Archive for January, 2010

Health Care Petition

Friday, January 29th, 2010
SOTU

In his state of the union address, President Obama asked members of Congress to keep pushing for his planned government takeover of health care, despite overwhelming and growing opposition.

Last summer thousands attended town hall meetings across our nation. Nearly a million people marched on Washington.  The voters of Massachusetts spoke by electing a Republican to the US Senate for the first time in 60 years.  But President Obama, Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi STILL don’t seem to be getting the message (see http://www.healthreformscam.com/2010/01/26/pelosi-and-reid-plot-secret-plan-to-pass-obamacare/ ).

Representative Michele Bachmann and other members of Congress have unveiled the Declaration of Health Care Independence.  It is a commitment to protect the rights of the American people to make their own health decisions, and includes 10 common-sense principles that must be included in any true health care reforms.

TAKE ACTION

Send a message to Washington by signing the Declaration of Health Care Independence here: www.HealthCarePetition.com.

Watch a 3-minute video that provides an alternative perspective on the state of the union http://www.minnesotamajority.org/Home/tabid/112/EntryID/251/Default.aspx.

If you reside in Minnesota, attend your precinct caucuses on Tuesday, February 2 and begin the process of taking back our country.  Click on the following link to access information about caucuses in your community http://www.minnesotamajority.org/Hidden/PrecinctCaucuses/tabid/154/Default.aspx.

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Quotes on Government

Wednesday, January 27th, 2010

“Whensoever the federal government assumes unconstitutional powers, a “nullification of the act is THE rightful remedy”.”
Thomas Jefferson

“A government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have…The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases.”
Thomas Jefferson

“Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.”
George Washington

“Whenever the legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any further obedience, and are left to the common refuge which God hath provided for all men against force and violence.”
John Locke

“A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers… ‘Emergencies’ have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.”
Friedrich August von Hayek

“Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority…There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters.”
Noah Webster

“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.”
Lord Acton

“We need a revolution every 20 years just to keep government honest.”
Thomas Jefferson

“Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There was never a democracy that did not commit suicide.”
Samuel Adams

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How to Survive the Death of the Dollar

Wednesday, January 27th, 2010
HOW G. EDWARD GRIFFIN (AND NEW MOVIE) HAS MAINSTREAM MEDIA IN A PANIC.

A NEWS STORY IN TEN PARTS


Part 2/10 “How To Survive The Death Of The Dollar”

A write-up in ten parts on “The Fall of America and the Western World”

November, 2009 – Jimmie Rivers

“I’ve been involved with journalism for a long time. Recently, I was allowed to screen an advance copy of “The Fall of America and the Western World” featuring G. Edward Griffin, Alex Jones and many more. The last time something changed my world view to this degree dates back to the United States Banana Republic days of the 60s. Remember, I’m an old-school, jaded journalist and yet this movie delivered an epiphany: this is the story of the decade.

“If you read the first part of this series, then you are up to speed on how and why it got spiked. You also will know that I’ve decided to take matters into my own hands. I am going ahead with the story as written; all ten parts in their complete, uncensored, unfiltered, non-redacted form. I would like to thank Mr. Griffin for allowing me to interview him as part of this story, and for his help in getting the story to you.

“I sincerely hope that I can convey the story well enough to convince you to get the film and watch it. I hope you tell your friends about it. At the end of each part in this series, I will offer an observation. Reasons why you need to watch “The Fall of America and the Western World” yourself. Reasons why your friends need to watch it too. More on Jimmie Rivers can be found at the conclusion of this part of the story.

“Enough preamble. Here’s the second part of the story.”

Jimmie Rivers


To understand the current economic meltdown that is driving the dollar into the ground, you must first understand the Federal Reserve System.

Created in 1913, by the enactment of the Federal Reserve Act, as a response to a series of financial panics and bank runs in the early 1900’s, the Federal Reserve is one of the least known major players in the United States economy. Our ignorance is their bliss.


