2011
Thursday, April 14, 2011
The breaking point has been reached…people are extremely angry and frustrated. The Zionist lobby in America, through AIPAC and other pressure groups has turned the American army into a branch of the Israeli army. We wage wars against Islamic peoples with whom we have no quarrel at the behest of Zionists both in Israel and the US. We all know 9/11 was a staged event to usher in the “war on terror”…not a war with any specific country as has always been the case, but a war on “terror”…What is “terror”? Who are the terrorists? Why are they angry? Could it have anything to do with millions of Palestinians being herded into concentration camps and walled in? Could denying access to Muslims to the second most holy city in Islam have anything to do with it? When you perpetrate genocide on a people you are going to create enemies…to dub them “terrorists” doesn’t make the injustice inflicted upon them any less inhuman, it just serves as a more palatable word to justify even more inhuman treatment. The majority of the American people are decent Christians who desire only peace and harmony in the world. We need to rid ourselves of the cancer of Zionism in our midst which has caused untold misery in the world and has drained our treasury and impoverished our people.
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
And Request for Endorsement
April 9, 2011
New York & San Francisco
from the
United National Antiwar Committee
WHO ARE THE WARMAKERS?
THEY are the government, corporate, and financial powers that wage war, ravage the environment and the economy and trample on our democratic rights and liberties.
WHO ARE THE PEACEMAKERS?
WE are the vast majority of humanity who want peace, a healthy planet and a society that prioritizes human needs, democracy and civil liberties for all.
The Warmakers spend trillions of dollars yearly on endless wars in pursuit of global domination and profit while murdering millions of innocent people, installing corrupt and hated governments and funding occupations that displace millions from their homelands – trampling on the right of oppressed people to self-determination.
THEY send our youth – victims of the economic draft – to fight over the very fossil fuels whose unrestrained use threatens the future of the planet while corrupt and virtually unregulated oil giants dump billions of gallons of death into our rivers and oceans.
THEY wage a fake “war on terrorism” at home – the new McCarthyism – that promotes racism and Islamophobia aimed at destroying civil liberties and democratic rights.
THEY grant repeated and untold trillions in bailouts to banks, corporations and financial institutions while breaking unions, robbing pensions, destroying jobs, foreclosing homes, de-funding education and vital social services and are once again threatening Social Security and Medicare.
THEY offer no solutions to the current crises other than more of the same.
THE PEACEMAKERS DEMAND a better world. Only a massive, united, inclusive and independent movement has the power to bring it into being.
WE DEMAND Bring U.S. Troops, Mercenaries and War Contractors Home Now: Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan! End the sanctions and stop the threats of war against the people of Iran, North Korea and Yemen. No to war and plunder of the people of Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa! End U.S. Aid to Israel! End U.S. Support to the Israeli Occupation of Palestine and the Siege of Gaza!
WE DEMAND trillions for jobs, education, social services, an end to all foreclosures, quality single-payer healthcare for all, a massive conversion to sustainable and planet-saving energy systems and public transportation and reparations to the victims of U.S. terror at home and abroad.
WE DEMAND an end to FBI raids on antiwar, social justice, and international solidarity activists, an end to the racist persecution and prosecutions that ravage Muslim communities, an end to police terror in Black, Latino and Native American communities, full rights and legality for immigrants and an end to all efforts to repress and punish Wikileaks and its contributors and founders.
WE DEMAND the immediate end to torture, rendition, secret trials, drone bombings and death squads.
WE ARE DEDICATED TO A WORLD
OF PEACE AND JUSTICE.
All Out April 9, 2011
To add your group’s name to the endorser list,
local, state or national, click here
UNITED NATIONAL ANTIWAR COMMITTEE (UNAC)
http://www.UNACpeace.org
UNAC, P.O. Box 123, Delmar, NY 12054; phone 518-227-6947
Monday, April 11, 2011
The Wall Street TARP Gang Wants to Take Away Your Social Security
Just over two years ago, the Wall Streeters were running around Congress and the media saying that if they don't immediately get $700 billion the world will end. Since they own large chunks of both, they quickly got their money.
Even more important than the hundreds of billions of loans issued through the TARP was the trillions of dollars of loans and guarantees from the Fed and the FDIC. This money came with virtually no strings attached. It kept Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, Morgan Stanley, and Bank of America and many others from collapsing. As a result, folks like Goldman CEO Lloyd Blankfein are again pocketing tens of millions a year in wages and bonuses, instead of walking the unemployment lines. Instead, 15 million ordinary workers are being told to just get used to being unemployed; it's the "new normal."
But wait, it gets worse. The thing about Wall Streeters is that no matter how much money you give them, they always want more. Now they are using their political power and control over the media to attack Social Security.
This effort is being led by billionaire investment banker Peter Peterson. Mr. Peterson has personally profited to the tune of tens of millions of dollars from the "fund managers' tax subsidy," an obscure provision of the tax code that allows billionaires to pay a lower tax rate than schoolteachers and firefighters. However, Peterson believes in giving back. He has committed $1 billion to an effort that is intended to take away the Social Security benefits that people have worked and paid for.
As part of this effort, Peterson set up a whole new foundation, the Peter G. Peterson Foundation. He and/or his foundation created a "news service," the Fiscal Times, which is intended to promote the view that we have no choice but to cut Social Security. The Fiscal Times has entered into agreements with the Washington Post and other credible newspapers to provide material.
Peterson is also funding the creation of a high school curriculum which is intended to tell our children that the in the future the country will be too poor to finance Social Security. He funded a silly exercise called "America Speaks," which was supposed to convince an assembly of selected participants that we must cut Social Security after a daylong immersion in Peterson-style propaganda. (The people didn't buy it.) And now his crew is spending $20 million on an ad campaign to convince people the world will end if we don't cut Social Security.
