Headline News: 12-7-2005

Christian Persecution
* Christmas carols banned, but Hanukkah songs OK
* Anger Over Crucifix Ban
* Holy family, Magi nixed from nativity
* Complaint fells school's `giving tree'

Government
* Faux Conservative Bush's Christmas Card
* New Conservative Leader Takes on Blair
* Government Study on Dog's Secret Lives

Police State
* 83 year old woman who preferred wild yard look rakes up $1.8 million in citations
* China Admits to Sale of Organs from Prisoners
* NBC anchor Williams: Bush administration has "right" to buy media coverage
* Wake To Employ Wireless Surveillance System
* Walgreen to Use Tagged Displays

Terrorism & 911
* C-130 crashes into Iranian skyscraper, yet no collapse
* Police Found Suspected Bombs In WTC On 9/11
* Even with deliberate demolition, this building is still standing

War
* Russia hits back at US criticism of Iran arms deal

Commentary
Patrick J. Buchanan - Lying to ourselves, No amnesty, no deal, Mr. President
Steve Watson - Bush Illegal Immigration "Tough Talk": Smoke and Mirrors
Walter E. Williams - Basic economics
Gary DeMar - Are Christmas trees pagan?

Headline News: 12-6-2005

Government
* DeLay's Money Laundering Charges Upheld

Healthcare & Illness
* Chinese girl is latest human bird flu victim

* Vaccine additive (Thimerasol) banned in Iowa

Police State
* The UN's Desire to Control the Internet

* Preventative detention heralds police state

* Rice says US does not condone torture, wins German support
* CIA's torture guide is out, US defensive
* BBC's Stephen Sackur Backs CIA Torture
* Canada considers more heroin injection sites

Surveillance
* China to Register all Mobile Users
* RFID Helps Feed Parking Meters

War
* Saddam Says He Won't Attend 'Unjust Court' (""This is terrorism," he declared." - Ha, Ha)
* Netanyahu Backs Pre-Emptive Strike on Iran
* U.S. Army report: Israel can't stop Iran nukes
* Iran to tender two 1,000 MW nuclear reactors
* U.S. Presses Russia on Iran Missile Deal

Headline News: 12-3-2005

Christian Persecution
*Atheist group wants memorial crosses removed

Family Breakdown
*Lawmakers: Same-sex 'marriage' not a civil right (Text)

General
*Prof: Right to assisted suicide 'irresistible'

Healthcare
*Has feared mutation of avian flu arrived?
*X-rays predict bird flu 'toll'

Police State
Critical - Republicans want 'secret' drug agency

War
*Russia equips Iran for war

Commentary
Devvy Kidd - Sitting on a corn flake

Headline News: 12-1-2005

General
Rep. Tanner to speak on topic of ‘New World Order’

Healthcare
Weak Strain Of Bird Flu Found At Sun Valley Farm, US (It's here, everyone panic!)

National ID
Fed Center flap draws a busload of support

Surveillance
Camera in School Bathroom
Camera in in Ohio School Bathroom
Camera in Waco, TX Bathroom

Travel
Big Brother Devices Cut Off Speeders

War
Anthrax Shots May Be Required in Military
Israel will not accept Iran nuclear weapons: Sharon

Headline News: 11-30-2005

Corporate Control
Fitzgerald chases 9/11 crooks off Hollinger board

Education
Bill Gates Teams Up With UNESCO

Feds to Fund Controversial School Surveillance

Mind Control
EM 'Smog' From Cell Towers Might Affect Behavior

'Shattered Union' Video Game Features Global Government Takeover

Battlefield 2 Expansion, Where Players 'Fight FOR the New World Order'

Illuminati Symbolism On Nickelodeon

Police State
DVLA sells your details to criminals

Death toll from road accidents 390 times that from terrorism: study
Commentary
Pat Buchanan - Putin and the neo-comintern
Walter E. Williams - Dead-end jobs
Devvy Kidd - Checkmate

Headline News: 11-28-2005

*China says bird flu virus in humans mutating

*New Hampshire abortion law goes before Supreme Court

*Police vow surprise ID sweeps in Miami

*Bush pretends to get serious on illegal immigration

*Court Trip For Bus Rider Who Refused To 'Show Papers'

*'Trophy' video exposes private security contractors shooting up Iraqi drivers (Video)

Giant Free Speech Zone In Crawford, TX?

Infowars.com is splashing this breaking news.

"Infowars.com just spoke with Karen Bernal, Volunteer Coordinator at the the Crawford Peace House who confirmed that the arrests began at around 9:30 AM this morning. Hadi Jawad co-founder of the Peace House tells us that 15 people were arrested, including Daniel Ellsberg and Dede Miller, Cindy Sheehan's sister.

Three months ago, McLennan County Texas passed an unconstitutional ordinance banning parking or standing on hundreds of miles of rural roadway. This is the equivalent of a giant free speech ban, mirroring similar freedom destroying free speech zones used across the country to stop protestors from getting information to the media."

The Real Effect
To early to say exactly what is happening, but when former diplomats are being arrested for protesting on a rural public road paid for with our tax dollars, something isn't right.

Edited for appearance and labels on 3/23/2010.

EU to Set Up Spy Satellites

For your edification, I submit the following.

Earlier this week it was announced that the European Union is setting up it's own set satellites to be used

"in guiding relief work after disasters or providing real time images of forest fires or oil spills."

Riiiiiiight, a multi-billion dollar system to help with forest fires and oil spills. Can we get the truth please?

Known as the "Global Monitoring for Environment and Security" (GMES)" , "...a commission memo also acknowledged that GMES would play a key role in the "implementation, review and monitoring of EU policies", including watching for agriculture and fisheries fraud and boosting "internal security".