1907 Financial Panic

1913 The Federal Reserve System Created

1929 Great Depression

1933 Executive Order outlaws owning gold

1934 Gold Reserve Act

1971 United States abandons gold standard

1974 US Citizens allowed to own gold

2009 Gold exceeds $1100 per ounce

Essentially, we’ve allowed a few privately owned banks (the Federal Reserve System) to control the U.S. economy. A sheep ripe for fleecing. Prior to 1971, there was a least of semblance of restraint placed upon the U.S. monetary supply as the dollar was pegged to the value of gold. With nothing left to hold down the value of the dollar, a free-for-all began. Need to fund a war? No problem, just print more greenbacks. Need to buy more imports? No problem, the printing presses have lots of capacity. The banks screwed up and are broke? No problem, just print enough money to bail them out.

Like a desperate gambler in Vegas trading markers for chips, the Treasury at the behest of the Fed is printing fiat money (dollars) to pay the U.S. debt. This is not a new development. It has been going on for decades.

The day of reckoning is drawing close. The foreign investors who have been funding our reckless spending (backed by newly printed, fiat dollars) are beginning to question for the first time in history whether we have a viable economy. But there still stuck with the dilemma of what to do with all those dollars.

There is only one answer to their dilemma. Sooner rather than later they’re going to be sending them back to our shores because nobody else is going to take them. And as demand for U.S. dollars continues to fall, so too will their value. The consequences to you and your loved ones will be catastrophic.

TO DO NOTHING IS TO RISK EVERYTHING

There are ways to survive the coming collapse of the dollar. There is one truism in life, the rich get richer. This applies more so to the Power Elite which count among their members, the Federal Reserve. If you understand the real money game, as it’s played by the Power Elite, you can adapt survival strategies that will work.

“The Fall of America and the Western World” contains over 150 actionable tips to help you make it through the financial Armageddon that’s around the corner.

“The Fall of America and the Western World” is the most up-to-date, comprehensive survival guide available. The nine disc DVD box set contains information and advice, from some of the best thinkers of our time, to help you prepare and live through the Greater Depression that’s just around the corner. It contains not only financial and investment strategies, but advice on how to protect yourself from the possibilities of the police state, mob rule, martial law, barbarians at the gate and more.

All of the guests featured in this box set offer candid perspectives on why America and The Western World is headed for collapse and what we can do to protect ourselves from the forthcoming devastation before it’s too late. The guests were chosen because they offered the most bi-partisan, no nonsense, non-biased, and intelligent perspectives on the State of the Union.

The guest lineup for “The Fall of America and the Western World” is: G. Edward Griffin; David Icke; Doug Casey; Dr. Paul Craig Roberts; Professor Mark Crispin Miller; Joseph Farah; Naomi Wolf; Alex Jones; Mickey Z; David McAlvany; Doug McIntyre; and Ken Klein.

To purchase this important film for you, your friends, and your family, click any of the links above or Click Here

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Jimmie Rivers is the pen name of an Emmy nominated, former CBS News director in a top 20 market. Mr. Rivers also served as publisher of an investigative journal with its state’s largest paid circulation. For several years he worked for one of the nation’s highest profile advertising agencies. His work, under his real name, has been seen in many mainstream publications over the years.

“Recently, I had the privilege of interviewing several of the participants in “The Fall of America and the Western World” including Mr. David Icke. From these conversations, as well as a thorough screening of an advanced copy of “The Fall of America and the Western World” DVD, I found myself fascinated, troubled and thoroughly frightened.”

“As the media gets muzzled (think the recent exit of Lou Dobbs) and further polarized, it has become more and more difficult to get stories like this, the very stories the public needs to have access to, published in the mainstream media. My editor has told me I’ve gone too far this time, that no mainstream publication would consider running this story as is. I happen to disagree.

Jimmie Rivers

To purchase this important film for you, your friends, and your family, click any of the links above or Click Here

Don’t miss next week’s installment: “The Recession is Far from Over,” part 3/10 of Jimmie River’s write-up of “The Fall of America and the Western World”

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Quotes on Banking and Monetary Policy

Sunday, January 24th, 2010

“Government is the only agency that can take a valuable commodity like paper, slap some ink on it, and make it totally worthless”
Ludwig von Mises

“Banking was conceived in iniquity and born in sin. Bankers own the Earth. Take it away from them, but leave them the power to create money, and with the flick of the pen they will create enough money to buy it back again…Take this great power away from them and all great fortunes like mine will disappear, and they ought to disappear, for then this would be a better and happier world to live in. But if you want to continue to be slaves of the banks and pay the cost of your own slavery, then let bankers continue to create money and control credit.”
Josiah Stamp Director of the Bank of England, 1928-1941

