Black, Obamabow, Senior Regulator Claims Cover Up, Fraud, and Lack of American Outrage to Blame

William K. Black, the former senior regulator who cracked down on banks during the savings and loan crisis of the 1980s, an Obamabow supporter, and now an Associate Professor of Economics and Law at the University of Missouri, explained to Bill Moyers why we are in such a financial fix. Black charges that Geithner is "covering up." There is massive fraud that Congress is not investigating, and the American people are not outraged.

Sharia and Obamabow's Speech in Turkey

“I'm not naive."

Obamabow just got spat upon by measly little North Korea while he argues that: “As a nuclear power – as the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon – the United States has a moral responsibility to act.” The only deterrent is strength on the part of the U.S. We have no intention of using nuclear weapons and the rest of the world is not naive enough to disarm since we already have an overwhelming advantage in nuclear weapons. They have no incentive to disarm since because Obamabow wants them too. The effective leader would be developing an effective strategy against rogue states and non-state actors from testing, transporting, and deploying weapons. Obamabow is an effective agent for Russian and Chinese military aims.

Gingrich Has An Electromagnetic Point

I would like to be the first one to dismiss anything that the discredited Newt Gingrich had to say but he has a point. In his reaction to North Korea's missile and launch, and I would consider with Obamabow's tepid, let's-talk-about-it at the U.N. response, Gingrich stated: "I’d recommend, look at electromagnetic pulse, which changes every … equation about how risky these weapons are.” Electromagnetic pulse has its possibilities, since it has been noted as a threat to the U.S., it could well be a weapon of choice against a rogue state such as North Korea. Obamabow either is too tepid in his response or has not developed an effective counter-measure so far. He just wants to talk about it more.

Security Council Resolution 1718 was passed in 2006 to force North Korea to halt nuclear tests and ballistic missile launches, but sanctions have been suspended or loosely applied since North Korea joined disarmament talks.

Although Obamabow will push the issue of more sanctions against North Korea for this act of defiance, the last sanctions clearly did not work.

Theoretically the missile launched by North Korea, could reach Alaska or Hawaii and the import of the test is that the U.S. is not defending itself.

The little thug Kim Jong-Il has tested an effective missile and now we will see if the international leaders respond with more than just words or watered down resolutions guaranteed to be nothing more that attempts to make the public think something is being done.

Resolutions with no teeth do nothing as we have seen with previous resolutions against North Korea as well as the pathetic resolutions against Iran.

Capitulating is not an effective counter-measure.

Krauthammer on Obamabow's Attack on America

Obamabow Stars

Another Shot of Obamabow

Canada's Prime Minister Stephan Harper is in the background, looking amazed, and Sarkozy from France looks just delighted.

NY Times: Obamabow Compared to Hitler, and Its a Good Thing!

I thought Hitler was a bad guy but the Times invokes him approvingly as a way to compliment Obamabow.

Obamabow Fails at NATO

Obamabow's failure continue as NATO will only send 5,000 more personnel: but, these are military trainers and police. The allies refused to agree to a request for additional combat troops.

Cicero Explains Treason to Americans

“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague.”

Cicero

Obama fails to win Nato troops

The British offered to send several hundred, expected to number between 500 and 700, of extra British soldiers to provide security during the August election: Belgium offered to send 35 military trainers and Spain offered 12.

The U.S. is sending 21,000 additional troops.

Your Computer Is Searchable: A Matter of National Security

The Anti-Countering Trade Agreement is a national security issue according to Obama and he will not release a draft of the bill for perusal according to Executive Order.

1st American Currency in Spanish Issued

The U.S. Mint is issuing the first coin ever in Spanish. The Puerto Rico commemorative quarter-dollar, a 25 cents coin, will be launched. A Spanish inscription appears on the reverse side showing a sentry box on an old Spanish fort with the phrase "Isla del Encanto" or "Island of Enchantment."

