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Calling Previous News and Commentary Oct.-Dec. 2008 Monday, December
22, 2008 Bush
Insider Who Planned to Tell All Killed in Plane Crash The Washington Post, December 20, 2008 Michael Connell, the Bush IT expert
who has been directly implicated in the rigging of George
Bush's 2000 and 2004 elections, was killed last night when his
single engine plane crashed three miles short of the Akron airport. Velvet
Revolution ("VR"), a non-profit that has been
investigating Mr. Connell's activities for the past two years, can now reveal
that a person close to Mr. Connell has recently been discussing with a VR
investigator how he can tell all about his work for George Bush. Mr. Connell
told a close associate that he was afraid that George Bush and Dick
Cheney would "throw [him] under the bus." MORE=> The
Suspicious, Disturbing Death of Election Rigger Michael Connell By Bob
Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman, The Free Press, December 20, 2008 Michael Connell, the crucial techno-
lynch pin in the theft of the 2004 election, and much more, is dead at the
age of 45. His unnatural, suspicious death raises serious questions about the
corruption of the American electoral process that now may never be
answered. Connell died Friday,
December 19 when his Piper Saratoga plane crashed near his northern Ohio
home. He was flying himself home from the College Park, Maryland airport. An
accomplished pilot, flying in unremarkable weather, his death cuts off a
critical path to much of what may never be known about how the 2004 election
was shifted from John Kerry to George W. Bush in the wee hours of November 2.
His plane crashed between two houses in an upscale neighborhood, one vacant,
just 2.5 miles from the Akron-Canton airport. MORE=> Lawyer
to AG Mukasey: Rove Threatened GOP IT Guru If He Does Not 'Take the Fall' for
Election Fraud By Brad Friedman, The Huffington Post, July 31, 2008 Rove has
threatened a GOP high-tech guru and his wife, if he does not "'take the
fall' for election fraud in Ohio," according to a letter sent Thursday
morning to Attorney General Michael Mukasey, by Ohio election attorney Cliff
Arnebeck. The email, posted in full
below, details threats against Mike Connell of the Republican firm New Media
Communications, which describes itself on its website as "a powerhouse in the field
of Republican website development and Internet services" and having
"played a strategic role in helping the GOP expand its technological
supremacy." MORE=> The Death of US Senator
Paul Wellstone: Accident or Murder? Editorial Board, World Socialist
Website, October 29, 2002 There is a serious question about the sudden death of Democratic
Senator Paul Wellstone that has no doubt occurred to many people: was
Wellstone the victim of a political assassination? It is possible that there will emerge a credible explanation of
the October 25 plane crash that killed Wellstone, his wife Sheila, daughter
Marcia, and five others near Eveleth, Minnesota. Initial reports, however,
are disturbing. None of the typical causes of a small plane accident — engine
failure, icing, pilot error — appear to be involved. MORE=> Toxic
Waste Threatens To Poison The Nation State By Robert Chapman, The International Forecaster, December
20, 2008 Elitists
caught with their pants down, damage from the economic implosion, understand
what really controls inflation,recent blunders and attempts to repair the
problem are only going to hyperinflate the economy, low interest rates not
bound to last. MORE=> World
Faces "Total" Financial Meltdown: Bank of Spain Chief AFP, December 21, 2008 The governor of the Bank of Spain on
Sunday issued a bleak assessment of the economic crisis, warning that the world
faced a "total" financial meltdown unseen since the Great
Depression. "The lack of
confidence is total," Miguel Angel Fernandez Ordonez said in an
interview with Spain's El Pais daily. "The inter-bank (lending) market
is not functioning and this is generating vicious cycles: consumers are not
consuming, businessmen are not taking on workers, investors are not investing
and the banks are not lending.
MORE=> Joel Stein, LA Times,
December 19, 2008 I have never been so upset by a poll
in my life. Only 22% of Americans now believe "the movie and television
industries are pretty much run by Jews," down from nearly 50% in 1964. The
Anti-Defamation League, which released the poll results last month, sees in
these numbers a victory against stereotyping. Actually, it just shows how
dumb America has gotten. Jews totally run Hollywood. MORE=> How to Easily Make Orange
Marmalade! By PickYourOwn.org – Where you can find a pick-your-own farm
near you. It’s easy to make orange marmalade. Here are the
illustrated step-by-step instructions! Sunday,
December 21 Kenyan
Government Imposes Gag Order on Obama’s Extended Family WorldNetDaily.com, December 20,
2008 The
Kenyan government has barred unapproved contacts between the media and
President-elect Barack Obama’s extended family. Family members will be required to receive permission from the
government before making any public statements about their famous relative,
according to the Nairobi Star.
MORE->
Reuters
North American News Service, December 20, 2008 The United States is looking to send 20,000 to
30,000 extra troops to Afghanistan by the beginning of next summer, the
chairman of the U.S. joint chiefs of staff said on Saturday. Washington is already sending some 3,000
extra troops in January and another 2,800 by spring, but officials have
previously said the number would be made up to 20,000 in the next 12 to 18
months, once approved by the U.S. administration. MORE=> Firms
Saving Cash by Cutting Matches to 401(k) Plans By Mary Williams Walsh and Tara Siegel Bernard, New York Times,
December 21, 2008 Companies eager to
conserve cash are trimming their contributions to their workers' 401(k)
retirement plans, putting a new strain on America's tattered safety net at
the very moment when many workers are watching their accounts plummet along
with the stock market. When the FedEx
Corp. slimmed down its pension plan last year, it softened the blow by
offering workers enriched 401(k) contributions to make up for the pension benefits
some would lose. But last week, with Americans sending fewer parcels and
FedEx's revenue growth at a standstill, the company said it would suspend all
of its contributions for at least a year.
MORE=> Obama
Fills Economics Team, Calls for Bold Action By Philip Elliot, The Associated Press, December 20, 2008 President-elect
Barack Obama has completed naming his Cabinet a month before taking office,
but warned that it will take time for his team to have an impact. "It will take longer than any of us
would like - years, not months. It will get worse before it gets better. But
it will get better if we are willing to act boldly and swiftly," Obama
said Friday - and he promised to do just that. He noted his speed in putting
his full economic team in place, saying he had done so at an earlier point
than previous presidents because of the magnitude of the troubles the country
faces. MORE=> Obama
Names 4 Top Members of Science Team The Associated Press, December 20, 2008 President-elect Barack
Obama's selection Saturday of a Harvard physicist and a marine biologist for
science posts is a sign he plans a more aggressive response to global warming
than did the Bush administration.
John Holdren and Jane Lubchenco are leading experts on climate change
who have advocated forceful government action. Holdren will become Obama's
science adviser as director of the White House Office of Science and
Technology Policy. Lubchenco will lead the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration, which oversees ocean and atmospheric studies and does much of
the government's research on global warming.
MORE=> Belgium in
Limbo Again After Government Collapses By Philip Blenkinsop, Reuters,
December 20, 2008 Belgium's King
Albert consulted political leaders on
Saturday after the government collapsed for the third time in a year
following its botched attempt to bail out financial group Fortis. Prime Minister Yves Leterme tendered his government's
resignation on Friday after a report by the Supreme
Court found signs of political meddling to sway a court ruling on the
future of the bank, a victim of the credit crunch. MORE=> Corsi
Detention Orchestrated by Obama's Political Friend Corsi detention
orchestrated by Obama's political friend WorldNetDaily.com,
December 20, 2008 The Kenyan official who reportedly orchestrated the
detention of WND senior staff reporter Jerome R. Corsi when he visited Kenya
to investigate President-elect Barack Obama's
close ties to the nation's prime minister, Raila Odinga, was Odinga himself,
according to WND sources inside Kenya. Corsi, whose recent
book, "The Obama Nation," raised questions about the Democrat when
he was a candidate for president, had scheduled a news conference in
Nairobi to discuss his discoveries during his visit this fall. MORE=> Intelligence
Briefing for Military and Police Forces Greg
Eversen, NewsWithViews.com, December 20, 2008 Intelligence comes in two distinct and uniquely critical
components. The first is information—or intelligence—that comes from sources
known to you as an investigator or intercepted sources that may not be known
to you. The most critical intelligence sector is that of our own discerning
creative minds. Together, these two arenas comprise the data mine that gives
us a glimpse into the future.
MORE=> From
Global Crisis to "Global Government" US
Intelligence: A Review of Global Trends 2025 By Andrew G. Marshall, GloobalResearch.ca, December 19, 2008 The United States’ National Intelligence Council
has released a report, entitled "Global
Trends 2025: A Transformed World". This declassified document is the
fourth report of the Global
Trends 2025: The National Intelligence Council’s 2025 Project, VIDEO!
Prisoner-Transport Rail Cars outside NYC VIDEO AND TEXT
By Hal Turner, The Hal Turner Show, December 19, 2008 A couple years ago I started hearing about prisoner
transport rail cars being ordered by the Federal Emergency Management Agency
(FEMA). According to the people reporting about the rail cars, they were to
be used for mass round-ups of people in the USA. I didn't think too much of it. I'm not a big conspiracy theorist. Later, I started seeing photos of the FEMA
prisoner rail cars ( as shown below) and seeing the photos made me wonder if
the conspiracy theorists were actually on to something? MORE=> LC
Editor’s Comment: Is it possible that the rail cars shown in
Turner’s video have had another use, this one a benign one --- that he may be
a victim of all-or-nothing thinking in concluding that these rail cars
were necessarily designed to carry prisoners --- that there may be another
explanation for the existence of shackles bolted to the floors of each rail
car and the absence of rest room facilities in the cars? To find out, let’s go the next story, the one on Honda’s
Auto-Max railcar fleet => Honda Launches Auto-Max
Railcar Fleet VIDEO YouTube, June 19, 2008 More environmentally-responsible
product distribution with industry-first fleet. New Honda vehicles are loaded
into the automaker's unique fleet of 400 space-efficient Auto-Max® railcars
outside the company's Ohio manufacturing facility. Including the Auto-Max
fleet shipments, American Honda currently transports about 82 percent of its
Honda and Acura automobiles across the country by rail, achieving the highest
rail-shipping rate of any automaker.
Each multi-level Auto-Max railcar holds up to 22 vehicles and can hold
both trucks and cars to reduce unused space. The result is less fuel usage
per vehicle shipped and no compromise to quality. LC Editor’s Comment:
Compare the look of Honda’s Auto-Max railcars as shown in this video
with that of the railcars shown in Hal Turner’s video (previous news
story). They look about the same,
don’t they? Would Honda have mounted
shackles on the floors of their railcars to provide tie points for chains used
to lash down the Hondas and Acura in preparation for their rail journeys to
their destination cities? Yes, of
course! Would Honda need to have
included restroom facilities in constructing its Auto-Max railcars? No, of course not! So what may we conclude about the
railcars shown in Turner’s video?
They are probably Honda Auto-Max railcars or copies of them. Could Auto-Max rail cars be used to
transport prisoners? Yes, of
course. May we logically conclude
that the railcars shown in Turner’s video are, in fact, prisoner railcars and
only prisoner railcars? No, of course
not. Do we know that FEMA plans to
transport prisoners to camps in times of national unrest holding camps using
railcars like Honda’s railcars? No,
of course not. If spotters in patriot
organization report observing an increase in sightings of railcars like these
in their communities does this mean that FEMA has just increased their numbe
in preparation for imminent civil unrest?