The Real Effect
Wow, they aren't hiding their final objectives anymore are they? The GLOBAL Monitoring for Environment and Security. Watch for an increase in centralization of power shifting from the United States to Brussels and the European Union, setting up the scene for the forth-coming global prince. There is a strong chance that we will get a glimpse of him in June of next year, but more on that, later.

Regarding Democracies

Democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security, or the rights of property; have in general been as short in their lives as they are violent in their deaths. ~ James Madison, Federalist Papers (# 10) 4th president of US (1751 - 1836)

FTAA and Paris

The weekend has come, gone and with it, much of the world's sanity and common sense.

In France, the 10th day of rioting by French Muslims has gone by resulting in thousands of cars being torched and massive civil uprising. It would appear that having a large (10%) population that is not being 'melted' into the culture has resulted in a level of "jihad".

In Brazil this weekend to push the American Union, err...I mean free trade, was President Bush.

The Washinton Post, reports the following -

"President Bush challenged Latin American leaders on Sunday to choose between competing visions, one that would ensure social justice through democracy and free enterprise and another that would reverse progress by eroding democratic institutions and heightening fear."

Soooooo, it's the old speech from 9/11, 'if you're not with me, than you're against me.' In addition, by directing the comments at the supposed Venezuela dictator Hugo Chavez, it further polarizes the argument. Why, if you're not with Bush, then you're with Chavez and Fidel Castro.

Now let's do something that we rarely like to do in this sound bite, media driven country. Think.

According to the Post's version of Bush's rhetoric, we get the following:

• There are ONLY two options, that, surprise, surprise are in diametric opposition to one another.
• HIS vision ensures social justice and democracy. (I am reminded of a bumper sticker that I recently saw, "It's a REPUBLIC, George!")
• Not accepting his vision 'heightens FEAR' and erodes democratic institutions.

The Real Effect
Now follow me here.

With regards to immigration and the border, many conservatives talking heads have good takes on much of this information. However, I believe they come up short of realizing the total intent of those that push these machinations of supposed "free trade" upon us.

They view the open American border as a result of spineless inaction on the part of Republicans and cold calculation on the part of Democrats.

I believe the truth is far more insidious. BOTH sides want the border wide open because they create a base/incentive for creating an American Union. This creates the instability needed to usher in 'regulations' needed to control all peoples in all nations. I believe we are starting to see a culmination of this practice taking place in France right now. And we are seeing the same thing occurring in the so-called border war here at home.

This leaves all observers to basically come to a few possible conclusions -

1. Our leaders are inept, if not incapable of doing their constitutional and elected duties and as such should be removed. Immediately.
2. Their intent is less than honorable and they stand benefit financially and politically. They fully intend to sell us out in order to sell us their 'solution'.

Why Today's Conservatives Are Yesterday's Liberals - Part I

Part I - Definitions

Today's modern conservative moment has become an empty shell of what used to be a powerful movement.

By definition, the term 'conserve' seeks to preserve something that currently exists. For instance, if I have $50 and seek to be conservative, I would spend as little of it as possible. Or if I am conservative with my car, I would seek to prevent damage to the systems that make my automobile what it is.

There was a time and place in this country where conservatism in this country meant a strict adherence to the law enumerated in the Constitution of the united States and the legal laws that were enacted after. Today, it has come to mean little more than 'not liberal', a severe bastardization of the true intent of conservatism.

It takes little reading of supposed bastions of conservative thought to realize that they have far less in common with conservative ideals than a monkey has with a Honda Accord. Juggernauts of thought 'dance with the devil' and betray their motives to their base as they consistently excuse and even times encourage the bureaucrats to steal their liberty to defeat those who merely appear more dangerous today. Common sense is thrown down the drain as today's movement seeks to out-Clintonize William Jefferson Clinton.

But in order to understand this, first we must understand what it is that we are conserving.

Despite the incessant rhetoric, our country is NOT a Democracy. It never was and prayerfully, never will be. It is a Constitutional Republic. Put simply, this means several things:

1. You and I possess all rights that are inherent in being human.
2. We PAY servants (not officials) to represent us in the making of laws. We GRANT our representatives the right to officiate on our behalf. We reserve the right to remove them if need be, by vote or other methods if necessary.
3. These servants make the laws that govern our land with our input.
4. They are constrained by the chief law, the Constitution, which they are legally bound to obey.

So, by definition, a conservative would seek to conserve what is already in place, the very things that has allowed our country to become great. When one seeks to change it into something it is not, that person leaves behind the definition of conservative.

For instance, President Bush passed a law which would provide prescription drug care coverage to senior citizens on Medicare. Nowhere in the law (Constitution) does the Congress or the President possess this authority to enact this type of law, yet it is done anyhow.

By definition, this act in itself is unconstitutional(against the law) and should be viewed as a crime. No servant (especially the Federal government) has the right to grant itself rights.

Let's explore this idea for a second.

If I go through a drive-thru at my local restaurant and order some food, when I give my cashier my credit card, there are strict rules which govern the transaction. Despite the cashiers pay status, he cannot grant himself a raise at my expense. Nor does he have the right to confiscate my food and give it to the homeless. We have a word for that. Theft.

We rightfully jail people for doing that and yet every day legislation is debated and passed which is against the law and is little more than coercive theft. Congress cannot (legally) decide that suddenly it has a vested interest in producing carpet and decide that they need to regulate the industry as it been granted no rights to do so by it's constituents, namely you and I.

The Real Effect
So in truth, what we have in Washington is a group of professional sham-men that continue to tell us that the best course of action for our lives is that we let them run it. They have done this on many levels, some albeit minutely legally and the vast majority, illegally.

