Thursday, September 30, 2010

Do You Support U.S. Drone Attacks in Pakistan?


In the year 2009 alone there were nearly twice as many drone strikes in Pakistan as the preceding 5 years all together.According to statistics released by the Pakistani government, There were 44 US drone attacks in 2009, of which only 5 hit their intended targets.708 people were killed by the attacks, and 90% of the casualties were determined to be Civilians.

These air strikes carried out by the Central Intelligence Agency and the United States Air Force account for enormous collateral damage.Yet, not even half way through 2010 we have already had 3/4 of the amount in 2009.The Department of Defense is asking for a 75% increase in its 2011 budget for funding more UAV strikes.

Between June 18, 2004 and January 1, 2009 there were 25 confirmed US drone strikes on Pakistani soil, under President George W. Bush. January 23, 2009 through May 11, 2010 there were 76 confirmed strikes, under President Barack Obama. President Obama has permitted 3 times as many strikes in his one and a half year tenure as the previous president in 8 years. Despite his campaigning as an anti-war candidate, our new president has failed to end these illegal strikes in Pakistan, and has actually vastly increased their number.


No war was ever declared on Pakistan, and Pakistan to this day is considered to be a valuable US ally in the middle east. The American people through their elected representatives have never voted to go to war with Pakistan.The last two administrations believe they have the authority to go to war anywhere they want without the authorization of the US congress and believe they can disobey the United States Constitution.

The Global War on Terror presents them with a perpetual war, much like the war in George Orwell's '1984'.There is no clearly defined enemy, there are no clearly defined goals, and there is no end in sight.
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Ron Paul Warns Of Coming Social And Political Chaos

Authorities Plan To Trawl Phone Calls And E Mails For Signs Of “Resentment Toward Government”

Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
September 30, 2010
Do you resent the government for enforcing Obamacare or raising your taxes? Write about it in an email or talk about it on the phone and you could be placed under surveillance as a potential terrorist, if frightening new technology being shopped to law enforcement agencies is implemented. Forget pre-crime and get ready for face-crime, Big Brother is set to unleash a new wave of shockingly invasive and Orwellian technology on the American people if a recent symposium in Hamburg New York is anything to go by. Federal agencies, police departments and others were all in attendance to see a demonstration of a system that trawls phone conversations, emails and instant messages to detect “resentment toward government,” alerting authorities to potential “terrorists” who are then placed under surveillance.Infowars
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Let me save them some trouble. I don't like Obamacare, I don't like laws that are unconstitutional. I don't like all the wars that our country starts, for no good reason. I know that 9-11 was an inside job. I know that our taxes could be much less if the size of the federal government was greatly reduced.
Having said all that, I must add, I am not a terrorist, I'm just an American.

Don't be Manipulated by Mainstream Media

I was watching the evil mainstream media this morning, trying to earn their money. They were trying to hype up the terrorist threat. (You would think there was an election coming up or something.) It made me wonder something. Are people more likely to vote for incumbents if there is a terrorist strike? To me, it seems voting for an incumbent because there is a terrorist strike is like voting FOR terrorism. It's kind of like saying "If you want to stay in office, you'd better get hit by a terrorist."
Anyway, watching some government "expert" talk about what a big threat that we are under he even played the "Osama Bin laden card". Personally, I think Osama Bin Dead for quite a while now. I was reminded of "The Wizard of Oz" and the guy behind the curtain. "Push the Osama button!" "Pull the Tea Party lever!" "We'll have these guys voting the way we want them to in no time."


The Man Behind The Curtain

I just hope everyone votes the same way they were going to, even if there is a terrorist strike before the election. Don't let these well paid men behind the curtain scare you, vote for liberty and freedom not government interference and tyranny.

Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Feds Radiating Americans

Illegal Aliens pouring across the Southern Border carrying as much heroin as physically possible is fine with the Federal Government, after all our military is growing opium in Afghanistan with your tax money. But Americans are being fried with X-Rays 10X stronger than chest X-Rays. So, support the Federal Government and enjoy a radiation bath today!

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Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Federal authorities do not concern themselves about the flood of illegal immigrants and drugs crossing the border every day, they’re more worried about radiating American truck drivers at internal checkpoints with mobile scanners that shoot dangerous x-rays through both vehicles and passengers.

As we reported last month, the federal government has acquired hundreds of backscatter x-ray scanners mounted in vans that they are now using to randomly scan vehicles, passengers and homes in complete violation of the 4th amendment and with wanton disregard for any health consequences.

An example of their expanding use was reported by WSBTV yesterday, after federal agents from several agencies, including Homeland Security, the Department of Transportation, and the TSA, set up an internal checkpoint on Interstate 20 just west of Atlanta and detained truck drivers for half an hour or more at a “state-owned inspection station” while they were scanned with a bomb detection device.

Officials admitted there was no specific threat that justified the checkpoint, and although it was labeled a “counter-terror operation,” the scans were also being conducted in the name of “safety”.

Watch the video here.


Backscatter x-ray vision devices mounted on trucks are already being deployed inside the United States to scan passing individuals and vehicles in complete violation of the Fourth Amendment. Similar to naked airport body scanners, the devices fire x-rays outwards which are then absorbed by dense objects or the human body. Frequent exposure to low doses of radiation can cause cancer and birth defects, according to a report by the Inter-Agency Committee on Radiation Safety.

American Science & Engineering, a company based in Billerica, Massachusetts, has sold many of the devices to U.S. law enforcement agencies, who are already using them on the streets for “security” purposes.

“Without a warrant, the government doesn’t have a right to peer beneath your clothes without probable cause,” points out Marc Rotenberg, executive director of EPIC. “Even airport scans are typically used only as a secondary security measure. If the scans can only be used in exceptional cases in airports, the idea that they can be used routinely on city streets is a very hard argument to make.”

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Monday, September 27, 2010

Obama’s Internet Wiretap Move: Just One Small Facet Of Total Domination Project

Steve Watson
Infowars.com
September 27th, 2010

Obamas Internet Wiretap Move: Just One Small Facet Of Total Domination Project 270910ObamaThe Obama administration is drafting legislation that will see all internet providers and other online communication services, including email clients and social networks, be forced to allow the intelligence agencies unfettered backdoor access.

“Essentially, officials want Congress to require all services that enable communications — including encrypted e-mail transmitters like BlackBerry, social networking Web sites like Facebook and software that allows direct “peer to peer” messaging like Skype — to be technically capable of complying if served with a wiretap order.” The New York Times reports.

