tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-74512152517836568712024-03-08T06:51:41.161-08:00We all need to help save the country !usssaratoga2http://www.blogger.com/profile/12858069172316384963noreply@blogger.comBlogger67125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7451215251783656871.post-28627297046006868092012-02-20T10:33:00.000-08:002012-02-22T22:08:33.815-08:00Guns, God and Physics ?<div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">IMO, even Hawking is misrepresenting himself with science; it is more that we are the result</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">of stable punctuated equalibria obeying physics which we know to be constant and steadfast</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">in the entire universe as far as we can tell to date. It is therefore inconsistent to be anything</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">other than a believer at that level as a starting point, but I remain hopeful that as we learn more</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">about our place in this cosmic milieu, our seeming uniqueness coupled with our inquisitive skill</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">sets may be more definitive to the point of at least affirming that we cannot ever know it all, and</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">that if we wish to use our emotional skill sets effectively, we should apply them to each other</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">instead of other ancient concepts, but of course taking into account all that has gone on before,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">as the human condition has not changed much in the past 40,000 years or so and seems to be</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">an additive, positive "evolutionary" construct for mankind.</span></div><div></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">As far as guns go; we oughta get rid of cars and doctors too in that case, as they kill way too</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">many people...however, the Dental industry has a fairly good record that way...maybe we need</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">more of them instead ? Not really, they just seem to have an easier job which I am eternally</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">thankful for as a "Doctor of a lesser God", my coming book title.</span> </div>usssaratoga2http://www.blogger.com/profile/12858069172316384963noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7451215251783656871.post-78954850451745674162012-02-10T16:09:00.000-08:002012-02-10T16:17:53.242-08:0010 Things That Every American Should Know About The Federal ReserveIf there is one recurring theme on this web site that I highlight when ever the chance <br />
arises, it is to make sure that every warm bodied person that ever peruses the pages<br />
of the Bear comes away with the knowledge that the Federal Reserve is the root of<br />
all evil in the universe. I have found that no matter how many times or how many<br />
ways it is stated, it is never too many. If we all did or level best to rid the world of<br />
the Federal Reserve in particular and central banking in general, the world would<br />
be a much better place for all of humanity. Today we are grateful for Mr. Snyder's <br />
efforts to shine a light on the vampire which is the FED. <br />
<br />
What would happen if the Federal Reserve was shut down permanently? That is a<br />
question that CNBC asked recently, but unfortunately most Americans don't really<br />
think about the Fed much. Most Americans are content with believing that the<br />
Federal Reserve is just another stuffy government agency that sets our interest rates<br />
and that is watching out for the best interests of the American people. But that is not<br />
the case at all. The truth is that the Federal Reserve is a private banking cartel that<br />
has been designed to systematically destroy the value of our currency, drain the <br />
wealth of the American public and enslave the federal government to perpetually<br />
expanding debt. During this election year, the economy is the number one issue that<br />
voters are concerned about. But instead of endlessly blaming both political parties, <br />
the truth is that most of the blame should be placed at the feet of the Federal<br />
Reserve. The Federal Reserve has more power over the performance of the U.S. <br />
economy than anyone else does. The Federal Reserve controls the money supply,<br />
the Federal Reserve sets the interest rates and the Federal Reserve hands out<br />
bailouts to the big banks that absolutely dwarf anything that Congress ever did. <br />
If the American people are ever going to learn what is really going on with our<br />
economy, then it is absolutely imperative that they get educated about the<br />
Federal Reserve.<br />
<br />
The following are 10 things that Americans should know about the Federal Reserve....<br />
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#1 The Federal Reserve System Is A Privately Owned Banking Cartel<br />
-The Federal Reserve is not a government agency.<br />
-The truth is that it is a privately owned central bank. It is owned by the banks<br />
that are members of the Federal Reserve system. We do not know how much<br />
of the system each bank owns, because that has never been disclosed to the<br />
American people. <br />
-The Federal Reserve openly admits that it is privately owned. When it was<br />
defending itself against a Bloomberg request for information under the Freedom<br />
of Information Act, the Federal Reserve stated unequivocally in court that it was<br />
"not an agency" of the federal government and therefore not subject to the<br />
Freedom of Information Act. <br />
-In fact, if you want to find out that the Federal Reserve system is owned by the<br />
member banks, all you have to do is go to the Federal Reserve website....<br />
-The twelve regional Federal Reserve Banks, which were established by Congress<br />
as the operating arms of the nation's central banking system, are organized much<br />
like private corporations--possibly leading to some confusion about "ownership."<br />
For example, the Reserve Banks issue shares of stock to member banks. However,<br />
owning Reserve Bank stock is quite different from owning stock in a private<br />
company. The Reserve Banks are not operated for profit, and ownership of a certain <br />
amount of stock is, by law, a condition of membership in the System. The stock may<br />
not be sold, traded, or pledged as security for a loan; dividends are, by law, 6 percent<br />
per year.<br />
-Foreign governments and foreign banks do own significant ownership interests in the<br />
member banks that own the Federal Reserve system. So it would be accurate to say<br />
that the Federal Reserve is partially foreign-owned.<br />
-But until the exact ownership shares of the Federal Reserve are revealed, we will never<br />
know to what extent the Fed is foreign-owned.<br />
-#2 The Federal Reserve System Is A Perpetual Debt Machine.........<br />
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<a href="http://www.silverbearcafe.com/private/02.12/vampire.html">http://www.silverbearcafe.com/private/02.12/vampire.html</a><br />
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-The following is a list of loan recipients that was taken directly from page 131<br />
of the audit report....<br />
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Citigroup - $2.513 trillion<br />
Morgan Stanley - $2.041 trillion<br />
Merrill Lynch - $1.949 trillion<br />
Bank of America - $1.344 trillion<br />
Barclays PLC - $868 billion<br />
Bear Sterns - $853 billion<br />
Goldman Sachs - $814 billion<br />
Royal Bank of Scotland - $541 billion<br />
JP Morgan Chase - $391 billion<br />
Deutsche Bank - $354 billion<br />
UBS - $287 billion<br />
Credit Suisse - $262 billion<br />
Lehman Brothers - $183 billion<br />
Bank of Scotland - $181 billion<br />
BNP Paribas - $175 billion<br />
Wells Fargo - $159 billion<br />
Dexia - $159 billion<br />
Wachovia - $142 billion<br />
Dresdner Bank - $135 billion<br />
Societe Generale - $124 billion<br />
"All Other Borrowers" - $2.639 trillionusssaratoga2http://www.blogger.com/profile/12858069172316384963noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7451215251783656871.post-90865548958472430492012-02-08T17:00:00.001-08:002012-02-12T06:12:32.509-08:00Derivatives about the explode...in our backyard, not theirs !<div class="postContent" id="cdPostContentBox_Mx1KMZ6Q3WQHV18" style="display: block;">Our country faces an even greater danger then that which 9/11 preluded or the debacle of 2008 banking scandal, for which there have been no real prosecutions, or even investigations. <br />
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We now face the real possiblility of the international derivatives market imploding from total malfeasance of the gambling mentality it affords the big banks, with the US public left holding the bag to the tune of about $175 Trillion (T not B), which will ruin the country once and for all. <br />
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This bill, HR3283 must be stopped so that the American people will not be totally responsible for the unpayable, fraudulent "bill" when this "somehow" totally insured by the FDIC (Wow!) mess comes home to roost, probably after "re-election" of the stooge that has been setup to fail his party, his country and his race IMO...unless he moves "fast and furious" in good ways right after regaining office of potus. <br />
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The "Volcker Rule" is a part of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street reform bill that bans banks and other large, critical financial institutions from making risky, speculative bets using taxpayer backed funds - a practice called "proprietary trading." Tell the financial regulators to write a strong "Volcker Rule" and end excessive speculation at big Wall Street banks that puts the public at risk.<br />
<br />
AFR sent a letter to members of congress urging them to reject HR 3283, a bill that would exempt foreign affiliates of U.S. banks from all the major protections against derivative risks contained in Title VII of Dodd-Frank.<br />
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The super-rich absconders have simply transfered all the TARP, QEx etal funds to foreign shores/banks which would become untouchable by US law, as our country sank into the mire of red tape/slime they leave us. <br />
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http://ourfinancialsecurity.org/blogs/wp-<wbr>content/ourfinancialsecurity.org/uploads/<wbr>2012/02/AFR-Letter-Oppose-HR-3283-2-8-121<wbr>.pdf<br />
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http://ourfinancialsecurity.org/2012/02/t<wbr>ell-the-financial-regulators-dont-let-big<wbr>-banks-make-taxpayer-backed-bets/ </div>usssaratoga2http://www.blogger.com/profile/12858069172316384963noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7451215251783656871.post-43092486978431849922012-02-07T15:14:00.000-08:002012-02-07T15:15:36.985-08:00Who are the truth-tellers in our society ?<div class="postContent" id="cdPostContentBox_Mx3FPT3WCMUFO22" style="display: block;">One example of non-helpfulness in our quest to save the country can be found in John B. Taylor, an economist at Stanford who speaks in direct opposition to my fears and cures for what ails the nation...<br />
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The man is an establishment shill for the federal reserve system of tryanny against the American people. The deficit is one of our worst problems and is the direct result of at least 5 huge factors IMO. <br />
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1. The fed act itself which must be rescinded by congress but forget it as they're all wimps/and/or dupes except for the few we hear speak of it, like RP, Kucinich, Sanders, etal. there should not be any deficit, ever, not one penny; only printing money then reparations to re-establish valuation. (see #4)<br />
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2. Unfettered/unregulated/unstoppable major capital flight, esp. since Reagan, but begun with Nixon's trip to china such that there is none for industry.<br />
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3. Lack of regulations, infact de-regulation for TPTB and overregulation for we the little people such that banking has ruined the country in every possible way, in addition to corporate raids of all sorts going "unnoticed" and univestigated or prosecuted, including the recent "kabuki show" by NYS AG Schneiderman etal. states AGs...it would take perhaps 1000 lawyers to make a dent in WS to begn with, but W took them away for "homeland security" projects as I have read.<br />
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4. Obama's overactive thyroid "glandulizing" the economy into a stupor by overstimulation and underperformance...any jobs gains have been mainly in the gov. sector ! Totally counterproductive !...besides huge deficits, which should not be "debt" at all, but just printing our way out of valid troubles per my GNP dollar ideas and re-establishing the value of the dollar after hostilities by expropriation of the vanqhished, like $.20/gal. gas would be a nice start.<br />
<br />
5. The need for a drastic military reduction, but with effectivization of the MIC such that like RP says, we have a strong, but smaller military mainly for defense, but it'll never happen of course....in fact none of this will, as it's too logical....unless some of you have other ideas ?<br />
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6. Forgot the W tax breaks, subsidies and insider trading, etc. for congress and the super-rich, just so much malfeasance it's hard to keep track of it all, but then, what do we expect when the finest minds in the country are so bent on it's destruction ? </div>usssaratoga2http://www.blogger.com/profile/12858069172316384963noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7451215251783656871.post-12352074879089206752012-02-03T16:34:00.000-08:002012-02-03T16:34:03.300-08:00So, Who is going to be POTUS next November ?<div class="postContent" id="cdPostContentBox_Mx3JX8GRAV55JFX" style="display: block;">At this sorry point in our nation's flagging history, Ron Paul is about all there is, and I'll believe him when I see him in action with an impossible congress and scotus, actually giving in to having czars, and using EOs and writing letters, just to get anything done, as well using his AG to go after WS, etal. with retroactive legislation to whit, extraditionally, with the ISAF if necessary to bring as many to justice in true American style as possible with proper investigations, subpoenas, adjudications, indictments and verdicts to whit with forfiture and jail time...and proper legislation to prevent future outrages as we have suffered under for esp. the last 30 years of class warfare by the super-rich against "we the little people". </div>usssaratoga2http://www.blogger.com/profile/12858069172316384963noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7451215251783656871.post-3655389469518177732012-02-03T15:29:00.000-08:002012-02-03T15:29:44.371-08:00How Bernanke Creates the Illusion of Low Inflation<div class="postContent" id="cdPostContentBox_Mx2II15HWM7JYMO" style="display: block;">Bernanke thinks "zero interest rates forever" is appropriate because he has a "subdued outlook for inflation in the medium run."<br />
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And that's where the PCEPI comes in. It stands for Personal Consumption Expenditures Price Index. And it's what the Fed uses to measure inflation.<br />
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The PCEPI tracks the price of some goods, just like the Consumer Price Index (CPI). But there's a big difference. The PCEPI assumes that consumers switch spending from higher priced goods to those that are stable or falling. For example, if the price of steak goes up, the PCEPI assumes you will start eating ground beef. So it replaces steak for ground beef in its basket of goods. Isn't that a nice trick? No wonder inflation is always low for the Fed. A Long History of lies. The Fed has become quite an expert in creating this illusion of low inflation.<br />
<br />
In 1980, it changed the way it calculated the CPI. The new methodology made the new CPI rise at less than half the original measure. If the Fed was using the original methodology, the official <br />
inflation would be much higher today.<br />
<br />
And it gets worse. Tinkering with the CPI wasn't enough for the Fed. So it created the PCEPI in 2000. Because of the substitution effect I mentioned above, this index rises at about one-third less <br />
than the CPI. <br />
<br />
The Fed's official inflation is a big lie. That's like adjusting your clock just to make it look like you're not late for a meeting. Or tinkering with the balance just to make it look like you lost a few pounds, when in fact you gained.<br />
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Inflation should be used to measure the loss of purchasing power, and the resulting decline in standard of living. But by replacing goods that rise in price for cheaper ones, the Fed is able to keep the official measure of inflation low, despite the dollar's clear loss of purchasing power.<br />
<br />
So here's a question for you...If you suddenly have to start eating ground beef because you can no longer afford steak, doesn't that really mean your standard of living is declining? <br />
<br />
The Fed's measure of inflation is essentially meaningless.<br />
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IMO, this is all part of the "spartanization" of the US economy and population to be nothing more than suppliers for the MIC/Fed/WB/UBS/NWO, etc. AND still be the biggest "target" in the world, so if it comes to 'that', we are toast, while the super-rich absconders sit in the sun in the Caymans with their ill-gotten gains and watch us be destroyed perhaps as Iran has threatened. <br />
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http://sovereign-investor.com/2012/02/03/<wbr>the-feds-measure-of-inflation-is-essentia<wbr>lly-meaningless/<br />
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http://sovereign-investor.com/files/ </div>usssaratoga2http://www.blogger.com/profile/12858069172316384963noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7451215251783656871.post-8258546471312659412012-02-02T04:35:00.000-08:002012-02-02T04:35:32.131-08:00Free Speech?... What Free Speech with this one !<div class="postContent" id="cdPostContentBox_Mx382VO9W9NUK4S" style="display: block;">We are losing our Constitution for sure now, with this actionable item, not any longer just a threat. Care must be taken not to actually try to influence bills in legislatures, but more "appropriately' be portrayed apparently as personal opinion if we are not to run afowl of this part of the Citizens United decision by POTUS it would seem.<br />
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This case, based on the original McCain sponsored scotus decision, the oxymoronic 2010 Citizens United decision, states that there are laws requiring licenses, etc. or other official permissions to speak when a citizen is trying to influence state legislative vote on bills ; if this isn't a violation of the 1st Amendment, what is? All the "officials" have to do is "forget" or outright deny permits for free speech due to these new "rules". Another of our rights gone forever. What the heck kind of country is this becoming ? This clear violation of our collective sovereignty as a free people must be dealt a similar blow by retraction, rescision, etc. at all levels of government to ensure that it is expunged from our dwindling American legal system before we "lose it all" IMO. I fear for us all. <br />
<br />
Since when is "free speech", guaranteed by our first Amendment to be so regulated and "burdensome" that it is so easily to be denied by those who just wish to keep us silent ?<br />
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/st<wbr>ates-are-cracking-down-on-political-speec<wbr>h-with-burdensome-laws/2012/01/31/gIQAPe6<wbr>ziQ_print.html </div>usssaratoga2http://www.blogger.com/profile/12858069172316384963noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7451215251783656871.post-32504243643211205512012-01-30T10:12:00.000-08:002012-01-30T10:12:17.315-08:00How Swedes and Norwegians Broke the Power of the `1 Percent'<div class="postContent" style="display: block;"> These are two case studies in breaking the 1% for more public enterprise to balance private greed and are a good start for trying to rid the country of such totally usurious undue influence as with "citizens united", etal. that we are suffering under today here in America, even if they seems a bit too socialistic for me, but afterall, they were following the Russians with their moves in 1918 and gave up on that early ! </div><div class="postContent" style="display: block;"> </div><div class="postContent" style="display: block;"> The biggest thing I find missing in this article is reference to the work ethic that built America in the first place, otherwise, socialism becomes unearned entitlement based if not watched over like Greece, and the country fails.</div><div class="postContent" style="display: block;"> </div><div class="postContent" style="display: block;"> The other missing part of the story is the reward/incentive for superior ideas and performance, otherwise you end up with a mediocre country, as many accuse these two of being. At a minimum, with such high taxes, it discourages many from pursuit of higher goals and standards IMO.<br />
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http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/01/<wbr>26-3 </div>usssaratoga2http://www.blogger.com/profile/12858069172316384963noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7451215251783656871.post-33749252312429094422012-01-30T02:49:00.000-08:002012-01-30T02:49:37.796-08:00American labor history success with quiet, orderly Revolutions ! Occupy movements should take big tips from these former shows of peaceful force to shame and scare the 1% into dealing with we the 99% more fairly !<br />
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American labor history is filled with complaints from employers and government officials that unionized workers are independent and self-organizing. Indeed, so potent is their self-organization that it threatens to render superfluous the employer and the state. During the Great Upheaval of 1877, striking railroad workers in St. Louis took to running the trains themselves. Fearful that the public might conclude the workers were capable of managing the railroad, the owners tried to stop them, starting a strike of their own in order to prove it was the owners, and only the owners, who could make the trains run on time. During the Seattle general strike of 1919, workers went to great lengths to provide basic government services, including law and order. So successful were they that the mayor concluded it was the workers' ability to limit violence and anarchy that posed the greatest threat to the established order:<br />
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The so-called sympathetic Seattle strike was an attempted revolution. ... True, there were no flashing guns, no bombs, no killings. Revolution, I repeat, doesn't need violence. The general strike, as practiced in Seattle, is of itself the weapon of revolution, all the more dangerous because quiet. ... That is to say, it puts the government out of operation.<br />
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<a href="http://www.alternet.org/story/153919/the_truth_about_the_conservative_mind%3A_why_reactionaries_from_edmund_burke_to_sarah_palin_have_fought_real_liberty_?page=entire">http://www.alternet.org/story/153919/the_truth_about_the_conservative_mind%3A_why_reactionaries_from_edmund_burke_to_sarah_palin_have_fought_real_liberty_?page=entire</a>usssaratoga2http://www.blogger.com/profile/12858069172316384963noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7451215251783656871.post-63714127303337738852012-01-16T20:09:00.000-08:002012-01-16T20:09:55.124-08:00The American Banking Crises; one after another... William Black; Assoc. Professor of Economics and Law, UMKC<br />
<br />
Frauds Drive our Economic Crisies, one after another explained in this lecture...the sysopsis ;<br />
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Some criminologists work with two economists on the economics of the S&L Crisis; those two economists get a Nobel Prize for writing on the economics of frauds; the criminologists are forthwith banned from governmental proceedings, by financial lobbyists (& both American major political parties) The Nobel Prize winning work is "openly" ignored. <br />
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The S and L Fraud, Enron and other Bubble market debacles are presented in this video lecture. The economists who disgnosed it; Acriloff and Romer were barred from spreading the word for exposing this most maliscious, malfeasant behavior of our banking system professionals; Bad people ! Looter and advisor to potus Bush, Mr. Manqiue's comment ; "it is irrational not to loot" ; also teaching not to prosecute for same, judge Easterbrook of the 7th circuit court; (look up Gresham's dynamic here). The "FRAUD" cannot be used in political public as they will claim it does not exist, which is a direct lie/fraud in itself !<br />
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Note that the 3 "D"s are necessary in this world of Americanized political and governmental fraud... De-Regulation; De-Supervision, and De-Facto-DeCriminalization. Franklin Raines is a prime example with Fannie Mae, etc. The investing of others monies in bad situations and awarding themselves for failure has become endemic and rewarded by our entire system. <br />
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I have yet to assimilate or understand all I can from this amazingly alarming video ! <br />
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36kizAjPmuo">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36kizAjPmuo</a>usssaratoga2http://www.blogger.com/profile/12858069172316384963noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7451215251783656871.post-63807557413101525542012-01-14T01:18:00.001-08:002012-01-14T01:53:00.070-08:00Thoughts on Our impending Economic Armageddon My latent fears of Bush, J P Morgan, Hamilton, NWO, etal. have always been that they are part of the old, original banking cabals and though they try to state that the world will be a "kinder, gentler" place, I feel that the exact opposite (as usual) is what they have in store for us, as we are now all economic tax slaves as well as "patriot acted" military slaves for lack of a better term, esp. with s1867/HR1540, to which Obama has assigned a writing statement to the effect that he will not "indefinitely detain Americans"...on American soil, even though the legislation defines America as a battlefield now, all of which is scary enough, especially as a follow-on to the two oxymoronic "patriot" acts. The point being that as with the safety valve of allowable dissentions afforded by states rights, if whole countries lose rights "for the betterment of mankind" of Bush's NWO conjuring, I fear that the world actually might "fall into a new dark age" (Churchill) due to the well proven axiom penned by Lord Acton, with absolute power absolutely ruining the world and along with that, the possiblilties of the loss of all freedoms due to an easily (always) corruptable world central power that would make even the likes of that which this country is presently engendering described above look tame as exemplified by the military and economic debacles now happening in the ME and far East for the stated intention of "freeing" those countries, yet ending up abandoning and/or enslaving them economically and otherwise as usual. <br />
I see no hope for our country, unless especially the absconding, major capital flighting, offshoring, outsourcing super-rich are taxed more progressively as in the past, and at this point it seems to me that extraditional, retroactive capital controls and assessments are needed to make them pay for the damage that threatens us all, which they have and are causing mainly due to Wall Street, having made their fortunes in the newly defined "service" economy on the backs of the American public, regardless of implied, treatied or other immunities to whit; but I won't "Holder" my breath. <br />
We have enough useless departments of government, including the IRS and ISAF (old NATO) that some could be converted into or replaced by useful, forcible repatriation tax centers to make these "de-regulated" absconders pay as they should have long ago, instead of freely allowing that which has bled the "over-regulated" small businesses of our country dry especially since Reagan and the fall of the ussr (their last obstacle to world domination), with such negotiations to whit having been started for cheap far east labor perhaps even before Nixon, and as exemplified by the likes of NAFTA, CAFTA, etal.; the "great sucking sound" of jobs being lost from our shores forever as Ross Perot quipped so long ago. <br />
<div class="postContent" id="cdPostContentBox_MxV8DPODOJSF0N" style="display: block;"> If America is not to sink into a cesspit of undue influence of the type that presently allows congress to have such along with the likes of unfettered insider trading on military no-bid contracts, like Pelosi was exposed as being "conferred" with, then we must also limit all large "groups", esp. public funded types as to not only amounts of donations, but air time, bookings, etc. unless individual freedoms and opinons are to be cast into the dustbin of history as a relic of our past as "ineffective", weak and inconsequential to the "evolution" of mankind, whereby the "spiders in a bottle" logic takes over, bullyism, and Lord Acton's theory comes to pass in infinite measure...a totally sad future for all but the few at the top of the immoral "heap". Not my kind of America at all. </div>usssaratoga2http://www.blogger.com/profile/12858069172316384963noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7451215251783656871.post-83373532350162504712012-01-07T23:10:00.001-08:002012-01-07T23:15:50.866-08:00FDR and the big mistake...and the mistake FDR made was to only use PUBLIC money to put people back to work <br />
...he should have forced PRIVATE business to reopen their factory doors to a willing and<br />
able work force to get the country back on it's feet, regardless of what the big money<br />
types wanted...it should have been done for the "general welfare" of the nation, not just<br />
for what the elites wanted, and in this way, honoring the work ethic, not a buncha penny<br />
pinchiing hoarders...as we may soon see again I'm afraid, only this time, the factories are<br />
gone with their jobs and nobody seems to have that in mind amongst all the potus<br />
candidates; each seeming only to pick at parts of the problems we face, showing their<br />
own personal tastes for some partial fix of the economy and repatriation of that which<br />
we have lost to distant shores to those who do not honor the work ethic, or any ethics<br />
at all, as they wantonly run roughshod over the peoples and resources and the very<br />
essence of a good world for us that we might all have lived in together usssaratoga2http://www.blogger.com/profile/12858069172316384963noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7451215251783656871.post-54418234317322381052012-01-07T12:31:00.001-08:002012-01-07T12:31:31.032-08:00What in the "Heck" has Obama done so far? ---------<br />
-Censored reporters covering military tribunals at Guantanamo<br />
-Fought for government immunity in prosecutions for domestic spying<br />
-Awarded $250 million in government contracts to Blackwater<br />
-Dramatically increased the use of drone bombers in Pakistan, resulting in hundreds of civilian casualties<br />
-Won the right to keep identities of prisoners at Bagram "black site" a secret <br />
-Cracked down on government whistleblowers more than any President in history<br />
-Used cluster bombs in Yemen, resulting in the deaths of 14 militants, and 35 women and children<br />
-Continued Bush policy of blocking use of the Endangered Species Act to prevent climate change<br />
-Sent 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan<br />
-Gave permits to BP and other oil companies, exempting them from environmental protection laws<br />
-Appointed Lawrence Summers as his top economic adviser (remember him?)<br />
-Appointed Timothy Geithner to run the Treasury (you gotta remember him !)<br />
-Passed a massive bailout of Wall Street, at the taxpayers' expense<br />
-Appointed Monsanto executive Michael Taylor to the FDA<br />
-Appointed former Monsanto lobbyist Islam Siddiqui as America's Chief Agriculture Negotiator<br />
-Sided with utility companies in lawsuit to stop greenhouse gas emissions<br />
-Successfully protected Bush officials from prosecution for torture<br />
-Pushed for a 5 year prison term for Charles Lynch, the operator of a medical marijuana dispensary, legal under California law<br />
-Proposed a three year freeze on domestic spending, exempting cuts from the Pentagon and Homeland Security<br />
-Revived "Prompt Global Strike" weapons system, considered too controversial by Bush Administration<br />
-Backed off on his promise to close the prison at Guantanamo<br />
-Reaffirmed his opposition to same-sex marriage<br />
-Promised $30 billion in military aid to Israel over the next decade<br />
-Granted 27 waivers to oil companies drilling in the few weeks following the Deepwater Horizon disaster<br />
-Won the right to deny habeas corpus to detainees<br />
-Eased restrictions on the use of child soldiers in Africa<br />
-Blocked UN human rights investigations at Guantanamo<br />
-Launched FBI raids on antiwar activists in Chicago and Minneapolis<br />
-Used a signing statement to ignore labor and environmental standards for the IMF and World Bank<br />
-Reversed his position on drug reimportation to appease the pharmaceutical industry<br />
-Dropped charges against the CIA for destroying videotapes documenting torture of detainees<br />
-Violated his own ban on lobbyists working for the administration<br />
-Appointed Rahm Emanuel as his Chief of Staff<br />
-Continued renditions of alleged terrorists to countries where they could be tortured<br />
-Refused to sign a treaty banning the use of landmines<br />
-Extended the Patriot Act without making any reforms<br />
-Dramatically increased government secrecy, blocking more FOIA requests in 2009 than Bush did in 2008<br />
-Authorized the assassination of US citizens abroad, an unprecedented declaration of executive powerusssaratoga2http://www.blogger.com/profile/12858069172316384963noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7451215251783656871.post-6652265544621993102012-01-07T09:05:00.000-08:002012-01-07T09:05:20.104-08:00Does Obama deserve to be re-elected POTUS ?<div class="postContent" id="cdPostContentBox_Mx33001T90Y7JEH" style="display: block;">Potus Obama has been using several types of "congressional bypass" surgicial techniques to "cut-up" the country, shred the Constitution and help disembowel the American idiom the world has come to copy so often as the closest to justice and fairplay for all. Many of the titles of his "acts" or "edicts" may sound melifluous, but the methodology is dictatorial.<br />
<br />
This besides the republican/conservative/necon movement...of major capital flight and all our jobs and industry to often "undisclosed" off-shore, outsourced locations, unopposed, untaxed and totally dangerous to the "general welfare" of the country perhaps to the point of treason? Far from "protecting and defending the Constitution", the moves of both of these antipodal parties of destruction has ruined any real chance for a return to any sort of America we grew up with. We have been squeezed out of the "middle class" by both ends of the political "tube". <br />
<br />
We are being systematically ruined of course by NAFTA, CAFTA, and treaties against tariffs...all of which benefits only the super-rich of the participating parties in the two concerned countries, which Obama has not dealt with at all, even with his powers of EOs, signing statments, both of which he uses regularly, so he's definitely not on the side of the American people, just the elites. IMO, there should be tariffs imposed on the basis of at least world standards for stewardship of the earth, including resource and environmental management AND population "responsiblilty", not control, which should be incentive-ized as should the rest of such measures. <br />
<br />
It seems at this point that Ron Paul is the only choice for potus, even as too libertarian as he is for me, but I would rather fight it out with such an honest man who would restore America as much as possible than try to extradite or otherwise corner the likes of the other two types currently running for 2012.<br />
<br />
While some of his 106 Executive Orders may seem to help us carry on with needed appropriations and legislation for maintaining the integrity of our country with congress in total gridlock, this manner of disregarding the other branches of government is dangerous, even if he is not the first to do this. But this, coupled with his 42 Czars, just short of the number used by "W" and his record number of uncomfirmed by the Senate of 33 appointees (and only 2 vetos) marks him as perhaps one of the most dangerous potus in history. <br />
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<br />
Administration of Barack Obama (2009-Present) Disposition of Executive orders signed by President Barack Obama:<br />
<br />
http://www.archives.gov/federal-register/executive-orders/obama.html<br />
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<br />
Obama HR1540 signing statement; No indefinite detention for American citizens : He DOES say that on the top of page two (2); let's hold him to it !<br />
<br />
http://www.coherentbabble.com/Statements/SS-PL112-81hr1540.pdf<br />
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<br />
Potus Obama Czar list; the largest of any except "W" <br />
<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._executive_branch_czars<br />
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<br />
Ten years after AUMF; War on Terror; just to give a reference to relate to 9/11/01<br />
<br />
http://armedservices.house.gov/index.cfm/hearings-display?ContentRecord_id=695c435e-bded-40ab-89a1-4fbb374b1415 </div>usssaratoga2http://www.blogger.com/profile/12858069172316384963noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7451215251783656871.post-87801321704009084182012-01-07T02:11:00.001-08:002012-01-07T02:16:30.444-08:00"Too big to fail" must end ! ...like the "trust busting" TR did; "de-monopolization", etc. and ending big<br />
bailouts of ANY sort, and instead breaking them up and selling to American<br />
interests...not foreign, as is the standard practice in many countries as well..<br />
try to buy shoreline in Spain..not unless you're Spanish, etc. AND the claims<br />
to date must be adjudicated for culpability and malfeasance, as well as taking<br />
deriviatives off every table, except the "gamblers" as in Las Vegas, such that<br />
Americans cannot be held to account when their $175 Trillion goes belly-up, <br />
perhaps any time now..."somehow" fully insured by the FDIC ! WHO did that ? <br />
<br />
<a href="http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/05/ron-paul-and-the-banks/">http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/05/ron-paul-and-the-banks/</a>usssaratoga2http://www.blogger.com/profile/12858069172316384963noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7451215251783656871.post-44186975082262942902012-01-06T03:22:00.000-08:002012-01-06T03:22:45.914-08:00Open Letter to a Wallstreeter on our Fading Glory as a Nation<div class="postContent" id="cdPostContentBox_Mx30DYC2POJOAMI" style="display: block;">A; have you always been a shill for the super-rich, or is that a recent development of one of the massive "bailouts"/QE disease destroying our currency at the expense of the middle working classes ? Such blatant lies about our economy and potus and congress in general mark you instantly...which if you do not understand, puts you on a level with RT, wherever he went. Let's do some stats on your sunny appraisal of our county's status shall we ?....<br />