Here are just a few: Education, Welfare, Agriculture, and Transportation.

Just because we are used to the stench of bureaucratic filth does not mean it is good. I for one, no longer tolerate being told what to do by my paid servants. I suggest you do the same. Because if you fail, you are no more conservative than many were in 1930's Germany.

Edited for spelling, appearance and labels on 3/19/2010.

Bird War 2006!

In a move that throughout the ages has been used to enslave a given population in the name of saving them, the Associated Press reports -

"President Bush outlined a $7.1 billion strategy Tuesday to prepare for the danger of a pandemic influenza outbreak, saying he wanted to stockpile enough vaccine to protect 20 million Americans against the current strain of bird flu."

Correct me if I am wrong, but aren't we trying to conserve money at this point? We are even going to the point of cutting school lunches to conserve money, namely $3.7 billion. Can someone please call Bush and ask him these two questions:

1. Since when does the federal government have the constitutional authority to administer a vaccine program?
2. Does cutting $3.7 billion in one place and spending $7 billion more in another equal a reduction in spending?

"The fact is, our country is going broke," said Rep. John Boehner, R-Ohio. "We're spending money we don't have and passing it onto our kids, and at some point, somebody's got to say, `Enough's enough.'"

Really. I agree completely, but perhaps we need to stop overall spending, not just pet projects that will get your own party slaughtered in the 2006 elections.

The Real Effect
I see this as nothing more than attempt to line the pockets of the makers/shareholders of the proposed vaccine. More specifically, according to Global News Matrix, Donald Rumsfeld, George P. Shultz, Lodewijk J.R. de Vink, and Bilderberger chairman Etienne F. Davignon.

We have no threat, yet we are most likely going to spend billions on a non-existent virus.

Edited for appearance and labels on 3/19/2010.

Bilderberg, So It Does Exist...

Back on June 15, I launched this blog with information that at the annual Bilderberg meeting at Rottach-Egern, Munich, Germany information had been leaked that gasoline prices would sky-rocket over the next year which would lead to a doubling if not a tripling in oil prices.

At the time I defended these viewpoints against some who dismissed the group as being 'conspiratorial' and 'non-existent'. Despite posting several articles from mainstream sources including the BBC that reported their existence and even interviewed prominent political figures that assured the fact, the information was allowed to fall. I am assuming it was because few like to assume that there are those that operate beneath our political radar, guiding our leaders and making political decisions for us.

Upon informing a dear friend of mine of the existence of these people back in November of 2002, he told me that the information seemed genuine and in concept he believed me, but he "just didn't want to deal with it or hear it."

So, it is in this light that I submit the following article from The American Free Press that documents not only the Bilderberger's existence, but their stated desire to influence the political sphere with the stated culmination of a one-world government.

Viscount Etienne Davignon, 73, is chairman of Bilderberg and a former European commissioner states the following -

"(that at the annual meetings,) automatically around the table you have internationalists, —people who support the work of the World Trade Organization, transatlantic cooperation and European integration."

and we have the words of -

"Will Hutton, an economic analyst and former newspaper editor who attended a Bilderberg meeting in 1997, says people take part in these networks in order to influence the way the world works, to create what he calls "the international common sense" about policy,"

The Real Effect
So, while hardly approaching exhaustive, we have demonstrable evidence which indicates that there is a secret gathering of leaders that attempt to influence policy and opinion. With many of the attendee admitted globalists and some even more sinister plans, why should we continue to pretend that not only do they not exist, but that they don't have access to the ears of many of the policy makers.

Edited for spelling, appearance and labels on 3/19/2010.

FTAA? Here comes the American Union...

With the next Summit of the Americas Meeting approaching so quickly (November 4-5), I thought it would be a great time to review.

1. Bush has stated that he wants to sign and implement the FTAA by the end of the year.
2. The FTAA would eventually become the American Union which will eventually become part of the Global Union.
3. Most people have been duped into believing that this is ONLY about trade and not about authority. This is how the EU was formed.
4. The Democrats only voted against CAFTA because the Republicans were in power. They're in this thing up to their eyeballs as well.
5. ALL OF THAT, is a bad thing.

There is an excellent article in The New American which discusses the upcoming battle over the Free Trade Area of the Americas or what will be known as the American Union. Here is a clip of what they had to say -

Last March, President Bush met in Waco with Mexican President Vicente Fox and Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin to announce the creation of a "Security and Prosperity Partnership" for North America (SPP). Building on the North American Free Trade Agreement, the SPP would deepen the economic, political, and security relationships between the U.S., Mexico, and Canada."

"Robert Pastor of the Council on Foreign Relations, who is one of the co-architects of the SPP's blueprint, has explained that the vision behind that initiative calls for citizens of the U.S., along with Mexicans and Canadians, to cease thinking of themselves as citizens of their respective countries, and embrace a new identity as "North Americans."

The Real Effect
Still don't believe that we are barreling towards an American Union? What are you waiting for, proof? Ask yourself, at what point do I believe this is real? What is my burden of proof? Do I need American Union cops standing on the street corner in order to believe? Well, here is some more evidence for those of you that have a difficult time getting past your pride on this one.

Here is a link to the state of Florida's (specifically Miami) bid to become the capitol (yes, capitol) of the American Union. Look at some of the info and symbols on the pages. Notice the three triangles in the upper-left corner? What do you suppose those stand for? Perhaps the U.S. Canada and Mexico? Notice the "Why Miami?" advertisement in the top bar.

Here is a link to one of their publications. Notice the "MIAMI, Florida is the Gateway of the Americas"?
Edited for appearance and spelling on 4/15/2010.