“It is well enough that the people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.”
Henry Ford

“We in the Congress have a moral and constitutional obligation to protect the value of the dollar and to understand why it is so important to the economy that a central bank not be given the unbelievable power of inflating a currency at will and pretending that it knows how to fine-tune an economy through this counterfeit system of money.”
Ron Paul, M.D. and U.S. Congressman (R-Texas)

“If all bank loans were paid, there would not be a dollar of coin or currency in circulation. Someone has to borrow every dollar we have in circulation.We are absolutely without a permanent money system.”
Robert Hemphill, Federal Reserve Bank, Atlanta

“By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens. There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner which not one man in a million is able to diagnose.”
John Maynard Keynes

“All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America rise, not from defects in the Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit, and circulation.”
John Adams, in a letter to Thomas Jefferson, 1787

“If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.”
Thomas Jefferson, in a letter to Albert Gallatin, Secretary of the Treasury, 1802

“The war against illegal plunder has been fought since the beginning of the world. But how is legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime. Then abolish this law without delay…If such a law is not abolished immediately, it will spread: multiply and develop into a system.”
Bastiat

“I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country.” “[The United States is] no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and duress of a small group of dominant men”.
Woodrow Wilson, referring to his signature enacting the Federal Reserve Board in 1913

“I was as secretive, indeed I was as furtive as any conspirator. Discovery, we knew, simply must not happen, or else all our time and effort would have been wasted. If it were exposed, that our particular group [of wealthy bankers] had got together and written a banking bill, that bill would have no chance whatever of passage by Congress”.
Frank A. Vanderlip, one of the members of the secret Jekyll Island meeting where the Federal Reserve was conceived in 1910

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Invasion of the Body Snatchers: Swine Flu, RFID, Striped Benjies and Big Brother

Thursday, January 21st, 2010
HOW G. EDWARD GRIFFIN (AND NEW MOVIE) HAS MAINSTREAM MEDIA IN A PANIC.
A NEWS STORY IN TEN PARTS


Part 1/10 “Invasion of the Body Snatchers: Swine Flu, RFID, Striped Benjies and Big Brother”
A write-up in ten parts on “The Fall of America and the Western World”
November, 2009 – Jimmie Rivers

“I’ve been involved with journalism for a long time. Recently, I was allowed to screen an advance copy of “The Fall of America and the Western World” featuring G. Edward Griffin,
Alex Jones and many more
. The last time something changed my world view to this degree dates back to the United States’ Banana Republic days of the 60s. Remember, I’m an old-school, jaded journalist and yet this movie delivered an epiphany. “With great passion and conviction, I went to my editor with the idea of writing a ten-part story, based on “The Fall of America and the Western World,” to run in a major publication. With some reluctance, and with some snide
asides about ‘catering to the loonies,’ he eventually agreed that it was a story worth telling. I was very persuasive.

“Then Lou Dobbs got fired. Agree or disagree with Lou, you have to give him credit for leading the discussion on the trend towards a Big Brother society and the shadowy existence of the Ruling Elite.

Immediately, my story got spiked, trashed, canned. It’s not the first time I’ve had a story spiked by the powers that be. Probably won’t be the last either. What’s different this time around is that this story must be told. It’s too important, too critical to you and me personally and to our country, Europe and the World as a whole.

“There’s an old saying, ‘It’s better to ask for forgiveness than permission.’ This is one of those times. I am going ahead with the story as written; all ten parts in their complete, uncensored, unfiltered, non-redacted form. I would like to thank Mr. Griffin for allowing me to interview him as part of this story, and for his help in getting the story to you. You will receive the ten part story, one segment at a time, over the next ten weeks.

“I sincerely hope that I can convey the story well enough to convince you to get the film and watch it. I hope you tell your friends about it. At the end of each part in this series, I will offer an observation. Reasons why you need to watch “The Fall of America and the Western World” yourself. Why your friends
need to watch it too. More on Jimmie Rivers can be found at the conclusion of this part of the story.

“Enough preamble. Here’s the first part of the story.”