A Tale of Two Bows

Obama, center, back to camera, greets King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, center, before the official G20 leaders group photo with Britain's Queen Elizabeth II at London's Buckingham Palace, Wednesday, April 1, 2009. Graphic source: AP Photo/John Stillwell/pool

Obama humbling himself; he is almost down on bended knee before the Saudi King. The subservient Obama averts the eyes of the King as he looks at his feet. Fortunately, the King outlawed the kissing of his ring in 2005 or else Obama might have done that as well. Although Obama is clearly a much taller man he is obviously lowering his head below the King's head and eyes. Obama ensured that he was seen as inferior in the presence of the King. With this picture, Americans should grasp our precarious situation in the world and realize that with Obama representing us on the world stage we can expect nothing but maltreatment in the world.

During the heroic generation of the 1930s and 1940s, not that long ago, Americans would bow to no one. They were watched closely during the Olympic Games for any sign of obeisance.

"The American team was also watched closely for their etiquette as they marched passed the reviewing stand. Led by AOC head MacArthur, the Yankee squad continued the American custom of refusing to bow to or salute any foreign monarch." (Cf. Encyclopedia of the modern Olympic movement, John E. Findling, Kimberly D. Pelle).

At :53 Obama bows low before his King; then, at 2:25, the leader of the free world is relegated to the back 2nd row off to the right. The King, the Queen, and the Chinese are all seated in the middle, front row, in the power positions.

The full tape was inadvertently filmed by a Spanish station and has the advantage of being unscripted: it was not featured on American TV or commented about in any appreciable amount.

The "red herring" tape has been analyzed to death on CNN and on the talk shows. Did he bow or not to the Queen of England is the important question of the hour? It does not matter.

Obama bowed to his King who is the protector and defender of the holiest sites of Islam. Bear in mind that an early act of Obama was to support the 2002 Saudi Plan upon assuming office. Obama decides in deference to Saudi wishes.

In one generation Rosa Parks refused to sit at the back of the bus which was a great day for America and for Civil Rights. Americans were offended in 1994 when Bill Clinton came close to a bow when meeting the Emperor of Japan. Clinton did not quite bow, but he inclined his head and shoulders forward, and he pressed his hands together. It lasted no longer than a snapshot. Today, in three months with Obama all of America has been relegated to second-rank status as he visibly humbled himself well below protocol and it should

Obama (L), Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi (C) and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev (R) pictured in the 2nd row behind the Saudi and Chinese representatives and the British host.

be noted that other leading heads of state did not bow to the King at all. The appropriate protocol is to simply extend and then shake hands between men. Obama did not perform as an equal man; he demonstrated that he was the subject of the King.

Hoyer: ‘I Don’t Know’ Where Obama Got Legal Authority for Auto Plan

They call it fascism in other countries.

“The crisis didn’t spontaneously erupt in Europe, did it?” Sarkozy

Iran Disputes American Claim of Open Talks

Sounds Like Mikey is Disappointed in Obuma

Obama told a joke and Brown laughed... and laughed... and laughed... and laughed

In the link the pictures of our irrepressible English cousins are priceless once paired with our goofballs.

America must budge.

Sharif slams Obama’s regional strategy

China demonstrating that it now wants to play a much more decisive role in international economic affairs

'Ya Gotta' Love Pastor Manning

Judged on the Record

* The stock market had its worst January in 113 years
* The stock market had its worst February since 1933
* The Dow has dropped faster under Obama than any other new president in 90 years
* In March the dollar saw its worst drop in value in 25 years
* And, today we found out that the stock market had its the worst first quarter since 1939.

“Diversity-related accomplishments” for tenure and faculty performance

The Islamist World View - Part I

Merkel/Sarkozy Challenge Obama

Angela Merkel, the German ­chancellor, and Nicolas Sarkozy, the French ­president, will throw down the gauntlet today by staging a joint press conference in ­London demanding the G20 summit usher in a new era of global regulation of banks, ­executive bonuses, hedge funds and
offshore tax havens.

