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Written on July 2, 2011 by Floyd Brown
This a Fourth of July we are reflecting on the Founding Father’s intensive study of the Roman civilization. Knowing history, they embraced Rome’s virtues and eschewed her vices. The Founders understood the currents of history which gave us a collective heritage unrivaled. Sadly, we as a nation are turning our backs on the morality that made America special.
The country has convulsed in the past 30 years as a new modern morality has supplanted the currents of culture built nearly two thousand years ago along the shores of Galilee. This new culture is not yet fully defined, but we stand horrified as we peer into the future.
The culture of the Roman world was brutal and nasty. Ironically, we see its worst practices reviving with vigor. Please give us a moment as we recount a history seldom taught today’s students.
The Roman Empire had a twisted view about the value of human life. These views were banished by the ascendency of Christ’s teaching. Infanticide was both legal and encouraged in ancient Rome. Pagan societies, such as the Carthaginians, Romans and Greeks went so far as to kill their children outside the womb, sometimes as a religious sacrifice to their gods. According to Plutarch, the Carthaginians “offered up their own children, and those who had no children would buy little ones from poor people and cut their throats as if they were so many lambs of young birds; meanwhile the mothers stood by without a tear or moan.”
We see a modern American society which looks at children as a burden, and a generation of mothers who have decided by their own “choice” to sacrifice a generation. Population control is now an international objective.
Roman views on homosexuality were closer to today’s views than many realize. Pundit Nathaniel Blake characterizes it this way: “But, the Roman conception of same-sex relationships was very different than that of the modern West. The most important factors in the Roman view seem to have been the status and role of the partners. The Romans did not consider homosexual or heterosexual identities as exclusive from one another. While bisexuality was common, strict homosexuality was all but unknown. Unlike the modern view, social class mattered a great deal in the acceptability of homosexual relations. The upper classes were much more likely to indulge in homosexual acts, and masters had the sexual use of their slaves.” It was common to see an older man who held dominance over a younger male, using him for sexual pleasure.
It was not until the teachings of Christ and Saint Paul conquered Rome and Western Europe that sodomy was outlawed. But alas much has changed. Now sodomy is once again legal, and some states believe these acts deserve celebration in the most public of ceremonies, the wedding.
Finally, we see the debasement of money and profligacy of the state. Today taxpayers fund stadiums for the “games.” Roman emperors don’t hold a candle to the US Congress and the Federal Reserve in the looting of the public coffers and destruction of money.
In this, Roman Emperor Caracalla comes to mind. In addition to murdering his brother, Caracalla is mostly remembered for granting Roman citizenship to every Freeman in the empire. Caracalla’s goal was to broaden the tax base to pay for his extravagant spending. He raised the inheritance tax so he could double public salaries and win the allegiance of the legions. His public works are still on display today. If you visit Rome, you can see the ruins of the gigantic “Baths of Caracalla.”
His final contribution rivals the Federal Reserve. The silver denarius was an innovation in sound money introduced by Emperor Augustus. It was 95 percent silver like America’s pre- 1964 coinage, and the denarius lead to greatly improved honest trade around the empire. Caracalla, in his drive to increase spending, changed it to a coin with only 50 percent silver.
It took later emperors to debase it as far as the Federal Reserve has debased America’s currency. By 268 AD the denarius was only 0.5 percent silver. The result was predictable, as prices rose throughout the empire by up to 1,000 percent. Soon the “barbarians” hired by the emperor as mercenaries would not accept the denarius as payment, and insisted on being paid in gold.
Such manipulations by Roman leaders are legendary, but Americans who fail to understand history are doomed to repeat it. The moral and financial collapse of Rome lead to a renaissance of morality and the “Christian Era.” We can only hope that the accelerating American collapse leads to a return of the time tested honest culture that celebrates life, prudently shuns sexual immorality, and with commerce flourishing after a return to honest money.
But until that day arrives, we will continue to fight for these virtues until our last breath.
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The Patriot Update
There were eight attempts by members of Congress during the years Barack Obama was developing a power base and running for president to remove the Constitution’s requirement that a president be a “natural-born citizen,” suggesting an organized strategy, according to a new video.
The video documentary was produced by Carl Gallups, the senior pastor at Hickory Hammock Baptist Church for more than 24 years with a long history of community and law enforcement involvement.
Gallups was a Florida law enforcement officer for 10 years, a youth minister before that and is a national and international youth evangelist with outreaches across the United States and in Canada since 1989. He’s also on the board of regents at the University of Mobile and hosts several weekly radio programs in the northwest Florida region.
Documentation for his video comes from a variety of congressional records showing that beginning June 11, 2003, and continuing through the most recent effort, Feb. 28, 2008, there were eight proposals targeting that constitutional requirement.
The video:
NATO is waffling on participating (military and financial) for the UN-approved attacks on Libya. That means the US likely will not make a quick exit as promised.
Yahoo 2011 Mar 25 (Cached)
Syrian government security forces have reportedly killed 24 protesters and wounded many others.
CNN 2011 Mar 25 (Cached)
Tokyo tap water tests two times above safe radioactive limits for infants. Vegetables and milk also are contaminated.
Globe and Mail 2011 Mar 23 (Cached)
US: George Soros is sponsoring a major international conference to reform the world’s currency systems, which means to create a one-world fiat money controlled by a world central bank. He claims that capitalism is the enemy of an open society. He hopes this will become as important for the future of money as the 1944 Bretton Woods conference that led to the creation of the IMF and World Bank.
BMI 2011 Mar 23 (Cached)
War in Libya already has cost U.S. taxpayers “hundreds of millions” of dollars.
AOL News 2011 Mar 23 (Cached)
Germany set to abandon nuclear energy in favor of “renewable” energy. [Renewable energy is what financially devastated Spain. Germany derives 23% of its electricity from nuclear power plants. Energy prices will soar, and Germany's economy will collapse as a result of this decision.]
Yahoo 2011 Mar 23 (Cached)
Fox News fabricated a story of Gaddafi using reporters as human shields. The purpose of the hoax was to sell the Lybian war to the American people.
Prison Planet 2011 Mar 22 (Cached)
US: Caught on tape: Former official of the Service Employees Union reveals secret plan to destroy JP Morgan, crash the stock market, and redistribute wealth in America.
Business Insider 2011 Mar 22 (Cached)
US: Judge Napolitano and Ron Paul discuss the war on Libya and Obama’s allegiance to internationalism.
YouTube 2011 Mar 22
Dallas Federal Reserve president says the country is at the tipping point of insolvency.
CNBC 2011 Mar 22 (Cached)
Gulf oil spill may have a new leak as an unidentified substance has been spotted discoloring the water. The government says the slick is 5 miles wide, but a witness says it extends 100 miles.
DailyMail 2011 Mar 21 (Cached)
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Japan: Whistleblower nuclear engineer who helped design nuclear containment vessels has criticized the Japanese government, the nuclear industry, and regulators over their safety record. He alleges that profits were more important than safety.
ABC News 2011 Mar 21 (Cached)
US: What’s the Constitution? Don’t bother asking 70% of Americans- they don’t know basic facts about their country. [Those facts were dropped from public school curricula decades ago by internationalist-mined social engineers who dreamed of the day when America would be merely a small part of the New World Order.]
DailyMail 2011 Mar 21 (Cached)
US: Liberty dollar creator, Bernard von Nothaus, has been convicted of counterfeiting because he minted silver coins that resembled U.S. coins. He may face up to 25 years in prison.
Yahoo 2011 Mar 20 (Cached)
Brazil: Police fire rubber bullets and tear gas on protesters against Obama’s visit. His next stop is Chile, and he’s not popular there, either.
DailyMail 2011 Mar 20 (Cached)
Tennessee nullifies Obamacare’s mandatory-insurance provision, and it is signed into law. [The state did not nullify Obamacare in its entirety, but this is a start. Let's hope they don't stop there. The entire thing is unconstitutional and fiscally irresponsible.]