Attacks on Social Security have been fended off in the past and it is possible that this one will be too. It is an incredibly popular and successful program. It does exactly what it was supposed to do. It provides a modest income to the retired and disabled, and their families, to ensure that people who have spent their lives working will not fall into poverty. It is also extremely efficient, with administrative costs that are less than 1/20th as large as the costs of private insurers.
It also has very little fraud. We know this because earlier this year the Washington Post made a big point of hyping mistaken payments to federal employees than involved less than 0.01 percent of Social Security spending. If substantial fraud did exist, the Washington Post wouldn't have to hype small change to try to discredit the program.
The really incredible part of this story is that we should be talking about increasing Social Security benefits. Benefits are quite low by international standards. The portion of wage income replaced by Social Security is considerably lower than the retirement benefit provided by the systems in Australia, Canada, Germany and most other wealthy countries.
As a result, many of the retirees who are dependent almost entirely on Social Security have incomes that are only slightly above the poverty line. A modest increase in benefits could make a big difference in these people's standard of living.
In addition, the near retirees, the people directly in the gun sights of the Wall Street TARPers, have just seen most of their wealth destroyed by the collapse of the housing bubble. The Wall Streeters now want to kick them yet again, by taking away Social Security benefits that they have already paid for.
If Congress and the media worked for the public, we would be debating Wall Street speculation taxes right now. Insofar as we need to do something about the deficit in the longer term, taxing Wall Street speculation is a far more economic desirable route than taking away the Social Security benefits that ordinary workers have already paid for. We could easily raise more than $1.5 trillion over the next decade with a broadly based speculation tax than would have almost no impact on anyone except the Wall Street crew.
Even the IMF is now pushing higher taxes on the Wall Street types, recognizing the enormous waste and rents in the financial sector. But the media and Congress do not respond to economic reality, they respond to money. And Peter Peterson and the Wall Street crew are not paying for an honest discussion of the country's fiscal and economic problems. They are financing a rigged debate that is intended to result to even more money flowing to Wall Street and less to those who work for a living.
Thursday, April 07, 2011
Tuesday, April 05, 2011
In football games they're always looking at the clock to see how much time is left. Sometimes a "hail Mary" pass can turn a losing game to a winning one with seconds to go. Life is like a football game in that there is always a clock that is ticking and what we do before the final economic bell rings may determine whether we survive or perish. Things have been transpiring at a dizzy pace and many believe that we have but precious little time to get our preparations completed before the bell tolls. The Federal Reserve has been busy printing trillions of dollars, rendering the dollar a fraction of what it was. The price of food, gasoline, etc has been going up prodigiously...inflation will soon impoverish the vast majority of Americans and if they have not prepared they will be in a precarious position when time runs out.
The prudent individual will see the handwriting on the wall and not wait until the last horse has left before he closes the barn door. If you live in the city you need to get out. It's nice to philosophize and muse about the benefits of urban life, proximity to concerts, cafés, sports, etc, but in reality the city is the last place you want to be when there are desperate people out on the streets. When you don't give people jobs you take away their self respect and turn them into angry mobs who will rape, maim and kill.
We are headed for a feudal society, with people gathered in fortified communities on the land. Europe lived under feudalism for centuries. You need to get yourself a piece of property away from cities; store food, water and guns and when the time is ripe, forge a community with your neighbors. The fate of cities is almost too gruesome to contemplate once the stuff hits the fan and all economic hell breaks out. Out in the country food can be grown and livestock raised. Wells can be dug and horses used for transportation (The Amish were right all along).
The mainstream media is criminal in its silence concerning the coming economic collapse. Daily they bombard their hapless audience with the most blatant lies that even they can't possibly believe. Despite the dismal statistics they hash out their propaganda while millions of people act as if everything is normal and they are told doomsayers are conspiracy theorists. But the internet is not controlled yet by the elite and truth is still to be found. Thank God for this medium that we have to communicate our views and learn the truth. The coming event will try the will of the most hardened survivalist...may we succeed in our endeavor to survive and may God have mercy on our souls.
Sunday, April 03, 2011
Friday, April 01, 2011
TAX THE SUPER RICH!!! TAX THEM NOW !!!!
SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. (MarketWatch) — Yes, tax the Super Rich. Tax them now. Before the other 99% rise up, trigger a new American Revolution, a meltdown and the Great Depression 2.
Revolutions build over long periods — to critical mass, a flash point. Then they ignite suddenly, unpredictably. Like Egypt, started on a young Google executive’s Facebook page. Then it goes viral, raging uncontrollably. Can’t be stopped. Here in America the set-up is our nation’s pervasive “Super-Rich Delusion.”
U.K. workers protest turns violent
A splinter group is blamed for smashing windows and attacking police vans as tens of thousands march against government cuts.
We know the Super Rich don’t care. Not about you. Nor the American public. They can’t see. Can’t hear. Stay trapped in their Forbes-400 bubble. An echo chamber that isolates them. They see the public as faceless workers, customers, taxpayers. See GOP power on the ascent. Reaganomics is back. Unions on the run. Clueless masses are easily manipulated.
Even Obama is secretly working with the GOP, will never touch his Super Rich donors. Yes, the Super-Rich Delusion is that powerful, infecting all America.
