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The financial news site 24/7 has an article that argues that the Federal Reserve needs to work in secret because we the people are too stupid to know how smart the bankers really are.

I think Bernie Madoff made that statement as well.
Gary North breaks is down in a more detailed way at his site.

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In an article that was written to make it seem that the Federal Reserve needs to be immune to congressional oversight, the AP admits that it functions as an INDEPENDENT branch of government. The article quotes one expert saying:

You don’t want the Fed to be under the control of the president. And it kind of sits out there — not in the executive branch, not in the legislative branch, not in the judicial branch. Sort of its own little element in the separation-of-powers constellation

And your constitution only has three branches of government.  Hmm, anyone wonder why the congress pays more attention to their toliet paper than the constitution these days?

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Just as governments (especially in the United States) are moving towards more taxes in every way, including Cap and Trade, it comes out that some major climate change researchers had their emails hacked, and the emails had statments that sound like er, me, such as

where the heck is global warming ? We are asking that here in Boulder where we have broken records the past two days for the coldest days on record. We had 4 inches of snow. The high the last 2 days was below 30F and the normal is 69F, and it smashed the previous records for these days by 10F. The low was about 18F and also a record low, well below the previous record low.

Wow, that’s pretty amazing, but really since “global warming” could be fixed very cheaply, but then we serfs won’t consume less, maybe the idiots on the Gore train don’t really want us to be free people.

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After reading a report by NPR, that’s what I came to believe. Since 2003 (!) Hasan had been considered a “substandard” soldier, and had been consuled for incidents such as telling patients that “Islam can save your soul”.  But the higher ups cared not for these “anti-muslim” evaluations, instead promoting Hasan, and keeping him in the Army and increasing his Active Duty Commitment by sending him to more schools!

Contrast to the way the Navy discharged a CHAPLIN for praying “in Jesus’s name”.  If you think that all religions are treated similarly by the military, you are wrong.  Or how Lt Cmdr Sharpe was vilified for his own beliefs which were only linked to his professional career by reporters, and there were no indications that it affected his performance as an officer.

The message has long been clear to the people in the military, if you have christian beliefs, keep them to yourself, and as Lt. Cmdr Sharpe’s case shows, don’t ever make public your beliefs, even if you are doing so with no explicit connection to your position in the military.  Apparently there is a different standard for Islam.

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Obama during Veteran's Day 11 Nov 2009

Found here.

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Patrick Buchanan has a great article about the problems with Dual Loyalty people claiming to be loyal to one government.  Of course he doesn’t address the dual citizenship people, but rather in the context of how we have become:

 a nation that has declared religious, racial and ethnic diversity to be not only a national good but a national goal.

I recommend the article as a much better statement of the situation than I had written.  But then again you might just be biased against the idea that dual loyalties can cause conflicts, after all diversity is strengh, freedom is slavery, and war is peace.

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On this veteran’s day, I have to reflect on the double standard in the military with respect to the recent events at Fort Hood.

Major Hasan was given every benefit of his rank and standing, and was allowed to go on rants where he advocated killing non muslims and pouring oil down their throats.  When he goes on a rampage and kills people, who were disarmed as part of the military’s political correct gun control policy, he is cast as a victim.  Contrast this to how Obama wanted to put all veterans on the terrorist list.

I think that this is similar to what happened in the U.K., where Tony Blair’s ”liberal” government actively worked to destroy the traditional British values.  In response to this disintegration of society, the government instituted a vast surveillance society that did little to prevent or solve crimes against ordinary people.

In other words, having traditional values is being labeled a vice, while having extremist views is celebrating diversity.    This contributes to a decline in the fabric that binds society together resulting in more unrest, which then the solution of more government is proposed.  More government, more laws, and criminals who commit traditional crimes are kicked free to make room for the new crimes, like not having health insurance (okay that’s only a proposed crime at this point in time).

I believe the point of all this insanity is to get people to agree that we need to have a government that watches all of us, all the time.  We already agree to let our email be read (e.g. google email) to serve us advertisements, we agree to allow all sorts of tracking information on us to get items at a lower cost (or “free”), it’s only a small step further for the government to have unfettered access to all that data, once we have gotten into the habit of providing it anyways.

At times like this, we need to recall that the words of Ben Franklin “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.”  Remember that veteran’s served to protect liberty and freedom, not to create a vast society of serfs.

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At DeadlineLive.info, I read about a Reuters report where it’s reported that under the excuse of the Swine Flu (or any government declared emergency), the Department of Homeland Security can decide which web sites people will be allowed to view and when.

Nice to see that freedom is alive and well.

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According to TorrentFreak, the RIAA (Recording Industry Associaion of America) and the MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) are working behind closed doors with the governments of several nations to make new global “anti-piracy” laws.  Apparently they blame the lower profits not on a weak economy, but because people are stealing from them.  Of course this law won’t do anything to go after the real pirates (e.g. the ones with guns who take people captive, because let’s face it, why bother), rather it will go after people who are merely accused of illegally watching, listening or reading something that someone else thinks they shouldn’t.