No, of course not! What’s the significance of Turner’s
having seen and made of video of railcar like Honda’s Auto-Max railcars on
the night of December 17 and that he concluded from his sighting that FEMA
indeed has purchased a fleet of specially designed railcars for the
transportion of prisoners? I’d say that it is that his video
camera works but that his spotting railcars that could be used for prisoner
transporation does not constitute proof that railcars like these will be used
for this purpose or that FEMA evem has plans to transport prisoners in
railcars like these to holding camps in times of civil unrest or outright
insurrection. My
Sentiments Exactly (On Gun Control)
VIDEO Hal Turner, The Hal Turner Show, December 20, 2008 Saturday,
December 20 Bush Orders Emergency
Bailout of the Auto Industry By Deb Riechmann, Associated Press,
December 19,2008 Citing imminent danger to the national
economy, President Bush ordered an emergency
bailout of the U.S. auto industry Friday, offering $17.4 billion in rescue
loans and demanding tough concessions from the deeply troubled carmakers and
their workers. Detroit's Big Three cheered the action and vowed to rebuild
their once-mighty industry, though they acknowledged the road would be
anything but smooth as they fight their way back from the brink of
bankruptcy. MORE=> GM,
Chrysler in 102-Day Race to Keep Federal Loans By Jeff Green and Alex Ortolani, Bloomberg.com,
December 19, 2008 The clock is ticking for General Motors
Corp. and Chrysler LLC. The automakers have 102 days to slash debt,
renegotiate labor contracts and lay plans to cut thousands of jobs or face a
government-mandated bankruptcy. The
Bush administration threw them a $13.4 billion lifeline from the U.S.
bank-bailout program, with $4 billion more for GM in February provided
Congress expands that fund. In exchange, the government gets warrants that
will allow it to profit if the rescue succeeds and seniority over much of the
companies’ debt if the effort fails. World
Bank: Russia May Need Help If Oil Falls More By Catrina
Stewart, Associated Press, December 19, 2008 Russia would come under crippling
financial pressure and may need to raise money externally if oil languishes
at an average of $30 a barrel over the next two years, the World Bank predicted Friday. The bleak scenario would mark a rapid unraveling
of Russia's oil-fueled economic gains over the past eight years, during which
time the government has paid down most of its foreign debt and built up a
vast stockpile of international reserves.
MORE=> Rogers: The Elite Are Turning A
Recession Into A Depression WITH
VIDEO By Paul Joseph Watson, PrisonPlanet.com,
December 19, 2008 Veteran investor Jim Rogers warns that the policies of central
banks and politicians are turning what would have been a recession into a new
great depression, and that Barack Obama’s taxation agenda will only make the
problem much worse. Speaking to
Bloomberg News, Rogers said that the crisis would at least be the worst since
the second world war and that “it could well be” as bad as the great
depression. MORE=> Kids Learn That Killing Is
Fun at the Army's Lethal New Theme Park By
Penny Coleman, AlterNet, December 19, 2008 The Army's new recruitment tool lets high-tech video game
centers desensitize, condition, train and even enlist America's youth. The Army Experience Center, located in
the Franklin Mills Mall just north of Philadelphia, bills itself as a
"state-of-the-art educational facility that uses interactive simulations
and online learning programs to educate visitors about the many careers,
training and educational opportunities available in the Army." MORE=> Webster Tarpley on Mumbai Attacks VIDEO Historian and author Webster Griffen Tarpley on GCN hosting World Crisis Radio on 6th
December 2008 discussing the recent Mumbai bombings in India. Tarpley discusses the bombings in the
context of the upcoming presidency of Barack Obama, Zbigniew Brzezinski’s
1997 book, The
Grand Chessboard, a plan for American domination of Central Asia, and
this year’s shift in focus of U.S. war activities from Iraq to Afghanistan
and Pakistan. Excellent. There
are eight parts. Here are the
links: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6 Part 7 Part 8 Friday,
December 19, 2008 GM,
Chrysler May Get U.S. Loans to Survive to March By John Hughes and Robert Schmidt,
Bloomberg.com, December 19, 2008 General Motors Corp.
and Chrysler LLC would get U.S. loans to stay afloat until March under a Bush
administration rescue plan that may be unveiled as soon as today, people
familiar with the talks said. Dec. 19
(Bloomberg) -- General
Motors Corp. and Chrysler LLC would get U.S. loans to stay afloat until
March under a Bush administration rescue plan that may be unveiled as soon as
today, people familiar with the talks said.
MORE=> GM
Is Likely to File for Bankruptcy, Report Says By Carolyn Salas, Bloomberg.com,
December 17, 2008 General
Motors is likely to file for bankruptcy protection with government
backing, giving bondholders a recovery of more than 25 cents on the dollar,
according to Moody's
Investors Service. There is a 70
percent probability that the restructuring plan for U.S. automakers will
consist of a prepackaged bankruptcy financed by government loans to get GM
and Chrysler
through to 2009, Moody's said in a report dated Dec. 15. Under that scenario,
bondholders would be likely to lose less than 75 percent of their investment,
Moody's said. MORE=> IMF
Warns of Economic Riots, Police Ready for Civil Unrest Paulson discussed worst-case scenario at bailout meeting –
declare martial law By Chelsea
Shilling, WorldNetDaily.com, December 18, 2008 Pentagon resources and U.S. troops may be used if
needed to quell protests and bank
runs during an economic crisis, the U.S. Army War College's Strategic
Institute reported. "Widespread civil violence inside the United States
would force the defense establishment to reorient priorities in extremis to
defend basic domestic order and human security," the War College study
states. Incidents of economic collapse, terrorism and disruption of legal
order could require deployment of forces within the U.S., it said. MORE=> Gold Sales
in Dubai Plunge 80 Percent Reuters, December 18, 2008 Gold sales in Dubai's traditional
jewellery market have collapsed as much as 80 per cent in the last couple of
weeks as the credit crunch hits the pockets of tourists, local jewellers said
this week. Gold sales in Dubai, the heart of gold trade in the Middle East,
have become very much dependent on tourist interest as gold's nearly 20 per
cent price rise in the last three weeks has slashed domestic demand. MORE=> Emanuel
Talked Directly to Gov: Source By Natasha Korecki, Chicago Sun-Times,
December 18, 2008 President-elect Barack Obama's incoming chief of
staff Rahm Emanuel had a deeper involvement in pressing for a U.S. Senate
seat appointment than previously reported, the Sun-Times has learned. Emanuel
had direct discussions about the seat with Gov. Blagojevich, who is is
accused of trying to auction it to the highest bidder. MORE=> Thursday,
December 18 Microsoft
Releases Emergency Update for Critical IE Patch By Rick C. Hodgin, TGDaily.com,
December 18, 2008 Yesterday, Microsoft
made good on the quick patch promise they had made earlier in
the day. It repairs a critical bug affecting Internet Explorer
versions 5.01, 6, 7 and 8 Beta 2 which could allow remote code execution just
by visiting an infected website. The
patch is available via the normal Windows Update download process. Users are
encouraged to obtain and install the patch immediately as there are more than
10,000 websites "in the wild" which have already used the exploit
to infect user's machines. No special action is required for the bug to be
used. Just visiting an infected website can corrupt the machine. MORE=> Lawyer:
Illinois Governor Wiretaps Illegally Obtained By Christopher Wills, Associated
Press, December 18, 2008 A lawyer for Illinois
Gov. Rod Blagojevich told state lawmakers Thursday that the federal
wiretaps at the heart of the pay-to-play allegations against his client were
illegally obtained, and therefore should be kept out of any impeachment
proceedings. The wiretaps are crucial to the federal charges filed against
Blagojevich last week. Prosecutors say they caught the Democratic governor
discussing efforts to auction off Barack Obama's U.S.
Senate seat and pressure a hospital executive for campaign
donations. MORE=> GM,
Ford, Chrysler Idle Plants as Bush Weighs Bailout By Greg Bensinger and Mike Ramsey, Bloomberg.com,
December 18, 2008 General Motors
Corp., Ford
Motor Co. and Chrysler LLC will shutter about 59 factories over the next
month as they struggle to adapt to the worst sales in 26 years. The White
House said a decision on a bailout won’t come today. The closings show how
far automakers are going to conserve cash and prune output under the
pressures of a shrinking U.S. market,
dwindling access to credit for dealers and demands for advance payments by
some GM and Chrysler parts suppliers.
MORE=> Bush
Considering "Orderly" Auto Bankruptcy By Jennifer
Loven, Associated Press, December 18, 2008 The Bush
administration is looking at "orderly" bankruptcy as a
possible way to deal with the desperately ailing U.S. auto industry, the
White House said Thursday as carmakers readied more plant closings and a half
million Americans filed new jobless claims. MORE=> More
California Towns Face Bankruptcy
By Bob White, WSJ Online,
December 18, 2008 California may soon have more bankrupt towns on its hands. The city of Vallejo, Calif., gained
national attention earlier this year by filing for Chapter 9 bankruptcy
protection. Now, two neighbors are fighting to avoid the same fate, as the
state's economic crisis spreads.
Isleton and Rio Vista, small towns roughly 50 miles northeast of San
Francisco, say they have begun consulting with bankruptcy lawyers as they
draw up plans to deal with their mounting budget crises. The towns' leaders
say they hope to avoid bankruptcy, but concede the move may eventually be
their only option. MORE=> A
Devastating Impact as the Market Unleverages and a Winter of Disconntent By Robert Chapman, The
International Forecaster, December 17, 2008 Two sets of rules on wall street, 50 billion ponzi
scheme by Bernard Madoff uncovered, court case for the toxic waste coverup,
Paulson's efforts are futile, commercial and residential real estate market
alike now frozen, fed is frantic, an elitist engineered collaps of the U.S,
derivative problems galore, and no real debate taking place in government As
we know there are two sets of rules in banking and on Wall Street - one for
the anointed and one for everyone else. The anointed never go to jail for
their crimes. MORE=> LC Editor’s Comment: To learn how to receive a complimentary copy of Bob’s full,
twice-weekly, International Forecaster Newsletter, go to Bob’s
website, www.theinternationalforecaster.com. Dollar
No Longer Haven After Fed Moves Rate Near Zero By Kim-Mai Cutler and Bo Nielsen, Bloomberg.com,
December 17, 2008 The world’s biggest
currency-trading firms say the dollar’s appeal as a haven amid the financial
crisis all but evaporated. The U.S.
currency slid to a 13-year low against the yen today and had its biggest
one-day decline versus the euro after the Federal Reserve reduced its target interest
rate yesterday to a range of zero to 0.25 percent, the lowest among the
world’s biggest economies. CMC Markets said today the currency’s prospects
appear “ominous.” State Street Global markets said the dollar’s outlook has
been “undermined.” MORE=> Credit-Card
Users Feel Pain as US Banks Reap Gain
By Elizabeth Hester and
Ari Levy, Bloomberg.com, December 18, 2008 Dec. 18 (Bloomberg) --
Credit-card companies, facing an increase in defaults and a decline in
consumer spending, are raising some rates, adding fees and cutting credit
lines as the Federal
Reserve is poised to make the most sweeping changes to the industry in 30
years. MORE=> Chrysler
to Shut Down All Production for at Least a Month Reuters, December
17, 2008 Citing a credit crisis and dwindling sales,
Chrysler LLC on Wednesday said it would shut down all of its manufacturing
operations from the end of this week for at least a month. The blanket shutdown marked a deepening of
the financial crisis for the embattled U.S. auto industry and came as
Chrysler and its larger rival General Motors Corp both seek to shore up cash
as they seek a federal bailout they say they need to survive. MORE=> GM
May Shrink Pontiac to One Model From Six in Bid to Survive By Gleg
Bensinger, Bloomberg.com, December 18, 2008 General Motors
Corp. peddled Pontiacs for years with the slogan “We Build Excitement.”
To stay afloat, it’s producing fewer thrills -- and models. The company may
shrink the Pontiac division to a single model from six following a drop in
sales every year since 1999. “It might be just one model,” Mark LaNeve, GM’s
North American sales chief, said in an interview. MORE=> Russian
Treason Bill Could Hit Kremlin Critics By David
Nowak, Associated Press, December 17, 2008 New legislation backed by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin would
allow Russian authorities to label any government critic a traitor—a move
that rights activists said Wednesday was a chilling throwback to times of
Soviet dictator Josef Stalin.
The bill, which is expected to become law, would expanded the
definition of treason to include damaging Russia's constitutional order,
sovereignty or territorial integrity. That, rights activists said, would
essentially let authorities interpret any act against state as treason—a
crime punishable by up to 20 years in prison. MORE=> Obama
Picks New Head of SEC, Considers Shakeup By Caren Bohan, Reuters, December 18,
2008 President-elect Barack
Obama was set on Thursday to name seasoned regulator Mary Schapiro to
head the Securities and Exchange Commission as he considers a major overhaul
of the heavily criticized agency.
MORE=> Iowa
Gov. Vilsack Tapped by Obama to Run USDA By Mary Clare Jalonick,
Associated Press, December 17, 2008 Barack Obama's pick to
head the Agriculture Department is expected to push the president-elect's
pledge to trim wasteful farm subsidies, an
elusive goal that has confounded President George W.