Experts have warned that the move represents an attempt to completely re-structure and centralize the internet under government control:

“They are really asking for the authority to redesign services that take advantage of the unique, and now pervasive, architecture of the Internet,” notes James X. Dempsey, vice president of the Center for Democracy and Technology. “They basically want to turn back the clock and make Internet services function the way that the telephone system used to function.”

The move represents another example of the Obama administration embracing and continuing the policies of their predecessors when it comes to warrantless wiretapping and secrecy.

In 2006 the Bush administration introduced new rules making it easier for police and the intelligence community to wiretap Internet phone calls. This followed the revelations of the NSA’s illegal communications spying program.

In April 2009, the Obama Department of Justice filed a motion to dismiss one of the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s landmark lawsuits against the NSA, firmly establishing that it would continue on the exact same road.

The DOJ demanded that the entire lawsuit be dismissed based on both the Bush administration’s claim that a “state secrets” privilege bars any lawsuits against the executive branch for illegal spying, as well as a novel “sovereign immunity” claim that the Patriot Act bars lawsuits of any kind for illegal government surveillance.

The latest proposed rules are the latest move in a volley of attacks on the free internet that constitute the overall stated intention to ensure complete control over cyberspace.

When the Cybersecurity Act was introduced by Senator John Rockefeller last year, he asked “Would it have been better if we’d have never invented the Internet?”.

Rockefeller’s legislation gives the president the ability to “declare a cybersecurity emergency” and shut down or limit Internet traffic in any “critical” information network “in the interest of national security.” The bill does not define a critical information network or a cybersecurity emergency. That definition would be left to the president, according to a Mother Jones report.

Provisions in the bill would also allow the federal government, via the DHS and the NSA, to tap into any digital aspect of every citizen’s information without a warrant. Banking, business and medical records would be wide open to inspection, as well as personal instant message and e mail communications – all in the name of heading off cyber attacks on the nation.

Enhancements of such provisions are contained in the more recent “Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act”, which is being pushed hard by Senator Joe Lieberman. The bill would hand absolute power to the federal government to close down networks, and block incoming Internet traffic from certain countries under a declared national emergency.

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An accompanying cybersecurity control grid would only create greater risk according to experts who note that it would essentially “establish a path for the bad guys to skip down.” Other countries, such as Australia and the UK are following suit.

The program dovetails with the Pentagon’s newly created Cyber Command, headed by Keith B Alexander, the acting head of the NSA and the man behind the massive program of illegal dragnet surveillance of domestic communications since at least 2001.

During the Senate Armed Services Committee confirmation hearing, Alexander said the Pentagon’s Cyber Command would enjoy “significant synergy” with the NSA. “We have to show what we’re doing to ensure that we comport, comply with the laws,” said Alexander, perversely claiming the agency is respecting and protecting the privacy of the American people.

The Pentagon considers cyberspace a warfighting domain equal to land, sea, air and space. In 2003, the Pentagon classified the internet as an enemy “weapons system” requiring a “robust offensive suite of capabilities to include full-range electronic and computer network attack.” It has spent Billions of dollars building a super secret “National Cyber Range” in order to prepare for “Dominant Cyber Offensive Engagement”, which translates as control over “any and all” computers. The program has been dubbed “The Electronic Manhattan Project”.

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The enemy is never specifically named, it is merely whoever uses the net, because the enemy IS the net. The enemy is the freedom the net provides to billions around the globe and the threat to militaristic dominance of information and the ultimate power that affords.

These initiatives represent a continuation of the so called “Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative”, created via a secret presidential order in 2008 under the Bush administration. former National Intelligence Director Mike McConnell announced that the NSA’s warrantless wiretaps would “be a walk in the park compared to this,”.

“This is going to be a goat rope on the Hill” McConnell said. My prediction is that we’re going to screw around with this until something horrendous happens.”

As we have previously reported, large corporations such as Google, AT&T, Facebook and Yahoo to name but a few are intimately involved in the overarching program. Those corporations have specific government arms that are supplying the software, hardware and tech support to US intelligence agencies in the process of creating a vast closed source database for global spy networks to share information.

Friday, September 24, 2010

Buffett to taxpayers: Get over your anger - Taxpayers to Buffett: Easy for you to say, Billionaire

Taxpayers to Buffett: Easy for you to say, Billionaire!

We are tired of paying for unnecessary wars and occupations.
We are tired of paying for our own oppression and the destruction of our constitution.
We are tired of our representative doing what they want to and paying no attention to the will of the voters.
Bottom line, "We're mad as hell and we're not going to take it anymore!"

Ahmadinejad: UN should form fact-finding committee on 9/11

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Iranian leader defends 9/11 statement, says UN should investigate

The Iranian president on Friday defended his remarks at the U.N. in which he claimed most people in the world believe the United States was behind the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks.

He also challenged the United Nations to set up a commission to study the attacks.

"I did not pass judgment, but don't you feel that the time has come to have a fact finding committee," Mahmoud Ahmadinejad asked during a news conference in a New York hotel.

He also lashed out at the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan as an overreaction to the attacks. The Americans should "not occupy the entire Middle East...bomb wedding parties...annihilate an entire village just because one terrorist is hiding there."
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You May be From a Small Town

You may be from a small town if you turn left at THE stop sign instead of going straight, so as not to bother ol' Skeeter, Jimmy and Sues Golden Retriever who's laying in the road.

Ahmadinejad questions U.S. Government’s complicity in 9/11 on the floor of the U.N.

Andrew Steele
America 20xy
September 24, 2010
During a speech at the U.N. on Thursday, Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad proposed that elements within the U.S. Government may have been complicit in the 9/11 attacks, prompting the U.S., British, and other European Union delegations to walk out.
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First mentioning the official story as one viewpoint to explain 9/11, Ahmadinejad went on to elaborate on others — that elements within the U.S. Government orchestrated the attack, (“the majority of the American people as well as other nations and politicians agree with this view,”  Ahmadinejad declared of this viewpoint), or that the U.S. Government learned of the terrorist plot and allowed it to happen and/or quietly assisted it.
He also said that the U.S.’s response to the attacks was the firing up of a propaganda machine aimed at convincing  the world to back the wars that followed after 9/11.
“We were all saddened for the 3,000 lives lost on 9/11,” said Ahmadinejad, adding “since then hundreds of thousands of people have been killed in Afghanistan and Iraq.”
By evening, Fox News was in full spin mode, using his comments as fuel for its usual rhetoric against Iran, stoking the PR fires for when the White House and the Pentagon decide to take the next step in furthering the neocon vision of an American Empire in the Middle East.
Other mainstream news sources have included in their coverage of Ahmadinejad’s speech a rehash on the official story of 9/11, written in a tone of unquestioning authority in order to convince the reader that there is absolutely no debate as to what happened on that day, despite scientific evidence that the three buildings that fell in New York City on 9/11 were not brought down by fire. 