Avian Flu Update

The mass panic continues abroad as cases of Avian Flu is reported in the following locations: Russia, Siberia, Moscow, China, Hong, Kong, Netherlands, Greece, Romania and Turkey.
Countries that are freaking by following "..a WHO recommendation, calling on governments to keep enough anti-viral drugs and regular human flu vaccines to inoculate at least 25 percent of their populations." United Kingdom, United States, Morocco, Taiwan, Israel, Jordan, New Zealand, Australia, Macedonia, Bulgaria, Croatia to name a few.

The Real Effect
All of this despite several facts:

1. At present, there is no Avian flu vaccine for humans.
2. Countries are spending BILLIONS on treatments which have no proven efficacy.
3. Sixty people worldwide have died and only 120 have been infected.
4. The 'outbreaks' have occurred primarily in areas with hardly, if any, sanitation.

Expect the fear to build as countries throw all common sense out the window and begin to implement 'plans' to force the populaces to build immunity through mandatory vaccinations. I don't know if this will be the start of the supposed upcoming bio-war, but it looks like it will at least get people talking about the necessity of forced inoculation.
Edited for appearance, spelling and labels on 4/13/2010.

Chertoff....Grrrrrrr

In an almost hysterical attempt to appear tough on illegal immigration, Department of Homeland Security secretary Michael Chertoff stated the following -

"Our goal at DHS (Homeland Security) is to completely eliminate the 'catch and release' enforcement problem, and return every single illegal entrant, no exceptions."
"Through a comprehensive approach, we are moving to end this 'catch and release' style of border enforcement by reengineering our detention and removal process."

Is Chertoff suddenly bucking Bush?

It would appear not, with Bush reasserting his desire to legalize illegal immigrants. Bush stated -

"This will allow us to hold more non-Mexican illegal immigrants while we process them through a program we call `expedited removal,'" "Putting more of these non-Mexican illegal immigrants through expedited removal is crucial to ending the problem of catch-and- release."

The Real Effect

I suspect that this has several possible implications:

1. This is merely a overblown attempt to publicize the image that the government and President Bush is serious about the ramifications of illegal immigration. 2) It would seem that Bush's statement squares up with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE)"Endgame" report that states the ICE will...

   "Develop a National Custody Management Plan promoting the effective utilization of available bed space and alternative detention settings. In response to its fiscal stakeholders, DRO will develop a national custody management plan to ensure that the facility use is standard throughout the country and that bed space use is optimized for cost efficiency."

2. Basically as I understand it, this calls for the the construction of enough detention centers to house up to 5 million people or 1/60th of the American populace. I believe that it is very possible that this will be joined together with a post-Katrina empowered FEMA that will be used to oppress the American people in the coming years. As far as immigration purposes, I will believe they are serious about this when I see it implemented. Until then, don't hold your breath...

Edited for appearance, spelling and labels on 4/15/2010.

Economy Cooldown Signs

For those of you that are familiar with my prediction that this final quarter would see a substantial slowdown in the U.S. economy, the Associated Press is reporting the following:

"Inflation at the wholesale level last month soared by the largest amount in more than 15 years, reflecting the surge in energy prices that occurred following the Gulf Coast hurricanes."

"The news on wholesale prices followed a report Friday that consumer prices had risen by 1.2 percent in September, the biggest one-month increase in a quarter-century as gasoline prices at the pump climbed by a record 17.9 percent."

" Over the past 12 months, the Produce Price Index, which measures inflation pressures before they reach the consumer, has risen by 6.9 percent, the biggest 12-month change since a rise of 7 percent in the 12 months ending in November 1990. "

The Real Effect
As I have stated already, combine this information with the upcoming housing market slowdown, the decline in personal savings, increase in household credit debt and many other economic factors and Houston, we have a major problem brewing.

Edited for appearance, spelling and labels on 4/13/2010.

Grand Jury Indicts Bush? Terror Target Alert

In a post that I had originally scheduled for the 12th of August I learned from journalist Tom Flocco that a grand jury had convened in the Dirksen Federal building in Chicago, IL to investigate the Valerie Plame case in which the identity of her CIA husband had been exposed.

According to Flocco -

"the Fitzgerald probe is reportedly far-reaching and expanding much deeper into past White House criminal acts involving Bush-Clinton drug money laundering in Mena, Arkansas to White House involvement in 911; but also for sending America's young people to their deaths or to be maimed in Iraq and Afghanistan under false pretenses."

Flocco stated on The Alex Jones show on 8/12, that there were documents and boxes of cash leaving the Philippines after 911 that possible could have been used to found legal groups and foundations and that the evidence handed to grand jury indicates a chain of custody from Cheney to Bush.

In addition one of his sources, Thomas Hanigan (sp?) a broker by trade, who has carted evidence up to the grand juries, stated to Tom that he is aware of an ongoing document shredding operation.

Flocco -

"U.S. federal prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald's Chicago grand jury has issued perjury and obstruction of justice indictments to the following members of the Bush Administration: President George W. Bush, Vice-President Richard Cheney, Bush Chief of Staff Andrew Card, Cheney Chief of Staff I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez, former Attorney General John Ashcroft, imprisoned New York Times reporter Judith Miller and former Senior Cheney advisor Mary Matalin."

In addition, Tony Blair was subpoenaed to testify as well as an investigation into Chicago Mayor Daley.

Now comes word that the jury is ready to start indicting and Drudge reporting that Karl Rove is set to testify. The Grand Jury is set to expire around October 28th.

The Real Effect
At the time I authored the bulk of this piece, I was extremely wary of the credibility of much of the information that was being put forth.

One of two things can happen here.

