My military contacts said expect a banking collapse by September or October with a possibility of Martial Law. We may be on the fast track plan right now. Let us hope those rumours of a return to a Gold Standard are correct.
Mike Shedlock
1. Paulson appears on Face The Nation and says "Our banking system is a safe and a sound one." If the banking system was safe and sound, everyone would know it (or at least think it). There would be no need to say it.
2. Paulson says the list of troubled banks "is a very manageable situation". The reality is there are 90 banks on the list of problem banks. Indymac was not one of them until a month before it collapsed. How many other banks will magically appear on the list a month before they collapse?
3. In a Northern Rock moment, depositors at Indymac pull out their cash. Police had to be called in to ensure order.
4. Washington Mutual (WM), another troubled bank, refused to honor Indymac cashier's checks. The irony is it makes no sense for customers to pull insured deposits out of Indymac after it went into receivership. The second irony is the last place one would want to put those funds would be Washington Mutual. Eventually Washington Mutual decided it would take those checks but with an 8 week hold. Will Washington Mutual even be around 8 weeks from now?
5. Paulson asked for "Congressional authority to buy unlimited stakes in and lend to Fannie Mae (FNM) and Freddie Mac (FRE)" just days after he said "Financial Institutions Must Be Allowed To Fail". Obviously Paulson is reporting from the 5th dimension. In some alternate universe, his statements just might make sense.
6. Former Fed Governor William Poole says "Fannie Mae, Freddie Losses Makes Them Insolvent".
7. Paulson says Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are "essential" because they represent the only "functioning" part of the home loan market. The firms own or guarantee about half of the $12 trillion in U.S. mortgages. Is it possible to have a sound banking system when the only "functioning" part of the mortgage market is insolvent?
8. Bernanke testified before Congress on monetary policy but did not comment on either money supply or interest rates. The word "money" did not appear at all in his testimony. The only time "interest rate" appeared in his testimony was in relation to consumer credit card rates. How can you have any reasonable economic policy when the Fed chairman is scared half to death to discuss interest rates and money supply?
9. The SEC issued a protective order to protect those most responsible for naked short selling. As long as the investment banks and brokers were making money engaging in naked shorting of stocks, there was no problem. However, when the bears began using the tactic against the big financials, it became time to selectively enforce the existing regulation.
10. The Fed takes emergency actions twice during options expirations week in regards to the discount window and rate cuts.
11. The SEC takes emergency action during options expirations week regarding short sales.
12. The Fed has implemented an alphabet soup of pawn shop lending facilities whereby the Fed accepts garbage as collateral in exchange for treasuries. Those new Fed lending facilities are called the Term Auction Facility (TAF), the Term Security Lending Facility (TSLF), and the Primary Dealer Credit Facility (PDCF).
13. Citigroup (C), Lehman (LEH), Morgan Stanley(MS), Goldman Sachs (GS) and Merrill Lynch (MER) all have a huge percentage of level 3 assets. Level 3 assets are commonly known as "marked to fantasy" assets. In other words, the value of those assets is significantly if not ridiculously overvalued in comparison to what those assets would fetch on the open market. It is debatable if any of the above firms survive in their present form. Some may not survive in any form.
14. Bernanke openly solicits private equity firms to invest in banks. Is this even close to a remotely normal action for Fed chairman to take?
15. Bear Stearns was taken over by JPMorgan (JPM) days after insuring investors it had plenty of capital. Fears are high that Lehman will suffer the same fate. Worse yet, the Fed had to guarantee the shotgun marriage between Bear Stearns and JP Morgan by providing as much as $30 billion in capital. JPMorgan is responsible for only the first 1/2 billion. Taxpayers are on the hook for all the rest. Was this a legal action for the Fed to take? Does the Fed care?
16. Citigroup needed a cash injection from Abu Dhabi and a second one elsewhere. Then after announcing it would not need more capital is raising still more. The latest news is Citigroup will sell $500 billion in assets. To who? At what price?
17. Merrill Lynch raised $6.6 billion in capital from Kuwait Mizuho, announced it did not need to raise more capital, then raised more capital a few week later.
18. Morgan Stanley sold a 9.9% equity stake to China International Corp. CEO John Mack compensated by not taking his bonus. How generous. Morgan Stanley fell from $72 to $37. Did CEO John Mack deserve a paycheck at all?
19. Bank of America (BAC) agreed to take over Countywide Financial (CFC) and twice announced Countrywide will add profits to B of A. Inquiring minds were asking "How the hell can Countrywide add to Bank of America earnings?" Here's how. Bank of America just announced it will not guarantee $38.1 billion in Countrywide debt. Questions over "Fraudulent Conveyance" are now surfacing.
20. Washington Mutual agreed to a death spiral cash infusion of $7 billion accepting an offer at $8.75 when the stock was over $13 at the time. Washington Mutual has since fallen in waterfall fashion from $40 and is now trading near $5.00 after a huge rally.
21. Shares of Ambac (ABK) fell from $90 to $2.50. Shares of MBIA (MBI) fell from $70 to $5. Sadly, the top three rating agencies kept their rating on the pair at AAA nearly all the way down. No one can believe anything the government sponsored rating agencies say.
22. In a panic set of moves, the Fed slashed interest rates from 5.25% to 2%. This was the fastest, steepest drop on record. Ironically, the Fed chairman spoke of inflation concerns the entire drop down. Bernanke clearly cannot tell the truth. He does not have to. Actions speak louder than words.
23. FDIC Chairman Sheila Bair said the FDIC is looking for ways to shore up its depleted deposit fund, including charging higher premiums on riskier brokered deposits.
24. There is roughly $6.84 Trillion in bank deposits. $2.60 Trillion of that is uninsured. There is only $53 billion in FDIC insurance to cover $6.84 Trillion in bank deposits. Indymac will eat up roughly $8 billion of that.
25. Of the $6.84 Trillion in bank deposits, the total cash on hand at banks is a mere $273.7 Billion. Where is the rest of the loot? The answer is in off balance sheet SIVs, imploding commercial real estate deals, Alt-A liar loans, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac bonds, toggle bonds where debt is amazingly paid back with more debt, and all sorts of other silly (and arguably fraudulent) financial wizardry schemes that have bank and brokerage firms leveraged at 30-1 or more. Those loans cannot be paid back.
What cannot be paid back will be defaulted on. If you did not know it before, you do now. The entire US banking system is insolvent.
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Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Monday, July 28, 2008
Defense Secretary Gates- War with Iran would be a disaster
This info is in line with what I was told by contacts in the U.S. Military, that the Joints Chiefs of Staff oppose the globalists now. They will not be dragged into any more wars for foreign interests. About time.
A war with Iran would be "disastrous on a number of levels," according to U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates.
By, Amir Oren
In an article appearing in the latest issue of Parameters, the U.S. Army War College quarterly, Gates wrote that with the army already bogged down in Iraq and Afghanistan, "another war in the Middle East is the last thing we need" - despite the fact that Iran "supports terrorism," is "a destabilizing force throughout the Middle East and Southwest Asia and, in my judgment, is hell-bent on acquiring nuclear weapons."
Nevertheless, he continued, "the military option must be kept on the table, given the destabilizing policies of the regime and the risks inherent in a future Iranian nuclear threat, either directly or through nuclear proliferation."
Gates offered these remarks on Iran as commentary on how to apply an axiom uttered by General Fox Connor in the early 20th century: "Never fight unless you have to." But this is not the first time he has warned against war with Iran; he also did so in a speech at West Point, the U.S. military academy, three months ago. The current article is based on that speech.
Any statement by Gates bears special importance because Barack Obama, the Democratic presidential hopeful who generally opposes the current administration's foreign and defense policy, has praised Gates lavishly and even hinted that he might ask him to retain his post under an Obama presidency.
Meanwhile, in another document bearing his signature that is due to be published soon, the 2008 National Defense Strategy, Gates omits Israel from the list of the United States' main allies.
The National Defense Strategy is an official document that reflects the secretary's directives to the armed forces. It replaces the version issued in 2005 by Gates' predecessor, Donald Rumsfeld. Although Gates signed off on the document about a month ago, it has yet to be published officially; however, a copy appears on the Inside Defense Web site.
In this document, too, Gates wrote that Iran's support for terror, efforts to undermine the nascent democracies in Iraq and Afghanistan and pursuit of nuclear weapons constitute a serious challenge to the security of the region - one that U.S. policy must address.
However, he also used the document to discuss America's allies.
"Our closest allies - the U.K., Australia, and Canada. Other long standing alliances - NATO, Japan and South Korea foremost among them. We will work to expand and strengthen other relationships, including with India," the document states.
But Israel, which has been listed in other documents as an important U.S. ally, does not appear in this document at all. The possibility that Gates might retain his post should Obama win the presidency in November emerged from an interview that the Democratic candidate gave to Defense News earlier this month.
"Secretary Gates has brought a level of realism and professionalism and planning to the job that is worthy of praise," the publication quoted Obama as saying. "But whether that means he would continue in that position, or would even want to, I think that's something that will be determined later. I don't want to get too far ahead of myself."
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A war with Iran would be "disastrous on a number of levels," according to U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates.
By, Amir Oren
In an article appearing in the latest issue of Parameters, the U.S. Army War College quarterly, Gates wrote that with the army already bogged down in Iraq and Afghanistan, "another war in the Middle East is the last thing we need" - despite the fact that Iran "supports terrorism," is "a destabilizing force throughout the Middle East and Southwest Asia and, in my judgment, is hell-bent on acquiring nuclear weapons."
Nevertheless, he continued, "the military option must be kept on the table, given the destabilizing policies of the regime and the risks inherent in a future Iranian nuclear threat, either directly or through nuclear proliferation."
Gates offered these remarks on Iran as commentary on how to apply an axiom uttered by General Fox Connor in the early 20th century: "Never fight unless you have to." But this is not the first time he has warned against war with Iran; he also did so in a speech at West Point, the U.S. military academy, three months ago. The current article is based on that speech.
Any statement by Gates bears special importance because Barack Obama, the Democratic presidential hopeful who generally opposes the current administration's foreign and defense policy, has praised Gates lavishly and even hinted that he might ask him to retain his post under an Obama presidency.
Meanwhile, in another document bearing his signature that is due to be published soon, the 2008 National Defense Strategy, Gates omits Israel from the list of the United States' main allies.
The National Defense Strategy is an official document that reflects the secretary's directives to the armed forces. It replaces the version issued in 2005 by Gates' predecessor, Donald Rumsfeld. Although Gates signed off on the document about a month ago, it has yet to be published officially; however, a copy appears on the Inside Defense Web site.
In this document, too, Gates wrote that Iran's support for terror, efforts to undermine the nascent democracies in Iraq and Afghanistan and pursuit of nuclear weapons constitute a serious challenge to the security of the region - one that U.S. policy must address.
However, he also used the document to discuss America's allies.
"Our closest allies - the U.K., Australia, and Canada. Other long standing alliances - NATO, Japan and South Korea foremost among them. We will work to expand and strengthen other relationships, including with India," the document states.
But Israel, which has been listed in other documents as an important U.S. ally, does not appear in this document at all. The possibility that Gates might retain his post should Obama win the presidency in November emerged from an interview that the Democratic candidate gave to Defense News earlier this month.
"Secretary Gates has brought a level of realism and professionalism and planning to the job that is worthy of praise," the publication quoted Obama as saying. "But whether that means he would continue in that position, or would even want to, I think that's something that will be determined later. I don't want to get too far ahead of myself."
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Saturday, July 26, 2008
The Revolution Grows St. Paul 2008 Devvy Kidd
Ron Paul,... St Paul get it? The road to Damascus. We are in for a wild ride, hold on to your seats, the fat lady has not sung this one. It ain't over till it's over. Remember the 1986 Mets, Kevin Mitchell was in the tunnel taking off his pants when the first walk happened.
'The shot heard around the world' fired on April 19, 1775, triggered the American Revolution.
Some 233 years later, a rebirth of strength and resolve is being felt around this country to stop the planned destruction of this constitutional republic. As the colonials of 1775 had reached the point of no return with King George, so too, have we the people with the deliberate looting of the people's purse without representation, never ending wars and efforts to integrate these united States of America with two foreign countries.
The two 'main' political parties are gearing up for their conventions to nominate their choice for the next president of this country. While there is great division among the party faithful over who "won" the Democratic primaries, there is no difference between Hillary Clinton and Barack Hussein Obama except gender. Make no mistake: She is a devout Marxist and stands for the same destructive, anti-Constitution agenda as Obama.
