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Federal Judge Kathryn Forrest in NY, who was appointed by Obama, rejected this week the Obama administration’s legal motion to reverse her earlier injunction against the authority of the President to indefinitely detain Americans without trial using the U.S. military.  The authority was granted in the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) of 2012, which was signed into law by Obama in December 2011.

On May 30th, Judge Forrest granted a preliminary injunction blocking the President from gaining the power to detain citizens indefinitely without charge.   Earlier in May, she held Section 1021 unconstitutional, saying it “failed to pass constitutional muster.”

All persons arrested and detained according to the provisions of NDAA 2012 section 1021, including those detained on U.S. soil, whether detained indefinitely or not, are required to be held by the United States Armed Forces.

The deviousness by the Obama Administration in NDAA runs deep: Democrat and “liberal” friends pay attention here.  According to Senator Carl Levin, (D-Michigan):

“The language which precluded the application of section 1021 [of NDAA 2012] to American Citizens was in the bill that we originally approved in the Armed Services Committee and the Administration asked us to remove the language which says that US Citizens and lawful residents would not be subject to this section.”

Here is Levin on CSPAN YouTube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yO23HoRv6Ms

Levin’s comments are also in the Congressional Record on November 17, 2011.

Yet President Obama issued a signing statement in December, 2011 posing as the defender of citizens’ rights, claiming he had forced Congress to add language to protect “the safety, security and liberty of the American people.” Obama wrote:

“I want to clarify that my Administration will not authorize the indefinite military detention without trial of American citizens. My Administration will interpret section 1021 in a manner that ensures that any detention it authorizes complies with the Constitution, the laws of war, and all other applicable law.”

Obama says he will not use it, but why then did he ask for such authority if he did not intend to use it?  Now, this past week Obama motioned to have the injunction dismissed, and he failed.  Why would Obama fight the injunction if he did not intend to use this authority?

http://www.businessinsider.com/a-new-york-judge-has-blocked-the-indefinite-detention-provision-in-the-ndaa-2012-5

http://www.salon.com/2012/05/16/federal_court_enjoins_ndaa/singleton/

Ron Paul spoke about the nefarious NDAA in his editorial at the link below:

“Last week was discouraging and disappointing to those of us who value our Constitution. That the US government asserts the legal authority to pick up Americans within the United States and hold them indefinitely and secretly without a trial should be incredibly disturbing to all of us. Americans should check how their representative voted. Politicians should not be allowed to get away with undermining our liberties in this manner.”

http://www.thedailybell.com/3909/Ron-Paul-On-Indefinite-Detention-The-Tyranny-Continues

The American Civil Liberties Union (an organization with whom I usually disagree strongly) has stated that “While President Obama issued a signing statement saying he had ‘serious reservations’ about the provisions of NDAA 2012 which is now law of the land, the President’s statement only applies to how his administration would use the authorities granted by the NDAA.” and, despite claims to the contrary, “The statute contains a sweeping worldwide indefinite detention provision… [without] temporal or geographic limitations, and can be used by this and future presidents to militarily detain people captured far from any battlefield.” The ACLU also maintains that “the breadth of the NDAA’s detention authority violates international law because it is not limited to people captured in the context of an actual armed conflict as required by the laws of war.”

In addition to the NDAA 2012, President Obama has through a series of Executive Orders given himself the powers to declare martial law – especially in the event of a war with Iran.  It is a sweeping power grab that should motivate every American to take action.  Some in Congress have taken notice.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/mar/22/obamas-power-grab/

Rep. Sandy Adams of Florida stated in introducing her resolution, co-sponsored by 37 Representatives:

“President Obama issued a National Defense Resources Preparedness Executive Order on March 16, 2012 that raises some serious concerns in its wording and intent. The order has historically been based on the Defense Production Act of 1950 (50 U.S.C. App. 2061 et seq.).  However, unlike previous presidents, President Obama’s executive order broadens the definition of ‘national defense.’ This leaves the door open for the president to give himself control over American resources during both times of peace, and national crisis. In response to the order, I have introduced a resolution to make it clear the president cannot use this as an excuse to abuse his executive power.”

Rep. Adams’ bill presently has 37 co-sponsors — but she needs many more to get the bill to the floor of the House.  http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c112%3AH.CON.RES.110:

We have learned from UK newspapers that there are now 63 active drone sites in 20 U.S. states.  The government was forced to disclose the drones with the Freedom of Information Act.  Do you have an unmanned surveillance drone over your neighborhood?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2134376/Is-drone-neighbourhood-Rise-killer-spy-planes-exposed-FAA-forced-reveal-63-launch-sites-U-S.html

Libertarians and conservatives like Charles Krauthammer are verbally blasting the drones, even implying that Americans will shoot them down.    http://www.salon.com/2012/05/17/conservatives_turn_on_drones/singleton/

“…the high court has ruled unanimously against the government on religious liberty, criminal procedure and property rights.  When the administration can’t get even a single one of the liberal justices to agree with it in these unrelated areas of the law, that’s a sign there’s something wrong with its constitutional vision.”  

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303918204577444221444859342.html

The following link contains a somewhat exhaustive list of the Obama administration’s many legal transgressions.  These are regulations and portions of laws which are today being repeatedly blocked by independent judges.  The total number and comprehensiveness of Obama’s grab for power are shocking.  But what about 2013 if Obama is re-elected?  What would happen to us after another 4 years of Obama judicial appointments?  Who will stop them?  Hopefully some of my many lawyerly friends will comment.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/peterferrara/2012/05/24/hugo-chavez-in-amerca-a-2nd-obama-term-means-no-indepdendent-judiciary/

Then there is the attempt to pass a so-called “fairness law”, i.e. affirmative action hiring and pay for women.  Even the female Democrat senators pushing this  legislation don’t have equal pay for their staff.  Here’s why this is a Prison America issue: 

 “Once government gets to dictate to employers how they should value and reward individual employees, America as we’ve know it would cease to exist,” he said. “If we ever decide that Congress or executive branch bureaucrats have the sufficient knowledge, much less the integrity, to successfully undertake such a function, we’re all doomed.”  http://freebeacon.com/equal-pay-for-play/

“Immoral beyond redemption” is an excellent dissection of the issue before America by Walter E. Williams, professor of economics at GeorgeMasonUniversity. http://www.desototimes.com/articles/2012/06/04/opinion/editorials/doc4fcd09b66c4a8109124187.txt

“The Energy Department’s inspector general has launched more than 100 criminal investigations” related to the department’s green-energy programs….Hoover Institution scholar Peter Schweizer reported in his book, “Throw Them All Out,” fully 71 percent of the Obama Energy Department’s grants and loans went to “individuals who were bundlers, members of Obama’s National Finance Committee, or large donors to the Democratic Party.” Collectively, these Obama cronies raised $457,834 for his campaign, and they were in turn approved for grants or loans of nearly $11.35 billion.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/forget-bain-obamas-public-equity-record-is-the-real-scandal/2012/05/24/gJQAXnXCnU_story.html

But it’s not just the Department of Energy.   U.S. Attorney General Holder and his Department of Justice are in up to their necks, and the “Fast and Furious” scandal is not the least of their problems.  Their worse problem is rarely reported, but no doubt will be investigated in a subsequent administration: DOJ has failed to prosecute obvious cases of voter intimidation by Black Panthers and SEIU in the 2008 election, cases which federal prosecuting lawyers in DOJ were prevented from prosecuting.

“RESOLUTION RECOMMENDING THAT THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES FIND ERIC H. HOLDER, JR., ATTORNEY GENERAL, U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, IN CONTEMPT OF CONGRESS FOR REFUSAL TO COMPLY WITH A SUBPOENA DULY ISSUED BY THE COMMITTEE ON OVERSIGHT AND GOVERNMENT REFORM.” (beginning pages 18 – 41)    http://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Update-on-Fast-and-Furious-with-attachment-FINAL.pdf

Congressman Darell Issa chairs the House committee investigating AG Holder and the DOJ’s involvement in the “Fast and Furious” scandalous sales of arms to Mexican drug gangs.  Issa explains the case for holding AG Holder in contempt of Congress at this link below.  Recent infighting within the White House between David Axelrod and AG Holder point to higher level approval than AG Holder.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=KWaOR2PsHFg#at=118

In his novel 1984, George Orwell illustrated the technique of doublespeak…a deliberately ambiguous or coded form of speaking intended to have the opposite meaning, opposite to the truth or real intent.  Each administration has its spin.  Obama and his minions have their narrative, which is exposed in this 12 minute video.  “Political Correctness Exposed” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhugUzUuPkE&feature=related

Democrat Senators Reid and Schumer want to create a tax wall to keep Americans and their money inside America so they can be taxed.  This smacks of theSoviet Union’s iron curtain.  But it is even worse.   In this unconstitutional legislation you are guilty, fined and blocked from entry into America until you prove you are innocent of their created crime.  Of course it is incomprehensible and huge IRS regulations, laws and rates that are the real problems causing Americans to want to take their money and leave.   Government is erecting a regulatory wall to keep Americans inside Prison America.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/05/17/senators-target-facebook-co-founder-for-giving-up-citizenship/

President Obama and Democrats are pushing America into a class-based, social democracy styled after the EU and Obama’s several Executive Orders are openly intended to integrate and standardize regulations with Europe.  Once regulatory integration is complete or harmonized, the foundation is set for a global government and Prison Planet.

So, what do Europeans think about their European Union? According to former president of Germany Roman Herzog:

“EU integration …. has become not just a process of depriving Europe’s peoples of their national democracy and independence. Within each member state it represents a gradual coup by government executives against legislatures, and by politicians against the citizens who elect them.” “Now that the communist threat of the Soviet Union has moved to the scrap heaps of history, we Europeans are faced with a new threat to our Liberty. That threat is not coming from a harsh, iron fisted, totalitarian regime, but from what best can be described as ‘soft totalitarianism’, directed by legions of bureaucrats with their centre of gravity lying in Brussels.” “Most people have a fundamentally positive attitude to European integration. But at the same time, they have an ever increasing feeling that something is going wrong, that an non-transparent, complex, intricate, mammoth institution has evolved, divorced from the factual problems and national traditions, grabbing ever greater competences and areas of power; that the democratic control mechanisms are failing: in brief, that it cannot go on like this.” “By far the largest part of the current laws in Germany are agreed by the (EU) Council of Ministers and not the German parliament…Therefore the question has to be asked whether Germany can still unreservedly call itself a parliamentary democracy.”