<br />
unemployment rate: 8.6% hardly down at all...and not counting those who have stopped looking ..."for some reason" it has been reported at around 9% or so for years now hasn't it?...by TPTB; recession over...for you of course. <br />
<br />
http://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=z1ebjpgk2654c1_&met_y=unemployment_rate&tdim=true&fdim_y=seasonality:S&dl=en&hl=en&q=unemployment+rate<br />
<br />
Iraq (yes,there was some kind of time table "O" benefitted from, not of his bidding) , Osama (ya ya, fine; black ops, etc.)<br />
<br />
Arab Spring ? Just part of the ME takeover strategy, with threats against Iran shaping up well, and Lybia now rid of chinese "interlopers" can now be developed by more "friendly" western (banking and wallstreet) powers.<br />
<br />
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/22/us-libya-oil-idUSTRE77L1QU20110822<br />
<br />
US credit and credibility ? Former potus Bush could be arrested in Switzerland !<br />
The chinese and japan (even russia) now trading in their own currencies, with no usd inbetween as a sign of weakening country's world status due to massive overprinting of pure fiat by foes of the Constitution...potus/congress (most)/wallstreet/k-street/MIC.<br />
<br />
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-12-29/china-japan-currency-deal-points-way-to-a-new-world-monetary-order-view.html<br />
<br />
Free trade agreements hurt the middle class explicitly...as designed by the best<br />
minds money can buy from Harvard and Princeton of course. The American labor idiom is DEAD, and we are no longer needed by the "expatriate class" who have absconded with not only golden parachute, TARP and QE "funny money" to undisclosed locations world-wide unopposed and untaxed (unlike "we the little people, who cannot take more than about $10K without getting slammed...or more than $5K in coin "cuz we might have it melted down" for its real value) (Spooner), etc., untaxed off-shore accounts and businesses with American made $$$ on our middle class backs, outsourcing condoned and aided by congress for transfer of jobs and whole industries abroad (I sorta like the sound of Indian operators voices strangely)...no nothing wrong with the economy here...NOT. Free trade zones ? Yep, for the super-rich as they take down the country, starting with the likes of public employees as in Wisconson. <br />
<br />
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1011/64934.html<br />
<br />
As to NOT firing "O"; can't find a reason not to with his "slanted" czarist, EO, signing statement orientations, esp. now S1867/HR1540, which by the way, could make YOU a terrorist ...against the Constitution and our economy in general if I interpret things "my way" as "O" seems to be able to do now with that bill which he just signed (NDAA), but since he can be bought and paid off, as with his student loan (and hers) with perk $$$ from GS (was it really only $.5M ?).<br />
<br />
Misery for Americans...yep, he's big part of that picture, along with Mr. 1% Romney and the other panderer Santorum...not that Ron Paul is perfect, as he's too libertarian and thinks we can all be self-sufficient to the max, but I'd rather fight with him honestly in congress than try to track down, extradite with supoenas, and bring to trial the malfeasants who have ruined the best chance humanity ever had to date for peace, justice and prosperity for all classes... America, the once proud and possible. NO vote for "O" here...ever </div>usssaratoga2http://www.blogger.com/profile/12858069172316384963noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7451215251783656871.post-86214497056231302872012-01-01T08:17:00.001-08:002012-01-01T08:17:43.449-08:00Obama signed onto S1867/HR1540; that is the most anti-American thing he has ever done and makes him NON-ELECTABLE everyone !<div class="postContent" id="cdPostContentBox_Mx1UNZL8T13NFF5" style="display: block;"> How can he be considered for re-election if he condones indefinite detainment of Americans, without charges, on our own soil ? He must NOT be re-elected, that is the most anti-American thing any President has ever done in our history ! He and all the other "representatives" presently in our government who signed onto this horrid bill must be voted out ASAP, and I'm working on the list...are you ?<br />
<br />
http://www.facebook.com/index.php?lh=09c8eb0291c08fd5fe5c3071b8e0d68a&#!/JudgeNapolitano<br />
<br />
http://www.dailypaul.com/198368/today-obama-signed-ndaa-s1867-into-law-not-good<br />
<br />
http://www.examiner.com/tea-party-in-dallas/today-obama-signed-ndaa-s-1867-into-law-not-good </div>usssaratoga2http://www.blogger.com/profile/12858069172316384963noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7451215251783656871.post-10808217151213618502011-12-29T23:40:00.001-08:002011-12-29T23:46:56.932-08:00My version of the US Dollar; the GNP fiat note GNP fiat is the only way to go; gold is just one commodity; the overall health of the<br />
nation is in the GNP, which the monetary system should reflect IMO, but you'll never see it,<br />
as it's just fair to all. And yes, issued by the gov., debt free, so that in times of necessary deficits, the country just suffers the inflationary printing, instead of adding to the national debt as now. <br />
To deal with overprinting, I would suggest the states with their powers of nullification be part of the mix and to make sure that the GNP dollar/basket of goods were accurately reflective of all parts of the economy/country, which sounds messy, but then this IS money, the next most important thing after military defense...and you see how bad that is. It's sorta like barter, then a LET system, but with notes of value; very simple really, and NO private Federal Reserve banks to swindle us anymore ! <br />
Their "national debt" should be called out and adjudicated one case at a time for culpability, and if found guilty (with even international subpoena's, regardless of "implied" or other supposed immunities) those involved should suffer jail time, forfiture/restitutional directives with new legislation to whit to prevent further negative incursions into the "general welfare" of the country. <br />
Kucinich's, HR6550/111th, also his NEED act is a fairly good start to the process, but he wants to just pay off the national debt as it comes due...BAD; adjudicate instead ! ...don't let them get away with their past malfeasance and ruination of the country...and the world !usssaratoga2http://www.blogger.com/profile/12858069172316384963noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7451215251783656871.post-75363779343137436482011-12-29T02:48:00.000-08:002011-12-29T15:42:41.153-08:00People ! The country is dying ! Please wakeup !<span class="messageBody" data-ft="{"type":3}"></span><br />
<div class="text_exposed_root text_exposed">Why is this country dying and what to do about it before we can't even log onto facebook, etc.? Three articles that cover most of it. I expect trouble this summer, before elections probably. Be ready ... To VOTE 'em all out (almost all of 'em). We must GET the Fed-printing (and owning), major capital flighting, off-shoring, outsourcing retards that have ruined the best thing mankind ever had a chance at for freedom for the commmon man. If America goes down, we get thrown back way past even the Magna Carta ! If you don't mind being a penurious peon of a serf slave for the super-rich, just keep up what you're doing now; you'll be "back on the plantation" before you know it soon... all of us that is; in total debt with no ownership of anything and under the total control of the "state", and with S1867/HR1540, if you make too much of a fuss, you could end up with a Montana concertina vacation "time-share" with one-way doors (and mirrors). </div><div class="text_exposed_root text_exposed"></div><div class="text_exposed_root text_exposed"><a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/12/throw_em_all_outand_good_riddance.html" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank">http://<wbr></wbr><span class="word_break"></span>www.americanthinker.com/2011/<wbr></wbr><span class="word_break"></span>12/<wbr></wbr><span class="word_break"></span>throw_em_all_outand_good_riddan<wbr></wbr><span class="word_break"></span>ce.html</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.currentconcerns.ch/index.php?id=1411" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.currentconcerns.ch/<wbr></wbr><span class="word_break"></span>index.php?id=1411</a><br />