In what will be seen as a challenge to Obama, they will also insist nobody at the summit should discuss a fresh stimulus package, despite a report from the ­Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development that "world trade is now in freefall".

Taleban: we will launch attack on America that will amaze world

Baitullah Mehsud takes credit for Pakistan attacks, threatens US

Baitullah Mehsud responds to Obama.

"Mr. Jefferson:" Sung to Simon and Garfinkle's "Mrs. Robinson"

Climate War to Destroy America

Obama's Pro-Islamic Agenda in Turkey

Dr. Keyes on Immigration and Border Control

Home prices in 20 U.S. cities fell at the fastest drop on record

Report: Chinese Develop Special "Kill Weapon" to Destroy U.S. Aircraft Carriers

Barry vs. The Law

Mexico's Fox Calls on Obama To Proceed With North American Union

Bailing Out of the Constitution, George Will

PA 10th Amendment

State Representative Samuel E. Rohrer, R-128th, of Berks County, and state Sen. Mike Folmer, R-48th, of Lebanon County, unveiled a resolution that was designed to defend the rights of Pennsylvania as a sovereign state under the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution. It was formally submitted to the state legislature on Friday.

Common Sense on Liberty from the Founders

Russia backs return to Gold Standard to solve financial crisis

Russia, China cooperate on new currency proposals

Sarkozy Anti-Obama

President Sarkozy threatened a possible walk-out of the G20 conference. The French threat dramatically raised the stakes hours before Obama arrives. If carried through, it would ruin a summit for which Brown or Britain Obama have high ambitions.

No Response to North Korean Launch

In light of North Korea's imminent missile launch while appearing on "FOX News Sunday," Defense Secretary Robert Gates was prompted by host Chris Wallace to ask: "And there's nothing we can do about it?"

"No," Gates answered, adding, "I would say we're not prepared to do anything about it."

"I think if we had an aberrant missile, one that was headed for Hawaii, that looked like it was headed for Hawaii or something like that, we might consider it," Gates said. "But I don't think we have any plans to do anything like that at this point."

He doesn't know; or, he is not telling but if I were in Hawaii or Alaska I would not find his words reassuring.

Iranian Journalist: No Objection from Americans

Iranian officials say Roxana Saberi was arrested for working in the country after her press credentials expired. Her parents found out about her arrest in a Feb. 10 phone call from her.

Saberi grew up in Fargo and is a dual citizen of the U.S. and Iran and has reported for several news organizations.

North Korea Will Try Two American Reporters

Current TV's Laura Ling and Euna Lee were detained March 17 near North Korea's northeastern border with China. The two work for former Vice President Al Gore's San Francisco-based online media venture Current TV.

The American reporters detained earlier this month will be tried for illegal entry and hostile acts.

I am not aware of any official American demand for their release.

N.Y. Two Year Old Learns Islam in America

Note the questions about hating Jews and Christians and the little girl answers correctly.

Thomas Paine Summoned to White House by Obama

The man who created two phenomenally successful "We The People" YouTube videos urging Americans to stand up against Congress and reclaim their republic now – or perhaps lose it forever – reportedly has been summoned to the White House by Obama to discuss the subject matter of the short films.

Bob Basso, who posts videos under the name funbobbasso on YouTube, has created videos in which he portrays Thomas Paine, author of the "Common Sense" pamphlet that made the case for independence during the American Revolution.

A former award winning news director for NBC TV and visiting professor at UCLA, Basso has a PhD in communications.

Doyle's distinctive repertoire includes former Wall Street insider, TV star and jet pilot. He has starred in many made-for-TV movies, but is best known as the character Michael Garibaldi on the Emmy winning Sci-fi television series "Babylon 5," which ran for five years.

Dr. Edwin Vieira, the Militia and the Constitution

Dr. Edwin Vieira, in the Militia and the Constitution, describes our American dilemma from a legal perspective.