1. Bush stays in office - I believe this will lead to a terrorist attack on either the Sears Tower (as I warned on 8/5/2005) or the Dirksen Federal building directly. This is based on reports that MI6 was involved in attempted shootout, directly below the Federal building,
2. The Republican party is being pruned in an attempt to 'deal with the corruption' which will see many members of the party indicted, perhaps tried and maybe even jailed. All of this would be a thin veil to empower the Democrats and the United Nation/Global Union as the alternative to the problem. Clinton & the U.N. anyone?

I believe that a combination of the two is highly likely.

Edited for appearance, spelling and labels on 4/13/2010.

Bunch of Updates...

Just a few random thoughts:

Net problems
I have had issues getting to many of my prime info sites over the last few days, with several of them being blatantly censored for supposed 'hate speech'. Supposedly two major internet companies are warring.

This may account for most of it, but just remember that this medium has a limited shelf life for free speech as many of the powers-that-be discuss internet 2 and handing control over to either the U.N. or some other domineering sub-agency.

Speaking of Internet.... Bill O'Reilly came out bashing bloggers the other night. Here is the exchange:

AUTHOR BERNARD GOLDBERG: There are some conservatives on the list [”100 People Who Are Screwing Up America”], but there are mostly liberals. And when they could write unanimously on the Web, you know, a review or post.

O’REILLY: Blogs. I don’t even read them. I mean, it’s so outrageous.

GOLDBERG: It’s beyond — it’s beyond vile.

O’REILLY: Let’s go to the — look, that’s just a waste of time. You shouldn’t even read it. It’s garbage. Nobody cares about it. Everybody knows the simpletons who are doing it are cowards and they don’t have any influence. [7/18/05]

* FDA may approve cloned meat for consumption

As if we don't have enough issues already playing God, now we have to eat it too? I found this incredibly disturbing,

"...it has recently become clear that a few offspring of cloned pigs and cows are already trickling into the food supply."

Equally disturbing is this -

"Studies have shown that meat and milk from clones can't be distinguished from that of normal animals, although work is not complete and researchers say that clones do suffer subtle genetic abnormalities"

Soylent Green anyone?

*Americans may vote by telephone -
Bad, bad, bad idea. As if the system isn't taint-able enough already, we need to anonymize things even further?

* Spanish Flu recreated -
What is this bad idea day? This story is actually quite old as it was reported quite some time ago that scientists had extracted the virus from a person who had been preserved in ice at a whaling station in the arctic. I believe it is possible that the 'killer bug' that is coming could be a genetically engineered copy of the Spanish Flu that would be blamed on the Avian Flu.

This was going to be part of a larger update that I had written, but forgot to save. But hot on the heels of Avian Flu panic, come Bush calling for the imposition of 'Bird Flu quarantines'.

* Crude oil has dropped below $60 a barrel and natural gas rose 1.6 cents.
I believe that this is to allow many of the globalist to purchase supplies at a lower price. This will last a limited time, but the price will begin to shoot up again after we slap either Iran or Syria.

Edited for appearance, spelling and labels on 4/13/2010.

Flying Pork

The old adage, "I'll (fill in the blank) when pigs fly." has come one step closer to completion today.

Alaska Airlines accepted a $500,000 grant from "a local nonprofit agency, the Alaska Fisheries Marketing Board" to paint a Boeing 737-400 as a giant chinook dubbed the "Salmon-Thirty-Salmon."

The Real Effect
As always, this begs the question, "Where did the money really come from?"

Surprise, surprise, it came from the federal government!

It turns out "The money came out of about $29 million in federal funding U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens of Alaska and his congressional colleagues have appropriated to the marketing board, created in 2003, to promote and enhance the value of Alaska seafood."

What a waste of taxpayer funds.

Edited for appearance and labels on 4/13/2010.

Housing Market Cooldown

In what has been seen as the hallmark of the recent economic recovery, the housing market that has exploded over the last three years is showing signs of cooling off.

Today, with regards to the New York housing market, the New York Times had this to say -

"More sellers are putting their homes on the market, houses are selling less quickly and prices are no longer increasing as rapidly as they were in the spring, according to local data and interviews with brokers." and "In Manhattan, the average sales price fell almost 13% in the third quarter."

Back on August 29 I stated that I believed the following would happen:

3. A moderate to severe US economic collapse that would lead to further calls for 'free trade' and globalization. (I.E. - The American Union)

With regards to point #3, I see several things that are extremely troubling -

Now I don't believe that it takes a genius to figure out that the housing market will at least temporarily collapse, but I am going several steps further here. I am on record predicting that this will lead to something, specifically a call to globalize the western hemisphere into a 'competitive market', the new American Union. I have also heard rumors that this will come complete with a brand new currency, the Amero.

The Real Effect
I believe that this will spread in this country gradually at first, but as the pinch of natural gas prices (40% higher in Wisconsin) combined with still increasing gasoline prices begin to strip Americans free cash, we will begin to see many people selling off properties in an attempt to capitalize on unrealistically high housing prices. After all, if you can't afford to heat one house, can you afford to heat two?

I strongly believe this will lead to a panicked sell-a-thon which will flood the market with overpriced housing, driving the prices down to at least pre-bubble levels. This will leave many holding large outstanding debts as much of their investment's value plummets.


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Miers for Justice

In what is being hailed by many as a betrayal, President Bush nominated Harriet Meirs to replace the retiring Sandra Day O'Connor. It comes as hardly a surprise to me that Bush nominated someone that seems less than conservative. Seems pretty consistent with his positions thus far.

I remember back in 1999 discussing the then upcoming political election with many of my older and supposedly wiser political friends at the time. The discussion became somewhat heated when I suggested that I was considering voting for a third party candidate.