<span class="text_exposed_hide">...</span><span class="text_exposed_show"> <br />
<a href="http://seekingalpha.com/article/301260-bank-of-america-dumps-75-trillion-in-derivatives-on-u-s-taxpayers-with-federal-approval" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank">http://seekingalpha.com/<wbr></wbr><span class="word_break"></span>article/<wbr></wbr><span class="word_break"></span>301260-bank-of-america-dumps-75<wbr></wbr><span class="word_break"></span>-trillion-in-derivatives-on-u-<wbr></wbr><span class="word_break"></span>s-taxpayers-with-federal-appro<wbr></wbr><span class="word_break"></span>val</a></span></div>usssaratoga2http://www.blogger.com/profile/12858069172316384963noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7451215251783656871.post-78016414599647954832011-12-26T15:57:00.000-08:002011-12-26T15:59:30.409-08:00At least a few are trying to Save the Country !Thanks to Paul and Grayson, etal., we now have even more damaging info on the big-bank-bailouts in addition to judge Preska's 29,000 pages, and judge Jed Rakoff's 21,000 documents on the Federal Reserve system (not Madoff...different guy right?)<br />
<br />
So what is one to do to help save the country ?<br />
<br />
1. Close your bank accounts at these banks :<br />
....List ... (include Bank of America, JP Morgan/Chase, etc. <br />
<br />
2. Open bank accounts to show solidarity and give strength to these ... List... Bank of North <br />
Dakota, , etc.<br />
<br />
3. Know your congressmen and bombard them with letters, e-mails, calls, appointment, <br />
audience and appearance requests, bringing as list of grievances we all can use (post please, <br />
esp. if you are a lawyer, etc.). Mine are actually sending me "hand-written" letters which my<br />
have me sent to a FEMA camp, but I'm too old to bother to worrry about myself anymore.<br />
If I can do any good for the country with the time I have left (maybe 20 years?) so be it !<br />
We all must insist on investigations FOIA to whit on the over $16T bank bailouts, etal.<br />
Just where are all the AGs in this ? Why aren't we hearing from them and state's governors?<br />
<br />
4. Do not buy from the following list of companies and stores... GE, Monsanto, big pharma, etc.<br />
<br />
5. Always Occupy polling places legally, but maximally with signs supportive of our plight and <br />
for Ron Paul or your hero/heroine of the American people.6. Legally sabotage all business dealings with as many 1% types as possible in all things, even to foreign shores where they often reside.<br />
<br />
7. This is a Quik-List; add to it please to help save the country for "we the (little) American <br />
people" ! Please feel free to add to it if you will.<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.activistpost.com/2011/12/civil-disobedience-now-or-forever-hold.html#comment-form">http://www.activistpost.com/2011/12/civil-disobedience-now-or-forever-hold.html#comment-form</a> <br />
<br />
<a href="http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/279-82/8766-the-fed-bailouts-money-for-nothing">http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/279-82/8766-the-fed-bailouts-money-for-nothing</a><br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d11696.pdf">http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d11696.pdf</a>usssaratoga2http://www.blogger.com/profile/12858069172316384963noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7451215251783656871.post-44231855049326106622011-12-26T07:44:00.000-08:002011-12-26T07:44:13.093-08:00Responsible American gun owners/users rejoice...3 small victories ! H.R. 2055—the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2012—has been passed by the House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate and has been sent to the President for his expected signature. <br />
<br />
This bill contains three NRA-backed provisions that will strengthen our Second Amendment rights and prohibit your federal tax dollars from being used to advance an anti-gun agenda...but "they" can still use "citizens united" monies as long as this horrid ruling by scotus remains unchallenged.<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.opposingviews.com/i/society/guns/christmas-gift-gun-owners-3-congressional-victories">http://www.opposingviews.com/i/society/guns/christmas-gift-gun-owners-3-congressional-victories</a><br />
<br />
<a href="http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c112:H.R.2055">http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c112:H.R.2055</a>:<br />
<br />
<a href="http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d112:HR02055:@@@D&summ2=m">http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d112:HR02055:@@@D&summ2=m</a>&<br />
<br />
<a href="http://tinyurl.com/846kt9s">http://tinyurl.com/846kt9s</a><br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.rightsidenews.info/2011122615232/us/homeland-security/three-more-wins-for-gun-owners.html?utm_source=Right+Side+News&utm_campaign=7084636850-daily-rss-newsletter&utm_medium=email">http://www.rightsidenews.info/2011122615232/us/homeland-security/three-more-wins-for-gun-owners.html?utm_source=Right+Side+News&utm_campaign=7084636850-daily-rss-newsletter&utm_medium=email</a>usssaratoga2http://www.blogger.com/profile/12858069172316384963noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7451215251783656871.post-38202998564696538212011-12-23T11:24:00.000-08:002011-12-23T11:24:21.507-08:00One expert's thoughts on the Federal ReserveAs an "old--(late 70's)", real world economist, I have been struggling for<br />
over 60 years with the concepts being discussed by this group, the PBI<br />
Volunteers.<br />
<br />
My professor and mentor at the University of Illinois, U-C, Donald Kemmerer,<br />
(a real conservative who assumed my liberal inclination would disappear with<br />
age), and I sparred about the obvious subversion of democracy involved in<br />
the creation of the Federal Reserve. His father, a distinguished professor<br />
of economics at Princeton University, and an expert on the role of gold as<br />
money, was one of the economists whose intellectual input was available to<br />
the conspirators at Jekyll Island. It was at the meetings at Jekyll Island<br />
in the November of 1912 that the concept of the Federal Reserve System was<br />
conjured up. Although I never grew to accept the anti-democratic nature of<br />
the Fed, Kemmerer and I stayed friends until his death.<br />
<br />
During that same period (1958-59) I was introduced to the writings of John<br />
Maynard Keynes. One afternoon in the reference library at the University of<br />
Illinois (UIUC), while reading in Keynes' "General Theory of Employment,<br />
Interest and Money" I came to the awful realization that when the<br />
politicians got hold of the ideas presented in this learned tract, they<br />
would corrupt them and use them to excuse the profligate spending of money<br />
without concern for whether or not a stimulation of the economy by the<br />
government was a desirable thing. Perhaps the only restraining influence on<br />
these people was the presence of gold as a bench mark on the value of<br />
"paper" money.<br />
<br />
Thirteen years later, after having studied for a Ph.D. in monetary and<br />
financial economics at Cornell University, I had achieved a measure of<br />
respect for understanding the vagaries of our economic system. I had just<br />
become a vice-president of a "Wall Street" firm specializing in providing<br />
investment and economic advice to institutional investors. It was September<br />
of 1971 and Nixon had just taken the U.S. off the gold standard. I was in a<br />
meeting with the first client I would address on behalf of that firm. I was<br />
explaining to the staff of the client firm my thoughts about what the<br />