However, most Democrats appear to be compliant in backing a huckster of the first order for making promises he can't keep. Master of rhetoric while saying nothing. Obama is glad handing around the world in a deliberate attempt to portray him as a worldly guy, fit for the presidency. Despite the constant carping that Barack Hussein Obama would be the first "African-American" elected as president, ethnically he is a mulatto, half Caucasian and half Negro. While Obama carefully presents himself as the man for all races, Obama, to put it mildly, dislikes being Caucasian:
Obama's Identity Crisis
"From the age of ten onward, though, Obama desperately wants to be black: “I was trying to raise myself to be a black man in America, and beyond the given of my appearance, no one around me seemed to know exactly what that meant.” Honolulu's paucity of African-Americans means he has to learn to be black from the media: “TV, movies, the radio; those were places to start. Pop culture was color-coded, after all, an arcade of images from which you could cop a walk, a talk, a step, a style.”
"He cherishes every cause for complaint he can discern against white folks. He is constantly distressed at being half-white. Obama says he “ceased to advertise my mother's race at the age of twelve or thirteen, when I began to suspect that by doing so I was ingratiating myself to whites...”
Obama would also be the first open Marxist[1] to be "elected" president of this country. Just the facts, please:
1. Investigators Release Reports on Obama's Communist Connections
2. Communism in Hawaii and the Obama Connection
3. Communism in Chicago and the Obama Connection
Then there's the nasty little problem of Obama's citizenship the robots in the "mainstream media" have blacked out:
July 20, 2008. Document forensics expert: Obama "birth certificate" a "horrible forgery." "Barack Obama may be on a world tour surrounded by a fawning media, but Sunday an expert in electronic document forensics released a detailed report on the purported birth certificate -- actually a "Certification of Live Birth" or COLB -- claimed as genuine by his campaign. The expert concludes with 100% certainty that it is a crudely forged fake: "a horribly forgery," according to the analysis published on the popular right-wing Atlas Shrugs blog."
Sycophant and allegedly former sex phone harasser, Bill O'Reilly, will brush this off as Kool-Aid drinkers gone wild, but this is a serious legal question that should be investigated. The same question hasn't died regarding McCain's eligibility, either:
July 11, 2008. A Hint of New Life to a McCain Birth Issue. "In the most detailed examination yet of Senator John McCain’s eligibility to be president, a law professor at the University of Arizona has concluded that neither Mr. McCain’s birth in 1936 in the Panama Canal Zone nor the fact that his parents were American citizens is enough to satisfy the constitutional requirement that the president must be a “natural-born citizen.”
"The analysis, by Prof. Gabriel J. Chin, focused on a 1937 law that has been largely overlooked in the debate over Mr. McCain’s eligibility to be president. The law conferred citizenship on children of American parents born in the Canal Zone after 1904, and it made John McCain a citizen just before his first birthday. But the law came too late, Professor Chin argued, to make Mr. McCain a natural-born citizen. “It's preposterous that a technicality like this can make a difference in an advanced democracy,” Professor Chin said. “But this is the constitutional text that we have.” Several legal experts said that Professor Chin’s analysis was careful and plausible. But they added that nothing was very likely to follow from it. “No court will get close to it, and everyone else is on board, so there's a constitutional consensus, the merits of arguments such as this one aside,” said Peter J. Spiro, an authority on the law of citizenship at Temple University."
In other words, the hell with the U.S. Constitution.
The Republican power brokers have a BIG problem with Juan McCain - the grass roots don't want that poltroon as their president. It is pathetic to see the same "conservatives" (Shallow Sean Hannity and others) who lambasted the McCain/Kennedy duo for their anti-American push to give amnesty to 15 MILLION illegal aliens now trying to sell McCain as the only antidote to Obama. Conservative commentators are bending over backwards to sell this despicable person as the lesser of two evils. Sadly, even an influential individual like Dr. James Dobson, appears to be willing to once again play the game of the Masters: allow yourself to be backed into a corner and instead of fighting your party, fold and play right into the hands of the destroyers:
January 13 2007. Dobson says 'no way' to McCain candidacy. Christian leader declares he couldn't support senator 'under any circumstances.' "Speaking as a private individual, I would not vote for John McCain under any circumstances," said James Dobson, founder of the Colorado Springs-based Focus on the Family as well as the Focus Action cultural action organization set up specifically to provide a platform for informing and rallying constituents.
July 21, 2008. Evangelical Leader Dobson May Back McCain. (AP) "Conservative Christian leader James Dobson has softened his stance against Republican presidential hopeful John McCain, saying he could reverse his position and endorse the Arizona senator despite serious misgivings. "I never thought I would hear myself saying this," Dobson said in a radio broadcast to air Monday. "... While I am not endorsing Senator John McCain, the possibility is there that I might." Dobson and other evangelical leaders unimpressed by McCain increasingly are taking a lesser-of-two-evils approach to the 2008 race...Of his new position, Dobson said in the statement to the AP, "If that is a flip-flop, then so be it."
So be it? I find this pathetic and a repudiation of what Dobson says he stands for: unwavering conviction and standing firm for what's right. I think Srdja Trifkovic summed it up best about McCain in his column, McCain and Soros: The Most Dangerous Man in America, Bankrolled By the Most Evil Man in the World: "John McCain is the most dangerous man in today's America because this likely next occupant of the White House combines a muddled world outlook with an imbalanced personality, limited intelligence, and low character."
Let me remind Republicans what Juan McCain's fanatical support for illegals has brought to one family among thousands more: Edwin Ramos, a 21-one year old illegal alien from El Salvador gunned down a husband and two sons in San Francisco. The blame game is being played out because this human scum who should have been deported long ago, has been hiding out in Gavin Newsom's "sanctuary city." Another rip your heart out heinous crime that would never have happened if McCain, Obama, Bush, Clinton and all the others had done their job years ago and shut down the border. Instead, McCain has been courting militant America hating organizations like La Raza who want open borders.
Americans for Legal Immigration recently put out this statement: "Thousands of Americans are being slaughtered each year due to the fact our border security and existing immigration laws have been paralyzed by big business influences on the Bush administration. Francisco Hernandez is in this video on Fox News pretending to be just an "immigration attorney." Our research shows that he is an official member of the John McCain Campaign. His brother Juan Hernandez is McCain's Latino Vote Outreach Coordinator, and Francisco is a close associate of Mexican President Fox and George Bush.
"Please review this video report about the mass murders of the Bologna family in San Francisco and notice the part where the McCain campaign operative tries to push Comprehensive Immigration Reform AMNESTY using these murders. He also ridicules the deaths of thousands of Americans due to the betrayals of Bush and Chertoff as "The sky is falling!" These aristocrats do not care if we die." See this short video.
McCain has no honor. He sold out our POW/MIAs with his pal, John Kerry. He takes money from terrorist organizations and is dumber than a fence post when it comes to any understanding of the beast: the central bank. Just the facts please: Why McCain Must NOT Become the Next President.
Vote fraud
There's no question vote fraud was a key factor regarding the two 'presumed' nominees "wins." Vote fraud has been on the top of my list since 1993 and I've written many comprehensive columns about it. In my humble opinion, we have no idea the true vote counts during the primaries and therefore, delegates to these conventions should stand up and fight for who is the best for America, not what the machines decided.
Just as a side note because I can't let this pass: Some jackass sent me an email calling Chuck Baldwin, presidential candidate for the third largest political party in the country, the Constitution Party, a traitor. This mental midget called Baldwin a traitor because he would "take votes away from Ron Paul." Every citizen has the right to run for public office. Remember those who birthed this republic and their backgrounds? Chuck Baldwin is a true American who loves this country. He has stood firm in his Christian convictions throughout the decades. He doesn't flip flop and he understands constitutional government. Calling a fine man like him a traitor is an anti-American attitude. Chuck Baldwin has every right to run and every American has the right to vote for their choice.
Let me also remind people that the electoral college will "elect" the president and vote fraud plays a key role. Right now, the Republicans and Democrats claim to hold all the electoral college votes. In 1992 independent candidate, Ross Perot, allegedly got 20% of the popular vote, 19,743,821 votes and 0 electoral college votes. In 1996, the numbers show Perot received 8.4% of the popular vote (8,085, 402 votes) and 0 electoral college votes. George Wallace won 46 electoral college votes in 1968 with 13.5% of the vote (9,906,473 votes) under the American Independent Party banner. Should none of the candidates win 270 electoral votes, the 12th Amendment kicks in and the election is decided by the House of Representatives." That would be the Democrats unless there is a mass revolt by the American people.
The Revolution Grows
Congressman Ron Paul is being denied the opportunity to speak at the GOP Convention, September 1-4, 2008. Despite being called every name in the book (kooks, nuts, wackos), Americans who support Ron Paul are Republicans, Democrats and independents from all walks of life, races and religions. This is a fact. They also have become a formidable force to be reckoned with in the political arena. You see, millions of Americans have become educated on the issues from a constitutional position and reject more of the same. They know Barack Hussein Obama (or Clinton) and McCain represent no change. Nothing has changed while they've been in office because they are the establishment and represent the big money interests.
A rather unique event will be held during the GOP Convention in St. Paul: A three day event called 'The Rally for the Republic," August 31 - September 2, 2008. Tickets for this event go on sale today; click here for all the details. It goes without saying that the power brokers running the GOP Convention must be throwing hissy fits. It's their job to keep the herd in line and a huge event right down the street from their convention which represents freedom and liberty, instead of more of the same political sewage is a threat to their power.
Is there a revolution going on in America? Yes, without any doubt and the controlled, corporate media is doing everything in their power to make sure the majority of Americans never find out. There is real change happening in this country and momentum grows by the day. We the people have had it. We can and will restore this republic, though it won't be without pain. I leave you with this ten minute video of a powerful speech made by an Iraq veteran at the Ron Paul Freedom Rally in Washington, DC a little over a week ago. This young man represents our future as warriors. He represents the same ideals and fire which birthed this republic. This may scare some, but it was the same in 1775. Fear is the big stick of tyrants.
The men at Concord and Lexington were no doubt afraid, but that did not stop them. Watch this video. Feel the energy, the emotion and the courage. Freedom is not a spectator sport. It is our duty and obligation for future generations.
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'The shot heard around the world' fired on April 19, 1775, triggered the American Revolution.
Some 233 years later, a rebirth of strength and resolve is being felt around this country to stop the planned destruction of this constitutional republic. As the colonials of 1775 had reached the point of no return with King George, so too, have we the people with the deliberate looting of the people's purse without representation, never ending wars and efforts to integrate these united States of America with two foreign countries.
The two 'main' political parties are gearing up for their conventions to nominate their choice for the next president of this country. While there is great division among the party faithful over who "won" the Democratic primaries, there is no difference between Hillary Clinton and Barack Hussein Obama except gender. Make no mistake: She is a devout Marxist and stands for the same destructive, anti-Constitution agenda as Obama.
However, most Democrats appear to be compliant in backing a huckster of the first order for making promises he can't keep. Master of rhetoric while saying nothing. Obama is glad handing around the world in a deliberate attempt to portray him as a worldly guy, fit for the presidency. Despite the constant carping that Barack Hussein Obama would be the first "African-American" elected as president, ethnically he is a mulatto, half Caucasian and half Negro. While Obama carefully presents himself as the man for all races, Obama, to put it mildly, dislikes being Caucasian:
Obama's Identity Crisis
"From the age of ten onward, though, Obama desperately wants to be black: “I was trying to raise myself to be a black man in America, and beyond the given of my appearance, no one around me seemed to know exactly what that meant.” Honolulu's paucity of African-Americans means he has to learn to be black from the media: “TV, movies, the radio; those were places to start. Pop culture was color-coded, after all, an arcade of images from which you could cop a walk, a talk, a step, a style.”
"He cherishes every cause for complaint he can discern against white folks. He is constantly distressed at being half-white. Obama says he “ceased to advertise my mother's race at the age of twelve or thirteen, when I began to suspect that by doing so I was ingratiating myself to whites...”
Obama would also be the first open Marxist[1] to be "elected" president of this country. Just the facts, please:
1. Investigators Release Reports on Obama's Communist Connections
2. Communism in Hawaii and the Obama Connection
3. Communism in Chicago and the Obama Connection
Then there's the nasty little problem of Obama's citizenship the robots in the "mainstream media" have blacked out:
July 20, 2008. Document forensics expert: Obama "birth certificate" a "horrible forgery." "Barack Obama may be on a world tour surrounded by a fawning media, but Sunday an expert in electronic document forensics released a detailed report on the purported birth certificate -- actually a "Certification of Live Birth" or COLB -- claimed as genuine by his campaign. The expert concludes with 100% certainty that it is a crudely forged fake: "a horribly forgery," according to the analysis published on the popular right-wing Atlas Shrugs blog."
Sycophant and allegedly former sex phone harasser, Bill O'Reilly, will brush this off as Kool-Aid drinkers gone wild, but this is a serious legal question that should be investigated. The same question hasn't died regarding McCain's eligibility, either:
July 11, 2008. A Hint of New Life to a McCain Birth Issue. "In the most detailed examination yet of Senator John McCain’s eligibility to be president, a law professor at the University of Arizona has concluded that neither Mr. McCain’s birth in 1936 in the Panama Canal Zone nor the fact that his parents were American citizens is enough to satisfy the constitutional requirement that the president must be a “natural-born citizen.”
"The analysis, by Prof. Gabriel J. Chin, focused on a 1937 law that has been largely overlooked in the debate over Mr. McCain’s eligibility to be president. The law conferred citizenship on children of American parents born in the Canal Zone after 1904, and it made John McCain a citizen just before his first birthday. But the law came too late, Professor Chin argued, to make Mr. McCain a natural-born citizen. “It's preposterous that a technicality like this can make a difference in an advanced democracy,” Professor Chin said. “But this is the constitutional text that we have.” Several legal experts said that Professor Chin’s analysis was careful and plausible. But they added that nothing was very likely to follow from it. “No court will get close to it, and everyone else is on board, so there's a constitutional consensus, the merits of arguments such as this one aside,” said Peter J. Spiro, an authority on the law of citizenship at Temple University."
In other words, the hell with the U.S. Constitution.
The Republican power brokers have a BIG problem with Juan McCain - the grass roots don't want that poltroon as their president. It is pathetic to see the same "conservatives" (Shallow Sean Hannity and others) who lambasted the McCain/Kennedy duo for their anti-American push to give amnesty to 15 MILLION illegal aliens now trying to sell McCain as the only antidote to Obama. Conservative commentators are bending over backwards to sell this despicable person as the lesser of two evils. Sadly, even an influential individual like Dr. James Dobson, appears to be willing to once again play the game of the Masters: allow yourself to be backed into a corner and instead of fighting your party, fold and play right into the hands of the destroyers:
January 13 2007. Dobson says 'no way' to McCain candidacy. Christian leader declares he couldn't support senator 'under any circumstances.' "Speaking as a private individual, I would not vote for John McCain under any circumstances," said James Dobson, founder of the Colorado Springs-based Focus on the Family as well as the Focus Action cultural action organization set up specifically to provide a platform for informing and rallying constituents.
July 21, 2008. Evangelical Leader Dobson May Back McCain. (AP) "Conservative Christian leader James Dobson has softened his stance against Republican presidential hopeful John McCain, saying he could reverse his position and endorse the Arizona senator despite serious misgivings. "I never thought I would hear myself saying this," Dobson said in a radio broadcast to air Monday. "... While I am not endorsing Senator John McCain, the possibility is there that I might." Dobson and other evangelical leaders unimpressed by McCain increasingly are taking a lesser-of-two-evils approach to the 2008 race...Of his new position, Dobson said in the statement to the AP, "If that is a flip-flop, then so be it."
So be it? I find this pathetic and a repudiation of what Dobson says he stands for: unwavering conviction and standing firm for what's right. I think Srdja Trifkovic summed it up best about McCain in his column, McCain and Soros: The Most Dangerous Man in America, Bankrolled By the Most Evil Man in the World: "John McCain is the most dangerous man in today's America because this likely next occupant of the White House combines a muddled world outlook with an imbalanced personality, limited intelligence, and low character."
Let me remind Republicans what Juan McCain's fanatical support for illegals has brought to one family among thousands more: Edwin Ramos, a 21-one year old illegal alien from El Salvador gunned down a husband and two sons in San Francisco. The blame game is being played out because this human scum who should have been deported long ago, has been hiding out in Gavin Newsom's "sanctuary city." Another rip your heart out heinous crime that would never have happened if McCain, Obama, Bush, Clinton and all the others had done their job years ago and shut down the border. Instead, McCain has been courting militant America hating organizations like La Raza who want open borders.