'Eric, you do not understand the importance of the federal judiciary and voting for a third party is throwing away your vote.'

At the time, I bought the lies and voted, regretfully, for Bush. Fortunately, this incident has taught me to stand up for the values that I believe in and to not capitulate for the sake of a hollow victory.

UPDATE: 12pm -World Net Daily is reporting a few interesting tidbits regarding Miers:

-"As White House counsel, Ms. Miers either approved of the Department of Defense's illegal assignments of women in units required to be all-male, which is still continuing in violation of the law requiring notice to Congress in advance, or she was oblivious to the legal consequences of those assignments,"
-Miers approved the Bush administrations retention of President Clinton's "don't ask, don't tell" regulations, which, she says, are different from the 1993 law passed by Congress.
- She submitted a 1999 report to the ABA's house of delegates that included recommendations to develop and establish an International Criminal Court...

The Real Effect
I smell a big fat trap here. I'm not quite sure what the given plan will be, but I float this by you for your consideration.

Bush is deliberately placing inexperienced justices on the court to plant a plausible reason for people when the justices rule to exterminate even more freedoms than they have already. I believe that it is possible that these 'inexperienced' judges will rule to permit the 'chipping' of society as played out by Senator Joseph Biden during the Roberts nomination hearing. Here is an audio clip of Senator Biden telling Roberts that he will rule on the issue.

Whatever the potential scenario, this is NOT what the conservatives in this country have lobbied for years for. This reveals Bush as a phony and sheds light on what his aim really is. Globalism.


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Disasters, Terrorism and Liberties

The following pictures are from the disaster in New Orleans. Notice the skull dominating the SWAT shirt of our supposed protectors.

This combined with the news that Bush would like to federalize disaster response. Notice how the media always interviews the ACLU as the local opposition, thereby polarizing debate into two camps that share a common goal. Either you are with the communistic ACLU or you're for dismantling state control and promoting federalism. Sounds like a losing proposition to me.

If the disaster in New Orleans has taught us anything, it should be that reliance on any governmental agency for your well being, be it local, state or federal, is at best a gamble that you take with your own life.

More importantly we need to note what government's soloutions to a given problem usually is - confiscation of liberty. In the wake of 911; the Patriot Act, Domestic Security Enhancement Act and others empowered the government to remove more liberties.

In addition, a ruling has been handed down by the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit with regards to the detention of the U.S. citizen Jose Padilla who was arrested in Chicago.

“Padilla, after all, in addition to supporting hostile forces in Afghanistan and taking up arms against our troops on a battlefield in that country … also came to the United States in order to commit future acts of terrorism against U.S. citizens and targets.”

Without regard to Padilla's innocence/guilt, which interestingly enough cannot be determined because he is being detained as an "enemy combatant", judges can order that people be detained indefinitely on the perception that they might "commit future acts of terrorism."

The Real Effect
Boy, if I didn't know better, I would assume that the American people, not the terrorists and looters are the enemy here. In the years of the "conservative" agenda, we have been given more government, more bureaucracy, and not-surprisingly, less freedom. This merely exposes both sides of the argument as nothing more than globalist controlled instruments of American destruction. But then again, we know better, don't we?

Look for continued 'revelations' of the American al-Quaeda threat as our benevolent leaders begin to realize that perhaps some terrorist poured in through those incredibly porous borders and taken up refuge in the US. But in order to secure the "homeland" we cannot leave Iraq, and Iran, but rather we must ensure "Free Trade" by bringing in foreign mercenaries, err... troops and setting up internal checkpoints.

Hurricane Oddities...

Strange.

That's the word that comes to mind when I mused over the recent rash of devastating hurricanes. Let's start by stating a few things.

1. Hurricane seasons appear to cycle from devastating to annoying over the course of decades.
2. Hurricane Rita appears on a near-perfect devastation course for Houston, TX and it's shipping lanes/refineries.
3. On June 5th of this year, the FX network premiered the faux-documentary Oil Storm. In the made for TV movie, a hypothetical scenario is set up in which a series of events triggered by a hurricane set into motion massive increases in gas costs which result in martial law.
4. We know for a fact that legislation exists that prohibits 'Weather Modification'. Why would such proposals even be drawn up that consider this, unless it was a remote possibility.
5. US Defence Secretary Cohen at one point said -

"Others [terrorists] are engaging even in an eco-type of terrorism whereby they can alter the climate, set off earthquakes, volcanoes remotely through the use of electromagnetic waves... So there are plenty of ingenious minds out there that are at work finding ways in which they can wreak terror upon other nations...It's real, and that's the reason why we have to intensify our [counterterrorism] efforts."

The Real Effect
Does anyone else find it odd that in the wake of a war that secured much of the Mideast oil in Iraq and Afghanistan, we have not one, but two hurricanes that jeopardize much of our production?

Look for oil to explode well over $3 a gallon and the dreaded word 'shortage' to start to appear. I believe that we will see the economy start to stutter like a dying giant, staggering into a recession, if not a depression.


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Rita and Oil

It has been a little while since I posted an oil update, so here is a quick recap on my opinions.

I have been tracking oil increases June with the stated prediction (see bottom of the page) that prices on crude would double over the next year, resulting in a depressed economy. So far we are 1/2 way there.

I believed, but admittedly did not post, that oil would retreat temporarily in order to allow profiteers to buy at a lower cost and then drive up to it's next plateau. We can see that happening here.

Now comes news that Hurricane Rita is menacing the Texas coast and oil refineries are shutting down.

The Real Effect
Do not panic, but fuel up your car now, before the price increases come. I believe that this will further reduce the American refining capacity and continue the coming American recession.

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EU and the Coming AU

Back at the end of August in the posting entitled Katrina, Gas and the Economy I introduced to my blog the globalist used term of "harmonization".

The term refers to a process in which different societies begin to adopt the same: laws, ways of solving problems and governments. We all like 'harmony' don't we?

By using this insidious war on words, the globalists are able to demonize those that would resist their efforts based on the meaning of a single word, not their process of governance.

I introduce to you ABC, a long-standing global propagandist, as it offers up the following piece on a proposed EU telephone law.

"The European Commission has adopted proposals to log details of all telephone, Internet, and e-mail traffic, to combat terrorism and serious crime."

Let's stop for a second. Notice that in the first sentence of the article there is two important points.

1. The EU is writing laws for their member states. Given all states must approve, but that can be changed. For all those who support the "free trade" shadow, take note. First you get the trade bloc in place, then you start passing laws to regulate the trade in the name of protecting the public.
2. "to combat terrorism AND serious crime." (Emphasis mine) This statement accomplishes two things - it links terrorism and crime in the public mind and it expands the reach of anti-terror legislation to serious crime.

The piece continues -

" The Commission's text aims to harmonise the current patchwork of data retention practices across the bloc."

Notice how it refers to individual national laws as a "current patchwork....across the bloc."

Now, take this in context with much of what has been done/is being done in the name of free trade and one is left with the stunning realization that the United States is on the same track. Recently, The Age reported on George Bush's proposal to the United Nations for "trade liberalisation and the removal of trade barriers and subsidies on agriculture" Some sources reported this as a total removal of all trade barriers.

The Real Effect
For those of you that still believe that George Bush is a true conservative, follow the overall effect on what is happening to the sovereignty of the American Republic. (Note we are NOT a Democracy) Here are a few of the thousands of disturbing trends that should serve to convince you that our leaders do not have our best interests at heart.

1. The implementation of a track and trace network for control of the "civilian" population.
1. Traffic cameras, electronic tolls, RFID, Verichip, GPS.
2. National ID card
2. Removal of any semblance of personal sovereignty
1. The Supreme Court Kelo case, code enforcement, modern city planning, oppressive property taxes.
2. Enforcement/passage of "hate laws" which criminalize opinions and speech.
3. Failure to enforce one of the few Constitutionally mandated reponsibilities to secure the border.
3. Martial Law
1. Increased military presence and talks of cooperation between law enforcement and the Department of Defense.
2. FEMA
4. Depressed personal economy
1. Inflation
2. Increased 'law enforcement' resulting in increasing oppressive taxes that attack wealth and encourage poverty.

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National ID - Redux

Secretary of State James Baker III and former President Jimmy Carter have come out in favor of a National ID card.

The Real Effect
This is a tricky issue. On it's surface, I am in favor of standardized (read 'national') ID's being required in order to vote. I believe this greatly reduces the amount of vote fraud that is being perpetuated in not only our state of Wisconsin, but many others.

However, I do believe that this issue is a bit of a Trojan horse.

If there are not verifiable paper trails on many of the new electronic machines that are going in (a result of the Help America Vote Act of 2002), which there is not, than it does not matter who votes, or in what manner he or she votes as the actual vote can be manipulated on the receiving end. Seeing as how many of the voting machines that are currently in place are not able to be reviewed for security, (http://www.blackboxvoting.org/) then it matters little how we verify the voter, because in the end, we deploy a National ID card.


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Rita Watch

Rita, now a level 2 hurricane is on the horizon of the Gulf and a possibility to menace the LA area once again. More as it becomes available.

Clinton Positions for U.N. Post

Clinton sounds off by breaking longstanding tradition of ex-President's non-commenting on sitting President's policy thereby effectively positioning himself for the head United Nations position.

According to the report, Clinton stated the Bush administration had decided to invade Iraq

"virtually alone and before UN inspections were completed, with no real urgency, no evidence that there were weapons of mass destruction."

Way to follow the times Clinton. We established this well over a year ago.

Clinton said there had been a "heroic but so far unsuccessful" effort to put together an constitution that would be universally supported in Iraq.

Talk about stating the obvious. But why do you suppose this is? Do you think it has anything to do with the Clinton Global Initiative?

The Real Effect

He seems to be following the standard issue progression:

1. Identify or selectively 'notice' a given problem publicly.
2. Issue statements to the press condemning the problem, invoking the name of The People in order to legitimize your stance.
3. Create a perceived groundswell of opposition to the problem through manipulation of public opinion via the mainstream media.
4. Announce that The People will no longer tolerate such behavior and enact a given "solution".

Expect continued condemnation of supposed 'religious wars' as conditioning to accept a one-world religion and reorganization of the United Nations into a supposedly less corrupt, more efficient (read dictatorship) global body.

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Avian Flu, the Next Big Shamdemic?

Avian Flu: Is the Government Ready for an Epidemic?

Piggy-backing off the insanity prevalent in the New Orleans area, ABC news runs the latest panic piece invoking apocalyptic images designed to elicit mass-fear and terror. Recently we have had SARS, West Nile, and a whole host of 'killer diseases' posing the newest threat to the public at large.

The article starts off with -

"It could kill a billion people worldwide, make ghost towns out of parts of major cities, and there is not enough medicine to fight it. It is called the avian flu." (Cue music from the movie Halloween.)

"Gasp....Oh no!" we are supposed to say. "Whatever will we do?" Never mind the fact that it has killed only 57 people so far, Laurie Garrett, a senior fellow on global health policy at the Council on Foreign Relations has something to say. "Right now in human beings, it kills 55 percent of the people it infects, That makes it the most lethal flu we know of that has ever been on planet Earth affecting human beings." I guess we take our public health cues from the CFR now.

