Monday, April 04, 2011

"In 1794, Washington personally led an army of 13,000 to crush a tax revolt in Western Pennsylvania. This was the first and last time a President ever led troops into action"

The U.S. Constitution: Tool of Centralization and Debt, 1788-Today
Gary North

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By 1791, Hamilton had created a vast Federal debt and the nation's first central bank, owned privately.

He had planned it from the beginning. That was why he promoted the Constitution. This was why he wrote most of The Federalist Papers.

The anti-Federalists predicted accurately what was coming in 1787. It came.

There was a conspiracy in Philadelphia in 1787. It was successful. I have written a book on this: Conspiracy in Philadelphia. You can download it for free here.

To understand the expansion of Federal power in 1788, consider this. In 1786, the Federal government's total army was 1,200 men. It was too small come to the rescue of the state of Massachusetts in putting down Shay's rebellion. This was a rebellion by rural counties against the state government's decision in 1786 to pay off state debts in silver, collected from the counties. The governor and most of the members of the legislature had bought these debts for pennies in fiat currency. Now they were about to get very rich at the expense of rural taxpayers, who had little silver. A lot of counties revolted.

That was the trigger that got George Washington to attend the Convention, which he had previously refused to agree to attend. He had been completely misinformed about the motives of the protest. A former general of his sent him letters that concealed the politics of the revolt. Read my article on this revolt: "John Hancock's Big Toe."

In 1794, Washington personally led an army of 13,000 to crush a tax revolt in Western Pennsylvania. This was the first and last time a President ever led troops into action. Because so few men volunteered, the Federal government imposed a draft. This was the whiskey rebellion.

The revolt was against Hamilton's 1791 tax on whiskey -- a tax used to raise revenues to pay off Federal debts at face value -- debts that the holders had purchased for pennies. If this sounds like a replay of Shays' rebellion and its outcome, that's because it was, but on a far larger scale.

Centralized power? I guess so.

What Hamilton didn't do, Federalist Party Supreme Court Chief Justice John Marshal did do, 1801-1836. Among other things, he wrote the opinion for McCulloch v. Maryland (1819), which authorized the privately owned Second Bank of the United States to exercise a government-granted monopoly over the monetary system.

In only one fiscal year, 1836, has the U.S. government ever been debt-free.

The Constitution was from day one an instrument to consolidate Federal power and expand it. The Constitution has proven to be a weak reed in every attempt to slow down the expansion of Federal power. It has proven utterly impotent to roll Federal power back as little as a decade, ever.

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The U.S. Constitution: Tool of Centralization and Debt, 1788-Today by Gary North

The U.S. Constitution: Tool of Centralization and Debt, 1788-Today

Recently by Gary North: Insider Trading: A Bum Rap

On a conservative site last week, the editor wrote this:
While the Constitution has been largely ignored over the last 80 years, the document is very real, and its purpose is clear: to limit greatly the powers of the federal government.
Having said this, he went on to a conclusion:
If Congress proves unwilling to force indiscriminate cost reductions on government then it should apply constitutional principles to the budget whereby government functions not enumerated in the Constitution are abolished, privatized, or passed to the states.
When we begin with a myth, we have a tendency to expect miracles. Let me explain.
The Constitution was established in order to strengthen the powers of the Federal government. It strengthened them vastly beyond what the British had attempted to impose on the colonies in the early 1770s.
Before the American Revolution, the British level of taxation was in the range of 1%. There were sales taxes on imported goods, but most people, then as now, bought domestically produced goods. There were taxes on paper after 1765. This affected mainly lawyers and newspaper publishers. By alienating these two influential groups, the Parliament stirred up a hornets' nest. When professional talkers and writers get squeezed by the government, the public gets an earful. "The end of liberty is nigh!" On the contrary, the end of a debt-free colonial governments was drawing nigh.
Revolutions must be financed. They are always financed with debt and fiat money. Creditors buy the IOUs with good money, then weaker money, and then – at the end of the revolt – worthless money. Then they have a supreme political goal: to get the new government to pay off the worthless IOUs at face value in gold or silver. In the 1780s, it was silver.
The Constitution was deliberately designed to centralize power vastly beyond what the legitimate constitution – the Articles of Confederation – allowed. The Federal government in 1787 was weak. In 1788, it was vastly stronger.
The newly created Federal government immediately did two things. It accepted responsibility to pay off state debts. This was Alexander Hamilton's proposal. He proposed it specifically to centralize the government by granting enormous profits to the investment class that had bought state debts for practically nothing.
The Wikipedia article on this consolidation of Federal debt is accurate in its discussion of Hamilton's motives.
Hamilton's economic plan had multiple goals. First, the debts and honor of the nation would be secured. Hamilton felt that the Federal government would not be able to borrow money from anyone in the future if these debts were not paid. By selling bonds to pay the debt, bondholders would have a direct financial interest to help the new United States government survive and thrive. Creditors who purchased the bonds could use them as collateral for loans, stimulating the economy even more.
The plan would also create a bureaucracy of agents across the country who would be tied to the Federal government instead of the individual states. Assuming the debts of the states would likewise couple financial elites in those states to the national government and less so to state governments, thereby reducing the risk of secession. Hamilton's scheme was called "debt assumption plan," and it was a radical idea in 1790.
Hamilton's Report supported ideas of war debt assumption, redemption of Confederate securities at face value, and funding of new national securities as a permanent national debt. Hamilton reasoned that creating a large financial structure, which wealthy citizens would support and belong to, would enhance the revenue and fiscal system of the national government and bring prosperity to the Federal government. He also reckoned that failure to establish the creditworthiness of the Federal government would weaken the United States, and called a permanent, reasonably-sized public debt "the powerful cement of our Union."
Hamilton's statements at the time were quite frank about all this.
When Madison and Jefferson opposed the plan, Hamilton bought them off by promising to support the swamp today known as Washington D.C. as the nation's Capitol. This was done at a private dinner with only the three in attendance. Jefferson later wrote about it..........................
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Geraldo