TAC 2011 Mar 19 (Cached)
US: Center for Disease Control plans a 5-year study of the link between autism and mercury in vaccines. They also will focus on environmental factors. [For many years, the CDC has been a protective arm of the pharmaceutical industry. It is inconceivable that it would link toxic additives in vaccines to autism. The reason for a 5-year study is to allow the industry to continue making a killing – literally. Finally, the CDC will report that no link has been found. Any bets to the contrary?]
Huffington Post Posted 2011 Mar 19 (Cached)
EU leaders are supporters of GMO crops and are plotting to overcome opposition from member states. Their latest ploy is diabolical. They propose to allow member states to reject GMO crops (that’s good) but they will not be allowed to reject them on the basis of health or environment issues. Those issues, of course, are the primary reasons to reject them.
Reuters Posted 2011 Mar 19 (Cached)
Ron Paul comments on Obama’s new illegal war against Libya and the “authority” granted by the UN for the war that the US taxpayers will bankroll. He says that these wars and other illegal acts will end only when we follow the Constitution.
DailyPaul Posted 2011 Mar 19
US Drone kills 36 more people in Pakistan, as that country decries the act. Drone strikes there have increased from 33 in 2008 to 118 in 2010. Obama, the peace candidate, has escalated military activity in both Pakistan and Afghanistan.
McClatchey Posted 2011 Mar 19 (Cached)
This video clip explains how terrorists from Saudi Arabia were given U.S. visas by the U.S. State Department without normal interviews and background checks. This was a special “fast-track” program created just for Saudi Arabia. 15 of the 19 hijackers on 9/11 came into the U.S. through this program. [Bin Ladin didn't do this. The State Department did.]
YouTube Posted 2011 Mar 19
Monsanto and two of India’s government agricultural agencies are caught planting GMO corn illegally.
Times of India Posted 2011 Mar 19 (Cached)
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ANALYSIS
Reports and commentaries that look beyond the news to identify historical facts and trends that must be understood to place the news into perspective. This is our “think-tank” section that makes it possible to anticipate future events.
Middle East protests have been linked to Western influence and funding and is believed to be controlled opposition. If this is true, the international power elites will replace these toppled governments with new rulers who will do their bidding.
Activist Post 2011 Mar 25 (Cached)
UN nuclear bank is proposed and partially funded by Warren Buffett. In the name of protecting the world from nuclear war, it will put control over nuclear energy and weapons into the hands of the global elites.
MorphCity 2011 Mar 24 (Cached)
Doctor explains how to protect against radiation. Very complete overview.
FortifyHealth 2011 Mar 20 (Cached)
Precious metals and sound money are making a comeback. Thirteen states currently have sound-money legislation pending. Self reliance by individuals, communities, and states is on the rise.
NeitherCorp 2011 Mar 15 (Cached)
Union Myths: This is an excellent analysis of how unions, with support of the Obama Administration, are trying to take away the right of workers to decide if they want a union to represent them. Not surprisingly, the bill is called “Employee Free Choice Act,” which does just the opposite of what it says.
JWR Posted 2011 Mar 12 (Cached)
DISINFORMATION & CONTROLLED OPPOSITION
When the enemies of freedom cannot hide or deny the truth, they proclaim it boldly but mix it with outrageous or offensive claims so people will recoil from the whole, like mixing garbage with groceries to stink up the bag causing us to throw out the good with the bad. Another collectivist strategy is to send agents into the ranks of freedom activists to become their leaders. One reason the freedom movement has been consistently defeated is that false leaders put up a good fight but, at the last minute, accept defeat or switch sides. News items in this section illustrate these strategies.
Wisconsin: Protestors take control of the state capitol, and 14 Democrat Senators flee the state to prevent the legislature from functioning. The issue behind this is that the Governor introduced a bill (supported by the Republican majority) to balance the budget by requiring state employees to pay a larger share of their own pension and healthcare costs and by reducing power of the state-employee union. Other options to balance the budget are (1) increase taxes or (2) request an ongoing and never-ending bailout by the federal government (via taxpayers) which will increase federal control. Over 40 states now are facing the same problem.
ABC News 2011 Feb 18 (Cached)
US: Over 100 doctors, nurses, and physical therapists are arrested for Medicare fraud, typically involving over-billing for procedures or for procedures not performed. Fraud of this kind is estimated at $60 billion to $90 billion per year. [This is just a peek at what to expect under Obamacare.]
Ohio.com 2011 Feb 18 (Cached)
US: Righthaven is an organization that sues blogs and news sites for copyright infringement when they quote copyrighted material from other sources. The net effect is to harass or silence alternative media. Righthaven’s first case (it has 238 cases pending) was dismissed based on the ‘Fair Use’ law, but this will be appealed.
Activist Post 2011 Feb 18 (Cached)
US: Fox News is caught creating false news to put Congressman Ron Paul in a bad light. The real news is that Paul was the overwhelming winner of the Conservative Political Action Committee’s straw poll for the next Presidential candidate, and the announcement was followed by prolonged cheers. The false news is that, when Fox aired the event, it played video from the 2010 convention in which there was a mixed reaction from the delegates including some boos from his opponents. The effect is that Paul was denied recognition of the fact that he has gained mightily in popularity in the last year. [Fox News plays the role of being pro-Constitution and anti-big government but only supports Republicans who vote for the same collectivist schemes they pretend to oppose. People like Ron Paul, who actually vote against collectivism, are usually ostracized or sabotaged by the network. This is classic.]
The Cutline 2011 Feb 17 (Cached)
Idaho’s State House of Representatives is the first to pass legislation nullifying Obamacare. [Great start, Idaho! Now the Idaho Senate, the Governor, and all the other states need to follow suit]
TAC 2011 Feb 16 (Cached)
US: Senate votes to extend key provisions of the misnamed Patriot Act for 90 days. [Both major parties support the Patriot Act, along with President Obama, so there is no reason to expect the Act not to be fully renewed in 90 days.]
Yahoo 2011 Feb 15 (Cached)
Chinese companies found mass producing fake rice out of potatoes and plastic.
Natural News 2011 Feb 15 (Cached)
US: Foreclosure volume soars 50% in California, Arizona, Washington, and many other states. The reason is that the ‘foreclosure moratorium’ has ended, and homes that were suspended in the process now are being disposed. Next month is expected to be worse. [But pay no attention. They still are assuring us the recession is over.]
Business Insider 2011 Feb 15 (Cached)
Washington State to require all firms that buy second-hand precious metals (including coins) to obtain personal information and photograph from anyone who is selling – to thwart thieves with stolen goods, of course.
PPJ Gazette 2011 Feb 15 (Cached)
US: Veterans who have been raped by others in the military are suing the Pentagon for grossly mishandling the cases. Sometimes the victims had to serve alongside their attackers.
Yahoo 2011 Feb 15 (Cached)
China overtakes Japan as world’s second largest economy, based on the gross domestic product. This is primarily because Japan’s economy decreased.
Telegraph 2011 Feb 14 (Cached)
Obama’s budget estimates a federal deficit for this fiscal year over $15 trillion, larger than the entire US annual economy. [The budget cuts obtained by newly elected Tea Party members are meaningless against these staggering numbers, and budget estimates always are more favorable than reality. How much longer can America survive its leaders?]
Washington Times 2011 Feb 14 (Cached)
US: Islam jihadi who assisted the 7/7 London bombers, is quietly released from prison after less than 5 years. Since petty thieves often serve longer terms, this has prompted claims that he was an undercover informer for the US government at the time. The judge even said that he had ‘cooperated’ with authorities prior to his arrest.
Guardian 2011 Feb 13 (Cached)
Arizona’s Financial Transparency legislation has been introduced calling for making available to the public all state and local government incoming receipts, outgoing payments, and asset balance. [This is an excellent proposal because a significant part of state and local cash flow often is hidden from the public. Expect to see entrenched powers do everything possible to defeat this bill.]
Walter Burien 2011 Feb 13 (Cached)
Mexico loses over 80% of its crops to big freeze, the coldest weather in over half a century. This, in combination with inflation, points to skyrocketing food prices in Mexico and the US. [And they are still pushing cap-and-trade taxes to combat the effects of so-called global warming. Hmmm: Higher food prices, higher taxes, and fewer jobs. There are going to be a lot of unhappy people. The word Egypt comes to mind.]