Bush and scores of lawmakers. MORE=> OrganicConsumers.org, November 12,
2008 *
Former Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack's support of genetically engineered
pharmaceutical crops, especially pharmaceutical corn: Genetically
Modified Foods -- What to Know Before You Eat Them Dr. Mercola, Mercola.com, August 2, 2007 People around the world pro-actively reject
Genetically Modified (GM) products and crops. But in the United States, few
people are even aware of what GM foods are -- and labeling is not
required. I‘m so concerned about the
grave risks in GM foods that I decided to present you with a series of
articles originating from the Institute for Responsible Technology
(IRT). Jeffrey Smith, leading spokesperson on the dangers of GM
foods, founded the IRT in 2003 to warn the American public about this menace.
Discover the hidden hazards of GM foods for yourself, at Jeffrey‘s website: ResponsibleTechnology.org. MORE=> Federal
Reserve Sets Stage for Weimar-style Hyperinflation By F. Wiiliam Engdahl, 321gold.com,
December 16, 2008 The Federal Reserve has bluntly refused a request
by a major US financial news service to disclose the recipients of more than
$2 trillion of emergency loans from US taxpayers and to reveal the assets the
central bank is accepting as collateral. Their lawyers resorted to the
bizarre argument that they did so to protect 'trade secrets.' Is the secret
that the US financial system is de facto bankrupt? The latest Fed move is
further indication of the degree of panic and lack of clear strategy within
the highest ranks of the US financial institutions. Unprecedented Federal
Reserve expansion of the Monetary Base in recent weeks sets the stage for a
future Weimar-style hyperinflation perhaps before 2010. MORE=> Pied
Piper Proposal: Berlin's Poor Should Catch Rats, Says German Politician SpiegelOnline, December 16,
2008 A Berlin politician has
come under fire for suggesting that poor people should be encouraged to catch
rats by offering them €1 per dead rodent. The intriguing idea entails some
gnawing practical problems and has been called "inhuman and
cynical". MORE=> Wednesday,
December 17 Illinois
Democrats Let Blagojevich Keep Naming Power By Joe
Carroll, Bloomberg.com, December 16, 2008 Democrats in the Illinois House of Representatives
postponed stripping Governor Rod Blagojevich’s power to fill the U.S. Senate
seat vacated by President-elect Barack Obama that prosecutors say Blagojevich
tried to sell. MORE=> Obama:
Probe Shows no Contact in Illinois Governor Scandal The Associated Press, December
16, 2008 President-elect Barack
Obama said Monday a review by his own lawyer shows he had no direct contact
with Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich about the appointment of a Senate
replacement, and transition aides did nothing inappropriate. MORE=> LC Editor's Comment: "Obama said Monday a review
by his own lawyer shows he had no direct
contact with Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich.” What a
joke! Barkie had is own lawyer investigate himself,
the lawyer's own client? "No direct
contact" with Blagojevich? Heck no, Barkie would have had his own
lawyer or an aid make the contact. No direct contact? Is
Barkie saying he didn't kiss the governor on the cheek or shake his hand, or
what? What contempt Obama must have for the
American people to have made this statement. Are we about to
get another Liar-in-Chief as President? LC readers, please check out
the article by Pat Buchanan I posted in Tuesday's (today's)
LibertyCalling.com . It's all about that contact. Gov.
Paterson Unveils Dire NY State budget: includes New Taxes, Layoffs and Cuts By Kenneth Lovett and Glenn Blain, Daily
News Albany Bureau, December 16, 2008 Gov.
Paterson's proposed $121 billion budget hits New Yorkers in their iPods - and
nickels-and-dimes them in lots of other places, too. Trying to close a $15.4 billion budget
gap, Paterson called for 88 new fees and a host of other taxes, including an
"iPod tax" that taxes the sale of downloaded music and other
"digitally delivered entertainment services." MORE=> Court
Sides with ACLU, Strikes Down Patriot Act Gag Provision By Stephen
C.Webster, Raw Story, December 16, 2008 ACLU is victorious as
federal court declares Patriot Act provision a violation of the First
Amendment. A federal appeals court
ruling late Monday is the cause célèbre of the American Civil Liberties
Union, as another provision of the Bush administration's Patriot Act falls to
the judicial system. MORE=> Americans
Rich and Poor Pawn More to Pay Bills By Sue Zeilder
and Tim Gaynor, Reuters, December 14, 2008 Whether it's a Tiffany
diamond or a three-year-old lawnmower, more and more Americans from all
social classes are pawning their possessions to make ends meet. Pawn shop owners see strong business
across the country, even in unexpected locales like Beverly Hills, the mecca
of luxury living and shopping.
MORE=> Tuesday,
December 16, 2008 Supreme Court
Refuses 2nd Challenge to Obama’s Eligibility WorldNetDaily.com, December 15,
2008 The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected a second
challenge to the presidency of Barack Obama, announcing today it denied an
application for a stay or an injunction in a case from Connecticut. The case brought by Cort Wrotnowski had
been distributed for review by the court and apparently was considered during
a conference of the justices Friday.
MORE=> What Obama Offered
Blagojevich By Patrick Buchanan, Human Events,
December 12, 2008 Something is rotten in the state,"
says Marcellus in "Hamlet."
Well, it certainly is in the state of Illinois. Yet, on hearing U.S. Attorney Patrick
Fitzgerald describe a plot by his governor to sell his Senate seat --
"conduct (that) would make Lincoln roll over in his grave" -- how
did reform President Barack Obama respond?
MORE=> Caroline
Kennedy Declares Interest in Hillary’s NY Senate Seat By Nicholas Confessori, New York
Times, December 15, 2008 ALBANY
— Caroline Kennedy,
the deeply private daughter of America’s most storied political dynasty, will
seek the United States Senate seat in
New York being vacated by Hillary Rodham Clinton. Ms. Kennedy ended weeks of silence with a
series of rapid-fire phone calls to the state’s leading political figures,
including Gov. David A. Paterson, in
which she emphatically and enthusiastically declared herself interested in
the seat, according to several people who received the calls. MORE=> Russian
Warships Head for Cuba Breitbart.com – AFP, December
15, 2008 Russia said on Monday it was sending a
group of warships to Soviet-era ally Cuba in its latest defiant naval move
around US waters, part of a drive to revive old Cold War ties with Latin America. The warships will visit Havana on December 19-23, the navy said,
continuing a tour that has already taken in US foes Venezuela and Nicaragua
and seen the ships pass through the Panama Canal for the
first time since World War II. MORE=> Bush
Excluded by Latin Summit as China, Russia Loom By Joshua
Goodman, Bloomberg.com, December 15, 2008 Latin
American and Caribbean leaders gathering in Brazil tomorrow will mark a
historic occasion: a region-wide summit that excludes the United States.
Almost two centuries after President James Monroe declared Latin America a U.S.
sphere of influence, the region is breaking away. From socialist-leaning
Venezuela to market-friendly Brazil, governments are expanding military,
economic and diplomatic ties with potential U.S. adversaries such as China,
Russia and Iran. MORE=> President Bush
Thinking of Border Agent Pardons? As president, George W. Bush has pardoned or commuted
sentences for 32 drug dealers, 12 thieves, seven embezzlers, an arsonist,
an armed bank robber and eight Thanksgiving turkeys, among others – but U.S.
Border Patrol agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean remain in prison this
Christmas, praying for their release. "It's pretty much salt in the wound,"
Ramos' wife, Monica, told WND. "But we have a lot of hope. My husband
has quite a bit of faith, and we pray a lot. We are hoping the outpouring of
support that we have here from people all over the nation is going to help
us." MORE=>
By Paul Joseph Watson, Infowars.com,
December 15, 2008 Frighteningly accurate trends forecaster Gerald Celente says
that America will see riots similar to those currently ongoing in Greece and
that the cause will be a hyper-inflationary depression, leading to the
inevitable use of troops and mercenaries to deal with the crisis as Americans
are incarcerated in internment camps.
MORE=> Third
of Hedge Funds Face ‘Wipe Out’ After Slump, Godden Says By Tom Cahill, Bloomberg.com,
December 15, 2008 Almost a third of hedge
funds will shut or merge after the $1.5 trillion industry posted its worst
ever performance this year, according to IGS Group, which advises hedge funds
on raising money. “The failure rate
is going to go up, the closure rate is going up, and the merger rate is going
up,” IGS Chief Executive Officer John
Godden said in an interview in London. “It’s going to be a 30 percent
wipe out.” MORE=> Monday,
December 15, 2008 Marines Establish Military Presence in
San Bernardino County, California By Kurt Nimmo, InfoWars.com,
December 14, 2008 Branson Hunter, writing for the Big Bear Observation Post
blog, reports that the Marine Corps Air and Ground Combat Center (MCAGCC) and
the local California Highway Patrol will be working together over the holiday
“in a joint effort to reduce accidents and drinking and driving” in San
Bernardino County. Hunter contacted Corporal Knuesn of the MCAGCC Provost Marshal
office and MCAGCC Public Affairs Chief, Gunny Sgt. Chris Cox. Both confirmed
the USMC will be present on public roads in order to setup a military
presence during routine DUI check stops. “They will be working closely over
the month to cut down of traffic accidents,” said Cox, “the Military Police
will observe DUI check points and watch for their own guys. The intent is to
have military presence out there.” Infowars attempted to contact the MCAGCC
Provost Marshal office and MCAGCC Public Affairs to confirm the story but we
were unable to reach them. MORE=> “New Rules” for Obama’s National
Civilian Security Force By Kurt Nimmo, InfoWars.com,
December 13, 2008 It’s all coming together. After Obama assumes control of the
government as the decider-commander (a post Bush and the neocons have
feathered with various extra-legal directives), he will organize his National
Civilian Security Force and unleash this million man plus goon squad on
thought criminals and other enemies of the global elite. Behind the scenes at the corporate whorehouse
on the Potomac, new “rules” are being fashioned to make this fascist
“security” force operate like a well-oiled machine. MORE=> Obama
Stimulus Could Reach $1 Trillion: Report Reuters, December 14, 2008 President-elect Barack
Obama's team is considering a plan to boost the recession-hit U.S.
economy that could be far larger than previous estimates and might reach $1
trillion over two years, the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday. MORE=> History
Set to Repeat Itself in the Economic Downturn By Robert Chapman, The
International Forecaster, December 13, 2008 There was no man on the inside, so nothing for
Detroit but plenty for Wall Street, banking industry set for big changes,
re-inflation is planned, fiat currency creation gone berserk, Congress
continues to support the gangster bankers, dollar freefall coming.
GM
May Lose 40% of U.S. Dealers in GMAC Bankruptcy Bloomberg, December 11, 2008 General Motors
Corp. may lose as many as 40 percent of its 6,500 U.S. dealerships should
lender GMAC LLC go bankrupt, a key retailer for the automaker said. “There’s
so many dealers on the edge, if GMAC goes out of business 30 to 40 percent of
dealers won’t be able to get financing from anywhere else,” Martin NeSmith, a
liaison to the lender as a member of GM’s National Dealer Council, said in an
interview yesterday. “They’ll go out of business.” MORE=> Homelessness
Rising as Economy Slides By Jason Szep, Reuters,
December 13, 2008 Homelessness and demand
for emergency food are rising in the United States as the economy founders, a
report said on Friday, and homeless advocates cautioned many cities were not
equipped for the increase. A survey
by the U.S. Conference of Mayors showed that 19 of 25 cities saw an increase
in homelessness in the 12 months to October, while four reported a drop and
two cities lacked enough data for conclusive results. MORE=> How Poor Are
America's Poor? Examining the "Plague" of Poverty in America By Robert Rector, Heritage
Foundation, August 27, 2008 Poverty is an important and emotional
issue. Last year, the Census Bureau released its annual report on poverty in
the United States declaring that there were 37 million poor persons living in
this country in 2005, roughly the same number as in the preceding years.[4]
According to the Census report, 12.6 percent of Americans were poor in 2005;
this number has varied from 11.3 percent to 15.1 percent of the population
over the past 20 years.[5] MORE=> Associated Press, December 14,
2008 It gives fresh meaning to the phrase
shooed away. President George W. Bush ducked a
pair of shoes hurled at his head — one shoe after the other — in the middle
of a news conference with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri
al-Maliki. Both shoes narrowly missed their target and thumped loudly
against the wall behind the leaders.