Here’s how one savvy insider who knows described this Super-Rich Delusion: “The top 1% live privileged lives, aren’t worried about much. Families vacation at the best resorts. Their big concerns are finding the best Pilates teacher, best masseuse, best surgeons, best private schools. They aren’t concerned with the underlying deterioration of America or the world, except in the abstract, because they aren’t directly affected by it. That’s not to say they aren’t sympathetic, aware, or don’t talk about the issues you bring up. They are largely concerned with protecting and enhancing their socio-economic positions, ensuring their families live well. And nothing you write about will change things.”
Warning, in 2011 that attitude is delusional, deadly, yet pervasive in America.
Super Rich replaying “Great Gatsby” age, won’t learn till it’s too late
Our top 1% honestly believe they’re immune, protected from the unintended consequences of beating down average Americans for three decades with the free-market, trickle-down Reaganomics doctrines that made them Super Rich.
They honestly believe those same doctrines will protect them in the next depression. Why? Because they have megabucks stashed away. Provisions for the long haul. Live in gated compounds with mercenaries guarding them.
They believe they’ll continue living just fine in a depression. But you won’t. Nor will your retirement. Neither will the rest of America. And still the Super Rich don’t care, “except in the abstract, because they aren’t directly affected.”
Warning: The Super-Rich Delusion has pushed us to the edge of a great precipice: Remember the Roaring Twenties? The Crash of 1929? Great Depression? Just days before the crash one leading economist, Irving Fisher, predicted that stocks had “reached what looks like a permanently high plateau.”
Yes, he was trapped in the “Great Gatsby Syndrome,” an earlier version of today’s Super-Rich Delusion. It was so blinding in 1929 that the president, Wall Street, all America were sucked in … until the critical mass hit a mysterious flash point, triggering the crash.
Yes, we’re reliving that past — never learn, can’t hear. And oddly it’s not just the GOP’s overreach, the endlessly compromising Obama, too-greedy-to-fail Wall Street banksters, U.S. Chamber of Commerce billionaires and arrogant Forbes 400. America’s entire political, financial and economic psyche is infected, as if our DNA has been rewired.
The Collective American Brain is trapped in this Super-Rich Delusion, replaying the run-up to the ’29 Crash.
Nobody predicted 2011 revolutions in the oil-rich Arab world either
Warning: Mubarak, Gaddafi, Ali, Assad, even the Saudis also lived in the Super-Rich Delusion. Have for a long time. Were vulnerable. Ripe for a revolution. They, too, honestly believed they were divinely protected, chosen for great earthly wealth, enjoyed great armies.
How did we get to the point that we punish the old, the sick, the feeble, the handicapped for the excesses of the super-wealthy? 400 people in America own more wealth than HALF the country combined!..They know who these people are...SEIZE THEIR WEALTH!!!..They have plenty more hidden in Swiss bank accounts, they won't even miss it, but it will bring the deficit down and allow the country to move on and put people back to work and rebuild the crumbling infrastructure.
Thursday, March 31, 2011
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Tuesday, March 29, 2011
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Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Thursday, March 17, 2011
Friday, March 11, 2011
Surviving the coming economic collapse and societal breakdown
It has become obvious to anyone who has made even a cursory inquiry into the matter that the current state of affairs in the United States is untenable. When 400 people own more wealth than half the entire country, and are grabbing the rest from the other half, it can only be called tyranny. The real unemployment rate is 25%, the homeless population is approaching a third world level, crime is escalating to anarchy levels, The Federal Reserve is printing money so profusely that inflation will soon make the dollar worthless, goon squads are dragging teachers from State Houses for exercising their First Amendment Rights, pundits are yelling for the abolishment of Social Security, in general, life in the United States is becoming intolerable and a collapse is inevitable.
Of course we survivalists have known this for some time and have been making preparations. We have chosen the place to make our last stand, we have put back water, food, guns and ammo, medical supplies, livestock and garden supplies. We have chosen a geographical location that affords us the best chance of survival and we have studied the terrain. We have steeled our intellect with the fortitude necessary to overcome adversity and to marshal the resources required to face the new feudal world that we will be confronted with. Those who have squandered their time and resources will be broadsided by the events unfolding, and will be in no position to cope with the new reality. There will be no CNN or Fox News to tell them what to do. Supermarket shelves will be cleared in hours, gas stations will be out of gas, utilities will be cut off and chaos will reign.
In light of the foregoing, let’s examine our options. We can go it alone, Rambo style, or forge relationships with our neighbors and form a community. By awakening to the New Reality, we have already become “Rambos”, but to exercise the second option, we need to wait until the time is ripe. At present, many of our neighbors are totally oblivious to the impending calamity and would not make good allies and might even turn us over to the FBI as conspiracy theorists. Once the collapse hits, however, our neighbors will be bewildered and will welcome our counsel. Like it or not, we SHTF survivalists will be the leaders of our communities because we have prepared and we have put back extra for the sheeple who have squandered their time and resources. We will have food to share and guns to distribute. We will have a water source and a knowledge of the terrain. Therefore it is incumbent on us to hone our leadership skills.
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In order to prepare ourselves for our role as community leaders, we need to study history and learn from the past because history repeats itself. In feudal Europe and Japan, people gravitated into communities and became self-sufficient. A perimeter was set up around the castle and people grew their crops and tended their livestock and they could be let into the castle and the drawbridge closed in the event of attack. Everyone had his task to do and sufficient water and food was stored in case of an emergency. There was no IRS, no goon squads stomping people, no homeless and no unemployment. This way of life lasted centuries. There was chivalry, respect and loyalty towards the community.
Life in America after the collapse will be similar to the way it was in the 1800’s: rugged individualists surviving on the land as best they can, not expecting assistance from any arrogant, far away federal government, nor any draconian laws telling them what they must do or be sent to prison. They had the Bill of Rights to protect them. Life was harsh, to be sure, and many people died from all sorts of causes. But the ones who survived had hope that things would get better. We can look forward to hope. There is no hope in the current state of affairs in the United States, it looks very bleak and only the most cockeyed optimist could think that somehow things could be patched up and everything will be just fine.