Digital Journal Posted 2011 Feb 12 (Cached)
The North American Union (merger of the US, Mexico, and Canada) is moving ahead as Obama and Canadian Prime Minister Harper agree to a common ‘perimeter’ around both countries and a biometric ID to track all North Americans. They further agreed to work jointly on health, security, terror, fraud and the economy. [Congress and the American people are not being consulted in this matter.]
New American Posted 2011 Feb 12 (Cached)
US: An estimated 28.7 million jobs have been exported from the US since 1992 due to NAFTA. Both major parties supported the treaty. In his 2008 presidential campaign, Obama promised to renegotiate parts of NAFTA to bring jobs back to the US. [How many years ago was that?]
Business Insider Posted 2011 Feb 12 (Cached)
US: Study shows that exposure to pesticides – paraquat and rotenone – increases the chance of developing Parkinson’s disease by 250%.
Yahoo Posted 2012 Feb 11 (Cached)
UK: Woman is handcuffed and charged with stealing after taking potato waffles and pies that had been thrown away by a local grocery store. The charge was “Theft by finding.” Makes taking food that has been thrown away a crime by charging a woman with “theft by finding”.
DailyMail Posted 2011 Feb 12 (Cached)
World Economic Forum says the world needs $100 trillion in new credit over the next decade, which would double the level of existing credit. [That means doubling the world's money supply at a time when goods and services are shrinking. That spells massive inflation as the value of the money falls. Since members of the WEF are highly placed or influential in the major governments of the world, this tells us what to expect from those governments.]
Telegraph Posted 2011 Feb 12 (Cached)
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ANALYSIS
Reports and commentaries that look beyond the news to identify historical facts and trends that must be understood to place the news into perspective. This is our “think-tank” section that makes it possible to anticipate future events.
US: Zero-tolerance policies in schools are converting them into agencies of a police state, prison-like in nature; criminalizing behavior, and punishing instead of educating.
Analysis by John Whitehead.Lew Rockwell 2011 Feb 17 (Cached)
The Global Warming Conspiracy, a documentary by Jesse Ventura, is well worth watching. In spite of the overly dramatic style of production, the facts are accurate and important. They will make you angry.
truTV, Posted 2011 Feb 14
Here is an excellent analysis of “Which Path to Persia,” a strategy paper prepared by the Brookings Institute, which is a think tank funded by mega-corporations within the orbit of the CFR. Everything that is happening in the Middle East is in accordance with this plan, developed in 2009. If you want to know what will happen next, read this. All major decision were made long ago.
Activist Post 2011 Feb 13 (Cached)
Playing the Global-Warming Card: This analysis explains how the myth of global warming is the centerpiece of the current movement for expanding government, controlling people, and depopulation, a movement known as Agenda 21.
MorphCity 2011 Feb 11 (Cached)
‘The Singularity’ is the name given to the point in the development of technology where, theoretically, it will be possible to transfer human consciousness and introspection into self-directed, self-repairing, and self replicating robots. Don’t laugh too quickly. Scientists and futurists are giving this concept a fair amount of credibility. Even if you are not convinced it is possible, you may find this report of interest.
Time 2011 Feb 10 (Cached)
DISINFORMATION & CONTROLLED OPPOSITION
When the enemies of freedom cannot hide or deny the truth, they proclaim it boldly but mix it with outrageous or offensive claims so people will recoil from the whole, like mixing garbage with groceries to stink up the bag causing us to throw out the good with the bad. Another collectivist strategy is to send agents into the ranks of freedom activists to become their leaders. One reason the freedom movement has been consistently defeated is that false leaders put up a good fight but, at the last minute, accept defeat or switch sides. News items in this section illustrate these strategies.
US: Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) has been an outspoken advocate of adhering to the Constitution. Yet, after newly elected ‘Tea Party’ Congressmen and women who had their endorsement voted this week to renew the unconstitutional Patriot Act, CPAC was silent and continued to praise those who broke their pledge. [This is a classic case of controlled opposition. Collectivists playact at being Constitutionalists to get elected and then betray those who they fooled.]
BBCW 2011 Feb 14 (Cached)
Proposed Restrictions on the 2nd Amendment
The animosity shown the Second Amendment by the media and many of our elected representatives sworn to uphold the Constitution and the Bill of Rights is never so apparent as when a particularly heinous criminal shooting occurs. These tragedies are immediately seized upon as a springboard for introducing more gun control measures, which are usually circumventions of the Second Amendment in intent and practice, and therefore unconstitutional.
Another misguided “close the loopholes” for guns measure has been introduced by Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D.-N.Y.) and 57 Democrat cosponsors. Her bill H. R. 308, “To prohibit the transfer or possession of large capacity ammunition feeding devices, and for other purposes,” is officially entitled the “Large Capacity Feeding Device Act.” H.R. 308 would restrict — criminalize, actually — the transfer and possession by law-abiding citizens of large capacity feeding devices, more commonly known as magazines, that accept more than 10 rounds of ammunition. There are frightening exceptions, however, regarding ownership; clearly the advantage in firepower — in terms of speed of firing and number of rounds delivered in a given time — is being reserved to the government, its officials and agents.
The provisions of H.R. 308 are said to be grandfathered, applying to devices purchased or transferred only from the date of enactment of the bill, if passed. However, according to some gun legislation analysts, the grandfathering is meaningless in this case because of other overriding language in the measure. Just for possessing a “large capacity ammunition feeding device,” one could be arrested and charged. The burden of proof that one owned the device prior to the ban would be forced upon the innocent citizen as he was dragged through the courts. Proving its manufacturing date would be useless. Any ruling in the matter would be at the discretion of the authorities. Penalties for infractions of H.R. 308 would be 10 years in a federal prison and an undesignated monetary fine. Basically, H.R. 308 would criminalize anyone in possession of a magazine holding 11 rounds or more.
It is unconstitutional to infringe on our natural right to bear arms guaranteed under the Second Amendment by incrementally restricting it, just as it would be unconstitutional to incrementally restrict the rights of free speech, religious belief and practice, and privacy. There is no authorization in the Constitution for incrementally restricting any of our rights as guaranteed by the Constitution.
H.R. 308 is but one more step toward eventual, total elimination of our right to keep and bear arms. Contact your Representative and Senators and insist that they support and defend our right to keep and bear arms, in toto.
The John Birch Society 2011 February 7
We Are Witnessing the Collapse of the Middle East
If Egypt should fall, it will mark the beginning of the end for what little remaining stability there is in the Middle East. Jordan is facing similar unrest, as are Algeria and Yemen. Lebanon and Tunisia fell in January. It is highly unlikely that these events are unrelated. A combination of leftist and Islamist forces provoked the protests, and we are likely looking at a ring of radical Islamic states rising up to surround Israel. Once their power is solidified, perhaps in a year or two, they will combine forces to attack Israel. If Israel falls, the United States will stand alone in a sea of virulent enemies and impotent allies.
American Thinker 2011 February 4
GOP joins campaign against TSA scanners
Members of the Travis, Texas, County Republican Party have joined a campaign against the federal Transportation Security Administration’s new invasive airport pat-down procedures and nude-imaging scanners at airports. “These scanners are a very personal invasion of privacy, exposing anatomically detailed images of airline passengers to strangers,” said chairman Rosemary Edwards. “These graphic scans and the intimate physical searches which are offered as the only alternative, are completely inappropriate and a violation of our Constitutionally protected right to privacy.”
WorldNetDaily 2011 February 4
Days of Rage, Oil Prices, and the Suez Canal
Bloomberg warns today that an act of sabotage or a decision by a new regime – possibly headed up by the Muslim Brotherhood – to close the canal and its oil pipeline to punish supporters of Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak could send oil prices through the stratosphere.
On January 28, Lindsey Williams told Alex Jones the situation unfolding in Egypt is a carefully engineered event instigated by the global elite as part of a plan to bankrupt the United States and send shock waves through the global economy.
INFOWARS.COM 2011 February 3
Viable Alternative to Real ID
The federal government is collecting, maintaining and sharing American’s information globally. The Real ID Act (along with a host of other ID proposals including Arizona’s SB 1070) facilitates the collecting, maintaining and sharing of our vital information globally. Americans are being enrolled into a Single Global Biometric Identifications System that Links A Person’s Body to their Ability to Buy Sell and Travel.