Then there is Nigel Farage, Member of European Parliament, speaking to the European government in a blockbuster “The Games is Up.”  The leaders of the countries in Europe do not even know how the European Union leaders are chosen and in some cases have never heard of the European Union leaders.   But Obama, Democrats, RINO Republicans and even some usually conservative Republicans like Senator Trent Lott are rushing to change America into the European model and world government.

http://www.free-europe.org/english/

“…the United States may be heading toward a two-tiered, European-style economic system, where taxpayers in prudent, prosperous states are forced by Washington to subsidize the imprudent and improvident governments of neighboring states.” ~ Senator Jim DeMint

Do not disregard the warning in this blog as a conspiracy theory.  It is in fact a long running conspiracy and as illustrated in the above links it is in fact happening.   It is so big and complex in scope that it is hard to believe, that’s part of their strategy, but the implications and scope of this global agenda come right down to your neighborhood, your private property and your individual freedom.  The conspirators have been openly implementing the infrastructure very methodically for years.

Learn all you can about UN Agenda 21, The Law of the Sea Treaty, The UN Millennium Project and UN IPCC.  These documents require diligent reading between the lines to understand the doublespeak and narrative.  All of these programs are already being acted on by the U.S. government and are in different stages of completion.  The legislation providing U.S. support for the UN Millennium Project is the only piece of legislation initiated by Senator Barack Obama during his partial term in Congress.  It is  lofty and noble sounding but impractical project for a worldwide war on poverty that would transform the entire planet into a global welfare state, where an international central bank  redistributes wealth (0.7% of their GNP) from rich populations to poor ones to promote “the economic development and welfare of developing countries” and the wealthy countries subject their people to many types of monitoring by international agencies.

I have written many times about the many problems with the global warming agenda, now know as climate change.  This is a program sponsored by the UN IPCC and 190 nations.   According to the Congressional Budget Office and the Congressional Research Service, the U.S. alone has spent $68.4 billion on the climate change agenda just since 2008.  Dr. Vaclav Klaus, an economist and President of the Czech Republic leaves no question about the real agenda in his now 5 year old book Blue Planet in Green Shackles:

“Today’s debate about global warming is essentially a debate about freedom. The environmentalists would like to mastermind each and every possible (and impossible) aspect of our lives.”

If and when these several treaties are signed by a U.S. President (or given the status of international law via Executive Orders), then by law Americans will once again be subjects to be ruled over by external government agencies.  In many cases we already are.  For example, President Obama already signed an order subjecting U.S. citizens – including U.S. military and previous Presidents – for the first time to the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court at the Hague.

Here is a short article on “Five UN Treaties You Must Know About.”

http://www.conservativecut.com/blog/?p=574

As you investigate more you will realize how serious and how far this conspiracy has progressed.  And, by the way, the conspirators truly believe they are doing their best – noblesse oblige – doing their duty guided by the best and the brightest who know what is best for the rest of us.

Americans today still have an electoral means to throw off these chains.   But, as has already happened in Europe, once the treaties are signed we will no longer have the legal means to throw off the chains of PrisonAmerica.  The only option that will remain is violence and an American Spring.

Why isn’t the U.S. economy in a depression right now? The number one reason is because the federal government has stolen more than five trillion dollars from future generations since Barack Obama was elected and has used that money to pump up our grossly inflated standard of living. Whether the federal government spends money wisely or foolishly, the truth is that the vast majority of it still ends up in the pockets of the American people who then use it to buy the things they need for their daily lives. If the U.S. government had not borrowed and spent an extra five trillion dollars that we did not have over the past several years, we would be in the middle of a rip-roaring economic depression right now. So any talk that Barack Obama is “improving the economy” is a total farce. It is a five trillion dollar lie. The reality is that Barack Obama and the U.S. Congress have been stealing trillions of dollars from future generations in order to make things tolerable in the present. If the federal government adopted a balanced budget next year, the debt-fueled prosperity that we are currently enjoying would start disappearing very rapidly and all hell would break loose in America.

At this point, the U.S. national debt is over 15.7 trillion dollars.

When Ronald Reagan took office it was less than a trillion dollars.

If you were to divide the national debt up equally, it would come to more than $50,000 for every man, woman and child in the United States.

So the share of the national debt for an average family of four would be about $200,000.

When the government borrows and spends money that it does not have, that increases the amount of dollars in circulation and it causes GDP to go up.

That is one of the reasons why our politicians like to borrow and spend money that we do not have. It makes the economic statistics look good. They can point to those economic statistics as a reason to send them back for another term.

This is a major flaw in our system. Most of our politicians do not care about how they are raping future generations financially. Most of them just care about getting elected again.

If you will notice carefully, neither Mitt Romney nor Barack Obama are promising to balance the budget any time soon. Like so many politicians in the past, they promise to do it “eventually”, but “eventually” never arrives.

According to a recent article in the Washington Times, Mitt Romney declared during a recent campaign appearance that he has no plans to balance the federal budget in his first year….

“My job is to get America back on track to have a balanced budget. Now I’m not going to cut $1 trillion in the first year”

Why would he say that?

Why wouldn’t he want to balance the budget?

He went on to explain that….

“The reason,” he explained, “is taking a trillion dollars out of a $15 trillion economy would cause our economy to shrink [and] would put a lot of people out of work.”

Romney is right about this. Taking a trillion dollars out of a 15 trillion dollar economy would plunge us into an economic nightmare.

And that would make him look bad.

Of course if Obama wins the election we can just expect more of the same from him as well.

For example, just check out what White House Chief of Staff Jack Lew had to say about balancing the budget recently….

“The time for austerity is not today,” Lew told NBC News “Meet the Press.” “If we were to put in austerity measures right now, it would take the economy in the wrong way.”

Why is the time for austerity not today?

It is because the 2012 election is coming up and Obama wants the economic statistics to look good.

But can you blame our politicians for being cowardly?

Just look at what is happening in Greece. After several years of austerity they are in the midst of a full-blown economic depression and they still have not balanced their budget.

Do we want to end up like Greece?

Most Americans do not realize this, but the U.S. already has more government debt per capita than Greece, Portugal, Italy, Ireland or Spain.

So why haven’t we collapsed yet?

Well, because we continue to borrow larger and larger amounts of money.

It took from the founding of America until 1995 for the federal government to accumulate 5 trillion dollars of debt.

Under Obama, we have accumulated more than 5 trillion dollars of new debt in just over 3 years.

Amazingly, Obama has added more to the national debt than George W. Bush did during his entire 8 year term.

And let there be no mistake – George W. Bush was a wild spender. A fiscal conservative he most certainly was not.

But Barack Obama does not seem troubled by any of this.

Barack Obama is prancing about the countryside touting his great “economic plan”, but the truth is that the only reason the economy has not totally collapsed is because he is stealing 150 million dollars an hour from our children and our grandchildren.

Sadly, most Americans don’t understand that the current level of prosperity that we are enjoying is a grand illusion. Most Americans still expect things to return to the way that they used to be, and they are increasingly becoming angry that it is taking so long to get back there.

In fact, a whole host of recent surveys have shown that Americans are very dissatisfied with the direction the economy is heading in….

Four recent surveys have found that on average only 28% of Americans are satisfied with the condition of the country, while 70% are dissatisfied. Three recent surveys have found that between 69% and 83% of Americans believe that the country is still in recession (it isn’t), and only half believe that a recovery is under way.

What they don’t realize is that if we were not massively ripping off our kids and our grandkids things would be much, much worse.

Thomas Jefferson understood that government borrowing is essentially the same as theft from future generations.

He once made the following statement….

And I sincerely believe, with you, that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies; and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.

What we are doing to our children and our grandchildren is so immoral that it is hard to put into words.

We are running up trillions upon trillions of dollars of debt in their name just so that our lives can be more comfortable right now.

How could we be so selfish?

The sad thing is that even with all of this reckless spending our economy is still not in great shape.

In fact, the middle class continues to shrink at an alarming rate. The following are just a few statistics from a recent article I did about this phenomenon….

-Today, approximately 48 percent of all Americans are currently either considered to be “low income” or are living in poverty.

-Back in 1960, social welfare benefits made up approximately 10 percent of all salaries and wages. In the year 2000, social welfare benefits made up approximately 21 percent of all salaries and wages. Today, social welfare benefits make up approximately 35 percent of all salaries and wages.

-The United States actually has a higher percentage of workers doing low wage work than any other major industrialized nation does.

-Every year now, we see millions of Americans fall out of the middle class. In 2010, 2.6 million more Americans descended into poverty. That was the largest increase that we have seen since the U.S. government began keeping statistics on this back in 1959.

-At this point, approximately 22 percent of all American children are living in poverty.

-When Barack Obama took office, there were 32 million Americans on food stamps. Now, there are more than 46 million Americans on food stamps.

So how much worse would things be if a trillion dollars of federal spending was suddenly removed from the economy?

Are you starting to get the picture?

As bad as things are right now, they are about to get a whole lot worse.

So why can’t we just keep on borrowing and spending forever?

Well, just like Greece found out, debt always catches up with you eventually.

During fiscal 2011, the U.S. government spent over 454 billion dollars just on interest on the national debt.

But just like we are seeing in Europe, if confidence in U.S. government debt starts to disappear the U.S. government could end up facing much higher interest rates to borrow money.

If the average rate on U.S. government debt only rose to 7 percent (in the past it has actually been much higher than that), then the U.S. government would be spending about 1.1 trillion dollars a year just on interest on the national debt.

During fiscal year 2011, the U.S. government spent 3.7 trillion dollars but it only brought in about 2.4 trillion dollars.

So if we were spending 1.1 trillion dollars just on interest, that would be close to half of all the revenue the federal government brings in.

Right now, the Federal Reserve is manipulating the system in a desperate attempt to keep interest rates down. During 2011, the Federal Reserve bought up approximately 61 percent of all government debt issued by the U.S. Treasury Department.

But most Americans have no idea how fragile our financial system is.

Most Americans just assume that we will always be the greatest economy on the planet and that there is nothing to be worried about.

Sadly, one way or another this debt bubble is going to burst and then our debt-fueled false prosperity is going to disappear.

Most Americans are not going to understand what is happening and they are going to go absolutely nuts.

AUTHOR: THE ECONOMIC COLLAPSE BLOG

http://www.yolohub.com/economy/obamas-five-trillion-dollar-lie

Oil and energy are expensive because the supply is controlled by government regulation.  Therein lies the political opportunity for any president or presidential candidate who honestly wants to turn around the U.S. economy.  

Changing over from oil to natural gas would cost a fortune and no one would do it unless government regulations left open no other alternative.  Removing regulations from oil discovery and development would generate money on leases and fees on government lands, 90%+ of which are currently out of bounds in the Obama administration.

What you want is competition between coal, oil, gas, nuclear, geothermal and hydroelectric. That would result in an American renaissance.

Advocating replacement of gasoline and diesel automobile and truck engines with natural gas engines or somehow retrofitting them is not a productive solution to America’s energy problems. The retrofit and new inftrastructure would costs hundreds of billion dollar program. What is the benefit?  Almost nothing.

Once you understand that CO2 is not pollution, there is almost nothing to gain from such a program. But the cost of such a program is huge. There is only a very limited distribution system to supply natural gas to cars and trucks. That would have to built by someone. There would need to be a hugely expensive refit on all the cars and trucks. But there is almost no benefit from all of that.

There is no shortage of gas, oil or coal in American, except the supply shortage that is created by our government.

It is true that natural gas burns cleaner than gasoline and diesel.  But not that much cleaner. Both gasoline and diesel engines as well as their fuels can still be made to run much cleaner than they do today. Cleaner means exhaust is lower in hydrocarbons.  It is not unusual for cars in Europe to get 50+ miles per gallon. The bigger problem is making the vehicles so that they stayed tuned.

In fact, gasoline made from fracking shale oil burns cleaner than the very cleanest crude oil.  In fact, gasoline from shale oil can be pumped out of the well and into the tanker truck to be delivered to the gas station. Did you get that? No refinery is needed and no transportation of crude oil to the refinery is needed either. This is where to spend the R&D dollars. Basically, the shale oil is “cracked” or refined in the well itself. Trucks can literally re-fuel and fill their tanks at the wells ready for the delivery to retail outlets.  And, by the way, methane, ethane, propane, butane, pentane and the other smaller hydrocarbons which are usually made at a refinery for various purposes, those can also be “cracked” at the well, compressed into liquids and pumped into tanks for delivery to the end-use customers. The generator to do all of this can be run by the natural gas from the well itself.  This can all be done today, but there are only one or two of these machines made so far. Covered by patents of course.  When this technology is fully developed, there will be no further need for petroleum refineries.

So, I hope you see, we are focused on the wrong energy goals, all because many people have been made to believe that (1) CO2 is pollution, when in fact it’s plant food, and (2) the “peak oil” theory that the planet is running out of gas and oil, when in fact the planet is still making gas and oil just as it always has done.

Adding ethanol is worse than doing nothing at all. Ethanol creates more real pollution than the gasoline that it is added to, plus to make the ethanol from grains uses a lot of fuel, drives up the cost of food, and at the end of the day adding ethanol to gasoline reduces the mileage of the car. Ethanol is really a subsidy to corporate farmers and certain companies.

Another negative, use of natural gas (methane) as fuel for vehicles will increase the cost of methane in the overall market, which means that it will raise the price of fertilizer (where methane is a key component) and raise the price of natural gas for home energy and where it is used for electric powerplants. Of course, the distribution infrastructure is already in place to deliver natural gas to homes, fertilizer plants and electric power plants.   

“Immoral beyond redemption” An excellent dissection of the issue before America by Walter E. Williams, professor of economics at George Mason University.. http://www.desototimes.com/articles/2012/06/04/opinion/editorials/doc4fcd09b66c4a8109124187.txt

The video at the link blow is a blockbuster invocation by Fr. Andrew at the 2012 Colorado Republican State assembly.

The moral challenges facing our country are not caused by political affiliation, but rather by attacks on religious freedom.  He invites all people of conscience to uphold religious freedom.

“The Church has rejected the totalitarian and atheistic ideologies associated in modem times with ‘communism’ or ‘socialism.'” – Catechism of the Catholic Church 2425 http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=xG0x3NsCw3Y

‎”Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”~ John Adams

“Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.” ~ Ben Franklin

“The UN claims that developed countries, including the United States, must cut their CO2 emissions 80% by 2050 or there will be a climate catastrophe. It follows that if these countries can’t cut their CO2 emissions 80%, there will be an unavoidable climate catastrophe. Can the United States cut its CO2 emissions 80%?
The answer is no, and this group of articles will explain why.”

“CO2 Fool’s Errand” See parts 1 thru 3. Donn, the author, is an energy expert retired from GE.

CO2 Fool’s Errand

CO2 Fool’s Errand, Part II

CO2 Fool’s Errand, Part III

The earth is at no risk. This oil came from the earth and to the earth it shall return. Earth pours many thousands of times this amount of oil into the oceans and land every day, and the oceans return a thousand times more. It is humans that are at risk. Humans are losing their souls. They are misguided, lost. Most cannot tell right from wrong. Most think they know and they know nothing. They came here to search and stopped. They became comfortable, arrogant, and greedy. Human arrogance and tiny imagination of God’s creation is the cause of this bruise, and so humans shall suffer the plight of tiny minds and lost souls.

You have a beautiful, huge, old oak tree in your yard, providing you many enjoyments. You don’t care for politics, but your neighbor got the government to make a law that says you cannot have such a tree and they hired a contractor to cut it down. And so they did. And the tree fell on your front porch. Now they are arguing about whose fault it is and who will pay to clean up the mess, but the tree and the things you enjoyed are gone and it will be many years to replace it. Hidden by the crisis is the fact that you lost your liberty.

“Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn’t mean politics won’t take an interest in you!” ~~ Pericles (430 B.C.)

The universe is a finely tuned design for human habitation, fit for purpose. All the pieces fit and work well together at just the right time. It is far, far too complex and powerful to have occurred by chance; that’s a fact not a belief. Many people of the Book have stopped thinking, afraid to challenge themselves with science, scared the Book might be wrong, believing instead that faith connects the gaps. Similarly, secularists put their faith in science and logic…believing that deeper and deeper study will reveal all the answers. But these are not the only two choices. Today, secularism is overt and in the open, a sign that the globalists / statists/ corporatists believe they now have sufficient control (through education and media) of the American mind, and that people of the Book are incompetent to resist. The globalist weapons are deception, crisis and guilt employed with noblesse oblige…their justification of arrogance … and that the end justifies the means. The earth is not in peril, but your worldview and liberty are being diminished daily.

Understanding the fundamental economic or socionomic trend does not require prediction or speculation of possible future events, actions or inactions. The trend is already set in history, already occurring inexorably. It is an economic tsunami unequalled in our lifetime except by its mirror image. The questions are how to protect yourself from it and how to take best advantage of this giant trend.

The enormous global “baby boom” generation passed its age of borrowing and spending and entered its age of de-leveraging, saving, and downsizing. Boomers are in the “winding down” period of their lives. Spending on the things that drive economic growth has slowed and will continue slowing. The big demographic numbers that grew businesses for houses, cars, furniture, major appliances, etc are declining rapidly. This is the trend which is driving socionomics. This downturn, recession, depression or whatever one wants to call it is not temporary.

This is not an ordinary recession or business cycle. We are in a long term deflation and there is no way to stop it. The demographically very large baby boom generation did not have the third and fourth kids like most of their parents. The generation that followed which is now entering their prime spending years is about 50% smaller, and the next generation is smaller still. Population growth is in a steady decline. (see graphs below)

The bubbles of consumption are collapsing; the historically unprecedented hundreds of trillions of dollars of collateralized debt and the quadrillions of non-collateralized debt and derivatives are imploding worldwide. Be very careful and limited with your ETF’s and options because they are tied to the derivative books of giant banks.

The size and cost of government at all levels must be collapsed…we need major reduction of government debt. Spending by government must be cut to the bone. Deficit spending should be out of the question, but it’s not yet. Government at all levels in the U.S. does not yet have that message. These are government supplied statistics, but government bureaucrats and politicians refuse to face the facts because taxes are the source of their power. They are still trying to raise taxes to maintain government budgets and services. It’s not going to happen. Plan for austerity. The massive boomer population is not paying as much in taxes, and will not be, because their income on average is declining rapidly. Furthermore, boomer spending is declining rapidly, so tax revenue on corporate profits and taxes on salaries overall will be declining… for years to come. In this situation, it irreparably harms nations to emigrate people across borders because jobs are declining almost everywhere; immigration is importing a time bomb.

It can be a conscientious, planned and calm process of deflation or it can be like Greece, Libya or Egypt with violence across the country. That is your vote in the next elections. We are watching a carnival gamblers shell game being played by governments and bankers with our money. So, how is the best way to play this game, or to avoid being played? Cash is and will be king, but which cash?

by Bud Bromley on Friday, October 21, 2011 at 7:23pm (published on Bud’s Facebook notes)

…where “the end justifies the means.”

Barrack Obama, trained and skilled in Alinsky-styled community organizing by agitation,  is using religions and social differences as a surreptitious means to achieve his end goals, nationally and internationally.  But what are Obama’s goals?  And how do you know, since he is willing to lie to achieve his purpose and he is so skilled at doing so? 

For example, Obama has spoken frequently about the idea of uniting the country and the need for bipartisan action.  But his training, skills and actions produce exactly the opposite; blame and class warfare produce divisions and less communication.  He repeatedly talks of helping the poor, but in 2011 more than 46 million (15% of all Americans) got food stamps.  That’s 45% higher than when Obama took office, and twice as high as the average for the previous 40 years. 

In the early to mid-1980s, John L. McKnight helped train Barack Obama in the agitation/infiltration tactics of Saul Alinsky, whose Reveille for Radicals has been a blueprint for the revolutionary activism of “community organizers” since its 1946 publication, as has Alinsky’s 1972 book Rules for Radicals.  Saul “The Red” Alinsky wrote a letter of recommendation for Obama when he applied to Harvard Law School.  Alinsky, the father of community organizing, dreamed of socialism one day replacing the “jungle” of American capitalism.  He wrote that he hoped “for a future where the means of production will be owned by all of the people instead of just a comparative handful.”  In Rules for Radicals Alinsky wrote, “[t]he job of the organizer is to maneuver and bait the establishment so that it will publicly attack him as a ‘dangerous enemy.’

Alinsky dedicated the first edition of his book, “Rules for Radicals,” to Satan: “Lest we forget at least an over-the-shoulder acknowledgment to the very first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom – Lucifer.”

Obama approached Northwestern University professor John L. McKnight – a loyal student of Alinsky’s radical tactics – to pen a letter to Harvard in the late 1980s.” “McKnight, who enforced affirmative action for Attorney General Robert Kennedy, was far more than that to young Obama.  He helped train him in Alinsky’s agitation tactics.    