To be more specific as to what steps we must take to prepare ourselves for the coming event, let’s examine the biological needs of a human. First and foremost is oxygen, because we can’t live for more than 5 minutes without it. For the affluent preppers, an underground bunker with an air filtration system would be ideal. For the less affluent among us, gas masks and face filters would be a prudent addition to our stores. Second is water, we can’t live more than three days without it. The ideal situation would be a well close to your main shelter, with either a hand pump or a bucket and pulley because electricity will be out. Even if you have generators or solar panels it’s a good idea to have the option of converting to a manual system as a precaution. Whether you have a well or not, however, everyone needs to store as many gallons of water as they have containers. You can’t have too much water.
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Once you have stored enough water, food is next. Canned goods, dry foods, flour, corn meal, dried beans, dried beef, etc should be put in air tight containers and stored in a secured location. You need at least a years supply. Medical supplies are next, put away things like aspirin, bandages, iodine, etc. If you need prescriptions, try to hoard as much as possible. In order to protect all these items that you have so carefully put away over the years, you will need weapons. A 12 guage shotgun is the king of home defense weapons. A good 9mm pistol would be great. Store as many weapons as you can afford because you may have to hand some out to those who did not prepare in the community. You should also have less lethal weapons, such as pellet guns, slingshots, billy clubs and knives.
Every community must have a copy of the Constitution, because it will be the basis of the conduct of those within the community, as well as for relations with other communities. When law and order is restored it will once again be the thing that holds society together. Since there will be no electronic communication, we should all start storing printed copies of everything we need to survive, how to manuals, textbooks, etc. We won’t be able to Google anything, so a stocked bookcase will be a lifesaver.
We are all going to have to become farmers again. Even if you now live in the city, more than likely you will have to bug out one day and then you will be called upon to use your skills to survive off the land. We need to learn how to raise chickens, goats, pigs, cattle, etc. We need to learn how to raise crops and gather edible things from the woods. Acorns, for example, are edible. Even the inner bark of trees is edible. We will need to sharpen our hunting skills once again. A deer will provide food for a whole community, and small game can be used in soups and stews. The main thing that we need to concentrate on is acquiring a mindset of survival.
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Our spiritual nature will be put to the test when the stuff hits the fan. Even though we have prepared for the coming collapse, deep down we hope it won’t happen and we will be still devastated when it does. We need to prepare our wills and souls for the collapse as well as our shelters and stores. Whatever God you believe in or don’t believe in, one thing is sure: The Cosmos brought us forth, and it doesn’t make any logical sense that it would produce such exquisite creatures as ourselves only to be snuffed out as if we never existed. We will continue on no matter what happens. In the meantime, we need to exhibit a congenial, compassionate exterior to the world which will serve us in good stead when things get dicey. Others will see and hear that we are to be trusted, and that an alliance with us will be beneficial. It is much better to have an ally than an enemy, so cultivate those qualities which will set you apart from the many untrustworthy scumbags which always come out of the woodwork during an emergency.
So we say goodbye to CNN, McDonalds, Wallmart, cars, etc and say hello to hard work, diligence, community spirit and a renewed sense of humanness. We have a lot to do and time is short. May you find the will and the stamina required to persevere and thrive in the New Reality. May you find solace in the fact that you are not alone and all of us are with you in spirit. WE WILL SURVIVE!!!!!
Thursday, March 10, 2011
The spectacle of goon squads dragging little old ladies out of the State House in Wisconsin by their hair for no reason other than exercising their First Amendment Rights has brought to light the lengths that the corrupt, fascist, dictatorial governor of Wisconsin will go to trample the Bill of Rights and the freedom and liberty of the people of Wisconsin. The people didn't cause this financial mess, the elite bankers did, and it should be THEY who pay the piper instead of being bailed out and given huge bonuses. What has this country come to? The goons feel like big strong men dragging helpless women because they're unarmed...but that situation may change. Kennedy said: "When peaceful revolution is made impossible, it will result in violent revolution". When the people finally rise up the goons wont have enough bullets to kill them all and it will be THEM who are dragged out by their small penises.
Wednesday, March 09, 2011
Sunday, March 06, 2011
My response:
It is typical of what our country has become that a privileged individual, who doesn't have to worry about surviving the rigors of old age himself, will castigate 40 million people who worked 40 or 50 years for their Social Security and call them welfare recipients who are bleeding the system dry. This same individual would recoil in horror if it were suggested that we end welfare payments to Israel, or that we question the enormous amounts spent on wars fought against Islamic peoples at the behest of Zionists in Israel and the US. The very thought of casting 40 million elderly people out on the street to die while sending huge sums to Zionist Israel is so revolting as to be Kafkaesque. That a Robert J. Samuelson of Newsweek can utter such grave insults against people who have served their country in combat and worked long and hard for a few dollars a month to sustain them in their twilight years is indicative of the total breakdown of society which will lead to the people rising up as they did innumerable times in history.
Saturday, March 05, 2011
Friday, March 04, 2011
LONG LIVE THE REPUBLIC!!!!!