The Real ID Act , passed without debate as a rider on a military spending bill in 2005. Driver’s licenses are issued by the states not the federal government but the Real ID Act imposed federally mandated standards for state driver’s licenses.
Although 600 groups and organizations oppose the Real ID Act, 11 states are currently in compliance with the 18 Interim REAL ID Benchmarks with Arkansas and Connecticut soon to follow. Another thirteen states will likely achieve material compliance within the next six months, if not before.
See the following PowerPoint presentation.
Bob Schulz
We The People Foundation
Since 1995, People have been attempting to hold the Government accountable to the Constitution by exercising the little-known, unalienable Right guaranteed by the last ten words of the First Amendment, “…and to Petition the Government for a Redress of Grievances”.
While this Right was placed in the First Amendment as the PRIMARY means through which the power of the People to directly hold the Government accountable could be exercised, peaceably, our modern-day world of materialism and apathy, public largesse for votes, and routine usurpation of power by the Government, has left the “capstone Right” dormant and all but forgotten. Ask any attorney to cite the five rights guaranteed by the First Amendment and most will not mention the Right to Petition the Government for a Redress of Grievances.
In Petitioning for Redress. we were motivated by the knowledge that a departure from the Constitution in one instance becomes a precedent for a second, that second for a third, and so on, until the People are reduced to misery and suffering.
We knew, “The time to guard against corruption and tyranny is before they shall have gotten hold of us. It is better to keep the wolf out of the fold than to trust to drawing his teeth and talons after he shall have entered.” Thomas Jefferson. Notes on the State of Virginia, 1782.
We knew that each violation of the Constitution has a ravaging effect on America, Her People, economy, reputation and security, and that the whole of the devastation would be greater than the sum of the parts.
We knew that an act of tyranny anywhere is a threat to Freedom everywhere.
We Petitioned to Remedy the violations of the Constitution arising from:
1. the $ 20 billion bailout of Mexico in 1995 without approval by Congress; and
2. the bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999 after Congress refused to authorize it; and
3. the direct, un-apportioned tax on labor; and
4. the withholding of earnings from the paychecks of workers; and
5. the Federal Reserve System’s fiat, debt-based currency; and
6. the decision to invade Iraq by the President, rather than Congress; and
7. the USA Patriot Act; and
8. the federal gun control laws; and
9. the failure of Presidents to enforce the immigration laws; and
10. the movement toward a North American Union; and
11. the counting of votes in secret by machines; and
12. the eligibility to be President if both parents are not U.S. citizens; and
13. the $ 85 billion bailout of AIG; and
14. the $ 700 billion TARP bailout.
The result has always been the same; silence, no response. Silence, however, under well established U.S. law, is admission, when a public official has a duty to respond and chooses not to.
The People decided to test the attitude of the Judiciary. On July 19, 2004, the People filed a lawsuit asking the federal Court to declare — for the first time in history — the Constitutional meaning of the last ten words of the First Amendment. The title of the case was, We The People v. United States.
The Court was asked to answer two questions: 1) whether the Government is obligated under the First Amendment to respond to the People’s Petitions for Redress of violations of the Constitution; and 2) whether the People possess the Right to retain their money until those Grievances are redressed.
Obviously, the correct answer to the first question is “yes” – the Government is obligated to respond. To speculate otherwise would be to call into question why the clause was included as part of the First Amendment. It is noteworthy that the Petition clause is the only part of the Amendment which articulates a specific and direct form and process of communication from the People to the Government, thereby reiterating the potent principle from the Declaration of Independence that defines government as a servant of the People. Finally, in the words of the Supreme Court of 1803, “It cannot be presumed that any clause in the constitution is intended to be without effect….” Marbury v. Madison, 5 U.S. 137, 174.
The correct answer to the second question is also “yes” – the People have a right of enforcement. It is well known in American Jurisprudence that “with every right there is a remedy” and “any right that is not enforceable is not a right.” The Right to withhold money as a peaceable means for the People to “weigh in” on and Redress unconstitutional governmental acts arises from the Founding Fathers and their sound reasoning as to how a Republic must operate to ensure the Rights of a Free People.
On October 6, 2006 oral arguments were heard by the United States Court of Appeals. Traditionally, Appeals Courts issue their decisions within 4-6 weeks following oral arguments. However, the decision in the Right to Petition lawsuit was issued more than seven months after oral arguments. Why the delay?
We now know activities were quietly taking place within the other two branches of the Government that appear to have directed the verdict in our case.
Rather than work with the People’s concerns by responding directly to our Petitions for Redress, the Government chose to “clamp down,” through a (constitutionally abhorrent) tripartite treaty – a tripartition, divided among the three branches, for the purpose of (unlawfully) colluding to deny the People their First Amendment Right to hold the government accountable to the Constitution. These actions were taken in a manner to attract the least attention possible.
First, in December, 2006, the 109th Congress passed the “Tax Relief and Health Care Act of 2006.” (H.R. 6111) Please note the title. This Act was meant to retroactively extend tax credits that had expired in 2005: Sounds good for the People – but look again.
Tucked away in the Act was a provision (Title III — Health Savings Accounts, Section 407) (click on Section 407) that authorized the (Executive Branch) Treasury Department to make law (i.e., unconstitutionally) – that is, to administratively prescribe a list of “specified frivolous positions,” and impose a penalty of $5,000 on any person who uses a “specified frivolous position” as a ground of reasoning for retaining his money from the Government. Disturbingly, there is no definition of “frivolous” in the Act.
Then, on March 15, 2007, the Treasury Department published Notice 2007-30, a list of “Frivolous Positions”, again, without defining “frivolous.” Included on the frivolous list, among numerous other well-researched and proven positions, is Government’s refusal to respond to First Amendment Petitions for Redress of Grievances. (See paragraph (9)b of the Notice). Citizens who raise the issue of government’s failure to respond to First Amendment Petitions for Redress as a ground of reasoning for retaining their money from the Government are subject to a severe penalty.
In short, all the “positions” cited in the Treasury Notice (including the full exercise of the First Amendment Right to Petition) are deemed “frivolous” simply because Government says so.
Then, on May 8, 2007, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit finally issued its decision in We The People v. United States (seven months after it heard oral argument), ruling that the Government is not obligated to respond to the People’s First Amendment Petitions for Redress and, therefore, the People do not have the Right to retain their money until the Government responds.
The Judiciary fell into line with the “verdict” directed by the actions of the Legislative branch on December 9, 2006, and the Executive branch on March 15, 2007. A ruling that abused the judicial doctrine of stare decisis by relying on a principle of law laid down in two irrelevant cases.
It is difficult to come to any other conclusion but that there has been an assent by the three branches of the central government to actively thwart and quash any attempt by the People to enforce their Right to hold the Government accountable under the first amendment.
The People need to realize the full extent of the adverse impact this collusion will have upon Freedom in America.
A Petition for Certiorari (w/ Appendix) was filed, but the Supreme Court refused to hear the case which could have recognized the People’s Right to peaceably hold the Government accountable to the Constitution, thereby shifting the ultimate power in our society from the Government back to the People, where it was meant to reside in the first place.
A Scheme Well-Concealed
Who among us knew that a very lengthy bill, the “Tax Relief and Health Care Act of 2006,” widely popular because it retroactively extended for two years, hundreds of tax credits that had expired in December 2005, which was introduced and passed both houses of Congress in three days in December 2006 (with no record of who voted for or against the bill) actually included a provision that authorized the Executive branch to prescribe a list of “specified frivolous positions” and to fine anyone $5,000 if they cite any of those positions as a reason for retaining their money? The Table of Contents for the Act itself runs 25 pages.
Who among us knew that on March 15, 2007, the IRS published Notice 2007-30 containing a list of “specified frivolous positions,” and that the list included “the Right to Petition the Government for Redress of Grievances”, among many others and now being used against citizens who are standing on the Law and acting upon their beliefs?
