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Israel is going to nuke US and blame Iran
http://eclipptv.com/viewVideo.php?video_id=11401
10 Facts All Americans Must Know Now
Make that 12
by William Dean A. Garner | Friday, February 12, 2010
1. The United States individual (personal) income taxes go directly to the Bank of England, City of London, which is wholly owned and controlled by the family Rothschild.
2. The United States Federal Reserve Bank is NOT a U.S. government institution.
3. The Federal Reserve is a PRIVATE bank, which is wholly owned and controlled by the family Rothschild.
4. The Federal Reserve was established in 1913 illegally, when the Rothschild’s lieutenant, U.S. Senator Nelson Aldrich, forced through a Congressional bill that mandated it.
5. The family Rothschild is directly responsible for starting all major, and many minor, wars over the past 230 years.
6. The family Rothschild is directly responsible for every recession and depression in the United States over the past 210 years.
7. The family Rothschild (The First Sphere of Influence) controls all major banking throughout the entire world, and has the power to bankrupt entire countries.
8. Thomas Jefferson fought vehemently against Alexander Hamilton to ensure that the newly created United States would NOT fall under the control of the Rothschilds. Jefferson said that the Rothschilds were a greater threat to our country than any standing army.
9. Andrew Jackson also fought to thwart all the efforts of the Rothschilds, and was able to do so during his term. When his term was up, the Rothschilds installed their own U.S. president and then, in a retaliatory measure, plunged America into its first depression.
10. The Rothschilds have assassinated four U.S. presidents, who refused to toe the Rothschild line, and are thought to have murdered others, although the evidence for the latter is as yet inconclusive.
11. The Internal Revenue Service is a private corporation, licensed by the Fed as a collection agency.
12. BONUS FACT #1: the Rothschilds are wholly responsible for the deaths and murders and assassinations of tens of millions of human beings worldwide.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: William Dean A. Garner is a New York Times bestselling ghostwriter and editor of many fiction and nonfiction books. A former biophysicist, US Army Airborne Ranger, and Corporate Mercenary, Garner did 211 overseas missions over a nine-year period, escorting clients out of hostile territories so they could have a voice of peace, freedom and liberty. A Jeffersonian-Jacksonian Patriot, he writes and speaks about the dangers of The First Sphere of Influence, a global cartel controlled by the family Rothschild.
http://thatsjustplumdumb.com/index.php/2010/02/10-facts-all-americans-must-know-now/
Gerald Celente: Economic recovery a cover up
New claims for United States unemployment benefits rose unexpectedly last week. Government officials are dismissing the ride and are blaming it on the Easter holiday. Meanwhile, home foreclosures have also jumped, to their highest rate in 5 years. Gerald Celente says that the economy hasn't recovered, it is a cover up and the big wigs who received the bailout on wall street are the only people with more money.
http://eclipptv.com/viewVideo.php?video_id=11404
The FDA Shuts Down Common Infant Vaccine After Startling Discovery
One million U.S. children, and about 30 million worldwide, have already received GlaxoSmithKline’s Rotarix vaccine. Now a research team has discovered it is contaminated with “a substantial amount” of DNA from a pig virus.
What is pig virus DNA doing in a vaccine intended to prevent rotavirus disease, which causes severe diarrhea and dehydration?
It’s anybody’s guess, although CNN reported that GlaxoSmitthKline detected the substance in the cell bank and the seed used to make the vaccine, “suggesting its presence from the early stages of vaccine development.”
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2010/04/17/major-vaccine-suspended-due-to-contamination-with-pig-virus.aspx
U.S. government mulls luring foreign property owners
Congress is considering a move to lower or eliminate U.S. taxes currently imposed on foreign investors of U.S. commercial real estate, where the number of sales has fallen off a cliff over the past two years.
Webmaster's Commentary:
lower or eliminated taxes for foreigners (including Israel) to make it easy for them to come in and buy up Americans' homes .. but the rest of us get screwed by skyrocketing Obamacare and Carbon taxes?????
What a bunch of traitors.