Not to be confused with a slow response kind of individual, President Bush "agreed to stockpile $100 million worth of a still-experimental vaccine".

The Real Effect
Let's get real here for a second. (No pun intended)

.000000016% of the human population has had the Avian Flu and of that a little more than 1/2 of those have died. This is hardly an "epidemic" let alone the dreaded "pandemic" that we keep hearing about. I think it is safe to assume/conclude a few things -

1. We know little about how the 'Avian flu' would affect the general population.
2. There are few/no known cases in the U.S. (Assumed)
3. Therefore the response to "stockpile" 1/10 of a BILLION dollars worth of "experimental" vaccines can safely be construed as an over-reaction at best and most likely, panic-pandering.

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Schwarz To Run Again, For Which Office?

An Ah-nuld aide today proclaimed that Arnold would be running for election in the great state of Cal-e-fornia. Wonderful...and there was much rejoicing by the peasants.

Fortunately for you, I have been in on much of the inside scoop on Arnold for quite some time. Knowing that he was going to run and win before he announced his bid to the nation's surprise in the now somewhat famous late-night moment, I feel somewhat confident in joining the band wagon that claims that Arnold has his sites set on the U.S. presidency.

The Real EffectI strongly believe the following is not only very possible, but likely to happen -

1. Sagging poll numbers mean little to the elite. This will not effect much of anything and is a virtual moot point.
2. Arnold will run and will win another term in 2006 by a solid margin.
3. Some city, most likely LA, will receive the blunt of a terrorist attack. In the aftermath of the scenario, likely nuclear, Arnold will display Giuliani style resolve and repose which will catapult him to the national scene, setting his stage for a run on the Presidency in 2008, which I believe he can win.
4. Recognizing his new-found popularity, the clarion call to end the 'discriminatory' status of the U.S. constitution which prohibits foreign born persons from running for the office, which will be passed overwhelmingly in a pseudo-patriotic fervor.

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Milwaukee Journal Runs Thompson Chip Piece

Just to show the almost incredible lag that many of the mainstream media sources display on important issues on a regular basis, the Milwaukee Journal ran an article discussing ex-governor Tommy Thomspon's appointment to the board of Verichip Corp. and subsequent chipping. Yours truly covered this way back on August 8th, and many "alternative" sites covered it before me.

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Playmobil Creates Checkpoint Toy

The following toy is listed on Playmobil's website. Good to know that our children are being marketed toys that cheerfully depict the decline of American freedoms.


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DeLay declares 'victory' in war on budget fat

The following article blew my mind when I read it. It appears that House Majority Leader Tom DeLay feels that the government has declared "victory" and that there is 'simply no fat left to cut in the federal budget.' I believe this betrays many who in good faith voted for representatives that they honestly believed that they would hold the conservative line. Sucks to be deceived, no?

As I sit here somewhat shell-shocked, I wonder how many conservatives really believe much of the tripe they have been ingesting from these posers formerly known as conservatives. Honestly, did we expect anything else?


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A couple of quick updates...

Hot on the heels of the AP report that Mexican troops are aiding in New Orleans, reports are streaming in that armed Mexican troops are in the United States. Specifically, Texas. They are reported to be combat ready, "fully armed with Heckler & Koch German assault rifles." The report continues -

"The eyewitness described at least ten vehicles, four jeeps (other witnesses described them as Humvees) and six combat trucks brimming with armed Mexican troops wearing body armor, helmets and rifles. The troops riding in the jeeps were wearing holstered hand guns. The vehicles were not being escorted by the US army or any other government vehicles and the vehicles were festooned with insignia reading 'Mexico MP's' and the Mexican flag."

For those of you that doubt that globalization is the goal, keep watching the south as the call goes out for global cooperation.

The Real Effect
Watch for continued calls from key legislators to bolster our defenses by adding 'foreign assets'. I will go on record that I think that the following scenario is extremely possible, if not totally likely.

I believe there will be another terrorist attack(nuclear/biological) in the next few months, quite possibly near the anniversary of 911 that sets into motion the following script. In the haze of the next attack, Al-Quaeda accuses us of being 'weak' in the wake of the New Orleans attack and that they will continue to attack us to 'foster further division' among us. In response to this and criticism of FEMA's response to New Orleans, the government decides to "get tough" and foster unity in order to combat the invisible enemy. This will result in more gun confiscation, silencing of free speech and the like. After all, what do we have to hide?

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Martial Law in New Orleans

As I stated earlier, I spent some of the day Sunday preoccupied with CNN coverage of hurricane Katrina and their seeming apocalypse-oriented coverage of a storm and their seemingly conjoined relation to FEMA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

Come Monday morning, it would have seemed that their rantings were largely unwarranted and New Orleans had "dodged a bullet".

However, time sometimes leads to change and several levees saw fit to collapse which led to the Superdome having more in common with alligators than it previously had.

This situation eventually led to the declaration of martial law in the area to contain the damage. I have reason to believe that this is Federal martial law and not what would be a proper city/state martial law.

This in addition to the revelation that it would seem that the levees might have been allowed to collapse by what would seem to be Federal 'Officials' (one wonders why we tolerate our servants telling us what to do). In addition to this, we see the Pentagon is sending in warships to assist.

Is this just weather or has the federal government seized on this opportunity to do a 'trial run' on the upcoming martial law? It is definitely far to early to say, but it is definitely possible.

The Real Effect
You only have to look at a few pictures to understand that at the bare minimum, this is tragic. But it appears on the surface it is being used to condition the public that martial law is a good thing and can be used to help people. More updates later...

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