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It is sad to see the day when the president of Iran is more truthful to the American people than our own president. I was looking forward to seeing how NBC news would spin this on the Today show. They showed bits of the speech, showed how the US and the UK delegates walked out. Then they showed the reaction of someone who was VERY involved, Rudy Giuliani, who said that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was insane. Then they interviewed the woman who was arrested and then released from an Iranian prison.
I hope no one that reads this blog still believes the government's account of what happened on 9-11. Frankly, if you believe that 9-11 happened like the government says, you either haven't looked into it or someone must be reading these words to you. If you do believe that 9-11 was an inside job then I hope you are as discussed as I am, at having to hear the truth from the Iranian President.
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Thursday, September 23, 2010

Tomato Police - Georgia Man fined $5000

Steve Miller, a Georgia resident, was fined $5000 for growing too many vegetables.



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Katy Perry's Sesame Street Segment Cut Over Her Cleavage

Sunny days on Sesame Street?

Katy Perry's appearance on the long-running PBS children's show has been pulled after parents complained about the singer's cleavage-baring dress.
PHOTOS: Katy's wackiest looks

A clip leaked on the web this week (nearly a million people have viewed it on YouTube), showing Perry, 25, in a low-cut dress and veil, performing a kid-friendly version of her hit "Hot N Cold" with Elmo.

It was set to air later this year as part of the show's 41st season.

TMZ reports that parents quickly fired off angry letters, demanding it not to be broadcast. "They're gonna have to rename it cleavage avenue," complained one.

PHOTOS: Katy Perry and 2009's other most stylish stars

Some defended the clip. One commenter wrote: "If your kid is saying things like: boobs!..it’s because of the family not because of Katy! I mean the family is the one who educate the kids! No one else is responsible of that!"

But a Sesame Street spokesperson issued a statement to UsMagazine.com early Thursday morning, deciding to side with the angry viewers:

"Sesame Street has a long history of working with celebrities across all genres, including athletes, actors, musicians and artists. Sesame Street has always been written on two levels, for the child and adult. We use parodies and celebrity segments to interest adults in the show because we know that a child learns best when co-viewing with a parent or care-giver. We also value our viewer’s opinions and particularly those of parents. In light of the feedback we’ve received on the Katy Perry music video which was released on You Tube only, we have decided we will not air the segment on the television broadcast of Sesame Street, which is aimed at preschoolers. Katy Perry fans will still be able to view the video on You Tube."
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Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Global Warming Alarmist Calls For Eco-Gulags To Re-Educate Climate Deniers

Finnish philosopher says oppressive and brutal government should exert “tireless control of citizens” in shocking insight into threat of eco-fascism movement – Linkola openly calls for Nazi-style mass extermination policies to “kill defectives”


Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Monday, September 20, 2010
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A Finnish environmentalist guru has gone further than any other global warming alarmist in openly calling for fascism as a necessary step to save the planet from ecological destruction, demanding that climate change deniers be “re-educated” in eco-gulags and that the vast majority of humans be killed with the rest enslaved and controlled by a green police state, with people forcibly sterilized, cars confiscated and travel restricted to members of the elite.

Philosopher Pentti Linkola has built an enthusiastic following of self-described “eco-fascists” receptive to his message that the state should enact draconian measures of “discipline, prohibition, enforcement and oppression” in order to make people comply with environmental dictates.

Linkola’s barbaric and dictatorial philosophy has remained relatively obscure but is now gaining traction as the mask of environmentalism is lifted to unveil its true nature – a justification for 21st century tyranny on a grand scale, characterized by eugenics, sterilization, gulags, police states, and total government control over every aspect of our existence.

Linkola’s doctrine is more extreme, repulsive, and threatening to liberty than anything carried out by history’s worst dictators, Hitler, Stalin and Mao – combined. Indeed, Linkola laments that such monsters didn’t go far enough in wiping out many more millions of people.

Under Linkola’s proposal to save earth from man-made climate change, “only a few million people would work as farmers and fishermen, without modern conveniences such as the automobile.” This system would be enforced by the creation of a “Green Police” who would abandon “the syrup of ethics” that governs human behavior to completely dominate the population.

Linkola calls for forced abortions, while also adding that another world war would be “a happy occasion for the planet” because it would eradicate tens of millions of people. The environmentalist believes that only jackbooted tyranny can help to save mother earth from “the worst ideologies in the world” which he defines as “growth and freedom”.

“Any dictatorship would be better than modern democracy,” he writes. “There cannot be so incompetent dictator, that he would show more stupidity than a majority of the people. Best dictatorship would be one where lots of heads would roll and government would prevent any economical growth.”

Those who refuse to be enslaved by Linkola’s new eco-tyranny would be abducted and sent to the mountains for “re-education” in eco-gulags, according to the environmentalist, who says that the only solution “lies in a centralised government and the tireless control of citizens.”

As part of his eco-fascist hell, Linkola calls for ‘killing defectives’ by means of sterilization, licenses for births, tight regulation of electricity, forcing humans to eat rats, the confiscation of private cars, travel to be restricted to members of the elite only, and businesses to be terminated as the economy is entirely handed over to the control of the state.

The heart of Linkola’s dark philosophy revolves around the need to slaughter masses of humans. “If there were a button I could press, I would sacrifice myself without hesitating if it meant millions of people would die,” he writes.

“Who misses all those who died in the Second World War? Who misses the twenty million executed by Stalin? Who misses Hitler’s six million Jews?” asks Linkola.

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It is impossible to accurately explain and quantify the sheer level of depravity exhibited within Linkola’s belief system. If these words were written by a crazed mass murderer then we’d at least be able to dismiss their import, but these horrendous doctrines are embraced by a prominent environmentalist whose popularity is growing as the putrid tentacles of the eco-fascist movement grow into more areas of society and public discourse.

“We will have to…learn from the history of revolutionary movements — the national socialists, the Finnish Stalinists, from the many stages of the Russian revolution, from the methods of the Red Brigades — and forget our narcissistic selves,” writes Linkola, firmly entrenching his environmental activism in the political prism of Nazism and Stalinism.

Indeed, Linkola’s policies make Hitler and Stalin look like fair-minded humanitarians.

Read Linkola’s loving and human overpopulation analogy, which as we have documented, is a contrived problem debunked by the UN’S own population statistics.

“What to do, when a ship carrying a hundred passengers suddenly capsizes and only one lifeboat? When the lifeboat is full, those who hate life will try to load it with more people and sink the lot. Those who love and respect life will take the ship’s axe and sever the extra hands that cling to the sides of the boat.”

