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Nidal Hasan was Homeland Security advisor on Obama transition team (Fort Hood Shooter?)

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 19:37:51 PST

Is the same Nidal Hasan? See page 32.

www.gwumc.edu/hspi/old/PTTF_ProceedingsReport_05.19.09.pdf

This video is interesting...you be the judge. Muslim terrorist do exist. Now who funds & trains them is a whole different story. All I know crazy things are going on in this country, things are going to get much worse. The enemies of freedom are everywhere. Don't trust the government or Mainstream Media. Arm yourselves with the truth, weapons, water filters,survival training & storable food.

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Clinic threatens to pull treatment, call cops for patient’s 1979 60 minutes swine flu vac report DVD

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 18:45:41 PST

Clinic threatens to pull treatment, call cops for patient’s swine flu DVDs

Told to sign ‘behavior agreement’

Joey G. Dauben
The Ellis County Observer

www.elliscountyobserver.com/

WAXAHACHIE, TEXAS – A kidney dialysis clinic threatened to pull treatment from an elderly patient who distributed DVDs warning of the dangers of the swine flu vaccine, and then was told to sign a “behavior agreement” to cease the practice.

The patient, who requested anonymity for fear that she would be retaliated against by doctors and medical staff for coming forward, was cited once before by specialists and office managers for distributing Aaron Russo’s America: From Freedom to Fascism as well, she said.

Located on Interstate 35 East and Farm to Market Road 66, the officer manager for FMC Dialysis Services who handed the patient the “behavior agreement” refused to comment.

“Our company is a large company, so I can’t comment,” the office manager said, who refused to give her name. “I don’t make company policy, I just follow it.”

The two-page behavior agreement came with an audio recording prohibition policy after the patient attempted to record meetings with the doctors and staff who threatened her.

The patient, who still must rely on the dialysis center for treatment, said she is fearful that causing “trouble” by coming to the press will cause the clinic to follow through on their threats.

The swine flu DVD, the patient said, was the 1979 60 Minutes clip that broadcast a report about the dangers of taking the swine flu vaccination.

Russo’s America: From Freedom to Fascism details the allegations into the unconstitutionality of the U.S. income tax, a film distributed widely among “tax honesty” advocates across the nation.

“Notice both documents say law enforcement will be called in if necessary,” the patient said. “The office manager threatened me several times with that if I didn’t sign the behavior agreement. Their handbook doesn’t have any of this in it. They repeatedly told me I had signed ‘the papers.’ They only produced [one] signed paper in which I gave my consent for dialysis treatments and acknowledged the risks of the treatments.”

Documents:

Page 1 | “Behavior Agreement”

Page 2 | “Behavior Agreement”

Page 1, 2 | Policy on Non-Audio Recording of Doctors, Staff:

Media Inquiries:

For patient: 972-937-4428/twotexashands@yahoo.com

For reporter: 972-891-2135/joeygdauben@gmail.com

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Excellent Article & Interview: How Goldman Sachs secretly bet on the U.S. housing crash

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:24:44 PST

By Greg Gordon | McClatchy Newspapers

WASHINGTON — In 2006 and 2007, Goldman Sachs Group peddled more than $40 billion in securities backed by at least 200,000 risky home mortgages, but never told the buyers it was secretly betting that a sharp drop in U.S. housing prices would send the value of those securities plummeting.

Goldman's sales and its clandestine wagers, completed at the brink of the housing market meltdown, enabled the nation's premier investment bank to pass most of its potential losses to others before a flood of mortgage defaults staggered the U.S. and global economies.....

Read full article here: www.mcclatchydc.com/227/story/77791.html

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Greg Gordon appeared on the Alex Jones radio/TV show this morning. 11/6/09 (video below, in 3 parts)

www.mcclatchydc.com/146

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Greg Gordon, an investigative reporter, has spent 30 years uncovering waste, fraud, abuse and misconduct in Washington. Since joining McClatchy’s national staff in 2006, he has helped expose partisanship in the Justice Department and gaps in U.S. homeland security. Earlier,, he spent 13 years with the Minneapolis Star Tribune, covering the prosecution of al Qaida terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui and writing about asbestos in the workplace, money and politics, aviation, law enforcement and the environment. He also worked for The Detroit News and United Press International, where he headed its investigative team and won the 1983 Raymond Clapper award for coverage of an EPA scandal. In 1990, he and co-author Ronald E. Cohen won Sigma Delta Chi's gold medal for their book "Down to the Wire," chronicling UPI's financial collapse. In 2008, he, along with Margaret Talev and Marisa Taylor, won a McClatchy ``President’s Award’’ and Scripps Howard’s Raymond Clapper Memorial Award for Washington reporting for exposing the Bush administration’s politicization of the Justice Department. This is Gordon's second Clapper Memorial Award.

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Why did blue-chip Goldman take a walk on subprime's wild side?

By Greg Gordon | McClatchy Newspapers

Goldman Sachs was one of the last Wall Street giants to enter the subprime lending world, but when it did, it quickly climbed into bed with profligate, highflying firms — companies such as New Century Financial Corp. » read more

Posted on Wed, November 4, 2009

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81-year-old Tasered by Eielson Air Force Base police

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:54:41 PST

by Chris Freiberg / cfreiberg@newsminer.com

FAIRBANKS — An 81-year-old man was Tasered during a traffic stop last week.

It is the second time since 1998 that police have had to make a show of force during a traffic stop to arrest Glen M. Wilcox, a Fairbanks-based Episcopalian priest and real estate agent.

Court documents allege that officers with Eielson Air Force Base’s 354th Security Forces Squadron pulled Wilcox over just after 1 p.m. Wednesday for going 11 miles over the speed limit on the Richardson Highway.

An officer, identified as a senior airman in court documents, took Wilcox’s license, registration and proof of insurance and wrote him a traffic citation. When he returned to Wilcox’s car, Wilcox refused to accept the documents and sped down the highway, according to a criminal complaint filed in court.

Wilcox disputes that version of events.

“They waved to me and I thought that meant I could go on,” Wilcox said. “They stopped me again and told me to get out of my car.”

Alaska State Troopers were notified of the incident, and the 354th “initiated a high-risk traffic stop” near 336 Mile Richardson Highway. When Wilcox, a former commander of the Civil Air Patrol, again stopped, he initially refused to roll down his window.

He eventually got out of his vehicle and was told to put his hands behind his back, something he claims is physically impossible for him.

“I showed them I could barely touch my fingertips and they insisted,” he said.

Charging documents allege Wilcox used profanity with the airmen. When they tried to handcuff him, Wilcox, described in court documents as being 6 feet 1 inch tall and 250 pounds, allegedly tried to jerk away from the airmen and used his body to push them around, a claim he also disputes.

After several warnings, one of the airmen used a Taser on Wilcox to take him into custody.

“It hurts like hell,” Wilcox said. “I’m laying on the ground when they Tasered me. It’s painful and very sharp.”

Wilcox said the incident left his arms bruised and he had to seek treatment at a doctor. He also obtained a lawyer but would not elaborate on how he intends to pursue the case.

“If I were their base commander, I would put them in jail,” he said. “Four young men in their 20s do not need to Taser and handcuff an 81-year-old.”

The next day, prosecutors dropped a charge of fourth-degree misdemeanor assault against Wilcox. He pleaded not guilty to counts of resisting arrest — a misdemeanor — and failure to stop at the direction of a peace officer, a felony. He later posted $250 bail.

Air Force regulations authorize law enforcement officials to use Tasers to arrest subjects who are actively resisting arrest or noncompliant with law enforcement orders, said Staff Sgt. James Stewart, a spokesman for Eielson. Regulations do not give different directives on how to deal with older subjects.

The airmen used a minimum amount of nonlethal force to resolve the situation, Stewart said.

In May 1998, Wilcox was accused of a similar incident when Fairbanks International Airport police pulled him over for driving with expired tags. Wilcox reportedly became belligerent with police and grabbed and twisted a female officer’s arm. In that case, he had to be pepper-sprayed to be taken into custody.

Wilcox said the truck he was driving at the time had an issue that it would not start again within five minutes of starting it up. He pulled the officer’s arm away to keep her from grabbing the key out of the ignition, he said.

He later pleaded guilty to a reduced count of disorderly conduct and a misdemeanor count of failure to stop at the direction of a peace officer. He successfully completed probation and more than 100 hours of community service.

Several people who said they knew Wilcox for decades wrote letters to the judge before sentencing, saying the incident was extremely out of character for him.

Contact staff writer Chris Freiberg at 459-7545.

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Was Fort Hood Killer On Psychotropic Drugs?

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:19:45 PST

Despite clear link between anti-depressants and mass shootings, media fails to ask if Hasan was on SSRI’s

Despite the fact that Fort Hood gunman Nidal Malik Hasan was a psychiatrist, the media has failed to even raise the question of whether he was taking psychotropic drugs before he gunned down over a dozen of his colleagues during yesterday’s tragic rampage, a hefty indictment of how the establishment rushes to blame politics, religion, gun rights, or any other factor for mass shootings in order to hide the direct link between such massacres and the use of anti-depressant drugs.

It has been confirmed that Hasan was an Army psychiatrist at Fort Hood. Psychiatrists have a history of “self-medication” because of the easy access they have to psychotropic drugs.

In almost every major mass shooting over the past two decades, since anti-depressant drugs became popular, the killer has been on SSRI’s – serotonin reuptake inhibitors.

The establishment media, allied closely as it is with the pharmaceutical industry, uniformly fails to stress this common factor, preferring instead to blame shootings on gun rights or, as in the case of Hasan, political motives.

However, any fair study of mass shootings cannot justifiably come to any other conclusion but the fact that SSRI’s play a central role in causing assassin’s to go berserk and engage in the kind of carnage that the average person struggles to comprehend.

Immediately after we learned of the Virginia Tech massacre, the largest mass shooting in U.S. history by a single gunman, we predicted that the assassin would be on psychotropic drugs, which is exactly what turned out to be the case.

Columbine shooters Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, as well as 15-year-old Kip Kinkel, the Oregon killer who gunned down his parents and classmates, were all on psychotropic drugs.

Robert Hawkins, the 19 year old who killed himself and eight other people with an assault rifle in Omaha, Nebraska in December 2007 had a history of treatment with psychiatric drugs for depression and ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) and was on prozac.

Jeff Weise, the Red Lake High School killer was on prozac, “Unabomber” Ted Kaczinski, Michael McDermott, John Hinckley, Jr., Byran Uyesugi, Mark David Chapman and Charles Carl Roberts IV, the Amish school killer, were all on SSRI psychotropic drugs.

Northern Illinois University killer Steven Kazmierczak had taken Prozac.

Since these deadly drugs are prevalent in almost all mass shooting incidents, where is the call to ban prozac? Why is the knee-jerk reaction always to attack the 2nd Amendment rights of Americans to self-defense? The fact that yesterday’s shooting occurred on an Army base is the only reason that the establishment media has been unable to blame the carnage on gun rights. Instead, they have exploited Hasan’s religion to stir up more hatred for Muslims in a crude attempt to reinvigorate flagging public support for the war on terror.

Scientific studies proving that prozac encourages suicidal tendencies are voluminous and span back nearly a decade.

In 2005, it was revealed that Eli Lilly had full knowledge of a 1200% increase in suicide risk for takers of their Prozac. This evidence came in the wake of findings published in the British Medical Journal a year previously.

In 2006 a report was published outlining the fact that anti-depressant drug Paxil doubles the risk of violent behavior. Another study published in the Archives of General Psychiatry revealed that teens taking antidepressant drugs are more likely to commit suicide.

It is a well known fact among the makers of these drugs that they are directly linked to behavioral disturbances including agitation, panic attacks and extreme aggression, yet their use is so commonplace that they have now even found their way into our drinking water.

The corporate media, owned as it is by the U.S. military-industrial complex, will continue to gratuitously and shamelessly exploit yesterday’s tragedy by characterizing Hasan’s religious and political beliefs as the main motivation behind the massacre, without even investigating whether or not he was taking psychotropic drugs and what role these played in why he suddenly snapped, a character trait completely at odds with how Hasan’s own family described his personality.

The videos below highlight the connection between psychotropic drugs and violence.

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Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Friday, November 6, 2009

URLs in this post:

[1] Prison Planet.com: http://prisonplanet.com

[2] Psychiatrists have a history of “self-medication”: http://www.prisonplanet.com../was-fort-hood-psychiatristshooter-on-drugs-that-cause-homicidalsuicidal-reactions-16-of-psychiatrists-%E2%80%9Cself-medicate%E2%80%9D.html

[3] exactly what turned out to be the case: http://archives.chicagotribune.com/2007/apr/18/nation/chi-0704170925apr18

[4] Image: http://infowars-shop.stores.yahoo.net/faofreprofba.html

[5] Robert Hawkins: http://infowars.net/articles/december2007/061207Shooter.htm

[6] was on prozac: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/26/national/26shoot.html?ex=1269493200&en=3f84c15a8b8943c4&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt

[7] had taken Prozac: http://edition.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/02/25/antidepressants.violence/

[8] Scientific studies: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/758763.stm

[9] 1200% increase in suicide risk: http://www.newstarget.com/003086.html

[10] British Medical Journal: http://www.prisonplanet.com../articles/december2004/311204elililly.htm

[11] Paxil doubles the risk of violent behavior: http://www.newstarget.com/020406.html

[12] published in the Archives of General Psychiatry : http://www.newstarget.com/020643.html

[13] found their way into our drinking water: http://www.prisonplanet.com../articles/august2004/080804prozacwater.htm

Flashback (Great Article): NPR News: National Pentagon Radio?

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:48:09 PST

NPR News: National Pentagon Radio?

By NORMAN SOLOMON

While the Iraqi government continued its large-scale military assault in Basra, the NPR reporter's voice from Iraq was unequivocal this morning: "There is no doubt that this operation needed to happen."

Such flat-out statements, uttered with journalistic tones and without attribution, are routine for the U.S. media establishment. In the "War Made Easy" documentary film, I put it this way: "If you're pro-war, you're objective. But if you're anti-war, you're biased. And often, a news anchor will get no flak at all for making statements that are supportive of a war and wouldn't dream of making a statement that's against a war."

So it goes at NPR News, where -- on "Morning Edition" as well as the evening program "All Things Considered" -- the sense and sensibilities tend to be neatly aligned with the outlooks of official Washington. The critical aspects of reporting largely amount to complaints about policy shortcomings that are tactical; the underlying and shared assumptions are imperial. Washington's prerogatives are evident when the media window on the world is tinted red-white-and-blue.

Earlier this week -- a few days into the sixth year of the Iraq war -- "All Things Considered" aired a discussion with a familiar guest.

"To talk about the state of the war and how the U.S. military changes tactics to deal with it," said longtime anchor Robert Siegel, "we turn now to retired Gen. Robert Scales, who's talked with us many times over the course of the conflict."

This is the sort of introduction that elevates a guest to truly expert status -- conveying to the listeners that expertise and wisdom, not just opinions, are being sought.

Siegel asked about the progression of assaults on U.S. troops over the years: "How have the attacks and the countermeasures to them evolved?"

Naturally, Gen. Scales responded with the language of a military man. "The enemy has built ever-larger explosives," he said. "They've found clever ways to hide their IEDs, their roadside bombs, and even more diabolical means for detonating these devices."

We'd expect a retired American general to speak in such categorical terms -- referring to "the enemy" and declaring in a matter-of-fact tone that attacks on U.S. troops became even more "diabolical." But what about an American journalist?

Well, if the American journalist is careful to function with independence instead of deference to the Pentagon, then the journalist's assumptions will sound different than the outlooks of a high-ranking U.S. military officer.

In this case, an independent reporter might even be willing to ask a pointed question along these lines: You just used the word "diabolical" to describe attacks on the U.S. military by Iraqis, but would that ever be an appropriate adjective to use to describe attacks on Iraqis by the U.S. military?

In sharp contrast, what happened during the "All Things Considered" discussion on March 24 was a conversation of shared sensibilities. The retired U.S. Army general discussed the war effort in terms notably similar to those of the ostensibly independent journalist -- who, along the way, made the phrase "the enemy" his own in a followup question.

It wouldn't be fair to judge an entire news program on the basis of a couple of segments. But I'm a frequent listener to "All Things Considered" and "Morning Edition." Such cozy proximity of world views, blanketing the war maker and the war reporter, is symptomatic of what ails NPR's war coverage -- especially from Washington.

Of course there are exceptions. Occasional news reports stray from the narrow baseline. But the essence of the propaganda function is repetition, and the exceptional does not undermine that function.

To add insult to injury, NPR calls itself public radio. It's supposed to be willing to go where commercial networks fear to tread. But overall, when it comes to politics and war, the range of perspectives on National Public Radio isn't any wider than what we encounter on the avowedly commercial networks.

www.counterpunch.org/solomon03272008.html

Norman Solomon is the author of Made Love, Got War.

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National Propaganda Radio (NPR)

by Phil Duffy

Read Full Article Here: www.lewrockwell.com/orig5/duffy-p5.html

Judge rules activist's beliefs on climate change akin to religion

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 11:14:34 PST

Tim Nicholson entitled to protection for his beliefs, and his claim over dismissal will now be heard by a tribunal

www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/nov/03/tim-nicholson-climate-change-belief

Karen McVeigh
guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 3 November 2009 20.42 GMT

Tim Nicholson leaves an employment tribunal at Audit House, London. Photograph: Anthony Devlin/PA

When Rupert Dickinson, the chief executive of one of Britain's biggest property firms, left his BlackBerry behind in London while on a business trip to Ireland, he simply ordered one of his staff to get on a plane and deliver the device to him.

For Dickinson's then head of sustainability, Tim Nicholson, the errand was much more than an executive indulgence: it embodied the contempt with which his boss treated his deep philosophical beliefs about climate change.

In a significant decision today , a judge found Nicholson's views on the environment were so deeply held that they were entitled to the same protection as religious convictions, and ruled that an employment tribunal should hear his claim that he was sacked because of his beliefs.

The judgment could open the door for people to take their employers to tribunals over their stance on a range of issues, from animal rights to feminism.

Earlier this year, Nicholson, 42, claimed that his beliefs had put him at odds with senior executives at his former employer Grainger, the UK's largest listed residential property company. When he was made redundant in July last year, he launched his legal action.

He alleged that while the firm had good written policies on the environment it had refused to abide by them, and claimed that when he tried to encourage the company to become more responsible, he was obstructed by his bosses. Dickinson, in particular, had shown "contempt" for his beliefs, Nicholson told the employment appeal tribunal, citing the BlackBerry incident as evidence.

In today's ruling, Mr Justice Michael Burton decided that: "A belief in man-made climate change, and the alleged resulting moral imperatives, is capable if genuinely held, of being a philosophical belief for the purpose of the 2003 Religion and Belief Regulations." Under those regulations it is unlawful to discriminate against a person on the grounds of their religious or philosophical beliefs.

The written ruling, which looked at whether philosophy could be underpinned by a scientific belief, quoted from Bertrand Russell's History of Western Philosophy and ultimately concluded that a belief in climate change, while a political view about science, can also be a philosophical one. The same judge ruled last year that Al Gore's environmental documentary An Inconvenient Truth was political and partisan as he assessed whether it should be shown to schools.

Nicholson's solicitor, Shah Qureshi, said: "This case confirms, for the ever increasing number of people who take a philosophical stance on the environment and climate change, and who lead their lives according to those principles, that they are protected from discrimination."

In March, employment judge David Neath gave Nicholson permission to take the firm to tribunal over his treatment, but the ruling was challenged by Grainger on the grounds that green views are not the same as religious or philosophical beliefs. The firm maintained that environmental views are political and a "lifestyle choice" which cannot be compared to religion or philosophy.

Legal experts said tonight the ruling could usher in future damages claims over the way firms handle environmental concerns. Peter Mooney, head of the Employment Law Advisory Service, said: "This would open the floodgates for others who believe their employers have victimised them simply because of their views on the environment."

Camilla Palmer, of Leigh Day and Co, said it opened doors for an even wider category of deeply held beliefs, such as feminism, vegetarianism or humanism. "It's a great decision. Why should it only be religions which are protected?"

At the Employment Appeal Tribunal last month, Dinah Rose QC, for Nicholson, said: "The philosophical belief in this case is that mankind is headed towards catastrophic climate change and that, as a result, we are under a duty to do all that we can to live our lives so as to mitigate or avoid that catastrophe for future generations. It addresses the question, what are the duties that we own to the environment and why?"

Nicholson, who now works for the 10:10 climate change campaign running its health care strand, said he was delighted by the ruling. He said: "It is the moral and ethical values that I hold that have motivated me to action on climate change and these moral and ethical values are similar to those promoted by the world's major religions."

However, he did not believe that climate change was the new religion, because "it is based on scientific evidence, not faith or spirituality".

Grainger's corporate affairs director, Dave Butler, said: "This decision merely confirms that views on the importance of environmental protection are capable of amounting to a philosophical belief.

"Grainger absolutely maintains, as it has done from the very outset of these proceedings, that Mr Nicholson's redundancy was driven solely by the operational needs of the company."

Five tests

In his written judgment, Mr Justice Burton outlined five tests to determine whether a philosophical belief could come under employment regulations on religious discrimination

• The belief must be genuinely held.

• It must be a belief and not an opinion or view based on the present state of information available.

• It must be a belief as to a weighty and substantial aspect of human life.

• It must attain a certain level of cogency, seriousness, cohesion and importance.

• It must be worthy of respect in a democratic society, not incompatible with human dignity and not conflict with the fundamental rights of others.

Humanism was given as an example meeting the criteria, while belief in a political party or the supreme nature of Jedi knights, from the Star Wars movies, were offered as ones that do not.

• This article was amended on Wednesday 4 November 2009 to make clear Tim Nicholson's current role.

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Gore Not Interested In Solutions To Climate Change That Don’t Line His Pockets

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Thursday, November 5, 2009

Al Gore has been on the defensive over his financial motives for pushing for a cap and trade system to reduce CO2 emissions, arguing that he is merely putting his money where his mouth is, however, a startling revelation in a recent Newsweek article proves that Gore is only interested in solutions to environmental problems that line his pockets.

For argument’s sake, let’s accept the highly contentious premise that the life-giving gas that humans exhale and plants absorb, carbon dioxide, is a dastardly evil threat to the planet, despite the fact that Al Gore himself admits CO2 is not the major driver of global warming.

If there was a solution to neutralize CO2 emissions that didn’t involve devastating the economy, taxing the citizens into oblivion, de-industrializing the west and giving government huge regulatory powers over our private lives, would Al Gore, Maurice Strong and the rest of the kingpins of the globalist environmental movement be interested?

You can bet your bottom dollar they’re not interested.

One of Gore’s global warming advisors, CEO Timothy LaSalle, told Gore’s team that CO2 emissions could be neutralized completely by clever use of agriculture and technology, without the need for a global carbon tax or the use of cap and trade systems that Gore, along with people like the Rothschilds, Maurice Strong and Barack Obama, have a huge financial stake in promoting.

The Newsweek article states:

“If we feed the biology and manage grasslands appropriately, we could sequester as much carbon as we emit,” says Timothy LaSalle, CEO of the Rodale Institute, who presented at two summits. The political clash is this: if you tell people soils can be managed to suck up lots of our carbon emissions, it sounds like a get-out-of-jail-free card, and could decrease what little enthusiasm there is for reducing those emissions—as one of Gore’s assistants told LaSalle in asking him to dial down his estimate. (He didn’t.)

So there you have it – LaSalle proposed a way of solving the CO2 issue but was basically told to shove it by Gore’s team because the methods he advocated would eliminate the need for what Gore and his cronies are really pursuing, nightmare regulation, taxation, and control over American’s lives, along with billions of dollars flooding into the coffers of Gore and the rest of the “carbon billionaire” globalists via the carbon trading systems they own.

“Could it be that Mr Gore and his team want the US economy and its free market system to be overturned regardless of the science? Could it be that they do not want to know about any science that does not allow them to tax and interfere in the lives of every American?” ask Ann McElhinney and Phelim McAleer.

“This is an outrageous interference in science for a political purpose. But what is the political purpose? Al Gore has called for stopping the use of fossil fuels and the complete restructuring of the economy in the US within ten years but when offered a chance to remove “harmful” CO2 from the atmosphere his team tries to change the science.”

That’s because Gore doesn’t give a damn about the science and he doesn’t give a damn about the environment. Like the rest of the vultures circling around the rich pickings of the global warming fraud, his only interest is in feasting on the corpse of the U.S. economy and the American taxpayer once he manages to ram though the cap and trade scam that will enrich the very carbon trading systems he owns.

(Live 9 am-1 pm) TODAY ON THE ALEX JONES SHOW: Ron Paul,Laurence Kotlikoff, Joe Rogan (In Studio)

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 09:33:58 PST

Alex welcomes back to the show physician, member of the Liberty Caucus and Republican Congressman for the state of Texas Ron Paul. Alex also talks with professor of economics at Boston University, fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, fellow of the Econometric Society, and former senior economist of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers, Laurence Kotlikoff. Comedian, actor and longtime color commentator for the Ultimate Fighting Championship, Joe Rogan, will be in-studio. Alex covers the latest important news items and takes your calls.

Show info & listening options: www.infowars.com/listen.html

The show reloops all day.

ELEMENTARY EPIDEMIC: 11 Uncovered Videos Show School Children Performing Praises to Obama

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:42:18 PST

Check it out here: www.prisonplanet.com/elementary-epidemic-11-uncovered-videos-show-school-children-performing-praises-to-obama.html

Conservatives’ Blind Support of Our Troops and Their Unintended Defense of the Big Lie

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:01:49 PST

Kevin Copenhagen
Infowars
November 4, 2009

Monday night I attended the “Stand Up America” rally in Houston hosted by the North Houston Tea Party Patriots. And while I feel the event was a resounding success, I couldn’t help but get a feeling of despair among 15,000 patriotic Americans who truly do want to see our country restored to the Constitutional Republic under which it was formed. These are all good, hard-working, salt-of-the-earth people who simply want government out of their lives as every American should. And I couldn’t agree more.

No, it’s not that feeling of hope and determination to see our country freed from the grips of corruption and the abject dismissal of the public will by our “elected” leaders which caused me such despair. It was the fact that while so many of these great Americans are so right on so many issues, they have for the most part, fallen hook, line and sinker for the Big Lie. These are the red-blooded Americans who have drunk the “Islamo-fascist” Kool-Aid served up by the main stream media, especially Fox News, and created by the Pentagon, NGOs, “think-tanks” and intelligence agencies of the world. This delusion is akin to the left-wing liberals and “progressives” who drank and still consume the “Change we can believe in” lie which swept Obama into office last year.

We were told more that 8 years ago that 9/11 changed everything. We have largely bought that lie, collectively, as a nation and because of this, let the powers that be run roughshod over our Constitution, our rule of law and our way of life all in the name of “security” and defending our homeland from the “evil doers” of the world. From this lie, has risen in this country a fervent patriotism and attitude that America can do no wrong in the world. We’re the “good guys” after all.

So while all these Tea Partiers, 9-12 activists, Red-Staters and conservative Republicans are right on so many issues such as ending the Federal Reserve system, abolishing the income tax, enforcing states rights, the global warming hoax, blocking Cap & Trade and the abysmal government “health-care” reform, and massively reducing the size and scope of our federal bureaucracy, they are dead wrong on their unflinching and unwitting support of “our troops.” They still believe that “you’re either with us, or you’re with the terrorists.” What a slick sales (con) job that line was…

Now don’t get me wrong here. As an honorably discharged Army veteran who served four years for his country, I know many people will get offended by that last statement, so let me explain further.

If you’ve ever read George Orwell’s, 1984, you know that, “Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia.” This seems eerily similar to the lie that we’ve been sold about the terrorist threat to our country. The lie that we need a “100-year war” because this enemy doesn’t abide by the “traditional” rules of war (whatever THAT means), and that we need to take the battle to them so we don’t end up with a “mushroom cloud” over here, is just that: a LIE. Perhaps a quick review of history will drive home this point:

“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.

- Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Propaganda Minister

Why of course the people don’t want war. Why should some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally the common people don’t want war neither in Russia, nor in England, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.

-Hermann Goering, President of the Nazi Reichstag

It is precisely this “Islamo-fascist/War on Terror” lie which is propagated by not only right-wing media personalities such as Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh and Bill O’Reilly among many others, but an increasing amount of left-wing media talking-heads like Chris Matthews, Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow as well now that “their guy” is in power. The war is suddenly OK. “Obama is just doing his best to clean up Bush’ mess. There’s only so much he can do, you know.” Yeah, right.

Well, my fellow patriotic Americans, it’s not OK.

It’s not OK that we went into Iraq, killled over 1.3 million innocent civilians, polluted their soil and water with depleted uranium munitions, displaced millions of other Iraqis, and have turned their country into a third-world cesspool so that we could control their oil. It’s not OK that we went into Afghanistan so that we could re-invigorate the opium trade (which had been all but decimated by the Taliban), keep the black market money flowing to fund the CIA, ISI, MI6, Mossad, etc., and ensure record crops of poppy fields while “our troops” stand guard. Pat Tillman was about to come home and expose it all until he was murdered by his own government.

So, my fellow Americans, please understand that when you blindly say you “support the troops” because that’s what good Americans do, you are only supporting the individual and NOT their command or their mission. For it has been proven that their mission is a lie, a fraud, unconstitutional and illegal. Support the individual and pray for their safety – not only from our “supposed” enemies who are merely defending their own homeland, sovereignty, property and natural resources, but from those in our own government who use them merely as instruments in their sick and twisted game of global empire and world domination. As Henry Kissinger, one of the long-time establishment’s “elite” minions and another questionable winner of the Nobel “Peace” Prize, so bluntly put it, “Military men are just dumb stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.” This is the same attitude of your leaders in DC.

Yes, it is sad that our troops have been reduced to the heavy hand enforcers of western “democracy” under a corrupt and tyrannical American government. Our troops are now nothing more than the strong arm of the global mafia: the cabal of central banks and greedy corporations of the world working in concert to rob the wealth of nations and impoverish and enslave the good people of the world. These criminals own the entire military industrial complex, to include the “troops” and these are the same people pushing hard for their “global government” which will be pushed further down the path to realization in Copenhagen, Denmark this December under the guise of once again, “saving humanity from itself.”

These so-called “elite” are the true destroyers of humanity and all that is good in the world and they have the nerve to use false patriotism and wrap themselves in the American flag as they send our sons and daughters, brothers and sisters and fathers and mothers off to fight and die in unjust wars in foreign lands. Not to protect and defend our Constitution, our ideals, our morals and our way of life, but to ensure the corporate takeover of the world; to enable the raping and pillaging of sovereign lands not for the gain of world peace or “democracy”, but of PROFIT and greater and greater power; and to lead humanity towards the neo-feudal system which has been their dream and ultimate end game for decades, if not centuries.

If nothing else in my life, I have learned one very important lesson: if you want to get to the truth about anything, you need to only figure out two things:

1. Who is benefitting from this?

and

2. Follow the money.

By simply taking the time and doing your own research, your due diligence and your duty not only as an American citizen, but as a member of all humanity, you will always come to the truth. As it was written in Matthew 7:7, “Ask, and it shall be given to you, seek and ye shall find, knock and it shall be opened unto you.”

So I put this challenge out to ALL my fellow patriots, freedom-fighters, conservatives, libertarians and liberals alike: Seek the TRUTH and ye shall find.

Reject the corporate controlled main stream media, especially the NeoCon conservative talk show hosts around the country – and yes, this includes Glenn Beck, your so-called libertarian “hero.” I know this will come as a shock to most of you who hang on his every word, but he is not your friend. He is paid VERY WELL to lead you all to a false conclusion, especially on matters of the war on terror and the “Islamo-fascist” threat. He is a Judas goat. He was given a $50 million contract! You don’t think that someone, somewhere has an ulterior motive behind paying this former alcoholic that kind of money? All he does is help to propagate the Big Lie by giving you so much of the truth that you actually believe there is no way he can be wrong about anything else, right? Wrong.

How wrong? He was wrong about Ron Paul and popped up to demonize the movement last year just as Ron Paul was gaining his greatest momentum. He is wrong about 9/11, claims the official government report and Popular Mechanics article is the definitive truth and labels anyone calling for a real, comprehensive and scientific investigation of the greatest crime ever committed on American soil, a Kook. He was wrong about the Patriot Act, which he supported. He was wrong about he banker bailout, which he supported. He was wrong about the FEMA camps which has been thoroughly proven in the brilliant new documentary, Camp FEMA: American Lockdown.

He is basically wrong about the Big Issues; the important key points which will expose the true hijackers of our liberties and leads you astray down the path of “hope.” Where have we heard that word bandied about before? Hmmm? Hope is number 3 on his list of 12 values the 9-12 movement, which he created, abides by. Hope is a false and empty emotion which only leads to inaction. He’ll take your hope and lead you all right off the cliff. That’s exactly for what he’s paid the big bucks.

Always remember this. You could eat the most beautiful, juicy and delicious apple in the world, but if there is just one drop of cyanide in that apple, it will most likely kill you. That’s the essential purpose of the corporate-controlled media. They are not there to inform or educate, they are there to indoctrinate. They are there to perpetuate the false left/right paradigm so as to divide and conquer a nation. They are there to lie, spin, distort and stretch reality to fit a pre-determined agenda. The are controlled ultimately by the same people, corporations, and monied interests who control the Federal Reserve banking system which is destroying our country by design. It’s all about control and manipulation of our minds, our thoughts, our beliefs, our attitudes, and thus, our actions.

Unfortunately, the vast majority of the conservative minds in this country have fallen victim to the manipulation of the Big Lie, which is the “War on Terror.” It’s no more than the modern incarnation of the “War on Poverty”, the “War on Cancer”, or the “War on Drugs.” All of which, I might add, have been colossal failures while lining the pockets and increasing the power of the authoritarian establishment which has benefitted from them all.

Ultimately, all the belief in the Big Lie will do is cripple the patriot movement as the outrage against the Democrats and the damage they’ve done to our nation will increase support for the Republicans. And the fake, NeoCon “conservatives” will once again be swept into power. All the while, the hundred-year war rages on as one puppet of the establishment replaces another. This is the purpose and mission of Glenn Beck. He is paid controlled opposition designed to further the establishments goals – not to re-ignite the spirit of the American freedom fighter. Quit buying into the Big Lie. You’re smarter than that.

And ask yourself the next time you blindly cheer in support of our troops, “who is benefitting from this?” Is it the country and citizens of Iraq or Afghanistan? Is it the believers of the essentially peaceful Islamic religion? Is it our troops coming home maimed, traumatized, poisoned and in body bags? Or is it Halliburton, KBR, BP Amoco, Exxon Mobil, CACI, Dyncorp, Blackwater, L3 Communications, Raytheon, Titan , GE, McDonnell Douglas and so on and so on….? Is it our federal government who has since 2001, gutted our Constitution in a power grab never before seen in American history? Who has benefitted? Follow the money. Seek the TRUTH. And if you really do support the troops, fight, with everything you have to end these illegal wars of aggression and empire-building so that we can bring them home to do what they’re sworn to do: protect our borders from foreign invasion, and protect and defend the Constitution of the United States of America!

Postscript:

I am not a writer. I am an American. I am simply someone who is fed up with the establishment , the “elite” and the way things are not only in this country, but around the world. I am also fed up with the apathy, ignorance and arrogance of much of the American populace. I sat down today to scribble down some thoughts and the words just flowed out of my mind. You see, I know and have come to the understanding that if ONLY the people would wake up to the truth and realize the lies we’ve been told by those in power for so long, that we could peacefully take our world back from the darkness which has descended over it. Creating AWARENESS is the key and I’m just merely trying to do my little part.

I woke up over 2 ½ years ago and my journey down the rabbit hole has been enlightening, educational, sometimes frightening and time-consuming, to say the least. I have done thousands of hours of research, to include reading books about TRUE history, reading hundreds of articles from alternative media uncontrolled by corporations, and watched hundreds of documentaries; some better than others and some, a complete waste of time.

I recently moved to Texas from Chicago to be closer to family and because it is increasingly becoming a God-forsaken police-state hell hole of a city in which to live. I was even on one occasion pulled over, had guns drawn on me, cuffed, frisked, searched and had my rights completely violated for simply being white in a black neighborhood at night. Ironically, I was simply out of filtered water and on the way to the store get some more because I refuse to ingest their “healthy” fluoride. I attended the Tea Party last night to network and get involved with the local patriot organizations so I can do what I can to help restore our Republic, but I am still amazed at how many people are so snowed by the right-wing media, Fox News and especially Glenn Beck. I and many others like me, (I guess those with a lot of discernment) can see right through the guy’s little bait-and-switch, snake-oil salesman act.

I decided to sit down and write out my thoughts because of the adoration I saw last night for Glenn and the apparent NeoCon conservatives running the show. I hear them on the radio and just want to scream as they perpetuate the lies over and over. I felt I needed to reach out to these people because they are passionate in their beliefs and are working so hard to do what they can to help out our country. But they’re wrong on this one issue and it’s a HUGE issue. We can get this country back and return to a peaceful and prosperous nation once these criminals are removed from power. But that can’t happen as long as the conservatives think the only problem is the liberals and the socialists. It’s much, much bigger than that and we all need to understand and discover the Big Lie if we’re to move forward in the right direction.

We need to be told the whole truth and nothing but the truth, so help us, God. Replacing Democrats with war-mongering NeoCons simply because they’re Republican, is NOT the answer to what ails our country. The left/right paradigm is an integral part of the Big Lie. We need to realize that and shatter these false beliefs once and for all. What we need are candidates and politicians, be they Libertarian, Green, Democrat, Republican, liberal, conservative or whatever label they want to put on themselves, who have SWORN to SUPPORT and DEFEND The Constitution of the United States of America. Nothing more, nothing less. They need to be vetted to make sure they are for real. The only thing which will save this country at this point is the TRUTH, justice and Constitutional candidates sworn to uphold the law of our land. Ron Paul, Marcy Kaptur, Chuck Baldwin, Charles Key, Alan Grayson, Dennis Kucinich, and Brad Sherman, are all stellar examples of the type of person we should all be supporting for public office. Just because they have an “R” next to their name, doesn’t mean they’re going to be good for our country and uphold true, conservative values. We’ve been lied to by many Republicans in the past and we’ll be lied to by more in the future.

So you may be asking yourself, how do I get the truth and how do I know it’s the truth? If the main stream media is attacking it, demonizing it, marginalizing it, calling it kooky or a conspiracy theory, you can probably be sure you’re on the right path. Use your common sense and your discernment. Follow the money and figure out who benefits. To help you on your journey, I have created a list of documentaries, websites, writers and books which are all excellent sources of truth in our world. It is what helped me to wake up to all of this and should be mandatory education for all Americans.

After all, freedom isn’t free and we need to spend the time necessary to educate ourselves about our TRUE history. We have become the most over-entertained and under-educated nation in the world and we are about to reap what we’ve sown for the past 100 years. Learn this information and share it with others in your circle of influence. This is how we get our country back. The Soviet Union was taken down by fax machines. We can restore our Republic with DVDs, flyers, the internet and by simply talking to our neighbors. It’s a simple equation, people. Do the work and reap the rewards. Ignore the obvious, continue the intellectual laziness, get sucked into the Matrix of pop culture, mainstream media and propaganda, believe the lies and suffer the consequences. The choice is ours. The time is now. The rEVOLution is dependent upon us all.

Thank you for reading.

Sources of TRUTH (By Topic):

Troops, War and the Global Establishment who benefit from their exploitation:

Documentaries

So you say you support the troops? These two must -see documentaries will expose you to the devastating truth about what you’re really supporting:

Beyond Treason - by William Lewis (2005) Exposes the probable causes of Gulf War Syndrome which has adversely affected over 250,000 troops who served in the first Gulf War. Also reveals secret tests done on our military “guinea pigs” and the cover-ups which followed. Allows you to see what your government REALLY thinks about the “troops.”

Iraq For Sale: The War Profiteers - by Robert Greenwald (2006) Exposes the true purpose of war and how American taxpayers are being fleeced to the tune of Billions while back-room deals with political cronies line the pockets of military industrial complex and the elected and un-elected officials allow them to do so. Shows how money and greed dominate the business of war while our troops suffer the consequences over and over. Mind-blowing information you’ll never hear on the nightly news.

For further research on the topic of war and how our troops are used as mere pawns by the establishment “elite”, I highly recommend War Made Easy: How President and Pundits Keep Spinning Us To Death and Terrorstorm: A History of Government Sponsored Terrorismwhich is the definitive historical documentary of how all wars are and have been created through staged events and manipulation of public fear by the ruling class of the time. Highly educational!

Books

A Century of War : Anglo-American Oil Politics and the NWO by F. William Engdahl, 2004 (312 Pages)

War is a Racket by General Smedley D. Butler, 1935 (80 Pages)

Alternative News Websites Reporting Truth, Exposing Government Corruption and Media Spin

www.infowars.com

www.prisonplanet.com

www.globalresearch.ca

www.corbettreport.com

www.newswithviews.com

www.theinterrnationalforecaster.com

www.americanfreepress.net

www.trendsresearch.com

www.whatreallyhappened.com

www.redicecreations.com

www.tvnewslies.org

www.lewrockwell.com

www.informationclearinghouse.info

www.blacklistednews.com

www.rense.com

www.counterthink.com

Health News and Information

www.naturalnews.com

www.mercola.com

www.russellblaylockmd.com

www.healthfreedomusa.org

Podcasts and Alternative Radio Shows:

The Alex Jones Show, The Corbett Report, Wall Street Unspun with Peter Schiff, Solutions Not Politics with Devvy Kidd, Radio Liberty with Dr. Stan Monteith, Coast to Coast AM with George Noory, The Jeff Rense Program, Red Ice Radio

Federal Reserve System:

Documentaries (Most are available for free on Google Video or YouTube)

Fiat Empire – Why The Federal Reserve Violates the Constitution (58 minutes)

The Money Masters – How International Bankers Gained Control Of America (3 hours, 28 minutes)

Money As Debt (Animated, very educational, great for children) (47 minutes)

Life On The Edge of a Bubble: Blowing The American Dream (95 minutes)

Zeitgeist Addendum (125 minutes)

Books

The Creature From Jekyll Island, by G. Edward Griffin, 1994 (608 Pages)

Web of Debt: The Shocking Truth About Our Monetary System, by Ellen Brown, 2007 (544 Pages)

The Most Secret Science, by Archibald Roberts, Lt. Col., AUS, ret., 1984 (199 Pages)

End The Fed, by Dr. Ron Paul, US Congressman, Texas , 2009 (210 Pages)

Websites

www.webofdebt.com

www.themoneymasters.com

www.fiatempire.com

http://endthfedusa.ning.com

The Income Tax:

Documentaries

America: Freedom to Fascism

Piercing the Illusion: The Truth Behind The Income Tax

Theft By Deception: Deciphering the Income Tax Code

Media Spin, Lies, and Manipulation of the Public Perception:

Documentaries

Big Brother, The Big Picture - David Icke

Behind the Big News: Propaganda and the CFR – John Birch Society

Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch’s War on Journalism – Robert Greenwald

WMD: Weapons Of Mass Deception – Danny Schechter

The “elite”, The Shadow Government; Who are the “They” we’re talking about:

Documentaries

Endgame: Blueprint for Global Enslavement - Alex Jones (2007)

The Committee of 300 – John Coleman (1992)

Ring of Power: Empire of the City (2006)

The Obama Deception - Alex Jones (2009)

Fall of the Republic – Alex Jones (2009)

Books

The Committee of 300 by John Coleman, 1992, (487 Pages)

Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time by Carroll Quigley, 1975 (1348 Pages)

None Dare Call It Conspiracy by Gary Allen, 1976 (197 Pages)

How the World Really Works by Alan B. Jones, 1997 (336 Pages)

The True Story of the Bilderberg Group by Daniel Estulin, 2007 (432 Pages)

Rule By Secrecy by Jim Marrs, 2001 (480 Pages)

The Rockefeller File by Gary Allen, 1976 (195 Pages)

The Shadows of Power: The CFR and the American Decline by James Perloff, 1988 (264 Pages)

9/11 Truth:

Documentaries

9/11 Blueprint for Truth: The Architecture of Destruction – Richard Gage, 2008 (119 minutes)*

*if you watch no other documentaries about 9/11, make sure you watch this one FIRST!

Loose Change 9/11: An American Coup – Dylan Avery, 2009 (99 minutes)

9/11 Mysteries Part 1: Demolitions - Sofia Smallstorm, 2006 (122 minutes)

The Great Conspiracy: The 9/11 News Special You Never Saw - Barry Zwicker, 2004 (70 minutes)

Fabled Enemies - Jason Bermas, 2008 (102 Minutes)

The New American Century - Massimo Mazzucco, 2009 (95 minutes)

The 9/11 Issue: The Key To Stopping WWIII – Webster Griffin Tarpley, 2006 (120 minutes)

Books

The New Pearl Harbor by David Ray Griffin, 2004 (214 Pages)

9/11 Synthetic Terror: Made In The USA by Webster Griffin Tarpley, 4th ed. 2007 (512 Pages)

The Mysterious Collapse Of World Trade Center by David Ray Griffin, 2009 (328 Pages)

False Flag 911: How Bush, Cheney and the Saudis Created the Post-9/11 World by Philip Marshall, 2008

(152 Pages)

Websites

www.911blogger.com Great source of information and links

www.ae911truth.org Architects and Engineer for 9/11 Truth

www.911truth.org Investigation. Education. Accountability. Reform.

www.sjt911.com Scholars for 9/11 Truth & Justice

www.wearechange.org We Are Change Main Website

www.patriotsquestion911.com 2000+ Military, Government Officials, Engineers, Pilots, Survivors, Family\

Members, Professors, Artists, Entertainers and Media Professionals ALL Question 9/11

www.pilotsfor911truth.org Professional Pilots Join Together to Question and Expose Inaccuracies

www.firefightersfor911truth.org Firefighters around the country question the improbable fall of the towers

www.fealgoodfoundation.com Non-profit organization supporting the first-responders. Someone’s gotta do it since our government is NOT!