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE63F5E220100416
•HOSPITAL OVERCHARGES
April,11, 2010
Edward M. Bowman
8457 Annapolis Road
Spring Hill Florida 34608
Re: Acc# 52536653
ATTN:: Revenue Integrity Department,
To say I am outraged is putting it mildly.. What portion of the bill do I question. All of it. $38,210.91 for a four day stay is slightly excessive to say the least.. First you have her down for three and one half days of oxygen at $1200 dollars a day. She claims she was on oxygen for only two days. You have her down for 110 doses of medication over a four day period ranging from $219.10 a dose to $144.49 a dose to $61.50 a dose to $41.02 a dose to $36.25 a dose all in all 110 doses of medication in four days.
I asked for the Doctors name who signed off on this massive amount of medication and I was told it was confidential. I said I would put the patient on the phone tell her it’s confidential. They then said they didn’t know. So they went from it’s confidential to they didn’t know. Most of the doses were for 1 Pip sod /taz sod 1.125. I showed this to her cancer Doctor and he didn’t have the slightest idea what 1 pip sod/taz was.
I am once again requesting the name of the Doctor who signed off on this massive amount of medication. My wife the patient hereby signs this request ( ). You have her down for five venipunctures she claims she was stuck only once as she has a port.I take venipuncture to mean she was stuck five times.
She was in your hospital for four days at a cost of $38,210.91 or $9,552.72 per day or $398.03 an hour or $6.63 per minute. A bit excessive I would say.
Now as to why she was in your hospital for chest congestion she has cancer Multiple Myeloma a cancer by the way your hospital misdiagnosed the first time she was in your hospital at a cost of $79,308.61. A misdiagnoses that could of killed her. Two weeks later a very smart cancer Doctor by the name of Dr, Tang of the Florida Cancer Institute done a spinal tap ( something your hospital should have done) and diagnosed her correctly with Multiple Myeloma. He found 80% cancer cells in her bone marrow. After two months of the proper medication there was no cancer cells in her bone marrow. But chemo had weakened her hence the chest congestion and her second stay at your hospital at a cost of $38,210.91 or $9,552.72 per day or $398.03 per hour or $ 6.63 per minute.
After reading about the Hospital Corporation of America being fined 1.6 Billion dollars for stealing from Medicare and Medicaid and they even stole $52 million dollars from the Veterans health insurance fund, I tend to look at the medical profession with a jaundice eye. I also just read about a cancer Doctor going to jail for watering down his patients Chemo drugs to increase his profits. So you can see where my mind set is at. As a retired Police Sergeant I’m suspicious by nature. Even your employees who first read this letter realize how excessive your fees are,
Your hospital is located in Hernando County the second largest County for unemployment in Florida. People are having trouble putting food on the table. Every second block has a foreclosed house for sale . Have you no shame?
Don’t tell me you are saving lives . I have awards on the wall in my office of a few lives I have saved . My friend a retired fireman saved a few lives in his day too.
It was our job, that’s what we signed on for. It’s your profession to save lives not to enrich your selves. Some where this was lost along the way.
You threatened me that I still owed $300 dollars over and above the $38,210.90 and if I didn’t pay you would destroy my credit.
I’m 77 years old I really don’t need credit anymore.
A good day for me is going to Wal-Mart and buying some new underwear, So go ahead . You have a better chance of seeing God then of getting $300 dollars off me after your absolute incompetence . So you do your worst and I’ll do my best.
Unless I receive a satisfactory explanation of these charges within 10 days I’ll have no choice but to forward your bill for $38,210.91 or $6.63 per minute to a Medicare investigator and let them figure it out.
Edward M. Bowman
Retired Sgt, N.Y.P.D.
Member American Legion
Veteran of Foreign Wars
United States Army
http://www.fourwinds10.com/siterun_data/health/ama_pharmaceutial_and_insurance/news.php?q=1271458484
SHITHEAD OF THE YEAR AWARD
April 17, 2010 at 12:30 (Boycott Israel, DesertPeace Editorial, Divestment, Holocau$t Bu$ine$$, Israel, Oppression, Palestine, Status of Jerusalem, zionism)
Pardon my English in the above title, but there are no other words suitable to describe the recipient of this ‘award’…..
It goes to (another) Nobel Peace Prize recipient, Elie Wiesel….
http://desertpeace.wordpress.com/2010/04/17/shithead-of-the-year-award/
Hypersonic Cruise Missile: America's New Global Strike Weapon
Your tax dollars at work (when not being passed to Wall Street)
http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/military/4203874
Just Who Is This Guy, Obama?