In reality, by 2020 population will stabilize and by 2050 the global population will start to decline at an alarming rate, with the replacement rate for humans dropping below 2.1. Linkola’s bloodthirsty desire to see the human surplus brutally culled has more in common with the discredited pseudo-philosophy of Malthus than it does any basis in scientific fact.

As we have documented, although not going quite as far as Linkola, the eco-fascist movement is attracting prominent advocates, including James Lovelock, the creator of the Gaia hypothesis. Lovelock told the Guardian earlier this year that “democracy must be put on hold” to combat global warming and that “a few people with authority” should be allowed to run the planet.

This sentiment was echoed by author and environmentalist Keith Farnish, who in a recent book called for acts of sabotage and environmental terrorism in blowing up dams and demolishing cities in order to return the planet to the agrarian age. Prominent NASA global warming alarmist and Al Gore ally Dr. James Hansen endorsed Farnish’s book.

Linkola concurs with Farnish and Hansen, writing, “Everything we have developed over the last 100 years should be destroyed.”

Another prominent figure in the climate change debate who exemplifies the violent and death-obsessed belief system of the movement is Dr. Eric R. Pianka, an American biologist based at the University of Texas in Austin. During a speech to the Texas Academy of Science in March 2006, Pianka advocated the need to exterminate 90% of the world’s population through the airborne ebola virus. The reaction from scores of top scientists and professors in attendance was not one of shock or revulsion – they stood and applauded Pianka’s call for mass genocide.

The current White House science czar John P. Holdren also advocates the most obscenely dictatorial, eco-fascist, and inhumane practices in the name of environmentalism. In his 1977 Ecoscience textbook, Holdren calls for a “planetary regime” to carry out forced abortions and mandatory sterilization procedures, as well as drugging the water supply, in an effort to cull the human surplus.

Linkola has outstripped even notorious murder mastermind Charles Manson in his hatred for the human race. During prison interviews, Manson routinely spoke of his belief that around 50 million humans should be slaughtered for the good of the planet, whereas Linkola and his fans simply believe that humanity should cease to exist in its entirety. A fan site dedicated to Linkola includes links to his articles which have headlines like “Extinguish Humans, Save the World”.

Like Manson, Linkola has become a respected environmentalist guru for a new cult of believers who feel that governments and global institutions are not being ruthless enough in enforcing overdue measures to save the Earth from ecological destruction.

“Linkola has built an environmentalist following by calling for an authoritarian, ecological regime that ruthlessly suppresses consumers,” writes the Guardian’s Micah White, adding that Linkola has “opened the way for a wave of fascist environmentalists who reject democratic freedom.”

Another Finnish environmentalist writer, Martin Kreiggeist, hails Linkola’s call for eco-gulags and oppression as “a solution,” calling for people to “take up the axes” in pursuit of killing off the third world. Kreiggeist wants fellow eco-fascists to “act on” Linkola’s call for mass murder in order to solve overpopulation.

Linkola himself openly calls for violence to further the cause of eco-fascism. “A minority can never have any other effective means to influence the course of matters but through the use of violence,” he writes.

While governments around the world continue to harass innocent citizens and define peaceful political action as domestic terrorism, people like Linkola, Pianka and others, along with their growing legion of followers, are left alone despite their open call for violence and genocide.

Given the fact that cult followers of these extremist fringe environmentalists, people like Discovery Channel building gunman James Jay Lee, are now starting to act out on their guru’s doctrines with violence, it’s high time that radical global warming alarmists who are calling for mass murder and fascism be investigated by the relevant authorities as potential terrorists.

However, it’s a forlorn hope when one understands that Linkola’s tyrannical and abhorrent belief system is merely an extension of the eugenicist doctrines being promoted by some of the most powerful people on the planet who, backed by an equally enthusiastic establishment media, are now brazenly dispensing with tip-toe tyranny and are openly calling for mass death and dictatorship under the guise of stopping climate change.

The establishment points fingers all day long at all manner of political groups to smear them as a threat, while monsters like Linkola and Pianka who advocate the most dangerous and obscene ideas imaginable are lauded and afforded respect by their peers and their growing band of lunatic followers, who are all too eager to act out on the barbarian “solutions” that are being encouraged in the name of environmentalism.

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Paul Joseph Watson is the editor and writer for Prison Planet.com. He is the author of Order Out Of Chaos. Watson is also a fill-in host for The Alex Jones Show. Watson has been interviewed by many publications and radio shows, including Vanity Fair and Coast to Coast AM, America’s most listened to late night talk show.

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As an amateur, Creamer won numerous junior golf titles, including 11 American Junior Golf Association (AJGA) tournaments. Creamer joined the LPGA Tour in the 2005 season, and her victory in that year's Sybase Classic made her the LPGA's second-youngest event winner.

Global Tax Scam Shifts From Climate Change To Poverty

Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
September 21, 2010
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As the science behind global warming becomes increasingly discredited and its proponents are exposed as eugenics-obsessed control freaks who care only about destroying freedom, the effort to make Americans pay a global tax has shifted from the justification of climate change to that of poverty.
As we documented on Sunday, leaders from 60 nations will be meeting at the UN this week to push a tax on world financial transactions, formally launching a massive program to bankrupt the middle class and enrich the coffers of global government.
Separately, the leaders of Spain and France are also now calling for new “financing sources” with which to build the infrastructure of a one world government. Remember, this has nothing to do with poverty. As the leaked Danish text revealed, global institutions such as the IMF and the World Bank have no intention of handing the money looted from American taxpayers to poorer countries, they will merely continue to keep the third world in bondage with crippling loans while withholding the real wealth for themselves.
“We need to make more effort to look for alternative financing sources … that aren’t as vulnerable as the budgets of developed countries when faced with crises like the one we’re seeing today,” said Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero.
“Both he and French President Nicolas Sarkozy called for some form of financial tax to raise money to combat poverty, an idea already rejected by the International Monetary Fund and many Group of 20 major developed and developing nations,” reports Reuters.
Although climate change still gets a token mention in the call for a global tax, the justification of poverty has firmly overtaken it as the primary ruse via which globalists plan to conduct a massive transfer of wealth – not to poor nations – but to their own back pockets.Article Continues

Southern California's summer to end with a chill: It was the coldest in decades

LAtimes September 21, 2010 |  7:26 am

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Farewell summer, we hardly knew ye!
The last day of summer is Wednesday, but meteorologists say the season barely bothered to show up in the region this year. So cooler fall will make an almost noiseless entrance Thursday, hardly indistinguishable from the summer Southern Californians just experienced.
“Summer played hooky on us. It never really showed up,” said Bill Patzert, a climatologist for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in La Canada Flintridge. “We leaped from spring to fall.”
Patzert said a low-pressure trough that stalled along the West Coast from Alaska to southern Baja California kept the summer cooler than usual, with many overcast days. Monthly temperatures in downtown Los Angeles from April to now have averaged between one to three degrees cooler than normal.
Patzert said it’s one of the coolest summers in decades.
Jamie Meier, a meteorologist for the National Weather Service in Oxnard, said that LAX tied the coldest average temperature for August on record, going back to 1944. 