"Don't worry about it," the president said as the room
erupted into chaos. MORE=> By Scott Horton, Harper’s, December 13, 2008 President
George W. Bush has launched “Operation Legacy,” which he placed in the hands
of his ultimate advisor, indeed his “brain,” Karl Rove. Remember Rove? He’s
the man who refused to testify under oath when summoned by Congress to do so
and was recently identified in a Congressional report as the plotter behind
the U.S. Attorneys scandal, among other trainwrecks. The Rove effort features
a 2-page set of talking points which have been circulated to members of the
administration’s team highlighting the supposedly major Bush accomplishments
which have begun to fill the American media. They start with the contention
that “Bush kept us safe” by preventing any further attack on American soil
after 9/11. Really? MORE=> Saturday,
December 13 $50
Billion at Stake After Wall St Broker Bernard Madoff is Arrested over
‘World’s Biggest Swindle’
By Tim Reid, Times Online (U.K.) December 13 -- Some of America’s
wealthiest socialites were facing ruin last night after the arrest of a Wall
Street big hitter accused of the largest investor swindle perpetrated by one
man. Shock and panic spread through
the country clubs of Palm Beach and Long Island after Bernard Madoff, a
trading powerbroker for more than four decades, allegedly confessed to a
fraud that will cost his wealthy investors at least $50 billion – perhaps the
largest swindle in Wall Street history.
MORE=> Madoff's
Alleged $50 Billion Fraud Hits Other Investors By
Jon Stempel and Christian Plumb, Reuters December 12 -- Investors scrambled to assess
potential losses from an alleged $50 billion fraud by Bernard Madoff, a day
after the arrest of the prominent Wall Street trader. Prosecutors and regulators accused the
70-year-old, who was chairman of the Nasdaq Stock Market in the early 1990s,
of masterminding a fraud of epic proportions through his investment advisory
business, which managed at least one hedge fund. MORE=> Madoff
Fraud Case Raises Questions About SEC Scrutiny of Operations By Marcy Gordon, Associated Press December 12 --The stunning fraud Wall Street pillar
Bernard Madoff is accused of has raised questions about whether federal
regulators were lax in failing to scrutinize his operations and respond to
alarms raised about them. Securities
and Exchange Commission enforcement attorneys were in federal court on Friday
to seek emergency relief for investors, including an asset freeze and the
appointment of a receiver for Madoff's firm, in an alleged $50 billion fraud
that could be the largest ever pinned on an individual. MORE=> Jim
Rogers Calls Most Big US Banks "Bankrupt" By Jonathan Stempel, Reuters December 11 -- Jim Rogers,
one of the world's most prominent international investors, on Thursday called
most of the largest U.S. banks "totally bankrupt," and said
government efforts to fix the sector are wrongheaded. Speaking by
teleconference at the Reuters Investment Outlook 2009 Summit, the co-founder
with George Soros of the Quantum Fund, said the government's $700 billion
rescue package for the sector doesn't address how banks manage their balance
sheets, and instead rewards weaker lenders with new capital. MORE=> By Gordon
Prather, PhD, Antiwar.com December 13 -- According to the Israeli newspaper
Haaretz,
someone "close" to President-elect Obama told them that the
Obama-Biden-Hillary administration intends to offer Israel a "nuclear
umbrella." Now, you know what an ordinary umbrella is. And if you
can find it and unfurl it in time, if the rain is coming straight down
out of the sky, and if you are standing directly under it, it can
protect you from getting soaking wet.
Okay, what if it’s extremely windy and the rain is coming at you
almost horizontal? Well, don’t bother unfurling your umbrella. So, what’s a "nuclear umbrella"? Presumably, it’s something that, if you
can find it and unfurl it in time, and if the nukes are coming straight down
out of the sky, it can protect you and yours from getting nuked in your
jammies. MORE=> Science Born
Again in the White House, and Not a Moment Too Soon Betsy Madson, Wired.com Most scientists
consider the last eight years a tough era in Washington. But President-elect
Barack Obama's reported picks for Secretary of Energy and EPA administrator
and the creation of an "energy czar" signal a return to scientific
principles in the decision-making process at the federal level. And it's about time. One of the biggest reasons to fill the
scientific vacuum in Washington is the pressing need to find new sources of
sustainable energy. For this to become reality, Washington needs to step up
and support science when industry and academia are unwilling or unable. MORE=> By Robert Parry, ConsortiumNews.com December 10 -- Since Gary Webb’s
suicide four years ago, I have written annual retrospectives about the late
journalist’s important contribution to the historical record -- he forced
devastating admissions from the CIA about drug trafficking by the Nicaraguan
contra rebels under the protection of the Reagan administration in the 1980s. And each time I’ve written one of
those stories, I have received e-mails attacking my acceptance of the fact
that Webb committed suicide on the night of Dec. 9, 2004. Some people want to
believe that he was really assassinated by the CIA or some other government
agency. But the evidence of his carefully
planned suicide – as he suffered deep pain as a pariah in his profession who
could no longer earn a living – actually points to something possibly even
more tragic: Webb ended his life because people who should have supported his
work simply couldn’t be bothered.
MORE=> Simple
Change Could Reduce Obesity in U.S. by 20 Percent Mercola.com According
to a new study, a ban on fast food advertisements in the United States could
reduce the number of overweight children by as much as 18 percent. In
addition, the study reports that eliminating the tax deductibility of
television advertising would also result in a reduction of childhood
obesity. The study’s authors found
that a ban on fast food television advertisements during children's
programming would reduce the number of overweight children ages 3-11 by 18
percent, and would lower the number of overweight adolescents ages 12-18 by
14 percent. MORE=> Friday,
December 12 $14B
Auto Bailout Dies in Senate By Julie Hirshfield David and Ken
Thomas, Associated Press December 12 -- A
bailout-weary Congress killed a $14 billion package to aid struggling U.S.
automakers Thursday night after a partisan dispute over union wage cuts
derailed a last-ditch effort to revive the emergency aid before year's
end. MORE=> RawStory.com December 11 -- Former Defense Secretary Donald
Rumsfeld and other members of the Bush administration "conveyed the
message that physical pressures and degradation were appropriate treatment for
detainees," claims a Senate
Armed Services Committee report issued Thursday. MORE=> New
Unemployment Claims Surge Unexpectedly By Christopher S. Rugaber, Associated
Press December
11 -- New claims for jobless benefits rose more than expected last week,
exceeding even gloomy expectations for an economy stuck in a recession that
seems to be deepening. The Labor
Department reported Thursday that initial applications for jobless benefits
in the week ending Dec. 6 rose to a seasonally adjusted 573,000 from an
upwardly revised figure of 515,000 in the previous week. That was far more
than the 525,000 claims Wall Street economists expected. MORE=> Bank of America to Cut Up to 35,000 Jobs By Allistair Barr, MarketWatch.com December 11 -- Bank of America said late Thursday that it plans
to cut up to 35,000 jobs over the next three years as the financial giant
adjusts to a recession and completes the pending acquisition of brokerage
firm Merrill Lynch & Co. MORE=> By
Prof. Joseph Stiglitz, Global Research Behind the debate over remaking U.S.
financial policy will be a debate over who’s to blame. It’s crucial to get
the history right, writes a Nobel-laureate economist, identifying five key
mistakes—under Reagan, Clinton, and Bush II—and one national delusion. What
were the critical decisions that led to the crisis? Mistakes were made at every
fork in the road-we had what engineers call a "system failure,"
when not a single decision but a cascade of decisions produce a tragic
result. Let's look at five key moments.
MORE=> LC Editor’s Comment: Professor Stiglitz writes,
“Mistakes were made at every fork in the road…” But were
these all mistakes as one conventionally thinks of mistakes? Or are these mistakes more like the
mistakes the U.S. government says were responsible for 9/11? Take your
choice, but remember that Joseph P. Kennedy said to a reporter in 1960,
“There are no mistakes in politics?” Obama's Atomic Umbrella:
US Nuclear Strike if Iran Nukes Israel By Aluf Benn, Haaretz.com December 11 -- U.S. President-elect Barack Obama's administration
will offer Israel a "nuclear umbrella" against the threat of a
nuclear attack by Iran, a well-placed American source said earlier this week.
The source, who is close to the new administration, said the U.S. will declare
that an attack on Israel by Tehran would result in a devastating U.S. nuclear
response against Iran. MORE=> LC Editor’s Comment: This offer – if Tel Aviv accepts it
and the U.S. does establish the umbrella -- should be enough to shut off or
at least significantly reduce the frequency of Israel’s issuing veiled
threats to bomb and destroy Iran’s nuclear power research facilities if
Tehran continues to refuse to shut them down immediately. Israel’s fear that Israel now has or is about to gear up
to make nuclear weapons is irrational, like a kid’s fear that the Boogie Man,
who he is certain is hiding under his bed, is getting ready come out from
under the bed when the lights are out and attack him. In neither instance is
fear is justified by the existence of hard evidence of imminent danger. In this offer to Israel Obama is promising to do just
what the kid’s dad might choose to do to placate the fears of his son
concerning the Boogie Man. That is,
Daddy promises his kid, Israel, that if the Boogie Man, Iran, sneaks into the
kid’s room after the lights go out and tries to hurt the kid, Daddy will
burst into the room and beat the crap out of the ogre to make sure that that
he’ll never return to his son’s room again. By Tom Leonard, The Telegraph
(U.K.) December 11 -- America's economic woes have
taken a heavy toll on Broadway, where the final curtain is coming down on 15
shows in the next six weeks. Even
some of New York’s most feted productions, such as the Equus revival
starring Daniel Radcliffe, have been playing to half-filled houses while
other shows have survived no more than weeks. MORE=> Newsweek
Plans Staff Cuts in Makeover: Report Reuters News Service December 11 -- Newsweek
magazine is planning staff cuts as part of a major editorial makeover likely
to result in a slimmer publication, the Wall Street Journal said, citing
people close to the magazine. The
cuts are expected to be outlined in two companywide meetings on Thursday, and
will come from an extension of voluntary redundancies offered in the spring,
when Newsweek shed 111 jobs, the paper said.
MORE=> Nobel-Winning
Physicist Rumored to Be Obama's Pick for Energy Secretary By Betty
Mason, Wired.com December 10 --
If the rumors are true, and I dearly hope they are, President-elect Barack
Obama could not have made a better choice to head up the Department of Energy
than Nobel Prize-winning physicist Steven Chu. At his current
post as the director of the DOE's Lawrence
Berkeley National Laboratory, Chu's goal has been nothing short of
solving the world's energy problems. When I interviewed him four years ago
for the Contra Costa Times when he took the job as director, he told
me, "Wouldn't it be nice if we could solve this problem? I think we're
poised to help in a major way."
MORE=> Scientists
Develop Software that can Map Dreams By Danielle Demetriou, The
Telegraph (U.K.) December 11--The
secret world of dreams has been unlocked with the invention of technology
capable of illustrating images taken directly from human brains during
sleep. A team of Japanese scientists
have created a device that enables the processing and imaging of thoughts and
dreams as experienced in the brain to appear on a computer screen. While researchers have so far only created
technology that can reproduce simple images from the brain, the discovery
paves the way for the ability to unlock people's dreams and other brain
processes. MORE=> GardenGal.com We who live and garden in the southern Great Lakes
region often have to be creative when it comes to satisfying our gardening
urges during the cooler months of the year. When outdoor gardening activities
wind down for the season, our attentions naturally turn to indoor gardening
pursuits. Tops on the list are cultivating and growing our houseplants, maintaining
cuttings for next year's garden, indoor herb gardening, and starting seeds in
the latter part of the cold weather months. December 10 The Fed’s Exploding
Balance Sheet: What It Means and Reviving the Revolution By Michael Rozeff, Lew Rockwell.com December 8 - Bernanke and Company, who
are running the U.S. central bank, the Federal Reserve (Fed), have been very
busy in the past year or so. The size of the bank has more than doubled since
August of 2007. Their assets, mainly loans and credits they extend, have exploded
from $902.4 billion to $2.17 trillion as of December 3, 2008. The main idea
behind all this lending is to prevent some large banks (and other financial
institutions) from failing, shrinking, or restructuring. Behind this is the
goal of maintaining the existing structure of banking and central banking.