Fascism, Corporatism, and Imperialism

Mussolini's fascism attempted to remove class antagonisms through nationalism and corporatism. The economy was organized and it sounded goon on paper. Nonetheless, the Italian economy experienced no appreciable growth. The corporate state was never fully implemented and the expansionist and militaristic nature of fascism contributed to imperialist adventures in Ethiopia and the Balkans, and ultimately, World War Two.

History does not repeat itself but there are echoes; Obama asked Rick Wagoner, the chairman and CEO of General Motors, to step down and he agreed.

In the meantime, Obama has ordered 17,000 more troops to Afghanistan and Friday he ordered 4,000 more trainers. History has numerous echoes.

Merkel, EU Shut Obama Down

Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, last night opposed the “global new deal” for a $2 trillion-plus fiscal stimulus to end the recession.

“I will not let anyone tell me that we must spend more money,” she said.

The Spanish finance minister, Pedro Solbes, also dismissed new cash being pledged at Thursday’s London summit.

The assault by European Union leaders also represents a defeat for Obama, who is desperate for other big economies to copy his $800 billion stimulus mistake; they had the common sense to turn him down cold.

Most Likely "Chinese" Hacking Infiltrates 103 Countries

The New York Times has reported that the "GhostNet" operation, in less than two years, has infiltrated at least 1,295 computers in 103 countries, including many belonging to embassies, foreign ministries and other government offices, as well as the Dalai Lama’s Tibetan exile centers in India, Brussels, London and New York. The intrusions do not seem to be severely impacted the U.S. but NATO computers have been breached.

EU Praises Obama on Afghanistan: Kill More Americans, Waste More Taxpayers Money

The Kenyan Obama has the perfect plan for his European constituents and one that they will assuredly embrace. The solution is to shed more American blood and waste more American treasure in violation of the long-standing tradition as encapsulated in the Monroe Doctrine. The Europeans are not committing any more troops and will not expend any effort on behalf of the U.S. so they are sure to embrace enthusiastically their ideal President. Why not? Everyone likes a good deal when they get something for nothing. Deutsche Welle even ran an article describing the Plan in such terms: "(Obama's) new strategy comes very close to the European ideas about the mission in Afghanistan," said German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier.

When will the U.S. leave Afghanistan?

No word on an exit strategy at all.

Pakistan Scrubs Reference to Kenyan Born Obama

Now scrubbed, a Pakistani forum formerly listed as "President of USA (44th) Barrack Hussain Obama of Democratic Party* (Kenyan born) (Since 20th Jan 2009)." The reference to his foreign birth has now been removed once bloggers noted the reference.

Graphic source: Google's cached page

On the Pakistani source an Assistant Director of the Emigration & Overseas Employment for Pakistan's Test & Scrutiny Wing of the Federal Public Service Commission posted information to help students that want to apply to work for the Pakistani Federal goverment study and pass their tests.

A Safdar Mehmood contributed to the forum a list of world leaders.

Obama's mother lived and worked in Pakistan. She was a consultant to the Asian Development Bank (ADB) working on a project in Gujranwalla; and, Obama visited there for three weeks in 1981 after General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq had overthrown the previous leader (Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto) in a military coup d'état on July 5, 1977 and then advanced the Islamization and radicalization of Pakistan. (We're way past 'Spring Break' here.)Obama was able to enter and spend three weeks there during a period of martial law.

Clinton Appointee Morris Comments

Banned Flag?

The Future Government

If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen." - Samuel Adams, speech at the Philadelphia State House on August 1, 1776.

Rethink Afghanistan

In the clamor praising Obama there is a lack of public debate and discussion on what to do about Afghanistan. We need to seriously rethink Afghanistan and yet the American public is largely silent.

Michael Scheuer on Afghanistan

Analysis: US outlines new Afghanistan strategy

Obama's War in Afghanistan is marred by their Afghan counterparts who are ill-disciplined, badly led, and with a crippling taste for hashish.