The Santa Barbara airport also broke a record for coolest August, she said. The weather service is predicting a La Nina cycle that could mean drier-than-normal conditions. That isn’t always the case during La Nina, said Meier. But more often than not it is, she said.
Thoughout the summer, communities across Southern California set record low temperatures, notably Los Angeles International Airport and other coastal areas.
-- Hector Becerra
Photo: Children play in San Bernardino County. Credit: Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times

Oklahoma Voters - Jari Askins Supports the DREAM Act

DREAM Act
The Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act (The "DREAM Act") is a piece of proposed federal legislation in the United States that was introduced in the United States Senate, and the United States House of Representatives on March 26, 2009. This bill would provide certain inadmissible or deportable alien students who graduate from US high schools, who are of good moral character, arrived in the U.S. as minors, and have been in the country continuously for at least five years prior to the bill's enactment, the opportunity to earn conditional permanent residency. The alien students would obtain temporary residency for a six year period. Within the six year period, a qualified student must have "acquired a degree from an institution of higher education in the United States or [have] completed at least 2 years, in good standing, in a program for a bachelor's degree or higher degree in the United States," or have "served in the uniformed services for at least 2 years and, if discharged, [have] received an honorable discharge."[1] "Any alien whose permanent resident status is terminated [according to the terms of the Act] shall return to the immigration status the alien had immediately prior to receiving conditional permanent resident status under this Act."

Bob Woodward book details Obama battles with advisers over exit plan for Afghan war

By Steve Luxenberg
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, September 22, 2010; 12:11 AM



President Obama urgently looked for a way out of the war in Afghanistan last year, repeatedly pressing his top military advisers for an exit plan that they never gave him, according to secret meeting notes and documents cited in a new book by journalist Bob Woodward.
Frustrated with his military commanders for consistently offering only options that required significantly more troops, Obama finally crafted his own strategy, dictating a classified six-page "terms sheet" that sought to limit U.S. involvement, Woodward reports in "Obama's Wars," to be released on Monday. washingtonpost.com
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If this is true why didn't Obama just put his foot down and say "You punks are just advisers, I'm the commander in chief, the commander of a nation's military forces, and we are stopping this retarded war!" I have even less respect for Obama (Didn't know that was possible) if this is true, he doesn't even have the balls to stand up to his own advisers.
Obama could have called a press conference, announced that he was ending the war in Afghanistan and suddenly he would be very popular. No guts, no glory I suppose.

Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Clues to the October Surprise

 When - Before the November Elections (After 10/20/10?)
Bilderberger Shapiro says President Obama needs a new OKC or 9/11 as a way of "demonstrating that he is a leader" before November elections and reversing plunging approval numbers

Where - 
Denver’s top terrorism expert says the US government needs to shift its focus from high-profile targets like the White House to Main Street.


Who to blame-
Tea Party Extremists

 President Obama’s political advisers, looking for ways to help Democrats and alter the course of the midterm elections in the final weeks, are considering a range of ideas, including national advertisements, to cast the Republican Party as all but taken over by Tea Party extremists.

This link added 9/22/10will-obama-force-america-to-absorb-a-terror-attack-to-save-his-presidency/

This Link added 9/23/10abcnews

Monday, September 20, 2010

Hilary Sports Retro Hair


British Government to Seize All Paychecks

Paul Joseph Watson & Alex Jones
Infowars.com
September 20, 2010

Forget big government – the same elite whose policies caused the financial collapse are now ready to launch the next phase of their fascist takeover of the economy – by forcing businesses to send employee paychecks straight to the government, who would then deduct the “appropriate tax” before the employee receives their wage, as the statist cancer of collectivism grows.

The proposal represents another hammer blow to financial privacy, as the establishment moves towards a total cashless society where every transaction is tracked, traced and controlled by the authorities.infowars
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They gave up their guns and now they are slaves. Don't let it happen here in the U.S. I know it sounds a little dramatic, but these people can't defend themselves or loved ones even in their own homes. Now, if this goes through, they won't even get their money until the government is finished with it.
"Please may I arm myself to protect my family?" No!
"Please, may I have the money that I earned?"
We'll give you some of it when we are good and ready!
Don't like it?
What you gonna do about it?
That's what we thought, nothing, you can't, you're helpless.
Bet you wish you had a gun right about now.

Friday, September 17, 2010

The Real Story Behind Bill Gates And “Death Panels”

Microsoft founder is a hardcore eugenicist who has publicly stated his intention to use the billions worth of vaccines his foundation funds to lower global population

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Bill Gates’ advocacy for “death panels” has caused controversy amongst conservative commentators, but the real outrage behind the story has been completely overlooked – the fact that Gates is a hardcore eugenicist and has called for lowering the global population through vaccines which his foundation funds to the tune of billions.
Gates’ “death panel” comments were actually made over two months ago at the Aspen Ideas Festival in Aspen Colorado, but they only garnered attention when the video clip appeared on numerous conservative websites on Sunday, including Breitbart.tv and The Blaze.

During a question and answer session, Gates implied that elderly patients undergoing expensive health care treatments should be killed and the money spent elsewhere.

Gates said there was a “lack of willingness” to consider the question of choosing between “spending a million dollars on that last three months of life for that patient” or laying off ten teachers.

“But that’s called the death panel and you’re not supposed to have that discussion,” added Gates.

The Microsoft owner’s advocacy for killing granny in the name of spending the money elsewhere strikes at the root of why so many Americans are outraged over Obamacare, which contains as one of its core components a cost/benefit board which will be able to refuse care to elderly patients, proving that death panels will indeed come into force despite establishment media PR campaigns to convince the public otherwise.

Although Americans will be subject to the whims of death panels, the federal government will “continue to require hospitals to provide emergency treatment to illegal immigrants at taxpayer expense,” the New York Times reported.
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35 Inconvenient Truths - The errors in Al Gore’s movie


Al Gore’s spokesman and “environment advisor,” Ms. Kalee Kreider, begins by saying that the film presented “thousands and thousands of facts.” It did not: just 2,000 “facts” in 93 minutes would have been one fact every three seconds. The film contained only a few dozen points, most of which will be seen to have been substantially inaccurate. The judge concentrated only on nine points which even the UK Government, to which Gore is a climate-change advisor, had to admit did not represent mainstream scientific opinion.