The Chicago-based Gamaliel Foundation (GF) lists McKnight as a board director. From 1985 to 1988, Obama worked for a subsidiary of Gamaliel, where he cut his teeth as a community organizer onChicago’s South Side. McKnight and Gamaliel, which was founded on Alinsky’s principles, provided training for the budding radical Obama.  Before leaving for Harvard, Obama wrote an article published in a journal titled, “After Alinsky: Community Organizing in Illinois,” in which he praised McKnight and his organizing strategies.  While at Harvard, Obama found time to take advanced training courses at the Industrial Areas Foundation, a group founded by Alinsky and affiliated with Gamaliel. He also would return to Chicago to work as a consultant and trainer for Gamaliel.  Obama also served as a trainer for ACORN, the now disbanded organization indicted in multiple states for multiple types of criminal activities.  Under the tutelage of McKnight and other hardcore students of Alinsky, Obama says he got the “best education I ever had, better than anything I got at Harvard Law School.” He made the remark in 2007 while campaigning in Iowa.

GF’s modus operandi is to bring local, inner-city churches into its fold, and then to pressure political and corporate leaders to support Gamaliel’s goals.  Former GF community organizer Rey Lopez-Calderon reports that Gamaliel’s “culture” is exceedingly “strange and warped.”  “[Gregory] Galluzzo,” says Calderon, “told me that he wanted organizers to be tough bastards who could build power like the Conquistadors.” Calderon further reveals that Galluzzo, in seminars, would teach trainees to be “ruthless” in actualizing the premise that “the ends justify the means,” a common underlying method throughout Alinsky’s books.

GF receives much of its funding from the Catholic Campaign for Human Development. Yet according to the Roman Catholic Faithful website, the foundation’s “goals and philosophies are at fundamental odds with Church teaching.” In March 2010, David Ricken — the Roman Catholic bishop of Green Bay, Wisconsin–said that certain “principles of the Gamaliel Foundation are inconsistent with the tenets of our Catholic Social Teaching.” Vicar general and Chancellor Father John Doerfler of Northeast Wisconsin specified one particularly problematic GF doctrine: “The end,” he said, “does not justify the means.”

According to Rutgers political scientist Heidi Swarts, who has studied GF extensively, Gamaliel’s organizers engage freely in ideological talk when speaking privately among themselves, but they carefully avoid such talk during their trainings so as not to alienate working-class people. In those settings, the organizers present their ideas as pragmatic, “commonsense solutions” for “working families.”

Like the Gamaliel Foundation itself, GF’s affiliates carefully select non-threatening names that form biblical acronyms.Michigan, for instance, has the Interfaith Strategy for Advocacy & Action in the Community (ISAAC); a Wisconsin affiliate is called Joining Our Neighbors, Advancing Hope (JONAH); and a New Yorkaffiliate is named Niagara Organizing Alliance for Hope (NOAH).

Former Jesuit priest Gregory Galluzzo was executive director of GF for 24 years beginning in 1986.  Gamaliel was restructured as a community-organizing leadership institute that focused on training activists “to build and maintain powerful organizations in low-income communities.” GF has since grown into a network of faith-based community-organizing affiliates with branches in 18U.S.states,South Africa, and theUnited Kingdom.

In the mid-1980s, Galluzzo served as a mentor for a young Barack Obama during the latter’s organizing days in Chicago. The Developing Communities Project, where Obama first worked as an organizer, was (and still is) part of the Gamaliel network. By early 1988, Obama had become a consultant for, and a trainer of, GF community organizers; he would maintain his ties to Gamaliel throughout his years in the U.S. Senate. As Galluzzo said shortly after Obama was elected President in 2008: “Barack has acknowledged publicly that he had been the director of a Gamaliel affiliate. He has supported Gamaliel throughout the years by conducting training [and attending] our public meetings.”

In 2001, Dennis Jacobsen, director of Gamaliel’s National Clergy Caucus, published Doing Justice: Congregations and Community Organizing, a handbook/ideological guide for GF’s religious organizers. Depicting theU.S. as a “sick society” in need of radical transformation, this text derides America’s free-market system for allegedly harming the poor. The author affirms that GF’s goal is to foment public anger and “shake the foundations of this society.”  A self-described “radical Christian,” Jacobsen acknowledges that he has “deep prejudices … against wealthy people.” 

Here’s Stanley Kurtz on Gamaliel and Obama in an article titled “Senator Stealth”:

The same separatist, anti-American theology of liberation that was so boldly and bitterly proclaimed by Obama’s pastor is shared, if more quietly, by Obama’s Gamaliel colleagues. The operative word here is “quietly.”

Gamaliel specializes in ideological stealth, and Obama, a master student of Gamaliel strategy, shows disturbing signs of being a sub rosa radical himself. Obama’s legislative tactics, as well as his persistent professions of non-ideological pragmatism, appear to be inspired by his radical mentors’ most sophisticated tactics. Not only has Obama studied, taught, and apparently absorbed stealth techniques from radical groups like Gamaliel and ACORN, but in his position as a board member of Chicago’s supposedly nonpartisan Woods Fund, he quietly funneled money to his radical allies — at the very moment he most needed their support to boost his political career. It’s high time for these shadowy, perhaps improper, ties to receive a dose of sunlight.

The Gamaliel connection appears to supply a solution to the riddle of Obama’s mysterious political persona. On one hand, he likes to highlight his days as a community organizer — a profession with proudly radical roots in the teachings ofChicago’s Saul Alinsky, author of the highly influential text Rules for Radicals. Obama even goes so far as to make the community-organizer image a metaphor for his distinctive conception of elective office. On the other hand, Obama presents himself as a post-ideological, consensus-minded politician who favors pragmatic, common-sense solutions to the issues of the day.