Monday, February 28, 2011
All over the world people are rising up...Oppressive governments are falling left and right...The rage has spread to American cites...people are fighting back against the elite, the Federal Reserve, the IMF, the big banks, international conglomerates and Zionist agitators in Israel and the US ...The icy stare of Blankfein of Goldman Sachs is enough to send shivers down the spine of a small child...The Blankfeins, Bernankes, Paulsons, Geithners, Rothschids, Netanyahus and all the other Zionist Boogiemen have snatched every cent from all of us and are set to take even more...Their greed knows no bounds...Just as the people of Gaza are occupied by Zionists, so, too, are we, the people of America...Why are we willing to spill the blood of our sons, daughters, wives and husbands for Israel?...Why are we in Iraq, Afghanistan, and now Pakistan?...Why are the Zionist lapdogs in Washington determined to start a war with Iran?...We are there at the behest of Israel, we are there to fight their battles...Israel has pissed off the entire world and forced the US to bear the brunt of it.
How long are we going to put up with this state of affairs? Are we going to be slaves of the Zionists while they strip away our freedoms, steal our money and start war after war?...We are at a crossroads, we stand up or we suffer the consequences...For too long we hav been kept in the dark, we didn't know who the enemy was...But now we know, now we are waking up...
Saturday, February 26, 2011
Thursday, February 24, 2011
Monday, February 21, 2011
All over the world people are saying they've had enough....enough of the oppressive cancer of the central banks and international conglomerates which have impoverished the world and seized all wealth into their hands...In Libya, the people rose up just like they did in Tunisia, Egypt and most other Arab countries...The people were victorious in Tunisia and Egypt and the despots were forced to flee...Gaddafi in Libya, however, ordered the army to fire on unarmed protesters, killing many...Many men in uniform refused to kill their fellow countrymen and began flying jets to other countries to ask for asylum rather than commit murder at the behest o a tyrant...The staff of all foreign embassies resigned and many soldiers and police switched over to the protester's side...This is true rebellion...The question is, when we march on Washington to bring down our own tyrants, will our fellow Americans fire on us or will they do like the Libyans and refuse?...
Sunday, February 13, 2011
People are rebelling all over the world. From Egypt to Tunisia to France to Greece, everywhere people have been pushed to the brink and are fighting back against the international cabal of banks and corporations which have enslaved the entire world with their debt. We need to put an end to this madness.
This is a call to all patriots and concerned citizens of America to show our utter disgust and aversion towards the banking elite. We demand that the national debt of all countries be immediately wiped off the books and that the Federal Reserve and all other central banks be abolished and the central bankers be put on trial for crimes against humanity. We further demand that public works projects be implemented in all countries to repair the crumbling infrastructure and create jobs to bring all nations back to solvency.
We demand that all US troops be brought back home and all foreign bases closed. We demand that our Constitutional rights be restored and all unconstitutional laws be rescinded. We will no longer tolerate black-shirted goon squads attacking peaceful demonstrators exercising their First Amendment rights. The police are our servants, and their duties are confined to solving crimes and directing traffic, not beating up little old ladies.
We want to fill every last square inch of Washington with demonstrators. We want no less than ten million souls voicing our demands for justice and freedom. We want the largest demonstration in recorded history. We want to tell the world that we are not their enemy, that our government has acted against our will. We will no longer prop up fascist, Zionist, dictatorial and elitist governments anywhere in the world. We want peace and stability in the world.
Make this viral......Spread the word.....Sunday, the 3rd of April, 2011.....March on Washington...
Friday, February 11, 2011
Thursday, February 10, 2011
College student shoots home invader, saves 10 lives
Yet another reason to keep a gun in the house . . .
In the first days of May, 2009, in the notoriously dangerous neighborhood of College Park in Atlanta, Georgia, two armed criminals broke into a house party of students.
After confiscating the group's valuables, the invaders split the men and women up into different rooms.
Witnesses say the perpetrators then counted their rounds and discussed if they had "enough" ammunition.
The students believed the gunmen were going to rape and murder the entire group of students, who were celebrating a birthday at the end of the semester.
However, one male student, whose identity is being protected by police and local media, retrieved a handgun from his backpack and fired at the thug who was detaining the men.
(That is: One smart student had prepared for a night in College Park, Atlanta.)
The criminal fled the apartment under the threat of injury and never returned.
The student continued on into the girls' room, found the other thug, 23-year-old Calvin Lavant, preparing to rape his first victim.
The student exchanged gunfire with Lavant, lethally wounding him in the process. Lavant fled through a window and died in front of his apartment, only one building away.
One of the female students was injured during the exchange, but doctors expect a full and complete recovery.
So what's the point?
A student saved the girls from rape, and saved the whole group of 10 people (including himself) from murder . . . and he did it with a handgun.
This is a perfect example of how ludicrous "big city gun laws" are. What if this had happened in New York, Chicago, or any of the other big cities that criminalize their citizens' self defense?
Yes, we would be reading an entirely different story -- one so horrendous that we would shudder at the very words.
Either this whole group of friends would have been raped and murdered by these two sorry excuses for human beings . . . or the hero of this story would be facing prison time for firearm possession and murder.
And that's exactly how gun-grabber Michael Bloomberg and his Mayors Against Illegal Guns want it.
Thankfully, however, Atlanta hasn't outlawed self-defense yet. And since someone had a gun and was willing to use it, innocent life was preserved.
Congratulations to the unnamed hero of this story. You saved your friends' lives.
YOU WILL NOT DISARM THE AMERICAN PEOPLE!!!!!
****************THIS IS A CALL TO ARMS *******************
Wednesday, February 09, 2011
Republican targets include arts and cultural funding through the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), the Smithsonian Institution, the National Archives and Records Administration, the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities. All of the entities are routinely included on GOP lists; federal subsidies for the CPB would be effectively eliminated under the House proposal, fulfilling a long-standing conservative pledge to cut federal ties with National Public Radio and public television.