Geraldo

Posted on Monday, April 04, 2011 2:15:56 PM by manc

Anyone see Geraldo in Libya?

The man is such a flake. he shouts he's being shot at while hitting the deck but then a guy walks behind him like nothing is happening.

Geraldo hits the deck while his pick up truck moves away with a guy sitting on the back and his camera man records Geraldo hitting the deck and shouting.

The second pick up truck has a guy firing into the air, why if they are supposed to be in a fire fight?

Yet again it seems Geraldo has staged yet another dramatic scene to get ratings and sympathy.

Why can't FOX just fire this guy and get it over and done with?

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Our Dangerous Attorney General

Our Dangerous Attorney General
Human Events ^ | April 4, 2011 | Editorial

Posted on Monday, April 04, 2011 2:36:29 PM by jazusamo

Eric Holder should've never been confirmed as attorney general. Any man who would, as he did, urge President Bill Clinton to grant clemency to 16 members of the Puerto Rican domestic terrorist outfit FALN (a Spanish acronym for Armed Forces of National Liberation) was not only unfit to be America's lawyer, but he himself should have been investigated.

Yet Holder is, indeed, our attorney general, and his priorities are exactly where we'd expect them to be: dangerous.


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Holder: That darn Congress has screwed-up 9-11 criminal trials

Holder: That darn Congress has screwed-up 9-11 criminal trials
Fox News Channel | 4/4/11

Posted on Monday, April 04, 2011 2:39:16 PM by pabianice

An insufferably snot-nosed and self-righteous Eric Holder just spoke on TV regarding trials for the 9-11 monsters who created the 9-11 massacre of civilians. The US Attorney General just blamed all of the bad and corrupt Obama decisions regarding these criminals on a nasty 'congress who has violated the will of the people.'

Has there ever been a more corrupt and anti-American administration? Price for Obama to win in 2012: one billion dollars from his domestic and foreign backers.

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Confederate Commentary: Isn't it strange that the same people who advocate your 'voting responsibility' are the same ones who tell you that 'you can't fight City Hall'!

Confederate Commentary:
  Isn't it strange that the same people who advocate your 'voting responsibility' are the same ones who tell you that 'you can't fight City Hall'!

 Craig Maus
csacommand
csacommand@windstream.net
  That Liaise-Faire attitude has crippled America by allowing the forces behind a two-party hegemony to take & steal from you every aspect associated with what once was the American Republic !
  Anyone believing that this Country today is a 'representative' commune fulfilling the wishes of the People is living a fantasy of major proportions.
  The American People are controlled and ruled  by a two-party system whose basis is entirely self-serving and supported via THEIR numerous acts of 'inordinate' legislation that has been passed routinely and consistently over many years in which our rights, freedoms & independence have been more than compromised.
  Washington DC is a depot of mass corruption & manipulation controlled and run by a litany of Special Interests Powers whose thirst for power is unequivocal and without end.
  Anyone believing that the road they put us on, beginning in 1865, will change, is living a dream of ill-begotten nightmares whose consequences are everything everyone is seeing today but having difficulty with in understanding, identifying & rationalizing with as to why!
  America has been so long dumbed down and fueled by social upheaval that few can see the forest from the trees.
  Americans do NOT understand their history and thus they have willingly & stupidly allowed themselves to be raised as sheeple---forgetting who they once were and the greatness associated with the Republic that is NO more!
  The very word Confederate has been so demonized that the majority of Americans cannot understand the simple fact that a Confederate and its association as a people, et al, to the original Republic, as in a Confederation of Sovereigns and referred to by the Founding Fathers numerous times over, means PATRIOT!
  Thus we turned our backs on our heritage & our identity because we allowed Washington, DC to rewrite our History and alter the compass of direction resulting from an Un-Constitutional War levied against those American Confederate PATRIOTS of long ago who realized and saw what would come if they did not secede and leave in peace as they did.
  It has been, EVER SINCE, Reconstruction in the worst un-imaginable venues!
  