Barack Obama is less of a person than an image— a brand. People see what ever they want as they do on a Rorschach test.
But does anyone really know him? In fact, he is:
* A man with no birth certificate.
* A man whose birth records, both in the United States and Kenya, are sealed by government order.
* A man whose childhood mentor, Frank Marshall Davis, spied on U.S. military installations in Hawaii for the Soviet Union, edited a communist newspaper, authored pornographic novels, and wrote poetry in praise of Joseph Stalin.
* A man who promised transparency in government, but has spent over a million dollars in legal fees hiding information that would determine his eligibility to be President.
* A man whose academic records are sealed from kindergarten through law school.
* A man who arrived in New York in June of 1981 without enough money to get a hotel room, but one month later flew to Indonesia and Pakistan.
* Why did he go?
* Who paid his expenses?
* A man who traveled to Pakistan when it was illegal for U.S. citizens to do so. So what country’s passport did he use?
* A man whose Law School Admission Test scores and grades at Columbia University are known to have been mediocre, but was admitted to Harvard Law School through the intervention of a Saudi named Khalid al -Mansour.
* A law review editor who never published an article in any law review.
* A lawyer with no significant accomplishments in the law and no reputation in the legal community.
* A former State and U.S. Senator, who never authored a piece of legislation.
* A disciple of the Marxist Saul Alinsky.
* A product of the Chicago political machine—the most corrupt political organization in America.
* A man who selects Marxists, corrupt politicians, and criminals as his close political associates and personal friends.
* A man whose presidential candidacy was endorsed by the Democratic Socialists of America, the Socialist International, and the Workers International League.
* A man lauded for the literary brilliance of two memoirs, both of which were ghostwritten by others.
* A so-called Christian who says that knowing when human life begins is “above his pay-grade,” but somehow knows that abortion is permissible at any stage.
* A man who thinks “waterboarding” is immoral, but that partial-birth abortion is moral.
* A man who publicly laments slavery in America—which was abolished 150 years ago—but praises Islam, which still practices both slavery and the sexual mutilation of young girls.
* A man who speaks endlessly about helping the less fortunate, but gives almost none of his sizeable income to charity—not even to his half-brother, who is living in squalor in Kenya.
* A man who had the most left-wing voting record in the United State Senate, but was predicted by the press to “govern from the middle.”
* A man who has never created a job, met a payroll, or even operated a lemonade stand, but wants to tell Detroit how to make cars.
* A President who has never before served as an executive in either the private or the public sector.
* A Commander-in-Chief who doesn’t know how to shoot a rifle, throw a hand-grenade, drive a tank, fly a plane, or con a ship.
* A Commander-in-Chief who has publicly divulged some of our nation’s most important intelligence secrets.
* A man who has been put in charge of the largest economic engine that ever existed, but has never invested in the stock market and admits total ignorance of it.
* A President who says that science will guide his administration, but has no education in the sciences.
* A man who is proficient in reading what is written for him on a teleprompter, but jerks and stammers his way through any off-the-cuff speaking.
* A man whose health records are sealed from childhood to the present day.
* A man who spent 20 years in a church whose pastor espouses Marxist Liberation Theology, anti-Americanism, anti-capitalism, and anti-Semitism, but claims he never heard his pastor utter anti-American, and anti-Semitic statements.
* A man who added more to the National Debt in 120 days than all other Presidents did in the past 220 years, yet feels qualified to lecture Americans about “fiscal responsibility”.
* A man who publicly expressed disdain for the U.S. Constitution on a Chicago radio station because it limited the government’s ability to “redistribute wealth.”
* A man who sits and listens submissively while his country is castigated by Daniel Ortega—a Communist thug whose own daughter accused him of raping her.
* A narcissist who gave the Queen of England a present from the United States --an iPod containing recordings of his own speeches.
* A so-called Christian who officially declared “Pride Month” for a lifestyle that the Bible calls an abomination.
* A man who wanted Americans to ignore his Muslim name during his election campaign, yet boasts of his Muslim name when he travels to Muslim countries.
* A man who can name hundreds of America’s shortcomings, yet none of its great accomplishments
* A President who claims the moral high ground by closing Gitmo yet supports the transfer of terror suspects to countries where horrific torture is certain.