Money for minority business development, family planning and conservation programs also would be axed. Job-training funds would be reduced by $2 billion. Community health centers, which serve many low-income uninsured people, would lose $1 billion in funding. And more than $200 million would be trimmed from maternal and child health grants, which go to immunizations as well as assistance for blind and disabled children.
So, the likes of Goldman Sachs and Bank of America are "too big to fail", and, conversely, the sick, blind, helpless and dying are "too insignificant to be helped"....Is it just me or does anyone else feel like having each member of Congress arrested for high crimes against humanity?...Who the hell ARE these people in Washington? Is there not a single caring soul left among these pompous, corrupt, thieving psychopaths who claim to represent the people of the United States? If there is a God, may he send a lightning bolt down upon these arrogant bastards...
Thursday, February 03, 2011
Vermont State Rep. Fred Maslack has read the Second Amendment to
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> Unarmed and assess a fee of $500 for the privilege of not owning a gun..
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> Maslack read the "militia" phrase of the Second Amendment as not only
> The right of the individual citizen to bear arms, but as a clear mandate
> To do so. He believes that universal gun ownership was advocated by the
>
>
> Framers of the Constitution as an antidote to a "monopoly of force" by
>
>
> The government as well as criminals. Vermont 's constitution states
> Explicitly that "the people have a right to bear arms for the defense of
> Themselves and the State" and those persons who are "conscientiously
> Scrupulous of bearing arms" shall be required to "pay such equivalent.."
>
> Clearly, says Maslack, Vermonters have a constitutional obligation to
> Arm themselves, so that they are capable of responding to "any situation
> That may arise."
>
> Under the bill, adults who choose not to own a firearm would be required
> To register their name, address, Social Security Number, and driver's
> License number with the state. "There is a legitimate government
> Interest in knowing who is not prepared to defend the state should they
> Be asked to do so," Maslack says.
>
> Vermont already boasts a high rate of gun ownership along with the
> Least restrictive laws of any state ... it's currently the only state
> That allows a citizen to carry a concealed firearm without a permit.
> This combination of plenty of guns and few laws regulating them has
> Resulted in a crime rate that is the third lowest in the nation.
>
> "America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the
> System, but too early to shoot the bastards."
>
> This makes sense! There is no reason why gun owners should have to pay
> Taxes to support police protection for people not wanting to own guns.
> Let them contribute their fair share and pay their own way.
>
>
> Sounds reasonable to me! Non-gun owners require more police to protect
>
>
> Them and this fee should go to paying for their defense!
Friday, January 28, 2011
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Ilargi: VK, roving reporter for The Automatic Earth, has been playing with the numbers from the January 7 employment report issued by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. It seems valuable to look at unemployment from this, a different, angle. Some of it may even surprise you.
The total non institutional civilian labor force (Americans 16 years and older who are not in a institution -criminal, mental, or other types of facilities- or an active military duty) is reported as 238.889 million. Of these, we see:
- Employed: 139.206 million people (58.3% of labor force)
- Unemployed: 14.485 million people (6.1% of labor force)
Obviously, that can't be the total picture, we're only at 64.4%. This is why:
- Part time employed for economic reasons: 8.931 million people. This concerns people who want a full-time job but can't get one.
- Part time employed for non-economic reasons: 18.184 million people. Non-economic reasons include school or training, retirement or Social Security limits on earnings, but also childcare problems and family or personal obligations.
The BLS definition states: "Not in the labor force (NILF). A person who did not work last week, was not temporarily absent from a job, did not actively look for work in the previous 4 weeks, or looked but was unavailable for work during the reference week; in other words, a person who was neither employed nor unemployed." (Clearly, this does include lot of unemployed people).
To summarize: 108.616 million people in America are either unemployed, underemployed or "Not in the labor force". This represents 45.5% of working age Americans.
If you count the "Part time employed for non-economic reasons", you get 126.8 million Americans who are unemployed, underemployed, working part time or "Not in the labor force". That represents 53% of working age Americans.
So only 47% of working age Americans have full time jobs. While the official unemployment rate is 9.4%. Something's missing somewhere.
A few more factoids on the topic:
- Today, the long term unemployed make up 42% of total unemployed. That is to say, of course, those who are actually counted as unemployed instead of "Not in the labor force".
- 43.2 million Americans receive foodstamps. That's 18.1% of all working age Americans. If they all have on average 1.5 dependents, which is probably a reasonable estimate, a full one third of the US population receives at least part of their food through this syste
Sunday, January 23, 2011
The larger picture is even grimmer, since the accumulation of surrendered freedoms to fight the "war on terror" is shifting the United States piece by piece from a constitutional republic toward a new-age totalitarian state, as Abby Martin notes in this guest essay:
In George Orwell’s 1984, Britain is depicted as a totalitarian police state that is ruled by the Party, or Big Brother – an enigmatic, ubiquitous elite that controls society through heavy surveillance, nationalist propaganda and historical revisionism.
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Printer friendlyThe concept seems like a far-fetched portrayal of a democratic nation’s demise into totalitarianism, but in America’s “post 9/11” climate of fear, the United States government has been building a comprehensive grid of surveillance and control that bears frightening similarities to Orwell’s fictional narrative.
The glaring difference between the two is that Orwell’s dystopian society is overtly totalitarian. America, conversely, operates under a “soft fascism” – an insidious, systematic method of preventative action and corporate top-down control over society’s media, economy and politics – while maintaining the necessary illusion of personal choice and freedom.
A populace with little to no concept of their subjugation makes them the perfect subjects to rule.