  The recent findings relating to THEIR Federal Reserve System regarding their far-reaching financial schemes and the lending of over $ 3.3 TRILLION DOLLARS to foreign 'elements' AND THE OBVIOUS CONSEQUENCES, ALL NEGATIVE, for the American Taxpayer should be cause for an all out Revolution.
(Remember that it was we Confederates who reported to YOU via our sources that an estimated $ 4 TRILLION add'l dollars had been printed by the Fed only months ago)
  Sadly however, the average American today CANNOT comprehend what this means to them! 
  Thus they will continue to support their Federal Jailor's whose chains are being tightened around them each and every day while willingly fighting another of their Corporately inspired Wars in another
far-off part of the world in the name of our National Security!
  It is sheer madness and fueled by an in-ability of the electorate to understand because of their own arrogance and ignorance that allows this moral ineptitude & decadency to live on.
  Meanwhile, and because of 'Corporate Globalism', our People fight & Die for the Black Gold while the puppet Obama puts constraints on further oil exploration here in the U.S., the expansion of natural gas supply's and nearly 2/3 of the entire world's fossilized fuels better know as COAL, using his EPA and other Federal agency's to prevent them from allowing America to become Energy Independent.
  And these are the 'People' who the Two-Party system asks you to diligently & dutifully 'elect' each election eve!

  The same one's that gave you the Housing debacle, Obama Care, the Revised Immigration Act of 1965, Numerous Wars & Unnecessary Deaths, the Nanny State, Entitlements, the Departments of Transportation, Energy, Agriculture, Housing, Welfare and let us NOT forget the all-seeing and all-knowing and thinking Department of Education TO NAME BUT A FEW.
  These are the SAME PEOPLE who DON'T read any of the bills they pass but whose Cancer 'We the People' have to bear.
  These are the SAME PEOPLE who have the temerity to tell YOU "that we need to pass this bill or that bill, so we know what's in it."
And These people are 'called' Representatives....or are they simply YOUR Jailors draining you of every describable aspect of YOUR American Individuality & Freedoms?
  We Confederates have always been ahead of our time.
  We saw what was coming long before 1860 and we have been telling you ever since just what in the hell has been going on.
  But it was made easier for many to look the other way once too often and most Americans allowed others to attack us and portray us in a contemporary politically-correct light as racists or rednecks, when all the time we were simply Confederate Patriots like our ancestors of old.....and calling out to YOU for the same reasons as did they when Centralism was Invading Sovereignty & personal Liberty.

 
  Today, we are living the consequences of what results when resolve & involvement are sacrificed at the alter of political correctness.
  Today, as yesteryear, ALL that we have ever predicted and warned you of is happening and occurring & YOUR eyes can NO longer deny what you are seeing!
  In short, ALL the chickens are coming home to roost and the Federal Fox has been revealed for the Beast it is.
  And now, in their hour of total desperation, they want MORE from YOU to support their failed Ideology of these last 150 years.
  The Confederacy NEVER surrendered to the Federal in 1865!
  Our Military did but our Government did NOT!
  Therefore, it's Congress and it's Government can & needs to be re-seated.
  A process that can be realized providing MOST will awaken from their Federal coma in time to realize that the Confederacy is the last bridgework remaining for a Constitutional Republic---
a Constitutional Republic that has been stripped & taken from us by Design via a Federal Oligarchy whose basis is EVERYTHING  that the Founders warned Against & tried to prevent from ever becoming.  They knew full well what mortal man was capable of and put us on a path-way to prevent that which has sadly become reality today.
  The Federal has circumvented EVERY LAW ever written to protect us while replacing them with THEIR 'new' laws, ever since 1865, allowing them to do what they were NEVER supposed to!
  Essentially, they have galvanized their illegal status into that of a legal embodiment through deliberate political deception using legislative malfeasance to under-write their station over us! 
  They exist via a controlled mandate of self-exercised deceit & corruption and they are NOT our Representatives but Representatives of those Special Interest Groups whose National & International  Interests run this Country today.
We are NOT a Government of the People, by the People and For the People!
We are a Government of the Special Interest, by the Special Interest and For the Special Interest.....
  .....and the quicker and sooner that one and all come to realize this the better YOUR chances will be for your children and grandchildren to survive!
Remember, When the Confederacy Lost, so TOO Did this Entire Country....but Only We Confederates Knew it at the Time!
Become a Confederate, become an American Patriot--- for that is precisely what the word Means... and the Country and Life YOU Save may just be YOUR own!
ALL Roads Lead to 1865- the beginning of the end of the Republic!
Craig Maus,
president, The Confederate Society of America and Proud Member of The Confederate Alliance of Independent Organizations.
Staunch Supporters for the RESTORATION of the Legal Government of the South- The Confederate States of America.