* A President who scoffed at being called a socialist yet acted to nationalize the auto industry, the banking industry, and the insurance industry . . . and now seeks to nationalize the healthcare industry.
* A President who violates private property rights, the sanctity of contracts, and the rule of law—three essential principles that go back over a thousand years in the Common Law tradition.
* A man who promised 95% of all Americans a tax cut, but is increasing taxes on 100% of the population through inflation—the cruelest tax of all.
* A lawyer who represented ACORN—an organization now indicted in several states for voter fraud—whose stated goal is to get as many people on welfare as possible in order to destroy our financial system.
* A President who cheated GM’s bondholders by giving their property to the UAW in a political payoff.
* An American President who frequently criticizes his own country when speaking in foreign countries, but never praises America’s generosity, goodness or greatness.
* A President whose Secretary of the Treasury cheated on his taxes—as did several other appointees and advisors.
* A President who scoffs at being called a socialist, yet has appointed 28 “Czars” to circumvent constitutional government, including:
* A “Science Czar” who has advocated compulsory abortions for American women and the “surrender of sovereignty” to a “comprehensive Planetary Regime.”
* A self-professed communist as his “Green Jobs Czar”. A "Pay Czar” to regulate the pay of corporate executives.
* A President who swore an oath to “preserve, protect and defend the constitution from all enemies, foreign and domestic,” yet has nominated a domestic enemy of the Constitution to the Supreme Court.
* A President whose Homeland Security Chief classified pro-lifers, veterans, and supporters of traditional marriage as terrorists.
* A President who stood silent while the Iranian government hacked unarmed protestors to death with axes, because it was an internal matter, but freely offers his opinions about the internal affairs of Israel and Honduras.
* A President who decreed that true acts of terrorism must now be described as “man-made disasters.”
* A President who cracks hurtful jokes about Special Olympians.
* A President who refused to intercept or inspect a North Korean ship virtually certain to be carrying Weapons of Mass Destruction to Burma.
* A President who wants to cancel all missile defenses while rogue nations are developing long-range ballistic missiles.
* An American President who blames the violence in Mexico on America.
* A Commander in Chief who claims to have been unaware that Air Force One was taken on a terrifying, low-level photo-op over Manhattan.
* A President who berates American CEO’s for flying in private planes at private expense on company business, but whose wife spends hundreds of thousands tax payer dollars flying to Paris for a shopping spree.
* A President who promised a transparent administration, but requires all questions be screened before “impromptu” appearances.
* A man who freely admitted that his energy policies are designed to bankrupt the American coal industry.
* A President who has presided over the loss of 14.7 million jobs and whose “energy policy” will cause the loss of another 1 million jobs.
* A President whose “energy policy” will increase the average American’s utility bills by over $2,000 a year in the middle of the Great Recession.
SOMEONE KNOWS:
The vast majority of Americans do not know who he is, but someone surely does. Someone paid for his travel expenses to Pakistan and Indonesia.
Someone engineered legal challenges to all of his election opponents for the State Senate and had them disqualified.
Someone straightened and leveled his path to the U.S. Senate when a Democrat Judge made public the child custody records of his Republican opponent. When he was a candidate for the U.S. Senate, someone arranged for him to speak at the 2004 Democratic National Convention.
Someone saw to it that all of his records were sealed, both at home and abroad. Someone assembled the massive organization for his run for the Presidency. Someone knows all about him.
Who? The answer is George Soros-connected to the Rothchilds.
http://www.fourwinds10.com/siterun_data/government/obama_government/news.php?q=1251826356
Biofuels cause four times more carbon emissions
Green fuels made from soy beans cause four times more climate-warming emissions than standard diesel or petrol, according to a European report into biofuels.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/climatechange/7614934/Biofuels-cause-four-times-more-carbon-emissions.html
Lew Rockwell on Goldman Sachs and the Government
http://eclipptv.com/viewVideo.php?video_id=11580
Gerald Celente: Finance reform, just a show
Wall Street regulation is the hot topic today; President Barack Obama gave a speech to the finance industry encouraging them to join him in reforming Wall Street. Gerald Celente says that there is a huge problem with Obamas Financial Reform bill because the same people that got us into this economic mess are the ones advising Obama.
http://eclipptv.com/viewVideo.php?video_id=11579
Did Schumer, Paulson, Soros Kill the Bank & Profit From It?
At the end of 2007, hedge fund billionaire John Paulson invested $15 million in the leftist non-profit, Center for Responsible Lending, their largest single donation ever. Around the same time, Paulson and his employees contributed over $100,000 to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, headed, at the time, by Sen. Chuck Schumer. Roughly six months later, CRL and Sen. Schumer both launched a highly public attack on the California-based mortgage lender, Indymac. The lender failed, wiping out the investment of thousands of people. Roughly six months after that, John Paulson, in partnership with George Soros, bought up the remnants of Indymac for pennies on the dollar.....
http://eclipptv.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=311
Full-body scanners are waste of money, Israeli expert says
leading Israeli airport security expert says the Canadian government has wasted millions of dollars to install "useless" imaging machines at airports across the country.
"I don't know why everybody is running to buy these expensive and useless machines. I can overcome the body scanners with enough explosives to bring down a Boeing 747," Rafi Sela told parliamentarians probing the state of aviation safety in Canada.
"That's why we haven't put them in our airport," Sela said, referring to Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion International Airport, which has some of the toughest security in the world
http://www.vancouversun.com/travel/Full%2Bbody%2Bscanners%2Bwaste%2Bmoney%2BIsraeli%2Bexpert%2Bsays/2941610/story.html
Man....Big Pharma gonna be bummed out.
WA kids in flu vaccine alert
The State Government has suspended its free flu vaccine program for WA children aged under five after 22 children became ill and were taken to Princess Margaret Hospital within hours of having their injections.
Health Minister Kim Hames said the otherwise fit and healthy children had suffered febrile convulsions – which involved a fit or seizure due to high fever – within 12 hours of having their vaccine.
http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/newshome/7098968/wa-kids-in-flu-vaccine-alert/
Which Mitch Do You Believe?
Just to make clear that this was a two-way scratch-my-back deal, McConnell brought along John Cornyn, the banker hugging senator from Texas who just happens to be head of the senate Republican fundraising arm. In fact, Cornyn has been making regular trips to Wall Street in recent weeks seeking their support.
So let's review: Mitch-the-the-prairie-populist is publicly pretending to be fighting Wall Street, while Mitch-the-bankers'-buddy is privately shaking them down for campaign cash in exchange for being on their team. Who could be cynical about that?
http://www.jimhightower.com//node/7118
Obama and Biden to Celebrate Earth Day by Tying Up New York Air Traffic
On a day when many Americans will be reflecting upon how they can reduce their impact on the environment, President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden will board separate jets in Washington on Earth Day morning to fly 250 miles up the east coast to New York, where they will land at separate airports to attend separate events within a few miles of each other.
http://nycaviation.com/2010/04/21/obama-and-biden-to-celebrate-earth-day-by-flying-separate-carbon-belching-jets-to-the-same-city/
And whadda ya think about this oil rig explosion?
I think it's pretty damned convienent. Timing is great.
When's the last time there was an accident like this?
JMHO it's another false flag.
IMO all GM food is bad. But with it flooding the market now...GM seeds blowing in the wind over to non GM farms....how the hell can we keep it out of our diet?
Computerized Front Running and Financial Fraud
While the SEC is busy investigating Goldman Sachs, it might want to look into another Goldman-dominated fraud: computerized front running using high-frequency trading programs.
Market commentators are fond of talking about “free market capitalism,” but according to Wall Street commentator Max Keiser, it is no more. It has morphed into what his TV co-host Stacy Herbert calls “rigged market capitalism”: all markets today are subject to manipulation for private gain.
Webmaster's Commentary:
Common sense has to tell you that in a nation with declining manufacturing and vanishing agriculture, the incredible fortunes being made by the Wall Street insiders are coming from nefarious activity.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=BRO20100422&articleId=18809
Sanctioning Iran Is an Act of War
I rise in opposition to this motion to instruct House conferees on HR 2194, the Comprehensive Iran Sanctions, Accountability and Divestment Act, and I rise in strong opposition again to the underlying bill and to its Senate version as well. I object to this entire push for war on Iran, however it is disguised. Listening to the debate on the Floor on this motion and the underlying bill it feels as if we are back in 2002 all over again: the same falsehoods and distortions used to push the United States into a disastrous and unnecessary one-trillion-dollar war on Iraq are being trotted out again to lead us to what will likely be an even more disastrous and costly war on Iran. The parallels are astonishing.
http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2010/04/23/sanctioning-iran-is-an-act-of-war/
Im Tirtzu: delegitimising the 'delegitimisers'
A campaign to suppress all criticism now extends to smearing Israeli human rights activists as hostile to Jewish statehood.
The word "delegitimisation" has become the most significant weapon in the rhetorical arsenal of those defending Israel against external and internal enemies. In Israel, rightwing policymakers, thinkers and Zionist groups are deploying the word to describe the underlying motives of the country's critics. Outside Israel, pro-Israel groups and Jewish defence organisations use it to attack those who protest when Israeli officials speak in public, promote boycott campaigns and accuse Israel of apartheid policies.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/apr/22/im-tirtzu-israel-jewish-statehood
D-FW commercial foreclosures up 63%
Tags: ECONOMY
Commercial property foreclosures in North Texas have climbed 63 percent so far this year, with land and apartment complexes among the hardest hit.
Webmaster's Commentary:
The US Commerce Department is claiming that new home sales increased by 27% last month. ABCNNBBCBS is dutifully reporting this as proof that the economy is improving, and in an economy that was not still losing jobs I might not argue (not that I trust any numbers coming from the Federal Government these day).
But we had a booming housing market that set the stage for the crash of the mortgage-backed securities. New home buyers were lured on by teaser rates, just as they are being lured on by the first time homebuyer tax credit. And like the first crash, this surge in buyers all assume that their income is steady and safe. So while this 27% increase may look good at first examination, it may actually be the harbinger of a new round of home foreclosures in the coming months.
The Government Tax Credit may encourage people to go back into debt to the bankers, but as has been the problem all along, the government is still not addressing the availability of high paying jobs to allow those people to pay the bankers back!
http://dallas.bizjournals.com/dallas/stories/2010/04/19/daily51.html?surround=etf&ana=e_article
Mass. foreclosure petitions rise 21%
The number of foreclosures in Massachusetts increased dramatically last month as more homeowners fell behind on mortgage payments or lost homes to lenders — a sign the housing market’s recovery remains tenuous, real estate specialists say.
Webmaster's Commentary:
There will be no housing recovery until there is a recovery of the high-paying jobs taken away from us by the Federal Government's corporate tax policy.
http://www.boston.com/business/articles/2010/04/23/foreclosures_up_21_in_mass_for_march/?s_campaign=8315
New Lawsuit Shows Letters to Vatican on Sexual Abuse Earlier Than Previously Thought
Documents released in a lawsuit filed Thursday against Pope Benedict XVI show that the Vatican was informed more than a year earlier than previously thought about the case of a priest who molested deaf boys for two decades at a boarding school in Wisconsin.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/23/us/23priest.html?emc=eta1
Vatican contemplates legal action following failure of ‘climate forest’
Three years after it was announced that the planting of a forest in Hungary would allow the Vatican would become the world’s first carbon-neutral state, the Vatican is contemplating legal action over the failure of the project.
Cardinal Paul Poupard, then president of the Pontifical Council for Culture, accepted a donation in 2007 from Planktos, Inc., and KlimaFa to plant enough trees to offset the Vatican’s carbon-dioxide emissions. Following the failure of Planktos, not a single tree has been planted, leading the mayor of an impoverished Hungarian village to lament, “We felt honored because the Vatican chose our village. Now we feel sorry.”
Webmaster's Commentary:
This story is a double-header! First, there is the matter that yet another "Green" project has turned out to be a fraud and a failure.
Second, why didn't the Catholics' God just sprinkle a few trees around the property himself? I read in the buy-bull that He does that sort of thing! :)
http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=6117
Belgian bishop resigns, apologizes for sexual abuse.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/religion/2010-04-23-belgium-bishop-abuse_N.htm?csp=34
Sorry fixes everything. (insert sarcasm)
"Resisting the New World Order"
Home
.Facebook has been gradually boosting its profile in Washington D.C. over the past year and is on the hunt for a second senior lobbyist to add to its office of four. Disclosures released a few days ago show that, on top of lobbying the usual suspects Internet companies reach out to like the Federal Trade Commission and the U.S. senators and representatives, the fast-growing social network has also been busy deepening ties to government intelligence and homeland security agencies.