Af-pak White Paper Released

The Afghanistan-Pakistan White Paper is hailed as a new strategy but I see little innovation in it. Its a retread of ideas that have been tried and failed before, with more troops, and a larger commitment than the U.S. plans. If I were shipped to Afghanistan there would have to be more in it before I felt confident about the ideas contained in the plan.

Bergen: Obama Overseas Contingency Operation Doomed

Active-duty Military Personnel Sent to Fargo

What I find interesting about these reports is that troops are routinely being sent and no one is batting an eye. There are more active-duty troops sent from the Northern Command, these are not police, National Guard, or security, these are active-duty combat troops on the streets of America.

Bachmann Demands Truth: Will Obama Administration Abandon Dollar for a Multi-National Currency?

U.N. 'Climate Change' Plan Would Likely Shift Trillions to Form New World Economy

Iran Responds to Obama's Open Hand: Slap Him

Police identify 200 children as potential terrorists

Notre Dame Scandal

Obama Hood

Obama at Notre Dame

North Korea Launch

Graphic source: JANE'S INTELLIGENCE REVIEW/DIGITALGLOBE

Commercially available satellite imagery appears to confirm that North Korea is preparing to launch a space-launch.

Terror War Over: Let's Send in More Troops

Now that the war on terror is over the Obama is ordering 4,000 trainers in addition to the 17,000 soldiers Obama has already ordered to Afghanistan, where attacks by Taliban militia have pushed violence to its highest level since U.S.-led forces invaded in 2001. Yes, this can work; I see no problems here.

Pastor Manning, As Always, Keeping it Real

Indian Army fears China attack by 2017

Like Bush, New Justice Dept. Claiming Privilege

Obama Bankruptcy Plan

“Investment” is “the outlay of money usually for income or profit,” and the meaning of the word “invest” is “to commit (money) in order to earn a financial return.” I wish someone would explain the word to the Obama. He misused the word, or just used an innocuous or innocent sounding word to dull the senses. The term or its equivalent was employed 18 times during his last address.

Here are the 18 times Obama used the words “invest” or “investment” to refer to government spending during his March 24 press conference. (The quotes are from the transcript of the press conference that CNN posted on Tuesday night.)

1. We invest in the renewable sources of energy that will lead to new jobs, new businesses and less dependence on foreign oil.

2. We invest in our schools and our teachers, so that our children have the skills they need to compete with any workers in the world.

3. We invest in reform that will bring down the cost of health care for families, businesses and our government.

4. It's with a budget that leads to broad economic growth by moving from an era of borrow and spend to one where we save and invest.

5. We’ve got to make some tough budgetary choices. What we can't do, though, is sacrifice long-term growth, investments that are critical to the future, and that's why my budget focuses on health care, energy, education, the kinds of things that can build a foundation for long-term economic growth, as opposed to the fleeting prosperity that we've seen over the last several years.

6. And what we have to do is invest in those things that will allow the American's capacity for ingenuity and innovation, their ability to take risks, but make sure that those risks are grounded in good products and good services that they believe they can market to the rest of the country, that those models of economic growth are what we're promoting, and that's what I think our budget does.

7. We've got to invest in education, K through 12 and beyond, to upgrade the skills of the American worker so we can compete in--in the international economy.

8. Here's what I do know: If we don't tackle energy, if we don't improve our education system, if we don't drive down the costs of health care, if we're not making serious investments in science and technology and our infrastructure, then we won't grow 2.6 percent, we won't grow 2.2 percent. We won't grow.

9 & 10. And so what we've said is, let's make the investments that ensure that we meet our growth targets that put us on a pathway to growth as opposed to a situation in which we're not making those investments and we still have trillion-dollar deficits.

11. And so what we're trying to emphasize is, let's make sure that we're making the investments that we need to grow to meet those growth targets, at the same time we're still reducing the deficit by a couple of trillion dollars, we are cutting out wasteful spending in areas like Medicare, we're changing procurement practices when it comes to the Pentagon budget, we are looking at social service programs and education programs that don't work and eliminate them.