Jimmie Rivers


The Swine Flu Scare is just the latest in “herding through fear” moves made by The Ruling Elite this past decade. Beginning with the 1970s gasoline shortages, and continuing with the Savings and Loans Crisis in the 80s, NAFTA in the 90s, the contrived power shortages in 2000, and the economic meltdown of 2008, America has been systematically led down the garden path by forces it can’t comprehend.

Sure, there was an earlier Swine Flu Scare back when Nixon was president, and we seem to be none the worse for wear. What’s different this time around is the technology. Nano chips already exist…their size less than a human hair. So is it a co-incidence that the Swine Flu Shot Syringes are thicker than normal?

Why the hypodermic needle would need to be re-invented for the Swine Flu vaccine is anyone’s guess. But the fact is that the current state of nano-technology makes embedding RFID chips during the vaccination process possible.

And this is just the tip of the iceberg. Through GPS in cars and cells phones, RFID devices in the products we buy, credit card chips and striped benjies—magnetic stripes in hundred dollar bills, we are endlessly tracked and our data, location, habits and tendencies stored away.

What the Patriot Act did to Habeas Corpus, Video Surveillance is doing to the Bill of Rights. Fundamental is the right to confront your accuser in a court of law. And yet many states already allow unmanned cameras at intersections and highways to convict you for red light, rolling stop, and speeding violations….without any way to cross examine these cameras under oath. And we continue to pay the fines as if nothing were wrong.

What are the chances that The Ruling Elite are going to use this information, this data on you, for your benefit? Are you willing to bet your life that their uses will be benign?

The most chilling thought is what comes next. We have a generation of children growing up in America who have never experienced the levels of freedom we, as their parents, had. To them, status quo is surveillance cameras, computer tracking, id checks, fingerprinting and more invasions of privacy. All the personal freedoms that we used to take for granted but have traded in for “increased security.”

America without personal liberty and individualism is no longer America. Warren Buffett just bought Burlington Northern Santa Fe which conjures up visions of Any Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged” and John Galt’s battle for individualism in an America under duress.

Unless you get informed, get prepared and have a plan, you’re putting your life and safety in the hands of the very people who will have gotten you into the mess in the first place. That’s the last place you want it to be.

The first thing you have to do is get yourself off the grid. Take back your right to privacy and go stealth where it counts.


TO DO NOTHING IS TO RISK EVERYTHING

The problems are real. Their impact on you and your family is only going to get worse. How we got here, where we’re headed next, and what you can do about it are the essential knowledge you must have in order to survive.

The fact is that the social, political and cultural ramifications of the impending economic collapse will be devastating unless you protect yourself.

“The Fall of America and the Western World” is the most up-to-date, comprehensive survival guide available. The nine disc DVD box set contains over 150 actionable tips, from some of the best thinkers of our time, to help you prepare and live through the Greater Depression that’s just around the corner. It
contains not only financial and investment strategies, but advice on how to protect yourself from the possibilities of the police state, mob rule, martial law, barbarians at the gate and more.


All of the guests featured in this box set offer candid perspectives on why America and The Western World is headed for collapse and what we can do to protect ourselves from the forthcoming devastation before it’s too late. The guests were chosen because they offered the most bi-partisan, no nonsense, non-biased, and intelligent perspectives on the economy, the culture, politics, the global elite, the police state, the banking system, democracy, the end of democracy, the U.S.
Constitution, the media, media reform, the bible, the surveillance society, precious metals, the globalist agenda, the end of national sovereignty, marital law, getting off the grid, the middle class, off-shoring, The Federal Reserve, the housing crisis, the credit crisis, unemployment, the book of revelations, prophecy, the police state, the surveillance society, the new world order and more.

The guest lineup for “The Fall of America and the Western World” is: G. Edward Griffin; David Icke; Doug Casey; Dr. Paul Craig Roberts; Professor Mark Crispin Miller; Joseph Farah; Naomi Wolf; Alex Jones; Mickey Z; David McAlvany; Doug McIntyre; and Ken Klein.

To purchase this important film for you, your friends, and your family, click any of the links above or Click Here

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Jimmie Rivers is the pen name of an Emmy nominated, former CBS News director in a top 20 market. Mr. Rivers also served as publisher of an investigative journal with its state’s largest paid circulation. For several years he worked for one of the nation’s highest profile advertising agencies. His work, under his real name, has been seen in many mainstream publications over the years.