Who among us was able to see the connection between the acts of the Congress and Treasury and the May 8, 2007 decision by the Court in We The People v. United States, declaring the Government is not obligated to respond to the People’s Petitions for Redress of constitutional torts and the People have no Right to peaceably enforce their Rights?
What great discords and suffering might have been prevented, especially now, in these days of great national distress and economic turmoil had a government founded of the People, by the People, and for the People, been willing to openly answer the questions asked by the People in their Petitions for Redress.
It is clear that we, the People are up against unjust government and laws. If we are to maintain the great American experiment, it is essential for the leaders of every group of “Freedom Keepers” to come together and meet face-to-face, with great haste, to develop a “Liberty Matrix” and a peaceful course of action for the Free to defend the greatest governing documents ever given to mankind and with the recollection that the cause of America is still the cause of the World.
US: Giant rocket lifts off from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California carrying a secret spy satellite (the third of 6 that are planned). It is believed that the new satellite will be capable of reading car license plates.
DailyMail 2011 Jan 21 (Cached)
US: Congress has introduced a bill to repeal the ban on incandescent lights by 2012. Compact fluorescent lights save energy but they contain toxic mercury and are a potential health hazzard when broken.
Natural News 2011 Jan 21 (Cached)
Chinese President Hu, speaking in Chicago, says China is not a military threat and also denied that his country has a one-child policy. [Well, that settles that, doesn't it? Surely he wouldn't say anything that was untrue!]
DailyMail 2011 Jan 21 (Cached)
Australia: Global-warming myth makers claim that recent floods are the result of so-called “climate change”. Here is the historical proof that such claims are pure bunk. These charts show that floods of this magnitude are not unusual for that area and, in fact, were more common and severe in the 19th century.
WUWT Posted 2011 Jan 21 (Cached)
Spain: Government is pouring freshly created money into banks in hopes of warding off an international bailout. Billions of euros in previous bailouts have been ineffective. [As always, the influx of money out of nothing will create even more inflation for consumers.]
WSJ 2011 Jan 20 (Cached)
US: FDA is investigating a possible connection between flu vaccines and 36 seizures in young children that occurred within 24 hours of receiving the shots. [Don't expect much here. The FDA is more of a partner to Big Pharma than a regulator and likely will "find" that the problem was not the shots in general but a bad batch or some other temporary condition or that the number of adverse reactions is too small to worry about, so keep those kids coming for more. We shall see.]
Yahoo 2011 Jan 20 (Cached)
US: Supreme Court has denied hearing a case exposing corruption by lower-court federal judges. The proof against them is so clear that no one even tries to deny it. Yet, the Supreme Court has refused to hear the case, which has the effect of releasing them from conviction and, at the same time, condemning an innocent man.
Breitbart 2011 Jan 19 (Cached)
Goldman Sachs’ earnings fell by 53% in the 4th quarter and 37% overall in 2010 due to a reduction in bond trading and investment banking. (Investment banking involves acting as an agent for companies that need to raise capital from investors.) However, its own investing and lending segment showed a larger profit than last year. [This so-called profitable sector is the same one that was bailed out after suffering huge losses from high-risk loans. It's easy to show a profit when your losses are covered by taxpayers.]
Yahoo 2011 Jan 19 (Cached)
Goldman Sachs has 475 secret elite partners who stand to reap a windfall from 38 million stock options that were granted to them in 2008. [Options allow the holders to purchase stock at a stated price, usually very low, in anticipation of the stock being much more valuable at a future date. This method of compensation often is concealed from the public because it does not show up as salary or bonus. Among those to benefit are former Treasury Secretaries Hank Paulson and Robert Rubin.]
NY Times 2011 Jan 19 (Cached)
Obamacare has been repealed in the House but, likely, will be sustained the Senate and/or the President, so this was largely a symbolic effort. Most Republicans want to reform parts of the law instead of abolishing it completely. [Neither the Right nor the Left in Congress has any intention of repealing Obamacare because they stand to collect an extra $345 billion a year with the new tax provisions. That's why we support State Nullification.]
Fox News 2011 Jan 19 (Cached)
US: 26 states have joined a lawsuit filed by Florida to challenge the constitutionality of Obamacare. [This is a good sign of public opposition but contains the seeds of its own defeat. The lawsuit says Obamacare is unconstitutional because it forces Americans to buy health insurance. However, if that provision is struck down, all the other provisions would remain, and funding would come from taxes and inflation instead of premiums. So this has the appearance of opposition but is without real effect. If the states are serious about abolishing Obamacare, they should simply nullify the whole thing under the 10th Amendment.]
Guardian 2011 Jan 18 (Cached)
Ireland’s central bank begins printing Euros [that's right, Euros] out of thin air to cover its debt. This will have an inflationary effect on the rest of the EU countries. [This seems strange, but appears to be not much different than having the money printed by the EU and then shipped to Ireland. It's all just an accounting trick anyway.]
Daily Bell 2011 Jan 18 (Cached)
US: An air traveler at the Baltimore-Washington Airport declined to accept a full-body scan but was forced to walk through the machine anyway. He believes it was a psychological move to show that opt-outs cannot claim a “victory” over their authority.
InfoWars 2011 Jan 18 (Cached)
Hawaii: Natural farming, using compost and earthworms, has doubled the yield of a small farm in just two years – and no pesticides, herbicides, or chemical fertilizer are needed. There was a 30% decrease in water usage. [Even though most of us are not farmers, it is important that even city dwellers know that chemical fertilizers and pesticides are not necessary for our food supply.]
Staradvertiser 2011 Jan 18 (Cached)
Overpopulation time bomb is a myth, according to several recent scientific studies. The problem with global hunger is not that there is not enough food but that distribution is hampered by a holdback in technology.
The Independent 2011 Jan 18 (Cached)
City of Camden, New Jersey, lays off 17% of its employees, including police and firefighters, who warn that the city will become a “living hell.”. Public-safety workers and unions refused to take job-saving cuts, and the state is unable to bail out the city again (as it has for the past 2 generations).
Yahoo 2011 Jan 18 (Cached)
US: Department of Agriculture provides a $12 million secret bailout to Domino’s Pizza in a bizarre new partnership. The announced purpose is to promote “a cheesier pizza.” [How's that for the proper function of the state?]
Shatter Limits 2011 Jan 18 (Cached)
Chief climate scientist at NASA calls for Chinese-style dictatorship to fight global warming. He laments that the democratic process allows voters to obstruct the process. [Is anyone surprised? The global-warming myth is merely an excuse to establish a global dictatorship, and this fellow is just confirming it.]
Washington Times 2011 Jan 17 (Cached)
A study from the University of California found that all of the pregnant women in the test were contaminated with toxic chemicals, many of which have been banned in the US for decades. The source? Plastics, toys, personal-care products, and pesticide residue in food that is imported from other countries. Even though banned in the US, they can be imported with no problem. In addition, many toxic chemicals are still allowed in the US.
Natural News 2011 Jan 17 (Cached)
UK: A single mother, who was temporarily paralyzed by a fall, was told that her two-month-old baby (which was being well cared for by her sister) was to be put up for adoption by social services. The case workers claimed (with absolutely no evidence) that the mother may have been suicidal. The case has dragged on for 18 months after the mother’s total recovery. [This is only one case, but the details are painfully reminiscent of many similar cases that occur in every collectivist nation of the world where children are considered to be property of the state.]
Telegraph 2011 Jan 15 (Cached)
Here is a list of the top 10 prescription drugs linked to violent behavior, including homicide and suicide. Most are anti-depressants and attention deficit drugs. [Incidentally, these are some of the most highly prescribed drugs in history. Instead of outlawing guns, how about outlawing these killers?]
Time Posted 2011 Jan 15 (Cached)
Here is an article that contains astonishing excerpts from Air Force documents describing how the HAARP installation in Alaska (High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program), may create weather modification as a weapon. [When they speak of nanotechnology and particles in the atmosphere, be aware that the most efficient method of putting them there is through aerosol spraying from aircraft. We call them chemtrails.]
PPJ Gazette Posted 2011 Jan 15 (Cached)
See: What in the World Are They Spraying?
Montana is considering ‘Sheriffs First’ legislation requiring federal agencies like the IRS, FBI and ATF, to get written permission from local sheriffs to perform searches and seizures.