And behind that is the goal of maintaining government power and the existing
political structure intact. MORE=> Webster Tarpley
Interviewed on Alex Jones Show on Friday, December 6 VIDEO Google-Video Online Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 of
5 Parts Historian, author and false-flag expert Webster Tarpley, in-studio with Alex in Austin, Texas, discusses the election of Obama and the recent Mumbai false-flag attack. On The Road With the
Appleseed Project: Creating Liberty One Rifleman at a Time By William Buppert, in LewRockwell.com December 5 -- I spent the last weekend at the Phoenix Appleseed Shoot in Arizona with a number of fellow shooters. I came with my wife, five children and my other best friend in tow. We resembled the Beverly Hillbillies pulling into the campground in my F350 crew cab truck and trailer that should require harbor navigation skills (notice that I don’t advocate licensure) on Friday night the day before the shoot. We were exhausted but excited after the four-hour trip from southern Arizona. Almost three-dozen shooters showed up for the training, which is a fairly respectable turn-out. What is an Appleseed Shoot? Fred, the
proprietor of Fred’s M14 Stocks
and famous for long freedom polemics (in a print size old people can’t read)
in Shotgun News, started and built
the program. The Revolutionary
War Veterans Association is an umbrella organization that was created to
bridge the gap between the Founding of the nation and the present day through
educational outreach. It started as a venture to bring history alive and
revive the principles that animated our divorce from George III (the other
George) from whence was born the Appleseed Project whose modest goal is to
create one million new Riflemen in America.
MORE=> LC Editor’s Comment: For more information on
the Appleseed Project, visit www.appleseedinfo.com
By Donald W. Miller, MD, in LewRockwell.com July 15, 2005 The federal government’s Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC) and the American Dental Association (ADA) are
holding a symposium in Chicago this week titled: "National Fluoridation
Symposium 2005: Celebrating 60 Years of Water Fluoridation" (July
13–16). The CDC ranks fluoridation of community drinking water as one of the
ten most significant public health achievements of the 20th
century. No speaker at this symposium will dare question
the safety or efficacy of fluoride. That is now a given and has become dogma.
But like in 1968 when protests against the Vietnam War were held in the Windy
City outside the Democratic National Convention, this week protesters have
assembled in Chicago to fight fluoridation.
MORE=> The Fluoride Glut: Sources
of Fluoride Exposure Fluoride Action Network "Dental and Public health
administrators should be aware of the total fluoride exposure in the
population before introducing any additional fluoride programme for caries
prevention." - World Health Organization. (1994). Fluorides and
Oral Health. WHO Technical Report Series 846
=> More LC Editor’s Comment: A long, long list of sources that contain
the toxin sodium fluoride. You might
have guessed that tooth paste and tap water would appear on the list. But how about processed cereals? Baby formula? And even tea leaves? Prominent
Physician Advises Against Flu Shots Mercola.com Dr. Donald Miller, a cardiac surgeon and Professor
of Surgery at the University of Washington, recommends avoiding the flu shot
and taking vitamin D instead. According to Dr. Miller, “Seventy percent of
doctors do not get a flu shot.”
MORE=> It's
Official: Men Really are the Weaker Sex The Independent {U.K} - Science Evolution is being distorted
by pollution, which damages genitals and the ability to father offspring,
says new study. Geoffrey Lean reports. December 7 -- The male
gender is in danger, with incalculable consequences for both humans and
wildlife, startling scientific research from around the world reveals. The
research – to be detailed tomorrow in the most comprehensive report yet
published – shows that a host of common chemicals is feminising males of
every class of vertebrate animals, from fish to mammals, including
people. MORE=> Worms in my Kitchen? How to
Make Compost for Patio Veggie Garden Epinions.com The
Bottom Line Worm castings are
a wonderful additive to any soil mix. Making your own at home is good for the
environment and really simply to do. WORMS! WORMS! GOLD! GOLD! Let This Wiggling Friend Make
Gardner’s Gold For Your Gardening Needs Right Under Your Kitchen Sink. LC
Editor’s Comment: A great article! It’s a practical treatise
on the art and science of composting. Look no further on the web in the hope
of finding better instructions on composting. All you need to know is in this article. Have at at, green-thumbers! December 9,
2008 Eligibility
Question? FedEx Electoral College Members By WorldNetDaily.com December 8 -- Following up a campaign
that sent more than 60,000 letters by overnight delivery to the U.S. Supreme
Court, WND today announces a historic first in its quest to establish
Barack Obama's eligibility for office – a similar FedEx letter drive directed
at individual Electoral College members.
Through Thursday at 1 p.m. Eastern, WND is providing an opportunity to
Americans who would like to contact electors of the next president before
they vote Monday to send Obama to the White House. MORE=> Eligibility
Dispute, Part 2, Scheduled by Supremes
Court rejects claim challenging
candidacy, schedules another for Friday conference By Bob Unrah, WorldNetDaily.com December 8 -- Not even the U.S. Supreme Court
can kill the dispute that has developed over Sen. Barack Obama's
eligibility to occupy the Oval Office based on questions raised over his
birthplace and citizenship
and his steadfast refusal to provide documentation
on the issue. The high court today denied a
request to listen to arguments in a case, Donofrio v. Wells, from New Jersey
that addressed the issues. But literally within minutes, the court's
website confirmed that another conference is scheduled for Friday on another
case raising the same worries.
MORE=> Financial Times
Editorial Admits Agenda For Dictatorial World Government By Paul Watson, InfoWars.com December 9 - The Financial Times, one
of the most respected and widely read newspapers on the planet, features
an editorial today that openly admits the agenda to create a world
government based on anti-democratic principles and concedes that the term
“global governance” is merely a euphemism for the move towards a centralized
global government. MORE=> Former ISI Chief:
Mumbai And 9/11 Both “Inside Jobs”
By Paul Joseph Watson, PrisonPlanet.com
December 8 -- General Hamid Gul, the
former head of the Pakistani ISI, told CNN yesterday that both the Mumbai
attacks and 9/11 were “inside jobs,” much to the chagrin of host and CFR
luminary Fareed Zakaria, who told viewers that Gul’s opinions were
“absolutely wrong and thoroughly discredited”. MORE=> A Historic
Moment: The Election of the Greatest Con-Man in Recent History By James Petras, InformationClearinghouse.info December 8 -- The entire political
spectrum ranging from the ‘libertarian’ left, through the progressive editors
of the Nation to the entire far right neo-con/Zionist war party and free
market Berkeley/Chicago/Harvard academics, with a single voice, hailed the
election of Barack Obama as a ‘historic moment’, a ‘turning point in American
history and other such histrionics. For reasons completely foreign to the
emotional ejaculations of his boosters, it is a historic moment: witness the
abysmal gap between his ‘populist’ campaign demagoguery and his long-standing
and deepening carnal relations with the most retrograde political figures,
power brokers and billionaire real estate and financial backers. MORE=> By Abdon S. Pallasch, Chicago-Sun
Times December 8 -- As gun sales shoot up around the
country, President-elect Barack Obama said Sunday that gun-owning Americans
do not need to rush out and stock up before he is sworn in next month. "I believe in common-sense gun safety
laws, and I believe in the second amendment," Obama said at a news
conference. "Lawful gun owners have nothing to fear. I said that
throughout the campaign. I haven't indicated anything different during the
transition. I think people can take me at my word." MORE=> LC Editor’s Comment: “I think people can take me at my word”? On the basis of Obama’s legislative
record in support of gun control when he was an Illinois State Senator and
his anti-gun statements he’s made to reporters in the past, we may safely
conclude that his “Don’t stock up on guns…I believe in the second amendment”
quote rates high marks right up there along with other classic con man
assertions like “The check is in the mail” and “I’m from the IRS, and I’m
here to help”. Don’t you believe con man Barky! Buy guns, ammo, shooting lessons and gun
safety courses, along with storable foods, good water filtering systems, and
heirloom seeds (for your “victory gardens”) as Christmas gifts! Obamanation
is coming! With respect to learning to handle and fire guns
safely and very accurately so you will have a way of hunting for protein in
the wild in what are expected to be very lean years ahead and having a way of
defending yourself and your family against all transgressors, I suggest you
look into becoming a participant in the Appleseed Project. The project is dedicated to providing
training that will take you from being a rifle owner to a skilled
rifleman. Police SWAT Team Holds
Entire Family at Gunpoint for Hours
New Brannon
Howse interviewed John Loeffler about his article on
ChristianWorldviewNetwork.com on why SWAT police, armed for riot control
weapons, packing automatic rifles and armored for a terrorist response
stormed a family food cooperative in Ohio. Supreme
Court Denies Citizenship Challenge WorldNetDaily.com, December 8, 2008 The U.S. Supreme Court today announced it has
denied bringing Donofrio v. Wells – one of several cases challenging Barack
Obama's eligibility to serve as president – before a full hearing. MORE=> LC
Editor's Comments: No surprise: Brzezinski, Soros and Rockefeller -- elitists
and key CFR figures for decades--- rule the day. Having
Obama aboard as President is crucial for the elitist CFR's carrying out
Zbigniew Brzezinski's plan for U.S. control of Central Asia. The plan is laid
out in excruciating detail in his seminal work, The Grand Chessboard,
published in 1997. LT subscribers can read the entire book at no
charge at
the website http://www.scribd.com/doc/6789457/Brzezinski-The-Grand-Chessboard
LC
subscribers can also read about the significance of plan in
the context of ongoing U.S. military operations in Afghanistan and Pakistan
and how the CFR's having Obama as the next U.S. President fits into this plan
in my posts published in previous issues of the LC newsletter and
at Libertycalling.com. Source information
on this topic may also be found in articles published in print and on the
web, over the past year by historian an author Webster Tarpley. In
addition, if readers will do a text find on the LC.com main page,
they will also find links on the web to Alex Jones' video interview
of Mr. Tarpley on this topic. This video
was was recorded and published at Google Video
within past few months. There is still one petition before the Supremes
requesting a hearing of a case on the same topic. Let's see if the
learned judges end up moving in lock step with Zbigniew's team by simply
refusing to bring this cases before a full hearing of the court. The
Purpose Behind the Financial Crisis By Bob Chapman, The International
Forecaster December 6, 2008 Rich working to Bankrupt the Middle Class, world
economic system now infected with toxic waste, golden parachutes for some and
hyperinflation for others, a better plan would be to give a cheque to
everybody, plans to help people wont really be implemented, credit problems
thicken. MORE=> LC Editor’s Comment: This is a condensed version of one article that appeared in a recent
copy of the International Forecaster (IF) subscrition newsletter. The IF is published twice each week, on
Saturday and on Wednesday, and is emailed to subscribers. Each issue is 30 ro
40 pages long. You can receive a free issue of the IF by requesting it either
by email or with a toll-free phone call.
Contact information is provided on the home page of the www.theinternationalforecaster.com
web site. Nationalization? US Could Take Stakes in Big 3 Auto Maker Giants Congress and the White House inched toward a financial rescue of the Big
Three auto makers, negotiating legislation that would give the U.S.
government a substantial ownership stake in the industry and a central role
in its restructuring. Under terms of the draft legislation, which continued to evolve Monday
evening, the government would receive warrants for stock equivalent to at
least 20% of the loans any company receives. The company also would have to
agree to limits on executive compensation and dividend payments, much like
those contained in the government's $700 billion rescue of the financial
industry. MORE=> By Alan Stang News with Views, December 6, 2008 Many commentators who are aware that Illegal-Alien
Elect Hussein intends to impose an intensely repressive system on the nation
– if he is not deported and actually becomes President – are trying with
minimal success to figure out what it would be like. The reason for the
difficulty is that, unlike almost all other peoples on the planet, Americans
have been so free for so long they cannot conceive of life under
dictatorship. Their only experience of such life is leftover World War II
Nazi movies. MORE=> Gun
Control: Protecting Terrorists and Despots By U.S. Representative Ron Paul December 8, 2008 Tragically, over the Thanksgiving holiday, the
world was reminded how evil and cruel people can be. According to emerging accounts of the
events in India, about a dozen well-armed and devastatingly well-trained
terrorists laid siege on the city of Mumbai, killing almost two hundred
people, and terrorizing thousands.
MORE=> War Made Easy reaches into the Orwellian memory
hole to expose a 50-year pattern of government deception and media spin that
has dragged the United States into one war after another from Vietnam to
Iraq. Narrated by actor and activist
Sean Penn, the film exhumes remarkable archival footage of official
distortion and exaggeration from LBJ to George W. Bush, revealing in stunning
detail how the American news media have uncritically disseminated the pro-war
messages of successive presidential administration. MORE=> Hidden for Half a
Century: The 1040 Barn Dodge You have heard stories of barn finds before. Some
sound incredible, some unbelievable. But here's one that might top 'em all.
It's the true story of one 1940 Dodge Deluxe Sedan. Back in 1940, life in the Country was running at a different
pace. You could leave your house unlocked, and, of course, your car. Television
and graffiti were words without meaning. Pearl Harbor was an event of
the future. It would take two more years until the United States would enter
World War II. Life was hard but
good. Photos included. MORE=> More Banned Technology VIDEO How would like like a building material that is
stronger than cement and SIX TIMES lighter? Better yet, one of its main
ingredients in the waste product of a plant that literally grows like a weed.
Well, Big Brother says you can't have it because the plant - hemp - is
"dangerous to society."
MORE=> Southern
California Edison Demonstrates Li Ion Battery with 180,000 Mile Lifespan Since the average U.S. family car travels less
than 15,000 miles each year, the battery could easily provide more than ten
years service before it needs replacing. When you factor in the relatively
low servicing costs of electric cars, this means that there is now a compelling
case for such technology to power future plug-in vehicles. MORE=> Home Made Toys for
Christmas? What an Idea! The garden needs planting, animals need feeding,
Baby needs to nurse, and that chicken coop simply has to be finished but,
there are three children who want you to drop everything and have some fun
with them. What you need is more time. Traditional homestead toys are the
only answer. Quick, simple, economical, and tons more fun than Nintendo or
the “Net.” MORE=> December 8,
2008 Things You Can't Say in
America Antiwar.com, June 8, 2001 It doesn't matter how many times you prove it. Wait
five years and you have to prove it all over again. Take Pearl Harbor. The
fact that FDR knew the Japanese were going to attack is something that should
by now be as solidly established in American historiography as William
Randolph Hearst's famous order to his photographer, "You furnish the
pictures, I'll furnish the war," (the conflict under discussion being
the Spanish American war). MORE=> By John Lamberi Truthout.com, December 7, 2008 “Pre-Emptive”
War, Then and now. The name Pearl Harbor
resonates in American history; it is synonymous with the U.S. entry into
World War II. It stands for tragedy - and for treachery. On December 7, 1941,
Japanese carrier-based aircraft attacked United States naval and air forces
in the Hawaiian Islands, and scored a major victory. Over 2,300 U.S. military
personnel lost their lives - almost half of them when the battleship Arizona
was blown up and sunk by bombs and torpedoes. The U. S. Pacific fleet was
devastated.[1] The next day President Franklin Roosevelt called for a
declaration of war, and described December 7, 1941, and the Japanese attack
as "a date which will live in infamy." MORE=> By Robert Stinnett The Independent Institute, December 7, 2003 Two questions about the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
have ignited a controversy that has burned for 60 years: Did U.S. naval
cryptographers crack the Japanese naval codes before the attack? Did Japanese
warships and their commanding admirals break radio silence at sea before the
attack? MORE=> Provocations
as Pretexts for Imperial War: From Pearl Harbor to 9/11 By Prof. James Petras Global Research, May 25, 2008 Wars in an imperialist democracy
cannot simply be dictated by executive fiat, they require the consent of
highly motivated masses who will make the human and material sacrifices.
Imperialist leaders have to create a visible and highly charged emotional
sense of injustice and righteousness to secure national cohesion and overcome
the natural opposition to early death, destruction and disruption of civilian
life and to the brutal regimentation that goes with submission to absolutist
rule by the military. MORE=> Webster Tarpley -
False-Flag Operational Structure Explained VIDEO By Webster Tarpley February 16, 2008-12-07 Webster Tarpley
delivers an eloquent summary of the methods and tactics used in a
"False-Flag" terrorist operation. Such tactics are as old as the
hills and have long been a tool of empires and despots. LC Editor’s Comment: This is an excerpt from a full-length
lecture. In it he defines the players
in a false-flag operation, which is a military attack operation conducted in
stealth and ordered by a country’s leader, or a cabal with its government,
against the citizens of that nation. The citizens are lead to believe that
the attackers are terrorists, special forces operatives or uniformed military
sent by another nation that has already been portrayed through media-lanched
propaganda as an aggressor state. The purpose of the false flag opertion is
to gain angry, enthusiatic public support for a massive military attack in
reprisal. Tarpley spends time
describing the classic, time-honored titles of the players associated with
false flag operations. Among these
titles are “patsies” and “moles”. Captured
Mumbai Terrorist from Pakistan, Media Probe Reveals London,
Dec 7 (IANS) Ajmal Ameer Kasab, the lone terrorist caputred after the Mumbai
strikes, is from Punjab in Pakistan, his parents' names are on the electoral
rolls and villagers say they knew 'the boy', an investigation by a British
newspaper has revealed. Kasab
reportedly told Indian security officials that he belonged to Faridkot in
Pakistan's Punjab province, his father's name was Mohammed Amir and mother's
name was Noor - and an investigation carried out by the Observer newspaper
found matching evidence on the ground.
MORE=> LC
Editor’s Comments: The attacks had the
earmarks of a false flag operation staged to place blame on Pakistani
extremists for the killings of primarily on Western travellers. Kasab, the one terrorist out of the ten
involved is the attacks that was captured, was apparently the “patsy” in this
operation. The other nine apparently
got away. A newsman on the scene
reported that the guards and police refused to shoot at the terrorists. This suggests that the other nine
terrorists were police disguised at terrorists and that they made themselves
disappear by getting back into the guard or police uniforms when no one was
looking. Kasab, who was presumably in
on the operation, could eventually be released under a benign pretext, ending
this episode in of violence in this violent part of the world. Historian
and author Webster Tarpley believes that Zbigniew Brzezinski, George Soros
and David Rockeffer – not the Neocons – are the chief influencers in
Washington now. Under their guidance White House policy has shifted the
target of military power from the Iraq-Iran theatre to Afghanistan and
Pakistan. Their goal appears to be to destabilize and fragment Pakistan,
making it impotent in the region, and allowing U.S. control to extend from
Afghanistan to India, a strong American ally. Arrest Provides More
Evidence India, Israel, and the U.S. Behind Mumbai Attacks By Kurt Nimmo Infowars.com, December 7, 2008 It is becoming increasingly a hard
sell to pin the blame for the Mumbai attacks on Pakistan and thus set the
stage for an attack on Pakistan after Barack Obama enters the White House in
a few weeks. It now appears Indian intelligence played a large part in the
terrorist attacks. On Saturday, the Associated Press reported that a “counterinsurgency
police officer who may have been on an undercover mission” was arrested for
illegally buying mobile phone cards used by the gunmen. MORE=> December 6,
2008 Sammy, I
Can't Afford Ya Any More By Claire Wolfe, September 14, 1998 You're too expensive for all of us. Your size and
scope of power has grown beyond all intentions of the Founders. You've become
too bloated to work effectively. You've stuck your nose in other countries'
business. You've taxed the people to the breaking point, on top of murdering
them for "infractions" where no crime has been committed. You've
sent America's sons and daughters to far away lands to do the bidding of that
foreign government (UN) on our shores and in the process, sacrificed not a
few of them on your altar. MORE=> By Andrew Hughes, GlobalResearch.ca, December 6, 2008 The announcement in the last few days of a deal
reached between the U.S. Treasury and the moribund insurance giant, A.I.G.
provides a very lucid insight in to the nefarious and destructive world of
the Troubled Asset Relief Program, otherwise known as T.A.R.P..Not only have
A.I.G. received $152 billion to date and subsequently reported a third
quarter loss of $25 billion, now they are to be cleared of their obligation
on $53 billion worth of toxic credit default swaps. U.S. taxpayers are now on
the hook for $205 billion courtesy of an institution which played in the Wall
St. casino that passes for a "Financial Sector" and lost. Under the
"Free market" system, so expounded upon by Government and Wall St.
alike, A.I.G should be in chapter 11. Bailing out A.I.G and other failing
institutions does absolutely nothing to address the fundamental issues at
hand. MORE=> By Paul Tharp, December 4, 2008 A new Citigroup scandal is engulfing Robert Rubin
and his former disciple Chuck Prince for their roles in an alleged
Ponzi-style scheme that's now choking world banking. MORE=> US Job
Losses Worst Since 1974 as Downturn Deepens WASHINGTON (Reuters) – December 4 --
U.S. employers axed 533,000 jobs from payrolls in November, the most in 34
years, as the year-old recession hammered the economy and hardened calls for
dramatic government action to restore growth. MORE=> One
in 10 American Homeowners Fell Behind on Mortgage Payments Dec. 5 (Bloomberg) -- One in 10 American
homeowners fell behind on mortgage payments or were in foreclosure
during the third quarter as the world’s largest economy shed jobs and real
estate prices tumbled. MORE=> Ford's Most Advanced
Assembly Plant Operates in Rural Brazil – VIDEO Detnews.com August 22, 2007. First of its kind fully integrated
motor vehicle manufacturing facility. Its capability signicanly lows the
labor-hour requirement to assemble a vehicle. The Truth About Semi-Automatic
Firearms – VIDEO Fluoride
Exposure May Contribute to Early Puberty Fluoride Action Network November 2008 Up until the 1990s, no research had
ever been conducted to determine the impact of fluoride on the pineal gland
-- a small gland located between the two hemispheres of the brain that
regulates the production of the hormone melatonin. Melatonin is a hormone
that helps regulate the onset of puberty and helps protect the body from cell
damage caused by free radicals.
MORE=> Thursday,
December 4, 2008 Brush Fires
are Burning: Americans Demand Proof of Obama’s US Birth: Obama Vs. Constitution (60
Sec. TV Ad)... Will Supreme
Court take case on Obama's citizenship? December 3 — The U.S. Supreme Court will consider
Friday whether to take up a lawsuit challenging President-elect Barack
Obama's U.S. citizenship, a continuation of a New Jersey case embraced by some
opponents of Obama's election. The meeting of justices will coincide with a
vigil by the filer's supporters in Washington on the steps of the nation's
highest court. MORE=> December 3,
2008 Electoral
College Scam: Where Dead People Vote
A lawyer playing a major part in a California lawsuit urging officials to prevent the state's 55 Electoral College votes from being recorded for Barack Obama until questions about his citizenship are resolved has written to county clerks around
the state, seeking an investigation into a process that has allowed a dead
woman to be listed as an official elector.
MORE=> Alex Jones on Russia
Today VIDEO Recent
interview of U.S. radio talk show host Alex Jones by Russian Television
reporter and broadcast on Russian Television. Imaging Guru:
'Certification' of Birth Time, Location is Fake A document expert contends the "Certification
of Live Birth" Barack Obama's campaign posted online to rebut charges
the president-elect fails the Constitution's natural-born citizen requirement
is criminally fraudulent. The Obama campaign has told WND such allegations
are "garbage," but Ron Polarik, who holds a Ph.D. in instructional
media specializing in computer technology such as printers,
scanners and digital imaging, disagrees. His analyses have been posted online
in a
YouTube video, which also is embedded here. MORE=> Texas
Judge Dismisses Cheney, Gonzales Charges
A judge dismissed indictments against Vice
President Dick Cheney and former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales on Monday
and told the south Texas prosecutor who brought the case to exercise caution
as his term in office ends. Willacy
County District Attorney Juan Angel Guerra had accused Cheney and the other
defendants of responsibility for prisoner abuse. The judge's order ended two
weeks of sometimes-bizarre court proceedings. MORE=> US
Soldiers Re-Enlisting Because of Poor Economy FORT RILEY, Kan. – Sgt. Ryan Nyhus
spent 14 months patrolling the deadly streets of Baghdad, where five members
of his platoon were shot and one died. As bad as that was, he would rather go
back there than take his chances in this brutal job market. Nyhus re-enlisted last Wednesday, and in
so doing joined the growing ranks of those choosing to stay in the U.S.
military because of the bleak economy.
MORE=> Research
on Mice Links Fast Food to Alzheimer's
LONDON (Reuters) - Mice
fed junk food for nine months showed signs of developing the abnormal brain
tangles strongly associated with Alzheimer's disease, a Swedish researcher
said on Friday. The findings, which
come from a series of published papers by a researcher at Sweden's Karolinska
Institutet, show how a diet rich in fat, sugar and cholesterol could increase
the risk of the most common type of dementia. MORE=> Garden-in-a-Can: Heirloom
Seeds -- Portable Victory Garden Best
Way to Survive Premium
long-term storable seeds. The best
way to replenish your food supply. PVC
Greenhouse: Step by Step --- Step 9 of 9 Timely and excellent. While you
are at this site, have a gander at Steps 1-8. Start a Self-Sufficiency
Garden Even in a Cramped Apartment By
Nancy Wolcott, Backwood’s Home Magazine You are sitting there in
your recliner chair in your small city apartment desperately longing for the
day when you can escape to the country and become a homesteader and become
more self-sufficient. Well, don’t just sit there. Get a head start. Bloom
where you are planted until you can actually make the big move. Don’t waste valuable time in pointless
dreaming. Begin making your dreams a reality, now Still photo
montage’. Enjoy! Treachery Inside The US
Supreme Court By Devvy Kidd, Rense.com –
Exclusive – December 2, 2008 Leo
Donofrio called me on December 1, 2008, with more news regarding treachery
inside the U.S. Supreme Court. These lawsuits are challenging Obama's
constitutional eligibility to serve as president of these united States of
America. MORE=> Barack
Obama says US 'will maintain strongest military on planet' By
Alex Spillius in Washington for The Telegraph (U.K.) – December 2,
2008 But the former
Illinois senator, whose rise was built on his opposition to the Iraq war,
delivered a message of surprising toughness that at times could have come
from George W Bush. Mr Obama said:
"To ensure prosperity here at home and peace abroad, we all share the
belief we have to maintain the strongest military on the planet." LC
Editor’s Comment: “…we
all share the belief we have to maintain the strongest military on the
planet." What’s this we stuff? Are
the we President Elect Obama makes reference to the same men and women he has already picked --- or will
pick --- to fill cabinet posts and serve as White House advisors to the
president. Or are the we
Barack alludes to the CEOs of military arms companies, the corporations who
have been making a financial killing selling hundred of billions of dollars
selling numbers planes, guns and ammo cases to Uncle Sam to be expended in
Middle East wars ever since Daddy Bush snookered Saddam Hussein into massing
his troops on Kuwait’s border so he could justify to the American people his
decision to go to war with Iraq? Or could it be that Barack is admitting through
this statement that he has allied himself philosophically with the team of
maniacal Neocons who authored the infamous PNAC document, Rebuilding
America’s Defenses, in the year 2000, a white paper that advocating
U.S. domination of the world through military power? Several of the paper’s authors later become key
members of GW’s cabinet his White House advisory staff right after he assumed
the office of president in January of 2001. Once on Bush’s presidential team
they were clearly influential in incorporating the document’s concepts in the
new president’s defense (war) policy for the Middle East. Mr. Bush’s employment of this policy over his
nearly eight years as president has resulted in the needless slaughter of
millions of innocents in Iraq and Afghanistan and what will surely turn out
to be the fiscal bankruptcy of our nation produced in part by unbriedeled
spending of the American people’s money on unnecessary, no-win U.S. wars in
those two nations. Certainly, the wars-without-end in Afghanistan
and Iraq have stretched and and diminished our military’s manpower and
physical resources. Perhaps President
Elect Obama’s statement alludes to what he and they regard as a need
to return the level of our military capabilities to what it was before the
beginnings of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars for the purpose of defending our
nation against attacks from abroad against our homeland? But what if he has somewhat more ambitious plans
in mind, such as rebuilding the military for the purpose of engaging in a
policy of world domination, as recommended by the PNAC document authors? Mr. Bush was persuaded to go in that
direction but he failed. What if
Barack chooses to make another stab at that grand goal? Where will the money
come from to support that operation? Out of the hide of the American worker, that’s
where! That is, through massive
increases in federal income tax and the hidden tax called inflation,
the latter a direct consequence of the government monitizing the dollar, that
is simply printing more dollars to pay for expanding the size of the military
and maintaining it. Are we in for a rough ride ahead now that Barack
is about to move into the nation’s driver’s seat? We surely are! He knows
all about the PNAC document and with him it is strictly A-OK! (See also With
Gates, Obama Opts for Empire, below). The Cost of Hegemony Is Beyond Reach By Paul Craig
Roberts, Antiwar.com – December 2, 2008 Undeterred by massive
budget deficits from wars, a falling economy, and financial bailouts, the
U.S. government has managed to start a new cold war with Russia. Last Friday,
the Russian military announced that it was developing a new generation of
ballistic missiles in response to the U.S. government's decision to deploy
ballistic missile defenses in Poland and the Czech Republic. MORE=> True News 13: Statism is
Dead - Part 3 - The Matrix VIDEO You do not
live in a country. Take the red pill! Monday, December
1, 2008 The
American People Demand to Know: WHO SENT YOU??? Obama has lived for 48 years without leaving any
footprints -- none! There is no Obama documentation -- no records
-- no paper trail -- none -- this is no accident. It is
being done on purpose with Media help -but to serve whom & why?? MORE=> With Gates, Obama Opts
for Empire Barack
Obama’s got a big problem. He’s
suckered himself into believing that we need a bipartisan foreign and
military policy. And so he’s
reappointing Robert Gates as head of the Defense Department. Let’s remember: Gates was head of the CIA
during Bush I. As such, he was involved in the invasion of Panama, the
funding of a genocidal regime in Guatemala, the support of Suharto’s brutal
government in Indonesia, and the overthrow of Jean-Bertrand Aristide in
Haiti. MORE=> LC
Editor’s Comment: Also see Dr. SueAnn Arrigo’s Case 27,
which discusses Gates’ and Rockefeller’s alleged shady operations. Neocon policy makers, who were instigators
of the U.S. attack upon Iraq and the ensuing war in that nation, are now out
of favor at the White House. Replacing the Neocons beginning as far back as a year ago
as de facto foreign policy makers have been Gates and Rice, mineons of
the the Brzezinski-Soros-Rockefeller CFR cabal. The BSR power team is dedicated to fulfillment of Zbigniew’s
dream, which is presented his seminal 1997 work, The Grand
Chessboard. It is to use
America’s military power and (now fading) prestige to neutralize the growing
Russian and Chinese political and economic influence in Central Asia south of
the Caucuses and replace it with U.S. dominance. Brzezinski’s stated justification for exercising American
hegenomy in that mineral-rich and strategically important part of the world
is that if America does not control and tap into the economy and the
strategic importance of this region of Central Asia for itself (and
presumeably for the CFR’s elitist-Illuminist friends) the Russia and Chinese
certainly do precisely that. The change in focus of the U.S. military from the
Iran-Iraq theater to Afghanistan and east to Pakistan over the past year and
the election of Barack Obama, a protégé’ of Brzezinski and outspoken advocate
of military rocketing of and incursions into Pakistani territory is a
manifestation of shift in the foreign policy power in Washington from the
Neocons to Brzezinski’s Illuminists.
Furthermore, the recent outbreak of Russia- Georgia following the
latter’s military attacks upon its two break-away states and the killing of
many Russian peacekeepers stationed is another manifestation the cabal’s
takeover: Washington and to a lesser extent Tel Aviv encouraged the Georgian
president to take military action against these states. Pentagon
to Assign 20,000 Military Troops to Patrol US by 2001 for Security The U.S.
military expects to have 20,000 uniformed troops inside the United States
by 2011 trained to help state and local officials respond to a nuclear
terrorist attack or other domestic catastrophe, according to Pentagon
officials. The long-planned shift in the Defense
Department's role in homeland security was recently backed with funding
and troop commitments after years of prodding by Congress and outside
experts, defense analysts said. MORE=> LC Editor’s Comment: Whatever happened to the Posse
Comitatus Act, which had for over a century protected Americans from
potential abuse by U.S. Army soldiers by outlawing their serving in uniform
as policemen in our cities? Effectively, it’s gone, a casualty of
the John Warner Act of 2006, a product of the Bush administration. What we are experiencing now is an
expanding police state. India's
9/11: Who was Behind the Mumbai Attacks? Washington
is Fostering Political Divisions between India and Pakistan The Mumbai terror attacks were part of
a carefully planned and coordinated operation involving several teams of
experienced and trained gunmen. The operation has the fingerprints of a
paramilitary-intelligence operation. According to a Russian counter terrorist
expert, the Mumbai terrorists "used the same tactics that Chechen field
militants employed in the Northern Caucasus attacks where entire towns
were terrorized, with homes and hospitals seized". (Russia Today,
November 27, 2008). MORE=> LC Editor’s Comment: The attacks were probably part of a “false
flag” operation staged by the Indian government, or some rogue group within
the government, a case of an anti-terrorist exercise that went “live” to the
amazement of the police. This is what
happened during the London subway bombing of a few years ago. That, presumably, is also what happened on
9/11, when an exercise designed to intercept ficticious (simulated blips on
radar screens) planes enroute to crashing into skyscrapers went live, and two
actual passenger airliners smashed into WTC’s Twin Tower buildings. A photographer on the scene in India
told a news reporter that the policemen on the scene failed to fire their
weapons at the “terrorists” at the beginning of the attacks. Their behavior
supports this idea, since the police would have thought -- at least initially
-- that the “terrorists” were part of the team conducting the exercise they
had been briefed on and, therefore, were not to be shot. We’ll expand on this analysis of the
attacks later today or tomorrow on these pages. Lawyers
Call for International Court for the Environment A former chairman of
the Bar Council is calling for an international court for the environment to
punish states that fail to protect wildlife and prevent climate change.
MORE=> Sunday,
November 9, 2008 International
Forecaster: Expect the Recession to Increase in Severity November 9 --The dichotomy between paper
and metals, US owes 3 trillion to foreigners, the wiemarization is coming,
more banks go belly-up, gold manipulation poses problems for economic
stability, consider the recent rallies to be as good as it will get. MORE=> Obama White
House: First 100 Days – Webster Tarpley on Alex Jones Show – VIDEO November 5 – The day after Election
Day Show: Part 1 Part 2 LC Editor’s Comment: Historian, author and investigative
journalist Webster Tarpley discusses what he believes to be the political
agenda for the first one hundred days and beyond of President Obama
administration with talk show host and publisher Alex Jones. Tarpley also presents a workable strategy
for patriots to employ during this start-up period and throughout the first
two years of the Obama presidency to prevent it from becoming Mussolini-like
fascist dictatorship. Two, short but
excellent video clips from the show. Why Obama Will Be
Worse Than Bush By William Norman Grigg, LewRockwell.com,
November 8, 2008 To my
substantial delight, a movement is
already coalescing to impeach President-Elect Obama. My reaction isn’t dictated merely by the
conclusion that Obama is uniquely unsuitable to the office he will acquire
next January. I'm of the view that all
presidents should be simultaneously inaugurated and impeached, and that there
should be a streamlined procedure to expedite their conviction and removal
from office upon each president's first documented violation of his
constitutional oath. MORE=> A Mandate for Spreading the Wealth By
Norman Solomon, t r u t h o u t | Perspective, November 6, 2008 Two days before he lost
the election, John McCain summarized what had become the central message of
his campaign: "Redistribute the wealth, spread the wealth around - we
can't do that." Oh, yes we can. The 2008 presidential election became
something of a referendum on "spreading the wealth." "My
attitude is that if the economy's good for folks from the bottom up, it's
gonna be good for everybody," Barack Obama said on October 12, in a
conversation with an Ohio resident named Joe. The candidate quickly added,
"I think when you spread the wealth around, it's good for
everybody." MORE=> Obama Win
Triggers Run on Guns in Many Stores By Tim Gaynor, Reuters, November 8, 2008 Sales of rifles, pistols and ammo are surging in
parts of the United States, as many gun owners fear President-elect Barack
Obama's administration may seek to tighten ownership of certain weapons. "The day after the
election, I had many more calls than usual from people looking for
semi-automatic rifles," said David Greenberg, the owner of the Second
Amendment Family Gun Shop, in Bisbee, Arizona, who sold out of AR-15 rifles
in recent days. "There seems to be a fear they will be banned, and it's
fairly likely," he added. "Obama and Biden are driven to eliminate
firearms from the face of the country."