Ms. Kreider then states, incorrectly, that the judge himself had never used the term “errors.” In fact, the judge used the term “errors,” in inverted commas, throughout his judgment.

Next, Ms. Kreider makes some unjustifiable ad hominem attacks on Mr. Stewart Dimmock, the lorry driver, school governor and father of two school-age children who was the plaintiff in the case. This memorandum, however, will eschew any ad hominem response, and will concentrate exclusively on the 35 scientific inaccuracies and exaggerations in Gore’s movie.

Ms. Kreider then says, “The process of creating a 90-minute documentary from the original peer-reviewed science for an audience of moviegoers in the U.S. and around the world is complex.” However, the single web-page entitled “The Science” on the movie’s official website contains only two references to articles in the peer-reviewed scientific journals. There is also a reference to a document of the IPCC, but its documents are not independently peer-reviewed in the usual understanding of the term.

Ms. Kreider then says, “The judge stated clearly that he was not attempting to perform an analysis of the scientific questions in his ruling.” He did not need to. Each of the nine “errors” which he identified had been admitted by the UK Government to be inconsistent with the mainstream of scientific opinion.

Ms. Kreider says the IPCC’s results are sometimes “conservative,” and continues: “Vice President Gore tried to convey in good faith those threats that he views as the most serious.” Readers of the long list of errors described in this memorandum will decide for themselves whether Mr. Gore was acting in good faith. However, in this connection it is significant that each of the 35 errors listed below misstates the conclusions of the scientific literature or states that there is a threat where there is none or exaggerates the threat where there may be one. All of the errors point in one direction – towards undue alarmism. Not one of the errors falls in the direction of underestimating the degree of concern in the scientific community. The likelihood that all 35 of the errors listed below could have fallen in one direction purely by inadvertence is less than 1 in 34 billion.

We now itemize 35 of the scientific errors and exaggerations in Al Gore’s movie. The first nine were listed by the judge in the High Court in London in October 2007 as being “errors.” The remaining 26 errors are just as inaccurate or exaggerated as the nine spelt out by the judge, who made it plain during the proceedings that the Court had not had time to consider more than these few errors. The judge found these errors serious enough to require the UK Government to pay substantial costs to the plaintiff.

35 Inconvenient Truths

Thursday, September 16, 2010

Did You Know: We Spend $1 Billion/Year Fighting Each al Qaeda Member in Afghanistan

Think Progress does the math on Panetta’s admission that there are just 100 al Qaeda members in Afghanistan, and discovers we’ve got 1,000 American troops in Afghanistan for each al Qaeda member.
The U.S. has committed nearly 100,000 troops to the mission in Afghanistan. ABC This Week host Jake Tapper asked CIA Director Leon Panetta how big is the al Qaeda threat that the soldiers are combating:
TAPPER: How many Al Qaeda, do you think, are in Afghanistan?
PANETTA: I think the estimate on the number of Al Qaeda is actually relatively small. I think at most, we’re looking at 50 to 100, maybe less. It’s in that vicinity. There’s no question that the main location of Al Qaeda is in the tribal areas of Pakistan.
The 100,000 U.S. forces that have been tasked to dismantle the 100 or so al Qaeda members — a ratio of 1000:1 — is complicated by the fact that we are also engaged in operations going after the Taliban leadership.

emptywheel.firedoglake.com

U.S. plans to spend $1.2 Billion to Yemen for Fighters, Drones and Weapons

Taxes too High? The U.S. plans to spend $1.2 Billion to Yemen for Fighters, Drones and Weapons

Deep-fried beer invented in Texas

 telegraph.co.uk
By Nick Allen in Los Angeles
Published: 7:50PM BST 31 Aug 2010

The beer is placed inside a pocket of salty, pretzel-like dough and then dunked in oil at 375 degrees for about 20 seconds, a short enough time for the confection to remain alcoholic.

When diners take a bite the hot beer mixes with the dough in what is claimed to be a delicious taste sensation.

Inventor Mark Zable said it had taken him three years to come up with the cooking method and a patent for the process is pending. He declined to say whether any special ingredients were involved.

His deep-fried beer will be officially unveiled in a fried food competition at the Texas state fair later this month.

Five ravioli-like pieces will sell for $5 (£3) and the Texas Alcoholic Commission has already ruled that people must be aged over 21 to try it.

Mr Zable has so far been deep frying Guinness but said he may switch to a pale ale in future.



He said: "Nobody has been able to fry a liquid before. It tastes like you took a bite of hot pretzel dough and then took a drink of beer." Mr Zable previously invented dishes including chocolate-covered strawberry waffle balls and jalapeño corndog shrimps.

Last year's winner of the Texas state fair fried food competition was a recipe for deep-fried butter.

Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton Leaves Voice Mail For Lobyist




This is, uh, Eleanor Norton, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton. Uh, I noticed that you have given to uh, other colleagues on the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee. I am a, um, Senior Member, a twenty year veteran and am Chair of the Sub-committee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management. I’m handling the largest economic development project in the United States now, the Homeland Security Compound of three buildings being built on the uh, old St. Elizabeth’s hospital site in the District of Columbia along with uh, fifteen other, uh, sites here for, that are part of the stimulus .

I was, frankly, uh, uh, surprised to see that we don’t have a record, so far as I can tell, of your having given to me despite my uh, long and deep uh, work. In fact, it’s been my major work, uh, on the committee and sub-committee it’s been essentially in your sector.

I am, I’m simply candidly calling to ask for a contribution. As the senior member of the um, committee and a sub-committee chair, we have (chuckles) obligations to raise, uh funds. And, I think it must have been me who hasn’t, frankly, uh, done my homework to ask for a contribution earlier. So I’m trying to make up for it by asking for one now, when we particularly, uh, need, uh contributions, particularly those of us who have the seniority and chairmanships and are in a position to raise the funds.

I’m asking you to give to Citizens for Eleanor Holmes Norton, PO Box 70626, DC, 20024. I’ll send you a follow-up note with appreciation for having heard me out. Thanks again.