WND Posted 2011 Jan 15 (Cached)
US Mint reports a buying frenzy of physical silver within the first 12 days of January 2011. Gold sales also have jumped. [Ironically, the spot price of silver and gold dropped significantly shortly after this announcement. It appears that those who manipulate the market are making a last-ditch effort to push the demand back down. They do this by selling bullion contracts (not the bullion itself). If buyers decide to demand physical delivery, the game is over, and the speculators who have done this will be wiped out.]
ZeroHedge Posted 2011 Jan 15 (Cached)
US: Here is a list of the tax hikes that are in Obamacare. It is one of the largest tax increases in American history.
ATR.org Posted 2011 Jan 15 (Cached)
US: Patriot Act that allows the government to conduct warrantless searches, monitor private computer records, tap phone calls, and prevent you from knowing you are being spied on, has wide support in Congress and is expected to be renewed this month with little or no debate or fanfare. [This will be a test of the sincerity of those Tea-Party Republicans who recently were elected on their promise to uphold the Constitution.]
Huffington Post 2011 Jan 15 (Cached)
Genetically modified chickens have been created that developers say will not transmit avian flu to other birds. [That's good news, but developers don't say what negative effects to human health may come from eating the meat from these chickens. This is part of the current trend whereby GMO companies are trying to get farmers to grow only foods that they have patented, and they always justify this practice as, somehow, providing a benefit to mankind.]
PopSci Posted 2011 Jan 15 (Cached)
UK: Grandmother received swine flu vaccine and was told by her doctor that it would absolutely protect her from the flu. She did not have the flu at the time but died from swine flu two months later.
Natural News Posted 2011 Jan 15 (Cached)
California applies to the federal government for bankruptcy protection. Currently, states are prohibited from declaring bankruptcy, but a new law to change that is being considered. [If states can declare bankruptcy, they will be able to re-negotiate impossible-to-sustain employee pension plans and health-care contracts, which is why unions oppose the measure. For taxpayers, it would be a great relief.]
LA Times 2011 Jan 15 (Cached)
US Fish and Wildlife has agreed (only after being sued) to stop planting GMO crops on refuges in 12 Northeastern states. More lawsuits to stop the practice in other regions are being pursued. [This article says that, while farming is allowed on refuges, most have been converted to GMO crops because those were the only seeds farmers could obtain. A peek into the future?]
PEER Posted 2011 Jan 15 (Cached)
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ANALYSIS
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Texas: Activist confronts Austin Chief Sustainability Officer as she confirms that the UN’s Agenda 21 program, which she supports, calls for reducing the population by 85%. She laughs when the issue is raised and says she is not concerned about that aspect of the program. [This is only one official out of thousands just like her in positions of government authority around the country, but be assured that she represents the norm, not the exception. These people are dead serious.]
YouTube 2011 Jan 16
Goldnomics: the value difference between cash and gold bullion. [You probably know most of this, but it is a good idea to take a refresher course from time to time.]
YouTube Posted 2011 Jan 15
Mike Adams and Farmer Brad discuss the impact of the misnamed Food Safety Bill: Many small farmers will go out of business due to extensive paperwork and FDA regulations; food prices will increase; and more food will be imported from other countries. [Imported food bypasses most safety regulations, so Americans will be at greater risk than before. Incidentally, small farms have never been the source of major outbreaks.]
Natural News Posted 2011 Jan 15
This is an excellent animation that explains the illusion of the “American Dream” and fiat money. [Caution! Some of the historical information is not accurate. For example, the story that JFK was assassinated because of his stand against the Federal Reserve cannot be substantiated. In fact, Kennedy always was a friend of central banking (See The JFK Myth). Nevertheless, because of the high quality of this program and the fact that the general theme is correct, we recommend it highly.]
YouTube Posted 2011 Jan 15
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When the enemies of freedom cannot hide or deny the truth, their disinformation agents proclaim it boldly but mix it with questionable or offensive claims so people will recoil from the whole, like mixing garbage with groceries to stink up the bag and cause us to throw out the good with the bad. News items in this section may be in that category.
EU Times story on “toxic-oil spill rains” correctly spotlights damage from the Gulf-oil spill but makes claims that it cannot be substantiated, thus, undermining genuine concerns.
Rense.com Posted 2011 Jan 18 (Cached)
JP Morgan-Chase bank says its net income jumped 47% in the fourth quarter of 2010, and that executive salaries in their home-loan division tripled from $549 million to $1.8 billion since last year. CEO Jamie Dimon says that hurdles are high for investors who want to force banks to buy back bad loans, and this will be vigorously opposed in court.
Yahoo 2011 Jan 14 (Cached)
US: Treasury announces it will sell warrants it holds in Citigroup and 2 smaller banks to raise money to repay the $700 billion bailouts. It claims it will make $12 billion on its $45 billion bailout of Citigroup. [We are getting tired of having to repeat this warning, but it must be done: We don't believe you can squeeze orange juice out of a rock. In spite of all the brave talk about economic recovery and improved profits, banks and other bailed out entities are not yet producing anywhere near sufficient real profit to repay the bailouts. The trick they have used in the past, working in partnership with the Federal Reserve, is to provide new bailouts, hidden from public view, to repay the old ones, thereby fooling the public into believing bailouts are acts of statesmanship. Eventually, all of this will be exposed but, by then, it will be too late to do anything about it.]
Yahoo 2011 Jan 14 (Cached)
US: A recent poll reported that Obama’s approval rating has soared to 77%. [Here's how they produced that absurd figure: 44% like him as a person and also like his policies. 29% like him but oppose his policies. 2% like his policies but dislike him as a person. 19% dislike him and his policies. The reality, therefore, is that 75% like something about him (mostly his personality) but only 46% like his policies, which is the meaning of an approval rating. This is classic media spin.]
InfoZine 2011 Jan 14 (Cached)
Illinois raised its income-tax rate to 5% to pay off a $15 billion deficit. That’s a 66% increase. Neighboring states with lower taxes are gleefully anticipating the influx of businesses and jobs away from Illinois.
Yahoo 2011 Jan 13 (Cached)
AIG and the US government are working on a plan to sell $20 billion dollars of AIG stock to expand the company’s capital. This will reduce the value of existing shares, but it is hoped it will attract needed capital from investors. [As with previous moves to attract new capital into businesses that continue to lose money, we are skeptical. The standard game plan is for the Treasury and the Fed to covertly provide politically favored investors with new money or offer guarantees to cover the loss of old money so that, on the surface, it looks like the bailouts have been paid back. Watch closely. Can you tell which shell covers the peanut?]
MSNBC 2011 Jan 13 (Cached)
If you still believe that mass bird kills are caused by fireworks, flying into buildings, indigestion, or some other “official” explanation, here is a map showing global locations for 30 recent events. [Whatever the cause, it is happening world wide. See the article by Andrea Silverthorne in the Forum section, below, for reasons to suspect formaldehyde that forms from methane gas.]
Google 2011 Jan 13 (Cached)
US: Home foreclosures hit a record high of over 1 million in 2010. If not for the recent wave of court cases in which banks are prevented from foreclosure when they cannot document that they own the mortgage, the total could have exceeded 3 million. Currently, more than 5 million homeowners are at least 2 months behind in their payments. [Not to worry. Our leaders and media pundits have assured us that the economy has turned around.]
Yahoo 2011 Jan 13 (Cached)
Missouri has no problem with illegal immigrants because of common sense laws: English is the official language; police verify immigration status of those who are arrested; and illegal immigrants are not eligible for taxpayer-funded programs like food stamps, health care, and financial aid for education.
Ozark Sentinel posted 2011 Jan 12 (Cached)
Morgan-Chase bank in Cleveland told a homebuyer that the only way they were willing to modify his loan downward was for him to default on his payments, which he did. [Why would a bank advise default? Because it counts on moving the mortgage into a GSE (Government Sponsored Enterprise) such as Fanny Mae or Mac and thereby receive a subsidy on the revised loan. In other words, the banking game continues at the expense of taxpayers.]