PS- ......Then as Now, It was always about Power & Control- a Sovereign Ideology vs a bloated Federal Oligarchy that would bleed it's People dry...pure & simple!


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No fried food: Health Dept. workers cringe at new rules restricting foods, fragrances, decorations

No fried food: Health Dept. workers cringe at new rules restricting foods, fragrances, decorations
The New York Daily News ^ | April 4, 2011 | Kathleen Lucadamo

Posted on Monday, April 04, 2011 1:48:07 PM by Tolerance Sucks Rocks

No overbearing perfume. No obscene pictures. And definitely no French fries for work lunches.

That's the new edict for employees of the same city Health Department that brought you calorie-counting menus and snuffed out smoking on beaches and in parks.

The updated rules - which range from what workers can serve at agency powwows to how loud they can talk in the office - come as the Health Department begins to move into its new Queens digs today.

A set of guidelines for "Life in the Cubicle Village" sent to employees asks them to avoid wearing products with "noticeable odors" or posting "any displays, photos, cartoons, or other personal items that may be offensive."

They also should avoid eavesdropping.

If they can't - "at least resist the urge to add your comments," the cubicle rules recommend.

Employees also got a bright-colored brochure stipulating what can and can't be served at meetings and parties.

Tap water is a menu must when food or drinks are served. Other beverages must be less than 25 calories per 8 ounces.

"Cut muffins and bagels into halves or quarters, or order mini sizes. Offer thinly-sliced, whole-grain bread," the brochure states.

Deep-fried foods are an absolute no-no and "cannot be served."

For celebrations, cake and air-popped popcorn - "popped at the party and served in brown paper lunch bags" - are allowed.

But when a "celebration cake" is served, cookies can't be offered.

"These standards are mandatory for meetings and events sponsored by the Health Department," the brochure states.

Health honchos say they are just practicing what they preach.

"The Health Department is leading by example by updating its guidelines for food and beverages served at agency meetings and events," spokeswoman Erin Brady said.

Still, one Health Department worker said she was surprised by the brochure's nitpicking detail.

"This seems like micromanaging," she said.

The cubicle village tips are good - but unnecessary - advice, she said. "As somebody who does not have sensitivity to perfumes or scents or smells of people's foods, I thought it was kind of ridiculous, though I'm sure the people who do have those kinds of problems are grateful."

The gerbil-loving food choices are in step with Health Commissioner Thomas Farley's push to reduce New Yorkers salt, sugar and alcohol consumption.

The Daily News reported in December that he put the kibosh on booze at the agency's holiday bash and called for a menu that included "healthy options."

The agency's nearly 3,000 employees begin a massive move today from their age-old lower Manhattan headquarters to new office space built by Tishman Speyer in Long Island City, Queens.

The move is expected to be complete by May.

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Fed's Low Interest Rates Crack Retirees' Nest Eggs

Fed's Low Interest Rates Crack Retirees' Nest Eggs
WSJ ^ | 04 April 2011 | MARK WHITEHOUSE

Posted on Monday, April 04, 2011 1:41:23 PM by Palter

Forrest Yeager, a 91-year-old resident of this seaside community, had been counting on his retirement savings to last until he died. The odds are moving against him.

With short-term bank CDs paying less than 1%, the World War II veteran expects his remaining $45,000 stash to yield just a few hundred dollars this year. So, he's digging deeper into his principal to supplement his $1,500 monthly income from Social Security and a small pension.

"It hurts," says Mr. Yeager, who estimates his bank savings will be depleted in about six years at his current rate of withdrawal. "I don't even want to think about it."

Mr. Yeager is among the legion of retirees who find themselves on the wrong end of the Federal Reserve's epic attempt to rescue the economy with cheap money.