Facebook spent $41,390 on lobbying in the first quarter of 2010. That’s on top of the $207,878 it spent last year — the first year Facebook began releasing such disclosures. Although these numbers are tiny compared to the $4.3 million Google spent on lobbying last year, expect them to grow with the company’s influence and ambitions.
What’s interesting about Facebook’s lobbying in D.C. is what it spends money on despite its small size. It was the only consumer Internet company out of Google, Amazon, eBay, Microsoft, Yahoo and Apple to reach out to intelligence agencies last year, according to lobbying disclosure forms. It has lobbied the Office of the Director of National Intelligence — an umbrella office founded in the wake of Sept. 11 that synthesizes intelligence from 17 agencies including the CIA and advises the President — for the last three quarters on privacy and federal cyber-security policy. It has reached out to the Defense Intelligence Agency too.
http://snardfarker.ning.com/profiles/blogs/facebook-steps-up-lobbying?xg_source=shorten_twitter
My question would be..why can't they reduce spending? Did we REALLY NEED that new space shuttle? Do we REALLY NEED to spend trillions on war?
Friday, April 23, 2010
Why the Valued Added Tax Is Coming On Top of the Income Tax
By Uwe E. Reinhardt
There are plenty of reasons to shudder at the idea of higher taxes. There are also plenty of reasons to expect them nonetheless.
It is understandable that everyone dislikes paying taxes, because they are a forced personal outlay for things one does not necessarily appreciate.
Economists, for their part, teach their students that in addition to this understandable opposition to taxes, taxes also tend to change economic behavior, mainly in undesirable directions.
A tax on wages and salaries, for example, lowers the net reward to supplying hours of work to the economy. Sometimes, to be cute, economics professors style that tax as a “subsidy for consuming leisure,” just to drive home the point.
With few exceptions all other taxes have some effect on economic behavior as well. The main exceptions are (1) a so-called per capita head tax, which almost never prompts people to cut off their heads to avoid the tax, and (2) a tax on unimproved land, because that land simply is there. The improvements human make on land, however, can be affected by taxation.
Occasionally a tax can help curb behavior society may wish to curtail. A sales tax on tobacco, for example, is known to reduce smoking, especially among teenagers. A tax on the output from polluting production can induce firms to clean up their production processes, thus curbing pollution, or simply to reduce production. Taxes designed to curtail undesirable behavior are known in the vernacular as “sin taxes.”
But for the most part, taxes tend to curtail some desirable economic behavior, be it working or investing in productive capital, or trading for mutual advantage. Taxes then entail what economists call a “deadweight loss.”
By “deadweight loss” economists have in mind the fact that when a tax reduces desirable economic behavior — e.g., the building of boats, or producing some other valued output — the value of the output to society thus lost usually exceeds the value of the resources that are no longer sacrificed to produce that lost output.
http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2010/04/why-valued-added-tax-will-be-added-in.html
"Resisting the New World Order"
April 20, 2010 HuffingtonPost
“This study was just routine,” said Russian biologist Alexey V. Surov, in what could end up as the understatement of this century. Surov and his colleagues set out to discover if Monsanto’s genetically modified (GM) soy, grown on 91% of US soybean fields, leads to problems in growth or reproduction. What he discovered may uproot a multi-billion dollar industry.
After feeding hamsters for two years over three generations, those on the GM diet, and especially the group on the maximum GM soy diet, showed devastating results. By the third generation, most GM soy-fed hamsters lost the ability to have babies. They also suffered slower growth, and a high mortality rate among the pups.
And if this isn’t shocking enough, some in the third generation even had hair growing inside their mouths—a phenomenon rarely seen, but apparently more prevalent among hamsters eating GM soy.
http://snardfarker.ning.com/profiles/blogs/genetically-modified-soy
House Overwhelmingly Votes to Advance Iran Sanctions (for AIPAC on behalf of Israel)
Webmaster's Commentary:
(Chanted in unison) "We hear and obey, O mighty Israel! We hear and obey, O mighty Israel! We hear and obey, O mighty Israel!"
http://america-hijacked.com/2010/04/23/house-overwhelmingly-votes-to-advance-iran-sanctions/
veterans kill themselves every day: report
The suicide rate among war veterans is extraordinary, new data reveals.
Thirty try to commit suicide each day, on average, reports the Army Times. Seven percent succeed, while 11 percent are likely to make another attempt in the next nine months.