Of course, it’s nothing new that people have laws dictated to them by small groups of insiders, but in the past we at least paid lip service to public debate, apparently that era is coming to a close.

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According to the House of Representatives, the Healthcare bill includes :

“H.R. 3962 provides that an individual (or a husband and wife in the case of a joint return) who does not, at any time during the taxable year, maintain acceptable health insurance coverage for himself or herself and each of his or her qualifying children is subject to an additional tax.” [page 1]

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“If the government determines that the taxpayer’s unpaid tax liability results from willful behavior, the following penalties could apply…” [page 2]

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“Criminal penalties

Prosecution is authorized under the Code for a variety of offenses.  Depending on the level of the noncompliance, the following penalties could apply to an individual:

• Section 7203 – misdemeanor willful failure to pay is punishable by a fine of up to $25,000 and/or imprisonment of up to one year.

• Section 7201 – felony willful evasion is punishable by a fine of up to $250,000 and/or imprisonment of up to five years.” [page 3]

Nice to see that all the people that cry about not having insurance and want the government to do something about it are going to get some government action, they will be sent to jail for not having insurance.  Hurray for democracy!

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In Amstredam the government is concerned that some vaccines might be killing babies, and has recalled some of the vaccines, this is strange since at the same time the goverment claims that there are no long term side effects from mandatory vaccination programs.

Now I have to ask, if some babies die from vaccines, why is it mandatory to get the vaccines?  Shouldn’t you be allowed to choose whether or not to take that risk?

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A little to late, the Mainstream media is beginning to wonder, does Obama have any concept of how the rest of the people really experience life?

What I am talking about is when NBC has articles like “Obama’s Frightening Insensitivity Following Shooting” which is at the more telling link “A-Disconnected-President.html”.   It’s nice that some people are realizing that the president is disconnected from reality, the problem is that it’s over a year too late for them to finally realize it.

Obama lives in a seperate world from the rest of America, and he is surrounded by people who fawn all over him, especially the media (the White House has been working to  ban media that didn’t fawn over Obama).  Unfortunately the media will start to question the government takeover of health care probably a year after it is passed as well, once again too late to do anything, and that means even salvaging the tatters of their reputations, much less their standard of living.

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It used be to Global Warming (before that it was the coming Ice Age the was the worry of the current Obama Science Czar), now that the BBC grudingly admits that the warmest year in the last decade was 1998, or that the drums for global warming were beating as far back as 1938, (and the Artic had a warming period in the 1920s) but then it got cold, and then warm again, it’s almost as if the planet has a natural cycle of warming and cooling!

But that isn’t what prompted me to write this article, rather it’s the not surprising news that Al Gore doesn’t want a solution to global warming that DOESN’T include a taxation scheme.  At least that’s how  InfoWars.com, read a Newsweek article that was falling all over itself trying to make Gore into a sort of demi god.

The sad fact is that there are those people who want nothing more than to CONTROL other people, and fear of the inability of man to control the elements has long been a tool to control people, throughout time the reason that earthquakes and floods have happened has been blamed on the sins of the people, now it’s just wrapped in a thin veneer of  shaky science.

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From WhatReallyhappened.com I got tipped off to an article that shows how Goldman Sachs has continued to make more and more money as the rest of the economy stumbles around.

Maybe it’s because Goldman Sachs has had the good fortune of having it’s friends rewrite the rules to help out Goldman, after all what’s the point of having friends in high places, if they can redistribute the wealth to you?

It’s sad that the United States is fast giving up the ILLUSION of fair play and hard work being a path to success and becoming like other countries that are run by cronies and insiders.  And people are all to willing to let congress pass whatever laws they want (or are blackmailed into passing) as long as the names sound good, who cares what the laws say (at least until the same people get arrested for some infraction under the law they supported).

Useful idiots, but really it’s not entirely their fault, I believe that most people are basically honest people, it’s just that the decietful people seem to rise to the top, flitting from one position to another before they are called to account, and the most decietful people seem to end up in politics.

And why not?  After all, people don’t want someone like Ron Paul who tells the truth and doesn’t deviate from it.  Rather they accept that it’s okay for a candidate to promise whatever and then never deliver on that promise.  In no other career can you constantly lie and get promoted to better and better jobs with better benefits, it’s no wonder that the world is run by sociopaths.

I don’t know what the answer is, but I do know it’s past time to stop supporting the thieves and liars that make up the vast majority of politicians.

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Joseph Farah put the H1N1 scare into perspective compared to the other real illness that kill more people and can be easily wipped out without vaccines, but are ignored.

More at WND.COM.

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With the new national emergency declared about the H1N1 virus, expect more people to be striken ill from the adverse effects of a vaccine that is forced on them, much as Nikiyah Torres has been.  Of course normally people allegedly “volunteer” for the vaccination, as has been the reason why the VA has not given some soldier full benefits when they had adverse reactions to vaccinations.

Back in July 2008, The Daily Paul reported that Congress had a closed door meeting in March 2008 that discussed: