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It’s like watching a slow motion train wreck on the Obama Team to switching the channel to the three stooges on the Republican side.
Will they ever learn that we get it?
We get their lies and their half truths.
We know they are wagging the dog.
We see right through them.
I don’t think so. But does that really matter in the grand scheme of things?
Sarkozy’s turning right when we turn left. Russia’s fighting Putin’s last gasp for power, while Britain is sticking their finger up their nose, and the terrorists are keeping us in chains.
Enough.
Obama, either lead or get off the freaking pot.
Prime Minister Brown, you suck.
China, take your dreams of world domination, AND your money and go home.
I’m tired. I’m tired of the political posturing and the BS.
We all know that freedom reigns. So either you get it or you don’t, but leave us alone.
We don’t want your Sharia laws. We are more than you. You can’t win.
We don’t want your socialism. We are more than you. You can’t win.
We can fix the economy, if you will get out of our way.
We can fix the country when you get out of our way.
We don’t want your affirmative action.
We want to be citizens of the UNITED STATES. United. Not hearing that we are haters because we don’t want government run healthcare or the third freaking debt ceiling increase in as many months.
We are Americans.
We know how to industrialize.
We know how to capitalize and we know how to freaking grow the GDP.
So move on with your rhetoric, because WE ARE DONE.
You suck.
We don’t.
We are free people.
You can’t take that away. We won’t let you.
Go back and run for mayor of Chicago, BO, with your “retarded” totally non-PC buddy, faux Chief of Staff Rahmbo, you freaking bow-crazy, big-eared dumbo. It is the job you should’ve gotten. Not freaking Annihilator in Chief.
America is done.
We will not serve you, regardless of whether the loonies from bollywood do.
We will not serve you. Regardless of the amount of groveling you do.
We will not serve you.
We will not work for you to take our money and redistribute it to the world.
We will not serve you.
Need more be said?
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Thursday, February 4, 2010
Friday, September 18, 2009
IOU’s at the Center of Obama’s Capitulation to Russia?
In an afternoon report from Reuters on September 17, 2009, we see the headline Obama helps strengthen General Electric-Putin Ties. This article effectively suggests that our President sold America out for IOU’s to GE and Wall Street thugs for campaign promises. Might that also be for future election coffer fattening purposes as well? Purposes that serve only him and perhaps a select few governmentally symbiotic corporations and news outlets who want the deal of a lifetime. And I quote:
I can’t believe what I am reading. I don’t want to believe what I am reading, but there it is. Right there in black and white on the front page of the Washington Examiner. I am sick. Not only are the American Taxpayers on the hook for IOU’s to the Unions, but apparently our liberty, freedom and safety are on the block too. This audacious man (The “Won” who poses to be the President of the United States with ACORN laden votes and deal sealing election returns) will actually risk our safety by scrapping our “peaceful” means of protection (that I might add I am loathe to figure out - if Russia is our “friend” as they claim to be - they would be upset about in the first place) for freaking IOU's!
Before I continue any further on the theme though, let’s digest that last parenthesized thought for just a second. If I understand Russia's "concern" here, had we continued with the Missile Shield Program, Russia would continue to be upset… Why is that? It’s not like we are aiming missiles at them, we are simply shielding those that might come our way from Iran or N. Korea. Right? Doesn't it make you wonder why that would "concern" a country… unless of course they thought perhaps there may come a day where they, too, would feel the need to threaten to pop a few over the border themselves….
But nooooo. It’s about giving his buddies at GE, at TPG and at Morgan Stanley a leg up in the region. More union IOU’s, a posh seat for MSNBC at the table (by association to GE), as well as a few more investment banker favors - as if he isn’t holding the American Taxpayer hostage to the likes of union and Wall Street thugs enough already?
So now we find out that it’s all about the money…. Really? Our safety and our Sovereignty are sold to the highest bidder? Are "We the People" a tradable commodity for the padding of special interest and election coffers? Our country is no longer concerned about its own, let alone the people Russia could care less about while they turn off their heating fuel, causing them freeze to death in the worst winter on record.
This, my friends, is what we get with “Change” and “Hope”. Did we really just exchange 222 years (on Constitution Day no less) of our freedom and sovereignty for IOU's? Did we just waste 30 years of hard work by this and other nations, who collectively worked and bled hard to specifically end the horrors of the Cold War? Did we really just sell out the struggle that these ex-satellite countries have undergone to gain a little of their own rightful sovereignty from the great beast Russia, just as they were beginning to work? We, the great defender of democracy that we are? All for money? All for more profits and a fatter reelection account?
Can this be treason for no other reason than the man makes a deal with the wolf in sheep's clothing without concession one from said wolf? I don’t see how it couldn’t! People! WE NEED TO WAKE TF UP! We have to put an end to this madness!
I am telling you now…this is not an accident that ‘The Won’ did this on Constitution day and on the 70th anniversary of the Soviet invasion into Poland!! This was not an accident at all. This act on this day was not any more an accident than bobbing for quarters before the King of Saudi Arabia was an accident.
No friends, this was a message. Loud and Clear. This is significant in and of its own right, and I firmly believe history will prove that statement true. Nothing this man does is without symbolism and this is the biggest symbolic move he could provide the world. That is exactly what he did. He delivered the message while putting the final big screws to the coffin of our Constitution - on Constitution Day - in front of the whole freaking world.
Well, I just guess that makes Sept 17, 2009 another day that will go down in infamy, doesn’t it?
Putin tipped the celebratory glass of frozen Vodka this morning as he got exactly what he wanted and he had to make no concessions to get exactly what he wanted (still wondering why he wanted it) while Obama sold out democracy in one fell swoop - all for a past and a future election and mo’ power with the devils that be.
Oh how Winston Churchill is rolling over in his grave right now! The poor heroic corpse must feel like a top! The entirety of Churchill’s last years were trying (unsuccessfully) to convince Eisenhower and others of the grave danger of this behemoth we once (and soon will again) called the Soviet Bloc.
Now here we are 30 years after the biggest victory in recent history, just handing it right back to them. We are dumping on the freedom-seeking Slav nations in such a devastating way - and we do so without passing go. We are headed straight back to the cold war as soon as Russia can threaten and undermine the fledging sovereign countries of Ukraine, Georgia and a few other key States. Do not doubt that this is where we are headed or - God Almighty forbid - worse.
It is a documented fact that Russia is in bed with Iran. They are making a lot of squeaky noises, overtures and sometimes outright war gestures to their former States. Germany, Israel and other key allies completely believe that Iran is in fact building nuclear weapons, but our White House is so loaded down with Bo's ho’s who wouldn’t disagree with “the Won” even if they were threatened within an inch of their lives, that even if they did disagree, they wouldn't admit the disagreement. Bought, sold and guaranteed a select spot in the Post-American world, they will do whatever he or his minions request.
No one questioned why The Won was able to raise all that money, which devil he had sold his soul to then…but gosh, I guess we know now don’t we? That would be Brezhnev, Soros, Rockefeller, Kissinger, the UN chief Ban Ki-moon, the Union Lords, Wall Street, and who else can we list here….God knows we can’t list them all – there simply isn’t enough room!
Say farewell to your Sovereignty, America. Your final bill just came due and payable. You are now officially a banana republic replete with bought elections and the selling of the people’s wages for whatever deal guarantees that "The Won" who is in power, stays in power. Watch your bank account for that is the only thing between you and complete serfdom.
If Pelosi wants to cry about violence…why in the hell doesn’t she cry about this?
"Shortly after the pullback on the shield programme was announced, Russia's government said Prime Minister Vladimir Putin would meet several U.S. executives on Friday from firms including General Electric, Morgan Stanley as well as TPG, one of the world's largest private equity firms."
I can’t believe what I am reading. I don’t want to believe what I am reading, but there it is. Right there in black and white on the front page of the Washington Examiner. I am sick. Not only are the American Taxpayers on the hook for IOU’s to the Unions, but apparently our liberty, freedom and safety are on the block too. This audacious man (The “Won” who poses to be the President of the United States with ACORN laden votes and deal sealing election returns) will actually risk our safety by scrapping our “peaceful” means of protection (that I might add I am loathe to figure out - if Russia is our “friend” as they claim to be - they would be upset about in the first place) for freaking IOU's!
Before I continue any further on the theme though, let’s digest that last parenthesized thought for just a second. If I understand Russia's "concern" here, had we continued with the Missile Shield Program, Russia would continue to be upset… Why is that? It’s not like we are aiming missiles at them, we are simply shielding those that might come our way from Iran or N. Korea. Right? Doesn't it make you wonder why that would "concern" a country… unless of course they thought perhaps there may come a day where they, too, would feel the need to threaten to pop a few over the border themselves….
But nooooo. It’s about giving his buddies at GE, at TPG and at Morgan Stanley a leg up in the region. More union IOU’s, a posh seat for MSNBC at the table (by association to GE), as well as a few more investment banker favors - as if he isn’t holding the American Taxpayer hostage to the likes of union and Wall Street thugs enough already?
So now we find out that it’s all about the money…. Really? Our safety and our Sovereignty are sold to the highest bidder? Are "We the People" a tradable commodity for the padding of special interest and election coffers? Our country is no longer concerned about its own, let alone the people Russia could care less about while they turn off their heating fuel, causing them freeze to death in the worst winter on record.
This, my friends, is what we get with “Change” and “Hope”. Did we really just exchange 222 years (on Constitution Day no less) of our freedom and sovereignty for IOU's? Did we just waste 30 years of hard work by this and other nations, who collectively worked and bled hard to specifically end the horrors of the Cold War? Did we really just sell out the struggle that these ex-satellite countries have undergone to gain a little of their own rightful sovereignty from the great beast Russia, just as they were beginning to work? We, the great defender of democracy that we are? All for money? All for more profits and a fatter reelection account?
Can this be treason for no other reason than the man makes a deal with the wolf in sheep's clothing without concession one from said wolf? I don’t see how it couldn’t! People! WE NEED TO WAKE TF UP! We have to put an end to this madness!
I am telling you now…this is not an accident that ‘The Won’ did this on Constitution day and on the 70th anniversary of the Soviet invasion into Poland!! This was not an accident at all. This act on this day was not any more an accident than bobbing for quarters before the King of Saudi Arabia was an accident.
No friends, this was a message. Loud and Clear. This is significant in and of its own right, and I firmly believe history will prove that statement true. Nothing this man does is without symbolism and this is the biggest symbolic move he could provide the world. That is exactly what he did. He delivered the message while putting the final big screws to the coffin of our Constitution - on Constitution Day - in front of the whole freaking world.
Well, I just guess that makes Sept 17, 2009 another day that will go down in infamy, doesn’t it?
Putin tipped the celebratory glass of frozen Vodka this morning as he got exactly what he wanted and he had to make no concessions to get exactly what he wanted (still wondering why he wanted it) while Obama sold out democracy in one fell swoop - all for a past and a future election and mo’ power with the devils that be.
Oh how Winston Churchill is rolling over in his grave right now! The poor heroic corpse must feel like a top! The entirety of Churchill’s last years were trying (unsuccessfully) to convince Eisenhower and others of the grave danger of this behemoth we once (and soon will again) called the Soviet Bloc.
Now here we are 30 years after the biggest victory in recent history, just handing it right back to them. We are dumping on the freedom-seeking Slav nations in such a devastating way - and we do so without passing go. We are headed straight back to the cold war as soon as Russia can threaten and undermine the fledging sovereign countries of Ukraine, Georgia and a few other key States. Do not doubt that this is where we are headed or - God Almighty forbid - worse.
It is a documented fact that Russia is in bed with Iran. They are making a lot of squeaky noises, overtures and sometimes outright war gestures to their former States. Germany, Israel and other key allies completely believe that Iran is in fact building nuclear weapons, but our White House is so loaded down with Bo's ho’s who wouldn’t disagree with “the Won” even if they were threatened within an inch of their lives, that even if they did disagree, they wouldn't admit the disagreement. Bought, sold and guaranteed a select spot in the Post-American world, they will do whatever he or his minions request.
No one questioned why The Won was able to raise all that money, which devil he had sold his soul to then…but gosh, I guess we know now don’t we? That would be Brezhnev, Soros, Rockefeller, Kissinger, the UN chief Ban Ki-moon, the Union Lords, Wall Street, and who else can we list here….God knows we can’t list them all – there simply isn’t enough room!
Say farewell to your Sovereignty, America. Your final bill just came due and payable. You are now officially a banana republic replete with bought elections and the selling of the people’s wages for whatever deal guarantees that "The Won" who is in power, stays in power. Watch your bank account for that is the only thing between you and complete serfdom.
If Pelosi wants to cry about violence…why in the hell doesn’t she cry about this?
Thursday, September 17, 2009
Is The Cold War Heating Up?
By Jamie Cain
Today President Obama announced that the planned Missile Shield Program in Czech Republic and Poland Have Been Scrapped. I am going to try to explain why it is so very important that we have these missile shields in place as quickly as possible and show how very dangerous shutting down the Missile Shield Program is to America and the EU. With this move on President Obama’s part, it is a given that the efforts of President Reagan, culminating to the end of the Cold War are about to be undone and we must be aware of that fact.
Let’s start with an article from January of this year, over a Natural Gas crisis between Russia and the Ukraine.
As the story goes, Russia supplies 20% of Europe’s heating fuel through a series of pipes that run through the Ukraine, which (as of 2004) is now an independent State. Qualify this story with the larger fact that Russia wants Ukraine back, along with Georgia, Bulgaria, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, and numerous other States that used to belong to the USSR (most of whom now control certain key natural resources or infrastructure that used to belong to the Kremlin) and the little fact that the Kremlin never was truly happy sharing the power with anyone, let alone those who were once subservient to them. That is one big huge ego slap to the Kremlin and they do not like it, not one little bit.
In the midst of a freezing winter, Russia stopped supplying Ukraine with gas that Ukraine was beholden to send through its pipelines to supply 15 EU countries with a fifth of its required gas for heating. It appeared on the surface that Russia said, “Um no. I’m not selling you the gas anymore, Ukraine, to deliver to all these fine people. In fact, I am going to hold it hostage while people freeze until you agree to my deal. My deal (step one of the taking of the Ukraine) is that I want you to pay FULL market price while I pay discount prices to deliver it through you”.
Well heck, delivery is simply the turning of a valve, albeit the right valve, which Ukraine contends Russia didn’t do as witnessed here. It’s a complex pipeline dedicated to delivering Natural Gas, one that requires regular maintenance which costs money and the proper flow lines that require monitoring, which also costs a lot of money.
The issue to this “reduced delivery price” that Russia forced down Ukraine’s throat, is that Ukraine IS the delivery system, they have pipes to upkeep and Russia doesn’t want to pay those prices while belligerently demanding that Ukraine pay full price for the gas Russia sells them. It’s enough to break the bank for Ukraine, even if the agreement is just for this year until Russia will pay market prices. Any businessperson can do the math on this one. Ukraine could be forced to let those pipes go without maintenance or efficient monitoring to be able to afford the costs of the gas, which could create a multitude of future delivery problems. But no one seems to notice that little problem, let alone intervene in them on behalf of the Ukraine.
None-the-less during the coldest winter in a long time, Ukraine was forced to agree to buy Russia’s gas at $450 per 1000 cubic meters through the entire winter. This is a deal that only offered some relief in price after winter was over, when most countries utilizing the gas would have no more need of the gas.
How untypical is it that a middleman would pay full price for anything that it is responsible for delivering? In the home heating business, one only has a certain amount of months to recoup the cost of doing business, let alone make a profit, and Russia has effectively cut any ability to turn a profit off at the knees even supposing that Ukraine can manage to maintain a breakeven to their customers. There is simply nowhere to go in price once the middleman pays the vendor full price for their product. Not to mention that 2010 will be a whole new deal - once again - that Ukraine will have to get through without freezing out a large part of several ex-Soviet and other EU nations as well.
As it stands now, fifteen countries in the EU were sent scrambling for alternative fuel, while Ukraine had no choice but to sign the hostage agreement (as I am sure they had agreements they were bound to with their customers, in addition to facing the human suffering element and the anger pouring in from their customers).
Meanwhile Russia sat back willing to freeze millions of people in order to further weaken the geopolitical landscape just so they could further their purposes.
Might I remind you this all happened on the heels of the little to do over Georgia’s Oil Reserves where Russia sent several thousand troops into Georgia to prove their point there. Same point, same reason, these were once their resources and they are no longer, a point which Russia seems all too happy to make again and again. The war over Oil with Georgia was a very dangerous game indeed, that so easily could have disintegrated into WWIII given just the right set of circumstances and to which we came closer to seeing happen, than most of us can even fathom.
Ah, but wait! Maybe that wasn’t what Russia said to the Ukraine…according to Moscow, the Ukraine was stealing natural gas, withholding it and not sending it out to get a better deal from their last accord as of Jan 10, 2006 (which was to last 5 years to 2011 as witnessed here). According to Russia, they were just collecting debt. So why, in 2009 was this deal no longer valid? Why, when Ukraine could buy gas at $95 per 1000 cubic meter would they want a new deal now with 2 years to go on such a sweet deal? Good question. The Ukraine didn’t. Russia breached and Russia lied about the reason why. Russia says it was two-fold; Ukraine wasn’t paying their bill (at $95 when they could turn around and sell it for $450? I seriously doubt they weren’t paying their bills) and Russia wanted higher prices. Somehow, that story just doesn’t hold water for a new country wanting to succeed outside the grip of the Motherland. Sorry Russia, but most businesses can’t stay afloat without paying their bills and Ukraine knew it would be not only its business, but it would mean State suicide to breach a contract that sweet only 3 years in, while energy prices were going through the roof.
It had to be that Russia didn’t like the deal anymore simply because Ukraine was making better than 300% profit on their gas during the 2008/09 winter season. On the heels of the Georgia War, an accord that was to last 5 years didn’t because Russia breached the contract. Russia simply cut off the gas. They just turned that little valve and said, “Let’s talk”. Millions without gas to heat their homes? 20% of the buying countries, of the population of 15 countries now literally in danger of freezing to death and Russia says “Let’s talk”? That’s one heck of a bully pulpit, isn’t it.
Millions of people nearly froze to death. The EU had to scramble to get electric heaters rushed out, spend a fortune doing so. Ukraine was risking all sorts of lawsuits, not to mention trade and supplier agreement breeches all because Russia didn’t want to miss that huge energy spike, didn’t want Ukraine turning that kind of profit because it might have strengthened their position as an independent State.
No matter how you turn it, that is exactly what Medvedev and Putin decided to do, and it is why they decided to do it. Russia is the same as it always was and America should “reset” nothing because Russia still places power over people and their State welfare over the human element. That is the great thing about holding most of the cards, they can do whatever they want, make it look like the other guy’s fault (Georgia being another point in case, Iran a third) and they can get away with it because no one can audit the truth in Russia, there are simply way too many layers.
Yushchenko (Ukraine’s President) seems to think that it is all about Russia destabilizing Ukraine (and other regions dependent on them, most of which were formerly known as the Soviet Bloc). I tend to agree as I look at all the arguments, along with the fact that Russia was selling at a loss based on the former accord and the Ukraine was reselling at a significant profit, making their weak new little State just that much stronger. So they reach an unstable deal, whose time is nearly up, and which makes the EU quite nervous. Then suddenly we see this article stating that they are entering a new crisis. Russia is speaking those fighting words again…Russia’s pushing it again and a new crisis is about to begin…um…let’s see, just a few weeks before winter sets in? Gee Wilikers, isn’t that just grand timing?
Let’s understand this. Russia is flexing its big communist muscles and Russia wants to turn back to the good old days where they were a superpower and they owned all the land, infrastructure, and power. Simply put, they want to recreate the Soviet Union.
This means they will be quite happy about the reports of Obama stopping the shield system plans. The Ukraine government and the EU know this. That is why, whether the people of Ukraine understand the truth or not, Ukraine is standing strong (as strong as an independent country of only 5 years can stand, that is) against a giant machine.
Russia is taking a low key approach hoping the people who aren’t too keen on the recently separated State will revolt, and they are busy doing just what they do as communists, quietly feeding the opposition funds and encouragement to revolt to destabilize Ukraine further; kind of like an ACORN on steroids with ALL the money at its disposal.
The Ukraine State is in turn, understandably taking a more aggressive role towards Russia’s military encroachment and is actually stopping and searching weapons transfers and placing limits, as weak as they may be, on Russia’s coming and goings.
Russia is blustering that it is our fault they can’t join the WTO, meanwhile they are increasing their aggressions against Georgia again and they are damn close to finishing their own new air defense system.
Do we have any idea how far back this will set us? This will set us all the way back to the cold war or worse, especially in light of Russia’s friendship with Iran. In his inexperience, our President is squandering our sovereignty, seemingly by order of the UN, Soros, and the like. For what? Why are we cancelling that Shield System?
For us, however (you know, the ones who supposedly believe in democracy and the capitalist system), the removal of our shields and the carte blanche ticket to power we are handing Russia in our misguided effort to “reset” relations, Ukraine and Georgia might be the only hopes we have left to stop a new Cold War and/or energy war. They are our friends. Russia will only be as long as it suits her to regain her superpower status, and by then we will be too weakened from internal strife and debt to do a damn thing about it. They know it, we know it and the rest of the world knows it.
What I want to know is, “What are We the People going do about it”? Can we have a grown up in the White House? Please? The old Soviet Union wants their power back and it looks as though we are party to laying it all in their laps with this move. It will be a very interesting few years indeed.
Today President Obama announced that the planned Missile Shield Program in Czech Republic and Poland Have Been Scrapped. I am going to try to explain why it is so very important that we have these missile shields in place as quickly as possible and show how very dangerous shutting down the Missile Shield Program is to America and the EU. With this move on President Obama’s part, it is a given that the efforts of President Reagan, culminating to the end of the Cold War are about to be undone and we must be aware of that fact.
Let’s start with an article from January of this year, over a Natural Gas crisis between Russia and the Ukraine.
As the story goes, Russia supplies 20% of Europe’s heating fuel through a series of pipes that run through the Ukraine, which (as of 2004) is now an independent State. Qualify this story with the larger fact that Russia wants Ukraine back, along with Georgia, Bulgaria, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, and numerous other States that used to belong to the USSR (most of whom now control certain key natural resources or infrastructure that used to belong to the Kremlin) and the little fact that the Kremlin never was truly happy sharing the power with anyone, let alone those who were once subservient to them. That is one big huge ego slap to the Kremlin and they do not like it, not one little bit.
In the midst of a freezing winter, Russia stopped supplying Ukraine with gas that Ukraine was beholden to send through its pipelines to supply 15 EU countries with a fifth of its required gas for heating. It appeared on the surface that Russia said, “Um no. I’m not selling you the gas anymore, Ukraine, to deliver to all these fine people. In fact, I am going to hold it hostage while people freeze until you agree to my deal. My deal (step one of the taking of the Ukraine) is that I want you to pay FULL market price while I pay discount prices to deliver it through you”.
Well heck, delivery is simply the turning of a valve, albeit the right valve, which Ukraine contends Russia didn’t do as witnessed here. It’s a complex pipeline dedicated to delivering Natural Gas, one that requires regular maintenance which costs money and the proper flow lines that require monitoring, which also costs a lot of money.
The issue to this “reduced delivery price” that Russia forced down Ukraine’s throat, is that Ukraine IS the delivery system, they have pipes to upkeep and Russia doesn’t want to pay those prices while belligerently demanding that Ukraine pay full price for the gas Russia sells them. It’s enough to break the bank for Ukraine, even if the agreement is just for this year until Russia will pay market prices. Any businessperson can do the math on this one. Ukraine could be forced to let those pipes go without maintenance or efficient monitoring to be able to afford the costs of the gas, which could create a multitude of future delivery problems. But no one seems to notice that little problem, let alone intervene in them on behalf of the Ukraine.
None-the-less during the coldest winter in a long time, Ukraine was forced to agree to buy Russia’s gas at $450 per 1000 cubic meters through the entire winter. This is a deal that only offered some relief in price after winter was over, when most countries utilizing the gas would have no more need of the gas.
How untypical is it that a middleman would pay full price for anything that it is responsible for delivering? In the home heating business, one only has a certain amount of months to recoup the cost of doing business, let alone make a profit, and Russia has effectively cut any ability to turn a profit off at the knees even supposing that Ukraine can manage to maintain a breakeven to their customers. There is simply nowhere to go in price once the middleman pays the vendor full price for their product. Not to mention that 2010 will be a whole new deal - once again - that Ukraine will have to get through without freezing out a large part of several ex-Soviet and other EU nations as well.
As it stands now, fifteen countries in the EU were sent scrambling for alternative fuel, while Ukraine had no choice but to sign the hostage agreement (as I am sure they had agreements they were bound to with their customers, in addition to facing the human suffering element and the anger pouring in from their customers).
Meanwhile Russia sat back willing to freeze millions of people in order to further weaken the geopolitical landscape just so they could further their purposes.
Might I remind you this all happened on the heels of the little to do over Georgia’s Oil Reserves where Russia sent several thousand troops into Georgia to prove their point there. Same point, same reason, these were once their resources and they are no longer, a point which Russia seems all too happy to make again and again. The war over Oil with Georgia was a very dangerous game indeed, that so easily could have disintegrated into WWIII given just the right set of circumstances and to which we came closer to seeing happen, than most of us can even fathom.
Ah, but wait! Maybe that wasn’t what Russia said to the Ukraine…according to Moscow, the Ukraine was stealing natural gas, withholding it and not sending it out to get a better deal from their last accord as of Jan 10, 2006 (which was to last 5 years to 2011 as witnessed here). According to Russia, they were just collecting debt. So why, in 2009 was this deal no longer valid? Why, when Ukraine could buy gas at $95 per 1000 cubic meter would they want a new deal now with 2 years to go on such a sweet deal? Good question. The Ukraine didn’t. Russia breached and Russia lied about the reason why. Russia says it was two-fold; Ukraine wasn’t paying their bill (at $95 when they could turn around and sell it for $450? I seriously doubt they weren’t paying their bills) and Russia wanted higher prices. Somehow, that story just doesn’t hold water for a new country wanting to succeed outside the grip of the Motherland. Sorry Russia, but most businesses can’t stay afloat without paying their bills and Ukraine knew it would be not only its business, but it would mean State suicide to breach a contract that sweet only 3 years in, while energy prices were going through the roof.
It had to be that Russia didn’t like the deal anymore simply because Ukraine was making better than 300% profit on their gas during the 2008/09 winter season. On the heels of the Georgia War, an accord that was to last 5 years didn’t because Russia breached the contract. Russia simply cut off the gas. They just turned that little valve and said, “Let’s talk”. Millions without gas to heat their homes? 20% of the buying countries, of the population of 15 countries now literally in danger of freezing to death and Russia says “Let’s talk”? That’s one heck of a bully pulpit, isn’t it.
Millions of people nearly froze to death. The EU had to scramble to get electric heaters rushed out, spend a fortune doing so. Ukraine was risking all sorts of lawsuits, not to mention trade and supplier agreement breeches all because Russia didn’t want to miss that huge energy spike, didn’t want Ukraine turning that kind of profit because it might have strengthened their position as an independent State.
No matter how you turn it, that is exactly what Medvedev and Putin decided to do, and it is why they decided to do it. Russia is the same as it always was and America should “reset” nothing because Russia still places power over people and their State welfare over the human element. That is the great thing about holding most of the cards, they can do whatever they want, make it look like the other guy’s fault (Georgia being another point in case, Iran a third) and they can get away with it because no one can audit the truth in Russia, there are simply way too many layers.
Yushchenko (Ukraine’s President) seems to think that it is all about Russia destabilizing Ukraine (and other regions dependent on them, most of which were formerly known as the Soviet Bloc). I tend to agree as I look at all the arguments, along with the fact that Russia was selling at a loss based on the former accord and the Ukraine was reselling at a significant profit, making their weak new little State just that much stronger. So they reach an unstable deal, whose time is nearly up, and which makes the EU quite nervous. Then suddenly we see this article stating that they are entering a new crisis. Russia is speaking those fighting words again…Russia’s pushing it again and a new crisis is about to begin…um…let’s see, just a few weeks before winter sets in? Gee Wilikers, isn’t that just grand timing?
Let’s understand this. Russia is flexing its big communist muscles and Russia wants to turn back to the good old days where they were a superpower and they owned all the land, infrastructure, and power. Simply put, they want to recreate the Soviet Union.
This means they will be quite happy about the reports of Obama stopping the shield system plans. The Ukraine government and the EU know this. That is why, whether the people of Ukraine understand the truth or not, Ukraine is standing strong (as strong as an independent country of only 5 years can stand, that is) against a giant machine.
Russia is taking a low key approach hoping the people who aren’t too keen on the recently separated State will revolt, and they are busy doing just what they do as communists, quietly feeding the opposition funds and encouragement to revolt to destabilize Ukraine further; kind of like an ACORN on steroids with ALL the money at its disposal.
The Ukraine State is in turn, understandably taking a more aggressive role towards Russia’s military encroachment and is actually stopping and searching weapons transfers and placing limits, as weak as they may be, on Russia’s coming and goings.
Russia is blustering that it is our fault they can’t join the WTO, meanwhile they are increasing their aggressions against Georgia again and they are damn close to finishing their own new air defense system.
Do we have any idea how far back this will set us? This will set us all the way back to the cold war or worse, especially in light of Russia’s friendship with Iran. In his inexperience, our President is squandering our sovereignty, seemingly by order of the UN, Soros, and the like. For what? Why are we cancelling that Shield System?
For us, however (you know, the ones who supposedly believe in democracy and the capitalist system), the removal of our shields and the carte blanche ticket to power we are handing Russia in our misguided effort to “reset” relations, Ukraine and Georgia might be the only hopes we have left to stop a new Cold War and/or energy war. They are our friends. Russia will only be as long as it suits her to regain her superpower status, and by then we will be too weakened from internal strife and debt to do a damn thing about it. They know it, we know it and the rest of the world knows it.
What I want to know is, “What are We the People going do about it”? Can we have a grown up in the White House? Please? The old Soviet Union wants their power back and it looks as though we are party to laying it all in their laps with this move. It will be a very interesting few years indeed.
Monday, July 6, 2009
Living in a Zero-Sum Game
As our “sort of like god” President raises himself above nations, earth and men, we the people are pawns in a zero-sum game with the administration, the czars and Congress. We are being played to keep us in a state of fear while they steal our money and our liberty. They tout international crisis, global warming disasters, healthcare crisis, economic crisis, housing crisis, and the end-of-life-as-we-know-it-if-we-don’t-have something-passed-by-the-end-of-the-week, weekly crisis - simply to keep us afraid.
Not only do they tout crises but they tell us they see “gold in them thar hills” and they plainly state that they plan to use these crises that come across their desk to their gain! Not our gain, not America’s gain - theirs!
I don’t know how many of you remember the days of the Cold War, but Russia always complained that they were in a zero-sum game – meaning America always won and they always lost. In fact, they still believe it as they just said as much yesterday about Obama and Lady Mi’s latest apology tour to Russia.
In an article in the news.scotsman.com they wrote “Russian news agency Pravda was less than subtle in an editorial summing up the Obama administration, headlined: "Obama: Deceiver, cheat, swindler, liar, fraudster, con-artist. [I think I am beginning to like Pravda these days!] The root cause of the antagonism is a belief in the Kremlin that relations with the West must inevitably be a "zero-sum" game – every gain for the West is a loss for Russia.”
But wait, didn’t President Clinton declare the inevitable end of ALL zero-sum games in a Wired interview? In 2000, he said “The more complex societies get and the more complex the networks of interdependence within and beyond community and national borders get, the more people are forced in their own interests to find non-zero-sum solutions. That is, win–win solutions instead of win–lose solutions....”
It is possible to play a non-zero-sum game as Clinton, Obama and the progressives believe, but only under one of two circumstances, either you DON’T KEEP SCORE, or the only people you play with are people of equal power who have equal cards in an equally stacked deck!
Let’s think about this for a minute. Let’s take just one country and examine this worldwide non-zero-sum game. Let’s take Venezuela’s Chavez. What a great guy he is! He is taking over all the people’s money, all the oil, the banks (only Friday he took over Spanish-owned Banco de Venezuela giving HIM control over more than one-fifth of bank deposits in the country), demanding the end of the US dollar standard, befriending all good despots, and he took over the Presidency this February - forever.
What’s even more interesting is Venezuela’s history. The people suffered under turmoil until the 1958 overthrow of General Jiminez. The ensuing political calm ended again in 1989 when the people rioted and more than 200 of them were killed in Caracas. The Caracazo was a revolt against an economic austerity program launched by President Perez.
In February 1992, a group of army lieutenant colonels led by Chávez mounted an unsuccessful coup attempt, claiming that the events of 1989 showed that the political system no longer served the interests of the people. A second, unsuccessful coup attempt by other officers followed in November 1992. A year later, their Congress impeached Perez on corruption charges.
Now here is something that might sound familiar to us: deep popular dissatisfaction with the traditional political parties, income disparities, and economic difficulties were some of the major frustrations expressed by Venezuelans following Perez's impeachment. In December 1998, Hugo Chávez won the presidency on a campaign for broad reform, change and an end to corruption. Hmmmm.
Chávez platform called for writing a new constitution for Venezuela. He said the existing political system had become isolated from the people. Voters gave all but six seats to the candidates of Chávez’s movement that first election cycle. The new Constitution’s draft was accepted in a national referendum in 1999. One of the new rules was that a President could serve 2 terms of 6 years each.
As Chávez power and wealth grew, his supporters won the majority of the seats in the 2005 municipal elections, and all 167 seats in the National elections later that same year- after most opposition candidates withdrew one week before the elections over voter secrecy concerns.
The independent election observers from the EU (European Union) and OAS (Organization of American States) stated those elections were marked by record-high abstention and high levels of distrust in electoral institutions. That’s double-speak meaning that the voters were scared stiff to even vote. The reports made specific recommendations to increase transparency and help voters regain confidence in the system. The recommendations weren’t ever implemented.
Chávez proposed to reform his own REFORMED Constitution AGAIN in 2007, including measures that allowed indefinite presidential terms, geographic boundaries reorganization (redistricting), and a redefinition of private property (we get to take yours when we feel like it).
In late 2007, those reforms were narrowly defeated. Angered by his first loss, Chávez stated he might pass many of the changes defeated in the referendum by presidential decree, but instead played his power again (by scaring more people?) and won his referendum 14 months later in February. In the end, the people knew they had lost and just gave up. He took 10 years to take away their will, now he will finish taking their property, their money, and their lives.
Chávez can now be an official despot like Castro, Ahmadinejad and Kim Jong-il and his son Kim ll-Sung. He can remain in power. The people of these countries are poor and getting poorer, hungry and getting hungrier while their leaders are rich, fat and powerful and getting more so by the day.
Not only do they tout crises but they tell us they see “gold in them thar hills” and they plainly state that they plan to use these crises that come across their desk to their gain! Not our gain, not America’s gain - theirs!
I don’t know how many of you remember the days of the Cold War, but Russia always complained that they were in a zero-sum game – meaning America always won and they always lost. In fact, they still believe it as they just said as much yesterday about Obama and Lady Mi’s latest apology tour to Russia.
In an article in the news.scotsman.com they wrote “Russian news agency Pravda was less than subtle in an editorial summing up the Obama administration, headlined: "Obama: Deceiver, cheat, swindler, liar, fraudster, con-artist. [I think I am beginning to like Pravda these days!] The root cause of the antagonism is a belief in the Kremlin that relations with the West must inevitably be a "zero-sum" game – every gain for the West is a loss for Russia.”
But wait, didn’t President Clinton declare the inevitable end of ALL zero-sum games in a Wired interview? In 2000, he said “The more complex societies get and the more complex the networks of interdependence within and beyond community and national borders get, the more people are forced in their own interests to find non-zero-sum solutions. That is, win–win solutions instead of win–lose solutions....”
It is possible to play a non-zero-sum game as Clinton, Obama and the progressives believe, but only under one of two circumstances, either you DON’T KEEP SCORE, or the only people you play with are people of equal power who have equal cards in an equally stacked deck!
Let’s think about this for a minute. Let’s take just one country and examine this worldwide non-zero-sum game. Let’s take Venezuela’s Chavez. What a great guy he is! He is taking over all the people’s money, all the oil, the banks (only Friday he took over Spanish-owned Banco de Venezuela giving HIM control over more than one-fifth of bank deposits in the country), demanding the end of the US dollar standard, befriending all good despots, and he took over the Presidency this February - forever.
What’s even more interesting is Venezuela’s history. The people suffered under turmoil until the 1958 overthrow of General Jiminez. The ensuing political calm ended again in 1989 when the people rioted and more than 200 of them were killed in Caracas. The Caracazo was a revolt against an economic austerity program launched by President Perez.
In February 1992, a group of army lieutenant colonels led by Chávez mounted an unsuccessful coup attempt, claiming that the events of 1989 showed that the political system no longer served the interests of the people. A second, unsuccessful coup attempt by other officers followed in November 1992. A year later, their Congress impeached Perez on corruption charges.
Now here is something that might sound familiar to us: deep popular dissatisfaction with the traditional political parties, income disparities, and economic difficulties were some of the major frustrations expressed by Venezuelans following Perez's impeachment. In December 1998, Hugo Chávez won the presidency on a campaign for broad reform, change and an end to corruption. Hmmmm.
Chávez platform called for writing a new constitution for Venezuela. He said the existing political system had become isolated from the people. Voters gave all but six seats to the candidates of Chávez’s movement that first election cycle. The new Constitution’s draft was accepted in a national referendum in 1999. One of the new rules was that a President could serve 2 terms of 6 years each.
As Chávez power and wealth grew, his supporters won the majority of the seats in the 2005 municipal elections, and all 167 seats in the National elections later that same year- after most opposition candidates withdrew one week before the elections over voter secrecy concerns.
The independent election observers from the EU (European Union) and OAS (Organization of American States) stated those elections were marked by record-high abstention and high levels of distrust in electoral institutions. That’s double-speak meaning that the voters were scared stiff to even vote. The reports made specific recommendations to increase transparency and help voters regain confidence in the system. The recommendations weren’t ever implemented.
Chávez proposed to reform his own REFORMED Constitution AGAIN in 2007, including measures that allowed indefinite presidential terms, geographic boundaries reorganization (redistricting), and a redefinition of private property (we get to take yours when we feel like it).
In late 2007, those reforms were narrowly defeated. Angered by his first loss, Chávez stated he might pass many of the changes defeated in the referendum by presidential decree, but instead played his power again (by scaring more people?) and won his referendum 14 months later in February. In the end, the people knew they had lost and just gave up. He took 10 years to take away their will, now he will finish taking their property, their money, and their lives.
Chávez can now be an official despot like Castro, Ahmadinejad and Kim Jong-il and his son Kim ll-Sung. He can remain in power. The people of these countries are poor and getting poorer, hungry and getting hungrier while their leaders are rich, fat and powerful and getting more so by the day.
We have to understand that despots rule because the people are afraid of them! The only people in those countries who are happy are those who are in power and their families and friends. How they square what happens to their fellow citizens is simply because it is a zero-sum win and they are winning! Where have we heard that nearly every day this year? That is where we are headed in our country, very quickly with all the legislation coming down the pike, with the czars, the business takeovers, the bank takeovers. It’s the same damn thing!
We really do NOT believe that a dictatorship can happen here in America. I don’t know why we think that because as we are witness, it happens all over the world. Never the less and for some strange reason, we still believe it just can’t happen in America. Our government would never move by force against we the people… Why wouldn’t they if it means they gain control, riches, and all the liberty?
Don’t doubt it. Obama is powerful enough, he is taking the same path as others before him, and like others before him, he is winning while we the people are going to be the ultimate losers in this game. We are in the being played in this zero-sum game, you, me and our kids, along with our culture and liberty will be on the losing end - unless we make winning our second job.
One can only win a non-zero-sum game if you are the ones in power. IF we are the ones who stand to gain, IF we are the ones who are being bailed out because we are TOO BIG TO FAIL, and IF we are the ones who count one whit, we might have a fighting chance. But this particular game benefits no one but Obama and his minions. It is why they had thugs at the polls and didn’t limit the campaigning at the polls, why the White House took over the Census, why they are passing all these major bills and it is why they are on apology tours around the world to our enemies all the while he is thumbing his nose to our allies! We gave it all up, we did near exactly what Venezuela 10 years prior, we voted in a one party rule and none of our usual tactics are working for us to stop them.
Our government is the end all, be all right now to remove us from our rights in the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and our Bill of Rights for the sake of progressive party power. They only want to stay in power, to do that they must control all major industry and all money. When they succeed the control of the people of the US will be complete. We are the losers in Cap and Trade, in stimulus and bailouts, we are the losers in Healthcare Reform and we are certainly the losers if he too can be “President forever”.
What does it take for us to see the similarities, to recognize a despot and to know that dictatorships do not work? It only takes knowledge and the will to use it every single day going forward.
We really do NOT believe that a dictatorship can happen here in America. I don’t know why we think that because as we are witness, it happens all over the world. Never the less and for some strange reason, we still believe it just can’t happen in America. Our government would never move by force against we the people… Why wouldn’t they if it means they gain control, riches, and all the liberty?
Don’t doubt it. Obama is powerful enough, he is taking the same path as others before him, and like others before him, he is winning while we the people are going to be the ultimate losers in this game. We are in the being played in this zero-sum game, you, me and our kids, along with our culture and liberty will be on the losing end - unless we make winning our second job.
One can only win a non-zero-sum game if you are the ones in power. IF we are the ones who stand to gain, IF we are the ones who are being bailed out because we are TOO BIG TO FAIL, and IF we are the ones who count one whit, we might have a fighting chance. But this particular game benefits no one but Obama and his minions. It is why they had thugs at the polls and didn’t limit the campaigning at the polls, why the White House took over the Census, why they are passing all these major bills and it is why they are on apology tours around the world to our enemies all the while he is thumbing his nose to our allies! We gave it all up, we did near exactly what Venezuela 10 years prior, we voted in a one party rule and none of our usual tactics are working for us to stop them.
Our government is the end all, be all right now to remove us from our rights in the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and our Bill of Rights for the sake of progressive party power. They only want to stay in power, to do that they must control all major industry and all money. When they succeed the control of the people of the US will be complete. We are the losers in Cap and Trade, in stimulus and bailouts, we are the losers in Healthcare Reform and we are certainly the losers if he too can be “President forever”.
What does it take for us to see the similarities, to recognize a despot and to know that dictatorships do not work? It only takes knowledge and the will to use it every single day going forward.
Cartoon is the courtesy of my friend Robert Smith, Jr. To see more of his work, check out http://www.robsmithjr.com/! Thanks Rob!
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
So Many Topics, So Little Time.
The bane of my existence these days is not what to write about, it is keeping up with it all. Thanks to some very devoted friends, I am getting lots of help these days.
My key problem is now, "Where shall I start?" Is it with the President as CEO of the now Government Motors? Naw, that's old news. How about I start with what else happened while he was busy putting on the news blitz smokescreen that made you and I purveyors of warranty safety on each and every GM vehicle?
The toss up says I will focus on Mr. Harold Koh. If you know who Harold Koh is, please raise your hand. [Lengthy Pause] No takers today? Okay, I'll share.
Harold Koh is Obama's new appointment for Legal Advisor to the Department of State.
Harold Koh is former dean of the Yale Law School.
Harold Koh has written several books, among them "The National Security Constitution: Sharing Power after the Iran-Contra Affair (Yale University Press,1990); Transnational Legal Problems (with Harry Steiner and Detlev Vagts, Foundation Press, 1994); and Deliberative Democracy and Human Rights (with Ronald C. Slye, Yale University Press, 1999). He has also written many book chapters, law review articles, and other published works.
Harold Koh has some pretty "out there" ideas, the most unenjoyable by far is the fact that Harold Koh testified before the 2005 Senate Judiciary Committee that the appointment of Alberto Gonzales was undesirable as attorney general of the United States, because of Gonzales' alleged role in attempting to provide legal guidance to the U.S. military stating:
In another award winning unenjoyable statement, as it was reported by Meghan Clyne of the New York Post, Koh addressed the Yale Club of Greenwich in 2007, saying that in an appropriate case, he didn't see any reason why...
Just in case you don't know about the type of things Sharia Law covers, punishment runs the gamut for any number of offenses, for instance: not saying your prayers facing East 5 times a day could result in a public flogging, disobeying your husband could result in beheading, theft can result in the loss of hands, feet or both, and imprisonment and public flogging for a single woman or widow to even speak to a single unrelated man alone.
Here is a video of Britian citizens gathering in a meeting to combat the recent law, that is not a law on the books, but is being practiced in the courts, to allow Sharia Law in their country.
Here is another video giving you just the idea of what types of things you can expect under Sharia Law in our country. I encourage you to click on the video and go see some of the related videos in this set.
Yeah. That's just what we need in America.....
More topics you should take a look at today and that I will probably go into later in greater detail:
1. Clinton offered an olive branch to Taliban in Pakistan right after they killed dozens who stood against them. (Free Republic) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2218771/posts
2. On another note, Russia calls a return to the Gold Standard. As a friend and fellow freedom fighter said to me… “interesting that prior to the G20 conference, we appear to be being flanked by a calculating axis of "former" communists, who are actually exercising Austrian economic school doctrine in trying to stabilize their currency as opposed to the "kinkos" nature of the fed/treasury axis of evil. The dollar is in for a tumble, with pressure from all sides, most of all... ours.” I couldn’t agree. We are being conditioned right now to accept a new reserve currency and it will mean, more than anything, the end of America as we know it. (Free Republic) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2218824/posts
3. The President also signed the massive Omnibus LAND MANAGEMENT BILL yesterday, placing many simple things under “federal imprisonment” should we innocently do them, such as collecting rocks or fossils, and which is filled with pork out the wazoo. A total of 170 bills are in this baby and Reid did a little sleight of hand to get it through. Take a gander at http://spectator.org/archives/2009/03/31/toxic-omnibus-anti-energy-anti/
4. Oh, and we can’t forget Kerry’s renewed interest in banning weapons due to the border war manufactured truths…. http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/6350856.html
5. Watch out for HR 1444, the adjunct bill to HR 1388 in committee now. This one seeks to make service mandatory again, something the HR 1388 took out.
6. From Yid with a Lid Blogger, George Soros and John Podesta are trying to "quiet" non-liberal commentators through convincing advertisers to pull their advertising. Check out his blog, it is always good.
7. In another brilliant move, this from DC Examiner "the House Financial Services Committee, led by chairman Barney Frank, approved a measure that would, in some key ways, go beyond the most draconian features of the original AIG bill. The new legislation, the "Pay for Performance Act of 2009," would impose government controls on the pay of all employees -- not just top executives -- of companies that have received a capital investment from the U.S. government. It would, like the tax measure, be retroactive, changing the terms of compensation agreements already in place. And it would give Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner extraordinary power to determine the pay of thousands of employees of American companies."
Perhaps now you can see I don't know which topic to cover first, last or in the middle. More to come on these last 7 and more.
Until then, have a great day and fight the good fight! And always remember....Don't get mad, get even.
My key problem is now, "Where shall I start?" Is it with the President as CEO of the now Government Motors? Naw, that's old news. How about I start with what else happened while he was busy putting on the news blitz smokescreen that made you and I purveyors of warranty safety on each and every GM vehicle?
The toss up says I will focus on Mr. Harold Koh. If you know who Harold Koh is, please raise your hand. [Lengthy Pause] No takers today? Okay, I'll share.
Harold Koh is Obama's new appointment for Legal Advisor to the Department of State.
Harold Koh is former dean of the Yale Law School.
Harold Koh has written several books, among them "The National Security Constitution: Sharing Power after the Iran-Contra Affair (Yale University Press,1990); Transnational Legal Problems (with Harry Steiner and Detlev Vagts, Foundation Press, 1994); and Deliberative Democracy and Human Rights (with Ronald C. Slye, Yale University Press, 1999). He has also written many book chapters, law review articles, and other published works.
Harold Koh has some pretty "out there" ideas, the most unenjoyable by far is the fact that Harold Koh testified before the 2005 Senate Judiciary Committee that the appointment of Alberto Gonzales was undesirable as attorney general of the United States, because of Gonzales' alleged role in attempting to provide legal guidance to the U.S. military stating:
"The War on Terror "renders obsolete" and "renders quaint" aspects of the Geneva Conventions."
In another award winning unenjoyable statement, as it was reported by Meghan Clyne of the New York Post, Koh addressed the Yale Club of Greenwich in 2007, saying that in an appropriate case, he didn't see any reason why...
"Sharia Law would not be applied to govern a case in the United States."
Just in case you don't know about the type of things Sharia Law covers, punishment runs the gamut for any number of offenses, for instance: not saying your prayers facing East 5 times a day could result in a public flogging, disobeying your husband could result in beheading, theft can result in the loss of hands, feet or both, and imprisonment and public flogging for a single woman or widow to even speak to a single unrelated man alone.
Here is a video of Britian citizens gathering in a meeting to combat the recent law, that is not a law on the books, but is being practiced in the courts, to allow Sharia Law in their country.
Here is another video giving you just the idea of what types of things you can expect under Sharia Law in our country. I encourage you to click on the video and go see some of the related videos in this set.
Yeah. That's just what we need in America.....
More topics you should take a look at today and that I will probably go into later in greater detail:
1. Clinton offered an olive branch to Taliban in Pakistan right after they killed dozens who stood against them. (Free Republic) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2218771/posts
2. On another note, Russia calls a return to the Gold Standard. As a friend and fellow freedom fighter said to me… “interesting that prior to the G20 conference, we appear to be being flanked by a calculating axis of "former" communists, who are actually exercising Austrian economic school doctrine in trying to stabilize their currency as opposed to the "kinkos" nature of the fed/treasury axis of evil. The dollar is in for a tumble, with pressure from all sides, most of all... ours.” I couldn’t agree. We are being conditioned right now to accept a new reserve currency and it will mean, more than anything, the end of America as we know it. (Free Republic) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2218824/posts
3. The President also signed the massive Omnibus LAND MANAGEMENT BILL yesterday, placing many simple things under “federal imprisonment” should we innocently do them, such as collecting rocks or fossils, and which is filled with pork out the wazoo. A total of 170 bills are in this baby and Reid did a little sleight of hand to get it through. Take a gander at http://spectator.org/archives/2009/03/31/toxic-omnibus-anti-energy-anti/
4. Oh, and we can’t forget Kerry’s renewed interest in banning weapons due to the border war manufactured truths…. http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/6350856.html
5. Watch out for HR 1444, the adjunct bill to HR 1388 in committee now. This one seeks to make service mandatory again, something the HR 1388 took out.
6. From Yid with a Lid Blogger, George Soros and John Podesta are trying to "quiet" non-liberal commentators through convincing advertisers to pull their advertising. Check out his blog, it is always good.
7. In another brilliant move, this from DC Examiner "the House Financial Services Committee, led by chairman Barney Frank, approved a measure that would, in some key ways, go beyond the most draconian features of the original AIG bill. The new legislation, the "Pay for Performance Act of 2009," would impose government controls on the pay of all employees -- not just top executives -- of companies that have received a capital investment from the U.S. government. It would, like the tax measure, be retroactive, changing the terms of compensation agreements already in place. And it would give Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner extraordinary power to determine the pay of thousands of employees of American companies."
Perhaps now you can see I don't know which topic to cover first, last or in the middle. More to come on these last 7 and more.
Until then, have a great day and fight the good fight! And always remember....Don't get mad, get even.
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