Webmaster's Commentary:
One has to wonder if perhaps one of the most significant factor behind these horrendous numbers is a moment of clarity, in which they realize these wars without end absolutely have the US on the wrong side of history.
http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0423/18-veterans-suicide-day/
Dodd Bill KILLS Jobs, Creates Permanent Bailout
Today, Obama promoted another government takeover bill, this time the financial sector is the target. The bill is basically a sweetheart deal for the banking industry, much like how ObamaCare was a bailout for the insurance companies. The 1,408 page bill includes many provisions like the creation of a permanent and unlimited bailout authority for Wall Street and has the potential for making it difficult for startup businesses to succeed.
Obama claims the bill will “put a stop to tax-payer-funded bailouts” when in reality the bill will create a permanent and unlimited bailout mechanism for the big banks and companies that are ‘too big to fail’.
http://noworldsystem.com/2010/04/23/goldman-sachs-lawsuit-helps-obamas-bailout-bill/
Wikileaks Video Revisited: What Needs To Happen Now
Tags: AFGHANISTANTORTURE/WAR CRIMES
And here's something else I want.
I want someone on Capitol Hill to give a shit.
So far (and I've done a bit of calling around) I haven't heard any member of Congress express any intention of holding an oversight hearing into the matter -- or even asking any questions at all.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/21/wikileaks-video-revisited_n_546915.html
Breastfeeding is healthy. So yes...they'll find a reason to make it illegal.
Riot police clash with Greek protesters during anti-government demo
Webmaster's Commentary:
Look at these photos and learn the lesson that the police are never the friends of the people. The police are never the friends of the people.
http://www.demotix.com/news/308382/riot-police-clash-greek-protesters-during-anti-government-demo
Friday, April 23, 2010
"Oh, HELL No!" -- My speech at the Restore the Constitution Rally, Fort Hunt Park, Virginia, 19 April 2010.
To paraphrase George Patton, I thought I'd stand up here and give y'all a chance to see if I'm as big and bad a "mad dog militia terrorist" as Rachel Madcow, Chris Matthews, Jonah Goldberg, Michael Medved and Billy Jeff Clinton say that I am.
You know I'm grateful to them for all the free publicity, especially from ole Billy Jeff. You know, when you're denounced by a serial perjuror that has special meaning, and you know that you have arrived. But there's one thing I want to straighten out right here and now. Billy Jeff says that we are, we Three Percenters, are "unhinged and disgruntled." But that's not true. You see this? (Holds up a small gate hinge) Here's my hinge. All right? So I am not "unhinged." I have my hinge. You notice? There's three holes in each side.
Now as far as being "disgruntled," I am reliably informed that in the Commonwealth of Virginia it is illegal to show your "gruntle" in public. That being the case, and if it's true in Virginia it must be true in Alabama, and I intend to go back to Alabama and live my life in peace for as long as God gives me, you ain't gonna see my "gruntle." That's between me and Rosey, my beautiful wife, so I don't care what Bill Clinton says.
http://sipseystreetirregulars.blogspot.com/2010/04/oh-hell-no-my-speech-at-fort-hunt-park.html
Billions more for bankers as City workers are handed £6.8bn City workers will be handed bonuses totalling an astonishing £6.8billion this year.
They will receive an average payout of around £70,000 - almost three times the entire salary of a typical worker elsewhere.
Despite widespread anger over City pay, the bonus pool will be £750million bigger than last year, research reveals today.
Critics described the payouts as 'sickening', coming so soon after the recklessness of the banking industry triggered a global recession.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1268194/Soaring-unemployment-pay-freezes-millions--Billions-bankers.html
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1268194/Soaring-unemployment-pay-freezes-millions--Billions-bankers.html#ixzz0lwmhk42F
Job seeker, 21, with 3 A-levels and 10 GCSEs, kills herself after she was rejected for 200 jobs
A day after her latest rejection, and on the eve of her fortnightly trip to sign on, she wrote heartbreaking notes to her parents and boyfriend saying 'I don't want to be me any more' and took a huge drug overdose.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1267953/Job-seeker-Vicky-Harrison-commits-suicide-rejected-200-jobs.html
Wall Street: $33 billion in tax refunds
http://eclipptv.com/viewVideo.php?video_id=11582