Many Americans might not feel the government’s hand or Big Brother’s watchful eye directly in their lives. However, with the use of GPS, cell phones and the Internet, every move we make can be tracked, cataloged and divided into demographics that are used to increase corporate advertising efficiency and to create a “chilling effect” throughout our culture, stifling dissent and diminishing activism.
During times of war, governments are notorious for capitalizing on their ability to suppress dissent and manipulate the masses. In the wake of 9/11 hysteria, the Bush administration enacted several controversial pieces of legislation that severely curtailed Americans’ freedoms under the pretext of “security” and “protection.”
With the help of a consistently compliant and unquestioning media, his administration also instituted a legal framework to circumvent citizens’ civil liberties and target their free speech.
Bush’s cabinet adopted Orwellian rhetoric and Nazi style propaganda to litigate sweeping measures that further eradicated liberty: The Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act’s (USA Patriot Act), warrantless domestic wiretapping, and the Homegrown Terrorism Act & Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act’s criminalization of thought and peaceful activism.
Nine years after 9/11 and two years into Obama’s reign, the vague threat of terrorism still hangs in perpetual balance as the justifying cliché for the administration’s continuation of such Bush-era policies.
Obama has followed the same Bush trends of illegal detention, rendition, wiretapping, spying, state secrets, demonization, persecution and fear mongering against the population.
Obama has aggressively cracked down on whistleblowers who exposed military corruption. He gave a green light to assassinate US citizens abroad without due process of law.
One of the most disturbing trends in the ever-expanding police state are the new Z Backscatter vans, vehicles that are giant X-ray machines, designed to discreetly scan through people’s houses and cars without their knowledge – a surveillance tool that blatantly violates Fourth Amendment rights.
Like Orwell’s portrayal, the U.S. government’s expanding power structure relies on nationalist propaganda to manufacture and cultivate the fear of an enemy. Although the “war on terrorism” has consumed the political climate for almost a decade, the chances of actually dying in a terrorist attack in the United States are statistically insignificant.
This little mentioned fact undermines the current administration’s justification for their extension of state powers and secrecy in order to protect the country’s “national security.”
It’s critically important to create dialogue about America’s covert slide to fascism. Absolute power corrupts absolutely – our politicians and their corporate puppeteers will continue their greedy power grabs unabated unless our society starts speaking out against the dehumanization and the unconstitutionality of the emerging police state.
Abby Martin is an artist, activist and journalist based in Oakland, California. Her work appears at MediaRoots.org.
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Saturday, January 22, 2011
Well, the thought police have kicked in the door and hauled off yet another patriot...Keith Olbermann has been silenced in the middle of a contract by the elitist cabal...How long will it be before anyone who dares speak out against the tyranny of the banks and the corporate/governmental oppressors is rounded up and dispensed with? I've got my 12 guage shotgun right here by my side and my killer dogs lying in wait, so you black-shirted goon squads take heed...When you come to kick in my door and silence me you better bring a lot of ammo...
YOU HEAR ME SCUMBAGS???
65 Ways That Everything That You Think That You Own Is Being Systematically Taken Away From You
There is a reason why the wealthiest one percent of all Americans control 40 percent of all the wealth in the United States. The system is designed to funnel all of the wealth to them and to the government. Average Americans are experiencing a declining standard of living and it is not by accident.
Just check out some of the ways that our wealth is being taken from us....
#1 Do you think that you own your house? You might want to think again. Most Americans that "own a home" are paying a mortgage. If you stop paying that mortgage you will lose that home. Over a million American families were kicked out of their homes last year. This year a million more American families will get the boot.
But when those families get booted out onto the street they don't get their down payments back. They don't get all the mortgage payments that they have made back. The banks get to keep all of the money and all of the houses.
Perhaps you don't have a mortgage. Does that mean that you "own your home"?
No, not really. Just refuse to pay your property taxes and watch what happens. At best you can say that you have the right to rent your home from the government.
In any event, the reality is that the banks now own more of "our homes" than we do. During the most recent recession, the total amount of U.S. home equity owned by the banks surpassed the total amount of U.S. home equity owned by the rest of us for the first time ever.
Things used to be far different in this country. Once upon a time American families owned most of the houses and most of the land in this nation.
But now the banks own most of it. Sadly, most American families that believe that they "own homes" are actually enslaved to 20 or 30 year debt contracts.
#2 Do you think that you own your car? You don't own it if you are still making payments on it. If you stop making payments you will rapidly lose that car.
But even if your car is paid off, you can only operate that car if you do the following....
*You must pay the license fee
*You must pay the car registration fee
*You must pay the emissions inspection fee
*You must pay the property taxes on that car (if that applies in your area)
*You must pay the tire taxes
*You must pay the gas taxes
If you have paid all of those taxes, then you are permitted to drive only where the government allows you to drive and only under the rules that the government sets for you.
But at least you "own" your car, right?
#3 What about your possessions? Do you own them?
Well, yes, you probably own some possessions.
But that doesn't mean that they are not enslaving you.
After all, did you use a credit card to pay for any of them?
If so, you could end up paying much more for your possessions than you originally thought that they cost.
For example, if you only make the minimum payment on your credit card each month, a $6,000 credit card bill could end up costing you over $30,000 (depending on the interest rate).
#4 Do you own your education? Well, it is undeniable that nobody can ever take it away from you. But if you took out student loans that debt may end up enslaving you for decades.
The borrower is the servant of the lender and student loan debt is more of a financial drain on Americans than ever before. Americans now owe more on student loans than they do on credit cards. As hard as that is to believe, that is actually true. Americans now owe more than $903 billion on student loans, which is a new all-time record.
#5 Will you protect your wealth if you put your money in the bank?
No, in fact your wealth will be systematically destroyed in the bank.