A long spell of low interest rates has created a windfall worth billions to banks, mortgage borrowers and others it was designed to benefit. But for many people who were counting on their nest eggs, those same low rates can spell trouble.

Mr. Yeager's struggle highlights a nagging dilemma facing Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke. The longer the central bank keeps interest rates low to stimulate the economy, the more money it pulls out of the pockets of millions of savers. Among the most vulnerable are retirees, who have few options to restore lost income on investments built up over entire lifetimes.

In 2009, according to the most recent data available from the Labor Department, average annual investment income for the 24.6 million American households headed by people 65 and older amounted to $2,564. That figure is down 34% from 2007, and is the lowest since 2003.

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Birthers R Crazy or R They?

Birthers R Crazy or R They?
https://wtpotus.wordpress.com/2011/04/03/birthers-r-crazy-or-r-they/ ^ | April 3, 2011 | Red Pill

Posted on Monday, April 04, 2011 1:31:21 PM by Bridgetteb

An article by John Ellis, "Birther Issue Goes Mainstream" reveals that "journalists" today must include the word birther in their copy to generate internet hits to their articles. They are walking a tightrope in how they use the term because they don't want to alienate their JournOlistic comrades "all of whom in New York-Washington media circles are resolute in their belief that "birthers" are insane!" ...

Go ahead, call us crazy.

We say it's crazy that not a single member of Congress ever inspected a hard copy birth certificate for the pResident and Vice-President.

We say it's crazy that not a single member of Congress ever questioned whether a son who admitted he was born a British subject because his father was a British subject (and never a U.S. citizen) can be considered a "natural born citizen" of the United States.

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Rod Blagojevich again requests notes from Obama meeting

Rod Blagojevich again requests notes from Obama meeting
Politico ^ | 04/04/2011 | JENNIFER EPSTEIN

Posted on Monday, April 04, 2011 12:56:23 PM by Smokeyblue

Rod Blagojevich asked Monday for notes from the FBI's interviews with President Barack Obama conducted during the agency's investigation of the former Illinois governor.

The ousted Democrat filed a motion in U.S. District Court on Monday morning, The Associated Press reported. Blagojevich made a similar request – which was rejected – ahead of his first trial last year.

SNIP

The FBI notes, Blagojevich's attorneys say in the filing, could "go directly to the heart of testimony of several government witnesses." One of those witnesses is Tom Balanoff, an Obama ally and the president of the Service Employees International Union Illinois Council, who said in testimony during the first trial that he spoke with Obama about the Senate seat in the days leading up to the 2008 election, the AP said.

The defense says the notes "would almost certainly have been disclosed if the interviewee was anyone other than the president."

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Fox’s Geraldo Rivera Caught In Crossfire Between Rebels And Gaddafi’s Snipers

Fox's Geraldo Rivera Caught In Crossfire Between Rebels And Gaddafi's Snipers
Mediaite ^ | April 3, 2011 | Matt Schneider

Posted on Monday, April 04, 2011 1:10:10 PM by Beaten Valve

Geraldo Rivera reporting from Libya truly demonstrates the great lengths he will go in order to report a story, as he found himself in the middle of crossfire between an "unruly gang" of Libyan rebels and the professional snipers from Gaddafi's forces. Geraldo quickly ducks for cover, and the brave crew keeps the camera rolling.

Rivera described the chaotic experience:

"It was a wild, wild scene. And I was as worried about getting shot in the back by the good guys, as I was about getting shot in the front by the Gaddafi forces."

Also with his on-the-ground knowledge, Rivera provides a startling assessment of the "rebel army," suggesting they "have the fire discipline of an L.A. street gang." As a result, Rivera advises against NATO or America arming the rebels, because if the rebels had more weapons, Geraldo predicts they would be a "grave danger to themselves and others [since] they don't know how to use these weapons."

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Former governor Jesse Ventura says he'd consider running with Ron Paul

Former governor Jesse Ventura says he'd consider running with Ron Paul
StarTribune.com ^ | 4/4/11 | AP

Posted on Monday, April 04, 2011 1:19:26 PM by ButThreeLeftsDo

Former pro-wrestler and Minnesota governor, Jesse Ventura, says he would consider getting back into politics if Texas Congressman Ron Paul would run for president as an Independent.

Ventura told George Stephanopoulos on "Good Morning America" that he would "give great consideration to being his running mate." But Ventura says he wouldn't run on Paul's ticket as a Republican.