Full Story with Audio

She who promises, directly or indirectly, any government contract or other government benefit (provided for or made possible by any Act of Congress) as a reward for a political contribution shall be guilty of a misdemeanor (18 U.S.C. § 600).
She who attempts to cause anyone to make a political contribution by denying or threatening to deny any government payment or other government benefit (provided for or made possible, in whole or in part, by any Act of Congress) shall be guilty of a misdemeanor (18 U.S.C. § 601).
  House Ethics Manual
p. 147: “[N]o solicitation of a campaign or political contribution may be linked to an action taken or to be taken by a Member … in his or her official capacity. … The Standards Committee has long advised Members … that they should always exercise caution to avoid even the appearance that solicitations of campaign contributions are connected in any way with an action taken or to be taken in their official capacity. … [A] Member should not sponsor or participate in any solicitation that offers donors any special access to the Member in the Member’s official capacity.”
p. 150: “[A] Member may not accept any contribution that is linked with an action that the Member has taken or is being asked to take. A corollary of these rules is that Members … are not to take or withhold any official action on the basis of the campaign contributions or support of the involved individuals …. Members … are likewise prohibited from threatening punitive action on the basis of such considerations.”

Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Ground Zero Mosque Controversy: A CIA Orchestrated Event

Kurt Nimmo
Infowars.com
September 12, 2010

Imagine my surprise when I learned that the so-called Ground Zero mosque has connections to the CIA. Mark Ames, writing for the New York Observer, spelled out the connections on Friday. Ames notes that the “right” (neocons) portray Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf as a terrorist sympathizer with ties to Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood. “But meanwhile, links between the group behind the controversial mosque, the CIA and U.S. military establishment have gone unacknowledged,” he writes.

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It takes seven years to digest gum

livescience


While it may prove a bit more difficult to break down than organic foodstuffs, chewing gum gets no special treatment from the digestive system. Doctors figure this old wives' tale was invented to prevent kids from swallowing the rubbery substance.

Perfect Gift

I found the perfect gift for that special enemy.


Q: What can I do to protect myself against the flu?
A: Get a flu shot!


Q: Should I get a flu shot?
A: Yes!


Q: Are there other benefits to getting the flu shot?
A: You can feel confident that you are helping the big pharmaceutical companies get more money and more power and after all, isn't that good for everyone?


Q: What about H1N1?
A: This season, the flu vaccine will protect against the H1N1 virus because frankly, we had to do something with all those leftover shots nobody would take last year.


Q: Why should I consider getting a flu shot at a pharmacy?
A: You can feel confident that our certified immunizing specialist, mostly junkies, are very good and experienced at giving "shots".

Monday, September 13, 2010

Congress to be told of $60-bln US-Saudi arms deal

Then:

02/06/2002 - Updated 06:29 AM ET
usatoday
Official: 15 of 19 Sept. 11 hijackers were Saudi
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Saudi Arabia acknowledged for the first time that 15 of the Sept. 11 suicide hijackers were Saudi citizens, but said Wednesday that the oil-rich kingdom bears no responsibility for their actions.

Previously, Saudi Arabia had said the citizenship of 15 of the 19 hijackers was in doubt despite U.S. insistence they were Saudis. But Interior Minister Prince Nayef told The Associated Press that Saudi leaders were shocked to learn 15 of the hijackers were from Saudi Arabia.

Now:
Eight Years Later: (Two days after 9th anniversary of 9-11 attacks)
Published: Monday September 13, 2010
the raw story 
 
US President Barack Obama's administration will soon notify Congress of plans to offer advanced military aircraft to Saudi Arabia in a deal worth up to 60 billion dollars, congressional sources said Monday.

Friday, September 10, 2010

Friday Video Repost "No Guns for Negroes" Part 1

DOCUMENT ALLEGEDLY OBTAINED IN KENYA SENT TO EVERY MEMBER OF CONGRESS

thepostemail(Sept. 5, 2010) — Lucas Daniel Smith has just completed a mailing to each member of Congress a copy of a document which he stated is a certified copy of the original birth certificate of Barack Hussein Obama II showing that Obama was born in Kenya, Africa. Each birth certificate copy was sent with a seven-page, individually-notarized letter by certified mail. The project was completed on August 31, 2010.



orlytaitzesq.com

Smith said that he obtained the document from the Coast Province General Hospital in Mombasa, Kenya in February 2009. The document became part of a lawsuit filed by Dr. Orly Taitz, Esq., in California which was denied a hearing in October 2009 by Judge David O. Carter.

I am writing to you today regarding a matter of national security.
We may have spoken before.  This letter will, in part, serve as my official record of my having contacted you regarding the above referenced subject matter.

The President of the United States of America is not eligible to serve as our President.
President Barack Hussein Obama II is not a natural born citizen of the United States of America.  President Obama was born in Mombasa, British Protectorate of Kenya at the Coast Province General Hospital in 1961.
I, Lucas Smith, have proof of this.

Mexican Gunmen Kill Third Mayor in a Month as Drug War Escalates

By Jonathan J. Levin - Sep 8, 2010 11:21 PM CT
bloomberg
Gunmen killed the mayor of a town in northern Mexico as he sat at his desk, the third politician slain in the past month as drug-related violence escalates.

President Felipe Calderon, in a statement yesterday, “energetically condemned” the murder of Alexander Lopez, mayor of El Naranjo in San Luis Potosi state. Officials didn’t offer a motive or arrest any suspects, though Lopez was murdered in a part of the country disputed by rival drug gangs.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said yesterday that Mexican cartels are starting to deploy “insurgency” tactics like car bombings that were once a hallmark of the war of terror used against Colombia’s government.

“It’s looking more and more like Colombia looked 20 years ago, where the narcotraffickers controlled certain parts of the country,” Clinton said in Washington at the Council on Foreign Relations.

Mexico’s national security spokesman Alejandro Poire disputed Clinton’s comments and said the country was not at risk of losing control of its territory as happened in Colombia.

The U.S. has pledged $1.3 billion in anti-narcotics aid to Mexico under the Merida Initiative and Clinton said she gave Calderon “very high marks” for his courage in taking on the cartels.
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There are so many reasons to legalize drugs, like how much money it would save if we didn't imprison people for victimless crimes and how so much money could be made by taxing what people seem to get their hands on anyway, tax free. No matter how many reasons you can think of for legalizing drugs, there is one that should rise above all of them. It would completely screw over these murdering drug cartels.
No one would need them anymore. It would strip them of their power, they would be nothing. Do you think Hillary will stick her neck out and even suggest that? No way, she hasn't got the balls! So to speak.

UN Blueprint: Dismantle Middle Class, Build World Government ,Pass Happy Rainbow Save Mother Earth Tax

Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com

September 9, 2010
A UN blueprint for putting the organization back at the forefront of global governance alarmingly reveals the agenda to re-brand global warming as “overpopulation” as a means of dismantling the middle classes while using “global redistribution of wealth” and increased immigration to reinvigorate the pursuit of a one world government.

United Nations Secretary General Ban ki-Moon and 60 of his top lieutenants met this past Labor Day at a secluded Austrian Alpine retreat in a bid to get the global warming agenda back on track after the dismal failure of Copenhagen.