12. But it is going to be an impossible task for us to balance our budget if we're not taking on rising health care costs, and it's going to be an impossible task to balance our budget or even approximate it if we are not boosting our growth rates. And that's why our budget focuses on the investments we need to make that happen.

13. Look, I'm not going to lie to you. It is tough. As I said, that's why the critics tend to criticize, but they don't offer an alternative budget. Because even if we were not doing health care, we were not doing energy, we were not doing education, they'd still have a whole bunch of problems in those out-years, according to CBO projections. The only difference is that we will not have invested in what's necessary to make this economy grow.

14. And so what we've said is, look, let's invest in health information technologies.

15. Let's invest in preventive care.

16. Let's invest in mechanisms that look at who's doing a better job controlling costs while producing good quality outcomes in various states and let's reimburse on the basis of improved quality, as opposed to simply how many procedures you're doing. Let's do a whole host of things, some of which cost money on the front end, but offer the prospect of reducing costs on the back end.

17. Now, the alternative is to stand pat and to simply say, "We are just going to not invest in health care."

18. And that's why the recovery package said, as a first priority, how are we going to save or create 3.5 million jobs? How can we prevent layoffs for teachers and police officers? How can we make sure that we are investing in the infrastructure for the future that can put people back to work right away?

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released an analysis of Obama’s budget proposal, concluding that it would result in an increase in the national debt that is unprecedented in the post-World War II era.

China's Military on the Rise

The China Military Power Report 2009 has been released and it documents how China's power is increasing. Not surprisingly then, China has flexed its muscles in the international economy.

Obama: Martial law, N.Y.'s 20th Congressional District

"Sign up and pitch in to elect Scott Murphy to Congress," the Obama begged in an early morning e-mail to at least 50,000 people in New York's 20th Congressional District. Recently, I reported that closely adjacent Schenectady, New York, is considering declaring martial law. I suppose that it is just a coincidence that the nearby congressional district, which may be a reflection of dissatisfaction about the Obama, is of personal concern. I would suspect that all bets are off and in order not to lose a vote which may be a bell whether referendum on his policies the Obama is engaged.

Global Recession, Security Challenges Test Obama's Popularity Among World Leaders

Feds' plan to poison banks of Rio Grande stalled

EU presidency: US stimulus is 'the road to hell'

U.S. to blame for Mexico violence: Clinton

UK Snoop

White House Open to Global Currency

Last night, Obama expressed confidence in the dollar and declared: "I don't believe that there's a need for a global currency."

Normally, that would settle the issue. But in the past 24 hours two of Obama's top economic advisers have signaled an openness to such a new global currency -- in one form or another. What's going on?

Politico's Ben Smith reports that Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said this morning that he was open to a new global currency to replace the dollar, as proposed by a Chinese central banker. Geithner, according to Smith, said that the proposal -- which he has not yet read -- is less transformative that headlines have suggested. "We’re actually quite open to that suggestion – you should see it as rather evolutionary rather building on the current architecture rather than moving us to global monetary union," Geithner said.

Later, the moderator, per Smith "apparently sensing a gaffe," asked Geithner to clarify his remarks. Geithner walked back his earlier comments and said he does not see the dollar being sidelined by a new currency.

But Geithner wasn't the only top Obama adviser who refused to rule out a transition to a global currency. White House economic adviser Austan Goolsbee said much the same thing yesterday afternoon in an interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer. Although he characterized such a change as "unlikely," Goolsbee twice declined to rule out such a global currency despite being pressed by Blitzer. "I haven't seen the details of the proposal," Goolsbee said. The entire exchange follows:

BLITZER: The Chinese suggesting today, this dollar, U.S. dollar, should be replaced as international currency, because they are beginning to have concerns that you are printing, the U.S. government is simply printing too many of these dollars and will lose its value as an international currency.

What's your reaction?

GOOLSBEE: It strikes me as probably unlikely.