You are NOT alone! WE are NOT alone! Learn the TRUTH and SPREAD the TRUTH! Clearly this is not a comprensive list, but it’s a good start do begin the process of de-programming your mind. I could go on and on, but in the interest of time, I’m going to end it here.

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You guys are right about Sam Heath....

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:56:09 PST

I posted a comment that I felt related to one of his topics & he deleted it.

people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/samheath/51412

His excuse was that I posted a video & some of his readers have dial up. After I noticed the deletion of my comment, I asked Sam why he didn't simply ask me to remove the video. I also stated that I was not going to be a reader of his blog after he decided to censor me. I let him post on my blogs. I even let him go off topic. I enjoy seeing where blog comments lead. I am just happy to see people engaging each other in the political arena. Yeah sure I would like it better if people kept more on topic, but who I am to censor folks? I have respect for everyone here, even my detractors. It's exciting to see so many of you skipping out on mindless television shows to post & comment on politically related blog topics. Keep up the good work.

Here is a comment left by Sam Heath on one of my recent posts titled 'Why is it bad to smoke weed and OK to sell beer'

Sam left this comment:

people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/Infowar/51179/sort_A/Offset50

posted by samheath on Oct 28, 2009 at 04:38 PM

Infowar: A major cause for promising posters to leave TBC blog over the past three years is the personal insults of those like RF. I have, once more, reported his violation of TOS to Jason. But such insults by implication are made to any that mention my name favorably and prevent many that read interesting posts such as yours afraid they will become the target of insults if they comment; this is caused "cyber bullying," and bullies should never be left to do their dirty work unchallanged,

Audrey: I have 24 books in print and am working on the 25th one now. The BC blog "readership" is not my "whole world" as you imply by demeaning those few not afraid to comment on my posts though you belittle them for doing so.

those few not afraid to comment on my posts

Sam I think "those few" commenting on your post are the ones you allow to post comments.

Personally I can't stand people who report on others every time they fart. If you can't handle the heat, then post about American Idol or the Next Top Chef.

Sometimes people are going to attack & disagree when you make your opinions public.

That is the nature of politics & open forums. Deal with it or start writing children's books.

Virgil & RF are annoying, but I don't report them. Sometimes I even agree with them on certain issues.

I sort of understand the reasoning for the deletion of my first comment Sammy (you could have at least asked me to remove the video first), you said I could post links though. I would have gladly edited the comment & posted a link to the video. Now I don't have a clue why you deleted my second comment. The only thing I said, was that I will not be reading your post anymore. I am slightly disappointed Sam, because I found some of your writings to be very interesting.
I am sure some of you will post comments in defense of Sam, especially because you don't like me to begin with. There is one thing you can count on when posting comments on my blogs.

You will not be

"The owner of this blog has blocked you from commenting"

I know it's praise you seek Sam. Good luck living in a bubble.

C'est la vie

Did any of you get your Costco Connection Magazine With the Global Warming Profiteer On The Cover?

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:19:08 PST

Buy 80 rolls of toilet paper, get a story from Al Gore

Published on November 2, 2009

blogs.tennessean.com/politics/2009/buy-80-rolls-of-toilet-paper-get-a-story-from-al-gore/

A cover story about former Vice President Al Gore’s new book, Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis, landed in my mailbox last week. Time? No. Newsweek? Nice try. Popular Science? Guess again.

The magazine was The Costco Connection, the wholesale giant’s monthly publication for members. Gore wrote a piece that was deemed an exclusive.

“Fortunately, there is a growing realization that the solutions to the climate crisis are also the most important solutions for the other two crises (the recession and national security),” the entrepreneur/author/Nobel Prize winner/Belle Meade resident wrote. “We can simultaneously protect our climate and establish stability for our economy and our national security.”

1 Responses to “Buy 80 rolls of toilet paper, get a story from Al Gore”

Dorothy Billings

November 2, 2009 at 1:52 pm

Finding the Costco Connection magazine in my mailbox with Al Gore’s picture on was akin to looking at porn. I was repulsed! What moronic company would endorse CAP and TAX when it’s bread and butter are small businesses like ours. We promptly closed our COSTCO account and opened an account at SAMS CLUB. Much better service, I might add, at SAMS. At least now we aren’t feeding the pig anymore.

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You can read the online version of the Costco Connection Publication here:www.costco.com/Service/FeaturePage.aspx

or go right to the ~~story~~ propaganda here: www.costcoconnection.com/connection/200911#pg27

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Here is an article from the Uk Telegraph

Al Gore could become world's first carbon billionaire

Al Gore, the former US vice president, could become the world's first carbon billionaire after investing heavily in green energy companies.

Published: 7:00AM GMT 03 Nov 2009

www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/energy/6491195/Al-Gore-could-become-worlds-first-carbon-billionaire.html

Al Gore: Al Gore could become world's first carbon billionaire Photo: AP

Last year Mr Gore's venture capital firm loaned a small California firm $75m to develop energy-saving technology.

The company, Silver Spring Networks, produces hardware and software to make the electricity grid more efficient.

The deal appeared to pay off in a big way last week, when the Energy Department announced $3.4 billion in smart grid grants, the New York Times reports. Of the total, more than $560 million went to utilities with which Silver Spring has contracts.

The move means that venture capital company Kleiner Perkins and its partners, including Mr Gore, could recoup their investment many times over in coming years.

Few people have been as vocal about the urgency of global warming and the need to reinvent the way the world produces and consumes energy as Mr Gore. And few have put as much money behind their advocacy and are as well positioned to profit from this green transformation, if and when it comes.

Critics, mostly on the political right and among global warming sceptics, say Mr. Gore is poised to become the world's first "carbon billionaire," profiteering from government policies he supports that would direct billions of dollars to the business ventures he has invested in.

Representative Marsha Blackburn, Republican of Tennessee, has claimed that Mr Gore stood to benefit personally from the energy and climate policies he was urging Congress to adopt.

Mr Gore had said that he is simply putting his money where his mouth is.

"Do you think there is something wrong with being active in business in this country?" Mr. Gore said. "I am proud of it. I am proud of it."

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Link to a blog I posted about Gore & his profits: people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/Infowar/51423

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Oil Companies Support Global Warming Alarmists, Not Skeptics

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:42:39 PST

The only disagreement between Al Gore and Exxon Mobil is who gets to sink the teeth in first

A common charge leveled against global warming skeptics is that they are on the payroll of transnational oil companies, when in fact the opposite is true, oil companies are amongst the biggest promoters of climate change propaganda, emphasized recently by Exxon Mobil’s call for a global carbon tax.

According to Exxon Mobil chief executive Rex Tillerson, the cap and trade nightmare being primed for passage in the Senate doesn’t go far enough – Tillerson wants a direct tax on carbon dioxide emissions, essentially a tax on breathing since we all exhale this life-giving gas.

In a speech last month, Tillerson brazenly called out the cap and trade agenda for what it was, an effort to impose a carbon tax camouflaged only by a slick sales pitch and deceptive rhetoric.

“It is easier and more politically expedient to support a cap-and-trade approach, because the public will never figure out where it is hitting them,” said Tillerson. “They will just know they hurt somewhere in their pocketbook,” he added, pointing out that he disagreed with this convoluted method of introducing a carbon tax, arguing instead that it would be more successful to openly propose a straight carbon tax.

Tillerson firmly expressed Exxon’s support for climate change alarmists in stating, “I firmly believe it is not too late for Congress to consider a carbon tax as the better policy approach for addressing the risks of climate change.”

Exxon’s push for a carbon tax was restated last week by its vice president for public affairs Ken Cohen, who told a conference call that he wants a climate policy that creates “certainty and predictability, which is why we advocate a carbon tax.”

Exxon Mobil and their ilk are not concerned about a carbon tax eating into their profits because they know they won’t have to pay it – the tab will be picked up by the ignorant taxpayer at the fuel pump at an inflated cost which if anything will hand the transnational oil cartels an even bigger cut.

Ideologically, Al Gore and Exxon Mobil are on exactly the same page – the only difference between the oil companies and global warming alarmists is the squabble over who will get to sink their teeth into the taxpayer and reap the dividends of the climate change scam.

Whereas parasites like Al Gore and Maurice Strong, the people who own the very carbon trading systems they claim will save the earth from CO2 emissions, want to enrich themselves to the tune of billions under a cap and trade scheme where they take a percentage of each transaction, the oil companies want to bypass this completely by simply imposing a direct CO2 tax. The consequence for the taxpayer under either scenario will be exactly the same, and the profits under both schemes would go towards filling the coffers of the global government that will enforce the whole scam.

Emphasizing again that oil companies are firmly behind the idea of man-made climate change and the introduction of a CO2 tax, in 2007 the Trilateral Commission, one of the three pillars of the new world order in alliance with Bilderberg and the CFR, met in near secrecy to formulate policy on how best they could exploit global warming fearmongering to ratchet up taxes and control over how westerners live their lives.

At the confab, European Chairman of the Trilateral Commission, Bilderberger and chairman of British Petroleum Peter Sutherland, gave a speech to his elitist cohorts in which he issued a “Universal battle cry arose for the world to address “global warming” with a single voice.”

Echoing this sentiment was General Lord Guthrie, director of N.M. Rothschild & Sons, member of the House of Lords and former chief of the Defense Staff in London, who urged the Trilateral power-brokers to “Address the global climate crisis with a single voice, and impose rules that apply worldwide.” Rules that no doubt will benefit the Rothschild family empire due to their personal ownership of a huge chunk of the carbon trading market.

Allegations that skeptics of the man-made explanation behind global warming are somehow doing the bidding of the elite are laughable in the face of the fact that Rothschild operatives and the very chairman of British Petroleum are the ones orchestrating an elitist plan to exploit global warming fears in order to achieve political objectives.

During the 2007 meeting, elitists along with oil industry kingpins called for imposing a $1 dollar per gallon tax at the fuel pump under the justification of fighting pollution and climate change.

Globalists love global warming. Oil industry kingpins, Bilderbergers and Rothschild minions have all put their weight behind it. This is a fraud conceived, nurtured and promulgated by elite, and to castigate individuals for merely questioning the motives behind climate change fearmongering by accusing them of being mouthpieces for the establishment is a complete reversal of the truth.

Claims by climate change alarmists that “deniers” are all funded by oil companies is yet another crudely contrived hoax. In reality, oil companies are the most vocal proponents of man-made climate change and the most aggressive in pushing to tax CO2 emissions.

The clips below, taken from Alex Jones’ new documentary Fall Of The Republic, expose how Al Gore serves as the front man for the global carbon tax cap and trade scheme, which is designed to bankrupt the United States and drastically lower the living standards of the American people, while introducing nightmare levels of regulation and bureaucracy into their everyday lives. Get the full DVD here or watch it online at Prison Planet.tv.

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Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Tuesday, November 3, 2009

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Al Gore Set To Become First “Carbon Billionaire”

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:24:35 PST

CO2 tax agenda front man lining his pockets on the back of global warming fearmongering

The New York Times has lifted the lid on how Al Gore stands to benefit to the tune of billions of dollars if the carbon tax proposals he is pushing come to fruition in the United States, while documenting how he has already lined his pockets on the back of exaggerated fearmongering about global warming.

As is to be expected, the article is largely a whitewash and takes an apologist stance in defense of Gore.