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The roots of anti-Muslim bigotry (Boston Globe)

The roots of anti-Muslim bigotry (Boston Globe)
Boston Globe ^ | April 4, 2011 | James Carroll

Posted on Monday, April 04, 2011 11:57:53 AM by reaganaut1

... [P]ervasive negative attitudes toward Islam go far deeper into the American psyche even than these manifestations suggest, for contempt toward the religion of Mohammed is a foundational pillar of Western civilization. That it is unacknowledged only makes it more pernicious.

European Christian imagination jelled — as European, as Christian, and as imagination — around the mythic 732 triumph of Charles Martel over "infidel'' Muslim forces in a battle near Poitiers, France. That may seem like an eternity ago and a world away, but still-powerful attitudes that show up in suspicions of widespread Muslim "radicalization'' were generated then. In epoch-shaping chansons de geste celebrating Charles Martel, Islam was portrayed as nothing less than the anti-Christ. So resonant was its defeat, that Charles Martel was empowered as the effective founder of cohesive European social structures, with his lineage (through his grandson Charlemagne) extending even to present-day royalty.

Edward Gibbon famously shuddered at the thought that, but for Charles Martel, the Koran would be taught to the "circumcised'' at Oxford instead of the New Testament. (It seems not to have occurred to Gibbon that, had the Poitiers battle gone the other way, Oxford, which dates to 1167, might have been founded years earlier — by, say, disciples of the great Muslim scholar Avicenna, who died in 1037.) From early on, Western civilization understood itself positively against the negative foil of Islam, a polarity that was institutionalized during the decisive centuries of the Crusades. That Christendom failed to liberate the Holy Land from infidel control only made permanent the fear and hatred of Islam.

Meanwhile, as is always true of bigotry, Europeans knew very little about actual Muslims.

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Donald Trump On Iraq Oil: America Should Take It, ‘To The Victor Belongs The Spoils’

Donald Trump On Iraq Oil: America Should Take It, 'To The Victor Belongs The Spoils'
Mediaite ^ | April 4, 2011 | Matt Schneider

Posted on Monday, April 04, 2011 11:55:05 AM by 2ndDivisionVet

In the brand new "Mondays with Trump" segment of Fox & Friends, potential Republican candidate for President and consistent headline seeker Donald Trump called in and shared his thoughts on the latest topics in the news. Proving that anything goes in the segment, Trump discussed everything from promoting Celebrity Apprentice in one moment, to his plans for Iraqi oil in the next.

Trump spoke highly about Republicans Paul Ryan and John Boehner and their efforts to get the federal budget under control. Yet on a lighter and more entertaining note, Trump commented on reports that Oprah Winfrey desires having him as a guest for a makeover on one of her last shows. Trump joked, "I'm worried about a sinister plot. The plot is that Oprah supported Obama, maybe she wants to give me a makeover so that I would not have even a minor chance against Obama."

Also Trump really enjoyed appearing with Bill O'Reilly last week, saying he received "an amazing response from the O'Reilly show, it's probably the biggest show he's ever done in the sense of three fairly full nights of me, and he was very happy, as he will tell you his ratings were phenonmenal." Gretchen Carlson couldn't help but let out a chuckle at Trump's unabashed promotion. Finally Trump didn't back down from earlier statements on Iraq, suggesting American soldiers will have died in vain if we leave Iraq and let Iran go and take the oil fields, instead of us as the victors getting the spoils.

Watch the clip from Fox News below:

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Obama’s ineligibility: Congress will plead temporary insanity...

Obama's ineligibility: Congress will plead temporary insanity

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 By Lawrence Sellin  Monday, April 4, 2011
-Satire
Let's stop kidding ourselves. Our political elite and the main stream media (MSM) are not as stupid as they appear.
Through a combination of arrogance, fear and a lust for political power, they were complicit in or acquiesced to installing what is arguably a Constitutionally ineligible individual in the White House.

Now they are hoping that either we didn't notice or, if anyone did, they are desperately trying to change the subject. The politicians' fear is palpable, not so much for America, but for their jobs.
As rumor has it, our political and media elitists are concerned that if Barack Obama is removed from the Presidency without being voted out of office, race riots and politically-motivated violence will ensue.
The political leadership themselves should be removed from office, if for no other reason than they lack a sense of irony.
Race riots and politically-motivated violence can be mitigated by the rule of law, the very thing our political elite and the MSM helped to undermine by reinterpreting the Constitution according to their own whims.
In addition, they now insist that...........................
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The GOP Makes Obama’s re-election Easier by the Day

The GOP Makes Obama's re-election Easier by the Day
Electronic Urban Report Web ^ | April 4, 2011 | Earl Ofari Hutchinson

Posted on Monday, April 04, 2011 11:42:28 AM by 2ndDivisionVet

President Obama's re-election bid announcement was pro forma. There was never any doubt whether he'd run again, and if the GOP has anything to do with it, the odds are looking better every day that he'll win in a walk away. It didn't start out that way, though.