Different people have in the past argued for world currencies or new -- new currencies before. I believe the U.S. at this point is the safest place to invest in the world. And it's likely to remain that the dollar is a critical currency in the years ahead.

BLITZER: So, you -- you don't like some new international currency that some Chinese are proposing?

GOOLSBEE: Well, look...

BLITZER: I assume that's right, right?

GOOLSBEE: I haven't seen the details of what they are proposing.

I mean, the dollar is the dollar. If people don't want to buy it, they don't buy it. But I think you have seen sort of a flight to the dollar in -- in times of trouble.

I don't know enough about monetary policy and currency to analyze the potential benefits and drawbacks of such a change, though several people I've spoken to believe it's an idea that's as undesirable as it is unworkable. But as a matter of instilling confidence in the U.S. economy at a time when such confidence is critical, it seems that Obama's answer was much better than the mixed messages coming from his top economic advisers.

Geithner 'open' to China proposal

The End of the Global War on Terror

Tele Traded for New Security

Teleprompter One has a rival in that the Obama swapped his security blanket for a new feature: a giant TV monitor for the news conference. No word yet if Tele was miffed by his rival. News at 11. The Staff was just as bored as ever so they just

traded their Blackberries.

China ‘Super Currency’ Call Shows Dollar Concern

Chicago to Introduce Goon Squad as Police

In some frightening parallels to the past goon squads, Chicago may soon have its own private security firm, acting as police, and yet in no way accountable to citizens. A Toronto-based firm was the lowest bidder for contracts so the question is how accountable would a foreign goon squad be to Americans?

Senator Benjamin Cardin Proposes an End to the 1st Amendment

Cardin's Newspaper Revitalization Act, ironically named of course as the end of newspapers in this country, would allow newspapers to operate as nonprofits for educational purposes under the U.S. tax code, giving them a similar status to public broadcasting companies. With this unprecedented supervision by the U.S. government, newspapers would cease as free organs of discussion and debate. Free speech would be outlawed. Under this arrangement, newspapers would still be free to report on all issues, including political campaigns. But they would be prohibited from making political endorsements. How is it possible that newspapers in the United States would be published without political content?

Freedom of the Press & Jefferson

A press that is free to investigate and criticize the government is absolutely essential in a nation that practices self-government and is therefore dependent on an educated and enlightened citizenry. On the other hand, newspapers too often take advantage of their freedom and publish lies and scurrilous gossip that could only deceive and mislead the people. Jefferson himself suffered greatly under the latter kind of press during his presidency. But he was a great believer in the ultimate triumph of truth in the free marketplace of ideas, and looked to that for his final vindication.

"The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. But I should mean that every man should receive those papers and be capable of reading them." --Thomas Jefferson to Edward Carrington, 1787. ME 6:57

"The press [is] the only tocsin of a nation. [When it] is completely silenced... all means of a general effort [are] taken away." --Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Cooper, Nov 29, 1802. (*) ME 10:341

"The only security of all is in a free press. The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted freely to be expressed. The agitation it produces must be submitted to. It is necessary, to keep the waters pure." --Thomas Jefferson to Lafayette, 1823. ME 15:491

"The functionaries of every government have propensities to command at will the liberty and property of their constituents. There is no safe deposit for these but with the people themselves, nor can they be safe with them without information. Where the press is free, and every man able to read, all is safe." --Thomas Jefferson to Charles Yancey, 1816. ME 14:384

"The most effectual engines for [pacifying a nation] are the public papers... [A despotic] government always [keeps] a kind of standing army of newswriters who, without any regard to truth or to what should be like truth, [invent] and put into the papers whatever might serve the ministers. This suffices with the mass of the people who have no means of distinguishing the false from the true paragraphs of a newspaper." --Thomas Jefferson to G. K. van Hogendorp, Oct. 13, 1785. (*) ME 5:181, Papers 8:632

"Our liberty cannot be guarded but by the freedom of the press, nor that be limited without danger of losing it." --Thomas Jefferson to John Jay, 1786.