The planning paper that was handed out to delegates at the conference was subsequently leaked to Fox News, and outlines a strategy of exalting “global redistribution of wealth” as the basis of the climate change agenda.

As was uncovered during the Copenhagen summit, the program of “global redistribution of wealth” largely centers around looting the wealth of the middle classes in richer countries through carbon taxes and then using that money to bankroll the construction of world government. As the leaked “Danish text” revealed, the money generated from consumption taxes will go directly to the World Bank, not to developing countries.


Under the terms of this proposal, poorer countries will not simply be handed the money pillaged from richer nations, instead they will be forced to accept “green loans” in the name of combating climate change, a policy that would land the already financially devastated third world with even more debt, payable to globalist institutions such as the IMF.article continues
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Here we go again, these spoiled rich elitists are hellbent on creating a one world government.
Now they are going to turn on the propaganda machine and have it set on overpopulation/climate change. The bottom line is they want to get your money in the form of a carbon tax or whatever name that they decide would be most palatable to the masses, maybe the "Happy Rainbow Save Mother Earth Tax". It doesn't matter what they call it, they want your money to build a world government. Are you going to jump on the bandwagon? "You know, those guys are right, we need to pay them our money so that they can build a world government in which we will be nothing but disarmed slaves." Most people don't say it quite that directly, it would be more like "We all need to pay the "Happy Rainbow Save Mother Earth Tax" to, you know, make it a better world and stuff."
You don't think people are that stupid? Well what about all the people that watched an Al Gore movie and saw some poor polar bears on melting ice, those bleeding heart, well meaning idiots were lining up to hand out money. (If they want to hand out there own money, that's great, but to go along with the forced taxation of everyone, that's where it really turns evil.) We really were lucky on that deal, the leaked Climate-gate e-mails showed that the data had been manipulated, we found out that the ice melts every summer but people had been lead to believe that the before and after polar bear pics were taken at the same time of year instead of winter then summer. I'm just saying think about what you support, don't let them manipulate you into going along with your own enslavement.

Thursday, September 09, 2010

Same as it ever was

Route 66 News



One time, while dining at a dairy bar on Route 66 in Commerce, Okla., I chatted with this older gentleman who was traveling through the region. We started talking about vintage businesses along the Mother Road.

“Just down the street, there’s a place that when I walked in, it was like being in my hometown’s grocery store back in 1947,” he said.

He was referring to the Star Cash Grocery at 209 Commerce St. (map here), on an old alignment of Route 66 that goes through downtown.

Star Cash Grocery has been there since 1937. The “Cash” in its name came from the original owner refusing to accept credit for purchases. As a result, it was the only grocery in Commerce that survived the Depression.

Not only does Star Cash look like something from the 1940s or ’50s from the outside, but the inside, too. It still uses wooden shelves for its goods and some produce:
The Star Cash Grocery is surely one of the oldest grocers on Route 66. It’s a well-stocked store and sells a bit of hardware in addition to food items. In the winter, it sells locally made peanut clusters and other candy near the checkout.

And on the day I was there, I bought a cold, 24-ounce bottle of Mountain Dew for 99 cents. So there are bargains to be found. :)



Star Cash Grocery is open from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. every day but Sunday, when it is closed. Its phone number is 918-675-4401.

Long Island Man Arrested For Defending Home With AK-47 Says Many Gang Members Were Coming After His Family

UNIONDALE, N.Y. (CBS 2) — He was arrested for protecting his property and family.

But it’s how the Long Island man did it that police say crossed the line.

He got an AK-47 assault rifle, pulled the trigger and he ended up in jail, reports CBS 2’s Pablo Guzman.

George Grier said he had to use his rifle on Sunday night to stop what he thought was going to be an invasion of his Uniondale home by a gang he thought might have been the vicious “MS-13.” He said the whole deal happened as he was about to drive his cousin home.

“I went around and went into the house, ran upstairs and told my wife to call the police. I get the gun and I go outside and I come into the doorway and now, by this time, they are in the driveway, back here near the house. I tell them, you know, ‘Can you please leave?’ Grier said.

Grier said the five men dared him to use the gun; and that their shouts brought another larger group of gang members in front of his house.

“He starts threatening my family, my life. ‘Oh you’re dead. I’m gonna kill your family and your babies. You’re dead.’ So when he says that, 20 others guys come rushing around the corner. And so I fired four warning shots into the grass,” Grier said.

Grier was later arrested. John Lewis is Grier’s attorney.

“What he’s initially charged with – A D felony reckless endangerment — requires a depraved indifference to human life, creating a risk that someone’s going to die. Shooting into a lawn doesn’t create a risk of anybody dying,” Lewis said.

Grier said he knew Nassau County Police employ the hi-tech “ShotSpotter” technology in his area and that the shooting would bring police in minutes. Cops told Guzman he was very cooperative.

Grier also said he was afraid the gang outside his house was the dreaded MS-13. And Nassau County Police Lt. Andrew Mulraine, head of the gang unit, said MS-13 has 2,000 members in the county.

“They’re probably the most organized. They almost have a military hierarchy within the gang, so they are the most organized gang we encounter on a daily basis,” Mulraine said.

You may think a person has the right to defend their home. But the law says you can only use physical force to deter physical force. Grier said he never saw anyone pull out a gun, so a court would have to decide on firing the gun.

Police determined Grier had the gun legally. He has no criminal record. And so he was not charged for the weapon.

That ShotSpotter technology pinpoints where a gun has been fired within 35 feet. Police said it also detected two other shootings in nearby Roosevelt that night.


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Here is the photo used by CBS:
Looks like about six or seven AK-47s to me, not just one.
I used a pic of one, you know, since he had one instead of six or seven. This leads me to believe that CBS is anti-gun.

Police: Sex toys stolen from Edmond store

Mark Schlachtenhaufen The Edmond SunThe Edmond Sun Mon Aug 30, 2010, 01:56 PM CDT

EDMOND — Sex toys were among the items stolen from an Edmond adult specialty store, the second such burglary within the past couple of months, police said.

At about 5 a.m. Monday morning, police were dispatched to the Christie’s Toy Box at 448 W. Edmond Road, according to a report filed by Edmond Police Officer Kyle Cunningham.

A jogger told police he had heard a loud alarm coming from the store while he was jogging on Edmond Road.

When police arrived, they noticed the front glass door was shattered, and a hammer lying on top of the shattered glass directly in front of the door. Police said the items missing, which included a $280 blow up doll and an $80 “beginner doll,” were the same items from the burglary about two months ago.

Police said they had no suspects at this time. The hammer was collected as evidence.

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