Candidate and President Obama promised to get unemployment down, but of course unemployment has gone up.  Obama promised to solve the housing crisis, but it has gotten worse (1).  Obama promised to get health care costs down and improve quality, but the cost of health insurance for a family of four has effectively almost doubled.  On the stage in Grant Park, Obama said “I will listen to you,” “especially when we disagree.” And he proclaimed that his would be the most transparent administration, no lobbyists, no crony deals, but today his administration has more secrets than any before him and a super majority of Americans and more than half of U.S.states vigorously and legally oppose Obamacare, which he claims as his crowning achievement. 

Obama’s 2012 campaign website claims that Obama is “The only candidate fighting for the middle class,” but his policies have produced a shrinking middle class with less income, less assets, and out of control debt.  Obama said, “Words are important.”  But there is no connection between his words and his actions.    Citizens would fare better to listen to Obama’s words and then assume he means exactly the opposite.

Princeton Professor Cornel West, an African-American, eagerly shakes the hand of President Barack Obama in June 2010.  Today, West calls Obama “a black mascot of Wall Street oligarchs.”  Millions of Americans endured financial calamities in the recession.  But for many in the black community, job loss has knocked them out of the middle class and back into poverty. And some experts warn of a historic reversal of hard-won economic gains that took black people decades to achieve.  “History is going to say the black middle class was decimated” over the past few years, said Maya Wiley, director of the Center for Social Inclusion. “But we’re not done writing history.”  Adds Algernon Austin, director of the Economic Policy Institute’s Program on Race, Ethnicity and the Economy: “The recession is not over for black folks.” Austin thinks more black people than ever before could fall out of the middle class because the unemployment rate for college-educated blacks recently peaked and blacks are over represented in state and local government jobs. Those are jobs that are being eliminated because of massive budget shortfalls.

What does Obama want?  Based on his actions and policies, he wants a huge, permanent increase in the size of government.  This is the “change” he campaigned on, but never described.  His goal is to change the US into a class-based European-style “Social Democracy,” a bureaucratically-driven nanny state with state-controlled capitalism, subservient to a supranational governing oligarchy of global bankers, corporations and elites, all paid for by redistributing wealth away from the middle class.  Religious, cultural and social issues including war are only means to that end.   

Notes and references:

(1) Despite a massive federal bailout of the housing industry, 10.7 million American mortgages were underwater as of September 2011 – meaning the debt on these properties exceeds their fair market value. Another 2.4 million borrowers had an equity stake of less than 5 percent in their homes.  Also, bear in mind that these dismal stats don’t include the nearly four millionU.S.homes that have already been foreclosed on since the recession began in December 2007.

(2) According to the Census, 97.3 million Americans are currently classified as low income. Meanwhile an additional 49.1 million Americans are currently living below the poverty line.  Add those numbers together and you’ve got 146.4 million people – or 48 percent of the country – who are currently either poor or low income, an increase of 4 million people from 2009.  Within that total an estimated 44 million people – or 15 percent of the population – are currently receiving food stamps, a 69 percent increase from 2007.

(3) In 2004, the median net worth of white households was $134,280, compared with $13,450 for black households, according to an analysis of Federal Reserve data by the Economic Policy Institute. By 2009, the median net worth for white households had fallen 24 percent to $97,860; the median net worth for black households had fallen 83 percent to $2,170, according to the institute.

(4) The black unemployment rate has risen from 14.7 to 16.2 percent, according to the Department of Labor.

References:

Gamaliel Network

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7004 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamaliel_Foundation

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/226185/senator-stealth/stanley-kurtz

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saul_Alinsky

On this Memorial Day, when we are honoring those who died in service to this country, I am deeply concerned that Americans will soon no longer recognize their country and no longer be willing to fight to protect it from those plotting unnatural changes to defeat this country from without and within.

“The President said that he intended to radically transform America. And he is doing it. The nation we were born into is starting to look like a foreign country…”   ~ Daniel Ashton April 26, 2012

“Another way of phrasing the choice we face is whether the Left will be allowed to continue its assault on America and its values – an assault that used to take place in the streets, but now takes place in the Oval Office – or we will put an end to this militant effort to remake America into a place we will soon no longer recognize as home.” ~ David Horowitz

“We need change we can believe in – regime change.  But even if Barack Obama were denied a second term, the forces that produced and sustained him would still be on the attack.  The Freedom Center’s mission is not to defeat the President, but to combat the ideology of the Left that has been working since the 1960’s to infilitrate our universities, our popular culture, and our politics, and whose crowning achievement was to make this President possible.” ~ David Horowitz

Conventional wisdom holds that the political right represents wealth while the left represents the people.  But as David Horowitz and Jacob Laksin detail in their groundbreaking new book, The New Leviathan, the reverse is far closer to the truth.  Since the Sixties, the authors show, the political left has steadily taken control of virtually all of the major philanthropic policy shaping organizations, including Rockefeller, Ford, Carnegie, MacArthur, Pew, Hewlett, Kellogg, Packard, Casey, and Tides.  Armed with over $100 billion in combined assets – more than 10 times the assets of foundations on the right – these leftwing foundations have been able to fund a universe of think tanks, policy institutes and thinly veiled political movements.  The book describes how the efforts of these foundations have shifted the policy debate in America dramatically to the left, distorting national issues like immigration – where increasingly states are required to treat illegal aliens as American citizens – so that they are unrecognizable from what they were until only recently.

http://www.horowitzfreedomcenter.org/