The first year of his White House tenure, things looked shaky for re-election. There was double digit unemployment, home foreclosures soared, the GOP scored wins in key governor and senate races, the war without end in Afghanistan raged at a staggering cost.

There were hordes of livid, screaming Tea Party activists tromping around the Capital. There were defections of key administration staffers rising. And the carping, hectoring, and even fury from liberal Democrats and progressives of Obama at what they considered and his timid, cautious, conciliatory, even back slide on issues and polices rose to a higher pitch with each passing day.

The president's precipitous slide in the polls and popularity came crashing to a head with "shellacking" the Democrats took in the November mid-terms.

But in the months since then the GOP came to the rescue. In rapid succession it has ticked off millions with its bellicose threat to meat ax spending on every vital government program around and if it didn't get the cuts it wanted shut down government.

Its parade of would be presidential candidates sounded more bizarre, contradictory, and downright goofy on everything from spouting the phony Birther line about Obama's birth certificate to flailing away with inconsistent, and confused statements about Libya.

Polls have consistently shown that even while Obama's popularity has edged down mostly over the handling of the economy, more Americans than not said they were disenchanted, even fed up with the Tea Party's antics, bluster and intransigence. Even if House Republicans pull back from making the colossally stupid mistake of padlocking government for a few days to get the budget slashes they want and the likelihood is they will, they have gone even further to imprint in the public mind that the GOP is the party of pig-headed, nay-saying, whining, intransigence...............................



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UNBELIEVABLE: Fukushima Workers Trying To Plug Radiation Leaks With Bits Of Newspaper, Garbage Bags, Diaper Like Material

UNBELIEVABLE: Fukushima Workers Trying To Plug Radiation Leaks With Bits Of Newspaper, Garbage Bags, Diaper Like Material

The impact of the radioactive material on sea life could be catastrophic as over 11, 500 tons of contaminated water is now being intentionally released into the Pacific ocean by workers at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in a last ditch desperate effort to clean out the area.

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Illinois Democrats sneak attack on religion: no photo ID for voting but photo ID for buying guns ~ Kevin "Coach" Collins

Illinois Democrats sneak attack on religion: no photo ID for voting but photo ID for buying guns
coachisright.com ^ | April 4, 2011 | Kevin "Coach" Collins

Posted on Monday, April 04, 2011 10:42:54 AM by jmaroneps37

The double talking liberal Democrats in Illinois have voted down a Republican measure to demand photo ID be produced by those attempting to vote. The arguments they made were the same shopworn nonsense they always use: "Such a law will discourage voting" "It disadvantage minority groups" and so on.

In spite of the ever increasing movement toward photo identification everywhere we look, these people are able to kill photo ID bills. They have the votes in the Illinois Legislature and fear their fraudulent voters will not be able to keep supporting them if the system all of a sudden became honest overnight.

Gun Control is their religion

The same liberal Democrats who fight to keep voters from having to produce photo ID, have now passed a new law that will DEMAND photo ID for those who want to exercise their Second Amendment rights and buy a gun. …..not all of Illinois' citizens can merely shrug off this law.

The Land of Lincoln has a sizable Amish population for whom guns are an everyday tool of life. They rely on guns for their protection…... The Amish, however, have a religious law that forbids them from knowingly having their picture taken – they can't do it.

The situation is critical for the Amish because they are a religious minority with little connection to the secular world and no one to stand up for them against the liberals' exercise of THEIR religion which is gun control.

Forcing choices between oppressive civil law and religious practice

"…. Amish community in Illinois …Douglas County so that is where this outrageous assault on religion is felt the most. The Amish will be forced to either put aside their religion or go hungry and defenseless to sacrifice to the god called liberalism…

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“I agree with Clyde Wilson that America can’t be saved or returned to its roots until the Republican Party is destroyed.” –Thomas DiLorenzo

"I agree with Clyde Wilson that America can't be saved or returned to its roots until the Republican Party is destroyed."

–Thomas DiLorenzo

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http://gunnyg.wordpress.com/2010/06/23/the-real-dilorenzo-a-%E2%80%98southern-partisan%E2%80%99-interview/



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Lindsey Graham Advocates Killing First Amendment

Lindsey Graham Advocates Killing First Amendment

In response to the idiotic and pointless burning of the Koran by a Florida pastor and the deadly riots that followed, Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina has proposed limiting the First Amendment.