However, the NY Times‘ John M. Broder does reveal how one of the companies Gore invested in, Silver Spring Networks, recently received a contract worth $560 million dollars from the Energy Department to install “smart meters” in people’s homes that record (and critics fear could eventually regulate) energy usage.

“Kleiner Perkins and its partners, including Mr. Gore, could recoup their investment many times over in coming years,” states the report, highlighting the fact that Gore is “well positioned to profit from this green transformation, if and when it comes.”

“Critics, mostly on the political right and among global warming skeptics, say Mr. Gore is poised to become the world’s first “carbon billionaire,” profiteering from government policies he supports that would direct billions of dollars to the business ventures he has invested in,” writes Broder.

Since he left office, Gore’s personal net worth has skyrocketed on the back of his advocacy for global warming issues and the financial dividends this has reaped. Gore’s assets totaled less than $2 million in 2001 and although he refuses to give a figure for his current net worth, a recent single investment of $35 million in Capricorn Investment Group, a private equity fund, illustrates just how fast Gore has enriched himself from his climate change bandwagon.

The Times report notes how Gore “has a stake in the world’s pre-eminent carbon credit trading market.” As we reported back in March, before he became President Barack Obama also helped fund the profiteers of the carbon taxation program that he is now seeking to implement as law.

The Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX) has direct ties to both Al Gore and Maurice Strong, two figures intimately involved with a long standing movement to use the theory of man made global warming as a mechanism for profit and social engineering. Gore’s investment company, Generation Investment Management, which sells carbon offset opportunities, is the largest shareholder of CCX.

Maurice Strong, who is regularly credited as founding father of the modern environmental movement, serves on the board of directors of CCX. Strong was a leading initiate of the Earth Summit in the early 90s, where the theory of global warming caused by CO2 generated by human activity was most notably advanced.

Both Strong and Gore come from the Club of Rome clique, who in their 1991 Report, “The First Global Revolution” openly admitted how they were planning to exploit the contrived hoax of global warming in order to further their agenda.

“In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill. All these dangers are caused by human intervention, and it is only through changed attitudes and behavior that they can be overcome. The real enemy then, is humanity itself.,” they wrote.

Gore’s defense against claims that he is peddling fearmongering about global warming to get filthy rich, and one dutifully supported by the NY Times’ whitewash report, is that he is simply putting his money where his mouth is.

However, Gore’s insistence that he is walking the walk, not just talking the talk, doesn’t seem to extend to his own private life in the context of energy conservation and CO2 emissions. While lecturing the world about reducing CO2 emissions and saving energy, Gore’s own mansion uses 20 times the energy of the average American home.

In February 2007, the Tennessee Center for Policy Research revealed that the gas and electric bills for the former vice president’s 20-room home and pool house devoured nearly 221,000 kilowatt-hours in 2006, more than 20 times the national average of 10,656 kilowatt-hours. These figures were not disputed by Gore.

“If this were any other person with $30,000-a-year in utility bills, I wouldn’t care,” said the Center’s 27-year-old president, Drew Johnson. “But he tells other people how to live and he’s not following his own rules.”

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CFR Recording Suggests Creating False Scarcity To Drive Up Demand For H1N1 Vaccine

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 10:58:06 PST

Laughter as dignitaries discuss making vaccine mandatory, tricking public into taking it

A recording of a recent Council On Foreign Relations symposium reveals attendees discussing ways and means of getting the public to take the H1N1 flu vaccine in spite of the mass resistance that has arisen due to questions over it’s safety.

The recording dates from October 16 when the CFR held a Symposium in New York entitled Pandemic Influenza: Science, Economics, and Foreign Policy.

The meeting was held in order to encourage a consensus for policy to present to the federal government concerning the so called swine flu pandemic.

In attendance were professors and doctors from several influential universities and medical schools, along with media representatives from Science Magazine, The Canadian Press and The Financial Times.

Other notable attendees included Robert E. Rubin, Former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury and current Co-Chair of the CFR, along with John Lange, Senior Program Officer of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s Global Health Program.

During part of the discussion (see transcript) on whether or not the vaccine should be made mandatory for health workers and school children, Lone Simonsen, Research Professor and Research Director at the Department of Global Health, George Washington University, suggests creating an artificial scarcity in order to ramp up demand for the vaccine.

“I think what would work better would be to say that there was a shortage and people tend to buy more of something that’s in demand. (Laughter.) We saw that — there was one season where, really, people lined up all night to get a flu shot.” Simonsen says, much to the amusement of the other attendees at the symposium.

The entire recording is on the CFR website here, but an edited version appears in the following short video:

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The audio is certainly very interesting given that the mainstream media is now rampantly hyping a shortage of the vaccine and stories are being published daily about thousands of people being turned away from clinics.

All this despite the fact that several scientific polls have recorded that upwards of 60% of Americans have said they do not want the shot because they believe it is unsafe and untested.

During another part of the discussion, Andrew Jack, Pharmaceutical Correspondent for the Financial Times compares people wary of the vaccine with political extremists:

“I think we’re all aware that the anti-vaccine movement is having a field day on the internet and on media outlets like Fox News, causing reductions in vaccine uptake and it appears to be a pretty unholy alliance of the ultra right and the ultra left working together in a sort of Hitler-Stalin pact.” Jack states, again raising chuckles amongst the other delegates.

“I’m not sure that we’re countering these people very well.” Jack concludes before suggesting that the CFR put out soundbites about there being more mercury in a Tuna sandwich than in the H1N1 vaccine in order to convince “the crazy people” that it is safe.

The fact is however, you do not directly inject a tuna sandwich into your bloodstream. Is it more likely that a two fold increase in autism over the last six years is directly related to thimerosal in vaccines or to tuna sandwiches?

Mr Jack suggests following the lead of the New York Times to dispel so called “myths” over the vaccine – not a wise move given that their paltry efforts have already been thoroughly debunked and overturned.

Steve Watson
Infowars.net
Tuesday, Nov 3, 2009

URL to article: http://www.prisonplanet.com/cfr-recording-suggests-creating-false-scarcity-to-drive-up-demand-for-h1n1-vaccine.html

URLs in this post:

[1] Infowars.net: http://www.infowars.net/index.html

[2] Pandemic Influenza: Science, Economics, and Foreign Policy: http://www.cfr.org/project/1442/cfr_symposium_on_pandemic_influenza.html

[3] see transcript: http://www.cfr.org/publication/20442/session_i_of_a_council_on_foreign_relations_symposium_on_pandemic_influenza.html

[4] here: http://www.cfr.org/publication/20439/pandemic_influenza.html

[5] Image: http://prisonplanet.tv/signup.html

[6] stories: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2009/11/02/f-viewpoint-cassels.html

[7] scientific polls: http://infowars.net/articles/october2009/221009Vaccinations.htm

[8] two fold increase in autism over the last six years: http://www.prisonplanet.com/autism-explodes-as-childhood-vaccines-increase.html

[9] thoroughly debunked and overturned: http://infowars.net/articles/october2009/161009Propaganda.htm

Video: Alex Ansary confronts public health officer over the swine flu

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 12:16:29 PST

"Seasonal influenza vaccine is a business"

"im not here to sell a vaccine"...."im here to sell protection" HA HA

Wow...this lady would of made a great character in Orwell's 1984.

Alex Ansary debates the safety of the H1N1 with a public health official during a public meeting in Yelm, Washington. This took place Monday, October 26th, 2009.

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Article & CBS News Report: Government Appoints Task Force To Handle H1N1 Vaccine Propaganda

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 10:18:01 PST

Health advisers who previously dismissed vaccine-autism link will “explain false alarms” to public when injuries “coincide” with shots

The U.S. government has appointed what the media is ludicrously billing as an “independent” group of health advisors whose job it will be to whitewash adverse reactions to the swine flu vaccine and “explain” them to the public as mere coincidence.

Authorities have been busier honing their propaganda about the H1N1 inoculation program than they have dealing with the actual rollout of the vaccine. A $16 million dollar campaign to coerce Americans into taking the shot is falling flat on its face with increasing numbers rejecting the necessity to take the shot amidst concerns about its side-effects.

Health authorities have been desperately pushing the notion that the vaccine is safe as part of a gargantuan PR campaign, without explaining why well-connected members of the elite have had special access to an additive-free version of the shot that doesn’t contain ingredients like mercury and squalene that are contained in the public version.

As a result of the dangers of the H1N1 vaccine becoming widely known, authorities are moving to get out ahead of the story by acknowledging that millions of health problems in the aftermath of a vaccination campaign will be blamed on the vaccine, citing the 1976 swine flu debacle when the shot proved far deadlier than the actual virus.

Back In September, Reuters reported on how public health officials were expecting “an avalanche of so-called adverse event reports, which are reports of death, illness or other health trauma,” in the two weeks after people receive the vaccine.

“We are going to be overwhelmed with potential events,” said Mike Osterholm, a public health expert at the University of Minnesota.

Authorities therefore resolved to dismiss any connection to the swine flu shots a host of heart attacks, strokes and miscarriages that “will be blamed on the H1N1 vaccine”.

Now the government has accelerated these efforts by appointing a group of “independent” experts to “track the vaccine’s safety,” according to an Associated Press report.

The claim that the group is “independent” is a complete misnomer. How can a group appointed by and dictated its brief by the government be considered “independent”?

In addition, the group will be headed up by none other than Dr. Marie McCormick of the Harvard School of Public Health. McCormick and her affiliated organizations have routinely issued reports over the past 10 years supporting the government’s position on the link between vaccines and autism, dismissing a correlation entirely despite overwhelming evidence that contradicts this notion. McCormick has been widely criticized by other health experts for her dogged denial of the link between vaccines and autism.

So far from being “independent,” the group is in fact appointed by the government and lead by one of the government’s chief whitewash proponents in the context of vaccine dangers and side-effects.

The rollout of the vaccine has been limited to far fewer people than the government originally intended, partly due to a supply shortage and partly because more than half of Americans have refused to take the shot. The government’s efforts to dismiss concerns about side-effects will likely kick into high gear when more batches of the vaccine become available.

The media is framing concerns about side-effects by concentrating on health problems in the immediate aftermath of the vaccination, thereby providing them with the ammunition to dismiss concerns about side-effects altogether if few cases of death or injury occur. However, the real concerns about the dangers of vaccines do not revolve around skin rashes or minor ailments, they relate to the longer term effect of the build-up of toxic mercury in the body as well as squalene and the cancerous animal cells that are admittedly contained in the vaccine. Symptoms could therefore take months or even years to manifest, enough time for a connection to the swine flu shot to be forgotten in the public eye. Expect this to be exploited to the maximum by the “independent” experts the government has appointed to whitewash dangers associated with the vaccine

Watch a report from CBS News below.

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Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Monday, November 2, 2009

URL to article: http://www.prisonplanet.com/government-appoints-task-force-to-handle-h1n1-vaccine-propaganda.html

URLs in this post:

[1] Prison Planet.com: http://prisonplanet.com/

[2] well-connected members of the elite have had special access to an additive-free version: http://www.infowars.com/german-chancellor-ministers-get-special-vaccine-without-soft-kill-ingredients/

[3] Reuters reported: http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE58F3A720090916

[4] Image: http://prisonplanet.tv/

[5] Associated Press report.: http://www.reflector.com/features/new-group-helps-us-monitor-swine-flu-shot-safety-931806.html

[6] supporting the government’s position on the link between vaccines and autism: http://www.blisstree.com/articles/dr-marie-mccormick-subpoenaed/

[7] overwhelming evidence that contradicts this notion: http://www.prisonplanet.com../autism-explodes-as-childhood-vaccines-increase.html

Feds Post Monster Obamacare Bill

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:33:28 PDT

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi wants you to read all 1,990 pages of the Obamacare plan. “We are putting it online for all Americans to see,” she announced. Most Americans will probably not read the bill. You’ll need Washington-ese decoder ring to plow through the monstrosity.