Inflation is a hidden tax on every single dollar that you own. It destroys the value of all dollars in existence. There are some Americans that have been saving money for decades, but those savings are being taxed into oblivion by inflation. Many experts are now projecting that the average price of a gallon of gasoline will hit $5 by the end of the year. So the next time you go to the gas pump just take a moment to think about how your wealth is being drained away by inflation.
#6 Insurance costs continue to soar. After insuring everything in our lives many of us barely have any money left over to actually live our lives with. In particular, health insurance premiums have become completely and totally ridiculous. According to the Los Angeles Times, Blue Shield of California plans to raise rates an average of 30% to 35%, and some individual policy holders could see their health insurance premiums rise by a whopping 59 percent this year alone. So how are American families supposed to survive if they keep on handing over bigger and bigger chunks of their income to the health care industry?
#7 State and local governments all over the nation have turned to ticket writing as a primary revenue source. In fact, in some areas of the country traffic citations are soaring at a crazy rate. For example, 110,000 more traffic citations were written in Los Angeles County last fiscal year than were written in the fiscal year immediately prior to the last recession.
The truth is that the police even realize what is going on. Just consider the following quote from from Police Chief Michael Reaves of Utica, Michigan....
#8 Some states have decided to simply confiscate wealth even if nothing has been done wrong. For example, the state of California is aggressively seizing "unclaimed" safe deposit boxes. If you have a safe deposit box that you have not checked on in a while you might want to make sure that it is still there.
#9 You might end up losing your valuables when you cross the border. It is being reported that U.S. border agents are now regularly seizing laptops and other electronic devices as people cross the border. In many cases those items are never returned.
#10 If you don't pay your property taxes, you will lose your house and it will likely be a big Wall Street bank that will be taking it from you. As I have written about previously, the big Wall Street banks are buying up thousands upon thousands of tax liens and are making a killing by socking distressed homeowners with predatory interest, outrageous penalties and almost unbelievable legal fees.
#11 Of course the biggest way that our wealth is being drained is through federal income taxes. The reason that the Federal Reserve and the IRS were established back in 1913 was to redistribute wealth. Wealth is transferred from the American people to the U.S. government and then ultimately to the elite and to the causes that the elite favor.
But federal taxes are only one of the taxes that we pay. The truth is that the average American pays dozens of different taxes each year. Just check out a few examples of the different taxes that drain our wealth....
#12 Accounts Receivable Taxes
#13 Building Permit Taxes
#14 Capital Gains Taxes
#15 CDL License Taxes
#16 Cigarette Taxes
#17 Corporate Income Taxes
#18 Court Fines (indirect taxes)
#19 Dog License Taxes
#20 Federal Unemployment Taxes (FUTA)
#21 Fishing License Taxes
#22 Food License Taxes
#23 Gasoline Taxes
#24 Gift Taxes
#25 Hunting License Taxes
#26 Inheritance Taxes
#27 Inventory Taxes
#28 IRS Interest Charges (tax on top of tax)
#29 IRS Penalties (tax on top of tax)
#30 Liquor Taxes
#31 Local Income Taxes
#32 Luxury Taxes
#33 Marriage License Taxes
#34 Medicare Taxes
#35 Payroll Taxes
#36 Property Taxes
#37 Real Estate Taxes
#38 Recreational Vehicle Taxes
#39 Road Toll Booth Taxes
#40 Road Usage Taxes (Truckers)
#41 Sales Taxes
#42 Self-Employment Taxes
#43 School Taxes
#44 Septic Permit Taxes
#45 Service Charge Taxes
#46 Social Security Taxes
#47 State Income Taxes
#48 State Unemployment Taxes (SUTA)
#49 Telephone federal excise taxes
#50 Telephone federal universal service fee taxes
#51 Telephone federal, state and local surcharge taxes
#52 Telephone minimum usage surcharge taxes
#53 Telephone recurring and non-recurring taxes
#54 Telephone state and local taxes
#55 Telephone usage charge taxes
#56 Toll Bridge Taxes
#57 Toll Tunnel Taxes
#58 Traffic Fines (indirect taxation)
#59 Trailer Registration Taxes
#60 Utility Taxes
#61 Vehicle License Registration Taxes
#62 Vehicle Sales Taxes
#63 Watercraft Registration Taxes
#64 Well Permit Taxes
#65 Workers Compensation Taxes
Even the future is being taken away from us. The future is literally being stolen from our children and our grandchildren. They will be inheriting the 14 trillion dollar (and still rising) national debt that we have accumulated. What we have done to future generations is unthinkable, and yet we continue to endlessly borrow more money. The Congressional Research Service estimates that the U.S. government will need to borrow $738 billion between April 1st and September 30th. Faith in U.S. Treasuries is falling so rapidly that now the biggest bond fund in the world, PIMCO, is actually shorting U.S. Treasuries.
When you base an entire economy on debt, eventually you end up with money problems that never seem to end. As a nation we are now enslaved to a vicious spiral of debt that is going to destroy everything that our forefathers worked so hard to build.
As the debt loads of our federal, state and local governments become even more burdensome, they are going to want even more money from us. For decades we gave in to new tax after new tax thinking that it would finally satisfy them. But it never seems to be enough. They always want more.
It is the same thing with the banksters. They are never satisfied either. They always want more assets and they always want more Americans to be enslaved to debt.
Unfortunately, most Americans are so caught up in the "rat race" that they never take much time to think about who designed the race or why they are running it.
Hopefully more Americans will wake up and will realize that our entire economy and our entire financial system need to be reformed. Our current system is inherently flawed and it will eventually impoverish the vast majority of us if we allow it to.