“Recently, I had the privilege of interviewing several of the participants in “The Fall of America and the Western World” including Mr. David Icke. From these conversations, as well
as a thorough screening of an advanced copy of “The Fall of America and the Western World” DVD, I found myself fascinated, troubled and thoroughly frightened.” “The problem with the news today is that it doesn’t connect the dots. “The Fall of America and the Western World” connects the dots. It provides valuable, unedited, unfiltered information from a broad cross-section of well-informed journalists, researchers and economic experts. They provide the information you really need, and can’t get anywhere else, to connect the dots for yourself.”

Jimmie Rivers

To purchase this important film for you, your friends, and your family, click any of the links above or Click Here

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Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA)

Saturday, January 2nd, 2010

ACLU Challenges Unconstitutional Spying Law

In July 2008, Congress capitulated to the White House’s demands and scare tactics by passing the FISA Amendments Act of 2008, giving the NSA even more power to spy on Americans without warrants than it exercised under its illegal surveillance program. The ACLU is asking the court to protect the privacy rights of all Americans and declare the FAA unconstitutional.

THE GUTTING OF FISA

For years, the Bush administration illegally intercepted the emails and phone calls of millions of Americans. Rather than rein in this abuse of power, lawmakers on Capitol Hill caved in to the administration and gave the National Security Agency (NSA) even more expansive powers to spy on Americans than it had under the illegal warrantless wiretapping program President Bush secretly authorized in 2001.

The Constitution is the bedrock of our democracy; it ensures Americans the right to privacy and free speech. Electronic surveillance is highly invasive. By reading our emails and listening to our phone calls the government gets direct access to our thoughts, our feelings, our associates and our political views. Unrestrained and unchecked government surveillance not only intrudes upon Americans’ right to privacy, it also has the dangerous effect of chilling speech and political dissent. The power to spy is one that is easily abused and history is full of examples of what leaders are willing to do when tempted with unchecked power.

Electronic surveillance is a necessary tool in protecting our nation’s security, but it must be conducted constitutionally. That is why the ACLU is in court fighting on behalf of non-profits, attorneys and prominent journalists to strike down the FISA Amendments Act of 2008.

The ACLU has also asked the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) to ensure that any proceedings relating to the scope, meaning or constitutionality of the FAA be open to the public to the extent possible and that the ACLU be allowed to make arguments about the constitutionality of the new law. The FISC oversees intelligence surveillance, typically operates in secret, and hears arguments only from the government.

AccountabilityNowPAC

The AccountabilityNowPAC was originally formed by our leftist Strangebedfellow members as a fundraising vehicle to block a Congressional leadership “compromise” on the corrupt FISA reauthorization bill now pending in the Senate. Over $300,000 has already been raised by the PAC, but we can do so much better than that! The goal of AccountabilityNowPAC is to become a permanent entity on the Washington DC political landscape which will let our politicians know that civil liberties MATTER. Our message to politicians in Washington is loud and clear: uphold constitutional rights and we will support you; abridge freedom in America and we will not be on your side. Democrat or Republican—it makes no difference to us. Our standard will be the same for all, so let’s end the surveillance insanity and take our country back. It starts right here—with AccountabilityNowPAC. This is our vehicle to enforce the sworn oath our political leaders take to preserve and defend the constitution. Make our politicians live up to their core pledge and promise. Make them ACCOUNTABLE—NOW.

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Romantic Quotes

Saturday, January 2nd, 2010

I wish I could see through your eyes so I would know what you like to see. I wish I knew your wishes, so I could give you everything you want. I wish I dreamed the same dreams you do, and together we could make them come true. I wish I knew what makes you happy, so I could make you the happiest person in the whole world. And lastly, I wish I were a cell in your blood, so I would be sure I was somewhere in your heart..

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The Revolution

Saturday, January 2nd, 2010

Ours is not a fated existence, for nowhere is our destiny etched in stone. In the final analysis, the last line of defense in support of freedom and the Constitution consists of the people themselves. If the people want to be free, if they want to lift themselves out from underneath a state apparatus that threatens their liberties, squanders their resources on needless wars, destroys the value of their dollar, and spews forth endless propaganda about how indispensable it is and how lost we would all be without it, there is no force that can stop them. If freedom is what we want, it is ours for the taking. Let the revolution begin.

Congressman Ron Paul, The Revolution – A Manifesto

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