If you are adventurous, however, here is a link to Pelosi’s “transparent” bill.

Republican John Boehner has posted the details of this boat anchor tribute to coercive government on his website. According to Boehner, the government take-over of health care includes: a plethora of new taxes on middle class families, massive cuts to Medicare benefits, no protections for small business, increased costs in the form of higher premiums, budget gimmickry to hide the massive total cost for future generations, imposes job-killing employer mandates, rigs the health care game in favor of a government-run insurance company, forces unfunded mandates on the states, adds more arcane gobbledegook to the tax code, and much more.

In fact, the bill — excluding the creation of the Federal Reserve and confiscatory income taxes — is the largest and most egregious intervention of the government into the private lives of Americans in history.

Americans for Tax Reform have posted the following points taken from the bill:

Employer Mandate Excise Tax (Page 275): If an employer does not pay 72.5 percent of a single employee’s health premium (65 percent of a family employee), the employer must pay an excise tax equal to 8 percent of average wages. Small employers (measured by payroll size) have smaller payroll tax rates of 0 percent (<$500,000), 2 percent ($500,000-$585,000), 4 percent ($585,000-$670,000), and 6 percent ($670,000-$750,000).

Individual Mandate Surtax (Page 296): If an individual fails to obtain qualifying coverage, he must pay an income surtax equal to the lesser of 2.5 percent of modified adjusted gross income (MAGI) or the average premium. MAGI adds back in the foreign earned income exclusion and municipal bond interest.

Medicine Cabinet Tax (Page 324): Non-prescription medications would no longer be able to be purchased from health savings accounts (HSAs), flexible spending accounts (FSAs), or health reimbursement arrangements (HRAs). Insulin excepted.

Cap on FSAs (Page 325): FSAs would face an annual cap of $2500 (currently uncapped).

Increased Additional Tax on Non-Qualified HSA Distributions (Page 326): Non-qualified distributions from HSAs would face an additional tax of 20 percent (current law is 10 percent). This disadvantages HSAs relative to other tax-free accounts (e.g. IRAs, 401(k)s, 529 plans, etc.)

Denial of Tax Deduction for Employer Health Plans Coordinating with Medicare Part D (Page 327): This would further erode private sector participation in delivery of Medicare services.

Surtax on Individuals and Small Businesses (Page 336): Imposes an income surtax of 5.4 percent on MAGI over $500,000 ($1 million married filing jointly). MAGI adds back in the itemized deduction for margin loan interest. This would raise the top marginal tax rate in 2011 from 39.6 percent under current law to 45 percent—a new effective top rate.

Excise Tax on Medical Devices (Page 339): Imposes a new excise tax on medical device manufacturers equal to 2.5 percent of the wholesale price. It excludes retail sales and unspecified medical devices sold to the general public.

Corporate 1099-MISC Information Reporting (Page 344): Requires that 1099-MISC forms be issued to corporations as well as persons for trade or business payments. Current law limits to just persons for small business compliance complexity reasons. Also expands reporting to exchanges of property.

Delay in Worldwide Allocation of Interest (Page 345): Delays for nine years the worldwide allocation of interest, a corporate tax relief provision from the American Jobs Creation Act

Limitation on Tax Treaty Benefits for Certain Payments (Page 346): Increases taxes on U.S. employers with overseas operations looking to avoid double taxation of earnings.

Codification of the “Economic Substance Doctrine” (Page 349): Empowers the IRS to disallow a perfectly legal tax deduction or other tax relief merely because the IRS deems that the motive of the taxpayer was not primarily business-related.

Application of “More Likely Than Not” Rule (Page 357): Publicly-traded partnerships and corporations with annual gross receipts in excess of $100 million have raised standards on penalties. If there is a tax underpayment by these taxpayers, they must be able to prove that the estimated tax paid would have more likely than not been sufficient to cover final tax liability.

In addition to the list of taxes for in the ATR report, our people found the following:

Employer FINE Under Mandated Excise Tax (Page 310): A $100 per day excise tax imposed on employers for each employee for whom employer fails to “satisfy the health coverage participation requirements”. Excise tax will not apply if Secretary determines even after “exercising reasonable diligence” employer was unaware of employee’s lack of participation in health coverage.

“CADILLAC” INSURANCE PLANS

Credit vs. Points (Pages 318-320) This portion gives the appearance of providing a temporary two-year credit while at the same time deducting “points” if the Secretary deems that the employer is too generous with its health care benefit package. Ex. p. 319, lines 11-18: “Credit not allowed with respect to certain highly compensated employees. No credit shall be determined under subsection (a) with respect to qualified employee health coverage expenses paid or incurred with respect to any employee for any taxable year if the aggregate compensation paid by the employer to such employee during such taxable year exceeds $80,000”.

MEDICAL REIMBURSEMENT

Uncompensated Care Increase (Page 389-390) Page 389, lines 14-19 detail a “significant” decrease in uninsurance will be triggered by only 8% decrease – “There is a “significant” decrease in the national rate of uninsurance as the result of this Act” if there is a decrease in the national rate of uninsurance from 2012 to 2014 that exceeds 8 percentage points.” Page 390, lines 4-9 detail the increase in uncompensated care – “For each fiscal year (beginning with 2017) , the Secretary shall estimate the aggregate reduction in the amount of Medicare DSH payment that would be expected to result from the adjustment under paragraph (1)(A)”. This, in turn, will lower payments to hospitals in reimbursement rates.

Gov’t to legislate Pain Research, page 1493 line 14

Begins with Line 14 ‘‘SEC. 409J. PAIN RESEARCH.

This section covers research that will be conducted at National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Provides for a “Pain Consortium” and a committee to be known as “Interagency Pain Research Coordinating Committee”

page 1496 describes the attributes of committee members (6 members are scientists, physicians, other health professionals while another 6 members are from general public representatives from leading in research, advocacy and service organizations for individuals with pain-related conditions)

This committee will coordinate all efforts within the Department of Health and Human Services and other Federal agencies that relate to pain research. Appears to be a decision making board on treatment protocols (could rationing be involved here?), create a public awareness campaign on pain,

page 1501

15 AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—For

16 purposes of carrying out this section, there are authorized

17 to be appropriated $2,000,000 for fiscal year 2011 and

18 $4,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2012 and 2015.’’.

Employer Excise Tax (Pages 313-317): If an employer chooses not to provide health insurance to employees, an excise tax on the total wages paid is imposed on the employer. The excise tax percentage ranges from 2% of total payroll of $500,000 to 8% of payroll of $750,000 or more. If an employer has less than $500,000 annual payroll, he pays no excise tax.

Employer Health Coverage Tax Credit (Pages 317-319): Small business owners receive a tax credit of 50% of health insurance paid for employees whose wages are $20,000 or less per year when the employer has 10 or fewer employees. The tax credit is prorated as the amount of wages increases, leaving no tax credit for the employer when such employee’s wages total $80,000 or more per year.

For employers with more than 10 employees, the tax credit calculated by the proratio shall be reduced by an amount in the ratio of 10 to total number of employees.

SEC. 1416. Ensuring Staffing Accountability

(a) Skilled Nursing Facilities

(b) Nursing Facilities

Page #: 822 – 826

Subject: privacy

Remarks:

This section of the bill calls for an amendment to the Social Security Act “(C) Submission of Staffing Information Based on Payroll Data in a Uniform Format.”

The Secretary of Health and Human Services shall require a skilled nursing facility to electronically submit to the Secretary direct care staffing information including agency and contract staff, based on payroll and other verifiable and auditable data in a uniform format (GE?) (as established by the Secretary in consultation with among others, consumer advocacy groups (ACORN?))

GOVERNMENT REGULATION OF CARE AND RESEARCH

*Government Panel for Senior Care Decisions (Pages 649-661): The Secretary has the right to waive requirements of the Social Security Act Titles XI & XVIII. These providers will put together patient decisions aids and share in seniors’ decisions regarding their health care. Seniors will attend counseling provided by said panel. Compensation will be granted to providers who generate less cost for care with regards to Parts A and B of Medicare.

Government Legislation of Pain Research (Pages 1493-1501): Page 1496 describes the attributes of committee members (6 members are scientists, physicians, other health professionals while another 6 members are from general public representatives from leading in research, advocacy and service organizations for individuals with pain-related conditions). This committee will coordinate all efforts within the Department of Health and Human Services and other Federal agencies that relate to pain research. Appears to be a decision making board on treatment protocols, create a public awareness campaign on pain. Ramifications include overly regulated treatment protocols for chronic pain and the possible end result of rationing. The viability of private research is questioned in light of this section.

(Page 1501): Lines 15-18 establish the authorization of appropriations – “For purposes of carrying out this section, there are authorized to be appropriated $2,000,000 for fiscal year 2011 and $4,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2012 and 2015”.

Government Regulation of Staffing in Nursing Facilities (Pages 822-826): In a specific motion to alter state authority of nursing facilities and to provide the Secretary and consumer advocacy groups with overreaching authority, this section of the bill calls for an amendment to the Social Security Act “(C) Submission of Staffing Information Based on Payroll Data in a Uniform Format.” The Secretary of Health and Human Services shall require a skilled nursing facility to electronically submit to the Secretary direct care staffing information including agency and contract staff, based on payroll and other verifiable and auditable data in a uniform format as established by the Secretary in consultation with among others, consumer advocacy groups.

Government Authority in Determining Medical Home Models (Pages 680-690): Secretary is provided wide latitude to fund and create both independent and community-based medical home models in order to reward physicians and others to coordinate treatment for chronically ill patients in underserved (rural) areas. Patient need not designate a doctor as their caregiver.

NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE CORPS

Sec. 2201

Obligated Service Requirement (Page 1220): “The entity and the Corps member agree in writing that the Corps member will perform half-time clinical practice”. Essentially, this details “those individuals who have entered into a contract for obligated service under the Scholarship Program or Loan Repayment Program un which the individuals are authorized to satisfy the requirement of obligated service through providing clinical practice”. Essentially these individuals are obliged to work off debt in this capacity.

ABORTION

Abortion Coverage (Page 110): “Nothing in this Act shall be construed as preventing the public health insurance option from providing for or prohibiting coverage of services described in paragraph (4)(A)”. Paragraph (4)(A) Abortion Services – Abortions for which public funding is prohibited. That said, paragraph (4)(B) “The services described in this subparagraph are for abortions for which the expenditure of Federal funds appropriated for the Department of Health and Human Services is permitted.”
GOVERNMENT REGULATION OF INDUSTRY

Health Czar (Page 133): Establishes Health Czar and bureaucracy, i.e. “Health Choices Commissioner” and “Health Choices Administration”. Essentially, this area lends the Health Commissioner and Health Choices Administration power over health insurance plans both inside and outside of the Health Insurance Exchange. The concern is that the provision invites overreaching authority and oversight of plans specifically set up to provide timely and needed care not readily available through the government exchange-controlled plans.

Health Czar Health Plan Audits (Page 133-134) Provides “Health Commissioner”/Czar with wide discretion to audit “qualified health benefits plans” and then bill the plan for the cost of the audit, regardless of grounds for the audit and regardless of whether or not the plan was found to have violated any regulation. The concern is the overreaching of authority and power over private health plans and the conjecture is that this will force a process by which consumers are significantly limited in their health plan choices. As written, no protection from abuse of power in this regard is provided.