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Ron Paul And Dennis Kucinich Slam Obama Misuse Of War Powers

Ron Paul And Dennis Kucinich Slam Obama Misuse Of War Powers

Ron Paul, Denis Kucinich discuss the truth about Obama and his illegal war on Libya.

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This Is What Happens When Establishment Control Of The Media Cracks For A Moment

This Is What Happens When Establishment Control Of The Media Cracks For A Moment

Every once in a while, establishment control of the mainstream media cracks for a moment. In an effort to achieve higher ratings, mainstream news programs will invite guests on that promise to be "interesting", but then they will say something that is not part of the script and the entire system will go into a state of chaos for a moment.

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Socialist Sunday Schools...based on “progressive education” principles)........

Socialist Sunday Schools
The strategy of the SSS followed that of revolutionary Antonio Gramsci, in that hegemony would be attained via the people's consent rather than by force. The people would gradually adopt Socialism voluntarily via a "process" (like OBE), and the result would be a "Cooperative Commonwealth." The SSS were allied with the Intercollegiate Socialist Society (ISS), which would be renamed the League for Industrial Democracy in 1921 and have "progressive" educator John Dewey as its president in 1940-41 (OBE is based on "progressive education" principles)........
http://www.newswithviews.com/Cuddy/dennis204.htm
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FDA Destruction of the Dietary Supplement Industry...eliminate from the market most, if not all, herbal supplements....

FDA Destruction of the Dietary Supplement Industry
Since the 1960's the Food and Drug Administration has repeatedly endeavored to regulate dietary supplements out of the market. With the adoption of costly new process controls (current good manufacturing practice regulations) regulating every aspect of supplement production and the recent passage of the Food Safety Modernization Act, FDA is poised to cull from the industry 20 to 30% of existing companies, force a rise in supplement prices, and eliminate from the market most, if not all, herbal supplements....
http://www.newswithviews.com/Emord/jonathan185.htm
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Obama's war in Libya disturbs Americans by NWV News

Obama's war in Libya disturbs Americans
Obama, speaking at an anti-war rally in Chicago on Oct. 2, 2002 said that while Saddam was a brutal tyrant, that was not enough to justify using military force to remove him from power, Wilder points out. But in Obama's March 28, 2011 speech justifying his decision to attack the Libyan leader Moamar Khadhafi, Obama cited the dictator's record of brutality, saying that allowing him to continue his brutality was not an option......
http://www.newswithviews.com/NWV-News/news246.htm
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"The change from militia to a standing army took place in the American West immediately upon the conclusion of the War Between the States. " Thomas J. DiLorenzo...

"...The change from militia to a standing army took place in the American West
immediately upon the conclusion of the War Between the States."


When (and why) did the US first decide to go to a "standing army" since the framers of the constitution, etc. were so dead set against such a thing????? 
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The result, say Anderson and McChesney, was that white settlers and railroad corporations were able to socialize the costs of stealing Indian lands by using violence supplied by the U.S.Army. On their own, they were much more likely to negotiate peacefully. Thus, "raid" replaced "trade" in white–Indian relations.

Congress even voted in 1871 not to ratify any more Indian treaties, effectively announcing that it no longer sought peaceful relations with the Plains Indians. Anderson and McChesney do not consider why a standing army replaced militias
in 1865, but the reason is not difficult to discern.  

One has only to read the official pronouncements of the soldiers and political figures who launched a campaign of extermination against the Plains Indians. On June 27, 1865, General William Tecumseh Sherman was given command of the Military District of the Missouri, which was one of the five military divisions into
which the U.S. government had divided the country.

Sherman received this command for the purpose of commencing the twenty-five-year war against the Plains Indians, primarily as a form of veiled subsidy to the government-subsidized railroad corporations and other politically connected corporations involved in building the transcontinental railroads. These corporations were the financial backbone of the Republican Party.

Indeed, in June 1861, Abraham Lincoln, former legal counsel of the Illinois
Central Railroad, called a special emergency session of Congress not to deal with the two-month-old Civil War, but to commence work on the Pacific Railway Act.

Subsidizing the transcontinental railroads was a primary (if not the primary) objective of the new Republican Party. As Dee Brown writes in Hear That Lonesome Whistle Blow, a history of the building of the transcontinental railroads, Lincoln's 1862 Pacific Railway Act "assured the fortunes of a dynasty of American families . . . the Brewsters, Bushnells, Olcotts, Harkers, Harrisons, Trowbridges, Lanworthys, Reids, Ogdens, Bradfords, Noyeses, Brooks, Cornells, and dozens of others" (2001, 49), all of whom were tied to the Republican Party..................


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