outcome of the Nixon Administration's policy decision would be and what it<br />
might mean for their investment policy decisions. <br />
<br />
All of a sudden I had a flashback to that day in the library at the University of Illinois. I<br />
described my awful realization of that day to my client's staff. I told them<br />
that Keynes had given the politicians a license to steal. Now, Nixon had<br />
given them the check book by which the restraints of the "Gold Standard"<br />
became inoperative. Nixon and his crew could (and did)continue the wasteful<br />
spending associated with the Vietnam War. They could spend at will. They had<br />
laid the foundation for the fiscal and political crises which challenge us<br />
today.<br />
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The moral of the story is this: neither the rich, the learned, the<br />
politicians, nor the masses will enjoy peace and prosperity until an<br />
agreement is reached among the classes, factions and regions of the country<br />
resolving the question: How can the resources of the country best be<br />
mobilized to provide for the "General Welfare" of the people of the country.<br />
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Discussions of Public Banking, the definitions of money, and how the<br />
government's activities are to be financed will be important parts of that<br />
debate. Also, the very difficult problem of the concentration of wealth,<br />
along with the related question of the monopoly power of corporations must<br />
be addressed.<br />
<br />
As long as human beings are involved in this process the future is unlikely<br />
to be any better than the past. I am not hopeful.<br />
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James P. Savage III; reprinted here without permission it is so excellent and timelyusssaratoga2http://www.blogger.com/profile/12858069172316384963noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7451215251783656871.post-39473779358336201332011-12-22T19:49:00.000-08:002011-12-22T19:49:38.713-08:00Meandering machinations of a Minarchist"Constitutionalities"<br />
I would think none of us here is a Constitutional lawyer, but I can hope to get some better interpretations if such a person were to step forward. I have always taken the "general welfare" clause to speak to the overall socio-economic health of the country, but that's just my take, which I try to inject all over to see what kind of response I will get...often agreeable, but always interested in other opinions. ...then there is always the powers of the states and people with the 10th, which could start local groundswells culminating in national referenda or real legislation, but that is also over my head; wrong field of endeavor ! I have a "pocket" Constitution right next to the computer that I place there a few years ago and use it as needed just to test myself if nothing else.<br />
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Our "Drone nation under foot"<br />
My real take on all the events of the present time is horrible, I feel the country is being pared down to a troglodytic/MIC/drone militaristic collection of would be targets so the super-rich can stay off-shore, outsourced, and capital flighted in relative safety as the spartanized American "watch-dog" nation controls and quells any "problems" the world may present to the "one world corporation"/NWO, etc. with Patraeus at the helm of the ISAF, aptly named as their website expounds about. <br />
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Federal Reserve thoughts:<br />
I wouldn't end the federal reserve banking regulation part, which is an obfuscatory part of the agency meant to confuse us of course, while the private fed banks are allowed to print/own/lend/hoarde fiat money as they see fit without any regulation (the ultimate de-regulation IMO), ie. counterfeiting it as outlined in art. 1, sec. 8, par. 6 (not par.5, coining; different problem). Then there are the other monetary "problems" of overprinting (QE disease), not basing the money supply on anything, except greed, with no ongoing, actionable prosecutions or even investigations to whit, except for the likes of Spitzer's attempt, and you see what that got him..won't get into JFK or LT McFadden, etc...you HAVE listened to at least part of JFKs speech tellingly from the Waldorf-Astoria on secret societies ? If anyone doesn't think there is a GIANT conspiracy coming to fruition at this time, they must be vacationing on the planet Mars !...of course you could just call it a "business plan"...like a hostile takeover ? When such a "business plan" is carried out such that some lose big time, then I call such a "conspiracy", which may or may not be legal of course...we may never know, and I'm too old to take up lawyering.<br />
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"America the dream" is failing: <br />
"little people out in the cold" to me would mean a continuation of the last 100 years with the finality of indebting all Americans into servitude to the government, with the lucky ones able to escape with at least some part of their supporting means intact. We are witnessing this transitional period now IMO, where the "America political idiom" is no longer a viable entity, as it fades into the dustbin of history as a failed experiment in freedom for all, esp. we the little people, due mostly to the greed and egotistical ways of those who have systematically ruined perhaps mankind's last best chance for a fair and peaceful world.usssaratoga2http://www.blogger.com/profile/12858069172316384963noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7451215251783656871.post-89637902989020048562011-12-17T03:33:00.001-08:002011-12-17T03:33:35.561-08:00Ron Paul vs Elizabeth Warren....interesting, telling, KEY !Neutral comment ? NOPE ; Both are WRONG IMO. Paul is too privatized and niggardly here, and Warren is too socialistic, but she displays a glimmer of hope for those who excel, who must be recognized and rewarded more than the indolent, incogitant and slothful. It's not that Paul is selfish really, but he's just too self-absorbed and doesn't generally reflect on the mutualism to any degree that would benefit mankind as it did in our distant tribal periods, where such was key to survival of the species, which has set a baseline of moralism and social doctrine ever since, as evidenced by the deaths of those civilizations that didn't honor such. One must guard against both ends of this spectrum, neither espousing the "spiders in a bottle" syndrome, nor the "sometin' fer nuttin" crowd either...self determination, pride in the work ethic and achievement, and a little golden rule to help those (minimally) who haven't got their bootstraps on right yet...but you don't give away the farm or weaken yourself and become part of the problem or the country will fail. <br />
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<a href="http://hnn.us/node/143399#disqus_thread">http://hnn.us/node/143399#disqus_thread</a>usssaratoga2http://www.blogger.com/profile/12858069172316384963noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7451215251783656871.post-56737549107877461792011-12-16T12:00:00.000-08:002011-12-16T12:00:54.945-08:00"The NDAA proves that a people of sheep invites a government of wolves"Constitutional Attorney Bruce Fein; NDAA (S-1867, HR-1540) is an Unprecedented Intrusion...being used to destroy what we are as a republic and as a nation. We are all terrorists now if we exist in the most seemingly normal, innocent of ways as we always have...like having more than 1 week's food and water in our homes or guns and ammunition of any amount.<br />
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Bruce Fein was deputy attorney general under President Ronald Reagan and is author of <br />
"Constitutional Peril: The Life and Death Struggle for Our Constitution and Democracy." <br />
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<a href="http://www.opednews.com/Podcast/Constitutional-Attorney-Br-by-Rob-Kall-111214-714.html">http://www.opednews.com/Podcast/Constitutional-Attorney-Br-by-Rob-Kall-111214-714.html</a>usssaratoga2http://www.blogger.com/profile/12858069172316384963noreply@blogger.com0