"I am... for freedom of the press, and against all violations of the Constitution to silence by force and not by reason the complaints or criticisms, just or unjust, of our citizens against the conduct of their agents." --Thomas Jefferson to Elbridge Gerry, 1799. ME 10:78

"The art of printing secures us against the retrogradation of reason and information." --Thomas Jefferson to Pierre Paganel, 1811. ME 13:37

"The light which has been shed on mankind by the art of printing has eminently changed the condition of the world... And while printing is preserved, it can no more recede than the sun return on his course." --Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, 1823. ME 15:465

"The art of printing alone and the vast dissemination of books will maintain the mind where it is and raise the conquering ruffians to the level of the conquered instead of degrading these to that of their conquerors." --Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, 1821. ME 15:334

"[The] literati [of Europe are] half a dozen years before us. Books, really good, acquire just reputation in that time, and so become known to us and communicate to us all their advances in knowledge. Is not this delay compensated by our being placed out of the reach of that swarm of nonsensical publications which issues daily from a thousand presses and perishes almost in issuing?" --Thomas Jefferson to Charles Bellini, 1785. ME 5:153, Papers 8:569

"I cannot live without books." --Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, 1815. ME 14:301

"To preserve the freedom of the human mind... and freedom of the press, every spirit should be ready to devote itself to martyrdom; for as long as we may think as we will and speak as we think, the condition of man will proceed in improvement." Thomas Jefferson to William Green Munford, 1799.

"No experiment can be more interesting than that we are now trying, and which we trust will end in establishing the fact, that man may be governed by reason and truth. Our first object should therefore be, to leave open to him all the avenues to truth. The most effectual hitherto found, is the freedom of the press. It is, therefore, the first shut up by those who fear the investigation of their actions." --Thomas Jefferson to John Tyler, 1804. ME 11:33

"Weighing all probabilities of expense as well as of income, there is reasonable ground of confidence that we may now safely dispense with... the postage on newspapers... to facilitate the progress of information." --Thomas Jefferson: 1st Annual Message, 1801. ME 3:331

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Will the Real Obama Please Stand Up?

Geithner Asks Congress for Broad Power to Seize Firms

The government is shutting down the country.

Department of Justice & SCOTUS Update

Dr. Orly Taitz, Esq., received a response from Karen Thornton at the Department of Justice. Taitz' documents and filings have been forwarded to the Office of Solicitor General, Elena Kagan: the Quo Warranto, Easterling v. Obama aka Soetoro.

The number to call is: 202-514-2203.

Elena Kagan, Office of Solicitor General

Officer Giaccino at the Supreme Court also updated Taitz. Both pleadings have been received and being analyzed. All the documents that were given to Chief Justice Roberts at Idaho University are now at the Supreme Court and are also being analyzed. We will be notified tomorrow after 1:00pm EST as to whether they will be on the docket at the Supreme Court.

At G20, Kremlin to Pitch New Currency

China calls for new reserve currency

Reforming the international currency means to replace the American dollar as the international standard.

Obama’s War Policies Worse than Bush’s, Anti-War Activist Says

Chinese Aggression Against U.S.N.S. Surveillance Ship

The videos of the USNS IMPECCABLE's close encounter with China has been released.

"If you get a fire hose, put it out on the [expletive] stinger. You can get a [expletive] better shot at the [expletive]," said another man, watching as the trawler crosses behind the Impeccable's stern. A stinger is a structure that projects from the ship's stern to guide the cable connected to the array of sonar equipment that the Impeccable tows.

The Chinese issued a clear statement denouncing the U.S. patrol.

Schenectady, New York: Martial Law?

Schenectady's Corporation Counsel John Van Norden said, "If you abolish the police department you still have a need - not an obligation - but a need to police the community. You would need something in transition. Declaring martial law would be one way to bridge the gap."

ACORN Whistleblowers Produce Shocking Testimony on Capitol Hill