MORE=> “I am consistently on
record and will continue to be on record as opposing concealed carry. This
was a narrow exception in an exceptional circumstance where a retired police
officer might find himself vulnerable as a consequence of the work he has
previously done--and had been trained extensively in the proper use of
firearms." “I think we can provide common-sense approaches to
the issue of illegal guns that are ending up on the streets. We can make sure
that criminals don't have guns in their hands. We can make certain that those
who are mentally deranged are not getting a hold of handguns. We can trace
guns that have been used in crimes to unscrupulous gun dealers that may be
selling to straw purchasers and dumping them on the streets.” Implication:
Obama favors licensing and registration of guns so that they may be
traced back to gun dealers and therefore to the owners of guns. “I think it is a scandal that this president did
not authorize a renewal of the assault weapons ban.” MORE=> Biden
scores F by NRA on pro-gun rights policies While widely
recognized today as a major political force and as America's foremost
defender of Second Amendment rights, the National Rifle Association (NRA)
has, since its inception, been the premier firearms education organization in
the world. But our successes would not be possible without the tireless
efforts and countless hours of service our nearly three million members have
given to champion Second Amendment rights and support NRA programs. While widely
recognized today as a major political force and as America's foremost
defender of Second Amendment rights, the National Rifle Association (NRA)
has, since its inception, been the premier firearms education organization in
the world. But our successes would not be possible without the tireless
efforts and countless hours of service our nearly three million members have
given to champion Second Amendment rights and support NRA programs. The following ratings are based on lifetime voting records on gun issues and the results of a questionaire sent to all Congressional candidates; the NRA assigned a letter grade (with A+ being the highest and F being the lowest). Obama's 'Civilian National
Security Force' By Joe Farah, WorldNetDaily.com,
July 15, 2008 With
all the reporters covering the major presidential candidates, it amazes me no
one ever seems to ask the right questions.
For several days now, WND has been hounding Barack Obama's campaign
about a statement he made
July 2 in Colorado Springs – a statement that blew my mind, one that has
had me scratching my head ever since. In
talking about his plans to double the size of the Peace Corps and nearly
quadruple the size of AmeriCorps and the size of the nation's military
services, he made this rather shocking (and chilling) pledge: "We cannot
continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national
security objectives we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security
force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as
well-funded." MORE=> Sunday, October
5, 2008 Historic Alex
Jones Show: Congress and Bush Award Crooked Bankers $700 B Audio Historic Alex Jones 10/3/08 Show Live Audio: Congress Bails Out the
Criminal Banking Industry. Interviews
include those with U.S. congressmen threatened with Bush declaring
martial law if is not passed, Paul Craig Roberts, Ron Paul and others. Alex
announces during Roberts' interview that the House has just passed the
Senate's already passed bailout bill and has sent the bill to Bush for
signature. We
are reminded that the bill, now signed into law by President Bush, gives vast
new powers to the Federal Reserve and to Secretary of the Treasury
Paulson. Once
you listen to the entire program you will agree with Alex and his
distinguished guests, who say that the enactment on Friday of the bailout
bill amounts to a 9/11 of the financial and banking system. Details of
the bailout and their implications are discussed and solutions for patriots
are proposed. These
are perilous times. This is no time to throw up one's hands in
despair. We have just begun to fight -- Indications are that the sleepy
sheeple are awakening and are very, very angry. Download
from the LC Media File server site. Here is the link to the
MP3 audio file of the show, which is nearly 4 hours long. File size is
approximately 13.9 MB. It will download in about 20 seconds at cable
broadband speed. http://www.mediafire.com/?enqdzmzdjt5 You
may also go to www.infowars.com and download the Podcast
file of this show if it is still available and then play it either on your
computer or iPod. Please
pass the email and Media Fire link to everyone you know and ask them to
listen to the show. Vital material.
Email me at ron@libertycalling.com
if you have any questions. Vbw/Ron Final House
Roll-Call Vote on H.R. 1424 Emergency
Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 This is the vote that allowed Congress to pass the Wall Street
Criminal Bailout Bill, which President Bush signed into law on Friday,
October 3, a second day that will live in infamy! Check the voting roster, find your representative and if he
voted YEA on the bill, please contact him or her by email, Fax and phone on
Monday, whether they are still in Washington or back in their home city, and
tell him or her that you feel betrayed, that you will vote AGAINST him or her
in the November for that reason and that you intend to urge all of your
friends, family, business associates to do the same. But if he voted NAY, please thank him from the bottom of your
heart and acknowledge his or her patriotism and courage and honoring the oath
of office, which is to preserve and protect the Constitution from all enemies
foreign and domestic. I also urge you to send his link to everyone you know and tell
them of your intentions and to call into talk radio shows and give out this
link in abbreviated form, GovTrack.us to the host’s listeners and urge them
to do the same to do that same and as you have done or intend to do. H.R. 1424:
Discription, Text, Versions, Voting A
bill to provide authority for the Federal Government to purchase and insure
certain types of troubled assets for the purposes of providing stability to
and preventing disruption in the economy and financial system and protecting
taxpayers, to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide incentives
for energy production and conservation, to extend certain expiring provisions,
to provide individual income tax relief, and for other purposes. MORE=> Bailout
Creating Financial Black Hole to Suck us All In By
Bob Chapman, The
International Forecaster, October
4, 2008 A dish of Bailout with a side of pork, shareholders vaporized by
Derivatives Death-Star, We all await the financial markets implosion, No
problems solved by the bailout, Stay prepared for a full shutdown of the
financial system with some cash on hand, Credit default swaps unregulated
point in the chain.
Well, what a surprise, we've been sold down the
river for the usual "thirty pieces of silver" by our Congress and
our President, working together in unison, for the nth time. The $700 billion bailout, a mere sideshow,
sweetened with 150 billion in pork, has now been approved so that Wall Street
can continue to game the system and its hapless suckers, the American sheople.
Just put some pork in, and the hungry piranha in Congress would
legislate their own mothers into slavery for a nice juicy morsel of that
pork. And never mind the moral hazard dripping from the pork, because
that makes it taste all the sweeter.
MORE=> LC Editor’s Comment: Make sure to go to the homepage of Bob’s website, www.theinternationalforecaster.com
to read previous articles and find out how you may receive a complementary
copy of the full IF newsletter, which is published twice weeky via email and
contains approximately 25-30 pages of power-packed economic-market-political
news and forecasts. When is a
Holocaust Not a Holocaust? No American should be allowed to forget that Iraqi
society has been destroyed. The people of that unhappy land have lost
everything -- their homes, their schools, their neighborhoods, their mosques,
their jobs, their careers, their professionals, their health care, their
legal system, their women's rights, their religious tolerance, their
security, their past, their present, their future, their lives. But they do
have their surge.. FULL ARTICLE=> LC Editor’s Comment: Iraq’s holocaust constitutes
the dress rehearsal for the American holocaust, which is already well on its
way, thanks to meticulous planning amd execution by George Bush, Dick Cheney,
Zbigniew Brzezinski, George Soros, David Rockefeller, and now the current
members of the United States Congress.
Remember last Friday, the day the Washington
criminals gave away $700 billion of your money to the Wall Street
criminals? Well, lock and load,
folks! As Jim Morrison of The Doors shouted out to his enthusiastic, vocal
fans at the beginning of his concert appearances, “Is everybody it? Is everybody in? Is everybody in? The ceremomy is about to begin! WAKE UP!” Palin
says Obama 'palling around' with terrorists LC Editor's Comments: The elitists and
their tools create and publish this kind of bread and circuses news to occupy
the consciousnesses of the sheeple, who by now may not be able to distinguish
reality from the content reality TV shows. Sheeple are outwardly
conscious but exist in ongoing trance states and because of this conform to
the will of their controllers, the elitists the creators or all this drama. I regard sheeple as lost souls–at least
for now -- and incapable of seeing the depression and holocaust trains coming
down the tracks at them and preparing themselves to protect themselves and
their loved ones from starvation, homelessness, misery and death. However, the rest of us need to be now or prepare
ourselves to be physically, mentally and spiritually capable of assuring the
wellbeing of ourselves and our loved ones throughout the interesting times
ahead. I am certainly not survival expert, but here on my thoughts on
what I should really make sure to have in place within the next 30-120 days
at most: Trusted, capable friends and companions (both 2
and 4-footed) nearby, useful work skills I may use in trade to provide me and
my critters with the things and services I am may lack; water and water
filters; shelter; enough storage food (dog, cat and human) to last months;
means of producing my own food (raising chickens for eggs and growing crops
out of gallon pots); warm clothing; portable cook stove and fuel; portable lamp
and fuel; water-proofed matches and lighters; soap and toweling; sleeping
bags; ponchos; lead launchers and projectiles; knives of all
types; portable radio and cell phone with rechargeable batteries and
solar cell electrical panel, ham-band radio transceiver; plenty of toilet
paper and sealable plastic bags; silver and gold coins in small
denominations; lightweight mountain pop tent; some Federal Reserve notes; a
bible; the love of God; the eye of the tiger; a positive, loving
attitude; and the courage to act with conviction now! Bush
Administration Adds $4 Trillion To National Debt
With
no fanfare and little notice, the national debt has grown by more than $4
trillion during George W. Bush’s presidency.
It’s the biggest increase under any president in U.S history. On the day President Bush took office, the
national debt stood at $5.727 trillion. The latest number from the Treasury
Department shows the national debt now stands at more than $9.849 trillion.
That’s a 71.9 percent increase on Mr. Bush’s watch. MORE=> LC
Editor’s Comment: Add to that amount at least
$700 billion for the bailout of the investment and banking industries. Now we can see why GW’s wife keeps their
family checkbook locked up in her personal safe and never lets him write a
check. Then same thing goes for their
Platinum Visa and Master Cards. If it
were not for Laura’s handling of the family finances, the Bush’s would be
receiving threatening phone calls from irate bill collectors 24/7. October 1, 2008 Just as the Bush Administration
lauded and awarded government officials who Let 9/11 happen and punished FBI
agents and other patriots who warned that it might happen, the Senate has
chosen to award the crooks and punish the American taxpayers and their great
grand children for the transgressions of the Wall Street thieves. WASHINGTON -
After one spectacular failure, the $700 billion financial industry bailout
found a second life Wednesday, winning lopsided passage in the Senate and
gaining ground in the House, where Republicans opposition softened. MORE=> LC
Editor's Comment: If the House manages to pass the Senate bill and it is sent to
President Bush for his signature, he will sign it into law---gleefully! This
bailout will allow Mr. Bush's and Mr. Cheney's and the senators' friends
continue to rob the American people, since the bill contains
no stipulations for reformation of the banking and related
securities systems. Notice the
breakdown of the vote: 74 votes for the measure and 25 against it.
That is, 25 percent of the Senators voted against the rip-off. Remember
that only 33 percent of the senators are up for reelection in November, since
their term in office is six years. Interesting, huh? Immenent elections do
put the fear of God into politicians, don't they? A $700 billion
hit is bad enough, but here is the real significance a victory for the
Congress would gain if this measure becomes law: The crooks will feel
free to come back again and again and petition for further bailouts that
could put their total take up to as high as $5 trillion! What will this $5
trillion robbery do to inflation and the value of the dollar? Here is a
copy of the email exchange I had with my friend Bob Chapman, the
International Forecaster, (www.theinterntionalforecaster.com),
the pros' pro in investment strategy, on Tuesday and early Wednesday (yesterday)
before the Senate vote --- Bob, Ron,
Bob Ladies and
gentlemen, it is time to flush the incumbents in Congress down the drain in
November and replace them. Results of
70 percent of public opinion polls reveal that over two-thirds of the
electorate is against bailout. It appears to me that the only reason the
House bailout bill was defeated is that the representatives – all of whom are
up for election in November ---were deluged with communications demanding
that that bill be defeated and knew that they had better to the line – or
else! Likewise, it appears to me that
the Senate version of the bill passed on Thursday chiefly because 66 percent
of the senators are not up for election in November and these senators knew
they could not be voted out of office this November, so they could safely
vote for the bailout bill. We need to clean
house in Congress as best as we can in November, knowing that 66 senators age
not up for election this year. If we
replace all of the representatives in November, we will have the chance of
having a relatively uncorrupted Congress for another two years. It takes a few years for the lobbyists to
corrupt congressmen enough to make the worthless as representatives. But November is
not here yet. In the meantime we need
to beat on the representatives again to put the fear of God into them the
minute any of them show signs of folding and voting for the just passed
Senate vote of this measure. If this bailout bill passes Congress and is
signed into law we can look forward to demands for more bailout money and
soon, as a result of the inflation a $5 billion flooding of the market,
having bread costing $30 a loaf and a four pound roasting chicken costing
$40. Do we really want that to
happen? |