ZeroHedge 2011 Jan 12 (Cached)
Philippines: Town mayor forces university to uproot a field of GMO eggplant. The reason is that the university failed to follow the law and take adequate steps to insure that the plants could not contaminate natural crops in the vicinity.
NaturalNews 2011 Jan 12 (Cached)
State of Virginia is considering establishing a committee to study whether it should adopt currency such as gold or silver should the Federal Reserve collapse. [This is a step in the right direction but strictly speaking, it is unconstitutional. Article 1 Section 10 of the Constitution says that states may not "coin money." That is reserved to the federal government. States must allow only gold or silver coins to be legal tender (which means people are required by law to accept them), but they cannot issue legal tender coins themselves. They can manufacture their own coins and accept them in payment of taxes, but cannot make them the official money of the state that people must accept. So it gets murky. Let's hope the committee will sort all this out and come to the conclusion that the state should issue silver and gold coins, encourage them to be used as money even though they are not required to do so. That would be ideal. No one needs to be forced to accept gold or silver.]
Market Oracle 2011 Jan 12 (Cached)
US: Housing market values have fallen 26% since their peak in June 2006, which is worse than the decline during the Great Depression from 1928 and 1933. [In spite of these grim statistics, this article insists that the economy is revving back to life. We shall see.]
CNBC 2011 Jan 11 (Cached)
US Court case discloses that military conducted mind-control experiments on 7800 Viet Nam veterans. They were subjected to nerve agents and psycho-active drugs (including LSD). Soldiers volunteered but were not told of the risks.
Alternet 2011 Jan 11 (Cached)
Obama’s presidential commission report on the Gulf gusher suggests the the US government should share responsibility. [That probably is correct, but there is more here than meets the eye. If the government shares responsibility, this will blunt the legal attack on BP and will save it billions of dollars in law suits. The government likely will have to pay at least half of the damages and most of the remediation costs. Taxpayers, once again, will be put through the ringer, while the people who were personally responsible for this disaster will not pay a dime or be punished in any way.]
DailyMail 2011 Jan 11 (Cached)
Obama is pushing for Internet ID overseen by the Department of Commerce – to protect your on-line identity, of course. It will be optional – for now. [If the public wants this, the private sector could and would provide it without government presence or access to the data base, but that is not what will happen.]
DailyMail 2011 Jan 10 (Cached)
Canada: Homeowner fined $5,200 for growing cucumbers in his basement. Authorities thought he was growing marijuana. Even though only cucumbers were found, the fine was levied to cover the cost of the search.
The Province 2011 Jan 10 (Cached)
Australia: Government is considering re-naming ‘climate change’ (already changed from ‘global warming’) to ‘climate challenges’. This is because most people no longer think that climate change is man-made, so the myth makers must find a more appealing phrase. [No matter how they sell it, at its core it is junk science leading to carbon tax.]
The Australian 2011 Jan 9 (Cached)
Massachusetts federal court voids bank seizure of 2 foreclosed homes because the banks failed to show they held the mortgages at the time of foreclosure. This is expected to have an enormous impact on other foreclosed homes in the past and in the future.
DailyMail 2011 Jan 8 (Cached)
US: While the Constitution is read on the House floor, a woman in the audience yells out that Obama has violated the Constitution because he is not ‘natural born citizen’ as required. She is removed.
Yahoo Posted 2011 Jan 8
Upcoming G20 meetings to discuss how rising food prices can be used as an excuse for passage of regional laws to increase government control over crops, farming methods, quotas, and prices. [Never let a good crisis go to waste. Instead of reducing government interference in the free market, which is the primary cause of food shortages, they are pushing ahead for more controls than ever. Collectivism always grows until it consumes everything.]
Reuters Posted 2011 Jan 8 (Cached)
China supplies most of the world’s honey and is notorious for using antibiotics to keep the bees “healthy” – but the honey becomes contaminated, which is far from healthy for humans. Chinese honey is falsely labeled as from Taiwan, Indonesia or Malaysia to avoid tariffs.
Globe and Mail Posted 2011 Jan 8 (Cached)
Ron and Rand Paul plan to introduce a bill to cut the federal budget by $500 billion. Rand says that the government collects about $2 trillion, but spends $4 trillion. Ron advocates repealing the welfare warfare state.
Sad Hill Posted 2011 Jan 8
Greek doctor (Harvard graduate) tells how medical research is a “damned lie.” He says bad science is manipulated to skew data favorably toward drug manufacturers who fund the research. Up to half of all medical research is untrustworthy.
The Atlantic Posted 2011 Jan 8 (Cached)
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The Arizona shooting has resulted in a media frenzy to vilify conservatives, Constitutionalists, Libertarians, the Tea Party, “divisive political rhetoric,” and gun-rights advocates. Like every other crisis in the present day, the event is being used to create public acceptance of yet more government power. This is an excellent overview.
NeitherCorp 2011 Jan 12 (Cached)
Globalism and the UN’s Agenda 21 are forbidden by the Bill of Rights and the American Constitution. Here is an excellent outline of how to restore America’s core value.
FreedomAdvocates 2011 Jan 12 (Cached)
Vaccine Court is an alternative to a real court and was established to shield drug companies from prosecution for vaccine injuries (like autism). Only small damages are granted, and those are charged to taxpayers, not Big Pharma. [Guess who lobbied for that.]
PPJ Gazette 2011 Jan 9 (Cached)
Lockheed Martin, a military and aircraft production company, is the largest single recipient of US tax dollars. This author says that, like the largest banks, it has become too big to fail, which means its mistakes and corruption are always covered up by the government, and its losses are passed to the taxpayers. This is an eye-opening review.
Yahoo 2011 Jan 4 (Cached)
Alcohol is a fuel and can be distilled from plants that thrive in poor soil, don’t need much rain, and grow like weeds without cultivation. [If we could ever break our fixation on gasoline from oil, producing fuel from these sources could bring back economic prosperity and oil independence to the US.]
ActivistPost 2011 Jan 4 (Cached)
US: Local law enforcement increasingly is being brought under federal control primarily through offers of money from Washington. [Local police departments seldom resist a federal grant to help them hire more officers and purchase needed equipment; but, with the money, comes control.]
PoliceOne.com 2010 Jan 3 (Cached)
US: Health and Human Services has proposed reducing the accepted levels of fluoride allowed in drinking water by 42% to .7 milligrams per liter. The stated reason is damage to children’s teeth, but the growing public concern over fluoridated water is, not brown spots on teeth, but toxicity and resulting disease. [This action appears to be a reaction to the NY City Councilman who is introducing legislation to completely ban fluoride from public water supplies (see Jan 1 article).]
Yahoo 2011 Jan 7 (Cached)
Massive bird and fish deaths have become a worldwide phenomena over the last week. The die off (usually an isolated species) has sent scientists and politicians scrambling for an explanation, but none so far are convincing’
DailyMail 2011 Jan 6 (Cached)
The Pacific Ocean “garbage patch” (plastic trash in the water) was estimated in the press to be twice the size of Texas and has become the cause of great alarm about the environment. It turns out that it is is only one-half of one-percent that size. In other words, the truth was exaggerated by 200 times. [Any amount of trash in the ocean is bad news, but this is a classic example of the extent to which public opinion has been engineered to create hysteria in support of extreme environmental controls by government.]
Telegraph 2011 Jan 6 (Cached)
A Florida math professor is taken off a plane when fellow passengers report that he has a suspicious package. It contained bagels, cream cheese, a hat, wallet, and keys.
NBC 2011 Jan 6 (Cached)
US: Several political groups with strong roots in the present political establishment are promoting a Constitutional Convention supposedly as a way to control the power of the federal government. [This is a dangerous proposal. If the states want to reign in federal power, all they have to do is use the 10th Amendment, which right now gives them the authority to nullify anything the federal government does that is not specifically authorized in the Constitution. A Constitutional Convention would allow the possibility that the existing Constitution could be thrown out completely and replaced by a new one. The people who would write the new document are mostly hostile to the principles of the Founding Fathers. The convention would be dominated by the same power structure that has ignored the old rules, and they would be free to replace them with nice sounding phrases that would actually be a constitution for the New World Order built on collectivism. Oppose this with all your might. It is a trap!]