Word/Topic Reviewed: Subtitle E—Public Reporting on Health Care-Associated Infections

SEC. 1138A. REQUIREMENT FOR PUBLIC REPORTING BY HOSPITALS AND AMBULATORY SURGICAL CENTERS ON HEALTH CARE-ASSOCIATED INFECTIONS.

This section is vaguely disturbing in the way it micro-manages hospitals, a vast overreach of federal power, but that’s nothing surprising in this bill. Two specific red flags:

Sub-topic (b)(2).

Page #. 915Paragraph #. 2

Subject: 02, 03

Remarks: Infections are to be publicly posted and compared by demographic information. (Age? Race?)

Sub-topic (c)(4).

Page #. 916

Paragraph #. 2

Subject: 03, 04

Remarks: Infections are being studied in such detail in order to reduce costs, not because of quality of care concerns

Government Regulatio of Patient Care

Regulation of Services (Page 383) Lines 11-16 allot for using appropriate indicators for non-therapy ancillary services classification, which may include age, physical and mental status, ability to perform activities of daily living, etc. The concern is over the method of deciding care delivery, placing key decision-making elements in the hands of politicians and other non-medical staff as opposed to the hands of patients’ doctors and families.

Regulation on Patient Stay (Page 385) Establishes payment based on total costs during stay in a skilled nursing facility as opposed to the number of days in such stay.

ABORTION

Abortion Coverage (Page 110): “Nothing in this Act shall be construed as preventing the public health insurance option from providing for or prohibiting coverage of services described in paragraph (4)(A)”. Paragraph (4)(A) Abortion Services – Abortions for which public funding is prohibited. Paragraph (4)(B) “The services described in this subparagraph are for abortions for which the expenditure of Federal funds appropriated for the Department of Health and Human Services is permitted.”

Federal Funding of Abortion (Page 147) Lines 14-(1) IN GENERAL.—“Nothing in this Act shall be construed to have any effect on Federal laws regarding – (A) conscience protection; (B) willingness or refusal to provide abortion; (C) discrimination on the basis of the willingness or refusal to provide, pay for, cover, or refer for abortion or to provide or participate in training to provide abortion. The concern regards lines 20-23 (C) as it is viewed as a potential open door for funding of organizations such as Planned Parenthood. The document affirms that this bill has no effect on current law where discrimination based on either willingness or refusal to participate in abortion services, and thus, provides no additional protect against the use of Federal funds allocated for abortion services. As, additionally, the Hyde Amendment is in no way incorporated into this piece of legislation and because no additional explicit protections exist in this document, this piece of legislation will, indeed, provide authorization of federal funding of abortion under the public option.

Additionally, because there is no ban on abortion funding under the reauthorization of the Indian Health Service (IHS), and additionally no additional protections such as the Vitter Amendment, there is nothing to prevent abortion funding.

Mandated School-Based Health Clinics (Page 1354) Lines 9-21 states, “(c) Use of Funds – Funds awarded under a grant under this section …(2) may not be used to provide abortions. However, there is no specific language prohibiting either abortion referrals or the distribution of information materials regarding access to abortion.

Required Reporting Regarding Infections Sec. 1138A – Requirement for public reporting by hospitals and ambulatory surgical centers on health care-associated infections. Page 915 – States, “infections are to be publicly posted and compared by demographic information.” Page 916 – States “infections are being studied in such detail in order to reduce costs, not because of quality of care concerns”. The concern stems from both the ambiguity that exists in the statement referenced on page 915 as well as the lack of concern over quality of care in regards to infection.

Required Reporting Trumps State Laws Sec. 1128H – Financial reports on physicians’ financial relationships with manufacturers and distributors of covered drugs, devices, biologicals or medical supplies under Medicare, Medicaid, or CHIP and with entities that bill for services under Medicare. Page 910 – Concerns is that language pre-empts state laws requiring manufacturers to report their relationships to physicians. Page 912 – Establishes that “Comptroller General” is to file a report establishing that no loopholes exist in said section.

GOVERNMENT REGULATION OF NON-HEALTH INDUSTRY

Regulation of Disclosure of Nutrient Content/Menu Variability (Page 1514) Lines 5-14 – “The Secretary shall establish by regulation standards for determining and disclosing the nutrient content for standard menu items that come in different flavors, varieties, or combinations, but which are listed as a single menu item, such as soft drinks, ice cream, pizza, doughnuts, or children’s combination meals, through means determined by the Secretary, including ranges, averages, or other methods”. Rules extend to maintaining the calculation of combo meals an addition cost to restaurants.

Regulation of Vending Machine Owners/Suppliers (Page 1516) Lines 4-8 – Pertaining to businesses that own or operation 20 or more vending machines, “the vending machine operator shall provide a sign in close proximity to each article of food or the selection button that included a clear and conspicuous statement disclosing the number of calories contained in the article”.

Regulation of Food Preparation/Presentation (Page 1517) Lines 14-22 – “The Secretary shall (aa) consider standardization of recipes and methods of preparation, reasonable variation in serving size and formulation of menu items, space on menus and menu boards, inadvertent human error, training of food service workers, variations in ingredients, and other factors, as the Secretary determines”.

Pg. 1601

19 solved with reasonable premium increases

PG 1555

lines 1 through 7 and no such

5 information or documentary material may be

6 made public

‘‘(E) ENFORCEMENT.—

14 ‘‘(i) CIVIL PENALTY.—Any person

15 that violates a provision of this paragraph

16 shall be liable for a civil penalty of not

17 more than $11,000 for each day on which

18 the violation occurs.

Pg. 1624

5 (2) PERSONAL CARE ATTENDANT WORKFORCE

6 ADVISORY PANEL.—Section 202 of such Act (42

7 U.S.C. 3012)

Pg. 1800

22 ‘‘(3) PEER REVIEW PANELS18 ‘‘(e) PEER REVIEW PANELS.—The Secretary may

19 provide for the establishment of peer review panels, as nec20

essary, to review and evaluate applications using the cri21

teria developed pursuant to subsection (d)

Pg. 1805

12 ‘‘SEC. 307. LAND TRANSFER

15 departments of the United States are authorized to transfer, at

16 no cost, land and improvements to the Service

Pg. 1584

11 paid into a Life Independence Account for ob

12 taining assistance with decisionmaking

13concerning medical care

See attachment for a compilation of what’s been found so far on p. 110-200. Some highlights:

p. 110 (4) (B) Federal funding for abortion is in;

p. 111 Sec. 223 “Health Benefits Advisory Committee” to recommend covered benefits (AKA “rationing board”)

p. 120-130 HHS Sec. directed to clarify/define several bits in this section (reader found 50+ calls for Sec. to clarify/define, including in rest of bill)

p.133-134 “Health Choices Administration” with power over health insurance plans both inside and outside the Health Insurance Exchange invites harassment of non-Exchange plans and abuse aimed at driving private plans out of business.

Lots more where these tidbits came from in the attachment. Will get to work collating any reports which may have come in since 4:30PM Central Time today as soon as I post this.

Pages 1850 – 1860 Titled “HEALTH SERVICES FOR URBAN INDIANS” contains a lot of double talk. What it summarily says in plain English is that the Secretary now controls and approves any and all grants and/or contracts entered into or referred by an Indian Tribe, Urban Indians or Tribal Organizations, including but not limited to healthcare needs, education of any kind, desease prevention, wild life preservation, land preservation or land purchases, and anything else covered under the 1921 Snyder Act. I specifically found it interesting that on page 1860, lines 14-23, the purpose of a contract or grant…shall be the determination… in order to assist the Secretary in assessing the health status and health care needs of Urban Indians in the Urban Center involved and determining whether the Secretary should enter into a contract or make a grant…
ADDITIONAL ITEM RELATED TO INDIAN HEALTH:

Septic System Regulations (Pages 1780-1790) The Federal government will fund sanitation facilities for Indian Tribes with the following provisions: (Page1781) “Sec. 302 (a) (1) financial and technical assistance to operate and maintain sanitation facilities…. (a) (3) funding to operate and maintain sanitation facilities….(b) Congress reaffirms the primary responsibility and authority of the Service to provide the necessary sanitation facilities and services as provided in section 7 of the Act of August 5, 1954 (42 U.S.C. 2004a)…..(Page 1783) – (c) (5) fund up to 100% of a tribes loan for sanitation facility….…(Page 1785)(c) (8) the Secretary of Health and Human Services shall, by regulation, establish standards applicable to the planning, design, and construction of sanitation facilities funded under this Act… (Page 1787) (d) The financial and technical capability of an Indian Tribe, Tribal Organization, or Indian community to safely operate, manage, and maintain a sanitation facility shall not be a prerequisite to the provision or construction of sanitation facilities by the Secretary”. It is posited that this item is a necessary item for the bill as septic-related issues directly affect health issues for the Indian Community. However, it is a concern that this is transition of power overrides local standards for the Indian Community and usurps local authority over key community infrastructure and systems. It is worthy to note, as well, that sanitation needs include a clean water source which involves a myriad of issues related to clean water and environmental concerns.

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Ron Paul vs. Michael Moore

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 10:29:28 PDT

Campaign For Liberty
Friday, Oct 30th, 2009

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Dr. Paul appeared on CNN’s Larry King Show last night to repsond to Michael Moore’s interview and attack on capitalism in the show’s first half.

Shots Fired at home of Lou Dobbs

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Shots Fired at home of Lou Dobbs!
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Topic: Lou Dobbs CNN Anchor

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Alex Jones' Battle For The Republic exposes how the elite are using illegal immigration and pushing amnesty as a means of pulverizing the American middle class and ensuring that U.S. citizens, black, white and hispanic alike, are forced to sacrifice their freedom and sovereignty as America is sunk into a third world cesspool.

The mini-documentary lifts the lid on how the backlash against rampant illegal immigration in America is a major concern for the Bilderberg Group, posing a threat to their plans to lower the living standards of U.S. citizens of all colors and creeds into second or even third world status.

What is the real agenda behind last year's massive pro-illegal immigration demonstrations and who is really behind them? Battle For the Republic traces the legacy of the movement back to the Plan of San Diego, a shocking blueprint for race-based genocide directed against blacks and whites in America.

The goal is to divide America by bankrolling the Aztlan movement, an extremist separatist plan on behalf of Mexican Ku Klux Klan style groups like Mecha and La Raza to "reclaim" the southern and western U.S. states, in order to eventually merge America, Canada and Mexico into a North American Union.

Battle For The Republic shoots down the myth that Mexico has any rightful claim to the south western states by carefully documenting the history of how the west was won, bringing it up to the modern day and highlighting how the elite are using the enraged Mexican mobs as a weapon of conquest to slit America's throat and sacrifice its sovereignty on the altar of globalism.

Hispanic Radio and TV stations owned by huge corporations based in New York spew hatred and division as Mexicans are radicalized and told that all their problems stem from the racist American middle class while ignoring the fact that the elite are the true cause of their misery, as taxpayers are sucked dry to fund welfare which only subsidizes the corporations that employ the illegals.

Illegal aliens are being granted God-like status by the elite and given rights that super seed those of American citizens. The film highlights the case of a man who was assaulted and arrested by police for expressing his first amendment right to disagree with thousands of illegal aliens marching in downtown Seattle, and how illegals who assaulted him and smashed his car were left completely alone while throngs of Mexicans cheered as an American was taken to jail for exercising his freedom of speech.

"Now you're bleeding, what's it like now, bitch!" yells one illegal as blood drips from the man's face.

Battle For the Republic ends with Alex Jones' infamous protest of Vicente Fox when he came to Austin to give awards to police for breaking federal laws by not arresting illegal aliens.

Fox was forced to cut his speech short after Alex Jones bullhorned the truth about his role in destroying American sovereignty, making headlines across Texas.

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