Americans for Legal Immigration recently put out this statement: "Thousands of Americans are being slaughtered each year due to the fact our border security and existing immigration laws have been paralyzed by big business influences on the Bush administration. Francisco Hernandez is in this video on Fox News pretending to be just an "immigration attorney." Our research shows that he is an official member of the John McCain Campaign. His brother Juan Hernandez is McCain's Latino Vote Outreach Coordinator, and Francisco is a close associate of Mexican President Fox and George Bush.
"Please review this video report about the mass murders of the Bologna family in San Francisco and notice the part where the McCain campaign operative tries to push Comprehensive Immigration Reform AMNESTY using these murders. He also ridicules the deaths of thousands of Americans due to the betrayals of Bush and Chertoff as "The sky is falling!" These aristocrats do not care if we die." See this short video.
McCain has no honor. He sold out our POW/MIAs with his pal, John Kerry. He takes money from terrorist organizations and is dumber than a fence post when it comes to any understanding of the beast: the central bank. Just the facts please: Why McCain Must NOT Become the Next President.
Vote fraud
There's no question vote fraud was a key factor regarding the two 'presumed' nominees "wins." Vote fraud has been on the top of my list since 1993 and I've written many comprehensive columns about it. In my humble opinion, we have no idea the true vote counts during the primaries and therefore, delegates to these conventions should stand up and fight for who is the best for America, not what the machines decided.
Just as a side note because I can't let this pass: Some jackass sent me an email calling Chuck Baldwin, presidential candidate for the third largest political party in the country, the Constitution Party, a traitor. This mental midget called Baldwin a traitor because he would "take votes away from Ron Paul." Every citizen has the right to run for public office. Remember those who birthed this republic and their backgrounds? Chuck Baldwin is a true American who loves this country. He has stood firm in his Christian convictions throughout the decades. He doesn't flip flop and he understands constitutional government. Calling a fine man like him a traitor is an anti-American attitude. Chuck Baldwin has every right to run and every American has the right to vote for their choice.
Let me also remind people that the electoral college will "elect" the president and vote fraud plays a key role. Right now, the Republicans and Democrats claim to hold all the electoral college votes. In 1992 independent candidate, Ross Perot, allegedly got 20% of the popular vote, 19,743,821 votes and 0 electoral college votes. In 1996, the numbers show Perot received 8.4% of the popular vote (8,085, 402 votes) and 0 electoral college votes. George Wallace won 46 electoral college votes in 1968 with 13.5% of the vote (9,906,473 votes) under the American Independent Party banner. Should none of the candidates win 270 electoral votes, the 12th Amendment kicks in and the election is decided by the House of Representatives." That would be the Democrats unless there is a mass revolt by the American people.
The Revolution Grows
Congressman Ron Paul is being denied the opportunity to speak at the GOP Convention, September 1-4, 2008. Despite being called every name in the book (kooks, nuts, wackos), Americans who support Ron Paul are Republicans, Democrats and independents from all walks of life, races and religions. This is a fact. They also have become a formidable force to be reckoned with in the political arena. You see, millions of Americans have become educated on the issues from a constitutional position and reject more of the same. They know Barack Hussein Obama (or Clinton) and McCain represent no change. Nothing has changed while they've been in office because they are the establishment and represent the big money interests.
A rather unique event will be held during the GOP Convention in St. Paul: A three day event called 'The Rally for the Republic," August 31 - September 2, 2008. Tickets for this event go on sale today; click here for all the details. It goes without saying that the power brokers running the GOP Convention must be throwing hissy fits. It's their job to keep the herd in line and a huge event right down the street from their convention which represents freedom and liberty, instead of more of the same political sewage is a threat to their power.
Is there a revolution going on in America? Yes, without any doubt and the controlled, corporate media is doing everything in their power to make sure the majority of Americans never find out. There is real change happening in this country and momentum grows by the day. We the people have had it. We can and will restore this republic, though it won't be without pain. I leave you with this ten minute video of a powerful speech made by an Iraq veteran at the Ron Paul Freedom Rally in Washington, DC a little over a week ago. This young man represents our future as warriors. He represents the same ideals and fire which birthed this republic. This may scare some, but it was the same in 1775. Fear is the big stick of tyrants.
The men at Concord and Lexington were no doubt afraid, but that did not stop them. Watch this video. Feel the energy, the emotion and the courage. Freedom is not a spectator sport. It is our duty and obligation for future generations.
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