Pelican Post 2011 Jan 6 (Cached)
US: Top 10 theories surrounding dead birds and fish. [Most of the mainstream 'explanations' are plain ridiculous; but, in all honesty, some of the alternative 'theories' are not much different.]
Activist Post 2010 Jan 5 (Cached)
New Mexico’s Governor-elect Susana Martinez FIRED the entire state environmental board and halted all cap-and-trade schemes. She says they were “more interested in advancing political ideology than implementing common-sense policies” and, thereby, created an anti-business environment. [Although cap-and-trade was defeated in Congress, many states, including New Mexico, implemented their own schemes. The state's voters rejected all this so they won't have to suffer high taxation and economic suppression that comes with cap-and-trade. Expect counter-attacks from the global-warming lobby.]
New Mexico Independent 2011 Jan 5 (Cached)
A doctor reports that four teaspoons of coconut oil per day reversed her husband’s Alzheimer’s dementia. [This is only one case, but worth trying. Orthodox medicine has no cure for this condition. The source article (linked at the bottom of this story) also says that coconut oil is being used for the treatment of other diseases like Parkinson's, diabetes, ALS, MS and Huntington's Disease.]
NaturalNews 2011 Jan 5 (Cached)
US: Republicans are targeting EPA greenhouse gas regulations, FCC internet control, and other Obama policies. That’s the good news. For ‘advice’ they are consulting with large corporate campaign donors that have a history of lobbying for political favoritism. That’s the bad news.
Yahoo 2011 Jan 5 (Cached)
California Supreme Court rules that police can search cell phones of arrested (not convicted, just arrested) individuals without a warrant. The Ohio Supreme Court previously made an opposite ruling. The federal Supreme Court will decide.
Sacramento Bee 2010 Jan 4 (Cached)
US: The FDA wants to prohibit intravenous Vitamin-C in spite of its long record of safety and effectiveness in treating many life-threatening diseases. [The stated reason is that there needs to be extensive testing under controlled conditions to verify what is already known from experience. This would cost millions of dollars and, since Vitamin-C cannot be patented, there is minimal profit from its manufacture. Therefore, no one will do the testing. If allowed to stand, this move will eliminate yet one more effective, non-pharmaceutical treatment from the health market. Guess who lobbied for this?]
ANH 2010 Jan 4 (Cached)
Pennsylvania: Toxic waste from gas wells is being dumped directly into rivers and streams from which communities get their drinking water. Barium and strontium – the same metals being sprayed in chemtrails – are among the toxic substances. The EPA has failed to regulate this dump because of the political influence of Big Oil.
Yahoo 2010 Jan 3 (Cached)
Europe and Japan have told Australia they will cancel grain contracts unless Australia clamps down on GMO contamination.
Natural News 2011 Jan 3 (Cached)
European governments begin seizing private pension funds of their citizens to cover state deficits. [Most of those pensioners thought it would never happen. Sound familiar?]
CSM 2011 Jan 2 (Cached)
US Key government buildings in the Capitol were evacuated, and fighter jets were instantly scrambled when a passenger jet lost radio contact with air-traffic controllers. [That's exactly how it should work and how it worked on many occasions prior to 9/11. Too bad it didn't work the one day it was needed.]
Huffington Post 2011 Jan 1 (Cached)
Pakistan’s government teeters near collapse as the ruling party no longer controls Parliament. Inflation is high, power shortages are common, gasoline is scarce, a massive flood has affected 20 million people, and the UN’s IMF is demanding payment on its loan. [The military's allegiance is unknown at this time, but something soon must come apart.]
Yahoo 2011 Jan 3 (Cached)
Abu Dhabi had 50 off-season rainstorms last year, and a Swiss company hired by the government says they did it by pumping charged ions into the atmosphere. Weather modification has become big business around the world. [This technology does not place toxic chemicals into the air as now is being done by geo-engineers working on the whole planet instead of a local area. However, creating rain in one area pulls it away from another area. If the area that loses rain is over the ocean, everyone is happy; but, if rain is taken from inhabited land areas, we have a big problem. This is a dangerous technology, especially in the hands of the military where it becomes a weapon for destruction and population control.]
DailyMail 2011 Jan 3 (Cached)
Bank of America was sued by Freddie Mac for $117 billion for fraudulent loans made by Countrywide, which was acquired by BofA in 2008. Now Freddie settles for $1.28 billion, which is only one penny for each dollar lost. BofA settled with Fannie Mae for $1.52 billion (also far below value). Critics say this is a backdoor bailout for BofA because, if the settlements had been greater, the government would have had to give it the money, and that would not go well with the public, which already is angry over bank bailouts.
CNN Money 2011 Jan 3 (Cached)
US: Allstate Insurance is suing Bank of America and its CEO Angelo Mozilo because BofA sold them toxic loan investments as part of the sale of Countrywide Loan, while claiming they were safe securities. BofA is being sued on similar charges by others also with total damages valued at $54 billion. [If the editor of this news service and thousands of other informed observers knew these loans were worthless 15 years ago, we can be sure the sophisticated business leaders working at Allstate and every other company within the finance industry knew it as well. The buyers were not fooled. They just wanted to get into the action. What we are witnessing is a line up to the federal trough for more bailout money. If Allstate and others can win their cases, 'too-big-to-fail' BofA will simply get the cash once more from Congress and the Federal Reserve, which means from you and me. On the other hand, the settlements may be much less than Allstate is asking so as to minimize how much bailout BofA will need. Everyone is gaming the system.]
Reuters Posted 2011 Jan 2 (Cached)
Prince Charles, after 20 years of lobbying, has convinced Parliament to drop the requirement that they approve the budget for the royal family. This could make him the richest king in history. The royals will now have direct access to profits from the Crown Estate with such assets as the Regent-Street shopping area, 265,000 acres of farmland, and the national seabed that stretches 12 nautical miles around Britain.
DailyMail Posted 2012 Jan 1 (Cached)
New York City Councilman plans to introduce legislation to ban fluoride from the drinking water. He correctly calls it “forced medication by the government.”
DailyNews Posted 2011 Jan 1 (Cached)
US: Homeland Security is now placing mobile guard towers in places like small town shopping malls and parks. They were purchased with Obama’s Stimulus funds.
YouTube Posted 2011 Jan 1
Salinas, California study shows pesticides are harming children’s brain development. The Center for Disease Control admits there is evidence that pesticides are contaminating children everywhere, even in cities.
IRW Posted 2011 Jan 1 (Cached)
Miami-Dade County has purchased military-style aerial drones, the first major US metropolis to do so. [As previously reported in Unfiltered News, other major cities will soon follow].
Miami New Times Posted 2011 Jan 1 (Cached)
Correction: In the Dec. 24 issue, we reported that Blackwater had been purchased by Monsanto. This information came from an article in The Nation but, as we now know, is not true. Here is the full story.
RedGreen&Blue, Posted 2010 Jan 1 (Cached)
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Reports and commentaries that look beyond the news to identify historical facts and trends that must be understood to place the news into perspective. This is our “think-tank” section that makes it possible to anticipate future events.
Lockheed Martin, a military and aircraft production company, is the largest single recipient of US tax dollars. This author says that, like the largest banks, it has become too big to fail, which means its mistakes and corruption are always covered up by the government, and its losses are passed to the taxpayers. This is an eye-opening review.
Yahoo 2011 Jan 4 (Cached)
Alcohol is a fuel and can be distilled from plants that thrive in poor soil, don’t need much rain, and grow like weeds without cultivation. [If we could ever break our fixation on gasoline from oil, producing fuel from these sources could bring back economic prosperity and oil independence to the US.]
ActivistPost 2011 Jan 4 (Cached)
US: Local law enforcement increasingly is being brought under federal control primarily through offers of money from Washington. [Local police departments seldom resist a federal grant to help them hire more officers and purchase needed equipment; but, with the money, comes control.]
PoliceOne.com 2010 Jan 3 (Cached)
Jesse Ventura investigates HAARP (High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program) owned by the military. It is suspected of controlling the weather, causing earthquakes, and creating neurosis as a weapon of war.
YouTube Posted 2011 Jan 1
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